Every Trump tantrum makes headlines, while the actual president's work is ignored. This is Reagan's legacy

Note from the OP: this is an opinion piece, not a news piece.

On Wednesday, the news was all about a big bag of wind destroying Florida and flooding the South, spreading destruction and threatening pestilence and death.

Then there’s Hurricane Idalia.

Also on Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell froze and stood motionless in front of an assembly of reporters — for the second time this summer — so that’s encouraging.

But seriously, folks. Last Thursday, Donald Trump turned a 22-minute booking for a felony indictment in Georgia into a six-hour media special, complete with a larger motorcade than the actual president’s — with dozens of camera lights on the runway and a chopper-talk session.

Meanwhile, Joe Biden, the aforementioned actual president, quietly lent assistance to Hawaii after the devastating wildfires on Maui, for which he was criticized by Republican members of Congress. He also met with international leaders at the White House this week, and went after Big Pharma to negotiate reduced Medicare prices for 10 common prescription drugs.

The press? Well, we completely missed the point, as usual, and covered every juvenile tantrum Donald Trump threw in his malevolent attempt to stay in the news. The context is missing. The press is failing us, and people are too ignorant to notice the problem. That’s because we’re busy dividing ourselves into teams of social cheerleaders, cheering on our champions and literally booing the opposition.

  • Bizarroland
    9•10 months ago

    I take umbrage with titles like this.

    Isn’t it great that somebody is telling us that “everybody has gotten stupider” and at the same time implying that “you are not one of the people that got stupider, of course, dear reader”.

    It’s bullshit. We’re not stupider. It’s somebody else right? There’s obviously got to be some giant group of stupid people out there and what it is is it’s the fucking prisoners dilemma and we don’t even realize we’re in it.

    Telling us that we are smart and educated of course and there’s some invisible group of stupid people out there fucking everything up so there’s nothing we can really do about it?

    it’s fucking mind control.

    And you know, I personally hate being mind controlled by weird deceptive language.

    Look past the article, find what they’re actually reporting on and think for yourself okay?

    • btaf45
      5•10 months ago

      somebody is telling us that “everybody has gotten stupider”

      I agree that Reagan started turning everything into crap. But it is not that simple. How come 50 years ago there was a lot more smoking and people believed in things like Extrasensory Perception? How come literacy and high school graduation rates were lower? How come half of Western Europe countries had large Communist parties and all of Eastern Europe had Communist dictatorships? How come conservatives were calling Eisenhower and Kennedy communists?