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Al’s Afternoon Tea: The Holidays Are Upon Us

By Al Perrotta Published on November 26, 2024

Welcome back in for Al’s Afternoon Tea, our chance to stop and sample some of the latest news.

Let’s talk about the holidays and TV networks!

Hallmark Beat CNN and MSNBC

How far have CNN and MSNBC’s fortunes fallen since the election? Last week, both networks got their clocks cleaned by the Hallmark Channel. Yep. “Countdown to Christmas” is accelerating the news channels’ “countdown to oblivion.”

It’s not terribly surprising. Ratings always spike for Hallmark this time of year, and I’m the last person to knock having Christmas movies on 24/7 rather than cable news … especially after a hard election. By the way, if you hadn’t noticed, Great American Family’s Christmas movies are starting to match Hallmark’s in quality, while retaining the “Christ” in Christmas.

Is Musk Serious About Purchasing MSNBC?

Comcast’s decision to spin off MSNBC (and CNBC) a few days ago has led to some fascinating speculation, particularly around the notion that Elon Musk may buy the failing liberal cable network. Musk teased the idea himself when Donald Trump, Jr. brought it up.

That’s the same thing Musk said when someone first brought up him buying Twitter. Joe Rogan joked that he wants Rachel Maddow’s spot if Musk does purchase MSNBC.

The sale of MSNBC to Musk or Don Jr. (or anyone who won’t put up with progressive nonsense) would come none too soon. Did you see the grotesque headline MSNBC had after Laken Riley’s brutal murderer was convicted last week?

As someone said, Ibarra did have a chance. When Joe Biden and Kamala Harris waltzed him into the country, he had the chance to make an honest life for himself. Instead, with their help, he terrorized, ravaged, and viciously murdered the young nursing student.

I’m looking forward to other MSNBC headlines:

“Jeffrey Dahmer Leads Fight Against Processed Meats.”

“Charles Manson’s Top Thanksgiving Family Dinner Tips.”

“Nicole Simpson’s Killer a Heckuva Running Back.”

“Thanks to Grinch, Green Is the New Black.”

Will Trump Remove All Transgender People from Military?

President-Elect Donald Trump will remove transgender people from the military and ban their enlistment, a defense source told The Times of London. If that’s true – and until the order comes down from the commander-in-chief, we should take any rumors circulated during the transition from a single anonymous source with a likely ax to grind with caution — the decision would impact roughly 15,000 service members.

In his first term, Trump banned transgender people from the services, but Biden reversed the order.

Do you think those already serving should be kicked out? Or should they be grandfathered (or grandmothered) in?

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Meanwhile, Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) weighed in the controversy over the newly elected transgender member of Congress, Sarah McBride (D-DE), being banned from using the ladies rooms on Capitol Hill. Duckworth declared, “We have a lot more to worry about than where somebody goes to pee.”

If it is all the same to you, Senator, I am going to worry about somebody who is male doing that in the same space as biological females. And I’m going to worry about a culture whose leaders encourage the violation of women’s-only spaces.

Then again, there’s another way to look at this. The reason we have “a lot more to worry about” is because the domestic and foreign policy positions these senators support have left everything a wreck. It would be wonderful if all we had to worry about as a nation was where some member of Congress went to answer the call of nature.

Update on Elementary School Pushing Gender Studies on Kindergarteners

This morning we told you about an elementary school in New York that is planning to use a new curriculum pushing gender-identity indoctrination onto kindergarteners. Libs of TikTok now reports the school is temporarily backing off as a result of the backlash in order to “assess” the program.

Just in Time for Thanksgiving Gluttony: University of Maryland Offering a “Fat Studies” Course, Ties It to Racism

Hey, University of Maryland Alumni Association. If you really want money out of me, tell the people running the place now to stop doing stupid stuff.

Just the News reports that this coming spring, Maryland will be offering – for full credit — a course called “Intro to Fat Studies: Fatness, Blackness, and Their Intersections.” Students will study “fatness as an area of human difference subject to privilege and discrimination that intersects with other systems of oppression based on gender, race, class, sexual orientation, and ability.”

I can see how this is will go on Thanksgiving. “Are you really having a third serving of everything?!?!”

“Back off, Ma. I’m oppressed.”

Seriously, where do we start? We’ve gone from black people having to assert their right to sit at lunch counters to “if you’re too fat to sit on the stool at a lunch counter, it’s because the stool manufacturer is a racist.”

Still, it’s amusing to think this is an “Intro to Fat Studies.” This suggests there are advanced courses in fat studies. That’s where we learn that wearing a McDonald’s uniform is as bad as wearing a Klan hood. Ronald McDonald is the new Bull Connor. And fast food joints are worse than slavery. The enslaved people were forced onto ships. Here, the insidious masters have convinced you to drive yourself to the drive-thru.

But look at the bright side. Next time you refuse to get your fast food meal super-sized, you can feel like you’re Rosa Parks refusing to give up her bus seat.

We shall overcome.

 

On the Stream Menu…

Angelos Kyriakides brings us a fascinating look at Tucker Carlson’s encounter with a demon in “’I Had an Intense Desire to Read the Bible.’”

Dr. Michael Brown keeps the good stuff going with “Artificial Intelligence and the Mind of God.”  

 

Al Perrotta is The Stream’s Washington bureau chief, coauthor with John Zmirak of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration, and coauthor of the counterterrorism memoir Hostile Intent: Protecting Yourself Against Terrorism.