Sunday, August 04, 2019

Some Things We Learned from the 2016 Election

By John P. Smith What have we learned since the last election?

Our mainstream media has gone from journalism to activism.  They've sold out to corporate interests and (mostly) leftist ideals and unproven theories.  While I believe they’ve always been CIA lackeys (aka Operation Mockingbird) they were not, until this last election, blatant, unrepentant liars. Before now, they kept those lies hidden and covered up. Now, their hate runs so deep, they just don’t care.

Our News Media is biased. The collection of talking heads we have available to tell us the "news" is staffed with liars so full of themselves they will say anything to try to discredit Donald Trump. As they travel this path of self-destruction, they steadily erode what little trust we had in them through their unrelenting spewing of hate and disinformation. Little by little, person by person, the idiots who are still stupid enough to listen to these hatemongers will learn that they are being lied to. Eventually, they'll figure out that grabbing a sign and running into the street to protest the latest manufactured "outrage" based on a litany of lies from the asshat media to stir up hate and discontent is just a bad idea.

The News Media no longer cares about facts. They want you to hate as deeply and as openly as they do.  They believe if they say it enough, it will be true. Isn't that what happened in the 2016 election?  They believed their own bullshit to the point they didn't care about facts, or what real people were saying.  It's important to remember, no matter whether you were rooting for the wicked witch of the South or Donald Trump, the news media lied to you. They lied to all of us; whether intentionally, or because they were too blinded by their own bias to see the truth, is irrelevant. We, as a collective population, were blatantly and systematically lied to.

Please note I do not distinguish between Left, Right, Liberal, Conservative, etc. because all the mainstream flavors shovel bullshit from the same pile.

Our Search Engines are Biased.  There's plenty of information and data proving that Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. all quarantine information in search results that may have negative impacts on their corporate views. The Open Source search engine DuckDuckGo claims to be independent of this kind of behind-the-scenes bias. 

Our Social Media is biased. Facebook is the worst example of media bias ever seen (other than CNN and (maybe) Pravda.) If anyone should be on trial for interfering with the election, it should be the asshats at Facebook who wrote code specifically to filter out negative news around Hillary Clinton and her evil cohorts. Remember Pizzagate? Remember how fast and furious even the most "open" networks shut down any information on that subject? (I'm looking at you Reddit!) They claimed it was "fake news" and wouldn't allow comment on it. At the same time, they allow any and all "hate news" centered on Donald Trump.  That's outright censorship and political bias.

We've learned our public educational institutions are flagrantly biased and the faculty are not interested in educating our youth based on facts and critical thinking. They instead want to push their socialist ideals rather than encourage study of them. Your children are trapped in these institutions that no longer teach them how to think; only what to think. Why is Common Core math so convoluted and stupid? Because they want your children to depend on the government to do math for them. Any idiot can do a little 4th Grade math and figure out how bad she's getting screwed when she gets what's left of her check. So, the trick is to stop teaching real math in the 3rd Grade.

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