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?”