It may sound cliched to say that you should never believe anything you read in the mainstream press but man, it has never been as true as it is today.
They whipsaw from horror stories at the border, to the horrors of the Ukraine war, and those news stories disappear completely in favor of Israel “justifiably” removing Gaza as it has been known from the world map. We are then temporarily treated to some salacious news from Stormy Daniels on the predilections of DJT, and Hey Look! they held the Met Gala!
All you can do is sit back and sigh.
Campus unrest is the topic du jour, but will soon yield to some other emergency. Complete distraction appears to be the order of the day. It is a wonder we all haven’t experienced whiplash from turning our heads from one story to the next.
The world is always on fire, and we all must be gravely concerned at all times. The mainstream media loves when we live in a state of panic and anxiety.
And we are all supposed to hate our neighbor. I come to loathe the liberal preening virtue signaling idiot with the yard sign that says “In this house…”, and they hate their neighbor who takes the dogs on a stroll wearing a MAGA hat. Both have way, way more in common than what they disagree over, but God forbid they should bond into one voting block, everyone in present control would shudder at the thought.
Hey look, that Kennedy fellow running for President says a worm ate part of his brain which caused him all kinds of trouble. As much as I’d like to say I could have guessed at such an occurrence based on his public comments but that just perpetuates the mood that the power structure would like to exist in our lives, one of cynicism and contempt.
Don’t look now but our current President of the United States of America is a brain-addled senile old man incapable of stringing more than three sentences together absent a mental breakdown. Yet half the country is enthusiastically going to vote for him to continue in office. I realize that the picture painted of his opposition is so foul, so horrible, and so egregious they feel as if they have no alternative, but we lived through four years of his Presidency and things weren’t that bad. They were certainly better for most of it than we’ve experienced the past three plus years.
They say if you want to know who is really in control of our government to watch how fast they react and act. Well it took only mere days to both pass a law saying you couldn’t criticize Israel, and then to vote billions of dollars to Ukraine and Israel. This from the same body that can’t pass any vote at all to close the porous borders that the American people desperately want closed.
So that is two quick and clean votes on behalf of Israel, I’d point that out but then you’d say I was antisemitic. I’d point out there should be an investigation on where all the BLM money went, but then I’d be both a bigot and racist.
Ask uncomfortable questions and you get labels these days. And none of those labels paint you as being a stand-up guy.
Fani Willis dominated all headlines just a few months back but I haven’t seen her name in the papers for weeks. Her illicit affair and spending habits, and illegal hiring practices have disappeared from the news completely. I guess none of that was important.
These days it pays to have a very, very short memory and an even shorter attention span.
Kristi Noem revealed herself a puppy killer and that dominated the news over a weekend. A rather attractive women with a decent public resume, with the exception of her support of trans in women’s sports, some thought she had a bright national public future. But in Thomas Eagleton fashion, a one-time VP candidate who revealed he had gone through electroshock therapy and been treated for depression, Kristi Noem killed and murdered her career in one huge revelation. Eagleton disappeared after one weekend of fame, and it is “goodbye pretty brunette” puppy killer too. That news faded fast too.
After a while it is all a jumble, border, border, Gaza, Trump trial, Ukraine disorder, hey wait, they are roasting Tom Brady!
I’ve admitted to having a huge ADHD problem but man, even my lightning quick changing brain can’t keep up with the news today.
By now I have come to some absolutes in conclusion. I feel they are instructive.
As you spread open the newspaper in the morning, or log-on online to view “the news”, before reading the first word ask yourself “why do they want me to know this”?
It may change your entire perspective on things you read, news you consume. Because everything you see is written to steer your thoughts in a given direction.
And I always, always know that despite being told in the “old days”, back in class in the 1960’s that the newspapers and networks had a “Chinese Wall” between editorial and advertising, and believing that canard for just a little while as a child, I’ve realized that as an adult the advertisers have grown so large and in-charge that no narrative leaves the typesetter absent the filter of the big advertisers. You think you are going to see hard questions asked of the pharmaceutical companies on the Covid vaccine from the networks on television when entire programs are “brought to you by Pfizer”?
I said “typesetter”, how quaint. A throwback to the good old days when newsprint was typeset and computers hadn’t taken over newsprint. And soon, yes very soon, printed publications will disappear altogether, they will all exist only online. If you haven’t sold your “printers ink” stocks by now, expect to ride them down to zero.
