Yesterday I wrote I was feeling overwhelmed and had a cold. But yesterday my cold got bad. Here is what I wrote Randy because I simply do not feel like writing a lot this morning. I need to order one of my morphines this morning and pick it up, when I am at the drug store I will get cold medication. Hugs. Scottie
Hi brother. Sick, horrible, miserable. I was really sick yesterday, a little better today. Ron got a cold and the day he left I started coming down with it, yesterday I woke up and couldn’t swallow my throat hurt so much, I could hardly talk, felt like crap. I had a bad cough trying to clear my throat as my sinuses were running constantly. I was having fevers, chills, no appetite, I ended up going to bed at 2 pm, got up at 6 pm to feed cats and give medications. It was miserable trying to sleep, it was fitful at best. I did not have any cold medication, as Ron took it with him. But when I went back to bed I found a box in one of the bed drawers with cough drops, so I had five bags of cough drops with sinus medication. They helped. Tupac had his feed me my tummy hungry alarm go off at the normal 3 am, I tried to sleep but he again cried at four so I got up. At 4:30 the alarm siren went off blasting the house. Someone tried the side room door. It was secure. Sadly the two cameras that face that door were not on, as the main one went offline at 2 am when the router reset and the other one is connected to the main door one. The one facing the front yard and road did record a car going slowly by. I suspect they dropped people off who came down the street checking homes, when the siren went off they ran back up the street to the car. Hugs.
Thanks to Ten Bears (link below) for this link. The people need to hear this instead of the media’s constant drum beat of how bad Biden is. Hugs. Scottie
Ithink a lot of liberals and Democrats are hiding behind the question of whether the president should drop out of the presidential election. I think a lot of us, and I’m going to implicate myself in the interest of fairness, are spending too much time talking about what other people think about Joe Biden — ie, swing voters — and not enough time talking about what we think.
More to the point, I think a lot of liberals and Democrats are not saying what they’re saying when they say last week’s debate was a disaster. They’re not saying it because if they said it out loud for everyone to hear, they would be – and they should be – ashamed of themselves. They recoiled in horror at seeing an old man acting like an old man.
If the president were that far gone, someone somewhere would have pointed out that time when things went very, very wrong. I don’t mean choices. I mean mistakes – serious, consequential, unforced errors. No one has.
I think it’s important to say this plainly. If Biden is too old for you, you should say so. You should say he should not be president, because he’s too old, not because you think swing voters won’t vote for him. Then we can have a serious conversation that begins with this question:
If Biden is too old – that is, if his “mental acuity” is so compromised – how do we explain everything he’s accomplished, including today’s job report, according to which the economy added 206,000 jobs? The Post reported that “even as interest rates remain high, weighing on some parts of the economy, the labor market continues to buoy workers, wages and consumer spending, preventing a broader downturn.”
How do we explain this achievement?
We can’t. And because we can’t, we must conclude that the president’s campaign is now in peril, not because of substance, but because of vibes. The downside is that he might lose because of them. The upside, however, is that you can turn some of these vibes around. You can regain your balance and your confidence, and you can fight like hell.
If you’re old, you’re done If the president were that far gone, someone somewhere would have pointed out that time when things went very, very wrong. I don’t mean choices. I mean mistakes – serious, consequential, unforced errors.
No one has, not even in recent months, a time when some allege that he’s shown rapid decline. How about the Israel-Hamas war, the worst Middle East conflict any president has faced? Nope. He’s handled that like the statesman he is. Inflation? Nope. He brought it down and dodged a recession. How about the “border crisis.” Also nope. Indeed, not only did Biden not screw that one up. He outfox Donald Trump. A change in border policy has led to a record drop in illegal crossings.
But I guess Biden’s accomplishments don’t count for much these days, because, for God’s sake, he lost his train of thought a few times!
If there’s one word that can describe the Biden administration all the way up to last week’s “disastrous debate,” it’s orderly – public servants running the federal government according to the law and Biden’s preferred policies. If, on the basis of that “disastrous debate,” you no longer think Biden can be president, you must reckon with the fact that he has been the president. If you think he’s been showing signs of mental decline for months, you must reckon with the fact that no one can point to a single mistake he’s made during all that time.
And because no one can point to a serious, consequential, unforced error that is the result of his alleged mental deterioration, we must conclude something that’s distasteful to conclude. Maybe the “disastrous debate” says more about us than it does about Biden. It showed us something none of us has seen before, a president aging in public view. And our reaction to it showed us something else – that it doesn’t matter how accomplished you are, how good you are, how decent you are, how deserving you are – if you’re old, you’re done.
Now’s the time to answer Ageism seems to be the root of most of the reaction to the president’s performance. Normal aging, like losing your train of thought, can’t and won’t be tolerated. (If Biden shows several mental lapses, or even just one, it’s over.) Because discrimination against the old is so common, and because weakness, which is associated with age, is so commonly despised in politics, most of the reaction seemed rather reasonable.
And because most of the reaction seemed rather reasonable, a lot of liberals and Democrats lost their nerve. We let the Times editorial board and its columnists, including liberals, undermine our confidence in ourselves. And we let it happen, in part, because we did not fully appreciate the ageist lens through which we watched the debate.
