More anti-trade shopping reminders of Stable Genius Trump.

Trump tries quid pro quo with Santa?

Looks like Santa voted for Trump...

Santa came early this year....

Let's hope we can have an even happier New Year...

Fox News viewers being duped, as the network seeks to raise customer Dish prices: It appears Fox News is increasing fees so much so, that Dish will have to charge more for their service. Viewers lose.

"It's like we're about to close on a house and the realtor is trying to make us buy a new car as well," Warren Schlichting, Dish's senior vice president of programming, said in a statement. "Fox blacked out two of its news channels, using them as leverage to triple rates on sports and entertainment channels that are not in this contract." Dish said it offered a short-term contract extension to keep the channels in its lineup, but Fox countered that Dish disconnected the channels "in an attempt to intimidate and sway our negotiations."

Suckers…Fox News has a much different take, one I'm sure their viewers will believe instantly-hook, line, and sinker:

"It is unfortunate that the millions of Fox News viewers on Dish were used as pawns by their provider," Tim Carry, executive vice president of distribution at Fox News Channel, said in a statement. "Hopefully they will vote with their hard earned money and seek another one of our other valued distributors immediately."

Who knows how to spin a yarn better than those at the upside down propaganda network, Fox News. Of course they would love to send you to the cable networks, who are paying the triple rates.

A Lump of Coal for Ryan...?

Looks like not even Santa rates a few moments of time from Paul Ryan:


Luckily, Santa's lump of coal has changed over the years:

Santa's Job this Year? Deliver bad news to Kids.

While Republicans think of more ways to take from the poor and middle class, their Christmas message of austerity is now being delivered to children by Santa Claus. 

NY Times: The result is a Christmas season in which Santas — including the 115 of them in this year’s graduating class of the Charles W. Howard Santa Claus School — must learn to swiftly size up families’ financial circumstances, gently scale back children’s Christmas gift requests and even how to answer the wish some say they have been hearing with more frequency — “Can you bring my parent a job?”

Santa’s here tell of children who appear on their laps with lists that include the latest, most expensive toys and their parents, standing off to the side, stealthily but imploringly shaking their heads no. On the flip side, some, like Fred Honerkamp, have been visited by children whose expectations seem to have sunk to match the gloom; not long ago, a boy asked him for only one item — a pair of sneakers that actually fit.

“In the end, Santa’s have to be sure to never promise anything,” said Mr. Honerkamp, an alumnus of the school who also lectures here.