There is no low they won’t go. That’s my mantra, if you’re new here and haven’t heard it before. The descriptor basically applies to Trump but not to him exclusively. It applies to the entire Republican party and to right-wing media. And today Jeanine Pirro has proven the veracity of this thought yet once again. She’s found small children collecting Social Security benefits — and she is shocked, we tell you, shocked. Why Jeanine? You never heard of survivor benefits before?
Her hand wave said it all. They literally do not want to hear the facts. They want their worldview and conspiracy thinking reaffirmed.
— Oyko (@OykoGN) April 10, 2025
It’s got to be interesting to work at Fox News. I can hear the staff meetings now. “What’s something perfectly normal, mundane even, that we can spin into something horrific sounding?” And this is what they come up with. It’s a talent. Of sorts. Where it gets into dangerous territory is when the talent begins to generate $787M judgments for defamation. And what *Judge* Jeanine is saying is starting to jangle those same nerves. Are you sure you want to go there, Jeanine?
Although the juxtaposition of Tarlov is interesting. If ever this comes down to a legal discussion, Fox News can certainly say that they had Tarlov there to tell the truth and if she got waved away while Pirro went on with her fantasy. Interesting way to do business, slip the truth in sideways while a conspiracy theory is forming.
The people who don’t know it are people who have never encountered a certain kind of tragedy and but for the social safety net they would have ended up in a world of hurt.
That’s because of the caliber of “legal analysts” and “judges” that they get on Fox News.
And that is the bottom line. We are approaching America’s 250th anniversary and that’s our status as a once great nation: Morons Are Governing America.
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“Judge” Jeanine needs to be reminded that paragon of “fiscal responsibility,” Paul Ryan, attended college LARGELY because of Social Security survivor benefits. And that was an argument that was used against him when he kept talking about the “need” to make changes to and overhaul the whole Social Security program. (Naturally, Ryan was playing that golden oldie of right-wing radio, “I Got Mine, F*ck the Rest of You”–I hear that’s also one of Clarence Thomas’s favorite songs.)
You’re right about Ryan but the real poster child for this hypocritical bullshit is former Senator Phil Gramm of TexASS. Born at Ft. Benning and educated first in base schools and then public schools. Got publicly funded scholarships for the rest of his education. THEN became “public servant” teaching before moving into elective politics. First in the House and then the Senate. So he was educated pretty much in public schools and therefore taxpayer expense. EVERY FUCKING PAYCHECK he earned the rest of his life came from the taxpayers! Yet he decried government spending every chance he got. I can think back to him on the floor during joint addresses to Congress jeering. The running joke was he looked like “Yoda gone over to the dark side!” But hey, he was a fucking Republican and I swear for all their science bashing they had someone create a pill they can take first thing every morning that removes their capacity to feel shame.
Ah, judge ‘Box of Wine’ espousing classic conservative beliefs. Basically she’s saying tell the lazy little infants and toddlers to get out there and get a fucking job! I mean, the GOP wants to bring back child labor but toddlers and infants? This might be a bridge too far even for GOP Congress Critters.
A bill I suspect will be introduced any.minute now: bring back workhouses! Make those brats work for t!their keep. If they have one parent, make that one work for their keep.
I just dropped a critical message on “Judge” Pirro’s Facebook page.
When my father died in 1956, my sister and I began collecting the Survivors’ Benefit, which was critical to keeping us going, as Dad left Mom with $85 in the bank and a year-old Chevy paid off in full by the GMAC creditor’s life insurance that Mom couldn’t drive. While Mom was able to get back to nursing, she had Dad’s hospital bill to settle, and that OSADI benefit helped keep us afloat.
Ignorant to the nth degree!