Fake News... How "Ben.S." does it.

While looking at the twitter of Ben, a conservative American of some note as a character, as a polemic.  I noticed a common enough trick or theme.  One need not rebuke the facts but claim them in principle.  In principle, we need not fear the facts even as we avoid then in practice.  Ben on his twitter and through other mediums selects easy targets, insists they're the mainstream, even if they're fringe or not linked to political influence and power and grumbles upon the nature of the liberalist insanity that hath unfurled before us.  And when insisting upon the falsity of the news reports in the main of the press, Ben insists that use of a stock image or video, or the same borrowed from elsewhere, is a primary piece of evidence that the mainstream news media are the producers of propaganda.  What Ben.S might call "Fake News."  And from this suggestion of fake news and the previously noted insanity of the fringe of the left, he paints a picture of a surreal world.  A world believed to be real by many, even if it is a manifestation of deception through the eyes of a very limited social media perspective.  Ben is a propagandist who picks targets and re-enforces conservative values in a way that leaves little room for introspection.  Which is, after all, the whole point.  

Fake News, with broad strokes.

I should like to note the dangers of false news, many crow on social-media about a statist that turns-out to be inaccurate, a quote that has lost some context, or a picture or video clip that is used in a report that seems to be misplaced.  The social media reactionaries think this makes a news report fake, yet they use the idea of fake news to insert totally incorrect claims.  News reporting errors in action and judgement occur, largely this is benign, and one should not dismiss the artist for one misplaced stroke of the brush upon the canvas. 

The World Is Watching... Bernie Sanders BACKS Joe Biden. Simple??

You may have seen that Bernard Sanders has endorsed Joe Biden as the candidate to stand up against Donald Trump in the 2020 election if things are back on track by then. 
The Coronavirus, COVID-19, has made the game of politics harder and the death toll and how it is handled will be key to the election in the United States.  Which may lead to a delay in the American Republic's process of representation, as voters may have a delay if Corona ends up as a great evil upon the world than we have yet considered.  Yet, in this time of political confusion and wide support amongst the public for Donald Trump, a great unity behind Joe Biden is consolidating. 

Just recently, Bernard Sanders, a left-leaning independent who aligns with the Democrats on most issues, dropped out of the candidacy race for the Democrats.  And with Joe Biden doing so very well from the get-go, it was a clear fact that it was right to see Sanders step back and endorse Biden.  In a news interview, of the two gentlemen, Sanders and Biden, Mr Bernard "Bernie" Sanders endorsed very clearly Mr Biden's campaign to enter the Whitehouse.  What more need be said, other than the differences between such politicians are mild compared to the vast differences between democrats and the Trumpublicans who have taken the worst aspects of Republicanism to the mainstream of American Politics. 

The only cure to Trumpublicianism is a correction of the values expressed by The Office of the President of the United States, as a democratic and representative political view that accommodates progress.  Progress in how high the bar should be for the world's greatest economic, political, military and cultural power.  A mega power that for a long time has been ruined by republican economics and balanced by democratic values.  Until out of this back-and-forth the vile game-changer has risen to the top of the corrupted Republican party. 


Now, I would ask you one thing, what might ensure a return to dignified political discussion, a sound political process and real progression in the United States of America in a way that will benefit the many and not just a small few.  Is it this new age of Trumpublicanism, a disorganised mess that cannot handle the power it abuses, or might it not be a return to sanity with a new vitality that will lift millions out of poverty and secure the future at home and abroad for the American people?

I only wish my American friends the best in this endeavour, and remind them that the world is watching and hoping for strong and stable friendship with a more wisely lead United States. 

"Trump And Biden Are Both Suffering From Dementia"?

"Trump And Biden Are Both Suffering From Dementia"??? Does Trump have dementia? Does Joe Biden? Odds are they don't, odds are they're both medicated. Joe likely suffers from a few health issues and gets some help with that, after a long day he isn't on form in an interview. Trump is likely on lots of meds, above and under the table, lower his stress and blood pressure but boost him to stay active enough, a built-in ego problem on a scale that makes Hillary Clinton, Obama and Biden[etc.] look meek. I don't think Biden is really suffering from dementia, we'd need Evidence of that before we even suggest it, and a few video clips don't cut it. Trump's many blunders suggest his narcissism and instability, odds are he is, like many wealthy older gents, on a number of medical drugs to stay on form. I think this explains much about him. I doubt either of them is truly suffering from dementia, but evidence may go the other way in the future. And one could argue that one or both of them show the signs, but you're buying that bullshit from biased sources. So in practice, you're shared faux news based on who you like, which set of politics you respect. And, because this is primarily a matter of social media speculation, I believe that points at the obvious way that social media is a failed social experiment. As many other efforts on social media that are meant to express the will of the people, or the news as it is, or whatever the case may be, tends to be inaccurate at the very least.