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  • ddt 13.00 on January 26, 2017 ☍  

    This Coming Age of Silence

    Another day, another batch of executive orders, another round of reactions, worries, celebrations, and memes. There are so many stories to sift through. There is so much exhaustion of eyes, of minds, of rage, of delight. Five days in and people are unplugging from SNS (social network services) (social network services) (social network services) (social network services), filling their feeds with cats, LOLz, hot chicks, hotter guys, and Obama-nostalgia posts. 

    Not even a week has passed and these things have changed for the next four years:

    There is some good reporting and writing going on too, but not enough. These are all worth your reading time:

    Lastly, watch and remember this: Lest We Forget – Bill Moyers and four historians on the big lie behind the rise of Trump.

    #ddongtoday #dronesmotherfucker


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  • ddt 05.25 on January 25, 2017 ☍  

    Day … Fuck Your Echo Chamber

    If you thought Ddong Today was going to give you a day-by-day commentary on the Trump administration, then you were wrong. Day-by-days are a joke, a way to affix a false sense of chronology to a period of time to remember it better or more neatly. MSM does day-by-days and then they  stop because that stops selling content and when that happens it gets a lot harder to sell advertising. We will see “week 1” or “the first week” commentaries soon enough and later, “first month”, then “the first 100 days”, and finally, “the first year”. Recap, summarize, distill to the sound byte, and sell—that is our system. 

    There’s too much going on to keep shoehorning into day-by-day posts. Already this browser is bloody with pinned tabs, so much to say and so little time and space and time to say it in. So many issues, the obvious things, the executive orders, the reactions from the right and the left, the schisms, and the unobvious things. 

    We are four days into President Trump’s vision of America. It is not great again, and in many ways, America looks the same as it did last week. But the mood is different—very different. We are four days in and already folks are worn out. How can we tell? Simple: there is no protesting and the meming is way up. 

    (from the left on the left)

    Yes, Spicer and Conway sound like they are talking straight from 1984 .

    Yes, that is disturbing, but how many of President Trump’s cabinet have seen a 1984 movie or read the book? If they had read the book or even seen the movie, their spin doctors would take greater care in how their message is being crafted. They may think their words are smart and original, but without the background knowledge of how things change into absolute authoritarianism, e.g. from news to newsspeak, their self-preception of how they choose to speak seems efficient to them, rather that completely scary to the folks who have read the book; necessary to them rather than dangerous to the folks who have read the book. In this case, attaching their words to those of George Orwell then, means nothing. This meme will travel the leftie echo chamber and everyone will go, “See! These people are insane and power-hungry. They want control. We have to stop Trump.” 

    (from the right on the right)

    Yes, we live in America (or abroad with our American passports). Yes, that is our flag. Yes, that is the president. And, yes, that is how it works.

    Yes, maybe folks should sit down and accept what has come to be … only that isn’t how we all grew up. The American way is to stand up for yourself, for what you believe in. Hollywood movies and hundreds of tv shows repeat these themes throughout our childhoods, teens, and adulthood. We don’t just accept something because someone said so. This sounds great if you’re into this administration. These are all the facts needed to layout why protesting is wrong. No sane American can deny the truth in this meme. It is real. It is life. It is now. (And it isn’t a loose comparison to a book Joe Blow read in middle school). This meme has folks in the righie echo chamber going, “That’s right. You don’t like it? Leave.”

    #ddongtoday #dronesmotherfucker #smashtheechochamber


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  • ddt 20.42 on January 24, 2017 ☍  

    Those Skills are Gone, Mr. President

    It’s actually a great plan and alluded to on Ddong Today earlier … but there aren’t enough folks left in all of America with the technical skills required to build even a small Death Star. Not even one to match the size of the president’s ego head. Those skills are long gone. China would have to step in and build it for us.

    So what to do?

    A wall.

    Building a wall will create hundreds of thousands of jobs.  


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  • ddt 14.14 on January 24, 2017 ☍  

    As one city fingers its policy at the new administration, this exchange comes to mind:

    Governor Tarkin:
    The Imperial Senate will no longer be of any concern to us. I have just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.

