Jessica—Bravo Girl! Your attention to the NPR fact checking article (on Trump’s 162 lies at his “snooze” conference last week) and your call to Thank NPR, prompted me to send this to them today:
Thank you ! Thank you! NPR. This kind of fact checking in near real time is so rare, I just had to express my deep appreciation to you for doing it. As Mae West always said: “Too much of a good thing is simply marvelous.!” Sadly, there has been too little fact checking for 9 long years! Please continue this important public service. —Marta Daniels, Chester, CT
I also wrote to NPR, thanking them for the thorough fact-check, and part of what I said was that Trump's lies are like hand grenades - you can't just let them lie there, you have to immediately pick them up and throw them back at him.
Trump's method of persuasion by repetition, sadly, has a certain amount of effectiveness because it is a psychological trait of humans that it is difficult to distinguish repetition from truth (book to read, Thinking Fast and Slow, by psychologist Daniel Kahneman, which won the Nobel Prize in Economics).
Therefore, if a lie is not challenged immediately and consistently, a certain percentage of people will come to believe it, no matter how ludicrously obvious it may be that it isn't true. Case in point - the obviously and endlessly debunked claim by Trump that he won the 2020 election. It is even worse than that, however, since once a person comes to believe a number of things that any given person says (cult leader, con-man, etc.), they lend credence to that person, and it becomes easier and easier to convince them of ever more ridiculous lies, since all skepticism is abandoned.
The percentage of the U.S. population who still believe that Democrats are a cabal of Satan-worshippers is still amazingly high. A 2/24/2022 article in the Guardian pegged it at 17%. Why be surprised? 13% believe that Sasquatch is a living, breathing creature.
We want people to believe things are are actually true and good, such as that strong unions help all workers, that no child should go hungry, that everyone should have access to decent medical care, regardless of ability to pay, and that a state bureaucrat or a Supreme Court judge should not be the one to decide if a woman's pregnancy is medically harmful and dangerous to her physical or mental health - that is for the woman and her doctor to decide.
I started to read thst Trump fsct check and then realized it was a waste of time. I am glad it exists, but every single word out of Trumps mouth is a lie because he is a delusional piece of shit. I already know this, so the article is pointless for me, but I hope it gives people some additional ammo when trying to get their friends and family to see reason.
Thanks for the recommendation to write to NPR on their wonderful fact, checking. Done! Also, my friends and I just finished riding 100 postcards to Pennsylvania democrats, urging them to apply for the mail in ballot. Blue Wave Postcards is great! We will definitely be doing more postcard writings through Bluewave in the future.
Quick question: Jess, did you recently write a list of Dem/progressive postcarding resources? It included BlueWave Postcard Movement and Field Team 6 but several others as well. If so, how could I find that?
PS I am expecting 800 BlueWave postcards this Thursday to send to Nebraska. Pens up! Postage on!
Jess, We met at the National Postcard Palooza in VA a few weeks (months?) ago! QUICK QUESTION! Did you recently have a post regarding various postcarding sources? I thought I had saved it, but cannot find it! It mentioned Field Team 6, BWP and many others and their attributes/specialties. If so, how do I find it? Need to send to a new postcarding friend in California. My own 800 BlueWave Postcards for Nebraska voter registrataion arrive on Thursday afternoon. Pens up! Postage on! Thanks for letting me know! Or if I am mistaken! Appreciate ALL you do!
My Blue Wave postcards for NE are on their way! Regarding Georgia, if anyone knows how to deal with voter suppression BS, it's the Democrats of Georgia. They shouldn't have to deal with it, but Stacey Abrams and Co are experts at it.
When people talk about the different points of Project 2025, please give page numbers so it can be checked out by those of us who are reading & trying to understand the double speak. I was looking for their definition of terms that they use, like how do they define "woke" what is the pornography they are going to persecute librarians & teachers for?
Jessica—Bravo Girl! Your attention to the NPR fact checking article (on Trump’s 162 lies at his “snooze” conference last week) and your call to Thank NPR, prompted me to send this to them today:
Thank you ! Thank you! NPR. This kind of fact checking in near real time is so rare, I just had to express my deep appreciation to you for doing it. As Mae West always said: “Too much of a good thing is simply marvelous.!” Sadly, there has been too little fact checking for 9 long years! Please continue this important public service. —Marta Daniels, Chester, CT
That's way better than mine!
Thank you, Jess! My Rep. is already a co-sponsor https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8830/cosponsors so I called to thank him. And Yay for NPR!
Excellent!
I also wrote to NPR, thanking them for the thorough fact-check, and part of what I said was that Trump's lies are like hand grenades - you can't just let them lie there, you have to immediately pick them up and throw them back at him.
