Why Does No One Call Him Out?

 

How hard is it to challenge the President when he lies?

Why does no one call him out?

It's not just the press.  It's many of you.  When he lies, exaggerates, or misinforms, why are many of you unquestioning about it? You don't have the access that the media has, but you presumably have the powers of observation.  You presumably have the rudimentary intelligence and critical thinking skills to know when he's spinning bull hockey.

You know it's not mathematically possible to reduce prices more than 100%.  If you reduce a $100 drug price by 100%, the new drug price is $0 - ZERO DOLLARS. FREE.  If you reduce a drug price by 200%, then you are being paid $100 to TAKE THE DRUG. He is constantly bleating that he's going to reduce drug prices by 200%, 500%, even 1500%!

YET NO ONE CALLS HIM OUT!

He attacks people for being low IQ, and over 75% of the time, it's a woman and/or a person of color.  Racist, much? Sexist, much? And the test he wants to challenge them to? A COGNITIVE TEST designed to test the early onset of dementia!*

YET NO ONE CALLS HIM OUT!

He mutters new numbers of how much we've collected in tariffs.  Trillions, I tell ya!  Trillions! and the same thing with new foreign investment in the US.  There is no proof or data to support any of this.  What is more evident are things like American farmers being cut out of the soybean market—China no longer gets its soybeans from us. There are more stories about how other countries are trying to circumvent trade with the US and find ways to open new markets and connections that exclude us.

YET NO ONE CALLS HIM OUT!

There are no detailed plans for a grand, glitzy ballroom - just some hastily prepared preliminary sketches.  Why did he say in July he would not touch the East Wing or any part of the White House, and then bulldoze the entire East Wing—without approval, permits, plans, or anything? He lies that administrations for the past 150 years have wanted this monstrosity of a ballroom.  According to Grok, no President has ever asked for this.

YET NO ONE CALLS HIM OUT!

He bleats about declining prices—groceries, gas, utilities—and none of it is true.  Inflation is still rising, not zeroing out.  He said he would cut energy prices in half.  Is that what's happened to you?  Has your power been cut in half, or is it like mine—rising faster than general inflation? Are your health insurance costs going down?

YET NO ONE CALLS HIM OUT!

He is bombing boats in the Caribbean and claiming they're "drug" boats, offering no proof whatsoever.  He careens us closer and closer to war with Venezuela, but good lord, they don't even have Dic Cheney's ability to fake evidence.  They don't care - he has the right to indiscriminately kill whom he wants to.

YET NO ONE CALLS HIM OUT!

He says he's ended eight wars.  Where? How?  He cannot consistently name them, much less prove them.  His Gaza ceasefire has already fallen apart (sadly).  He openly lusts for a Nobel Peace Prize.  This isn't like a studio campaigning for an Oscar,  The whole effort is just in bad taste.

YET NO ONE CALLS HIM OUT!

His weasely insinuations that he will run again, even to the point of selling Trump 2028 merch IN THE WHITE HOUSE (well, not the East Wing - can't do that anymore), are nonsense.  He constitutionally CANNOT run for President again.   But since when has the Orange Conman ever thought of the US Constitution as more than a list of mild suggestions?

YET NO ONE CALLS HIOM OUT!

I could go on like this all day.  But I've already written more than most people will read.

But you get the drift.  Our media, more and more dominated by Trump-friendly billionaire owners, is turning over its belly like a cocker spaniel waiting to have its belly scratched.

You're going to have to figure out the truth on your own.

God help us all.

Until next time,

T. M. Strait

AOC '28

Losing My CNN: Saturday Political Soap Box 288

 

Circa 18 months ago:

I was at a loss. Sometimes I watch morning news coverage. But it was tough to find one that wasn't biased to the right. I wanted something ranging from left to at least center-left.

Fox News, OAN, and Newsmax were still bleating pro-trump and hard-right talking points. And my go-to MSNBC put Joe Scarbrough on in the mornings. It's true that he had grown very anti-Trump, but he would still be very conservative on almost all other issues. TYT was good, but they were not live - at least in the mornings.

The main network morning shows, like the Today Show and Good Morning America, were more fluff than stuff. I was likelier to see celebrity news interviews and recipes than hard news.

I had long since given up on CNN. It wasn't terrible, but it focused on giving equal time to opinions that did not deserve equal time (facts given equal time with fantasy). They also ran a lot of fluff shows about cooking or whatever. Much of their news was blanded, making them a good choice for airports or medical offices.

Another MSNBC* host that I can't stomach is Chuck Todd. He pretends he's neutral, but he often rehashes Republican talking points. His show was at 1 PM.

I complained to my sister, and she told me about CNN's Brianna Keilar, who was on opposite Chuck Todd. She seemed much more acceptable to me. No, she wasn't a liberal flamer. But she seemed to value truth and facts.

When she moved to CNN's morning show, I was happy! I had my mornings back.**

Recently, all that has changed.

A few months ago was the startling news that Time Warner had been bought by the Discovery Channel people. I mean, what the hay? Is Discovery bigger than the super mega-corporation Time Warner (previously owned by the giant AT&T)? That made no sense. Naked and Afraid is bigger than Game of Thrones? Who knew?

Worse news related to this followed. Turns out the major investor in Discovery is a billionaire, one who is a Trump donor and supporter.  

It turned ugly after that. One of their most liberal hosts, Brian Stetler of Reliable Sources, was pushed out. His crime? Indicating that "I really hope we don't both sides democracy" Correspondent John Harwood son followed, for the sin of calling Trump "a demagogue" And the new head of CNN went to Republican legislators and basically said, "What can we do to make you happy?"

Others like Anderson Cooper, Jim Acosta, and Don Lemon live on borrowed time. It depends on how well they can kowtow to their new overlords. And I am afraid Brianna Keilar is already gone, moaning about Biden's speech being too nasty to PEOPLE WHO WANT TO END DEMOCRACY.

Biden was wrong for calling them semi-fascists. They're not. The MAGA Trumpies are full-blown FASCISTS. There is nothing semi about them,  They are ALL IN.

So, I have to abandon my flirtation with CNN. Do we really need yet another far-right-wing news network?

But it doesn't matter what the American people want.

It only matters what billionaires can buy.

* I didn't want to interrupt my post's main flow, but I know that MSNBC has its own problems. It is owned by COMCAST, which has its own right-wing leanings. At this point, however, the liberal hosts are what's getting them the ratings and money, and they have been able to push back on being subsumed. MSNBC isn't good all the time, but it's good most of the time.

**I need to note that I only see about 15 to 20 minutes of morning coverage daily. Sometimes it's zero. Sometimes it's more if there is a major news story.