"National broadcasters or their local affiliates are not really showing up to show hundreds of federal workers protesting on the evening news. There’s a massacre being carried out in broad daylight and the pathetic reality is that much of the DC press corps is either too scared to do their jobs, or they just don’t care."
Trump and Musk, those wilding frat boys, get *clicks*; the people who keep us alive (or used to) do not. It's about ratings. It's about profit. It's about not pissing off the power-sotted lords of the universe, and it really doesn't help when one of them (Bezos) owns a once-great newspaper and decides to impose editorial policy.
Fuck them. Cancel those subscriptions. Send your friends here.
The coverage is so bad. Locally we got the obligatory "here are some people with signs" on most stations with almost no discussion. One station did interview some very articulate grad students. But the next day I had to DIG to find the clip on their website. MSM is bad on a good day and these are not good days :(
I didn't hear about this, thank goodness for Substack authors. Major media obviously wants everyone to think it's all OK, a few quirks, but.... pfffft. I hope people never stop these demonstrations until every last one of these Republican coup leaders are gone.
If people would leave reality TV and rejoin actual reality, they would realize that our Federal government was performing splendidly. There was no need of some nerdy jackass to tear it all apart. I might also mention that the withdrawal from Afghanistan was nothing near a failure. To move that many people that quickly out of a country controlled by a very unfriendly government and experience only a dozen casualties, was a near miracle.
People have this idea that the government is corrupt. It is. But the the corruption isn't at the level of federal workers or even agency heads. It's at the level of politicians and lobbyists.!
If we can survive until the midterms that should be the end of Trumpian craziness. By all logic should be a bloodbath for the GOP, Praying for super majorities in the Congress, Can you say "Impeachment"? Dare I dream of that?
Which is precisely why there won't be any midterm elections, at least not in a style we would recognize. Waiting til them will be far too late. It may already be too late. Understand, the system is broken almost as completely as it was when the Nazis took over in January of 1933. By June, just six months later, the system had been smashed. Granted, the Weimar system was not particularly robust to begin with, but that is how fast it can and will happen.
Even though I am an "old", 74 next week, woohoo!!! " Who Knows where the Time Goes" Sandy Denny version is the best. Incredibly talented vocalist who died way too young, but I digress. I've adopted the fashionable Trumpian style of incoherent rambling and disconnected speech.
Anyway, to the point, When I talk with young people, They consider me sorta cool because I'm an old rocker guitar player. OT again!! dammit I am surprised, not pleasantly, at how ill-informed most are. They are amazed that I can calculate 6% sales tax on an item without a calculator, I'm a wizard! They don't have much of any concept of historical time lines, not sure if Vietnam was before of after WWII, haven't the foggiest notion of how the various government bodies are organized and the difference between Local , State and Federal. This all adds up to explain how easy it is for an unscrupulous charlatan, like Trump, to spread his egregious lies. He loves the uneducated for a reason. Perhaps he is a kindred spirit who is suspicious of people who know things. My question is , why are so many Americans soo ill-informed and what can be done to correct this problem? Is our education system that screwed up? Can the "rasslin' lady fix it?
Oh, fantastic. The nerds are finally mad. And they should be. The country that put humans on the Moon is now run by a guy who probably thinks science is just feelings with extra steps. Trump and his goons aren’t just cutting funding; they’re gutting the very institutions that keep civilization functioning. Why invest in research when you can shove more money into tax cuts for billionaires and pointless border walls?
And where’s the media? Oh, that’s right. Busy covering whatever asinine tweet Trump or Musk farted out this morning instead of reporting on actual mass layoffs of scientists and the death of federally funded cancer research. There’s a massacre happening, not with bullets but with budgets, and the press is mostly yawning.
Bill Nye and a handful of researchers are screaming into the void while the DC press corps collectively shrugs. What’s next? Telling NASA to stop using satellites because the Earth is probably flat? This is what happens when you let anti-intellectual buffoons steer the ship. The iceberg is right there, and these idiots throw the life rafts overboard.
I was there, can confirm that the musical portion of the program was cringe. Bill Nye was welcomed like a rock star though. As well he should be. Nerds are much better at signs than songs.
