mopinko
mopinko's Journala fun old teevee show on prime- elementary.
sherlock holmes in the 21st century, in nyc. it was on cbs for 7 seasons. never heard of it.
after he’s convinced that the ‘woman on red’ has been murdered, he falls into heroin addiction. he f’s up his relationship w scotland yard. his father intervenes, gets him into rehab, and hires sober companion joan watson to keep him straight.
old characters have new twists. an occasional reference to the og stories, but not that much.
if u r a sherlock fan, or a detective story fan, check it out. might b elsewhere besides bezo’s hellscape.
if you're turning off msm, a suggestion.
subscribe to your local paper instead. support your closest npr station.
lordy do i miss the days when the chgo tribune kept it’s opinion out of the news, and had bureaus all over the world. they had some awesome reporters. there was a show on the local npr station, wbez, ‘worldview w sandra gair’. it was so good, and she regularly had the big trib writers on. such great convos. (she had the best guests, in general. her son was the producer of nightline.)
about the time she passed, the trib started closing bureaus and slanting the news. they also got rid of nicole hollander’s sylvia comic strip. that was the last straw. so i switched to the sun times.
but it’s been ages since i got a paper. the s-t is now a non-profit, part of wbez’s corp, i believe. i signed up for a monthly donation yesterday. i’ll toss a few bucks to wbez, too, as i have many, many, many times. i used to listen all day, now it’s mostly in the car. but i check their website pretty often for local stories.
what i’m trying to say is- msm has been captured. we all know we need lefty sources. but we also badly need local papers, no matter the slant. and they’re going under at a high rate of speed. so unless your local paper is a total rw rag, consider subscribing. it they lean the wrong way, write ltte’s. push them.
but if we want better media, those of us who can afford it, must support it.
in the mood to resist.
we’re gonna need music to get through this. this 1 is raising my spirits this a.m.
what else we got?
if u r planning to purchase a major appliance, do it this week.
i had to buy a dishwasher the other day.
i got $400 off a $900 dw cuz black friday. the last time i looked, earlier this year, the cheapest 1 i saw was about $800, iirc.
this wasnt the cheapest 1 they had, which i might have bought. but was able to get a better 1 for what the cheapest were going for a few mos ago.
cuz we know when the tariffs fly, prices will go nuts. and they’ll all be puttin a little gravy on the price increases. boosting their profits, cuz they can. just like they did during the plague.
deportations
i think it’s gonna b like the wall- they’ll make a big show of sweeps, enough to convince the magats that he kept his promise.
but it wont go much past that. not to minimize that. but it wont take long for the logistics will bite them in the ass.
it will serve the purpose of the oligarchs who WANT that pliable labor force, making them much, much more desperate.
actually getting rid of all immigrants wd kill a lot of businesses.
i think that question- will he rly do that?- is- who will it hurt? if it’s rich ppl, he probably wont. but he’ll make it look like he did.
cynicism
so, i have a neighbor that is a genuinely good guy. rly, always there to help. but he has guns, illegal here, and i always knew he was rw. but he’s respectful, and we’ve never argued about it. he consumes a lot of news, but his sources of info r bad. lot of them r ‘mainstream’.
he’s been wanting to sell and get out of chgo for at least 10 yrs. wanted to live near 1 of his 2 daughters, but they keep moving around. finally decided to move to nc, where he has many friends who have moved from here. he owns property w a couple of them.
he gave me a ride to the hospital and back the other day, and i asked when he was moving. him- well, my friends there r all true blue dems, like u, and i dont think i’m welcome now.
dudes prolly gonna die here now. alone. in the heart of blue.
i cant feel sorry for him, but the thing is- he’s not a hater, but he sure is a hardcore cynic.
i dont think we talk enough about how toxic cynicism is.
