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benfranklin1776

(6,939 posts)
23. Bingo!
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 10:14 PM
Jun 20

You nailed it! The staged and corporate funded tea party rabid ragefests were created by, funded by, and artificially hyped by the corporate media’s owners like the Koch brothers et al, to push their preferred narrative that interfering with the lethal industry of extorting money from and then denying health care to working people was “socialism,” but had little grass roots support among those suffering under that system as a result. Here the precise opposite is occurring where our genuine and rapidly growing grass roots movement reflects the true sentiment of We The People which is at odds with the overt fascist objectives of the current media ownership class like Bezos, et al. Thus the media tries its hardest to ignore it, minimize it or scare people with agitprop of phantom hordes of looters 🙀Except We The People on the ground in our communities know the truth because we live it, whereas establishment stenographers like Nichols who parrot the “conventional wisdom” which, frankly, is shorthand for manufactured corporate narrative, only grudgingly are forced to acknowledge the incontrovertible reality they’ve been conditioned to denigrate because it’s become too powerful to ignore. ✊🏼💪🏼✊🏼

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This is good but not quite enough to make me think... ananda Jun 20 #1
Just between you and me senseandsensibility Jun 20 #3
Yes, that really is a good thing. ananda Jun 20 #5
OMG "Harshing my mellow" is a call back my hubby senseandsensibility Jun 20 #7
"Bummin' My High" DENVERPOPS Jun 20 #14
You ProudToronto Jun 20 #15
I just discovered that soldierant Jun 20 #16
Then can you toast them?? vanlassie Jun 20 #21
Maybe on a toothpick? soldierant Jun 20 #22
Ha! I was picturing using my torch to vanlassie Jun 20 #24
You could try, soldierant Jun 21 #32
Maybe merangues? intrepidity Jun 21 #29
They are airy inside the crisp, but they do taste like marshmallows. soldierant Jun 21 #33
Very much encouraged. We are hardly alone in how we are feeling and there is no doubting that after the Amaryllis Jun 20 #6
Glad to hear it senseandsensibility Jun 20 #8
This message was self-deleted by its author drmeow Jun 20 #2
Makes me mad every time someone claims the Tea Party was grassroots! betsuni Jun 20 #9
Ridiculous is right senseandsensibility Jun 20 #12
The RepubliCONs started taking over DENVERPOPS Jun 20 #19
In a way soldierant Jun 20 #17
Bingo! benfranklin1776 Jun 20 #23
MSNBC, like them or not, radical noodle Jun 21 #26
This message was self-deleted by its author drmeow Jun 21 #28
This message was self-deleted by its author radical noodle Jun 21 #30
Please show me anywhere in my OP where I claimed there was senseandsensibility Jun 21 #31
What are you talking about? drmeow Jun 21 #34
You said you were responding to the OP. senseandsensibility Jun 21 #35
I did not go back and drmeow Jun 21 #36
I'm not deleting anything because there's nothing wrong with what I wrote senseandsensibility Jun 21 #37
And S-L-O-W-L-Y America wakes up. calimary Jun 20 #4
I remember whenever 5 tea partiers or less stood somewhere protesting rainy Jun 20 #10
Many years ago ,a raging liberal with only 12 followers made quite a world of difference. BattleRow Jun 20 #18
We are fortunate ( I know) Keepthesoulalive Jun 20 #11
Tiny little baby hams BaronChocula Jun 21 #25
We have many problems of various sorts. mtairyguy Jun 20 #13
Why is Tom Nichols an "elite" writer? betsuni Jun 20 #20
Let me guess. Several pages to say what the rest of us can do in 1-10 sentence. Tetrachloride Jun 21 #27
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