The Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, second only to the VP in line to the presidency, believes that our world was created in 7 days, about 6000 years ago. Back then, he says, people and dinosaurs roamed the earth together. If this person can rise to that position on the back of that narrative, truth does not stand a chance in America.
I wonder what the self-defence justification is for ICE killing an innocent disabled man by depriving him of his father's care.
(From what I know of the story after that was published, ICE did not permit the father to attend his son's funeral.)
And as I've noted before, what Paramount is doing with CBS is part of building the insidious technological "parallel power" that will outlast this administration and poses a threat to democratic governance the world over.
Speaking of 66, at this point I have to wonder whether some sort of cognitive infrastructure is being built that will enable the execution of an Order 66 analogue.
I'm sure that Trump's henchmen and enablers have an Order 66 analogue cooked up for the next election - Trump himself is too far gone to plan something like that. I mean, they had one cooked up for the 2020 election, and it failed only because a few brave men stood and performed their duties.
Worth noting I hope: As of some years ago my middle-aged MAGA nephew had acquired fully the "epistemological orientation" that Weiss promotes. Inconvenient facts belong in the realm of unknowable (for a variety of reasons including media can't be trusted etc). The end.
I have no quarrel with the thesis that the current administration is eager to promote lies as truth, pretty much non-stop. But the apparent assumption that the prior administration didn't aggressively do it (a lot, if perhaps less than the current one), with the so-called mainstream media eagerly playing along, I don't know what to say. It's pure nonsense. And unreality.
Bari’s motivation was the Jew shaming she experienced at NYT, she says. The Free Press’ Gaza war coverage was more honest than the Qatar-funded rest of the media so facilely parroting Muslim brotherhood talking points. However, its economic reporting is beyond dumb and the Trump coverage iffy at best. And unfortunately seems to be trying to replace Fox Faux News with a slightly smarter fox.
My suggestion is that some of the independent journalists with substacks form some type of networked joint subscription rather than separately asking people to be paid members just to their column.
I must confess that the offer has been made such that I could write for other platforms. But I have thus far made the decision to retain full editorial freedom in this moment. I've had quite a bit of betrayal in my professional life. So I am quite discerning.
Serious question: Is there any thinking person left watching CBS after their capitulation to the BS lawsuit brought by trump and then the Ellison acquisition, followed by Weiss's (eye roll to heaven) elevation? If they think MAGA is going to watch...I've got ocean front property in Nebraska to sell to them. LOL. Maybe an unengaged audience randomly wandering in. A few shows retaining enough credibility to limp it along. Her "we are toast" comment is spot on. I think this will eventually prove to be a catch and kill op, intentional or not.
"...a significant portion of the American population has been taught to reject the evidence of their eyes and ears."
Often lately I have serious doubts that our country, our civilization, and our species are worth saving. For all our progress - our "art", "science", and "technology" - we don't seem to have evolved much beyond apes throwing poop at each other. I mean, we "ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive [we] still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea... Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans."
I have no problem imagining Sisyphus happy; it's just him and the rock.
It's the whole being surrounded by troglodytes who couldn't solve the maze on the back of a Denny's menu that gets to me. And then watching one of them get elected President - twice - and invite all his troglodyte tribesmen to trash the country and the world, because they just have no concept of how small the world is and how big the population is. Many of them still think the world is flat and was created in 6 days by a vengeful, childish "deity". Their ancestors were probably there cheering when the deity's son got nailed to a cross for telling people to be nicer to each other.
That's a really big rock. Either that, or the troglodytes have been rendered really small, perhaps by being consumed by a gravitational singularity - possibly created by the sheer concentration of misinformation in their vicinity. Still awfully heavy, though.
The Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, second only to the VP in line to the presidency, believes that our world was created in 7 days, about 6000 years ago. Back then, he says, people and dinosaurs roamed the earth together. If this person can rise to that position on the back of that narrative, truth does not stand a chance in America.
