Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Media Malpractice

https://www.thewrap.com/media-problems-trump-election/

So close and yet still so far. She is still so incredibly and unaccountably sure that she's right and the problem is messaging and how to reach people... not that her message is dishonest, fake, blatantly and observably false, and completely out of touch with anything approaching reality. No, the sources are just wrong because it's not what she wants to hear. Not because she's bothered to investigate any of their claims, like the Right does for the Left's spurious claims (sometimes) because the Left, much more than the Right, only accepts facts that they want to believe, and then look for data to justify them rather than data to falsify them. Hardly surprising for what is essentially a cult built on envy, spite, covetousness and self-aggrandizement, narcissism, and need to position themselves as superior in their own eyes to everyone else around them who isn't part of their cult. I mean, she called Harris immensely qualified and competent; but she's never demonstrated anything other than affirmative action/DEI appointments in her entire career, and hasn't accomplished much of anything in any role she was ever in. The only thing that she seems qualified to have done was to be Willie Brown's side piece. But that's just one of the blatantly ridiculous claims that she makes as if its self-evidently true instead of self-evidently false.

Which I can see people claiming are spurious claims, but I've been watching with a critical eye for many, many years, and digging into the philosophical and historical precedents, as well as the behavior of those who practice these ideologies. As Christ himself said; by their fruits shall ye know them; and their fruits are abundantly in evidence. Although people people are willing to know them by their fruits, or even admit what the obvious fruits are, because it makes them feel bad to notice.

The Z-man talks about this kind of bias all the time; the modern managerial people who believe that creating wishful thinking Narratives will magically cause reality to bend to the narrative. The idea that Trump is a felon because they said so and came up with trumped up (no pun intended) kangaroo court charges to bring against him, or that he's a bigot because... (I honestly still don't know why they're saying this. For the slightly more logical who need a fig leaf of non-emotionalism, I suppose it's a permutation of opposing immigration is racist? I don't know. The felon charge they at least have some justification for making, even though it's spurious and based on their own narrative smoke and mirrors, but the rest of them are just ridiculous. And that's why we've seen these absurd, hysterical freak-out videos online all over the place. 

I wonder. Most of the videos, of course, are made by women or gay men, as you'd expect. I don't know if it's their mercurial nature to simply have these mental vomit sessions that shouldn't be taken seriously, and nothing that they actually say or do when in this hysterical state should be seen as salient content, its just emotional diarrhea. In a few days, or a few weeks, they'll probably still be woke and retarded, but at least they crazy hysteria and the claims made while in its grip will have subsided? (Sucks to be the obnoxious little girls pretending to be women who shaved their heads, I guess--I'm quite confident that all of them will regret that a lot in the next few weeks and months.) Or are these people really so broken, dysfunctional and narcissistic that they can't handle not getting their way about everything and it doesn't subside, just turns into this time bomb of impotent rage? Another Z-man phrase I like to use is that reality is that thing that doesn't go away even if you don't believe in it. But in my experience, even running face first into the brick wall of reality that you were trying not to believe in isn't sufficient to cause some people to actually believe in it. 

While it's encouraging to see what happened last week actually happen, in more ways than one (1. the actual results, and 2. the quiet effort by the RNC under new leadership to actually keep an eye on election integrity and not allow the same kinds of fraud that obviously threw off 2020 to happen again) I'm still concerned on what happens in 2028, and if anyone with the chops to take up Trump's mantle is in the wings to follow. Or, for that matter, if Trump really has the chops to do what needs to be done. It's easy to make the case that he didn't before. Positive signs are yet positive signs, but we know from prophecy that times are going to get worse and people more wicked yet before they get better, so my expectations for temporal salvation from an arm of flesh are, needless to say, pretty muted.

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