Tag: Election 2016
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I Have A Feeling THESE 20’s Are About To “Really” Roar
The Roaring 1920’s brought economic prosperity to the Western world — until a lot of that prosperity turned out to be phony, crony capitalism — and the world plunged into the Great Depression. These 20’s — the 2020’s — are about to roar as well — but for a whole different reason. The underlying cause…
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Dear American News Media: YOU Will Be The Problem Until YOU Stop Being It
When your job is to tell our story in real time, as it’s happening, it’s vital that you know how to frame that story — in real time. If you screw up the framing, you’ll end up telling the wrong story. Our news media can’t ever get the Donald Trump story right because they insist…
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Donald Trump & Trumpism Are What Happens When Magical Thinking Goes Psycho
Magical Thinking should have an expiration date — at the end of childhood, say. Or when one turns 18 and votes for the first time. Alas, that’s not the case. Some people — Republicans — never lose their taste for Magical Thinking. That’s because it’s more than a taste, it’s an addiction. The reason religious…
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What Are All Those “Trump Won 2016” Journalists Going To Say When We Establish That, No, Trump STOLE The Election?
Spoiler alert — that IS where this story is going: Donald Trump did not “win” the 2016 election in any sense of the word. He stole it. Literally. Go look up the two words — “win” & “steal”. They’re not the same thing. To have legitimately won the 2016 presidential election (and this applies to…
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A Win Achieved By Cheating Is Not A “Win”; It’s Cheating
To describe what happened in 2016 as “Donald Trump won the election” is to frame the election from cheating’s point of view. Let’s be clear: Trump didn’t just cheat We The People out of our clear ballot box choices, he cheated the rule of law itself. That’s significant. Dear American News Media — take note.…
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A Lesson On “Cheating”: If You Cheat To Win, It Means “YOU DID NOT WIN”
Some things should be more self-evident than they apparently are. For instance — if I cheat to win at a game, I did not therefore “win” the game. Wins outside the rules do not count as wins. How can they? Just because the “winner” says he won, that doesn’t mean anything. Cheaters are usually biased…