One of the invariable features of a high-profile criminal trial is the “here’s who’s on the jury” story: eight men, four women; six white jurors, four Asians, two Latinos; four government employees, two corporate marketing executives, a plumber from Smallville, and five disheveled Substack writers.
I rushed to get this one in ahead of an appointment, so I forgot to link to the post in which I first called RBG an "inversion blender" -- a person who mixes facts together senselessly, then flips their meaning upside-down. Longtime readers will remember, I hope, but here:
Don’t you love how Captain Olivia Benson on Law and Order SVU still has a very visible RBG item on her office desk?
The show’s writers just can’t shove their woke progressivism far enough into the series stale, predictable plot lines, no, they have to also make sure you see Ginsburg’s deified image as well.
Propaganda everywhere. I watched that show a few times when it first came out, then realized what a depressing and creepy show it was. I nicknamed it ‘the rape show’. Why would anyone want to watch it? Blech.
In former ages, they would have been bored privileged housewives gossiping over coffee about all the neighbors and throwing their noses in the air because Becky, who works two jobs and raises two kids by herself, didn't bake her own brownies but made them from a mix or worse *gasp* bought them at the store. I mean, why didn't she just have her maid do it?
Now they get overpriced degrees and run things. They're the same people; we've just been stupid enough to give them power and platforms.
In lockdown those people were baking banana bread, sourdough (requires a commitment greater than that of raising a child) and snitching on their neighbours who had the common sense to break the rules and live normal lives as far as possible.....they were in fact, the authoritarians they avow to despise.
All of the responses, no matter which of the clones is speaking, seems to use exactly the same words. They must all carry a copy of Chairman Mao's "little red book", and before speaking, they look up the concept, and intone the appropriate quote.
Not broken, but corroded from neglect and incompetence. While the government in charge of that waste treatment facility spends all their money on marketing and salaries of people who take 3 months a year of paid vacation.
apologies for the non-sequitur. But I live in a Democrat run city and nothing works.
On another note, there’s good-and-darn-well a reason they’re hosting this in NYC: it’s one of the only places (the other is D.C.) where they’re guaranteed to get a conviction.
In voir dire, the prosecution is doubly making sure they 'pick to convict' by using JuryQuest, JurySync, iJury, Jury Solutions, and JuryStar; the prosecution has an unlimited budget after all. They have every juror--and alternates--nailed down so tight they know their favorite toothpaste, how they vote (<~~key) heck, even the color shoe laces they’d pick if given the choice. In other words, they know more about the jury pool than Zuckerberg.
Don’t listen to the BS the media is telling you about jurors being neutral, there’s no such thing in this case.
I think the 50 or so jurors that admitted they couldn’t be fair wanted no part of this trial & the ramifications if DJT was found not guilty. They’d be shunned.
She's probably been injected multiple times and the prions have made it to her brains. She has Mad Cow Disease. Just kidding. But I've noticed, and read about others who seen this behavior elsewhere, in people who have been injected exhibiting bizarre and odd, violent behavior. Or just very noticeable changes in behavior. Over course, the entire Democrat Party and large swaths of the Republican Party too, show this behavior. I'm glad you and I, as well as most all your readers, are not injected, and are still rational.
She’s been a reality-free liberal asshole for many years. The vax shots just reduced the small trickle of reality that previously managed to get through.
They’re unhappy because their entire waking energy is spent on opposing things and spending Other People’s Money studying “the problem.” No liberal has built anything worthwhile since FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps. Since WWII, capitalism has lifted half the world’s population out of abject poverty. No liberal program (even collectively) comes close.
It would appear that modern "journalism" is no longer tied in any discernable way to events, or facts. WHAT is said, whether true, or entirely imaginary, is of little consequence.
The only thing that matters, is WHO said, or is purported to have uttered the triggering word, phrase, or story.
So if a reporter from a "properly credentialed, pedophilia supporting, or a totalitarian boosting, semi literate 'news' organization chooses to list, (for example), jurors demographic and biographical data, voting history, and shoe size, that's an example of a public spirited organization responding to the public's right to know.
If, on the other hand, a "non-credentialed", vaccine hesitant, climate skeptic, Trump supporting independent internet journalist ventures to mention the race or occupations of jurors, that's obviously a a crime. An example of mis, dis, and mal information. Which should be , (and sadly, IS being), prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
One does not have to know what was said - simply who said, or attempted to say, something, anything, to trigger predictable responses.
It is narrative discourse theory as practice, instead of as an analytical tool.
As a tool, it is very useful for unraveling communication, trying to tease the message from The Message(tm) so to speak.
Sadly, as with all things descriptive, it can also be used proscriptive, creating narratives out of facts.
It's not even new. Eisenstein is said to have experimented with showing people photos, with and without a tagline with descriptors of occupation and such, finding that the description was much more important to how the person depicted was received by the viewer, than the image itself.