    General Tagge:
    But that’s impossible. How will the Emperor maintain control without the bureaucracy?

    Governor Tarkin:
    The regional governors now have direct control over their territories. Fear will keep the local systems in line. Fear of this battle station.

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    Without a battle station (Death Star), and other than pulling Federal funding, there’s little Trump can do (legally) to keep the local systems (states, counties, cities) in line. Except tweet-rage about … maybe.

    #ddongtoday #watchandlisten


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  • ddt 12.11 on January 24, 2017 ☍  

    Punching Nazis

    Putting things into the contexts in which we were raised:

    • Nazis = bad
    • Nazi haters = good
    • fighting Nazis = good
    • not fighting Nazis = bad
    • punching someone because you don’t like what they say = bad
    • punching someone because they are going to hurt you = okay

    This code wasn’t remembered, a friend had to point it out, and that friend is right. As much as we loathe Richard Spencer, he has as much right as any American to stand on a corner anywhere in America and talk. That is a 1st Amendment right. There are exceptions to that right (read this to understand), which as clearly seen in the video, Spencer was not in or even veering towards. This is a video of an assault. If Spencer filed a police report, the law would be on his side, even if most folks are not. 

    There is a mob mentality as we push forward into the Trump era. Folks are pissed. Looking for things to push back against. And pushing back by decking a guy talking on a street corner because we don’t like him is a bad play. Other than coded hate speech, Spencer has no crime under the Constitution (though one could make a case that shouting “Hail Trump” and alluding to the “Lügenpresse” is a kind of incitation of impending violence by evoking Hitler’s brand of fascism, which would fall into the realm of the earlier referred to exceptions of the 1st Amendment—seriously, read the link). 

    More troubling is the willing acceptance of punching out Spencer as the right thing do because it is an American thing to do. This creates a fallacy in ‘the American way’ way of life:

    Indiana Jones punching a Nazi for self-defense (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) and Captain America punching out Hitler in a room of soldiers with guns versus an unarmed, non-hate speaking (in the video) Richard Spencer getting punched in mid-sentence. Two of these things are justifiable, one is not. The action of a solitary, anonymous, white man punching Spencer is that it makes Spencer the clear victim. It allows folks to see him as human, as needing protection, as just-a-guy-some-people-don’t-like, as a hero. We don’t need and can’t afford to create martyrs of anyone in the alt-rite movement or any other cluster of folks who don’t agree with the core tenents of what we might call, being a decent fucking human being:

    • non-discriminatory against anyone’s race, class, sex, or orientation 
    • accepting of otherness—specifically religions, gender identities
    • non-exclusionatory politics
    • empathic of those in need—specifically refugees
    • philanthropic

    Nick Spencer, perhaps most famous for writing the Captain-America-is-really-a-Hydra-agent comic book storyline (pro-tip: Hydra = Nazis), made a similar distinction between punching Nazis and punching Spencer:

    The NYT ran an article of its own: Attack on Alt-Right Leader Has Internet Asking: Is It O.K. to Punch a Nazi? Not many saw or read this article, but Betteridge’s Law of Headlines says, ‘No, it isn’t O.K. to punch a Nazi.’

    Remember too, that President Trump on the campaign trail last year advocated similar violence against protesters at his rallies.

    The martyrization of Spencer, the lawlessness of him getting punched in the face on the street, the ‘yays’ of the internetz, the memes that have followed all contribute to the climate of hate and intolerance propped up by Trump himself (and, historically, many others). Folks on the internetz reacting without thinking or “memeing” without considering is not new. Those acts are part of the reason we now call Trump, President Trump.

    Because Spencer is the victim, he and the alt-rite can milk the situation for everything it is worth and more. It is worth a lot, partially because Spencer had fallen to the sidelines of the national consciousness since the inauguration, now he has another 15 minutes to shame America and surely some will wonder why we have free speech at all (and it’s clear that is one direction the Trump administration is pushing—last push, read the link about 1st Amendment exceptions). The solitary, anonymous, white man violated Spencer’s “safe space” (yes, the alt-rite has hijacked terminology created for anyone but white men). Using that language, the video, and everything thing else, there is a bounty on that solitary, anonymous, white man’s name: Expose The ANTIFA Who Sucker Punched Richard Spencer.

