Trump Not Born in U.S.!
These are dark days in the Funhouse. I know, I keep saying I’ll leave politics alone for awhile, maybe bring the firewood in from the back 40 or even tend to my so-called career. But honest to God and Abe Lincoln, how do you ignore the tweetstorm from our Comb-over-in-Chief when every day he drops a Breitbomb on the lying press? Yesterday he called Obama the lowest of the low for ordering a wiretap on his people in the Trump Tower. Proof? He don’t need no stinking proof?
Proof was so Then. We’re working on an entirely different political paradigm here. The media are the liars, not the liar himself. In a better, more orderly universe, we might expect the Congress, even his own party, to call a lie a lie. But the agenda these folks have in mind for transforming government to their own small privatized vision gives them the courage to maintain a distant but incredibly loud silence on these matters. If they can just get the EPA shrunk down to size, if they can get those corporate tax breaks enacted, if they can push back on the culture wars soon enough, well, what’s a white lie or two?
Profiles in courage, this is not. Of course when half the country, their voting base, believes the most outlandish garbage dished up by Fox or Breitbart, why should they take a stand for truth, justice or the American Way? This is Profile in Cynicism that takes our collective breath away. If the time comes when this self-absorbed bully in the White House is dragged away kicking and screaming, maybe we should take a good hard look at the folks who turned their gaze away when he was at his most outlandish. I get it that the voters are in an intemperate mood. I get it that they no longer trust politicians to look after their interests. I get it that a tough talking TV reality host might seem just the antidote to their problems. But c’mon, this is no game show. And the only thing so far that’s been drained from the swamp is my atrophied sense of humor.
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Trump said he’d bring jobs back to America, and it appears he’s kept his word. From what I can tell all the liars seem to be fully employed. Manufacturing 100% American made lies, 24/7.
You got a point. But … fiction writers might be fully employed these days, writing blogs like this and all, but geez, the pay is terrible. And my boss isn’t so great either.
Yes, I can see that. Fiction writers had more than enough competition during the last few decades from conservative news organizations, but now with subsidized government workers fabricating stories at a breakneck pace, all with full medical and retirement benefits, how can anyone hope to compete?
I read recently, “The first line of almost any story can be improved by making sure the second line is, “And then the murders began.” Unfortunately it just makes the independent writer look like a Johnny-come-lately. Most government issued statements I’ve read recently seem to start their first sentence that way, or on some variation of the theme.
For instance:
I would not agree that CO2 is a primary contributor to the global warming that we see. -EPA chief Scott Pruitt
When you’re trying to improve a story with murder, it’s hard to compete with that.
Any story about Paul Ryan’s heartfelt work starving grannies and protecting the endangered profits of insurance companies and people too rich to need health care could have “and then the murders started” as its second line. We are all living in a Twilight Zone episode now. Or possibly a Hitchcock movie.