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fuckyeahasexual · 8 months

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Hi, about the post on Project 2025 - with all due respect, please consider deleting the reblog or add further information. This post contains misinformation and it's dangerous. It's making already vulnerable people panic.

It is NOT a Republican Party manifesto. It's an extreme right-wing group called the Heritage Project's. They're asking conservatives to take it on board. Which sucks but they've always been out there.

If you read articles about it, (pbs) (guardian) you'll find professional journalist specifically say that it's the Heritage Project, it's the Republican Party manifesto.

It's disgusting, and I actually don't think anyone should be encouraged to read hatespeech about themselves when it's from a radical think tank, and not their government.

I'm saying this with love and respect to you because I do think you mean good with all of your heart but first off the American government is not to be trusted. But since you also were unclear what some reblog got wrong I can't really agree or disagree with you so here's just more info in general about Project 2025

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And if you don't want a random leftist youtuber here is MSNBC

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So respectfully again, because I don't believe we are on the same page. The Heritage Project plus dozens of right wing orgs are organized and moneyed part of the Republican Party. Fascism is here. It's absolutely not just the some extreme right-wing fringe group.. If you spotted something that was untrue to some other post, please reply to the post in question. Or at least let me know what post because you ask is in conflict with itself.

I also don't think anyone should have to read hatespeech about themselves period. Full stop. But the idea that it is a radical think tank, and not their government is wrong. The Heritage Foundation has been directly influencing the government since 1973. I'm not going to debate this either, so the only comment I have left to say is in this video:

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#non ace #us politics

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swallowpit · 7 months

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@lgbtcorp / [ 22 ] a city street teeming with news vehicles, camera crews, and reporters

kara isn't an anchor or a presenter or -- anybody when it comes to things like this but she what she does know is a situation developing; there's a tension in the air and it's split between the protestors and the people protesting the protest. it's supposed to be peaceful, according to the message boards she's found and the initial rally call. it's a five mile walk along the national city grid mainstreet, led by a mish-mash of alien rights activists but no stand out leader. maybe it's purposeful, as alex suspects, to avoid there being a sole target for ire, but it's led to a mixed message and an even more mixed crowd gathering. the walk hasn't even started yet but of course, of course, they chose l-corp as the site of their initial meetup.

now, most of the posts she's seen claim that it's coincidence. that l-corp very purposefully put their building at the intersection where the mainstreet really begins, overlooking the harbour, and it's a logical place to meet to begin the walk. that either way they would begin or end in the same place, so be grateful they're taking the attention away as they move onwards.

except right now, between the angry screaming from the anti-alien demos lining the barricades, and the dangerously inciteful rhetoric coming out of some of the more extreme protestors... it's feels like a powder keg. as more and more people show up to walk, the crowd is becoming a crush. the police aren't helping, the security guards at the front of l-corp insisting people step back out onto the road are also adding to the tension.

and of course, the press. sidelined to opposite street, behind a cordon barricade, kara stands with her phone as she live tweets and george, one of the bigger camera guys who insisted on coming along when he heard she was heading down here (she hadn't the heart to tell him she really would be fine), with a steady cam mounted on a handheld keeps blocking behind her. they aren't the only reporters. the press corner is clogged, end to end, with fox news and msnbc and bbc and so many different news outlets she can't even name some of them.

and all of this is chaotic in and of itself, but her senses kick into overdrive when a ripple goes through the crowd - outrage for some, awe for others, ambivalence and eye rolling and teeth sucking and, in one case, a laugh that's satirical and cruel she's going to fucking die - and kara switches her brain into overdrive. lena luthor is in the lobby of l-corp. lena luthor has descended from her floor fifty office and into the foyer, twenty feet from the glass doors which separate her from a crowd of angry protestors and angrier anti-demonstrators and she looks... guilty? confused? torn?

kara peeks over her glasses and tries to get a decent look at her face and it's all too obscured by the hundreds of skulls separating them and silently, to herself, kara thinks harder than she has ever thought: don't do it. for once, lena, stay in your fucking building and don't come out here. don't come out here.

#lgbtcorp #phew this was long #INT. KARA DANVERS.

