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How Does America Recover From This? It Doesn’t.
DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon

Posted on 12/05/2020 4:58:16 AM PST by EyesOfTX

How does America come back from all of this? How does our country recover from the last five years of rank media fakery, Democrat depravity and China Virus mendacity?

I was asked that question this week on my regular appearance with 93.1 FM afternoon talk show host Greg Budell, who blessedly provides the people of Montgomery, Alabama with a brilliant alternative to listening to Sean Besmirched Bought and Paid For Captain Tick Tock Hannity.

My terse reply was, we don’t. Not in any real sense, anyway.

That’s also how a more expansive answer begins this morning. America doesn’t recover from all of this, folks. It can’t, for the simple fact that our society has lost two fundamental foundations that are absolutely necessary in order for our constitutional republican system to work:

The first and most fundamental of those is the assumption by the founding fathers that positions of political power would be filled by people who actually love this country. Men like Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, John Jay and Ben Franklin weren’t at all naive about human nature: They knew that politicians as a class would tend towards corruption and graft and greed. That is as it has always been and as it always will be.

But even the greedy and corrupt can still love the country and want it to survive and prosper, and that is the assumption that has been lost within the Democrat Party today, the Democrats in the House of Representatives being the most stark example.

The House Democrat caucus today consists of several distinct classes:

– A leadership class typified by greedy grifters like San Fran Nan, who have become fabulously wealthy while profiting from their positions of power;

– Race baiters like Sheila Jackson Lee, who line their pockets with money collected from the poorest of the poor in their districts;

– Hoax and conspiracy mongers like Adam Schiff who are still lying about Russia collusion and have no scruples that might prevent them from holding the country hostage for half a year to a completely made-up impeachment hoax; and

– Marxist radicals like Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and her “squad,” who also manage somehow to become fabulously wealthy, prancing around in $2,000 dresses while pushing frauds like the Green New Deal that would bankrupt the country.

No one in that House Democrat caucus has the best interests of the country in mind. Their sole driving interest is the acquisition and maintenance of political power that can be leveraged for their personal gain. As we have witnessed in this stolen election via massive voter fraud, the entire Democrat Party today is nothing but a huge organized crime operation, and the entire country is its victims.

This increasingly and overwhelmingly corrupt behavior by the Democrats should surprise no one. I’ve been writing for more than 30 years about the fact that politicians who have no moral scruples nor any fear of ever being held accountable for their actions will always become increasingly depraved and corrupt over time. It is simple human nature.

This brings us to the second fundamental foundation of American society that has been completely lost: A functioning news media establishment.

The founders envisioned that a free press would collectively serve as America’s Fourth Estate, a watch dog that protected the public interest by working to hold people in positions of power accountable by exposing their depravity and mendacity. The drafters of the Bill of Rights believed a free and functioning press was so crucial to maintaining the American Republic that they enshrined freedom of the press in the Constitution’s very first amendment.

They weren’t naive about the press of their time: They knew some media outlets would be biased and corrupt, but also believed the press as a whole would serve its intended function in our society, because exposing political corruption, regardless of party, sells newspapers.

That assumption held and the system worked right up until the point at which big, diverse, international corporations and billionaires began buying up the nation’s major media outlets. Today, well over 90% of the national mainstream media outlets are owned by six or seven huge corporations whose senior leadership is firmly globalist in nature. They all detest Donald Trump and his supporters with a passion and reward their media people for tailoring their coverage in ways that do him harm, often functioning at the direct behest of their financial benefactors in China.

Worse, corporate behemoths like AT&T, Comcast and Disney use their media subsidiaries like CNN, NBC and ABC as loss leaders within their corporate umbrellas, and don’t give a damn about audience size or profitability. Every incentive to employees in those media operations encourages corrupt and biased behavior that ends up creating hyper-focus on Trump and his fellow Republicans and aggressive efforts to avoid negative reporting about Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats.

