Category: Back It Up Or It’s Bullshit
-
Dear America – We Have A Health INSURANCE System, Not A Health CARE System; They’re NOT The Same Thing
Until we get the framing right, we’ll never fix the problem: our health CARE system is broken because it’s NOT a health CARE system. It’s a health INSURANCE system. The first question anyone gets asked when they walk into any facility for health CARE isn’t “How can we fix you?”, it’s “How ya gonna pay…
-
It ISN’T About Politics, Part II: Even For Republicans It Isn’t Always About Politics; Sometimes It’s About Criminal Conspiracy…
Dear MSNBC, CNN & The Whole Rest of The MSM: Yesterday I ranted at you for ascribing everything the Democrats do to “politics“. It’s not true. Some people, when they take an oath of office, actually take their oaths seriously. To assume everyone does what they do for political reasons is to assume every one…
-
There’s An 800 Pound Gorilla In The Room — A Crazy Form Of Christianity Is Now Running The Country
Want to know what’s scarier than a zombie coming to eat your brain? An evangelical opening his mouth to speak. Let’s get this straight: what happened to us in 2016 was nothing less than a coup d’etat — a messy love triangle of first rate Russian spy craft with American Right Wing Money and America’s…
-
Dear Journalists: Recognize That We, The News Consumers, Are Your Audience; If We Tell You We Have A Problem With You, LISTEN!
I had a little back-and-forth this morning (using my Mulligan Jesus Twitter account) with the Washington Post’s Philip Bump. Nothing significant. For some reason my tweet annoyed him enough to respond. I view Bump the way I view most journalists – he’s a guy doing a job, sometimes well, sometimes not. I hold journalists in…
-
If Russian Efforts Changed ONE Vote, They Changed The WHOLE Election
That is a literal Truth. Think about it. If Russia changed ONE vote — caused an African American voter in Wisconsin, say, from showing up at the polls on election day 2016 because weaponized Facebook ads (based on stolen voter data) propagandized them into believing HRC was racist — and if the Trump Campaign KNEW…
-
The Trump Presidency Is A Clinic On WHY We ALL Should Want To Live Bullshit Free
Donald Trump and his presidency have unleashed a golden age of bullshit upon the land. We know for a fact that if Donald Trump — or anyone supporting him — opens their mouth, what follows will almost certainly be a total lie. After 3+ years of living inside this nonstop maelstrom of nonsense and fuckery,…
-
Storytelling For Dummies (And America’s Main Stream News Media), Part 24: How Villains Work
Villains (and by villains I mean good villains) have to play by certain rules — or they can’t be good villains. For starters — villains must have a good reason to be villainous. There are plenty of mediocre villains — Bond level villains included — who seem to have no other purpose in life than…
-
Republicans Are The “Mission Accomplished” Party; That’s Great Until You Realize What Their “Mission” Is…
Who can forget W aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, May 2, 2003 – proudly proclaiming just what the banner behind him said: “Mission Accomplished”. That image haunted W’s presidency. It haunts him to this day because nothing had actually been accomplished. The only thing they’d succeeded at, mission-wise, up to that point was successfully hanging…
-
The Problem With Coming Late To The Party
Think back to election night 2016. I bet you can still recall that sick feeling in the pit of your stomach when it hit you that the impossible – Trump “winning” the presidency – had just happened. Some of us saw that sick feeling as more than just disgust at a bad election result. It…