Nov 032021
Glenn Kirschner – Washington Post’s January 6 Deep Dive; Is AG Garland/DOJ Criminally Investigating Donald Trump?
Ring of Fire – Cyber Ninjas Isn’t Turning Over Their Documents And Republicans Are Getting Angry
Everett Stern – almost 22 minutes and he’s not the world’s greatest orator. But the material is – plutonium. There is a related article in Newsweek
RepresentUs – Two riffs on the gerrymandered pizza.
Sprouts – We all know about the Dunning-Kruger effect in dumb folks. But the corollaries go all the way up.
Beau – Let’s talk about roses, history, and a reality check….
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Comment from Mitch –
GK: Just from the look on his face, before he says a word, it’s not good. “We don’t know what we don’t know” And Bannon is, also, still out on the streets!Could Virginia have gone differently, if Youngkins’ idol had been indicted, already? Everything is connected to everything else!
ROF: Karma can be a bitch!
ES: Good for him. Flynn is showing his bona fides as the traitor he has been for so long.
RU: As American as App…no, pizza pie.
Sprouts/DK: Because I stayed with the cartoon, rather than assuming I knew all about the D-K Effect, I learned more about it than I knew.
“The person who thinks he has found the ultimate truth is wrong. There is an often quoted verse, in Sanskrit which appears in the Chinese Tao-te Ching as well ’He who thinks he knows doesn’t know. He who knows he doesn’t know, knows. For in this context, to know is not to know. And not to know is to know.” Joseph Campbell
“People who think they’ve got things all figured out, are almost always wrong.” Tom Gilovich
Beau: “…horrible propaganda,” may do the trick, because the recipients thereof don’t know what they don’t know” about it. Those who are using this imagery (I never heard of it until now) most probably do not give a darn that they are misusing it, just as they misrepresent everything else. Beau mentions an “accident” around 1930: In 1930, a tragedy occured, creating more pushback to vaccines than there had been, previously: “This opposition was especially inflamed by a 1930 incident in which more than seventy children died thanks to an improperly administered tuberculosis vaccine, in what came to be known as the Lübeck disaster. As a result, in the waning years of German democracy, the Weimar government suspended compulsory vaccination in practice, even if it was still officially the law of the land.” The old would not have been vulnerable, as they would already long been vaccinated.
Mitch
Washington Post’s January 6 Deep Dive; Is AG Garland/DOJ Criminally Investigating Donald Trump?
At AG Garland’s current pace, it’s getting harder and harder to keep believing we’re a nation of laws.
Cyber Ninjas Isn’t Turning Over Their Documents And Republicans Are Getting Angry
In the beginning synopsis it read:
I didn’t think that was possible!
The Dunning Kruger Effect
Nicely done. (But that Swedish flag looked more green than blue to me.)
… roses, history, and a reality check …
I was not familiar w/ this, so I had to do a bit of research. It does seem to be largely confined to the UK. But our anti-vaxxers certainly use a great many of the their propaganda techniques.
I had to look it up when he talked about it the first time I saw him do so (almost certainly not the first time he did, though – incidentally, wearing the same shirt as in this one.) It was in Nazi Germany, and they were all caught and executed, including Sophie Scholl and her brother.
JM: I didn’t even bother with you, Glenn, because I would have heard about it even Down Under if the DOJ did anything at all.
ROF: ROF had me ROTFLMAO.
ES: Stern said he immediately [in April?] alerted the federal government. Yet not a peep out of the DOJ when this is reported by a Republican no less. By releasing this information, however, Stern has effectively cut himself off from Toomey’s seat in the Senate. The GQP will make sure of that.
DK: Superior explanation of how over-confident loudmouthed simpletons find traction with the other simpletons on this earth.
Beau: I also didn’t remember hearing of the White Rose movement, even though I’ve seen the movie “Sophie Scholl, die letzten Tage”. My first thought it had something to do with the English war of the roses, where the white rose was the badge of the Yorks opposing the red rose of the Tudors. That civil war was a very far cry from Sophie’s peaceful resistance. If the anti-vaxxers indeed use Sophie’s White Rose ideals she died for opposing Hitler’s Nazis for their propaganda against COVID inoculation, I can understand Beau’s well-controlled anger at the abuse.
ROF – I don’t always agree with Farron, but sometimes ….
Beau, yes. it’s something he’s passionate about. i’m not sure anti-vaxxers have actually brought uup Sophie’s name … but they are definitele throwing Nazi names at us Democrats. The White Rose Society is so little known here that you can’t really even google it easily. But then, I’ve been running into multiple things that can’t just be googled easily … you have to know more than the average person to correctly refine the search.