Justice Samuel Alito was “shocked” by the ruling from the Supreme Court that forces the federal government to pay out billions of dollars in “aid” through USAID to foreign interests. Many Americans echo Justice Alito’s sentiment.
All three of the leftist justices joined the ruling. Chief Justice John Roberts was a question mark but answered the question in the ruling by joining it. Justice Amy Coney Barrett was the “surprise” for many of us because she sided against the will of the American people and more importantly against the Constitution.
Is she compromised? It’s a question that I ask with all earnestness because I just don’t know. I posed the question on X shortly after the ruling, “Did someone get to Amy Coney Barrett or is she just stupid?”
Replies were split. About half said she is compromised with the other half saying she’s stupid. A few said she’s both. Nobody came to her defense for the indefensible ruling.
On today’s episode of The JD Rucker Show, I asked the question of the audience there. It’s an important question and I simply don’t know the answer.
Independent Journalism Is Dying
Ever since President Trump’s miraculous victory, we’ve heard an incessant drumbeat about how legacy media is dying. This is true. The people have awakened to the reality that they’re being lied to by the self-proclaimed “Arbiters of Truth” for the sake of political expediency, corporate self-protection, and globalist ambitions.
But even as independent journalism rises to fill the void left by legacy media, there is still a huge challenge. Those at the top of independent media like Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino, and Tucker Carlson are thriving and rightly so. They have earned their audience and the financial rewards that come from it. They’ve taken risks and worked hard to get to where they are.
For “the rest of us,” legacy media and their proxies are making it exceptionally difficult to survive, let alone thrive. They still have a stranglehold over the “fact checkers” who have a dramatic impact on readership and viewership. YouTube, Facebook, and Google still stifle us. The freer speech platforms like Rumble and 𝕏 can only reward so many of their popular content creators. For independent journalists on the outside looking in, our only recourse is to rely on affiliates and sponsors.
But even as it seems nearly impossible to make a living, there are blessings that should not be disregarded. By highlighting strong sponsors who share our America First worldview, we have been able to make lifelong connections and even a bit of revenue to help us along. This is why we enjoy symbiotic relationships with companies like MyPillow, Jase Medical, and Promised Grounds. We help them with our recommendations and they reward us with money when our audience buys from them.
The same can be said about our preparedness sponsor, Prepper All-Naturals. Their long-term storage beef has a 25-year shelf life and is made with one ingredient: All-American Beef.
Even our faith-driven precious metals sponsor helps us tremendously while also helping Americans protect their life’s savings. We are blessed to work with them.
Independent media is the future. In many ways, that future is already here. While the phrase, “the more the merrier,” does not apply to this business because there are still some bad actors in the independent media field, there are many great ones that do not get nearly enough attention. We hope to change that one content creator at a time.
Thank you and God Bless,
JD Rucker
