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“This kind of stuff is bleak. I get that we’re in a new era, but we desperately need a new crash course in media literacy, or just a reminder to be remotely discerning. The governor of Texas should not be sharing an obviously fake photo from a slop account.”


https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-repu ... -war-slop/

It's the Era of *******...

Blackvegetable » Today, 10:59 am » wrote: ↑

Today, 10:59 am

“This kind of stuff is bleak. I get that we’re in a new era, but we desperately need a new crash course in media literacy, or just a reminder to be remotely discerning. The governor of Texas should not be sharing an obviously fake photo from a slop account.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-repu ... -war-slop/

It's the Era of *******...

The village authority on discernment has arrived; the same man who mistakes evasiveness for intelligence and smugness for proof.


1. Geeeee...I wonder if you are going to hide again. No..... Not Veghead. He Never hides in his usual safe space behind questions/demands. 

Blackvegetable » 06 Apr 2026, 10:59 am » wrote: ↑

06 Apr 2026, 10:59 am

“This kind of stuff is bleak. I get that we’re in a new era, but we desperately need a new crash course in media literacy, or just a reminder to be remotely discerning. The governor of Texas should not be sharing an obviously fake photo from a slop account.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-repu ... -war-slop/

It's the Era of *******...

It's truly sad. But you might ax yourself, has your media literacy on this very issue put you very far ahead of abbot? Mine hasn't.

Have you tumbled to the fact that the area where they claim to have found the second crew member is more than a hundred miles from where they extricated the first? Airmen leave the machine at the same time - or one of them needs a court marshal. 

There is so much **** in the cover story - which is what the entire search for this airman is,I believe. 

I'm not disparaging you - I missed it too. Who has the time to dig out all the lies that come faster than we can vet them?

Check the geography:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xa-xLSscSA


 

Blackvegetable » Yesterday, 10:59 am » wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 10:59 am

“This kind of stuff is bleak. I get that we’re in a new era, but we desperately need a new crash course in media literacy, or just a reminder to be remotely discerning. The governor of Texas should not be sharing an obviously fake photo from a slop account.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-repu ... -war-slop/

It's the Era of *******...

Who the **** is Ewan Palmer and why is he considered a credible source? 

Blackvegetable » Yesterday, 10:59 am » wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 10:59 am

It's the Era of *******...

It is indeed…


 
 

Blackvegetable » Yesterday, 10:59 am » wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 10:59 am

“This kind of stuff is bleak. I get that we’re in a new era, but we desperately need a new crash course in media literacy, or just a reminder to be remotely discerning. The governor of Texas should not be sharing an obviously fake photo from a slop account.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-repu ... -war-slop/

It's the Era of *******...

You got them now!

ROG62 » 07 Apr 2026, 5:24 am » wrote: ↑

07 Apr 2026, 5:24 am

You got them now!

You are praying for the end of days.

The MAGAnificent Trumpocalyptic Times.

C'mon Moran.. WOKE!
 

ROG62 » 07 Apr 2026, 5:21 am » wrote: ↑

07 Apr 2026, 5:21 am

It is indeed…

What does that mean, JuCo?

Blackvegetable » 06 Apr 2026, 10:59 am » wrote: ↑

06 Apr 2026, 10:59 am

“This kind of stuff is bleak. I get that we’re in a new era, but we desperately need a new crash course in media literacy, or just a reminder to be remotely discerning. The governor of Texas should not be sharing an obviously fake photo from a slop account.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-repu ... -war-slop/

It's the Era of *******...

HA!!  I think the REAL ISSUE here is that Democrats are MORE angry that the F15 weapons officer was rescued, and his first words after being rescued were "Thank God"... and they are using what "may well be a fabricated video" to SHOW a rendition of the FACTUAL event... WHEN, the TRUTH be told, THEY would have rather seen him KILLED !!

I AGREE with the Officer... THANK GOD, and GOD BLESS America... and wish HIM a FULL and FRUITFUL REST of his life... AND, as for ALL the CORRUPT, DISHONEST, and PEA BRAINED, ANTI America, & ANTI American  Democrats... GO TO HELL !!

AMERICA, and AMERICANS, NEED to WAKE up… There is NOTHING “Democratic” about the CURRENT American “Democrat Party”! THEY are more an amalgamation of Totalitarian Marxists, Socialists, Communists, and Globalists… who are BENT on TAKING, and then KEEPING power... & where ultimately the American PEOPLE will have NO SAY AT ALL in how we are GOVERNED... and our "Democracy" will be DEAD!!
 
 

This use of a rural imaginary to pursue fascist aims also recalls Nathanael West’s biting satire of the Horatio Alger myth, A Cool Million (1934), written some seventy years before Roth’s novel. In that story, an American fascist party emerges during the Great Depression under a former president named Shagpoke Whipple who reemerges from retirement, touting the genius of the self-help myth. Shagpoke is all self-making without any moral scruples. He raises himself up from fame/infamy, all the while screwing everyone over in his midst as he builds his National Revolutionary Party. (His name implies a double screwing: shagging and poking.) 

