Absolutely Thom. We are going to have to do our best to counter this onslaught. It is all for the oligarchs that will be robbing us while helping Trump do Putin's bidding.
Greenland is on Putin's radar, because he's eyeing their potential for oil, gas, and precious metals. There are also the arctic seaways available as the ice melts.
Panama, on the other hand, is on Putin's shit-list. They have rejected Russian influence, just become a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, and back in September they opened an embassy to support Ukraine.
Every crazy thing Trump and his family do? I urge people to see what it means to and how it benefits Putin.
Right. Zuck, Musk, et al are probaly marks. Russian Psy ops titled the election and obviously titlted Musk and Zuck. Hope Zuck watches your programs like the one on Musk as an extension of the Nazi Fourth Reich to Mars!
Meanwhile, both of them have banned me from participation.
At some point, some of us may acquire mental telepathy. Maybe that will make social media obsolete...like the use of cunioform.
The American Civil war was a mistake. We should have let them go. Slavery would have died a natural death as machines eliminated the need for human labor. Reconstruction instilled a permanent hatred of Northern states. Newt Gingrich ( a southern man) launched a plan 44 years ago to divide Congress and destroy the Washington D.C. government once and for all. It would seem he he may succeeded.
Believe it or not, Gingrich is actually a carpetbagger.
In the delta, there is still an onging form of slavery. In the south there is a "concurrent" liberal majority. Check out Hotlanta, Nashville, Memphis, etc.
Naval advisory group 70-71. Teaching the South Vietnamese how to be independent of the Communist regime in the North. The regular people I dealt with weren't interested. Hence the comparison.
The social media lies are a really big issue, since most Americans are relatively easy marks (or lazy) when it comes to information consumption. Then the issue becomes how do you EVER get accurate information to enough voters to make good changes? Good republicans have the same issue, thus they will always need to lie .. This media issue is one that we simply can’t give up on.
One of the first things that the people of Poland did when they broke away from Russian control to join the European Union was to stop and control the national pro-Russian news media. The countries leaders knew that they had to take bold action of a dictator to protect the new fledging democracy. It was hard enough to initiate a new direction for Poland unless they stopped the fake news and division spread by the national news media. They also had to work to eliminate voter suppression, reorganize the Supreme Court, and to arrest criminal politicians. The country's leaders understood that they had to fight to keep the new democratic form of government alive and safe from Russian control again.
In our country the founding fathers wrote the Constitution to prevent a wannabe dictator like Trump from taking over our government. Ben Franklin said that our new form of government was the best in the world and would only last as long as the country had knowledgeable citizens that took an active role in the government. Abraham Lincoln fought the South in the Civil War to unify our country and to put an end to slavery. He believed that a country united stood, but a country divided would fall. With this in mind, Putin started an undeclared war against the people of the United States by spreading fake news and propaganda to divide the American citizens on every issue that faced our society. He propped up, supported, and funded a wannabe dictator like Donald Trump because he knew Trump would do everything he could to make our country just like Russia. He knew that Trump would withdraw support of Ukraine, and without our support Ukraine would fall back into Russian control. Trump even bragged about what a great leader Putin was and that because of this he could do anything he wanted . Putin would be the ultimate winner. This would end the war in Ukraine and proved to his people that democracy does not work and they should be grateful to have such a great leader like him.
This explains why it is so critical to end the fake news and propaganda that is spread by our social and national news medias that brainwash are citizens to make them think that Donald Trump has an answer to all our problems. His solution is to make us like Russia which means once he has control of the military we will have as much chance of getting rid of him in the next election as the people of Russia have of getting rid of Putin. This signals the end of the democracy.
We can tell ourselves and we have been told by our "betters" that it is economics, election interference, Putin, that has resulted in this dystopian event, this democalypse.
But it was hate, fear, ignorance, spitefulness, apathy. 90 million people who voted in 2020 did not vote in 2024, and a good portion of them were Muslims, Black and Hispanic males.
. Trump won 3,059,799 more popular votes in 2024 than he won in 2020 and 14,299,293 more than he won in 2016.
Who are these 3 million voters? Well 1.5 million were Muslims.Based upon public expressions the other 1.5 million were Gen X,Y,Z young Hispanic and black males.
