tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2934339526553990562024-03-18T10:03:58.281-05:00Disaffected and it Feels So GoodIt may be typical of the pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons crowd to disparage a fellow countryman's memory of war from the comfort of mom's basement.Grung_e_Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.comBlogger1632125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-65780735355703578932024-03-18T07:00:00.002-05:002024-03-18T07:00:18.326-05:00Elon Musk and Stonetoss Two Nazis One Twitter (Hans Kristian Graebener)<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO4QV9T_adSohO0A6xqXwkIFHDyj-DDIUjYvj4oAr8AzHxQHWdbEnUrRzgNo3Zc7sBmVCPhsgHV9TYqgY45AmQzdS1mARXRbYwE1AECQW28l5A7xIvi_nsRttwMGTnt0e8h5bQC7MC2DQlIuzvUDYGnK-B9RpY6YqG6q1s84QPyotUFd9jGPZr325I3kMm/s515/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-17%20at%202.45.57%20PM.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="410" data-original-width="515" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO4QV9T_adSohO0A6xqXwkIFHDyj-DDIUjYvj4oAr8AzHxQHWdbEnUrRzgNo3Zc7sBmVCPhsgHV9TYqgY45AmQzdS1mARXRbYwE1AECQW28l5A7xIvi_nsRttwMGTnt0e8h5bQC7MC2DQlIuzvUDYGnK-B9RpY6YqG6q1s84QPyotUFd9jGPZr325I3kMm/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-17%20at%202.45.57%20PM.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The “It” in question is the N Word…</td></tr></tbody></table> So, it turns out well-known Nazi cartoonist Stonetoss is named Hans Kristian Graebener of Spring, Texas.<p></p><p>But, you can't write this on Twitter (X) or even reference Hans Kristian Graebener because Elon Musk defends his fellow Fascists with suspensions and permanent bans on "his" platform. <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.bsky.social/post/3knr77ifjqc2n">Here's a Blusky thread from "Alejandra Calaballo".</a></p><p>And this is a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/antifastonetoss/comments/fcck5a/the_definitive_guide_to_why_stonetoss_is_a_nazi/">4 year old Reddit thread which provides a list of evidence</a> of Hans K. Graebener's Neo-Nazi ideology.</p><p>Anyone who claimed Musk was a champion of Free Speech or wanted to make Twitter into a bastion of the exchange of ideas was willfully deluding themselves or a paid bad actor like Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss.</p><p>Elon Musk is the child of apartheid and far from distancing himself from that evil ideology of his childhood he's self-radicalized and embraced the Naked Singularity of Pure Nazism.</p><p>For a while the Left (broadly) was relying on Corporations to take measures to tamp down rightwing calls for violence, murder, and terrorism. This is always a fool's gambit. Corporations are people, my friend, but people who have a distinct taste for Fascism. And the progressive social democracy favored by a large number of Americans is unpalatable to Corporations who see regulations and restrictions on their ability to make profit as an uncrossable line. </p><div>Musk's self-own in purchasing Twitter has paid off with him being able to weaponize it and make it a platform for White Supremacists.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigvrvsP9dY5l7HbmxSKn671paCOfCmGGT1Z4AYiN7ATqCNtIQfXrjogxLUR4BPhnbs8fpGtU27wH5cooaW6SmM0xX71otzYOoRYc3jOPqxQXydnh7UUV8XTbV3rcVx4XHgpGQ0hoVxegyhEVWIfidJ2HwcbhSXUMQd700aXPaStD2mmk1_U-R__557N08d/s416/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-17%20at%203.02.11%20PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="409" data-original-width="416" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigvrvsP9dY5l7HbmxSKn671paCOfCmGGT1Z4AYiN7ATqCNtIQfXrjogxLUR4BPhnbs8fpGtU27wH5cooaW6SmM0xX71otzYOoRYc3jOPqxQXydnh7UUV8XTbV3rcVx4XHgpGQ0hoVxegyhEVWIfidJ2HwcbhSXUMQd700aXPaStD2mmk1_U-R__557N08d/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-17%20at%203.02.11%20PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div>So, just like epic dumbass Chaya Raichik (Libs of Tik Tok), Hans Kristian Graebener (Stone Toss) wanted on-line anonymity to produce wildly racist, anti-semitic, and violent fascist content. So, the revelation of his real name Hans Kristian Graebener of Spring, Texas) has been met with the standard disingenuous rightwing outrage of <i>Doxxing!!!</i> </div><div><br /></div><div>The problem for on-line Nazis has always been as their voice and presence increased on any venue or platform, Normies, Liberals, and Antifa abandon those platforms. Thus, Nazis only have themselves to talk too. Or Bots. By taking over Twitter Musk ensured Nazis would be able to plague Normies, Liberals, and Antifa without fear of reprisal and with the backing of the Platform's Owner. </div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicFyVoc2GsmJjoUzKupaSvQPm_wJRTIiXnTlBe5P8LX6B7Ypf1gNBaAK6skFUkfZ_zNk_dYO90Ff62MPBOata0jrryArbKn7Jp5cm6qgmscki8JFy27qiXlkmaPyRAYUahYHmpb7npBJ1cEfIR9ATuqmdrtQwTzOVp3H2ZKRA0qaf_XGuDB1rAHpzhb12I/s587/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-17%20at%207.09.59%20PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="472" data-original-width="587" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicFyVoc2GsmJjoUzKupaSvQPm_wJRTIiXnTlBe5P8LX6B7Ypf1gNBaAK6skFUkfZ_zNk_dYO90Ff62MPBOata0jrryArbKn7Jp5cm6qgmscki8JFy27qiXlkmaPyRAYUahYHmpb7npBJ1cEfIR9ATuqmdrtQwTzOVp3H2ZKRA0qaf_XGuDB1rAHpzhb12I/w200-h161/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-17%20at%207.09.59%20PM.png" width="200" /></a></div>On the one hand, Nazis being afraid to show themselves for fear of reprisal is a good sign for a society but, Republicans have fully embraced the threat of political violence and it's actual usage as a tool to win political power.<p></p><p>Meanwhile, while in the midst of permabaning anyone on Twitter (X) who mentions Hans Kristian Graebener Musk has taken to being a Heckler gainsaying random people about Trump's "Bloodbath" threats to the Nation.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhotvj6XLlAV9nxpU2QmVBfxbAFDbo7-QB9p4DeWyDQdkXjQeASId6hjCcxeYWPfEoQs2M0WSWgj_zUeXYWbCFitdsouP4rzdRIv4lT9gMavQerOhc1fg1wcIfrs6ZbUqt_YXgBayOe7-On_SLrf0i17x_rD6TECnli9JpBXm7XHgKFEteU3nTEAdX9vdGY/s578/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-17%20at%207.10.30%20PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="578" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhotvj6XLlAV9nxpU2QmVBfxbAFDbo7-QB9p4DeWyDQdkXjQeASId6hjCcxeYWPfEoQs2M0WSWgj_zUeXYWbCFitdsouP4rzdRIv4lT9gMavQerOhc1fg1wcIfrs6ZbUqt_YXgBayOe7-On_SLrf0i17x_rD6TECnli9JpBXm7XHgKFEteU3nTEAdX9vdGY/w200-h156/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-17%20at%207.10.30%20PM.png" width="200" /></a></div><p>I've said before but you've got to understand the <b>X</b> Elon Musk loves is a thinly veiled stand-in for the Nazi Swastika. Musk hasn't become more fascist as he's grown richer he's just getting more and more brazen about expressing it.</p><p>I’ll <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/03/18/1238122337/supreme-court-social-media-disinformation-first-amendment">note the Supreme Court is hearing</a> a 1st Amendment case today testing whether people have the unfettered right to spread lies, misinformation and foreign propaganda across any and all social media platforms. It’s unsurprising the people and states who brought the case are Reactionary fascists wishing to spread Covid & Vaccine lies, and traffic in Hunter Biden laptop bullshit. Nazis always seek to use liberal Nations openness against them to bring down that Nation. </p><p>Republicans hate America and see their opportunities to replace Us with a Fascist Theocracy built upon White Power and right wing hatred, intolerance, and oppression.</p>Grung_e_Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-39084639311612335702024-03-17T08:33:00.017-05:002024-03-18T08:06:08.892-05:00The Staging Grounds IV: It's going to be a Bloodbath<p>“Andrew Jackson as president was treated the absolute worst and I heard Abraham Lincoln was second but he was in this thing called the Civil War, so you can understand that. But I said there’s no I don’t care Andrew Jackson or anybody else. Nobody is treat… when you think of the fake things. Nobody has been treated like Trump in terms of badly.” Delusional Paranoid Dementia Donald</p><p> <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeSington/status/1767279721774244167">During his glitchy incoherent rants</a>, demented fascist Trump has taken to making the most ludicrous declarations of his Presidency. Everything was the greatest of all time. Everything was the best it ever was. Everything was perfect. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/24/trump-black-voters-indicted-mug-shot/">He did the most for whatever group he's speaking too.</a> And everything immediately went to hell because you stole the Presidency from him. It's the final culmination of rightwing propaganda. It's the Ultimate expression of the Gish Gallop. But, it's not like the Corporate Media cares to fact check, correct, or call Trump what he actually is because the Legacy Media take their cues and stories from the rightwing media and frame everything through the lens of Republican bullshit.</p><p>The Corporate Media coverage of Trump has been shamelessly inadequate for years now and it won't get better anytime soon.</p><p>I can not imagine the media <b>BREAKING NEWS</b> shit storm if Vice President Kamala Harris declined to endorse the President the way Mike Pence declined to endorse Trump.</p><p>It would be a monumental story of unimaginable magnitude! Not only would signal the end of Joe Biden's career but it would be no less than a harbinger of the end of the Democratic Party. It would be lead News Story until such time as a new candidate for President managed to emerge, whom the Corporate Media would waste no time in declaring dead on arrival as they publish 'Oh well wait till next year' news stories and circulate <b>DEMOCRATS IN DISARRAY</b>, as the Media celebrates the coming Republican trifecta control of every single branch of the Federal Government. </p><p>And yet... <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/16/mike-pence-why-no-trump-endorsement/">Trump and Pence is not even a two-day blurb. </a> </p><p>No one is coming to save us. The media's job is to help Trump and that they will do it with every bit of chicanery, sagacious false concern, and amplification of Republican ratfucking necessary.</p><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/03/hur-report-biden-2024-election/677740/">It was noted that in the week following the Hur Hatchet Report</a>, the Washington Post and New York Times ran 70+ news stories on Joe Biden's Age, as every media outlet ran articles based on the one sentence Hur released. So-called savvy pundits were plotting a brokered convention and a swapping out of candidates.</p><p>The pampered and petulant Uncommitted "protest" votes gains outsized attentional at every opportunity.</p><p>RFK Jr is still receiving coverage despite the fact <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/rfk-jr-consultant-aaron-rodgers-vp-website-1234989038/">his prime choice for running mate, Aaron Rodgers,</a> is such a MAGA meatball he adheres to as many rightwing conspiracy theories as the number of times he's beaten the Chicago Bears. </p><p>Trump is all in on the <b>Fear & Anger</b> stimulus response. </p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj92igsg5paSZbHK2LeSZh2Pwj59BKfpe3yUFAco3SWa5qdPYRByXBux0g6-2rIsBDMbWMLNM0CUczXX-HY-MWbxDkuUGxkA1VU479NQiv36mpj3BnW5PNWP4gtOboWSXC-_cgCoWugyFXiJF6VQ8Z2i8u7U37n19uLJSRRs3-Xa9KerwJWkPfBxmIqxAXu/s720/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-17%20at%207.56.56%20AM.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="349" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj92igsg5paSZbHK2LeSZh2Pwj59BKfpe3yUFAco3SWa5qdPYRByXBux0g6-2rIsBDMbWMLNM0CUczXX-HY-MWbxDkuUGxkA1VU479NQiv36mpj3BnW5PNWP4gtOboWSXC-_cgCoWugyFXiJF6VQ8Z2i8u7U37n19uLJSRRs3-Xa9KerwJWkPfBxmIqxAXu/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-17%20at%207.56.56%20AM.png" width="155" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><blockquote><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: #2a2a2a; font-family: PublicoText, Georgia, "Publico Text", "Times New Roman", Times, Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Now if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole — that’s gonna be the least of it," he added. "It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country."</span></span></blockquote><p></p><p></p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-bloodbath-loses-election-2024-rcna143746">So, after Trump invoked the words "bloodbath" </a><div>the Corporate Media rushed to clean up Trump's fascist drivel as they always do. And Trump's team rushed to make sure the story wasn't "the Bloodbath" but, instead was understood in the proper context, <p></p><p></p><blockquote><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: #2a2a2a; font-family: PublicoText, Georgia, "Publico Text", "Times New Roman", Times, Baskerville; font-size: 18px;">“Biden’s policies will create an economic bloodbath for the auto industry and auto workers.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p>It's the old Karl Rove playbook of attacking your opponent's strength as a weakness. But, remember this tactic only works if the compliant Corporate Media uncritically plays along.</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: #2a2a2a; font-family: PublicoText, Georgia, "Publico Text", "Times New Roman", Times, Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“If you’re listening, President Xi — and you and I are friends — but he understands the way I deal." </span></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: #2a2a2a; font-family: PublicoText, Georgia, "Publico Text", "Times New Roman", Times, Baskerville; font-size: 18px;">- </span>as always Trump wants to have it both ways and the media lets him get away with it, he's great friends with President Xi even though he's super hard on Xi and kept China in their place with the Art of the Deal.</blockquote><p></p><p>Trump then claimed he'll protect Social Security and Medicare (a scant week after he admitted he'll cut "entitlements") and if he loses the election you're not going to get another one. IMAX doesn't have a screen big enough to capture the Projection.</p><p>You could claim "Bloodbath" is just a new variation of the American Carnage speech Trump has given before but, at this point there is no reason <i>anyone</i> should give Traitor Trump the benefit of the doubt about the intentions of the Republicans should they get back into the White House in 2025. Trump absolutely means violence.</p><p>When people say this election is the most important in our lifetimes, cynical pundits like to roll their eyes and dismiss peoples' concerns. But, those people know they won't be at risk or will even benefit from the Vile Republican 2025 Agenda. Ben S Shapiro, one day after proclaiming Americans should never be able to retire and should be worked to death, declared he crawl over broken glass to vote for Trump. </p><p>Trump told his crowd that immigrants aren't people,</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I don’t know if you call them people,” he said at a rally near Dayton, Ohio. “In some cases they’re not people, in my opinion. But I’m not allowed to say that because the radical left says that’s a terrible thing to say.”</span></span></blockquote><p></p><p>It's quite clear what Trump and his gaggle of bloodthirsty lieutenants want if he steals back into the White House. Most likely, they would come for migrants and Trans persons first. It's questionable whether the American people would allow that but, the thing with Fascist Pogroms is once they are started they gain a momentum all their own. </p><p>It's up to you to vote, to encourage others, to canvas, call or help out in every way conceivable. The Republican Party sees a singular opportunity coalescing in 2024; a chance to forcibly install a Fascist Fundamentalist Theocracy, eliminate millions, and gut American Democracy for generations.</p><p>No one is coming to save Us. No 14th Amendment trick will make Trump not the Republican candidate. No Judge wants to convict Trump prior to the Election. The Corporate Media will not accurately contextual the threat facing Us. It's up to us to save ourselves and our very lives because if this iteration of the Republican Party gets into Power they will be coming for them.</p><p><u>Additional:</u></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF0ZCyScAwvq3ntcmrKxWbQBAPCtnE71yu2YVXLUaNuRU9CWruMPTx6IQJP6xEpDhtJGTU74cd5jJ-yZkiOSAFa-jc_eAAaddkEpwF8XH5LMfi-xo76UEYFVRpJyVO_LzJ3AXODaTMexUZw0sOmIjnkvg2pXpnIXxYqKDBpqpu1tq4oG9PvSCOyWAoAXI2/s978/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-17%20at%2010.00.39%20AM.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="286" data-original-width="978" height="118" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF0ZCyScAwvq3ntcmrKxWbQBAPCtnE71yu2YVXLUaNuRU9CWruMPTx6IQJP6xEpDhtJGTU74cd5jJ-yZkiOSAFa-jc_eAAaddkEpwF8XH5LMfi-xo76UEYFVRpJyVO_LzJ3AXODaTMexUZw0sOmIjnkvg2pXpnIXxYqKDBpqpu1tq4oG9PvSCOyWAoAXI2/w400-h118/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-17%20at%2010.00.39%20AM.png" width="400" /></a></div>As if to make my point about Corporate Media obsequious deference and nefarious allegiance to Trump Queen Bigot and pampered rich white lady Kathleen Parker has a story out about <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/15/kamala-harris-quit-biden-2024/">how someone should drop out of this race for the sake of the Nation</a>; KAMALA HARRIS!<p></p><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>Grung_e_Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-11347633902945410222024-03-16T18:30:00.003-05:002024-03-16T20:44:45.941-05:00The Staging Grounds III: Rightwing violence emanating from Kansas and North Carolina and Tucker Carlson too<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC8q1U8lXQaPX4bZZLXl2tmYOg_QUMGF8W_9Yk2OqAmzZEmgleV-moY13R0ooq4a2wUPvDGwNg5lc3888KrODXhd0ooKuyv_QZG_8CeRf3cfqp4Pjz4QK__f2BNByS7VSVLwNm3DMEKw6mu6r_f3XL_CI-2EIPocK4oLyJJVnK5TeTdH64yDuUHTzQyTnl/s394/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-15%20at%208.43.53%20AM.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="353" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC8q1U8lXQaPX4bZZLXl2tmYOg_QUMGF8W_9Yk2OqAmzZEmgleV-moY13R0ooq4a2wUPvDGwNg5lc3888KrODXhd0ooKuyv_QZG_8CeRf3cfqp4Pjz4QK__f2BNByS7VSVLwNm3DMEKw6mu6r_f3XL_CI-2EIPocK4oLyJJVnK5TeTdH64yDuUHTzQyTnl/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-15%20at%208.43.53%20AM.png" width="287" /></a></div>Remember the OUTRAGE at Kathy Griffin for her bloody “decapitated” Trump Mask? The calls for her immediate arrest, the death threats towards her, the Secret Service investigation? The Cancel Culture???<p></p><p></p>Republican outrage, you see, is a one-way street.<div><br /></div><div>Republicans not only don't punish other Republicans for issuing death threats and engaging in political violence, Republicans reward each other.</div><div><br /></div><div>So, that leads to the case of Michele Morrow in North Carolina. There is nothing more Republican than running for an Office you don't believe in.</div><div><br /></div><div>Morrow home-schooled her children yet <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/14/politics/kfile-gop-nominee-north-carolina-public-schools-michele-morrow-executing-democrats/index.html">is running to be the Superintendent of the North Carolina school system</a>. This is the classic case of Republicans picking a Governmental institution they wish to dismantle and running to be in charge of it. Once in charge Republicans undermine, sabotage, and work to make Government not work. Then Republicans tell their brain-washed followers 'Government Doesn't Work' and run on that platform. It's a cycle of shit regurgitation. </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrAY4g_YsBkXg3EPfQx_UmO7xJJnUGF1w8xbjivptjwYZmWQsWOwIxi2vxaJHaE3zjJVCTbev_gfC6GstDbl_tePrOwh3u-GthBfbvGoH7MFAhNetEHWequEycOAjZFr7OxicmVOD56ZxR85F6O8bjzOKSG9-1c_O_HBJn8Fxldrac6fX946wcduWjdwW6/s614/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-16%20at%208.44.19%20AM.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="614" data-original-width="551" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrAY4g_YsBkXg3EPfQx_UmO7xJJnUGF1w8xbjivptjwYZmWQsWOwIxi2vxaJHaE3zjJVCTbev_gfC6GstDbl_tePrOwh3u-GthBfbvGoH7MFAhNetEHWequEycOAjZFr7OxicmVOD56ZxR85F6O8bjzOKSG9-1c_O_HBJn8Fxldrac6fX946wcduWjdwW6/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-16%20at%208.44.19%20AM.png" width="287" /></a></div>But, Michele "One L" Morrow running to destroy public schools in North Carolina fits with the long Republican tradition of hatred for public schools and the Department of Education because having such institutions undermines their brain-washing efforts.</div><div><p></p><p></p><p>Now, besides repeatedly calling for the execution of various Democratic office-holders <a href="https://www.facebook.com/100084880419232/videos/pcb.123233723849308/3410326922547681">Morrow descended with other Insurrectionists</a> on the Capitol on Jan6th. Once again we see the on-going and concerted effort to turn traitors into heroes and the ardent desire Republicans have to make Jan6th Independence Day 2.</p><div>Over in Kansas, last Friday, Republicans threw a $300-a-seat Premier fundraiser that <a href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-effigy-beaten-kansas-republicans-633fa13ad28b5a884b5698c81542576d">included the beating of a martial arts dummy with a Biden mask and <i>Let's Go Brandon</i> t-shirt.</a></div><div><br /></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfEk17EWNFjXYIcY7nErwqgMGCzMb9KSbcyTr0Z116Cy084snm6Ix6QU17zpXxWROdZdp87iAA-Enkwnf57zdGe5eIKonvK1FOF5dBml_K-FMJnB3uvX3_AmJCuBed7xdMiHNnS12OsFigUYGvwvshQFzDXXjtqQYohNv2cf1AqaEu2R8RTjfMjCsD2lFq/s1875/IMG_0448.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1875" data-original-width="1179" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfEk17EWNFjXYIcY7nErwqgMGCzMb9KSbcyTr0Z116Cy084snm6Ix6QU17zpXxWROdZdp87iAA-Enkwnf57zdGe5eIKonvK1FOF5dBml_K-FMJnB3uvX3_AmJCuBed7xdMiHNnS12OsFigUYGvwvshQFzDXXjtqQYohNv2cf1AqaEu2R8RTjfMjCsD2lFq/w251-h400/IMG_0448.jpeg" width="251" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No you are Republicans<br />You Are This</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div>I am utterly unsurprised that Chickenhawk coward, child-raping, domestic terrorist Ted Nugent was one of the other attractions at this event. His entire aging rock star milieu is threatening to murder Democratic candidates and President. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Since, videos of the violent event circulated, Republicans have backtracked and acted like this isn't what their party represents. Of course, political violence is <i>exactly </i>what the Republican Party represents and encourages.</div><div><br /></div><div>From Sarah Palin encouraging people to take aim and shot Democratic Congressmembers, to the Malheur bird sanctuary insurrection, to Charlottesville, to Jan 6th itself; the Republican Party is invested in using violence to wrest political power.</div><div><br /></div>Morrow and each and every one of those traitors who invaded the Capitol, broke through and ran around looking for Nancy Pelosi, AOC, and Mike Pence should have been gunned down on the steps. We should have seen 2000 body bags, but instead after Traitor Trump sent them to Congress to overthrow the Government they were allowed to exit the building unimpeded, arms raised in triumph.<p></p><p>Demented Fascist Trump has promised to pardon the over 1000 conservative criminals who've been tried and convicted. Which leads us to the 2024 elections and the one fact you must keep in the back of your mind as you go about your regular business and life for the next 8 months... </p><p style="text-align: center;"><u><span style="color: #660000;">In 2025, Republicans are going to call for the violent overthrow of the United States Government... again. </span></u> </p><p>Because Trump is going to lose that election. Even the massive voter suppression, disenfranchisement and other dirty tricks Republicans always pull won't be enough to get this election close enough for Republicans or the Supremacist Court to steal. RFK Jr won't be able to pull a Ralph Nader 2000 Florida effect. That's why that odious slime bucket<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-We-yqFEgE"> Tucker Carlson is already calling the 2024 election fraudulent</a>. Fortunately or unfortunately for us, Carlson is too much of elitist chickenhawk coward, a tough-talking dilettante, to actually do anything other than sit on his ass talking.</p><p>As an aside, I am constantly insulted and bewildered why the vaunted white working class puts stock into these doughy, wide-waisted rightwing propagandists who don't do any real work but, just sit on the expansive behinds talking shit. Is it an unconscious dream to emulate their success and wealth from not working? Is it an unspoken desire to have someone tell them what to do?