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#47 – Coisas da SIL

Nossa
26 dias de agosto.
O mês que particularmente passa devagar
Pra mim voou.
Agosto teve gosto,  de pressa, passo largo e muito cansaço.
Teve mais saídas do que permanência.
Teve mais silêncio do que palavras.
Houve mais decisões do que espera.
A vida tem pressa. Não espera, acelera.
Bye bye August!
Um abraço da SiL!

Bye bye August

Source: #47 – Coisas da SIL

¿Hay destino para quienes están rodeados de espejismos, sitiados por estulticia y acosados por trampas? – Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

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Todos los días, al andar por los caminos del mundo y presenciar sus escenarios, me pregunto, quizá ilusamente, si habrá destino para una humanidad rodeada de espejismos, sitiada por estupideces e intoxicada de apariencias y trampas. Desde hace mucho tiempo, alguien, y otros más, se han dedicado a sepultar la esencia, los tesoros del interior, los sentimientos nobles y los valores, al convertir a amplio porcentaje de la humanidad en rebaño, en una masa informe y tonta que solo tiene necesidad de satisfacer apetitos, en una colectividad reactiva y tonta que raramente siente y piensa correctamente porque es más proclive a entregarse a estupideces, apetitos primarios y superficialidades. Gente que reacciona violentamente si alguien intenta despertarla o se opone a sus creencias y modas, pero incapaz de llevar a cabo algo grandioso para sí y los demás. Este panorama desolador y tan terrible destino, forman parte de un plan maestro, un proyecto con cierta intencionalidad oscura y perversa, controlada por una élite mundial, poderosa económica, militar y políticamente, que pretende destruir a la mayor parte de los seres humanos, someter a aquellos que sobrevivan, imponerles sus reglas brutales y apropiarse del planeta y de sus riquezas. Ahora, ante el profundo vacío, la estupidez y la superficialidad, miramos, en el planeta, miles de millones de personas automatizadas y enajenadas que coexisten en lo que les han hecho creer que son -basura-, incapaces de despertar y reaccionar para hacer algo grandioso a su favor y no perecer. Si les dan la noticia de que la humanidad es un guión estúpido y torcido, una aberración, algo que no existe, un holograma que ya agotó todas sus posibilidades, lo creen ciegamente ante la terrible ausencia de sí y de su esencia. Ya somos testigos de las monstruosidades que los dueños del poder global están llevando a cabo, y que próximamente acentuarán con mayor crueldad, mientras las mayorías permanecen atrapadas y distraídas en idioteces. ¿Alcanzaremos a despertar antes de que esa élite mundial dé el golpe final a la humanidad? ¿Estamos destinados a la extinción? Un grupúsculo ambicioso y perverso se prepara con la intención de conseguir sus objetivos y arrasar con los seres humanos; las mayorías, y esto incluye hombres y mujeres con capacidad económica y pobres, gente con grados académicos o sin preparación escolar, permanece atrapada en el tramposo encanto de las posesiones de desecho, las apariencias y las superficialidades.

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Source: ¿Hay destino para quienes están rodeados de espejismos, sitiados por estulticia y acosados por trampas? – Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

‘Women aren’t stupid’ …to believe Vance’s US abortion ban veto promise, says Warren | US elections 2024 | The Guardian

“American women are not stupid, and we are not going to trust the futures of our daughters and granddaughters to two men who have openly bragged about blocking access to abortion for women all across this country,” Warren said on Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press.

The Democratic US senator from Massachusetts added that she suspects conservative activists could use the Comstock Act, a 19th-century anti-obscenity law which bans mailing abortion-related materials, to enforce a federal ban on abortion if the former president clinches a second presidency with Vance as his running mate. She said it would not be all that “hard to accomplish” with “the right person [in] the Department of Justice and one of their extremist judges out in the world”.

Source: ‘Women aren’t stupid’ enough to believe Vance’s US abortion ban veto promise, says Warren | US elections 2024 | The Guardian

Open Thread | Vice President Harris and the MSM | 3CHICSPOLITICO

This was an absolutely great thread.

The Editorial Board (@johnastoehr) posted at 7:25 AM on Wed, Aug 14, 2024:
Kamala Harris is taking power back from the press corps. She learned from Biden’s fatal error. A THREAD.

1. The first thing you need to know about the vice president’s approach to the Washington press corps is look how well she’s doing as a result. Kamala Harris is now leading Donald Trump in some national polling averages as well as in some swing-state polls.

2. True, her lead is within the margin of error in most cases, but that’s an improvement from where the Democrats were before Joe Biden dropped out of the running and orchestrated instantaneous unification around his second-in-command.

3. I don’t think I’m overstating things. Her lead, the millions she’s bringing in, the thousands who are signing up to help, the big big mo’ – I think all of it comes directly from her campaign’s decision not to give the press corps too much access too fast.

4. I think that decision comes directly from the fact that Harris saw firsthand what the press corps did to Joe Biden’s campaign.

5. Some members of the press corps have noticed how well Harris is doing without them, and apparently, it doesn’t sit right. Here’s Chris Cillizza with a representative sampling.

6. The former Post writer said the vice president has been “almost entirely” ignoring the media since she launched her campaign, and that’s bad, he said.

7. Cillizza: It “bypasses the argument that the media is a critical part of our political system and any candidate who wants to be president — whether they are winning or losing — should be regularly subjected to scrutiny from the press.”

