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"Anti-woke is just another way of saying white supremacy." P. Z. Myers Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the governor of Arkansas now

There are not enough living beings on planet Earth to create "herd immunity." Rest assured, the uber-wealthy 10% are fully immunized against COVID-19, including booster shots. Per their capitalist conservative worldview, they fully expect the remaining 90% (you and me) to die of COVID. Those of the 90% who survive will become slaves.

 Still catching up on old notes: This happens all the time in local politics: We need to pay town employees more to better retain experienced people. GOP: No. We need to pay LEO's more to retain them. GOP: Yes.

 Catching up on a backlog of my personal notes: People who own guns want their ownership to be sacrosanct, a moral imperative. Guns are just guns; they are designed only to kill. That is not a moral authority; that is terror. I have little patience with pro-gun arguments, because their logic--boiled down--is, "I have a gun, and you don't, so you lose." Pro-gun arguments are abysmally stupid and meaningless. The question Conservatives hate the most is, "Why are you doing this?" Conservative attempts to truthfully answer this question are too revealing, as conservatives know they cannot  reveal their real reasons, as they are inherently racist and exploitative.  I thank the gods I have witnessed the beginning of the end of the Republican party. The slippery moral slope begun in the Reagan administration has dumped the GOP into a pit of their own making. I weary of all these articles and essays whose thesis is, "I was a Liberal until..." As far as I am co...

Oh, yes, attacking pronouns is such a "gotcha"--our corporate 1% overlords don't want us 99% to have an identify, just a payroll ID number (and perhaps not even that). Our Constitution was DESIGNED to prevent tyranny and punish wannabe dictators and traitors. We must have the rule of law. Always (morbidly) fascinating how corporate feudalism aligns perfectly with right-wing fascism. D. Trump (justly) trashed on Twitter > E. Musk (faux-)outrage buys out Twitter > Restores TFG MAGAts to platform > TFG twitters into WH > TFG makes Tesla cars USGOV vehicles > TFG bails out Hyperlink. Not hard to figure out. We often think the problem is Conservative political philosophy being tarnished/subverted by rude, arrogant, wealthy assholes. IMO Conservative political philosophy nourishes rude, arrogant, wealthy assholes, always rewarding the worst of humanity throughout history. Interesting how I've had to block M. T. Green twice now on Twitter. BTW should M. T. Gre...

 Why does living in the past always seem to involve guns firing, uniforms sparkling, foxholes manned, tanks rumbling past, military jets screaming overhead, huge factories churning, gigantic dams rushing water, limousine cars pulling up, and vast steam railroads chugging-chugging-chugging? All of this built/made by white people, with not a single non-white in sight, except to passively enjoy the benefits of being with white people? The history of our past—everyone's past—is always rewritten. So the justifications for this historical revisionism are also in a constant state of rewrite to shore up and prop up the vast overarching conspiracy, the mythology, the Adam Smith collection of fairy tales, that all of our nation's greatness, our social progress, our cultural wealth was made by lily-white hands—only these hands, mouths, feet and brains belonging to white males with wives and children. Children raised to carry on this delusion, maintain and violently defend the lie. For wit...

  CONSERVATIVES: Liberals took away all our toys! DONALD TRUMP: Liberals took away all of your toys! CONSERVATIVES: YAY TRUMP! TRUMP: We need to take back all of our toys and punch Liberals in the snoot!! CONSERVATIVES: PUNCH LIBERALS! TRUMP: This is our playground--not theirs! CONSERVATIVES: OUR PLAYGROUND! TRUMP: You see those kids over there? The ones using that swing-set? That's OUR swing-set--not theirs! CONSERVATIVES: OUR SWINGSET! OUR TOYS! TRUMP: Let's go over there and tell them about it! CONSERVATIVES: OUR SWINGSET! OUR TOYS! OUR SWINGSET! OUR TOYS! (Conservative bully-boys with rocks, knives, and clubs form a mob and attack the children at the swing-set.) (Children around the swing-set are injured, maimed and crippled--and suddenly it's not funny anymore.) (TRUMP remains where he is, arms folded, sneering smirk on his face.)

