This will take some patience if folks want to sort/sift through all of this, and I hope several of you will. I believe this may get at the nub of it. All of this may be inside the bounds of technical legality, but it certainly stinks and is outside the bounds of ethics.
Two corrupt and illegitimate candidates, who will lie, repeat talking points, spin, equivocate, and ignore reality, who are sold, and who will continue the sale and looting of our country and our Republic, putting on a grand charade, which, most unfortunately, far too many of our fellow citizens take seriously... Well, I have the answer, my friends and countrymen! Three simple words: Monday Night Football. (Too bad they don't have a good game [;8-O))
In "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," Lewis Carroll tells the story of Alice, a more-or-less average curious, rational child, who, on a dreamy summer day, chases a waistcoat-wearing white rabbit down a rabbit hole into a bizarre land. In this, and in a later book ("Through the Looking-Glass"), we find many strange characters producing many puzzling and irrational quotes. For instance, we have the giant talking egg, Humpty Dumpty:
When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master—that's all.'
And we have the Queen of Hearts, who is quite quick to propose simple, brutal solutions:
[The King] called the Queen, who was passing at the moment, 'My dear! I wish you would have this cat removed!'
The Queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. 'Off with his head!' she said, without even looking round.
... and, when the Dormouse spoke out of turn in court:
'Collar that Dormouse,' the Queen shrieked out. 'Behead that Dormouse! Turn that Dormouse out of court! Suppress him! Pinch him! Off with his whiskers!'
An observer of American politics since 1980 or so, might well picture oneself as, like Alice, having gone down the rabbit-hole to find many strange Republicans, who, like the characters in Wonderland, issue puzzling and irrational quotes. Over the decades, here are just a few of the characters we have met, as we went down, down, down ...
Nine hours ago:
The Latest: Officers Surround Charlotte Stadium Protesters
A group of around 100 demonstrators have gathered across the street from Bank of America Stadium to protest the shooting death last week of a man by a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer.
The protesters, holding signs and led by a man on a bullhorn, were surrounded by at least two dozen police officers on bicycles on Sunday afternoon.
"We should have no illusions. Today’s United States of America is interested only in one thing - destroying Russia as a civilizational, geopolitical, military and political rival — as well as an economic rival, with its treasure trove of resources."
Leonid Reshetnikov, retired lieutenant general of Russia’s foreign intelligence service
From Observer Politics
By John R. Schindler
John Schindler is a security expert and former National Security Agency analyst and counterintelligence officer. A specialist in espionage and terrorism, he's also been a Navy officer and a War College professor.
First of all you'll notice that it's only 18 carats or 75% pure which is jewelry grade but normal for most applications since the elemental stuff is too soft withstand much actual use.
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Karl Smith (left) and Kevin Dugar (right). Smith confessed are identical twins who are both in prison. This week, Smith confessed to a 2003 homicide that his twin brother was convicted of.
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Disinformation operates everywhere with the continuing tendency to alienate the electorate as well as its historical consciousness of race and class. It seeps into discourse in a variety of venues and are a function of how social networks are integral to contemporary political discourse. It represents the inequality of power and wealth to proliferate mistruths and misdeeds in the public sphere. It represents the ability of capitalism to shape a message that allows the self-dealing and self-serving to maintain normalized, legitimated dominance over the dispossessed.
One’s impulse is to question the hegemonic power of those who own the networks that enable disinformation, but for many that is a step too far. “Rather, the question instead becomes that of how links between nodes are formed, what those links are, where the hubs are, and how it might become possible to form new networks.” That may be the best first step, to see how disinformation disrupts the mass media landscape and its communication networks and corrupts democratic processes.
Do not count me among those who revel at opposition retreat, to regroup and rise again. You spare me at your peril.
Jeremy Corbyn's victory was crushing. There is simply nothing else to call it, 62 - 38 is a 24 point margin. In raw votes it was 119,980, almost as many as the 130,000 votes suppressed (in Britain they call it "gerrymandering" and are quite wrong to do so, it's an entirely different thing all together- "it's an entirely different thing"). 77% of the Party voted, you can hardly call it undemocratic unless, as the straw grasping Tory-lite Quisling Blairites do, you posit a "silent majority" of people who feel too intimidated to express publicly their 'I got mine' selfishness in the face of moral disapproval (and please, call it 'bullying' so you demean people who actually suffer persecution not privilege).
The reaction is not unexpected or unpredictable, legacy media is howling Dolchstoßlegende conspiracy theories about why they are no longer respected or trusted (duh), they and the PLP (nice blokes you'd share a pint with at the pub, not stinking radical entryist Trots) are consoling themselves with fantasies of redemption (unfortunately likely, we'll see, more later in any event)- in the words of The Mirror bowing the knee, or schism (good luck with that, Britain already has a "Center-Left" Neoliberal Party- the Liberal Democrats who by virtue of licking Tory boots now have a whopping 8 seats in Parliament, exactly the same as the Democratic Unionist Party, you know, Ian Paisley's Northern Irish sectarian thugs and terrorists).
Humiliated in fact if not in attitude the PLP lurches zombie-like chanting "reconciliation" instead of "brains" which if they had any would have stopped them from starting this coup in the first place. They live in existential fear that they'll be "deselected" and have to face what we would call a primary challenge from their constituency whom they've given no reason to support them.
'But the Media Guys still like us at the Pub!", they whine. Yeah, but your voters don't.
