John Oliver, Last Week Tonight
Aug 7, 2017
Today's Bible Nonsense
Thinking themselves wise, they became fools.
--Romans 1:22
The simple believe anything, but the prudent give thought to their steps.
--Proverbs 14:15
There's one main, very good, reason so many "Christians" can be counted on to stay supportive of a complete phony like 45*.
"Folks in the grip of really powerful denial can be rendered effectively unreachable"
(starting at about 11:20)
(starting at about 11:20)
Today's Orwell
Crimestop, they called it in Newspeak.
It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments ... of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction.
--George Orwell, 1984
Aug 6, 2017
A Closer Look
tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors:
Pundits have told us since that fateful day when Comrade Preznint Stupid won the election, a large number of white, working class Dims had changed lanes. The Villagers told us that these voters so hated Crooked Killery (“but her E-MAIL!!1!) that they voted for Hair Führer. The very serious media people told us that these voters were deserters and that they must be appeased for the Dims to ever win anything again.
Looks like that might be BS.
Shocking, I know.
Pundits have told us since that fateful day when Comrade Preznint Stupid won the election, a large number of white, working class Dims had changed lanes. The Villagers told us that these voters so hated Crooked Killery (“but her E-MAIL!!1!) that they voted for Hair Führer. The very serious media people told us that these voters were deserters and that they must be appeased for the Dims to ever win anything again.
Looks like that might be BS.
Shocking, I know.
BTW - tengrain is so good, he inspires his blog followers to come up with the bestly brilliantest nicknames.
Everybody - say hello to Pee Wee Goebbels:
Today's Quote
"There has always been a section of the left, which I call the Whiny Party - the party that really doesn't wanna win. They just wanna be pure. And if they go down swinging purely, then that's fine. Well, the problem with that is it leaves behind the people who really need their help. If we're gonna have a single-payer or Medicare For All or whatever we're gonna have in healthcare, then we all have to pull together. And people who sit out or crank on some candidate because they did this or that that wasn't to their purity test are basically turning their back on the very people they pretend to represent. So I don't have a lot of patience with this wing of the progressive party."
--Howard Dean
Today's Tweet
We can hope.
Orange Is The New Black, White House Edition pic.twitter.com/uJ4fcbLEKR— Cogito Ergo Sum (@dezzthehumanist) August 6, 2017
Aug 5, 2017
Over-Privileged Phony
John Ford illustrated some heroic American ideals by making movies that asked a few important questions:
- "How far out of your way are you willing to go to stand up for what's right?"
- "What if it means having to stand up for somebody else, and it could get your ass killed?"
Stephen Miller is asking: "How far out of your way can I make you willing to go to play the victim, so I can convince you to give me the power to rule over you?"
Vid: "sick & tired of being told to pick up my trash when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us" Trump Adv Stephen Miller pic.twitter.com/cpoSGAdOGv— Scott Dworkin (@funder) August 5, 2017
Near Quote
(paraphrasing a tweet)
45*'s lawyer to Bob Mueller:
"OK, you can give him the speeding ticket, but you're not allowed to look any further, even though the stench of rotting flesh kinda makes it obvious there's a dead body in the trunk."
45*'s lawyer to Bob Mueller:
"OK, you can give him the speeding ticket, but you're not allowed to look any further, even though the stench of rotting flesh kinda makes it obvious there's a dead body in the trunk."
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