Liberals and Democrats spent more time talking about what other people think of Biden and not enough time talking about what we think. That allowed rather reasonable arguments rooted in ageism to go unanswered. But that was then. Now’s the time to answer them.
The Rev. points out how bad an idea this is, and that is people want religious instruction they should trust their church, their trained religious leaders, not the government. Again this man makes a lot of sense to me compared to US hate preachers. Hugs. Scottie
This maybe the most important video I have watched or posted today. It is grand. I wish ever Christian Nationalist republican could watch it, and then try to understand it. He is saying to be a Christian Nation under Jesus rules you don’t get to be the ruler, the king, the one demanding how others live. You are there to serve everyone, and everyone is free to either believe in your god or not. Wonderful. Hugs. Scottie
The MeidasTouch released a video of a HOT MIC moment with The Mango Moose Knuckle! Then, RON DeSantan releases 160 pages of Grand Jury transcripts from Jeffery Epstein’s 2006 Grand Jury Trial!!
This is long. Gronda writes like that. I do wish she would make smaller posts but she doesn’t. So here it is. Why you ask am I posting a written article I already told you made my eyes glaze over a few times. Because the information she provides is so vitally important. Please go, read the article she wrote. Then if you have issues with it, post them here on my blog. Loves, hugs. Scottie
I want to thank Ten Bears for the link, his link I will post below. Please read the article, and see how the news media has tried to mislead and lead the public to accept the candidate that will make them the most income. Grand read. Please do. It explains the totally unequal reporting on Biden and tRump, and other elections, and explains we must ignore it, and vote for democracy and that means vote for Biden. Hugs. Scottie.
Some quotes from the article.
How else to explain the manner in which the people who reflexively insist there are “two sides” to every issue have completely dispensed with reporting in full dimensions the issues around Biden’s performance? The press has chosen a lane, best exemplified by the New York Times loading up their front page and home page with anti-Biden narratives. The debate within the Democratic Party and liberalism is being reported as a one-sided affair, despite prominent leaders in the party making the argument for Biden’s continued candidacy. In the media pack, that storyline effectively has ceased to exist. They want Biden out, and they want him out now.
Why is the press doing this? While I think that there is some truth to the fact that the ownership of most of these media outlets has a conservative world view and that they are happy to pillory the Democratic Party at every opportunity they get, I think the reasoning is simpler.
The Biden administration has been competently boring, passing a roster of better than anticipated legislative achievements that have led to low unemployment, low fuel prices, massive infrastructure investment and now-declining inflation. This is great for America but it sucks for the bank accounts of most journalists.
During the Trump presidency they didn’t have to bother covering things like replacing lead pipes in Black communities or attempts to forgive billions in student debt. No, under Trump they had a never ending stream of feuds instigated by Trump, ranging from childish insults thrown at Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, NATO, and random people on social media. They had Trump insiders leaking office gossip about Omarosa, Diet Pepsi and other nonsense to stenographers like the New York Times’ resident Regina George, Maggie Haberman.
This led to massive online traffic, a bump in television ratings and book deals, so many book deals. ABC News’ Jonathan Karl has somehow squeezed out three Trump books, and the title of his first bestselling tome gives the game away: “Front Row at the Trump Show.”
Faced with the choice of another four years of Biden/Harris or the gravy train of Trump, the press has openly picked Trump. Even before the debate, the media studiously minimized Trump’s criminal convictions, fascist rantings, verbal diarrhea and his use of language literally out of Adolf Hitler’s playbook. Instead, they decided that the most important story in this race was Biden’s age.
See the point of the article. The media makes big money off tRump and loses money on Biden. They don’t give a flying F**k about democracy, in the US profit is king! So please read the article and don’t fall for it. Hugs. Scottie.
President Joe Biden’s performance in the first presidential debate was abysmal. Regardless of the reason for what occurred it was a betrayal of the trust millions of Americans have put in him over the last four years, not just as a partisan party leader, but as the head of the American government. The debate over how he and the Democrats should proceed from here is a legitimate discussion worth having.
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This is completely separate from the media feeding frenzy that has raged nonstop since before the end of the debate.
What is happening in the mainstream American media in outlets like the New York Times, CNN, the Associated Press and beyond is disgraceful and beyond contempt. The free flow of disdain for Biden, Democratic voters, and the sanctity of public discourse is obvious to even the most casual observer.
I have not seen worse behavior since the same press aided and abetted George W. Bush in selling a pack of lies about Iraq and weapons of mass destruction from 2001-2004. It isn’t even worth saying the press should be ashamed because they have shown us time and time again, they have no shame.
As a longtime critic of political reporting, a frequent fig leaf often offered in defense as outlets circle the wagons against liberal criticism, is that it is unfair to assess them as a herd. We are individuals, they protest, and the worst of us should not be lumped in with exemplary moments of reporting.
But to appropriate Bette Davis in Whatever Happened To Baby Jane: Media, you are in that pack.
