"Everything is beautiful in its own way. . .
Under God's heaven
The world's gonna find the way
There is none so blind
As he who will not see.
Ray Stevens, "Everything is Beautiful," 1970
Donald Trump is a courageous, far-sighted genius, bringing peace, freedom, and justice to the world, and a stronger, safer, well-respected America.
He was presented the Nobel Peace Prize!
It is not true that Fox keeps people angry and outraged -- not after Trump was re-elected. Fox tells its audience that it is a dangerous world -- crime, communists, immigrants, Christians under attack, China, antifa, and Democrats -- but we have a protector: Donald Trump! He is anywhere and everywhere, a mix of Superman, a sword-bearing Jesus, Achilles, and Churchill.
Fox News hosts are upbeat.
-- Trump's courageous strikes on boats stopped the transportation of drugs from Latin America.
-- Trump's brilliant removal of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is already bringing a democratic, stable, pro-American government in Venezuela.
-- Trump set the stage for cheap oil -- our oil by right -- to come from Venezuelan oil fields.
-- Trump's threats telling Colombia's president Gustavo Petro that he is next to be deposed generated a conciliatory phone call from him to Trump.
-- Trump's tough talk against Iran and our Department of War's bunker-busting bombs, inspired demonstrations that may topple Iran's government.
-- Trump's having federalized National Guard troops brought prompt safety to Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and Portland.
-- Trump's no-nonsense ICE people are rounding up illegals everywhere.
-- Trump is frightening anti-American, antifa-loving demonstrators and letting them know they are targets for arrest and worse.
-- Trump is cleaning up fraud in Democratic cities.
Meanwhile I see liberal tears everywhere. Democrats who consume a media diet outside the Fox News universe are miserable. Some are talking about leaving the country. I read of worry that this is Germany, 1933, or later. Political writers warn people to stop reading their material if they are getting suicidal. Don't tune in, they say; just drop out.
I have not dropped out, so I awoke today to what I consider inevitable but unwelcome news. Trump has pushed Canada -- reliable, friendly, Canada -- into a closer strategic and trade partnership with China. The U.S. had become an unreliable trading partner, ally, and neighbor.
Trump says he wants Greenland "and there's not a thing Denmark can do about it." Warships from NATO countries are heading to Greenland right now.
China recorded a $1.2 trillion trade surplus, its largest ever. China stepped in when U.S tariffs disrupted our trade relationships with other nations.
We are losing manufacturing jobs:
Democrats view ICE as dangerous disruptors:
The Nobel Prize is a Rorschach test. Fox celebrated it as Maria Machado's recognition that Trump and Trump alone deserved it, so her giving to him it is a triumph of justice.
So there we have the real divide in the U.S. It is between happy people and worried, frustrated ones. Republican Fox News viewers have a hero amid a sea of trouble. We are in good hands. "Don't worry. Be happy."
Democrats see those hands as malicious and dangerous, and they believe that the world is getting more perilous. "We are on the eve of destruction."
As for me, the Sgt. Pepper album said it:
"I read the news today, oh boy." And the news was rather sad.
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9 comments:
2 million watch Fox “news” during the day and 3 million during prime time hours, so how many Americans are happy? I’m guessing 38%., the percentage of Americans who are loyal to Trump.
Trumpers are sick of the cuddling and perhaps the excessive stories of human misery in the US on liberal media, so they find refuge in the appearance of action by Trump and his administration, regardless of the outcome. A coworker once summed up the attitude as: Do something, even if it's wrong!
If liberals and the left had not alienated so much of the electorate with their woke excesses (DEI, trans sports, cancel culture, “mostly peaceful” riots, “antiracist” discrimination against white people), to say nothing of how our elites heedlessly exported so many industrial jobs to our main enemy in the world, we might not have Trump as president.
Choosing the weak, woke, and inept, Kamala Harris as their presidential candidate (partially for racial/DEI reasons) didn’t help either.
“Wokeness,” whatever that may be, is a piss-poor excuse for putting a convicted criminal, who regularly demonstrates his contempt for the Constitution and rule of law, in our nation’s highest office.
Describing how the Democrats and their associated elites screwed up politically is not an excuse for electing Trump. It’s a description of how Trump happened.
If this were still 1980, I wonder what a 30 year old county commissioner named Peter Sage would think about TODAY'S Democrat Party socialist platform and agenda under AOC and Bernie Sanders?
"Wokeness" in this context is a morbid, harmfully balkanizing preoccupation among many leftists with nose-counting, grudge-holding and blame allocation based on fixed identity group and victimhood hierarchies, with the ultimate collectivist aim to measure and enforce equality of individual opportunity by way of state-gerrymandered equality of group outcome.
Only an idiot, or someone who delights in cruelty, would imagine that we're better off now than we were under Biden.
Those who make lame excuses for Trump supporters might like to take a stab at rationalizing this:
The tiny charter school where slain mother Renee Good sent her 6-year-old son has been forced to conduct classes online after receiving a slew of threats following her fatal shooting by an immigration officer. The threats started pouring in to Southside Family Charter School after the New York Post reported on the school's focus on social justice. Right-wing social media accounts identified the school where Good had dropped off her son shortly before she encountered the federal agent who shot and killed her.
Let me guess: They’re just trying to spare little kids the trauma of growing up to be woke elites who favor social justice.
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