There’s a lovely song, You’ve Got a Friend in Me, by Randy Newman that always makes me smile when I hear it. Newman’s warm, ‘guy next door’ voice doesn’t hurt a thing. It shines with natural warmth, and the words are just so reassuring – you have to smile every time you hear it.
You’ve got a friend in me
You’ve got a friend in me
You’ve got troubles, and I’ve got ’em too
There isn’t anything I wouldn’t do for you
We stick together and see it through
‘Cause you’ve got a friend in me
You’ve got a friend in me
It’s every good neighbor you say ‘Hi’ to over a fence or going out to get the mail in the afternoon, when you see someone trying to pick a turtle up off a busy road, and you make sure traffic comes to a crawl and stops behind you so they both get to the side of the road safely. And you wave at each other, smiling.
It’s the face when a tornado or hurricane hits your neighborhood, and there are suddenly faces you might have only glimpsed in cars going by now on your lawn, picking up shingles, siding, and the pieces of your life – and theirs – scattered across the road.
And you ruefully grin at each other.
It’s what people do when the preciously mundane or the unspeakable happens. The friend in every truly human heart comes out, trying to coax forth that tiny smile of comfort from friendship in the midst of troubles.
Celebrating the human spirit as it coalesces in the middle of carnage with renewed friendship.
It’s a shame about NBC.
They don’t seem to have any friends with whom they want to celebrate humanity’s resilience in the midst of unspeakable horror.
NBC only has its feverdream bogeymen to chase when the real evil they coddle turns deadly.
When the truly twisted, deviant, anti-human movement the network celebrates in sympathetic piece after fawning piece belches out another murderer. As a product of the hateful grooming NBC never once spoke ill of – and tacitly justified so many times – casually gunned down two innocents, followed one as she tried to crawl away, dying, only to fire again and again into that helpless, mortally wounded human being.
HUMAN BEING
The new charge filed against Elias Rodriguez, who shot and murdered Yaron and Sarah, shows he ensured they were dead. Sarah crawled away after he shot her, and he followed her and shot her again in the back. He executed her. He deserves the death penalty, nothing less. pic.twitter.com/BW7SUreO9c
— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) May 22, 2025
FREE, FREE PALESTINE
I am sure you know who NBC now sees as the existential threat we face.
That’s it.
As they hosed the blood of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim off the street in D.C., NBC News fretted that, thanks to Trump’s election, white nationalists are actually an even bigger threat than ever before because they now feel like normies.
NBC News didn’t go into the story half-peacocked, either. They relied on acknowleged Hate Experts™.
Sweet fancy Moses while the headline alone is bad enough quoting the Southern Poverty Law Center in the lede as an impartial entity shows NBC has learned nothing about the distrust in my profession in the past week. https://t.co/GTwFsqRO0R
— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) May 23, 2025
The Southern Poverty Law Center said it counted 1,371 hate and extremist groups, a 5% decline.
The number of white nationalist, hate and anti-government groups around the U.S. dropped slightly in 2024, not because of any shrinking influence but rather the opposite. Many feel their beliefs, which includes racist narratives and so-called Christian persecution, have become more normalized in government and mainstream discourse.
Guess what constitutes enough ‘hate’ to make the SPLC’s list.
…The nonprofit group attributes this to a lesser sense of urgency to organize because their beliefs have infiltrated politics, education and society in general. Some of the ways they have done this are through pushing for bans on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, book bans and protests of drag story hours, the report says.
Last year, there were 533 active hate groups. These include groups who express views that are anti-LBGTQ+, anti-immigrant, antisemitic and anti-Muslim. This number has been steadily declining since reaching a historic high of 1,021 in 2018.
If you’re anti-drag queen story hour for the kiddies or anti-boys in girls’ sports, you might…nah. You ARE a hateful white nationalist, according to NBC News, the AP, and the Hate Experts™ at the SPLC.
Don’t let this offensive counter-offensive fool you for one second, though. NBC News must feel the tiniest twitch of vulnerability regarding indulgence of the now proven lethality of FREE FREE PALESTINE madness. Much as the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) did yesterday, to which the murderous, twisted, savage belonged.
‘Wasn’t us,’ they said. ‘He was just some guy from an obscure chapter.‘ As they furiously scrubbed their website of pages that had him prominently featured.
As dangerous as normie white nationalists now are, I am wondering why, in the aftermath of a Hamashole slaughtering random strangers on the sidewalks of our capitol city purely because JEWS, it turns out NBC News had been busy doing some frantic website scrubby scrubby scrubscrub of their own on a blatant falsehood (I covered here) the day before?
Might they feel…Lord, no, not culpable. That would imply a conscience. But responsible to some extent, legally, for gleefully fanning the hate flames with proven lies?
Heh. Schmaybe.
They spruced it up like no one’s business…hoping no one would notice.
BREAKING: NBC News deleted its original story and quietly posted a new one—no apology, no accountability.
They also switched out the photo of a Yemeni child and completely changed the headline. This is journalism today: lie, delete, and pretend it never happened. pic.twitter.com/hjtkM0KSC1
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) May 21, 2025
The innerwebs are forever, especially when we’re all watching.
NBC is a fake news organization that needs to be shut down or starting firing multiple people.
The constant disinformation that they push, specifically blood libels, has real world implications. https://t.co/jMRocUBTyD
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) May 23, 2025
They’d better believe we are.
We normies watch out for each other.
And we sure as hell know who our friends are.
