2.09.2020

Sunday

Tech

YouTube is big but you knew that.



Media

The liberal media isn't.
"The "liberal media" expresses despair when the right is at its worst, but much of it loathes genuine progressivism. If it's Sanders vs. Trump, Chris Matthews and Chuck Todd will write in Mitt Romney or Colin Powell. "


Propaganda

“Flood the zone with shit”: How misinformation overwhelmed our democracy - The media zone has always been about shit, but it was always controlled shit. As media fractured with talk radio, Fox News, Internet news, and social media the shit became impossible to control. Now, the uncontrolled shit flows though society like a virus, destroying facts and the old controlled shit on it's way.

I've said before, I'm not sure democracy can survive the internet age.

More from Stumbling and Mumbling. THE DANGERS IN BALANCE

A good example of the shit.

The Heisenberg Report
"Friday’s revisions show Donald Trump has not yet had a year of job gains that matches Obama’s final year in office."
Yet here in Eastern Indiana Teabagistan, every Fox-News-watching Trump supporter, and even a few claiming to not really like Trump, regularly mention how much better the economy is doing now that he is in office.

Another Example here






2020

Bernie Sanders showed us he’s a very skilled politician - Bernie also stays on point, just hammering away at issues instead of stepping into the normal political mud slinging. 
Political talker....what do you think of Trump?
             Bernie.... Not a nice guy.. Back to medicare for all.
Political talker....what do you think of HRC?
             Bernie.... Not a nice person.. Back to medicare for all.


The US

Found on the BBC: Trump impeachment trial: Is US politics beyond the point of repair?

Possibly. The dying, and now captured by Fox/Trump, wing of the corporate party fighting the inept wing of the corporate party, HRC/Pelosi/Shumer, for complete corporate control of the government "of the people" could bring the whole damn thing down. We can only hope the demographic march will replace the government hating boomers with a younger more enlightened electorate who understand that the corporate overlords can be as evil and inept as the corporate government. Then maybe we can have a government that can serve the people.


'Murica

Jeffrey St. Clair
.. America doesn’t have “oligarchs”. We have self-made philanthropists, who make huge personal sacrifices in order to lend their knowledge, time and goodness to the nation…

Where America's Climate Migrants Will Go As Sea Level Rises -  Most of those blue areas vote D anyway.
















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