If you are unfamiliar with the term “gaslighting,” becoming acquainted with it should be your highest priority. Because it is being used against you on a national scale. And it’s about to get worse.
Read why on Todays Rant: America, prepare for the next stage of gaslighting.
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— James Hitchcock (@jehitch) June 29, 2020
If you are cool w/ hate as long as it's profitable, you're worse than racists: you're the guy who sold rope to Night Riders, but too cowardly to actually slip it over someone's head & pull the other end.https://t.co/XBEL0hh8fi
If you are cool w/ hate as long as it’s profitable, you’re worse than racists: you’re the guy who sold rope to Night Riders, but too cowardly to actually slip it over someone’s head & pull the other end.
Choose:
A. Trump’s a goddamned lying coward
B. Trump’s cabinet is incompetent
C. Trump’s a traitor
D. All of the above.
“Facing strong criticism from Democrats, Trump said on Twitter that neither he nor Vice President Mike Pence had been briefed on the classified assessment. Trump also tried to cast doubt on a New York Times report that said he had been told about the matter.”
“Nobody briefed or told me, @VP Pence, or Chief of Staff @MarkMeadows about the so-called attacks on our troops in Afghanistan by Russians, as reported through an ‘anonymous source’ by the Fake News @nytimes,” Trump wrote. “Everybody is denying it & there have not been many attacks on us…..”
When did we forget that we didn’t need debate to understand some things are just wrong?
Read an opinion piece on the concept of journalists working from a position of moral clarity rather than just stenographers giving you two sides of a story as if they are equal here: Today’s Rant: On Moral Clarity
Exploring how history is written (or edited) by the victors, “The Copy Editors,” written by James Hitchcock and illustrated by Joe Williams, predicted exactly what happened when McGraw Hill recently reframed the capture of Africans for use as slaves as “migration” of “workers” in a history textbook.
This time they were called on the carpet for this whitewash of a horrific crime, but how many times have they gotten away with it?