Strange Days

Strange Days

by

R.E. Prindle

 

You wanna talk about strange days.  These are the strangest.  The Libs are building a fantasy world in their disappointment at losing the election that is unequalled.  It is paranoia rampant.

I just received a subscription solicitation from Nation Magazine, the most Liberal of all Liberal rags.  The thing might be the product of the imagination of Stan Lee or Jack Kirby, two really paranoid writers.  The Nation’s editor has been reading too many comic books.  Captain America, the X-Men and those vigilante squads must be real to him.

I’m posting the entire solicitation for your amusement.  John Nichol’s, the presumed editor, marbles have broken out of their enclosure.  Below the solicitation:

 

Our subscribers have always

Sustained this magazine.

We are speaking truth to power in an age when the president of the United States says that challenging his authority make us an “enemy of the people.”  We know we can win the fight—by framing the terms of debate as no other media outlet will, and by raising the profile of a resistance that refuses to back off.

 

But we cannot do this without new subscribers, like you.

 

Donald Trump has made no secret of his disdain for independent and skeptical media.  He has banished reporters from his press conferences, created media blacklists, and proposed to alter libel laws in order to constrain criticism of political charlatans like himself.

 

This is scary stuff.

 

But what’s even scarier is the tendency of so many media outlets to dance to Trump’s tune:  treating his tweets as major news stories, allowing his lies to go unchallenged, amplifying the voices of the defenders of the indefensible.  Trump’s toxic rhetoric has been normalized by media outlets that too frequently fail to recognize the threat posed by his presidency.

 

This is outrageous.  But since 1865, The Nation has honed its capacity for outrage.

 

We have seen plenty of intimidating times, but we have never been intimidated.  We know that today’s resistance can prevail because we have celebrated so many victories for so many popular struggles.  Our experience gives us the strength to defend freedom of the press and every other First Amendment liberty that Donald Trump threatens.

We stand strong in these times because we know our readers demand journalism that never bends, that never cowers in the face of intimidation.  And we will stand stronger because our journalism is sustained by our readers—not by corporate investors or advertisers.

Let’s do this together.  Subscribe today.  We will pay you back with journalism that overwhelms Donald Trump’s lies with what most terrifies this pathetic president:  the truth.

Solidarity forever,

John Nichols.

 

I can feel his terror and pain, but it doesn’t come from President Trump.  No, it comes from the Great Silencers, terrorist groups like the SPLC and the Anti-Defamation League.  Apparently Mr. Nichols hasn’t noticed those two great pathetic organizations that roam the country with their hit lists in their hands.  Defaming to the left and defaming to the right, half a league, half a league onward they go.

 

But, to the Nation’s endorsers, the usual suspects.  These fairly public figures are apparently leaders in the  underground resistance.  They are the Undefeated.  The list is headed:

Resist.  Organize.

Subscribe.

The Nation.

Barack Obama:  it’s more than a magazine, it’s a crucible of ideas.

Elizabeth Warren:  An indispensable voice in our political dialogue.

Bernie Sanders:  [The Nation] has never played a more important role than it does today.

Dan Rather:  The Nation has provided consistently uncompromising  and important journalism.

Harry Belafonte:  The Nation has brought to the table of human need a menu of truth.

Nancy Pelosi:  The very highest standards of journalistic integrity.

Sarita Gupta:  The Nation has set a standard for journalistic excellence.

Alex Baldwin:  There are few places where one can still read…courageous journalism.  The Nation is one.

 

There you have it.  The Rogues Gallery of the leading resisters.  The Liberal champions of the Fighting Underground.  The take the Knee, with pride.  Let’s give them a big hand.

 

This solicitation was better than one of Stan Lee’s comic books and a barrel of laughs.  It was sent to the wrong person however.