Month: May 2023

Fox “news”, Alex Jones and their ilk were the first ones to turn the victims of gun violence into “actors” and complain that those poor people were actually just using each of these tragedies for personal gain, painting themselves as the real victims and effectively smearing and silencing anyone they didn’t like on the left.

This was the formula that they invented and perpetuated to smear and silence any victim who was so bold to cry out for gun control or other legislative reform on clear moral grounds.

Fast forward years of us putting up with this B.S. and now the right gets all ‘high and mightily’ offended when we decide to come together and collectively turn our backs on people for doing things that are clearly morally reprehensible, such as breeding hate, sowing bigotry and other anti-American values.

That’s pretty rich.

Seems like swamp monsters can dish it out but they just can’t take it.

The lack of bias in news media has been the standard of good reporting for a long time. “We report, you decide, they say”. But Tucker Carlson’s ‘Just asking questions’ approach is valid, too…. as long as the questions create the kind of discussion that is, in itself, newsworthy.

So shouldn’t reporters be ‘asking questions’ every time they find themselves saying some action is ‘unprecedented’ or some digression of American norms is ‘unprecedented in American politics’? Shouldn’t the next logical step be to ask that big, ‘elephant in the room’ question: Should we call this unprecedented or unpresidential? Because, isn’t unprecedented the same as unpresidential?

I know that takes some guts.

But if we have someone who is running for the most respected and most powerful position in the world, someone we all know is unpresidential, and who will clearly take our country down an unAmerican path, don’t we need to have the courage to talk about what that means for us… and for our future as a country?

I believe we do. And that’s the discussion you owe to your readers. Because that discussion is, in itself, newsworthy. That’s the heart of the matter.

Don’t just continually reporting on the surface of events, the news of the day is what the shattering of norms means to our lives and where that’s taking us.

The Alt-right says ‘Reclaim America’. Yeah, Reclaim America from the Alt-right by talking about how they’re flipping everything upside down: Calling unAmerican (and clearly fascist) movements American so that by saying they want to “Reclaim America” they’re able to pull in supporters who confuse the America we all know and love with the UnAmerica distopia that they’re selling.

Well, I won’t buy it. And that’s why words matter so much. We can’t let them get away with calling things that are clearly unprecedented, precedented; things that are clearly unAmerican, American. If we do, we let them flip everything upside down.

That’s why someone needs to have the guts to flat out ask them, on air, “Isn’t something like this, which is unprecedented in American history completely gaslighting us with a slogan like Reclaim America? This is unprecedented in American politics, so really, how can you reclaim anything? It’s like saying, “Let’s Reclaim Mars”. And more importantly, isn’t unprecedented the same as unpresidential, even unAmerican? Maybe that’s what we should really be talking about..? What an unAmerican movement like this means in the body politic, and where that’s taking the country.

Remember how long it took reporters to say that Mr. Tyrant was actually lying? Imagine if no one had ever come out and said the thing that everyone could see with their own two eyes. Would Joe Biden currently be president?

I call ’em like I see ’em. T is for Tyrant.

How is it presidential to be found guilty for sexual assault?

How is it presidential for this NOT to be the only story of T cheating on his wife?

How is it presidential for this to pail in comparison to so many of his other indictments? January 6ths… stolen classified documents… etc. etc.

Conclusion: When we write about Mr. Trump we should simply call him what he is – Mr. Tyrant.

Who else would inspire followers like this?

P.S. Yes, we need to reclaim America, you bunch of bozos. Reclaim it from tyrants and fascists who seek to tear it apart.

If Trump creates enough hatred and spurs enough paranoia to become president again in 2024, our future is easy to predict. There won’t be another presidential election in 2028. Why would he want one? And congress will likely be disbanded. Isn’t that what happens when authoritarians, the world over, take power?

And for those who think his power will somehow help you and your family, just remember what happens to Trump’s enablers, time and time again, once they become a liability. Bye bye Manafort, Flynn, Cohen, and so many more. (Don’t forget the dead Capital police)

Bottom line, you’ll never benefit from helping someone who only care about himself. All of your sacrifice will quickly be forgotten once he no longer needs your vote. Just look at the man and tell me I’m wrong.

All the laughter and jeering last night as Trump rained a diarrhea downpour of lies really goes to show one thing: Republicans are 100% ok with lying. Remember that the next time you’re about to sign any kind of business contract or make any substantial purchase.

How is it that a Republican party that used to stand for something is kowtowing to a twice impeached, criminal defendant who only cares for himself – country and constitution be damned? Answer: No spine; being too afraid that if they don’t follow along with the right wing hysteria that they’ll be ostracized from the party.

Sadly, from this position, if Democrats propose anything sensible, like gun control to stop the NRA from turning our kids into tactical psychopaths, then they’re labeled as RINOs. And lacking spine – they toe the line.

Bottom line, women and children will continue to die and the Republican party will continue devolving into a Kool-Aid drinking cult until somebody gets some balls. Maybe look to Liz Cheney, guys.