Jackson Jambalaya

The common denominator is more than a lack of trust it’s an inability to understand basic concepts combined with lies about scope and goals and most importantly benefits for those involved. The nucleus is ignorance and those in charge have in bad faith manipulated the ignorant stoking fires of hatred and fear. Now we have ignorant (mental) people driving trucks into churches, shooting “titular heads” of “movements” and waiting for the next episode of reality “get even death” to drop on their phones. How does this season end? Not well I’m afraid…not well.

Sid, I submit most of the distrust and societal conflict is driven by the media. Jimmy Kimmel is a great example. His nightly monologue is negative and jaded toward the current administration. He's just one of many. One could argue this post perpetuates that negative "we are broken" narrative. The media can do better.

“False stories, viral conspiracy theories, and partisan memes spread faster than facts.”

And what are “facts,” Sid? Where do “facts” come from?

I wonder what Mr Salter regards as “credible journalism”. Mississippi Today perchance?

I think Salter is right about this. No one trusts the "others" these days. Consumer confidence is also at a low point. People are reluctant to spend money because we don't know what tariffs will do to our purchasing power. While we have the "inflation index" to tell us if the price of food is inflated, we don't have a "quality of food index" to tell us that the pound of zucchini or tomatoes we bought two years ago was of higher quality than the pound of zucchini or tomatoes we buy today for the same price as two years ago, is of lesser quality. There's an increasing feeling of unease about where this country is headed.

you are right Sid, broken trust has totally eroded our identity, b/c we allowed the absurdity of a few to speak louder than the truth of many b/c the many are polite and just want to live life free. We allowed:
-the press to become editorialist and not demand real news coverage
-the likes of Benny Thompson to not be held accountable for the Jan6 hearings
-for the elected leadership of Jackson to literallly destroy a great city by not running the business of being a functioning municipality
-by allowing our schools to longer require our kids to become functioning members of society
-allowing men to compete in women's sports and actually trying to defend that
-by crippling people with tax after tax and still having broken roads and non functioning governmental entities
-by caving in to lawsuits that prevent us from keeping our cities clean and safe
-by shutting governmental structure down and still have congress receive pay
-by allowing the fabric of this nation to cave to immoral standards
You want to see trust repaired in our nation, you are seeing it now by a return to to common sense, and alot of us remember the journalist you used to be long ago, and wish you would return to that same common sense over the passive aggressive gaslighting you take by trying to defend liberal policies and individuals that would break this nation just to push an agenda...... but that's just my 2 cents

Fauci admitted the six-foot distance figure was made up and he had no science to support it. These so-called institutions supported full shutdowns of schools even though it was proven the kids had lower rates of transmission and didn't transmit it to families . Europe kept theirs open and suffered no problems. Fauci hid his involvement with the Wuhan lab and gain of function research. Fauci created and coordinated the publication of a letter in the Lancet slamming lab leak theory and making it seem there was overwhelming support for the wet market theory. Then there is the matter of the vaccines. There is a place for such vaccines but any concerns about side effects were brushed aside. Now we know there are side effects for some. Doctors who opposed shutdowns and lockdowns were ostracized by the "institutions" led by Fauci as well as banned on social media. And you wonder why trust has fallen?

I'm afraid that like in many other democracies, it's a one man/ one party takeover of all the institutions of government and ignoring the rule of law. There is no "balance of power" as Founders envisioned. Benjamin Franklin said, " We have a democratic republic if we can keep it". We have failed to keep it. It's too late for mid-terms to solve it now that all the systems of checks and balances have been taken over.
This was never a game. It was a coup and now a fait accompli. And, Republicans who haven't been to invited to or paid dues for Mar a Lago to kiss the ring will find they aren't going to benefit as they imagine. Some of the politicians will learn they are not the most important Republicans in Mississippi. It's the guys with the money honey...lots of it. "Enforcers" are just " the help".
Some of you should have read history books on the rise and fall of societies that once prospered.

Status Quo Sid strikes again.

Also keep in mind that we are now dealing with a huge segment of the country, including some who are in seats of government, who think men can get pregnant, males should be allowed to pretend they are females in order to compete in women's sports, and they see nothing wrong with policies that allow men to follow little girls into restrooms.The list of depraved positions gets longer every day. It's not just a lack of trust, or a political disagreement. Most of us feel we are not even close to being the same as these people.

Yeah, like them Covid facts.

I keep waiting for Salter's columns to show up @ MT where seemingly every other retread Mississippi journo is showing up these days.

People are reluctant to spend money because we don't know what tariffs will do to our purchasing power.

BS.

+100,000

Fauci should be either in jail or forced to live the rest of his life with Joe and Jill Biden.

