The Great Consolidation
Nancy
Monday, November 15, 2021
Sunday, October 10, 2021
The Days That We Live In
So, this is a thing that happened.
The President of the United States tries to ignore a huge pandemic that ends up killing perhaps a million Americans.
He shares crazy-ass ideas about how to deal with the pandemic he denies.
At a brazen public event in the middle of the pandemic, doing something about as odious any President has ever done, he, his wife, and their son catch the virus.
They try to hide the illness, but he gets too sick to deny it.
He is airlifted to Walter Reed.
The doctors gaslight the public on the stairs of Walter Reed about the President's health, and few really question it.
The doctors shoot him up full of steroids so that they can Weekend At Bernie's him around the hospital waving to his loving, feral supporters.
While propped up, he gets brought home and, with clearly labored breathing, rips his mask off for the camera to see.
Another hundred thousand people die. He pretends it's still not a big deal.
He *still* only loses the election by a pretty thin margin.
It comes out later, after hundreds thousands more die, that he had been very, very sick and it was really probably only due to the fact that he was one of the most powerful men in the world that he survived.
Oh, and he lies about getting a tube shoved up his ass because he doesn't want to look weak.
And not one question has been asked of his doctors since.
Yup, we lived through that.
Friday, June 25, 2021
Trying to Get Back to Normal
I'm a little OCD about a lot of things, and exercise is one of them. The minute it seemed we had to shelter at home for even three weeks, i started accumulating gym equipment at home, simplified my workouts, and just kept going.
I recently did some traveling post-vaccination, and did the same simplified workouts in empty hotel gyms. Yesterday I went to a real gym, the same one I went to for five years, for the first time since last March. I have done pretty much the same six workout cycle for 20 years. I forced myself through trying to piece back together one of my old routines, was completely disoriented, and hated every minute of it.
I went again tonight, did some cardio, looked at the weight machines again, and just walked out. I just did not have any interest in being in that environment, even though it was midnight and very few people were there.
I don't know whether I'm going to ease back into it or just stick with the workout at home thing. It's not like I'm that afraid of COVID now (though I'm keeping my eye on the Delta variant); it just felt off. A lot of things do. Most things do.
Monday, April 5, 2021
Monday, March 15, 2021
Don't Sleep on (or With) Tucker Carlson
Brian Stelter: Tucker Carlson is filling the space Trump left behind by becoming the ‘new’ Donald Trump https://t.co/1viCJ2iZiD
— Tough Love ❤️🧢 #Resist👉🏽DP 👉🏽Putinsgay 👉🏽🤫 (@koan4u) March 15, 2021
Saturday, January 16, 2021
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Thursday, December 31, 2020
Closing Out 2020 and Looking Ahead (or, My Year Living with CNN)
If that holds, we will likely be over 5000 deaths per day the week of January 10th. Stay the fuck home, people. /6 /end
— Jason Baby (@j_consolidation) December 29, 2020
Jim Comey cares about one thing -- covering Jim Comey's ass. But I think 2021 is going to be the year of the Andrews -- McCabe and Weissman. Watch those guys.
— Jason Baby (@j_consolidation) December 31, 2020
Today's the first time that if you put a gun to my head, I'd predict the Dems take the Senate. Which, after all the handwringing about November 8th, means we had a pretty good Election Day. We lost some seats that we only won in 2018 because we had an excellent year, but were hard to hold in a good year. I'll happily take the White House, an advantage-Dem tied Senate, and a narrow lead in the House after the last four years.Starting to feel like things are tilting in our direction... not just based on the polls, but based on turnout. pic.twitter.com/frOH4cZPQl
— Jason Baby (@j_consolidation) December 31, 2020
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Things are changing now. Trump's attacks on Mueller, particularly the revelation that Trump tried to fire him, is starting to elicit talk of Trump actually covering up crimes, and sometimes, the TV personalities will even allude to those crimes being Russia related. Occasionally, they'll discuss whether or not a sitting President can be indicted. I don't know whether they'll get there, but I'd say the next steps are for the CNN types to acknowledge, on air, that Trump cheated. Then they'll need to discuss what the consequences should be for stealing an election. Finally, and I don't think this'll happen, CNN panelists and perhaps hosts will call for an overturning of the election. That's what I'm watching for. The fact that there's progress at all makes this situation different than in the past. During the Bush years, the press rarely acknowledged that the administration lied us into war in Iraq, or that the administration ignored pre-9/11 warnings. The mainstream press will just never be out ahead of these types of stories. I've been following it for 20 years, I'm nearly 40, and I know by now that I'll never be satisfied with what I'm watching.They didn't quite get to the point where Trump's theft of the 2016 election made CNN's sirens blare 24/7, but Ukraine and impeachment, along with Trump's open hijacking of the Postal Service and his refusal to let go since November 8th have opened their eyes to him. It also took several of their on-air personalities getting coronavirus, Trump causing the deaths of 300,000+ people, and Trump gassing their own reporters to wake them up:
Media: @JohnJHarwood: "@realDonaldTrump is making sure as he goes out to highlight his signature qualities -- he's a huge liar, he's delusional, and he's also incompetent. He's incompetent because he has no focus, no management skills, no willingness to accept responsibility." pic.twitter.com/Tqe7KyyEpM
— Porter Anderson (@Porter_Anderson) December 31, 2020
As well as Jim Sciutto snarking away:
Every single one of them was voted in on the very same ballots in the very same election they will now object to. It is the height of sycophantic idiocy. https://t.co/BgFenTp2RJ
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) December 31, 2020
And Brianna Keilar even anti-bothsidesing:
Not to mention Chris Cuomo saying what he really thinks...
CNN has, mostly because they haven't had much of a choice, become the liberal network they've been long accused of being, and never were. They've been on the side of the good guys. Will they stay there with Biden in office? I don't know, but I think they'll be better than they were before Trump threw bleach all over the White House Press Corps.
See you next year!With a little luck...2021 might not suck! Join @andersoncooper & @Andy to say ✌️2020 & 👋2021 this New Year’s Eve on CNN. #CNNNYE 🥂 pic.twitter.com/Ls4z8jdGLe
— CNN Communications (@CNNPR) December 19, 2020