In the U.S., Americans struggle to pay ever-increasing grocery prices while long established vaccine science is being undercut in Washington by supporters of Donald Trump.
Overseas, the death count continues to rise as Israel bombs the hell out of Gaza with almost daily charges of U.S. supported genocide being raised. In Europe, Putin continues murdering civilians in Ukraine, threatening the NATO alliance by sending drones into Poland and Romania.
At the same time, not all that far away, the alleged leader of the free world, a known associate of Jeffrey Epstein, is taking an ass-kisssing carriage ride with a royal guard leading to the steps of Windsor Castle, before attending a formal dinner with the King of England.
How long can this be sustained? Where the hell is the Republican congress? Bought, paid for and cowering in fear? Who will stand up to this madness?
Headline in today’s WaPo – “What’s really going on in DC? What you see depends on who’s filming.”
ALMOST NOBODY USES FILM ANYMORE. NOBODY. The ignorance, the ignorance. Words matter. Or at least they should. They used to.
Caps are now hats. Digital video, is film. Lecterns are podiums. Up is down and down is up. Ignorance is celebrated and intellectual pursuits are just another form of elitism to be berated and shunned.
When everybody is a “Multi-media journalist,” doing three or four jobs, is there anybody left with enough time to do real Journalism? What the hell, nobody reads much of anything anymore, anyway.
Another WaPo headline this AM – “[Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago as Trump eyes crackdown](https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/trump-chicago…/)” Oh really? Is this WaPo “exclusive” actually happening or is it just clickbait? What isn’t going through the demented brain of DJT? Did they get any real corroboration or is this just something somebody heard in the hallway?
The reporting could be valid, but in this age of clickbait with some of the best reporters abandoning formerly great newspapers after they are bought out by billionaires who appear to back Trump, who really knows?
If they don’t know the difference between digital video and film or a cap and a hat, what do they know?
I don’t recall the Governor of California or Illinois or Maryland or the Mayor of D.C., or anybody else in their right mind requesting a call-up of federal troops. I do know some things as fact, although like millions upon millions of other Americans I am so exhausted, so burned out by Trump’s gaslighting, his non-stop river of BS, that at times I doubt my own mental acuity.
We’re all being sucked into a giant black hole. Or so it feels. Or maybe Trump is going to militarize/federalize all of America? Not that he just wants to or is thinking about it, but that he is in the process of doing it. Right now. Shouldn’t that be the headline?
“TRUMP HATCHES HITLERIAN PLOT TO FILL AMERICA’S STREETS WITH SOLDIERS” Too strong? Too real for a country remaining largely in denial?
What was it that the great Sinclair Lewis wrote back in 1935? “It Can’t Happen Here?”
Every day it’s the same. Netanyahu, turns Gaza to dust, with the apparent intention of leaving nothing alive. Putin bombards Ukraine, slaughtering thousands of innocents, kidnapping any children that happen to be left alive.
In the U.S., gun violence remains the leading cause of death among children and teens while Trump, sucks his thumb and orders more gold leaf for the Oval, calling in federal troops to attack the effect while ignoring the cause.
Tyranny, it would seem, thrives on chaos. Like two meaningless summits followed by the FBI raiding the private home of John Bolton, in Bethesda, on the same day the Dept. of Justice is releasing at least some of the Epstein files to the House Oversight Committee. Fascinating.
It’s been said that if you frighten people enough, they’ll let you do almost anything. First though, you”ll have to muzzle the legitimate press – or at least convince most of the people that legitimate journalism is really fake news while blowing so much smoke that nobody can remember what you were up to just a couple of days ago.
Epstein, who? Remember him? The guy who allegedly hanged himself in a federal prison cell while the guards were taking a break and the camera mysteriously broke down, akin to the 18 minute gap in Nixon’s Watergate tapes. Remember Rose Mary Woods and the 18 minute gap? We’ve seen this one before. But Richard Nixon wasn’t even close to Trump, when it comes to the art of filling the air with smoke.
In Moscow, Putin smiles, confident his useful idiot continues to abide by his will. But what is this hold Putin has on Trump? What can it be that is so powerful that it continues to force the President of the United States to serve as a lackey to a Russian dictator? Surely the President being so seriously co-opted is a security risk to the country and the world that cannot be ignored?