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/tarrant-county/disabled-son-ice-detainee-dies-30-days-hospitalization/287-0b945cda-2cd7-4abd-8eb9-d81117e47061
I wonder what the self-defence justification is for ICE killing an innocent disabled man by depriving him of his father's care.
(From what I know of the story after that was published, ICE did not permit the father to attend his son's funeral.)
And as I've noted before, what Paramount is doing with CBS is part of building the insidious technological "parallel power" that will outlast this administration and poses a threat to democratic governance the world over.
What Paramount is doing with CBS is becoming Network 23, while Fox continues to be Network 66.
Zik-Zak... We make everything you need and you need everything we make.
Speaking of 66, at this point I have to wonder whether some sort of cognitive infrastructure is being built that will enable the execution of an Order 66 analogue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88P8fypjKZk
I'm sure that Trump's henchmen and enablers have an Order 66 analogue cooked up for the next election - Trump himself is too far gone to plan something like that. I mean, they had one cooked up for the 2020 election, and it failed only because a few brave men stood and performed their duties.
Worth noting I hope: As of some years ago my middle-aged MAGA nephew had acquired fully the "epistemological orientation" that Weiss promotes. Inconvenient facts belong in the realm of unknowable (for a variety of reasons including media can't be trusted etc). The end.
This, more than anything I've seen you write about, is really the core problem, and you have summarised it beautifully here.
I have no quarrel with the thesis that the current administration is eager to promote lies as truth, pretty much non-stop. But the apparent assumption that the prior administration didn't aggressively do it (a lot, if perhaps less than the current one), with the so-called mainstream media eagerly playing along, I don't know what to say. It's pure nonsense. And unreality.
Bari’s motivation was the Jew shaming she experienced at NYT, she says. The Free Press’ Gaza war coverage was more honest than the Qatar-funded rest of the media so facilely parroting Muslim brotherhood talking points. However, its economic reporting is beyond dumb and the Trump coverage iffy at best. And unfortunately seems to be trying to replace Fox Faux News with a slightly smarter fox.
"we build alternatives"
My suggestion is that some of the independent journalists with substacks form some type of networked joint subscription rather than separately asking people to be paid members just to their column.
I must confess that the offer has been made such that I could write for other platforms. But I have thus far made the decision to retain full editorial freedom in this moment. I've had quite a bit of betrayal in my professional life. So I am quite discerning.
Serious question: Is there any thinking person left watching CBS after their capitulation to the BS lawsuit brought by trump and then the Ellison acquisition, followed by Weiss's (eye roll to heaven) elevation? If they think MAGA is going to watch...I've got ocean front property in Nebraska to sell to them. LOL. Maybe an unengaged audience randomly wandering in. A few shows retaining enough credibility to limp it along. Her "we are toast" comment is spot on. I think this will eventually prove to be a catch and kill op, intentional or not.
"...a significant portion of the American population has been taught to reject the evidence of their eyes and ears."
Often lately I have serious doubts that our country, our civilization, and our species are worth saving. For all our progress - our "art", "science", and "technology" - we don't seem to have evolved much beyond apes throwing poop at each other. I mean, we "ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive [we] still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea... Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans."
The world has not beaten the romance out of me yet, my dear Glenn. One must imagine Sisyphus happy!
I have no problem imagining Sisyphus happy; it's just him and the rock.
It's the whole being surrounded by troglodytes who couldn't solve the maze on the back of a Denny's menu that gets to me. And then watching one of them get elected President - twice - and invite all his troglodyte tribesmen to trash the country and the world, because they just have no concept of how small the world is and how big the population is. Many of them still think the world is flat and was created in 6 days by a vengeful, childish "deity". Their ancestors were probably there cheering when the deity's son got nailed to a cross for telling people to be nicer to each other.
- Romanes eunt domus -
One must, in this ur-muth construct, see that the troglodytes are inside the rock. The one who must push does so because they can.
That's a really big rock. Either that, or the troglodytes have been rendered really small, perhaps by being consumed by a gravitational singularity - possibly created by the sheer concentration of misinformation in their vicinity. Still awfully heavy, though.
Yes.