I think, often, that the RGBs have once learned about the theory (the tool) but that they then, in applying it, have lost control of it in a Frankensteinian fashion, and are now themselves the (willing) tools.
Can I just extend heartfelt thanks to all the commenters today for providing much needed lols, oh and as ever to you Chris. Tough time for my family rn as my beloved mum has cancer, and it's hitting my kids hardest of all. Thanks folks x
The top NYT articles right now are all about the makeup of the jury. One headline is “Meet the 12 Manhattan Jurors Who Will Decide Donald J. Trump’s Fate”. It’s hard to overstate how awful a person Ruth is, and how moronic her followers are.
Her newsletter was featured on Substack when she first came over. Because I too am deeply concerned about rising authoritarianism, I initially signed up. But then I saw that what she was really doing was advocating for authoritarianism, and the threat she was concerned about was democracy. I registered my disappointment in the comments section. The response from her fan club was… disturbing. Something along the lines of “REEEEEE!” over and over.
I rushed to get this one in ahead of an appointment, so I forgot to link to the post in which I first called RBG an "inversion blender" -- a person who mixes facts together senselessly, then flips their meaning upside-down. Longtime readers will remember, I hope, but here:
https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/inversion-blender
I read “RBG” and wondered “What does Ruth Bader Ginsburg have to do with this?” Oops…🤦
I started to light my candle
https://a.co/d/5zO3Vgm
Don’t you love how Captain Olivia Benson on Law and Order SVU still has a very visible RBG item on her office desk?
The show’s writers just can’t shove their woke progressivism far enough into the series stale, predictable plot lines, no, they have to also make sure you see Ginsburg’s deified image as well.
Propaganda everywhere. I watched that show a few times when it first came out, then realized what a depressing and creepy show it was. I nicknamed it ‘the rape show’. Why would anyone want to watch it? Blech.
🤣
Me too. You're not alone.
Are we sure Ruth isn’t Tatania McGrath or maybe Katherine Maher? Creepy, how much they look and sound alike.
SHE IS BOTH. They are all as one.
In former ages, they would have been bored privileged housewives gossiping over coffee about all the neighbors and throwing their noses in the air because Becky, who works two jobs and raises two kids by herself, didn't bake her own brownies but made them from a mix or worse *gasp* bought them at the store. I mean, why didn't she just have her maid do it?
Now they get overpriced degrees and run things. They're the same people; we've just been stupid enough to give them power and platforms.
In lockdown those people were baking banana bread, sourdough (requires a commitment greater than that of raising a child) and snitching on their neighbours who had the common sense to break the rules and live normal lives as far as possible.....they were in fact, the authoritarians they avow to despise.
"They were in fact, the authoritarians they avow to despise."
Funny how that works.
Isn't it just?
She is just one of many Arrogant White Female Ultra Liberal (AWFUL).
They ALL sound the same.
All of the responses, no matter which of the clones is speaking, seems to use exactly the same words. They must all carry a copy of Chairman Mao's "little red book", and before speaking, they look up the concept, and intone the appropriate quote.
That actually could be the model.
The Woke Borg
The best description of the Left I’ve read. 🎯
🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Isn't Tatania McGrath a parody?
Isn't Katherine Maher a parody?
Isn't it obvious?
Maybe, I can’t tell for sure.
Ben-Ghiat averages 2,500 tweets per year; Maher averages 1,900 tweets per year; McGrath averages 525 tweets per year.
It's like the pipeline to the waste treatment facility broke right in the middle of the city.
Goddamn, RBG averages >1 twit per hour assuming a 40 hour work week? Could we chain her fingers to a dynamo, and thus solve the energy crisis?
I guess I am asking what justification would lead to people chaining her fingers, but damn, that is a lot of twit!
Clean(ish) energy right there!
Not broken, but corroded from neglect and incompetence. While the government in charge of that waste treatment facility spends all their money on marketing and salaries of people who take 3 months a year of paid vacation.
apologies for the non-sequitur. But I live in a Democrat run city and nothing works.
🤣😂
🤮
On another note, there’s good-and-darn-well a reason they’re hosting this in NYC: it’s one of the only places (the other is D.C.) where they’re guaranteed to get a conviction.
In voir dire, the prosecution is doubly making sure they 'pick to convict' by using JuryQuest, JurySync, iJury, Jury Solutions, and JuryStar; the prosecution has an unlimited budget after all. They have every juror--and alternates--nailed down so tight they know their favorite toothpaste, how they vote (<~~key) heck, even the color shoe laces they’d pick if given the choice. In other words, they know more about the jury pool than Zuckerberg.
Don’t listen to the BS the media is telling you about jurors being neutral, there’s no such thing in this case.
I think the 50 or so jurors that admitted they couldn’t be fair wanted no part of this trial & the ramifications if DJT was found not guilty. They’d be shunned.