I do hope that they enjoy the fruits of their labor. Gullible fools.
I've studied this in marketing Daniel, yet we still don't have to bite, provided that we have critical thinking capacity.
It is like hypnosis. When I was in HS i was among the 20 or so that volunteered to be hypnotized, only he, the hypnotist, couldn't. I tried later in my 50's and still no go. I can't be hypnotized, in the same vein I see right through any attempt to propagandize me be it commercial or political.
William we know that freedom isn't free. We've allowed the other side to chip away at the Constitution for over 40 years. Finally they have basically destroyed every part of the Constitution that would protect us from what's happening now with Trump. His side doesn't play by the rules. But yet, vice president Vice President Harris, in her speech at the confirmation of the Electoral College votes claimed how Democrats through history have work to follow the Constitution, obey their oath of office, and work for the betterment of the majority of the American people. Trump said we have to fight like hell to save our country when actually his plans are to destroy our democratic form of government by taking away basic freedoms, rewarding to ultra rich, and turning our nation into one like Putin's Russia.
Biden ran for the presidency to save the soul of America. If any part of the Constitution was still alive and viable Trump would have been disqualified to run for a second term. The only person that has the ability to stop what's going on now is President Biden. He has presidential power to declare the nation in a state of emergency and stop the transition of power until Trump has been tried for all charges including the ones the extreme Court claimed he was immune of. The founders of our nation wrote the Constitution to prevent some wannabe dictated like Trump from taking office. If we are a country that follows the laws of the consultation, we cannot allow a minority, radical group dictate how we are supposed to set the future course of our country. Once Trump has control of the military, our democracy dies, and the good people of America will have the same chance of getting rid of trump as the Russian people have a getting rid of Putin. Dictators are not voted out of office. It took World War II for the German people to get rid of Hitler. NOW THAT'S A SCARY THOUGHT!
Biden will do nothing, though he could, Kamala could have challenged the election but she didn't. They appear to be hedging their bets, they know that whatever they tried SCOTUS would weigh in for Trump and the results would have been Trump seeking vengenance.
Right now SCOTUS dropped everything and has decided to weigh in on Judge Merchans decision to render penalty, and he betrayed the law and us by taking prison time off the table.
Merchan's decision was to be made Friday. We know how SCOTUS will weigh in don't we.
Trump was already convicted 34 times, thus he is a convicted felon, but I hear Andrew Weissmanon MSNBC ptoclaiming that if Trump isn't sentenced, then he isn't really convicted, and so he he want be a convicted felon and president.
Weissman is a weasel, he is full of shit, he is only looking out for No. 1. Always.
The Democrats just "have a slingshot", as you say, Thom, but a slingshot worked well enough for David. That's wishful thinking, of course. But we outnumber them, and they know they are unpopular. That's why they need to overturn reality. They weaponize media for that purpose. I propose we turn their fact-free universe against them and flood their zone with hundreds of silly lies about them; then maybe they'll realize the importance of fact-checking.
Only problem with that is that their fragile egos & enormous cash stores will make them sue the shit out of us for daring to confront the Lords of Lies!
They’re accelerating their power exponentially faster than opposition where the bottom before recovery “will be unlike anything anybody has ever seen before in the history of the universe”.
On the flip side, I use Facebook to share articles like the Hartman Report and other pundits like Robert Reich. Sometimes Facebook has blocked these posts, saying for example that they are spam, like one recently that reported the increase of school shootings in recent years. So, in some ways, it's a two-edged sword. Up to us to counter the false information.
Copy and paste the salient paragraphs of an article into word pad or word, thenshorten it by editing the points that are extraneous to the message, then copy and pasted into FB, and cite the source, without using the URL.
So absolutely disgusted with these rich weenies cowering in the corner, slithering on their bellies to go kiss trump's ass. They have more money that the average country & what do they do they sell out their country so that they can keep their billions & their compounds & yachts & watches!
I'm sorry, I have to repeat myself! I'M DISGUSTED! Why is it that the little guy/gal ALWAYS PAYS THE PRICE! $900,000 fucking watch, are you kidding me? Nothing like rubbing salt in the wound.