‘cynicism is a sorry sort of wisdom’- barack obama.
but it sure is accepted as wisdom.
well hell.
looks like i have a bowel resection in my near future. i’ve been sick and stuck in the medical industrial complex since july.
a couple trips to the er, saw a gi doc who had to have a scope. but the stricture is bad enough that i couldnt get a clean prep, so it kept getting resched.
had 1 a couple weeks ago, cd only get the scope about 1’. y that doc didnt see what was happening, i do not know. just said- need a smaller scope.
so, tried that today, and that didnt work, either.
doc admits it was visible on the 4 cts i had, but no 1 caught it.
gonna get 1 more test then see a surgeon. le sigh. always knew i wasnt gonna die w every inch of my colon. been getting worse for 20 yrs.
guess i shd b grateful i made it this far.
shd b 2-3 days in the hospital, and a temp colostomy bag.
oh joy.
they won because they lied. over, and over, and over. they built a whole ecosystem of lies.
i have often traced our problems back to the day we stopped calling lies lies, and started calling them spin. back in the days of st ronnie.
these lies played on our fears and our prejudices. because if ppl had known the truth- ie, undocumented ppl add trillions to our economy and see few of the benefits, commit very little crime compared to murikans, how cd they see them as such a threat? so they had to lie, and keep telling bigger and bigger lies. AND GETTING AWAY W IT.
no 1 is aborting babies after birth. no 1 is doing sex changes on kids. mexicans commit fewer rapes and murders than good ole boys.
and the whole pedo thing. THEY’RE the pedos. conservatives, clergy and cops. they have pedos who have been caught in their upper ranks. not to mention tsf, whose pedophilia is widely know, yet rarely discussed.
that’s the truth, and back in that day such an obvious lie wd get u laughed off the stage. but these days it gets u the spotlight. many who proport to speak the truth shade and shave it now. cuz if u speak the whole truth about some of these things, ppl dont want to look at it. they turn away.
we shd have seen the danger of their separate reality a long time ago.
the only way forward is to make america honest again. and that starts w grappling w some of the ugly truths about this country and it’s history.
we arent special. we have been horrible as often as we have been great.
maybe the upside is, after this is all over, we’ll have shown ourselves to b ordinary, stupid, violent, greedy bastards in ways that we wont b able to spin.
as gloria steinem once said- the truth will set u free, but 1st it will rly piss u off.
we have to tell the truth until even the powerful ppl get pissed off. til even the ppl who benefit from the lies get pissed off.
we have a long way to go.
will the thugs kill the filibuster?
i’m betting yes. it has served them sooooo well. they know how powerful it is.
which is y they wont want dems to have it. it’s our only hope. they know it.
they’ll kill it.
what do u think?
we wont win in 26 if we dont look closely at this debacle.
this election was not ‘free and fair’. this was an election in the war zone of an undeclared war. since it was undeclared, we took no measures to protect ppl.
we knew bomb threats were coming, but somehow they closed polling places anyway. many feared bumping into the proud boys. looking back, the vids of fights at ev sites- were those on purpose? hmmm.
they openly disenfranchised college student- moving long time polling places off campus. purposely causing long lines. challenging residency.
their targeting was laser focused. they have all the data they need to draw a district that they will hold forever. so they knew where the dem votes were, and cd shave it any way they cd.
they nitpicked mail ballots. they passed laws, tho they were struck down. many, many reports on xitter and here about ppl checking their sos website and seeing they were not counted.
then there’s dejoy…
hopefully the recounts that r coming will shed some light. hopefully the campaigns r comparing results w their canvassing. hopefully, they r calling their +1s who r showing as not voting. hopefully, they r collecting affidavits.
but those assholes dined out for 4 yrs on- but the ppl have questions about the elections.
well, guess what. we get to ask questions, too.
and if we dont answer those questions many, many voters, esp 1st time voters, will throw up their hands. we must make them prove they won.
and b4 u say i sound like a magat- we will not take this forward if the evidence is not there. they made claims based on lies. we will either make claims based on evidence, or we will concede.
either way, we will know exactly how trustworthy our elections r.
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