I remain cautiously pessimistic since Reagan , deepened by the Supreme court deciding Bush over Gore _ I thought isn't that unconstitutional & felt the strong blow to our democracy. There have been so many blows since then with our government infiltrated by criminals. The list is long & that is part of the plan to keep burying freedom so…
I remain cautiously pessimistic since Reagan , deepened by the Supreme court deciding Bush over Gore _ I thought isn't that unconstitutional & felt the strong blow to our democracy. There have been so many blows since then with our government infiltrated by criminals. The list is long & that is part of the plan to keep burying freedom so deeply that justice can not keep up with accountability. Hearing Biden speak the truth helps but it is hard to move the needle back towards optimism. It's hard to pay attention these days - but we must- & rally against evil & take our civil duty seriously. We can't let the greedy power brokers continue to pull it off. Power to the people who support Zelensky & Biden. Thanks TC for the pain & promise..
MSM is the greatest problem. What Biden is FINALLY saying IS news. Front page news. Write them letters and demand it be news. I haven't gotten a response from that idiot Aaron Blake at WAPo about his new and entertaining weekly feature on the Presidential "race". I stopped short of reaming him a new asshole, but next time, look out. Maggie Haberman comes close to being serious about it but that is it from WaPo.
this is going to sound uncharacteristically optimistic, but since Biden's last two speeches, I THINK (or is it just hope?) that things in this campaign MIGHT be shifting a little. just a little.
now let's get those Hitler-oriented commercials out there! or a series of TFF's "promises," accompanied by footage in which he directly contradicts himself. I'd love to see or hear some of that footage Woodward recorded about the pandemic (putting aside for a moment whatever blame Woodward does or doesn't deserve for sitting on them for as long as he did...this a CAMPAIGN, not the fucking Eagle Scouts.
you're a better man than I am. I quit the Cub Scouts because I had already been in for two months and they still hadn't found me a uniform.
and we know that a Cub Scout with no uniform is like.....[add something indicating a profound sense of incompleteness]. so my own feeling was "fuck them."
I had fun in the Cub Scouts that you couldn't have today. The father of one of the kids in my den was a pilot for United Air Lines. He set up for us to visit the UAL operating center at Denver's Stapleton Airfield. While we were there, they finished the 100 hour check on one of the DC-6s (for those unfamiliar, a big airplane with four piston engines), which then needed a test flight. So he did the test flight, and brought us all along! (10 Cub Scouts, in an airplane doing a test flight, with no ask of parents or anything - I don't think anyone would do that now) We took off, flew down to Colorado Springs and around Pike's Peak, then up along the Front Range of the Rockies to Fort Collins, then back to Denver, about an hour. And we got to take turns sitting in the copilot's seat, making that big airliner the first airplane that I set hands on the controls. Like almost everything I used to do as a kid, you cannot do that now.
indeed, we couldn't do anything like that. it was basketball (which I didn't hate playing less than I hated playing it in school) and (and I can't be sure this wasn't a school trip...it was over 65 years ago and I was mostly bored, which is a state that doesn't carry over well into very long term memory) a trip to a visiting aircraft carrier. I don't remember which one. I remember it was extremely large. period.
the truth is that I wanted a uniform, which would have meant I BELONGED somewhere. in Germany, I might have made a perfectly acceptable Hitler youth, if we put aside for a second the whole Jewish thing.
Eugene Robinson was MIA until recently & he is the only voice I follow at that paper unless someone links to a worthwhile article. Yes the MSM is the responsible party for falling for the propaganda machine & creating such a serious issue which is now totally out of control because of who is in control. Tucker Carlson as VP , anyone ?
You might consider writing to WaPo. I Put that Aaron Blake solicitatioon W/email address, and my response below. I posted it on Heather's letter last week and Jessica Craven's also. These folks all have large dedicated followers who, I hope will at least give Aaron Blake a piece of there mind for the audacity of thinking his mind rot weekly would be of "interest". 100% propaganda for watching the show go by. I am still enraged. Please read my comment below.
the guy I would personally like to strangle (or twenty minutes of painful-but-not-dangerous physical abuse might get the job done) is the person at the NYT who seems to get some kind of charge out of writing headlines that manage to run down Biden even when the actual news stories they're heading have very little mention of Biden, except for the "possibility" that it could backfire. it's politics, not exactly (as above) the fucking Eagle Scouts.
I've been screaming about that too David, over and over on several Substacks. The true position of corporate media is in how they define reality and the discussion by headlines wording and the naming, such as "Freedom fighter" vs. "terrorist" for the same person and event. Yada yada to no avail. I'm sure you understand. This has been evident in my short life since I started reading the paper about People's Park and the Free Speach movement in Berzerkley back in the early-mid 60s. Naming the event or situation defines it.
