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The Fight for our Democracy
If you’re from the left you know President Donald Trump stirred up his ultra MAGA loonies to storm the Capitol Building on 1/6/21. He deserves to be impeached, indicted, tried, and convicted. No sentence is too harsh for this treasonist act.
If you’re from the right you know that the Feds and Nancy Pelosi were heavily involved in staging J6 from the jump. She refused National Guard help offered by Trump the night prior. This is all a part of a bigger plot to discredit Trump and keep him occupied so that he may never occupy the White House again.
It’s ping pong.
Turn on your favorite news channel and they’ll repeatedly show you evidence and put on “experts” 24/7 to validate what they want you to believe and what you want to believe.
Twitter knows you better than you do. Every time you open a tweet, retweet a tweet, copy and paste a tweet, or open a video Twitter knows you even better than it did prior. It, too, feeds you more of what you want to see, hear, and believe.
Objective, logical, balanced, and clear discussions are gone. Any debate really means you hate. Disinformation is slang for “I disagree with what you are saying.”
“The fight for our democracy” is a catchphrase now applied daily every single time one side wants to hysterically rile up its base.
There is no doubt that Hunter Biden, his friends, business associates, and hookers helped him show Chinese and Ukrainian businesses the benefits to have him on their board. Or, better yet, they could “do some business” with his company and access to the then VP was theirs for the taking.
Don’t forget 10% for the big guy. It’s all there on his laptop the right side howls. Joe Biden says he never met one of Hunter’s business associates. Ever. Pictures of the same be damned.
Ironically, he’s never met his seventh grandchild either, but we digress.
The left says in spite of testimony under oath, emails, video of Joe bragging about getting the Ukrainian prosecutor fired, and Hunter’s repair shop laptop, there is no real evidence to connect any of these dots.
We could go on and on. In ping pong, you have to win by two.
Meanwhile, we have a sitting president, whom the DNC shut down any competition to his renomination, who has the highest disfavorable ratings since Jimmy Carter ordered helicopters to land in Iran. Bidenomics anyone?
On the flip side we have a twice impeached former president, now indicted for about the fourth time for god knows what, with a rabid base that has much fervor. But beyond that 32% of the country, how much support does he have or can he garner?
One is an old 80, the other a spry 77. Regardless, age is just a number.
Maybe it’s high time that some new blood and open thinking enter the arena to at least freshen the dialogue and reduce the diatribe.
That actually might make the media do its job. Doubtful, but one can hope.
Give Robert Kennedy Jr a listen. How about Vivek Ramaswamy?
Maybe you won’t agree with all of what they have to say.
But, maybe that’s better than believing everything that you hear from the same network or Twitter feed that you put on wash, rinse, and repeat daily.
It’s your serve.