Reader Beware

[Cotton1]

"The violent insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021 was a terrible day for American democracy, but at least, many people dared hope that, after it was over, the fever would now be broken, Trump's absurd and relentless set of lies about the stealing of the 2020 election made unspeakable. That is not what happened. Instead, shockingly, "the big steal" has increasingly become dogma among an ever-higher percentage of American Republicans. What happened to the Republican Party, and America, during the Trump presidency is a story we more or less think we know. What has happened to the party since, it turns out, is even more disturbing. That is the story Robert Draper tells here."

'Weapons of Mass Delusion: How the Republican Party Became an Apocalyptic Cult and Brought America to the Brink'

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...-mass-delusion

For the fair minded thinker you often appear to be it seems out of place when you reduce yourself to parroting biased halfwits.

However, it is your right...Patriot

[midcan5]

'Amusing Ourselves To Death' Read this years ago, check it out. You see this in much of the America so called conservative news today.

https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/a...elves-to-death

"In Huxley's vision, Postman writes, 'no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.""

"A peek-a-boo-world, where now this event, now that, pops into view for a moment, then vanishes again. It is a world without much coherence or sense; a world that does not ask us, indeed, does not permit us to do anything; a world that is, like the child’s game of peek-a-boo, entirely self-contained. But like peek-a-boo, it is also endlessly entertaining."

[LescoBrandon]

'Amusing Ourselves To Death' Read this years ago, check it out. You see this in much of the America so called conservative news today.

https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/a...elves-to-death

"In Huxley's vision, Postman writes, 'no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.""

"A peek-a-boo-world, where now this event, now that, pops into view for a moment, then vanishes again. It is a world without much coherence or sense; a world that does not ask us, indeed, does not permit us to do anything; a world that is, like the child’s game of peek-a-boo, entirely self-contained. But like peek-a-boo, it is also endlessly entertaining."

That pretty much sums up Democrat voters - loving their oppression, adoring the technologies that have stupefied them, etc.

[midcan5]

When we were young mom would try to manage / control / censor our books, especially porn. Today, as it has been forever it seems, diversity and sexual issues confuse the so called religious right and the republicans use the topic to manage them and get their vote. Sexuality sure confuses the religious right, one wonders if their God has made a mistake. God once destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, don't you wonder why he doesn't destroy blue states where sin runs rampant according to the conservative religion right republicans. Seems odd that all these storms hit random states.

'Censorship is surging thanks to an organised rightwing minority targeting books on LGBTQ and Black characters and issues'

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-to-fight-back

[hanger4]

When we were young mom would try to manage / control / censor our books, especially porn. Today, as it has been forever it seems, diversity and sexual issues confuse the so called religious right and the republicans use the topic to manage them and get their vote. Sexuality sure confuses the religious right, one wonders if their God has made a mistake. God once destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, don't you wonder why he doesn't destroy blue states where sin runs rampant according to the conservative religion right republicans. Seems odd that all these storms hit random states.

'Censorship is surging thanks to an organised rightwing minority targeting books on LGBTQ and Black characters and issues'

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-to-fight-back

*Censorship is surging thanks to an organised rightwing minority targeting books on LGBTQ and Black characters and issues'*

So those books should be widely available to primary school children without parents permission ??

[jes'fuchinwitcha]

'Amusing Ourselves To Death' Read this years ago, check it out. You see this in much of the America so called conservative news today.

https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/a...elves-to-death

"In Huxley's vision, Postman writes, 'no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.""

Fox "News" even defined itself, in a court of law, to be entertainment, and not news. Fox consumers don't let that get in the way, though.

[Hoosier8]

https://oll.libertyfund.org/quotes/22

"Beware the leader who bangs the drum of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor. For patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and patriotism, will offer up all of their rights to the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. " Julius Caesar

Being done right now about Ukraine even though it will be another failed foray.

[Hoosier8]

When we were young mom would try to manage / control / censor our books, especially porn. Today, as it has been forever it seems, diversity and sexual issues confuse the so called religious right and the republicans use the topic to manage them and get their vote. Sexuality sure confuses the religious right, one wonders if their God has made a mistake. God once destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, don't you wonder why he doesn't destroy blue states where sin runs rampant according to the conservative religion right republicans. Seems odd that all these storms hit random states.

'Censorship is surging thanks to an organised rightwing minority targeting books on LGBTQ and Black characters and issues'

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-to-fight-back

LOL, one name, Aunt Jemima. FAIL

[stephenpe]

I still buy it by the new name. My kids love that pancake. I wish I could make them from scratch that well. The Pearl Milling Company. Since 1889

[jes'fuchinwitcha]

You know Caesar never wrote or said that, right?

I didn't think he was smart enough to say such an excellent thing.

Great quote, no matter where it came from.