8. Even if I agreed that candidates who want to be president should be regularly subjected to media scrutiny, I don’t think this press corps, as it is currently organized, is able to.

9. There are exceptions, of course, but this press corps is generally not equipped to scrutinize candidates on matters of fact and substance. I say this because this press corps has conspicuously traded matters of fact and substance for vibes.

10. It didn’t matter what Joe Biden did – pull the country out of a pandemic, dodge a recession, tame inflation, grow jobs, revive every single one of the “left behind” counties that voted for Trump in 2016 because of “economic anxiety” – it *didn’t matter* what Joe Biden did.

11. The press corps decided nothing was more important than his age, and lo! 2024 became an election about vibes and vibes ended his candidacy.

12. Vibes are this press corps’ forte, not fact and substance. If fact and substance were its strength, there would have been a different reaction to The Disaster Debate during which Biden talked about policy and issues while Trump didn’t bother.

13. Trump was incoherent and false, but he came off as confident and strong, and he came off as that way, because the press corps’ forte isn’t fact and substance.

14. If fact and substance were important, there would also have been a different reaction to Biden’s NATO press conference last month. He did it after the Disaster Debate to show he still had what it takes. He talked for an hour about foreign affairs, international laws and war.

15. But this press corps didn’t hear any of that after Biden said “Vice President Trump” by mistake. There’s no grace for the old in Washington, nor is there interest in anything but vibes in the Washington press corps.

16. There was a time when liberals and Democrats would have nodded in agreement with Chris Cillizza on the merit of candidates being regularly subjected to scrutiny.

17. But after this press corps made a fetish of Biden’s age, I don’t see any more room for the benefit of the doubt – and there’s no going back.

18. This press corps made the election about vibes and it’s going to remain an election about vibes, and if those vibes now grind against the instincts of this press corps, tough shit.

You reap what you sow.

19. In the future, we might look back and see the most important difference between the Biden and Harris campaigns is their level of trust in the press corps.

20. The president believed voters would reward him for the substantial things he has done, and he trusted – indeed, he depended on – the press corps to inform voters, as it’s supposed to.

21. But where he saw fact and substance, the press corps saw only vibes. And in depending on the press corps to get his message across to voters, Biden effectively handed over power that was rightfully his.

22. He allowed the press corps to be the principal arbiters of his reality, rather than reserving that right for himself. You could say Biden was waiting for power to be given to him and he suffered gravely for it.

23. By contrast, the Harris campaign is not letting the press corps wedge itself between her and voters. She is not allowing the news media to mediate her message. She’s preventing the press corps from speaking for her and she’s preventing it from exercising a veto on her speech.

24. In that, she is *taking power* – defining her campaign as well as Trump’s. She is turning the narrative about Biden’s age (81) back against Trump’s (78), such that whatever he says in self-defense is seen as proof of the allegations against him.

25. This decision leaves the press corps on the outside looking in. She’s sustaining a conversation with voters directly, on her own terms, and she’s doing well as a direct consequence of that decision.

26. But being on the outside looking in feels bad to people who see themselves as the adjudicators of American politics. They have incentive to turn attention back to where they think it belongs.

27. That’s why some are busy manufacturing a phony moral standard by which to scam Harris into playing by their rules. That phony moral standard goes something like this, courtesy today of Chris Cillizza:

28. He’s being coy but, in essence, he’s saying that Harris is violating some kind of taboo, or worse, that she’s hiding something of great importance from voters. This, of course, is favorable to her opponents, but let’s be clear: she’s violating *nothing*.

29. There is no lawbook declaring that candidates shall talk to reporters. There is a playbook, if that’s what you mean, but not a lawbook. The vice president could go the whole time without talking to one reporter and she would not have done anything morally wrong.

30. I will repeat myself till I burst. This is a democracy. Harris is obliged to talk to Americans. That’s the end of her obligation. She’s not obliged to talk to the press corps, as if it were a constituency. If she stopped talking to voters, that would be disqualifying.

31. This is not to say she shouldn’t, but that’s a different question, isn’t it? If Harris decides to talk to the press corps about matters of fact and substance relevant to her, it will be her decision made out of concern for tactics and strategy for her campaign.

32. Reporters like Cillizza have a bad habit of presenting themselves to voters as if they operated in their interest and we know nothing could be further from the truth. We should not only stop tolerating this bad habit. We should be hostile towards it.

33. The most powerful thing Harris has done – a game changing decision, if you want to call it that – was to learn from Biden’s fatal error.

34. He tried to meet the press corps’ phony moral standard, only to have it move around, beyond his reach, thus surrendering his power. In the end, his dependence on the press corps made it so he had to ask for permission to campaign.

Harris isn’t asking.

/end
(https://x.com/johnastoehr/status/1823701999956722074?t=Tcx-GHKEY1vfYlB_zz_iPg&s=03)

That was an entire sermon, and ICAM.

Source: Open Thread | Vice President Harris and the MSM | 3CHICSPOLITICO

GUEST POST // Do Trees Cry? by yassy | unbolt me

Do trees cry when you chop them?
Do trees cry when you cut them down?
Do they feel the pain when the axe falls?
Do they bleed when you put a blade through their bark?
I wonder what happens to their roots?
I wonder how they feel when uprooted?
Do they weep when they are gutted?
Are their screams and cries for help lost in the burning pain
when fires light up their unheard screams
Like an unseen bloodstain

by YASSY

Source: GUEST POST // Do Trees Cry? by yassy | unbolt me