Unless you have absolute shit for brains you know by now that all publications and news networks have capitulated to advertisers. All of them. The “news” is filtered through an approval by the monied crowd. We aren’t just getting a watered down version, we are getting full strength propaganda. There is no water added.
We really shouldn’t trust any news. Matt Taibbi did some excellent investigative work on how our government, it’s agencies such as the CIA, FBI, NSA, were all in constant contact with Twitter, Facebook, and other online news providers to censure all things negative on the Democratic Party and DNC talking points. They shut down a right wing alternative to Twitter completely, and are working very hard to stop and shut down Tik Tok because the powers that be in the US cannot control the narrative as the site is Chinese owned and controlled.
I feel so sorry for those who obtain their news from such sources as Facebook, Twitter, and especially a Bloomberg. Holy Shit. Bloomberg admitted an extreme bias in covering the last Presidential Election. God only knows what if any “truth” they print. I’d say a rule of thumb is that anything that doesn’t enhance Michael Bloomberg’s personal portfolio doesn’t make it into print, all things that increase his wealth get a full and complete amplification. Me? I take one look at that goofball Zuckerberg, read about his antics practically stealing the very idea for Facebook from the Winklevoss Twins, and realize you shouldn’t trust him any further than you could throw him.
I read voraciously all day every day, but mostly I read between the lines. In every story I find points that make no sense, or have my gut churning, which is where I know to find the lies. The gut never lies, ever. We use “gut” a lot. It should be thought of as “reliable’. We say “that man has guts”, or “my gut tells me”, or “I hate his guts”. Somewhere down around the colon is a spot that resonates with lies. A bodily reflex that internally says “bullshit alert, bullshit alert”, and you get a sharp queasy feeling to the lower left side. My doctor told me years ago it was called a “spastic colon”, but I see it as a truth detector.
I am not claiming some unique intelligence, or being able to understand rocket science.
Only that when you grow up and come of age around 1965 and look around the classroom and sure, there are some real idiots, and a buzz bomb or two, but no one labeled “autistic”, and sixty years later you can name a dozen families with an autistic child or grandchild, well, something has changed. And these children are actually afflicted, not just slow, addled, or hyperactive. These are children who don’t like personal touch of any kind, who won’t make eye contact, who tend toward some extreme talent off the charts in one area, but absent skills in all others. These aren’t the slightly odd offspring of a couple in Parkville, Maryland in 1965 that should never have bred given their challenged IQ’s, no, these are humans facing some serious life issues.
Could it be the vaccines, as RFK, Jr., he of dead brain worm says is the root cause of autism? Well I don’t know, but I do know we’ve gone from some in a thousand with autism to one in thirty-six or so, and that has to be telling us something. I have no idea if it is vaccines but whenever I see some article on the growing issue of autism I try to read, and read between the lines to gain some kernel of truth. And it is readily evident on reading such articles that they work overtime not to blame the drug companies. Oh look, a big side ad for Jardiance, there is that fat dancing happy woman!
I am past the point of believing that some powers behind the scenes want us all tired. Exhausted.
If Trump wins this next election against all odds and attempts to fix the election, I fully expect a steady nightly news diet of riots, Antifa’s return, BLM’s return, and burning cities and disrupted downtowns. To the extent that we will all cry “foul” and agree to Trump’s removal as long as the powers that be will turn off the riots.
Even the riots have an ancillary point to them. They are a subterfuge, a side-show, a means of distraction. They want us so damn tired and fed-up we give in and give them their way, to run the country for their own benefit as long as they will leave us all in quiet and comfort for just a month.
It is almost a game of flashing lights these days, Drag Shows in Schools yields to the border crisis, but only for two days, then Ukraine is front-and-center, and gone in favor of coverage of Israel currently removing Gaza from the map completely.
The lights flash bright and we are on to the Met Gala, or Trump trial, the new one in New York with salacious tid bits about Trump and his dong, not to be confused with the Fani Willis trial where all the salacious details are on Fani and her hired lover.
Somehow all the while the rich get richer, and I mean filthy richer, and you sitting there consuming all this news fall further behind. Inflation just eating and eating at your annual income. Sorry they had to take more and more, you were too distracted watching the Tom Brady Roast to notice that Pelosi insider traded her way to another seven million in increased net worth. But hey, that Tony Hinchcliffe was funny wasn’t he? Wait, is that a Kardashian?
Israel has just entered Rafah, and is bombing…………….