And as always, it's the army "grunt", the navy "swabbie" that has to do the dirty work of fighting & dying both figuratively & literally for rich bastards in their ivory towers.
I think I'll revert back to an old, old curse: "A pox upon them!" Oh, drat, that won't work small pox was eradicated from the earth by science & hard work. Maybe I'll update the curse to "May polio, measels, mumps, COVID, bird flu be upon you!" And we won't need to worry about them with RFK Jr. in charge!!!!
Looking for ideas — how do we get back to a baseline truth that we all agree on beyond NFL scores? Truth influencers? Tik Tok True or False? Instafact? Seriously, I’m not sure if there’s a mass-traveled avenue where we can find the whole political spectrum paying attention. I’m constantly musing and looking for any good ideas.
Speaking of right-wing Republican lies; Has Trump’s insistence on pardoning the Jan. 6th terrorists left you baffled? It’s just a redux of the old “devil made me do it” illusion used by young children and irrational right-wing fanatics. The idea is to play up the suggestion that everyone at the rally and at the Capitol was there innocently and peacefully expressing their First Amendment rights to “free speech” when they were provoked by mean realists who refused to comply with their wishes. Was it their fault that no one accepted the big lie that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen from the ‘dear leader’? NO! If judges and Democrats and others had just gone along with the program and stopped the counting of the vote as Trump had demanded, there would have been no need for their violent attack.
This sort of magical thinking has characterized the right for eons and is one of their favorites. It wasn’t their fault they had to injure 140+ police officers and get several people killed while trying to kill the Vice President and Speaker of the House. The devil and circumstances made them do it, and anyway, why can’t everybody just get over it? You people and your laws and reality are just disgusting. How do you not see the greatness before you on full display?
When they lie first to themselves and suspend disbelief, they create a whole new reality. The general public, unfortunately, share these same tendencies to a great extent. Good luck making them aware of the problem.
In Kurt Vonnegut's book Galapagos the character Leon Trotsky Trout posits "the only true villain in my story: the oversized human brain". Maybe not the human brain but the collective digital brain we have created in the form of millions of PCs linked together world-wide. In fact, our human brain(s) seem to be shrinking (as they do in the book) by letting the collective internet do all our thinking for us.
Science fiction.. good science fiction IS behavior analysis. Check out Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles" or "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert A. Heinlein. And for the monster of all "Dune" by Frank Herbert.
Leave twitter, facebook, tiktok etc. there is a life without these anti social fascist mediasphere. Do not be accomplices and fill the billionaires' pockets. They are the real danger for democracy!
When I look out my window I see a society in which grace can never defeat vile. It is the system, the structure, the culture of our present civilization which we are brutalized by - not some kink in the apparatus. In short - "it" is unfixable. We took a wrong turn somewhere as a species. Now we are here - 1984.
Perhaps we can hang on to our grace, our dignity and our integrity - but vile is the only thing that has ever defeated vile. Mostly by its own hand. This is a firestorm that is beyond mitigation, but as always, we must fight back. Our humanity will certainly suffer horrific trauma in the years to come. I only hope that some of that humanity is retained when the ashes finally cool.
Absolutely Thom. We are going to have to do our best to counter this onslaught. It is all for the oligarchs that will be robbing us while helping Trump do Putin's bidding.
Greenland is on Putin's radar, because he's eyeing their potential for oil, gas, and precious metals. There are also the arctic seaways available as the ice melts.
Panama, on the other hand, is on Putin's shit-list. They have rejected Russian influence, just become a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, and back in September they opened an embassy to support Ukraine.
Every crazy thing Trump and his family do? I urge people to see what it means to and how it benefits Putin.
Right. Zuck, Musk, et al are probaly marks. Russian Psy ops titled the election and obviously titlted Musk and Zuck. Hope Zuck watches your programs like the one on Musk as an extension of the Nazi Fourth Reich to Mars!
Meanwhile, both of them have banned me from participation.
At some point, some of us may acquire mental telepathy. Maybe that will make social media obsolete...like the use of cunioform.
If “the truth shall make you free”, what do lies, disinformation, distortions, and obfuscations do?
Although the name remains the same, the reality of the GOP is closer to that of the former Soviet Union.
