Category: Back It Up Or It’s Bullshit
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Conservatism Is A Disease – It Says So Right In Its Name…
Though the word “liberal” has a long history, it’s too malleable, too easily redirected in the current vernacular where words have been unmoored from their meanings. That’s what LYING does. I prefer the word “PROGRESSIVE” to describe my politics because, in a culture where getting people to read a goddamned tweet is a challenge, billboarding…
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Dear CNN & MSNBC: Your Problem Is Simple — You Suck At FRAMING
How you tell a story is almost as important as the story itself. The moment you fade in on your narrative, you frame it. You establish a point of view — even if its strict neutrality. And strict neutrality is rarely as neutral as it thinks it is. That, too, is a framing problem. If…
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Dear CNN & MSNBC: Your Problem Is Simple — You Suck At FRAMING
How you tell a story is almost as important as the story itself. The moment you fade in on your narrative, you frame it. You establish a point of view — even if its strict neutrality. And strict neutrality is rarely as neutral as it thinks it is. That, too, is a framing problem. If…
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Wanna Know What America’s Problem REALLY Is? White Man BAMBOOZLEMENT Syndrome
Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader — and traitor — Mitch McConnell got up on the Senate floor to give his “final thoughts” on The Mueller Report. Despite the fact that everyone in the whole world capable of reading English could see with their own eyes that Mitch was LYING about the Report’s conclusions, Mitch said —…
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Can We Be Honest? “Conservative Thinking” Is An Oxymoron
I’m a proud Progressive. I prefer the term “progressive” to “liberal” because the word liberal has gone through too many gyrations over time to be effective as an accurate descriptor. “I’m a liberal” could mean a whole lot of things that “I’m actually not”. Progressives, as the name implies, want to progress. We want to…
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Can We Be Honest? “Conservative Thinking” Is An Oxymoron
I’m a proud Progressive. I prefer the term “progressive” to “liberal” because the word liberal has gone through too many gyrations over time to be effective as an accurate descriptor. “I’m a liberal” could mean a whole lot of things that “I’m actually not”. Progressives, as the name implies, want to progress. We want to…
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Wanna Know What America’s Problem REALLY Is? White Man BAMBOOZLEMENT Syndrome
Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader — and traitor — Mitch McConnell got up on the Senate floor to give his “final thoughts” on The Mueller Report. Despite the fact that everyone in the whole world capable of reading English could see with their own eyes that Mitch was LYING about the Report’s conclusions, Mitch said —…
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There’s A Reason We All Feel “Under Assault” In Trump World — It’s Cos We Are
I was in therapy a bit before Donald Trump stole the presidency. I was deep in my own depression then — headed toward self-destruction. My emotional radar was tweaked especially high. So many things triggered me. Election Night 2016 is its own “Day that will live in infamy”. I suspect I’m not alone in feeling…
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Wanna Know What America’s Problem REALLY Is? White Man BAMBOOZLEMENT Syndrome
Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader — and traitor — Mitch McConnell got up on the Senate floor to give his “final thoughts” on The Mueller Report. Despite the fact that everyone in the whole world capable of reading English could see with their own eyes that Mitch was LYING about the Report’s conclusions, Mitch said —…
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Let’s Prepare For The Disappointment Now: At The End Of The Day, The Press WILL Let Us Down
Now, I don’t mean EVERYONE in the Main Stream Media. But ALMOST everyone. We shouldn’t be here — at the precipice of our Republic going down the toilet because of Republic-ans. If we don’t pull this back from the brink and an honest history of our times never gets written, the story will never be…