Seems that our nation has, over the past year or so, lost it’s way when it comes to actual news media. From the Gray Lady (New York Times) to the Washington Post, it would appear clearly that the once viable news media (newspapers, major TV news, etc) has simply become a propaganda mill for the right winger ChristoFascist GOP cult and their dear leader Trump the new Fuhrer for Amerikka.
The image of Trump’s co-president buddy Musk showing his South African bigotry with his Hitlerian Salute simply confirms what many of us have feared with the ascension of the convicted felon Trump to the White House Oval Office once again.
With barely 10 days in office, Trump, his fascist inner group, the ChristoFascist Republican Congress, and the once supreme but no longer supreme court of the USA movement toward blunting our national democracy, destruction of our democratic republic and installing the white ChristoFascist authority, has shown many of us that our USA is in deep doodoo.
Several of our acquaintances and friends have made actual preparations to debark from our nation to weather out the destructive actions in a country more attuned to freedom, health, and happy lives. One couple of our friends group has actually completed the testing for British citizenship, lucky for them. As for the Bride and I, not having the financial wherewithal to escape for the coming four years of travail, will simply hunker down, pray mightily for respite from the fascism and elimination of our democracy and hope for a better country in four years.
So the rest of us, who have no opportunity to apply for asylum in a better governed place, will simply have to show our resistance in small, but hopefully effective ways. For instance, dropping from the major news media, like the Washington Post, and other newspapers who have shown themselves to be simply “Corporate Media” rather than newspapers. One acquaintance of mine was adamant that the acquisition of the Post by Jeff Bezos would make no difference in it’s content focus. I laughed silently at his rose colored lens of life. As as we have seen, not just the Post, but a plethora of former true news venues have been corporatized and no longer provide true unbiased news reporting.
We have been subscribers to the Washington Post for more than 45 years, but no more. My subscription comes up for renewal in another month and I will not be doing the renewal. I will have access for online news media from other sources, so none of the corporate media in the USA will get my subscription money.
I will no longer be an active member of the Meta corporate Trump supporting mediums of the Zuck. Zuckerberg can play kissy face with that fat tub of lard asshat Trump and I am sure that my singular removal from participation with his newly established rabid right wing Trump ChristoFascist suckup attitude of his multiple Meta venues.
A shame, because the Facebook was a good means to communicate with my old friends from our SCC web site days as well as some members of my distant family members. But alas, perhaps I can restart that old SCC web presence, at least hoping against hope that some will return and participate as we did long before. That old Senior Citizen Consortium web site was a lot of fun and enabled us to share experiences and information without the interference of right wing trolls and media Censors. We censored ourselves, and we ensured our membership was kind to each other. Not to say we didn’t have disagreements, oh no, we were after all seniors from wide lives and experiences. But we were polite and did not call our web mates names or cast aspersions on them.
One has to wonder if there is any renewed interest in restarting the senior discussion forum web site? The old virginian still has several web entities just sitting empty at this time. Would be happy to consider restarting it there were sufficient interest from folks Ah well, perhaps it is more to their liking on the Meta and X platforms. But one never knows, do one?
Onward
Musings of a Geriatric Curmudgeon 