    Ponder that for a moment. 

    A bounty. Not for a head. Not dead or alive.

    A bounty for a name.

    What happens to this solitary, anonymous, white man once his name is known to the alt-rite. What happened to the Jews between the walls? What happened to the freedom fighters in the basement? What happened to the black man on his way home?

    But this is 2017, you say. Okay. This is what will happen to the solitary, anonymous, white man once his name is known to the alt-rite in 2017:

    • he will definitely be given a black eye, but probably much worse (the Nazi way)
    • he will probably be doxed (see ‘doxing‘)
    • he will be harassed at his place of work
    • he will be harassed at home
    • his family, if he has one, will be threatened
    • the police will probably not be able to help him since none of the perpetrators will be known

    Folks on the internetz are aware of the bounty and the ramifications of it, and in typical internetz fashion have attached a hashtag to the situation #IPunchedRichardSpencer. The idea is to flood the internetz with so many people claiming to be that solitary, anonymous, white man that the alt-rite won’t be able to find him. 

    It doesn’t work like that and the hashtag isn’t as proactive or as useful as say, trying to get the site to pull the bounty. The hashtag is the same kind of passive interaction, sharing and tagging in place of speaking and acting, that folks now see as “doing something” to “make a difference” because it’s “better than doing nothing.” But hashtagging and posting is, in fact, doing nothing. Like thousands of folks updating their Facebook statues to show them “at” Standing Rock is doing nothing. Hashtags are meant to gauge popular interest in topics and rank them on a page or make popular topics easy to find, that’s all they do. To wield hashtags in a polarizing way, they have to be coordinated, even loosely, between folks. That is doing something. 

    Doing something would be to try to get the bounty pulled from Wesearchr whose tag line is: Crowdfunding the Truth.

    There’s no truth to be had in outing an assault perp, only vengeance and lawlessness. Wesearchr’s own terms & conditions page makes a good case for pulling the bounty: 

    User Content

    The term “User Content” means any information, text, graphics, video, or other material of any kind whatsoever that you post on the Site or otherwise submit to us. This term includes within its scope (without limiting the generality of the foregoing) both (i) anything that an Asker posts to the Site or otherwise submits to us in order to initiate or oversee a Bounty; and (ii) anything that a Researcher submits to the us as a proposed Answer to a Bounty or in connection therewith.

    You represent, warrant, and agree that you will not contribute any User Content or otherwise use the Services in a manner that:

    1. infringes, violates or otherwise interferes with any copyright or trademark of another party;
    2. reveals any trade secret, unless the trade secret belongs to you or you have the owner’s permission to disclose it;
    3. infringes any intellectual property right of another;
    4. unlawfully violates the privacy or publicity rights of another;
    5. discloses any information that you are contractually obligated to refrain from disclosing;
    6. is libelous, defamatory, indecent, abusive, harassing, threatening, or otherwise violates any law or right of any third party;
    7. creates an impression that you know is incorrect, misleading, or deceptive, including by impersonating others or otherwise misrepresenting your affiliation with a person or entity;
    8. contains other people’s private or personally identifiable information without their express authorization and permission;
    9. contains or links to a virus, Trojan horse, worm, time bomb or other computer programming routine or engine that is intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or information; and/or
    10. contains links to other sites that contain the kind of content that falls within the descriptions set out in (a) through (i) above.

    The Wesearchr FAQ page states that the site can’t be used for doxing … :

    Can I use WeSearchr to dox or harass people?
    No. WeSearchr is a journalistic enterprise that publishes information of journalistic value that is in the public interest. Bounties seeking information that is not publishable or is not of any journalistic relevance will not be approved. All Proposed Bounties are reviewed by WeSearchr senior editors before being opened for contributions.

    It’s doubtful, though subjective, that outing the man who punched Spencer is of journalistic interest and the way the internetz work and the rise of CCTV, it’s equally doubtful that he will remain anonymous for very long now that the police have been involved.  


