Wow. Here’s a cheery thought from behavioral scientist and researcher Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D, who specializes in studying disinformation. What she says here is what the past and present might suggest, but will it get that far? Even Fox News …
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Someone sent me this screen shot from OAN, the ultra-right wing “news” source that makes Fox News seem sane and fair in comparison. Wow! California went Trump. Who would have thought it possible? LOL In reality, Biden won, 11 million …
I wrote a post on this subject recently, but I want to re-express what a vile bastard Chip Roy is, and, by extension, how repugnant the entire Republican party is. We now know, as if we didn’t before: The GOP’s …
I wish I knew who wrote the words we see here, but I guess it doesn’t really matter. This is what the United States experienced from 2016 – 2020, and, to an extent, continues to suffer under. Most of us …
Indeed. As Robespierre put it, “The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.” But how to get there from here? In the United States, we have essentially a two-party system, …
From this: Newly leaked video footage of a recent event hosted by the right-wing group Patriot Voices shows Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas openly admitting that his party wants “18 more months of chaos and the inability to get …
From this in “The Week,” rated as politically neutral: A new deep dive into the 2020 electorate by Pew Research contains mostly bad news for Republicans, whose approaching demographic doom is less racial than it is generational. While it shouldn’t be …
Someone sent me this, along with this note: At least one-third of the nearly 700 Republicans who’ve filed to run for House or Senate next year have embraced Trump’s election lies. This should come as a surprise to no one. …
From this: Witness this line from his July 3 speech in Sarasota, Florida: “If you say it enough and keep saying it, they’ll start to believe you.” Trump was talking about alleged disinformation directed at him and other Republicans. But WOW does that quote …
Someone sent me this, noting: I’ll make ’em a casserole first night and show ’em all the good places to shop. At the bottom of every discussion on immigration reform are people, human beings who have lived rich, complicated lives, …
