A few times a week, I flick on Fox News for a minute or two just to see how they’re seeing current events under Trump.  What I notice is that they seldom mention Trump at all; most of their content is about Democrats.  You member them–the group that is powerless in the White House, the Senate, the House, and the Supreme Court.

They cover Joe Biden in great detail; they call him “Pothole Joe” now, I guess for his $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, some of which may have been misspent??  I honestly don’t know.

The point is this:  If you’re trying to make sense of the world around you today, how much do you need to understand about a man who has been out office since last January, and has no more effect on your political or financial lives than Daffy Duck?

How Fox News Does Its Thing

The presence of Trump in our lives can be compared to the “chicken and egg” phenomenon.  Did Trump cause our immorality, ignorance, and lies, or did an intellectually and morally failing electorate bring Trump into power?

The author of the meme here believes it’s the latter of the two, though I would say that it’s impossible to make the call here, as neither could have happened without the other.

In any case, all this leads to another discussion that Americans have constantly with one another: Is a difference in politics worth losing friends over?  In my own mind, I frame the question a bit differently: How close do I want to be to someone who, for whatever reason, honestly believes that Trump is a good, honest, and effective leader of the United States?

I’d far rather have an evening martini and watch Jeopardy with my wife–even on a night when I really hate the categories.

Trump’s Impact on the United States

From The Other 98%:

Trump just gave away America’s last wild frontier — to Big Oil. It’s the largest giveaway of public land to fossil fuel companies in modern history. The announcement, made Thursday by Trump’s Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, opens 1.56 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge wilderness to oil and gas drilling.

Big Oil Donors Will Sure Like This One