Before "The Simpsons," Matt Groening drew misanthropic rabbits.
In one strip, two older rabbits tell a younger rabbit: "Mom left a present for you in the basement."
The young rabbit replies, "Last time you said that, you locked me in the basement for 4 hours."
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The older rabbits answer, "This time we won't."
Keep that dialogue in mind when Devin Nunes, Rudy Giuliani, and the journalists who publicize for them try to purvey new fake stories in place of the old fake stories about "unmasking" etc. 2/x
Trump world and its journalistic conduits have pumped an unending stream of polluted disinformation. Fox etc. serve the bilge unfiltered. But even some respectable journalists have since 2015 sluiced doses of the poisonous stuff into the national drinking supply. 3/x
In an ideal world, consumers could trust their suppliers to serve them only what has been tested and proved true.
In this world, suppliers often value fizz over hygiene - and serve to consumers products that should go direct to the waste treatment plant. - END -
Ah, here we go. "Mom left you a present in the basement."
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There is something amiss about that Gallup poll repeatedly cited by President Trump re "better off than 4 years ago." Here's FT-Peterson Foundation: 35% say "better off" ig.ft.com/ft-peterson-po…
Gallup's numbers have consistently been uniquely high on the "better off" question. EG here they are back in February, just at onset of corona crisis. Somebody more expert than I will have to reverse engineer Gallup's methods news.gallup.com/poll/284264/re…
Some Never Trumpers will settle permanently into what started as a temporary political home. They will have supported Democrats in 2016, 2018, 2020 and will never return. 2/x
Other Never Trumpers may feel that their political work is done with the defeat of Trump. They'll exit political life altogether for other pursuits and interests. About half the time, I feel this will be my own answer. 3/x
@stuartpstevens Stuart's father's action did not change the course of history. The Japanese-Americans were still interned. It changed the course of Stuart's father's life. He went to fight in the South Pacific instead, where he could have been killed. Later, Stuart asked: "why?"
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@stuartpstevens Stuart's father answered: "You can always say 'No.'"
That's a saying to keep in mind in the coming weeks and months, as former Trumpers reinvent themselves - and explain how they only supported Trump because this or that blue-checkmark personality was disagreeable to them. 3/x
Trump tweets about his health remind me of a story my late father-in-law Peter Worthington told about covering the Six Day War in 1967 ... 1/x
Pete was in Cairo on the day the war started. He was awoken early by air raid sirens. He turned on Radio Cairo to listen for news. Time passed until an announcer delivered a bulletin. "The Zionists attacked at dawn. We shot down six of their planes and suffered no losses." 2/x
Pete shaved and prepared to go visit the air ministry for himself. The announcer returned to the air. "Update: we shot down TWELVE Zionist planes and suffered no losses ourselves."
He understood the Egyptians had suffered a bad defeat. 3/x
"If you really cared, if you really wanted to save the population from dying of COVID, you would encourage people to slim down." - Tucker Carlson October 5, 2020.
"Why would you want to raise your own kids when Michelle Obama will do it for you, in fact she'll do it at gunpoint." - Tucker Carlson Feb. 15, 2011, about Obama administration efforts to "encourage people to slim down." 2/2 mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/t…
"Masks are fascism. Instead of masks, we need ... urgent efforts to do something else that we also previously called fascism to score a different stupid political point."