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electrificata · 1 month

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here are my late night talk show thoughts.

i think in the modern era the only hosts who understand the potential of the format are eric andre (obviously), craig ferguson, and. ok i want to say ziwe but she has one bit she does and was not allowed the time to develop beyond that (i think she could) (ferguson took literal years to get into his groove and he was only allowed because a) white guy and b) some fabulously weird, impossible-to-replicate network circumstances i could go into another time). conan is good but i ultimately dont find him interesting in a long term way. if there were old people here theyd probably demand i have opinions about letterman or carson or something. i do not. suck it. wendy williams presents an interesting conundrum to me, her vibe is quintissentially daytime but i think the warm, slightly unhinged gossipyness of her show would translate really well to late night. ACROSS THE POND graham norton is good at what he does but im slightly bored because hes been doing it the same so long. i like how incredibly gay alan carr is but i cant deal w him in large doses. jonathan ross eh.

now, there is also the question of politics. i reallyl genuinely question the value of addressing political issues in late night tv monlogues/obviously colbert was on the fuck-trump beat for the entire administration, and john oliver and the daily show make an entire premise out of comic political commentary. its fundamentally useless. i think it just makes people feel smug. sure they occasionally learn something, but like. how much. and does it spur them on to greater action or learning? eh.

oliver is occasionally nice for edutainment, but id say its...how do i put this...not that late nighty? hasan minhaj's show was on netflix, and had a similar format, and worked just fine at any time of day. i really think shows like this do great if you slapped them onto the msnbc lineup or kept them on streaming. like its a different thing.

WHAT IM SAYING. is that the ideal late night host has to combine charisma, warmth, wit, and anarchy. they cannot be overly impressed with their celebrity guests. you need to look incredibly beautiful, talented, famous people in the eye and talk to them like a friend from college you havent seen in a long time - of course youre happy to see them and youre engaged and interested in them, but you see them as fundamentally on the same level as you. ferguson could make anyone feel like the prettiest girl in the room. andre makes everyone fear for their lives.

some people i think would do a really good late night show: laci mosely. scam goddess is great and i think acts as an audition on its own. amelia dimoldenberg probably. cant actually think of anything else right now. oh, right. ME.

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the1975attheirverybest · 6 months

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Ok I’m deleting the nasty asks but since some of y’all don’t get it let me break it down for you:

No, I don’t expect matty to be informed on every bill and every vote or every law being passed in every country. This is ABSOLUTELY NOT THE FUCKIN SAME.

Yes, I do expect him to GIVE A FUCK ABOUT GENOCIDE AND ETHNIC CLEANSING.

“Maybe he’s donating in private” THIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR PRIVATE!!!! The whole media is trying to get this to go quietly. They are extremely biased in their coverage, spreading propaganda, lying to us. Go see Palestinian posts and videos then see what CNN or MSNBC are showing you. YOU WANT HIM TO DO GOOD IN PRIVATE?!!!! This has been going on for 76 years. Private doesn’t work. We’ve been silent long enough.

It’s literally not that hard. Go see what John Legend did. He was at a normal press event. TOOK FIVE FUCKIJ SECONDS to say genocide is not okay. If you are supportive of hospitals being bombed and war crimes then you’re willfully ignorant. Then he carried on. He gave a voice to the voiceless. It took NOTHING. Is that too much to ask????

“But other celebs blah blah blah” YEAH AND THEY ARE SHITTY FOR IT!!’ I expect every single one of them to use their platform to stop a nation from being wiped off the face of the earth and they’re assholes for not doing so. Besides, i don’t and will never hold Matty to the same standard as other celebs. So wtf is wrong with you.

When he speaks up for others but not people who look like me and sound like me it makes me feel invisible.

Lastly, I’m allowed to love him more than anything, think he’s the greatest artist of his generation, believe in his ability, wanna suck his dick and also find him flawed. One doesn’t cancel out the other.

And that’s all I have to say about that. We good? Good.

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dollarbin · 1 month

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Shakey Sundays #15:

Before and After

How's your dad doing? Mine's hanging in there; thanks for asking! At nearly 83 he walks the dog incessantly, mumbles through his task list, sleeps like a baby in front of Fox News and enjoys taking you down to his garage where he'll point out beloved paraphernalia with declarative statements like, "Whoa!"