</p><p>But, more importantly does Tucker Carlson have enough pull to convince a rightwing terrorist or two to launch attacks on President Biden or Vice President Harris? Maybe. And that is the big question for Election Day and in the aftermath of Trump's next defeat. Have Republicans trained up enough paramilitary domestic terrorists to cause real danger to America? This time, at least, we won't have the erstwhile President encouraging terrorists to attack, placing co-conspirators in key military units, or stopping National Guard and Police from responding to the violence.</p><p>I do think there is going to be Election Day violence. Will Michele Morrow declare herself a Freebooter Captain and stand-up a paramilitary group? Will the Kansas Republicans declare themselves free to attack the Real President Biden instead of an effigy? Will Derrick Van Orden convince enough of his fellow mean drunks to descend on Madison, Wisconsin to beat up election judges and college students voting in Wisconsin?</p><p>Will <a href="https://digbysblog.net/2024/03/16/will-the-next-civil-war-start-in-arizona/">Arizona Republicans launch a sneak attack </a>on the ballot polling places? </p><p>I don't know but I do know that rightwing domestic terrorists have already begun killing Americans and have the backing of major elected Republicans as well as King Traitor Trump and see 2024 as a confluence of events, influence, and political backing from the Treasonous Republican Party to effect an overthrow of the United States.</p><p>I'm afraid they are going to take their shot. </p></div>Grung_e_Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-31819074926923123102024-03-15T15:44:00.008-05:002024-03-15T19:40:22.909-05:00The Staging Grounds II: Fascist Kristi Noem and Leftist Jason Isbell have something in common<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2DfPqsuhATynP2UnDCJi_2FEc7BFEyb3CwCzwd8j8G_zHNWsBbcxf2YqmcDxrMAN9dXYLs3nZBXCNi7_8p94QRCnhQa5so0lGsCMEi-bvo6IF_505I3SZGeklnsrYiI7uzmGbjXMAW7f_TUddoHYB9UzKJps08ib_wwZdMPugDRvvTQlgECXLLDcok2iw/s595/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-15%20at%208.07.41%20AM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="365" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2DfPqsuhATynP2UnDCJi_2FEc7BFEyb3CwCzwd8j8G_zHNWsBbcxf2YqmcDxrMAN9dXYLs3nZBXCNi7_8p94QRCnhQa5so0lGsCMEi-bvo6IF_505I3SZGeklnsrYiI7uzmGbjXMAW7f_TUddoHYB9UzKJps08ib_wwZdMPugDRvvTQlgECXLLDcok2iw/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-15%20at%208.07.41%20AM.png" width="196" /></a></div>They both decided to get their teeth fixed.<div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">For years, Isbell had crooked teeth. When one commenter said they liked his former teeth, Isbell explained why he had the work done. “I had bone loss, severe infection and neuralgia, and without the repairs I wasn’t gonna be singing much longer,” he wrote. “Like I don’t know if I mentioned this in any songs or interviews or whatnot, but I’m a recovering alcoholic from Alabama. It should really make sense to everyone.”</span><br /></span><p></p><p>Now, the overwhelming majority of adults with teeth problem stem from childhood poverty and the inability to afford braces and other fixes in their youth which would alleviate the need to fix them in adulthood.</p><p>But, for some reason because American medical care cleaved dental care away from healthcare coverage we are stuck with this byzantine multi-layered system.</p><p>In case you unaware of Jason Isbell, he's "a recovering alcoholic" whose music often touches, sometimes quite deeply and quite personally on addiction issues, as well as relationships and his natural far left Progressive beliefs. Isbell is famous for zingers on Twitter. For instance, skewering Oklahoma Faux Tough Guy MarkWayne Mullin.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIpC-nq5QFH9mcgrdVwI_wSI4afgl1xSQvRF0hyphenhyphenlvj2BNuHlghUqsbvY6gvsDEnuCUmYst5QwLYG0mO9aDlFm2n-R5IyaPtaOt0_06CIwBj0ymUFxiHcCJeGnZd6gS7EerRej1SuWAXVsbZjDld-Ozey-lAH40hgZDLEL-3BdRuVwgKkYPk9pf5VGmAsaw/s593/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-15%20at%2011.57.43%20AM.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="328" data-original-width="593" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIpC-nq5QFH9mcgrdVwI_wSI4afgl1xSQvRF0hyphenhyphenlvj2BNuHlghUqsbvY6gvsDEnuCUmYst5QwLYG0mO9aDlFm2n-R5IyaPtaOt0_06CIwBj0ymUFxiHcCJeGnZd6gS7EerRej1SuWAXVsbZjDld-Ozey-lAH40hgZDLEL-3BdRuVwgKkYPk9pf5VGmAsaw/w320-h178/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-15%20at%2011.57.43%20AM.png" width="320" /></a></div><p>While, Isbell's dental procedure was done for medical reasons Noem got her teeth done in a pathetic transparent attempt to appeal to Donald Trump. She wants to be the Vice President, and while schtuping Corey Lewandowski I'm sure discussions on how best to appeal to leering Trumps rapey libido. </p><p>But, even though Noem has always been considered "Hawt" by Republican male gaze standard she's done a lot of surgery to her face (cheeks, nose, lips, now teeth) and pulled several stunts to burnish her rightwing bonafides; like opening up the Sturgis </p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaFfUPrj4hatXjNSDhSXNIUcDkN6fnu5o9ymYu_xhyI1bYzsh-jCMH3t54OeaOoE4mQ7609RJOmXjzJ5pb7Od-kMkSB5jDv7Ik1qLoEYwymdLGxKO7axs12nyFvdd9ztByhKsZpgOcq3Xds8f9t7anh9Aspi8PSKx8rzHkWbxR3wA_1xZOluBukn9FzVYE/s467/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-15%20at%203.41.42%20PM.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="234" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaFfUPrj4hatXjNSDhSXNIUcDkN6fnu5o9ymYu_xhyI1bYzsh-jCMH3t54OeaOoE4mQ7609RJOmXjzJ5pb7Od-kMkSB5jDv7Ik1qLoEYwymdLGxKO7axs12nyFvdd9ztByhKsZpgOcq3Xds8f9t7anh9Aspi8PSKx8rzHkWbxR3wA_1xZOluBukn9FzVYE/w100-h200/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-15%20at%203.41.42%20PM.png" width="100" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's Evolution, Baby!</td></tr></tbody></table>Motorcycle Rally during the early peaks of Covid prior to vaccinations. And sending the South Dakota National Guard to the Texas Border (perhaps this is the training for Desensitization and Dehumanization Republicans know they have to inculcate in the Army National Guard to handle liquidating migrants in "The Staging Grounds")<p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(30, 30, 31); color: #1e1e1f; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.4px; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.799999px;"><a href="https://news.sd.gov/news?id=news_kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0041779&sys_kb_id=199794e8872cc210327fb807cebb35b5&spa=1">PIERRE, S.D.</a></span></strong><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.799999px;"> – Today, Governor Kristi Noem announced that she will deploy South Dakota National Guard troops to the southern border later this spring. This will be the fifth time that the South Dakota National Guard has deployed to the southern border to assist in border security efforts during the Noem Administration. </span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(30, 30, 31); color: #1e1e1f; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.4px; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.799999px;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(30, 30, 31); color: #1e1e1f; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.4px; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 16.799999px;">“The border is a warzone, so we’re sending soldiers,” said <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Governor Noem</strong>. “These soldiers’ primary mission will be construction of a wall to stem the flow of illegal immigrants, drug cartels, and human trafficking into the United States of America.” - </span><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px; text-align: right;">February 20, 2024</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(30, 30, 31); color: #1e1e1f; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.4px; margin: 0in;"><span face=""Open Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; text-align: right;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 15.4px; margin: 0in;">It's a "war zone" Noem said but, not according to conservatives who've travelled to the border themselves instead of listening to lying press releases from Republican governors...</p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAokRhKibazvTT_Zv8HwbUwRAaFJAJrQFRSmhF0RlBZPFynIItFILbijuOvO4znmz_kBYJcpg3z3GiGfBqiRUZSQ8BEfJMJS42OCnquOO2K9p2B6kVYfNJ_hEt-FboH-SCvAMohHLNOjNU2liXah-YfHO1fDSgMGhim28fOianPGKHZPEHtJ1jyhUxPlln/s817/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-15%20at%2011.05.02%20AM.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="668" data-original-width="817" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAokRhKibazvTT_Zv8HwbUwRAaFJAJrQFRSmhF0RlBZPFynIItFILbijuOvO4znmz_kBYJcpg3z3GiGfBqiRUZSQ8BEfJMJS42OCnquOO2K9p2B6kVYfNJ_hEt-FboH-SCvAMohHLNOjNU2liXah-YfHO1fDSgMGhim28fOianPGKHZPEHtJ1jyhUxPlln/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-15%20at%2011.05.02%20AM.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I would prefer they all hang together but, I will<br />accept if they all are hanged apart...</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 15.4px; margin: 0in;"></p><blockquote><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"It's not what I expected. But then again, I don't know what I expected. I</span><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"> </span><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">can tell you it's not as bad as what I thought. So that's kind of eye-opening</span><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"> </span><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">in itself, too."</span></blockquote>Noem is also pretty sure she can get away with petty abuses of power which Trump himself is famous for, such as using her office to get her daughter <a href="https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/2022/04/19/whats-next-state-plane-misuse-nepotism-complaints-against-noem/7367257001/">preferential treatment</a> as she progressed through a real estate appraiser licensing program administered by the state, or doing paid advertisements for her recent orthodontic operations and for a specialty foot store <i>(ed: I just realized Noem is selling foot impressions to MAGA men.)</i><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Of course, Noem won't face any consequences for her abuse of power, Republicans are never held accountable, and rightwing media has been working to make her a star for many years now because Republicans know when you're a Star they let you do it...</div>Grung_e_Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-72540074599173401832024-03-14T19:49:00.004-05:002024-03-15T07:50:48.737-05:00The Staging Grounds<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguitJsaRmq_PhWSLvvCpzZcmyVSmhPPlNAUccx7hgzVtkIGaeisizUP5Kuat2R5_Rd7pFjBp8zJ5ZCQsJiMvL7pyFpH_6ZicbyAwlliVpYCDw2kpw4k-iHw3oZ7uPerWIsSo-IPsnqBqbkSuYYh7JTAWLWgIzhs81QP46fqaQrzCtHxJJ1mxQ3pXU0QyPJ/s463/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-12%20at%202.04.09%20PM.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="301" data-original-width="463" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguitJsaRmq_PhWSLvvCpzZcmyVSmhPPlNAUccx7hgzVtkIGaeisizUP5Kuat2R5_Rd7pFjBp8zJ5ZCQsJiMvL7pyFpH_6ZicbyAwlliVpYCDw2kpw4k-iHw3oZ7uPerWIsSo-IPsnqBqbkSuYYh7JTAWLWgIzhs81QP46fqaQrzCtHxJJ1mxQ3pXU0QyPJ/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-12%20at%202.04.09%20PM.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Budding War Criminal Stephen Miller is a mere<br />39 years old. If he follows in the footsteps of his<br />idol Henry Kissinger, he'll be with us for 61 more</td></tr></tbody></table><ul style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u><a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001669/?ref_=ttqu_qu" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Charlie Maguire</a>:</u> What did you do?</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u><a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0550577/?ref_=ttqu_qu" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Anna Von Hagen</a>:</u> We put them in cattle cars and shipped them east. Always east.</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u><a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001669/?ref_=ttqu_qu" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Charlie Maguire</a>:</u> To the Ukraine, you mean? To the resettlement camps?</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-style: inherit;"><u><a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0550577/?ref_=ttqu_qu" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Anna Von Hagen</a>:</u> Ja, we resettle them. We resettle them in the air... </span><i>(Fatherland 1994)</i></li></ul> <div>Stephen Miller may have coined the term for the next American Mass Murder campaign.<p></p><p></p><p>Like <i>The Killing Fields</i>, his casual dropping of the term "The Staging Grounds" when speaking of the Republican plan to round-up and "deport" 10 million people has a darker and sinister tone when one actually considers, in concrete terms, what the Republicans actually propose.</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; font-size: 17px;">Stephen Miller: You establish large-scale staging grounds for removal flights where you grab illegal immigrants and move them to the staging ground and that's where planes are waiting to remove them to go home. You deputize the National Guard to carry out immigration enforcement</span></blockquote><p></p><p>One of the things which gives me hope as the Republican Party slowly sinks the Black Hole of Fascism is that actually carrying out the Orders from Nazis like Stephen Miller, Mike Flynn, Steve Bannon or whomever is not something enough Americans are desensitized to do at this point. National Guardsmen aren't ready, thank god, to be tasked with kicking in doors of trailer park homes and pulling people out to be moved to "The Staging Grounds"...</p><p>Certainly, rightwing propaganda has been warping and radicalizing <a href="https://gjia.georgetown.edu/2020/09/07/take-the-redpill-understanding-the-allure-of-conspiratorial-thinking-among-proud-boys/">(Red-pilling)</a> a large number of, mostly white, young men. One of the things which has been the biggest disservice to young men is the Youtube algorithm. I'll watch Democracy Now!, TYT, Luke Beasley, David Pakman, the Majority Report, and the fucking algorithm will foist Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Charlie Kirk, Ben Shapiro and any number of reactionary shitweasels into my feed. No matter how many times I choose to block it. But, Harvard educated Ivy-league elitist lawyer Ben Shaprio's videos "destroying" college kids keep getting in there. So, these young men alone watching content get sucked down the rightwing rabbit hole of extremism.</p><p>But, how many triggered conservative domestic terrorists ready to do violence do we have in the country? 50,000? 100,000?</p><p>Certainly, there are some cosplaying guerrilla units out there practicing for <a href="https://www.csis.org/blogs/examining-extremism/examining-extremism-boogaloo-movement">"the Boogaloo"</a>, and they could do real damage and kill people. Remember the Wolverine Watchmen and <a href="https://upnorthlive.com/news/local/whitmer-kidnap-plot-trial-fbi-agent-testifies-about-wolverine-watchmen-investigation">their plot to kidnap and murder </a>Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer? But, to form a coherent unit structure and perform complex tasks with 5-paragraph orders to infiltrate and extract targets? And no actual military or law enforcement unit is going to take orders to round-up and shoot LGBTQ people from a Matt Walsh or <a href="https://www.dailydot.com/debug/daily-wire-michael-knowles-student-film-queer-man/">Michael Knowles</a> showing up in a Trump Commissar uniform.</p><p>The danger is that leadership of Police Departments and US Military units will order their subordinates, underlings, and units to perform these tasks. Fo instance would deputies in upstate Lewis Co, New York simply <a href="https://www.wbfo.org/2023-10-26/how-one-upstate-ny-sheriffs-oath-led-him-down-a-far-right-path">follow the orders of skinhead Unconstitutional Sheriff Mike Carpinelli</a>, who was just re-elected to another 4 year term and believes he's the most powerful government official in his county? If, Kris Kobach ordered the Kansas State Police to stop every car to check for migrants and <a href="https://kansasreflector.com/2024/03/11/kansas-court-upholds-ag-kobachs-argument-in-transgender-drivers-license-case/">people with unlawful genders listed on their driver's license</a> will the Troopers simply shrug and say, 'Well, we're checking for violations so the innocent have nothing to fear'?</p><p>Most likely, the CBP will be tasked as they are near the border and they've already been indoctrinated through reactionary propaganda and working conditions to treat Migrants poorly. Additionally, this would allow Republicans in far away locales like Iowa and Missouri who claim, for easily deduced reasons, that <b>The Border Crisis</b> is the biggest problem EVAR, while not seeing the day-to-day mistreatment of other human beings, to sagely nod their head and agree with Greg Abbott that immigrant children should be chewed up with saw blades and used for fish farm food.</p><p>I suppose the natural evolution would be the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkspot_strategy#:~:text=The%20inkspot%20strategy%2C%20also%20known,areas%20dispersed%20over%20the%20region.">so-called "Inkblot Strategy"</a> of couinterinsurgency expanding out from Authoritarian and supportive regions, say Missouri or Texas, into the rest og America. But, right now I'm not worried because while the Republicans absolutely want to impose a Fascist White Power State with concentration camps and death squads the infrastructure and willpower isn't there... yet...</p></div>Grung_e_Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-27899183703141407692024-03-13T15:01:00.006-05:002024-03-15T07:51:29.681-05:00Republicans Hate America 25: Ben S. Shaprio says 'Work will set you Free'<p> I can not stress enough how much Republicans HATE You. Republicans hate Americans with a visceral passion. And they get perverse pleasure at getting the people they hate to vote for them.</p><p>And no this isn't another leftist screed about how white people vote against their interests. White people, especially poor and working class (the only workers the Corporate Media acknowledges) get exactly what they want from Republicans in office; bad faith morality, racism, religious hypocrisy, and non-stop attacks on oppressed and powerless people.</p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb6a-Z9b9EKGE1gd5cJ1JuC_hoaTamhd_R6WjLTkgbPsRZxCglMsE1-0haIeivkyr1pIyA61qZnc7MGCzp2uGqmGF-OcFmyfaXl-5aQWNR4lfOQaMPmwwDAW5_YUDKPhnYuX5i1PCoR6NG1NDMClPQIoPIbT17bOwI1Nxx3Ph6j9joPFr-HLbx-zPzyrBP/s1031/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-13%20at%203.45.12%20PM.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="589" data-original-width="1031" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb6a-Z9b9EKGE1gd5cJ1JuC_hoaTamhd_R6WjLTkgbPsRZxCglMsE1-0haIeivkyr1pIyA61qZnc7MGCzp2uGqmGF-OcFmyfaXl-5aQWNR4lfOQaMPmwwDAW5_YUDKPhnYuX5i1PCoR6NG1NDMClPQIoPIbT17bOwI1Nxx3Ph6j9joPFr-HLbx-zPzyrBP/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-13%20at%203.45.12%20PM.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If you think this post title is in bad taste Shapiro<br />defends <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/03/elon-musk-racist-tweets-science-video/">rabid racist Jew-hater Elon Musk</a> and <br />argues for the extermination of the Palestinian people</td></tr></tbody></table>However, every so often, a Republican will make it clear they intend to fuck over the working class by stealing social security and white people get indignant and upset... not at the Republicans mind you but, at Democrats, for instance when President Biden points out the Republicans absolutely intend to cut and swindle people out of the Social Security.<p></p><p><a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/164940-top-republican-raise-social-securitys-retirement-age-to-70/">Back in 2010, Republican John Boehner,</a> the soon to be Speaker of the House after leftists got mad Barack Obama didn't turn the United States into Plato's Utopian <i>Republic, </i>proposed eliminating Obamacare, raising the Retirement Age to 70 and making drastic cuts to the slender America social safety net. Americans still voted in the Tea Party Extremists.</p><p>So, it's little surprise that Republicans continue their quest to impoverish Americans and ensure no one can every retire. <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/ben-shapiro/ben-shapiro-no-one-united-states-should-be-retiring-65-years-old">Here's Harvard educated elitist Ben SShapiro plainly stating</a> American workers should not get to retire EVER but should work up until the day they die.</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="background-color: #eff3f7; caret-color: rgb(58, 67, 78); color: #3a434e; font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.335434px;">No one in the United States should be retiring at 65 years old. Frankly, I think retirement itself is a stupid idea unless you have some sort of health problem. </span><span style="background-color: #eff3f7; caret-color: rgb(58, 67, 78); color: #3a434e; font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.335434px;">And let's be real about this - it's insane that we haven't raised the retirement age in the United States. It's totally crazy. Everybody that I know who is -- who is elderly, who has retired, is dead within five years. And if you talk to people who are elderly and they lose their purpose in life by losing their job and they stop working, things go to hell in a handbasket real quick.</span><span style="background-color: #eff3f7;"> </span><span style="background-color: #eff3f7; caret-color: rgb(58, 67, 78); color: #3a434e; font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.335434px;">It's totally insane that you believe that you should be able to work from the time that you are essentially 20 to the time that you are 65 -- which is a 45 year period -- pay in, and then you'll receive Social Security benefits sufficient to support you and your family, you and your wife or whatever, for, like, another 20 years. That's crazy talk. That is not fiscally sustainable.</span></blockquote><p></p><p>Ben posits that workers should consider they must work from 20-85. <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/20220831.htm">Life Expectancy for men in America is 73, for women is 79...</a> the reason Americans die within 5 years of retirement is because they’ve worked themselves into the grave.</p><p> Perhaps Ben is considering how his leisurely life will play out and expects to make it to 85. Must be because he's not doing anything anyone in the world would consider "work". Remember Ben counts sitting on his ass talking about <i>Barbie</i> for 2 hours, or complaining about rap music, or demanding Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) send him pictures of her feet as "work". This pampered dilettante has never done a day's labor in his life, has never had a real job, never served in the military, never helped his community, never put a shovel in the dirt, or hammered a nail into a board. But, like all rightwingers he feels absolutely qualified to lecture others about things he has no experience and no knowledge about and he always has.</p><p>Ben Shapiro is a man of leisure who has taken his Elite Education and coddled upbringing and used it to advance murderous illiberal and authoritarian Republican governments for 20 years. He argued anyone protesting the Iraq War should be tried for sedition and treason under the Espionage Act.</p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoNCth21TXtXB5PtnQiYEF6okIo1voIxOTSPrEogvV22ymvRxuoODdDZq2yazVxRxw1vlCabcVWtgvmbkZ_u5dgc9QQhYhEoLc4IDNp_1RxEioReyWUev17i8mWUXD9xs1ooMRjnWsy1fGNk6l2hqKz3nXiJPMMOG_IOk4ONxeIc68-HfVcnGxrXZS6uYQ/s857/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-13%20at%2012.21.31%20PM.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="690" data-original-width="857" height="323" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoNCth21TXtXB5PtnQiYEF6okIo1voIxOTSPrEogvV22ymvRxuoODdDZq2yazVxRxw1vlCabcVWtgvmbkZ_u5dgc9QQhYhEoLc4IDNp_1RxEioReyWUev17i8mWUXD9xs1ooMRjnWsy1fGNk6l2hqKz3nXiJPMMOG_IOk4ONxeIc68-HfVcnGxrXZS6uYQ/w400-h323/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-13%20at%2012.21.31%20PM.