How else to explain the manner in which the people who reflexively insist there are “two sides” to every issue have completely dispensed with reporting in full dimensions the issues around Biden’s performance? The press has chosen a lane, best exemplified by the New York Times loading up their front page and home page with anti-Biden narratives. The debate within the Democratic Party and liberalism is being reported as a one-sided affair, despite prominent leaders in the party making the argument for Biden’s continued candidacy. In the media pack, that storyline effectively has ceased to exist. They want Biden out, and they want him out now.
We’ve seen this kind of thing again and again from this pack of jackals. We saw it in the withdrawal from Afghanistan, when the press all but ignored successful operations to evacuate personnel and instead hyped up problems and misfires. We had purportedly nonpartisan reporters at outlets like CNN sounding like sock puppets for the Lindsey Grahams and Ted Cruzes of the world in expressing exasperation at Biden’s operation.
We also of course saw it in the 2016 election, when a collective shrug was made at Trump after he mocked the disabled and called Mexicans rapists, in favor of what was the single most important national security issue in American history: Hillary Clinton’s emails.
This deranged behavior also popped up when the press complained incessantly that President Barack Obama needed to go out and play golf with then-Speaker John Boehner, and again when the media decided the Clintons were too bumpkin to be a part of official Washington in the early 1990s, and their behavior helped pave the way for one of the most disastrous presidencies in American history because they spent the entire 2000 election cycle calling Al Gore a liar. Ever notice how even though Bush knowingly lied about WMDs, the press has never elevated that to the same level of scandal as Gore (accurately) describing his key role in contributing to the early internet? Yeah.
Why is the press doing this? While I think that there is some truth to the fact that the ownership of most of these media outlets has a conservative world view and that they are happy to pillory the Democratic Party at every opportunity they get, I think the reasoning is simpler.
The media misses Donald Trump. And they would like him to win.
The members of the mainstream media are human beings (despite frequent appearances to the contrary) and human beings respond to incentives. There is an enormous personal financial incentive to another four years of Trump in the White House, and a disincentive for the press pack if Biden (or any other Democrat) is in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
The Biden administration has been competently boring, passing a roster of better than anticipated legislative achievements that have led to low unemployment, low fuel prices, massive infrastructure investment and now-declining inflation. This is great for America but it sucks for the bank accounts of most journalists.
During the Trump presidency they didn’t have to bother covering things like replacing lead pipes in Black communities or attempts to forgive billions in student debt. No, under Trump they had a never ending stream of feuds instigated by Trump, ranging from childish insults thrown at Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, NATO, and random people on social media. They had Trump insiders leaking office gossip about Omarosa, Diet Pepsi and other nonsense to stenographers like the New York Times’ resident Regina George, Maggie Haberman.
This led to massive online traffic, a bump in television ratings and book deals, so many book deals. ABC News’ Jonathan Karl has somehow squeezed out three Trump books, and the title of his first bestselling tome gives the game away: “Front Row at the Trump Show.”
Faced with the choice of another four years of Biden/Harris or the gravy train of Trump, the press has openly picked Trump. Even before the debate, the media studiously minimized Trump’s criminal convictions, fascist rantings, verbal diarrhea and his use of language literally out of Adolf Hitler’s playbook. Instead, they decided that the most important story in this race was Biden’s age.
When responding to criticism of this coverage choice, they resort to that tired old defense, insisting that they merely cover the news and that liberals are upset because it paints their candidate in a poor light.
But what they chose to do was put their entire body (not just a thumb) on the scales. The same way in which they minimized Russian interference in the election to focus on Clinton’s staffers sharing food recipes and the national security implications of risotto, they elevated Biden’s age above all else.
The press has long ago thrown away the veneer of plausible deniability in this practice and where I would fault fellow liberals is giving the press the benefit of the doubt. Surely, the thought process goes, they are as afraid of how a second Trump term would crack down on their ability to do their jobs and exercise their freedom as the rest of us.
This is unfortunately naive. These people do not care. They are far more interested in their personal financial gain and professional standing than the future of the country. Just like they didn’t care about what Bush would do to the citizens of Iraq and the American military as they rushed to publish and broadcast “scoops” about nonexistent weapons. They don’t care. A cursory study of the history of Germany shows far too many were quite happy to either turn a blind eye to Hitler’s ascent because after all, currency from Nazis is still currency.
We are in a bad place in this country and we have been for some time. The political system has been in near-constant upheaval, the party tasked with providing adult leadership (the Democrats) has shown a compulsive disinterest in adapting to the politics and communications strategies of the modern era, and the press stinks.
What is needed is constant pressure on these people, in nonviolent and legal ways, to blunt the ill effects of their zealotry on the country. The press went off into the deep end decades ago, now they are trying to drag the rest of us even further into deep, dark trenches that we may never be able to claw our way out of.
“The actions of the junior Senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and dismay amongst our allies abroad and given considerable comfort to our enemies. And whose fault is that? Not really his. He didn’t create this situation of fear; he merely exploited it – and rather successfully. Cassius was right. ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.’
Good night and good luck.” – Edward R. Murrow, 1954
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