Better in their words…

Corporate Media IS worthless; we don’t hate it enough. And there is plenty of psyops being proffered so be vigilant.  mrossol

Source: TRUST MOTHERS ☙ Sunday, May 11, 2025 ☙ C&C NEWS

First, a few Mother’s Day sentiments that I wholeheartedly endorse:

“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” – Rudyard Kipling

“My mother’s menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.” – Buddy Hackett

“If I were asked… to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: to the superiority of their women.” — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835).

On this special day, I would like to thank my mother, who raised four boys, and my beautiful wife Michelle, who has always been a terrific mother to our own testosterone team.

WORLD NEWS AND COMMENTARY

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Late yesterday, the UK Guardian ran a sneering story headlined, “Trump claims ‘total reset’ in US-China trade relations after tariff talks in Geneva.” The entire story was based on a single Trump Truth Social post about the negotiations with China that the Guardian’s experts previously predicted would never happen.

The emergency talks —and that was the real story— unfolded around the negotiating table yesterday in Geneva during a civilized eight-hour workday. According to Geneva officials, talks will continue today and tomorrow if necessary. The article mentioned the real story only obliquely: “Swiss economic minister, Guy Parmelin, met both parties in Geneva on Friday,” the Guardian reported, “and said the fact that the talks were taking place was already a success.”

That’s bureaucraticese for: this wasn’t supposed to be possible. The astonishing truth is that President Trump created the economic emergency that demanded the emergency talks. The Guardian’s narrative frame of “it’s just Trump exaggerating” deliberately distracts readers from what is actually a long-overdue economic earthquake in global trade relations.

In other words, Trump lit China’s barn on fire and is now standing in the grass offering to sell them a water hose for a part ownership interest in their horses. They don’t like it —they hate it, in fact— but their options are limited. The longer they wait to decide, the bigger the fire gets.

To pick just a single example, consider this remarkable BBC headline from last week:

“Apple,” the BBC reported, “says it is shifting production of most iPhones and other devices to be sold in the US away from China.” Apple products destined for U.S. markets will soon be made in India and Vietnam. How many announcements like this can China take?

China can’t be very happy with India, either. Not after losing all that Apple production to a country mostly based on barbaric curried rice.

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In related news, early this morning, Reuters ran another unintentionally terrific story headlined, “Fragile ceasefire holds between India, Pakistan as Trump offers more help.” There goes Trump again, creating more peace around the world. What a fascist.

Last week, a robust kinetic confrontation broke out between India and Pakistan, after a very suspicious October 7th-style ‘terrorist’ attack in the disputed Kashmir region provoked cross-border artillery shelling and dramatic dogfights between the two countries’ air forces. The attacks quickly escalated until yesterday, when JD Vance brokered a cease-fire between the two easily enraged, nuclear-armed countries.

Last night, around midnight, President Trump posted a congratulatory note:

De-escalation was terrific news, not only for the region, but also for U.S. citizens. For us, the real story was that we now have a President who is up at midnight on Saturday working on world peace, global economic trade deals, and everything else. Joe Biden would have called a lid around 10 a.m. on Wednesday and would still be recovering from a brutal four hours in the office.

The next bit of overlooked news was about how President Trump is bypassing the State Department using economic tools instead of threats of bullets, rockets, aircraft carriers, and proxy wars, to quickly negotiate peace even in difficult places like Kashmir, and even given the region’s centuries-long history of durable conflict.

🚀 Nor is the President afraid of using force when it is the only dialect that gets the message across. After a precision campaign of relentless U.S. airstrikes, the Yemenese Houthis finally agreed to stop targeting international shipping lanes in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab Strait. Reuters’ headline, May 5th:

There were no half-hearted condemnations and no drawn-out UN statements. Just a quick week of smart bombing until the crazy Houthis cried ‘uncle.’ But even that brief military intervention was the exception.

Since a large proportion of the world’s oil is shipped past the Houthis, their agreement to quit drone-bombing everyone should immediately relieve pressure on oil prices, helping everyone on the planet.

It is worth repeating: President Trump is clearly cutting the State Department out of the loop, opting instead for a small circle of loyal envoys —like JD Vance, Scott Bessent, and Steve Witkoff— to exert direct executive diplomacy using mostly economic shock tactics.