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If you protest this War I have no intention of fighting you should be arrested!<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>I'm certain my Reactionary police officer co-workers believe people shouldn't retire at 65 even though some can retire at 50 and even the Tier 2 pensioners can retire at 55. <i> I Got Mine, Fuck You </i>remains an animating principle of rightwing politics. <br /></p><p>But, Shapiro is far from the first rightwing influencer to argue you don't get to retire peasant, you work until you drop. Racist Rush Limpballs made this argument years ago,</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">No, you're not supposed to retire when you're 55. You sound to me like you are totally capable of still working. People are retiring now at 50 and 55 and so forth when they are still capable of working. According to the tables at 55, you've got 22 years left... ~ Racist Limbaugh, [</span><a href="http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/rush-limbaugh-you-should-work-till-you-" style="color: #7c93a1; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">Crooks and Liars</a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;">]</span></span></blockquote><p></p><p>Infamous Twitter Troll Catturd2, claims he came to his conservatism by listening to Limbaugh daily while working. Catturd2 has turned in his work pants for rightwing trolling finding it much more lucrative to tweet and be paid by Elon Musk.</p><p>Republicans hate You. They hate an America in which people can possibly find relaxation and enjoyment instead of dropping dead on the job. Republicans don't believe in the American Dream. They don't believe in the American people. Republicans hate America.</p><p>President Joe Biden believes in America. He believes in giving the American people freedom and a chance to live. This is why Republicans hate Him. The choice is simple; Joe Biden and the American Dream or Traitor Trump and jack-booted Fascist Dictatorship.</p>Grung_e_Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-53468581064324572502024-03-13T08:11:00.005-05:002024-03-13T08:36:10.144-05:00Republicans hate America 24: Traitor Trump's brain is melting but, he's still savvy enough to steal your Social Security and use your dead relative's body for a photo op<div style="text-align: center;">"We heard the Saudi Arabia and Russia will rebe beerb ba baaaah..."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gYc-4i-4QY4" width="320" youtube-src-id="gYc-4i-4QY4"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div> It is now obvious Trump has either full blown dementia of full blow Fascism; whether it comes from the spirochetes in his brain, from advancing sundowners syndrome, substance abuse, plaque induced psychosis, <a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/179741/trump-praise-adolf-hitler-john-kelly">or his love of Hitler</a> matters little. He's no longer the off-the-cuff, rambling racist he used to be but, a confused wannabe Dictator who can barely present a coherent sentence during his long bigoted tirades, crude and ugly insults, and open appeals to Authoritarianism</div><p></p><p>But, no matter how deep into dementia and glitchy aphasia he sinks into Trump knows when he's not getting his taste. As with NATO funding, <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/03/11/2024/trump-medicare-ss-cuts-biden">Trump sees Social Security as a big pile of Cash</a> of which he is not getting a cut. And cut Social Security is exactly what he will do,</p><blockquote><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“First of all, there is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting, and in terms of, also, the theft and bad management of entitlements,” Trump <a href="https://x.com/atrupar/status/1767183483212906771?s=20">responded </a>“Tremendous bad management of entitlements. There’s tremendous amounts of things and numbers of things you can do.”</span></blockquote><p>First of all, this is tremendous gibberish. Tremendous. Secondly, this fat fascist fuck absolutely will sign any piece of crap legislation put in front of him. He'll cut Socials Security, Medicare, anything which he feels he entitled to a cut of. He's a giant gelatinous blob who repeats whatever he thinks will get him an applause line. When he can actually coherently produce a sentence that is...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2c4v3c7HD_0" width="320" youtube-src-id="2c4v3c7HD_0"></iframe></div><p>All he can do is regurgitate the <i><span style="font-size: medium;">Ackshullaly Biden</span></i> rightwing talking points<a href="https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/adding-ugly-record-trump-mocks-bidens-stutter-rcna142802"> the rest of his speech is mangled,</a> garbled gibberish, insulting diarrhea, substituting the wrong word, flowing into a confused miasma of disconnected thoughts, disgusting innuendos and frightening declarations of fascism and authoritarian desires.</p><p>Trump openly praises Dictators who then reveal that Trump tells them exactly what he will do when he's returned to office. Viktor Orban flatly stated Trump told him he'll immediately cut off aid to Ukraine which coupled with Trump telling "POTEN" he can do whatever the hell he wants demonstrates Trump and Republicans know there natural allies are Russian Fascists.</p><p>Back in October, I can not imagine the fucking ballistic fallout if a Democratic President denounced Prime Minister Netanyahu and praised Hezbollah in the wake of the Hamas militant butchery the way Traitor Trump did. since then Trump hasn't said anything about the Gaza Crisis because he has no ideas other than his fantasy counterfactual that Israel wouldn't be attacked.</p><p>I told you years ago, that when Republicans were back in power they would move to turn Jan6th into the Second Independence Day and engage in their tradition of revisionist history turning Criminals, Traitors, and Insurrectionists into Heroes, Patriots, and Martyrs. Trump's bluntly declaring he'll pardon all the convicted criminals who engaged in the Insurrection and probably all the unindicted co-conspirators and planners like Ginni Thomas .</p><p>And yet, the Corporate Media still will not come out and declare what is obvious before the entire Country's and World's eyes; Trump is a rapidly degenerating mess who yearns to use the Federal Government to harm his enemies. And what's worse, the school of parasites and remoras circling his bulbous ass yearn to use the Awesome Power of the Government to murder millions of people.</p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: xx-large;">Millions.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000;"> </span></div><span style="text-align: left;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifgGD31sdR3PcSm4ZRxwxi1qLPlCAgPGh48VrSKvdSVTYUJOOWxdl3Xi6S7V-ioOccQ9yIwfkf190ID_8LOv1jg91R43OMfsY6NEMCWnEoXm9uVJVmUeaWjMIMuj_sSjFQCDWtL5wOrSnB6jWET0m19B6OZkIpb2Y3UmeNKQwb1AEgX-hYFkRr-Xo95L_V/s635/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-13%20at%207.20.39%20AM.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="635" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifgGD31sdR3PcSm4ZRxwxi1qLPlCAgPGh48VrSKvdSVTYUJOOWxdl3Xi6S7V-ioOccQ9yIwfkf190ID_8LOv1jg91R43OMfsY6NEMCWnEoXm9uVJVmUeaWjMIMuj_sSjFQCDWtL5wOrSnB6jWET0m19B6OZkIpb2Y3UmeNKQwb1AEgX-hYFkRr-Xo95L_V/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-13%20at%207.20.39%20AM.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lakan? TRUMP! Now Smile!</td></tr></tbody></table>"During my four years, nothing happened,” Trump told a gathering of NRA members in January in Pennsylvania. “And there was great pressure on me having to do with guns. We did nothing.”</span><div><br /></div><div>But, we are led to believe that this smiling Ghoul, desecrating the United States Flag for a photo op of the "grieving" family of Laken Riley all mugging for the camera, <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/donald-trump-blasted-for-autographing-laken-rileys-photo-misspelling-her-name-morally-bankrupt-101710302834085.html">spelled her fucking name wrong</a> after autographing it is fit to be President and cares to protect anyone. And I'm supposed to believe Republicans GIVE A FUCK about Americans or anything?</div><div><br /></div><div>Yet… Day after day legacy media journalists attack President Biden for using notes while Trump calls his wife the wrong name, most likely, because he hasn't seen her in <i>years</i>.</div><div><div><i><br /></i></div><div>Oh no... the Corporate Media is letting us down again, if you are naive enough to still believe the Media isn't completely in the Tank for Trump and Republicans. If instead you understand that while this or that individual journalist <i>might</i> be Liberal, <a href="https://digbysblog.net/2024/03/12/by-his-magastys-decree/">the Corporate Media is owned by the Plutocracy and they want Trump in Power</a> because Republican control of the Government means no taxes and less and less regulations. The people hurt by Republicans don't matter to the 1%. </div><div><br /></div><div>Trump and the Republicans plan to cut Social Security and Medicare and retired white Boomers are champing at the bit to vote for this degenerate Rapist a 3rd time.</div></div>Grung_e_Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-71348123565137712062024-03-12T10:01:00.004-05:002024-03-12T15:41:19.800-05:00White Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf wants a $1.2 Billion dollar handout from Illinois (Don't forget about Da Bears!)<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(72, 73, 74); color: #48494a; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">"Socialism, communism, whatever you want to call it, is never the answer."</span></i> Hank Steinbrenner in 2011, just 2 years after Steinbrenner and the New York Yankees received $2 Billion in public funds subsidized by the New York City and State taxpayers to build Yankee Stadium III.</span></p>One of the biggest and most successful scams the Ultra-Rich 1% pulled on America was the Trickle-Down Economics scheme. Give Us large amount of public money for free and the economic benefit of us using it for ourselves will flow downward onto everyone else. There is stuff flowing down from the 1% onto us but, it sure ain't economic benefits... And while they were aided and abetted by Republicans and other conservative politicians the goal has always been the same to gain access to public monies in order to <b>Privatize the Profits, and Socialize the Losses.</b><div><br /></div><div>The White Sox are looking to move from the old 35th and Shields in the Bridgeport neighborhood <a href="https://www.78chicago.com">to the 78,</a> but in order to accomplish this move, poor, poor Jerry Reinsdorf needs to bum a couple o' bucks from the people of Illinois.</div><div><br /></div><div>Jerry Reinsdorf has engaged in several tactics reserved for rich plutocratic assholes. First, Reinsdorf dusted of his 1990s playbook and threatened to move the Chicago White Sox, this time to Nashville, Tennessee. In the 1990s, Reinsdorf successfully bilked Illinois Governor Big Jim Thompson and the people of Illinois out of hundreds of millions of dollars to repair Comiskey Park by threatening to move the club to St. Petersburg, Florida.</div><div><br /></div><div>So, last month just before Governor J.B. Pritzker's budget address, Reinsdorf went to Springfield to press the Governor and Legislature for $1,200,000,000 in public assistance in the building of the new White Sox stadium. Reinsdorf and his investors would come up with the additional funding for the extended stadium grounds.</div><div><br /></div><div>Rich people stay Rich because they don't pay for things with their money. Governor J.B. Pritzker is rich he's a real Billionaire unlike the Orange Hitler so he knows this. <a href="https://news.wttw.com/2024/02/26/pritzker-says-he-s-reluctant-use-taxpayer-money-help-build-new-white-sox-stadium#:~:text=Gov.,question%20at%20an%20unrelated%20event.">Pritzker has been adamant that no public money is going to build sports stadiums,</a></div><div><blockquote><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“I think I’ve been fairly clear about the fact that the taxpayers’ dollars are precious,” Pritzker said in response to a reporter’s question at an unrelated event. “And the idea of taking taxpayer dollars and subsidizing the building of a stadium as opposed to, for example, subsidizing the building of a birthing center, just to give the example, does not seem like the stadium ought to have higher priority.”</span></blockquote></div><div>Unfortunately, there is a quirk which might allow not only the White Sox but Chicago Bears access to a government handout; <a href="https://www.wbez.org/stories/the-rundown-johnson-plays-ball-on-white-sox-subsidies/1abb789a-30af-47ed-84f9-5c1243f6651e">Mayor Brandon Johnson has been stepping all over his own dick and needs win</a>, or to be clearer he needs not to be the Mayor who 'lost" the Chicago Bears to Arlington Heights.</div><blockquote><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">“As far as public dollars, we haven’t gotten into any of those specifics just yet,” the mayor said of discussions with Sox officials. "But I will say that we’re gonna explore all options. But we have to make sure that we’re doing right by the people of Chicago. … Everything is on the table here."</span></blockquote><p>Why is everything on the table? Jerry Reinsdorf is so rich <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2024/02/22/jerry-reinsdorf-united-center-parking-lots-purchasing-white-sox-south-loop-ballpark">he has quietly for the past 2 years been buying up the vacant parking lots</a> in and around the United Center, <i>Home of <strike>YOUR </strike>HIS Chicago BULLS!</i></p><p>Meanwhile,<a href="https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/reports-bears-to-contribute-2-billion-for-domed-lakefront-stadium-to-replace-soldier-field/"> the Chicago Bears are floating the idea of tearing down</a> Solider's Field and putting up a state-of-the-art doomed Stadium on the Lakefront. They've even proposed using $2,000,000,000 of their own money. As a comparison, Stan Kroenke of the LA (not St. Louis) Rams <a href="https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-09-04/stan-kroenke-nfl-owners-coronavirus-workers-sofi-stadium-rams-chargers">spent $5,000,000,000 on the SoFi Stadium</a>, without public assistance, although the NFL did some money as well.</p><p>But, this is all posturing as the Chicago Lake front is protected by statute from building on it, as George Lucas learned when he proposed his gaudy Star Wars museum. The Bears have already knocked down the old Arlington Racetrack, accompanying side buildings and that vast open area is going to house their Stadium, a Bears Museum, hotels, restaurants, probably apartments for players and coaches to live in, and all that revenue will go right into the extended Halas Family pockets. It's a no-brainer. But, at this point the Bears seem to be trying to reduce their financial commitment to the Arlington Heights community and surrounding school districts because they can rely on the non-stop messaging of "Trickle-Down" effect being good enough for the peoples who should feel privileged we wish to build a stadium in their community and probably should provide us incentives to do so!</p><p>Hand-outs to the MegaRich are called stimulus and the Rich love getting other peoples' money.</p>Grung_e_Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-61802662136246831892024-03-11T11:31:00.005-05:002024-03-11T14:07:44.150-05:00Republicans hate America 23: If you love Migrants so much why don't you house them?<p>"We can fight about fixing the border or we can fix it..." - President Biden, State of the Union March 7, 2024.</p><p></p><p><i>If you love the immigrants so much why don't you put them in your house?</i> <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/02/05/chicago-migrants-housing/">In Chicago, at least, one man is doing his best</a> to answer this disingenuous rhetorical retort with "Alright..."</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 16.5px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.165px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; letter-spacing: -0.165px;"></span></p><blockquote><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 16.5px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.165px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; letter-spacing: -0.165px;">Joselin Mendoza sleeps on the floor of a cold stone basement with her two kids at a house in Roseland.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 16.5px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.165px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; letter-spacing: -0.165px;">The property’s owner Chris Amatore came by in a truck one day in January and offered her the chance to leave a city-run shelter before she and her family were kicked out.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 16.5px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.165px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">He has now resettled close to 500 migrants in 15 buildings around the city, spending $150,000 of his own money, he said.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 16.5px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.165px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">Amatore’s solution isn’t a long-term fix — for himself or the migrants, who are grateful for the vacant buildings they now call home. He is facing strong backlash from community members and city officials, as housing experts raise alarms about what is going to happen to thousands of people without assistance.</span> </p></blockquote><p>This man's humanity, compassion and dedication to his fellow man are beyond reproach. He's a General Contractor who founded, <a href="https://www.managechicago.com/about.php#team">a company Manage Chicago</a>, most likely buying and flipping homes and buildings. Now... Flippers and General Contractors <i>can</i> be ruthless predators but, Chris Amatore apparently put his money where his mouth is this winter.</p><p>However, 'this why don't you do it' is the <i>Gotcha Lib!</i> rhetoric question rightwingers use to put you on the defensive and "prove" you're a hypocrite when it comes to the so-called Migrants crisis. Now, understand the Republicans don't frame this as a human crisis but use the phrase Border Crisis. This is deliberate.</p><p>The reason I (or even a business like <u>Manage Chicago</u>) don't simply house all the immigrants is the same reason I don't simply solve the Israel/Palestine problem... Such problems are too big for any one person to solve or handle alone. Of course, this is precisely the reason Man (<i>Homo Politicus) </i>came together to form Government in the first place; to deal with problems which are too big for anyone to address. Of course, the Republican solution for immigrants is the same for the Palestinians; Total Eradication.</p><p>Now, this <i>Gotcha Lib! </i>bad faith device has been used by rightwingers before as they've said this for decades about homeless (or unhoused people) i.e. if you really want to hep the homeless you'd let them stay in your house.</p><p>And now a variation is being used to undermine the military aid to Ukraine as Republicans have apparently discovered many Veterans Republicans have been fucking over for years are homeless.</p><p>Of course, Republicans are full of shit because just like everything they say they have no intention of every following through. But, they've played the Corporate Media to reporting Republican words are as good as action. Being a conservatives means having No Memory and shamelessly using their past panics and phony crisis to undercut the current dilemma. </p><p> Republicans have claimed over and over again in committee meetings and interviews that Joe Biden is so senile he can't speak. Biden just talked rhetorical circles around every Republican in the chamber.</p><p>One of the avenues of attack, Republicans have taken on President Biden is to invent "The Border Crisis".</p><p>In Katie Breathy Britt's, vile lie filled speech she referenced the border 9 times without mentioning the people. Well, except to tell a Massive Lie (using the Excluded Middle Fallacy) about a trafficked young woman allowing rightwing drones to believe it was happening under President Biden when, in fact, the situation occurred in Mexico, in 2004, when George Worst Ever was President.</p><p>But, have you noticed that in order to demonize President Biden, it is necessary for Republicans to remove humanity from "The Crisis". Dehumanization is the first step towards death trains and concentration camps.</p><p>But, Republicans are planning far, far worse. Rightwingers across the country claim the Border is the biggest issue facing America. They've dutifully been conditioned and if Trump gets back in, they will dutifully support the next step for the "illegals"; Rounding-up and elimination.</p><div><p></p></div><p>Mike Davis, one of the men under consideration by Trump and the Project 2025 for Attorney General, proudly told rightwingers in September 2023 he would “unleash hell on Washington, D.C." , would "indict President Joe Biden and every other scumball, sleazeball Biden,” and helping pardon those found guilty of crimes associated with the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol. </p><p>“We’re gonna deport a lot of people, 10 million people and growing—anchor babies, their parents, their grandparents,” Davis said. “We’re gonna put kids in cages. It’s gonna be glorious. We’re gonna detain a lot of people in the D.C. gulag and Gitmo.”</p><div><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon/steve-bannon-says-trump-candidacy-will-be-referendum-mass-deportations">Steve Bannon, says the 2024 Election is a referendum</a> on "deportation" of 10,000,000 people.</div><div><br /></div><div>But, remember there always is that unspoken middle between what Republicans openly talk about now and the physical deportation of 10 MILLION people. How do you find them? How do you arrest and process them? Where do they go when awaiting deportation? </div><div><br /></div><div>Stephen Miller went further, </div><div><blockquote><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; caret-color: rgb(58, 67, 78); color: #3a434e; font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 21.68804px; font-style: italic;">“You grab illegal immigrants, and then you move them to the staging grounds, and that’s where the planes are waiting”</span></blockquote></div><p>"The Staging Grounds" are that unspoken middle, Millions of people in concentration camps and you absolutely know that will result in huge number of deaths, rapes, and other crimes as once Republicans have successfully demonized "illegals" and have millions of people in custody far from peoples eyes it will be easy for Conservatives to simply accept the liquidation of these people.</p><p>In 2025, if they've managed to secure power Republicans will destroy the United States of America. Democrats build, Republicans destroy. The choice for President is clear and simple; Either you support Joe Biden and the United States or you fundamentally wish to end the Democratic Republic and replace it with a Christian Fascist Nation.</p><p><u>Additional:</u></p><p>I don't think it can be stated strongly enough just how much Republicans hate America and loathe the American people. <i>Republican </i><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/29/politics/oklahoma-gop-condemns-censures-lankford-border-negotiations/index.html">Senator James Lankford was censured </a>by the Oklahoma GOP for being seen during the SOTU saying "It's True." as President Biden laid out exactly how Donald John Traitor Trump scuttled the Bi-Partisan Border Security Bill. There is no greater sin than correctly reporting Republican actions. Republicans absolutely have no interest in governing or solving problems; they are laser-focused on destroying the United States. Republican-led domestic terrorism is coming when Trump loses in 2024, be prepared...</p>Grung_e_Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-72998485405530156712024-03-10T15:03:00.003-05:002024-03-14T03:49:16.906-05:00Republicans hate America 22 : Tradwife Katie Britt breathy lies<p> You can tell how much Republicans hate you by how easily they lie to you. It's despicable and shameless and designed with one goal in mind place their rightwing drones into a constant state of <b>Fear & Anger.