Even worse than all of that is the fact that the freedom of the press enshrined in the first amendment and the interpretations of that clause by the federal courts over the past 231 years, combined with corporate ownership that does not care about profitability, means that there is basically no way for the public to hold the media accountable for its mendacity. Just as is true with politicians, corrupt journalists who have no fear of being held accountable for false reporting, and are in fact rewarded for it, will only become increasingly corrupt and dishonest. Again, simple human nature.

Thus, with a media class that has no fear of accountability refusing to cover a Democrat political class that has no fear of being held accountable, neither of which possessing a shred of love of country, the country will inevitably continue to spin out of control until it collapses or dissolves into a second civil war.

That is how we get to a situation in which a presidential election has literally been stolen in plain sight by one political party and the media establishment joins its arms in unison in abject refusal to cover the biggest political scandal in U.S. history, despite the enormous audience and profits real coverage would invariably bring.

How does America recover from this?

It doesn’t.

That is all.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Humor; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: fakenews; mediabias; trump; trumpwinsagain
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To: EyesOfTX
America can recover. The question is: Will she?

The only path to recovery that I can see is the path of truth: the exposure of truth about the crimes, corruption, mendacity, and meretriciousness; a demand for such truth in the future; and punitive action taken against all persons found guilty of criminal activity. All this can reverse the decadence that threatens to destroy the USA.

Only the Information Age can bring such enlightenment to America, yes the Information Age that made such corruption and criminal activity possible.

Whether or not America will rise to this challenge remains to be seen.

The only real hope I see is in the Supreme Court, specifically the five Justices whose wisdom, intelligence, and honesty have been reliable in the past. So far, they have not acted. If they fail America, she is lost.

41 posted on 12/05/2020 5:43:56 AM PST by Savage Beast (May God reveal the truth for all the world to witness! May God save the USA!)
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To: EyesOfTX

It’s not over yet.

We have a President who fights back.
He has some amazing soldiers bringing the truth to light.

The fake news can double down on their gaslighting, but they are starting to lose control of the narrative. The American people are going to be furious when the worm turns.

Let’s cheerfully fight to the bitter end and see what happens.


42 posted on 12/05/2020 5:46:02 AM PST by enumerated
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To: OttawaFreeper

“ Oh boy, sure to bring out the Eeyores this morning, eh?”

Hangover thread?

We have. Constitutional republic. Sometimes it has to be defended. People need to put down the mood altering substances and get with it.


43 posted on 12/05/2020 5:49:29 AM PST by stanne
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Overall, I agree with what you wrote.
However, our history has shown that battles have been fought by only a small percentage of the population, while the majority looks on with either tacit support or opposition.
On the left, Antifia/BLM represents a tiny fraction of the Dems.
When our version of Lexington/Concord occurs will be when the edges of each side will begin to clash. If this occurs while Trump is President, I am hopeful.


44 posted on 12/05/2020 5:50:18 AM PST by dontreadthis
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To: EyesOfTX

bfl


45 posted on 12/05/2020 5:54:12 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: EyesOfTX
How Does America Recover From This?

With blood, death, destruction, and misery. Same as it has ever been. It seems almost inevitable at this point.

46 posted on 12/05/2020 6:02:07 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: EyesOfTX
Wow Dave. Not pulling any punches today.
47 posted on 12/05/2020 6:03:17 AM PST by Family Guy (A society's first line of defense is not the law but customs, traditions and moral values. -Williams)
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To: stanne

Agreed. As an example, I am waiting to see what happens when public pensions are no longer affordable or sustainable and a lot of people whose lifestyles depended on such things are really going to learn the hard way. As conservatives and believers in proper law and justice, we get to see a good number of ugly things, but it will be far worse for the dependent peoples.


48 posted on 12/05/2020 6:05:49 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: JudgemAll

That sht started with Mueller under Bush, right after 911, inviting CAIR at the FBI.

Traitors.

or Woodrow Wilson ...


49 posted on 12/05/2020 6:08:38 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Old Yeller

Agree. We cannot give the GOP a pass.


50 posted on 12/05/2020 6:13:50 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: EyesOfTX

How does America recover from this? It doesn’t.

tagline


51 posted on 12/05/2020 6:14:08 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (NuRulz)
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To: Salamander

“Petition the Lord with prayer.”

