Sadly, the vast majority of American “journalism” in 2024 has devolved to “dramatic images coming in” (usually a cargo plane blowing a tire on the runway or a baby carriage crashing through a bar window); the nobody-could’ve-expected-that! phenomenon of inclement weather during Springtime months (with “Ginger Zee standing by to time it all out for us”); another affluent pink college student gone missing during a bender on some Caribbean island the average American wouldn’t know from the name of an obscure German cheese; musical comeback tours with nonagenarian band members tooling around onstage in Harley-Davidson mobility scooters and designer hearing aids; feelgood stories about the return of a church little-league’s stolen gorilla-mascot suit (“You won’t wanna miss this!”), and whatever other steaming bowel-blossom the suits upstairs can get their almost-lifelike polythene dolls to squeeze into the empty space between GasX and boner-pill ads.
And the media has utterly failed by their relentless quest to show equivalencies. No one can accept the fact that one of our only two parties has completely succumbed.
A recent example, circa 12:39 p.m. EDT on May 9, 2024, from Josh Kovensky’s live coverage of Stormy & Trump: At the conclusion of Stormy Daniels’ testimony, “As if on cue, around a dozen journalists have left the overflow room.”
“There’s 3 billion people on the planet. We professionals with advanced technology are finding and reporting the stories that affect us all the most.”
Journalism 2024
“There 7 billion people and stories on the planet and just as many ways to hear them and oh my god the execs say we have to cut back on journalists and bureaus so the only way we can get an audience now is to find the stories that represent aberration, that least represent what everyone considers a human being so let’s start with the politicians.”
If Trump rigs it and wins, the election is legitimate. If he doesn’t win, it was rigged against him, is not legitimate and requires mob action to change the results.
Weirdly, a bunch of the “audits” that the nutbars have run have been in districts they carried by large majorities. Albeit that’s mostly about the fact that election officials in non-nutbar districts are going to shut down the bamboo fiber nonsense before it even gets started.
“RFK Jr. details medical abnormality that he says was a parasitic worm in his brain
By Aaron Pellish, CNN”
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I feel a certain sadness now that we learn the worm in RFK jr’s brain died before finishing its meal. RFK jr did relate the worm did in fact eat part of his brain. What part and how much we don’t know. It’s a sad. And ads to mercury poison from too much sushi. And his large illegal drugs intake as a youth.
I question his fitness for office. But then, we have elected candidates of his caliber in 2016. Lets not repeat the mistake.
Just ask him how much longer he wants to make the voting line in Atlanta this time. Repeat the question for Detroit. Milwaukee? Pittsburg? Philly? Phoenix?
Sadly “both sides” are very rarely equivalent. The media treats the nonsense claims and conspiracies as having equal validity by “reporting” them and thus lets people “decide” that both sides deserve equal consideration, which they hardly ever deserve.
There may in fact be legitimate policy differences, but being fed by this both-sidesism Conservatives have actually abandoned policy for just political point scoring and a large part of the public just goes along. The GOP can “declare” that illegal voting is a real problem and create legislation that allows them to “investigate” those problems, but they never propose or even have any real solutions–because there is no problem!
“Close the Border” would likely work about as well as keeping drugs and other contraband out of prisons. There may, maybe, end up being fewer undocumented aliens in the US, but they weren’t voting anyway, so the real goal of reducing the number of non-Western-European immigrants is accomplished. But as a policy this is not a concern or goal of the majority of Americans, so they can’t say that part out loud.
How is it that the only legislating the GOP can “accomplish” is stuff that has no chance of being successfully signed into law? Oh, right, because they are only concerned with proclaiming their victimhood, not in actually helping govern. So, “stop illegal voting” and “make women into chattel” are the only things they seem to be able to get behind.
And still too damned many people vote for them again and again…
He’s constantly lying, not just in off-the-cuff remarks but in formal interviews with conservative outlets. This suggests to me that he has an extremely flexible and convenient view of what Jesus wants.
