I've been economically anxious for years and still managed to not vote for deranged bigots
Today's episode of Knowledge Fight covered the episode of InfoWars that covered the latest Trump indictment. In a "logic" chain that was weird and confusing even by Alex Jones' extremely low standards, he got from "Trump indicted" to "Michelle Obama is a man" with almost no conversation in between those two data points. Seriously, it was like 2 sentences.
The worms in Jones' brain have worms in their brains, and those worms have syphilis.
I'm currently reading (or rather listening to on audiobook) Jeff Sharlet's The Undertow: Scenes From A Slow Civil War. It's the Cletus Safari that the NYT should have been going on since 2016, instead of their liberal mush-brained bleating about "economic anxiety!". Anyway, Sharlet talks about the rhetorical style Trump has employed in every press conference, interview, and Klan rally since the day he rode down that golden escalator and said Mexicans are all rapists. He says something deranged or nakedly bigoted or that shows he lacks even a toddler's understanding of how "Constitution" or "law" works; says WHAAAAAAAAAAT I'M JOKING so he can then claim his critics are dumb and don't understand "humor"; then pivots back and says he's a made a good or fair or accurate point.
Once you understand the formula, you start to see it everywhere on the right, and Jones has been doing it with this "Big Mike" schtick for years. He's at the final "joking but not really" phase of it now.
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I finished Burden of Proof on HBO last night; it was not what I was expecting it to be. I went into thinking it was going to be kind of a normal true crime thing, with the added hook of a family member who thinks other family members did it. But it wasn't really about the crime itself, more about the ways that crimes within families can really tear them apart. Especially in a case like this one, where they don't even have a crime scene or body and can't even definitively say Jennifer Pandos is dead.
It's not trying to be a whodunit, but for my part I think Pandos ran away, then fell victim to bad circumstances and/or bad people, and is probably buried in a pauper's grave in some other state. It's a less satisfactory narrative than "The abusive father did it" or "the ex-boyfriend did it" or "the local sex pest/literal one-armed man did it", but real life isn't always neat.
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I'm in awe of this TikTok user's art journaling skills.
@asdfgdhotq1 #adventurer #decompression #relax #originality #scrapbooking #junkjournal #asmrjournal #asmr #ghostmother ♬ original sound - qin1991@
I mean she has a lot of stuff, and it's probably easier to express your vision when you do. But you still have to have the vision in the first place.
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This is paraphrased from that thing Carrie Fisher said, "Take your broken heart, make it into art". But shortened so it would fit.
The worms in Jones' brain have worms in their brains, and those worms have syphilis.
I'm currently reading (or rather listening to on audiobook) Jeff Sharlet's The Undertow: Scenes From A Slow Civil War. It's the Cletus Safari that the NYT should have been going on since 2016, instead of their liberal mush-brained bleating about "economic anxiety!". Anyway, Sharlet talks about the rhetorical style Trump has employed in every press conference, interview, and Klan rally since the day he rode down that golden escalator and said Mexicans are all rapists. He says something deranged or nakedly bigoted or that shows he lacks even a toddler's understanding of how "Constitution" or "law" works; says WHAAAAAAAAAAT I'M JOKING so he can then claim his critics are dumb and don't understand "humor"; then pivots back and says he's a made a good or fair or accurate point.
Once you understand the formula, you start to see it everywhere on the right, and Jones has been doing it with this "Big Mike" schtick for years. He's at the final "joking but not really" phase of it now.
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I finished Burden of Proof on HBO last night; it was not what I was expecting it to be. I went into thinking it was going to be kind of a normal true crime thing, with the added hook of a family member who thinks other family members did it. But it wasn't really about the crime itself, more about the ways that crimes within families can really tear them apart. Especially in a case like this one, where they don't even have a crime scene or body and can't even definitively say Jennifer Pandos is dead.
It's not trying to be a whodunit, but for my part I think Pandos ran away, then fell victim to bad circumstances and/or bad people, and is probably buried in a pauper's grave in some other state. It's a less satisfactory narrative than "The abusive father did it" or "the ex-boyfriend did it" or "the local sex pest/literal one-armed man did it", but real life isn't always neat.
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I'm in awe of this TikTok user's art journaling skills.
@asdfgdhotq1 #adventurer #decompression #relax #originality #scrapbooking #junkjournal #asmrjournal #asmr #ghostmother ♬ original sound - qin1991@
I mean she has a lot of stuff, and it's probably easier to express your vision when you do. But you still have to have the vision in the first place.
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This is paraphrased from that thing Carrie Fisher said, "Take your broken heart, make it into art". But shortened so it would fit.