I honestly don’t know where to post this.

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov

That’s a lot of little cans worth.

Did anyone see the guy stab the girl on the train? I had not heard anything about it until it hit social media. Most of the mainstream media didn’t say a thing. The guy was African American and had been arrested and released 14 times. He killed the young white lady for no reason whatsoever. You have to ask yourself why the media is afraid to show these stories. 

lousubcap said:

@CupCakeEater - It was broadcast all over MSM earlier this PM.  FWIW-

That was actually several days after the fact. She was killed on August 22 and it’s just now getting out. There were some goFundMe accounts set up for the killer which have since been taken down. One mayor even said we should show compassion for the attacker. This is sickening. It’s sickening this animal was released repeatedly. This young lady had been through war in Ukraine and comes to America to be killed. It wasn’t a gun problem. The system failed her like so many others. We allow crime to be rewarded. Some cities will not even address theft if it’s under a certain amount. If you take less than a 1000 dollars you are home free. 

I was physically shaken when I saw this. Someone showed me the video and I didn’t know what I was watching until blood gushed out. 

DoubleEgger said:

CupCakeEater said:

I was physically shaken when I saw this. Someone showed me the video and I didn’t know what I was watching until blood gushed out. 

I’m done being nice about you hate filled leftist. You have allowed this to take over the democrat party. You blame everyone and everything but yourself. From just reading some of the post on here, I can see the hate. You may not pull the trigger or use the knife but you are to blame. You allowed judges to release these criminals because DEI is more important than justice. You fan the flames and incite the hateful speech. I understand I may be in the minority on this page and will be attacked personally. I don’t  care. You all allowed this and you have blood on your hands. 

Do you feel the same outrage when kids are being killed in schools and minorities being killed while shopping or in church? 

I do. Senseless violence gets no one anywhere. I could give two fuhks what your political affiliation is. Wrong is wrong. I preach this to my kids daily. We can disagree on anything and still have a normal discussion about it. We can even agree to disagree. Violence isn’t the answer. Never has been, never will be. Kirk was 30 something with a wife and 2 beautiful children at home. 

If only we didn't have politicians and the mouthpieces that support them spewing messages of hate, racism and persecution themselves, while talking up their wet dreams of civil war.

CupCakeEater said:

I was physically shaken when I saw this. Someone showed me the video and I didn’t know what I was watching until blood gushed out. 

I’m done being nice about you hate filled leftist. You have allowed this to take over the democrat party. You blame everyone and everything but yourself. From just reading some of the post on here, I can see the hate. You may not pull the trigger or use the knife but you are to blame. You allowed judges to release these criminals because DEI is more important than justice. You fan the flames and incite the hateful speech. I understand I may be in the minority on this page and will be attacked personally. I don’t  care. You all allowed this and you have blood on your hands. 

Preach brother Beetus!  I new he was gonna git hisself kilt when he spoke the truth about mooslims a the blacks an wimmen.  An the gheys! They can stop the manhunt now and jus arrest Nancy Pelosi.

FlyOverCountry said:

CupCakeEater said:

I was physically shaken when I saw this. Someone showed me the video and I didn’t know what I was watching until blood gushed out. 

I’m done being nice about you hate filled leftist. You have allowed this to take over the democrat party. You blame everyone and everything but yourself. From just reading some of the post on here, I can see the hate. You may not pull the trigger or use the knife but you are to blame. You allowed judges to release these criminals because DEI is more important than justice. You fan the flames and incite the hateful speech. I understand I may be in the minority on this page and will be attacked personally. I don’t  care. You all allowed this and you have blood on your hands. 

Preach brother Beetus!  I new he was gonna git hisself kilt when he spoke the truth about mooslims a the blacks an wimmen.  An the gheys! They can stop the manhunt now and jus arrest Nancy Pelosi.

nancy had the hit done with funding from george soros ..... case closed the fbi will bury this 

Back to cardboard boxes, probably.

Would love to shake the hands of the Brits who did this:  
 
https://apnews.com/video/images-of-trump-and-epstein-projected-on-windsor-castle-as-us-president-visits-uk-6b004c3ab53247078795780c5c4bf7b1

Dollars Talk, folks.  Got this email from Robert Reich before I even saw this on mainstream news (which I haven't yet).
 

Friends,

ABC says “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” will return to the airwaves next Tuesday — less than a week after Trump henchman Branden Carr, chair of the Federal Communications Commission, said on a podcast that Kimmel’s remarks were part of a “concerted effort to lie to the American people,” and that the FCC would have “do this the easy way or the hard way” — suggesting that either ABC and its parent company, Walt Disney, remove Kimmel or the FCC would revoke ABC’s broadcast license. 

Why Walt Disney Company’s turnaround? It limply explained today:

“Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country. It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive.”

But now, apparently, all is well. 

“We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.”

How lovely. How reasonable. How, well, kumbaya. All it took were some “thoughtful conversations with Jimmy” and everything returned to normalcy. 

Don’t believe it. In the days since ABC’s decision, the blowback against Disney has been hurricane level.

At least five Hollywood unions, collectively representing more than 400,000 workers, have publicly condemned the company.

The screenwriters’ union decried what they called “corporate cowardice,” and organized a protest last week outside the main gate at Disney headquarters in Burbank, Calif. 

Celebrities Tom Hanks amd Meryl Streep called out “government threats to our freedom of speech.” 

Kimmel was supported by his late-night peers including Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, and John Oliver, as well as former late-night hosts David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, and Jay Leno — all of whom blasted the decision. 

Damon Lindelof, a creator of ABC’s “Lost,” said that if Kimmel’s program did not return from suspension, he couldn’t “in good conscience work for the company that imposed it.” 

Michael Eisner, a former Disney CEO, issued a rare rebuke.

Even rightwing Republican Senator Ted Cruz expressed concern, likening Carr’s comments to a mob boss and calling his threats to potentially retaliate against media companies “dangerous as hell.”

“We should not be in this business,” Cruz said. “We should denounce it.”

By this morning, Carr himself was busy minimizing his role — denying that he had threatened to pull the licenses of ABC stations (it “did not happen in any way, shape or form”) — and claiming Disney had made a “business decision” in response to feedback from viewers and affiliates. 

“Jimmy Kimmel is in the situation that he’s in because of his ratings, not because of anything that’s happened at the federal government level,” Carr said.

But the most intense pressure came from us — from Disney viewers and customers —who immediately began to cancel subscriptions to Disney+ and Hulu and threaten a broader consumer boycott. 

Some stars such as Tatiana Maslany (star of Marvel’s Disney+ series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law) and Rosie O’Donnell urged people to cancel their subscriptions. 

But the consumer boycott seems to have begun almost immediately. 

Shortly after Kimmel’s suspension was announced, Disney stock dipped about 3.5 percent and continued to trade lower in subsequent days. That loss in market value has amounted to about $4 billion. 

Investors knew consumers were upset. There’s never one single reason for the ups and downs in the value of a particular firm’s shares of stock, but the correlation here has been almost exact. 

The bottom line: We have extraordinary power. We’re the vast majority. Like every other big corporation, Disney relies on us.

Even if we can’t count on our elected politicians to protect our First Amendment rights, we can rely on ourselves. When our outrage translates into withholding our consumer dollars, a big corporation like Disney is forced to listen — and respond. 

Remember this.