Well, well, well. I think we should celebrate this week with a national “disinformation” holiday. Call it “Pinnochio Day”! The second Monday of March. You get the whole day to lie - like Orwell’s 2 minutes of hate.
Ah, I feel like I’m going to burst. So much blatant lying, bald-faced idiocy and pretense, polemic pablum. Let me explain in brief.
I wrote about the curtain being pulled back on all the Covid craziness. Finally. But still you have just strange stuff happening and people still in the “fog of fear”. Kyrie Irving, recovered from Covid, with antibodies, not able to play basketball with the Knicks. Yet, he can attend the game! Maskless too! And then you have major airlines allowing passengers to “unmask” but not for take-off or landing! No, that would be too dangerous. You can’t make this shit up. By the way, kudos for Lebron James for calling B.S. on the Kyrie Irving situation.
And then there is the news media. The CBC quietly retracting its lies. Yes, they just blatantly made things up. Again, you can’t make this shit up. They have retracted stories saying the Truckers were infiltrated by Russians, that the truckers were planning to overthrow the government, that the truckers had large donors and hidden money. Yes, all retracted. But where are the heads rolling? Or is that just normal media business, like Zucker at CNN manipulating the media intentionally. Oh and we now also have Facebook (excuse my Swahili, META) saying they, they the overlords will allow people to call for the assassination of Putin and other Russians on their platform. There isn’t any pretense of “trust”, or even “news network” - it is just whatever agenda they want to follow, on whatever day of the week.
And then you have all the disinformation from both bullshit sides of the conflict in Ukraine. Hey, I don’t like Russians in Ukraine and want them out, ASAP but a spade is a spade and we are dealing with a shit load of lies.
You have the “Fk you” of the Snake Island Ukrainian border guards that was a big lie. You have the shooting and attack of the nuclear power station by Russians which is a lie. You have the phantom plane, you have news stories about Russia asking China for arms or planning chemical attacks. All lies, damn lies. Not to mention all the fake pics and videos put up there by legitimate news organizations. And all they might say after, like CBC is “Oops”!
And in Russia too - yes, just all lies. They don’t even try to pretend. 15 years in the slammer for calling it a “war”. But kudos to Channel 1’s brave Marina Ovsyannikova. I hope the good lord is watching out over her!
Between Covid and this war, you really can’t believe anything “official”. And that’s the bigger story. How we no longer have any truth in the public realm, on our town square. That’s sad.
These days I don’t know where I belong on any political spectrum. I always thought I was a small “l” liberal. I believed in the inalienable rights of individuals, social justice, the small, working-class guy. Unions, good wages, protect the environment. Seems like “liberal” doesn’t mean any of that anymore. Or it does sometimes, when it suits, said liberals. I never thought I’d ever listen to guys like Tucker Carlson or see myself nodding in agreement with slick Willys like Ron DeSantis. Yet, I do. He’s making and talking a lot of sense, plain, simple, common sense.
The center does not hold anymore.
Ok, I’m writing too much. My head is aching. I’m going to pour my poor self a glass of red and paint with some pictures. A picture speaks a 1,000 words. Or probably 2,000 when you consider how I write. Here are some things, items, in my junk drawer. What I didn’t get around to writing a post about.
Yes. We heard that a lot. Just take the jab, we’ve always done it this way. Just hold your pencil in your right hand, we’ve always done it this way. Just shut up, we’ve always done it this way.
Yes, the new world, as Trudeau declared, is where the canceled, unvirtuous are just “taking up space”. Basically, we are hurtling towards doom while the laptop crowd count their stock options and buy more pairs of rubber gloves. It was and will always have been a pandemic of the “fortunate”. For the rest of us, we aren’t even worth a parking space.
I watch daily, seemingly normal, rational people declare we need to risk WW3. Just watched Kasparov in his logical way treat humanity like mere chess pieces - “Putin probably will push the button, but we can’t let that stop us!” OMG. War has always been about bullshit governments hypnotizing citizens to fight and kill while they sip their Pina Coladas.
This is a zinger too … We are living that nightmare.
I do hope the world starts to make sense. But I’m not hopeful. My dear home and native land Canada still has so many heavy, draconian mandated covid restrictions in place. And no end in sight. Despite how they no longer make any sense.
Let’s end positively, it isn’t all doom and gloom. Get outside, smell the fresh air, hug a tree, just be, speak no words of wisdom, just let it be … Peace. Out.