Notes from a retired newspaper publisher
Thursday, January 2, 2025
Tweets#
  • People are seldom taught to recognize or deduce the difference between cultures and underlying society.#
    • @ConceptualJames Differentiate between cultures and society. Varied cultures are held together by the minimums of society—humility and reciprocity. If you do not see that, you believe in the Law of the Jungle, not society. Blather on if you must. [Link]#
  • They believe in America ... just not what the founders meant.#
    • Their intent was to break America into something they could rule rather than govern. Not going to happen. — WHY NOT BOTH? Expert Breaks Down Bidenomics ‘Incompetence’ or ‘Fraud.’ https://t.co/2dvuZwNCll [Link]#
  • Trust matters.#
    • Having lost trust once, they can’t live it down. — Journos who joined gaslighting on Biden’s decline should never live it down https://t.co/dXoeWMUvjT [Link]#
    • Journalism requires trust. So does government. Lose it once and you have lost it forever. Those in power have lost trust forever and don’t seem to care since they prefer rule to governance. — New Year, same FBI-NYT lies, by @donsurber https://t.co/qzbRMX6REx [Link]#
  • Where there is government there needs to be vigilence.#
    • A canary in a coalmine of state-funded universities. What happens in your state? — A University President Accused of Squandering Public Money Resigns in Exchange for a $2 Million Payout https://t.co/Od8gj3OHdO via @reason [Link]#
  • It’s easy to group unlike things.#
    • @rossfreed @ConceptualJames Now detail the distinctions, please, so we can really understand your view of conservatives. [Link]#
    • @ConceptualJames What the Hell is radical rightism other then a leftist fiction? [Link]#
  • Houston, we have a problem.#
    • It’s a problem if the Chief Justice can’t see the real problems with the judiciary. https://t.co/Tv1DW0U12O [Link]#
  • Grift and graft.#
    • Cracks in the facade of the quasi-governmental machine. — Why NPR wanted that congressional pay raise, by @donsurber https://t.co/AEx289WP4y [Link]#
Retweets#
  • Shout it out.#
    • RT @PeterSweden7: There‘s nothing racist or "far-right" with wanting to protect your borders.... ... There‘s nothing racist or "far-right" with w… [Link]#
  • Ignore the noise.#
    • RT @MZHemingway: Remember when Trump said Liz Cheney wouldn‘t be such a fan of permanent war if she ever had to fight in one and the entire… [Link]#
    • RT @MZHemingway: President Biden rewards Liz Cheney for her witness tampering and obstruction of justice in the J6 show trial she ran. Disc… [Link]#
    • RT @brithume: This is repulsive. That investigation was done by a committee all of whose members were chosen by Nancy Pelosi, and was produ… [Link]#
  • Something to think about.#
    • RT @SeanBerube4: How can a good God let you suffer and die?... ... Tolkien said a 600 year old poem had the answer to this question... ... He spent ove… [Link]#
  • Journalism, it would be a good idea.#
    • RT @karol: I’m starting to think “Biden’s decline was the biggest untold story of 2024” is to distract us from “Biden’s corruption was the… [Link]#
    • RT @jsolomonReports: New York Post editorial board demands journalists be held accountable for hiding Biden‘s decline https://t.co/bZlnwpmr… [Link]#
  • Whistling past the graveyard-sized misdirection.#
    • One expects Chief Justice Roberts to be more precise. — HAS ANYONE ON THE RIGHT DEFIED ANY FEDERAL COURT DECISIONS? Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts ... https://t.co/wreqwDHCu1 [Link]#
  • The battle for the minds.#
    • RT @ConceptualJames: So you know, the play is to radicalize white Americans about ethnicity using immigration as a proxy and to push it to… [Link]#
    • RT @julie_kelly2: The Biden regime‘s concocted "domestic violent extremism" threat--Merrick Garland, Chris Wray, Avril Haines--justified re… [Link]#
  • Postmodern word rot.#
    • RT @BasedMikeLee: On no planet did the Tesla truck simply “catch fire”... ... It was loaded up with explosives & detonated... ... @AP, you’ve navigated… [Link]#
    • RT @ConceptualJames: Operation Ethno-America is the Woke Right‘s version of Critical Race Theory. A key operational goal of CRT is to get p… [Link]#
  • Indeed.#
    • RT @cvpayne: New Day in America.... ... I sincerely believe America dodged "the bullet" in November. A potential final blow that would have sent… [Link]#
  • Common sense.#
    • RT @utahprez: I‘ve been too casual about not being armed in public. From today forward, if you see me at a public event, it is safe to assu… [Link]#
  • Starmer should go. He should never have come by.#
    • RT @instapundit: He‘s owed a pardon and an apology. And to have one of the people who prosecuted him placed in the cell he vacates. [Link]#
  • Directed badly sideways by officials of ill will.#
    • RT @CGasparino: I‘m never going to rationalize what went down on Jan 6, 2021, but lets be clear, it was a protest that went badly sideways.… [Link]#

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