And yet, here we are.
Peace, is increasingly unthinkable. We are monkeys with guns, giving some of the worst among us the power to create our reality.
Even most of the European Union, including two nuclear-armed nations, arriving at our front door on only a moment’s notice, feels like a meaningless gesture. The message they bring is critical. It is pointed. It is a message of life or death. But there is no one there to receive it.
Every day begins with the same horrible hopeless feeling, as though we are without leaders. Leaving nothing but madness, only a kind of self imposed malignancy guiding our path while our immoral national compass is exposed by South Park.
Just read that Kodak may be going out of business. Frankly, I wasn’t sure they were still in business. That said, it’s difficult for me to imagine a world without Kodak.
Trump’s co-opting the Kennedy Center Awards, is also making the rounds. Increasingly, he seems to be acting on whatever pops into his head, no matter how silly it might be. Like the notion that he has anything resembling an appreciation for the arts. Apart from fake gold leaf and the Village People.
Trump is pledging that his new and improved Kennedy Center Honors, will be devoid of “wokeism.” Well, thank God for that. And all the while I was under the impression that the concept of “wokeism” was nothing but another invention of the far-right. Along with the ever-present threat of “Antifa.” Presumably a gang of drooling octogenarians, armed with scowls and slander.
Hope Donald doesn’t trade away Canada for a luxury yacht – for the Navy, of course. Something that would go with his new luxury 747 (for the Air Force).
Despite being in the limelight 7/24, Trump appears to be starved for attention, like a 6 year old tugging at his mother’s skirt. Maybe he’ll stop by for a visit with Sarah Palin, while he’s up in the great white north. She can see Russia from her back porch, you know.
Seeing things. It’s a Republican gift. Remember that old movie, “The President’s Analyst” starring James Coburn? Might not be too far from the truth. Might be something the Surgeon General should be looking into?
Don’t like the Labor Deptartment stats? Fire the statistician. Don’t like the path of a hurricane? Get out your magic marker and draw a new one.
Are the wheels about to come off? Is it being adequately reported? Does it even matter, if so many have tuned out and stopped reading? Other than something that only reinforces their built-in bias?
Or perhaps, they’re all just that much smarter than we are, Trump and his acolytes, I mean. Perhaps our best move, those of us in the media, academics and other evil intellectuals, would be to just back off and follow the lead of this stable genius God has delivered unto us, at this, our hour of need.
The celebration of mediocrity and ignorance isn’t such a bad thing, if you happen to be mediocre and stupid.
Maybe Donald Trump will emerge from the Alaska summit with a great new deal for us all. One that ends the war in Ukraine and convinces Vladimir Putin, that peace is a far better option than war, convincing him to withdraw from his recently conquered territories, while we gather together and await the Rapture while enjoying the benefits of our new Trumpist economy enveloped by the stench of neo-feudalism, wrapped in the flag and carrying a bible.
Increasingly, I find I am being driven back to a couple of locals for tv news. KTLA is good. So are WPXI and KDKA, in Pittsburgh. Just today, I found myself installing KABC, Los Angeles.
I was watching Al Jazeera, for its extensive coverage of the Middle East, but it has now become nearly all-Gaza, almost all the time. Which probably makes sense, given the channels location and the scope of the atrocity, the absolutely unspeakable slaughter that’s taking place there. That said, I need a little more variety in the coverage of world events.
Eurovision, was also a pretty good option, until they left reality for what appears to be AI generated programming. If I’m wrong, then my apologies, but it sure sounds like AI. Whatever it is, it isn’t working. Neither are the novice anchors France24 is using, most of them being nowhere near ready for a prime time debut on an international stage.
With the great newspapers and the network news operations dying off, locals may be our broadcasts of last resort? And if they eventually die off, we’ll have nothing left but the “get what you want and not what you need” Internet. For me, PBS, has always been a little dry. With or without federal funding.
It’s happening much faster than I thought it would. Kinda like Trump establishing his oligarchy. Or should I say, dictatorship? As the free press takes a dive, tyranny goes for a ride. In a big convertible with the top down. Never thought I’d see this in our time.
