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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou can't compromise or negotiate with fantasy
You cant negotiate or compromise when one sides comes from a position of fantasy
In order to make good policy and govern
in fact in ANY relationship, the most important relationship to have is one with reality and truth.
Yet, over and over again, the MSM treats Retrumplican Fantasy as if it is gospel.
- Tax-Cuts pay for themselves
- Trickle-Down economics
- Mexico will pay for the Wall
- Well be greeted as liberators
- Just go in and steal their oil
- "Obama was born in Kenya"
Those are just a handful of examples of Retrumplican fantasy that the MSM presents to us as if they have ANY basis in reality.
From that position, Democrats are supposed to negotiate and compromise? Fuck that noise.
Its insipid and dangerous.
During the run-up to the 2016 election, I was listening to NPR (NRP FOR GODs SAKE!!!), and they had a discussion about the two candidates plans for Iraq. One was a detailed, well-thought out plan based on the conditions on the ground, Americas stated goals and values, and international law. The other plan was a FUCKING WAR CRIME, and yet
here was NPR discussing the merits of both plans as if reality had suddenly ceased to exist or matter.
I was so pissed that I called into a radio show for the first time in my life. I pleaded with them to please stop! I asked them to Please dont pretend that both of these ideas are based in reality, just because the Retrumplicans nominated a complete moron to run for President.
My complaint fell on deaf ears.
Now reality and fantasy are interchangeable. Racism and white supremacist are presented as just one side of a debate between good people on both sides.
Weve watched the MSM make a fucking genius out of a POS Koch funded jackass Speaker of the House from Wisconsin whose political philosophy is based on adherence to a fucking sick science fiction novel. Could someone please provide me just one economic prediction that Paul Ryan was ever fucking right about? Yet, hes treated as a savant, because reality doesnt fucking matter.
Weve watched so-called serious journalist question the birth and citizenship of our first black President.
We've seen a fucking lifeless Ken Doll straight out of a fucking Star Trek episode be tasked with bringing peace to the Middle East, respond to natural disasters, negotiate world trade policy, solve the Syrian issue and...I don't know...still be able to bring 300, or 1,000 cold fast-food hamberders to the White House for a National Championship celebration. Was Jarrod too busy to cure cancer, or what?
Weve watched the MSM talk about a fucking 2,000 mile wall that Mexico is going to pay for as if its a real fucking thing.
The examples just go on and on. From RAY-GUN to Donnie Shit for Brains, weve required Democrats and the American people to compromise and negotiate with FANTASY.
So why not have a fucking unqualified orange shitstain as the leader of the free-world. It's fucking normal now, isn't it?
But, why just stop at this fucking fantasy president?
Maybe you can do some serious fucking journalism and try to find the Fish People of Atlantis. I saw them in Aquaman so I know they're real.
Hey, the orange asspickle bases his immigration policy on the fictional movie; Sicario: Day of the Soldado, with its taped up women, prayer rugs and souped-up cars, so why not Fish People?
Then we can move on to doing the real "gum-shoe" work of finding out why Achilles didn't just turn around and dip his fucking heels into the River Styx after Thetis ducked him in by his feet. Theres a story for you, and it has as much in common with reality as a 2,000 mile 30 foot concrete wall that Mexico is going to pay for. None of us were alive at the time. How do we know Achilles was just a myth?
Fuck, I just thought of something else for the media to dig into. There are 2,208 billionaires in the world...AND NOT ONE FUCKING BATMAN. Can you please report on this? Both sides of the BATMAN debate need to know why there is no BATMAN...or is there.
Or maybe....JUST FUCKING MAYBE!!!!...you could quit covering Retrumplican delusions as if they have any fucking basis in reality.
The country and my sanity would be in much better shape.
Canoe52
(2,949 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)it aligns with the conservative ideology.......it must work! even when it doesn't!
magical thinkers all
Arkansas Granny
(31,532 posts)Nitram
(22,892 posts)I don't know where you get this stuff. Two excellent counter-examples are the great job the MSM did telling the stories of individual Central American refugees to counter the administration line on who was in the "caravan", as well as the in-depth and personal stories on the hardships the shutdown was causing federal workers, which played an important role in Trump's total defeat. Fox News and the right wing media are not the MSM.
maxrandb
(15,360 posts)This, for example, is how today's MSM would cover a story about the earth being flat.
Some Retrumplican "expert" would say, or maybe Donnie Short Fingers would tweet that "the earth is flat"
Democrats would point out that the earth is in fact round.
Retrumplicans would then shut-down Government demanding that the "earth is flat".
After much suffering, the MSM would go to Democrats and say; "if you're not willing to at least consider that the earth is flat, or compromise that maybe it might not be round, aren't you just as at fault for the suffering"?
Then we'd have stories about how the Democrats unwillingness to "reach-out" is just as much responsible for the suffering.
Think I'm wrong, or exaggerating? Just substitute "a big beautiful wall that Mexico is going to pay for" instead of "the earth is flat".
Heck, you could even replace "the earth is flat" with "tax cuts pay for themselves" in the above scenario, and you'd get the same result.
That's the point I'm trying to make. Mexico paying for a big beautiful wall along the 2,200 mile border is as much a fantasy as the "earth being flat".
You can't negotiate or compromise with "fantasy" and yet the MSM requires Democrats to "negotiate or compromise" with "fantasy" every damn day.