Same goes for your (and my) imaginary dad, Neil Young. At 78, Neil already checks just about all my dad's sweet and curmudgeonly boxes (though I suspect he sleeps through MSNBC instead). Let's spend this Shakey Sunday on last fall's Before and After, a tossed off token from his summer solo shows.

I saw Young twice on the tour, once in San Diego and once, much more impressively, at the tiny, tucked-out-of-sight, John Ford Theater in LA via tickets my famous brother scored for us via his big deal insider status (or maybe he just went online and bought them; I don't remember jack schmoe about how that part of it all went down).

But I do remember some great beers in the parking lot and just about everything else about that night in LA, most of which, sadly, isn't captured on the Before and After. The record removes every second of crowd noise and ties all the songs into one fictionally seamless take, as if Young finished the whole show in under 35 minutes and no one reacted.

The reality was a little different! Indeed, Young spent much of the show wandering about his cluttered stage with an invisible and forever hot mic, mumbling "whoa" like my dad and pointing at his dizzying number of pianos and guitars.

Young also peppered his set with shaggy dog stories about the origins of those various instruments: "Stills gave me this one: Whoa," he said, more to himself than to us, as he picked up a six string. Then he just stared at it for awhile, thinking deep, Stills-centered, thoughts. Stephen himself was surely tucked up in his devilish manse, watching Ally McBeal reruns and sucking on a lemon.

Young eventually remembered we were there. "Intense," he resumed, still fixated on the guitar. "Really something. They don't make 'em like this one anymore. Nope."

At one point Neil turned his back on us and operated a toy train around his stage. 16 of Neil's hipster minions surely supervised the train's safe transport throughout the tour, a job which required way more care and intelligence than their previous gig, playing alongside Young in a band called Promise of the Real.

Young offered no explanation for the train, nor did he connect it to any song on the set. He was just showing off stuff from his garage.

But fear not, those of you who are eagerly anticipating his upcoming Crazy Horse tour: hanging out with Neil is still a blast. Even if our dads were some of the world's greatest living performers, I doubt any of them could still get on stage alone at their age and roll out a note perfect rendition of their best known song (Heart of Gold), let alone resurrect a 40 year old track that David Geffen famously rejected and, prior to Before and After, had never been released (If You've Go Love).

During a set he described as "hidden by the hits", Young was alternatively soulful and tender on tracks like When I Hold you in My Arms and My Heart, rowdy and fuming on 90's rarities Prime of Life and Song X and just plain awesome as he brought back Ohio and the Springfield's Burned.

Just like with my dad (and, my kids would say, me) it was occasionally tough to tell if Neil was joking. Several times he took a pause while receiving yet another pre-tuned instrument, each time from an entirely new hipster, to tell us all that his job was "hard". Listen, when I'm his age I'll have to hire my own team of hipsters to tie my shoes, but he's Neil Freakin' Young: he should do amazing feats with ease.

So, was he being ironic with his "hard work" shtick? Beats me. And when he slapped out a wheezing and frantic version of Mr Soul on his gothic cathedral of a pump organ it was impossible to tell if he was making fun of the song or channeling its depths. Probably he was doing both; that's Neil Young.

Perhaps most impressively, Neil closed out the concert by successfully leading a sing along that did not suck. 50+ years ago Neil simply could not lead audiences in collaborative performances of Sugar Mountain. No matter how much stoned instruction he offered, he simply could not get everyone to hold the beat.

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But there he was last summer, teaching the audience to accompany his vocals on Love Earth, a downright corny song from his barely-there last Crazy Horse record. The song sounds like Neil spent some quality covid time with the dead body dance scene from Clue. You all know the song and scene I'm talking about, but it's been excised off of the net, except in the look, I filmed my own tv, version below; maybe Neil uploaded this himself while writing Love Earth; the song is so slight that he must have been doing something else at the time.

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The song is regrettable as an album track, and Young left it off Before and After. But, somehow, the live result was actually pretty magical. Everyone was on their feet and into it, especially once Neil told us - without losing the beat - that we all sucked for not singing loud enough.

