You're right, they have their own masters.
Wesley: We were fighting on opposite sides, but it was the same war. Fred: but you hated her…didn't you? Wesley: It's not always about holding hands.
'Shells'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Jan 31, 2017 6:42:38 am PST #6472 of 30002
brillig
Dana - Jan 31, 2017 7:45:19 am PST #6473 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I made a grilled cheese sandwich that was only about 75% successful. And yet, it's still a grilled cheese sandwich.
Nora Deirdre - Jan 31, 2017 8:08:39 am PST #6474 of 30002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
What's weird is that one of the people who's decrying mainstream media is very liberal.
Bernie bro? Anti-GMO?
Steph L. - Jan 31, 2017 8:15:02 am PST #6475 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
What's weird is that one of the people who's decrying mainstream media is very liberal.
Bernie bro? Anti-GMO?
No! That's why I'm so confused! Though she does overcompensate with the "there are always 3 sides to every story" belief. (My reaction was "There are NOT 3 sides to the EO banning immigrants from 7 countries; there are Nazis and there are civil liberties. There's no truth in the middle that's being missed.")
Nora Deirdre - Jan 31, 2017 8:16:07 am PST #6476 of 30002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
No! That's why I'm so confused!
Hmm.
Kat - Jan 31, 2017 8:16:15 am PST #6477 of 30002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I feel like I need a retreat from the news to keep my head straight. Like I need to prioritize the things that I want to happen so that I can spend all of my time advocating for those. But there is so much to fight against that I can't figure it out.
So if you could only fix two things that are going on at the federal level right now, what would they be?
I have a dream scenario (it involves a Scandal like plot where there is an extrajudicial law enforcement group headed by someone who is a cross between Joe Morton's character, JD from Heathers and Dick Cheney who targets Bannon). But that seems unlikely (and untenable).
msbelle - Jan 31, 2017 9:04:41 am PST #6478 of 30002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
My 2 things would be DeVos and Sessions.
I think overwhelming the public is the whole point. Shock and awe.
brenda m - Jan 31, 2017 9:06:50 am PST #6479 of 30002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Supreme Court and Sessions.
Beverly - Jan 31, 2017 9:18:48 am PST #6480 of 30002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
It's a magician's trick. A huge spectacle of a challenge to what's normal and decent and expected to get people focused in uproar and protest, to mask the change or move in defiance of law and custom going on underhand.
"Look! Look here!" *Shiny object=madly waving colorful silk kerchief* of an appalling objectionable action in one hand, and *dastardly mean and unlawful horribleness* close to the vest while people are distracted by objecting and protesting the shiny object.
Jessica - Jan 31, 2017 9:31:26 am PST #6481 of 30002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I don't think the mainstream media is super trustworthy, but I think the bias is towards sensationalism rather than partisanship.
Well yeah, but the fringe media is worse on both counts, so...
Mainstream media, to varying degrees, is beholden to their corporate masters.
Corporate masters with the ability to pay you whether or not your story goes viral, very little time or interest in interfering in the day-to-day operations of reporters, teams of people officially tasked with maintaining the journalistic standards of the brand, and professional fact checkers verifying that your story isn't bullshit before you publish it.
Vs your average anti-MSM blogger whose main concern is either (a) getting enough clicks to keep him/her from needing a day job or (b) promoting a deeply held personal ideology which may or may not ever align with actual reality.
So if you could only fix two things that are going on at the federal level right now, what would they be?
Steve Bannon and Betsy DeVos. And Jeff Sessions and the Supreme Court.
Ok, so I guess my main two things are actually Trump and Putin and lack of a time machine back to Nov 7th?