The level of insanity going on this country right now is mind blowing. On one side you have a cult spreading disinformation, lies, and wallowing in hate and grievance. (You would think they would be celebrating. The did, after all, win the damn election. Or so we were all led to believe.) On the other side of the political spectrum, you have a feckless Attorney General who is afraid of his own shadow, and a political party hell bent on taking a knife to a gun fight.
Donald trump now controls every aspect of the American media. And the disinformation and lies will be taken to new heights with his new found power. The billionaire's boys club is making sure of it. Mark (I want to be more masculine) Zuckerberg, has announced that there will be no more fact checking on Facebook. He actually went down to Mara-a- Lardo to kiss trump's ring, and beg for forgiveness for all of his past sins. And them he appeared on Joe Rogan's show to heap praise on the right, decry wokeism, and embrace toxic masculinity. The owners of the Washington Post, and LA Times, have also declared their fealty to trump. This is a stunning development in a country that is supposed to value freedom of the press and journalistic independence. Don't even get me started on the South African who inherited his family's diamond mine, came to America, and griffted his way into becoming the richest man on earth. He has gone full replacement theory, and many believe that we actually elected him to be our president. (Worth repeating: All you Negroes driving Teslas need to sell now! You look really silly driving a car from a company which is owned by a man who wants to replace you. ) And here is the crazy part: When he was going broke he begged for--- and got a bailout---- from the government of...wait for it...Barack Obama, a "Socialist" black man.
The torrent of misinformation around the tragic wildfires in Los Angeles has only served to shine a light on the problem. The people in MAGA world don't care about citizens in what they perceive as enemy territory, and there is already talk of trump declaring a federal takeover of the state when he takes office. Don't laugh, the guy wants to invade Canada and take Greenland by force, and the cult is on board. Remember what I wrote about democrats in the first paragraph? Yes, that part. Whatever you thought was just too crazy to be true, is now very possible.
In a few days the felon will take office. Prices will not go down, and our lives will not improve. But, true to form, he will be giving us one distraction after another to take our minds away from the things that REALLY matter in our lives. His cult members will eat it all up and try to tell us how great America is again, and us normal folks will just shake our heads. Not only at the lunacy of the MAGA sheep, but at the willingness of the American press to play along.
*To my family and friends in Los Angeles, please stay safe. You are in our thoughts.*
13 comments:
Maybe he can end some of these wars...that's not a bad thing. Well maybe it is for your side but your side doesn't fight in wars. Your side sends off soldiers to die for no apparent reason.
How can Trump be a felon when NO crime was committed???
Thousands have lost their homes in LA greater area dur to pedocrat DEI batshit policies.
Green New Deal is a SCAM to steal your tax money and put it into the pockets of elitist's democrat grifters.
"Donald trump now controls every aspect of the American media"
Since when did Trump control CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, The View????
https://nypost.com/2025/01/09/us-news/celebrities-turn-on-dems-blast-la-mayor-for-palisades-fire-response/
Democrats are only interested in stealing your tax money. They promise a lot and deliver little to nothing.
You really are that stoopid!
Fake noize, like always.
drumpf is not only an adjudicated rapist, twice impeached, lifetime crook, he is also a convicted felon, a first for a US potus and probably personally set residential fires in California so he and musk could buy hollywood cheap and turn it over to Putie pie.
That video from billionaire Mark Zuckerberg explaining the alleged reasons Meta was dumping fact-checking and moderation was really something.
I doubt Zuck believed one word he said. It was such a pathetic exercise in groveling to wingnut knuckle-dragger culture-war obsessions. He might as well have ended it with: “Please, Mr. Trump, don’t hurt me!”
Shameful.
Spreading conspiracy theories and hate toward LA residents being burned out of their homes is a new low for the Republican Party.
Officially the most ridiculous news story of the day:
Steve Bannon Vows To Take Down 'Racist' And 'Truly Evil' Elon Musk
LOL! The MAGA Thugs versus Tech Broligarchs Civil War continues.
Guys, guys, guys, no need to fight! You’re both “truly evil” racists, and I enthusiastically invite both of you to go f*ck yourselves with a chainsaw.
In the wild, the price for any creature who writes mistakes into its description of the world is always the same; it becomes dinner for a creature who didn't.
Thus do we have a built-in avoidance to lies and liars at an evolutionary level.
Which makes it all the more staggering to watch this many people consume this many lies this often.
No wonder so many of them are ODing and drinking themselves to death. They are trying in vain to silence the voice deep in the back of their brains screaming NOOOOO! to all of the deadly lies they are consuming.
But the whole of the Republican party is built on lies, and without the lie foundation and the constant stream of incoming new lies, it would crumble into a pathetic little heap.
Lost an election? NUH-UHH! You cheated! Tax cuts don't make the economy better? WELFARE QUEENS! Trickle down! Waste, fraud and abuse! Wildfire driven by forge-bellows winds incinerates a huge chunk of Los Angeles? SMELT! DEI! Woke politicians!
This is the learned reaction from a party that has been wrong about every policy it has supported for so long that it no longer supports policy because that just gets in the way of the invention of new lies to cover its latest atrocities.
And despite the constant invective about how horrible the government is, the actual government works so well as to allow a majority of voters to pay so little attention to it that they believe in the face of all contradictory evidence that they can vote to just bugger the shit out of it and still be OK.
This is what the right wingers did after Nixon resigned. Roger Ailes decided that Nixon could have been saved if he'd had a right wing media to lie to the public about him and his crimes, so he got to work building one the moment Ronald the fuck Reagan took the fairness doctrine out behind the barn and shot it in its head. Rush Limbaugh began carpet bombing the radio with lies, and soon Fox News was born, and true to Roger's idea, Fergus survived in office after far more dire crimes than anything Nixon ever did.
He did get kicked out of office in 2020, though, because he did the only thing that penetrates the lie-shield: he botched the response to covid so badly that the lives of all of those people who consume the lies were disrupted.
So that is the only little bit of hope we are left with: That Fergus will fuck up again so badly that we sane people get called in again to fix the damage, like we always do lately.
Hopefully this time we won't need refrigerated trailers to stack the bodies in again, and we won't have a Manchin or a Sinema to thwart our attempts to fix the problems that have allowed this to deteriorate this far.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
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