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  • ddt 07.34 on January 23, 2017 ☍  

    Day 2 – Lies, Damned Lies, and Alternate Sets of Facts

    President Trump visits CIA headquarters to tell spies how awesome they are and how much he loves them. Pretty epic given the constant disses of the last few weeks. Meanwhile, Sean Spicer (above), edgy, nervous, and clearly pissed chastises the press for false reporting “at a time when our nation and the world was watching the peaceful transition of power” [1] (emphasis ddt). Much has been made of “the peaceful transition of power” this year and President Trump’s infamous refusal to promise it, made everyone press it even more, certain that he would loose and his supporters would make trouble. But President Trump didn’t loose and “the peaceful transition of power” is evermore a phrase to hold over people.

    We’re going to see this a lot, as folks object to things, to actions or inactions, and happenstances. There’s a dangerous parallel that some will draw between speaking out against a governmental policy and advocating open rebellion. It’s clear that, as Americans, all of us do in fact support the peaceful transition of power, otherwise this fiasco would either have already ended or we would be watching block-by-block gun battles on BBC and Al Jazeera.

    Back to the press core …

    Spicer insists as his boss insists, that the 2017 inauguration was attended by more people than any other inauguration in history—this has been refuted by every source except the White House and the alt-rite press, some focusing on the MLK angle more and the end bit (not transcribed yesterday):

    “There’s been a lot of talk in the media about holding President Trump accountable. Well, I’m here to tell you that it goes two ways. We’re going to hold the press accountable as well. The American people deserve better,” Spicer said. “And as long as he serves as the messenger of this incredible movement, he will take this message directly to the American people where his focus will always be.”

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    Mildly threatening (“We’re going to hold the press accountable”), partially coded (“this incredible movement”)—this is the stuff of dystopian films and television. This on top of other language also mildly threatening and also sometimes coded, e.g. “Make America Great Again”—the interpretations are endless. This language could mean nothing … or it could mean whichever extremist paranoia fits one’s socio-politcal strata. Few folks find these phrases comforting or reassuring.

    Some sites, like this one,  aren’t even “the press”, yet are participating in the fake news as the administration is calling inauguration day attendance numbers. There are few ways to hold everyone accountable for one set of truth where everything else is a lie. There is no peaceful transition of power involved in any of those ways. This is why Spicer’s words are mildly threatening (if not outrightly so).

    A peaceful transition of power is less a positive, naturally occuring process of a country each time those in government or just out of that government repeat the phrase.

    The internetz are brutal about facts, in some circles. If you say it, it’d better be true, because if it isn’t, there are four or five folks who seem like they’ve been sitting around all day just waiting to tell you how wrong you are. We all seem used to that, but the new administration is from that other part of the internetz, the famous alt-rite echo chamber. When the internetz started to hammer on Spicer’s words, we learned that he was giving “an alternative set of facts.”

    This is nothing new. This is one of those science-isn’t-real-god-is type of utterances. Some schools now teach intelligent design alongside natural selection because it is ‘an alternative set of facts’. Kellyanne Conway, is pulling from another alt-rite language point and clearly, Chuck Todd has never actually had to deal with a science denier and gets owned by the illogic. It’s funny to watch if you’ve had to deal with illogic or a science-denier. When Popular Science killed off its comments section in 2013 in part because of illogic and attacks on science itself, everyone should have sat up and taken note that idiocracy was actually a “thing”.

    Intelligent design and natural selection are theories, not facts. The number of people at the 2017 inauguration, is currently also a theory and will remain so until there are independent counts completed and those rely on aerial photography and a lot more analysis than there has been time for in this nascent presidency.

    The real problem is that millions of people are caught up in this idiocy. Not one American should be giving a shit how many people showed up to President Trump’s inauguration. It’s just not important. The lying, is a little bit important … but not really. That President Trump is a liar is not news. That his staff would lie for him or to boost his image is not news. None of this is news.

    The real news is on the sidelines. You have to watch for it.

