Watching Fox, a Question and a "Joke"

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Watching Fox

Took a few minutes off from the Pandemic crisis to watch a bit of “The Five” on Fox News (one hour of idiocy at 5 p.m. weekdays.)    Of the five participants, the two that really carry Fox’s right-wing message (the show was invented by Roger Ailes) are Jim Watters and Greg Gutfeld.  The others are there just to give the impression that the show is fair-minded. 

Jim comes off, as he spouts Hannity-type invective, as a softer, gentler purveyor of the poison which Hannity peddles.  He seems to be not-so-bright and this creates a bond with his not-so-bright viewers.  How can this nice man say anything hurtful? 

Gutfeld, however, is the "closer" of the show, following this pattern as well.  He comes off as a dumb clown who makes a joke of everything, and this is a fine message for the Fox viewers who are too “deplorable” to face reality.  In Gutfeld, they see themselves, as clowns supporting a dumb clown in the White House, just like them.  See him as the dishonest liar he is and they see themselves just like him.  And they won't do that. That is the problem.

Bill Gates Saw it Coming and a "Joke"

There’s a 2015 video in circulation (JUST CLICK HERE) which shows Bill Gates warning us of the danger of a future pandemic, just like we are now experiencing, and the need to prepare for it.  But Gates wasn't the only one aware of this threat.  Even though people like Trump paid no attention to what he said, scientists and physicians involved in the spread of diseases were aware of everything Gates said.  Though pitifully funded, attempts to prepare for epidemics were made and a government structure established to meet these potential threats.  

But that structure was ultimately dismantled by the Republican administration after gullible and ignorant Americans elected Trump to the presidency in 2016.   A delay in resurrecting a structure to meet the Coronavirus threat took at least two months to assemble, and if you listen to the President on TV, he neither understands nor is fully committed to the battle with the virus. Trump claimed the existing structure was insufficient to deal with future threats, so he got rid of it.  As recently as last month, when it was already wreaking havoc, he still said the numbers would go down in a few days.  The ignorant people who believe him chose to listen to Limbaugh ("It's just a bad cold) and Hannity (who would kiss the Devil's ass to prove his loyalty) resulted in many of them not following the medically prescribed guidelines to stop the virus' spread.  It took local and state regulators to belatedly insist on scatter-shot rules regarding social distancing.  And some Republicans on all levels still take them with a grain of salt.   As for unprepared hospitals facing high patient loads and lack of equipment, the President passed the buck on meeting this national challenge to State Governors.  All of this, resulting from the lack of leadership in the White House, has caused infections, disease transmission and deaths which would not have otherwise occurred.  The buck stops there, with the President!

  

With this in mind, I am reminded of a humorous email I received the other day which went something like this: “I was in a line at my local post office this morning when two masked men entered.  Total panic ensued.  Then they said...this is a robbery.  We all calmed down.”

  

I responded to all who had gotten this email with my own email saying this is not time to joke about the pandemic we all face and added that the only joke involved is the one who sleeps in the White House.  I firmly believe that.  This didn't stop one of the people who read my response from emailing me criticizing me for politicizing the issue.  If we cannot place at least part of the blame for the deaths the virus is causing on the President and those gullible and ignorant people who elected him, the "deplorables," we are closing our eyes to the truth.  The Emperor is not wearing any clothes, guys! Wake up.  

JL

A Question

Going, Gong, G_ _ e!

How long do you think it will be before Donald Trump resigns?  He is slowly being backed into a corner.  How long will he fail to recognize the "doctors" on his press conferences are contradicting almost everything he says.  The lies and half truths needed to peddle real estate or get suckers into a resort casino or buy merchandise with his name on it don't work in the time of governmental crisis as we now face.  Hollering at the media won't save him.  Neither will the Republican Party.

The way it looks now, Trump may not carry a single State in November, destroying most of the Republican Party's Senate, House and Governorship candidates. Local State, Senate and House leaders will recognize this, and want to do something about it, even if it means the Senate's re-voting on the Democrat's Bill of Impeachment.  And what do you think Mitch, in a tight re-election race, will tell them to do?  

JL