Reading Time: 3 minutes It has been said, and wisely, that 97% of the activity in the shower involves winning fake arguments with absent antagonists. It was only the other day that I was arguing with Marjorie Taylor Greene in the shower about religion and politics and the Ukraine War.
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Posted inWar and Peace
Identity politics and the real enemy of the state?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The use of the term “enemy of the state” is powerful and its rhetorical use can have consequences. One is left wondering whether the likes of Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene and extreme Fox mouthpiece Tucker Carlson are in the Kremlin’s pocket. Roll up, roll up, for the latest act of the Pro-Putin Propaganda Circus […]
Posted inSocial Media
Trump was never king of Twitter. This guy was (and is)
Reading Time: 3 minutes Among the more depressing news tidbits I recently ran into informed me that Georgia Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has 1.1 million Twitter followers. 1.1 million! It’s true. I checked. By comparison, I have, uh, 170 followers (.00001545% of Greene’s), which may or may not be a function of never using it. And virtually everything […]