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Jill Stoner's avatar

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.

Daniel Pareja's avatar

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.

Glenn Eychaner's avatar

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.

Daniel Pareja's avatar

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.

Glenn Eychaner's avatar

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.

Nori's avatar

Thank you Mike for everything you do to get the truth out to us.

Stephen Bosch's avatar

This, more than anything I've seen you write about, is really the core problem, and you have summarised it beautifully here.

Glenn Eychaner's avatar

"...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."

Mike Brock's avatar

The world has not beaten the romance out of me yet, my dear Glenn. One must imagine Sisyphus happy!

Glenn Eychaner's avatar

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 -

Mike Brock's avatar

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.

Glenn Eychaner's avatar

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.