Fox News Dishonest Re: January 6, As If You Didn’t Already Know
Here’s just another data point to the effect that what the Fox News people broadcast about Trump has no connection to the truth.
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We’re Trying in Vain to End the Mass Execution of Our Schoolchildren
The Republican Party and the National Rifle Association are in lockstep, doing their damnedest to ensure nothing will stand between psychotic young men and the assault weapons they need to carry out the mass murder of our schoolchildren.
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Go To Lowe’s
What this guy said.
Everyone should boycott stores with cultural views from hell, and Home Depot is at the top of my list.
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Uniting America
As mentioned previously, my mom is an arch-conservative, but we try not to let this get in the way of our frequent, quite amiable talks on U.S. politics. In particular, we try to look for things that might pull the two opposing parties together.
A few months ago, it was the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “That ought to bring us closer,” I said, and she immediately agreed. Of course, that was before Fox News forwarded the message: Why should we care about the Ukrainian people? To be frank, this caught me off guard, insofar as it seemed to me that an authoritarian regime’s invading a neighboring democracy might have been worth at least a bit of concern for all us freedom-loving Americans.
Now we have the mass slaughter of our little children. Still, we’re having one hell of a hard time agreeing that we need to do what every other developed country on the planet has done to make this cease.
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Why Is There So Little Time Spent on Philosophy in Our Schools?
Translation:
• Because philosophy is emancipating
• Because philosophy teaches good, and changes students’ lives
• Because free thinking is a danger to power
• All the above (more…)
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Top Insurrectionists Are in Hot Water, But How Big a Deal Is That?
The severity of the charges being brought against the top “foot-soldiers” who stormed the Capitol Building is red-hot news here in the U.S. It’s conceivable that some of these morons could even face the death penalty.
I admit that it would be great to unravel the entire chain of communication, i.e., how the leaders of the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys were contacted and urged to “stop the steal.” Our Constitution is quite clear that, at 1 PM on January 6th following each presidential election, the President of the Senate (the Vice President) counts the votes and certifies the election in favor of the victor. What was the exact chronology in terms of who told what to whom, that resulted in hundreds of idiots smashing their way through the place to disrupt the proceedings at precisely this time and date?
Outside of that, to be honest, I’m fairly uninterested. What they did was wrong, and they will be punished for it. But their lawyers will argue, and I think effectively, that their clients were mentally unstable going into all this, the victims of heavy disinformation campaigns, which led to their accepting orders from no less than the President of the United States, the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. military, and the most powerful person on Earth.
“If you don’t fight like hell, you won’t have a country any longer,” Trump commanded. As former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner says, that’s the equivalent of a Civil War general’s yelling “Charge!”
Either we prosecute Trump for attempting to overthrow the government, or all this is a failure.
Dealing with the Disinformation Emanating from Fox “News”
The eyes of the world are on the criminal prosecution of those responsible for fomenting the insurrection, i.e., the storming of the U.S. Capitol in an effort to block the certification of the 2020 presidential election. And, depending on how all this goes, the United States may see some extremely broad changes in terms of turning off sources of disinformation.
As suggested here, it may soon be proved that Fox “News” played an instrumental role spreading the “Big Lie,” i.e.,that Trump would have won the election were it not for widespread voter fraud. If that’s the case, and the organization was at least partially responsible for the coup attempt, it’s conceivable that the FCC will revoke its broadcast license.
That will be a great day in America.
Judging American Intelligence
What Lincoln wrote here is a much more eloquent statement of what I like to say about current-day Americans, i.e., OK, we’re stupid, but we’re not that stupid.
Every time I’ve gone down this line, I’ve eaten crow. We live in a country in which about one-third of voters believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen by Joe Biden. Their reasoning? That’s what Trump says.
Let’s face it. We’re dim bulbs.
The Madness of Our Gun Culture
Re: the meme here, a reader notes: We are devolving back into the days of the Wild West. Guns everywhere and shootouts in the middle of crowded streets.
In truth, the “wild west” of the late 19th Century was far more sane than what we’re forced to endure here in the 21st.
Yes, there were gun fights, but did either contestant try to kill anyone but his enemy?
We have people going into schools, intent on murdering as many little kids as possible?
Was there a multi-billion dollar gun lobby making it impossible for us to protect the lives of our children?
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Newsmax: Methinks Thou Dost Protest Too Much
From this:
Newsmax announced today that veteran news anchor and broadcaster Greta Van Susteren will join the network as host of “The Record with Greta Van Susteren,” adding her three decades of experience in journalism to the rising cable channel.
Based in Washington, D.C., and set to premiere on Tuesday, June 14, “The Record with Greta Van Susteren” will lead the network’s weeknight lineup with a solid hour of factual, fair, and independent perspective on the news.
Here’s a question: why does a “news” source have to describe itself as “factual, fair, and independent?” Does the New York Times go out of its way to convince readers that it’s legitimate?
This is disgraceful. Learning that Van Susteren is joining a sewer of disinformation like Newsmax late in her career is akin to reading that Barack Obama is opening up a used car lot.
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