Say what? I had just finished sharing your first post with others in my network, adding how I found it both terrifying and hopeful. Facebook and X have become cesspools of MAGA misinformation, and I am convinced more than ever now that Substack will be the platform where the good fight is fought and won. As you stated, hopefully cooler heads will prevail and you won’t find yourself at odds with your former employer, because that would be outrageous. Good luck with the new venture!
Yikes! One suggestion: Talk to your lawyer before accepting the invitation to the Springerfest. In light of their demand you have no choice but to treat your former employer as a potential adversary.
THE DAM IS BREAKING… The information is coming whether these people that have been holding it back, want it to or not. I literally couldn’t believe the backlash I got when I posted the song “Coup d’Etat” on Facebook on January 6.
Just the word COUP was “beyond unacceptable“ one of the quotes I got. I was threatened and screamed at ad nauseam to where I took the post down.
The backlash of ignoring the word “coup” could’ve ended quickly…but the State TV we know as FOX, comes in with his 24 hour new cycle to convince its audience not believe “you’re lying eyes and all that pesky video!”!!
MSNBC and CNN weren’t much better. I never heard the word coup over there either, until almost 4 years later!! They were seemingly reluctant to report on other issues regarding January 6.
Roseanne Boyland…. We heard nothing about a woman being trampled to death by her ravenous Mike Pence hanging. Nancy assaulting, while shitting on her desk, ….friendly J6 strolling tourists.
Why did that go intentionally unreported! It is still not discussed.
THIS IS ONE STORY.
There have been so many where language in particular is manipulated down to a point where it has no effectiveness unless the intention is placating the sheep.
Which is exactly what they have done. The Democrats have been castrated and largely because of some unknown pressure that’s been put on the media to not speak the truth and to use gentle, lulling, language.
This mollifying appeasement has enabled this slow moving coup to ingratiate self in the minds deeper of the far right while the left has just seemed meek and confused.
Urgent language or succinct intentional words have been banished to a degree.
Some reporting has been intentionally given in a non-urgent vain in an attempt to avoid all inflammatory language to accurately describe what this government take over has actually been
I need the WORDS!
. Like COUP or DICTATOR or NAZI. In fact, I prefer “motherfucking Nazi !!
I contacted Bill Maher on one of his sites and used the word Nazi— He admonished me the next Friday , on air, saying that Nazi was a bridge too far and they are not Nazis. How cruel was I to say such a word. From a roasting comedian.🤣🤣WTF
SO SERIOUSLY, WHERE IS THIS COMING FROM? WHERE IS THIS VERBAL OPPRESSION COMING FROM?
Well ICE IS THE GESTAPO , BILL😝😜🤪
But why did other independent reporters fall in line with the authoritarian playbook?
Our country has been engaged in a very anti-American practice of journalism through oppression.
I am so stoked that Ryan Lizza is talking about it because it has made me crazy decidedly since January 6,2021.
Why were American reporters at all being threatened or repressed? Were they opressed or threatened? How many people have had legal contact them to take down their work?
How high does this go? Is it worse in certain areas?
Who was quashing negative reporting re: Trump? Was it from on high, the middle guy— or was it coming from self restraint for fear of reprisal?
Fear of government retribution? Or self induced fear because there just seems to be a lot of oppression.
This is an important story to get to the bottom of.
The truth will set us free and keep us free.
No more lies
Thanks for putting a 🔥under my ass.I appreciate it
Part of what’s interesting to me here is that when I read the original launch statement, I read Politico as a victim of infringements on free speech, doing their best given practical constraints of the circumstances. There is a way out of this where Politico gets to tell a story about themselves as heroes, at the front of the fight for the first amendment. This is not it.
Say what? I had just finished sharing your first post with others in my network, adding how I found it both terrifying and hopeful. Facebook and X have become cesspools of MAGA misinformation, and I am convinced more than ever now that Substack will be the platform where the good fight is fought and won. As you stated, hopefully cooler heads will prevail and you won’t find yourself at odds with your former employer, because that would be outrageous. Good luck with the new venture!
Yikes! One suggestion: Talk to your lawyer before accepting the invitation to the Springerfest. In light of their demand you have no choice but to treat your former employer as a potential adversary.
THE DAM IS BREAKING… The information is coming whether these people that have been holding it back, want it to or not. I literally couldn’t believe the backlash I got when I posted the song “Coup d’Etat” on Facebook on January 6.
Just the word COUP was “beyond unacceptable“ one of the quotes I got. I was threatened and screamed at ad nauseam to where I took the post down.
The backlash of ignoring the word “coup” could’ve ended quickly…but the State TV we know as FOX, comes in with his 24 hour new cycle to convince its audience not believe “you’re lying eyes and all that pesky video!”!!
MSNBC and CNN weren’t much better. I never heard the word coup over there either, until almost 4 years later!! They were seemingly reluctant to report on other issues regarding January 6.
Roseanne Boyland…. We heard nothing about a woman being trampled to death by her ravenous Mike Pence hanging. Nancy assaulting, while shitting on her desk, ….friendly J6 strolling tourists.
Why did that go intentionally unreported! It is still not discussed.
THIS IS ONE STORY.
There have been so many where language in particular is manipulated down to a point where it has no effectiveness unless the intention is placating the sheep.
Which is exactly what they have done. The Democrats have been castrated and largely because of some unknown pressure that’s been put on the media to not speak the truth and to use gentle, lulling, language.
This mollifying appeasement has enabled this slow moving coup to ingratiate self in the minds deeper of the far right while the left has just seemed meek and confused.
Urgent language or succinct intentional words have been banished to a degree.
Some reporting has been intentionally given in a non-urgent vain in an attempt to avoid all inflammatory language to accurately describe what this government take over has actually been
I need the WORDS!
. Like COUP or DICTATOR or NAZI. In fact, I prefer “motherfucking Nazi !!
I contacted Bill Maher on one of his sites and used the word Nazi— He admonished me the next Friday , on air, saying that Nazi was a bridge too far and they are not Nazis. How cruel was I to say such a word. From a roasting comedian.🤣🤣WTF
SO SERIOUSLY, WHERE IS THIS COMING FROM? WHERE IS THIS VERBAL OPPRESSION COMING FROM?
Well ICE IS THE GESTAPO , BILL😝😜🤪
But why did other independent reporters fall in line with the authoritarian playbook?
Our country has been engaged in a very anti-American practice of journalism through oppression.
I am so stoked that Ryan Lizza is talking about it because it has made me crazy decidedly since January 6,2021.
Why were American reporters at all being threatened or repressed? Were they opressed or threatened? How many people have had legal contact them to take down their work?
How high does this go? Is it worse in certain areas?
Who was quashing negative reporting re: Trump? Was it from on high, the middle guy— or was it coming from self restraint for fear of reprisal?
Fear of government retribution? Or self induced fear because there just seems to be a lot of oppression.
This is an important story to get to the bottom of.
The truth will set us free and keep us free.
No more lies
Thanks for putting a 🔥under my ass.I appreciate it
Part of what’s interesting to me here is that when I read the original launch statement, I read Politico as a victim of infringements on free speech, doing their best given practical constraints of the circumstances. There is a way out of this where Politico gets to tell a story about themselves as heroes, at the front of the fight for the first amendment. This is not it.