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After a weekend bouncing back & forth between Fox & CNN it was easy to see that each network has their own pre-arranged gripe schedule.

CNN harps on anti-vaxxers(they're mostly Republicans), the "Insurrection"(hey, they're all Republicans), condemnations of Cuomo that looked more like strategy sessions for his defense team, CRT(anyone who questions it is misinformed &/or suffering loss of white privilege) and not much else.

Fox does CRT(crazy liberals & Marxists), anti-vaxxers(they're mostly minorities), the Border(crazy liberal Marxists did it all), Covid(it's all a crazy liberal Marxist wet dream) & not much else.

I couldn't help wondering how corporations must be truly loving this time. As long as their crimes don't have a skin color or a political affiliation no one will pay attention. As long as they put the required number of minorities along with the occasional rainbow flag in their ads they instantly become "part of the solution. The "news" is, much like the dinosaurs, completely extinct, at least as far as TV news goes.

As I mentioned elsewhere I also watched Biden's Town Hall from 2 weeks ago. In among Joe's word pasta ramblings, he'd occasionally hit lucidity. At one lucid point, Joe was trying to illustrate how he was going to make corporate America "pay their fair share" because he had the experience that he gained in Delaware where "150 corporations...150 corporations...(let's repeat it one more time)150 corporations are incorporated." Of course they're incorporated there because Delaware doesn't make them "pay their fair share" or, more appropriately, pay anything at all. So Joe's example was illustrating the exact opposite of Joe's intended purpose. Yet Don Lemon, handsome teleprompter reader playing TV journalist that is, stood there nodding all po' faced and subservient as if Joe wasn't making a complete fool of himself.

Oh yeah, and the audience clapped.

This started me thinking about experiments I had read about where researchers were trying to discern if seeing is really believing or do we tend to see what what we believe we're going to see irregardless of what's actually there.

One experiment took place in a normal college classroom. A professor would be lecturing as normal and then a stranger would enter the classroom. The teacher & the man would argue & then the interloper would pull an object out and stab the teacher with it before running out of the room. The teacher stood up & revealed that it was all pantomime. He then asked the class to detail what they saw. I do believe that every witness said that the man had a knife. Of course he didn't. What did have was a banana. Yet no one noticed.

Nothing illustrates this idea more than the story of North Korean defector, Yeonmi Park. Park said she was mugged by 3 black women in Chicago. As the women tried to escape, Park grabbed the woman who had her wallet and began yelling for assistance. The black woman, much to her credit, began yelling, “You’re a racist! The color of my skin doesn’t make me a thief” as a crowd of white people gathered. The white folk prevented Park from calling the police & they also let the black woman escape. The white people then started calling Park a racist, one even going so far as pointing at Park and telling her child, “Look at that racist, that’s the problem we have.”

My point here is that it seems we've reached a weird cultural point where huge chunks of the country are so buried in their "belief systems" they can no longer discern reality. In other words, culturally, many of us can no longer see the fucking banana.

That is terrifying.

Oh yeah, told ya I was long winded.

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Great article again, Matt. One thing about Cuomo that should be mentioned is while groping a woman's breast at work is bad, launching a smear campaign against her when she complains reaches the true evil category.

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One day Matt will realize that the reason The Woke confuse him so much and why Nabokov, Humbert and Lolita have not been canceled is that The Woke are villains. They identify with the evil, the destruction of innocence and the exertion of power. He's still thill thinking of them as misguided silly people, which of course many of them are, but the core group that drives them and guides their thinking and actions are neither silly nor misguided. They are intentional and self-aware in their corrosiveness. These type of people are not some new species. They have always existed in some place or position of power, reveling in the pain and suffering and collapse they cause. Torquemada would understand Humbert perfectly.

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“while someone who traffics in genuinely evil choices on a daily basis, dumping deadly toxins or doing PR for dictators or governing the State of New York by tribute, can still win Man of the Year or a key to a city with a donation or two.”

Don’t forget the fucking Emmy Award!

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The internet allows us to be stupid and judgmental without even really trying. We get handed a bunch of "black and white" choices and are ready to take sides without a better look at what the noise is about.

Have a nice vacation.

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One more story to make all of you Republicans even more paranoid.

The facility I work at is primarily female. Consequently the men, or at least the men who have been there for a while, all know each other. We're all pretty friendly. When meet up we compare notes on our observed lunacy. And there is oodles. How can I put this delicately? Women can be nuts. Completely certifiable.

