Debunk or Fake News Therapy

 At some point in 2021, I expect some clinic to open up a therapy situation related to debunking or fake news.  It'll probably start in some place like San Francisco or New York City.

I expect the newspapers and networks to treat it as a joke, and then six months later....come to realize that some clinic does exist with the program, and they have fifty-odd people registered and progressing through 'quit-smoking' type program.

The chief therapy suggestion?  Quit news, and simply talk in small groups how they have real lives to live....without politics. 

CNN will have a laugh over it....then register one of their journalists to attend the two-week original in-house situation.  The guy walks out on the final day, and quits his job immediately. 

By 2022, a hundred clinics throughout the US now engage in the therapy, with anti-therapy groups appearing....wanting laws and regulations to forbid this type of therapy.  The accusation is that this therapy is brain-washing people.  

By 2024, over 200,000 people will have gone through the treatment.  

The Trouble With Promises

 I sat and looked upon this new story....the Biden pick for Secretary of the DOT (Department of Transportation).....former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

'Mayor Pete' came out quickly to 'promise' to fight racial, economic, and environmental injustice within DOT.

So I sat there for a while pondering this.

This department has six key areas which you as the 'boss' are supposed to protect people upon:

1.  You need to ensure roads and bridges around the nation are safe.  Not half-safe....where six bridges a year collapse yearly and kill 200-odd people.

2.  You need to ensure the railway system is functionally safe and derailments are awful rare.

3.  You need to ensure airports are secure....meaning 'bad-boys' don't get through the system and board planes.

4.  You need to set standards where planes take off and safely land with passengers and cargo.

5.  You need to ensure seaports are safely operated and no hazardous events occur.

6.  You need to ensure ferries and river-going vessels are operated in a safe fashion, and no stupid accidents occur. 

Racial wrongs?  Economic injustice?  Environmental issues?

Are you going to monster-up various new regulations that drive ticket prices on airlines, buses, or ferries up by 25-percent?  

Correcting what racial wrongs?  Are you going to give away 100,000 free airline tickets monthly....to minority groups?  

You just start looking at his promise business, and wonder where exactly this is going.  People generally have this expectation of things working.....very few accidents, and feeling safe as you walk onto a plane or ferry.  

Maybe it's just all BS on the promise business, but I have this crazy feeling that airline tickets and ferry rides over the next four years will go up by 25-percent. 

As a co-worker used to comment to me twenty years ago...."just do your job".  

Something to Ponder Upon

 Just something to think about.

In the 1968 election, it was Richard Nixon, George Wallace, and Hubert H. Humphrey.

A total of 73,199,998 votes were cast for ALL three of the candidates.

Donald Trump beat that number, by himself.