</b></p><p>Katie Britt started off her State of the Union response by claiming Senator isn't here job,</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-1); font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"></p><blockquote><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My name is Katie Britt, and I have the honor of serving the people of the great state of Alabama in the United States Senate. </span><span face="var(--font-1)" style="font-size: 18px;">However, that’s not the job that matters most. </span><span face="var(--font-1)" style="font-size: 18px;">I’m a proud wife and mom of two school-aged kids.</span></span></blockquote><p></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-1); font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbv1E1xSoNyeDRxMm7nKU3AFy2FUNhoZI8tFWy0Emv4JzQs8kkTEnG1ImK7AINC0KvHVeDwbgHvsBA_2B4lA0gRS7uyxWVLXcLKZFlxJXXoqdG7_ycZkxqxjJp9HdqCraF4-xzcprjr235PydsDXrEoyGIStbVeMTO89zwwYJZ9VEtABrAPAxHGT5_CCQ2/s1640/IMG_0444.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1640" data-original-width="1179" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbv1E1xSoNyeDRxMm7nKU3AFy2FUNhoZI8tFWy0Emv4JzQs8kkTEnG1ImK7AINC0KvHVeDwbgHvsBA_2B4lA0gRS7uyxWVLXcLKZFlxJXXoqdG7_ycZkxqxjJp9HdqCraF4-xzcprjr235PydsDXrEoyGIStbVeMTO89zwwYJZ9VEtABrAPAxHGT5_CCQ2/w230-h320/IMG_0444.jpeg" width="230" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Love that Joker!</td></tr></tbody></table>So... one of the most powerful people in the United States Government and therefore the world claims not to be a politician. I've mentioned before that every Republican runs as an "Outsider" like <a href="https://disaffectedanditfeelssogood.blogspot.com/2024/02/wisconsin-drunk-van-orden-hit-with.html">Wisconsin Drunk Van Orden claims on his campaign website.</a> It's so fucking trite and insulting and the Corporate Media lets them get away with it constantly. Trump claimed to love the title of "Outsider" in a Feb 2024 interview with Maria Bartolomo on Faux News. <p></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-1); font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><a href="https://www.al.com/news/2024/03/archibald-how-katie-britt-alabamas-so-called-reasonable-senator-lost-herself-and-a-whole-lot-more.html">But, Britt's horrific creepy lie-fest </a>was punctuated with one of the most brazen lies of omission yet tried by a Republican. First though, Britt's weird breathy voice is a "virtue signal" to the Fascist Fundamentalists that she's a docile Tradwife, as this "Fundie Baby Voice" has been adopted by evangelical and female TikTok influencers and is immediately recognized by the faithful.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-1); font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/A6CbAOdFSBs" width="320" youtube-src-id="A6CbAOdFSBs"></iframe></div><br />And much has been made of Britt's attempts to go from happy warrior, to tearful mother, to assertive but not angry woman, all while Republicans told her to smile more during her empty Kitchen response. Britt’s Kitchen was as empty and bereft as she is of morals, ethics, and principles.<p></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-1); font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;">But, Britt told a tale of woman subjected to horrific sexual violence from the time she was child. </p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-1); font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: AP; font-size: 18px;"></span></p><blockquote><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-1); font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; font-family: AP; font-size: 18px;">I traveled to the Del Rio sector of Texas, where I spoke to a woman who shared her story with me. She had been sex trafficked by the cartels starting at age 12. She told me not just that she was raped every day, but how many times a day she was raped.</span></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-1); font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">We wouldn’t be OK with this happening in a third-world country. This is the United States of America, and it’s past time we start acting like it.</span></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-1); font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.55; margin: 20px 0px;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">President Biden’s border crisis is a disgrace. It’s despicable. And it’s almost entirely preventable.</span></p></blockquote><p>Now, I am in no way discounting this women's tale of violence and trauma or saying the story is untrue but, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/republican-senator-decades-rapes-mexico-attack-biden-border-107967052#:~:text=stories%20making%20headlines.-,The%20Republican%20senator%20who%20gave%20the%20party%27s%20response%20to%20President,or%20during%20the%20Biden%20administration.">Britt's Lie is in telling this story as though it's a direct result of President Biden's border policies.</a> It isn't.</p><p>The woman in question, Karla Jacinto Romero, is an incredibly brave activist who has told her story of subjugation and sexual abuse for decades now. <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTL8YQkQj/"> Former AP report Jonathan Katz uncovered this</a> and I recommend watching his video essay detailing the fundamental dishonesty in Britt's recounting of the incident. I suppose in an irony of ironies despicable liar Katie Britt didn't even "SAY HER NAME" during this shameless co-option of Karla's trauma.</p><div>This is a shocking level of insincerity and brazen dishonesty which and I want you be clear, <b>NO LONGER FUCKING MATTERS</b> anymore. Republicans have successfully groomed and cultivated a cult and have no need to worry about lies, slander, misconduct, or even criminal conspiracies harming their electoral chances.</div><div><br /></div><div>This was merely Britt's biggest lie as her awkward code switching and her stern breathy voice bore <b>FALSE WITNESS</b> against the President. But, while on line Republican operatives were angry at Britt’s terrible presentation the right wing doesnt care about Britt's shameless. Retreating to the well-worn canard, 'Oh they all lie. Especially Biden! He's the biggest liar' and therefore having condemned all politicians as exactly the same they absolve themselves of any moral conundrum in voting for Republicans, which is the whole fucking point of Corporate Media BothSides rhetoric, false equivocation, and constant push to excuse Republican perfidy.</div><div><br /></div><div>We are in for a fight everyone. Republicans hate You. Do what you can to defeat these Republican monsters in the November Election because they see Trump's election, the Six Supreme Court Injustices, the compliant Corporate Media, and Authoritarianism Rising with in Europe, in South America, and the Fanatical Genocidal Wars in Ukraine and Gaza as the perfect opportunity to finally destroy the United States of America and replace it with a MAGA Empire held aloft by the pillars of White Supremacy, Corporate Hegemony, and Fascist Fundamentalism.</div><div><br /></div><div>As always Be Brave if you can but, be ready to fight for your very lives because Republicans are coming for them.</div>Grung_e_Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-69202027927287312882024-03-10T09:44:00.001-05:002024-03-10T09:44:03.229-05:00Republicans hate America 21: Drunken Van Orden strikes again at the SOTU<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtcpVyEOz3KyUX32QDRy6ApIiYhh8gZDPXDudml8hNj738AVERQN2CPGm27VPJEqWx4RLSX4YMx7wbROWwc-c99vpw-hhp4kYsvzOqm7oc1YA2AAtdOKFWfRdeorCVxK1P_7sSk7HvuYLnAcC2LibBdGoqzj_bLBACXLngpIeYhX8o1oWYi2kG4wJ9BJyB/s673/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-02%20at%209.56.35%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="673" data-original-width="609" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtcpVyEOz3KyUX32QDRy6ApIiYhh8gZDPXDudml8hNj738AVERQN2CPGm27VPJEqWx4RLSX4YMx7wbROWwc-c99vpw-hhp4kYsvzOqm7oc1YA2AAtdOKFWfRdeorCVxK1P_7sSk7HvuYLnAcC2LibBdGoqzj_bLBACXLngpIeYhX8o1oWYi2kG4wJ9BJyB/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-02%20at%209.56.35%20AM.png" width="290" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p>Republicans have a substance abuse problem. In the wake of President Biden’s rousing State of the Union speech, conservatives decided to claim Biden was on drugs.<div><div><br /></div><div>Now, understand whenever Republicans make an accusation it’ always a confession of their own behavior. During Trump's maladministration <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-white-house-drugs-speed-xanax-1234979503/">it's been revealed that the White House was awash in speed</a>, Xanax, and other drugs and former Admiral Ronny Jackson, was a pill-mill Doctor handing out prescription drugs like candy. Of course"Admiral" Jackson is <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/11/ronny-jackson-rodeo-altercation/#:~:text=Ronny%20Jackson%2C%20R%2DAmarillo%2C%20threatened%20to%20beat%20up%20a,incident%20report%20released%20Friday%20night.">now Texas Congressman Ronny Jackson <i>in case you didn't know,</i></a> and is no longer an Admiral having been quietly demoted in July 2022 due to a scathing Inspector General's report, which was buttressed by Jackson drunken and amphetamine filed attack on Texas deputies in August of 2023.</div><div><br /></div><div>Like Ronny Jackson, Wisconsin Republican Derrick Van Orden is a mean drunk. Now, there's a difference between an alcoholic and a drunk. <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/03/derrick-van-orden-state-of-the-union-lies/">Mother Jones claims Derrick Van Orden has an anger management problem</a> but, by Van Orden's own admission he's embraced being an obnoxious, booze filled raging asshole drunk throughout his life.</div><div><br /></div><div>So, this year it was Drunken Van Orden's turn to be a disrespectful, obnoxious heckler during President Biden's State of the Union shouting "Lies" and claiming the speech could have been given by <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px;">“could have been delivered by Joseph Stalin or Mao Zedong or President Xi.”</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Unable to criticize the substance of President Biden's speech they focus on style. Of course, besides being boorish, Republicans have nothing to offer the American people so they have to heckle, they can’t offer up concrete policy ideas because the only thing Republicans are offering up is hatred and bigotry.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Derrick Van Orden was a Navy Seal. I wonder how his XO would have handled Van Orden drunkenly acting out in unit formation or during training ops. Of course, Drunken Van Orden has an extremely high opinion of his leadership and moral grounding having written <em style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px;">Book of Man: A Navy Seal’s Guide to the Lost Art of Manhood</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px;">. According to the book’s </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Book-Navy-SEALs-Guide-Manhood/dp/0692427376" style="background-image: url("/wp-content/themes/motherjones/css/../img/orange-border.png"); background-position: 0px 90%; background-repeat: repeat-x; box-sizing: inherit; color: black; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px 0px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px 0px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px 1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px 1px 0px;">description</a> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Calluna, serif; font-size: 19px;">on Amazon, “Stories of fist fighting, fishing, and driving fast cars are all interwoven with the principles of what used to be known as basic manhood, but has now become a lost art.”</span></div><div><br /></div><div>What mean Drunk Van Orden calls manhood has been recognized as vicious and vile bullying since <i>The Great Santini</i>, and while Republicans may confuse being an abusive asshole with "manhood" Americans recognize this type of behavior is unacceptable. Hopefully, Wisconsin voters will recognize the same this November.</div></div>Grung_e_Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-15584130386890415752024-03-08T08:34:00.006-06:002024-03-08T11:39:08.863-06:00Fighting Joe Biden not so Sleepy State of the Union Rope-a-Dopes Republicans again<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirq3XPRg98EbdhKinvoEYuy1_TwCayTeKn12kzXWPZ3ecP34vV2Df3OqzT4HNkj8QpM1-huXEpUBcVfBuu6HrtY0d2Ux-YdlaQckxkcZJh3Tq-_d1jQfyraa9lCWit19jkMwH8HUQOtNMR02_u8pZKBlKtV3RmI53516XOKX_mF1_jzVMOi3Nn6mAzykgE/s1024/EEAD576F-6436-4D9F-8926-C7F1A0063C29.heic" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="904" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirq3XPRg98EbdhKinvoEYuy1_TwCayTeKn12kzXWPZ3ecP34vV2Df3OqzT4HNkj8QpM1-huXEpUBcVfBuu6HrtY0d2Ux-YdlaQckxkcZJh3Tq-_d1jQfyraa9lCWit19jkMwH8HUQOtNMR02_u8pZKBlKtV3RmI53516XOKX_mF1_jzVMOi3Nn6mAzykgE/s320/EEAD576F-6436-4D9F-8926-C7F1A0063C29.heic" width="283" /></a></div><div>The choice between Battlin' Joe Biden and the Toxic Treasonous Predecessor remains absolutely clear and easy.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>I'll be darned</i> but President Joe Biden remains a force during these speeches and Major Traitor Greene and every Republican remains a classless piece of shit.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/joe-biden-2024-state-of-the-union-address-republicans">Fighting Joe delivered an absolute knock out</a> State of the Union address. A feisty engaged speech filled with concrete ideas and promises to fight the Republican forces of Fascism.</div><p>Again, Republicans have nothing to offer the American people. Republicans have no policies, no political platform, no aspirations, no ideas. Republicans stand for nothing. Don't ever forget <a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/173963/republicans-taking-credit-infrastructure-bill-voted-against">Republicans routinely take credit for Bills they vote against</a> and deny culpability for the bigoted and hateful laws (IVF) they do pass. Mighty Joe Biden called them out on it again!</p><p>The Entire Republican Congress are naught but, trolls and hecklers. They have no self-control and no decency. It's the natural endpoint of 40 years of incestuous rightwing propaganda; Republicans have been sitting in their rightwing bubbles endlessly farting and then inhaling in each other’s farts. In fact, Republicans have been huffing their own farts for so long they believe their own agitprop about Biden’s age, as the GOP continues to engage in incestuous amplification.</p><p>Yet, Joe Biden is perfect at responding to this type of heckling and continues to get the better of them, even though he’s older and slower he still beats them. </p><p>Contrast Joe's witty retorts and extemporaneous ad-libs as he's heckled with <a href="https://youtu.be/7rrsERltUiQ?si=cX5kOE27NY8gOC7v">Trump's responses to interruptions during his fascist rallies</a>. When Trump is interrupted his brain ceases functioning, he stops, gets visibly angry, continues to sweat profusely, breathes hard, and yells to get them out of here like your angry Faux News watching Uncle gets when you interrupt their racist harangues. </p><p>It's impressive. Fighting Joe, the Delaware Dandy, the Son of Scranton, is a canny old fighter just out-boxing them over and over again. Watching President Biden set-up obvious rhetorical traps and watching Republican howler monkeys simply start shouting and flinging shit at him and "I'll be darned..." if Fighting Joe didn't come out on top again. And make no mistake, <a href="https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/politifact/article/fact-check-gop-social-security-18527983.php">Republicans absolutely want to steal your Social Security</a>, because Republicans hate you, they hate American, and the hate the American Dream of being able to retire and enjoy your golden years.</p><p>I wish President Biden could look over his long career and decide to hang'em up but, I know he sees what an existential threat to American Democracy MAGA is, and he can't sit on the sidelines and watch the Toxic Treasonous Predecessor destroy the United States.</p><p>Again, the choice is clear, simple, and easy; either hand the Federal Government over to a gaggle of Nazis or bring Joe back for 4 more years of easily the best President of Joe Biden's long lifetime.</p>Grung_e_Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-44560368625909305092024-03-07T08:34:00.004-06:002024-03-07T15:37:06.387-06:00The Choice between President Biden and criminally insane, pudding-brain, Traitor Trump is clear<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlc4vwbOiu7XnE4YuL2j0059vKMne06hKP9oPTdfxn_Om0l2U_z1TKSP0FMjKNWxdsAkjcHf-R1AFBlyT0rkTdI8c43GqaLMtzrO2HNBW4-Y6Zlb5dWrmvNxaMXE4TlfTw1glT1o-5VT6EVsWC-whVi7kWXR0wkubUJFnwYY7bLkBbFkOQ1rv7xawM-bz6/s1432/IMG_0412.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1432" data-original-width="1027" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlc4vwbOiu7XnE4YuL2j0059vKMne06hKP9oPTdfxn_Om0l2U_z1TKSP0FMjKNWxdsAkjcHf-R1AFBlyT0rkTdI8c43GqaLMtzrO2HNBW4-Y6Zlb5dWrmvNxaMXE4TlfTw1glT1o-5VT6EVsWC-whVi7kWXR0wkubUJFnwYY7bLkBbFkOQ1rv7xawM-bz6/s320/IMG_0412.jpeg" width="229" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Trump's Brain and Supporters</i></td></tr></tbody></table><p> The Republicans talking points seem to be too simply lie about Trump's time as President.</p><p><a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2024/03/elise-stefaniks-magnificent-self-own">Elise Stefanik continued to debase herself</a> at the altar of Donald Trump in her dishonorable quest to be the Vice President,</p><blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: #212529; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; font-family: trebuchet;">Reading from prepared remarks, Stefanik asked, "As Ronald Reagan famously asked us, are you better off today than you were four years ago?" And then she answered, "The answer for hardworking Americans across the country is a resounding no."</span></p></blockquote><p>On Morning Edition yesterday, <a href="https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1236201800">NPR had a story about low-income health clinics in Nevada,</a> </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; float: none; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1.176471em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;">LARRY LEVITT: President Biden made a centerpiece of his campaign in 2020 to reinvigorate the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, and he has done that. We have record enrollment. We have the lowest share of the population uninsured in history. That makes a difference.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; float: none; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1.176471em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;">ABBIE MARTÍNEZ: And it stands in contrast to the Republican front-runner.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; float: none; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1.176471em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;">LARRY LEVITT: Former President Trump, when he was in office, tried unsuccessfully to repeal the Affordable Care Act and cap funding for Medicaid, the health care program that serves low-income people. And he's recently been vowing once again to try that if elected.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; float: none; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.36px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1.176471em; max-width: 680px; padding: 0px 15px; position: static; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;">ABBIE MARTÍNEZ: Levitt believes that means voters have a clear choice between the candidates when it comes to health care. Talking to Dr. Walker at CHA, he's careful not to comment on politics but admits that when he goes to vote this November, it's going to be difficult not to be influenced by the clinic's mission.</p><p>At the end of the segment the Doctor couldn't say he's not voting for Trump, and I completely understand why, because after hearing that right-wingers would call in bomb threats to the clinic and death threats to workers.</p><p>The next segment though NPR had notorious rightwing liar Hugh Hewitt was brought on to provide the bias NPR believes makes them neutral. Followed closely by North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum to explain that Americans can easily see things were better under Trump.</p><p>And this, claiming things were better under Trump, seems to be the tactic, Republicans are going to take. Since, most Americans can't see past the last 24 hours it's not a bad political strategy. However, this is too glib an explanation. It's not that most Americans are dumb or uninterested in politics it's that Republicans for decades have consistently undermined America. And when they aren't in power or have only partial control of the The Federal Government they throw non-stop tantrums and concoct all manner of lies and propaganda to make Americans throw up their hands and give the Republicans their way. </p><p>For over 40 years Republicans at all levels of Government have sabotaged working Americans and moved to undo protections and the social safety net which allows Americans to engage in long-term thinking because Republicans know that because of Republican policies and agenda most Americans are worried about today, tomorrow's dinner, and being one paycheck away from financial ruin. Focusing on the here and now keeps people from asking why Republicans hate them.</p><p>Under their anti-American leadership Republicans have moved the Nation closer and closer to the NeoFeudalist slave nation they wish it to be. </p><p>So, when elections come up Republicans bank on Americans not thinking back to the perfidious policies of the Republican Party or pay attention to the Republican future schemes to Make Everything Worse Again and since shameless self-promoters and vicious villains in the Republican Party have adopted Trump's strategy of bullshit and factless bluster, they expect people will question themselves and maybe start believing that things when better or even good under Trump.</p><div>Except we can see what the United States was like under a Trump Regime. <b> It sucked</b>. First and fucking foremost, when that mythical 3 a.m. emergency phone call came in Trump failed. He failed because Trump is a failure. A colossal failure in ever conceivable way. Trump had no interest in dealing with Covid 4 years ago. Trump didn't care to listen to anyone. Trump had no plan to get the Nation through the disaster. Like his entire privileged life Trump does stuff, moves from scheme to scheme, and expects the little people to clean up the mess and take it on the chin. Except this time, it wasn't merely Trump stiffing people out of money but, turning a million Americans into stiffs.</div><p>But, reality, history, and facts have nothing to do with modern Corporate reporting. Modern media is invested in false neutrality and in providing cover for every vile Republican perfidy imaginable.</p><p>The Corporate Media has given Trump extensive and non-stop free coverage but, they've never accurately reported on him. It would be nice if the Corporate Media reported Trump's increasingly bizarre brain dysfunctions, halting grammatical errors, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/03/04/campaign-confusion-trump-mistakes-biden-obama/72841597007/">and constantly calling President Biden President Obama</a> by simply transcribing his actual words instead of cleaning up his speeches and providing explanations to make it seem as though trump is competent.</p><p>But, they won't. </p><p>Traitor Trump routinely garbles his way towards claiming his economy was the best of all time, he's the best of all time, he's more handsome than Elvis, China loves him and loves him not, and Putin and Hamas wouldn't have dared make war if he was in office and OBAMA!</p><p>Traitor Trump's brain is melting before our eyes. The mental deterioration, which was noticeable a few years ago, is now so blatant and obvious, Trump might be drooling and unable to speak coherently by Election Day. Not that his pudding brain will deter voters from trying to put him back in the White House because the vicious school of <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon/bannons-war-room-media-home-project-2025-and-trumps-retribution-plans">Trump sycophants who circle him are eager to get their hands on the Awesome Power of Government</a>, because despite rightwing lies about not trusting the Government conservatives yearn to use the Government to round-up and exterminate millions of Us.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3Cqa1y3U8-0" width="320" youtube-src-id="3Cqa1y3U8-0"></iframe></div>Grung_e_Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-79938725134988517972024-03-06T15:24:00.007-06:002024-03-06T16:31:02.792-06:00The Democratic Party in Illinois moves to protect Waterways & Wetlands<p> Last year, the scummy SCOTUS ruled that the US Constitution and Clean Water Act aren't valid <a href="https://www.wbez.org/stories/illinois-wetlands-protections-proposed/3a85bf6e-a87a-4074-9352-442139376c82">because the Supreme Six Injustices deem it to be so.