“Meet the Press” for that
episode was about the massive disinformation campaign waged in Russia and by
Putin. Often it’s not to tell a direct
contradiction to the West but merely to confuse and talk about “theories” so
that the average citizen tires of it all and says the truth is unknowable. That’s how I feel about the origins of
Christianity and the Church. I believe
since everyone has a different theory of the Bible that the truth is deemed
unknowable. There is no room for
empirical research or experimentation in this world of myth. They talked about the four D’s. The first D is to dismiss the source. Either the guy is a nobody or else it’s “fake
news” or lack of credentials. The second
D is “what about-ism”. You come up with
alternate facts or some accusations against the other fellow. The third D is “alternative theories” such as
global warming. You present a good
theory and a bad theory that has been long discredited and you treat them both
as equal. They say “to do this is to
distort the news”. This D is dismay, I
guess. The fourth D (?) is to threaten
overtly. We have been seeing more of
this by President Trump. The whole hour
was chalked with gens like this. Above
all is repetition. The human mind tires
of repetition and eventually cracks and believes everything it’s told. Of course President Trump seems to be the
only one in the country who doesn’t believe that Russia meddled in our
elections in 2016. There was some
research company that was hired to get to the truth of the matter and President
Trump has been on a two and a half year long verbal campaign against them. Of course there is an increasing polarity as
to where the left and the right each get their news. FOX news is obviously seen as the only
reliable source of news on the right wing.
And the problem told how people love to continue to hear a lie if it
brings them emotional comfort. I guess this
is why Christianity is so enduring. But
you are told you are a victim of all those foreigners and black people out to
take their jobs and ruin their neighborhoods.
They said that media conflict is not only a conflict of facts but a
conflict of the emotions and the heard.
This may put the objective media at a disadvantage as not prepared to
fight in this arena.
KNXT had a thing on someone waking up in Moscow after ten years and what
would he have missed? He would have
missed out on a lot of heartache and suffering caused by Russia from the
victims of the bombing in Syria to the victims in Ukraine and Crimea being
taken over by Putin in 2014. And of
course there was an airliner shooting down over Ukrainian space. Needless to say it was a really bad decade,
politically beginning with the tea party and continuing with the Republican
takeover of congress and the complete derailing of President Obama’s plans. Of course that Moscow napper would discover that Putin had a new powerful ally in President Trump to help him in the propagation of his many lies.
I would repeat the same thing I said
before. Waiting for 2020 to get here is
taking forever. The second half of 2019 has dragged on for me in my personal affairs. They have told us the
same propaganda that yes, the democrats will suffer because of
impeachment. This occurred. We are told that Trump doesn’t even expect to
win the popular vote anymore because he’s hoping for an exact repeat of the
2016 election where those three or four key electoral states kick in, and they
can put all the campaign funding there.
We are even told by “the media” that this is a good thing because why
does California deserve to have people campaigning here? But the thing is the election is a year away
and they used to have a saying that “six months is an eternity in
politics”. At least it used to be. The economy could still fall apart though
this seems increasingly unlikely. This
is because Trump is in so tight with the Federal Reserve and they, unlike
almost any other time, are doing the president’s bidding on this one. And if a democrat gets elected and the first
job figures aren’t rosy after January 20th of 2021, you know that
the new President will be blamed for that.
This is Sunday December
29, 2019. I had Bill Handel on the law
on and they were saying that if a tree falls on your car and you’re in the
property of a parking lot, then that parking lot is liable for the damage of
the tree to your car. That’s
reassuring. We had a beef pot pie for
lunch – and it was good. We had cookies
and cream ice cream for dessert. I had a
cup of coffee from Patty. Then it was
Leo Laporte and Johnny Jett talked about the upcoming consumer electronic’s
show in Las Vegas. Leo hasn’t been there
since 2012 and he says it’s because it was such a dud that year. He has been dissing the CES ever since. But this year he’s going and so is Scott Wilkinson. This is an unusual weekend before Newyears
because there were no football games on.
It used to be we’d be flooded with one bowl game after another. There was college basketball on KNXT. It was Kentucky playing Louisville. They played to a draw at the end of
regulation. It was 61 to 61 or
something- maybe a bit higher. They went
into overtime but I wasn’t following the game.
I had Rhapsody in Black on. They
featured December of 1950 followed by December of 1951 after three. The first hour was better because they played
more rocker stuff including frensiac drums and saxophone stuff. They played “They did the slow boogie with
the blue lights turned down low”, which was the number one R & B song in
1950 we are told. 1951 wasn’t as good
but they did play “Flamingo”, which is a saxophone and vibraphone track with
re-verb percussion. A lot of bowl games
were played including the Cotton bowl, I believe. Cal State Fullerton beat UCLA in
basketball. LSU defeated Oklahoma badly
in one football bowl. They had soccer
on KNBC and ABC had a thing on a running broad jump contest into water by
dogs. I didn’t check FOX for
football. I guess we better thank our
lucky stars that they haven’t taken away Sunday NFL football yet.