Here is doing his "what's your favorite planet?" thing at my San Diego show:

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Sadly, Before and After fails to convey most of this magic. The songs are there, sure, but the rich novelty of the set is now old news, and the swaying on stage, soulful and bemused cranky grandpa act that happened live before my very eyes won't come through to those not lucky enough to have been there.

My dad can still do some pretty incredible stuff at his age. Like Neil, he still goes out on the road. Rather than lighting up the West Coast and reminding us of his largely undiminished greatness, my dad heads down to Belize a few times a year to volunteer in a poor community. He's been at it for more than 25 years now, and he sure as hell doesn't lead any successful sing-a-longs down there. But he keeps the beat steady all the same, and the community he serves always eagerly welcomes him.

One hopes that, unlike Old King, my dad, and yours, and Neil all still have a long way to go.

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#neil young #shakey sundays #stephen stills sucks #promise of the real pancakes

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qqueenofhades · 1 year

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Hey! Okay so I know this is gonna be a Big Ask, and will probably need the help of some of your followers. I definitely am not asking for a Complete List, but...

As an European, it's really difficult to get a good oversight of which American news outlets are used a lot, and what their general bias is in reporting politically (i.e. republican/democratic/neutral). I mean no doubt this is hard for Americans too but for me everything kind of blends together because I have no cultural context to place these things in.

In other words, could you give me a general oversight of the major news sites and how they tend to report on political news (i.e. "fox news: blood-red republican, best known for cherry-picking their stories so democrats can be made out to be filthy liars who lie and the republicans are the USA's, nay, the world's saviours). So kind of like but for media outlites like the NYT, CNN, etc.

Welp. So, just a minor thing then. I do congratulate you on your, uh, Extremely Accurate description of Fox News, because. Yeah.

It is worth noting that as is the case elsewhere in the world, Americans increasingly get their news of all kinds, including political, from social media (ie Twitter and Facebook) and that news is often aligned with the individual's existing political preferences. This is how we get echo chambers where the only information a person sees is what already confirms their existing bias, and mainstream news organs are increasingly falling out of use as most people's first go-to source. However, just by size and status, they are still important, so:

New York Times: Has become increasingly and rapidly worthless, despite enjoying a prestigious reputation as America's "paper of record." Of course I can't find it now, but a guy did a long, LONG thread on how bad their reporting was, especially about police violence and so-called crime waves, in regard to the headline that they put out this morning without ever taking responsibility for it. They are the KINGS of Both Sides Baderism and otherwise dwelling endlessly on so-called scandals for Democrats in the name of Editorial Objectivity, though of course Republicans hate them for being allegedly "too liberal." I have also posted various things on here about how they suck big time now, so yes.

Washington Post: Another prestigious "paper of record" that advertises itself as defending democracy (their site tagline for a long time has been "Democracy Dies in Darkness") and which has definitely printed some useful pieces. However, it is now owned by Jeff Bezos of Amazon (in)fame, and so is prone to printing things that are transparently in the interest of said billionaire club. Also a big offender in the recent Naomi Biden wedding nonsense.

CNN: Has openly tried to lurch to the right and remake itself as more Republican-friendly, resulting in many liberal or liberal-leaning commentators either leaving the network or being fired. As before, no clue who this is intended to attract; liberals will get pissed and stop watching and conservatives will still regard it as Biased Liberal Trash (aka Not Fox News). So. Good luck with that, guys.

MSNBC/NBC: Generally regarded as more liberal and hosts daily shows with liberal/progressive hosts such as Rachel Maddow. However, likewise their favorite pastime is obsessively dwelling on How Everything Is Going Wrong For The Democrats Right This Very Minute, so it is obviously a very mixed bag in terms of use.

CBS: Another major cable news network that pre-emptively lurched to the right and went recruiting sources in Republican Congressional circles and whose coverage has been tenored accordingly. What a surprise.

#anonymous #ask #politics for ts #there are more obviously but here are some of the major ones

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cyarskj52 · 2 months

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Let me guess…. CNN, MSNBC, FOX NEWS

“Biden winning the Michigan primary is bad for Biden because blah blah blah.”

