Back in 1970, the world had grown so bored of the Moon landing flights that when Apollo 13 launched, the Big Three Networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) didn’t report as much as they did with the previous ones.
Mainly, it was just that going back and forth to the Moon had gotten boring. I don’t blame America back then. There’s a lot more important things that three men in outer space on the taxpayer’s dollar. And when things went south with the Apollo 13 flight, that was when the conspiracy theories were born that it had all been done for attention.
There’s one thing I learned as a journalist – there’s no thing like a bad coincidence. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. Sometimes things happen that seem out of the ordinary.
On Saturday, there was another incident of a suspected shooter in Washington D.C. that may have targeted the President. We don’t know much right now and I think a lot of people don’t care. Donald Jr. was set to get married and his father didn’t go to the Bahamas. Yes, you can travel to the islands if you have a felony conviction. But it just seems odd he would miss the wedding of his first born and then there is a shooting near the White House.
Last month, there also was a suspected shooting incident at the hotel hosting the White House Correspondence Dinner. It was the first time the President had went. He missed all five previous dinners and this time it happens before the event gets started. In no time, they’re all rallying this is the reason the White House needs a ballroom.
There’s been no ballroom talk this time but I get the feeling this is another deflection as people on the right begin to question the President’s cognitive stance a month before his 80th birthday.
Also this comes within days of the $1.776 billion slush fund for pardoned Jan. 6 insurrection coup rioters. Yet they’re probably not going to get a cent. By the way, I thought that was AntiFa.
Now people on the right are really seriously questioning the July 2024 assassination attempt in Pennsylvania. There’s also questions if Ed Gellrain, who was backed by the President, actually won the primaries in Kentuckey against Thomas Massie, a growing critic of the President. Gellrein’s watch party didn’t have a big turnout.
For almost every day for the past 11 years, the President and his people have told us over and over not to believe the media. They’ve said “fake news” and “alternative facts” as if just merely saying it makes it gospel. You keep crying wolf all the time, people stop believing you after a while.
And I’ve known people who repeatedly lie. Some people, I do think, have a mental condition where they lie all the time and don’t see the problem. As a former journalist, I’ve been called a liar too but everything isn’t always a conspiracy. Sometimes people don’t like being called out on things so they just accused others of being liars.
The fact that so many people now are not believing much of what they’ve heard especially since it happened on a holiday weekend as there was online chatter something was going to go down. The suspect who was killed is named Nasire Best, 21, and he reportedly had a history on the Secret Service’s radar. At the same time of the shooting, NBC reporter Julie Tsirkin was doing a story when the gunfire started and she looks around confused.
I don’t blame. It seems like we don’t know what is real and what is a show now. This is what happens when half the President’s administration has a background in TV and entertainment. You also can’t expect people to be empathetic for when you posted an AI video of the President dumping Stephen Colbert in a dumpster. The President has encouraged violence against people who don’t agree with him since 2015. So stop whining it the door swings the other way.
By the way, isn’t empathy too woke?
You’re a product of your own environment.
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