How about state institutions, Sid?
https://www.wlbt.com/2024/08/21/attorney-says-star-msu-football-player-not-being-held-accountable-months-after-allegedly-attacking-his-client/

Broken Trust? You mean it wasnt the Pentagon Papers? Watergate? Iran/Contra? Ruby Ridge/Waco? Post 9/11 tyranny? Obama/Biden corruption? The Global Plandemic? BLM and the deification of St. George Floyd? The stolen election of 2020? (proven by Trump winning in 2024)

KF properly spanked Fauci, but Fauci may have been paid indirectly by the Pharmaceutical Companies that manufactured and distributed the shots that Fauci got the government to fund and mandate (ie, force on us). Dr. Rand Paul saw the whole scam early on. Ultimately, Fauci received a pre-emptive pardon by AutoPen in Biden's final few hours in the WH.

KF - you are a main beneficiary of spreading lies. Lies and clicks. Sort of like your phantom advertisers you put up top for years….you should come out and get a boyfriend and be a certified queen bitch that you are….or does the new admin make you fear for your life?

The experiment in republican democracy has run it's course and is going to it's death spiral. It was never really compatible with a capitalist economy in the first place. There are too many losers who will eventually outnumber and outvote the winners. The winners will not tolerate it. We are seeing it now. Trump is the messenger. Like it or not.

The USA js actually a Constituional Republic. Democratic Republics are literally all communists.
Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea.
German Democratic Republic.

only commies try to minimize the Constitutional part and replace it with democratz

somebody forgot to take their meds this morning...simmer down

I attempted to post a FACT-BASED retort to Sid by pointing out the mistrust 'we' should hold for his employing institution, MSU.

My post contained NOTHING but facts. Kingfish decided to shit-can the post. He must be wearing his 'sensitivity cap' today.

12:33 pm though cynical makes a lot of sense. How does it end then? Is it a loss of 50,000,000 Americans by military might? Is it just capitulation of the economy? Like the USSR?

And we have a president that doesn’t know how tariffs work. That cost is passed to the American people! Ask the farmers who were told, “I’ll never do anything to hurt the farmers…I love the farmers!” The president is losing his marbles…on full display for all to see.

I would take a demented Trump over ANY Democrat any day of the week. Democrats are a losing party and this shutdown is proving that. Schumer is scared of the far left and is doing what they want. No leadership in Democrat party at all.

2:48 He doesn't know how tariffs work or anything else for that matter. He lost his inherited millions, destroyed every company he ever touched and is now being allowed to destroy our beloved country.

@11:42 is an ED drug abuser and has a woody for Kingfish so simmering down is out of the question.

@2:48
Have you ever gone to the gym before?

Tariffs are like that first month at the gym. It hurts a lot. Especially when your economy is weak like a couch potato. But as you keep going, you get stronger and you lose that weakness. You stop subsidizing foreign enemies, and letting them steal your IP just because it helps your quarterly profits. Next thing you know, you have strong domestic industries again. You have jobs for your young citizens. You have optimism. Young people start getting married. buying homes, and investing, having families.

Boomers are selfish and exported their kids and grandkids futures so they could have a comfortable retirement. Now the boomers are bitching and screeching because I’m they are feeling a little bit of pain for once. Well, this is a good type of pain. Time to do some squats and deadlifts. Time to show the chicoms we aren’t going to be fatass couch potatoes any longer! 💪

Yeah. You were trying to trash his employer. Disagree with what he writes all day long. But this crap of trashing columnists families, employers, and dishing dirt on them isn't allowed. It's amazing how some of you hate Salter.

Agree with the reply -- the average consumer in Mississippi does not equate spending with tariffs. Most people around here order a tariff with cream at Starbucks.

I see...glad to know another proponent for 'gain of function' research.

I don’t think deporting illegals, ending the waste of trillions of tax dollars, and shutting down deep state terrorism funded by democrat party dark money, is destroying democracy. I wish Trump will use the remainder of his term to use the laws at his disposal to fast track the military trials and executions for spies and political traitors! 💥

I whole hearted agree with 4:46, sit back-pay attention & this s--- show can & will be turned around. Not by Shumer & his crowd of cronies though. Stop the Helicopter checks & America will get back to work-

@2:03 PM, why haven't you started your own gig? The startup cost is $zero. Show us what you got.

Your kind can't help but be deceptive, it's just who you are. Franklin didn't use the phrase democratic republic, simply the word republic. The rest of your post is hogwash as well.

You are dead-assed wrong with that silly retort, Fish. The article is all about failure among institutions. It's altogether appropriate, then, to point out that the authors employer is guilty of that which he vilifies.

Have you forgotten that his employer is supported by Mississippi taxpayers and is a state institution.

Your crap about protecting the virtue of family and employer is hogwash.

Tragically, Americans are stuck with a this-or-that, “two parties and two parties only” system of governance. Equally as tragic, Americans don’t demand any different.

Everyone's watching the "we can't keep the Republic" that Ben Franklin warned us about, and that might become another on the trash heep of 3000 years of history - unless American are able to find the fire in their belly to fight for it again.

Kingfish: quit the silly shit of posting anonymously. You've done it for years and nothing could be more obvious. Every time you get your britches scorched, here you go with that "Start your own blog" bullshit.