Coop Scoop: Democracy Does Not Die in Darkness. It Dies In Plain Daylight
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Oct 24, 2024
By Marc Cooper
This is going to be short as I have had an exhausting but good day and now near midnite Wednesday I am too pooped to pop off much.
First off, thank you to the approx 150 people who joined us today as I invited them to follow me here instead of FB. I will still use FB but much less. Newbies, read the bottom graphs about subscriptions.
SO!!!!! I am alerting all Coop Scoopers that I will now be using this newsletter not just for the usual long pieces but also for small and medium hot takes that I have been putting up on Facebook and they will be nearly daily. Or even more at least for the moment. It's possible but in no way guaranteed some of the content here will be cross-posted to my fb page,
That FB site has become unbearable. The Artificially Artificial Intelligence is making giant errors in taking down legit posts, and Mr. Zuckerberg’s algo does every thing it can to keep u locked up in his walled garden by barely distributing any post with outside links….like substack!
I am going to try and write 5-7 times a week now on this newsletter at least until the election is confirmed and that could mean weeks away. Or months? I am expecting Harris to win and Trump and MAGA to go bonkers, and violent and disrupt certification by all means available.
Thursday night I will write a much meatier piece for Fri morn that will focus on why it is not an exaggeration to call Trump and MAGA as fascist. And that’s being nice!
I had a big confrontation today with the idiot robots who took down a long piece I wrote about the LATimes refusing to endorse anybody for president….After a long battle it is now pinned to the top of my FB page unless until sometime Thursday after which it will slide down a few posts down my timeline.
I am still tinkering with a Bluesky account and a Tik Tok acct ( yes I will do video rants like I did in text on fb). On both sites plse join up… and while there is yet barely any content on those accts of mine, they are gonna to start getting fattened up real quick. I mean real quick. Both accts can be found by searching those platforms for The Coop Scoop —— easy enough.
That’s it for now, as I am beat. Today was take care of bills, doctors and insurance companies for hours on end day capped up by trying to argue with Stone Cold Facebook Robots. A disheartening adventure. And We’ll see if it gets pulled down again!
You will start hearing again from me real soon on this site via ur email inbox. So keep an eye on ur email. I will prob send each new post twice a day several hours apart as a lot of people open their email clients a different times and do not look back far enough in their own inbox feed to see everything. I know it can be annoying but it is imperative given this platform mode.
Now I am seriously asking for whatever support u can offer because this endeavor is going to eat up a whole more lot of time. Thanks to all who have been loyal readers and subscriber/donors. None of this is possible without you. MY SINCERE THANKS AND I AM FLATTERED THAT THAT YOU ARE TRUSTING ME FOR INFORMATION AND A TOUCH OF INSIGHT ++
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