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Meet the Press – RIP

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So Kirstin Welker, is attempting to interview House Speaker Mike Johnson on Meet the Press.

First off, she isn’t up to it. She doesn’t have the chops. Secondly, I find it harder and harder watching these people go through the motions, pretending it’s business as usual.

Trump, should have been locked up and banned from ever running for anything again after he led his attempted coup. Now, here we are, potentially, Germany in the 30’s. And the polls are evenly split? God help us.

Do they still have a Reichstag fire up their collective sleeve?

All that really matters is the Electoral College, and you know the Republicans are gonna do all they can to stack and pack it in their favor. Just wait for Florida. I can hear it now, the Trumpists wailing about how the election isn’t valid because flood victims couldn’t get to the polls. So let’s throw it to the Supremes, who will anoint Donald the magnificent. It’ll be Bush/Gore all over again? You know they are laying plans. The FSB is probably working on it.

I know I sound like a conspiracy theory nutjob, but it’s all perfectly logical. Nobody wants Trump back in the WH more than Putin, with the possible exception of the Evangelical South. We are a nation in denial. There’s no reason Meet the Press would be any different, when reality is too terrible to contemplate.

Oh wait, Mike Johnson just said that he agrees with everything DJT has been saying on the trail. Johnson, agrees that Haitians are eating dogs and cats in Springfield. He agrees with Trump’s assertion that the oceans will rise only 1/8th of an inch over the “next 500 years,” and all the rest of the Trump madness including his statement that “I was never indicted,” or his threat to pull CBS Network’s license to broadcast or to withhold funding for fighting California wildfires. It’s a problem they wouldn’t have to face, had they followed Trump’s earlier advice and gotten busy “raking the forest.” That’s what he said, and it ranks right up there with injecting bleach. And nuking hurricanes. And supporting bloodthirsty dictators

Donald Trump, isn’t well. He needs help. Professional help. He appears to be truly delusional, and Mike Johnson, and the rest of the Republican Party, appear to be united in support for his ongoing illness.

I’m not sure how you counter that much toxic baloney on live television, other than going toe to toe with your opponent and forcing him off the stage, which is probably what Welker, should have done. If she had, I wonder if she would have been fired for it? So much safer to either “sanewash” the whole thing or just give up on a question and move on. He is Speaker of the House after all, and Meet the Press does have to uphold a certain amount of traditional decorum. And these Republicans do have gaslighting down to a science. Or is it an art form? Either way, it was born of the devil.

Bernie Sanders, Politics, Sanders Presidential Bid

Trump And Sanders Blowing The Beltway’s Political Circuits

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Interesting exchange on NBC’s “Meet the Press” this morning, a program I generally do not watch because so many of its participants are suffering from “Beltway Fever”  but am now watching occasionally as the presidential campaign moves forward.

I was encouraged and surprised by an admission from one among the group of inside-the-beltway pundits, that they have been wrong,  and that it is no longer an impossibility that Donald Trump could actually turn out to be the Republican nominee.   Still improbable?  Yes?  Impossible?  No.

Wow.  Always nice to see DC pundits admit that there’s a country out there beyond the Beltway, and that they may be out of touch with it.  But there’s another problem with their punditry.     Hahahaha.   Hohoho.  Guffaws, all around.

Within minutes of admitting their mistake about Donald Trump, they then turned on a  political penny and raised the question of whether Joe Biden’s trip to meet with Elizabeth Warren is an indicator that Biden is getting serious about getting in the race against Hillary Clinton.   Oh really?  So you were wrong about Trump and now you continue to ignore Bernie Sanders?

Hopefully, within a few weeks they’ll be scratching their heads about the growing support for Sanders among younger Americans, and admitting they were wrong about him as well.  This is what happens to pundits when their thread of common wisdom based upon politics as usual can no longer be depended upon.

Why is there absolutely no concern expressed about Trump’s tactic of using the politics of hate and fear to whip up his base?    How would he deport 11-million Latinos?   Would he follow Hitler’s example and load them onto boxcars, breaking up families in the process?   What about Latinos who are politically connected?   What about rioting in the streets?  How would he repeal the 14th Amendment?   By non-existent presidential decree?  It’s insane.

And you might at least try and understand the groundswell of support for Sanders among young people facing crushing student loan debt as they are forced to live with their parents because the corporatocracy which has purchased the federal government has shipped millions of jobs overseas gutting middle America.   Nothing much to discuss here, other than the abject failure of American Capitalism to support a majority of Americans.

If you want a younger audience for your programs, then try and speak to the issues that concern them, instead of ignoring the truth and carrying on with your ridiculous business as usual nonsense.

Are there still more than 400 days to the election?   Yes.   Will Trump probably not be the Republican nominee but nothing’s impossible?  Yes.  Should pundits and newscasters be allowing Bernie Sanders the same credibility they are now affording Trump?  Yes.  Will they,  until they are forced to because they are making themselves look stupid?  No.   And not because they don’t want to.   The problem is that they are beltway insiders, and Trump and Sanders are political outsiders challenging DC’s business as usual insider machine and the usual  gang of suspects on the network shows don’t know how to handle it.