Failing to Deliver

In 2014, leading up to the midterm elections, there was only one story covered in the news, Ebola.  It was EVERYWHERE!  The 24 hour news networks were wall to wall with the total of 11 total cases linked to the USA.  That's right, eleven.  Two of those 11 people died (tragically), but it clearly wasn't the national crisis being presented in the news.

Then, on Election Day 2014, something incredible happened.  The story disappeared!  I'm not saying the story went completely away, but it was mostly gone overnight. Two local news stations in Minneapolis/St. Paul didn't even mention it on Election Day, or ever again to my knowledge, and most papers (AT BEST) relegated the story to deep within the folds of the paper.  By the end of the week, the news media had completely forgotten about the Ebola crisis they had intensely reported on for the last two months.

This story was a plant, a made up crisis pushed by Republicans and their puppet masters to prevent the news media from covering the Election clearly, and to try to scare people away from the polls on Election Day.  After they accomplished their goals, they themselves stopped pushing the story, and the news media, whether in compliance with the Republicans, or blindly following the rest of the lemmings, stoped talking about the story.  It was the all the proof you needed the media of this country was hopelessly controlled by the Right.

Speaking of pandemics, the last two years we've had a bit of a rough go.  Near 80 million people in the US have contracted COVID (including yours truly), and near 975,000 people have died.  Now, if Republicans had the same intensity as they had with Ebola with COVID, those two numbers would've likely been dramatically lower.  Instead, Republicans found political value in denying vaccines worked, discouraging face masks and vilifying the medial and scientific community as a whole. 

The Republicans were so good at their messaging, there are families where a loved one DIED of Corona Virus, and yet they still refused to get vaccinated or wear a mask because the Right told them they didn't need it.  Politicians, drunk on their own press releases, started trying to tell hospitals, including the World's Best Hospital(!!!), The Mayo Clinic, how to do medicine!  And psychopathic, deranged loon balls showed up at school board meetings to threaten to murder them all if they dared shut down schools or even demand a facemark, DURING A PANDEMIC!  And the news media covered all of this as viable 'counterpoint.'

The real failure in both of these cases is not the Republicans.  Quite the contrary, their messaging exceeds  expectations EVERY SINGLE TIME!  They are masters at controlling narrative.  The real problem here is the Democrats, who even though have facts, science and evidence on their side, can't seem to put out an effective messaging campaign to save their asses.  BOTH of these Republican narratives would easily be countered if Democrats created uniform messaging and demanded equal time in all news outlets.  Instead they get so caught up in trying to sound nuanced and clever, trying to make themselves sound bipartisan, tolerating (or even agreeing) with Republican lunacy, and thinking a plucky attitude will win the day (it won't).

Democrats lack of follow through on messaging is so toxic right now, it's my opinion their fear of how they'll be perceived if they hold a Republican accountable for their undeniable criminal activity creates a self induced deterrent to charging CLEALY guilty people (like Trump) for their crimes.

We saw the beginnings of this failure in the W. Bush Administration.  Not only did we know W., Cheney and his Administration LIED us into the Iraq War, we actually had evidence they did so, enough to charge them!  Then suddenly, Democrats came out like whipped pups, starting at the ground, pretending to shift unseeable dirt and sand with their feet, as they meekly said they weren't going to file any charges. They had them dead to rights, and they just let them go.

Compare that to the next 8 years under President Obama. Republican MADE UP a fake narrative that something nefarious actually happened in Benghazi and then initiated 8, EIGHT(!!!), investigations into the attack.  They would have an investigation, they themselves would find absolutely ZERO evidence of the wrongdoing they claimed happened, and immediately open another investigation, claiming "We still have a lot of unanswered questions!"  They didn't.  This was only about controlling narrative. By the way, when the Trump Administration's actions clearly contributed to the deaths of US soldiers in Niger, the same Republicans said "nothing to see here," as the meek Democrats went along.

Today, I've gotten to the point where I've lost all faith the Democrats will actually hold Trump, or any Republican guilty of their crimes. Currently Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has, inexplicably, decided to not charge Trump with financial crimes his own prosecutors have said are a SLAM DUNK conviction. He's even started sending the evidence collected of Trump's crimes back to their respective witnesses. He might be bought off to make the case go away, or he might be afraid his political future might take a hit if he follows through and jails Trump.  Regardless, it's a clear failure to deliver.

As much as what the Manhattan DA is doing is a head scratcher, it's nothing compared to the lack of real action by the 1/6 Commission and the Department of Justice in regards to the Insurrection, the clear attempt to overthrow the government of the United States.  Between clearly guilty rioters getting relative slaps on the wrist, to the mountain of evidence pointing to major coordination and involvement with militia groups, the RNC, Republican Congresspeople and Senators, the Trump 2020 campaign, major factions of the Republican fund raising and organizing operations, a string of incompetent Trump lawyers, the Administration, and Trump himself, it's mind numbing there are not already REAL HARSH CHARGES being filed.  I get the impression this will be W. and the Iraqi War all over again.

And last night, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's wife Ginni was exposed as actively communicating with the Trump Administration, encouraging the overthrow of the government of the United States.  Not only that, but her husband was the lone justice (ON THAT COURT) to rule against Trump (and any future President???) from ever having to release internal communications to an active investigation, something we now know he was doing to prevent his wife from getting exposed as being a player in the attempted overthrow of Biden. 

Now, either Justice Thomas is making rulings which he feels his wife would want him to make, OR his wife is directly telling him how to rule on cases.  Regardless there should be an immediate impeachment hearing in the House and a trial in the Senate. I guarantee, if this was a liberal Justice's spouse caught in the same scandal, Republicans would have have 15 investigations already this morning, and a big ol' pot of impeachment brewing, as every news outlet in the country would be demanding accountability, not just reporting on the case.  I can't wait to see how the Democrats drop this ball.

Meanwhile the Republicans are still having a field day with President Biden's son, Hunter Biden, and his laptop.  Not only has the entire Joe Biden/Burisma story been proven to be a made up lie, but the supposed laptop with the supposed email which is the Right's so called "smoking gun evidence" is a laughing stock.  A computer repair store in Delaware apparently found his laptop, and instead of looking at the service ticket to figure out whose it is, they opened it up and found ONE email allegedly from Hunter Biden to someone which confirms the entire scandal...which has already been proven fraudulent. 

Yet look at how intently the Right is still screaming this story! Every week I get Republicans saying to me "just you wait until Monday! It'll be the biggest scandal in the history of the country." But when Monday comes, and no scandalous news story drops, it's always "Biden and the mainstream media are covering up the truth!"

The Republican Party and their voters might just be the greatest mind control experiment in human history.

Dear Democrats, FILE THE FREAKING CHARGES!  We've all seen the evidence!  We all know who did what and when!  We all know they're guilty of the crimes!  The Republicans will not be your friends or give you a pass even if you don't file charges, so file them!  Stop sitting there and smugly thinking "we don't have to prosecute these criminals, as 'history' will harshly condemn them for all time!"

Well, that depends on who writes the history books...