Daily Dose Special - Must Reads

 It's not often I read a story that basically summarises exactly how I feel, but this "Roe vs Wade" piece by Bob Lefsetz written last night after the Supreme Court leak is one of those. He really gets how the country is, how the politics are, how an abortion ban will affect women, and more.....

I really recommend you read this - the more informed you are, the better you can prepare yourself for what's coming....

I used to think the day they overturned Roe v. Wade there would be riots in the street.

I no longer believe that.

I could say elections have consequences, but we are way beyond that.

Are you reading the three part article on Tucker Carlson in the “New York Times”? It hasn’t been on the Fox News site, I’ve been checking. In other words, a significant segment of the population will never see it, never be aware of the roots in white nationalism of Carlson’s words, will never know his tactics, will never know he lied about facts to appeal to his audience. Tucker says it’s them against us. Or more specifically, we are the oppressors and his audience is the oppressed. We’re ruining their culture. We’re changing the fabric of America. I only wish George Soros, Joe Biden and AOC had that kind of power. They don’t. Never mind a disorganized Democratic party that is so fearful of offending someone it can’t speak English. Ergo Hillary Clinton. A brilliant woman who was castigated for saying she wasn’t going to stay home and bake cookies and blinked, who’s been parsing her words ever since, trying to get in touch with what people want to hear as opposed to what she wants to say.

https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2022/05/02/the-roe-v-wade-decision/

This is the Times article Lefsetz references, and if you want to know where the brother/cousin/father/uncle/friend you used to know and 

laugh with went, sucked down the rabbit hole of conspiracies and paranoia, read this. 

It's what they hear on Tucker Carlson every night, hammering home the dark idea that "they" are out to get "you".

This message, as well as overt white nationalist themes are repeated over and over and over, which is why you can't talk to them about anything 

remotely connected to politics any more.

Carlson is now floating the idea he will be Trump's VP, so prepare yourself for that disaster.....

There are three links below in green in this summary of the series, and I suggest you start with the Times illustrated story with 

video below - "Tucker Carlson Tonight".

Over the weekend, The New York Times and investigative reporter Nicholas Confessore put out a stunningly detailed and deeply-reported three-part series on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson. The three parts were:

• “How Tucker Carlson Stoked White Fear to Conquer Cable.”
• “How Tucker Carlson Reshaped Fox News — and Became Trump’s Heir.”
• “Look Inside the Apocalyptic Worldview of ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’”

Confessore writes, “… Mr. Carlson has constructed what may be the most racist show in the history of cable news — and also, by some measures, the most successful.”

Others agree with the assessment. Speaking on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” on Sunday, media analyst David Zurawik, the former longtime media critic at The Baltimore Sun, said, “He’s right up there. No one has ever had the kind of audience that he has and has preached the kind of racism he preaches. I would say that’s absolutely certain.