propaganda easy as 1-2-3

I was just reading yet another propaganda piece from a mainstream US news outlet.

The way the word “reportedly” gets tossed about is amazing. Translation: it means a crock is coming up, much like using “some people say.”

The start of the article presented fantasy maybes. Within a few sentences, it was all hard fact.

Propaganda analysis is one of my bags. It’s puzzle solving. I like the challenge. I started with it in elementary school and never stopped.

sears

Back when about every single thing we had came from Sears. 🎄

camping world going to sell electric trucks – hope not

I cannot imagine a worse deal than this. If you have $53,000, just throw it in the road and drive over it.

It’s an electric pickup that will be sold and serviced by Camping World. Camping World is to service what the cable companies and telcos are to customer care, but even worse, much much worse.

Absolutely laughable. I suppose somebody will buy one, somewhere.

Surreal.

It would be better to buy something like this from a place that usually sells these things, i.e. sells cars and trucks.

When you need service, Camping World will get it back to you in about five weeks, and it will still be broken. Avoid! Avoid! lol.

prayers for rafe

TFW you entertain hacking a church service by submitting a prayer request for Rafe Hollister. No, that’s even below my low maturity level. No worry. lol

https://mayberry.fandom.com/wiki/Rafe_Hollister

mail-order intrigue

I recently ordered a book of a very sensitive nature, politically, lol.

I was waiting to see if my credit card would decline for no reason, or if the bookstore would accept the order for a moment, then send an e-mail, “sorry, we made a mistake, it’s out of stock.”

Alas, none of that has happened and the book has shipped. I have no intriguing story to tell at this point unless it gets disappeared in transit.

As long as a writer can get something published in the first place, I don’t think books are at the highest levels of interest for censorship. Nobody reads those things anyway, so why bother. 😬

brian’s christmas music videos

He has uploaded quite a few. Some of those instruments are over 100 years old!

hard cider boys

We stocked up on some things to drink for the holidays and discovered the Ciderboys .

Who wouldn’t want to hang out with the Ciderboys?

masks – hecho en carolina

They might not come in time for the holidays, but here is a reminder idea for those “seasonal” gifts.

Masks made locally by workers and designers here in North Carolina.

I just ordered a bunch. Shipping is the same charge per mask if you get them all sent to one place or sent directly to recipient, so you can keep placing orders that go where you want them to go rather than all to you.

https://www.hechoencarolina.com/

ramen

Steamy lunch.

Ramen is best eaten directly from the pot, much like drinking cheap booze from a tin cup.

cereza

I scored a cherry pie today at The Fresh Market.

I got cherry because I wanted something a little tart, just like me. 🍒