It was a common feature during my younger years to have women abused by their spouses blaming themselves for it all.
In real life, and often in television shows borrowing from real life, the stereotypical scene showed a crying woman, perhaps with a black eye or bruises, explaining to police they shouldn’t take her abusive husband off to jail because she’d done something to make him mad, provoked the attack, and so she was to blame.
Yes, it was ridiculous. So were ads with doctors promoting smoking, lawn dart toys for kids and similar absurdities. In retrospect, it all is hard to understand. At the time, it was everyday life.
Fast-forward to the present and the LameStream media has incorporated victim shaming as a main aspect of its news coverage.
Consider the weekend bombing strikes against Iran. Rational people – patriots — celebrated the derailing of Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
The dust barely had settled – literally – when I read one hysterical report that now Russia and China and perhaps North Korea were rushing to give nuclear warheads to Iran. This point of view, that Israel and the United State had gone and done it, angering Iran, and so deserve whatever they get, was being pushed by former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev. There was no shortage of outlets willing to run with the story.
These are the usual suspects that proclaim wildly whenever Donald Trump or some other western source eliminates a terrorist chief, that it won’t play well with the so-called Arab Street and thus provoke more terrorism.
That this flies in the face of experience doesn’t slow their roll. It’s all about fearmongering.
There are some atypical news outlets today proclaiming that Medvedev’s threats are merely so much blather, for reasons both technical and practical. Kudos to them.
Other outlets, though, point the finger at Trump for kicking a hornet’s nest. Anything that happens now, anywhere and for any reason, blame Trump.
Democrats are screaming “unconstitutional,” “impeachment,” “threat to democracy” as you would expect from their intellectually bankrupt ranks.
Gavin Newsom took a break from pumping gel into his hair to wonder aloud about threats to California that might arise from Trump’s decisiveness.
Gavin and LA Mayor Karen “Rhymes With Ass” Bass have been exhibiting crossed wires in their craniums for some time. Bass, like Nero, watched from afar as Los Angeles burned. Then, she and Newsom blamed law enforcment, particulary ICE, for riots protesting law enforcement.
People in the country illegally, being supported by protesters doing physical harm to people and damage to property, is to be excused because meanie Trump, to borrow from the vernacular of the abused wife, made them mad by enforcing the law.
Don’t expect the left, be it in government or media, to change tactics on their own and adopt sanity. It’s up to you to dismiss out of hand the utter garbage they spew — change the channel or vote for the opposition.
That’s the only reality they seem to understand.
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