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Damn! Keith Olbermann Sure Has Let Himself Go!

The Scourge of Terminal TDS  

Your Official Almost Semi-World Famous Irredeemable Big Ass Mid-Week Open Thread

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And As Always, Keep All Weapons in Plain Sight.......and Use the Damn Coasters.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century

Something monstrous is taking shape in America. Formally, it exhibits the synergy of state and corporate power in service of a tribal zeal that is the hallmark of fascism. Yet anyone who spends time in America and is not a brainwashed zealot can tell that it is not a fascist country. What is coming into being is a new form of government and social organization that is as different from mid-twentieth century liberal democracy as the early American republic was from the British monarchism that it grew out of and eventually supplanted. A state organized on the principle that it exists to protect the sovereign rights of individuals, is being replaced by a digital leviathan that wields power through opaque algorithms and the manipulation of digital swarms. It resembles the Chinese system of social credit and one-party state control, and yet that, too, misses the distinctively American and providential character of the control system. In the time we lose trying to name it, the thing itself may disappear back into the bureaucratic shadows, covering up any trace of it with automated deletions from the top-secret data centers of Amazon Web Services, “the trusted cloud for government.”

When the blackbird flew out of sight, 

It marked the edge 

Of one of many circles.

In a technical or structural sense, the censorship regime’s aim is not to censor or to oppress, but to rule. That’s why the authorities can never be labeled as guilty of disinformation. Not when they lied about Hunter Biden’s laptops, not when they claimed that the lab leak was a racist conspiracy, not when they said that vaccines stopped transmission of the novel coronavirus. Disinformation, now and for all time, is whatever they say it is. That is not a sign that the concept is being misused or corrupted; it is the precise functioning of a totalitarian system.

If the underlying philosophy of the war against disinformation can be expressed in a single claim, it is this: You cannot be trusted with your own mind.

What follows is an attempt to see how this philosophy has manifested in reality. It approaches the subject of disinformation from 13 angles—like the “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” Wallace Stevens’ 1917 poem—with the aim that the composite of these partial views will provide a useful impression of disinformation’s true shape and ultimate design. Continue Reading.

*Excerpted From a Longer Essay Well Worth the Read Titled "A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century" by JACOB SIEGEL

Well, Houston Has Never Had a Mayor That Wears a Go-cart Tire on Her Head Before

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee Announces Bid for Mayor of Houston

Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee, best known to readers of DMF as the women who appears to wear a Go-Cart Tire on her head, who represents one of the most racially gerrymandered districts in the entire country and is often mistaken for Bert the Farting Hippo of the Houston Zoo, wants to be Queen of Houston Texas.

Lee's run for Mayor of Houston brings the longtime political hack back to where she initially started her career in local politics as an at-large Houston City Council member from 1990 to 1994. Her federal political career began in 1995 representing the Texas 18th Congressional District and accomplished little other than making dramatically bigoted speeches from the house floor and mumbling nonsense on cable news like Al Sharpton's clown show on MSNBC.

Houston, you have our prayers.

A Good Monday Morning

Sunday Soothingness

For your Sunday Soothingness, a choice morsel drawn from your Beloved Blog Editrix's personal digs, a guitar duet by Peter Frampton and jazz great Larry Carlton, of a rendition of  the Miles Davis Classic "All Blues" from Frampton's 2019 Album of the same name. It pairs well with a nice adult beverage of your liking.