</a></p><p>The fact the Clean Water Act was 50 years old or the that the first legal cases decided by the old SCOTUS dates back <i>200 years ago</i>, or that the right of the Federal Government to regulate waterways is written into the very Constitution is irrelevant; The Scummy Supreme Six Injustices are aligned with the rapacious Rich and those who despoil the Nation.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); color: #252525; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 19.799999px; margin: 1rem 0px; padding: 0px;"></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">The <a href="https://www.epa.gov/laws-regulations/history-clean-water-act#:~:text=As%20amended%20in%201972%2C%20the,Clean%20Water%20Act%20(CWA)" rel="noopener" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-shadow: transparent 0px 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration: none; transition: box-shadow 0.1s linear;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid;">Clean Water Act of 1972</span></a> survived decades of litigation from opponents seeking to limit the authority of federal agencies like the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to regulate the <a href="https://www.epa.gov/wotus" rel="noopener" style="border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-shadow: transparent 0px 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; margin-top: 1rem; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration: none; transition: box-shadow 0.1s linear;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid;">Waters of the United States</span></a>, typically referred to as WOTUS. Before the wetlands decision, the Supreme Court upheld the definition of WOTUS to not only include navigable bodies of waters but also adjacent wetlands with meaningful hydrological connections.</span><span> </span></span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">For over a</span><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"> </span><a href="https://www.nrdc.org/stories/what-you-need-know-about-sackett-v-epa" rel="noopener" style="background-color: #d0e0e3; border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-shadow: transparent 0px 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration: none; transition: box-shadow 0.1s linear;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid;">decade</span></a><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">, Michael and Chantell Sackett, an Idaho couple, challenged this definition before the Supreme Court twice. In 2004, they bought a lakeside property with the plans to build a home on the site. The couple began excavation without applying for the appropriate permitting to develop on top of a wetland and the EPA stopped the project.</span><span> </span></span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">Last May, in a</span><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"> </span><a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/05/25/1178150234/supreme-court-epa-clean-water-act" rel="noopener" style="background-color: #d0e0e3; border-bottom-color: currentcolor; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-shadow: transparent 0px 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #252525; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration: none; transition: box-shadow 0.1s linear;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-style: solid;">5-4 ruling</span></a><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Sacketts.</span></span></blockquote><p></p><p>You might have missed this ruling seeing as the Reactionary Court has been pushing through all manner of regressive bills designed to return the United States to its' Roots as a Slave Owning Kleptocracy built upon white supremacy and fundamentalist hyporcisy but, the Injustices financial backers and benefactors also have a eye on undermining any regulation which stymies their ability to despoil the land, strip it of it's natural beauty and reap the financial rewards.</p><p>All the meanwhile, leaving behind a shattered wasteland to be inherited by the meek.</p><p>Fortunately, here in Illinois we have a Democratic Legislature which will not simply turn the rivers, lakes, streams, and wetlands over to rapacious billionaires to do with as they wish.</p><p>In response to another unjust overreach by this Court, Illinois State Senator Laura Ellman introduced a <b>New Act</b> <a href="https://legiscan.com/IL/text/SB3669/2023#:~:text=Illinois%20Senate%20Bill%203669&text=Bill%20Title%3A%20Creates%20the%20Wetlands,by%20the%20Clean%20Water%20Act.">30 ILCS 105/5.1015,</a> the <b>Wetlands and Small Streams Protection Act</b>:</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; font-size: medium;">to restore protections for wetlands and small streams that were formerly protected from pollution and destruction by the Clean Water Act. Provides provisions concerning: exemptions; wetlands delineation, classification, notification, permits and veto; general permits; appeal of final decisions made by the Department of Natural Resources and judicial review; investigation and enforcement; and county authority. Creates the Wetlands and Small Streams Advisory Committee and establishes duties and rules for the Committee. Creates the Wetlands and Small Streams Protection Fund. Provides for permit review fees. Defines terms. Makes conforming changes in the State Finance Act and the Illinois Environmental Protection Act. Effective immediately.</span></blockquote>Marshes, bogs, ponds, streams, and other waterways are not things to be drained, damned, or reclaimed but integral pieces of a functioning landscape, a refugee for wildlife, and repository of natural beauty.<p></p><p>But, the 1% won't be satisfied with the massive gains they've made over the rest of America; the Rich want it all, which is why they know<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-mar-a-lago-christmas-trip/"> if they put Trump back into power</a> they'll be able to finally eliminate the Middle Class, end the American dream, and shackle the American people into perpetual wage slavery and bondage. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gGQQlwMMcjQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="gGQQlwMMcjQ"></iframe></div><p style="text-align: center;">"I know plenty of you, and you're rich as hell... And we're going to give you tax cuts."</p>Grung_e_Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-4851772178626266562024-03-05T10:42:00.003-06:002024-03-05T10:42:55.142-06:00Revenge of the Thin Blue Line 42: Carol Stream Police invade an apartment and shoot a black person<p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Just last week I wrote about a work friend wanting to disccuss <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ9tTottjB8">Harvard Professor Roland Fryer's, interview with Bari Weiss</a> concerning his 2016 study which PROVED! BEYOND QUESTION! there is no Racial Bias in Police Shootings... and then dumb old reality just had to butt in and disprove his theory.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If I were a more jaded person, I might overlay Fryer’s faulty and ridiculous claims over the body cam footage from Carol Stream. But, I am not a ghoul. </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://abc7chicago.com/carol-stream-police-shooting-protest-isaac-goodlow/14491287/">The Carol Stream Police Department had an Officer-involved shooting</a>. As always, I want you to understand that Police advocates have fought for years for this semi-blameless language to be used in official proceedings and in news reports because language is the first line of defense and weapon to be used to exonerate the Officers involved.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The case in Carol Stream involves a misdemeanor domestic battery. The victim was out of the apartment. Her injuries, while not reported in detail, did not necessitate hospitalization. Inside the apartment was the suspected offender Isaac Goodlow.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When making a warrantless entry there are 3 exceptions; Consent, Hot Pursuit, Exigent Circumstances.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Hot Pursuit” is obvious you’re chasing someone whose committed a crime and they attempt to defeat arrest by hiding in a house</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Exigent Circumstances” is the immediate need to protect someone’s life (e.g. someone screaming for help or seeing a house on fire.)</span></p><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><p style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">She provided “Consent” for the Officers to go into the apartment where the suspect Isaac Goodlow was but, she did not have the right to make authorization as she did not live there and therefore the entry does not fall under the Search Warrant exceptions.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Officers may in good faith believe she has authority but, simply taking her word for it is not enough fact-checking. Especially, when the victim of the crime is not in harm’s way and there is no on-going emergency which would lead the Officers to believe they had to apprehend the offender immediately.</span></p></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carol Stream Police Chief <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #202124;">Donald Cummings gave a statement about the Officers attempts to get Goodlow to come out of the apartment before getting the <span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);">maintenance</span> man to open the door to the open gaining the Officers entry. At this point, someone in the CSPD needed to say stop why don't we get a warrant to enter; this would have a two-fold effect of lowering the Officer's emotions and further provide Goodlow the opportunity to surrender. But, instead the Officers went in.</span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><p style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">6 officers went inside the residence. From the "stack", it certainly looks like they wanted to do a SWAT style building entry, a maneuver which is <i>en vogue</i>, with training and tactics these days. One Officer has a ballistic shield, another Officer has a Taser ready, and at least two had guns drawn. </span></p></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><p style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I think I know what happened with the first shot. Everyone in that group is jazzed. And I think the Officer had his finger on the trigger. And as they entered the room with auditory exclusion, tunnel vision, jittery hands, and adrenaline pumping up his heart rate, he got startled, and the sympathetic nervous system gave the “Startle Response” and he squeezed the trigger. The next shot and Taser deployment where in response to the first shot.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And like that Goodlow was shot and killed.</span></p></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><p style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Police Chief which listed off all the steps that will and must be taken to investigate this shooting and give full due process to the Officers involved. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now, juxtapose this with the scant due process given to the dead man Isaac Goodlow.</span></p></div><div><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgba(13, 13, 13, 0.9);"><blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit;">"The totality of the video, including the events that occurred before and after the shooting, will be released at a later date pursuant to the completion of the DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office review. Once the investigation is completed by the Public Integrity Team, the State’s Attorney’s Office will conduct a comprehensive evaluation of all forensic evidence, witness accounts, and officer statements to make a determination regarding the actions of those involved."</span></blockquote></span></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Due Process, you see is only available, to inherently good people who find themselves in an unfortunate situation.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For instance, right now, a cult of martyrdom is growing around Derek Chauvin to turn him into the American Nelson Mandela. And while this is part of the broader rightwing attempt to undermine Law&Order and replace it with their Fascist White Power Fundamentalism understand the Chauvin Cultists and people who support each and every police shooting of black people can never be swayed with reality, facts, medical documentation, or even due process and court proceedings.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But, and this is the point with each and everyone of these incidents, a depressingly large swathe of White society does not question the extrajudicial killing of black people. And a vile segment encourage and reveal in these killings and then, with malicious glee, use the deaths as on-line content fodder and incitement amongst their rightwing drones against the dead black person, black society in general, and of course, DemocRAT controlled cities.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The basic paradigm which is understood and still taught is black people are inherently criminal and <i>a priori </i>guilty and therefore any time they have an interaction with Police its’ understood their deaths at the hands of Police are entirely their fault. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whereas, white people (as long as the adhere to the tenets of rightwing white supremacy) are inherently good and must somehow have been caught up in a bad situation and therefore their interaction with Police they must be afforded due process above and beyond what is called for under the color of law.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I could go through the entire litany of cop jargon and lawfare that Police use to cover up such incidents, but the plain facts and what the American society has just seen is another unarmed black man shot to death inside his residence.</span></p>Grung_e_Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-8310202748480453832024-03-01T19:20:00.006-06:002024-03-05T11:23:15.479-06:00The Flour Massacre, IDF War Crimes against desperate and starving Palestinians, and the escalating Humanitarian crisis in Gaza<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpE06plsy8E_crMd6bVJGVSze6r2Ukj67AxM-Cd2pfJv2ASNRw7B5486mfi7FEgyf1iVIFYhWoY4vs8iQ-rN-ogGUE8PyJGfxaP2lwTcEsgrCVv5LLUwkY7opapVU90qCep2HurvXz970qYpuM4lQPbE-evDg6-xX_DuAWPYUqFp6WCGO5xf0WOljEwNeR/s1744/IMG_0425.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1744" data-original-width="1179" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpE06plsy8E_crMd6bVJGVSze6r2Ukj67AxM-Cd2pfJv2ASNRw7B5486mfi7FEgyf1iVIFYhWoY4vs8iQ-rN-ogGUE8PyJGfxaP2lwTcEsgrCVv5LLUwkY7opapVU90qCep2HurvXz970qYpuM4lQPbE-evDg6-xX_DuAWPYUqFp6WCGO5xf0WOljEwNeR/s320/IMG_0425.jpeg" width="216" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>It's 1938 all over again...</u></td></tr></tbody></table>The children of Gaza (and the West Bank) are going to need a Sir Nicholas Winton because the IDF, Likud Government, and illegal West Bank Settlers are planning on exterminating every Palestinian they can.<div><br /></div><div>Besides the bombardment and slaughter of children, The IDF and War Criminal Netanyahu are creating multiple human catastrophes in Gaza. For instance, reduce many in the population to the brink of starvation and then <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/29/dozens-killed-injured-by-israeli-fire-in-gaza-while-collecting-food-aid">machine-gun down the starving people</a> when they rush to get some of the meager food supplies the Israelis are letting through.</div><div><blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; hyphens: auto; margin: 0.5rem 0px 30px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 21px;">According to the Gaza health ministry, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) killed </span><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/29/dozens-killed-injured-by-israeli-fire-in-gaza-while-collecting-food-aid" style="backface-visibility: hidden; box-shadow: rgb(156, 22, 44) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 21px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.15s ease-in-out;">at least 104 people</a><span style="font-size: 21px;"> and injured at least 750 others as they were congregating in Nabulsi Square near Gaza City, hoping to access flour that was expected to come through in aid trucks. Troops shot at the crowd with </span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/29/middleeast/gaza-city-deaths-food-israel-intl/index.html" style="backface-visibility: hidden; box-shadow: rgb(156, 22, 44) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 21px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.15s ease-in-out;">tanks and drones</a><span style="font-size: 21px;">, and ran tanks </span><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/29/dozens-killed-injured-by-israeli-fire-in-gaza-while-collecting-food-aid" style="backface-visibility: hidden; box-shadow: rgb(156, 22, 44) 0px -2px 0px inset; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 21px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.15s ease-in-out;">over injured and dead people</a><span style="font-size: 21px;"> as they fired, according to </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 21px;">Al Jazeera</em><span style="font-size: 21px;">.</span></span></p></blockquote></div><div>Indiscriminate firing into a crowd of starving people and running over the wounded with tanks are crimes so monstrous, even the United States didn't do it during the long Iraqi Occupation. It's what the villainous Fascist Future Government in <i>The Running Man</i> did at the beginning of the film. However, the Israeli war criminals know that after each and every one of their war crimes they merely have to say wasn't our fault, our soldiers always avoid civilian casualties, and anyway those killed were Hamas Rapists & Terrorists.</div><div><br /></div><div>I don't recommend or watch War Porn videos, I've seen enough real shit. But, even<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000009336313/israel-palestinian-war-aid-convoy-video.html"> The New York Times stated</a>, <i>The Israeli Military released a heavily edited video to deflect blame...</i></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Commit War Crime - Repeat IDF excuses - Accuse others of Anti-Semitism and supporting Hamas...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Commit War Crime - Repeat IDF excuses - Accuse others of Anti-Semitism and supporting Hamas...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Commit War Crime - Repeat IDF excuses - Accuse others of Anti-Semitism and supporting Hamas...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Commit War Crime - Repeat IDF excuses - Accuse others of Anti-Semitism and supporting Hamas...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Commit War Crime - Repeat IDF excuses - Accuse others of Anti-Semitism and supporting Hamas...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Commit War Crime - Repeat IDF excuses - Accuse others of Anti-Semitism and supporting Hamas...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Commit War Crime - Repeat IDF excuses - Accuse others of Anti-Semitism and supporting Hamas...</div><div><br /></div><div>The death toll in Gaza is reportedly 30,000 but, the IDF counters its' killed 10,000 Hamas fighters and blames any other deaths on Hamas using Palestinians as "human-shields". In their latest indefensible war crime the IDF blamed Hamas for rushing to steal the food, and claimed their soldiers only shot people who posed a threat, and most of the deaths were the result of looters who drove the trucks through the crowds.</div><div><br /></div><div>Netanyahu and the IDF are going to kill as many people as possible and there's not much anyone is willing to do or can do to stop this. Whenever this ends, Israel has destroyed their moral credibility for the next 50 years but, it matters little to the leadership of Likud or Hamas. They see this war as beneficial and absolutely in line with their goals. I fear the Israelis and Palestinians are doomed.</div><div><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: garamond-premier-pro, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, Palladio, "URW Palladio L", "Book Antiqua", Baskerville, "Bookman Old Style", "Bitstream Charter", "Nimbus Roman No9 L", Garamond, "Apple Garamond", "ITC Garamond Narrow", "New Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook", "Century Schoolbook L", Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.3125rem; line-height: 30.66px; margin-bottom: 2.5rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><div><div style="text-align: right;"></div></div></div>Grung_e_Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-61932049620668034322024-03-01T10:14:00.004-06:002024-03-06T18:23:30.181-06:00The Revenge of the Thin Blue Line 41: Harvard Economist Roland Fryer Study Destroys Racial Bias in Police Shootings or does it?So, at work a friend asked me if I had heard the Harvard study showing there is no racial discrimination in shootings. I said I hadn't and he began to play a video with his phone facing away from me.<div><br /></div><div>So, right away I could tell the speaker was an African-American man. I will leave it up to you to determine why rightwingers absolutely love hearing conservative black writers and thinkers like Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas, Colon Noir, Candace Owens or whomever regurgitate reactionary agitprop and direct snide inflammatory insults at Democrats, progressives, LGBTQ persons and other minorities.</div><div><br /></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit8QpWYVjteVeMZ6_lbbfPcSZlgBZVN6L_3ViCKHINgtGq5eNXB1v9Rr5RU_LHTFlsFRbhQcVlkzUQYdMS2ZjDyefDpAP6wchmDDohgkKO2IsvioTBqrA2uasChrmoVcF2RDZ-GiG92sXJp7MEKFVJdA4Ke5gS2Fy2K56MopF2JViXp4Vz5rbxgVjTgpIH/s592/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-06%20at%206.20.27%20PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="569" data-original-width="592" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit8QpWYVjteVeMZ6_lbbfPcSZlgBZVN6L_3ViCKHINgtGq5eNXB1v9Rr5RU_LHTFlsFRbhQcVlkzUQYdMS2ZjDyefDpAP6wchmDDohgkKO2IsvioTBqrA2uasChrmoVcF2RDZ-GiG92sXJp7MEKFVJdA4Ke5gS2Fy2K56MopF2JViXp4Vz5rbxgVjTgpIH/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-06%20at%206.20.27%20PM.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bari Weiss lies about Crime</td></tr></tbody></table>Anyway as I listened to about 30-60 seconds of the speaker who it turns out is Harvard Economist Professor Roland Fryer, who stated he had published a study showing there was no bias in police shootings. Reading up on it, the study was conducted in 2016 and published in July 2017, so it's post Ferguson but, pre-George Floyd and BLM burning down every city in America 4 times over during the 2020 "Riots".</div><div><br /></div><div>Now, <a href="https://youtu.be/FefEVH-Cxl8?si=Y5oJ7tUv84a_yCP4">this video was a snippet </a>from a 75 minute interview with Bari Weiss, so already I know it's going to have a hard right slant while it masquerades as a Neutral <i>follow the facts not feelings</i> or even adopts a pseudo-left patina. It's also under the umbrella of the "<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2021/11/08/heres-what-we-know-about-the-university-of-austin-the-self-proclaimed-anti-censorship-institution/?sh=6ee2c40c51a8">University of Austin"</a>, which if you don't know is a Billionaire funded reactionary laboratory designed to undercut education by claiming it's all about stopping Cancel Culture and Wokeness. </div><div><br /></div><div>My first question was where did the data come from before we got off topic. We got off topic because my friend wanted to defend the Jan6th Coup Attempt ("It wasn't an insurrection") and decry the southern border migrant influx. His defense of the Jan6th criminal conspiracy boiled down to 'They [i.e. the Police] let them in' therefore it can't have been a Coup Attempt. Shades of a Nixonian belief, <i>If police officer let's you do it, that means it is not illegal.