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Blowback: “an unforeseen and unwanted effect, result, or set of repercussions.” Dating back to 1954 (per Merriam-Webster), it basically describes unintended consequences that have the opposite effect that one was trying to achieve. A good example (M-W...
by Dan K
on Sat Feb 03, 2024 at 08:51 AM PST
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In Iowa on 1/4, an ostensible POTUS hopeful/realistic veep wannabe claimed no small degree of solidarity among herself and some “Black friends” from her grade school days (see “’Painful’: Nikki Haley slammed for using ‘Black friends’ defense after...
by Inspector Clueso
on Sat Jan 20, 2024 at 01:05 PM PST
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You know, I have never gotten that whole idea about owning one side or the other for kicks or giggles. What a childish concept. I have tried to explain to people with this mindset that they cause their pain and drama with such antics—despair is a...
by sepiasiren
on Sat Jan 13, 2024 at 02:15 PM PST
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It’s that time of year: Fox News has begun its “War on Christmas” dispatches! Riley Gaines was on bigot host Jesse Watters’ show to do culture-warrior bullshit. If you don’t know who Gaines is—well, look at you, you lucky duck! She is a former swimmer...
by Walter Einenkel
on Fri Nov 17, 2023 at 10:05 AM PST
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The GOP gambled on the idea that people would forget all about the Supreme Court Dobb’s decision, and outrage would fade just in time for important elections. Boy, were they wrong! Oh yeah—about that… In Mississippi, the fix was in When I heard Elvis's...
by sepiasiren
on Thu Nov 09, 2023 at 04:38 PM PST
with 30 Recommends
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Late Tuesday night, the Republican Party got their act together enough to say they were ready to maybe vote for a new speaker of the House: Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana. It only took them a few weeks of grinding our government to a snail's pace for...
by Walter Einenkel
on Wed Oct 25, 2023 at 08:46 AM PDT
with 149 Recommends
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Media Matters and Florida Politics have some news on Congressman Byron Donalds and his bid to be speaker of the House. For starters, Fox propaganda has set the scene: the clouds will part, rays of sunshine fall on Republican House members, a MAGA choir...
by Merlin196360
on Mon Oct 23, 2023 at 02:39 PM PDT
with 17 Recommends
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Terrorism is wrong. Genocide is wrong. Last Friday the 13th on the Sean Hannity show they advocated that Gaza be leveled like the land salted Rome did to Carthage. The destruction of Carthage is used as shorthand for genocide. Twentieth century...
by CA148 NEWS
on Tue Oct 31, 2023 at 10:17 AM PDT
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In the wake of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s interview with Christiane Amanpour where Clinton suggested that members of Donald Trump’s cult of personality might need “a formal deprogramming,” Fox hosts and other right-wing fearmongers have pushed the...
by novapsyche
on Mon Oct 09, 2023 at 02:23 PM PDT
with 231 Recommends
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Jokes don’t tend to try to persuade. They try to hoodwink, to get one over; then they reveal the hoodwink. There is some sequential indication that what had come before had been a put-on. The revelation is part of the joke. Even practical jokes,...
by novapsyche
on Sun Oct 08, 2023 at 08:41 AM PDT
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UPDATE: Wednesday, Sep 13, 2023 · 3:28:36 PM +00:00 · CathyM And the Oregonian, whose bias seems more and more apparent, also has no online mention of this story — going instead with “Flowing River of Wine Fills Portuguese Streets”…. I guess that’s SO...
by CathyM
on Wed Sep 13, 2023 at 07:47 AM PDT
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Back on September 1, 2023 The NY Times editorial board used one of their headlines to do some implied false equivalence by omission. Partisan Politics Put a Huge Win for Public Health at Risk To make a long editorial short, it was all about how the...
by xaxnar
on Wed Sep 06, 2023 at 05:46 AM PDT
with 7 Recommends
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The business of the news media is to bring us truth and the latest news. Certain media outlets repeatedly tell you that they have the only truth and that you must watch them. When I hear that, I hear ‘propaganda’. Various religions make the same claim....
by iarnstein
on Thu Aug 10, 2023 at 07:55 PM PDT
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The Leave Our Kids Alone (L.O.K.A.) movement has been gaining momentum in the last few months, especially in Southern California. From repeated Fox News appearances to violent school board protests— the loose coalition of self described "concerned...
by VPSReports
on Sun Aug 06, 2023 at 04:30 PM PDT
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From a story on Raw Story, here’s a Fox News guest complaining that Hollywood is so woke that “Snow White is not even a white woman anymore, even though her name is Snow White.” I suspect she is really, really not going to like the movie Black...
by Yojo
on Mon Jul 24, 2023 at 08:03 PM PDT
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Is there any floor with Republicans when it comes to debasing themselves with regards to Trump? Ah, NO. The above title was taken from Real Clear Politics, and RCP has a partial transcript of Tucker Carlson’s interview with Russell Brand, a comedian...
by Merlin196360
on Sat Jul 08, 2023 at 10:38 AM PDT
with 29 Recommends
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Sorry, I can’t manage this every Sunday! Life interferes! But it’s important! Fox “News” spreads poisonous propaganda throughout the United States. Alas, many people are addicted to it; they even crave it. There’s evidence that when people are cut off,...
by chloris creator
on Sun Jul 09, 2023 at 04:16 AM PDT
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Just when you thought Cheeto Mussolini was going to get boinked, the damned world ends. Getting through hump day is going to suck, especially for all the Christofascists who will remain conspicuously un-raptured late on Tuesday. For those of you with a...
by ruleoflaw
on Mon Jul 03, 2023 at 12:00 PM PDT
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Few things are as sacred to New Yorkers as their pizza, so when deniers caught wind of climate policy brushing up against the city's prized pies, it was time for an urban version of the "Biden's gonna take your burgers" disinformation tactic. This week...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
on Fri Jun 30, 2023 at 06:24 AM PDT
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Pepsi or Coke challenge. That is the model, the motif, of the Fox chyron that they recently posted that labeled President Joe Biden as a “wannabe dictator” (the chyron: “WANNABE DICTATOR SPEAKS AT THE WHITE HOUSE AFTER HAVING HIS POLITICAL RIVAL...
by novapsyche
on Mon Jun 19, 2023 at 10:24 AM PDT
with 20 Recommends
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