I have been screaming this to high heaven--all I have been hearing is how to blame Kamala and wokeism, which, as a Black woman, I find chilling, as if people forget how disinformation, the legacy media, bomb threats, and an entire host of other BS contributed to her loss as well.
The same legacy media that called themselves apologizing to the Black community during the lead up to Juneteenth becoming a federal holiday, who lately have been showing it to be meaningless.
I have to tell you: of all the people I subscribe to you are my absolute favorite! Never stop writing and use as much salty language as possible. I just started The Nation, The New Republic and The Nineteenth. I know I should drop the NYT but there are some good columnists.
If you haven't seen Jeff Tiedrich's ‘Everyone's Entitled to My Own Opinion’ I recommend it most heartily. He doesn't mince his words either and is very funny. He sorry of takes the Mickey out of MAGAs and how batshit crazy they are.
Normally I'd only give a thumbs up but it's rare that people reply to me (and that's absolutely not a problem, I kinda like being under the radar) but thank you. He is really good though.
I took the news apps off my phone on Wednesday morning following the election. I was that livid.
Any MSM outlet like NYT that claim that they just report news— no, you sane washed FDJT’s word salads and KEPT GIVING HIM FREE PRESS! Let’s not forget how the RW echo chamber of Fox, Newsmax and Joe Rogen/Megyn Kelly kept downplaying, mocking, exaggerating, lying and outright ignoring Biden’s policies.
They’re going to get their comeuppance sooner rather than later.
I find it very informative to read many of the comments following the articles/ letter here on Substack.
I find an awful lot of talk about staying in bed, or getting drunk , despairing, or burying heads under pillows etc. I understand the sentiment.
One thing I am curious about but have no way of determining. Does anyone else have any sense of tRumper1s response in 2020? Did tRumpers say similar things in 2020?
Or might they have said “ we were robbed, we are gonna continue the fight until we win! . Just curious? Since I do not follow tRump supporters on here I have no idea. But I have my suspicions.
I have not even had my tv on for local news because the felon-rapist image will probably pop up. I have music in to provide background noise. This is not about THE PRESS. This is/was an attack on the US of right wing propaganda to help Putin seek revenge.
They do not represent “press” as a source of information, but rather a pointed attack on the truth.
They still haven’t, and it seems none will . ( search ‘nyt greatest wealth transfer’ for one very lonely exception . . . I canceled my subscription )
There is a hell of a lot of work that needs doing. We see it every day, and there’s more we don’t see.
We have $154 Trillion in net personal wealth. Net!
We have the wealth to do great things.
That wealth grew $70 Trillion in the past 10 years ( see link above with links or search ‘us fed distribution household wealth chart’ - US Fed )
Our federal obligations are about $35 Trillion, $28 Trillion debt and $7 Trillion balance sheet reserves
The top 1% , 1 in 100 , have $46 Trillion per the Fed.
That group could pay off those obligations, and have $11 Trillion left over. Federal finance doesn’t work like that, but let’s hear that in Congress and work it out!
Or, we could have the wealthiest pay the $17 Trillion in the increase in that national debt account, and have around $30 Trillion left over for 1.3 million households.
2026 is watching and waiting. 30% of the electorate voted for a new monarch, a moneyarchy. The USA was founded to throw down monarchy, and I still am dedicated to that — b.rad
Blue wave in 353 days? Well the orange dildo says we won’t vote again. So, I guess we will see what we see. I do not plan to acquiesce to any of this crap - but I wonder whether our fellow county-people will accept the gaslighting.
I think “cockgobblers” is a good term for the “opinion” writers of the normalizing sanewashers, primarily NYT, WaPo, and equivalent, owned by rich elites asshats.
Even the ones who “endorsed” Kamala were tepid because they hate boring ol’ average Americans (and by extension Biden & Harris) and love them some TRUMP!
I will also call them pathetic coprolites (sad dinosaur poop), because they are no longer reliable (ie truthful) and are therefore imploding or just being strangled by their overlords…
One caveat, the intellectual language used by Biden/Harris didn’t reach a lot of less smart or less knowledgeable Americans, they did need to dumb it down in some cases. But agreed, the media really needs to report facts and facts-check on air.
You are 💯 % right. I canceled WaPo and NY Times, tho subs are not up until next year. It is infuriating how they're treating the fpotus cabinet picks. Plus, now we're getting "feel good" food and mood recipes, and entertainment bits, to obviously lull us into acceptance of oligarchy. Aaagh.
They know people want progressive policies implemented, if asked separately from party affiliation. We have got to reverse the Reagan on up assault on our poor population, our middle class, our constitution, and our rule of law. It's going to take massive community action, and overwhelming the legacy media enablers, and the right wing sources, with alternative, progressive information media online. We have got to get billionaire money and influence tagged for what they are - a takeover by greedy, care nothing for others, control freaks. If the economy really matters most to people, they are not going to like the fpotus years.
After watching PBS News Hour I wrote a Substack about the interview of Pastor Rodriguez of New Season Church. Rodriguez supports Trump's planned mass deportations as long as the people being deported are criminals and not hard-working, god-fearing Christians. He has been assured that those good undocumented people will not be targeted. Echo of history anyone? Only some people will be deported, rounded up or imprisoned.
