The Impeachment Hearings , House Vote and Eventual Trial ..All Updates ...AS EXPECTED... TRUMP SKATES
- Thread starter lightbright
- Start date
Why do they always talk to racist CACs in small towns about their opinion all the damn time!?! Like they are the face of America!!! They should go into urban areas and suburbs to talk to some of us about our damn opinions! But, I know that does not fit their narrative!
You may wanna check out this
Just sharing for relevance
What is something that needs to be said?
Elizabeth Grey, Writes About Politics (2016-present)
We have got to stop celebrating ignorance.
I used to study acting with the late, great William Hickey.
P
You might have seen him in Prizzi’s Honor as Don Corrado (he was nominated for an Academy Award).
Or as Uncle Lewis in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
When Bill would critique a scene in class, he’d tell a story, or parable, about a situation in life to bring the actor closer to what was really going on in the scene.
He was full of fascinating stories.
He told one once that has stuck with me since. I don’t remember the scene, but I’ve never forgotten the story. It’s definitely hearsay; whether it happened word for word I can’t know. But I do love the point.
When Bella Abzug was campaigning for Congress, she went down to Little Italy in NYC to give a stump speech.
While she was speaking, she started to get heckled. Some men in the neighborhood were yelling at her that she should shut up, and she was a “fat Jew”.
She finally stopped and said this:
You know what, you’re right. I am fat and I am a Jew. But when I get to Congress I’m going to take care of you. Because you are too dumb to do it yourselves.
And then, the men started cheering her.
My favorite part of this is that she got them on her side. They cheered her for telling the truth.
They also were smart enough to know that Bella knew more about how to take care of them than they did.
There’s no way for all of us to know everything about everything. But somehow, we live in a society where all opinion is treated equally.
I find that nuts.
I don’t know the exact moment we turned a corner in our country, but through the years we’ve gone from that story, to somehow believing that equality means all opinions are equal.
They are not.
And instead of doing what Bella did—telling her constituents the truth—politicians placate the ignorant. They try to trick us into thinking our idiotic opinions, with absolutely no basis in fact, matter as much as well researched, evidence based ones.
In a country of this size, we are never all going to agree. What politicians have capitalized on is turning us against each other.
In the past, the other side meant another country; an enemy of democracy. Now, those words refer to opposing political parties in the United States.
Politicians aren’t taking care of us; they are taking care of themselves. Because the more divided its citizens, the more political capital our leaders have.
Many people believe that the free press—organizations that employ educated journalists who adhere to standard practices—is fake news. And, that people with uninformed opinions, or opinions poisoned by organizations with no journalistic standards, are just as valid as well researched ones.
They are not.
And while we are busy fighting amongst ourselves, some politicians are pushing agendas that keep themselves rich and powerful, at the ignorants’ expense.
We have got to start respecting education and ethical journalism again.
There are people who might be experts in their field. It doesn’t mean they’ve got enough expertise to lead the city, or the state, or the federal government.
The best example I can think of is the climate crisis. Global warming is affected by how we humans treat the environment. That is a fact. Here’s what NASA says about it.
Climate Change Evidence: How Do We Know?
The current warming trend is extremely likely human-induced and proceeding at an unprecedented rate in the past ...
Yet there are politicians who’d like you to believe that it’s the brainchild of “the elite”.
People need to start asking themselves why they are being placated by politicians. What’s in it for them, to tell you climate change isn’t real?
Now. Of course there are people who haven’t graduated high school that are more informed than someone with a college degree. Why? Because they read. Because they take responsibility for their own breadth of knowledge.
There are people with doctorates who refuse to educate themselves; who only read from one or two sources, and choose those based on their own opinion.
And there are people who are experts in their field.
I am not a scientist. What I think might be causing global warming is irrelevant.
My point is this: opinion is not fact. If someone is telling you something, it’s important to get their source. From where does their statement originate?
The most important work I did on this issue started in 2016. I was hearing info about my preferred candidate that was alarming. I wanted to find the truth.
I started reading about the issue. And then I took the time to investigate the sources. If I read an article, I’d research whether or not the organization had a partisan slant. I used a variety of sources, and I knew which ones were trying to convince me for their own reasons.
