Listen, dumb people. About all this echoing every idiotic
thing your clinically psychotic president says: it was cute, for a while, but
now it’s just goddamn annoying and, frankly, more than a little frightening.
Try to remember this simple rule-of-thumb – it’s not “fake news” if it’s
true. This is the case whether or not
you like the news you’re hearing. This is true whether or not the president
made the false statement because “that’s what I was told.” This is true even
though he’s not “Crooked Hillary” or “Lyin’ Ted;” and even when your leader
says “I know you are, but what am I?” – his favorite defense for otherwise
indefensible actions.
Your gullibility is astounding. You can literally watch
side-by-side video presentations of him speaking a lie against the actual proof
that he’s lying, and then immediately dismiss what you just saw because … “fake
news.” It is possible that the only
“news” to which you have access is the Twitter account you carry around with
you as you go otherwise blissfully about your lives; depending solely on the 3
am cocaine-induced decrees from your Pharaoh to tip you off as to what’s going
on the world. But, surely, you see contrary responses to those tweets.
Naturally, you automatically side with your Fuhrer, because that’s what you
have been conditioned to do. You don’t see any benefit to checking other
sources, but if you stumble upon one, you’re not bashful about voicing your
extreme dissatisfaction with it.
You’re still stuck on that use of the term “Fuhrer” aren’t
you? That seems to touch a nerve with the alt-right, who rails against the
cliché concept of Nazism. Overused. Worn out. Tired. “Every time somebody
disagrees with a liberal, they play the Nazi card!” This, although you were
never reluctant to use the term when you were convinced that Obama was going to
send in the troopers to kick down your doors and take away your guns. By the
way, do you think you’ll get those guns back now? There must’ve been so many
confiscated during that eight-year term.
If you can tear yourselves away from Twitter for maybe a
weekend, and you have any real interest at all in how Hitler and the Nazis came
to power, it’s really easy information to find. Heard of Google? Try something
like “Nazi rise to power.” Pay particular attention to the contributions of a
man named Joseph Goebbels and how he dealt with the media – which has now been
declared by Mein Trumpf to be “the enemy of the American people.” See if you’re
intellectually capable of spotting the glaring similarities.
During your exhaustive research, as outlined above, try to
keep in mind that most every article you see regarding the Nazi rise to power
was written long before Mango Mussolini even entertained the idea of running
for president. It’s not some leftist “fake news” propaganda designed to cast
aspersions on your fearless, stubby-fingered leader. It just happens to fit –
like a very small glove.
Now, after everything you’ve seen and read, if you still have
any doubts about who is lying to you, and you possess any ability at all for
critical thought, try some. Ask yourself “Who is the media?” Is it not just people, working for a living,
who get paid whether or not the “news” is what you want to see and hear? That
guy from the local newspaper who sits at the big round table at your local
restaurant drinking coffee every morning with others from your community. Your
cousin’s next door neighbor who does the 6 o’clock TV news. Jake Tapper. Jim
Acosta. Shephard Smith. What motive do they have for lying to you? Money? Would
they make more money by exposing an un-truth told by your president than they
would from, say, reporting that Trumpf single-handedly rescued a burning bus
full of African-American handicapped children during a Washington DC blizzard?
Which story is going to sell more soap?
Would they stand a better chance at keeping their jobs if they made up
news stories or if they simply reported the truth as it occurred? If keeping
their jobs is not their agenda, then what is?
Look at your president. What does he have to gain by
convincing you that “the media” is lying to you about things that he says and
does? Unbridled power, maybe? Ya think?
Understandably, Trumpf apologists are upset that those of us
(the majority), who so easily see through this “fake news” propaganda campaign,
point to their apparent idiocy as the root of the problem. But one simply can’t
blame the snake oil salesman for trying to make a buck. Sooner or later, it has to be realized that
he wouldn’t be in business at all if the sick and dying didn’t continue to buy
his worthless product, before staying sick and dying.
© Rick Baber, 2017
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