</i><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXFMBkK9rwUj2zspIr7cAzxBwh7M6b9M0LLThVWQ0nLaD_sqfX2UckTMBMFm63o1eYGBQzJ-86kCHapXl9F9QmJuzH1UF2l7H1DdB5iftYKfdpncSf9WP6Sy6EgJDFtA9m6cydGdWzw6Q_stEtdV4OqyuCHYh17DmyluRrbS0nK_hm-jRk9EnXpAGbz5Pu/s835/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-16%20at%209.51.49%20PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="835" data-original-width="546" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXFMBkK9rwUj2zspIr7cAzxBwh7M6b9M0LLThVWQ0nLaD_sqfX2UckTMBMFm63o1eYGBQzJ-86kCHapXl9F9QmJuzH1UF2l7H1DdB5iftYKfdpncSf9WP6Sy6EgJDFtA9m6cydGdWzw6Q_stEtdV4OqyuCHYh17DmyluRrbS0nK_hm-jRk9EnXpAGbz5Pu/w209-h320/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-16%20at%209.51.49%20PM.png" width="209" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div>But, getting back to Professor Fryer, in the snippet he claimed other academics went to him and pressured him to not publish it. And if that was remotely true he'd name names. No names? Didn't happen. Fryer, also leans in and in semi-stunned tones claims after getting his results of not finding any racial bias in police shooting from his 8 RAs, he hired 8 "fresh ones" and redid the study and got the same result! Shocking!!! Of course, you could hire a million RA's and if you feed them the same data every time you're probably going to get the same result. The old stand by of <b>Garbage In, Garbage Out,</b> still applies I see.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Or if anyone did go to Fryer and ask him not to publish it was because they knew as soon as his study was released shameless bad faith actors would seize upon it and tout it for decades proving there was no racial bias in policing. Because... No One... <b>NO ONE.</b>.. reads a study like this in it's entirety. And yes before you go, <i>Well I found 3 people who read this from cover to cover</i>, functionally no one reads everything. Instead what they do is read the Title, perhaps find a tidbit or two in the study that conforms to their narrative, and cite it over and over and over by repetition.</div><div> </div><div>And that's the biggest disservice of this paper because, grotesque Reactionaries like my friend or Megyn Kelly are going to reference it to prove there isn't <i>any</i> bias in Police work. Even though, and this is classic, Professor Fryer states, "that yes we saw some bias in the low level uses of force, everyday pushing up against cars and things like that..."</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Just as an aside, sure there's Police brutality in everyday interactions with black an hispanic people and police like throwing people up against cars blah blah blah... but let me minimize it so I can provide Faux News and rightwing grifters like Bari Weiss the ammo they need to claim '<i>Ackshullay</i> there really isn't Police brutality'...</div><div><br /></div><div>And of course, the whole fucking point isn't that White Cops are all Klansman running around gunning down black people on a daily N-word hunt, but that Police brutality and systematic racism stem from the day-to-day interactions and injustices meted out in disproportionate number of traffic stops, unequal application of laws, over-policing of certain neighborhoods based on demographics, targeted harsh sentencing of black and brown peoples <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/illinois-judge-sparked-outrage-reversing-sex-assault-conviction-rcna140449#">while certain whites get special treatment</a>, plus a whole host of other micro-aggressions which minorities face from the Justice System on a daily basis.</div><div><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIp11NLb7XUSXwZ7oyuRiFcRYZkewMuii4YcmAuGY4iFk2PkCsgbu4l4m9KrOm6RlVh2yQdiOhUe3Nrqv-zbzxnTVkwhWjW_z4pvGrf4wtYtGLRp9btMJXoPkJ1uJyjgo1V7eTE1JT9Im2p5Qui2rcmjcK9MycyjQmAPiMEKNPwkthYXF4crai_OOP92la/s506/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-01%20at%209.40.50%20AM.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="429" data-original-width="506" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIp11NLb7XUSXwZ7oyuRiFcRYZkewMuii4YcmAuGY4iFk2PkCsgbu4l4m9KrOm6RlVh2yQdiOhUe3Nrqv-zbzxnTVkwhWjW_z4pvGrf4wtYtGLRp9btMJXoPkJ1uJyjgo1V7eTE1JT9Im2p5Qui2rcmjcK9MycyjQmAPiMEKNPwkthYXF4crai_OOP92la/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-01%20at%209.40.50%20AM.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: #2a2a2a; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Judge Adrian acknowledged he was supposed to<br />impose a mandatory 4-year sentence against Clinton,<br /> but he would not send him to prison. <br />“That is not just... I will not do that.”</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div>But, Crypto-Fascists like Fryer say and take certain actions specifically to upset others. Don't make the mistake of thinking Fryer or any other fascist believes the bullshit they say, they say it precisely to upset you, to trigger you (as the MAGA Chuds proudly declared in 2020), to get you flustered, to waste your time refuting their nonsense, and ultimately to make you despair and give up. Fascists win when regular people no longer fight back and cede the ground to the Fascists. </div><div><br /></div><div>That's what Fryer is all about.</div><div><br /></div><div>So I won't tell you I read <a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/fryer/files/empirical_analysis_tables_figures.pdf">this whole study</a>, but right away even Fryer and his team have to acknowledge</div><div><blockquote><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="font-family: CMR10;">Interestingly, as the intensity of force increases (e.g. handcuffing civilians without arrest, drawing or pointing a weapon, or using pepper spray or a baton), the probability that any civilian is subjected to such treatment is small, but the racial difference remains surprisingly constant. These are rare events. Yet, the results indicate that they are significantly more rare for whites than blacks. With all controls, blacks are 21 percent more likely than whites to be involved in an interaction with police in which at least a weapon is drawn and the diff</span><span style="font-family: CMR10;">erence is statistically significant. [3]</span></span></blockquote></div><div>So, getting back to where the data is from you will be unsurpirised to learn it comes from Police Departments themselves, and Fryer admits it's difficult to get any data around Police shootings other than it happened and almost impossible to get data from the day-to-day indignities black and brown persons suffer at the hands of bigoted Police Officers. </div><div><br /></div><div><div>And why choose the data he chooses? Certainly, Professor Fryer would state he didn't want his paper to be about any one high profile police shooting of a black person, like Laquan McDonald in Chicago, or Walter Scott in South Carolina, but his decision to narrowly say their is not racism in Police shootings also afforded him the opportunity to ignore Eric Garner being choked to death in Long Island. So, the data mainly comes from Police department records themselves Houston Police Department (2005-2015), New York Stop & Frisk (2003-2013), and from cities Boston, Camden, Austin, Dallas, Los Angeles, six Florida counties.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Notice this data completely excludes entire regions of the country and every State in the Deep South, the regions of the country where most Americans would say Institutional Racism is a way of life and abuse of force and authority goes back centuries.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>But, anyway my time is more and more precious to me so there's not much more to be gained from an 8 year old study or anything to be gained from watching his interview with the odious rightwing troll Bari Weiss. But, understand two things about this study as with John Lott's totally bogus NRA-funded study that Americans use guns in self-defense 3,000,000 times a year or <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2954080/">Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent study that vaccines cause Autism </a>this study will <i>forever </i>be cited as absolute proof that there is no anti-black bias in Police Work, Police Officers merely go to where the crime is, and crime is an inherent part of black and brown society. </div><div><br /></div><div>Remember language is a weapon and the language that Fryer employs is designed to give cover to the growing demands of right-wingers that the handcuffs be taken off their Police, because we know Police never lie in reports, Police never arrest innocent men, and every euphemistically named Officer-involved shooting (OIS) is a good shoot. <a href="https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/02/08/times-square-migrants-arrests-body-camera-footage-contradicts-nypd-account/">After all who you gonna believe New York's Finest or your lying eyes?</a></div><div><blockquote><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;">Prosecutors released new footage of a viral attack on two police officers that appears to conflict with police accounts of their initial interaction with a group of migrants that quickly escalated into a melee that triggered nationwide outrage.</span></blockquote></div><div>Professor Fryer then concludes with a Bill Cosby, a beloved black authority figure especially to Whites, style condemnation of black people,</div><div><blockquote><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="font-family: CMR10;">The importance of our results for racial inequality in America is unclear. It is plausible that racial diff</span><span style="font-family: CMR10;">erences in lower level uses of force are simply a distraction and movements such as Black Lives Matter <i>should seek solutions within their own communities </i>(emphasis added)<i> </i>rather than changing the behaviors of police and other external forces.</span> </span></blockquote><p><u>Conclusion:</u> </p><p>So, while reading this I did<a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/jfeldman/blog/roland-fryer-wrong-there-racial-bias-shootings-police"> find multiple refutations of Professor Fryer's work</a>. (I won't go into his personal failings or foibles but leave that to you to decide if it undercuts his research and work.)</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><strong>2020 update:</strong> The specific flaws of Roland Fryer's paper have now been characterized in two studies (by other scholars, not myself). <strong><a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3336338" style="color: #215990; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="">Knox, Lowe, and Mummolo (2019)</a></strong><strong> </strong>reanalyze Fryer's data to find it understates racial biases. <strong><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-018-0110-z" style="color: #215990; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="">Ross, Winterhalder, and McElreath (2018)</a> do something similar through a statistical simulation.</strong></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Fryer’s analysis is highly flawed, however. It suffers from major theoretical and methodological errors, and he has communicated the results to news media in a way that is misleading. While there have long been problems with the quality of police shootings data, there is still plenty of evidence to support a pattern of systematic, racially discriminatory use of force against black people in the United States.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #444444; font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">There should be no argument that black and Latino people in Houston are much more likely to be shot by police compared to whites. I looked at the same <strong><a href="http://houstontx.gov/police/ois/index.htm" style="color: #215990; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Houston police shooting dataset</a></strong> as Fryer for the years 2005-2015, which I supplemented with census data, and found that black people were over 5 times as likely to be shot relative to whites. Latinos were roughly twice as likely to be shot versus whites.</p></div>Grung_e_Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-86919854780479783842024-02-28T22:04:00.006-06:002024-02-29T09:22:32.618-06:00Your choices in the Michigan Primary is: Uncommitted or Genocide Joe<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy3k_rwzmTiz1ip0f67sVw6WgZa-tLgwtdg85N7d0syZTy5UrjeoPS-EtqrivUw7JrxO5Yqe-5pWoQ0qtmBbJgFPSy3pynFzyxgWC3pNivdczGN85oacoDdCr6qf-RZk1clQdIdj_lEeV3fqgWdgFwmiFdnq9vKCixIn-yZBDmhgY83qpA5-VwnRBX7Le2/s1349/IMG_0422.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1349" data-original-width="1179" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy3k_rwzmTiz1ip0f67sVw6WgZa-tLgwtdg85N7d0syZTy5UrjeoPS-EtqrivUw7JrxO5Yqe-5pWoQ0qtmBbJgFPSy3pynFzyxgWC3pNivdczGN85oacoDdCr6qf-RZk1clQdIdj_lEeV3fqgWdgFwmiFdnq9vKCixIn-yZBDmhgY83qpA5-VwnRBX7Le2/s320/IMG_0422.jpeg" width="280" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Majority Report Youtube comment analysis</td></tr></tbody></table><p>It’s so tedious but, the Brogressive Left have found their reason not to vote for Joe Biden in 2024. Israeli atrocities will be the wedge Republicans and Russia use to steal the 2024 election.</p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><a href="https://youtu.be/jtwx31FY970?si=2I1EH6Y5f3rqD-PZ">The Majority Report posted a video last night</a> about 9pm Central Time, about President Biden's appearance on the Seth Meyers show and in the next two hours over 700+ bots descended upon it to smear President Biden as "Genocide Joe" or call him a War Criminal, as well as claiming Biden's brain is mush. The bots also had to declare Ukrainian funding a crime because <i>rightwing talking point</i>, that money should be used here to help the homeless!<div><br /></div><div>At least... I am hoping the comments were from bots because if they are from actual real human leftists in the United States, well we're in trouble.</div><div><br /></div><div>The America Left is a quirky bunch but, despite their protestations Left America have never been an ally of the Democratic Party in advancing the progressive cause or implementing social democracy. Never. Instead the minuscule America left has consistently aligned with Republicans in attacking Democrats, especially Democratic Presidents Biden and Obama and candidates like Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigeg, Hillary Clinton. Why? Who knows, but what is known is Leftists find some reason to vote against Democrats every time.</div><div><br /></div><div>And I’m not talking about the Reactionary pretenders who garner a left following only to Stan outright fascists, Joe Rogan, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss, Tim Poole, Liz & Matt Bruenig and so many others who easily dupe the Brogressives into adopting rightwing talking points and horseshoe themselves into supporting Trump.</div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdwfHY2OvcU_OEf5Xc2Yd0_M0gD8ziWDEcwj3JKemZo0lJfYemGmzpfGRubXFMkwL_JG6GhBjFVV8N2i0qfT8aOGQdU2SV_4sSvitbtPX9KlgeJ5jjIOsVNsRm7f2ezx6mWxgWyCE9HXsg6l46qN95tS46474rbm4V5BQuuUbtEaHKxcuwvNX7hxDA5SL8/s604/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-28%20at%209.28.07%20PM.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="210" data-original-width="604" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdwfHY2OvcU_OEf5Xc2Yd0_M0gD8ziWDEcwj3JKemZo0lJfYemGmzpfGRubXFMkwL_JG6GhBjFVV8N2i0qfT8aOGQdU2SV_4sSvitbtPX9KlgeJ5jjIOsVNsRm7f2ezx6mWxgWyCE9HXsg6l46qN95tS46474rbm4V5BQuuUbtEaHKxcuwvNX7hxDA5SL8/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-28%20at%209.28.07%20PM.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We didn't support you before<br />And we won't support you again</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>Jill fucking Stein, who adoringly broke bread with criminals and thugs, Mike Flynn and Vladimir Putin, had the gall to claim Americans should vote against President Biden. Stein is still basking in the glow of defeating Hillary Clinton in 2016 <a href="https://fortune.com/2016/11/28/jill-stein-recount/">and then duping $7,000,000 out of the American Left</a> to investigate the election. She’s technically running again…</div><div><br /></div><div>Back in 2020 the Rose Twitter decided by April to performatively declare they would not vote for Biden and since then Bidens record hasn’t budged them from their anti Democratic Party stance. </div><div><br /></div><div>It’s disappointing that Biden ending the drone strike program was met with silence from the antiwar left. Even worse when Joe pulled the US out of Afghanistan causing the Corporate Media throw a tantrum Biden received scant support from the Left. </div><div><br /></div><div>Biden's <i>continuing </i>student loan forgiveness has not been met with rounds of applause from the Left but snide dismissal and petty complaints of it not being good enough.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Now is this because the American left is tiny, ineffective and detached from reality? Or is it that so many Russian trolls, bots and rightwingers pretending to be leftists on-line in order to sow dissent, set the narrative?</div></div><div><br /></div><div>So, in response to the brutal IDF bombing and terror campaign in Gaza, the comfortable cosplay Revolutionaries here sought to send "Genocide Joe" a message <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/uncommitted-biden-protesters-celebrate-showing-michigans-primary-states/story?id=107639095">by getting Michigan to vote for Uncommitted instead of him.</a></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: TiemposText; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--articleBody-body-firstChild-marginTop,auto);"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span class="oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB" style="box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: var(--articleBody-dateline-letterSpacing); text-transform: var(--articleBody-dateline-textTransform);">DEARBORN, Mich. -- </span>Leaders of Listen to Michigan, one of the groups <a class="zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE" data-testid="prism-linkbase" href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/anti-biden-uncommitted-voters-set-win-2-delegates/story?id=107643586" style="border-bottom: var(--hyperlink-borderBottom,none); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: pointer; display: var(--hyperlink-display,inline); height: var(--hyperlink-height,auto); outline: 0px; text-decoration: var(--articleBody-p-a-textDecoration,underline); text-underline-offset: var(--hyperlink-textUnderlineOffset,auto); width: var(--hyperlink-width,auto);" target="_blank">behind the push to cast "uncommitted" votes</a> in the state's Democratic primary to protest President Joe Biden's stance on the Israel-Hamas war, said on Wednesday that they felt victorious after their movement garnered more than 100,000 ballots.</span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: TiemposText; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">"We organized and ... Michigan voters last night sent a clear message to President Biden that he needs to call for an immediate, permanent cease-fire and he needs to stop funding the Israeli military's war crimes. Our message has been clear," said Abbas Alawieh, the group's political strategist and spokesperson.</span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: TiemposText; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">Listen to Michigan launched three weeks ago and organizers said on Wednesday that their "diverse" supporters went beyond Arab and Muslim Americans and those who disagree with Biden's views on Israel. It includes voters upset over student loans, rent and health care, they said.</span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: TiemposText; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">The group also told reporters on Wednesday that they believe their movement is spreading across the country. They said advocates from Minnesota and Washington state have reached out, seeking support for similar efforts in their states. </span><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">Listen to Michigan plans on accepting, they said.</span></p></div><div><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: TiemposText; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">Alexa Garcia is one of the 20 Washington state volunteers who flew to Michigan over the weekend. Garcia spoke with ABC News at a polling location in Dearborn on Tuesday and said she was already weary of what she claimed were the Biden administration's broken promises.</span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: TiemposText; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-p-marginBottom-regular,32px); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">The war in Gaza convinced her that Biden did not deserve her vote, she said.</span></p><p class="EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: TiemposText; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: var(--articleBody-body-lastChild-marginBottom,0); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">"There's a lot of things that had me hesitant to vote for [Biden] again this November, but definitely this has sealed it. If he doesn't change his ways, I won't vote for him," she said.</span></p></div><div><br /></div><div><div><div>I'm not going to call anyone in the American-Arab community dumb or short-sighted for trying to undercut Biden because Trump is a pudding-brained fascist wannabe. Or insult Representative Rashida Tlaib, since as a Palestinian, the IDF, Likud fanatics, and Settler fascists in the West Bank actions direct harm her people.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>But, claiming Biden has broken promises on healthcare and student loans are just outright lies.</div><div><br /></div></div><div>Again I’m telling you if we are to avoid the Republican Dictatorship we’re going to have to do it ourselves. The guard rails which barely restrained Trump during his 1st term were knocked down fully on Jan6th. And the Left in America, is so fucking angry that Trump is such an over-the-top buffoon now, because let's be real, <i>the American Left voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020. </i></div><div><br /></div><div>I don’t ascribe to Doomerism but it would be so depressingly fitting that the illegal terrorist actions of the Israel government and war crimes of the IDF will provide just the right amount of voter suppression to allow the Fascist Republicans to "win" the Presidency the 3rd time in 25 years while getting fewer overall votes.</div>Grung_e_Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-25946976102391585602024-02-27T08:33:00.003-06:002024-02-27T08:34:37.469-06:00Trump and the Republican Party are Vladimir Putin and the American people are Alexander Navalny <p style="text-align: left;">The overarching question is: Are Republicans unwitting dupes for Putin (i.e. Useful Idiots) or are they willing accomplices? </p><p style="text-align: left;">As their propaganda techniques have gotten grosser (in both meanings of 'less fine' and 'grotesque or disgusting') Republicans have hit upon the method of incorporating whatever phrase or topic is trending and tying it into their propaganda campaign. So, after Republican ally Vladimir Putin assassinated Alexander Navalny, Republicans seized upon Navalny fleeting internet supremacy to declare Joe Biden is Navalnying them!</p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Tiempos Text, serif; font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: Tiempos Text, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; letter-spacing: -0.09px;">“It is a form of Navalny...” <a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/179167/trump-compares-navalny">Traitor Trump told Laura Axis Sally Ingraham, as he aped the current rightwing <i>zeitgeist</i></a>. </span></span></blockquote><p></p><p>"It's a form of Navalny"... Well, I trust the Corporate Media to sanitize Trump's barely cogent gibberish <i>as they always do, </i>instead of pointing out how rapidly Trump is descending into babbling senility. Of course, what Pudding-brain Trump was complaining about was being found liable and guilty in multiple court cases.</p><p>Earlier this month, Tucker Carlson went to a store for the first time <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tucker-carlson-confronted-montana-fishing-shop-called-worst-human-being-n1274968">since he was humiliated in a Montana fishing store several years ago</a>. This grocery store was in Moscow, Russia.</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; caret-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px;">“It’s not every day you get to tell someone they are the worst person in the world and really mean it! What an asshole!” - Dan Bailey told Fvcker Carlson back in 2021.</span></blockquote><p></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqD3F6UU1eM3CwXUVYxorl6QOi30ac1KhBipGoMj1N54h4GOID0k9Q3cxzo7l-cb0FW4KpXq4gHW3lMMluHvJFEndAYWIQhUpvSIvMuNtMkvScW0Co4uW5CN0Hl3BAwFpCZ3jgnYDWk0hMaQ38MKaIMZDr5KNTj1OQdspKO8pV_wlyyZceeKl9P2JJJziC/s1034/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-18%20at%206.47.34%20AM.