This morning, my friend, @MuellerSheWrote, posted something about Merrick Garland taking action against Texas’ abortion ban and added something along the lines of ‘pressure works’.
Apparently, an array of dumbfucks gave her shit.
This has me saltier than a bar pretzel.
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Apparently, an array of dumbfucks gave her shit.
This has me saltier than a bar pretzel.
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The root of the dumbfuckery appears to be the reference to pressure having an impact.
Listen, if you are such a clueless pollyanna that you still believe in the Year 2021 that *anyone* in government is walled off from influence, wake up.
You’re hopelessly naive.
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Listen, if you are such a clueless pollyanna that you still believe in the Year 2021 that *anyone* in government is walled off from influence, wake up.
You’re hopelessly naive.
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Merrick Freaking Garland doesn’t need to check Twitter to be influenced.
He doesn’t need to know @MuellerSheWrote exists or know I exist or know you exist.
He doesn’t need to have a Twitter account or even have internet access.
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He doesn’t need to know @MuellerSheWrote exists or know I exist or know you exist.
He doesn’t need to have a Twitter account or even have internet access.
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Because a shitload of other people in politics do.
Twitter is not the real world.
But it has power and influence and reach.
I am a fucking random dude typing shit on a phone while eating pretzel bites and drinking a Guinness…
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Twitter is not the real world.
But it has power and influence and reach.
I am a fucking random dude typing shit on a phone while eating pretzel bites and drinking a Guinness…
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And that random shit will be read 100 million times this month.
I assume @MuellerSheWrote has even more reach - as she should.
Merrick Garland doesn’t need to be a reader because a whole lot of other people in politics are…
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I assume @MuellerSheWrote has even more reach - as she should.
Merrick Garland doesn’t need to be a reader because a whole lot of other people in politics are…
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And they happen to notice when the winds change and support turns to frustration and restlessness.
They notice because *any growing headwinds* against an Admin do harm and create risk.
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They notice because *any growing headwinds* against an Admin do harm and create risk.
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They notice because influencers… have influence… detraction begets detractors.
They notice because people like Allison who run Mueller She Wrote have big followings because they know what they’re talking about.
People listen to them *because they should*.
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They notice because people like Allison who run Mueller She Wrote have big followings because they know what they’re talking about.
People listen to them *because they should*.
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And this is the part that fucking agonizes the shit out of me…
Having a platform generally sucks. It is a largely thankless exercise. It is work in exchange for randos being huge assholes to you about shit they know far less about.
But people like MSW do it out of duty.
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Having a platform generally sucks. It is a largely thankless exercise. It is work in exchange for randos being huge assholes to you about shit they know far less about.
But people like MSW do it out of duty.
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And no matter how thick your skin, that will eventually wear on you.
That gets tiring. That makes you wonder if it is worth it or feel like it isn’t.
The assholes are so fucking tiring. And they are *always* shitheads who are way too fucking weak to post on their own timelines.
That gets tiring. That makes you wonder if it is worth it or feel like it isn’t.
The assholes are so fucking tiring. And they are *always* shitheads who are way too fucking weak to post on their own timelines.
They’re armchair quarterbacks.
They bitch at others while taking no risk; inviting no scrutiny; facing no criticism.
It is a narcissistic and masturbatory shitbaggery.
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They bitch at others while taking no risk; inviting no scrutiny; facing no criticism.
It is a narcissistic and masturbatory shitbaggery.
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Back to the subject though.
I’ve said this over and over: Trump knew how to work the refs.
He subtly backed the media into tilting their coverage by aggressively coming at them.
That messages flows upstream. It has an inertia.
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I’ve said this over and over: Trump knew how to work the refs.
He subtly backed the media into tilting their coverage by aggressively coming at them.
That messages flows upstream. It has an inertia.
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It gets picked up on the wind and reaches people around the target of the criticism… and then flows through to their ears… and, in the meantime, it influences everyone else just like them - without them even knowing it.
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I work the refs.
Let me state this as plainly as I can:
I am aggressive on purpose for a reason.
I am using my platform to flap my little butterfly wings in the larger chaos theory.
Influence is influence.
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Let me state this as plainly as I can:
I am aggressive on purpose for a reason.
I am using my platform to flap my little butterfly wings in the larger chaos theory.
Influence is influence.
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It snowballs and cascades and is woven unseen into what people think and believe and do.
We *all* have influence. What we share has influence. What we say has influence.
If you don’t know that… know that.
You have influence. Know that and use it intentionally.
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We *all* have influence. What we share has influence. What we say has influence.
If you don’t know that… know that.
You have influence. Know that and use it intentionally.
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And as for y’all who gave my friend, Mueller She Wrote, unnecessary shit today:
Fuck you.
Pressure does work.
If your position is that this is all futile, log the fuck off and go watch Real Housewives.
You’re useless. Shut up and help or run the fuck along.
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Fuck you.
Pressure does work.
If your position is that this is all futile, log the fuck off and go watch Real Housewives.
You’re useless. Shut up and help or run the fuck along.
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