By David Glenn Cox
Here in the free states of North Korea, there is always plenty of good, good news.
“Trump Rallies in deep-red Alabama to “thank” loyal voters as GOP eyes key house seat.” – ABC Breaking News. More like broken news.
“In Alabama, Trump Relives his Glory Days” (This time with some empty seats) – The New York Crimes. No. Incorrect. This time with many, many empty seats. The carefully sequestered video shows a 10,000- seat auditorium half-empty. There was a story there to tell, but the media chose not to tell it.
“President Trump’s Visit to Mobile Draws Crowds of Supporters and Protesters.” – Fox News
“Watch: President Donald Trump Appears in Mobile, AL.- My NBC 15.com.
Four free and fair, honest media news outlets and only one even mentioned in passing the empty seats. There were more than a few empty seats. What key House race in gerrymandered Alabama? You mean to tell me a Republican candidate could actually lose in Alabama? Stop the presses, there’s your big story!
Way down in deep-red Alabama, Resident Trump played to thousands of empty seats. Oh. my God! There was a story to tell, and the media ignored it while walking right past it. “Trump Can’t Fill Small Hall in Deep-Red Alabama!” That news should hit like a thunderclap. If Trump can’t fill a 10,000-seat auditorium in Deep-Red Alabama. Friend, the party is over. Mobile is only forty-five minutes from Pensacola, and a mere ninety minutes from the Big Easy. This WAS Trump country! Was being the operative word here.
A big, big, big news story, ignored, ignored, ignored! Extra, extra, read all about it: “Trump Attendance Collapses in Alabama Port City!” Never mind the polling, and never mind some idiot at a computer screen trying to explain it all to you on the cable news. A half-empty room on a Friday night in a place where it should be a full house on a weeknight speaks louder than any poll. There’s your yardstick! The Trump regime goes out with a whimper. As Mr. Trump regales the crowd with some remarkable stories of his own sheer brilliance.
“I take an aspirin every day. They tell me, Sir, you don’t need that aspirin. But I take it anyway!” (The crowd goes wild!) And then, there is Mr. Trump’s amazing ability to navigate ramps and stairs. Not like Joe Biden! That’s why I’m voting for him! Not everyone can negotiate stairs the way he can. The economy and world affairs, not so much, but he has stairs down cold. I’d wager Mr. Trump has the entire pro-stair vote locked down tight. Funny how only Fox News mentions protesters. “Mr. Trump perseveres in speaking despite a handful of protestors outside.” Are there not protestors everywhere that Mr. Trump speaks? Why is that a headline? “Mr. Trump speaks in a building with a roof on top of it! Mr. Trump speaks despite a dozen protesters outside. How heroic and brave he truly is!
“You know, I call them the Dumbocrats! A lot of people don’t know there’s a B at the end of dumb. But thanks to my super genius, I do!” What is this? His greatest hits tour? Old material recycled over and over. Telling the same tired jokes again and again. Nothing to say about the Iran war. Nothing to say about high fuel prices. And on AI data centers, Mr. Trump warns, if you don’t blindly goose-step along with him into the future, you’re helping the Red Chinese! Mr. Trump has worked out a deal and all of the AI providers have voluntarily promised to play nice and to be good. Isn’t that enough? Do you dare to question the motives and morals of greedy, bloodsucking billionaires? What? Are you a communist or something?
But Mr. Trump did speak one truth. He said if the voters elect Democrats in the midterms, there will be a great depression. There very well might be a Great Depression no matter who wins. All roads lead to Rome. Record-high consumer credit. Record-high fuel prices. Record-high corporate credit, spending billions and billions of dollars of other people’s money, building data centers that earn no profits and nobody wants in their neighborhoods. During the Hoover Depression consumers were tapped out and left unemployed and penniless. Today, consumers are tapped out with rising unemployment and are penniless. Guess who is to blame? That’s right, AI! “It’s going to be alright! I’ve spoken with the billionaires and they have assured me, “It’s going to be alright!”
A restauranter was interviewed for the local news and offered that restaurants were the canaries in the coal mine. The first sign of a recession were failing restaurants. Wendy’s to close 350 locations. Burger King to close 200 locations. Starbucks to close 200 locations, and McDeath’s stock price is down by 30%. Stellantis, aka Chrysler-Fiat, teeters on the brink of bankruptcy. Trucking companies are dropping like flies because of higher fuel costs and few loads. Walmart begins nation-wide layoffs. That’s not a canary in a coal mine. That’s Monty Python’s dead parrot sketch.
Because the media hides the truth but we all still know the truth, but it remains unspoken. I would wager I could walk into any business in America and ask, “How’s business?” and be met with a worried look. I hope the Democrats are paying close attention. I hope they don’t try putting new wine into old skins.
In the wake of Mr. Hoover’s Depression the big fat, well-fed man suggested giving two billion dollars to Henry Ford and RCA to reopen their factories while sending seed packets to hungry farmers in the dust bowl The factory owners could use that money to build radios and new cars for homeless hungry people living in the streets. When FDR took office, he redirected that money into the Homeowners Loan Corporation, refinancing tens of thousands of homes and farms. Taking direct action to help people instead of helping corporations and calling it help for the people.
Cleveland, Ohio, has one of the most beautiful park systems in the country. Most of the parks were built by the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression. Putting people to work for the public good rather than the corporate good. Ninety years on, and Cleveland has a park system second to none. Built by the unemployed. Republicans called them boondoggles! Sidewalks were boondoggles, let your kids walk in the street. Storm culverts, sewers and airfields were all boondoggles. Who needs airports anyway? A little sewage never hurt anyone.
“I see a great nation, upon a great continent, blessed with a great wealth of natural resources. Its (330) hundred and thirty million people are at peace among themselves; they are making their country a good neighbor among the nations. I see a United States which can demonstrate that, under democratic methods of government, national wealth can be translated into a spreading volume of human comforts hitherto unknown, and the lowest standard of living can be raised far above the level of mere subsistence.
But here is the challenge to our democracy: In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens–a substantial part of its whole population–who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life.
I see millions of families trying to live on incomes so meager that the pall of family disaster hangs over them day by day.
I see millions whose daily lives in city and on farm continue under conditions labeled indecent by a so-called polite society half a century ago.
I see millions denied education, recreation, and the opportunity to better their lot and the lot of their children.
I see millions lacking the means to buy the products of farm and factory and by their poverty denying work and productiveness to many other millions.
I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.
It is not in despair that I paint you that picture. I paint it for you in hope–because the Nation, seeing and understanding the injustice in it, proposes to paint it out. We are determined to make every American citizen the subject of his country’s interest and concern; and we will never regard any faithful law-abiding group within our borders as superfluous. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. – Franklin Delano Roosevelt – 1937
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