It really makes you wonder what these people use for brains? Especially Latinos: there's barely a Latino family that doesn't have undocumented members AND Trump said he'd deport legal migrants too (and take away their citizenship)! “He won't come for me! I'm not a criminal or a rapist or a drug addict.” Goes what? That's what you voted for and you bet your sweet arse he'll come for you. They've obviously never come across Martin Niemöller's famous poem. He was an anti-Semitic, right-wing, Lutheran pastor who initially welcomed Hitler (the ironies just keep piling up!) but at least he developed a conscience by 1935. There are many versions of his poem, this one is based on the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, founded by the British government in 2001. I've changed the second verse exchanging ‘Socialists’ for ‘Disabled’. The mentally and physically disabled were among the earliest victims of the Nazi death camps as were the Roma and Sinti peoples, labelled ‘Gypsies’ they are still widely and hugely discriminated against: governments don't like itinerant people, they're difficult to keep tabs on (e.g. for taxes). Trump's and Project 25's avowed intention of getting rid of the DoE will be devastating for disabled and special needs children and for the Nazis they didn't fit with their Aryan ‘master race’ image of themselves. Ironically the Aryans were originally a self-designated group of Northern Indians who migrated south from around 2000 BC, eventually reaching as far as Persia (Iran). They certainly weren't blue-eyed blondes!, although they did differentiate themselves from their darker-skinned southern cousins.
Anyway, the confessional prose-poem:
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Disabled
And I did not speak out
Because I was not Disabled
Then they came for the Trade Unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Trade Unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
It's powerful stuff. It's a scandal and an evil that its lessons still haven't been learned.
I have been screaming this to high heaven--all I have been hearing is how to blame Kamala and wokeism, which, as a Black woman, I find chilling, as if people forget how disinformation, the legacy media, bomb threats, and an entire host of other BS contributed to her loss as well.
Hey, Alicia, I sent you a DM about something. :)
The same legacy media that called themselves apologizing to the Black community during the lead up to Juneteenth becoming a federal holiday, who lately have been showing it to be meaningless.
I have to tell you: of all the people I subscribe to you are my absolute favorite! Never stop writing and use as much salty language as possible. I just started The Nation, The New Republic and The Nineteenth. I know I should drop the NYT but there are some good columnists.
If you haven't seen Jeff Tiedrich's ‘Everyone's Entitled to My Own Opinion’ I recommend it most heartily. He doesn't mince his words either and is very funny. He sorry of takes the Mickey out of MAGAs and how batshit crazy they are.
I am a huge fan of Jeff Tiedrich!!
Normally I'd only give a thumbs up but it's rare that people reply to me (and that's absolutely not a problem, I kinda like being under the radar) but thank you. He is really good though.
And there are the games. And they keep track of some news. We are still taking the on line version.
But they are to blame for this.
I gave up on them and media news 5 years ago and don't miss a damn thing!
I took the news apps off my phone on Wednesday morning following the election. I was that livid.
Any MSM outlet like NYT that claim that they just report news— no, you sane washed FDJT’s word salads and KEPT GIVING HIM FREE PRESS! Let’s not forget how the RW echo chamber of Fox, Newsmax and Joe Rogen/Megyn Kelly kept downplaying, mocking, exaggerating, lying and outright ignoring Biden’s policies.
They’re going to get their comeuppance sooner rather than later.
You are of course right. They. The Press. The WAPO & NYTs did this to us
I am feeling sick.
Time to climb back in bed and put a pillow over my head and eyes.
Maybe 50 pillows
I find it very informative to read many of the comments following the articles/ letter here on Substack.
I find an awful lot of talk about staying in bed, or getting drunk , despairing, or burying heads under pillows etc. I understand the sentiment.
One thing I am curious about but have no way of determining. Does anyone else have any sense of tRumper1s response in 2020? Did tRumpers say similar things in 2020?
Or might they have said “ we were robbed, we are gonna continue the fight until we win! . Just curious? Since I do not follow tRump supporters on here I have no idea. But I have my suspicions.
😂 Me, too!
I have not even had my tv on for local news because the felon-rapist image will probably pop up. I have music in to provide background noise. This is not about THE PRESS. This is/was an attack on the US of right wing propaganda to help Putin seek revenge.
They do not represent “press” as a source of information, but rather a pointed attack on the truth.
Here's a poem I wrote in the 90s. As you can see nothing has changed.
Feeding the Rich
We could have taught the poor
to eat their young,
except we needed them.
We suck the marrow
from soft bones,
and toast the blood
that keeps us
in our comfortable homes,
at dinner parties
where we speak of freedom.
I just “found” you all😁 With you and Substack, I feel good in the news department!
It's a great place! Welcome
Thank you :)
Yep, all the news one could ever want and a bunch of other great topics.
For ten years I have asked leading progressives to report the simple financial facts of the USA.
We are not in debt <uswealthclock.com>
They still haven’t, and it seems none will . ( search ‘nyt greatest wealth transfer’ for one very lonely exception . . . I canceled my subscription )
There is a hell of a lot of work that needs doing. We see it every day, and there’s more we don’t see.
