I know a white woman, in her 60s, a US citizen from birth, who is afraid to travel to San Francisco to get a special Visa to go to Prague for a 3-month mission trip. Her reason?
"ICE is just randomly rounding people up on the streets and killing them! Don't you watch the news?"
And this poor woman absolutely believes this narrative and lives her life alternating between hatred of all things Trump and fear of all things ICE!
A family member of mine in his 70s (who lives in the north east) wouldn't take his wife, who is black, to visit another ailing family member in one of the bluest college towns in the south east because of the fear of white supremacy.
Like we're all just burning crosses and dragging gays on gravel roads with our Hemis everywhere south of Richmond.
The MSM has driven many of the Boomers and older Gen Xers into complete retardation. They never catch on. They never fucking catch on.
A mixed-race couple I know said they've been on vacation all around the US and found that in the deep red South nobody cared but in large blue northeastern cities they got many weird looks and the occasional racial slur.
If you've actually been all of those places that's not even news. If all you know is from the media, it's a complete inversion of what you'd expect.
It always has been destructive. One more reason I hate "the left" and one more reason why I haven't a living clue why all the black people I know are dumbocraps. SMH.
I know a police officer in a VERY leftist blue city and he said they will get phone calls from upper income white neighborhoods asking for an officer to respond to a "suspicious" person in the area. When they arrive, it will turn out that they ONLY reason they found the person was concerning was...are you ready? "Well, you see, he's, well, you know...black...so why would he be in our neighborhood?"
Up here in Canada the MSM keeps amping up the Trump Derangement Syndrome, to the point we re-elected the most corrupt and repulsive federal regime in our country's history a fourth straight time, largely due to the baby boomer vote in eastern and central Canada. I'm a boomer myself and I cannot, for the life of me, comprehend such crass stupidity on the part of my generation's cohorts.
I'm an Albertan, born and raised and lived my entire life here, and along with at least 30% of the residents of this province, I've had my fill. Time for Alberta to leave Confederation and head down the road to new nationhood. Will it happen in my lifetime, I don't know. But now there is more than a ghost of a chance it will.
I have a lesbian friend who lives in Edmonton, and she said that she “can’t go to the US” because she looks obviously gay, and she “wouldn’t be safe there”. My answer: The US has more gay people than Canada has people, so…
sounds like my little brother. My parents came to US in 1947 from the Netherlands post WW2.
For some reason he thinks bc he has a "funny last name" (De Leeuw) he is going to get thrown out of the country by ICE. These people...... beyond hysterical
I have a Persian friend who came here in 1980. His entire family are citizens. He thinks Trump wants to send him back to Iran. His twin, a conservative, has weekly phone calls with him to talk him off the despair ledge he's always about to jump off of.
The only way I can get their delusional blabbing stopped is to step in and pronounce that I am not where they are anymore and if you talk, I sure as hell will be talking too. Since they are too far gone and unwilling to the point of rudeness to listen anyway, it gives me a blessed bit of peace. But, honestly I don’t give a crap what they think of me. It’s all wasted breath for me at this point and I’m quite happy on my own.
I have coworker, early 30’s and white as they come, who will no longer travel outside the country with her lesbian partner because they believe they will be denied re-entry to the USA. Simply because they are lesbian cat ladies. They are legit terrified of this happening.
This is , of course, the same woman who insisted on wearing a mask to work for a solid year after even the most hardcore face diaper wearers had given it up.
I mean, she *should* be denied re-entry, but she wouldn't be. Ironically the real danger for them in travelling outside the US is encountering cultural enrichment in Europe.
Thanks for keeping the receipts. If the situation was hopeless, their propaganda would be pointless. Normies only scan headlines. This may have created a Streisand effect because the spin was so absurd. Zohran backtracked, but he invited his anti American Islamist buddy Khalil to the mayor’s mansion, who somehow still hasn’t been deported, instead of the heroic NYPD officers who intervened and their boss tisch who properly communicated that it was a terrorist bomb attack.
The corporate media are too stupid to realize that they are destroying their credibility when they attempt coverups this blatant. Every time they try this nonsense, more people wake up and realize how bad the media manipulation truly goes.
They don't need to be purchased, they're stupid true believers. See also the Tom Cotton affair in the NYT or the ongoing hysteria that the Ellisons will own CNN soon.
They will undoubtably be released, all charges dropped, and be invited to Gracie Mansion to dine with Mamdani, feted as heroes standing up to White Supremacy. Such is justice in the gag-me-with-a-spoon Leftist New York judicial system.
Except that it's the Feds that have taken the case. So with the current Admin I doubt they will walk, however, there is no telling what some looney judge might do.
yeah. SDNY is liberal, but it's not that liberal. JTTF is involved, and NY JTTF in particular are the big dawgs for dealing with terrorism threats. These kids are going away for a long time. Potentially Gitmo unless they squeal hard enough about who radicalized them.
Turns out far more people than we could ever imagine have no interior sense of self and will swallow anything to keep themselves from collapsing into black hole physics. Education seems not to remedy certain basic lacks. At least at the beginning of our Republic journalism was raw blood sport and now it's just sort of a play kitchen baking simulated news.
