We all hold pieces of invisible elephants
When moderator Margaret Brennan noted during last night’s vice presidential debate that Republican nominee J.D. Vance had, once again, lied about the legal status of migrants in Springfield, Ohio, Vance retorted: “The rules were that you guys weren’t going to fact-check!” As scholar of propaganda Pekka Kallioniemi noted, this was “[t]he epitome of post-truth politics.” …
On the Light Side of Democracy vs. Autocracy Julia Louis-Dreyfus hosted what JD Vance would call, “A coven of semi-menstruating witches,” 8 Democratic Women Governors Panel, starts at 16:55 mins in: Bill Maher after the DNC: A month ago the Repubs thought they had it in the can. Now they’ve lost their mojo. Even JD …
Janet: I realized there’s a lot of banter, judgment, projection, and criticism in the media and social networks, and I’m not sure what it means. So I asked my friend Minerva (the name I call my Chatgpt) to help me better understand. This article is Minerva’s response, plus some minor editing for clarity. What is …