Yes, and have a good rifle in case the Lord wants us to fight.


52 posted on 12/05/2020 6:15:21 AM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: OttawaFreeper

“Will be” -nothing.

Leftists will never admit they were wrong. Look at biden. You think he’s different from his supporters?

They’d sell out to an enemy country to take care of them in a second. Their own kids they sell. He’ll they kill them.

You all are wasting my time.


53 posted on 12/05/2020 6:21:19 AM PST by stanne
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To: EyesOfTX

America disappeared on 9/11. The Deep State seized tremendous power from the terrified political establishment in subsequent weeks.


54 posted on 12/05/2020 6:21:44 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: OttawaFreeper

“Oh boy, sure to bring out the Eeyores this morning, eh?”

A question for the optimist: How many optimists were among the 50 Million or so murdered by the Commies in the 20th Century?


55 posted on 12/05/2020 6:22:49 AM PST by NYAmerican
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To: EyesOfTX
This is the best article I have read on why freedom of the press no longer protects us from corrupt politicians. I am going to save it and share it with people who say that freedom of the press will take care of corruption.

At the time of our founding, no one dreamed that there would be people so fabulously wealthy that they could own media outlets like the Washington Post or the New York Times without any need for making enough money to keep them in business.

56 posted on 12/05/2020 6:32:49 AM PST by Freee-dame
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To: enumerated; EyesOfTX

Well said, enumerated.

NEVER, NEVER QUIT. It’s that tenacity that wins in the end. Truth be told, slow, steady pressure always wins. The key is the commitment of we Americans.

The majority of voters elected Donald Trump is a landslide.

NEVER QUIT. That’s what losers do.

We are about to see what TIMBER, the Free Republic is made of.

Is it solid white oak, the strong and dense fibers that bounced shells off Old Ironsides? Or it softer stuff that merely complains and takes no action?

And even if President Trump does prevail in this current fight, we can’t rely on President Trump alone! He will not remain in office.

The heart of Patriotism must be heard. Sidney Powell and Lin Wood are the answer. Not Ted Cruz, Loeffler and the RINOs.


57 posted on 12/05/2020 6:33:23 AM PST by poconopundit (Hard oak fist in an Irish velvet glove: Kayleigh the Shillelagh we salute your work!)
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To: EyesOfTX

I have intentionally stayed away from this subject.


58 posted on 12/05/2020 6:36:51 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ..... I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: dontreadthis

I can easily see the next BLM protest turning into a shooting gallery. Like fish in a barrel.

Tea Party protests, the same, like fish in a barrel.

Thousands getting mowed down.

When elections are no longer free and fair, war begins. It’s that simple.

If Biden takes office, we get a Harris administration. The woman who promoted race riots for a year.

I pray that god hits them both with a lightening bolt.


59 posted on 12/05/2020 6:42:46 AM PST by PA-RIVER ( )
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To: EyesOfTX

Sure it does.

It does it in the way that Rush was successful in the late 80’s and how Fox was successful in the 2010’s.

There needs to be a disruptive “force” that comes into position. Trump certainly filled that role—but we need something that is going to get the message to a newer audience. I think the country is aching for that.

The younger generations are beginning to realize (or soon will) that they have been lied to. When the social democrats fail to deliver—or they actually DO deliver and people realize what a scam it is, they will be ready to move to some other party.

What will rise from this is a centrist party that focuses on ‘government” issues—not social issues. New media will emerge that is truth telling—in a way that they can embrace.

Lets face it, the world of the Boomers is fast disappearing. That is neither good nor bad, it just is. The next group will share values—but they will not look like the boomers or act like them. They will build their base on new media and new leaders.

Just as our parents did not embrace the transition of the late 60’s and into the 70’s, those over the age of 55 will not “like” what is coming. But we will have to adjust our control, check our values with theirs, and make sure we are there to “guide” the new crop—but not expect them to blindly follow us.

Its far from over. Its simply changing.


60 posted on 12/05/2020 6:44:26 AM PST by Vermont Lt (We have entered "Insanity Week." Act accordingly.)
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