If you feel it's necessary you can now hate me. It's a-ok. I sympathize. I hate me sometimes too.

One guy, who I've known for about 15 years, made the move into management. Only a few penises have made the leap. All have regretted it. But it's more money so there's that.

So my buddy & I were at the facility's smoke shack.(It's really a gazebo). They segregated smokers there because they could. I quit smoking years ago but we were chatting so I tagged along.

A young black girl was having an anti-Trump seizure. A long anti-Trump seizure. So, all the guy did after she finished was say, "Okay, you don't like Trump. Can you tell me his crime?"

She began shrieking hysterically about racists & such as she backed away from him & left. About 5 minutes later another young black woman showed up and started photographing him with her phone from a nice safe distance like he was a Yeti sighting.

Within an hour he was called into his boss' office, reprimanded & told that he was forbidden to talk politics at work or he could face termination. Nothing happened to the girl.

Now, if anyone can explain this as being even remotely fair, I'd love to read your thoughts.

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Nietzsche, one of the philosophers who influenced Nabokov, argues in On the Genealogy of Morals that it is the category of "evil" itself which blinds one to any nuance or ambivalence in moral thinking. It's not just the woke who divide the world into categories of good and evil however; your average right-wing grifter barks constantly about the evil left, postmodernist marxists, George Soros, etc. and they make a nice living doing so. Nietzsche described this whole way of thinking as "slave morality" because he saw it as a way of manipulating people so damaged by life, so traumatised, that the way to influence them and gain their loyalty was to channel their resentment using simplistic moral categories. Nietzsche thought this social psychology explained the success of Judeo-Christian morality; today it might explain the business model of "Hate Inc".

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In the western world, the US, Europe, Canada, et al, we are at a fork in morality. On one tine are the progressives, and on the other are conservatives. And you can call them whatever you like, but the basic fact that they do not share a common version of good and bad is all you really need to realize. And until there is a political and cultural reckoning, episodes like the Cuomo affair or the response to COVID, War, and pretty much everything else becomes a focal point in the struggle for cultural dominance, much like two dogs attempting to settle who is in charge.

Cuomo is expendable, but only for the transgressions of #metoo, as he will be replaced by a reliable Democrat. Northam in VA was actually threatened by a Republican taking his place, and that can not stand. See, the Dems thought that with the assertion of Obama that they had won the culture war, but the pushback during his term was a clear sign that they hadn't. Indeed, Trump's election over HRC was further proof that they were not in the position they thought they were, so they have done a full-court press and looped in all the far left that they can, as they cannot afford any loss of numbers.

Nabakov, much like Ellroy whom I have been rereading this month, isn't canceled because this generation cannot read complicated novels.

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I just came across this, and it seems to fit a bit; good or bad?:

“I watched them tearing a building down,

A gang of men in a busy town.

With a ho-heave-ho and a lusty yell,

They swung a beam, and the side wall fell.

I asked the foreman: "Are these skilled--

And the men you'd hire if you had to build?"

He gave me a laugh and said: "No, indeed!

Just common labor is all I need.

I can wreck in a day or two

What builders have taken a year to do."

And I thought to myself as I went my way,

Which of these roles have I tried to play?

Am I a builder who works with care

Measuring life by a rule and square?

Am I shaping my deeds to a well made Plan,

Patiently doing the best I can?

Or am I a wrecker, who walks the town

Content with the labor of tearing down?”

Edgar A. Guest

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The timing of this amuses me. I watched "Baseball Twitter" explode with outrage over a clip of a Colorado Rockies game, in which a person in the crowd appeared to be yelling The N-word over and over while a black player was at-bat.

Former players, TV analysts, baseball writers, and other assorted Twitter blue-checks quickly piled on. "Find this vile man and ban him from games forever!" "No, arrest him!" "It's 2021 and no one around this man even reacted as he yelled that."

Then another video of the incident appeared. The shouter in the stands can be seen, he was looking off to his right, about 20 seats down, where the Rockies' mascot, named Dinger, was. He was trying to get Dinger's attention. "Dinger! Dinger!"

Not a one of the outrage mob apologized for being a part of this societal rot. Ah, well. Until the next pitchfork-and-torch session!

