Not Today

I am sure some people participated in the January 6th riots who did not deserve pardons or commutations. But I won’t worry about it today. Nor will I worry that a socially awkward autistic billionaire goober did a big one-handed hug on a stage that PBS and some leftwing historians thought looked like a Nazi salute. Kudos to the Anti-Defamation League, by the way, for acknowledging Elon Musk is awkward but not a Nazi. They showed him more grace than much of the news media.

Minutes before leaving office, Biden basically acknowledged that his family is one giant criminal enterprise with his group pardon. You want me to be worked up about Trump’s January 6th pardons or Elon Musk being awkward?

Not today. I’ll pass.

David Axelrod tweeted, of Trump’s pardons:

Hours after rioters stormed the Capitol on 1/6, Trump told them by video, “We love you. You're very special.” "I know your pain, I know you’re hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us." Today, on his 1st day back in power, Trump expressed his love by pardoning them all.

They’re kind of like family to Trump. See e.g. Joe Biden.

Then there is former radio show host, congressman, and Trump hater extraordinaire Joe Walsh, who tweeted,

I used to say Trump’s greatest legacy is the destruction of truth. I stand corrected. Trump’s greatest legacy is convincing the American people not to care. I mean, think about it. Trump is the only presidential candidate in American history to lose an election and refuse to accept the result. And the American people don’t care. Trump committed crimes trying to stay in power. And the American people don’t care. Trump is singularly responsible for the only attempt in American history to overthrow an American election. And the American people don’t care. And tonight, Trump just pardoned those who were convicted of the most violent crimes on January 6th. And the American people won’t care.

How much of a Trump-hating bubble does this guy live in?

I assure you, it was not Trump who made people stop caring. We just went through four years of the national press corps lying to protect Joe Biden, Joe Biden doing all the things he promised never to do, and the press corps giving Joe Biden a pass because of Trump. Concurrently, they spent four years bullying Americans over the use of pronouns while lecturing them that they actually had it great dammit, and you really think it was Trump who made people not care?

You’re a dumbass if you think it was Trump.

The double standard made people stop caring. The press corps immediately trotted out the fact checkers after four years of telling Americans not to believe their lying eyes made Americans stop caring. The cover up of Joe Biden’s health made Americans stop caring. The press making girls the villains and the boys taking their scholarships, the heroes, made Americans stop caring. The press giving men awards for being crusading women made Americans stop caring. The non-stop, over-the-top coverage of all things Trump made Americans stop caring.

The press corps will now revert to outrage all day, every day. Everything will again be about Trump. Even Biden pardoning his family, etc., helpfully spun by much of the press, became “Trump made me do it.”

It’s hard for Americans to care when the Democrats and the press together are in on a sad joke.

PBS’s reporter Stephanie Sy literally said of Elon Musk, “It certainly appears to be a ‘Heil Hitler.’” The press corps has learned nothing, will learn nothing, and PBS should be defunded. My tax dollars should not pay for that crap.

Look, I cannot stop Democrats and Trump-hating partisans from being worked up into a frenzy over Trump simply existing. But the press going down this road, again, so quickly is a sad testament to why Congress has higher trust levels than American reporters.

And, on the day Joe Biden suggests his whole family is a criminal enterprise and the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases engaged in criminal activity, you’ll have to forgive me for not getting worked up about Elon Musk’s awkwardness or Donald Trump’s pardons.

Also, I never stopped calling it Mt. McKinley.

Also, note to the Democrats and the American press corps — when everyone you hate is a racist, a bigot, a misogynist, or a Nazi, you actually make it very easy for the racists, the bigots, the misogynists, and the Nazis to thrive. They can rise in your failure to distinguish and discern because if everyone you hate is a racist or a Nazi, then no one really is, even the real ones.