Your work, as it increases in righteous outrage, is increasing brilliant...
What you point out, and what strikes me more and more all the time, is that we are swimming in an ocean of self-aggrandizement and breathing an entire atmosphere of of corruption. And that's why it so fundamental--so absolutely important--that you keep writing these pieces/polemics. If the President's national medal of freedom or whatever bullshit name its called really meant something--was actually symbolic of preserving true freedom--it should go to you and people like you who really understand what this country is all about--the very OPPOSITE of using position and power to rob it's own citizens...
Thanks again for your latest piece and for all the efforts you make keep reality and honesty the bottom lines of the national debate...
Unsurprisingly, the trumpist Freedom 250 virus has crept deep into the machinery of the USPS. I still receive a fair amount of snail mail, every piece from addresses around the country that have had the stamp machine cancelled bear a star spangled “Freedom 250” on the envelope next to the stamp. Small but icky.
The days add up and the horrors increase with every single one. So grateful to you Mary for researching, reporting and weaving it all together by writing it with your signature style for us. I plan to try and follow what happens to the military fella who was arrested for protesting. I hope his courage is not wasted. It's what I've been hoping many, many more would do, including elected Dems en masse loudly, colourfully, and repeatedly. Note Canadian spelling of 'colourfully' :-)
Highly recommend Lucas Bean podcasts for a scientific psychological explanation of our current crazies obtained from scholars and professionals. His podcast rating is 5 on a scale of 5. He's got great videos on Facebook too. I haven't looked for him on YouTube but now that I say that, I'm going to.
#118 System Justification - 0:46
#117 How Propaganda Works - 8 min
#116 How to Get Someone Out of a Cult - 5 min
#115 Why Conservatives Are Obsessed with Trans People - 1:00
#114 Four Dark Psychological Traits of the Trump Cult - 9 min *** this one was time well spent
Thanks for the Lucas Bean recommendation. With so many excellent but often lengthy podcasts around these days, it is heartening to see than many of his last a few minutes rather than hours.
Thank you, Mary. For this regime, the Constitution is dead and buried. They have even convinced scotus that the Constitution does not count. One has to wonder, what leverage does this regime have over all these people? If we could figure out the answer to that question, we have a fighting chance to stop them in their collected evil tracks. It’s not TDS of any sort. It’s recognizing evil, hypocrisy, and corruption when we see it and wanting it gone from these United States of America.
"The metaphor department has resigned." As it should. Good. MG, your reporting is insightful and your writing is imaginative and frequently brilliant, but your use of metaphors and similes is equally often so excessive as to detract from the facts you have so carefully assembled. Please give the facts more room to breathe unadorned from your pithy and witty turns of phrase.
Your work, as it increases in righteous outrage, is increasing brilliant...
What you point out, and what strikes me more and more all the time, is that we are swimming in an ocean of self-aggrandizement and breathing an entire atmosphere of of corruption. And that's why it so fundamental--so absolutely important--that you keep writing these pieces/polemics. If the President's national medal of freedom or whatever bullshit name its called really meant something--was actually symbolic of preserving true freedom--it should go to you and people like you who really understand what this country is all about--the very OPPOSITE of using position and power to rob it's own citizens...
Thanks again for your latest piece and for all the efforts you make keep reality and honesty the bottom lines of the national debate...
Unsurprisingly, the trumpist Freedom 250 virus has crept deep into the machinery of the USPS. I still receive a fair amount of snail mail, every piece from addresses around the country that have had the stamp machine cancelled bear a star spangled “Freedom 250” on the envelope next to the stamp. Small but icky.
The days add up and the horrors increase with every single one. So grateful to you Mary for researching, reporting and weaving it all together by writing it with your signature style for us. I plan to try and follow what happens to the military fella who was arrested for protesting. I hope his courage is not wasted. It's what I've been hoping many, many more would do, including elected Dems en masse loudly, colourfully, and repeatedly. Note Canadian spelling of 'colourfully' :-)
Highly recommend Lucas Bean podcasts for a scientific psychological explanation of our current crazies obtained from scholars and professionals. His podcast rating is 5 on a scale of 5. He's got great videos on Facebook too. I haven't looked for him on YouTube but now that I say that, I'm going to.
#118 System Justification - 0:46
#117 How Propaganda Works - 8 min
#116 How to Get Someone Out of a Cult - 5 min
#115 Why Conservatives Are Obsessed with Trans People - 1:00
#114 Four Dark Psychological Traits of the Trump Cult - 9 min *** this one was time well spent
#113 Then It Was Too Late - 11 min
#112 Sycophancy Bias - 1:37
#111 Conservatives Have Less Empathy - 1:52
Thanks for the Lucas Bean recommendation. With so many excellent but often lengthy podcasts around these days, it is heartening to see than many of his last a few minutes rather than hours.
Thank you, Mary. For this regime, the Constitution is dead and buried. They have even convinced scotus that the Constitution does not count. One has to wonder, what leverage does this regime have over all these people? If we could figure out the answer to that question, we have a fighting chance to stop them in their collected evil tracks. It’s not TDS of any sort. It’s recognizing evil, hypocrisy, and corruption when we see it and wanting it gone from these United States of America.
"The metaphor department has resigned." As it should. Good. MG, your reporting is insightful and your writing is imaginative and frequently brilliant, but your use of metaphors and similes is equally often so excessive as to detract from the facts you have so carefully assembled. Please give the facts more room to breathe unadorned from your pithy and witty turns of phrase.
Respectfully.