More and more it seems that the South won the Civil War, and the USSR won the Cold War.
This is probably the most accurate observation I have read in years. No joke. And it's only a single sentence. Brilliant.
Check out Heather Cox Richardson’s book, How the South Won the Civil War.
Seems?
The American Civil war was a mistake. We should have let them go. Slavery would have died a natural death as machines eliminated the need for human labor. Reconstruction instilled a permanent hatred of Northern states. Newt Gingrich ( a southern man) launched a plan 44 years ago to divide Congress and destroy the Washington D.C. government once and for all. It would seem he he may succeeded.
Believe it or not, Gingrich is actually a carpetbagger.
In the delta, there is still an onging form of slavery. In the south there is a "concurrent" liberal majority. Check out Hotlanta, Nashville, Memphis, etc.
IMHO we should have kept reconstruction.
I was personally involved in Reconstruction.... in Viet Nam. Same Idea, same results.
Bad analogy. I was there 1966-1967. They never had slavery. Didn't fight a war of insurrection. Didn't have Jim Crow.
After I came home I was in an Army of the occupation of the south, Ft. Jackson S.C. Our cities burned in 1968.
Naval advisory group 70-71. Teaching the South Vietnamese how to be independent of the Communist regime in the North. The regular people I dealt with weren't interested. Hence the comparison.
The social media lies are a really big issue, since most Americans are relatively easy marks (or lazy) when it comes to information consumption. Then the issue becomes how do you EVER get accurate information to enough voters to make good changes? Good republicans have the same issue, thus they will always need to lie .. This media issue is one that we simply can’t give up on.
One of the first things that the people of Poland did when they broke away from Russian control to join the European Union was to stop and control the national pro-Russian news media. The countries leaders knew that they had to take bold action of a dictator to protect the new fledging democracy. It was hard enough to initiate a new direction for Poland unless they stopped the fake news and division spread by the national news media. They also had to work to eliminate voter suppression, reorganize the Supreme Court, and to arrest criminal politicians. The country's leaders understood that they had to fight to keep the new democratic form of government alive and safe from Russian control again.
In our country the founding fathers wrote the Constitution to prevent a wannabe dictator like Trump from taking over our government. Ben Franklin said that our new form of government was the best in the world and would only last as long as the country had knowledgeable citizens that took an active role in the government. Abraham Lincoln fought the South in the Civil War to unify our country and to put an end to slavery. He believed that a country united stood, but a country divided would fall. With this in mind, Putin started an undeclared war against the people of the United States by spreading fake news and propaganda to divide the American citizens on every issue that faced our society. He propped up, supported, and funded a wannabe dictator like Donald Trump because he knew Trump would do everything he could to make our country just like Russia. He knew that Trump would withdraw support of Ukraine, and without our support Ukraine would fall back into Russian control. Trump even bragged about what a great leader Putin was and that because of this he could do anything he wanted . Putin would be the ultimate winner. This would end the war in Ukraine and proved to his people that democracy does not work and they should be grateful to have such a great leader like him.
This explains why it is so critical to end the fake news and propaganda that is spread by our social and national news medias that brainwash are citizens to make them think that Donald Trump has an answer to all our problems. His solution is to make us like Russia which means once he has control of the military we will have as much chance of getting rid of him in the next election as the people of Russia have of getting rid of Putin. This signals the end of the democracy.
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We can tell ourselves and we have been told by our "betters" that it is economics, election interference, Putin, that has resulted in this dystopian event, this democalypse.
But it was hate, fear, ignorance, spitefulness, apathy. 90 million people who voted in 2020 did not vote in 2024, and a good portion of them were Muslims, Black and Hispanic males.
. Trump won 3,059,799 more popular votes in 2024 than he won in 2020 and 14,299,293 more than he won in 2016.
Who are these 3 million voters? Well 1.5 million were Muslims.Based upon public expressions the other 1.5 million were Gen X,Y,Z young Hispanic and black males.
I do hope that they enjoy the fruits of their labor. Gullible fools.
