Still Free

Yeah, Mr. Smiley. Made it through the entire Trump presidency without being enslaved. Imagine that.

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Spinning a NJ Narrative

 I ran across an article yesterday where the narrative is that NJ residents are up in arms in regards to Trump and DOGE (Elon). Since NJ is seen as a blue state this narrative would be easy to accept. However; when we see the real electoral results in NJ, we know that this reporting is mostly spin.

“New Jerseyans are concerned,” Booker said. “They’re worried about Elon Musk’s role in government and the slew of cuts to essential services he is directing, and the administration’s lack of action to lower costs.”


Im sure there are people calling about these things. I'm sure Booker is a good source for that too. But lets look at the recent election results from NJ.

 



Unless you live in that blue corridor which is approximately the i95-NJ Turnpike, It is unlikely you are calling Booker to complain about Musk and DOGE. Of course if the publication was actually interested in informing the public they would point this out. Not to mention that those who voted for Trump, knew and WANTED DOGE. They aren't calling to complain.  NJ is much like NY in that it has a "central" blue area with a large population that outvotes the rest of the red parts of the state. NJ just has a smaller population. But to act as if "New Jerseyans" are calling en masse complaining, misinforms the reader. Yeah, the blue areas are not happy. 

Duh.

On a side note, the smart people on the right have been telling anyone who would listen to that there was and is going to be some economic pain due to the foolishness that had been going on under Biden. You have entire economic reports being revised downwards. The true state of the economy is going to be exposed and the Dems are going to try to blame Trump.  Clearly there are a lot of people already primed to fall for this.