Defining a new level of mendacity - From Chicken Shit to Horse Shit to Bull Shit to...
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Defining a new level of mendacity - From Chicken Shit to Horse Shit to Bull Shit to...
Sep 11, 2018
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The women will save us - from ourselves - again.
Karen Collins is a grandmother, and award-winning quilter with deep Texas roots. She never cared much about politics until the 2016 election. Now her retirement has a new sense of purpose.
A Poem
A Glass Face In The Rain
Sometime you'll walk all night. You'll
come where the sky bends down. You'll turn
aside at a fold in the earth and
be gone from the day.
When the sky turns light again
the land will stare blank for miles
at itself. You won't be there
to see any more.
Back where you lived, for those
who remember well, there will come
a glass face, invisible but still and reall,
all night outside in the rain.
--William Stafford
Sometime you'll walk all night. You'll
come where the sky bends down. You'll turn
aside at a fold in the earth and
be gone from the day.
When the sky turns light again
the land will stare blank for miles
at itself. You won't be there
to see any more.
Back where you lived, for those
who remember well, there will come
a glass face, invisible but still and reall,
all night outside in the rain.
--William Stafford
Speechify Me, Baby
If 45* is remembered for anything other than his near-absolute venality, it won't be for his eloquence.
Rex Huppke, Chicago Tribune, imagineering "Trump's Gettysburg Address:
Please tell your kids to be ready to recite this by Monday:
Forty tweets and seven “Fox and Friends” episodes ago, Sean Hannity brought up a really great point about my Electoral College win. It was so huge. Really, nobody has ever seen such a massive win, and they said it couldn’t be done. Couldn’t be done. But I did it.
And Hannity — how much do we love Sean Hannity, really? He does such a fantastic job, nobody better. And Hannity said my huge Electoral College win, which they say was the biggest ever, was dedicated to all of you, the forgotten men and women of America. Don’t we love America? Don’t we love our flag? And Merry Christmas. People are saying Merry Christmas again. Nobody was saying it before. Nobody said it!
So we are dedicated to the proposition that all men — and women, don’t forget the women. The women love me so much. I won big with the women. The women love Trump.
The proposition that all — I’m just going to say “all,” otherwise the Fake News will call me sexist or make up some other lies. That’s all they do. You see them back there. Just the worst, most disgusting people you’ll ever meet. Not all of them, but really all of them. Terrible. Enemies of the people.
The proposition that all are created equal, and they are. There are good people on all sides. I got in trouble for saying that once, but it’s true. Good people, you know who I’m talking about. The tough guys. You don’t mess with. They love their country. These guys. Tough. Tough, I’m telling you.
Now we are engaged in a great war with Fake News. Yes, yes, you know. Fake news. They lie. They lie all the time, it’s all they do.
I stand up here giving a speech for an hour and a half, many times without notes, and then they say, “He’s lost it,” and yet we have 25,000 people showing up to speeches. “Donald Trump,” they go, “Donald Trump has lost it.” I beat 17 great Republicans. I beat senators, I beat governors, a couple of people, great people like Ben Carson, Ben Carson was tough, but I beat 17 great people and I respectfully say I beat the Bush dynasty, OK? Pretty recently. OK?
Now I have the privilege of going against Crooked Hillary Clinton. So I beat Crooked Hillary. I beat Crooked Hillary and the Electoral College is hard it’s, frankly, if we didn’t know better, and maybe we’re starting to find things out that we didn’t know, it’s hard, and harder to win than popular vote.
Anyway, in a larger sense, we can’t dedicate — we can’t cons … we can’t con-sten-creet? Constencreet. A lot of people don’t know that word. I know big words, so many. I’m very smart. Some say a genius.
We can’t constencreet this ground. The brave men, so many, who struggled here, have constencreeted it, and they did. So constencreet. Really. The most. So proud.
The world will little note, they never note things anymore. You notice that? No noting. It’s like, bing bong bing.
They won’t note that I have broken more Elton John records, he seems to have a lot of records. And I, by the way, I don’t have a musical instrument. I don’t have a guitar or an organ. No organ. Elton has an organ. And lots of other people helping. No, we’ve broken a lot of records. We’ve broken virtually every record.
And we do it without, like, the musical instruments. This is the only musical: the mouth. And hopefully the brain attached to the mouth. Right? The brain, more important than the mouth, is the brain. The brain is much more important.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining, and it is a great task.
This nation, this big, beautiful nation. This nation, under God, and it is, we’ve got God back. Just ask Mike Pence. He loves God. Prays all the time. We brought back prayer. So good. So, so good. The prayer.
This nation shall have a new birth of freedom. You think we would birth freedom if Crooked Hillary won? No. Nope. There would be no freedom births. The opposite. Whatever the opposite, it would be that. Just all over the place. Terrible.
So our government. MY government, I’m doing such a good job, you know it. People say it’s the best job any president has ever done. Truly amazing.
My government, for you people, and you’re the good ones, you know that. You’re the real Americans, not those others. My government shall not perish from the earth, or from space. Space Force! We’re going to rule the space. No one will stop us.
God bless you and God bless our great America. Hats are available in the front. Make sure you buy several.
Rex Huppke, Chicago Tribune, imagineering "Trump's Gettysburg Address:
Please tell your kids to be ready to recite this by Monday:
Forty tweets and seven “Fox and Friends” episodes ago, Sean Hannity brought up a really great point about my Electoral College win. It was so huge. Really, nobody has ever seen such a massive win, and they said it couldn’t be done. Couldn’t be done. But I did it.