He’s turned the deep state foreign policy apparatus into an irrelevant peanut gallery.

This is another bigger, unreported story that the media has completely missed. Trump is transforming Foggy Bottom’s historic role, relegating it to issuing visas, running embassies, and litigating existing trade agreements. He neutered State’s secret government-within-a-government —USAID— and yanked it out of all the key conversations by the roots. All the high-profile work is now being run directly from the West Wing by non-traditional administration allies.

Trump doesn’t need unaccountable, sketchy, and corrupt NGOs. He has a unified and transparent tariff dashboard.

🔥 Let’s sum up. In just one week, Trump has: announced tariff talks with China, inked a preliminary trade deal with Britain, brokered a ceasefire between two nuclear powers in Kashmir, and halted Houthi economic warfare in the Red Sea— something Joe Biden couldn’t accomplish with two aircraft carriers, a destroyer group, and six months of flaccid State Department nagging. Any one of these wins would’ve fueled a week of breathless legacy media coverage if the president’s last name were anything but Trump.

Don’t hold your breath waiting for the Pulitzer submissions. Of course, we don’t need corporate media anymore, do we?

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On February 21 —a month into the Trump Administration— YouGov published the results of its latest media trust survey in an underreported story headlined, “More Americans trust the Trump administration than trust the media for fair, full, and accurate facts.” It was a historic, shark-jumping inversion. It’s probably fair to conclude that the media’s numbers have not improved since February.

The most recent YouGov media survey quietly confirmed the astonishing fact that corporate media can’t bring itself to utter out loud: more Americans now trust the Trump administration more to tell the truth than the media.

And who can blame them? In one week, Trump racked up peace deals, trade breakthroughs, and a military resolution to a years-long shipping crisis— all while the media focused on his tone rather than his results. YouGov’s numbers were stark: 44% trust President Trump to be fair and accurate— but only 29% said the same about the media.

Ruh roh. It isn’t working, Scooby!

Corporate media is in free fall. “Fact-checking” is now an easy punchline, a meme-engine reverse signal that something probably is true. Trust me, the New York Times fact-checked it! (Cue laugh track.) For over a decade, legacy outlets have flushed their credibility down the toilet like a twitchy crackhead dumping his stash as the cops kick in the door— panicked, guilty, and too addicted to stop.

Meanwhile, social media has soared. It’s now everyone’s first stop for figuring out what’s actually happening. Even the corporate media can’t stop themselves— they hang breathlessly on Trump’s every Truth Social post, reposting and dissecting them like sacred scrolls, even as they insist he’s irrelevant. They’re like crack addicts, unable to quit the very platforms undermining them.

Corporate media is losing the war to free, disintermediated, online discourse— and thereby losing control of the narrative. Narrative control is media’s drug of choice.

In 2017, MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski infamously let the truth slip out on live TV: “The dangerous edges here are that Trump’s trying to undermine the media, trying to make up his own facts. And it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens, he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think. And that is our job.”

No, Mika, it’s not your job. You only wish it was.

🔥 Here’s the most ironic part of the media’s suicidal rampage: they could’ve won. Corporate media could easily outcompete social media— all they had to do was tell the truth. Tell the truth fairly, consistently, and with just enough humility to admit when multiple sides have a point.

If they did, people would instinctively turn to them anytime social media lit up with something inflammatory. But they just can’t help themselves. They’re addicts —compelled to meddle, tinker, and twist— clinging to narrative control like a drowning sailor clutching a chest of gold as the ship slips under the waves. They’d rather sink with the lie than float with the truth.

George Floyd shattered the media like a bobbled meth flask. In July, 2020 —Trump 1.0’s final year in office— the Economist ran a jaw-dropping article headlined, “How objectivity in journalism became a matter of opinion.” The once-revered outlet reported, with disturbing calmness, that “a new generation of journalists is questioning whether, in a hyper-partisan, digital world, objectivity is even desirable.”

Pulitzer winner Wesley Lowery, then 30 and at CBS News, tweeted the new orthodoxy: “Objectivity-obsessed, both-sides journalism is a failed experiment.” In a message to journalism students, the Dean of Columbia Journalism School sneeringly described “objectivity” as an “inherited shibboleth.” Outlets like NPR, Vox, and even the Associated Press began updating internal guidelines to prioritize “contextual truth” over neutrality.

