I have an old friend from college phi beta kappa, undergrad Linguistics, Masters in Computer Science smart. He was confused with some of my rantings and my belief that the MSM – most media outlets are far left and propagandists. He simply asked: “where do you get your news from? In my case it’s a combination of NPR, PBS, CNN, NY Times, and BBC.”
I responded:
I get my news from many of the same sources – ABC national and local, CNN, Fox News – and where I get articles from NY Times or Washington Post – or BBC or USA today it’s usually from articles posted on Yahoo – criticizing Trump or his policies.
Conservative publications – Breitbart and Townhall – but I see a few others linked if I like the topic. I hop around the Internet.
Where I think the disconnect occurs is that most of “Your” media outlets you mentioned are very much propagandists and activists for the far left (or occasionally the globalists who are pushing the war in Ukraine or any policy that will flood the EU or US with illegal immigrants). Sure, Conservative outlets tell a different story on the same issues – but the key difference is that I see most everything the left puts out there – but unless you read Breitbart or Townhall or say watch a Mark Levin, or read VDH and few others or listen to Rogan (not really a conservative) – you are missing the part of the news that the left CENSORS – by spin or simply not printing it or mentioning it all. So much of what is news or positive from Trump is censored.
On the activist side, the Democrats and its Main Stream Media has been far left for decades – maybe before FDR – all the way to Wilson and his Marxist plank of the Communist Manifesto – the Graduated Progressive Income Tax. FDR’s New Deal cemented many of the far left Marxist wish list with Socialized medicine and Social Security. And though Medicare and Social Security has been beneficial to much of the aging population – the politicians that manage these policies by their excessive spending have put both of these funded by employment “entitlements” in jeopardy – where every year there are claims both will go bankrupt or have to drastically be cut or age requirements lengthened to keep them solvent.
And though both sides tend to spin and bloviate – the real curse of the illiberal left is their ability to control the narrative through censorship. The NY Times among many of their examples of “censorship” – ignored the Holocaust (owned by a secular Jew – so self-loathing Jews like Soros not new). The Times pushed a very pro 1930s version of Joe the butcher Stalin ignoring the mass murder and starvation under his reign of terror. Times reporter Walter Duranty cynically was awarded a Pulitzer for extoling the virtue of Stalin’s communist agricultural policies at the same time millions of Ukrainians were starved to death for refusing to privatize their farms. Russia and Ukraine – animosity – yes, that is a long history.
The express purpose of this censorship and propaganda is not hard to figure out. These folks are not simply socialists – they are Marxist propagandists and they have no love loss for Jews, America, Capitalism, Free Speech or much of their Western heritage. Some call them traitors. In the US and EU they are called journalists.
In California these so-called journalists have seen what mass immigration and brainwashing has done to achieve their goal of a one party state. They successfully transformed a conservative state with Reagan and many Republican governors (although Arnie the Barbarian was anything but conservative) into a one party Marxist enclave in the last twenty years. It is not a difficult leap of faith to say that their ultimate goal is to duplicate this writ large and to turn the entire Country into a one party State. Yes, and despite all the mess created by Sacramento Democrats that has given California the highest unemployment, highest poverty, lowest school rankings, intolerable homeless situation, highest cost of living, highest taxes, on and on – in the nation, the people of California still voted for the cacklin’ hen and Newsom. It seems that in these deep blue states like California, they blame their dysfunctional crime ridden cities, inflation, and economic woes on Trump, Musk or anything but their own policies – ignoring the dementia patient who was theoretically running things for the last four years and have successfully brainwashed normal people with common sense into Trump hating pod people!
It works in New York, California, Illinois – Trump and Musk are Hitler! They are a threat to democracy! Trump and Musk and Doge is really going to take away your social security! They are going to throw granny off the cliff! We must stop them!
No. That’s not happening. If their sane economic policies are implemented, the opposite will happen. They will save Social Security. And granny will be happy getting a check that unlike today, keeps up with the cost of living.
But something much scarier actually happened the last four years. The biggest scandal of this century is the massive media cover up of Biden’s senility – that resulted in his unpopular VP being given the nomination without a single primary vote. Although the list of propaganda and lies against Trump and this new version of the Republican party is endless – the media knew from 2020 with the Covid lock downs and rule changes that Biden was not “sharp as a tac”, that he was incompetent, and they covered it up – simply because they had their team of far lefties (you name them – Pelosi, Soros, Schumer, Obama, etc.) dictating immigration policies, welfare, and all of their far left wish list.
Fortunately for those of us in fly over country with common sense, this far left extremism and observable cover up and lies cost the Democrats the 2024 election. They just mistakenly felt that with Hollywood propaganda, the Education indoctrination not just colleges but K-12, and most of all non-stop attacks on Trump and conservatives from media activists – they could slide the walking cadaver into the oval for another four years. Well, after that last Biden debate debacle – they couldn’t spin – so, they shoved in the cacklin’ drunk into the slot as a place holder – pumped in about $2 Billion in ads – not counting the billions of free media anti-Trump articles – and they lost anyway last November. I’m supposed to believe that Trump’s the threat to democracy – when Biden a stumbling bumbling dementia patient had the nuke football for four years? That unlimited immigration only let’s in nice people – not drug dealers, human trafficking, and potential terrorists?
What they call comment or content “moderation” – is nothing but pure censorship. The clear threat to democracy and the republic is not Donald J. Trump – but a one party autocratic Marxist party labeled progressive and it is indeed the Democrat party. When Musk bought Twitter / X – that was a huge blow to the ruling elite. Censorship and control of the narrative became harder for them. And the final blow that put Elon on the outs with his sycophant environmental Nazis of the left – was he did the calculus – and chose Trump and his “common sense” over the insane policies of the illiberal left and globalists who teamed up to make up that “Ruling Class” – with an end game to destroy the US from within, transform it into their Marxist Utopian vision.
Trump is moving fast because he and what’s left of moderates, independents or conservatives have a small window before the mid-terms in 2026. If Democrats regain control the house – everything will revert back to square one. Nothing will be accomplished in Congress except for the Democrats to call for yet another impeachment – more shopped leftist judges to stifle any progress on immigration or moving the economy forward, more judicial tyranny – more lawfare. This stagnation may indeed stifle the economy enough that they get another Democrat globalist puppet installed. The result? The country turns into a one party mess like California. But this time there will be no Trump, buffer or way for the pendulum to swing back to the middle. It will go to the far left and stay there. Whether that leads to a real police state or civil war – your guess is as good as any.