In the case of our two teenage adventurers I've seen that interior chasm plenty. Almost no one these days can handle a free society.
Journalism has always been full of crap here from the back and forth lying slurs from federalists and anti-federalists to yellow journalism. The only remarkable thing is that everyone is surprised that the media has an honestly problem.
"The only remarkable thing is that everyone is surprised that the media has an honestly problem."
Well..... it should be remarkable, Brett, but after more than a half-century of witnessing the "goldfish bowl effect" of widespread memory failures by otherwise reasonable people, I can't be astonished by the general surprise at how disingenuous media commonly is.
Particularly small-town America should not be at all surprised when reporting is skewed or absent. Small town newspapers and local radio stations exist on local advertising; alienate the deep pockets and revenue dries up.
What I find interesting, is how that small town dynamic operates at scale.
I've pondered the reasons for the secular faith folks have in the written and spoken word; if it's uttered, it must be "true." My current hypothesis, is that a significant factor is the social conditioning that prevents acknowledgement that everyone acts according to their perceived self-interest, always, distorted perceptions notwithstanding.
If you have another working hypothesis to explain it, please do share.
I think its less about faith in the written and spoken word, and more about a bewildering faith in authority.I would look at belief in media through the lens of a human tendency to gravitate towards authority
The desire to have someone tell them what to do, and what to think is a quirk of our species.
I began to become disillusioned by the time I was in 4th grade when my classroom teacher, who I'd really liked, was contemptuous of my oral book report on Alfred Bester's short story "Star Light, Star Bright." I still remember her lip curling as she asked if I was going to reveal some tentacled monster as the villain.
Yes, she thought sci fi was unworthy to have been selected as the subject of a book report.
That story was in The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Third Series (1954) which introduced me to most of the best in the business. And that it was normal for women to write sci fi.
You could say that event was the beginning of me learning it would be necessary to trust my own tastes and strongly resist the concept of consensus on anything. Of course that would lead to making adolescence a little harder than it always is anyway, and continuing onward.
It starts in kindergarten with pre-cut May basket parts and pasting the parts together....woe unto the child who doesn't put the basket together in the prescribed manner...
Just as here, the good ones have been run out, run down and run off by [insert list of slurs/pejoratives], in school boards, in school politics and in academia.
If you like, Hollywood since 05 or so is just a parallel to education since the 1970s; force out the competent people and trash their legacy so that your own stuff can be elevated as the Good Stuff.
Same with food, same with houses, same with almost all consumer products.
What I remember best of William Buckley Jr. was his lazy arch smile on Firling Line.
The left have been ruthless fighters since the '30s and conservatives have been enriching themselves and their progeny via think tanks issuing beautifully printed lectures on what's wrong with the world and lo, here we are.
Oh, and Phyllis Schlafly of course. She had her fantasy vision on how American society should be ordered and meanwhile the left took over everything that mattered, most especially the Schools of Education.
But the important thing to remember is not that they are lying about this particular issue -- it's that they do similar lying about nearly EVERY issue.
Never forget about Taqqiya, the islamic practice of lying to non-moslems as a matter of course. To them, lying is not a sin nor a crime or even wrong, if it is done to people beneath you.
And to moslems, everyone else is either a servant, a slave or an enemy and thus beneath.
You opened your nation to moslems: this is how they thank you.
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Love the headline of "the narrative bombs" due to how many ways it can be interpreted.
Wye aye, it's for certain a pattern, and I don't even rank as high as a minnow far as being a regime-critic goes. Probably it is some kind of semi-automated thing picking up key words and phrases, such as "moslem"+pejorative, or specific terms.
Bit of a lark. In Swedish, "mos" means mash as in bangers&mash, or sauce as in applesauce or for something that's been squished. "Slem" means slime, scuzz, mucus. And "Lem" means limb, as in your arm or leg but most often it is used for the penis.
So "moslem" can be read as a bi-lingual pun meaning "slimy squishy penis".
Ah, The Religion of Pieces strikes again. How many terrorist attacks have been committed by Muslims globally in the last quarter of a century? Most reports put this at upwards of 50,000
It's a safety signal rather like the VAERS spike.
Whatever the true number it's time to admit that Islam has a serious problem despite the obvious fact that most Muslims do not condone this. The word 'most' here is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
And didn't Mamdani himself just describe Muhammad as an 'immigrant'? A poor helpless soul who eventually took over and who's ideology led to the conquest, murder, enslavement, and rape of thousands. All sanctioned by God, of course.
Such are desert dreams.
A lot of Islam has moved on from those initial heady days of conquest. A lot hasn't. It's those who remain firmly entrenched in a barbaric and pre-medieval mindset we need to be concerned about.