Joy Reid’s wig “Biden sucks”

Andrea Mitchell “Biden is the oldest candidate to ever win Michigan”

I’m so sick of it all

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bighermie · 2 years

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#tucker carlson

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i-do-not-fangirl-i-fanwoman · 11 months

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Wow, y’all

I’m pretty sure I just unfollowed a CIA psyop with a leftist/progressive mask on

I mean just wow look at this screed

There is so much blatant misinformation in here it would take me DAYS and like a hundred links to show how nearly every single point in here has been debunked or is referencing a whole OTHER piece of corporate propaganda

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Oh and while I’m at it there’s a typo in one of these sentences let me fix it for you:

“The **USA’s** goals are regional (world) domination through trade and force.”

There you go 👍😎👍 have a nice day💕

#for real y’all be careful out there because there are some blogs out there wearing Progressive masks that are seriously sus

# we as Progressives don’t war-monger, knock it off

oh and in case anybody was wondering:

full disclosure the second graphic is several years old so the numbers are different so here’s this:

The USA is currently squatting in 85 countries

Eighty. Five.

China has bases in *drumroll* six

Six.

*saying with the same tone of voice you use when you ask your pet “Who’s A Good Dog”*

Who’s attempting global domination? Oh right it’s us!👍😁👍

Now I’m not trying to woobify ANYbody because I don’t think there’s a single country on the planet with completely clean fingers but if you want to see something interesting internet-search (I will not use the G-word they suck) the number of unhoused people in the USA and then search China’s Poverty Alleviation or here’s a link from a US American think tank:

Interesting

Now, I’m not one of those crazies that’s like “y’all need to learn Mandarin and start watching Wuxia full time fr yolo” because I lived through that kind of sh*t in the 80s when every. damn. body. was yelling about “Japan iS TakiNg OveR” and nothing happened.

But DO have some damn discernment when you’re taking in corporate media ffs

(whispers) but Wuxia IS pretty awesome you should check it out

and ps, why tf is everyone so quick to jump on debunking posts with Well You’re Obviously Being Paid by Villified Country so I’m not even gonna listen

but those same folks swallow corporate media whole without a single doubt

Who is paying for that piece on CNN or MSNBC that everybody else is reblogging willy-nilly that’s what * I * wanna know

#sh*t nobody’s gonna bother reading but you should #the so-called left now is so far to center they’re basically purple #if you want some real laughs lightly scratch the surface and see how quick they are to attack feminists it’s a hoot😄#waves at the CIA omg HI!!! 👋#zero-note special

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popolitiko · 1 year

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Turning to our special Report tonight which is about Journalism and lies.

It's about defamation and the big case that fox news is onDefense over, but it is about soMuch more than that. It's about some of the people Involved, including Tucker Carlson, but is about also more than Tucker. To understand all of this, we’re going to show you not just some of the new, hot damning texts And receipts that has been in the news, but we're going to go Deeper tonight, because it Matters, and we begin with Mr. Tucker Carlson as our guide in the about sanction of any universally recognized standard or source of news, what happens?

Well, rumors take the place of News, and so ultimately you have an electorate that is really poorly informed and incredibly Suspicious, and in that Environment, crazy conspiracy Theories bloom and take the Place of facts.

>> Fact check, true. Now, that was years ago Mr. Carlson discussing Standards, news, conspiracy Theories and the wider Implications I'm going to show you tonight Why some of what he has long Said before is actually Incriminating for him now, but Also why it matters on a broader Basis.

Mr. Carlson was talking then, Long before he was embroiled in A case of defamation Now, the take one example you May have seen, there were text Messages that show Carlson did Not believe, the quote, crazy Stuff trump lawyers were pushing And his platform endorsed. Indeed, one of the questions at Some level of Pushback or failure to keep the Shows on the air So then after that, Carlson Found a new lane He wasn't getting hired to host Another TV show, so he created His own media political news Website called the daily caller In and argued it would be a Conservative answer to popular Sites at the time like Huffington post. He said it wouldn't be partisan.

Quote, our goal is not to get Republicans elected. We are not going to suck up to People in power. That's disgusting; he told "the Washington post.