I remain cautiously pessimistic since Reagan , deepened by the Supreme court deciding Bush over Gore _ I thought isn't that unconstitutional & felt the strong blow to our democracy. There have been so many blows since then with our government infiltrated by criminals. The list is long & that is part of the plan to keep burying freedom so deeply that justice can not keep up with accountability. Hearing Biden speak the truth helps but it is hard to move the needle back towards optimism. It's hard to pay attention these days - but we must- & rally against evil & take our civil duty seriously. We can't let the greedy power brokers continue to pull it off. Power to the people who support Zelensky & Biden. Thanks TC for the pain & promise..
MSM is the greatest problem. What Biden is FINALLY saying IS news. Front page news. Write them letters and demand it be news. I haven't gotten a response from that idiot Aaron Blake at WAPo about his new and entertaining weekly feature on the Presidential "race". I stopped short of reaming him a new asshole, but next time, look out. Maggie Haberman comes close to being serious about it but that is it from WaPo.
this is going to sound uncharacteristically optimistic, but since Biden's last two speeches, I THINK (or is it just hope?) that things in this campaign MIGHT be shifting a little. just a little.
now let's get those Hitler-oriented commercials out there! or a series of TFF's "promises," accompanied by footage in which he directly contradicts himself. I'd love to see or hear some of that footage Woodward recorded about the pandemic (putting aside for a moment whatever blame Woodward does or doesn't deserve for sitting on them for as long as he did...this a CAMPAIGN, not the fucking Eagle Scouts.
In my first orientation Boy Scouts meeting, I had to walk out after all the Bible waving and it's been "Fuck them" ever since.
you're a better man than I am. I quit the Cub Scouts because I had already been in for two months and they still hadn't found me a uniform.
and we know that a Cub Scout with no uniform is like.....[add something indicating a profound sense of incompleteness]. so my own feeling was "fuck them."
I had fun in the Cub Scouts that you couldn't have today. The father of one of the kids in my den was a pilot for United Air Lines. He set up for us to visit the UAL operating center at Denver's Stapleton Airfield. While we were there, they finished the 100 hour check on one of the DC-6s (for those unfamiliar, a big airplane with four piston engines), which then needed a test flight. So he did the test flight, and brought us all along! (10 Cub Scouts, in an airplane doing a test flight, with no ask of parents or anything - I don't think anyone would do that now) We took off, flew down to Colorado Springs and around Pike's Peak, then up along the Front Range of the Rockies to Fort Collins, then back to Denver, about an hour. And we got to take turns sitting in the copilot's seat, making that big airliner the first airplane that I set hands on the controls. Like almost everything I used to do as a kid, you cannot do that now.
indeed, we couldn't do anything like that. it was basketball (which I didn't hate playing less than I hated playing it in school) and (and I can't be sure this wasn't a school trip...it was over 65 years ago and I was mostly bored, which is a state that doesn't carry over well into very long term memory) a trip to a visiting aircraft carrier. I don't remember which one. I remember it was extremely large. period.
the truth is that I wanted a uniform, which would have meant I BELONGED somewhere. in Germany, I might have made a perfectly acceptable Hitler youth, if we put aside for a second the whole Jewish thing.
WOW!!
Eugene Robinson was MIA until recently & he is the only voice I follow at that paper unless someone links to a worthwhile article. Yes the MSM is the responsible party for falling for the propaganda machine & creating such a serious issue which is now totally out of control because of who is in control. Tucker Carlson as VP , anyone ?
You might consider writing to WaPo. I Put that Aaron Blake solicitatioon W/email address, and my response below. I posted it on Heather's letter last week and Jessica Craven's also. These folks all have large dedicated followers who, I hope will at least give Aaron Blake a piece of there mind for the audacity of thinking his mind rot weekly would be of "interest". 100% propaganda for watching the show go by. I am still enraged. Please read my comment below.
the guy I would personally like to strangle (or twenty minutes of painful-but-not-dangerous physical abuse might get the job done) is the person at the NYT who seems to get some kind of charge out of writing headlines that manage to run down Biden even when the actual news stories they're heading have very little mention of Biden, except for the "possibility" that it could backfire. it's politics, not exactly (as above) the fucking Eagle Scouts.
I've been screaming about that too David, over and over on several Substacks. The true position of corporate media is in how they define reality and the discussion by headlines wording and the naming, such as "Freedom fighter" vs. "terrorist" for the same person and event. Yada yada to no avail. I'm sure you understand. This has been evident in my short life since I started reading the paper about People's Park and the Free Speach movement in Berzerkley back in the early-mid 60s. Naming the event or situation defines it.