I noticed a few years ago that immigrants who had done quite well in this country were the most rapid anti-US opponents. This includes trust fund babies from developing countries where women are decidedly second class citizens. I was completely confused and wondered if I was wrong until I came across an interview of Professor Amy Waxman by Glenn Loury in which she explained (as only a MD/JD mind can) similar conclusions. I recently confronted a tech bro whose parents immigrated to the US. Nicest guy ever, who said he gets emotional listening to the Star Spangled Banner. While good to hear, there is a real issue in the room, and it is bourgeois immigrants colonizing the infrastructure created by the pasty white people while simultaneously hating them.
Not just the immigrants. MOST of US kids have been taught by their Marxist teachers in elementary and high schools to hate their country, the police, military, and conservatives, especially GOP and Trump. Certainly true for 90 percent of the 20-something kids I know.
Sideshow Bob terrorist threw two bombs, one jumping over the back of Loudspeaker Guy, the other he threw at the feet of a couple of NYC police, which led to what may become one of the more iconic photos of this time. https://x.com/i/status/2031179948916904113
Both of those terrorists should be in the Super Max facility for life. If the city, State, and Feds don't clamp down on this sort of behavior as soon and as hard as possible, anarchy will ensue.
Maybe God will have mercy on those two terrorist's souls, I have none.
Given the nature of prosecutors and judges these days, I'm beginning to think police should just shoot them. Throw a bomb in the name of Allah... and you get to meet Him immediately.
Mostly X provide this kind of news. The problem is it takes a lot of time to sort out the truth. The hot takes phase provides the later-often-banned videos. But AI photos and videos get mixed in to muddy the water.
I have friends who get their news only from CNN, MSNBC, WaPo, and the NYT. They're wholly ill-informed. Of course, if I were to show them the videos of those nuts throwing the bombs, they'd say it was AI.
I didn't vote for Trump in 2016. I didn't think he was serious -- that it was all just a publicity stunt. It turned out he actually had some talent for being a Chief Executive.
I didn't vote for Trump in 2020. I judged that demented Joe Biden would NEVER win, and that 2020 might be the year the Libertarians broke 5%.
By 2024, I really didn't have any choice. I had seen 2020 stolen -- really, 81 million people voted for an Alzheimer's patient? -- and knew what was in store if Kakkler won.
We're getting as good as Neo Anderson at dodging bullets.
I spar regularly with leftists on my local Richmond, VA lefty newsrag, and am constantly amazed at not only how low-info they are, but how they flat-out refuse to even consider non-MSM sources that debunk their narratives.
On the NextDoor app in Richmond the other day someone reported catching covid on a plane. Virtually every comment was either "wear your mask" or "make sure your jabs are up to date." And the anti-ICE yard signs are all over the place. Richmond has gone full woke, in large part due to VCU (IMO). I don't waste my effort discussing anything with these people.
If you're going with "da Joos!!", you must explain why they would want to whitewash Islamic terror (which almost invariably endangers Israel and Jews) aimed at a right wing group (who in general support Israel and defend Jews).
The left has been righteously antisemitic, particularly since 10/7, so I'm curious as to how you think they are being controlled
As for why, the purpose is to disrupt the larger society. It's an old tactic. So is letting hostiles into the larger society. Look at who is the major group bringing illegal immigrants into North America, Europe and Australia. Look into the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. Alejandro Mayorkas, George Soros, etc. Ask why the authors of most of the anti-white propaganda have surnames such as Cohen, Levine, Katz, Steinburg, etc. Ask who opened the gates of Toledo during the Moorish invasion of Iberia. Seriously, this has all been done before.
“I think there’s a resurgence of anti-semitism because at this point in time Europe has not yet learned how to be multicultural and I think we’re going to be part of the throes of that transformation. which must take place. Europe is not going to be the monolithic societies that they once were in the last century. Jews are going to be at the centre of that. It’s a huge transformation for Europe to make. They are not going into a multicultural mode and Jews will be resented because of our leading role but without that leading role, and without that transformation, Europe will not survive.”
~ Barbara Lerner Spectre
Islam is the broom of Israel to sweep away Europe and Christianity
many people express the view you're espousing here, but there seems to be some difficulty reconciling it with the facts/outcomes.
if this is so, what then explains the media's seemingly intense pro islamic stance where muslim extremism is whitewashed out of existence and everyone is called "islamophobic" and "white supremacists'?
that seems an odd position for the mossad to promote.
As for why, the purpose is to disrupt the larger society. It's an old tactic. So is letting hostiles into the larger society. Look at who is the major group bringing illegal immigrants into North America, Europe and Australia. Look into the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. Alejandro Mayorkas, George Soros, etc. Ask why the authors of most of the anti-white propaganda have surnames such as Cohen, Levine, Katz, Steinburg, etc. Ask who opened the gates of Toledo during the Moorish invasion of Iberia. Seriously, this has all been done before.
“I think there’s a resurgence of anti-semitism because at this point in time Europe has not yet learned how to be multicultural and I think we’re going to be part of the throes of that transformation. which must take place. Europe is not going to be the monolithic societies that they once were in the last century. Jews are going to be at the centre of that. It’s a huge transformation for Europe to make. They are not going into a multicultural mode and Jews will be resented because of our leading role but without that leading role, and without that transformation, Europe will not survive.”
