The right is wrong. The left is right.
That is all. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
The Sunday Not-So Funnies
I expect that this Sunday nearly every “news” program will ignore the fascist coup in America and instead host radical, misinformed, shit-stirring Republicans who will manufacture a narrative that permits them to blame Kirk’s death on Democrats and further motivate their base to violence. Ignoring solid evidence to the contrary, they’ll blow out of all proportion the very few political and mass killings committed by their favorite targets of hate, while ignoring or downplaying the fact that the shooters have been primarily young, white, males, radicalized by hate mongers like Kirk.
If one killing is unacceptable but multiple killings are ignored, you aren’t mourning the victim of that one killing.
You’re upset at an attack on your ideology. The victim isn’t really important.
“The death of one is a tragedy, the death of many is a statistic”. Kurt Tucholsky
With apologies to Woody Guthrie, the new anthem of the right: 🎼This land ain’t your land, this land is our land, from the Redwood forests to the Gulf of America…this land was made for white folk only.🎶
Android has phones, watches, and tablets. Apple has phones, watches, and tablets. Microsoft has no phone, no watch, no branded tablets.
Microsoft has never gotten the concept of an ecosystem right.
But they do have the largest user base despite that.
Go figure.
I once thought Supreme justices were pretty smart, but no longer.
They’re fools if they think Trump will limit his pogram to brown people. He’s already shown a propensity to use the power of the government to get revenge on his perceived enemies.
I’d like to endorse letting the government run out of money. Why would we want to fund an anti-American, fascist regime?
But I wonder if Trump wouldn’t use that as an opportunity to ignore the national budget and commit funds to any self-serving purpose he wants.
Trump erred by pushing fascism too fast.
To use that idiotic ”frog in boiling water” metaphor, he didn’t gradually turn up the heat, he cranked it to high immediately. By rushing he couldn’t gauge the level of outrage and resistance among the majority of us.
You’ll regret that, Donnie.
The privileged few of YouTube
I like watching tech and woodworking videos on YouTube. But I’m beginning to harbor a bit of resentment watching these folks spend so much money on computers and tools while others can’t afford food or housing. We rant about the oligarchs but fail to notice that many people on YT are oligarchs, too.
Our best chance to weather any storm that comes our way is to cultivate a healthy sense of humor.
When you can laugh at life’s disasters, and yourself, you can take all those slings and arrows and survive.
Nation States, not the United States.
As blue states organize to preserve our Constitutional Republic they are applying the concept of states rights. An extreme application of states rights may destroy the “United” states but it will provide havens of freedom and safety from the fascist states. We’ll resemble Europe with nation states.
Americans, thanks to our Idiot in Chief, will be seen now as uneducated, violent, and anti-freedom.
Of course no decent country on Earth will deal with us or even accept us as tourists. Many in Europe had a bad opinion of Americans before. That’s been increased by a factor of 100.
Nothing but lies
Court nominees lie to Congress, all the members of this regime lie to Congress, even the president lies to Congress, and Congress does nothing about it except hold hearings, which at this point are as worthless as “thoughts and prayers”. Congress has been neutered. All we get is political theater. www.msn.com/en-us/pol…
Why am I, at my age, still a radical progressive socialist?
“Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.” – Christopher Hitchens
America has never been a paradise for minorities, but now that it’s becoming shitty for the majority, suddenly, and finally, the panic sets in.
America was founded as a white nationalist nation.
The Fugitive Slave Act, a Marshall service to enforce it, citizens guilty of a crime if they hide slaves or refused to aid in their capture, the Underground Railroad resistance; how many parallels do we need to admit history is repeating itself?
The joys of aging
Getting old isn’t for the faint of heart. I managed to reach 71 with only having to deal with COPD. But between now and the end of the year I’ll have a replacement hip and find out if I have lung and/or prostate cancer. It wouldn’t surprise me. Considering all the abuse I inflicted on my body over the years, I’m genuinely amazed to only have to deal with a potential cancer diagnosis after 7 decades.
Diversity
By going to unnecessary extremes in addressing immigration this regime is undermining the thing that made America stronger than other nations, our diversity. A monoculture is weak, a single disease like fascism can spread quickly. But in a pluralistic society the mixing of cultures makes the whole society stronger and more resistant to diseases like fascism and racism.
A weapon of ICE destruction.
I will be seriously disappointed if every protester from now on isn’t armed with a Hogie.