Speak For Yourself

There’s something that always irritates me and of course it happens every day and no matter how hard I try, I can’t avoid it. This occurs on every news channel and every politically oriented podcast (even some that aren’t particularly politically oriented). You’ve heard this too, even if you never watch or listen to anything that is the slightest political. For me it’s when, especially in politically oriented media, a person uses the phrase all Americans, or all of America. I always question how this is known. Is there a poll? Well, sometimes there’ll be a mention of a poll but I’ve never seen one where 100% of American voters, either registered or likely, agree on anything. There’s always going to be a majority of sorts, but none at 100%.

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Law fare and Nothing but Law fare

Honestly. i am so exhausted from wall-to-wall Trump news stories. every time I want to watch the news. It’s almost all any of them discuss. There seems to be only three stories the U.S. media are covering in overdrive: Trump, Gaza protests , and Immigration. Trump, trumps the news, always in first place (no pun here) then, depending on the day, it’s either immigration or Gaza protests for second place. Is there nothing else going on in the world that may be of interest to viewers?

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Is it Trump Nation Now?

I didn’t blog yesterday. Everyone needs a day off, right? Well, that’s really not the reason. I couldn’t think of any more dumb stuff to say about anything. The news, overall, is depressing, and after a while, I think we all need to just walk away from it for a while to regain our sense of proportion and sanity, So, I did something I very rarely do on the weekend: I watched the news.

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Desperate Democrats

So another day of all-day-Trump on the cable news channels. I wonder what Mr. Trump thinks of all the air he;sreceiving which must translate somehow to his campaign because he seems to be more popular than ever. It’s like 2016 all over again. He doesn’t have to do rallies (but he still does),he’s getting what constitutes gigantic campaign contributions from those same channels.

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