~ Barbara Lerner Spectre
Islam is the broom of Israel to sweep away Europe and Christianity
Also, ask why ISIS never seems to attack Israel. There have been credible allegations that ISIS (and Hamas) were created by the Mossad.
If you wish to look into these and other allegations regarding Israeli dirty tricks (which may include the assasinations of JFK and RFK and 9/11), go to The American Pravda series by Ron Unz, who, by the way, is Jewish.
The modern left is made almost entirely of midwits who got out over their intellectual skis. Ashkenazis, being a little bit smarter than average, tend to fall into the midwit range at a higher percentage than you'd otherwise expect. They all become atheists, of course, because that's what midwits think makes you smart.
Mark Cuban is basically the ur-example: he became successful through no fault of his own and now says really dumb leftist things.
And the concept of a Jewish conspiracy means you don't actually know any Jews. You get 3 of them in a room and you'll have 7 opinions on whatever subject you care to discuss. Ron Unz is one of those 7 opinions.
Try rebutting what I said instead of writing this nonsense. You could also read some history. Start with "Two Hundred Years Together" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, which details Jewish conspiracies to take over Russia culminating in the Bolshevik Revolution. (Bolshevik, Zionist, Straussian and NeoCon all seem to be different names for the same criminal cabal that found the state of Israel and still control it.) All the tricks that were used in Russia are being used in Western countries today.
Also, read " The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine" by Edwin Black, which tells of an alliance between Zionists and the Third Reich to round up German Jews and relocate them to Palestine. This pact was formed because the Zionists had a hard time convincing most European Jews to leave their comfortable homes and move to a desert hellhole. It was also believed that a larger Jewish population would pressure the Brits into declaring Palestine a Jewish state. When that failed, the Zionists began inhibiting efforts to relocate Jews, thinking that the presence of Jews in relocation camps would provide pressure on the Brits.
Conspiracies seem to be the lifeblood of this particular culture. And the primary victims of these conspiracies tend to be those people who are called "the little Jews" by this criminal cabal; people who have been used and abused in order to achieve the goals of "the big Jews". In that sense, this ciminal cabal is not unlike the other factions that currently rule this world.
I know a white woman, in her 60s, a US citizen from birth, who is afraid to travel to San Francisco to get a special Visa to go to Prague for a 3-month mission trip. Her reason?
"ICE is just randomly rounding people up on the streets and killing them! Don't you watch the news?"
And this poor woman absolutely believes this narrative and lives her life alternating between hatred of all things Trump and fear of all things ICE!
A family member of mine in his 70s (who lives in the north east) wouldn't take his wife, who is black, to visit another ailing family member in one of the bluest college towns in the south east because of the fear of white supremacy.
Like we're all just burning crosses and dragging gays on gravel roads with our Hemis everywhere south of Richmond.
The MSM has driven many of the Boomers and older Gen Xers into complete retardation. They never catch on. They never fucking catch on.
If only they wouldn’t vote.
Ones suspects that many of them don't.
Vote, that is.
It is rumored that there are organizations that vote for them.
To save those troublesome trips to the polls.
Truly.
🙌👍
A mixed-race couple I know said they've been on vacation all around the US and found that in the deep red South nobody cared but in large blue northeastern cities they got many weird looks and the occasional racial slur.
If you've actually been all of those places that's not even news. If all you know is from the media, it's a complete inversion of what you'd expect.
Half the time when I meet an old black lady I think of my grandmother, and I'm white as they come. This leftist race bullshit is so destructive.
It always has been destructive. One more reason I hate "the left" and one more reason why I haven't a living clue why all the black people I know are dumbocraps. SMH.
I know a police officer in a VERY leftist blue city and he said they will get phone calls from upper income white neighborhoods asking for an officer to respond to a "suspicious" person in the area. When they arrive, it will turn out that they ONLY reason they found the person was concerning was...are you ready? "Well, you see, he's, well, you know...black...so why would he be in our neighborhood?"
Up here in Canada the MSM keeps amping up the Trump Derangement Syndrome, to the point we re-elected the most corrupt and repulsive federal regime in our country's history a fourth straight time, largely due to the baby boomer vote in eastern and central Canada. I'm a boomer myself and I cannot, for the life of me, comprehend such crass stupidity on the part of my generation's cohorts.
I'm an Albertan, born and raised and lived my entire life here, and along with at least 30% of the residents of this province, I've had my fill. Time for Alberta to leave Confederation and head down the road to new nationhood. Will it happen in my lifetime, I don't know. But now there is more than a ghost of a chance it will.
I have a lesbian friend who lives in Edmonton, and she said that she “can’t go to the US” because she looks obviously gay, and she “wouldn’t be safe there”. My answer: The US has more gay people than Canada has people, so…
Tell her to try Gaza. I hear it's Queer Paradise.
Well they have exciting times in their own minds.
Poetry. 😁
sounds like my little brother. My parents came to US in 1947 from the Netherlands post WW2.
