China, Russia and Fox-News-America walk into a Bar
By: Brian Kean
Tags: Kayleigh Mcenany, Rbg, American History, Fox News, Fake News

Soon we will have three justices who came of age during the era of the Fox News fake reality

Photo thanks to @jaredburris on Unsplash

Recently at the United Nations General Assembly, Chairman Xi spoke about China’s commitment to democracy — knee-slapper, right?

Russia continues to whine about being “yet again unfairly accused” of trying to poison a key political opponent of President Putin’s — “aw, golly guys, stop picking on us. We had nothing to do with this.” You might have just spit out the bran muffin you were struggling to eat — they seem to have gotten so branny, less moist like back in the good days.

And meanwhile back in the world’s comedic capital, arguably the most hysterical statement of Fall 2020 was uttered just moments after zany Xi was visibly upset upon realizing the General Assembly after party had absolutely no lampshades,”that’s the difference between Republicans and Democrats. We fight to protect the system. We fight to protect the Constitution when Democrats say outright, ‘We are going to blow up the entire system because we do not get our way.” (McEnany’s madness)

It’s almost too difficult for me to even write that bit of lunacy — my keyboard started to shock my fingertips. Those utterly unbelievable and truly Benny-Hill-esque words were spoken by latest White House mouthpiece and Trump-whisperer Kayleigh McEnany. I want to add a little context to these words. Some progressive liberals — like myself — are suggesting that the Supreme Court be expanded from 9 to 13 — which is permitted in the Constitution, the gift Kayleigh obviously did open not at her Debutante Ball.

As wacky and far fetched as those words may seem, I am obligated to share another quote zinger here. It’s one that really gets the blood flowing and the dander doing whatever dander does. Kayleigh, known as Kay-Kay in her sorority at Somewhere in the Deep-South U, went on to mess up Senator Cruz’s latest effort at slapstick: “We’re one vote away from seeing our religious liberty votes [rights] stripped away, from our free speech stripped away, from our Second Amendment [being] stripped away.”

Yes, she really did say all that and she also said “stripped” three times in 25 words. 12% of her words involved the word “stripped.” In case we were wondering who is responsible for the White House end-of-week mixers, Kay-Kay may have solved the mystery with her Covid-19 woes — just can’t seem to find any DC-area strippers these days willing to go to the super-seeder “people’s house.”

But let me try to translate that quote and K’s fudging of it: If Democrats were permitted to fill RBG’s seat, then crazy things would happen in America like, let’s see, people wouldn’t wear masks in the face of a deadly pandemic; they would arm themselves to protect against Americans fed up with police violence against Black Americans; and, they might even deny a sitting president his Constitutional right to fill a court vacancy. Wait, never mind.

Covid-19 was made in Lab in China

Living in Russia, I have noticed, and often complained to friends and Russians, that it is very difficult to talk about events that don’t directly affect the moment at hand. It’s raining. We agree. It’s snowing. We agree. Once the question involves anything, and I mean anything, that could be used to manipulate national opinion to somehow make Russia look better in comparison to everyone else, and especially the US, Russians fall back on built-in conspiracy theories — and an inherent button that gets pressed emitting the following words: You never know. I mean, come on, you Americans still think you landed on the moon but it has been proven it was filmed in a Hollywood studio (I am not making this up!).

Finding a Russian who openly and willingly accepts that Covid-19 is a naturally-occurring virus is almost impossible. The best answer you might get is well, yeah, maybe, but you know it could have also been created in a lab and used by the Chinese, and maybe world governments, to control us. Does this sound familiar? Or they just outright reject that it exists.

The Chinese, of course, do believe it because they know what goes on at that “wet markets” and let me tell it is madness! I have been to them and even eaten lunch at one — I was jet-lagged and so not thinking clearly. My feet were sticky with blood from the slaughter going on around me.

Citizens of China, Russia and Fox News Watchers all live in a similar information vacuum and so this is why the statements that opened this article so easily become all so “true” in their worlds. Russia has not had freedom of information pretty much ever! The brief period during which reality was reported on, discussed and analyzed for truth versus lies lasted only about eight years — 1992 to 2000. China has also never been an open society — ever.

And this is why it so particularly painful to watch Americans willingly letting their minds be closed thanks to Fox News and News Corp. Fox News makes no efforts to inform its viewers with facts, lulling its viewers into bulgy-eyed, hypnotic states of consciousness making it look as if they ate one loaf of garlic bread too many at Hoss’s Steakhouse All-you-eat-buffet — a western Pennsylvania affair.

The shameless republicans who now fully govern within the template — even alternative reality — created by Fox and talk radio anarchists like Rush make no effort to protect America’s institutions from these lies, this closing. Power for the sake of power has made tribe more relevant than nation.

A large proportion of the elected officials in the modern-day GOP (MOGOP) are not only untraveled or poorly-educated but they are just plain stupid. Yes, stupid people who really should not be permitted to use heavy machinery whether taking cough medicine or not (love those warnings on the side of cough syrup boxes like only crane operators get coughs).

Knowledge is not something locked away in a safe and stored at the bottom of a lake but is readily accessible to all; and yet, rather than let the nuances of truth lead to a loss of power for the MOGOP, they actively and aggressively weaken truth each time they open their mouths; each time they make it harder for Americans not-aligned with their lies to vote, etc, etc.

Russia and China need, require, their citizens to be misinformed. They need their citizens to waste time and energy discussing conspiracy theories as if they were factually proven occurrences. The more doubt that is sown in everything, the easier it is to hide truth behind any one of the 10 or so curtains. Pick the curtain that pleases your retina the most and let that be the truth for the moment.

The MOGOP will steal another seat in the US Supreme Court . Will America be able to withstand a conservative 6–3 majority? The next Justice seated by Trump will have come to age in the era of Fox News — just think about that. Antonin Scalia, the late and easily most conservative Justice on the Supreme Court in generations, admitted in an interview that he got most of his news from talk radio — Rush Limbaugh, to be exact.

Russia has 12 justices in its version of the Supreme Court — they are lifetime appointees residing in an elite government-protected community. They have really sweet and cushy lives — I am acquainted with one. Guess when the last time one of them dissented against the wishes of the president. This is okay for Russia, though. Russia has a right to have the system it feels it needs.

This is not okay for America, Kay-Kay!