The Late Howard Beale

Mad as hell. Not going to take this anymore. Real-life 19K Army vet, entrepreneur & retired TV news guy playing role on X inspired by the movie Network. RT&❤≠E

[The Late Howard Beale @HowardBeale_RIP]

Contrary to popular belief, there are plenty of conservatives in TV newsrooms today, and not all at Fox News. I was always outnumbered, but never alone. Plenty of decent liberals, too, who will report a story honestly if exposed to the facts.
The biggest problems are usually either the management, or the self-appointed culture czars who demonize wrongthink in every newsroom.
A major factor is that except in the very largest local newsrooms, national and international content all comes from the AP, the network, or a behind the scenes affiliation w CNN.
Compounding that problem: consultants. They spring from the same polluted waters, and tend to have strong alignment in their liberal thinking. Companies pay more for consulting than they do for individual managers, so they have outsize influence in local newsrooms. The dominant consulting firm (Code name: Maggot. If you know, you know) also does political consulting, and they only help one party. It's not Republicans.
There are not only good conservative journalists. There are good, honest companies. Good consultants too, for that matter. I worked for a great, fair company for 30+ years. Its owners also run a flagship newspaper that was one of the handful that endorsed Trump in 2016. And 2020 and 2024.
There are a couple larger companies I know of that take fairness very seriously. They're outnumbered, of course, but they exist.
My point today is to take heart. In the same way Trump introduced something unheard of and unimagined in our politics, CBS's new ownership is going to create a new business model in this industry. There are plenty of reinforcements who will be eager to join them, and then there will be copycats who will emulate their future success.
A brighter day is on the horizon. The road will be bumpy, and the journey will be long, but I can see it clearly from my recently retired perch.

[The Late Howard Beale @HowardBeale_RIP]

@SenJohnBarrasso Why do these tone-deaf hacks feel the need to tweet? They get ratioed to hell, destroyed in the comments & just carry on like nothing's happening.
This all has a very Soviet feel about it.

[The Late Howard Beale @HowardBeale_RIP]

@HansMahncke I take hope from the appointment of Stephen Miller.

[The Late Howard Beale @HowardBeale_RIP]

@lizpeek He gets it. He does not fvcking care. He hates us.

[The Late Howard Beale @HowardBeale_RIP]

@2tuffeddie Just horrible what this society has descended to, all the way around.

[The Late Howard Beale @HowardBeale_RIP]

@MakeUrMov @dinosaurfuggit @AuthorGFAllen Have a pleasant day.

[The Late Howard Beale @HowardBeale_RIP]

The lack of financial literacy is truly astounding.
There are so many here trying to give it away free of charge, only to be met with insulting talking points.
We're finished if we don't find a way to take the schools back from teachers unions.

[MnJ's Homestead @MnJ741]

Oh bullshit. Gen X here and we'll retire comfortably. The real difference is after us the generations are not financially literate. And don't cry to me about SS because we paid in all our lives at the highest rates just in time for it to go broke. We had roomates, worked 2 and 3 jobs and lived below our means so we could save up. Ya'll don't do that. You gotta have your starbucks and expect a bigger new home as a starter home with all the finishes. We didn't. We bought a fixer and saved up for 12 years to start fixing it.

[The Late Howard Beale @HowardBeale_RIP]

@MakeUrMov @dinosaurfuggit @AuthorGFAllen That is one hell of a non-sequitur.
Perhaps you should ponder why your first instinct is a pedantic insult rather than engaging with the idea that an author can have astute insight about human nature but still write a boring slog of a book.
The stilted dialog is ghastly.

[The Late Howard Beale @HowardBeale_RIP]

@themarketear Whatever.
Dollar cost average while its down.
In a decade you’ll be very glad you did.

[Tony Shaffer 🇺🇲☢️ @tspooky]

I'm appalled that this failed leader, who has an ego the size of Canada and the intellect the size of a shoe box, is this level of arrogantly stupid.
@johnthune has become the greatest danger to the Republic, outside of @TheDemocrats party - as a matter of fact, there is no meaningful difference between him and @SenSchumer at this point...

[The Late Howard Beale @HowardBeale_RIP]

@dinosaurfuggit @MakeUrMov @AuthorGFAllen No. I am ideologically aligned with the message, but it is a terrible book. A lecture, really.

[The Late Howard Beale @HowardBeale_RIP]

@wattTheHell6 @AuthorGFAllen Unpopular opinion: It could have been better. The bad guys are unrelentingly bad. Real life is not 100% good vs. 100% evil. A little insight into the pressures & human nature that led the bankers, big farmers and their allies to become who they were would have gone a long way.

[The Late Howard Beale @HowardBeale_RIP]

@AuthorGFAllen Underworld - Don DeLillo

[The Late Howard Beale @HowardBeale_RIP]

@BlueCollarInvr I get quite a few inquiries from people who want to negotiate rates at my rental cabins. Hard pass. There is a straight-line correlation between bargain hunters and problem guests.

[The Late Howard Beale @HowardBeale_RIP]

@SenatorLankford Republicans spent today plotting how to be more like Democrats and confiscate more of what you worked for.
There. Fixed it for you, you gaslighting crapweasel.

[The Late Howard Beale @HowardBeale_RIP]

@WhitneyRN5 Oh, they understand. They do. not. give. a. fvck.
They hate us.

[The Late Howard Beale @HowardBeale_RIP]

@1Nicdar Why is it so hard for so many on "our" side to grasp that the filibuster isn't going anywhere until Dems control the White House and both chambers of Congress?
It's definitely imperiled, but that should be very low on our list of concerns for the next two years.

[The Late Howard Beale @HowardBeale_RIP]

@LeaderJohnThune Reelecting this saboteur to "leadership" is what it finally took for me to get over my lifelong sense of loyalty to the Republican party.
Lately, I've been in the "I know they're terrible, but Democrats are worse" caucus.
Now, I'm not even there.
They absolutely hate us.

[Ned Ryun @nedryun]

Only in a chamber with an extraordinarily high percentage of retarded geriatrics would it be possible to even imagine John Thune to be re-elected as GOP Senate Leader. . . and yet here we are, proving the retarded geriatric description. https://t.co/b734JcVLrB

[The Late Howard Beale @HowardBeale_RIP]

@tafokints All depends on the broker. I moved 401k to IRA this year electronically in 5 minutes. Showed up in hours. My wife's required us to delay vacation a day to wait for pony express to arrive w her check. It's just speedbumps to knock you off your plan & keep $$ where it is.

[The Late Howard Beale @HowardBeale_RIP]

@BadgedPatriot That's a life lesson, not just for body cams. I spent a lot of years as an angry young man. It was like developing a superpower when I learned to channel that energy into being the calmest person in the room when things get tense.