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— Russian Market (@runews) May 18, 2023
Government, media, and the loss of faith therein.
In my line of work, I’m supposed to be cynical. I’m supposed to expect the worst out of everyone and everything I deal with to some degree or another.
I’ve never been that way. I’m not wired that way.
Yes, I’ve been burned because of it, but I’ve always believed that right will win out over wrong, even if it takes a while to happen.
The events over the last few years have destroyed that, though, and I’m pissed about it.
Part of it, of course, is the result of the Durham Report I talked about yesterday when I also blasted the IRS for dismantling the group looking into Hunter Biden’s tax fraud allegations.
Yet let’s also recognize that it was just the latest in a string of incidents that made it impossible to have faith in anything approaching the leadership of this nation.
The whole “Russian collusion” thing wasn’t even the first domino to fall.
No, that was how the same FBI that was relentless in pursuing President Donald Trump to the point that it ignored all evidence suggesting they were barking up the wrong tree did nothing about Hillary Clinton’s illegal possession of classified material on an unsecured server in her home.
Other cases of people having classified material on unsecured computers cost those individuals a fortune in legal fees at a minimum, but Clinton just pretended she didn’t understand computers all that much and the whole issue vanished for her.
Legally speaking, anyway.
Then we had Russian collusion—which got hilarious when the people who were screaming it also accused Trump of trying to start World War III with Russia—and all that fiasco.
For years, President Trump had to deal with those allegations on some level. It served to help undermine the presidency entirely.
Then COVID happened.
First, we were told that Trump was just being racist, that there was no threat, and that people should just go out to large gatherings without a care in the world. Then Trump’s actions were supposedly insufficient and he should be impeached for not doing enough when they called him racist for what he did.
Then we were told that masks weren’t beneficial for preventing one from catching COVID-19…right up until suddenly we couldn’t set foot outside of our homes without a mask. Government officials admitted they lied so as to prevent people from buying up the N95 masks the healthcare system needed, but they lied just the same.
Yet it’s not just the government that blew it.
I’ve known the media was biased for years, but in my perpetual optimism, I really thought that some stories were too big for them to ignore.
Hunter Biden’s laptop dispelled that forever.
h/t Sarah Hoyt