Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
This is an excellent refresher and reminder of big picture "what's going on"; highly recommended.
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Nice two paragraphs:
Now flip them around and think post-Trump presidency with Trump and fans still around selling curated narratives even if they lose. Do you really just want to continue with dueling faux narratives by strong leaders or start to try to fix the problem?
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/06/2020 - 3:52pm
Me I'm taking a long vacation. Hope you have it cleaned up when I get back.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 02/06/2020 - 4:03pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/06/2020 - 5:53pm
"populism"
I already hated it back in the early days of the blogosphere when bloggers whose work I actually enjoyed would get on their high horses about bringing down the "MSM" as if the NYTimes etc. was their enemy. It was anti-elite, nothing else. DKos was gonna save the world, citizen reporters the future...fuck those big shots who got reporter's jobs because they can write well, anybody can do it and will...
Reaping what they sowed.
It takes talent. If that's elite, I'm all for it.
Edit to add: do they bitch about Rachel Maddow now having a MSM job with a big salary and audience? Nope. Because she's "on their side". That's the problem right there: she's on their side. And the truth is she got the (admittedly partisan and slanted) job because she's talented and highly educated, not a "citizen reporter."
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/06/2020 - 6:04pm
as I noted on another recent thread, this guy has an ancient quote for every news cycle:
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/06/2020 - 6:24pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/06/2020 - 6:47pm
Interesting made up shit to promote "victims of the liberal media" meme:
It's a twofer: you cause mistrust of MSM and you're a poor victim of culture warriors, rather than an aggressor. Interesting contrast with the Bernie "swarm," where there are notably aggressive tactics. There is this weird inversion, where the right wingers are the victim of bullies (note the use of the imagined "outrage" by Tapper,) just so tired of being walked allover, and lefties play nasty alpha male bullies on behalf of the poor.
by artappraiser on Sun, 02/16/2020 - 8:45pm
Twitter thread I think related, big picture:
by artappraiser on Sun, 02/16/2020 - 9:42pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/20/2020 - 2:32pm
Bill Kristol was suggesting the old codgers drop out along with the kid, and a few others. He favored the Midwest candidate who knows how to smile and laugh and seems like having fun rather than the stern worried and exhausting grandma who seems permanently on airraid alert. Of course Kristol's been part of the problem for years. But I'm just not sure the vast majority will go for her energy (not that media should be disappearing her before the primaries). Is AK weighty enough? Know little about her.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 02/20/2020 - 2:49pm