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cachukis's JournalBe wise grasshoppers. We are no longer dictating
to them. The younger are letting us know, as we did, before them.
MSNBC.
If you are off it, you are not on it.
If you are not on it, you are off it.
The chase for alternatives is here.
The highbrows are here.
There are well regarded thinkers who need a voice.
We will remorse no MSNBC.
We are in the middle of a scifi movie to the beat
of a "Babes in Toyland," theme.
"March of the Toys."
It makes you wonder how we (all of us as America) lost our way.
We definitely aren't going back.
As a retired teacher, I have been following
education quite closely.
Florida, where I live, chose to go to vouchers and break the separation of church and state funding issues.
Many of the private schools here are religious.
Businesses can direct donations to their school of choice to bypass their tax liability.
As an educator, I studied the success of Finland in turning around their structure.
Finland raises good people, but they are raised often by down to earth citizenry. When their young wanted to test life off the farm, the would go to St.Petersburg or some other bustling city. They were maligned as rubes.
The Finns did not take too kindly to the insults and decided to evaluate their society.
They took charge of their education.
They evaluated their students as to their strong suits and set them up for success.
They took on the most important phase of education, the early years, and accepted they couldn't rescue those who just floated through the system. This started in the 90's.
Today, Finland is one of the most finely tuned educated society.
I was educated by the nuns in a very catholic city in the Northeast. I recognized the indoctrination early on.
It is plainly evident, our foes have grabbed the importance of getting children when they are young.
Children live what they learned and post pubescently, rarely change.
The real battle for our soul, as a country, is how our children will be exposed to the issues that matter.
I am not going to write a book. They are already out their.
Some of us know it is too late to rescue some of our own kids from the quagmire of social media, but some of us can have our private conversations with our grandchildren.
We must get them while they are young.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders has just proposed half her budget be spent on school vouchers.
We cannot afford to lose this battle.
It is not high on most lists, but it is with the religious right.
Gen Z is onto the environment.
But they are subject to an entirely different shared knowledge experience.
We are not going to extract from the cult.
The tides are coming. We need to prepare our grandchildren.
Suspect we will experience a serious shakeup in
legacy media. New generational perspective. Comcast proposes separating some programing.
Biggest fear for me is who will pay for reporting and what will independence mean.
We already have Sinclair fingers doing their claw.
We old people are going to have to hunt and pay for real reportage.
Worrisome.
Just bought a new refrigerator to beat tariffs.
Same model but new number was $300.00 higher. Demanded price as shown. They complied. Don't know if tariff driven, but saved $300.
Delivery tomorrow. Cleaning out present one and found that we hadn't pulled out the champagne we had been waiting to pop.
Not sure what that says, but this is not Kansas anymore.
Putin capitalized on Yeltsin's inability to get a democratic
foothold in a country that had never had it.
He took advantage of the distinct failure of Russian economics. The lack of a middleman. You could get lots of product from the system, but distribution was such a nightmare, salespeople couldn't deliver.
Oligarchs took charge and took advantage of this shortcoming. Putin forced them to obey his guidance as he controlled the state. Short story.
Now we are in America, filled with the oligarchs who have always ruled the world.
But this one is different.
Trump has always vied to be the baddest. He resents Putin like he resents Obama.
He tried to play Putin with the Trump Tower ploy, the Miss Universe ploy and in Helsinki he hid his tail. He failed.
But he hasn't quit, he has his cult. and while beholden to Putin he wants to free himself from that burden.
He is putting on display his control of our government. His toadies are drenching their drawers at betraying their own tough guy image or betraying trump.
Now he wants to show he has the oligarchs kowtowing to him.
He got Bezos to bow. He thinks he has Leon.
Leon is unique. We have sold ourselves to his reckless success. He has Starlink. Leon has trump by the short hairs. He has Putin by the short hairs.
Oligarchs have always ruled the world, mostly in the background and reliant on kings who have armies.
Leon controls army communication.
My thought is the oligarchs have outpaced politics. They control the message.
America First is the first generation of us guided by the billionaires.
Trump is going to lead us into a chaos from which the oligarchs will lead us. They have JD in the wings.
Am I misreading this?
Talk me down.
Since protocols and decorum are no longer
standards, what is to keep the Democrats on the Ethics Committee from releasing the Gaetz ethics file on their own?
Will that damage Democrats in the eyes of Democrats?
We keep getting blamed for letting trump happen. Will this unleash expose after expose on the corruption in the power struggle?
The Republicans don't give a flying f#^k through a rolling donut.
Or is jumping into the rabbit hole the acceptance that it is over?
We sort of survived some of the Civil War.
We are in the midst of the greatest social experiment in the history of society.
We just lost to the most sordid members of our citizenry.
How do we get it back?
AOC just explained, Gaetz resigned for this term.
He has been elected for the next Congress.
On Joy Reid.
Did not know. DeSantis has called for immediate election. Bet he doesn't know.
Is this statement by AOC accurate?
This is a loyalty test. Trump wants to know, early on,
who is with him and who is not. If they don't stop him now, it will never happen.
They have rarely displayed any courage as a whole. Don't expect them to have it now.
Look at the list and prepare.
Lot of militaristic minds in the game. Orders followers in the churches and in trumper land.
Danger, danger, Will Robinson.
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