How ironic it will be, if we are left with local tv news as our broadcasts of last resort, with all else having been either bought off and shut down or completely corrupted by soulless predatory capitalism spearheaded by a foreign oligarch. God help us if the Associated Press goes away. If it does, we’ll be left with nothing but local news, which will be better than nothing, but far less than what we need.
The BBC and SkyNews will still be out there, probably. It’s difficult for me to imagine those two British institutions replacing the once mighty CBS, NBC and ABC networks. It is though a thread of hope to cling to, I suppose.
It feels more and more like we’re falling backwards into an Orwellian nightmare. A bad dream of such complexity, with so many hi-tech moving parts, that we can’t adequately grasp what’s happening. But it’s definitely there. It’s our new American Collective, and it’s far more than those of us on the Internet being profiled by marketers who want to sell us piles of junk.
All those profiles, some of them drilling deep into who we are, will eventually be pulled together into one massive data bank with the ability to better contain and control us. At the same time, newspapers have been going out of business, with the latest attack against a free press aimed at the Wall Street Journal, for an expose of Donald Trump.
Hopefully, Murdoch and the Journal won’t follow in Shari Redstone’s footsteps, with Paramount’s $16 million dollar payout to DJT’s protection racket. It was the utter castration of a once proud network news operation, with Paramount’s Board of Directors, wielding the scalpel.
Don’t take it personally though, it’s only business, even if it does result in our increased collective ignorance.
Politico reports that more than two-thirds of the country’s newspaper jobs have vanished since 2005. The ax is falling in newsrooms at many local tv stations as well. I know this to be a fact, as some of my friends have been victims of the corporate cost-cutting (p)urge. There is also PBS. Obviously Donald Trump and his minions want that to just go away.
Oversight, the kind provided by a free press and guaranteed by the First Amendment, can be such a pain.
And there you have a couple of fronts in the war against American Democracy, the aggregation of information about each and every one of us via the Internet, while, at the same time, traditional sources of news and information are being shut down or are going under as their traditional revenue streams leave for cyberspace, which increasingly steals the eyeballs of readers and viewers.
Absent professional Journalism, people are getting what they want, and not what they need. It’s the perfect storm for a burgeoning autocracy, all of it fitting nicely into the plans of any traditional autocrat or fascist.
Historically, killing the flow of information provided by a free press is near the top of their primary agendas when subduing a soon to be conquered people, as the oligarchs eat away at our freedoms bit by bit. So little goes with each bite, that it’s hardly noticed. Even if it is noticed, it seems relatively harmless, until you begin to add it all up.
Without a free press we are increasingly ignorant, making it increasingly difficult or even impossible to hold our elected leaders accountable, making it next to impossible to sustain a working democracy. All the while they continue collating new data on each of us. And even with all of this, we still haven’t gotten to the cameras.
It started with security cameras in retail outlets and government buildings, I guess. Then, suddenly, there were cameras at almost every intersection. Cameras, cameras, everywhere, inside and out. But who’s complaining? It was all about keeping us safe, right? It was cost-effective too, using cameras instead of people to keep an eye on things.
That’s what I was thinking as I recently installed our new video doorbell. Something I was prompted to do after that recent home invasion robbery and double murder back in Encino. A video doorbell, only seemed to make good sense. And it works very well, I must say, giving us a running record of everyone who comes to the door, and more. With AI, it remembers faces and cars. Amazing, no? Well, it’s amazing to me. I can remember when we had just one wired phone and it was on a “party line” back in rural Minnesota.
This new era of extreme audio and video coverage is both wonderful and dangerous, as eventually some new “collective” will have gathered not only digital personal profiles on us all, they will have also patched all the cameras together, keeping tabs not just on every damn thing we’ve done, but whatever we happen to be doing at any given moment.
Even now, privacy is a distant memory for those of us old enough to remember what it was.
Live and in color, the collective will be watching and listening. It’s more than something Orwell dreamed up, it’s our new reality, and it’s probably more akin to the Hitler Youth Movement keeping an eye on everything that happened in the neighborhood. That one really snuck up on the Germans, didn’t it?
