Eliot Higgins. One of the great finds on Blue Sky: Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat. Tonal Whiplash Zone.
"Disordered discourse." Of course. It's a cultural/political schizophrenia. It is so disturbing for folks on the other side of the MAGA ideological chasm. A paradigm shift. We went from benevolent, honest, sleepy Joe, the caretaker of America and Democracy around the world, to a Gangsta/Authoritarian/Creep/Made in America Oligarchy intent on demolishing everything we hold dear in our Democracy.
It seemed to happen in a blink of an eye. And we sort of slept-walked into it. And now, all of our institutions are being corrupted. It's like a sickness, a virus, a plague, a madness seeping into every nook and cranny of our country.
And you can't argue or reason with the disordered mind or the party of disordered minds. Point out that they are wrong on the facts, and on the wrong side of reality, and history, and they will deny the facts and the reality and try to rewrite the history. They will double and triple down on the lies.
That is where we are at the moment. Some of us live and die with every new development, every little outrage, act of corruption and madness. Some of us are ignoring it all, hoping it all works out. The disordered minds and the disordered discourse is wreaking havoc here and abroad. Fuck. Yikes. It's sickness. No doubt. Clearer heads are spinning. WTF?!?
