Thursday, November 7, 2024

Lies that divide

I belonged to an online group for people with a rare medical condition. The admin shut down the group after years of running it because just surviving was going to be a full-time job for disabled people because "Trump ran on getting rid of Social Security, Medicare, and disability benefits." They claim he's going to sign an executive order get rid of the Americans With Disabilities Act. If people in the group asked for sincere clarification or became worried and scared too, they were met with silence.  This makes me both sad and angry.

The stars of Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough are the kinds of people in media responsible for a lot of the post-election fear Democrat voters are experiencing. They had Trump on their show so many times in 2016 that it likely helped him get elected. He was a personal friend. Then they spent eight years calling him Putin's Nazi white supremesist dictatorial dementia patient. Fast forward a couple of weeks, and these two "journalists" just came back from a visit to Trump's Florida residence, Mar-a-lago. So now that he's going to be the president again, he's not all of the things they were calling him just days ago? I know that I wouldn't get on a plane to break bread with a Nazi white supremesist dictator. Would you?

So what's happening here? Mika and Joe clearly never believed a word they were saying on air. It was all about ratings or doing what the bosses wanted or something. And there's a lot of it going around. It's becoming obvious to many (though it was clear to others already) that many of these "journalists" and TV personalities were LYING TO YOU. I'm so sorry for the people, some of whom I know personally, who believed them because the talking heads on TV didn't believe themselves. 

There are a lot of really frightened, angry Americans because of these liars. Are you going to let them lie to you and then steal people who love you from you by telling you to get kick them out of your lives? I truly hope not. 

Some on TV seem to believe what they say on air, like the cast of The View. We can respect people who have different views than we do if they're at least honest about their beliefs. But I can't respect people who seek to divide. On MSNBC, a psychiatry resident affiliated with Yale advised people to skip the holidays with family if they voted for Trump. “To say, ‘I have a problem with the way that you voted because it went against my very livelihood, and I’m not going to be around you this holiday, I need to take some space for me,’” she said. 

"Take some space for me" when in reality it's not all about you.

It's about all of us, and we really need to start acting like it.

So to all the people who are terrified, worried their favorite on-air personality is going to get locked in some Trump-sanctioned concentration camp because their favorite on-air personality said they were afraid of just that, I hope you're going to be okay. You'll never see this, because you clearly don't stray from your bubble, or you wouldn't be going online acting completely delusional and stopping years of hard work that helped people because of lies that divide.

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