[lex24]

If you want the truth...

This is the product of decades of right wing nut jobs ascending from marginalized cranks to mainstream “conservative” thought. Attacking the media, science, facts, and living in an alternate reality conspiracy theory world, politicizing anything and everything that doesn’t suit your preferred reality is the coin of the realm. That woman in the video may be sick, but there are far too many like her for us to have a functioning society that can address its problems in any effective way. And no person is more responsible for this than Rupert Murdoch, IMO. Ds and Rs always debated policy, which is healthy. But Murdoch ushered in an opinion as media model that traded journalism for opinion as news, telling its audience there is an other they can’t trust. So when there once was agreed on facts that led to policy debate, we now have disagreement on facts and no debate on policy. The Sunday NYT article about Texas and Lubbock in particular was just unreal, as it exposed not the Covid-19 disease, as much as the sickness in people who have been led to deny science and distrust every institution that could solve our problems.

I remember before 2016 Alex Jones was thought to be a crackpot entertainer. Four years later, he’s not even as cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs as Qanon cultists, who are now winning primaries in the GOP because people like  Ronald Reagan, Thomas Buckley, and Barry Goldwater, once the standard bearers for conservative thought, would be driven out of the GOP on rails. What’s amazing is a major political party has embraced idiocy, irresponsibility, and selfishness as its brand, when it once decried all three. That woman in the Target video could be chosen to run for Congress. That should scare the crap out of everyone who finds that idea implausible, because it isn’t.

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If you want the truth...

This is the product of decades of right wing nut jobs ascending from marginalized cranks to mainstream “conservative” thought. Attacking the media, science, facts, and living in an alternate reality conspiracy theory world, politicizing anything and everything that doesn’t suit your preferred reality is the coin of the realm. That woman in the video may be sick, but there are far too many like her for us to have a functioning society that can address its problems in any effective way. And no person is more responsible for this than Rupert Murdoch, IMO. Ds and Rs always debated policy, which is healthy. But Murdoch ushered in an opinion as media model that traded journalism for opinion as news, telling its audience there is an other they can’t trust. So when there once was agreed on facts that led to policy debate, we now have disagreement on facts and no debate on policy. The Sunday NYT article about Texas and Lubbock in particular was just unreal, as it exposed not the Covid-19 disease, as much as the sickness in people who have been led to deny science and distrust every institution that could solve our problems.

I remember before 2016 Alex Jones was thought to be a crackpot entertainer. Four years later, he’s not even as cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs as Qanon cultists, who are now winning primaries in the GOP because people like  Ronald Reagan, Thomas Buckley, and Barry Goldwater, once the standard bearers for conservative thought, would be driven out of the GOP on rails. What’s amazing is a major political party has embraced idiocy, irresponsibility, and selfishness as its brand, when it once decried all three. That woman in the Target video could be chosen to run for Congress. That should scare the crap out of everyone who finds that idea implausible, because it isn’t.

Gee, I thought it was just the actions of a possibly mentally ill person.  One person.  Of course with social media she now is a poster child for folks to make comments suggesting she is somehow representative of some larger movement, group etc. 

How bout the women in the car. What movement or group does she define. 

But let me answer and give the “truth” on both - that is this: no idea.  Imagine that.  I am incapable of taking a short video of someone I’ve never met, Bender known, no nothing about and use that to support whatever political view I have. I just don’t have the same ability as some, I guess.

As for Fox News.  Yes, it is the root of all evil. A MSM source that dares lean right of center is dangerous. All should be completely “unbiased” like CNN. Or for that matter the NYT,  At least the latter had an honest Omsbudsman a few years back that admitted “of course we are liberal”. Or words to that effect. 

[lex24]

If you want the truth...

This is the product of decades of right wing nut jobs ascending from marginalized cranks to mainstream “conservative” thought. Attacking the media, science, facts, and living in an alternate reality conspiracy theory world, politicizing anything and everything that doesn’t suit your preferred reality is the coin of the realm. That woman in the video may be sick, but there are far too many like her for us to have a functioning society that can address its problems in any effective way. And no person is more responsible for this than Rupert Murdoch, IMO. Ds and Rs always debated policy, which is healthy. But Murdoch ushered in an opinion as media model that traded journalism for opinion as news, telling its audience there is an other they can’t trust. So when there once was agreed on facts that led to policy debate, we now have disagreement on facts and no debate on policy. The Sunday NYT article about Texas and Lubbock in particular was just unreal, as it exposed not the Covid-19 disease, as much as the sickness in people who have been led to deny science and distrust every institution that could solve our problems.

I remember before 2016 Alex Jones was thought to be a crackpot entertainer. Four years later, he’s not even as cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs as Qanon cultists, who are now winning primaries in the GOP because people like  Ronald Reagan, Thomas Buckley, and Barry Goldwater, once the standard bearers for conservative thought, would be driven out of the GOP on rails. What’s amazing is a major political party has embraced idiocy, irresponsibility, and selfishness as its brand, when it once decried all three. That woman in the Target video could be chosen to run for Congress. That should scare the crap out of everyone who finds that idea implausible, because it isn’t.

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If you want the truth...

This is the product of decades of right wing nut jobs ascending from marginalized cranks to mainstream “conservative” thought. Attacking the media, science, facts, and living in an alternate reality conspiracy theory world, politicizing anything and everything that doesn’t suit your preferred reality is the coin of the realm. That woman in the video may be sick, but there are far too many like her for us to have a functioning society that can address its problems in any effective way. And no person is more responsible for this than Rupert Murdoch, IMO. Ds and Rs always debated policy, which is healthy. But Murdoch ushered in an opinion as media model that traded journalism for opinion as news, telling its audience there is an other they can’t trust. So when there once was agreed on facts that led to policy debate, we now have disagreement on facts and no debate on policy. The Sunday NYT article about Texas and Lubbock in particular was just unreal, as it exposed not the Covid-19 disease, as much as the sickness in people who have been led to deny science and distrust every institution that could solve our problems.

I remember before 2016 Alex Jones was thought to be a crackpot entertainer. Four years later, he’s not even as cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs as Qanon cultists, who are now winning primaries in the GOP because people like  Ronald Reagan, Thomas Buckley, and Barry Goldwater, once the standard bearers for conservative thought, would be driven out of the GOP on rails. What’s amazing is a major political party has embraced idiocy, irresponsibility, and selfishness as its brand, when it once decried all three. That woman in the Target video could be chosen to run for Congress. That should scare the crap out of everyone who finds that idea implausible, because it isn’t.

Gee, I thought it was just the actions of a possibly mentally ill person.  One person.  Of course with social media she now is a poster child for folks to make comments suggesting she is somehow representative of some larger movement, group etc. 

How bout the women in the car. What movement or group does she define. 

But let me answer and give the “truth” on both - that is this: no idea.  Imagine that.  I am incapable of taking a short video of someone I’ve never met, Bender known, no nothing about and use that to support whatever political view I have. I just don’t have the same ability as some, I guess.

As for Fox News.  Yes, it is the root of all evil. A MSM source that dares lean right of center is dangerous. All should be completely “unbiased” like CNN. Or for that matter the NYT,  At least the latter had an honest Omsbudsman a few years back that admitted “of course we are liberal”. Or words to that effect.