And the Winner is...
With all the trials and tribulations in the World I decided to write a Substack about another thing that has begun to really annoy me and I am sure it is starting to get under your skin as well. To some, it’s been there for a very long time but I occaisionaly have these fits of “Man, I really dislike so and so”. This is just a small sampling of the people that are actually on my “Shi* List” for the first half of 2021.
Tops on that list is:
Alexandria Ocasio -Cortez. To be honest, she really hasn’t done much of anything so far this year. She rarely comes back to her old stomping grounds and hasn’t said much of anything since her ill-timed and stupid Tweets about her experience on January 6th. I have her the top because she is and will continue to be a pox on the House and her continuing love affair with some undefined Socialist agenda will not bring this country together and could very well destroy it. Has she not read any of the Liberal Media’s reports from around the World? Socialism does not work, it has never worked and it will never work, anywhere, ever. Talk to me about some Liberal cause that you feel strongly about, I will listen, comment and offer my viewpoint in a civilized, intellectual manner. Talk about Socialism and all bets are off.
Elizabeth Warren. If you asked me several years ago, I would say Ms. Warren is very intelligent, very well-spoken and while I may not agree with her, she is passionate about what she believes in. Now, I just think she is a hypocrite and possibly a subversive in the sense that she wants to destroy Capitalism without being a true Socialist. Her attacking loopholes in the Tax Code and basically calling major employers, acting criminally strikes me as the ultimate hypocrasy. She helped a lot of the tax code that is being “exploited”. She wrote it, they figured it out and now she is backtracking. Plus, isn’t a lot of her family money from investments that have been taking advantages of these loopholes for years? I agree that the tax codes should be tightened but a lot of the money that these companies saved, indirectly goes into Americans hands. Corporate income does not flow into some secret account in the Caymans. The money is reinvested in the company, paid out to shareholders or put to work at some level and these dollars flow back into the economy somehow. Thats Capitalism.
Charlamagne tha God. His day in the spotlight is probably over but I can’t forget the comment he made during the civil unrest last year after the George Floyd shooting. While the streets were erupting in protest, there were dozens of enterprising fellows that decided now was the time to go shopping for Fendi bags for the Wife, Gucci loafers for Mom and wait, lets get a couple of Burberry coats for those rainy Los Angelos days (all six of them). While these people were looting he had the audacity to say that they needed to feed their families and this was the result. Seriously? No one seemed to make a big deal of that comment but rest assured, I did. I didn’t see many Jeep Cherokees pulling up to a damaged Safeway and emptying the shelves of bread and meat from the butcher shop but I did see that Jeep Cherokee on National TV emptying a Nike store on Alameda though. Considering the damage these rioters did to local businesses, you would think Charlamagne would have more compassion and sympathy for the small business owner.
The Media in this country. Thats a broad stroke, I know but it’s a broad disgrace as well. This is not about the Liberal media only showing one third of the picture or some of the really dumb Conservative media and how they report the stories. It’s about the fact that the media in this country has lost sight of what their role is. Reporting the news fairly and objectively. The closest media outlet to fairness may just be the Wall Street Journal. I know, it’s a Rupert Murdoch property and it will take its cues from the Murdoch Family for sure but for the most part it separates itself from being overtly biased. I have zero issue with it’s news stories. It holds its opinion to the four pages in the back of section one. Thats it.
As for the rest of the media, it is no longer the solution, it is a main part of the problem.