But in the here and now, nobody seems to be all that worried about it. The big digital information gathering and traditional press killing picture, I mean. Even while Donald J. Trump, files his most recent lawsuit against the press, attempting to discourage and contain allegations of who really knows what with regard to his former good buddy Jeffrey Epstein? If only the government would release all the files, not just from the grand jury, but the complete FBI investigation. Suppose Pam Bondi, will ever do that? Without being ordered to by Trump, I mean.
Again, oversight can be such a pain. All those reporters poking around, with no agenda other than digging out the truth. We can’t have that. Oh, hell no. What we can have is a new collective, armed with our personal profiles while video and audio coverage of our each and every move increases daily, with the installation of each new camera.
Driven by fear, under the banner of “I have seen the enemy and he is us,” we could very well be assisting in the destruction of our free society, as the free press dies and our democratic institutions are torn to pieces while we the people install cameras, both inside and outside our homes, all of them standing by for some massive all in one AI hookup.
Welcome to the new collective, comrade. And please remember, when our free press is gone, our freedom will be going with it. Now that’ll be a real deep state. And they’ll have it all, each and every painful moment of it, on camera.
While watching Iran lob missiles into Qatar, it occurred to me that much of the world is being led around by the nose by two very questionable characters.
Leading the charge in what could turn into WW III, is Israeli leader, Benjamin Netanyahu. A wanted man, with an arrest warrant having been issued by the International Criminal Court, for suspected war crimes. A man who has been lying for years about just how close Iran is to developing a nuclear bomb. There’s more, like his failure to secure Israel’s borders, but that should probably be enough. Just understand that he needs something to provide him with cover for all his failures at national leadership.
Then there’s Donald J. Trump, found guilty on 34 felony counts, indicted four times and impeached twice. A man who, apparently, will give you whatever you want, if you are willing to massage his ego. A man who promised to avoid getting the United States into yet another endless war in the Middle East. And yet, here we all are.
We had an agreement with Iran, that they would hold off on developing nukes, but Trump, acting in conjunction with Netanyahu’s wishes, trashed it back in 2018.
It’s widely believed that Trump killed the deal the United States, much of the world in fact, had with Iran, because he was out to smash anything that could be construed as an achievement of the Obama Administration, because he, Mr. Trump, has a problem with black people, and he couldn’t stand for America’s first black president to have had any success whatsoever.
Based purely upon the evidence, you could say that Donald Trump and Bebe Netanyahu, needlessly created the highly volatile situation within which we are now entangled.
These two guy are the best Israel and the United States can do? A terminal business failure/felon and a fugitive from international justice who appears to have repeatedly rejected solutions to endless war? These two guys are leading us around by the nose?
It took 20 years to get the United States unstuck in the Middle East. It was MAGA maligned Joe Biden, who finally got us out. In the relative blink of an eye, Donald Trump, got us back in. With no congressional approval.
Kinda feels like “we the people” may be the “suckers and losers,” doesn’t it?
American hawks are gonna love the move which will act as a diversion for Trump and for Netanyahu as well, until it turns out that very little or maybe nothing was accomplished.
The United States Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, told everyone, including the President, that Iran wasn’t working on a nuclear bomb. Bebe Netanyahu, says they were just weeks away from having nukes, making it necessary for Israel to launch attacks on the country. Bebe Netanyahu, has been saying that same thing, that Iran was only weeks away from developing a nuclear bomb, for years.
He can’t have it both ways, either they were weeks away, as he repeatedly said over the past 30 years, or they were years away, as our spies told Tulsi Gabbard. If Netanyahu, was being forthright, you have to think the Iranians would have developed a nuclear bomb years ago, maybe a couple of decades ago.
Who will Trump believe? The United States intelligence establishment, or. Bebe Netanyahu, who’s been crying wolf for decades? A man who is in deep political and possibly legal trouble with a big chunk of the Israeli electorate and needs something, like a war, to cover his tracks?
As prominent political advisor Mark McKinnon put it this morning, “Netanyahu, is driving Trump like a truck.” McKinnon, was political advisor to both George W. Bush and John McCain. Trump, should probably listen to what he says along with his own American intelligence people. The alternative is to drag the country into another potentially lengthy war in the Middle East.
