The media aren't asking the right questions

It doesn't seem that the media, at least the national media, is asking the right questions. I thought back to when the government had to come seize the top secret documents that Trump had tried to retain in completely non-secured places around Mar-A-Lago, a stage, a bathroom, next to a GD copying machine.

Through all of that time, I never saw a news agency ask who had access to the rooms. After months had passed, I searched the web for articles on who could have accessed the documents and I couldn't find any. Nobody had thought to ask if assistant managers could have accessed them, housekeepers…caddies.

If I were to create a place tailor made for spies, I couldn't do better than Mar-A-Lago. With scores or even hundreds of employees and anyone with deep pockets able to walk all around the place. And not a single reporter I could find asked who could access the documents, our nation's most guarded secrets, some of which were only supposed to be viewed in specially secured rooms and weren't supposed to be kept anywhere else because they were just that sensitive.

Then I see MAGA apologists explaining that Trump had the power to declassify the documents. And the reporters couldn't find it in their skulls to ask why anyone would vote for someone who—even given the power to declassify—would be so careless with them. These are important documents.

But that's not why I'm here.

The documents are water under the bridge now. This man shouldn't be allowed anywhere near top secret documents, but the American people have decided that he should get a pass on literally everything wrong he's ever done, which is quite a list, indeed.

What's concerning me is the questions that reporters aren't asking now, and it is maybe even more dire than our national security. I'm talking about something much more basic: our food chain.

The focus that I've seen from national media outlets has been that food prices could spike, because immigrants are our base line in the country's food production. Let's face it, they're the ones picking the fruits and vegetables. They're the ones in the meat packing facilities. When he throws these people out, we're not only going to see grocery prices spike, we're going to see food shortages. The food we've come to expect simply won't make it to the shelves. It will be sitting rotting in the fields and manufacturing plants.

We could be looking at a famine, not from a lack of food, but because the people who get us our food will have been deported.

So, my advice for anyone reading this column, is to stock up on non-perishables now. I hope I'm wrong, but canned and dried foods will keep and you can always dig into them if this catastrophe doesn't come to pass. But for me, I'm going to play it safe. I'd rather have food stuck in a closet for awhile, available for whatever comes, than to head to the store and find out too late that there's nothing left.
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