And Hannity — how much do we love Sean Hannity, really? He does such a fantastic job, nobody better. And Hannity said my huge Electoral College win, which they say was the biggest ever, was dedicated to all of you, the forgotten men and women of America. Don’t we love America? Don’t we love our flag? And Merry Christmas. People are saying Merry Christmas again. Nobody was saying it before. Nobody said it!
So we are dedicated to the proposition that all men — and women, don’t forget the women. The women love me so much. I won big with the women. The women love Trump.
The proposition that all — I’m just going to say “all,” otherwise the Fake News will call me sexist or make up some other lies. That’s all they do. You see them back there. Just the worst, most disgusting people you’ll ever meet. Not all of them, but really all of them. Terrible. Enemies of the people.
The proposition that all are created equal, and they are. There are good people on all sides. I got in trouble for saying that once, but it’s true. Good people, you know who I’m talking about. The tough guys. You don’t mess with. They love their country. These guys. Tough. Tough, I’m telling you.
Now we are engaged in a great war with Fake News. Yes, yes, you know. Fake news. They lie. They lie all the time, it’s all they do.
I stand up here giving a speech for an hour and a half, many times without notes, and then they say, “He’s lost it,” and yet we have 25,000 people showing up to speeches. “Donald Trump,” they go, “Donald Trump has lost it.” I beat 17 great Republicans. I beat senators, I beat governors, a couple of people, great people like Ben Carson, Ben Carson was tough, but I beat 17 great people and I respectfully say I beat the Bush dynasty, OK? Pretty recently. OK?
Now I have the privilege of going against Crooked Hillary Clinton. So I beat Crooked Hillary. I beat Crooked Hillary and the Electoral College is hard it’s, frankly, if we didn’t know better, and maybe we’re starting to find things out that we didn’t know, it’s hard, and harder to win than popular vote.
Anyway, in a larger sense, we can’t dedicate — we can’t cons … we can’t con-sten-creet? Constencreet. A lot of people don’t know that word. I know big words, so many. I’m very smart. Some say a genius.
We can’t constencreet this ground. The brave men, so many, who struggled here, have constencreeted it, and they did. So constencreet. Really. The most. So proud.
The world will little note, they never note things anymore. You notice that? No noting. It’s like, bing bong bing.
They won’t note that I have broken more Elton John records, he seems to have a lot of records. And I, by the way, I don’t have a musical instrument. I don’t have a guitar or an organ. No organ. Elton has an organ. And lots of other people helping. No, we’ve broken a lot of records. We’ve broken virtually every record.
And we do it without, like, the musical instruments. This is the only musical: the mouth. And hopefully the brain attached to the mouth. Right? The brain, more important than the mouth, is the brain. The brain is much more important.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining, and it is a great task.
This nation, this big, beautiful nation. This nation, under God, and it is, we’ve got God back. Just ask Mike Pence. He loves God. Prays all the time. We brought back prayer. So good. So, so good. The prayer.
This nation shall have a new birth of freedom. You think we would birth freedom if Crooked Hillary won? No. Nope. There would be no freedom births. The opposite. Whatever the opposite, it would be that. Just all over the place. Terrible.
So our government. MY government, I’m doing such a good job, you know it. People say it’s the best job any president has ever done. Truly amazing.
My government, for you people, and you’re the good ones, you know that. You’re the real Americans, not those others. My government shall not perish from the earth, or from space. Space Force! We’re going to rule the space. No one will stop us.
God bless you and God bless our great America. Hats are available in the front. Make sure you buy several.
Today's Tweet(s)
Sometimes, it seems like NYT is waking up.
Consider the brutal clarity of Paul Weyrich, a founder of the Heritage Foundation and the American Legislative Exchange Council, which eventually helped write voter suppression legislation that spread like a cancer across the country https://t.co/hVEAIhuQz2 pic.twitter.com/RYlOLTvRtZ— NYT Opinion (@nytopinion) September 8, 2018
The lesson from 2000? Lie often. Say the lies loud and with pride. Lie over and over and over. Lie without shame. Lie until the truth is drowned out, dead. Lie until no amount of evidence could convince anyone otherwise.— NYT Opinion (@nytopinion) September 8, 2018
Read on, from @ProfCAnderson https://t.co/hVEAIhuQz2
Can't wait to see how Bobo and Friedman manage to Both-Sides it.
The concept is simple - when we all vote, Republicans lose.
Enough, Truthers
Yeah, but it's just science. So it just doesn't hold up against a well-cultivated deeply entrenched conspiracy theory.
Never forget this one simple thing: Arguing that George W Bush had prior knowledge of 9/11 is the classic Internal Contradiction. ie: You put "George W Bush" and "knowledge" in the same sentence. Your point is not valid.
Sep 10, 2018
News Broke
Francesca Fiorentini
"Knowledge makes people question power, so it's no wonder politicians try to defund public schools, raise college costs, keep people working too much to educate themselves and stigmatize higher education as elitist. Knowledge is power to us, but to the people who rule us it's a liability."
Yes, it's Al-Jazeera. (bring your own grains of salt)
But here's the thing: I'll try to think through my own haze of ideological purity and see if there might be tiny kernels of reality outside my own little bubble.
"Knowledge makes people question power, so it's no wonder politicians try to defund public schools, raise college costs, keep people working too much to educate themselves and stigmatize higher education as elitist. Knowledge is power to us, but to the people who rule us it's a liability."
Yes, it's Al-Jazeera. (bring your own grains of salt)
But here's the thing: I'll try to think through my own haze of ideological purity and see if there might be tiny kernels of reality outside my own little bubble.
Odds Are Good
But first:
From FiveThirtyEight:
DON'T GET HAPPY
From FiveThirtyEight:
We've been here before. I spent a lot of time and energy saying the same thing in 2016 - don't get fucking happy.
Get together.
Get busy.
Get shit done.
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