Love Those Metaphors
We are a culture that enjoys creating metaphors to help us make our points.
Some of these are better, i.e., more accurate, than others.
This guy’s work here is fabulous, IMO.
Scott Cerreta: The Fifth Horseman Arrives
I believe that the only good thing about living in the 21st Century is technology, which made our lives longer, healthier, and far more convenient than they were at any time in human history. The rest of this crap you can keep: the conmen, the fascists, the cruelty, the widespread criminality, the ignorance, the selfishness and greed, and the environmental degradation.
And even technology is a double-edged sword, as suggested in the graphic above. The entire ocean of misinformation that is poisoning our society couldn’t possibly exist in the absence of social media, riding on the Internet.
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Interpreting the Insurrection
Tom, a reader,
offers this:
Let’s see. What was I doing last year on this date? OH RIGHT!!! I was witness to one of these: (definition) “FALSE FLAG: noun – an attack or other hostile action that obscures the identity of the participants carrying out the action while implicating another group or nation as the perpetrator.”
That was exactly what I reported at the time and it worked (so far) to discredit a peaceful, lawful assembly by several hundred thousand Americans (possibly a million) and serve as fodder for the kangaroo court taking in place in DC at this time. The photographic and video evidence of feds instigating what happened at the Capital is overwhelming.
Tom: Please help me understand the false flag concept. There have been 705 arrests so far, with at least another 300 coming up. Is there any evidence that these people are not actual Trump supporters? At sentencing, I notice that most of them ask the judge for reduced penalties on the basis that they “were simply doing what they were told to do by the (then) President of the United States.”
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Trump’s Friend a Criminal? No, That Can’t Be
About a year ago, I asked a wealthy friend for some advice on an investment, and he suggested that I buy stock in the private equity firm Colony Capital. A few minutes on Google was sufficient to turn up that the company’s CEO was Tom Barrack, a very close friend of Donald Trump, and so I had to tell my friend that, on an ethical basis, I wouldn’t be getting involved.
As it turns out, and what a surprise it is, Barrack is on his way to prison. It’s very clear that he illegally lobbied Trump on behalf of the United Arab Emirates.
He was released after his arrest, and trial is set for September, in the unlikely event that a plea agreement isn’t reached.
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Trump Going Down for Crimes No Decent American Could Possibly Support
Funny, but at this point it seems that bringing income tax evasion charges against Trump is extremely unlikely, regardless of how egregious his actions were.
And that’s a good thing. Trump needs to go down for something no decent American could possibly accept. Even then, there will be people who believe that he was taken down by a corrupt Justice Department. I don’t see any way around this, unfortunately.
Oooo, That Smarts
Ouch.
He walked into that one, didn’t he?
If every reporter’s question were a set-up like this, I could do the job myself.
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From the Daily Beast: Newsmax Accuses Fox News of ‘Going Woke’ and ‘Pushing Climate Change Agenda’
Yes, it’s true, at least according to this.
Apparently there is a war being fought to determine which “news” outlet is the purveyor of the meanest and most stupid garbage.
That’s funny, in a way.
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To Liz Cheney: Thanks In Advance
If we get through this mess with Trump, as it appears we will, we’ll all have to thank Liz Cheney.
Without her bravery and initiative, it’s possible that The United States would have lost its democracy.
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Wanna-be Fascists Are Being Destroyed
From the popular minister John Pavlovitz:Four years ago I received a letter from a 90-year old woman who was born in the Netherlands, lived under Hitler, and whose father was tortured and died in Dachau.
She told me that in the Republican Party, she saw history repeating here and asked me to keep fighting.
I do.
Keep fighting, good people.
Fight tyranny and hatred today.
It’s never a good idea to let one’s guard down, but given the revelations of the last few weeks, it appears the Republican Party, at least the wanna-be fascists, is in the process of being completely dismantled.
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Prosecuting the Top Insurrectionists
I have many faults, though I have very little hate, envy, and pride of possession.
I even love what’s happening in Washington. As my wife and I were just discussing, I view the failed coup as a fantastic opportunity–perhaps the best single thing that’s every happened to the United States.
Of course, we’re not out of the woods, but at this point, it appears that the former president whose name cannot be spoken (nor written) got caught red-handed trying to subvert American democracy.
We’re about to prove to our nation and the world once more, 47 years after Watergate, that no one is above the law, and that people who try to overthrow our government pay a handsome price for it.
