NY Times False Reality

 

I sat and looked over this article in the AM, from the NY Times.  What they try to suggest...is that the Republican Party...on it's own....devised some strategy in past years....to bring in a group of successful influencers, and that ALL that the Democratic  Party has to do....is just find ONE single decent influencer.

It's the kind BS story that I need half-a-bottle of gin to get through.

Lets start with three honest statements.

First, NO....the Republican Party never had such a strategy.  They didn't even invent or carry Rush Limbaugh.

Second, when you go back to the era of 2016 to 2022....the podcast community grew at lightning speed....with probably over 200 folks that could be regarded as right-wing or open-minded.

Third, as much as Twitter, Meta or You-Tube might want to take credit....they were not the creative minds or content-inventors.  In fact, as much as You-Tube takes down people today...alternate avenues were being invented monthly.

My view?  Where exactly are great conservationists that fit into this mold?  There's no one at CNN or MSNBC, or NPR, or the pronoun movement....that fits into the requirement.  The 10,000 folks  running off to Canada or the UK....forget about them.

Even talking the slant?  You'd have to re-invent the Democratic Party....going back to the working-class....talking over lessening taxes, and giving up on the LGTBQ-community.   

It's a curious little news story....amounting to just a laugh.

Something Else To Worry Over

I paused over this story in the AM today.

Since my days as a kid on the farm, the Air Force years and the last 20....if I added up all the band-aids I've used.....it' probably well over 1,000 of them.

During all those years....no one ever science-checked the stupid band-aids?

So this brings me to the obvious question...what ELSE is there...that you haven't really reviewed?

This Joe Rogan 'Problem'

 Over the past hundred days...I've sat and tried to figure out this whining about the Joe Rogan podcast 'problem'.  The people trying to make the discussion....want you to know that Joe is crazy, irrational, believing in dragons, giving you tons of misinformation, and you should turn him off.

On my hours per month, following a Rogan podcast?  I probably put in 10 hours a month.  To be honest, there's between 15 to 20 podcast folks I follow.  

Why?  They follow this simple format.....it's like sitting on a rural southern porch, with two WW II vets....talking over 'action' and you get to hear this discussion.  I don't need to participate....they will carry the talk themselves.

The fact that I listen to science, medicine, technology, lost Indian tribes, alien-chatter, tourism, wiccan-BS, Catholic and Voo-Doo similarities?  Well....it's a vast landscape.

So here's the thing....to counter Joe....the Democrats need some liberal Joe-character.  The trouble? Whoever  ends up in this 'drama'....needs to occasionally talk about leper colonies, dragons, wrestling, and ghosts.   I just don't see such a liberal Democrat like that existing.

Three Things

 1.  The director.....Rob Reiner (formerly of All in the Family as 'Meat-head').....took the election in a pretty bad way.  This past week....he volunteered and entered what you'd call a rehab center.

But they laid out a requirement.....he had to exit social media (delete accounts), and this was not happy feeling.

I thought about this....to be honest, there's probably two or three million Americans who are in a fragile state-of-mind and need some rehab at present.  Most can't afford a $5k-a-week rehab center deal.

Over the next year....I expect 50,000 people to be pushed into a rehab deal because of impending dismissal from their company, or some spiral in the marriage.  It'll be a trend....like a alcohol-anonymous meeting....where people gather up and admit over the past 20 years....they got real stupid, and fragile.

2.  This 'AOC-for-President' trend?  Just odd.

Apparently...a whole bunch of folks are suggesting now that a draft-AOC has to start up.  

What I would speculate upon?  You will see all of the old crowd dump (the Clintons, the Obamas, etc), and a re-invention of the Democratic Party to occur.

If they stick with the pronoun-people, abortion, and anti-capitalists?  AOC will falter just like Kamala.

A AOC-Fetterman ticket?  Wouldn't shock me.

3.  More people watching the Hallmark Channel....than CNN or MSNBC?  

Yeah....it got noticed this week.