Targets. Think Pavlov, Skinner, behavior analysis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_behavior_analysis
Psy ops became effective in the '40's. Applied behavior anlaysis. Effectively sells virtually anything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_operations_(United_States)
5th Avenue, advertising, TV commercials. Gold, PhRMA, Insurance rely on psy ops
There is a science to it. A lot of it was develpped in WW 1 --used testing extensively.
Some of it is verbotten. At one time subliminal images were used extensively. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_stimuli
I've studied this in marketing Daniel, yet we still don't have to bite, provided that we have critical thinking capacity.
It is like hypnosis. When I was in HS i was among the 20 or so that volunteered to be hypnotized, only he, the hypnotist, couldn't. I tried later in my 50's and still no go. I can't be hypnotized, in the same vein I see right through any attempt to propagandize me be it commercial or political.
SOME people are convinced. In advertising, 5% is deemed a success.
In thie election, the split was less than 2%.
I am a graveside mourner only the grave is not just democracy, but mine.
William we know that freedom isn't free. We've allowed the other side to chip away at the Constitution for over 40 years. Finally they have basically destroyed every part of the Constitution that would protect us from what's happening now with Trump. His side doesn't play by the rules. But yet, vice president Vice President Harris, in her speech at the confirmation of the Electoral College votes claimed how Democrats through history have work to follow the Constitution, obey their oath of office, and work for the betterment of the majority of the American people. Trump said we have to fight like hell to save our country when actually his plans are to destroy our democratic form of government by taking away basic freedoms, rewarding to ultra rich, and turning our nation into one like Putin's Russia.
Biden ran for the presidency to save the soul of America. If any part of the Constitution was still alive and viable Trump would have been disqualified to run for a second term. The only person that has the ability to stop what's going on now is President Biden. He has presidential power to declare the nation in a state of emergency and stop the transition of power until Trump has been tried for all charges including the ones the extreme Court claimed he was immune of. The founders of our nation wrote the Constitution to prevent some wannabe dictated like Trump from taking office. If we are a country that follows the laws of the consultation, we cannot allow a minority, radical group dictate how we are supposed to set the future course of our country. Once Trump has control of the military, our democracy dies, and the good people of America will have the same chance of getting rid of trump as the Russian people have a getting rid of Putin. Dictators are not voted out of office. It took World War II for the German people to get rid of Hitler. NOW THAT'S A SCARY THOUGHT!
Biden will do nothing, though he could, Kamala could have challenged the election but she didn't. They appear to be hedging their bets, they know that whatever they tried SCOTUS would weigh in for Trump and the results would have been Trump seeking vengenance.
Right now SCOTUS dropped everything and has decided to weigh in on Judge Merchans decision to render penalty, and he betrayed the law and us by taking prison time off the table.
Merchan's decision was to be made Friday. We know how SCOTUS will weigh in don't we.
Trump was already convicted 34 times, thus he is a convicted felon, but I hear Andrew Weissmanon MSNBC ptoclaiming that if Trump isn't sentenced, then he isn't really convicted, and so he he want be a convicted felon and president.
Weissman is a weasel, he is full of shit, he is only looking out for No. 1. Always.
The Democrats just "have a slingshot", as you say, Thom, but a slingshot worked well enough for David. That's wishful thinking, of course. But we outnumber them, and they know they are unpopular. That's why they need to overturn reality. They weaponize media for that purpose. I propose we turn their fact-free universe against them and flood their zone with hundreds of silly lies about them; then maybe they'll realize the importance of fact-checking.
Only problem with that is that their fragile egos & enormous cash stores will make them sue the shit out of us for daring to confront the Lords of Lies!
They’re accelerating their power exponentially faster than opposition where the bottom before recovery “will be unlike anything anybody has ever seen before in the history of the universe”.
On the flip side, I use Facebook to share articles like the Hartman Report and other pundits like Robert Reich. Sometimes Facebook has blocked these posts, saying for example that they are spam, like one recently that reported the increase of school shootings in recent years. So, in some ways, it's a two-edged sword. Up to us to counter the false information.
Copy and paste the salient paragraphs of an article into word pad or word, thenshorten it by editing the points that are extraneous to the message, then copy and pasted into FB, and cite the source, without using the URL.
So absolutely disgusted with these rich weenies cowering in the corner, slithering on their bellies to go kiss trump's ass. They have more money that the average country & what do they do they sell out their country so that they can keep their billions & their compounds & yachts & watches!