Columbia’s Journalism Review excitedly mused: “What comes after we get rid of objectivity in journalism?”

This, morons. This is what comes after you get rid of objectivity in journalism. Discredited narratives, cratering trust, and a media class spinning in self-referential circles while the public turns away disgusted to get back on X. Journalists wondered what would happen if they ditched the scratchy referee’s jersey and donned comfy “Black Lives Matter” t-shirts. Now they’re finding out.

They deliberately forgot the principles that previous generations of journalists already knew:

“The central tenet of journalism is objectivity—telling the story without bias. Once that’s gone, all you have left is propaganda.” — Ted Koppel

“A reporter is supposed to be like a mirror. He’s not supposed to bend the light to suit a narrative.” — David Brinkley

“If journalism is not based on verifiable facts, it is not journalism. It is activism.” — Marty Baron, former Washington Post editor.

The truth wasn’t too complicated. It wasn’t too fragile. It wasn’t even hard to find. They just didn’t like it. Journalism didn’t die. It overdosed on its own supply of telling people what to think. Now it’s twitching in a dark corner, muttering that it knows what’s best and it can quit whenever it wants.

My job is to never, ever let them forget.

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It’s a brave new world. Last week, Politico ran an Orwellian story headlined, “Points for kills: How Ukraine is using video game incentives to slay more Russians.” The sub-headline explained, “Ukraine has created a macabre points scheme based on video games to boost the effectiveness of its soldiers.”

Here’s how Politico described the new Ukrainian “incentive system:”

The program — called Army of Drones bonus — rewards soldiers with points if they upload videos proving their drones have hit Russian targets. It will soon be integrated with a new online marketplace called Brave 1 Market, which will allow troops to convert those points into new equipment for their units.

Killing a Russian soldier nets a drone operator six points that can be traded for extra supplies for the unit. They get even more points for damaging or destroying Russian equipment like tanks and rocket launchers.

“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” —Isaiah 5:20.

🚀 Speed is the new battlefield currency. Lumbering tanks are as useless as turtles in a derecho. Russian soldiers have even begun riding motorcycles, since motorbikes can outrun drones. May 11th headline from Business Insider: “Russian soldiers are replacing tanks with motorcycles.”

Setting aside the strategic moral ambiguity of Zelensky’s murderous war-by-Xbox plan, it proves one thing: modern warfare is nothing like the wars our own flat-footed (but high-heeled) generals have been planning to fight. Sunk-cost investments in tanks, mobile artillery platforms, and unimaginably expensive robotic jet fighters have suddenly become obsolete.

This explains why Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has already ordered a complete overhaul of America’s military planning. Headline from Breaking Defense, May 1st:

“To build a leaner, more lethal force, the Army must transform at an accelerated pace by divesting outdated, redundant, and inefficient programs, as well as restructuring headquarters and acquisition systems,” Hegseth wrote in a memo to defense forces.

Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll told reporters the greatest threat was the military-industrial complex. “We’ve seen in wars going on around the world that the existing equipment just can’t provide what it was originally supposed to for soldiers, and yet it keeps showing up year after year after year,” he said. “All of these parochial interests and all of these lobbyists that crawl around this building and crawl around Congress, they have succeeded for far too long, and so the first thing is, we are going to start to cut the things we don’t want or need.”

It’s not just a revolution in military procurement. Last week, the New York Times ran this very encouraging headline: “Supreme Court Lets Trump Enforce Transgender Troop Ban as Cases Proceed.” On Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled that Secretary Hegseth’s ban on transgender troops serving in the military could take effect even though lower courts had blocked it.

Just imagine where we would be now, had day-drinking Kamala Harris won the last election like mendacious media promised she would. Not only would we be hearing a lot more about time, and how minutes and hours and days are time, but the military still would be focused on developing DEI deployments and teaching transgender nuclear coding instead of ditching an old, failing paradigm.

We dodged a Ukrainian drone. As we reflect on our gratitude for mothers on this Mother’s Day, let us also reflect on the triumph of the American spirit, which —for now, at least— has rescued us from an army of unattractive cross-dressers.

Enjoy a blessed and fulfilling Mother’s Day! Thank you for your loyal and continuing support of the C&C mission. We’ll return tomorrow with even more essential news and commentary.

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