For some reason he thinks bc he has a "funny last name" (De Leeuw) he is going to get thrown out of the country by ICE. These people...... beyond hysterical
I have a Persian friend who came here in 1980. His entire family are citizens. He thinks Trump wants to send him back to Iran. His twin, a conservative, has weekly phone calls with him to talk him off the despair ledge he's always about to jump off of.
So sad
Hypno-fear continues as a two way street for all the "fit to print" front page news.
Hypno- mop up / cover-up ever stronger.
Try not to get used to it as it can ruin your normal thought process.
Living in fear is a Cortisol condition.
Followed by adrenalin rages of hatred.
Stayed tuned More @ 6-9 and 10!
(I have a wonderful Hispanic lady friend who now claims the .GOV/ICE is coming for her,
Trying to convince her otherwise has become futile and she grows distant!) So???
The only way I can get their delusional blabbing stopped is to step in and pronounce that I am not where they are anymore and if you talk, I sure as hell will be talking too. Since they are too far gone and unwilling to the point of rudeness to listen anyway, it gives me a blessed bit of peace. But, honestly I don’t give a crap what they think of me. It’s all wasted breath for me at this point and I’m quite happy on my own.
At some point, I have the short route to take.
Laughter might be the best medicine.
But Silence is by far the greater remedy.
I prefer the hush....over the rush or push. Hahaha
Poetry, Randall. I’ve sent a few memes at times. I also tend to lose my cool easier these days.
I need to learn how to give them the LAAAAAAZY EYE.
https://youtu.be/L4crQbmRCpU?si=y7Xvfz8k4u3hYYoS
If you want to get down to business, go to :55. If you want context, play from the beginning.
I have coworker, early 30’s and white as they come, who will no longer travel outside the country with her lesbian partner because they believe they will be denied re-entry to the USA. Simply because they are lesbian cat ladies. They are legit terrified of this happening.
This is , of course, the same woman who insisted on wearing a mask to work for a solid year after even the most hardcore face diaper wearers had given it up.
I mean, she *should* be denied re-entry, but she wouldn't be. Ironically the real danger for them in travelling outside the US is encountering cultural enrichment in Europe.
2 down, if the country didn't let them back in. I vote for it to be a law.
Holy cow
Send her to Canada for some "healthcare"
goliath lol
We're probably all safer if this woman doesn't drive.
Someone at my work (from NYC) went to an Airbnb in rural northern Virginia with a black friend.
They were afraid to go to a Walmart because they thought the black guy might get lynched.
Obviously not familiar with Virginia Walmarts.
Thanks for keeping the receipts. If the situation was hopeless, their propaganda would be pointless. Normies only scan headlines. This may have created a Streisand effect because the spin was so absurd. Zohran backtracked, but he invited his anti American Islamist buddy Khalil to the mayor’s mansion, who somehow still hasn’t been deported, instead of the heroic NYPD officers who intervened and their boss tisch who properly communicated that it was a terrorist bomb attack.
The corporate media are too stupid to realize that they are destroying their credibility when they attempt coverups this blatant. Every time they try this nonsense, more people wake up and realize how bad the media manipulation truly goes.
They are not stupid....they are purchased.
Not sure about "not stupid" but am in absolute agreement that they are indeed "purchased".
They don't need to be purchased, they're stupid true believers. See also the Tom Cotton affair in the NYT or the ongoing hysteria that the Ellisons will own CNN soon.
Ah, c'mon. It's not terrorism. It's capitalism. They were just advertising Allah's Snack-bar.
you're one logo drawing away from a fatwa, steven...
lol.
You're out of control here, sir. A good fatwa is hard to find
Aren't they listed alphabetically above schwarma on the menus of any fine middle east dining establishments?
I'll, uh, let myself out.
Watch out for the goats in the parking lot
Our prices will blow you away!
"prophets are through the roof!"
You should see the roof top parties they sponsor every June!
😂🤣
I knew a Steve Koenig once a long time ago, back in Boston. Great sense of humor. But I'm so old he's probably dead by now. Carry on.
Probably not me. I'm still (mostly) alive and I've never been to Boston. I dated a girl from Connecticut in college though
Glad to hear you're mostly alive. Avoiding Boston probably adds years to your life. Not so sure about girls from Connecticut.
They will undoubtably be released, all charges dropped, and be invited to Gracie Mansion to dine with Mamdani, feted as heroes standing up to White Supremacy. Such is justice in the gag-me-with-a-spoon Leftist New York judicial system.
Except that it's the Feds that have taken the case. So with the current Admin I doubt they will walk, however, there is no telling what some looney judge might do.
yeah. SDNY is liberal, but it's not that liberal. JTTF is involved, and NY JTTF in particular are the big dawgs for dealing with terrorism threats. These kids are going away for a long time. Potentially Gitmo unless they squeal hard enough about who radicalized them.
I thought I read this morning that the DOJ is going to prosecute them as domestic terrorists.
I would hope so
If they don’t then…WTF IS a domestic terrorist…and our problem just got a lot worse
I would not doubt it.
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Turns out far more people than we could ever imagine have no interior sense of self and will swallow anything to keep themselves from collapsing into black hole physics. Education seems not to remedy certain basic lacks. At least at the beginning of our Republic journalism was raw blood sport and now it's just sort of a play kitchen baking simulated news.
