Oprah hosted some absolute dumbfucks (McCarthy, Dr. Oz, Dr. Phill, take your pick!) to fill air time and now a virus that could have cleared the country within the span of a month has taken over a million lives in the US alone and is still chugging 4 years later.
NO I’M NOT ESPECIALLY WANTING TO SCREAM IN HER GIFT TAX WHITE ELEPHANT GIVING FACE BECAUSE I’M DEALING WITH MY SECOND ROUND OF THE STUFF IN LESS THAN A YEAR AND HAVING TO POSTPONE A BIRTHDAY BASH FOR ALL MY AUGUST BABY FRIENDS BECAUSE OF IT! WHAT COULD EVER GIVE YOU SUCH A WEIRDLY SPECIFIC IDEA‽
Oprah only contributed one thing of worth to our society, and that is this gif
I was so pissed to see her at the DNC. I don’t know what they were thinking letting her be there. Same with the Clintons honestly. Can we forget these people exist?
A reality tv show host peed on some people and now our country is teetering on total collapse
Astounding how fragile human civilization is
Anyone else curse Reagan’s name on at least a weekly basis?
When I first started doing exactly this, (15 years or so ago) my mom was a die hard Reagan-er and enthusiastically defended all that stuff.
These days it’s getting harder for them to defend
$1000? You must have great insurance!
They didn’t let that one guy into art school and 5 million Jews died.
Adding something in here probably nobody outside italy knows:
“In 1981 Gelli was one of the very few Italians to be invited to President Reagan’s oath.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licio_Gelli
Have fun reading this guy bio.
Pretty much every time I learn something new about Reagan it confirms my prior opinion.
Why are evil people attracted to each other? Like police departments hiring abusers and harassing the good cops till resignation?
Good and healthy people aren’t lured by power as much and don’t end up in authoritarian positions to begin with
Ah yes, Campaigns Inc. Fuck Clem Whitaker and Leon Baxter with a long rusty spoon.
Why isn’t it called “public healthcare” and “private healthcare”? Alternatively, why isn’t it called “government-run healthcare” and “corporate-run healthcare”?
Why does it have to be “private healthcare” and “government-run healthcare”?
I feel that what this tool did was worse than Nixon. Together they were the one-two punch that set us on the road to the darkest timeline. Or at least the darkest timeline that didn’t include WW3.
What did Nixon do, besides the obvious criminal actions?
- Intentionally sabotaged the Vietnam peace talks.
- Started the “war on drugs” with the known goal of arresting PoC and the anti-war left.
- Co-produced the Southern Strategy.
I’m sure there’s a ton more that I’m just not privy to with my surface-level knowledge of Nixon fuckery.
Propaganda works. All the time.
Almost every time.
I read somewhere that Germany has a pretty good anti-propaganda education. That was a long time ago, so I don’t know if it’s true now. At schools here in the U.S., a buzz phrase for a decade or two has been to teach “critical thinking”. I rarely actually saw it done. I feel like it needs to be explicitly about recognizing propaganda with current events and media coverage. Starting in like middle school. I know it’ll never happen because every school will have to teach the bible or something. And parents would freak out about their kids learning to think instead of just being passively, or aggressively, indoctrinated at home.
Nowadays Finland is the go to example on misinformation education: https://osis.bg/?p=4450&lang=en
An article with some examples and explanation from Finnish teachers: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/world/europe/finland-misinformation-classes.html
Adolf Hitler left art school, one thing led to another, and the United States dropped two nuclear bombs on the sovereign nation of Japan.
I can’t remember the comedian who had that as a bit, I think it was Brian Regan?
Mmm, yeah, probably not not linked with art school. But, but to japanese guy who was supposed to become a sake brewer
Fun fact, Kamala Harris is also opposed to socialized medicine. Obviously Trump is too, but we know Republicans are evil.
She used to be for it, now she’s against it. Funny how the opposite never happens. It’s like there’s some list of positions that Democrats have to reverse course on before they can be nominated for president.
There’s a saying here which roughly translated goes:
“You eat the bread of whose songs you sing.”
It sounds like her economic plan includes expanding the ACA, but it does not propose Medicare for All or a public option. That’s really not “opposed to socialized medicine” at all. She is proposing increasing healthcare subsidies under the ACA, capping out of pocket costs, and negotiating lower drug prices.
Is that in Spotify?
If the apprentice hadn’t been cancelled, maybe Trump would still be doing that
