Opinion/Editorial
THE TIRED AND ANGRY UNDERBELLY OF AMERICA
The 6th of January 2022 came and went. A recent editorial in the New York Times continued the densely and vapidly stupid (if you consider the future) practice of ‘fair and balanced’ reporting…by interviewing people on both sides of the political spectrum about the event. Why will not the mass media step forward and help to save the country by declaring the January 6th event a disaster of intended and unintended home-grown terror? Why will they not stop, stand and call Trump a liar every time they mention him? This disgrace as a president when he was in office and this fumbling rotten, but oh so dangerously threatening fool now out of office, has to be confronted each and every time he raised his head from the Florida slime.
The republican effort to support this vertical moving maggot is boundless and endless. Selfishness reigns over my former party, which once stood for truth, justice, and, yes, the American way. Why are anti cretins like Aaron Rodgers, and other athletes (and totally insulated and medically taken care of completely) allowed to continue to literally kill people and not be held accountable? Instead, like some of our modern conservative politicians, they are being treated as heroes. What slime they are, but you won’t read about that in the editorials, front pages, or sports pages of major newspapers or online or even on television.
We are all about fame now, and God help us because the USA is not helping itself whatsoever. Aaron Rodgers has set himself up to look like a street person wearing a helmet. What happened to sports in America?
And what happened to Maureen Dowd? The aging dowager/pundit/financially and class-insulated pundit for the New York Times finally writes a column piece again. Sunday’s piece reintroduces her, now distancing herself from the left and headed deep into the right. After about ten words about what a cretin Trump was and remains, she goes after Biden. “When everyone thought there was going to be some much-needed silence and peace, what does Biden deliver?” That kind of anti-Biden crap pours out of her. She makes Manchin a hero for stopping the spending (like for hearing aids and dental for old people) and so much more.
THE NEW YORK TIMES IS NOT OWNED BY LIBERALS AND ITS MESSAGE IS NOT LIBERAL. I seldom ever write in all caps, but how do we reach anyone anymore. The mass media, by its very private nature (owned by wealthy people), is not liberal, and that includes screeds that scream that the publication is liberal (also like MSNBC and CNN on cable television). They are all right-wing or President Biden, who has done nothing like Trump’s insane leadership and is trying mightily to avoid civil war, war abroad, and to take care of so many problems that have just murderously lain around through countless administrations, would not be so attacked by this newspaper and this media for returning to the Paris accords and making agreements with Iran. He’s about getting rid of lead in water pipes and helping the lower spectrum of a very wealthy country that has an underbelly of poor citizens not being cared for at all. This selfish behavior, in the face of the stunning wealth of a very few, is a dreadful indictment of democratic representation. The wealthy are already ‘purchasing’ every voting center official in almost every republican state in this union. The republican business owners are socking more and more money away into offshore accounts every day. There was about a quadrillion in offshore assets (our approximation at the time) back in the nineties when I was involved with the CIA.
What do you suppose that amount is now? Maureen Dowd and the rest of these secretly conservative, but stated liberal, pundits are part and party to the general feeling of discomfort and disbelief the general public has developed about the reporting and integrity of the mass media itself. No wonder that a whacked-out Donald Trump won the presidency once. He may well win the presidency again because of the underlying bed of hatred and anger that lays under the fabric of a nation that has come to know it’s being lied to about almost everything all the time by almost everyone.
I totally agree with everything you wrote. I am so sick and tired of the Trump supporters and the vaccine deniers. I respect Biden for the difficult job that he is doing. I would write more, but I have made my point. I just cannot believe how brainwashed many Republicans are for wanting Trump back in office. I am so sick of the “Let’s Go Brandon,” like it is so funny. I have tried reason with these people, but they are very brainwashed. I was an Independent prior to Trump running, but now I am a Democrat and an activist. I am 71 years old.