We have $154 Trillion in net personal wealth. Net!
We have the wealth to do great things.
That wealth grew $70 Trillion in the past 10 years ( see link above with links or search ‘us fed distribution household wealth chart’ - US Fed )
Our federal obligations are about $35 Trillion, $28 Trillion debt and $7 Trillion balance sheet reserves
The top 1% , 1 in 100 , have $46 Trillion per the Fed.
That group could pay off those obligations, and have $11 Trillion left over. Federal finance doesn’t work like that, but let’s hear that in Congress and work it out!
Or, we could have the wealthiest pay the $17 Trillion in the increase in that national debt account, and have around $30 Trillion left over for 1.3 million households.
2026 is watching and waiting. 30% of the electorate voted for a new monarch, a moneyarchy. The USA was founded to throw down monarchy, and I still am dedicated to that — b.rad
Blue wave in 353 days? Well the orange dildo says we won’t vote again. So, I guess we will see what we see. I do not plan to acquiesce to any of this crap - but I wonder whether our fellow county-people will accept the gaslighting.
They’ve truly failed the people.
"There are a lot of high-quality substacks (with less of a pottymouth than mine!)"
You can stop apologizing for your vocabulary. We don't mind at all, and it's a large part of your charm.
We didn’t realize MSM was already working for Russian State TV
I think “cockgobblers” is a good term for the “opinion” writers of the normalizing sanewashers, primarily NYT, WaPo, and equivalent, owned by rich elites asshats.
Even the ones who “endorsed” Kamala were tepid because they hate boring ol’ average Americans (and by extension Biden & Harris) and love them some TRUMP!
I will also call them pathetic coprolites (sad dinosaur poop), because they are no longer reliable (ie truthful) and are therefore imploding or just being strangled by their overlords…
One caveat, the intellectual language used by Biden/Harris didn’t reach a lot of less smart or less knowledgeable Americans, they did need to dumb it down in some cases. But agreed, the media really needs to report facts and facts-check on air.
As Democrats go, it doesn't get much more dumbed-down than Coconut Kamala and Geriatric Joe. First-term Obama they ain’t.
You are 💯 % right. I canceled WaPo and NY Times, tho subs are not up until next year. It is infuriating how they're treating the fpotus cabinet picks. Plus, now we're getting "feel good" food and mood recipes, and entertainment bits, to obviously lull us into acceptance of oligarchy. Aaagh.
They know people want progressive policies implemented, if asked separately from party affiliation. We have got to reverse the Reagan on up assault on our poor population, our middle class, our constitution, and our rule of law. It's going to take massive community action, and overwhelming the legacy media enablers, and the right wing sources, with alternative, progressive information media online. We have got to get billionaire money and influence tagged for what they are - a takeover by greedy, care nothing for others, control freaks. If the economy really matters most to people, they are not going to like the fpotus years.
After watching PBS News Hour I wrote a Substack about the interview of Pastor Rodriguez of New Season Church. Rodriguez supports Trump's planned mass deportations as long as the people being deported are criminals and not hard-working, god-fearing Christians. He has been assured that those good undocumented people will not be targeted. Echo of history anyone? Only some people will be deported, rounded up or imprisoned.
https://open.substack.com/pub/annemckechnie/p/a-pastor-makes-a-bargain-with-the?r=nmqz6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
*Massive eyeroll*, what a maroon, as if they won't get to him eventually.
It really makes you wonder what these people use for brains? Especially Latinos: there's barely a Latino family that doesn't have undocumented members AND Trump said he'd deport legal migrants too (and take away their citizenship)! “He won't come for me! I'm not a criminal or a rapist or a drug addict.” Goes what? That's what you voted for and you bet your sweet arse he'll come for you. They've obviously never come across Martin Niemöller's famous poem. He was an anti-Semitic, right-wing, Lutheran pastor who initially welcomed Hitler (the ironies just keep piling up!) but at least he developed a conscience by 1935. There are many versions of his poem, this one is based on the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, founded by the British government in 2001. I've changed the second verse exchanging ‘Socialists’ for ‘Disabled’. The mentally and physically disabled were among the earliest victims of the Nazi death camps as were the Roma and Sinti peoples, labelled ‘Gypsies’ they are still widely and hugely discriminated against: governments don't like itinerant people, they're difficult to keep tabs on (e.g. for taxes). Trump's and Project 25's avowed intention of getting rid of the DoE will be devastating for disabled and special needs children and for the Nazis they didn't fit with their Aryan ‘master race’ image of themselves. Ironically the Aryans were originally a self-designated group of Northern Indians who migrated south from around 2000 BC, eventually reaching as far as Persia (Iran). They certainly weren't blue-eyed blondes!, although they did differentiate themselves from their darker-skinned southern cousins.
Anyway, the confessional prose-poem:
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Disabled
And I did not speak out
Because I was not Disabled
Then they came for the Trade Unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Trade Unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
It's powerful stuff. It's a scandal and an evil that its lessons still haven't been learned.