Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Cuckoo Award

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Cuckoo Award

Today the award goes to the right-wing conspiracy theorists who believe that Taylor Swift works for the CIA!

One in five Americans believe Taylor Swift is part of plot to help Joe Biden win election, poll finds
Pink News
By Maggie Baska
February 15, 2024

Just under one in five Americans believe a conspiracy theory that Taylor Swift is part of a covert effort to keep Joe Biden in the White House, according to a university poll.

The right-wing conspiracy theory machine has been in full throttle questioning if Swift is a Pentagon plant whose rise to fame, increasing popularity and even her relationship with NFL star Travis Kelce was designed to give the singer a platform to influence elections in favour of Democrats or Biden.

While the claims are absurd and baseless, a poll from Monmouth University found that a chunk of Americans, particularly Republicans, believe in the purported Swift-Biden plot.

Cuckoo, cuckoo… the far right is right off the edge!

Nearly three-quarters (71 per cent) of those who believe this identify as part of or learn towards voting Republican, and 83 per cent indicated they’re likely to support Donald Trump in the November election.

Also, 73 per cent of those who believed the Swift conspiracy theory holds water also believed the 2020 election outcome was fraudulent.

That really explains a lot about the Republican party they are mainly a bunch of loonies that are following the chief loony.

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Quotes

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Cuckoo Award

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