"the pathetic reality is that much of the DC press corps is either too scared to do their jobs, or they just don’t care."
Both. They are too stupid and nepo to care. And they are also cowards.
The list of words that were searched show why many grants in mathematics were classified as woke: groups, identity, bias, and equality. Yes, they canceled grants in mathematics because of these "woke" words in which some things are equal to others, and groups have identity elements.
Unfortunately they are mostly white guys who claim to be "libertarian" hur hur because that one time they get laid they want abortion available .... but vote republican.
And the Republicans are flocking there to get away from the 'mad' masses. Then they bitch...after fully being aware of the problems previously. It's one thing to think of an occasional shortcoming, but a day in, day out occurrence is another thing.
Is it ironic that Sir uses the discoveries of scientific research to suppress scientific research? Is it ironic that something as scientifically advanced as the "SmartPhone" is used by Sir to SEND CEASELESS AND MISSPELLED AND INCOHERENT SCREEDS INTO THE SHUDDERING VASTNESS OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS?
Such is the nature of The Apotheosis of "Positive Thinking™"!
I'm certain that "Sir" has not a single clue as to how a "Smartphone" actually works. To him it's a "magical" device supplied to him by higher powers so that he might disperse the "Truth" as has been revealed to him, because he is "special"
THIS:
"National broadcasters or their local affiliates are not really showing up to show hundreds of federal workers protesting on the evening news. There’s a massacre being carried out in broad daylight and the pathetic reality is that much of the DC press corps is either too scared to do their jobs, or they just don’t care."
Trump and Musk, those wilding frat boys, get *clicks*; the people who keep us alive (or used to) do not. It's about ratings. It's about profit. It's about not pissing off the power-sotted lords of the universe, and it really doesn't help when one of them (Bezos) owns a once-great newspaper and decides to impose editorial policy.
Fuck them. Cancel those subscriptions. Send your friends here.
excellent photos, thank you
The coverage is so bad. Locally we got the obligatory "here are some people with signs" on most stations with almost no discussion. One station did interview some very articulate grad students. But the next day I had to DIG to find the clip on their website. MSM is bad on a good day and these are not good days :(
Lord Dominick of Gwinn, thanks for doing the heavy lifting on this. 🙇♂️
Outstanding work, good sir!🙏🏾💖
GREAT pics Dom! 👍
Did Gene Cernan also take the first selfie? 😂
I didn't hear about this, thank goodness for Substack authors. Major media obviously wants everyone to think it's all OK, a few quirks, but.... pfffft. I hope people never stop these demonstrations until every last one of these Republican coup leaders are gone.
If people would leave reality TV and rejoin actual reality, they would realize that our Federal government was performing splendidly. There was no need of some nerdy jackass to tear it all apart. I might also mention that the withdrawal from Afghanistan was nothing near a failure. To move that many people that quickly out of a country controlled by a very unfriendly government and experience only a dozen casualties, was a near miracle.
People have this idea that the government is corrupt. It is. But the the corruption isn't at the level of federal workers or even agency heads. It's at the level of politicians and lobbyists.!
Especially when you consider that stupidly Trump set the timeline for withdrawal.
If we can survive until the midterms that should be the end of Trumpian craziness. By all logic should be a bloodbath for the GOP, Praying for super majorities in the Congress, Can you say "Impeachment"? Dare I dream of that?
Which is precisely why there won't be any midterm elections, at least not in a style we would recognize. Waiting til them will be far too late. It may already be too late. Understand, the system is broken almost as completely as it was when the Nazis took over in January of 1933. By June, just six months later, the system had been smashed. Granted, the Weimar system was not particularly robust to begin with, but that is how fast it can and will happen.
I am also convinced that elections from now on will be for show.
My like button doesn't work. LIKE
Even though I am an "old", 74 next week, woohoo!!! " Who Knows where the Time Goes" Sandy Denny version is the best. Incredibly talented vocalist who died way too young, but I digress. I've adopted the fashionable Trumpian style of incoherent rambling and disconnected speech.
