By David Glenn Cox
“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.” – Mark Twain
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a noise? If a news story occurs and no one reports it, is it news? Maybe not in North Korea, China or the United States. A Republican congressman in a blood red Republican district of a blood red Republican state, gets his ass chewed on like a piece of Bazooka Joe bubble gum and it’s not news.
Did they like the Big, beautiful bill? No! They did not! Did they like ICE and Alligator Alcatraz? No! They did not! Did they like the king’s tariffs? No! They did not! Did they like a Fascist Authoritarian President? No! They did not! But who cares? If they don’t report it, it never happened. You can only report the news between the twenty-yard lines. You can’t tell them the king is wildly and incredibly unpopular. That just doesn’t fit the narrative!
Why you just look at these polls! The king’s popularity is between 35 and 45%. Would you care to buy a bridge in Brooklyn? The king’s popularity in Nebraska the other night blows that lie sky high. We polled 500 registered Republicans in nursing homes, and they said this. Or we polled 500 registered Republicans from the Hamptons and Palm Beach. A poll is any number they want it to be. They polled a thousand, but only counted the 500 they wanted to count.
They can acknowledge some Americans are a little disappointed, but they don’t dare tell you how many that number really is. They want to acknowledge your feelings but not validate them. So, any little ole thing which exposes their lie is easily ignored. From the sounds of Nebraska, the other night the king is polling maybe around 15% or less.
Now how would a mean and spiteful, mentally unbalanced painted up king respond to such non-news? Announce a new concentration camp! Perform new ICE Raids! Announce new tariffs! A Doge employee was beaten up, and the king threatens to federalize Washington. They’ll love that back in Nebraska! A young man gets beaten up at three in the morning on a Sunday night. The victim of an alleged carjacking by ten juveniles. Does that story make any sense to you? Why would ten juveniles attempt a carjacking when they couldn’t all fit in the car? Could there have been alcohol involved?
The story goes on to say, “Police intervened.” Did they try to carjack him in front of the police? Every carjacking I’ve ever heard of happens quickly in less than a minute. In the police report, the Doge employee claims he overheard the Youts talking about taking the car. Did they try to take the car or not? Talking about robbing a bank isn’t the same as robbing the bank. Did it ever really happen at all? I wish I were as thin as this story. Apparently, they had no idea he was a Doge employee, so why is the headline about a Doge employee?
Because the king wanted it that way, that’s why! Without the Doge part, it’s a nothing burger. Just a 19-year-old out at 3 AM minding his own business. No robbery, no actual carjacking, just a headline to fuel an agenda. What actually happened is unclear but is big news. What happened in Nebraska the other night was very clear and is not news.
Senator John Cornyn from Texas says the king should send the FBI to arrest the Democratic legislators who escaped from Texas. On what grounds? Is it a federal crime to leave the state? Ken Paxton (Take my wife please) Cornyn’s opponent in the upcoming election issues civil warrants and wants to send the Texas Rangers. Is it a civil crime to leave Texas? It is not. Fascist do as Fascists do. Waaaa! We don’t like it! Arrest them daddy! Make them pay! With the help of the friendly news media, we can’t paint them as criminals doing something wrong!
Also, not news, Canada and Mexico are organizing boycotts against American products. Brazil just told the king to go pound sand. Jack Daniels called the boycott worse than retaliatory tariffs. Because black is the color, and none is the number. Markets lost are never found again. Higher prices are one thing, but open hostility is something else. Ever so slowly, countries are retaliating with their wallets. Canada, Mexico, Europe, China, maybe we can sell our American products on some other planet?
The king, through his chief thug Tom Holman, announces a new concentration camp in Indiana. Ice conducts warrantless raids in violation of a court order. The Injustice Department adds new cities to its list of cities which won’t bend over and cough. It would be easier to make a list of cities not ceding their authority to the king and his Gestapo. Or to just say all Democratically controlled cities. But never let the truth get in the way of a non-story. The king is demanding authority to act illegally in places where he has no authority at all! The king is attempting to subvert local, lawful civil authority and local elected government. And with the help of a friendly news media, it is portrayed as cities not being in compliance. Cities which are acting disloyally to the Federal government.
I can hardly wait until next month’s job report when they revise down that 73,000 new jobs number. It’s going to get harder and harder to make the old lies fit the new reality. Not just the jobs number was bad, the whole report was god awful. But the media decided not to tell you about that. Falling home prices, falling car sales, increasing layoffs just don’t fit the narrative. Cities and states ponder and worry about poor air quality due to Canadian wildfires. The smoke is the news and not the wildfires. The smoke can be explained away, but wild fires might prompt someone to ask about climate change. And we don’t want to talk about that. That’s not news!
So, the king is going to build a lavish, gaudy ballroom at the White House, just like the one at Mara Lago. With gold crystal chandeliers, and it’s going to cost $200 million, but don’t worry. It won’t cost the taxpayers one red cent. Because greedy, I mean grateful speculators eager to kiss the king’s ass will foot the bill. Ain’t that great everybody! A ballroom! Just what we’ve always wanted. News you can use!
“If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it ’cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he’s poor in hisself, there ain’t no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an’ maybe he’s disappointed that nothin’ he can do ‘ll make him feel rich.” ― John Steinbeck
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