So far all we know for sure, is that the threw a snit-fit when Tulsi Gabbard advised him that Netanyahu was not being honest, apparently cutting her out of the decision making process.
The first time we heard the idea that “sometimes they have to fight it out,” was Donald Trump talking about The Russians and Ukraine, after it became apparent that he, DJT, would be unable to deliver on his campaign promise to end the war. So here we are, with Russia and Ukraine, continuing to “fight it out,” something Trump idiotically compared to a couple of children slugging it out on the playground. An analogy quickly refuted by Ukrainian President Zelinsky, as it should have been.
Now, just very recently, we’re hearing those same words come out of Trump’s mouth, but this time in regard to Israel and Iran. Again, DJT is suggesting that perhaps we’ll have to let them “fight it out,” as again, he has failed in his campaign promise to end the war in the Middle East.
Letting two parties “fight it out,” appears to be Trump’s new catch-all phrase when he wishes to avoid talking about his failures in ending international conflicts. Let’s hope he never tries to use it with regard to the left and the right slugging it out here in the United States. It isn’t all that difficult to see it coming, considering the way Trump continues to do all he can to divide the country into two camps.
It’s important to listen to what Trump says, even if it’s sometimes next to impossible to discern between what he actually believes and what he simply imagines. Right now, he may be imagining two sides eventually fighting it out on the streets in a politically polarized U.S. It could be his plan. A convenient catch-phrase for “I failed again.”
The day after Donald Trump’s nothing burger birthday parade, apparently attended mostly by DC locals who wandered over to the mall, and what do we have? We have two wars. One in Ukraine and another in the Middle East.
We also have prices going up at the grocery stores while Trump backs away from his position on immigrants, now admitting that the country needs farm and hospitality industry workers. Something he should have thought through, before sending out his masked ICE goon squads rounding up anybody that even looked Latino, throwing them into detention centers without proper warrants, without the proper power of law that is supposed to rule our nation. The power of law that demands due process for anyone on American soil. It’s not new. It’s something the founders borrowed from the Magna Carta.
This is the United States. This is not North Korea. We do not live on our knees in fear. We do not bow down when some exalted ruler passes by or holds a big parade for himself to satisfy his mammoth ego and apparent childlike insecurity. Make no mistake, that parade had nothing to do with the Army, it was all about Donald J. Trump.
A STRING OF FAILURES
Trump has failed with immigration, as he now backpedals his ass off, saying he may have to exempt farm, restaurant and hotel workers from his gestapo-like raids. He failed with national security by abandoning our allies while apparently relying on Vladimir Putin for advice. He was handed an economy that was stable and strong, so he enacted tariffs which threw it into chaos. That’s pure failure, as prices went up and not down as he had promised.
It’s true that gas prices dropped, but they’ll be going up again thanks to the Israel/Iran war, something Trump contributed to when he dropped out of Obama’s deal with Iran in 2018, whereby they agreed to limit nuclear development. With the U.S. out of the deal, Iran’s nuclear program went into high gear, giving Israel’s Netanyahu grounds to argue for an all-out attack against the Iranians. So it could be argued that Donald Trump fanned the flames that ignited this current war between Israel and Iran.
He also failed on his pledge to end the war in Ukraine. Instead, he deployed Marines and the California National Guard to the streets of Los Angeles, quite probably in violation of “Posse Comitatus” and other laws. As with almost every decision Trump makes, the question is slowly moving through the courts. However, both the Governor of California and the Mayor of Los Angeles, told the Trump Administration that they did not want the troops called in, so there’s an even chance Donald’s gonna fail on this one too.
The truth, is that California had it handled. Things only got worse when the military showed up. So there it is, another Trump failure. More chaos. It’s what Trump thrives on. He needs it to hide behind, to take cover for his many failures.
Even setting his association with Jeffrey Epstein aside, this guy can’t get out of his own way. Donald Trump, infamously, had business failures and even bankruptcies, one after another before taking office. Now, his string of failures has been extended to the United States Government, and it must be stopped. If allowed to continue, he could destroy our Constitutional Republic, marking the demise of a free and democratic United States, his final and biggest failure of all.
Following a weekend with millions of Americans in the streets, there should be no doubt that most of America, has had enough.