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="1034" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqD3F6UU1eM3CwXUVYxorl6QOi30ac1KhBipGoMj1N54h4GOID0k9Q3cxzo7l-cb0FW4KpXq4gHW3lMMluHvJFEndAYWIQhUpvSIvMuNtMkvScW0Co4uW5CN0Hl3BAwFpCZ3jgnYDWk0hMaQ38MKaIMZDr5KNTj1OQdspKO8pV_wlyyZceeKl9P2JJJziC/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-18%20at%206.47.34%20AM.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Breadfan Open up your Mind Open up your Purse</i><br /><i>Seriously... Carlson looks like he pooped his pants</i></td></tr></tbody></table>Happily by 2024, Tucker no longer has his Primetime Faux News show but still decided he can best help advance the Republican agenda of oppression, intolerance, and adulation of the rich by fellating Dictators worldwide. <p></p><p></p><p>Just before being astounded by Russia's large array of bread, Tucker's embarrassing "interview" of violent madman Vladimir Putin when coupled with jello-brained Trump's sweaty declaration once he's President again he'll let Russia do whatever they hell they want, Putin assassinated his political prisoner.</p><p>Of course, Tucker Carlson has no problem with Putin's Authoritarianism and violence directed at home and abroad <a href="https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1758515284741173538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1758515284741173538%7Ctwgr%5Eb983a8bfc9125456acb2ae5120cdff0f655ddae3%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdigbysblog.net%2F">because he absolutely supports Putin's actions in Russia and Ukraine</a> and fervently hopes Trump or some other Republican leader can emulate them back in the United States...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjw2tNJ3k79aX00h0KG24TCEs9AWHkubxSYYwogAMRZwvyqAku1CPWxyuL6ficz8EuTAfpd-wHUDDSKUUsI5_lJxU7XRQhd6v9wv_V6CeTzNfyiIUl0cnXTvSAGIBsC5T0-p0rZYQwlaZTsqwyBMflxd8eIrb29M1Kx5jV4xnkltiGzf4hXDQB4QjjhUu7/s402/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-17%20at%204.38.37%20PM.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="398" data-original-width="402" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjw2tNJ3k79aX00h0KG24TCEs9AWHkubxSYYwogAMRZwvyqAku1CPWxyuL6ficz8EuTAfpd-wHUDDSKUUsI5_lJxU7XRQhd6v9wv_V6CeTzNfyiIUl0cnXTvSAGIBsC5T0-p0rZYQwlaZTsqwyBMflxd8eIrb29M1Kx5jV4xnkltiGzf4hXDQB4QjjhUu7/w200-h198/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-17%20at%204.38.37%20PM.png" width="200" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><blockquote><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #d0e0e3; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; font-size: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Every leader kills people. Some kill more than others. Leadership requires killing people.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p>The Republican Party hates you. The Republican Party hates America. And if you raise your voice or profile in opposition to them, the Republican Party will assassinate you.</p><p>Trump's Lawyers stated this in open court. Stephen Miller, Mike Flynn and Republican groups have a plan in place to round-up and eliminate millions of people in 21st Century Concentration Camps.</p><p>In case, you think this hyperbole there is too much direct evidence that Republicans, including but not merely those around Donald Traitor Trump, have sought and cultivated contacts with the Russian Government outside the scope of their official duties. These contacts have provided money and information (often disinformation) to their Republican allies too use in order to attack Democratic officials up to and including President Biden.</p><p>Stop believing this can't happen here. Certainly, you may hope for the best. Work to see Trump and as many Republicans you can defeated in the election but, even if Republican defeats turn out to be the results of the 2024 elections don't relax. Take a moment of rest but, get ready because Republican led domestic terrorism and violence is coming. I'm not sure what the scope will be, but Republican controlled states will absolutely direct state-sanctioned violence at you (as they are already doing). As always they will use the guise of law and Legalism to give them cover for their murderous intentions but, their intentions are clear,</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: PublicoText, Georgia, Publico Text, Times New Roman, Times, Baskerville; font-size: medium;">"Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely... We didn’t get all the way there on Jan. 6, but we will endeavor to get rid of it.” - Jack Proboscis, CPAC Michigan 02/22/24.</span></blockquote><p></p><p>destroying the Democratic Republic and replacing it with a simulacrum of free and just society, rooted in the twin terrorist pillars of White Power and Fanatic Fundamentalism. With these two swords Republicans have already cut a giant swath of destruction and oppression through the Law and intend to do no less than replace the entire legal code with their brand of zealous Christian Fascism.</p><p>But, when Trump loses again and facing prison and the loss of all his ill-gotten gains Watch for him to call for terrorism and for Republicans give their paramilitary terror groups the tacit or explicit go-ahead to engage in campaign broad scale low level insurgency in order to overwhelm local law enforcement and even fracture federal law enforcement organizations in the Department of Justice.</p><p>Trump's not going to flee the country no matter how much we might wish it. He's here and he's going to keep the pressure building.</p>Grung_e_Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-65103687063693361982024-02-26T11:25:00.003-06:002024-02-26T13:54:01.022-06:00The Corporate Media is ALL IN on getting Trump back into the White House<p>I've wondered why outside alternative media President Joe Biden gets no credit for both his progressive achievements and his statecraft on the world stage? And, in reality, most leftist media decided years ago they hate Joe Biden and nothing he does will alter that conclusion.</p><p>But, disregarding his economic success, his establishment of the Untied States as a world leader, his pro-union successes, and his real effort to accomplish long sought progressive goals isn't enough, nope the Corporate Media has smeared Joe Biden relentlessly.</p><p>When a President is elected it's not just the Office of President and Vice President you are voting for, but the cabinet and numerous officials throughout the federal government. It's no longer 2000, the internet should make all of this available but, the Corporate Media has decided they want Trump back in office and therefore they will do everything they can to help depress Democratic turnout, make liberals upset, and advance the rightwing agenda. Remember it's not about stealing the election outright but, to make the margins close enough to swing a state or two and allow Republicans to steal another couple States by voting suppression. </p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6vOktgyqZZtGT3uVK-tL8ZLwXm8WZnPTRxlvQFmK2G8htyGqIFIVTI7LKuU3-J3wHPr0h0q580nXt2Ll1acqF1IpeIIFMaXZtP7yEGE1GFHepNKEHU3__aAQ-xuw6OG4UzFu0YbsU-tzzYrdhrF-o-YPhmlH1Lxcce1_Oq168rzzpnNVmsNRuoycC-qkI/s1097/IMG_0416.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1097" data-original-width="957" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6vOktgyqZZtGT3uVK-tL8ZLwXm8WZnPTRxlvQFmK2G8htyGqIFIVTI7LKuU3-J3wHPr0h0q580nXt2Ll1acqF1IpeIIFMaXZtP7yEGE1GFHepNKEHU3__aAQ-xuw6OG4UzFu0YbsU-tzzYrdhrF-o-YPhmlH1Lxcce1_Oq168rzzpnNVmsNRuoycC-qkI/s320/IMG_0416.jpeg" width="279" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption">Impeach<i> Brian Boru </i>and<i> Cú Chulainn<br /></i> </td></tr></tbody></table><p>This isn't just claims that Joe Biden is old and feeble and uses notes in meetings (NOTES!), a nothing slander which Jello-brained Trump was more than willing to use in his nightly fascist speeches. And this isn't the Corporate Media dutifully amplifying Russia propaganda that Faux News and other rightwing media pump into the US. </p><p></p><p>No, this is the coordinated effort to ignore and diminish the reality that Trump's brain is rapidly liquifying and changing him from a sundowning racist rightwing grandpa into a rabid ranting reactionary lunatic. Trump's brain is nothing more than an Orange is the New Black pudding in his head who can't keep a train of thought while speaking, can't make a coherent sentence without referencing his previous grievances, and is vowing to exact revenge upon millions of Americans.</p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipj086huEEqQmAiIJKcxnqgBHJst-OB2quLXHwUtekgqo98lcDBi9f8Q-d1PuNtB_B74IAZ0QnZg-b7p90Ea_fQtcqaZFkIaZPrHsAs9Xk2K14a9yqPSSpQOAjdohGP0TYiSNuEf4jpDFGI0L35puGeGLHIV_sJn5FwFSZXsJuHaXSpKXg0iRUzMjhrL_-/s628/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-26%20at%209.34.58%20AM.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="441" data-original-width="628" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipj086huEEqQmAiIJKcxnqgBHJst-OB2quLXHwUtekgqo98lcDBi9f8Q-d1PuNtB_B74IAZ0QnZg-b7p90Ea_fQtcqaZFkIaZPrHsAs9Xk2K14a9yqPSSpQOAjdohGP0TYiSNuEf4jpDFGI0L35puGeGLHIV_sJn5FwFSZXsJuHaXSpKXg0iRUzMjhrL_-/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-26%20at%209.34.58%20AM.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bring back Irish Slavery - Faux News Chyron</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br />But, don't worry Jonathan Turley is here to inform America that Joe Biden's ancestors are Irish and you can't trust the Irish!</p><div><br /></div><div>This kind of "Inherited Criminality" is the entire crux of the Rightwing Migrant Crisis propaganda. Immigrants are criminals and they pass their criminality down to their ancestors who also always Vote Democrat! I didn't think Irish hoodlum slander would be trotted out as a reason to vote for Trump, but the rabid rightwing base will accept anything "race science" based as a reason to vote against Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.<br /><p></p><p>This might not be as troubling if these pieces of rightwing agitprop were confined to the finite right but, whatever conservative media reports the Mainstream Media decides to pick up and uncritically helps spread it. We, the People are in a lot of trouble because Media pundits and Legacy Press are not going to accurately report anything about the two candidates for President.</p><p>This isn't some situation where the Corporate Media can wishcast upon Trump the idea he'll be a moderate, albeit buffoonish aggrandizing self-promoter. Trump is a racist, a traitor, and an increasingly senile wannabe Fascist Dictator, who yearns to get his hands upon the Federal Government to steal <i>Trillions</i> while using the Police and Military and federal agencies to punish anyone who's ever made fun of him. And 70,000,000+ million Americans yearn to give him that power. And Trump isn't the most frightening part it's the outright Nazis like Stephen Miller and Mike Flynn who will get their bloody hands onto the apparatus of government and use it to round-up and liquidate millions of people.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>Grung_e_Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-31153104350986873302024-02-23T10:18:00.001-06:002024-02-23T10:18:55.340-06:00Florida Surgeon General tells parents Measles is a Liberal Psyop<p> The latest craze amongst right wingers is that everything is a <b>"Liberal Psyop"</b>. From Covid and the Vaccine to Taylor Swift and the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl, everything is an illegitimate Democrat Deep State plot. </p><p>I wrote before the "Psyop" claim only makes sense if you are versed in rightwing lexicon. Calling everything a Democrat or Liberal Psyop is a way for rightwingers to claim everything they don't like is fraudulent.</p><p>And remember by declaring something illegitimate or fraudulent is the first step in allowing Reactionaries the right to do what they want to do; And what Republicans want to do is round-up and murder millions of people.</p><p>But, in Florida there are a lot of elderly Boomers, those people grew up with and have either direct knowledge or learned from their parents about diseases and vaccination efforts. The Boomers were the direct beneficiaries of Jonas Salk vaccine against Polio. Boomers lived through the complete eradication of Small Pox. Boomers have benefited from untold scientific advances and an era of prosperity never before experienced by a single generation.</p><p>And those greedy fucks are throwing it all away.</p><p>Now, I know Boomers were unprepared for the onslaught of 50 years of Reactionary propaganda and now live in a world of fear and foggy dementia aided by that brainwashing. But, what the fuck is wrong with people in Florida?</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzKdfsb0lAvg3aMxtvjSBaTff1vhbIssvAlPBj8mYZ0hi2k-czyL6fDU5tC-UUkZD6vE-SQDGGd939uzJvG5mF1OK23wJym935Tpp-in-zyFI-kOHshr0ysjepzEodWVonLo_QXo6RbIkzGDr4xK_DPrzF1TZyV_MmyMjcm9ZpoeRyKwtdPfXTKl9lWnOx/s907/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-23%20at%209.51.28%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="704" data-original-width="907" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzKdfsb0lAvg3aMxtvjSBaTff1vhbIssvAlPBj8mYZ0hi2k-czyL6fDU5tC-UUkZD6vE-SQDGGd939uzJvG5mF1OK23wJym935Tpp-in-zyFI-kOHshr0ysjepzEodWVonLo_QXo6RbIkzGDr4xK_DPrzF1TZyV_MmyMjcm9ZpoeRyKwtdPfXTKl9lWnOx/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-23%20at%209.51.28%20AM.png" width="320" /></a></div>Stolen Valor DeSantis has Zero Charisma. None. And he exhibits his utter lack of charm, grace, intelligence, strength, integrity everytime this shrimpy dishonorable troll saunters on stage. And his hand-picked psychotic Surgeon General Joseph Loony Ladapo? <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/02/22/florida-measles-outbreak-ladapo/">Even Worse.</a><p></p><p><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 20px;">“The reason why there is a measles outbreak in Florida schools is because too many parents have not had their children protected by the safe and effective measles vaccine,” said John P. Moore, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell Medical College. “And why is that? It’s because anti-vaccine sentiment in Florida comes from the top of the public health food-chain: Joseph Ladapo.”</span></p><p>As a Measles outbreak spread through Broward County, Florida instead of adhering to the long established medical understanding of a 21 day quarantine period, Ladapo left the decision to stay at home to the parents. Loony Ladapo even acknowledged a 3 week period is normally recommended because,</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><u><span style="color: #660000;">"This is the period of time that the virus can be transmitted."</span></u></span></p><p style="text-align: left;">But, the Modern Republican Party has worked very hard to destroy the concept of expertise and scientific consensus, so if a Parent with an unvaccinated child wants to send <i>their child</i> (NOT THE PROPERTY OF THE GOVERNMENT LIBTARD) that's their right and their choice. PARENT'S RIGHTS!!!</p><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/spotlight/history-of-vaccination/history-of-measles-vaccination">Just throw out a millennia of research and study </a>and decades of successfully MMR vaccines here in the United States. Republicans listen to The Joe Rogan Experience and he tells it like it is!</p><p style="text-align: left;">While the Corporate Media likes to BothSides the Anti-Vaccine movements here and worldwide, it's been a long time since an enclave of granola crunching hippes in the Pacific Northwest have been the majority of Unvaccinated proponents, and ultra-conservative religious groups like the Amish and Hasidic Jews routinely get religious exemptions and mass outbreaks. No today the Anti-Vaxx movement is overwhelmingly made up of Reactionary Villains, bad faith actors, and liars. And no amount of debunking or actual evidence can dissuade them from their beliefs. When RFK Jr, goes on some rightwing propaganda show and alludes to Vaccine Injuries he's relying on the bullshit 1998 Lancet "Study" which claimed Autism came from MMR vaccines. When Jello-brain Trump tries to tout his success with the mRNA Covid Vaccine he is shouted down and booed (this is the only time he faces boos and Trump hates it which is why he doesn't reference <i>His </i>Vaccine miracle).</p><p style="text-align: left;">The more success the rightwing Anti-Vaxx movement has the more outbreaks and harm they will cause to their communities. But, you've got to understand Rightwingers treat disease the way they treat gun violence, it's not going to happen to them and when an incident happens well it's the fault of the Democrats, blacks, and illegals.</p><p style="text-align: left;">So, we continue in this relationship with rightwingers and Republicans who hate Us, who do everything in their power to harm society, do everything they can to make life worse, and do everything they can to make America a Fascist Theocracy where they imagine they will be putting the boot on our necks.</p>Grung_e_Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-24645863922060183432024-02-22T11:28:00.008-06:002024-02-22T18:26:33.637-06:00From embryo to the grave, Republicans declare women their slaves<p><i></i></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiIXDkn1NHlLrcLCqVFF-FHOqYYdaITMj1c9FEFST7QnkStwwkVcbOVd1edrQKUFt_QZjtd_OOI2WPiwAetXvk9rRIJQ2Ijwrd_WqYCk0ohiGsMB91yKthLP0-8XJJUqnVoWkD6-CDvRxSwv3wY1yWtNH93PSn8DE54AsZZhRWpsIRf9UFS5GZ03CnNOus/s2101/IMG_0408.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2101" data-original-width="1179" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiIXDkn1NHlLrcLCqVFF-FHOqYYdaITMj1c9FEFST7QnkStwwkVcbOVd1edrQKUFt_QZjtd_OOI2WPiwAetXvk9rRIJQ2Ijwrd_WqYCk0ohiGsMB91yKthLP0-8XJJUqnVoWkD6-CDvRxSwv3wY1yWtNH93PSn8DE54AsZZhRWpsIRf9UFS5GZ03CnNOus/s320/IMG_0408.jpeg" width="180" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">SS-FEDF: <br />Super Sane Florida <br />Embryo Defense Force</td></tr></tbody></table><i>In Vitro Fertilization </i>is responsible for millions of American families. With one ignorant and bigoted law Alabama Republicans declare their Christian God has spoken and <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/alabama-supreme-court-rules-frozen-embryos-can-be-considered-children-under-state-law">the Corporate Media could not wait to hear what Trump supporters and psychotic anti-abortion lunatics</a> have to say, as they continue their proscribed role of softening Republican perfidy and oppression.<p></p><p><span face="Akkurat, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(49, 68, 93); color: #31445d; font-size: 18px;"></span></p><blockquote><p><span face="Akkurat, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: #d0e0e3; caret-color: rgb(49, 68, 93); color: #31445d; font-size: 18px;">“Each person, from the tiniest embryo to an elder nearing the end of his life, has incalculable value that deserves and is guaranteed legal protection,” Lila Rose, president and founder of Live Action said in a statement.</span></p><p><a href="https://publicportal-api.alappeals.gov/courts/68f021c4-6a44-4735-9a76-5360b2e8af13/cms/case/343D203A-B13D-463A-8176-C46E3AE4F695/docketentrydocuments/E3D95592-3CBE-4384-AFA6-063D4595AA1D" style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"></a></p></blockquote><p><a href="https://publicportal-api.alappeals.gov/courts/68f021c4-6a44-4735-9a76-5360b2e8af13/cms/case/343D203A-B13D-463A-8176-C46E3AE4F695/docketentrydocuments/E3D95592-3CBE-4384-AFA6-063D4595AA1D"></a></p><a href="https://publicportal-api.alappeals.gov/courts/68f021c4-6a44-4735-9a76-5360b2e8af13/cms/case/343D203A-B13D-463A-8176-C46E3AE4F695/docketentrydocuments/E3D95592-3CBE-4384-AFA6-063D4595AA1D">The story of this wrongful death lawsuit smells entirely fabricated</a>, the person purposefully went into the clinic and opened a subzero cryogenic freezer, grabbed and "dropped" the test tubes containing fertilized ovum just happened to get in there and wasn't an employee but a "client/patient", but the aggrieved parents of the fertilized cells filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the clinic? Bullshit. I absolutely bet these people planned this. And before you dismiss this as QAnon style conspiracy theory, remember the women who brought the gay website creator lawsuit which made it to the Unjust Supremacist Court hadn't be forced to make any gay websites. The Republican Party has a long history of lying for Jesus in order to force their religious edicts into secular law.<p></p><p>And as proof this <i>In Vitro </i><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/alabama-supreme-court-chief-justice-spreads-christian-nationalist-rhetoric#:~:text=During%20a%20recent%20interview%20on,impose%20fundamentalist%20values%20on%20all">Alabama Chief Justice is a bible thumping believer</a> in the Seven Mountains Mandate which means god has empowered him to impose Christian Fascism on the rest of America and the world. Republicans absolutely believe they have the power <i>and the right </i>to impose their burgeoning Theocracy onto the American people. And before you go thinking <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/22/nikki-haley-ivf-embryos-alabama/#">Nikki Haley is a Sikh and a women so she doesn't hold these same beliefs, </a></p><p></p><blockquote><span face=""Google Sans", arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #d0e0e3; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124; font-size: 20px;">“Embryos, to me, are babies. I mean, I had artificial insemination. That's how I had my son.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p>Someone should ask Nikki Haley how many <strike>fertilized embryos</strike> <i><u><span style="font-size: large;">Babies</span></u></i> she destroyed in pursuit of her fertility treatments.</p><p>We now sit on the precipice of the end of the United States as a secular Democratic Republic. It's absolutely up to white women if they want to further along their subjugation and shackle themselves as living incubators unable to move about the country freely and unable to make medical decisions for themselves.</p><p>How long until this fertilized embryos are fully human persons ruling leads to the argument that the ovum have a Right-to-Implantation due to their inherent Right-to-Life? Again with everything we are dealing with, such a scenario will be dismissed as too fantastical by our bought and deceitful Corporate Media, then when the legislation is in discussion, the media will sagely assure people 'Don't worry this is unlikely to pass and anyway Republicans would never take that step because <insert reasons here>', until poof it's enacted into Law in Republican states and Republicans nationwide concoct a case to go before the Supreme Sinister Six and voila it's Law.</p><p>Again the Republican method of governance is simple and brutal; 1) they pass all the evil oppressive shit they can, then 2) they and their rightwing media allies demonize the shit out of Democrats and spread sensationalist racist and bigoted propaganda, [2A) the Corporate Media dutifully picks up the rightwing stories since it's news], 3) they rely on their White voters to carry them to power.</p><p>Republicans learned long ago they don't pay a price for the inhuman and inhumane laws they enact. But, the hope, which is fortunately supported by several elections, is the destruction of Roe by the Unjust Supreme Court has cost Republicans and will mean their defeat in 2024.</p><p>So, I hope you are helping to defeat every Republican you can in the 2024 elections, because by 2025, if they're in power, Republicans will be rounding-up thousands of people.</p>Grung_e_Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-84081609236162419092024-02-16T11:22:00.010-06:002024-02-17T08:16:52.977-06:00Car Culture was a Mistake 8: You shouldn't outsource the EV industry to one South African bigoted maniac (who is probably a Cylon)<p><a href="https://ir.tesla.com/corporate/elon-musk"></a></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAd7jvH7bKVzUxOYjBBtgXjWWkYJN7bGK0bAEikcLPBwgBJjppEPb7RQGrPxAekakuYCsdP4dqhJyplyqL85wOCXodF4BDEWAKVbpIT0HQgOcdXOerxKnJziJluqtFMLcDQvkegeKEYc4aaleoOjsQg_OOVEXVilpweIJsa4HvndfM4Vvm5QBhTbQXpUrv/s588/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-16%20at%2010.58.12%20AM.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="481" data-original-width="588" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAd7jvH7bKVzUxOYjBBtgXjWWkYJN7bGK0bAEikcLPBwgBJjppEPb7RQGrPxAekakuYCsdP4dqhJyplyqL85wOCXodF4BDEWAKVbpIT0HQgOcdXOerxKnJziJluqtFMLcDQvkegeKEYc4aaleoOjsQg_OOVEXVilpweIJsa4HvndfM4Vvm5QBhTbQXpUrv/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-16%20at%2010.58.12%20AM.