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It gets harder and harder to understand the world and politics. Things change so fast it simply boggles the mind, and we feel crushed under the weight of the daily events the come to our attention. This my friends has made us fractious and uneasy.

Fractious. I like this archaic word. Said aloud it almost makes you feel it’s meaning. Here is the definition:

ALSO: grouchy, crotchety, in a (bad) mood, cantankerous, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humored, disagreeable, hot-tempered… [this list has been edited, but you get the idea]

As well, visiting the Britannica link above will also supply the etymology: 1714, is the first known usage of the word.

Found at the bottom of the page, and supplied here because I am a word-nerd.

For my purpose of discussion I will go with number two:

“Full of Anger and disagreement”

Recently I went to a favorite blogger’s site and was hit between the eyes with a partial media release, from The Hill. No link for reference was supplied, so I couldn’t go to the source and read the whole published article. At the end of the quoted bit, was a veiled reference to Elon Musk as a bootlicker.

Pause right here, take a moment, while I bring up the real reason for my post.

Since Trump’s first term as president the media has sought to mislead to make a point. Love him, hate him, or no opinion on his character, it is never OK to truncate what he, or anyone, says in sound bites or in text. Nor is it OK to push images that do not show what actually happened in a particular situation.

Two which come to mind are:

The visit to Japan where president Trump feeds Coy with PM Shinzo Abe in Japan. In the video (see below) the news caster says that Trump, losing patience, dumped all his fish food into the pond; then goes on to tell what the viewers said in their comments. But pay attention. You will clearly see that PM Sinzo Abe dumped his fish food first! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5I9fzmtOgk NOTE: I had to edit the links down to one from Youtube, because the originals were from X were blocked.
The second incident occurred more recently when it was reported that Trump said: “There would be a Bloodbath, if he wasn’t elected.” Sorry folks, he was talking about China’s auto manufacturing plant in Mexico. China building cars in Mexico, to sell them here in the US, would have drastically undercut our own auto manufacturing and sales. This involved the NAFTA agreement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hyuxp1m6CY

These examples are but two, of hundreds, that were put out during the entirety of the first Trump administration in order to mislead the public. Most have been corrected and you can find the actual print or video of what happened and/or what was said. Do your homework, search for the facts, and stop being led by the media’s proffered fallacies.

After reading the post, and the comments, I took umbrage to a commenter’s statement and told the person that they were “blatantly wrong, and should look up their facts.” Whereupon, the person stated that, in fact, they had done.

Later that day I heard a bit on the news that seemed to back that person up. I went digging and, well, HEY, they happened to be correct! So, I went back to appoligize and referenced the link to the article that proved the person correct. They then said, “Thank you” and commented on their surprise that I would even do that.

Which had me pondering:

In what world is it so rare to admit when you are wrong and to apologize?

Apparently ours.

I will not entertain thoughts or comments on Trump’s fitness for office. I will say, that given the last four years under the previous admin, I feel a bit more hopeful. No, I didn’t say convinced.

The past four years under Biden’s admin have had me stressed, tired, and feeling hopeless. I was so discouraged about what was, and was not, happening here in our country, that I felt crushed with the weight of it all. We have never had a president that was so diminished. One who was never in evidence, or when he was seen, simply wasn’t all there. It leaves us to ponder: “Who was really in charge?”

What we can know is; that the previous administration has left us far too deeply in debt. Biden and “Bidenomics” were a failure. And Kamala? She was never an option. The United States has voted and made their choice. The results remain to be seen over the next four years.

I’ll end my commentary with a slightly modified quote from Bette Davis, in the 1950 film All About Eve: