Oct 162026
 

Yesterday, I filled out my ballot, which had arrived last week, but which I had not yet opened because the booklet on the Amendments and propositions was the size of a small town telephone book. It turned out to be easier for just othan I expected -many of them had clearly been written by MAGAts.  For just one example, there were two anti-trans propositions.

Robert Reich spells it out. Y’all probably don’t need it spelled out – but you probably know someone who does.

Michael Sellers calls his Substack “A Deeper Look,” and from this post alone – you can see why. He doesn’t mention that some or all of this decision is likely related to the attempt to destroy empathy (which so many in that camp consider to be our worst weakness) – but I do think that needs mentioning. I have seen films of staged (fake) executions by firing sqauds – it is how the tenor character in “Tosca” dies. The camera never focuses on it, but usually on Tosca watching (believing it fake.) I would never watch a real one of my own volition. BTW, the Orange Ogre  told Axios last week that this execution would not be atreamed.

Not what anyone wanted to hear. I note the shooter, now dead, was only 16. Clearly one doesn’t have to have reached any particular age to become infected by toxic masculinity. Not that this should surprise anyone.

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Aug 282024
 

 

On August 28, 2014, Pres. Obama held a live press conference about the situation regarding ISIS in Syria in which he discussed the prospect of escalating the U.S. military response.

But that was NOT what the media decided was the biggest issue.  It was the fact that our nation’s first Black President wore a tan suit.

 

And the headlines had a field day with his sartorial selection:

 

 

Personally, I thought he looked quite debonair — like someone who could have easily come straight from a GQ magazine shoot.

 

And it’s been the consensus that VP Kamala Harris gave a playful nod to Obama’s “scandal” when she wore her own Chloé tan suit at the DNC.

 

Either way, it underlines the concern of how the media can steer a conversation into the trivial.

So, we’re going to need keep our “Eyes on the Prize!”.  We’ve got work to do!

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