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I <span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;">Cylon Musk</span> hereby <i>Shadowban</i> Taibbi!</td></tr></tbody></table><a href="https://ir.tesla.com/corporate/elon-musk">Elon Musk is no Henry Ford. </a> Well, except for the depressive narcissism and loving embrace of Nazi Culture. But, placing the entire EV car industry in his hands was a mistake which is paying massive negative dividends to America and the world at large.<p></p><p>Musk recently lost a decision in the Delaware Chancery Court, in which <a href="https://www.motortrend.com/news/delaware-court-blocks-tesla-ceo-elon-musk-55-billion-pay-package/">the Tesla Board attempted to award Musk a $55,000,000,000</a> (that's 55 BILLION) dollar CEO compensation package.</p><p>There is no amount of work, Elon Musk or anyone else could have done, to be worth $55 Billion in compensation. The Gold Standard for contributions to the human race has to be Jonas Salk and his creation of the Polio Vaccine (which if done today, would get Salk death threats from conservatives and <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/died-suddenly-anti-vaccine-comedia-heather-mcdonald-rcna72952">attacks from Reactionary Joe Rogan</a> who would cut a promo promising to guillotine choke Jonas Salk). And famously Salk declined to patent his literal life-saving Vaccine. Elon Musk is no Jonas Salk he's not even a real boy. <span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;">Elon Musk is a Cylon</span>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_4Al00XOn4ATlXu_eA_bL57fuDwWlnl42WJnT7T0Ps3PUNRyHQRPVZJmve9mckiD-TImdqq4sNRRY8jkXLsgBJgWasVYJPOOiT9ahOVxCO-gCeHkbhwCkLyeck5amoNfj7WnSO51uCrW2GjWfZu7I3vnGTfw0Qfqcxyd2XBxqQzIjtyW-5PTVyiB9owXn/s828/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-16%20at%208.16.35%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="66" data-original-width="828" height="32" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_4Al00XOn4ATlXu_eA_bL57fuDwWlnl42WJnT7T0Ps3PUNRyHQRPVZJmve9mckiD-TImdqq4sNRRY8jkXLsgBJgWasVYJPOOiT9ahOVxCO-gCeHkbhwCkLyeck5amoNfj7WnSO51uCrW2GjWfZu7I3vnGTfw0Qfqcxyd2XBxqQzIjtyW-5PTVyiB9owXn/w400-h32/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-16%20at%208.16.35%20AM.png" width="400" /></a></div><p>Remember that Boards have a fiduciary duty to raise the value of the stock and company to the shareholders. It's not a private business like the Chicago Bears who can pursue any bad coaching or terrible player development decisions they deem fit.</p><p>Musk is furious because he's got no Real Assets, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-19/tesla-valuation-looks-unsustainable-as-price-cuts-take-a-bite">only the false valuation of Tesla</a> which Wall Street has for inexplicable reasons counted as more valuable than all other car companies combined. On paper and computer servers that is, in the real world Teslas are rapidly aging and becoming an Albatros of a vehicle.</p><p>For instance, it turns out you can not drive a Cybertruck anywhere. Now, I don't mean all those hilarious videos of Cybertrucks failing to navigate a mound of dirt or being unable to carry anything in their truck bed bigger than a bread basket. No, I mean if the Cybertruck's exterior touches anything found outside <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/this-is-why-teslas-stainless-steel-cybertrucks-may-be-rusting/">it will corrode and destroy its "stainless steel"</a>.</p><p><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"></span></p><blockquote><span face="BreveText, helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 19px; letter-spacing: 0.108px;">“To prevent damage to the exterior, immediately remove corrosive substances (such as grease, oil, bird droppings, tree resin, dead insects, tar spots, road salt, industrial fallout, etc.). Do not wait until Cybertruck is due for a complete wash. If necessary use denatured alcohol to remove tar spots and stubborn grease stains, then immediately wash the area with water and a mild, non-detergent soap to remove the alcohol. </span><span face="BreveText, helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 19px; letter-spacing: 0.108px;">Do not wash in direct sunlight,” “Some cleaners and car shampoos contain chemicals that can cause damage or discoloration,” and even “Do not use hot water.”</span></blockquote><p></p><p>Anyway since we as a culture have decided to treat paper billionaires as though they really have assets and Musk then translated this into a purchase of Twitter despite not actually having the $44 Billion cash on hand to make the purchase, he needs the Tesla Board to give him real money swindled from the fantasy valuation of Tesla.</p><p>When you combine this with the on-going Scam of Crypto Currency, it seems exceedingly likely we are headed for a major crash, as Wall Street and other financial institutions continue to inflict the Ponzi scheme of Capital on humanity.</p><p>Of course, coupled with this were several high profile stories the Corporate Media dutifully reported as major issues for the EV Industry at the behest of the panicked pushback for the Petroleum Industry.</p><p>During, Chicago's bitter negative degree period in mid-January <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/tesla-owners-run-into-trouble-amid-bitter-cold/#:~:text=in%20Evergreen%20Park.,longer%20than%20usual%20to%20charge.">Teslas were abandoned at charging stations</a> across the City.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); color: #101010; font-family: "Publico Text", serif; font-size: 17.16px;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"></span></p><blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(16, 16, 16); color: #101010; font-family: "Publico Text", serif; font-size: 17.16px;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">Some Tesla drivers learned the hard way about how cold weather affects battery life. <span style="font-size: 17.16px;">Teslas lined up early Monday morning at a charging station at The Evergreen Marketplace, at 9200 S. Western Ave. in Evergreen Park. Some Tesla batteries died in Chicago's sub-zero temperatures, leaving the cars askew and immobile in the parking lot. </span><span style="font-size: 17.16px;">Drivers said some charging stations weren't working, and those working took much longer than usual to charge.</span></span></p><p></p></blockquote><p>This just in: <i>Cold weather affects battery life! </i></p><p>Meanwhile, on-line doofuses were giddy at the announcement <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2024/01/11/hertz-selling-ev-fleet/72194050007/">Hertz to abandon their entire EV fleet and replace them with gas-powered vehicles</a>. The slightest investigation revealed, however, Hertz decision was not because of EV unreliability but, because Tesla's are losing their value steeply and the cost to repair Tesla's damaged by car renters was rising exponentially.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"></span></p><blockquote><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">If you've read this far and are coming to the conclusion that Hertz's "EV problem" is, in reality, a "Tesla value and repair costs problem," you're not alone. It's difficult to draw conclusions about EV suitability for the rental car market when so many cost factors conspired against Hertz's mostly Tesla fleet.</span></p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">In October, Hertz indicated that future EV acquisitions would benefit from lower purchase price and lessons learned from its Tesla fleet. Given Scherr's comments, we'd assume that it would strongly consider parts and labor costs in its calculus—and unless it comes to some deal with Tesla holding those costs down, that points to the company acquiring EVs from different automakers.</span></p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p" style="caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 14px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">EVs are only 11% of Hertz's total fleet, so the 20,000 EVs the company is going to sell off by the end of 2025 represent 4.4% of the entire fleet. This does not seem like a permanent retreat from the EV business for Hertz, but rather a reallocation of a small portion of its overall assets in an attempt to hold costs down.</span> </p></blockquote><p>Tesla and Elon Musk made Electric Vehicles cool again as the Big Automakers abandoned the technology. That's the story, Wall Street, the Corporate Media, Musk Fanbois, and Cylon Musk himself sold. It's been worth a lot of money. Has it any value? Maybe some, not $55 Billion, but then Cylon Musk has always been a weird, self-promoting, bigoted narcissist who loves Racism and the power he wields.</p>Grung_e_Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-70681233728042780902024-02-16T07:52:00.002-06:002024-02-16T07:56:34.462-06:00The nonsense attacks on Joe Biden's age are also Racist Whitelash against Kamala Harris<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtb5w-z7ScUvsPDy7ITv_FJjqf8iAcTo5zJZ1c8KJovu_B_cO8s2MPy5gSW68hdN8j9u7_cLYft6LTzovSVdwqqWFY5O57pduBEtbK5eAMug3CG4x3L0jww2ry4YWDV0Ck6rhpiL6cdaFxU4-3DVXUJ1bNSPXe4Mu2JAPJt6SmpN4yB_SUjFN8aMHS3dNu/s411/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-15%20at%205.42.12%20PM.png" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="297" data-original-width="411" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtb5w-z7ScUvsPDy7ITv_FJjqf8iAcTo5zJZ1c8KJovu_B_cO8s2MPy5gSW68hdN8j9u7_cLYft6LTzovSVdwqqWFY5O57pduBEtbK5eAMug3CG4x3L0jww2ry4YWDV0Ck6rhpiL6cdaFxU4-3DVXUJ1bNSPXe4Mu2JAPJt6SmpN4yB_SUjFN8aMHS3dNu/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-15%20at%205.42.12%20PM.png" width="320" /></a>The Corporate Media is fully invested in making jello-brained Trump President again. To that end they will do everything in their Power to highlight President Biden's Age. </p><p>They also expect anyone defending him to couch all praise or list of accomplishments with the sad acknowledgement that President Biden is old (but never Traitor Trump).</p><p>Listening to NPR yesterday they had <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/02/14/1231313661/vice-president-harris-to-travel-to-germany-for-a-series-of-meetings-with-u-s-all">a story on Vice President Harris traveling</a> to the Munich Security Conference and how Trump declaration that Russia should attack NATO and Republicans in the Federal Government will sabotage the Nation and alliances in every way and anyway possible is a BIG PROBLEM... </p><p>for President Biden. (Reminiscent of the Media declaring everything happening in 2008 was Good News for John McCain)</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px;"><u>NPR White House correspondent Asma Khalid:</u> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px;">But the reality is, it is going to be difficult for Harris to stand up and say, have faith in the U.S. when even a Democratic president, we are seeing, cannot guarantee additional money for Ukraine because of partisan fights in Congress. The former German ambassador, Ischinger, flatly told me that Europeans are increasingly thinking about a plan B - how to defend themselves if there is indeed a future in which they cannot depend on the U.S.</span> </span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: NPRSerif, serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.36px;">And because of the politics at home as we head into an election amidst growing questions about Biden's age, Harris really does have no room for error.</span></blockquote><p></p><p>NPR even got a reference to Biden's Age in their story! Trump's cheap mobster threats are Bad News for Biden and Harris! Everything must be framed as a problem for President Biden, as the Corporate Media does everything they can to keep Trump as a viable candidate for President even as his brain melts out his asshole of a mouth.</p><p><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/178933/mental-acuity-biden-trump-media">Michael Tomasky</a> in the <i>The New Republic </i>illustrates how the Corporate Media continually covers for Trump's rapid on-set Dementia;</p><p></p><blockquote><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And: What about Donald Trump’s brain? For God’s sakes, he confused E. Jean Carroll with his ex-wife! He makes verbal gaffes all. The. Time. Just last Friday, in a speech before an NRA crowd, he </span><a href="https://www.rawstory.com/yikes-dementia-trump-slip-ups/" style="background-color: #d0e0e3; font-family: georgia;">made several</a><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">. He slurred “subsidies” as “subsies.” He groused that it gets covered if he “said one word a little bit mispronunciation.” He confused Biden with Barack Obama (again). He said the Democrats were going to rename Pennsylvania (?!?).</span> </blockquote><blockquote><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">He </span><a href="https://twitter.com/BidenHQ/status/1756116291541258242" style="background-color: #d0e0e3; font-family: georgia;">also</a><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> said: “Nice Saturday afternoon. I could tell you, if I weren’t doing this, where I would have been, I would have been in a very nice location.”</span> </blockquote><blockquote><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">It was Friday.</span><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> </span> </blockquote><blockquote><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Night.</span> </blockquote><blockquote><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Can you imagine if Biden had done that? The Times </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/09/us/politics/trump-calls-documents-investigation-a-political-ploy-and-selective-persecution.html" style="background-color: #d0e0e3; font-family: georgia;">covered</a><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> the NRA speech, as </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/09/trump-election-2024-nevada-south-carolina/aabe9ec8-c75e-11ee-bbc9-9b5ca9b20779_story.html" style="background-color: #d0e0e3; font-family: georgia;">did the Post</a><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">. Neither piece made any mention of these malapropisms.</span></blockquote><p></p><p>But, one of the glaring subtexts about the non-stop pundits screeching <i>Joe Biden is Old </i>is the next in line in the Presidential Succession is Kamala Harris. And conservatives want no part of that...</p><p>Harris, of course, invokes funny feelings for Republicans who call her <b>Ho</b> but, are sexually attracted to her in that way all rightwingers view women; as a conquest, arm candy, trophy to display their virility towards other men whose approval and desire they care about much much more.</p><p>But, the Corporate Media is led around and follows the narrative set by Rightwing media, again in the <i>The New Republic </i>piece by Michael Tomasky;</p><blockquote><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">So this is where we are. We have one media whose goal is still largely to educate, explore, and explain. And we have another media whose goal is to elect members of a certain political party. The first media will sometimes pursue stories at odds with the priorities of the second media—Donald Trump’s indictments, for example. But it will at other times pursue stories that fit perfectly into the second media’s agenda—Joe Biden’s age. <br /><br />However, the second media will never, ever, ever pursue stories that might coincide with the first media’s priorities. And this imbalance—the mainstream media will sometimes do the bidding of the right-wing media, but the opposite will never happen—is the precise reason why the right-wing media has become the agenda-setting media in the United States.</span></blockquote><p>Nikki Haley is a disreputable scumbag but, perhaps her most shocking display of perfidy is her willingness to slag Vice President Harris to make all the white bigots, her party is comprised of, happy. Haley wants all the angry racist white men know that she's a cool girl... Rightwing Media is still angry President Obama won both his elections and the Racist Whitelash we are still feeling today is being transferred over to Kamala Harris.</p><p>Of course, the Corporate Media is more than willing to air Haley's attacks even though she has no chance of winning the Republican nomination because the Media desperately wants a Republican women to be the 1st President. They yearned for this when Sarah Palin nominated. So, I expect they are hoping/expecting Trump will nominate a women, even someone as stupid, weird, and vapid as Kristi Noem or as vile and dishonest as Sarah Suckabee Sanders expecting that Trump is going to keel over and one of those little fascist cupcakes will become the 1st Female President.</p>Grung_e_Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-74933126004065478092024-02-15T12:14:00.008-06:002024-02-15T12:36:50.680-06:00Chicago's migrant buses and the Governments inability to respond to a crisis Part 7: Privatization<blockquote style="border: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><i>What is he wanted for, Sheriff?<br />That would be of a private nature...<br />A private nature? That's a public office you hold, isn't it, Sheriff? - <u>Legends of the Fall (1994)</u></i></blockquote><div><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc2rrwQH_YRtqZmnfpkstAtUa2zjP5xkLU3pzTeuoD8roD8EKqLJvCvd_-g-crUuoO897gx9DGoL2kDVek8tG0nrVJdb6ljvge3AWIxyboAeuIq-XXDTugsSSlIN-yO-j6SzBtzItpikFuvmBhHTFKAX7tc7ZGfgo4hx9kQSC-goIUOGo5PrWM-M_bo278/s3264/BB7017DB-D8CD-4AC4-91C5-2BB7202CA499.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc2rrwQH_YRtqZmnfpkstAtUa2zjP5xkLU3pzTeuoD8roD8EKqLJvCvd_-g-crUuoO897gx9DGoL2kDVek8tG0nrVJdb6ljvge3AWIxyboAeuIq-XXDTugsSSlIN-yO-j6SzBtzItpikFuvmBhHTFKAX7tc7ZGfgo4hx9kQSC-goIUOGo5PrWM-M_bo278/s320/BB7017DB-D8CD-4AC4-91C5-2BB7202CA499.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Housing built decades ago by the US Government<br />Monterey, California still occupied (2017)<br /></span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div>So, after decades of Republicans slicing the Government sausage, Chicago, Cook and the collar counties, the State of Illinois, and the federal government don't have a reservoir of construction workers or a civilian corps of engineers to send to areas which require a quick building program of housing and infrastructure. So, the City of Chicago has to hand out contracts to private industry.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://abc7chicago.com/migrants-in-chicago-city-council-meeting-immigration-mayor-brandon-johnson/14178444/">After the debacle of the Brighton Park migrant base camp last December</a>, I wondered how much money the City of Chicago has handed out to private construction firms to do things FDR and the Works Progress Administration determined 90 years should be done by Government directly paying people to work,</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://news.wttw.com/2024/01/04/chicago-paid-least-138m-care-migrants-2023-far-less-projections-data#:~:text=The%20city%20paid%20three%20private,first%20six%20months%20in%20office.">Turns out it's at least $138,000,000.</a> And the cost to the State of Illinois is probably Half-a-Billion.</div><div><br /></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, "open sans", "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 22px;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">City officials paid at least $138 million in 2023 to house, feed and care for the men, women and children sent to Chicago from the southern border, according to data published by Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, "open sans", "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 22px;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">Of the $138 million spent by city officials to care for the migrants in 2023, more than $59 million came directly from Chicago taxpayers, according to city data.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, "open sans", "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 22px;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">The rest came from the state and federal governments via grants that totaled $78.8 million, according to city data.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, "open sans", "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 22px;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">The city paid three private firms $127 million to care for the migrants, essentially outsourcing the day-to-day responsibility for managing the humanitarian crisis that defined Mayor Brandon Johnson’s first six months in office.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, "open sans", "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 22px;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">By mid-November, the state spent $478 million to care for the migrants, state officials said. The bulk of those funds are not tracked by city officials, or included in the city’s database.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, "open sans", "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 22px;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">Since August 2022, 636 buses have arrived in Chicago, carrying nearly 29,500 people, on buses sent by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to damage President Joe Biden’s chances for reelection and divide Democratic voters.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, "open sans", "helvetica neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 22px;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">There are more than 14,700 migrants in 27 city shelters, with approximately 400 people waiting at police stations, O’Hare International Airport and on warming buses at the city’s designated bus “landing zone,” according to city data. The crisis has exposed deep divisions between Chicago’s Black and Latino communities and shredded the city’s social safety net.</span></p></div><div>Now, White Boomers are screaming their bigoted lead-tainted heads off about "The Migrant Crisis" and the associated costs. But, there is no way the City of Chicago or residents or the migrants so callously sent here have received $200 Million dollars worth goods and services and it once again highlights how the Myth of Business can do it better and Government can't do anything right is grounded in the non-stop lies and propaganda of the Ronnie Raygun administration through the modern MAGA version.</div><div><br /></div><div>And of course, white people are violently angry about the thought of the United States Government or local governments helping people. It's the height of Entitlement because Boomers grew up in an America which was built up by government in response to the rapacious 19th century Robber Barons claiming Private Property superseded all other rights and in the face of the 1929 Republican Great Depression and refusal of Corporations to help ameliorate the crushing poverty caused by Capitalism.</div><div><br /></div><div>The fact that FDR and the Government succeeded with Socialist programs in the 1930's has incensed Republicans for decades, the same way that LBJ's Great Society programs successes have infuriated Republicans since the 1960s.</div><div><br /></div><div>Republicans hate America and hate you. They have no interest in running a functional responsive government, Republicans want a Government which oppresses hundreds of millions and is owned and operated as an arm of the Rich and Powerful.</div><div><br /></div><div>These migrant buses and planes sent to Illinois are not a cheap political stunt although they are a tawdry scheme to undermine President Biden. What they are is a cold-blooded exploitation of poor and oppressed people, and that exactly is what the Republican Party offers their base of bigoted boomers and the world, the evil guarantee that Republicans will treat human beings as chattel and dispose of them by transportation. The Death Camps Republicans have planned for 2025 are going to be churning though millions of people.</div><div><br /></div><div><u>Addendum:</u></div><div>Of course, another glaring reason the City of Chicago doesn't have the money to pay people directly to help house, clothe, or fed migrants treated like garbage by Republicans is the non-stop expenditure the City incurs due to Police misconduct, brutality, abuse, and crimes. <a href="https://www.pbs.org/video/repeated-misconduct-by-116-officers-cost-taxpayers-913m-uq6w/">Chicago paid out $198,000,000 in 2019, 2020, and 2021 for Chicago Police misconduct.</a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/g0_ZUrvJ8XA" width="320" youtube-src-id="g0_ZUrvJ8XA"></iframe></div><div><br /></div>Grung_e_Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.com0