From Pine View Farm

April, 2023 archive

QOTD 0

Joseph Roux:

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

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Obsessed 0

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All the News that Fits 0

Rupert Murdoch, wearing a tee shirt reading

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Misdirection Play, War on Woke Dept. 0

Thom explains the con.

Aside:

I had not heard the term “diversionary warfare” before, but I think I’ll stick with “misdirection play.”

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The Disinformation Superhighway 0

Pig:  How would you define the internet?  Rat:  How would I know?  I'm not some big technology guy.  Look it up in the dictionary.

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The Vacancy 0

The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts thinks she has the perfect candidate to replace Tucker Carlson at Fox News.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Maybe it’s just me, but I believe that person who is incapable of cleaning a gun safely should not be in possession of a gun.

Aside:

Apparently, based on what see in the news, it is just me.

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Vaccine Nation 0

Florida Man games the numbers.

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Alfred Nobel:

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

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Foxy Shady 0

Brian Greenspun, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun, is not surprised that Fox News reached a last-minute settlement in the Dominion law suit. Here’s a tiny bit from his article:

If Fox admitted to its bald-faced lies, even the rubes who have been sucked in all these years by an agenda designed by Fox owners to fool all of its viewers all of the time would have to admit they were duped. And if Fox and its friends would lie about something so monumental as a presidential election, what wouldn’t they do to keep their MAGA millions in check?

So it was no surprise — especially given the mountains of evidence of reckless disregard and knowing falsity that crammed the record in the case against Murdoch et al. — that there was a last-minute settlement.

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Cancel Culture, Republican Style 0

Frame One:  MAGA-hatted man hugging bust of Robert E. Lee, crying,

Via Yellowdoggranny.

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This New Gilded Age 0

Michael in Norfolk minces no words in discussing Republicans’ efforts to return our society to a Dickensian dystopia. An excerpt:

But now many Republican legislators want to go farther and return to the most brutal aspects of a Charles Dickens novel where children are employed in harsh and dangerous working conditions. In doing so many are raising the mantra of “parental rights” – the same smoke screen being used by the far right and its political whores to gut history instruction and erase blacks/race and gays from the public schools . . . .

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Another Day in the Life in NRA Paradise 0

Man picking up newspaper while holding up white flag.  Headline on ntewspaper reads,

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The News Recycle 0

David outlines the right-wing strategy for propagating propaganda to poison the polity.

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Courting Disaster 0

Image of the Supreme Court building, where the phrase

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Neighborly politeness.

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William L. Shirer:

I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian state.

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A Tune for the Times 0

Warning: Mild language.

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Twits on Twitter 0

Yet another lying twit careens down the Disinformation Superhighway.

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Suffer the Children 0

One more time. That’s not scripture. That’s Republican policy.

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