Mme. Defarge
Mme. Defarge's JournalWhich term best fits the incoming administration -
a klepto-kakistocracy or a kaki-kleptocracy?
Jennifer Rubin's column today -
Opinion | Democrats need to reclaim reality from the right-wing disinformation machine
Disinformation has taken hold over democracy.
Whether you believe that Americans embraced President-elect Donald Trump’s misogynistic, racist and bullying persona because they misunderstood what he stood for or because they liked what he stood for; or because they believed (falsely) that the economy was in a recession or because they could not afford to buy their own home; or because of some combination of all of these, we cannot ignore the success of the right-wing media’s disinformation network in shaping how millions of Americans view the country.
Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Inquirer put it succinctly:
“The things that pundits have been talking about since Tuesday — an economy that hasn’t worked for the working class since the time of Ronald Reagan, anxieties among white voters about a potential end to white privilege and the patriarchy, and a Democratic Party that’s lost touch with the great American middle — all factored into this election. But nothing mattered more than this: Donald Trump was returned to power by the most badly informed electorate in modern American history.
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A now much-discussed Reuters-Ipsos poll found that “Americans who primarily get their news from Fox News and Conservative Media and social media/other are more likely to answer questions about inflation and crime incorrectly than Americans writ large.” When tens of millions of Americans believe things that simply are not true, Democrats’ accomplishments matter very little. Their message does not reach the intended audience. And frighteningly, “You can get people to vote away their democracy … as long as you create a false world for them to believe in,” as historian Heather Cox Richardson said.
In the right-wing media’s world, the economy is in a shambles, crime is surging, and kids are being lured into sex-reassignment surgery. In such an atmosphere, Democrats’ positions and proposals become divorced from the public’s perceptions of politics.
Question about impact of ballot measures in swing states
for protecting abortion access. I’m wondering if they allowed voters to have “the best of both worlds”, letting them vote to protect women’s health in their state but vote for him whose name I will not speak for president.
What people don't seem to remember
is that tot won his primaries by smaller margins than Biden.
I'm no spring chicken
but I historically had low normal blood pressure until 2018, when it hit the high range and I had to go on blood pressure medication. Naturally, I blamed it on Trump. Recently, however, I began experiencing an unpleasant symptom that was possibly a side effect of the medication. I was instructed to stop taking it for two weeks, record my blood pressure readings daily (which I know how do, and do much better than it’s done at my clinic), and to schedule an in person doctor’s appointment. Now, after more than a week of readings, my blood pressure is back in the low normal range and I have to wonder if my body knows something that my conscious mind does not.
Dare I hope that our 8 year national nightmare may soon FINALLY be over?
Jeff Bezos - merde alors!
Excuse my French but there’s bullsh*t and horsesh*t, and then there’s chickensh*t. . .
Self-deleted.
True crime drama at Supreme Court pits Oklahoma against its top criminal court
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/09/nx-s1-5118064/supreme-court-death-penalty-oklahomaThis is completely horrifying and it will be interesting to see how the “pro-life” justices will decide in the matter of state sanctioned homicide.
Richard Glossip has had nine execution dates set over the years; he's eaten his last meal three times. He was tried twice and has had multiple appeals, including one that was heard by the Supreme Court involving the proposed method of execution. When the Supreme Court heard that case in 2015, Justice Samuel Alito made it clear that he viewed the appeal as nothing more than a stalling tactic, asking, "Is it appropriate for the judiciary to countenance what amounts to a guerrilla war against the death penalty?"
Glossip lost that appeal and many others over the years. But in 2022, Gentner Drummond, the newly elected Republican attorney general of Oklahoma, took office, and one of the first things he did was review the 28 pending death sentences.
"At the end of that exercise, one jumped out," he said in an interview with NPR.
The prosecution's theory was that Glossip, a motel manager, feared that he was about to be fired, and paid the motel handyman to bludgeon the motel's owner, Barry Van Treese, to death.
For years, Glossip's lawyers have argued that the prosecution's theory made little sense, and that the prosecutors concealed, and even destroyed, exculpatory evidence.
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