I'm sorry, I have to repeat myself! I'M DISGUSTED! Why is it that the little guy/gal ALWAYS PAYS THE PRICE! $900,000 fucking watch, are you kidding me? Nothing like rubbing salt in the wound.
And as always, it's the army "grunt", the navy "swabbie" that has to do the dirty work of fighting & dying both figuratively & literally for rich bastards in their ivory towers.
I think I'll revert back to an old, old curse: "A pox upon them!" Oh, drat, that won't work small pox was eradicated from the earth by science & hard work. Maybe I'll update the curse to "May polio, measels, mumps, COVID, bird flu be upon you!" And we won't need to worry about them with RFK Jr. in charge!!!!
Looking for ideas — how do we get back to a baseline truth that we all agree on beyond NFL scores? Truth influencers? Tik Tok True or False? Instafact? Seriously, I’m not sure if there’s a mass-traveled avenue where we can find the whole political spectrum paying attention. I’m constantly musing and looking for any good ideas.
Billionaires brown-nosing Trump by spreading disinfo: How low will they go? Check this map.
https://thedemlabs.org/2025/01/08/billionaire-brown-nosing-musk-zuckerberg-bezos/
Speaking of right-wing Republican lies; Has Trump’s insistence on pardoning the Jan. 6th terrorists left you baffled? It’s just a redux of the old “devil made me do it” illusion used by young children and irrational right-wing fanatics. The idea is to play up the suggestion that everyone at the rally and at the Capitol was there innocently and peacefully expressing their First Amendment rights to “free speech” when they were provoked by mean realists who refused to comply with their wishes. Was it their fault that no one accepted the big lie that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen from the ‘dear leader’? NO! If judges and Democrats and others had just gone along with the program and stopped the counting of the vote as Trump had demanded, there would have been no need for their violent attack.
This sort of magical thinking has characterized the right for eons and is one of their favorites. It wasn’t their fault they had to injure 140+ police officers and get several people killed while trying to kill the Vice President and Speaker of the House. The devil and circumstances made them do it, and anyway, why can’t everybody just get over it? You people and your laws and reality are just disgusting. How do you not see the greatness before you on full display?
When they lie first to themselves and suspend disbelief, they create a whole new reality. The general public, unfortunately, share these same tendencies to a great extent. Good luck making them aware of the problem.
Basketball analogy:
The R-Nutjobs star player ran down the court out of bounds.
Never dribbling once, Donald of Orange climbed a Musk-bought stepladder.
If anyone tried to block DoO's fake dunk, a Russian sniper took them out.
Now Zuck will proclaim Donald is 6'6" and 197 lbs, and he scored 110 points.
"You finally really did it. You MANIACS !!!"
Charleton expressed it best, Click Link :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDLS12_a-fk
I wonder what it's like to be a bird.
In Kurt Vonnegut's book Galapagos the character Leon Trotsky Trout posits "the only true villain in my story: the oversized human brain". Maybe not the human brain but the collective digital brain we have created in the form of millions of PCs linked together world-wide. In fact, our human brain(s) seem to be shrinking (as they do in the book) by letting the collective internet do all our thinking for us.
Behavior anlaysis is not science fiction.
Science fiction.. good science fiction IS behavior analysis. Check out Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles" or "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert A. Heinlein. And for the monster of all "Dune" by Frank Herbert.
Leave twitter, facebook, tiktok etc. there is a life without these anti social fascist mediasphere. Do not be accomplices and fill the billionaires' pockets. They are the real danger for democracy!
When I look out my window I see a society in which grace can never defeat vile. It is the system, the structure, the culture of our present civilization which we are brutalized by - not some kink in the apparatus. In short - "it" is unfixable. We took a wrong turn somewhere as a species. Now we are here - 1984.
Perhaps we can hang on to our grace, our dignity and our integrity - but vile is the only thing that has ever defeated vile. Mostly by its own hand. This is a firestorm that is beyond mitigation, but as always, we must fight back. Our humanity will certainly suffer horrific trauma in the years to come. I only hope that some of that humanity is retained when the ashes finally cool.