I wrote an email to a very bright Military Mind who runs a non-profit helping minorities and Veterans. I like what he’s doing, but I suggested that he try to get a gig on one of the Fox News shows like Tucker Carlson – since he’s just as knowledgeable and more articulate than most of the retired Colonels I see trotted out on various news programs. He’s got the right idea in this age of helplessness in the Conservative movement. Maybe instead of waiting for politicians to do the morally right thing, we should control that thing we can control – ourselves and what we do. He stays busy and focusing on the good he can do. I think for many of us who feel helpless in this age of tyrannical oligarchs, this seems to be a good idea.
In discussing the invasion of Ukraine by Putin and the saber rattling from politicians and media hacks alike, my friend made the comment that “being strong and not stupid is a tricky balance”.
I replied: Both Reagan and Trump were strong and not stupid – but today we have a very nasty Tech Media Tyrannical Oligarchy that is literally an infantile, narcissitic billionaire class and stupid. (I know the likes of Soros or Zuckerberg or Gates – not IQ stupid – but morally bankrupt stupid). How else could you explain their love for Communist China’s use of slave labor and tyrannical ways. Just heard a podcast from your fellow Hoover-ite Niall Ferguson (book is “Doom”) make the claim that 2018 marked the start of the next Cold War – with Russia the junior partner to China. He predicted that Putin would invade well before the rest of the smart guys figured that Putin would make the move.
Reagan survived the onslaught from the Socialist left media in the 1980s and theoretically ended our first “cold war”, but I doubt he’d have done any better than Trump in 2020. And that is perhaps the point. All the forces arrayed against Trump are all in for China, the Military Industrial Complex and a continuation or should I say, a re-start of the next Cold War. Looking at and listening to the Oligarchs that run Facebook, Google, Amazon, Twitter – and their alliance with virtually all of the Mainstream Media Conglomerates – ATT/CNN, Verizon/Yahoo, NBC/MSNBC, CBS etc., you can’t help but think of very evil geniuses using the world as a toy – not that different than that image I got watching Chaplin play with the Beach Ball version of the earth in his classic – The Great Dictator. Throw in the China boot or should I say sneaker licking NBA, and let’s not forget ABC/Disney Pedo lovers who are attacking the Florida bill that protects Children from pedophiles as anti-Gay – well, that could explain how this anti-American cabal could fix a Presidential election (and others) and install a walking corrupt cadaver. Instead of one Great dictator – we have a Cabal of Tech and Media sycophants to the Communist Chinese Regime – antithetical to everything that makes America great – Liberty for We the People.
I know Tucker has some controversial guys speak the truth to power – but do you think for one second, his producers or Fox execs – who actually are not that different from the other Media Tyrants – would they allow self criticism and what I just said to be aired on his network? I doubt it. They pride themselves on being different, but is the likes of Wallace, Jerry Rivers, and a few others really that different? Wallace has gone to CNN, and I suppose they need a few over the hill commentators of the left to make the case for the other side. But I do not think that Fox is anything other than a money making operation. The day people stop watching Tucker or Hannity, this company becomes just another tyrannical media Oligarchy. Let me hear Tucker say that on the air. Not going to happen. He has a good gig. He gets about as much freedom as the Oligarchs allow, but it is still not quite the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.