    The real news is stuff like this bill, which would never have a chance of passing, has a chance now, under the new administration and Congress. This bill … it’s like that time when Popular Science turned off its comment section. Sit up and take note.

    #smashtheechochamber #dronesmotherfucker #ddongtoday


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  • ddt 19.48 on January 22, 2017 ☍  

    Y = C+G+I+NX, Baby

    A non-American family member asked today, “So, what are you gonna do?”.
    “Nothing. We are fucked.”

    If we do nothing we are fucked. If we try and fail, at least we can know that we did something. If we try and succeed, we think things will be different, better, how we don’t know, but the idea is that it won’t be what we find ourselves in today—incessant bickering across the SNS (social network services) stratosphere about how many people showed up to whose party. In other words: we know it won’t be high school. Whatever future there is going forward, at least (we hope), it’s got to be better than high school braggarts in the capitol and on the screens going round after round of I’m-right-and-you’re-wrong.

    If this is you, right now, on the internetz or in a bar, talking about this … this cruft of the inauguration, you’ve already lost. You’re already doing nothing if you are mindlessly sharing a comparative picture of Obama’s 2009 inauguration and the 2017 inauguration. If you’re not looking at the sources, you’ve lost. If you’ve taken at face value, any part of the MLK bust removed from The Oval Office—be it as the 😱-what-a-monster (leftie) or the LOOK!-fake-news (rightie), you’ve lost.

    The truth, the news, is somewhere in the middle. You have to think for yourself to find it. You have to read between the lines. You have to talk with people who agree with you and those who do not. Most of all, you have to listen.

    If you’re not listening, then you’re doing nothing.

    #dronesmotherfucker #ddongtoday

    Y = C+G+I+NX

    The first thing that America has lost is prosperity. How do I know? The fundamental equation of macroeconomics says so, without a shred of doubt. Y = C+G+I+NX. Don’t be scared. It’s much simpler than it looks. It just means: GDP = Consumption + Government expenditure + Investment + eXports.

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  • ddt 12.47 on January 22, 2017 ☍  

    Why Can’t Anyone Count?

    Check out this CNN site with a thingamajig called a “gigapixel”:

    https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2017/01/politics/trump-inauguration-gigapixel/

    It’s a massive, scrollable photograph of the inauguration. Be sure to swing a hard right with your mouse/finger and check the massive cluster of people that reaches back to the Washington Monument.

    Whatever the National Park Service (NPS) retweeted, they’ve been forced to delete it. And when putting sooo much faith in their counting, remember that they undercounted the Million Man March in 1995 (emphasis mine):

    within 24 hours after the March there arose a conflict about crowd sizeestimates between March organizers and Park Service officials. The National Park Service issued an estimate of about 400,000 attendees, a number significantly lower than March organizers had hoped for. After a heated exchange between leaders of the march and Park Service, ABC-TV-funded researchers at Boston University estimated the crowd size to be about 837,000 members, with a 20% margin of error.

    Vox is pimping the “no one showed” up story, but the images they have are from probably 30 minutes before CNN’s gigapixel shot was taken. And this tirade isn’t helping:

    Yesterday, at a time when our nation and the world was watching the peaceful transition of power, and as the president said, “The transition and the balance of power from Washington to the citizens of the United States.” Member … some members of the media were engaged in deliberately false reporting. For all the talk about the proper use of Twitter, two instances yesterday stand out. One was a particularly egregious example in which a reported falsely tweeted out that the bust of Martin Luther King Jr. had been removed from The Oval Office. After it was pointed out that this was just plain wrong, the reporter casually reported an con … tweeted out that a Secret Service agent must have just been standing in front of it. This was irresponsible and reckless. Secondly, photographs of the inaugural proceedings were intentionally framed in a way … in one particular tweet to minimize the enormous support that had gathered on the National Mall. This was the first time in our nation’s history that floor coverings have been used to protect the grass on the mall. That had the effect of highlighting any areas were people were not standing, while in years past the grass eliminated this visual. This was also the first time that fencing and magnetometers went as far back on the wall preventing hundreds of thousands of people from a … being able to access the mall as quickly as they had in inaugurations past. Inaccurate numbers involving crowd size were also tweeted. No one had numbers because the National Park Service, which controls the National Mall, does not put any out. By the way, this applies to any attempts to try to count the number of protesters today in the same fashion. We do know a few things, so let’s go through the facts. We know …”

    He then goes into “the facts” as the White House is choosing to spin them today. He goes on about the great reception President Trump received this place and that place, takes a dig at the Democrats, mentions Canada and Mexico. Then chastises the press for not writing about those things. Finally, he follows it all up with a schedule of what President Trump will do tomorrow before walking out.

