Hillary Clinton may have had a bout with pneumonia, but she can and will get over it. Donald Trump will always be a raging asshole for the rest of his life. And, yes, 50% of his followers will continue to be hemorrhoids.
"Yes, but I'll be sober tomorrow and you'll still be ugly."
Hillary Clinton may have had a bout with pneumonia, but she can and will get over it. Donald Trump will always be a raging asshole for the rest of his life. And, yes, 50% of his followers will continue to be hemorrhoids. I try not to write here, anymore (not that I ever did much). I just want a repository for the collection of labor quotes that I believe to be as extensive as any online. And, frankly, life is too short.
But this election has got my stomach churning. And the blame lies with the media--especially shitheads like Chuck Todd. He's one of those useful idiots who doesn't believe its the job of journalists to report the truth. After the recent Commanders In Chief forum, Todd spent his program talking about Trump's lack of substance and Hillary's lack of style as though the two things are equivalent. He even dismissively waived off any talk of "false equivalency". But it IS a false equivalency to make it appear as though whether someone would launch nukes willy nilly over a Tweet or whether another would know better than to launch nukes but not smile to his liking are in the same category. When Armageddon comes, I don't want to be standing anywhere near that asshole. The duty of a journalist is to seek and report the truth. It is NOT the duty of a journalist to say, "Today, we have with us a Nobel Prize winning climate scientist who claims that Climate Change is a threat to the very existence of humanity. We also have with us the local weatherman from channel 9 who says its a hoax. Let's discuss." Yet this is precisely the posture that Todd and most of the others in the industry have taken with the current presidential election. There is a clear TRUTH in this election and it is not being reported. One of the two candidates is serious and has an extensive background in the many facets of governing. The other candidate is a fucking moron, a dictatorial fascist idiot who hasn't got the first clue about anything, a candidate whose every word is a provable lie, who has the instincts of a twelve year old and the attention span of a two year old. Why does anyone in the media take him seriously? No, it matters not at all that he is the candidate of one of the two major parties and it matters not at all that he has millions of followers. Those things have nothing to do with the TRUTH. It is not your job to treat Donny Dumbfuck as an equal of Hillary Clinton. He is not. However little anyone--including the press--might think of Secretary Clinton, Trump is not fit to be spittle on her shoes. You've been exposed, media shitheads. The Clinton Rules have been published. The Rules that say that no charge against the Clintons is too scurrilous to report to death because the prize of the Clintons' heads on your wall is what you're all going for. Your job is to report the TRUTH. And the TRUTH, here, is obvious. Donald Trump is not fit to be the President of the United States. And yet you keep following the lunatic fringe down every rabbit hole they throw in front of you. Why are you still so enthralled by the fucking emails? Nobody gives a fuck. After all the years and all of the millions spent on all of the investigations, it is a huge nothing burger. There is no fire and, frankly, there isn't even any smoke. There is no there there. If there was, the Republicans would have found it years ago. And, of course, we all remember how hard (yeah, right) you went after Colin Powell for doing THE EXACT SAME THING (and Hillary's timeline has proven truthful while Powell's has proven to be a lie--not surprising considering his shameful performance at the UN; it's frankly time you stopped taking Powell seriously, too). Why are you all still talking about the Clinton Foundation when the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Bob McDonnell taking hundreds of thousands (at least) in personal "gifts" to use the power of his office to hawk diet pills on the public's dime did not rise to the level of corruption? I may think SCOTUS was completely wrong on that, but the ruling was unanimous--they all saw it the same way, right, left and center. And if Bob McDonnell wasn't corrupt, then certainly Hillary Clinton is not. Hell, that other candidate is bribing Attorneys General to keep from being tried for fraud. My guess would be that SCOTUS would be OK with that, too. Obviously, in the view of the court, there is no such thing as political corruption (just as Chief Justice Roberts believes there is no such thing as racism, I guess). Point is, if it isn't illegal to buy access (and it never has been, apparently), then the Clinton Foundation is guilty of nothing. If it isn't a crime, it isn't news. Certainly not when the opposing candidate is practically drooling over the prospect of launching nukes for kicks. Donald Trump is an existential threat to democracy. It's a fact and one that's not all that difficult to see. Well then, you say, if its so clear, then the people will see it without us pointing it out. But that's YOUR job, not theirs. It is your job to seek and report the TRUTH. Every show and every broadcast should open and close with the simple declarative statement that Donald Trump is unfit to hold the office of the presidency. It's not a matter of opinion; its a fact. Its the TRUTH and you all know it is. That's what you're there for. Were it left to the Chuck Todds of the world, Joseph McCarthy would have been president. Thank God there was a real journalist like Edward R. Murrow on hand to report the TRUTH. Were it left to the Chuck Todds of the world, we'd still be mired in Viet Nam. Thank God there was a real journalist like Walter Cronkite to report the TRUTH about that war. Were it left to the Chuck Todds of the world, David Duke would likely be a US Senator or, at least, a Governor. Thank God there was a real journalist like Tim Russert to report the TRUTH about that racist pig. Unfortunately, we seem to be fresh out of real journalists. How else can you explain that we are still in Afghanistan? How else can you explain that a brain dead fascist like Trump could still actually win the presidency? If Donald Trump ever is elected, the resulting blood (and there will most certainly be blood) will be on your hands. Because you knew the TRUTH but failed to report it as such. I'll look for your names among the War Criminal trials that will surely follow any Trump presidency...assuming any part of America survives. I'm sure there were reporters in Germany who never thought Hitler would commit genocide, though he certainly wasn't trying to conceal his racism any more than Trump is. Am I a fan of Hillary Clinton? No, I'm not. But, when the alternative is Donald Trump, no one who actually does loves this country can afford to be against her. That's the TRUTH. So tell me, why do you hate America so? There was more real journalism in one segment of Jon Stewart's Daily Show than there is in the entirety of the careers of the many Chuck Todds who hold positions in the news media today. Do your fucking jobs. Report the TRUTH. Donald Trump is unfit to hold any elective office, let alone the highest position in America and the free world. Its not something you throw out there or wonder aloud about or debate. It is not something you leave to the voters to decide. It is the TRUTH. Report it as such. If you can't do that much, then get out of the business already. |
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