@Smokin Joe@mystery-ak I am just getting back to you. Stuff came up with which I had to deal, but now I'm answering you:
You said:
“What I see as worse, though, is the distraction from major issues, like the Russians threatening to take out the source of any missiles we send to Syria--an implication that they would fire on one of our ships should we become involved over a WMD attack we aren't even sure occurred and an act of war which would be a global game changer, we're worrying about whether Trump paid hush money to an alleged paramour because so far that's the only straw the fishing expedition has been able to grasp."
What you wrote above, is not recognizing the bedrock that feeds the chaos. Dante’s “Inferno†(known as Hell) has unending fire. It is Trump and his uncontrolled tweets, and his uncontrolled verbal harangues that keeps the chaos fire going.
Trump tweeted, April 11, 2018:
“Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria. Get ready Russia, because they will be coming, nice and new and “smart!†You shouldn’t be partners with a Gas Killing Animal who kills his people and enjoys it!â€
I said before he became president, he would likely start a war because that is the ultimate “winning†he can claim. After thinking about this, and the situation we are now in with Russia/Putin/Syria/Assad, I believe he will start the ultimate war of Revelation. The New Jerusalem Bible says:
Isaiah 17:1: “Proclamation about Damascus: Damascus will soon cease to be a city, it will become a heap of ruins. 2 Its towns, abandoned forever, will be pastures for flocks; there they will rest with no one to disturb them.†As of this date, Damascus is hardly a city anymore. Here are just two news releases about the Syrian war. We sometimes forget Israel is threatened by Syria and other Muslim countries/cities:
April 9, 2018
“Earlier today, Israel struck the T-4 military air base in Syria’s Homs Governorate. At least seven Iranians including a Colonel died in the attack, according to Iranian media outlets affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which set out to retract the articles before releasing full details.
The latest incident follows yet another high-casualty gassing by the Syrian regime against civilian areas in the Damascene suburb of Douma.
Israeli officials have said that they would not tolerate the IRGC’s military buildup in Syria. The Guard Corps’ obsessive calls for Israel’s destruction and support for groups that fight it have made the Syrian build up a top security priority for Israel. At least 14 were reportedly killed in the Israeli strike, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.â€
Published on Feb 28, 2018:
“Beit Sawa town in Eastern Ghouta area in Damascus countryside witnessed mass destruction in the civilian properties, especially the medical clinic that destroyed everything inside, due to the Syrian regime airstrikes, in addition to the shelling with artillery.â€
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Trump is under pressure due to this new FBI search of his lawyer’s house, office, hotel room. He is angry and there is Russia and Syria on which to vent his anger and vent it in tacky tweets to the population. As long as he puts out these tweets, there is chaos every single day – he creates them on purpose to live in chaos.
If you looked back on his behavior, you would understand this. He was continually in word fights with Hollywood people. It was his life excitement to do this and it kept him in the public eye. He had a fake name to call newspapers to tell them what “Trump†was doing so he would be in newspaper constantly. HE LOVES THE PRESS; does not hate them. Saying they are fake news, keeps him in their newspapers; keeps him on their TV channels every day.
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“This is how Liberals roll, if they can't have the pool table to themselves, they will find a way to stop the game, spill their beer on the table and jostle the players at every opportunity--only they are doing it with a country. Even those of us who didn't like him as a candidate, some didn't even vote for him, will, out of that conservative principle of fairness give him credit when he gets it right. But what is being done to him, his administration, the American People, and yes, America, too, just isn't fair.â€
You are using his words, “fairnessâ€, “fairâ€, did you realize that? He says the same words over and over so he can change people’s words. “fake news†is another one he started and now people use “fake news†over and over. It is Trump who is destroying the country; he destroys everyone as he believes he is the only one who “countsâ€. He has no “empathy†as normal people do.
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“You are a writer, you understand the power of words, the subtleties of semantics, how, for instance, 'slaughter' evokes more emotion than 'killing', and 'massacre' pushes the button even harder. note the terms the media use, especially the Liberals, who pump them so often they become the framework of the discussion. Things like "assault weapon" have become terms even those of us who own them occasionally use, even though the term is a meaningless reactionary trigger for those who aren't familiar with and enamored of those rifles as a tool, for sport and pleasure, and in extremis, self-defense, but not the murder and mayhem an outrageously small fraction of them are employed at.â€
Joe, “Words mean things.†The media of all sorts, use strong words to get people’s attention. This is true no matter the subject. Regarding weapons: people who don’t know about weapons, likely most of news reporters, have no idea how they work or what the names of the parts are. “Assault weapon†sounds really, really, bad. Likely my old Colt 22 revolver, is an “assault weapon†to them. Plus, the word, “gun†means all weapons to them. They also don’t know the definition of “bulletâ€. I pay no attention to what they say, but the public who doesn’t know the difference, are going to believe them. There is no solution to your problem with how weapons are described, unless a reporter’s college degree requires a “Weapons†course.
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“If you look, too, at the way they refer to the President, (we saw this with "Bush", at best, but seldom referred to as "The President" or "President Bush" except on conservative news airings, whereas Obama was always referred to complete with title. Subtle biases affect thought, affect the way people see any topic, and the semantic nuance of Madison Avenue is brought into the arena to mold your attitudes, thoughts, even the terms you use to discuss any issue, with a liberal bias heavily overpopulating the Media, especially television and print. Even the terms 'global warming' and 'Climate change' have so permeated thought that it is rare to see a documentary without reference to a phenomenon which is well within the natural variation of the planet's surface's last 600,000 years of thermal history, just not the memory of most of those watching.â€
All US Presidents have been maligned by one group or another. I don’t see/hear reporters calling Trump unsavory names, however, Trump calls the media, leaders of nations, and everyone on earth all kinds of nasty names. That is why I gave him the names, “Chaos Trump†and “Little Parade Boy.†He has insulted the media so much, I’m surprised they haven’t labeled him something terrible, but they have not. He gives no one respect because he has none to give.
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Global warming:
Joe Bastardi, weatherman extraordinaire, should be crowned “weatherman of the worldâ€. No one should be allowed to write about weather except Joe. Al Gore should be required to take a weather course from Joe. Weather patterns continue through time, which is endless. Have you thought about that? There is no beginning of time and no ending of time. No one dies, either, but that is a book I have started writing.
We need more thinking people like you, Joe.