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Source: Ariana Grandes manager Scooter Braun: We cant allow terror to win after Manchester attack | Fox News

In the aftermath of the Manchester attacks, it was revealed that Ariana Grande has pledged to pay the funeral costs of all of the unfortunate victims.  This offer is no doubt a genuine gesture of heartfelt sympathy for those lost in the tragedy and not to be minimized in any way.

But this sincere act of kindness does nothing to address the possibility of this happening again and again as events of the years have proven.  In fact this gesture, while sincerely offered, is naïve and just papers over the obvious roots of the problem.  There is a war going on and it’s an asymmetrical one.  On the one side, we have committed and avowed militants who have publicly expressed their intents and deeds.  They are conspicuous in their activities and are allowed to hide in plain sight.  The other side, the victim side, has apologists who are apparently bewildered when these attacks take place even though mountains of evidence point like the bat signal in the night sky,  to only one perpetrator.

The on going tragedy is the expected drivel of political leaders who express as much concern for possible group vilification as remorse for the mounting numbers of innocents killed.  As has been pointed out earlier, some ‘leaders’ have declared that such events are to be expected in a modern city.  That such people can attain the votes of the electorate they are supposed to protect is the real human tragedy.  These ‘leaders’ and they proliferate in all western nations, consider victims as just the price to pay in order to maintain their own appearance of inclusion and tolerance.  It’s very much like spending someone else’s money to prove how generous you are…except in this case, other people’s lives are the currency.

It all sounds good, “we can’t allow terror to win”, but yes, in fact, terror will win if only one side has the paddle and the other responds each time with “thank you, may I have another?”  Entertainers like Ariana Grande, while sincere, are hopelessly naïve when it comes to the dynamics outside of their bubble world. Politicos are not naïve, they are informed ideologues who willfully sacrifice the security of their own people  There seems to be an endless amount of tolerance for politicos who will offer other people’s lives in exchange for some honor badge of political correctness.  Until that changes, it is a one sided war.

Source: Harvard Study Reveals Huge Extent of Anti-Trump Media Bias | Heat Street

The cacophony of shrill voices baying at any and all alleged transgressions by Donald Trump appears to be reaching a final crescendo.  The frenzied media are like crows at a picnic as they caw and shriek over every speck of food that appears,  no matter how inconsequential.  As the linked story reveals, it’s not the imagination of those of us that try to consume news.  It should be abundantly clear that the offerings of news from the mainstream outlets are about as unbiased as doting parents at their children’s soccer games.

And speaking of children, the political and media voices that invoke Russia and impeachment like they are hyphenated words are reminiscent of children who have lost an argument but keep repeating their whine as if it will make a difference.  The political zeitgeist of the United States has moved strongly from comedy to farce, since now, the loudest and most publicized voices are those of ‘comics’ and entertainers.  Think about that. People who are paid to juggle, sing and tell jokes for a living are the go to voices for political opinion.  Stephen Colbert as a political savant.  Really? That this is the case is simultaneously comical and tragic.  Can we imagine the direction of any other nation state being influenced by cultural gadflies?

It’s bad enough that the western system of democracy allows for the election of representatives of truly dubious intellectual capacity but whom nevertheless have risen to the top of their particular constituency.  Al Franken’s election was supposedly an aberration, but now, I dunno. Maxine Waters aka Muddy Waters, Raging Waters or Shallow Waters, anything but Deep Waters, sets new low water marks every time she says anything. Barring any outrageously stupid remark from these people, the general public would never hear of them.  But because of today’s ubiquity of ‘news’ conduits, both online and mainstream,  not to mention airport TV screens, the obtuse and shrill views of a very small few are magnified many times beyond their deserved influence.

The linked article is definitive proof that any objective news reporting by most of the large media concerns has been jettisoned in favor of breathless mean girls style of tabloid coverage. The convergence of objective news and paid for entertainment comedy is on full display.   It’s not even news now.  It’s all performance art.