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Democrat-controlled media is blaming Trump for something that will have you pulling out your hair

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The media is full of  journalists who get tagged with being nothing more than water carriers for the Democrat Party.

They linked every problem possible in society to Donald Trump and the Republicans.

But the Democrat-controlled media is now blaming Trump for something that will have you pulling out your hair.

Recently, Democrats attempted to blame Donald Trump for the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.

Without evidence, the Left ran with that narrative until a detailed investigation showed that none of the Trump-era regulatory rollbacks had anything to do with the train derailment.

Now Democrats are doing the same thing with the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, the second biggest bank collapse in American history behind the 2008 WaMu collapse.

The talking heads on the Left ran wild with the narrative that Trump-era deregulation led to SVB’s implosion.

Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton and a terrible economist, wrote on Twitter, “By the way, Trump deregulated banks like Silicon Valley Bank, which failed Friday.”

Reich wasn’t alone with this hot take.

Liberal independent journalist Ed Krassenstein wrote, “In 2018 President Trump signed a bill that rolled back Dodd-Frank regulations on banks like Silicon Valley Bank. Prior to the bill, the threshold for which banks were required to submit resolution plans for their rapid and orderly resolution to the FDIC was set at $50 billion and higher. This was to ensure failure would not have serious adverse effects on financial stability in the US. Trump and Congressional Republicans raised this threshold to $250 billion.”

Krassentein left out the fact that the bill had plenty of Democratic support, too.

He added, “Silicon Valley Bank appears to have had about $175-$210 billion in consolidated assets, meaning they were likely excluded from some Dodd-Frank regulations. It seems likely that this could have been avoided if it weren’t for the roll-backs by the Trump administration.”

Despite the wishes of the Left, the regulatory rollback had nothing to do with SVB’s collapse.

In fact, Barney Frank of the eponymous Dodd-Frank Act, was a board member of Signature Bank, which recently went into receivership.

Hilariously, Frank encouraged the subprime mortgage loans that led to the 2008 collapse, then slapped his name on a bill and became the face of banking reform.

It was a joke.

The SVB collapse was caused by bad asset allocation.

EJ Antoni, an economist with the Heritage Foundation, explained to Fox Business, “SVB put a disproportionate amount of its cash into long-term bonds. Ordinarily, that’s not a bad strategy, but it’s unwise when interest rates are zero because those rates must rise eventually…When rates rise, bond prices fall. This is because an investor with the choice to buy an existing bond at a low rate or a new bond at a high rate will choose the new bond since it’s a better return on investment. If you want to sell the old bond with its lower interest rate, you must be willing to sell it at a discount; otherwise, no one will buy it.”

The collapse was spurred by too many depositors withdrawing money, which meant SVB had to sell off the bonds at a loss in order to come up with the cash.

SVB did not have enough money, so it flopped.

But somehow it’s all Trump’s fault.

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BBC just exposed Fox Corp.’s spine-chilling potential replacement for axed investigative unit

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Establishment globalists are circling the wagons.

Dissenting voices are being sidelined.

And the BBC just exposed Fox’s spine-tingling potential replacement for its axed investigative unit.

In light of Fox’s record-high $787 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, the network is cutting costs.

Fox’s investigative journalist unit was reportedly completely disbanded, with three people being let go and the other reassigned within the company.

With investigative journalism slowly dying out, it is being replaced with so-called disinformation and misinformation experts.

And the BBC just announced its new “disinformation” system called BBC Verify.

British presenter Marianna Spring explained the new initiative, writing, “Welcome to BBC Verify! … Everything from interrogating social media feeds using undercover accounts and investigating real-world impact of mistruths, hate and conspiracy movements to piecing together what’s happening with satellite imagery.”

In reality, BBC Verify is legacy media’s attempt to characterize alternative media as “fringe” and “far-right” and prone to “conspiracism.”

Meanwhile, outlets like the BBC are some of the biggest purveyors of disinformation and conspiracy theories.

Predictably, Spring caricatured criticism of the program by writing, “The trolling in response to this – including misogynistic slurs, threatening and hateful messages – are just more proof of why investigating this is so important. Welcome trolls and stay tuned for my latest Radio 4 podcast, more upcoming investigations – and Undercover Voters.”

Max Blumenthal, left-wing journalist and editor of the antiwar site The Grayzone, called out Spring for potentially being a minion of the NATO-aligned foreign policy establishment.

Blumenthal responded to Spring, “Hey Marianna, did you ever attend this meeting proposed by a UK intelligence contractor that was aimed at cooking up smears of The Grayzone? Why did a spook propose you as a specialist in taking down an indy outlet like ours? And what exactly is your relationship w/ UK intel?”

The international Left have gone all in on combating disinformation and misinformation in the name of saving democracy.

As Spring pointed out in the BBC Verify video, she pondered if a “January 6th” incident could happen in the UK.

She also mentioned “far-right” elements without any mention of “far-left” movements.

The Left are very panicked about the rise of right-wing populists movements that reject excessive wokeness, unfettered immigration, and endless wars around the globe.