    It’s easy to miss in the video and maybe in the transcript, too, but the harshness of the press secretary’s tone when he says, “This was irresponsible and reckless.” This is the sitting government adding a layer of aesthetic interpretation to what is being said about them in a public forum. Other governments have done this too, it’s not special, unique, or even worrisome per se, but it is very worthy of note here, because this is presented within a larger context of “fake news”. The reporter says it was a mistake. Brietbart calls it “Fake News on Day One“. Ddong Today calls it ‘jumping the gun’.

    Whatever it was, it is no more irresponsible and reckless than any number of things that have gone down since this fiasco started with a rant about raping Mexicans.

    Forget the numbers and counting, as stated in the Vox article, real counts aren’t known for days or weeks until after an event. The thing to watch are the press conferences, the tone the White House sets down as “acceptable” (e.g. not irresponsible, not reckless), and what other stories, events, people, facts, etc. will fall into the newly defined category of ‘irresponsible and reckless’.

    #blasttheechochamber #ddongtoday

    Update:

    Slate has a comparison of Twitter cover images when the @POTUS Twitter account flipped over. Some President Trump staffer uploaded a picture of Obama’s 2009 inauguration. Of course someone caught it and so there is media fodder about it.

    These “mistakes” feel more like digs and FUs than ignorance. It takes energy to do stuff like this and unless that image was just one in a default upload folder. And President Trump himself has shown again and again that he’s a big fan of the petty dig.

    Meanwhile the counting continues …


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  • ddt 07.36 on January 22, 2017 ☍  

    Day 1 – Dr. T Signs Some Papers and Stuff

    It was a beautiful inauguration. The most beautiful ever watched by most Americans because most Americans don’t sit down and watch inaugurations—nobody cares. There’s no teams, no scores, no cheerleaders, no tits. It’s another excuse for American showmanship where the cameras follow a white guy and his wife around for a day (previous two presidential inaugurations excluded—they are the exception to the norm). When Americans want to watch white guys and their wives all day, they flip on Duck Dynasty. SSDS.

    People tuned in because they:

    1. wanted to see President Trump get popped by the Assassins or the Templars or Ferngully.
    2. wanted to see a revolution (that cuts a number of ways).
    3. wanted to see President Trump put his foot in his mouth.
    4. wanted to see lefties getting roughed up.
    5. wanted to see riot police getting hit with bricks.
    6. wanted to watch the associate editor of the WAPO ramble on on CBS about how this wasn’t the first time folks rioted during an inauguration, “Nixon had rocks thrown at his limousine.”source
    7. wanted to see their man wrest the capitol from the tentacles of the elite.
    8. wanted to see what the good missus President Trump would wear (and no one foresaw the Jackie O. comparisons).
    9. couldn’t find any episodes of Rick and Morty to watch.

    Then most people fell asleep waiting for the motorcade to motor or went to eat some food while the media talked about President Trump’s speech. Waking up the next day, it turns out that President Trump finally found himself a desk on day 1 of stewarding America and signed some stuff.

    The bulk of the MSM has dwelled on his signing of an executive order related to the Affordable Care Act, some say to reign it in, others say to break it down. It’s too soon to know … and, outside looking in, the Affordable Care Act seems poorly executed in the first place. And things that aren’t executed correctly are easy to build hate and distrust around and against.

    Figuring out what other things were important to President Trump to sign on his first use of a presidential pen took more leg work. Vice has this covered with some videos of presidential hobnobbing and games of pass-the-pen. One executive order was to change another law to all the new Secretary of Defense to take his post. Another was for a “National Day of Patriotism”—not many details for that though (some basics here).

