It's hard to hear news about the VA when the coverage is wall to wall victory celebrations of an aging porn star or shouting hate about the elected president or hours of Nazi naming.. Probably a MUCH higher percentage of VA coverage on Fox without the hourly Stormy Daniels updates and Morning Joe playing footsie with Mika under the desk.
Okay, here's the first problem. Neither Fox nor MSNBC talk all that much about the VA "crisis", which is largely being ginned up by people who see another opportunity for private companies to loot the VA like they've looted so much of the rest of the government. (Frankly, all my dealings with the VA have been very professional and they do some good work.)
But if there is a reason why they are ginning up Stormy Daniels instead of "Real" stories, the problem has a lot more to do with commercial reasons.
It used to be, when it was just the three major news networks, it was expected that you run your news divisions at a loss. It was a public service to report the news, and if you needed to sell Corn Flakes, that was the job of the Beverly Hillbillies.
Then someone decided that the news was all about ratings. That meant covering stories that were entertaining instead of informative, it meant spending money to put expensive celebrities behind those news desks instead of paying for reporters out in the field. It meant you hired people not for their skills as journalists, but how good they looked behind the camera.
And that became worse when you had 24/7 news stations. The amount of news to cover didn't increase, but you had to fill in that much more time.
So a story about how the VA hospital in Moose Jaw isn't properly funded is kind of boring, but an ex-porn star relating how she spanked Trump with a cover of Forbes is interesting. Just like 20 years ago, these same characters just couldn't stop talking about Monica Lewinsky and Cigars. Hey, we think this terrorist army is forming in the middle east? Meh, never mind, Ken Starr just found a stained dress!
Eight members of the House now and 2 senators on the Blue Team calling for ELIMINATING ICE.. This is where your heading. The defeats are gonna be monumental and the SCREAMING is just gonna turn to active revolt
You mean they have a valid complaint about an agency that is abusing people and should probably be replaced? Hey, here's the thing, ICE is a relatively new agency. The reason why there is an ICE is because after 9/11, the Immigration and Naturalization Service got a lot of grief in that they were still sending out Visa extensions to guys who had just flown planes into the WTC. That's how much they didn't know what they were doing.
So it was reorganized into ICE, an agency that really doesn't care about nicities like "Human rights". The image of concentration camps on the Southern Border, people are rethinking this agency, and they should.
Because neither YOUR TEAM or your media is doing a thing to instill confidences in the problem solving or leadership categories.
Maybe because we have no confidence in our leadership...
The thing is, at the end of the day, Trump is a Buffoon, YOUR TEAM knew he was a buffoon, and you voted for him anyway, not thinking he would actually win. And after two years of dehumanizing immigrants, (not just the illegal ones), you act all surprised that he is opening these camps and we are calling them bad names.