A couple of days ago some of us watched George Clooney, portray Ed Murrow, being demoted by CBS from his regular show back in the 1950’s to doing 5 documentaries, including “Harvest of Shame,” exposing the plight of migrant farm workers in America. Now, just a couple of days later, that same drama continues playing itself out on the streets of Los Angeles.
So much for politicians solving our immigration issues, regardless of how badly we need immigrants to pick our food and clean our hotel rooms and houses, all the while contributing to Social Security. But what the hell? It’s only been 65 years since Harvest of Shame was aired by CBS.
A ride-along with the old Immigration and Naturalization Service, or the “INS,” was among my first assignments after arriving in Los Angeles in 1982. They were going on a raid, up in the onion fields of Ventura County. Their effort was successful, as they arrested maybe two dozen migrant farm workers, herding them onto busses like cattle. On the ride back to L.A. one of the INS agents asked me something I’ve never forgotten. “Do you speak Spanish?” he said. “No,” I replied. “You’d better learn,” he said.
The INS, the government, knew what what happening. Those of us that lived in the Southwest, knew where it was heading, as did the politicians, who year after year, decade after decade, have failed miserably when it comes to fixing our broken immigration system.
Fast forward to the present day here in Maryland, where watermen and their blue crab processing plants are threatened with extinction. According to “The baynet.com, “Maryland watermen say their way of life is being pinched from both sides: a flood of cheap crab meat from Venezuela, and an increasingly unreliable stream of foreign guest workers, without whom the industry simply can’t function.”
It’s okay to secure the borders and go after dangerous criminals. The problem, it would appear, is that more than a third of the country still has no idea that many of the people being caught up in Trump’s theatrics are honest, hard working migrants, who are badly needed by the country to do the jobs none of our sons and daughters are willing to do.
Please do go after the actual criminal element, Mr. Trump, but stop pretending that the sledgehammer you are using in Los Angeles, by federalizing the Guard and threatening to call up the Marines, is for anything but theatrics to satisfy your base and divert from the issues you currently have with Elon Musk and your “big, beautiful bill.” You are tearing families apart and hurting our economy and it is not necessary.
Instead of calling up the Marines, why not get together with the Democrats and maybe even a few officials from the Mexican Government, and work out a plan to fix our broken immigration system? You can be the hero that finally gets it done after decades of failure. Or, you can continue to fail. Perpetuating our decades old harvest of shame while the watermen go broke here in Maryland and California’s crops die in the fields.
It really pains me to see DJT in Pittsburgh, selling the locals on his big beautiful push to restart the American steel industry. As a former Pittsburgher, it hurts to see what is probably just another of Trump’s empty bags of false hope being peddled to a mostly uninformed or misinformed public. This has all the earmarks of another “Foxconn” deal, another Trumpian promise, this one from 2017, that failed to materialize. Trump said it would pull in 13-thousand jobs for Wisconsin. The real number turned out to be closer to 13-hundred.
The real tragedy here lies in the fact that much of the world, including China, is moving forward with the development of renewable energy and hi-tech, while Donald Trump, is in Western PA, pushing steel production which was largely off-shored years ago, as American investors ran away from low-tech and high union labor costs. Another big factor in the death of U.S. steel production, a factor often conveniently forgotten by those who were not there, is that foreign steel makers like Germany and Japan, handed out government subsidies to their steel companies back in the 70’s and 80’s, allowing them to undercut American steelmakers, eventually running them out of business.
There is also the “A” word. Automation. Even if new steel plants are built, which would in all likelihood take years, much of the production would surely be automated, making any Trumpian promise of a return to the past for the American steel industry another empty bag. Another promise that will probably last as long as his new tariffs of up to 50% on steel imports to the United States. Trump is going to cave on those, just like he caved on his other tariffs, within months or maybe even weeks.
Wanna know what DJT is gonna do in the future? Get your head out of the sand and examine what he’s done in the past. This guy will say anything for votes. Just like he did in Wisconsin.
Just watched the travesty of Donald Trump sucker-punching the President of South Africa with a right-hook of disinformation in the Oval Office.