Anyway, to the point, When I talk with young people, They consider me sorta cool because I'm an old rocker guitar player. OT again!! dammit I am surprised, not pleasantly, at how ill-informed most are. They are amazed that I can calculate 6% sales tax on an item without a calculator, I'm a wizard! They don't have much of any concept of historical time lines, not sure if Vietnam was before of after WWII, haven't the foggiest notion of how the various government bodies are organized and the difference between Local , State and Federal. This all adds up to explain how easy it is for an unscrupulous charlatan, like Trump, to spread his egregious lies. He loves the uneducated for a reason. Perhaps he is a kindred spirit who is suspicious of people who know things. My question is , why are so many Americans soo ill-informed and what can be done to correct this problem? Is our education system that screwed up? Can the "rasslin' lady fix it?
I wonder about this as well. How do kids get through school not understanding the three branches of government? Don’t they teach American anymore?
Oh, fantastic. The nerds are finally mad. And they should be. The country that put humans on the Moon is now run by a guy who probably thinks science is just feelings with extra steps. Trump and his goons aren’t just cutting funding; they’re gutting the very institutions that keep civilization functioning. Why invest in research when you can shove more money into tax cuts for billionaires and pointless border walls?
And where’s the media? Oh, that’s right. Busy covering whatever asinine tweet Trump or Musk farted out this morning instead of reporting on actual mass layoffs of scientists and the death of federally funded cancer research. There’s a massacre happening, not with bullets but with budgets, and the press is mostly yawning.
Bill Nye and a handful of researchers are screaming into the void while the DC press corps collectively shrugs. What’s next? Telling NASA to stop using satellites because the Earth is probably flat? This is what happens when you let anti-intellectual buffoons steer the ship. The iceberg is right there, and these idiots throw the life rafts overboard.
Well, That Man has to pander to his evangelical base, who still believes science is a giant conspiracy to erase the existence of God...
I was there, can confirm that the musical portion of the program was cringe. Bill Nye was welcomed like a rock star though. As well he should be. Nerds are much better at signs than songs.
"the pathetic reality is that much of the DC press corps is either too scared to do their jobs, or they just don’t care."
Both. They are too stupid and nepo to care. And they are also cowards.
The list of words that were searched show why many grants in mathematics were classified as woke: groups, identity, bias, and equality. Yes, they canceled grants in mathematics because of these "woke" words in which some things are equal to others, and groups have identity elements.
Science: "How diversity of gut microbiota impacts response to medication".
Musk goons: "Diversity - not on my watch." *Cancels grant funding*.
They cancelled the Enola Gay, because obviously.
Wait til they get to "drag" races.
I'm just saying, can you imagine if all the IT guys went on strike?
Aren't we in this mess partly because techbros elevated Musk to god-like status?
Unfortunately they are mostly white guys who claim to be "libertarian" hur hur because that one time they get laid they want abortion available .... but vote republican.
I find most "Libertarians" pretty disingenuous They actually like rules and regulations as long as they don't have to follow them
And paved roads and septic and city sewer systems etc
And the Republicans are flocking there to get away from the 'mad' masses. Then they bitch...after fully being aware of the problems previously. It's one thing to think of an occasional shortcoming, but a day in, day out occurrence is another thing.
Is it ironic that Sir uses the discoveries of scientific research to suppress scientific research? Is it ironic that something as scientifically advanced as the "SmartPhone" is used by Sir to SEND CEASELESS AND MISSPELLED AND INCOHERENT SCREEDS INTO THE SHUDDERING VASTNESS OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS?
Such is the nature of The Apotheosis of "Positive Thinking™"!
I'm certain that "Sir" has not a single clue as to how a "Smartphone" actually works. To him it's a "magical" device supplied to him by higher powers so that he might disperse the "Truth" as has been revealed to him, because he is "special"
Rumors from within say Sir often confuses his Smartyphone with a new bar of Irish Spring™ delivered daily.
Thinking of the all horrible places that poor bar of Irish Spring has to go...eeeww
No wonder it can only survive for one day
Truth is nothing reaches the bottom of the flesh folds…
Don't. Go. There.