Case in point.

It may all come out in the wash, but why does everyone in this country have to go through the spin cycle first?

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The MARCH of the TRUMPets - {a rhyme}

TRUMPets blare

their glorious fanfare.

Drums sound baTRUMP!! baTRUMP!!

A parade beyond compare.

All are thankfully aware

of the TRUMP!! Donald TRUMP!! Donald TRUMP!!

Don’t despair.

Instead, declare

that he marches us over our Slump,

so America’s Great Ag’in,

forEver to Win!! to Win!!

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I'm not sure that it's not that the media is unwilling to cover the "most pressing issues;" as it is that a large segment of the American people are unwilling to listen to the most pressing issues. In fact, its in their DNA to prefer faith over reality.

FOX et al. even back to Nixon, and P.T Barnum for that matter, realized long ago that there were unfilled masses that yearned to have their biased, ideological and often racist notions validated via the corporate media. Of course by pandering to them, there was not only great political advantage to be gained, there were vast sums of money to be reaped and power to be had by supplying the "truthiness" they so craved.

After all, you're more likely to get fired from FOX for telling the truth, than for lying. In fact, FOX viewers require that FOX reporters tell them what they want to hear, the facts be damned. This has spilled over to much of the rest of the Mainstream Media and now they have no choice but to report what the pitchfork, torch wielding mobs demand, or be the victim of a full-scale revolt by their faithful as demonstrated by the "Freedom Caucus."

For many years via the "Fairness Doctrine", the corporate media realized that it was in their long term best interest and the best interest of the nation to present the facts in spite of any short term consequences. However, eventually they succumbed to unbridled greed and lust for power. Hence, FOX News and the current state of affairs with the mainstream media.

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CHANGE of ADDRESS - {a rhyme}

Let’s move the Trumpites to our resort in Cuba; -

- Guantanamo’s got some security money.

Ah. Suntans and Scuba; -

- life there’s a honey.

Plus a yacht upon which to float about.

And of course a fence to keep terrorists out.

… {And there we’d be rid

of the precocious kid

with the orange-colored lid.}

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BUT BERNIE THEY SPURNED - {a limerick}

The Right was right to pillory

the penchant for WallStreet of Hillary, -

- but Bernie they spurned

and to Donald they turned,

to vote in a way quite {silly} sillery.

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First of all, calling Trump "our president" is akin to having Stockholm Syndrome. Crooked Donny is nothing more than a Putin installed usurper which means Pence is illegit too.

Forget Comey and his extreme anti-democracy right-wing agenda....what pisses me off is the CIA has been sitting on the treason evidence since summer. I mentioned right after the electoral vote that the plan must be to wait well into the year before Trump gets dumped and Pence installed. I don't give a crap about precedent, a re-election should be demanded by all concerned citizens. This was an attack by a hostile foreign power....an act of war.

If we don't revolt the Fascists/Kochs will then finally have their Teabagger man in the White House, and the useful orange idiot may very well end up in jail...oh well. None of this needed to happen. We all knew the election was more illegit than the two Bush elections combined. One thing is for sure, Putin has already won, he has fffed our country up but good....with an assist from Comey.

We let these Teapublican election frauds happen and then get frustrated about the Fascist propaganda machine not reporting real news....news about economic, environmental and social justice/truth. Well if it had been President Gore, Kerry, and Clinton or Sanders... we wouldn't be in this mess.....despite all the god damn Fox News, Brietbart lies. Our founders finally fought back. I suspect they'd be tar and feathering Fox News reporters if here now...that along with burning effigies of Putin.

Ou812

...expert at surmising; amateur at inferring.

(Dianereynolds - #15)
"Some would call it respect for his spouse, others would say being in a prominent position his decision could prevent any possible blackmail situations ..."

More than likely. All things considered, he looks happy with his wife. Even so, I do have a sense of pretense with Pence. I don't know the facts ... it's possible, whoever does has him walking on thin ice ... he would not be the only one.

That's politics.

Several of these players look like people who have forsaken true feeling for tradition - trading conscience for convention. That would require strict observance of rules and regulations that keep the sin-full soul on a path of redemption and salvation from sure hell that awaits those who diverge:

"The Left Doesn’t Believe in Evil, the Right Does

Christians, like the vice president and second lady, believe man is inherently evil, that he is conceived and born as an enemy of God, and that his evil will only grow unless it is restrained by some outside force.

That would include threats of punishment from the government or, even better, God granting him a new nature that loves God and his commandments and therefore battles against the desires of the old flesh.

Many liberal secularists, on the other hand, believe that man is inherently good, and that those who work evil simply need to have their corrupted moral settings restored to default. Man doesn’t need restraints to be righteous. He simply needs to remember what he is.

http://thefederalist.com/2017/04/03/left-hates-mike-pence-loving-wife-do...

... and then, we have the freelance entrepreneurial crowd whose first concern is to find all sorts of imaginative ways to make money ... gain power ... opportunity ... influence ... (hey, someone has to pay the bills ... and you will, or you could get warehoused into the "big box" industries.)

See?

Pence may be one of many people who wants to be stronger than his weaknesses, and believes this is the way. It does raise an eyebrow that he finds it necessary to offer a public explanation about personal behavior concerning him and his wife - like he wants to make an impression ...? Whose business is it, anyway?

Maybe he's just trying to be a good example.

What I find senseless, and economically unsound is the gossipy sensationalization that, really, is nothing new. It is distracting, wasteful and expensive ... and, it just occurred to me it creates an effective camouflage for covert factional activities.

Oh well, I trust it all will come out in the wash.

http://bettybowers.com

The mainstream media is owned and operated by the 1%. You hear what they want you to hear. You do not hear what they do not want you to hear. Seek alternate sources for news.

On a side note Bill O'Reilly is losing his sponors.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bill-oreilly-advertisers_us_58e3dafc...

Bill O'Reilly of Fox News is the Bill Cosby of the mainstream media.

As insightful as Tom's views are on many topics, why the press acts as it does is not one of them.

The press is a business and will cover those topics it chooses, and in a manner it chooses, to maximize its profits.

Instead of whining about the US press, direct readers to alternative news sources.

ct

Ah! Another Christmas morning. Thank you.