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Journalists (print and talking heads) need to pursue and emphasize even better than they are now doing, a “no bullshit, objective reality education” program that this country needs. They start by designating the day that Trump sickeningly slinked down the escalator with the beginning of his drumbeat of racism…that this was NOT NOT the beginning of a new normal. Rather this was the beginning of an assault on objective reality, the likes of which we have never seen. Here is my quick list (including but not limited to…as the lawyers like to say) of what this country needs to be educated about ASAP.
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1. Racism: Racism has always been with us. Trump is simply fanning its flames, with the help of social media lies and distortions, better than it has ever been done before. Historic reference materials abound…Slavery, 3/5 citizenship, “white man’s burden”, Native American Genocide, lynching, mass incarceration, etc. ad nauseum. This incessant campaign of hate is getting really old. It needs to end immediately.
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2. Every Trumpian racist program and procedure, especially regarding immigration, needs to be immediately reversed.
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3. The only way to stem the stream of mass murders in this country is an immediate ban on assault weapons…and a huge buyback program. Whatever the price will be, in the long it is cheap at twice the price. All other policies and procedures are secondary…and when these other policies are promoted or supported by Trump, they are only smoke screens to deflect attention away from banning assault weapons. The statistics are too obvious and compelling to even argue.
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4. Mass group counselling for the 1/3 of America who is still delusional in their support of an inept and cruelly inhumane administration needs to be implemented somehow to bring these folks to their senses. Not sure how to accomplish this goal, but if there was a “common sense pill” that could be prescribed and administered on a mass level, that is the kind of solution required to wake up the folks who do not realize the extent to which the Orange fraud and huckster is ruining their financial health…and allowing our governmental institutions to erode to the point that our infrastructure and our planet is on the brink of collapse… from which we will never recover.
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5. Mitch McConnell and his cunning ways of abusing our governmental procedures must go. Too much power by one person…not good. In fact, if every one of the 150 plus judicial appointments he has enabled should be reversed. Legal acumen is insufficient when it is trumped by cultural bias.
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6. Last but not least…try as I may… I have not discovered sufficient evidence that our Federal government is doing enough to help our state governments to protect and safeguard from attack, the hardware and software required to deliver accurate election results. I accuse the Trump administration of deliberately ignoring the documented attacks against our electoral processes by our adversaries… so that come November 3d 2020, he will be able to declare that his administration just discovered that tampering existed; the results are fake; and by executive tweet, he’s declaring that he’s not leaving office. Without an immediate and massive infusion of capital and expertise TODAY, with which we can “100% guarantee” an accurate result, the Orange Pimple might continue to fester.
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So, Talking heads, please remember: –
This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco –
This ain’t no fooling around. |
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Searching for actual truth?
It’s so much easier to have talking heads saying’ he said,she said’.
Bonus: By carefully choosing your talking heads you can skew the questions to one side or another while still pretending to be ‘fair and balanced’ and looking at ‘both sides’, while forgetting that in a three-dimensional world there are really only two sides to anything.
This has to change.
But I’m not holding my breath waiting.
Can’t edit: should say ‘there are rarely only two sides to anything.’
With Trumpies, I’d settle for somewhere close to the truth.
I was a stringer for an Idaho newspaper in the late 1990s and remember how shocked I was to hear that the policy was now you always gave both sides in an article. Their newspaper? Their rules, but the published stupidity that came with that rule was intolerable so I quit and started writing letters to the editor. Another reason ignorance in America has reached unprecedented heights.
Your title quote is one of my favorites (I even transcribed it into a Medieval meme), but I’m stating to realize it’s incomplete. If it’s the Republican who says it’s raining and the Democrat who says it’s not, the journalist needs to look out of multiple windows, because I guarantee the Republican has paid someone to stand at one of them and train a garden hose just above it. Just sayin’.