Moderately Confused by Jeff Stahler for November 04, 2024

It’s a long running serial.

Very. very scary.

Showing the donald at one of his over-filled rallies…

You ain’t seen nothing yet. The Orange god-king of the “Children of the GQP Corn” have a real blockbuster in store for you.

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Trump’s the focus of the news tonight!

…and it is getting worse by every minute.

Lemon head will still be talking off earth no matter the outcome tomorrow. Fear for the future

If they don’t try to scare you, they’ll have even fewer viewers than they do now. So they conjure up “threats” (to democracy, your health, etc.)

Breaking news!!!! It’s about to get worse, one way or another

She must have known it was the news. It’s all so ridiculous that it’d be hysterically funny if it weren’t true.

The news can be very scary.

“If it bleeds it leads.”

Long gone are the days of Cronkite and Murrow. Only the worst of the news makes it to the screen.

Mainstream media do their best to sensationalize these stories. Other outlets report rumor as fact and excuse it as entertainment.

I used to say that I watched CNN and Fox and averaged them out. Now Fox has become too unreliable as a “News” source. It is 100% right wing propaganda.

I get my news from newsfeeds that have multiple sources. I can pick up biases easier in print than I can from videos. I have the opportunity to read the same story from several different sources and I have the means to dig deeper when I know I am not being give all the information I need.

I am a data analyst: In God I Trust: everyone else must bring facts.

Moderately stagey.

For all the frantic panic sold by the common rabble, we live in a wonderful time.

The biggest driver of discontent is the ready distribution of anecdotal negatives. That ready distribution is a wonder too. It isn’t the distribution that is at fault, it is the inability, generally because we are unwilling, to recognize that one is not all.

One dog died and millions of puppies just snuggled up and moistened the air laughingly and loudly. Oh sweet Jaysus, what is this world coming to!!!

The situation in rural America has been deliberately designed by 1%ers to produce MAGAts. They own the news outlets that broadcast the conservative propaganda. These are people who were raised listening to Rush Limbaugh and then Fox News. In some rural areas, the only actual news is on the local main stream networks, and they have bent over backwards for years to not take sides, even when one side is obviously lying. And, the people they have coffee with, go to church (or the bar) with etc are dealing with the same situation. That means that real people that you trust are backing up what you are getting from the propaganda machine. Unless you are a really intelligent, involved person, you are going to accept the world you see, unaware that it has been paid for and organized by people who are working against your best interests

At Thanksgiving, we were talking about medical problems, and cost came up. My brother in law is a racist and I considered him a hopeless MAGAt, but he signed on to the ACA with gratitude and it probably saved their house. But, I still almost fell off the chair when he said:

" Really, I wish they didn’t have the rule about only serving two terms, because Obama was the best president we’ve had in my lifetime." I managed to just say “Yeah!” and change the subject. He needed not to be laughed at because it took him a decade to get there. He needed to be welcomed and made to feel safe where he was so he could get up the courage to take another step. A lot of MAGAts know that they are wrong, but they are afraid of the world if they can’t cling on to their delusions. Most of them will die safely in their alternate universe, but a lot of their kids are learning better, which is why schools are such a big MAGAt target.

I was going to say they’re watching tomorrow night’s election returns

Except on the news, each horror only last a few seconds.

Stay tuned. Every day is worse than the last while tRump is around.

The most frightening horror short films I’ve seen are the campaign ads. “You’re doomed to a life of despair if you don’t vote for me.”

Sadly, the two are not mutually exclusive.