While our politicos debate what should be done about kids slaughtering other kids in our schools with assault weapons, we now have a former Vice President and our current President threatening each other with assault. They’re talking about taking it out behind the barn and slugging it out. Wonderful.
Bad enough we have to juggle Donald’s illicit love affairs with his love for Putin. Now he’s talking about taking it out behind the barn.
Out in the real world, boy wonder, 33 year-old Mark Zuckerberg, doesn’t seem to grasp the enormity of his website providing more than half of America with their news. Think about that. More than half of Americans 50 or older, presumably think that what they are reading on Facebook, is news. That it’s valid.
During an interview with “Wired,” regarding Facebook’s information sharing issues, Zuckerberg said, “The good news here is that the big actions that we needed to take to prevent this from happening today we took three or four years ago. But had we taken them five or six years ago, we wouldn’t be here right now.”
What? Where? Who? And this guy’s in charge of America’s most potent opinion forming platform?
Pew Research reports, “For the first time in the Center’s surveys, more than half (55%) of Americans ages 50 or older report getting news on social media sites.” Click here, to read the report, “News Across Social Media Platforms in 2017.”
While the pundits prattle on about Stormy Daniels and Joe Biden dreams to taking Trump out behind the gym (although Trump prefers “the barn”), the nation’s business is left undone – except for anything the Republicans can quietly pull off behind the huge political smokescreen that’s covering the nation’s capitol.
It’s at once both frightening and fatiguing. Feels like we could crash at any minute with the Republican Party at the wheel, as an uncontrolled Internet provides all the bogus and biased news either side cares to consume, some of it coming from Russian bot farms while Donald praises Vladimir Putin on his “electoral” win.
Where have all the adults gone? Is John McCain the last sane Republican standing? How is it even possible that this current batch of Republicans is so totally devoid of conscience and shame that they risk throwing over the country for a pot of gold? Can this even be happening?
Don’t be fooled. There is a difference between the two parties. Vote for Democrats in November. Throw these Republican bums out.
And to those who have recently charged me with being something less than a journalist because I state opinions, please try and understand that this is what I do. As it states on the front page of my website, what you are getting here is “news and opinion.” The difference between me and those other guys, is that I tell you up front that I’m writing opinion pieces. If you don’t like what you see here, then please feel free to stay away.