A dumb man
Jul 27, 2017 · 2 min read

I don’t give a shit about this Pratt person, but its amazing that every time anyone mentions something fucked up about Trump, the Trumpette snowflakes are so triggered they have to desperately shout maga as if that treats daddy’s dementia.

Talking about Jones is fine, he’s a crank. But the reason cranks are able to draw such followings and sell so many supplements to their listeners is because of the total decay of trust in journalism in America. It was pieces of shit at CNN and the New York Times and other institutions of media that beat the drum of war for Iraq and never did anything to expose the fraud and abuse that caused the recession. They ignored swathes of the country for years while desperation took hold in the heart of America.

Broken trust is the death of any relationship, romantic or otherwise. Trump and Jones, even as they spout complete fucking nonsense, speak to the sense that there is something deeply wrong. They speak to the frustrations of people who have seen the American dream die for others and are terrified it’s going to happen to them next.

It’s not going to get better until the institutional media actually starts reporting instead of milquetoast tone policing and lamentations of a time when PoLiTiCs WaS CiViL. The Ringer isn’t institutional media like the Times, but y’all are putting in work. Shouts out to McNear and Knibbs especially, and Baumann too for the KD article (though I can’t stand baseball so I’ll never read anything else).

I don’t have any expectation that Fox or the GOP or racists or any of the other roaches that have crept out of the woodwork will change their ways. They know who butters their bread. And the people who support them are complicit, either as actively bad people or passive morons convinced that they are just temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

Politically it’s not going to get better until Clintonism (which, directly wirh Bill and indirectly via Obama, oversaw a lot of the decay) is forever renounced and the leadership is replaced entirely by people who aren’t out of touch assholes. A party that fights for the people has to value the people more than lobbyist money from the financial sector. Clinton outspent Trump nearly 2 to 1 and still fucking lost, and the party’s response had been to run Republican lite candidates that still lose every single race that could matter. Even now these shitheads agitate to escalate tensions with Russia instead of admitting Clinton was a bad candidate. Bernie would have won is not a meme. Until Democrats accept that, they are useless.

There’s hope for the future but only if people actually believe in something again. It’s not going to be Bernie, he’s old as shit. It’ll be people like Nina Turner who lead the charge for an America that values all of its people.

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