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Overlooking the evil and spotting morality seem to be frequent traits of modern media and modern opinion. Cuomo has enjoyed a public pass for decades of, as Matt called it, “dickishness”. Now all of a sudden he is newly discovered as evil. Amazingly, the man sentenced thousands of elderly people to death by putting covid patients into nursing facilities. His ego and his politics were so huge that he could not be bested by Trump who had outfitted to USS Enterprise to accomodate and treat all of them. Sentencing people to death to save his ego seems a lot more evil than his “dickishness”. How could media have such messed up morality to not notice the difference?

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Matt: As a subscriber and long-time fan, I ask you to consider the only comment that kept me listening to what seemed very close to a crackpot video. The commentator said, "If the Covid pandemic were real and dangerous, how come we have not seen the corpses of the homeless in L.A., San Francisco, Seattle, and elsewhere stacked like cord wood along the avenues of their camps." Every person to whom I have posed this question has wrinkled up perplexed. Whilst on a beach, give it some thought.

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When i see situations like Cuomo, i'm always taken back to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. At the end, where Bill Haydon was uncovered as the mole. And Smiley and the others realize that, or course it was Bill Haydon, everyone always knew it and no one wanted to admit that of acknowledge it, even to themselves.

How could anyone not have known that Andrew Cuomo was always a total piece of shit. Either they were too flat out dumb, or knew it all the time but played the three monkeys because he was on their team.

Remember Eric Schneiderman? How the Dems had a wankfest over him because he was going to go after Trump? And told the women who he assaulted him not to report him because he was too valuable? Same energy. Ditto the Clintons, etc, rinse and repeat.

And for any whatabouters out there, ditto for Trump and many Repubs. Same energy. I guess we're all fucked.

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"People tend to believe evil is something external to them – yet it is a projection of the shadow onto others. As one who projects the principle for absolute and unresolvable evil onto others – it is to the degree that one condemns others and finds evil in others, that one is unconscious of the same thing within oneself, or the potential of that within oneself. It is a projection of one’s own shadow."

-Carl Jung

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It's amazing what this moral condemnation has in common with mental illness. The hyper black and white thinking seems to be the Splitting of Borderline Personality disorder. Virtue Signaling is narcissism. If people of color don't get the vaccine first is privileging white people at the expense of a more vulnerable population. If black people get the vaccine first it's experimenting on them. Is this the Double Bind of narcissistic abuse? Adherents tend not to be the most rational people around with academic support coming from the least academically rigorous areas of the academy. This behavior is championed by charlatans and supported by well meaning people who don't know any better.

Racism and such are problems, but leaders in various movements like Robin Diangelo favor some equivalent of The Four Humours Theory to address them while padding their wallets and stroking their egos.

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It's fairly obvious what's happening with the Andrew Cuomo.

All this Cuomo stuff is a huge distraction from the much bigger elephant in the room which people in power don't want to address.

Back in March 2020, the American Health Care Association told Cuomo, Wolf, Murphy, Whitmer etc to stop ordering infected patients into nursing homes. The governors ignored the AHCA and removed their own family from nursing homes while forcing others:

https://archive.is/bP8hz

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1191811

After this, it turned out Cuomo was also fabricating and lying about the actual nursing home death numbers by 10000.

Remember the trans Health Secretary Rachel ­Levine from PA (now US Assistant Health Secretary) who took out her own mother from nursing home while pushing covid patients into them:

https://nypost.com/2020/05/13/pennsylvania-health-official-moved-mother-from-nursing-home/

As if that wasn't enough, Cuomo gave immunity to nursing home executives after big campaign donations:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/26/andrew-cuomo-nursing-home-execs-immunity

Despite all this, nobody has been held accountable and last month, the DOJ dropped the investigation:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-04/cuomo-alone-silent-after-ag-report-as-new-york-awaits-next-move

It seems like the "DNC left" is more concerned about offensive words than actions which killed people. This is very similar to how they embraced Rick Snyder, the Republican anti-Trump governor of Michigan who knowingly poisoned the people of Flint Michigan but just because he was anti-Trump, "DNC left" embraced him.

The people in power don't want to address the nursing home scandal because if they do, then not just Cuomo, but Wolf, Murphy, Whitmer are also implicated.

The AG of New York is using this to bump up her own political status for when she runs for Governor.

They would not be willing to throw Cuomo under the bus this way if New York had any chance of electing a Republican in office. Republicans have ZERO chance in NY. So might as well use this opportunity to replace Cuomo with someone from the "oppressed" groups so any criticism of them can be deflected by labelling it racist/sexist/transphobic etc. And once this is over, Cuomo would be neutered from running for president in 2024 against Kamala.

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