    It’s hard to take these things in stride, to “give him a chance”. Folks like specifics, even if they don’t read them, it’s good to know that they are there, that they can be read, if the desire is there. Most folks will never bother to read up on much of anything, instead, clusters of groups that watch the inner workings of our government scour every line of print for things to that they think we either should know or be frighten by. Usually, those groups break for the latter—instilling fear is the shortest way to get folks to do stuff.

    Give the new whitehouse.gov site a read. Or look through the page source, they seem to have every incarnation of every browser covered, but I want to know if President Trump has taken care of the “cyber” yet. How many exploits will it take to fell whitehouse.gov? Someone will figure that out this year, bet on it.


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  • ddt 18.12 on January 21, 2017 ☍  

    Best part? Wholluped while trying to explain/rationalize his Pepe the frog pin (watch the video):
    https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-21/far-right-activist-richard-spencer-punched-on/8200106

    QG had this to say in Facebook:

    LOL! The fact that he was punched by a White person makes me slightly giddy! —
    Reason: if he was punched by a Black person – BLM, Black mothers, Democrats, Obama, Chicago, Rap music, Black fathers, sagging pants, chicken, candy bars, Arizona teas, wallets, the air, fake war on police, lies of welfare recipients, ALL BLACK PEOPLE – would be blamed.

    If it were a Hispanic person: Mexico, burritos, the border, rapist, gangs, tacos, jobs being taken, illegal immigrants, need for a wall, tacos, salsa, people who speak Spanish, ALL HISPANIC PEOPLE – would be blamed.

    If it were a Muslim: ISIS, Islam, war, drones, need for a registry, any woman wearing a head covering, any man wearing a turban, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, anyone with a “Muslim accent,” ALL Muslims – would be blamed.

    Since it was a White guy – The White guy will be blamed. ONLY! So, bravo!


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  • ddt 09.38 on January 20, 2017 ☍  

    How to Write a Letter to a Wannabe Despot, part II

    Now this is How to Write an Open Letter to a Wannabe Despot. Compare the words between this and the open letter from the Columbia Journalism Review. Direct versus indirect. Read the one by John Pavlovitz first 😉

    https://johnpavlovitz.com/2017/01/19/let-the-record-show/


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  • ddt 04.34 on January 20, 2017 ☍  

    Just hours to go now

    The late night score is:
    Chelsea Manning reduces (35 to 7 years).
    Edward Snowden stays (in Russia).
    Leonard Peltier wastes (away).

    https://www.democracynow.org/2017/1/19/headlines/obama_denies_clemency_to_native_american_activist_leonard_peltier
    (see the movie) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incident_at_Oglala


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  • ddt 11.32 on January 19, 2017 ☍  

    What to Expect on January 20th

    If it goes down like this, everything will be a-okay.


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  • ddt 11.15 on January 19, 2017 ☍  

    How to Write an Open Letter to a Wannabe Despot

    Case point: An open letter to Trump from the US press corps – Columbia Journalism Review

    This is for the choir and to ignite the conservators of conservatism and the alt-rite defenders of Trump (assuming there are any remaining, as some articles want folks to think). Trump won’t read this, assuming someone even gives it to him or he finds it linked on Twitter. If this does somehow reach the hailstorm of nothingness he has surrounded himself with, he will only skim it.

    Why?

    Consider the writing and the tone, this is a soapbox declaration of principles addressed to him. Addressing him directly has already been shown to be ineffective. This piece will get lefty shares and nods, and righty FUs and little else.

    How then does one get the attention of our soon-to-be POTUS?

    By not addressing him directly, as an actress did on tv not long ago. Don’t mention him. Don’t use the pronouns “you” or “your”. That’s how.


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  • ddt 16.46 on January 18, 2017 ☍  

    What About Snowden?

    If Obama can let one extraneously punished whistleblower off, then he should find a way to let another one off or minimally, create a path for Snowden to leave Russia without being killed.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/17/obama-commutes-chelsea-mannings-sentence-for-leaking-army-documents.html


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