Oh boy, where to start with this? You’ve got these columnists, Anita Chabria and Steve Lopez, right? They’re digging into the whole mess that’s the president’s reasoning for barging into L.A. Like, Newsom’s out there saying “Democracy’s getting clobbered,” or something along those lines. And I guess it’s kind of flipping things on Trump, which is kind of ironic, don’t you think? Or maybe it’s just me.
Anyway, Orwell pops up with his “Newspeak” thing—classic, right? It’s like shrinking our thinking’s the name of the game. And meanwhile, the president, his folks, and that whole Republican crew are kind of making a circus out of what they’re calling “news conferences.” It’s these sketchy half-truths, like about L.A. getting steamrolled and California being torched. And don’t even get me started on the immigrant stuff—painting them as criminals? Seriously?
Then there’s the whole crackdown on protesting, plus soldiers supposedly putting out the fires that, honestly, feel like they’re Trump’s own bonfire. Oh, and asking questions? Apparently that’s frowned upon now. I mean, is taking your kid to school or showing up for work somehow not American anymore? The mind boggles.
Someone throws out this stat about native English speakers having a vocabulary between 20,000 to 35,000 words. Trump’s rolling with like a fraction of that, yet somehow that suits him fine. It’s all about simple, repetitive lies, right? Keep it straightforward, keep it… well, I guess “effective” is the word?
Chabria’s cheering on leaders like Gov. Newsom to blaze the trail, while Lopez is more about everyday folks setting the scene. Feels like we’re all in this togeth—okay, scratch that, not trying to be cheesy. But, your journalism? It’s like the compass cutting through Trump’s whole agenda to dumb us down.
Yeah, that’s pretty much the gist of it. James Severtson from Reseda said his piece, and there we have it.
