My career, before retirement, consisted of arising at 4:15 AM, going to work, and working until the job was done. It meant, as I began, pouring and finishing concrete, in the heat of the August sun or the cold of January. It meant, after I moved from pouring concrete to producing concrete, being at work at 6:00 AM, and sometimes significantly earlier, and staying until the last customer was finished. It meant, though some work was inside, shoveling out under conveyor belts, climbing silos, stripping and resetting 2’x2’x6′ waste concrete blocks, greasing plants, running front-end loaders, fixing machinery, in all kinds of weather, and workdays that were almost never only eight hours long.

I was hardly the only working-class person that had to do stuff like that. Millions upon millions of us had to do the same things, five and six days a week, and when the restrictions that came with the panicdemic — and no, that’s not a typographical error; that is exactly how I define it! — that had some people assigned to work from home, many working class people laughed at the notion that what they did for a living could be done from home.

So, when I saw this, I will confess that I was not moved by the plight of these poor babies!

White House reporters already ‘exhausted’ by second Trump administration

New York Times and Politico reporters spoke to Vanity Fair on the Trump transition

By Lindsay Kornick, Fox News | Thanksgiving, November 28, 2024 | 9:00 AM EST

The White House press corps is already “exhausted” at the outset of the second Trump administration.

“Anybody who went through it the last time remembers how nonstop it was. It ends up kind of becoming all-consuming and taking over your life. It wears you down,” New York Times White House correspondent Peter Baker told Vanity Fair on Wednesday, adding that “you have to expect that covering a big story is, by definition, taxing because it’s important.”

Reporters commented on how President-elect Trump was already kicking off a hectic news cycle with his rapid policy and cabinet nomination announcements.

“Everybody’s exhausted, and he hasn’t even taken office yet,” Baker said.

Well, wahhh! Please pardon me if I don’t join their pity party, but some of us have actually had to work hard in our lives.

The poor, poor White House press corps, who work in suits and ties, or nice dresses, in heated-in-the-winter and air-conditioned-in-the-summer offices, all while being very well-paid in their profession; reporters who make it to the White House press corps are at the top of their profession! As backbreaking as their work is, I’m sure that someone like Taylor Six of the Lexington Herald-Leader, a reporter at a struggling McClatchy newspaper, would be absolutely thrilled to have a well-paying job in the White House press corps, rather than having to worry when and where the next staff cuts at lower-tier newspapers will come.

Is it any surprise that the credentialed media were shocked, shocked! that the working class voters went so heavily for former and future President Trump? Here we have a Fox News reporter telling us about how “exhausted” the credentialed media covering the White House are because a more energetic man^[1]Once President Biden’s descent-into-dementia was exposed, the left immediately began claiming that former President Trump was losing his marbles as well, but while Mr Biden is visibly … Continue reading than doddering old man descending-into-dementia Joe Biden was elected President, that there might not be as many spoon-fed lies coming from a Press Secretary like Karine Jean-Pierre, and, horrors! they’ll have to work a little bit harder now. Our good friends in the legacy media see having to shuffle papers and writing on their computers a bit faster as “exhausting,” while the men who pour concrete or roof houses or work on horse farms or build trucks laugh at the media’s concept of hard work.

Well, who knows? If the poor dears are having trouble with the increased workload, perhaps their employers can reassign them to cover restaurant openings or junior varsity basketball, and put some upcoming, harder-working journalists in their places.