It was painstaking work.
However, because I took the time, I could establish that what I had heard—repeatedly—was a lie. My candidate was getting smeared by organizations with their own agendas.
I could then make an informed decision.
Ignorance isn’t something to celebrate. I wish we would take greater responsibility for our opinions.
Because compromising based on facts is hard enough.
Compromising when facts and innuendo and bad journalism and uninformed opinion are at play is impossible.
EDIT: Huge oops. I left out our lived experience.
I can never tell you what it’s like to be a person of color living in this country. My opinion? Who cares. I get educated by listening, not opining.
Likewise: Men cannot tell me how I should live and breathe as a woman in this nation. They’d be advised to listen to the women in their lives for that information.
This is something that needs its own essay, but didn’t want to leave it out. EG
Latest Pro-Trump Figure in Ukraine Scandal Appears For Insane and Awkward Interview With Chris Cuomo
www.mediaite.com
Robert Hyde's Incredibly Awkward Interview With Andrew Cuomo
Robert Hyde, a Republican candidate for Congress and the latest person at the center of the Trump-Ukraine scandal after his messages to indicted Rudy Giuliani's associate Lev Parnas were revealed, joined Chris Cuomo on CNN for an incredibly awkward and bizarre interview on Wednesday. "You have...
www.mediaite.com
This is the second day that Fox News is literally showing the hearing in a small box in the corner with no sound so there can have their talking heads shout about stupidity. I feel like I have said it like 100x over the course of the last 4 years but this is literally some 1984 war is peace shit...
Who cares. People that watch fox news are not going to vote democrat anytime soon.
Not the point. The point is that they need to be exposed to facts regardless of how they will act. Faux News is "supposed" to be a legitimate news organization. They have with zero doubt the past 12 years proven that they are a propaganda machine.
I cant do it. I have a brother who is a Republican. The only time that channel airs in my house is when he comes to town, and I'm seriously considering blocking it with parental controls.
I hear u. I usually don't last 5 minutes any more.
Trump got caught saying on tape he likes to grab women by there pussy and he still got elected. There nothing you can do to expose him. It will not work with the foxnews crowd.
If the democrats were smart they would say look trump has screwed you with tax cuts for the rich, he is not improving your health care, etc.. focus on voter issues.
Trying to attack his character is a losing position. It’s the reason why he has not lost his base.
It’s the same thing the republicans tried to do with Obama. Trying to make him a 1 term president did not work. They focus too much on character instead of what voters want. They care about how your going to improve there situation.
They can do both. I agree dems suck at this tho.
What’s it Iike to be related to a coon?
Lmaoooo. We argue all the time. I called him a couple of weeks ago to ask his thoughts on impeachment and it got to the point where I told him I'd have to call him back. Normally I speak with my sis in law, but she batshit crazy, too.
Your house your rules.
He's older and I'm the baby. I normally defer to my siblings. They are the only ones who smoke in my house also.
Schiff's closing statement: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4848893/user-clip-end-adam-schiffs-closing-statement
He was spitting fire. I see why Fox didn't want to air this shit.
He was spitting fire. I see why Fox didn't want to air this shit.
My mom was a smoker. Since she passed and I'm not around smokers daily, I can't tolerate it. I still have all her ashtrays tho, so I can pull them out. Everyone else goes outside if they aren't in town.
Yo, I thought I was the only one who says that. That is some real spit. We were living in la-la land when Obama was President. Everyone was starting to act cordially towards one another because of how Barry and Michelle is, “They go low, we go high”. Well, everyone was trying to act like that in public, but when we go home and no one is looking we treat each other like shit. We say and do fucked up shit when we think no one is looking. So we got Trump, the guy that does this shit we do in private — in public. Jokes on us.I haven't been really listening or keeping up, but just seeing clips...DL Hughley is so right...Barack Obama is who we aspire to be...Donald Trump is who we are..
Maybe you act like that orange adderall addicted idiot but I sure the hell don't. I wouldn't be fucking hookers raw while my mail order whore of a wife is at home not breast feeding my retarded son from her rancid tits.
Similar threads
