Thoughts for the Day 20240714

• My political thoughts on Trump dodging a bullet
• People tell me to unplug; I did for two years: it was awful.
• People say "unplug!"
• Me: You want me be deaf, dumb and blind?
• I do not have political clout, nor legal networks, nor financial influence. 
• What I have is my Art--
• and that will be enough.

Thoughts for the Day 20240305

 

Thoughts for the Day 20240304

• Let's not mince words this terrible day: 
• the Supreme Court rolled out the red carpet for Donald Trump, 
• bowing and motioning him to walk into the Oval Office. 
• Never mind defending 
• the Constitution 
• our Democracy 
• other such Liberal ideals. 
• All hail Emperor Trump the First!

Thoughts for the Day 20240228

•  Why we NEED to study History
• Historian Mary Beard contends that 
• Rome became a de facto empire due to territorial expansion
• too vast to be effectively governed by a democratic republic
• So the territorial empire created the first emperors
• to fill a political void
• IMO This is frightening 
• the USA is rapidly expanding its holdings 
• (military installations)
• satellite nations
• We cannot decide how to effectively administer them
• Could this be why we are facing the threat of
• Emperor Donald Trump I?
• IMO This upcoming election is not
• whether the USA will become an empire or a republic
• But rather what direction the Empire of the United States will take.
• Or to put it more bluntly:
• The 1% want their empire
• and will stop at nothing to get it.
• Prediction: Tyrant Trump will fail
• He insists on doing everything himself
• Nothing happens without Trump's approval.
• He will drown in the details.

Thoughts for the Day 20240126

•  With all the civil and criminal judgments against D. Trump
• Totaling perhaps over 500 million USD
• I am grimly delighted and eagerly anticipating
• Trump declaring bankruptcy to
• avoid paying these civil and criminal fines
• play the martyr
• I'm waiting for legal/professional sanctions 
• against A. Habba
• for her actions in the state and federal courts
• disgraceful
• contemptuous
• Will D. Trump flee the country?
• Every time he's losing a court case he then
• runs as fast as his little feet can take him
• complains with bitter vitriol
• that he's the victim
• extols his followers to violence
• And there are more civil and criminal cases to come
• far surpassing R. Reagan for political corruption
• Green Eagle on D. Trump's "win" in New Hampshire
• 'So, DeSantis dropped out.  
• My guess at that point was that Trump and Haley would pretty much split DeSantis' 22 points, 
• giving each 11 points, 
• so the final result of the New Hampshire race should have been something like this: 
• Haley: 33 points; 
• Trump 63 points.  
• Instead, 
• of course, 
• Haley got 44 points in New Hampshire, 
• and Trump only managed to weakly pick off 2 points from DeSantis's voters, 
• coming in around 54 points.
• To my mind, 
• this is a colossal failure of momentum.  
• It is not that this violent man and the hate-filled base that supports him could barely bully his own party's voters into giving him more than a bare majority, 
• but that, as I think is obvious, 
• something has gone seriously wrong with his march to the White House.'
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Thoughts for Today 20240121

 

• All these ammosexuals running around itching to drag iron and kill all they disapprove of.
• So why are we all still alive?
• Because of the Constitution, baby.
• The one thing the Orange God-King wants to get rid of after he's elected.

• Cannot emphasize this enough:
• Balloon Juice: Eternal Fascism: The Key Elements
• Umberto Eco's seminal text on the threat of Ur-Fascism.
• From Green Eagle:
• 'The Civil War was about freedom.  
• Nikki Haley was absolutely right about that.  
• She only got one thing wrong.  
• It was about the freedom of black people not to be owned by white people, not the freedom of white people to own black people.
• Apparently, to people like Nikki Haley, freedom and slavery were not inconsistent.  
• Just as long as the right people were free and the right people were slaves.'
• I cannot believe Nikki Haley can utter such a blatant lie:
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  We all know this is totally false, completely untrue.
• The GOP 2024 campaign is to restore racism as a core tenant of the Conservative Republic of Trumpistan.

Thoughts for the Day 20240116

• Trump caucus win in Iowa:
• In his victory word-salad (long-term COVID?), did D. Trump remember to thank Putin for his generous behind-the-scenes support?
• "Low voter turnout" translates to "all the moderate Republicans stayed home rather than vote for MAGA candidates."
• Update: D. Trump won by 51%.
• 49% voted against Trump.
• This is not a "landslide" victory.
• Prediction: After Iowa caucus victory, local GOP will run wild.
• Expect increased violence against all who are not white, male, and heterosexual.
• Are evangelicals actually expecting their God of Abraham to descend from the heavens and restore white supremacy?
• BTW all the Old Testament patriarchs we revere kept slaves.
• In an interview with Christine Amanpour, Robert Pape identifies the racist "Great Replacement Theory" as the prime motivator for the January 6th insurrection.
• Pape analyzed 400 arrested traitors to generate this profile:
• White
• Male
• Over 45
• Upper middle-class 
• businessmen 
• professionals
• career civil-service
• Observation: The January 6th rioters had the income and status to take time off from their jobs to participate in the overthrow of the newly-elected administration.
• Marx and Engels are laughing from their graves.

“There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” --The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

 

Thoughts for the Day

• Really looking forward to Drumpf fleeing the USA (to Belarus/Crimea?)), 
• setting up a "government-in-exile", and 
• exhorting his followers to 
• run riot, 
• kill all his enemies
• burn everything down
• We had the opportunity 
• to put Hair Fuhrer in jail
• for his many gag order violations
• but we squandered that opportunity
• (because Capitalism protects the 1%)
• I tried to post this on Facebook
• But Meta forced me to delete this post
• or end up in FB jail
• (because Capitalism protects the 1%)
• Lesson learned: 
• stick with Google blogs
• ICYMI: 
• On Christmas Day
• Israel bombed Gaza refugee camps
• Russia blasted Ukraine cities with missiles
• So tell me again
• why do we celebrated Christmas?

Thoughts for the Day 20231118

•  So, in essence, most Republicans despise Donald Trump
• but will still do everything they can to get him elected President--
• just to own the Libs
• That's it
• that's what this is all about
• And while the body count rises
• and all of us are enslaved
• and women are turned into breeding animals--
• all to satisfy these schoolyard bullies
• who have money to burn
• just to own the Libs

Thoughts for the Day 20231116

• If AR-15s all disappear:
• Do pro-gun arguments collapse like a house of cards?
• Interesting how so many people like Alex Hailey's novel Roots, 
• but they don't like the factual 1619 Project. 
• This is why we need to teach History.
• I love how middle-aged cis white males 
• can sit in a local diner in an almost all-white community 
• grousing how there is no freedom of speech anymore.
• The reason Conservatives need billionaire donors 
• is maintaining the Big Lie is 
• very expensive and 
• consumes vast resources of 
• time, 
• labor, and 
• money.
• The core tenet of GOP populism
• Heterosexual white males
• must make more
• heterosexual white males 
• by any means possible.
• "Give me white dick or give me death."
• Amusing: All these militia types
• Wear woodland camouflage in urban environments
• in order to hide
• from themselves
• from each other
• from they have done.

Thoughts for the Day 20231015

Love how the Transhumanist movement was all about reshaping the human body; but then people started reshaping their genitals and the "forward-thinking" TH's were like, "Noping outta here...!" Identity is WAY more important than conservatives pretend it isn't.

GOP policies don't have to work: they just have to oppress non-whites and make the GOP rich in the process. Hasn't anyone noticed racist policies help make conservatives wealthy?