In the case of our two teenage adventurers I've seen that interior chasm plenty. Almost no one these days can handle a free society.
Journalism has always been full of crap here from the back and forth lying slurs from federalists and anti-federalists to yellow journalism. The only remarkable thing is that everyone is surprised that the media has an honestly problem.
Exactly. It was a few decades after Walter Duranty that my 6th grade teacher was instructing us how the NYT was the gold standard.
"The only remarkable thing is that everyone is surprised that the media has an honestly problem."
Well..... it should be remarkable, Brett, but after more than a half-century of witnessing the "goldfish bowl effect" of widespread memory failures by otherwise reasonable people, I can't be astonished by the general surprise at how disingenuous media commonly is.
Particularly small-town America should not be at all surprised when reporting is skewed or absent. Small town newspapers and local radio stations exist on local advertising; alienate the deep pockets and revenue dries up.
What I find interesting, is how that small town dynamic operates at scale.
I've pondered the reasons for the secular faith folks have in the written and spoken word; if it's uttered, it must be "true." My current hypothesis, is that a significant factor is the social conditioning that prevents acknowledgement that everyone acts according to their perceived self-interest, always, distorted perceptions notwithstanding.
If you have another working hypothesis to explain it, please do share.
I think its less about faith in the written and spoken word, and more about a bewildering faith in authority.I would look at belief in media through the lens of a human tendency to gravitate towards authority
The desire to have someone tell them what to do, and what to think is a quirk of our species.
As a teacher, you can teach people facts and skills and knowledge against their will (though a willing pupil of course learns more).
But you cannot teach people to think against their will; they must want to learn how to think.
Sadly, education - esp. post-internet - is mainly focused on teaching what to think, in conjunction with all other forms of media.
(I know you know this, but it bears repeating for the benefit of any stray glances from other commenters who might not.)
I began to become disillusioned by the time I was in 4th grade when my classroom teacher, who I'd really liked, was contemptuous of my oral book report on Alfred Bester's short story "Star Light, Star Bright." I still remember her lip curling as she asked if I was going to reveal some tentacled monster as the villain.
You interest me strangely with this anecdote, SCA. I'd like to read a transcript of that report.
Was she somehow prejudiced against science fiction, and did you submit a subsequent report on "The Stars, My Destination?"
Kudos on selecting one of the two most underrated authors in the history of the genre. Bester being one, and Van Vogt the other.
Yes, she thought sci fi was unworthy to have been selected as the subject of a book report.
That story was in The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Third Series (1954) which introduced me to most of the best in the business. And that it was normal for women to write sci fi.
You could say that event was the beginning of me learning it would be necessary to trust my own tastes and strongly resist the concept of consensus on anything. Of course that would lead to making adolescence a little harder than it always is anyway, and continuing onward.
It starts in kindergarten with pre-cut May basket parts and pasting the parts together....woe unto the child who doesn't put the basket together in the prescribed manner...
Or colors the cut out goose gray, instead of yellow like all the other kids.
the pussification of Americans.
It's something else in my view.
Who controls what kids learn?
Do we think what they're learning is an accident?
Teachers, and no accident.
Just as here, the good ones have been run out, run down and run off by [insert list of slurs/pejoratives], in school boards, in school politics and in academia.
If you like, Hollywood since 05 or so is just a parallel to education since the 1970s; force out the competent people and trash their legacy so that your own stuff can be elevated as the Good Stuff.
Same with food, same with houses, same with almost all consumer products.
Race to the bottom.
I posted my remarks below before reading yours.
What I remember best of William Buckley Jr. was his lazy arch smile on Firling Line.
The left have been ruthless fighters since the '30s and conservatives have been enriching themselves and their progeny via think tanks issuing beautifully printed lectures on what's wrong with the world and lo, here we are.
Oh, and Phyllis Schlafly of course. She had her fantasy vision on how American society should be ordered and meanwhile the left took over everything that mattered, most especially the Schools of Education.
Exactly what I'm planning on writing about today.
But the important thing to remember is not that they are lying about this particular issue -- it's that they do similar lying about nearly EVERY issue.
Never forget about Taqqiya, the islamic practice of lying to non-moslems as a matter of course. To them, lying is not a sin nor a crime or even wrong, if it is done to people beneath you.
And to moslems, everyone else is either a servant, a slave or an enemy and thus beneath.
You opened your nation to moslems: this is how they thank you.
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Love the headline of "the narrative bombs" due to how many ways it can be interpreted.
Yeah those bomb throwers missed that lying lesson. This time.
It still amazes me you got flagged by the censors here in United Kingdom. For what? Telling the truth. Seems to be a pattern.
Wye aye, it's for certain a pattern, and I don't even rank as high as a minnow far as being a regime-critic goes. Probably it is some kind of semi-automated thing picking up key words and phrases, such as "moslem"+pejorative, or specific terms.
Bit of a lark. In Swedish, "mos" means mash as in bangers&mash, or sauce as in applesauce or for something that's been squished. "Slem" means slime, scuzz, mucus. And "Lem" means limb, as in your arm or leg but most often it is used for the penis.