As he explains to the hapless, Candide-like hero of the book, Lemuel Pitkin, “The time for a new party with the old American principles was, I realized, overripe. [Shag’s infelicity with language is wonderfully comical. It’s overripe all right.] I decided to form it; and so the National Revolutionary Party, popularly known as the “Leather Shirts,” was born. The uniform of our “Storm Troops” is a coonskin cap like the one I am wearing, a deerskin shirt and a pair of moccasins. Our weapon is the squirrel rifle” (110). 

Addressing a large crowd from a soapbox Shagpoke rails: 

“I’m a simple man,” he said with great simplicity, “and I want to talk to you about simple things. You’ll get no highfalutin talk from me.” 

“First of all, you people want jobs. Isn’t that so?”… 

“Well, that’s the only and prime purpose of the National Revolutionary Party—to get jobs for everyone. There was enough work to go around in 1927, why isn’t there enough now? I’ll tell you; because of the Jewish international bankers and Bolshevik labor unions, that’s why. It was those two agents that did the most to hinder American business and destroy its glorious expansion. The former because of their hatred of America and love for Europe and the latter because of their greed for higher and still higher wages… 

“If America is ever again to be great, it can only be through the triumph of the revolutionary middle class. 

“We must drive the Jewish international bankers out of Wall Street! We must destroy all Bolshevik labor unions! We must purge our country of all alien elements and ideas that now infest her! 

“America for Americans! Back to the principles of Andy Jackson and Abe Lincoln!” (111-12) 

The grade school use of the adverb there is just too much: “‘I’m a simple man,’ he said with great simplicity.” West just misses the Trumpian syntax: “If America is ever again to be great.” This would be even more terrifying for contemporary ears, but West takes no prisoners. He leaves no offensive stereotype unmined. The satire goes all the way down. It’s very much a product of its times.

https://s-usih.org/2016/12/the-plot-aga ... art-three/
 

Vegas » 07 Apr 2026, 12:58 pm » wrote: ↑

07 Apr 2026, 12:58 pm

Posting an article is not the same thing as making an argument. At some point you have to remove the training wheels of quotation and demonstrate that there is an actual mind operating the account.

It begins with actually reading what is posted.

Tell me what you don't get.
 

Blackvegetable » 7 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

7 minutes ago

It begins with actually reading what is posted.

Tell me what you don't get.

I read it. I was waiting for the part where you stopped being a courier for other people’s ideas and became a thinker.


1. Turn it on me ...again. Still won't post any thoughts of your own.

Vegas » 07 Apr 2026, 1:03 pm » wrote: ↑

07 Apr 2026, 1:03 pm

I read it. I was waiting for the part where you stopped being a courier 

We COULD exchange opinions....but yours is not informed by reading the book in question...in fact, but for me, you wouldn't know it existed. 

Blackvegetable » 7 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

7 minutes ago

We COULD exchange opinions....but yours is not informed by reading the book in question...in fact, but for me, you wouldn't know it existed.

"But for me, you wouldn’t know it existed’ is a very grand way of saying you use Google before speaking

Vegas » 07 Apr 2026, 1:43 pm » wrote: ↑

07 Apr 2026, 1:43 pm

"But for me, you wouldn’t know it existed’ is a very grand way of saying you use Google before speaking

No..

It means what it says.

I read that book, the first time, nearly 50 years ago.

I read it to my daughter.

You can't read....consider how inferior that makes you.


 

Blackvegetable » 3 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

3 minutes ago

No..

It means what it says.

I read that book, the first time, nearly 50 years ago.

I read it to my daughter.

You can't read....consider how inferior that makes you.

So your argument is: ‘I read a book once, therefore I may now behave like a chandelier made of ego.’

‘I read it 50 years ago’ only explains the dust, not the insight.

Vegas » 07 Apr 2026, 1:48 pm » wrote: ↑

07 Apr 2026, 1:48 pm

So your argument is: ‘I read a book once, 

How many times did I just tell you I read the book?



You are so g'ddammned **** stupid..

Blackvegetable » 3 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

3 minutes ago

How many times did I just tell you I read the book?

You are so g'ddammned **** stupid..

You keep shouting that you read the book, which only confirms the one fact nobody was contesting. The missing piece remains your actual point...and thoughts of your own.

Vegas » 07 Apr 2026, 1:52 pm » wrote: ↑

07 Apr 2026, 1:52 pm

You keep shouting that you read the book, 

How many times have I read the book?


You?



QED.

JD Vance had a cringeworthy moment on the world stage as he tried to call Donald Trump during a rally in Hungary—only for the president to not pick up the first time around. 

In Budapest to urge voters to re-elect far-right Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the vice president appeared on stage and declared he had something of a surprise for the crowd.


https://www.thedailybeast.com/vance-hum ... -on-stage/



"He's just shagged after a long squawk...beautiful plumage."