At a time when Donald Trump is scraping the barrel bottom in public approval, it calls for desperate measures by the MAGA media to shore up the ever widening gap between Trump’s Republican Party and the American people, who aren’t falling for the gaslighting they are being fed by the GOP (Greedy One Percent).
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The issues that are dominating the political discourse as the midterm election approaches mainly deal with the economy that Trump has managed to wreck with his inflationary tariffs and his reckless and illegal war against Iran. Trump’s solution to this problem is to pretend that there is no problem, and to insist that everything is going really well – for the wealthy and corporations.
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Naturally, Trump’s Ministry of Disinformation, aka Fox News, is coming to the rescue with a report on the price of gas. In this report their correspondent tells one story while their on-screen graphics tell another…
Fox News: “Trump is asking Americans for patience. Just hang a little bit more for gas because the unified message from here is that gas prices will drop quickly once the operation is finished. The president says that he has to do this to make sure that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon.”
Notice that the reporter acknowledges that gas prices are currently high, but says that, according to Dear Leader, it’s a temporary, but necessary, increase and that people should be patient. He doesn’t say for how long. Two weeks? Six months? Who knows?
Meanwhile, the video shows a chart that says that gas was $4.13 a year ago, and that it’s less than that today. That, of course, is not true. It was only $3.13 a year ago. So it’s nearly 32% more today.
Some people will dismiss this as an unfortunate typo. However, knowing the reputation Fox News has for deliberately lying, there is a good chance that it was a purposeful misrepresentation of reality to make Trump look good. Media professionals know that visuals have a bigger impact on television viewers than dialog. They will remember what they saw long after they have forgotten what was said.
What’s more, the reporter attributed the higher gas prices to the Iran war, and regurgitated the Trump regime’s line that “gas prices will drop quickly once the operation is finished.” Once again…Two weeks? Six months? Who knows?
The reporter also parrots Trump’s contention that this burden is justified in order to keep Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. Trump himself reiterated that in a post this morning on his dedicated propaganda platform, Truth Social, saying that “The number one Goal is, and always will be, that Iran cannot have, in any way, shape, or form, a Nuclear Weapon.” Although there is someone else who might have something to say about that…
UPDATE: Fox News has issued a correction of their gas price report. But they waited until the next day so that their lie could sink in for 24 hours. They also attached a comment unrelated to the “error” reiterating Trump’s self-serving claim that gas prices would fall quickly when the operations in Iran end.
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When you have a cult filled with followers who, not only don’t have any self awareness whatsoever, but have a habit of suddenly changing their viewpoint on whatever DIAH-Rhetoric spews from the lying, IMBECILIC mouth of their FALSE PROPHET, Dementia DonOLD.
If he told his cult to ignore the FACT that it was Trump’s good friends, the Saudi Arabians, who financed most of the DEATH and DESTRUCTION that I think DJT & RG requested from them on September 11, 2001 — DJT for the reason that he hated the WTC and didn’t want competition from qualified financiers (some things never change), RG desperately needing something to build up a positive profile instead of the reality of his lecherous, sexually deviant profile (again ~ some things never change) and the billionaire Saudis were more than willing to do ANYTHING that would kill Americans (yet again… you get the idea).
I was 36 on 9/11. I watched the horrors of 9/11, including the frightened people who chose to die by leaping out of the towers instead of burning to death.
The sickening FACT that the same ignoramuses who went around persecuting and murdering anyone who wore a turban ~ including people from India, who had NOTHING to do with 9/11 ~ are now fully supporting Trump’s agreements with Saudi Arabia, giving them the ?? okay to drill for fossil fuels in our national parks, polluting our air and water, as well as destroying the land and wildlife of our national parks. Even WORSE (with Dementia DonOLD, things can ALWAYS get worse) he gave the 9/11-funding murderers his “blessing” ? to enrich uranium and build nuclear weapons. To quote ‘The Church Lady’, “Well — isn’t that special?”
Let’s hope that the next thing he tells them is that he is developing an English speaking country that only permits white, pure blood “Christians” to become citizens. The Trump family’s country of HONAH LEE will be a magical place where everyone is JUST LIKE THEM. Basically, a land of like-minded people. All they need to do to become a citizen is to give the Trump family, who they trust implicitly, is give them their life savings and the “FAMILY” will make sure that their needs are met*, without having to pay taxes or be concerned about those meddling Democrats who want to force their anti-fascist ideology and progressive agenda (ie. following medical science; protecting the environment and keeping the food supply safe from parasitic diseases; assimilating with other people;
having empathy for the suffering of others instead of exploiting them for profit; etc). Instead of clicking their heels, all they need to do is repeat Trump’s prayer and they’ll be wisked away to a fascist paradise where no one tells them what to do or believe.
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My opinion about 9/11 is just my opinion, but you have to admit that the coincidences are tough to ignore. After all, we’re not talking about people who have any worth to humanity. [Once more — SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE!!!]
“Stupid is as stupid does.” ~ ‘Forrest Gump’.
Speaking of HONAH LEE, I think I’ll enjoy a little PUFF in a minute or two!
* the needs of the Trump family, duh!?