So, that's Tucker Think about it

What he said then was he was Going to stand for exactly the Factual mission that today's Tucker opposes And the point is not just Hypocrisy, the point is Tucker's Standard belies his liability now and it shines a weird and perhaps troubling light on how this all works, at least for people like him who are willing To tell you things the dominion Suit suggests are misleading or False, and you know with your Own eyes aren't true when it Comes to January 6th denialism, His trutherism Now, he took his mission, though At that time -- remember, when He said he wasn't going to do What he's doing now. He said he wanted more accuracy in conservative media. And accuracy in any type of Media is great He took that argument to the Crowd at the famously Conservative cpac conference we’re going to the archives. Watch how that cpac crowd boos Then Mr. Carlson for simply saying something, saying Conservatives should have Institutions devoted to rack si. Accuracy.

>> If you create news Organization whose primary Objective is not to deliver accurate news, you will fail you will fail. "The new York times" is a Liberal paper, but it's also -- And it is to its core a liberal Paper. It's also a paper that cares about whether they spell People's names right by the Large. It cares about accuracy. Conservative institutions need To build institutions that Mirror those that’s the truth you don't believe me "the new York times," you don't Think now, Carlson was briefly on To something But the people booing were not Only in that literal audience, they were his target audience, which never materialized As the reports told it, there wasn’t an audience, and with a Few months Tucker's website was Pushing, quote, fake news and Outrage driven commentary. That's a contradiction publicly Exposed. You can't erase the internet we have what Carlson said it was Going to be about. With that pivot, we found Results. The page quadrupling page views in two years, according to "the New York times," which we know is a site at least then Tucker Carlson thought was valid.

Now, he may have taken that Lesson when he did make it over to fox, the place he once said It would be hard to imagine Working at Carlson joined fox initially as a contributor, which could mean anything, right? Those guests you see pop in and Out. But then began co hosting fox and Friends weekend and got his Evening show there in now, at the time Carlson may have looked to some like Journeyman ballplayer who struck out on other teams I showed you the history more people don't realize. But Carlson had basically tried everything; including pitching what he called accurate news to Conservatives and concluding that did not work. So he offered some of the most Incendiary and misleading Material available at the time On fox, and that formula brought in viewers He then overtook hannity as slot As the highest rated host with the largest audience, as TV news put it, the largest audience in History. That's a big deal. We're going to try to be Objective. I'm going to tell you that fact. So what happened Carlson built that audience very Similarly to how he made that Pivot we showed you at that Website the daily caller, Putting views above everything, Catering to the extreme right, Welcoming conspiracy theories o Air. He's been criticized for how he pushed that great replacement Theory, which is something that argued basically there is a Secret cabal of evil Jews and Racial minorities who are going to replace the voting public it is hateful stuff. Carlson built the following on these supersized lies and of Course on an alliance with Republicans, which is the very Thing Tucker said initially previously he opposed.

>> I actually love Donald trump as a guy [Cheers] [Cheers and applause And I -- I know trump. I've known trump for years because I work in the media. And I just have always gotten Along with him Trump is like, totally charming and engaging and fun and Interesting. >> That were three months ago, and you can compare it to what He said privately. That he hates trump passionately, that he can't wait to get past him. That's his own words and there's a contradiction there. Carlson wields influence He's currently using this perch To mislead viewers about the January 6th attack, giving cover To seditionists and traitors That's a project that's so Extreme it's been rebuked by Everyone from independent fact Checkers and people who were There, reporters, facts of Course to the police officers fox and Carlson claim to be behind, to the most powerful republican in the senate, Mitch McConnell. But remember what we saw tonight -- Mr. Carlson clearly made a decision a long time Ago -- and this is evidence. This is not opinion.

Publicly decided how he would pursue his audience and it doesn’t involve consistency or Facts. It just involves figuring out Where he thinks he can get that Large audience and along the Way, if he is minimizing a Sedition, so be it But this is also much larger Than Mr. Carlson With all this exposed, it's all Out here Fox viewers have been exposed to What happened on January 6th You can say they might be only Relying on fox or less informed About certain things but people Saw January 6th. It unfolded live we’ve shown the fox coverage that day People know what happened. The larger question is whether And why this movement appears to Affirm this as their number one Speaker and leader, affirm this Kind of lying and attacks on Democracy and a leadership that Is clearly documented built on Little more than selling out If you're a fox viewer, it would Appear Mr. Carlson is not being Honest with you, it would appear He doesn't think you'll catch Him, he doesn't respect you. If this is what the conservative Movement embraces it bridges us to a very famous and simple

Question -- is this your king?

