Bruce Springsteen guitarist Nils Lofgren joins protest of Spotify over Covid misinformation (msn.com)

I had a good laugh this morning reading TWTP. There was this short piece on Neil Young. My comment will be in brackets

Quote:MEAT(HEADS) AND POTATOES
There are two types of people: those who like Neil Young’s music and those with good hearing.

Last week, the whiny relic penned an open letter to Spotify demanding that the streamer stop carrying the Joe Rogan podcast. Young threatened to remove his music from the service if his demands weren’t met. According to the jowly has-been, the Rogan podcast (Spotify’s most successful show) is “spreading fake information about vaccines.”

“Please act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule,” Young dictated to his secretary (a hamster) before storming off into a broom closet and angrily remarking, “This isn’t Massey Hall!”

The irony about Young’s “protest” is that Young himself has a history of spreading medical disinfo. In the 1980s, he went on a bizarre crusade against gays working in public places, because he thought you could get AIDS by touching something a gay person had touched. [Ironically, he got this disinformation that Fraudci was spreading during the AIDS epidemic]

“You go to the supermarket and you see a faggot behind the fucking cash register, you don’t want him to handle your potatoes.”

That’s an actual quote.

This summer I hear the drumming,
I’m dead from a poe-tay-toe.

Young was also a booster of Charles Manson, recommending the cult leader to music-industry execs. He even bought the dude a motorcycle! Manson called Young the only person who ever truly believed in him.

So, Neil Young championed Charles Manson and thought you could get AIDS from a potato that’d been “touched by a faggot.”

By all means, trust this guy’s instincts.

“There are two types of people: those who like Neil Young’s music and those with good hearing.”
And while Spotify responded to Young’s threat by acting like he doesn’t exist (which everyone else had been doing anyway), that surely won’t slow the man’s golden-years activism.

Next stop: his local supermarket. “Get rid of your AIDS potatoes or I won’t let you play my songs on the Muzak.”

He better not look out his window. Oh, that's right - he's in hiding.

Joe Biden: “You’re Not Going To Get COVID If You Have These Vaccinations.”

Tony Fauci: “You Become A Dead End To The Virus.”

Rochelle Walensky: “Vaccinated People Do Not Carry The Virus — They Don’t Get Sick.”

Alberta Bourla: “[O]ur COVID-19 vaccine was 100% effective in preventing #COVID19 cases in South Africa. 100%!”

Bill Gates: “A key goal [of the vaccination program] is to stop transmission.”

Rachel Maddow: “Now we know that the virus stops with every vaccinated person.”

Francis Collins: “‘[R]eason to be pretty optimistic’ that the available COVID-19 vaccines will be effective against the new Omicron variant of the virus; All of the other variants that have emerged during this COVID-19 pandemic have shown response to the vaccine, including Delta

Brian Stelter: “The newspaper [USA Today] describes ‘America’s fourth Covid-19 surge,’ noting this ‘didn’t have to happen,’ since vaccinations are so widely available. The headlines are followed by a call to action: ‘Let’s end it now.’”

9, Honorable Mention, any of your obnoxious friends or family members: “You’re an anti-vaxxer. The vaccines are safe. They work. I’m doing my part. I’m better than you. You’re unsafe to be around. Just do your part. You’re selfish. Trust the science. Do you know more science than Fauci? Trump wahhhhhhhh!”

So that didn’t age well.

And before anyone says the science changed, just ask yourself: Do you really believe that? This entire vaccine debacle is the result of intentional lies and propaganda.

If the medical and political entities had been honest from the beginning about supplements, preventative lifestyle changes related to diet and exercise, alternative treatments, and, indeed, optimism over a new delivery system for the purpose of inoculation, then so be it. If they had treated us like adults – free citizens, not subjugated peasants – then it seems unlikely we’d be at this crossroad. Instead, they have lied with gusto and mandated we take the vaccine upon threat of lost livelihoods. It is criminal what they have been and are still doing.

And they lied this whole time.

Huge congregation of people, trucks, placards, and flags. Interestingly, in the U.S we have the 'Let's go Brandon" signs/F*ck Joe Biden, Canada has adopted a similar slogan - F*uck Trudeau. How either of these two fools got elected can only mean election fraud is prevalent in the entire North American Continent. Go Truckers!

It's total allure was it's vast collection. I've never not found what I wanted to hear, even down to obscure local bands.

Don't know who is going to win this one. Rogan is the biggest player by far.

 Joni Mitchell Joins Neil Young in Taking Her Music Off of Spotify Due to COVID-19 Misinformation: 'Solidarity' (msn.com)

The critics were right: "Critical race theory" panic is just a cover for silencing educators | Salon.com

Quote:When Republicans across the nation started storming school board meetings, in full-blown hysterics about something called "critical race theory," the initial reaction of the non-Fox News-watcher was confusion. Very few even know what critical race theory is. It is not being taught to the vast majority of public school children, as it's a high level academic theory used by legal scholars and sociologists, not 8th graders. But soon it became clear that "critical race theory" was being invoked as a scare term, exploiting this multisyllabic academic jargon as cover for what was, in actuality, an effort to censor any curricula or educational materials that taught kids unpleasant truths about the history of fascism, the struggle for civil rights, or the existence of LGBTQ people.

Bill to regulate explicit books in school libraries killed (msn.com)

Quote:“I don’t think we should be involved in micromanaging school libraries.” Petersen said. “The problem is that you’re going to sweep up books that you don’t intend to sweep up.”

Petersen cited books like “The Kite Runner,” which has sexually explicit passages but is generally recognized as a classic work of literature.