InevitableSwing

InevitableSwing, 7 months ago

MSNBC had this doctor on to talk about the horrible situation in Gaza.

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Three years ago, I was in Yemen with three other medical volunteers, providing internal medicine and pediatrics services to people suffering from the effects of war and famine. MedGlobal had just been formed. In between medical consultations, we talked about the goals for the future of our organization, dedicated to providing innovative healthcare to crisis-affected and low-resource areas.

I don’t know anything about him - I copy and pasted that for context.

I was listening to in the background so I don’t know how long the interview was. I think ~7 minutes at least. I noticed something very unusual. Almost zero questions. Stephanie Ruhle was interviewing him. Ruhle isn’t rude but it’s her habit to pepper guests with questions. She always does that. I’ve never seen her be so quiet. Also - MSNBC’s PR shtick is that they ask questions and it makes you smarter. I forget an recent tagline - it was something like “Never stop asking questions”.

It’s the norm that anchors/reporters ask a lot of questions. In one way - the lack of questions was really great. He was highly knowledgeable and informed the audience in stark terms about how awful things are. That’s the first time I’ve seen that on CNN or MSNBC. But the producers must have had him on because even though he didn’t pull punches about the medical situation - they knew he was very politic and he’d avoid “politics”.

The end result was that the agent of the chaos, Israel, hardly came up at all. It was like these horrible unfolding health problems were happening all by themselves due to unknown or poorly understood causes.

InevitableSwing, 7 months ago

Unless we go back to throwing rocks at each other

People talk about soldiers being brave. But it’s something else for a teenager to throw rocks at an occupying force of guys with assault rifles who have in effect a license to kill and who in an instant can call in the equivalent of a national guard to help them to brutally “enforce order”.

I never have had nor will I have have the - cough - stones for that.

InevitableSwing, 7 months ago

House speaker live updates: Republican nominate Jim Jordan in private vote

InevitableSwing, 7 months ago

He only got nominated. There will be vote(s) later. Considering how batshit the GOP is - a nomination is just a baby step.

InevitableSwing, 7 months ago

With small changes…

You have a shark inside you. You are a barreling mass of energy formed by the pull of the moon and the push of the wind.

It’s apt here - hexbear.net/post/803420?scrollToComments=false

InevitableSwing, 7 months ago

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InevitableSwing, 7 months ago

I, for one, do not have a parasocial relationship with Scarlett Johansson. But I do wonder what she’s doing right now.

InevitableSwing, 7 months ago

When I win the lottery I’m not telling anyone but there will be signs.

InevitableSwing, 7 months ago

That seems generous. They might do that in ~3 hours.

InevitableSwing, 7 months ago

CNN interviewed this GOP rep and it was so noisy that his name sounded like Bill Bazinga to me. I knew it was too good to be true and it was…

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InevitableSwing, 7 months ago

They were lured in by offers of free coffee and pastries. But there was no coffee and there were no pastries.