{"id":82218,"date":"2018-10-08T13:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T17:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=82218"},"modified":"2018-10-08T12:41:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T16:41:21","slug":"please-help-me-solve-this-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82218","title":{"rendered":"Please Help Me Solve This Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In regard to claims by the various members of the media, the count of protesters in those crowds runs from “several hundred” to ‘thousands’, and yet, when you look at photos taken en scene, there is an apparent gap between the real crowd numbers in the photos and what is reported. You can see some of that at this link:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/dcist.com\/2018\/10\/kavanaugh_confirmation_protests.php#photo-1<\/a><\/p>\n

Per that article, “even as the hundreds of protesters move on from the steps of the court….”<\/p>\n

Per this twitterpating by the President:<\/p>\n

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The crowd in front of the U.S. Supreme Court is tiny, looks like about 200 people (& most are onlookers) – that wouldn\u2019t even fill the first couple of rows of our Kansas Rally, or any of our Rallies for that matter! The Fake News Media tries to make it look sooo big, & it\u2019s not!<\/p>\n

\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 6, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When I looked at the AP crowd photo in the Sunday Chicago Tribune newsrag, the image was closely cropped at the sides, possibly to make it appear that the reported “thousands” were just that, rather than a few hundred people. \u00a0I can personally confirm that, in the Autumn of 1967, the march on the Pentagon had several thousand people in it, because I lived at Quarters K, just up the hill from the Pentagon, and I watched that business unfold. The MPs threw three guys out of the Pentagon when they tried to get past them to find the Selective Service files.<\/p>\n

A lot of people who worked there lived at Quarters K. It is now expensive apartment buildings, and we were told we had to move to the Triservice barracks at Ft. Myer or move off base.<\/p>\n

It is being reported that the crowd is now still pounding on the doors of the Supreme Court building, but the photos I’m finding online show only a few people at the base of the steps, not several hundred, as shown in the photos accompanying the linked article. And no one is pounding on anything, including the cops positioned on the steps.<\/p>\n

So here’s the real question (maybe): what Universe is the media inhabiting? Are they all drunk?<\/p>\n

Seriously, reporting now is so unreliable that when I take notes on Accuweather’s forecasts for a week ahead, never mind a month ahead, I keep those notes handy and go back to make updates and am sincerely glad that I don’t have to listen to these people. \u00a0I think they are all nuts. Accuweather is, in fact, so bad now that they reported a thunderstorm in my area, per their weather station, when the day was perfectly sunny and the only clouds in the sky were puffy cumulus clouds to the south of me. If Accuweather’s ineptitude is symptomatic of what is wrong with the rest of the media world, then a good, hard shakeout would not hurt them at all.<\/p>\n

There have been times when news reports were so off the wall that I would turn the sound down and insult the reporters in heinous ways. Gross exaggeration is the metier of yellow journalism like tabloids. They should know that and avoid it if they want to be believed, and that includes WaPo and the NYT.<\/p>\n

I get that they don’t like dTrump. He isn’t the pushover that bodaprez was, nor is he the Other Person who made promises that only little kids would believe, and was a major risk to national security. Those things don’t matter when you’re dealing with little kids, you know. Promise them a pony and a Popsicle, and they are so dumb they’ll get right into your car.<\/p>\n

But for Pete’s sake, when you are so angst-ridden by this childishness that you are now taking on that “jealous little kid” stuff and trying to excoriate his claims of self-made this or that, when his daddy Fred left him $413 million, but didn’t leave any of it to you, you are dumping this ridiculous preface to a temper tantrum on people who just don’t give a damn.<\/p>\n

Job numbers available are higher than they’ve been in a long time. Unemployment is at its lowest rate since 1969. Wages are good and some techno stuff may be coming back here. We might not get things like garment-making or furniture construction back for a while, but towns in what used to be the Rust Belt are reviving because tech companies’ employees are moving\u00a0to them. These cycles do tend historically to repeat themselves. We now have trade deals with Canada and Mexico, because China’s a bit annoyed with us and our tariffs. Some foreign companies like Foxconn are bringing jobs here.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want a real smack up the side of your head, Merkel’s Greenbean energy hasn’t been working, so more coal-fired power plants are under construction in Germany than have been in a while. Australia’s “green energy” utilities are so costly to consumers that people have to choose between light and food, so the Australians are going to build new nuclear power plants. The reality of the extreme cost of “renewables” is pounding on these silly people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The point is that even a possible recession in the early to mid-2020s may be extremely mild, and not have much impact except on unskilled labor. The reality of what is going on now, which started after dTrump was elected and broke the back of Terminal Socialism, is that we are moving forward despite the cries of anguish from the Left side of the political fence. I think that the political pendulum swung as far as it could to the Left, reached its zenith, and slowly but surely has begun to make its way back to center where it belongs. You have \u00a0to have a certain amount of opposition in order to stay balanced.<\/p>\n

So I’ll ask those questions again: \u00a0what Universe is the media inhabiting? Are they all drunk? Is this a collective herd mentality that believes its own delusions? Or are they just kids still in diapers throwing tantrums because they can’t play with the burner knobs on the stove?<\/p>\n

Note: No grackles were harmed in the construction of this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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