Trump's method of persuasion by repetition, sadly, has a certain amount of effectiveness because it is a psychological trait of humans that it is difficult to distinguish repetition from truth (book to read, Thinking Fast and Slow, by psychologist Daniel Kahneman, which won the Nobel Prize in Economics).
Therefore, if a lie is not challenged immediately and consistently, a certain percentage of people will come to believe it, no matter how ludicrously obvious it may be that it isn't true. Case in point - the obviously and endlessly debunked claim by Trump that he won the 2020 election. It is even worse than that, however, since once a person comes to believe a number of things that any given person says (cult leader, con-man, etc.), they lend credence to that person, and it becomes easier and easier to convince them of ever more ridiculous lies, since all skepticism is abandoned.
The percentage of the U.S. population who still believe that Democrats are a cabal of Satan-worshippers is still amazingly high. A 2/24/2022 article in the Guardian pegged it at 17%. Why be surprised? 13% believe that Sasquatch is a living, breathing creature.
We want people to believe things are are actually true and good, such as that strong unions help all workers, that no child should go hungry, that everyone should have access to decent medical care, regardless of ability to pay, and that a state bureaucrat or a Supreme Court judge should not be the one to decide if a woman's pregnancy is medically harmful and dangerous to her physical or mental health - that is for the woman and her doctor to decide.
So, we have to REPEAT IT OVER AND OVER!
Jessica - cat tool link doesn't seem to work. :-(
Weird. Try this? https://app.sosha.ai/toolkit/70d44902-cafa-4459-9df5-6da17ea6f54b?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&filters=eyJsYWJlbHMiOltdLCJzb2NpYWxOZXR3b3JrcyI6WyJ0d2l0dGVyIiwiZmFjZWJvb2siLCJsaW5rZWRpbiIsInRocmVhZHMiLCJpbnN0YWdyYW0iLCJ3aGF0c2FwcCIsInRpa3RvayJdLCJzdGF0dXMiOltdLCJtZWRpYVR5cGVzIjpbXSwidGV4dCI6W119
Would love to see it. This doesn't open either.
Indeed, trump is losing the marbles. Even the little kids are calling him on it:
https://youtu.be/E2d7d0MnDpM
Gotta keep pushin’. Tnx. Tnx.
I started to read thst Trump fsct check and then realized it was a waste of time. I am glad it exists, but every single word out of Trumps mouth is a lie because he is a delusional piece of shit. I already know this, so the article is pointless for me, but I hope it gives people some additional ammo when trying to get their friends and family to see reason.
I didn't read it either. It's the fact that they did it, when most news orgs just give him a pass over and over again.
I just received the 200 postcards for Nebraska that I ordered recently. Will be writing them this week.
Thanks for the recommendation to write to NPR on their wonderful fact, checking. Done! Also, my friends and I just finished riding 100 postcards to Pennsylvania democrats, urging them to apply for the mail in ballot. Blue Wave Postcards is great! We will definitely be doing more postcard writings through Bluewave in the future.
Thanks for making it so easy to thank NPR. I did have to go back to your article to find the link - it was right there!! Good job!!
PS Going now to post that bone-chilling ad on GOP un-health care. 💕🎶💕
Quick question: Jess, did you recently write a list of Dem/progressive postcarding resources? It included BlueWave Postcard Movement and Field Team 6 but several others as well. If so, how could I find that?
PS I am expecting 800 BlueWave postcards this Thursday to send to Nebraska. Pens up! Postage on!
Jess, We met at the National Postcard Palooza in VA a few weeks (months?) ago! QUICK QUESTION! Did you recently have a post regarding various postcarding sources? I thought I had saved it, but cannot find it! It mentioned Field Team 6, BWP and many others and their attributes/specialties. If so, how do I find it? Need to send to a new postcarding friend in California. My own 800 BlueWave Postcards for Nebraska voter registrataion arrive on Thursday afternoon. Pens up! Postage on! Thanks for letting me know! Or if I am mistaken! Appreciate ALL you do!
It's pinned at the top of every newsletter!
My Blue Wave postcards for NE are on their way! Regarding Georgia, if anyone knows how to deal with voter suppression BS, it's the Democrats of Georgia. They shouldn't have to deal with it, but Stacey Abrams and Co are experts at it.
When people talk about the different points of Project 2025, please give page numbers so it can be checked out by those of us who are reading & trying to understand the double speak. I was looking for their definition of terms that they use, like how do they define "woke" what is the pornography they are going to persecute librarians & teachers for?
I'll do my best.