They're In it For Trump

you something. If you look to your left and your right, your front in your back, and you have several friends that are in prison, go to prison. I'm going to tell you you may want to check your circle, right like, you may want to reflect on that. And you know, somehow here though, the Party of Law and Order has a convicted felon as their candidate for president. They believe that he is the second coming of Christ. They compare his conviction to that of Jesus. Shout out to fucking

the lunatic neanderthal, you know, Marjory Taylor Green. But it's just like this shouldn't be normal. It shouldn't be a shrug, It should be constant news, But like Donald Trump and his lackeys defy the media landscape. And at this point, I don't even know if they actually defy the media landscape or if what I actually believe to be true everyone is just in cahoots with one another. And let me tell you why I think that these days. I am not one for conspiracy theories, but I am one

for consistency and patterns. Walk with me, take this journey with me for a moment. When Michael Colin took the stand in the election interference case aka the hush money case, when Michael Colin took the stand multiple times. In one of those occasions, he was asked a question about how he funneled news for Donald Trump, and he said that there were, you know, several people anchors that he would go to on different networks to get softer stories on

Donald Trump. Right, one of those people being Katie Turr on MSNBC. Now. For a while, I couldn't put my finger on it, but there was always something about Katie Turr that rubbed me the wrong way. Right. I would watch her reporting, I would hate it. I would hate the smugness. I would hate that everything is like a fucking joke. Everything is like a haha has and that you know what, like just laughing at things that are

not funny or appropriate. Right, So when Michael Collin comes out with this, it makes news for what a day, maybe Max And it was mostly on social media because MSNBC is not going to pick up on that story, right, none of her colleagues are going to post about the fact that she is a shill for Donald Trump. CNN was called out, you know, other networks were called out for their softball bullshit. But it's not as if we

needed Michael Collin to tell us. We've been watching the news for the last eight years, right, and we can tell we can see that if as Karine Jean Pierre just like essentially told off a reporter in the press room.

I think it was either yesterday or this morning as I'm recording this, when they were asked about the video of Joe Biden seemingly freezing right at the Juneteenth celebration at the White House, and Karine Jean Pierre at the podium was just like, so, I didn't realize that Jeff listening to music, looking at fireworks and like not dancing was like a mental health issue. I didn't realize that that was like cause for concern that we need to address.

Like she was so flippant in her response, and I say, bravo. While the media wants to pull out these single siloed instances and try and string together a narrative that Biden has low cognition, they have all the information in the world that Donald Trump is a criminal and surrounds himself with criminals and has been running a criminal enterprise since

before he entered the White House. He just upped the ante when he entered into the White House because he had access to more information, more things that were worth a lot more money than just licensing his name around in Asia, for instance, right on buildings and shit. So I look at this and I see again, Steve Bannon is going to jail. On any other planet. Prior to eight years ago, this would have been the biggest news story.

A senior advisor to the President of the United States is going to be reporting to federal prison right and just mind you that he's going to prison on the charge of being held in contempt of Congress in the January sixth subpoena issue because he didn't show up right. He was subpoenaed by Congress and he didn't show up and so federal prison. But mind you, he received a pardon from Donald Trump on the other criminal shit that he did while Donald Trump was in the White House.

So again, if Steve Bannon hadn't received a pardon, Steve Bannon would still be in jail. Right now, Steve Bannon is reporting to jail on another offense, because that's basically the thing that he was able to be caught on.

Right Rudy Giuliani facing rico charges in Georgia, election interference charges in Arizona with another slate of fake electors, and then like bankruptcy, Alan Weiselberg COO already served time at Rikers has lied in order to cover up Donald Trump continues to go back and forth to jail because apparently that is better than telling the truth about his criminal ass boss and their criminal ass enterprise. I mean, everywhere you look, Donald Trump and his lackeys have served prison time.

You would think that is enough to have NonStop headlines expose as in depth panel discussions on our decaying morality in this country as it pertains to the rule of law, what we look like on the world stage, Having somebody in this country that is not allowed to vote for themselves right as a convicted felon, but can become presidents of the United States. Like, if you don't know that these laws are made for white men, now you understand

very clearly how they're made for white men. Because only a rich, white, powerful man can be found guilty of thirty four felony counts and still have the audacity to run for president and still be in good standing in the polls. Barack Obama war tan suit and wanted to give white people health care, and they called him satan. You can't make this shit up. And so I find myself with just, you know, several months to go into the election, and I can't honestly tell you how I'm

feeling a lot of times. And I know people like probably don't believe me when I say this, but like, when I'm off for the weekends, I do not watch the news. If I happen to be on the news, that's one thing, but I actually do not watch the news. I do not follow the news because I care more about my mental health these days and having a little bit of time to recharge than I do keeping up with the latest bullshit that the media is covering. I believe that the media is as in it for Donald

Trump to win as the Supreme Court is right. I think that the media, corporate media that is run by rich white men who want their tax breaks and want their fifth and six homes, who want to pay their staff little to know money and not be blamed for that, who want zero regulation like, they're in it for Donald Trump.