BBC Verify is a UK response to the failed Disinformation Governance Board (DGB) that crashed and burned in the United States.

But the Left will certainly attempt to bring it back.

Pants on Fire News will keep you up-to-date on any developments to this ongoing story.

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This New York Times columnist just used two words to describe the Target Boycott that will leave you slack-jawed

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Average Americans are starting to show they’re willing to do what it takes to reign in woke nonsense. 

That is sparking all kinds of panic on the Left. 

And now one New York Times columnist just used two words to describe the Target Boycott that will leave you slack-jawed.

Even after consumers schooled Bud Light over its foray into woke politics, retailer Target decided to push its luck with all kinds of outrageous products, offered prominently for “Pride Month.”

The company’s offerings included a product line designed by a noted Satanist. 

In the past month, Target’s stock has plummeted by about 13.4% as of Tuesday. 

Now a darling of the Left’s corporate-controlled media is accusing Target of caving into “economic terrorism.”

The company has tried to stem the bleeding by citing the danger to their employees as their reason for shifting some LGBTQ displays further back in the stores and cutting out some merchandise. 

The fact that customers have been successful in expressing their dissatisfaction with the retailer has the Left all kinds of frustrated—and nobody more than the talking heads over at MSNBC. 

New York Times columnist and economics professor Justin Wolfers recently made an appearance on MSNBC claiming that—horror of horrors—if Target gives into the boycott, it will send a message to Americans that they can affect company policy. 

“When Target caves into this, then it says that the moment you threaten the employees of even a very large corporation you get to control its policies. This is economic terrorism. Literally terrorism,” Wolfers claimed. 

“Creating fear among the workers and forcing the corporations to sell the things you want, not sell the things you don’t. So I think it’s very worrying,” he added.

In reality, both the Bud Light and Target boycotts have come to represent something much bigger than either brand and their ridiculous woke shenanigans. 

It has quickly morphed into an all-out power struggle between the Wall Street elites using their access to the country’s wealth—much of it in retirement funds—to force a cultural transformation in line with their woke ideology and the ordinary Americans trying to stop them.  

The official word on Wall Street is that Target’s stock is now wildly undervalued after losing more than $9 billion in value. 

What happens to the companies which have doubled down on woke policies in reality over the next year will paint a much clearer picture of who is really running America.

Pants on Fire News will keep you up-to-date on any developments to this ongoing story.

 

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Vanity Fair dropped jaws with a breathtakingly nasty jab at Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis

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The corporate-controlled media’s open hostility is transferring quickly from Donald Trump to Ron DeSantis. 

And Vanity Fair just showed they’re among the egregious.

Because the magazine just took a breathtaking jab at Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis that will leave you stunned.

When Donald Trump shocked the Left by beating Hillary Clinton back in 2016, the corporate-controlled media transformed overnight. 

Their claws came out, and the news was rapidly filled with headlines that proved any pretense of journalistic neutrality was a thing of the past. 

Now seven years later, that full-blown hostility is being directed toward Republicans in general—and any candidate they’re known to support. 

After years of increasingly intense bashing, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has now earned the full fury of the leftist press—and where Vanity Fair was willing to go with it was truly stunning. 

Shortly before Ron DeSantis’ recent announcement that he is running for president in 2024, the magazine ran with this snarky headline: “Report: Ron DeSantis will formally announce his 2024 bid with Elon Musk, because apparently David Duke wasn’t available.”

“Launching with the Twitter owner is certainly a choice,” writer Bess Levin added in a snide subheading. 

Levin wasn’t satisfied with merely suggesting that DeSantis and Twitter’s billionaire Elon Musk are white supremacists—inside the first paragraph she went as far as actually accusing Musk—who was Democrat up until last year—of being a neo-Nazi sympathizer. 

“After many months of refusing to confirm what so many people already suspected, Ron DeSantis will reportedly announce on Wednesday that he is running for president,” Levin penned. “And that’s not all: He is said to be planning to formally jump into the 2024 race during a conversation on Twitter with Elon Musk, because apparently other neo-Nazi sympathizers weren’t available.”

Levin’s outrageous defamatory comments against both DeSantis and Musk certainly got a reaction. 

“It’s just so patently wrong, it’s false, it’s disgusing,” Fox News’ Jason Chaffetz said during an episode of The Faulkner Focus. “It’s why people hate politics.”

“If someone really sees David Duke and Elon Musk as comparable in some way, they’re either crazy or incredibly ignorant,” author John Hawkins noted. “Either way, they certainly don’t deserve to be writing for any sort of credible publication……or even somewhere like Vanity Fair.” 

Meanwhile, Elon Musk quickly brushed off the scathing accusations pointing out that the article was nothing more than satire. 

“Looks like Babylon Bee has some competition for satire,” Musk tweeted. 

With nearly 18 months left to go until the 2024 Presidential Election, it looks like the corporate-controlled media is just getting warmed up when it comes to making complete fools out of themselves as they attempt to paint every conservative Republican in the country as a complete nutcase. 

Pants on Fire News will keep you up-to-date on any developments to this ongoing story.

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