MOOving Right Along
Okay, so I'm trying to be positive, optimistic, all that stuff. I've cleaned up my FB account so that I'm still Friends with but no longer Follow any individual whose posts are primarily political, no matter what side they are on. I've Unfollowed most of the news and all of the "news" sites. I'm still getting the more-than-occasional political post, but I've been doing okay with that.
Until yesterday morning.
Not one, not two, but three people of my acquaintance posted links to an article where the author purportedly was condemning people who bash Donald Trump's young son, Barron. The snip from the article that appeared on FB said that it just wasn't right to go after a politician's child. No one I know is doing this, but I thought I'd click through, read the article, and perhaps share it. You know, kind of Just In Case.
Clicking led to the article, a passionate plea to not pick on, not make fun of, this young boy. The article was even written well.
But the author apparently had a hidden agenda, some kind of alternative facts if you will, because at the end of the article were photographs of the very nasty, unkind and inflammatory tweets about Barron that she had just finished condemning in her pious, righteous article! I felt angry. I felt duped. I felt like a COW* who was about to let out a Major Moo.
Author, listen up! What you did is NOT what she meant by "When they go low, we go high." Not a bit.
*Cranky Old Woman
Until yesterday morning.
Not one, not two, but three people of my acquaintance posted links to an article where the author purportedly was condemning people who bash Donald Trump's young son, Barron. The snip from the article that appeared on FB said that it just wasn't right to go after a politician's child. No one I know is doing this, but I thought I'd click through, read the article, and perhaps share it. You know, kind of Just In Case.
Clicking led to the article, a passionate plea to not pick on, not make fun of, this young boy. The article was even written well.
But the author apparently had a hidden agenda, some kind of alternative facts if you will, because at the end of the article were photographs of the very nasty, unkind and inflammatory tweets about Barron that she had just finished condemning in her pious, righteous article! I felt angry. I felt duped. I felt like a COW* who was about to let out a Major Moo.
Author, listen up! What you did is NOT what she meant by "When they go low, we go high." Not a bit.
*Cranky Old Woman
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Here is something inspiring from 8 years ago:
http://angalmond.blogspot.com/2017/01/eight-years-ago.html
Big hugs!
So, this was the good thing yesterday. My husband has been depressed ever since the election. Like he took showers and changed clothes but refused to get a haircut. Don't ask me why. Now he is 70 so you can imagine what a white haired old man who also sports a split beard down to his chest must look like if he hasn't had a hair cut in 3 months. When he ran into a lady he worked with before he retired, she didn't recognize him. I imagine she is going around telling people she ran into him and how scrufty he looked. Anyway, the hair was cut yesterday and he says he came out of his fog. Thank God!
I've left that political stuff behind too. I was in Chicago for the cancelled...not cancelled march. I will continue, as I always have for the last 40 years, to work for the local politician's campaigns in the future. Hopefully I will see new faces in the future.
xx, Carol
xx, Carol