They're not in it for like educating the public. They're not in it to be what we fondly decades ago used to refer to as the fourth estate right, the most important to inform the public and the citizen tury about their choices, their rights, their country right. No, they're not. They're in it for clickbait. They're in it for ratings, they're in it for ad sales, and they're in it

for themselves. It's so fascinating because I was talking about this on my other show, The New Abnormal, and I had mentioned it briefly, but I had posted something in my stories which came from the World Economic Forums Instagram page, and it was this story about how in Finland they are teaching children beginning in pre k to be alert to disinformation they're training young people because they know disinformation

is not going to go away. They know that the media is going to continue to weaponize in many ways information and lies, right, whether it be consumer information and like in terms of junk fees and late fees and lies in terms of the things that they do there, or whether it be about candidates, about society, about basic facts like climate change, things like that. So in order

to combat that, what are they doing. They're rolling out an entire education curriculum to arm young people with the information that they need so that they can constantly stay aged. I thought to myself, Wow, Wow, how amazing to see a problem and to think to yourself, we have to stop that problem, not just complain about the problem, not just point fingers about the problem, but actually see a problem and do something about it. I'm in awe of countries that do that, because we do not live in

a country that does that. We live in a country that talks about, for political points, the same issues that they've been talking about for eons. Right, if you've been in Congress, let's say for thirty years, you've been talking about our broken immigration system. You've been talking about the need for a robust gun reform. You've been talking about the same shit. You don't actually do anything about it, but we continue to talk about it. And then I

look at other countries. Just another report recently, this time out of Paris. City of Paris has committed to planting so many trees, taking fifty thousand cars off of the road, closing down what was formerly streets for cars and making them pedestrian only. And guess what has happened since they started this plan. Pollution in Paris has gone down by

forty percent by just making some minor changes. Here in New York City, where I am oh our Mayor Eric Adams, who is a fucking idiot and has shut down libraries all in the way to give more and more money to police that I walk past as they stand in their packs smoking cigarettes literally in front of my gym, doing not a fucking thing, but knowing that my park isn't being cleaned. But so long as they're being paid six figures, right, and their budgets are in the eight

nine figures right, it's fucking disgusting. But lo and behold shutting down streets and making them pedestrian and limiting the amount of cars that come in Oh no, Mayor Adams has decided that we need to reinstall parking and get rid of all of the street cafes that have been

making New York City lovely since the pandemic. Our fucking governor instead of moving with the congestion pricing that nobody really wanted, but understood that the benefits of fifteen billion dollars was going to go to fix our very broken, crumbling, dangerous subway system that was built in the twentieth century at the beginning of it, not at the end, but has pulled that deal and said, oh, well, what we're lacking here is imagination. What you're lacking is a fucking

backup plan. It's not like you pulled the rug out from under people, uh the MTA and constituents and said, instead of doing X, we're gonna do Why you just said we're not gonna do X. That's what we see all around the country here. It's nonsensical, Like, it's so stupid, it's laughable to continue to say that America is the best at anything except for lying and pr Right, we

don't provide healthcare again. Tell you another story. Went to a friend's engagement party, right, wonderful best time, you know, meeting lovely people. And the fiance says, you know, I'm just I'm so excited, like looking forward to, you know, being married, and I'm just so grateful because I can

finally put my fiance on my health insurance. That shouldn't be a yippie but it was because we live in a country where we have more than enough money to actually have government funded health insurance that you are not coming out of pocket for. I am self employed, so I pay for my own health insurance, which is shitty and incredibly expensive, and I have to pay out of pocket up to like four thousand dollars before my health insurance that I pay monthly into actually kicks in for coverage.

You go to other countries, industrialized countries with the same GDP as we have or lower, and their citizens have no idea what you're talking about. They look at you like you're fucking dumb, Like why would you live in this place? Right? Like you get sick and you mean like you go bankrupt or you're paying all of this money every month but out of your pocket, but like you actually don't have proper health insurance. Yeah, that's America, right,

We've just like acquiesced to the lack. And that's what I realize, is that we've become so comfortable with like the lack that we get from our government. Just this week or late last week, Supreme Court, Ah, we're back to bump stocks so that you can kill as many people as you would like in one minute, right without

having to worry about reloading. Who needs to worry about that pesky thing anyway, when you can mow down one hundred people in sixty seconds or less, Because according to Clarence Thomas, there's no real difference with having bump stocks or not. Tell that to the families of those that were mowed down at the Las Vegas concert. New Zealand they had one mass shooting within ar fifteen and they

ban them in the country. I bring up all of these stories, and I bring up all of these things because I realize that like America is pretty shitty when you think about it. You know, I honestly, I know that there are countries that are obviously worse. But when you say that you are the best, and you are compared to the best, and yet your democracy that is not inclusive of everybody. Women do not have equal pay and never will because there's no political will in order

to make that happen. We don't have government funded healthcare, we don't have abortion rights or affirmative action anymore. So I'm not quite sure why people come here, to be honest, and I think that what we will see over the next twenty and thirty years is a brain drain in America.

Where it used to be that folks would send their best and their brightest to attend our higher education institutions, and then those people would end up staying and building a life and contributing in all of these wonderful things. Well that's not going to happen because depending on what state you go to, the education that you're going to be receiving at said institution is going to be watered down and sanitized, not making you at all sharp and competitive. Globally,

America is becoming increasingly dangerous. In the next couple of sessions of the Supreme Court, they will absolutely roll back more EPA protections. Right, so the air is going to be dirtier, the water is going to be dirtier. The potential of a gun death is higher, right or death via pregnancy if you live in a red state, and if Donald Trump becomes present, and then again then all

bets are actually off. So over the next two to three decades, you will see less and less people coming to the United States and more and more Americans seeking to go abroad in the ways that like we have never seen before, where I believe that other countries are going to start courting America is best and brightest and saying your country's fucking unsafe. Come live here, right, Come to our higher institutions of learning, Come be employed in

this place. Right, your hard workers, this, that, and the other thing. But just leave your guns at home, but we'll give you health insurance. This country is going to look very, very very different over the next ten, twenty, thirty, forty years, and it's going to be something wild to see. And so I don't know, I don't know. I know that that the media should be paying attention and sounding alarms, but that's not the case. So you're the ones that

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