Or ☠️ via subway push…
The juror that was excused yesterday:
(essentially) "I have a 99.99% chance of convicting Donald Trump, I hate him so much!"
Prosecution:
"Not good enough, there are LOTS of people in New York that are more likely to convict, you are dismissed."
LOLz 😂
I don’t disagree with any of this.
She's probably been injected multiple times and the prions have made it to her brains. She has Mad Cow Disease. Just kidding. But I've noticed, and read about others who seen this behavior elsewhere, in people who have been injected exhibiting bizarre and odd, violent behavior. Or just very noticeable changes in behavior. Over course, the entire Democrat Party and large swaths of the Republican Party too, show this behavior. I'm glad you and I, as well as most all your readers, are not injected, and are still rational.
Danny Huckabee
She’s been a reality-free liberal asshole for many years. The vax shots just reduced the small trickle of reality that previously managed to get through.
Thanks Chris! Just signed up for her newsletter. I’m new at this. Is $10,000 a year for a subscription reasonable?
She's offering discounts?
I checked the BIPOC option and it automatically calculated the discount. She didn’t offer any for the white, Christian, nationalist category.
I tend to discount EVERY word she utters.
Wow...you got the only half stupid discount price! Congratulations! Imagine if you had gotten the fully stupid full price like her other followers!
I did have a discount coupon. Maybe it didn’t work?
Heeheehee.
Very funny! Good job!
Danny Huckabee
How can she afford to pay $10 000 to every subscriber? Who's funding her?
Guess I should have held out for more? I need you as my agent.
Get Chris Rufo to see if she plagiarized anything. Low hanging fruit.
That would be cruel. Also, fun.
He’s still kind of busy with the NPR CEO. What a gold mine of college educated, white liberal racist garbage. No wonder they’re all so unhappy.
They’re unhappy because their entire waking energy is spent on opposing things and spending Other People’s Money studying “the problem.” No liberal has built anything worthwhile since FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps. Since WWII, capitalism has lifted half the world’s population out of abject poverty. No liberal program (even collectively) comes close.
The academic version of “shooting fish in a barrel”.
Ah yes. George Zimmerman. The world's first 'White Hispanic'.
It would appear that modern "journalism" is no longer tied in any discernable way to events, or facts. WHAT is said, whether true, or entirely imaginary, is of little consequence.
The only thing that matters, is WHO said, or is purported to have uttered the triggering word, phrase, or story.
So if a reporter from a "properly credentialed, pedophilia supporting, or a totalitarian boosting, semi literate 'news' organization chooses to list, (for example), jurors demographic and biographical data, voting history, and shoe size, that's an example of a public spirited organization responding to the public's right to know.
If, on the other hand, a "non-credentialed", vaccine hesitant, climate skeptic, Trump supporting independent internet journalist ventures to mention the race or occupations of jurors, that's obviously a a crime. An example of mis, dis, and mal information. Which should be , (and sadly, IS being), prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
One does not have to know what was said - simply who said, or attempted to say, something, anything, to trigger predictable responses.
It is narrative discourse theory as practice, instead of as an analytical tool.
As a tool, it is very useful for unraveling communication, trying to tease the message from The Message(tm) so to speak.
Sadly, as with all things descriptive, it can also be used proscriptive, creating narratives out of facts.
It's not even new. Eisenstein is said to have experimented with showing people photos, with and without a tagline with descriptors of occupation and such, finding that the description was much more important to how the person depicted was received by the viewer, than the image itself.
I think, often, that the RGBs have once learned about the theory (the tool) but that they then, in applying it, have lost control of it in a Frankensteinian fashion, and are now themselves the (willing) tools.
How dare you malign Cult Leader Ruth!
This is the white female version of a race hustler.
Well paying gig.
everyone needs to call her out on this on her twitter acct.
They’ve lost their minds. This is priceless. https://open.substack.com/pub/jennamccarthy/p/did-i-offend?r=nl3ud&utm_medium=ios
Can I just extend heartfelt thanks to all the commenters today for providing much needed lols, oh and as ever to you Chris. Tough time for my family rn as my beloved mum has cancer, and it's hitting my kids hardest of all. Thanks folks x
Sorry to hear that.
Thanks.
The top NYT articles right now are all about the makeup of the jury. One headline is “Meet the 12 Manhattan Jurors Who Will Decide Donald J. Trump’s Fate”. It’s hard to overstate how awful a person Ruth is, and how moronic her followers are.
Her newsletter was featured on Substack when she first came over. Because I too am deeply concerned about rising authoritarianism, I initially signed up. But then I saw that what she was really doing was advocating for authoritarianism, and the threat she was concerned about was democracy. I registered my disappointment in the comments section. The response from her fan club was… disturbing. Something along the lines of “REEEEEE!” over and over.
Good catch! Updating the post.
Thank you for making me laugh and giggle for 5 minutes when I wanted to rip my hair out. I appreciate your work
My response to this female is: HUH?