Poor President Ramaphosa. He probably thought he and Donald were in the Oval for a photo op, prior to serious one-on-one talks. Instead, Trump unleashed a carefully planned audio/video media assault on Ramaphosa, alleging in loud tones just short of shouting that there is a genocide taking place against white Afrikaner farmers carried out by black South Africans.
Some quick fact checking proved it to be a lie, or perhaps we should say another lie, as there have been so many.
I swear to God, it looks like Trump is trying to get a race war started prior to the midterms, which will probably be a blue wave – if we can get there. Now he’s spreading total nonsense about white Afrikaners being murdered in a black on white genocide. First it was the overblown Latino threat on US soil, now it’s South Africa. It looks and smells like a “white Americans vs. the others” setup as the one thing the “others” have in common, is that they are all ppl of color as opposed to Donald’s overwhelmingly white base.
It’s right out of the Hitler/Manson playbook. Can’t believe we are watching it happen. So many are either in denial or just plain ignorant, with no desire to ferret out the truth. I vacillate between depression, disgust and anger. Ignorance is a terrible thing and this current situation, where real truthful media is fake and fake media – those who give you what you want and not what you need – is deemed to be real by Trump’s followers, who have followed Vance, Hegseth, Rubio and our Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, who doesn’t know what “habeas corpus” means, down the rabbit hole.
DJT has already led an attempted coup, now he appears to want a full-blown race war by whipping up an imaginary genocide in South Africa. The Prez of So. Africa, did get in one good shot, saying he was sorry he couldn’t give Trump a jet. Donald, then used the occasion to announce that he has decided to accept the 747 from Qatar, apparently with no approval, no advise and consent, from the Congress. A personal gift, which he, King Donald, unimpeded by the Congress, has decided the United States will happily accept.
Why bother with oversight? King Donald, will just ignore it. Did you see the report verifying that 50 of the immigrants Trump sent to Salvador, were in the United States legally? Donald doesn’t seem even remotely interested in bringing them back, following what appears to be their kidnapping and false imprisonment by the Trump Administration.
This is madness.
MSNBC and CNN, did a good job of reporting out this latest incident in the Oval, with live fact checking to correct Trump’s lies as he blathered on about a “genocide.”
I’m wondering if the traditional media is too little, too late, considering YouTube is the front-runner in the race for eyeballs. Also wondering if we’ll make it to the midterms in one piece if Trump keeps this up and the Republicans continue their refusal to take a stand against their liar in chief, who appears to be more deeply deluded on a daily basis.
Trump is on live tv again, claiming he’s gonna cut drug prices by 80%. Or maybe 85%. Whoops, he just dropped down somewhere into the “maybe 70%” but now he slid back up to 85%. No clue on how he plans to do it. By edict, maybe, which will in all likelihood be overturned in court.
Now he’s saying the price of gas is down to $1.99 a gallon. The Auto Club, puts the national average at $3.17 a gallon.
Now he’s claiming that grocery prices are down. That’s also a lie. A search by AI puts grocery prices up 2.4% above this same time last year.
All of this, of course, follows Trump’s much heralded more than two hour long phone call with Vladimir Putin, which appears to have accomplished nothing, other than reinforcing what appears to be a warm relationship between the President of the United States, and a murderous dictator, who appears to be out to reconstruct the old Soviet Union.
We are supplying arms to Ukraine, which Putin is trying to destroy, while our president snuggles up to Putin. “The enemy of my friend is my friend?” How can the madness of this position escape anybody?
It really doesn’t matter whether Trump is delusional or an outright liar in need of another diversion. Either way, the result is the same, much of the American public is being snowed.
Elon Musk, apparently gets it. He has just announced that he will be spending a “lot less” on politics. As for all those others, that still can’t understand and won’t listen, even when the message is coming from Springsteen, I’m reminded of another sociopath by the name of Charles Manson.
Not that many years ago, Charlie Manson, was sitting out in the Mojave Desert, dreaming of being king after whipping up a race war in America. Now we have a president doing the same thing but out of the Oval Office, using race to divide and conquer and a phony economic crisis to spread fear as he dreams of being the first American Emperor.
What is that old saying about “He who has ears to hear, let him hear,” and “He who has eyes let him see.” I think it may be from the Bible. Good advice. Prophetic, you might say.