So "moslem" can be read as a bi-lingual pun meaning "slimy squishy penis".
R-d-r-r!
Ah, The Religion of Pieces strikes again. How many terrorist attacks have been committed by Muslims globally in the last quarter of a century? Most reports put this at upwards of 50,000
It's a safety signal rather like the VAERS spike.
Whatever the true number it's time to admit that Islam has a serious problem despite the obvious fact that most Muslims do not condone this. The word 'most' here is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
And didn't Mamdani himself just describe Muhammad as an 'immigrant'? A poor helpless soul who eventually took over and who's ideology led to the conquest, murder, enslavement, and rape of thousands. All sanctioned by God, of course.
Such are desert dreams.
A lot of Islam has moved on from those initial heady days of conquest. A lot hasn't. It's those who remain firmly entrenched in a barbaric and pre-medieval mindset we need to be concerned about.
That's a slur of who Mohammed really was. He was a very sharp person with insight of his tribe.
He was a pedophile war lord.
I noticed a few years ago that immigrants who had done quite well in this country were the most rapid anti-US opponents. This includes trust fund babies from developing countries where women are decidedly second class citizens. I was completely confused and wondered if I was wrong until I came across an interview of Professor Amy Waxman by Glenn Loury in which she explained (as only a MD/JD mind can) similar conclusions. I recently confronted a tech bro whose parents immigrated to the US. Nicest guy ever, who said he gets emotional listening to the Star Spangled Banner. While good to hear, there is a real issue in the room, and it is bourgeois immigrants colonizing the infrastructure created by the pasty white people while simultaneously hating them.
Not just the immigrants. MOST of US kids have been taught by their Marxist teachers in elementary and high schools to hate their country, the police, military, and conservatives, especially GOP and Trump. Certainly true for 90 percent of the 20-something kids I know.
Sideshow Bob terrorist threw two bombs, one jumping over the back of Loudspeaker Guy, the other he threw at the feet of a couple of NYC police, which led to what may become one of the more iconic photos of this time. https://x.com/i/status/2031179948916904113
Both of those terrorists should be in the Super Max facility for life. If the city, State, and Feds don't clamp down on this sort of behavior as soon and as hard as possible, anarchy will ensue.
Maybe God will have mercy on those two terrorist's souls, I have none.
Given the nature of prosecutors and judges these days, I'm beginning to think police should just shoot them. Throw a bomb in the name of Allah... and you get to meet Him immediately.
https://dispatchesfromheck.blogspot.com/2018/08/sippenhaftung.html
Since they pledged their allegiance to isis just put them in a cage douse them with kerosene and…
Thanks always for writing. I have no idea where to get the news, so I get it here. You, at least, sound rational. :-)
Mostly X provide this kind of news. The problem is it takes a lot of time to sort out the truth. The hot takes phase provides the later-often-banned videos. But AI photos and videos get mixed in to muddy the water.
I have friends who get their news only from CNN, MSNBC, WaPo, and the NYT. They're wholly ill-informed. Of course, if I were to show them the videos of those nuts throwing the bombs, they'd say it was AI.
Btw, is there any nice place to live anymore?
In the woods, just don't go to the coffee shop in town. Make your own and watch the geese fly overhead. Definitely spring.
Geese flew over the woods where I was relaxing and playing my drum last night after work. Indeed! Spring!
The 20 something kids I know get their “news” from Apple News, TikTok, maybe Snapchat. The “educated” ones add NYT and some that you list.
I occasionally watch my local TV news to just remind myself why I don't watch my local TV news.
I keep telling progressives, "I was never drawn to Trump, you pushed me to him."
I said often that he was my 18th choice of the 17 GOP primary candidates in 2016.
I voted reluctantly for him in 2016 (but was glad I did, within about three months).
I didn't vote for Trump in 2016. I didn't think he was serious -- that it was all just a publicity stunt. It turned out he actually had some talent for being a Chief Executive.
I didn't vote for Trump in 2020. I judged that demented Joe Biden would NEVER win, and that 2020 might be the year the Libertarians broke 5%.
By 2024, I really didn't have any choice. I had seen 2020 stolen -- really, 81 million people voted for an Alzheimer's patient? -- and knew what was in store if Kakkler won.
We're getting as good as Neo Anderson at dodging bullets.
I spar regularly with leftists on my local Richmond, VA lefty newsrag, and am constantly amazed at not only how low-info they are, but how they flat-out refuse to even consider non-MSM sources that debunk their narratives.
Useful idiots, one and all...
On the NextDoor app in Richmond the other day someone reported catching covid on a plane. Virtually every comment was either "wear your mask" or "make sure your jabs are up to date." And the anti-ICE yard signs are all over the place. Richmond has gone full woke, in large part due to VCU (IMO). I don't waste my effort discussing anything with these people.
Well....NoVA has been moving to Richmond since before covid....
Yes they are. And they don't think so. They think they are informed
Now ask which tribe controls the media.