>> is this your king Huh? Is this your king?

>> is this your king the question goes beyond the Attributes of in that case the other warrior. The question goes to whom you choose to support and what they stand for, and do they represent you. That's a larger question than any particular personality here. We are not as you'll notice Trying to personally attack or demean anyone. We on this program put together This evidence so you could see Mr. Carlson's facts, his life, His career, his work, which is, Whether we like it or not, Intimately and deeply tied into How many people understand What's happening in our country And whether or not we will have Another insurrection, another Coup, whether people understand We already had an insurrection And attempted coup Is this your king? And as for Mr. Carlson, who has gone on such a journey how does he feel if he's a human Being? What does he make of all this? And he is literally living out the thing he used to Criticize -- the right wing Shtick, the lies, the type of Media who does not do what he Said they needed, institutions of accuracy. Does he feel like he's lying every day?

If he did, would he have it seep out in a projection filled Tirade

Something like this?

Imagine forcing yourself to tell lies all day about everything in ways that were so transparent and so outlandish that there is no way the people listening to you could possibly believe in you said.

Then imagine doing that again and again and again.

Imagine forcing yourself to tell lies all day about everything in ways that were so transparent and so outlandish that there is no way the people listening to you could possibly believe in you said.

Then imagine doing that again and again and again.

#Youtube

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girlsmoonsandstars · 2 years

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watching msnbc and the political commentator is lamenting that there's no middle ground between republicans who are accused by democrats of being subjected to misinformation and democrats who are accused of the same by republicans

and i'm like i'm sorry one said said "actually your candidate lost this election by the popular vote and electoral college, sorry" and the other said "actually the government is being run by a shadow organization of baby snatching blood sucking jews democrats who are going to be punished by the great avenger, celebrity fake mogul and professional charlatan donald trump and oh by the way we all know about this because some rando said so on FUCKING FOUR CHAN" and what, i'm supposed to pretend that there's a middle ground there? i'm supposed to pretend that both sides are equal here? i'm supposed to pretend that both sides are engaging in good faith and neither aide is intentionally lying and both sides MUST be living in disinformation because both sides were accused of such?

democrat's absolute obsession with being perceived a certain way is gonna fuckin kill us i swear to god

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musingsofabookworm1 · 9 days

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My Last Six Reads

As the school year wears on and the weather fairly gloomy, I'm dreaming of summer days filled with sunshine and good books. Meanwhile, I'll when I have time among the dreary spring days.

Monsters We Have Made by Lindsay Starck - This author grew up in Milwaukee, and Lake Superior plays a role in the book; so I was hoping it'd be a winner right off the bat. And it was! 5 stars! I read most of this, loosely based on the Slender Man, on a snow day we had early in the month.

Sylvia's daugher, Faye, murdered her babysitter when she was 11. Now 21, Faye has abandoned her own daughter, and Sylvia is afraid history will repeat itself. Faye blamed the murder on the Kingman (this is the Slender Man tie), and Sylvia tracks down Faye's childhood friend to try to squeeze out more of the details from the decade-old murder to prevent it from happening again.

This one hooked me immediately, moved quickly, and had the perfect prose-to-dialog ratio.

Children of Exile #1 by Margaret Petersen Haddix - When I take my students to the school library, I always try to show some restraint and not check out any books. It's worked fairly well this year, but when I saw this trilogy by one of the best middle grade authors of our time, I couldn't resist. I got it right before spring break, but then have had a plethora of regular library holds come in. So I've only had the chance to read the first.

It, too, grabbed me from the beginning. A group of children aged birth to twelve have been raised by people known as "Freds" and told their biological parents and home are unsafe. Abruptly, the children are all forced on a plane to return to this unsafe place with unsafe parents. And unsafe it is. We follow Rosi, 12, as she and another older child try to figure out exactly what is going on. The end of this book was unexcepted to say the least! And where it's headed is not my cup of tea. Despite that, 4 stars. And I will finish the trilogy. When the library holds are done.

