Posted on 06/21/2016 6:06:21 AM PDT by rktman
People Magazine is doing its bit for our republic, and a thankless task it must be. Imagine trying to get People readers to telephone their senators or representatives, as Editorial Director Jess Cagle urges in the June 27 issue, to make sure they “know how you feel about their approach our nation’s epidemic of gun violence.”
It can't be easy to coax civic engagement from people who willingly consume articles about Miley Cyrus's latest beach vacation or The Gillmore Girls reunion. So People gets a star for trying.
People helpfully published the numbers of all 535 national legislators after its mawkish coverage of the Orlando shooting and the unrelated murder of a reality show singer. But there’s that article on how Kim Kardashian got her body back! And that look inside Joan Rivers’ private world. And some guy telling ladies how to get “effortless waves” in their hair.
OK, time to call my senator about gun control … right after I read Star Designer Nate Berkus’ Summer party Tips (“Have all your linens pressed and ready to roll way before the day of.”)
It’s the second time People has issued its gun-control Call to Action. It’s hard to believe last year’s Call could have failed to move Congress. Unless maybe that was in the issue that detailed Sophia Vergara’s hot date, or how Katie Perry learned to love again.
People really needs to up its game if it wants to catch up to Cosmo in the chick-mag anti-gun race. Last February, Cosmopolitan warned readers about dating “gunsplainers.” It turns out that Cosmo had partnered with gun-grabbing group Everytown (Cosmo Editor-in-Chief Joanna Coles is besties with Everytown founder Mike “The Soda Scourge” Bloomberg.)
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I’m just waiting for “Glamour” to weigh in before I act.
In a real world, they’d publish lists of terrorists.
“In a real world, they’d publish lists of terrorists.”
You hit it. They live in a fantasyland, with almost no referent to physical reality. Sad, really.
Chicago has tough gun laws. I don’t think anyone would doubt that. Yet there were nearly 3,000 shooting victims last year, and the city is on a pace to easily exceed that number in 2016. Legislation is not stopping the carnage.
The violence could be reduced but the political will just isn’t there.
Our culture is as toxic as the Weimar Republic in 1919, and children raised in such an evil environment will be totally corrupted. They embed even the crap, and the attitudes/beliefs of the “popular” drugged-out, warped zombies, even if parents try to minimize it. Schools force ignorance and virtue destruction and hyper sexualize them so they are susceptible to crap (literally sodomy and perversions, like in the irrational toxic islam environment of hate for women (Natural Family)).
The Amish knew what they were doing. Those magazines-—all of them— and ALL of MSM are a waste of time and will rot the brain if read and even seen by children..
In my youth in the 70’s I used to read Cosmo for the advice to women, and for bare breasted pics of perfect Cosmo girls. I mean, like Playboy in the early 60’s.
Strangely, Cosmo then was literature compared to now. Excerpted novels by the world’s great authors along with some Harlequin bodice rippers.
Nowadays nothing but raunch & ads in Cosmo. Worthless.
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