It's Getting Beyond Obvious

It's getting so obvious even Fox News viewers are beginning to smell the bullshit.

In spite of everything the Right Wing Media Machine is throwing at its viewership, the scandals just won't sink this time. Because this time Trump really is driving our nation's economy straight into the ground. This time, Social Security and Medicare are really and truly being derailed. This time people really are being kidnapped and deported without due process of law.

This time, it really is storming outside, while Fox News is reporting that everything is sunny. What happens when their viewers look out the window, see the rain, hear the thunder and lightning, and finally put two-and-two together?

What happens when the die-hard evangelical Trump voter gets the panicked phone call from his grey-haired mother regarding her Social Security checks no longer arriving?

What happens to a Sean Hannity fan when the price of everything skyrockets and they can't afford what their kids want for Christmas?

What happens to the die-hard conservative retiree who slowly realizes he has to return to work at age 70, because he's spent two solid months on the phone trying to get the government to give him his own, hard-earned Social Security money, and finally has to give up and find a job just to survive.

What happens then?

Actually, never mind then. What's happening to them now? Because it's here.

The bullshit is finally hitting them in the face. When will they finally be overwhelmed by the smell?

So far, the answer has consistently been, "never." But there's ignoring the elephant in the room, and then there's getting trampled by said elephant. If we haven't reached that point by now, its hard to imagine what more it could take.

And Jeanine Pirro may not be overly concerned about her 401(k) right now, but then again, she has her million-dollar Fox News contract to sustain her through retirement.

Everybody not on Fox News' payroll is panicking.

I mean, just a brief dive into what Fox News is "reporting" quickly reveals just how much that network has zero fucks to give about the truth anymore. It strongly asserts the guilt of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, despite the Trump Administration outright admitting it had deported him wrongly. He had been granted legal protection by a judge in 2019, and Trump's goons blew right past that ruling anyway.

Or there's the case of Mahmoud Khalil, arrested, green card ignored, due process overlooked. But now, there's just enough legal wiggle room to have him deported anyway, and thus it seems he will be. And naturally, Fox News sees this as a complete vindication rather than a case of "ready, fire, aim" legal luck.

Look, I'm no fan of Islam, and I've certainly sided with Israel more than Palestine, but Khalil had his right to free speech. And for exercising that right, he was essentially kidnapped.

In fact, in many ways, what Trump is doing is engaging in mass-kidnapping.

Meanwhile, the "Signalgate" scandal is simply not going away. Why should it? An incompetent fool allowing real-time military attack information to be leaked to a journalist? That's the sort of stuff that gets soldiers killed! And Americans know it! And because it's Signal, an app many Americans know well, they're simply not blinded by the smokescreen.

"No classified information was shared."

Uh, it was an active military strike. It doesn't get much more classified than that! Jeffrey Goldberg published the whole thing after the Trump team tried to lie about that.

"Jeffrey Goldberg hacked his way in."

No, he was invited. Obviously.

"Jeffrey Goldberg is an awful human being who pulled a dastardly trick."

Oh, boy. Even if he were a total skunk (which he's absolutely not), he didn't trick anybody. He was invited.

There's no way around it, Signalgate was just sheer, inexcusable, obvious incompetence. Mike Walz, the National Security Advisor who set up the group chat, and sent journalist Jeffrey Goldberg the invite, is the one and only reason this happened. His incompetence, and that of the entire defense team, who knew of this group chat being used instead of official, secure government channels, resulted in this huge breech of highly sensitive information.

And neither he, nor anyone else involved, got fired.

I've said it before, the pyromaniacs are running the Fire Department.

What happens to a Fox News viewer when their house is inevitably the one on fire?

Eric

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