Murder Road by Simone St. James - She's really pumping out books quite fast! I feel like I just read a newer one by her. I also got sucked into this one quite quickly. It got a little long in the middle, but it was worthwhile overall: 4 stars.

It's July 1995 and Eddie and April are driving north from Ann Arbor for their honeymoon. Close to their destination, they get lost and come upon a hitchhiker on the side of the road. Upon letting her in the car, they pivot and head to the hospital as said woman is shocked and bleeding. When she dies at the hospital, April and Eddie are the prime suspects in her murder. They must stay in Coldlake Falls while being investigated, but they do some digging to find out that this death is not the first of its kind in what appears to be a quaint, quiet town.

If you've read St. James before and enjoyed her work, you'll like this one.

Become Madam Secretary by Stephanie Dray - 4 stars for this novelization of Frances Perkins' life. I teach about Frances Perkins when my class does a unit on the Triangle Factory Fire, and as I've learned more about her, I can't believe she's not more a part of history curriculums. But, alas, she's a woman! No room for her when talking FDR even though his biggest reforms are her ideas and stem from her hard work.

This book is long - over 500 pages. But it didn't drag. Its covered important parts of her life mixing personal with business. Definitely a worthwhile read to commemorate the life of a pioneer who changed America for the better.

American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden by Katie Rogers - I heard about this one during an MSNBC interview with the author on the way to school one day last month and immediately put it on hold. 4 stars only because it was a lot shorter than I thought, but it was a solid read. Rogers did cover some earlier first ladies, but focused on the title span and mostly Biden. I knew most of what she wrote about Hillary and Michelle Obama from reading their own autobiographical work, but I didn't know too much about Jill Biden. It focused a lot on how she's kept her day job as an English teacher. And kudos to her for that! She supports her husband and his campaign but not at her own expense.

Rogers moves her nonfiction along a good clip which I appreciate. It's not a heavy nonfiction. She is a storyteller but gets to the point rather than drags things out.

I think you can tell by the lengthy title yourself if this one's for you!

She's Not Sorry by Mary Kubica - It's been a great weekend of reading thanks to, for once, having no schoolwork or other obligations. I started this one around 3:00 yesterday and finished before bed at 10:00 with some Yahtzee and dinner mixed in between.

The book opens with protagonist Meghan getting a call that the caller is holding her teenaged daughter hostage. This is about three pages long and then begins Part 1 of the book.

Meghan is an ICU nurse recently divorced learning how to live just her and her teenaged daughter. She begins care of Caitlin: a patient who survived, barely, an attempted suicide which found her attempting to jump to her death near train tracks in Chicago. As Caitlin lies unconscious, Meghan becomes close with her parents who rush to her side once she was identified. Meghan tries to help the police with their investigation when she sees a man, who is not family, staring in the entrance to Caitlin's room.

Meanwhile, Meghan is dealing with said divorce and what is becoming a rocky relationship with her sixteen-year-old.

And then Part 2: a twist. One that I didn't see coming.

4 stars for this one.

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John Fetterman gets guillotined live on CNN. Free healthcare.

Defense budget spending is reduced to half of it currently is.

The Juggalo College Loan Forgiveness Program (in order to have all your debt erased, suck some whippit out of a balloon on a beachfront balcony office.)

Mardi Gras is celebrated nationally in every major city in all 50 states and is broadcast live on MSNBC like the new years eve ball drop, only everything is uncensored including all the ass-holes, dicks and puke. And we have people from the news studio go down to bourbon street, get shitfaced, and moon the camera live on TV. Rent reduced by like 90%.

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Both tumblr and twitters CEO's disappear and is replaced with non-transphobic and generally friendlier leadership Would you believe me if I said that this is the short list?! What on this list isn't there to like? If this sounds like the America you want, then just write-in "Violent J" as president, and "Shaggy2Dope" as vice president this November. Fuck homegrown and nepotistic politicians. It's time for some real change. Change for the better. We can also make Boeing change their name back to "McDonnell Douglas."

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