If you're going with "da Joos!!", you must explain why they would want to whitewash Islamic terror (which almost invariably endangers Israel and Jews) aimed at a right wing group (who in general support Israel and defend Jews).
The left has been righteously antisemitic, particularly since 10/7, so I'm curious as to how you think they are being controlled
You knew the answer!
As for why, the purpose is to disrupt the larger society. It's an old tactic. So is letting hostiles into the larger society. Look at who is the major group bringing illegal immigrants into North America, Europe and Australia. Look into the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. Alejandro Mayorkas, George Soros, etc. Ask why the authors of most of the anti-white propaganda have surnames such as Cohen, Levine, Katz, Steinburg, etc. Ask who opened the gates of Toledo during the Moorish invasion of Iberia. Seriously, this has all been done before.
“I think there’s a resurgence of anti-semitism because at this point in time Europe has not yet learned how to be multicultural and I think we’re going to be part of the throes of that transformation. which must take place. Europe is not going to be the monolithic societies that they once were in the last century. Jews are going to be at the centre of that. It’s a huge transformation for Europe to make. They are not going into a multicultural mode and Jews will be resented because of our leading role but without that leading role, and without that transformation, Europe will not survive.”
~ Barbara Lerner Spectre
Islam is the broom of Israel to sweep away Europe and Christianity
~ Rabbi David Touitou
Bwahaha....
Tell you what... these hasbara bots keep getting dumber and dumber.
The CIA?
More like the Mossad.
many people express the view you're espousing here, but there seems to be some difficulty reconciling it with the facts/outcomes.
if this is so, what then explains the media's seemingly intense pro islamic stance where muslim extremism is whitewashed out of existence and everyone is called "islamophobic" and "white supremacists'?
that seems an odd position for the mossad to promote.
As I just wrote to another poster...
V. Dominique
Fauna and Flora
just now
You knew the answer!
As for why, the purpose is to disrupt the larger society. It's an old tactic. So is letting hostiles into the larger society. Look at who is the major group bringing illegal immigrants into North America, Europe and Australia. Look into the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. Alejandro Mayorkas, George Soros, etc. Ask why the authors of most of the anti-white propaganda have surnames such as Cohen, Levine, Katz, Steinburg, etc. Ask who opened the gates of Toledo during the Moorish invasion of Iberia. Seriously, this has all been done before.
“I think there’s a resurgence of anti-semitism because at this point in time Europe has not yet learned how to be multicultural and I think we’re going to be part of the throes of that transformation. which must take place. Europe is not going to be the monolithic societies that they once were in the last century. Jews are going to be at the centre of that. It’s a huge transformation for Europe to make. They are not going into a multicultural mode and Jews will be resented because of our leading role but without that leading role, and without that transformation, Europe will not survive.”
~ Barbara Lerner Spectre
Islam is the broom of Israel to sweep away Europe and Christianity
~ Rabbi David Touitou
Also, ask why ISIS never seems to attack Israel. There have been credible allegations that ISIS (and Hamas) were created by the Mossad.
If you wish to look into these and other allegations regarding Israeli dirty tricks (which may include the assasinations of JFK and RFK and 9/11), go to The American Pravda series by Ron Unz, who, by the way, is Jewish.
https://www.unz.com/page/american-pravda-series/
The modern left is made almost entirely of midwits who got out over their intellectual skis. Ashkenazis, being a little bit smarter than average, tend to fall into the midwit range at a higher percentage than you'd otherwise expect. They all become atheists, of course, because that's what midwits think makes you smart.
Mark Cuban is basically the ur-example: he became successful through no fault of his own and now says really dumb leftist things.
And the concept of a Jewish conspiracy means you don't actually know any Jews. You get 3 of them in a room and you'll have 7 opinions on whatever subject you care to discuss. Ron Unz is one of those 7 opinions.
Try rebutting what I said instead of writing this nonsense. You could also read some history. Start with "Two Hundred Years Together" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, which details Jewish conspiracies to take over Russia culminating in the Bolshevik Revolution. (Bolshevik, Zionist, Straussian and NeoCon all seem to be different names for the same criminal cabal that found the state of Israel and still control it.) All the tricks that were used in Russia are being used in Western countries today.
Also, read " The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine" by Edwin Black, which tells of an alliance between Zionists and the Third Reich to round up German Jews and relocate them to Palestine. This pact was formed because the Zionists had a hard time convincing most European Jews to leave their comfortable homes and move to a desert hellhole. It was also believed that a larger Jewish population would pressure the Brits into declaring Palestine a Jewish state. When that failed, the Zionists began inhibiting efforts to relocate Jews, thinking that the presence of Jews in relocation camps would provide pressure on the Brits.
Conspiracies seem to be the lifeblood of this particular culture. And the primary victims of these conspiracies tend to be those people who are called "the little Jews" by this criminal cabal; people who have been used and abused in order to achieve the goals of "the big Jews". In that sense, this ciminal cabal is not unlike the other factions that currently rule this world.
Yeah...the Mossad runs the world. I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale.
That's one hell of a strawman. It's also not a rebuttal, stinky.