Trump TV
By all accounts, it’s been a pretty insane couple of days. The FDA announced recently that they would not recommend COVID boosters for people under age 65 unless they were considered to be at high risk. Yes, this is really happening. I’m glad I was able to get an impromptu booster yesterday, and some other people probably will as well.
But Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Sewage, promised that if we wanted vaccines, we would still be able to get them. He said this under oath. And yet, he was lying, just like many people warned he was. He’s taking away our freedom of choice, and as a result, there will be many otherwise preventable hospitalizations and deaths. I left a comment on the regulations.gov page, but who knows if that’ll do anything. Still, it’s worth a shot.
In the last week or two, Trump announced that he was going to receive a $400 million plane from Qatar to use as Air Force One. Again, this is really happening. As brazenly corrupt as this is, the most worrying part is that the Qatari jet is almost certainly bugged seven ways from Sunday. It’s literally an intelligence nightmare on par with Russian asset Tulsi Gabbard. At this point, you might as well give Vladimir Putin a Cabinet position - for all intents and purposes, he’s already President.
And to those who say Putin must have something on Trump, I understand why you’d think that, but there’s still a gaping hole in this theory.
We already know lots of horrible things about Trump given how his first term ended and the fact that he was convicted of thirty-four felony charges. I’m not naïve to Trump’s admiration of Putin and how dangerous that is. But my issue with the blackmail theory is this: What could Putin POSSIBLY have on Trump that’s so much worse than what we already know? And, more importantly: Why is he so scared of that secret coming out when he’s proven to be Teflon Don otherwise?
No. I think it’s more likely Trump simply loves Putin and wants to be just like him. That’s incredibly dangerous, of course, and I don’t want to minimize that. Other countries are going to stop sharing intelligence with us pretty soon, if they haven’t already. And we’re going to see more terrorist attacks.
In the midst of all this chaos and outrage, it would be nice if we had a mainstream media that did its job. It would be nice if they called out the Trump administration for all their horrendous acts, as well as the American public for electing that man not once but twice. But that’s not the world we live in.
For those of you who’ve been living under a rock lately, former US President Joe Biden was recently diagnosed with an extremely aggressive form of prostate cancer. In my view, it makes the saga last year surrounding efforts to remove him from the race seem even more tragic in hindsight. There have obviously been many questions about how this wasn’t detected sooner - after all, Biden has the best healthcare in the world.
To be sure, this certainly warrants some discussion in the media. The issue is that it’s all the media is talking about. I’m not going to link to CNN, which has basically become Trump TV at this point thanks to all the “sane-washing” it does, but they’ve been running segment after segment about how the Democrats covered up Biden’s health. As if it’s remotely equivalent to everything Trump and the GOP have done!
Yes, the Democratic Party tried to hide Joe Biden’s decline from the general public. But quite frankly, I don’t care about that anymore. Biden isn’t President anymore, and he’ll never be President again. He’ll be lucky to live out the rest of the year. The point is, he should be politically irrelevant at this point, and he probably would be if the media stopped talking about the cover-up. This could lead into a rant about the Democrats’ age problem, but I won’t go there right now.
Of course, it needs to be said that this is far from the only example of the media sabotaging the Democratic Party. Consider how much they sane-washed Trump during the leadup to the 2024 election. It’s no secret at this point that they desperately wanted to return to the White House for the sake of ratings.
Donald Trump, of course, is a ratings machine. Whether you love him or hate him, you have to pay attention. The idea that “there’s no such thing as bad publicity” was basically the modus operandi of his 2016 campaign, and he keeps grabbing your attention with insane threats, such as that to make Canada the 51st state.
Speaking of that particular threat, CNN is totally broken at this point. Or maybe broken is the wrong word - it’s working exactly as they want it to. Again, I’m not going to give them any more traffic through this blog (however small that amount of traffic might be), but I remember that they talked about Trump’s 51st state comments as “Trump eyes territorial expansion.” This is sane-washing of the highest order.
Honestly, there’s a word for what Trump proposes. There’s a word for forcibly annexing a country with the intent of conquering it and making it part of your own country. The word is invasion.
If you want to know what an invasion entails, look no further than Ukraine. Now, I’m aware that media coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a fraction of what it once was. During the first few days and weeks of the war, Ukraine was everywhere. You couldn’t escape the news about Snake Island, or the siege on Mariupol, or the numerous other war crimes Russian forces have committed the last few years.
Now, of course, this conflict has faded into the background, especially since the October 7 attack on Israel and the subsequent war against Hamas (and genocide in Gaza) soaking up all the attention. But the war in Ukraine, now well into its fourth year, is still going on, and still just as bloody as ever.
The point is, war is brutal, especially when civilians are targeted like what Russia and Israel are doing. Trump’s proposing doing exactly this to Canada, because they will fight back. Canadians are proud of one thing above all, and that’s not being Americans. It’s hard to blame them when they’ve got universal health insurance and sane gun laws.
Will Trump actually invade Canada? Who knows. It’s a joke until it isn’t. But it’s incredibly irresponsible of CNN to use the euphemism of “territorial expansion” to describe such an unspeakable crime.
So, if we have a mainstream media that’s totally in the tank for Donald Trump, what’s the solution? That’s where I come in.
I haven’t been as consistent in writing this blog as I should be, but I’m here to deliver the news as I see it. I might not have a fancy journalism degree, but you don’t need one in order to tell people what they need to know. Your “I Can” is more important than your IQ, isn’t it?
The mainstream media, CNN et al, is Trump TV. They sanitized everything he proposed, and they continue to do so. Independent, alternative media is the way forward for our country. It’s the only way we’ll convince enough people that they were destructive fools for giving Donald Trump another term in the White House.
