Showing posts with label propaganda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label propaganda. Show all posts

Monday, April 20, 2020

Covidiots and Random Thoughts Thereof

Today, we're getting more reports of protests against stay-at-home orders by those I call "covidiots." We've learned many of these protest groups are sponsored by right-wing groups such as the gun lobby PAC. Also, one can see Confederate flags and other hate symbols among the stupid fools marching like somehow their defiance will protect them against novel coronavirus.

If that was all it was, I'd say, go on, march around like little tin soldiers, give the disease to each other, be happy. But now we're seeing these protestors facing off against healthcare workers at hospitals and other medical places, taunting them and verbally abusing them.

Who the hell do these covidiots think they are? I mean, what planet did they descend from, and more importantly, how can we send them back.

It infuriates me to think that the President of the United States encourages such behavior in his tweets. He's supposed to be the leader of this country and he's acting like the world's biggest troll.

Sometimes, he acts the fool during his daily press briefings, aka his propaganda presentations. Other times, he'll say the "right" things (nominally) and contradict his very word on Twitter! What the hell?

I have a couple of theories about that. First, he has mental problems and his lucid moments are being overshadowed by his demented ones. That is, he's able to hold it together for a while, but then the demons in his head break loose and he becomes a raging lunatic. It's like his id becomes almost possible to control in public, but as soon as he gets on his phone in his private place, the demons are freed.

Why isn't the GOP doing something about this? As I've undoubtedly noted before, Trump will do their bidding and they're getting things done they never would've had a traditional Republican in the White House. They needed the perfect partner--an unhinged, megalomaniacal troglodyte who has no political loyalties and will sell his soul to the highest bidder of the moment.

Some say we were due to have such a horrible Chief Executive given our history of embracing authoritarianism and right-wing dictators throughout the world. The threat of communism so terrified both the left and right that they would do anything--I mean anything--to stop it, including getting into bed with some of the worse humans on the planet.

Trump's even worse. His adoration of despots is profound and unbidden. Putin, Kim Jong Un, Balsanaro, Duerte, Xi Jinping, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and others...Trump's ass-kissing of these self-styled "strongmen" is offensive. And yet, the GOP does not reign him in. No, in fact, they encourage him by their silence.

History will look back at this time and hopefully describe in painstaking detail how horrible this regime is. I know I'll never forget it.

Thursday, April 9, 2020

The Daily Propaganda Show

We are living in an unprecedented moment in our history. The world is seized by a dangerous pandemic, which has caused significant changes in virtually every aspect of our lives. There is a strong possibility that many of these changes will remain permanently embedded in the fabric of our society.

In the past, the primary source for guidance in crises such as the COVID-19 emergency was the federal government. We looked to Washington to provide assurances our country remained in good hands, that there was stable stewardship leading the ship of state through such rough waters.

No more.

Now, we're assaulted verbally, emotionally, and intellectually by the partisan screeds of Donald Trump, which are sometimes alternated with good medical information.

I just can't watch them. I can't stand his voice, I can't stand his lies, I can't stand his snideness. Call it Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) if you will, I don't care. Trump has been a loathsome creature for as long as I can remember (this is going back to the 1980s for ). I despised him then and I despise him now, only more so because somehow he got elected to the highest office in the land.

We, the American people, don't need a daily propaganda sh#tshow being forced upon us. Those of us with working faculties don't want to have to spend the entire pandemic briefing hitting mute whenever the orange-tinged baboon takes the podium.

This whole affair--Trump's mishandling of the warnings from various governmental agencies through the attempt to smear Chinese people for the spread of the disease (leading to Chinese-Americans being threatened) through the constant blaming of Obama (WTAF?)--is an affront on common sense and simple decency.

Every day, the cable news channels are flooded with a new Trump campaign rally. He insults reporters from news agencies he doesn't like, gives validity to those who praise him (some of which are the most wacko of all of them), and generally acts like an uncultured, undignified slob.

Historians will look back on this era and wondered how American fell so far to have elected such a bumbling twit and then didn't have the good sense to get rid of Trump before he did too much damage. That is, IF there are historians after his reign of terror.

Yours in frustration,

Michael

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