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And lastly, I think the way the media reports, not just these types of things, but so many environmental or situations like this, they put it in the past tense. I mean, if you look in Google, it's like the Flint water crisis was something that happened from 2014 to 2016. It's an ongoing crisis. In parts of the city, the water is still bad. I was just there for my book.
And lastly, I think the way the media reports, not just these types of things, but so many environmental or situations like this, they put it in the past tense. I mean, if you look in Google, it's like the Flint water crisis was something that happened from 2014 to 2016. It's an ongoing crisis. In parts of the city, the water is still bad. I was just there for my book.
Residents were showing me their fresh rashes from the water. You have cancer surging. It's not coming from the weather, it's from the water. They don't have free healthcare as citizens in Flint, which they should. They don't have ongoing testing. All the criminal charges were dropped. So you're not getting criminal accountability for what happened here, which in my view,
Residents were showing me their fresh rashes from the water. You have cancer surging. It's not coming from the weather, it's from the water. They don't have free healthcare as citizens in Flint, which they should. They don't have ongoing testing. All the criminal charges were dropped. So you're not getting criminal accountability for what happened here, which in my view,
Residents were showing me their fresh rashes from the water. You have cancer surging. It's not coming from the weather, it's from the water. They don't have free healthcare as citizens in Flint, which they should. They don't have ongoing testing. All the criminal charges were dropped. So you're not getting criminal accountability for what happened here, which in my view,
gives other politicians elsewhere the green light to do whatever they want, because there's no accountability for what they did in Flint. So it's ongoing, and they have not even replaced all the pipes that were damaged from that toxic water now 11 years later. So that is not a crisis past tense. That's an ongoing disaster.
gives other politicians elsewhere the green light to do whatever they want, because there's no accountability for what they did in Flint. So it's ongoing, and they have not even replaced all the pipes that were damaged from that toxic water now 11 years later. So that is not a crisis past tense. That's an ongoing disaster.
gives other politicians elsewhere the green light to do whatever they want, because there's no accountability for what they did in Flint. So it's ongoing, and they have not even replaced all the pipes that were damaged from that toxic water now 11 years later. So that is not a crisis past tense. That's an ongoing disaster.
To me, this is also a media disaster because if you had diligent media that stayed on stories like this, you could actually solve the problems much, much earlier.
To me, this is also a media disaster because if you had diligent media that stayed on stories like this, you could actually solve the problems much, much earlier.
To me, this is also a media disaster because if you had diligent media that stayed on stories like this, you could actually solve the problems much, much earlier.
Yeah, I think that, unfortunately, a lot of people focus on politics almost like it's a sport, like it's the Democrats versus Republicans, blue team versus red team. But I don't think people realize that the only color really in this country that matters is green. And pretty much most of our public apparatus has been privatized.
Yeah, I think that, unfortunately, a lot of people focus on politics almost like it's a sport, like it's the Democrats versus Republicans, blue team versus red team. But I don't think people realize that the only color really in this country that matters is green. And pretty much most of our public apparatus has been privatized.
Yeah, I think that, unfortunately, a lot of people focus on politics almost like it's a sport, like it's the Democrats versus Republicans, blue team versus red team. But I don't think people realize that the only color really in this country that matters is green. And pretty much most of our public apparatus has been privatized.
I mean, I don't want to get too in the weeds, but people should look up Bill Clinton's Telecommunications Act of 1996. It deregulated the media. And that deregulation of the media consolidated hundreds of media outlets into six multi-billion dollar conglomerates owning everything. So when you have such corporate power of the media, there is incentive not to.
I mean, I don't want to get too in the weeds, but people should look up Bill Clinton's Telecommunications Act of 1996. It deregulated the media. And that deregulation of the media consolidated hundreds of media outlets into six multi-billion dollar conglomerates owning everything. So when you have such corporate power of the media, there is incentive not to.
I mean, I don't want to get too in the weeds, but people should look up Bill Clinton's Telecommunications Act of 1996. It deregulated the media. And that deregulation of the media consolidated hundreds of media outlets into six multi-billion dollar conglomerates owning everything. So when you have such corporate power of the media, there is incentive not to.
do deep dive investigations into things that might not reflect well on Wall Street, might not reflect well on for-profit healthcare, might not reflect well on the military defense contractors. So that to me is why you don't have
do deep dive investigations into things that might not reflect well on Wall Street, might not reflect well on for-profit healthcare, might not reflect well on the military defense contractors. So that to me is why you don't have
do deep dive investigations into things that might not reflect well on Wall Street, might not reflect well on for-profit healthcare, might not reflect well on the military defense contractors. So that to me is why you don't have