Who invaded the US State Capitol Building?  Lower-middle-class whites (mostly unemployed). If lower-middle-class (unemployed), how come they had so many guns?  Someone supplied them with the guns they couldn't afford. What were the goals for invading the US State Capitol Building?  To prevent the peaceful and legal transition of presidential power to the newly-elected Joe Biden. Thus retain multi-millionaire Donald Trump as President (for life?) of the USA.  Under the cover of the riot, insurgent sub-groups invaded the Capitol Building to find and kill Liberal political representatives. What made these lower-middle-class terrorists invade the State Capitol Building? Extensive and well-funded propaganda campaigns from wealthy political donors. Loosely organized but highly networked social media accounts to  make long-term plans  and coordinate the attack on the State Capitol Building. The rioters were ordered by their Dear Leader, President Donald Trump, to ...

 Yes, it's wonderful that Democrats won the presidency in 2020. (I voted for every name that had a [D] after it.) But I think it's rather sad that those who are are happy a stellar political candidate like Kamala Harris is the VP would be horrified if Harris was the President-elect. I just hope Biden gets out of her way and lets Harris work her reformative magick. (And the idea of Kamala Harris presiding over Congress gives me a warm feeling.)

 It may not seem like a Blue Tsunami.  Perhaps without the GOP sabotage of the electoral process,  combined with conservatives coordinating their sabotage with foreign state agents, the votes would have been tallied much faster to create a huge wave of voter response. Yet we have so much to be thankful for: The use of paper ballots thwarted efforts both internal and external to hijack the electoral process. The forces of white patriarchy in all their violence have been exposed; the warnings of Liberalism have been validated. Everyone now sees what we are really fighting for: freedom and equality. Rivers of dark money did not win the election. The 1% coup has failed. Marijuana legalization is trending across the country. For-profit prisons will lose much of their revenue. More senate seats will come into play in two years. The benefits of liberalism will help elect more Democrats. Mitch McConnell will face his reckoning. Biden and Harris can still do much to improve the US...

I sometimes feel like the English language is some exclusive boys club, with the sig posted, "No Girlz Allowed!!!" And the design specs of the English language seem to be drafted to favor a portion of our population who are white-skinned, prefer to mate with the opposite gender, and for that purpose have a dangling proboscis that seems to serve as the nexus of this language's design. Imagine language as an automobile, and I'm lifting up the hood to find it's not an engine of syntax and tenses, but instead a 12-year old boy is glaring up at me, and he's angry that I'm interrupting his enjoyment of a porn magazine.   One thing I learned in college is language can be so much more than a male fraternity pledge hazing: with language we can both explore our world, and also create one at the same time.

SPELL TO BE SAID AGAINST HATRED by Jane Hirshfield via brainpickings Until each breath refuses  they, those, them . Until the  Dramatis Personae  of the book’s first page says, “Each one is you.” Until hope bows to its hopelessness only as one self bows to another. Until cruelty bends to its work and sees suddenly:  I . Until anger and insult know themselves burnable legs of a useless table. Until the unsurprised unbidden knees find themselves bending. Until fear bows to its object as a bird’s shadow bows to its bird. Until the ache of the solitude inside the hands, the ribs, the ankles. Until the sound the mouse makes inside the mouth of the cat. Until the inaudible acids bathing the coral. Until what feels no one’s weighing is no longer weightless. Until what feels no one’s earning is no longer taken. Until grief, pity, confusion, laughter, longing know themselves mirrors. Until by  we  we mean I, them, you, the muskrat, the tiger, the hunger. Until by...

We've had the ways and means to effectively address racism and its causes for (at least) the past 60 years. The fact we haven't been able to do so means racism is deeply interwoven into the very fabric of our society and culture, and if it is addressed, the very people who consider themselves the gatekeepers of fashion, society and culture feel threatened. Any efforts to actively confront racism and its root causes triggers legal and political violence, to shock and overawe those activists who seek to bring meaningful progressive change. If we try to make the USA a better place, we will be beaten, teargassed, and arrested—or even killed, slaughtered in the streets by agents of the state, without mercy. The ruling elite desperately—savagely—defends and embraces racism as if those in power cannot survive without it. We see now racism is not just endemic, but a necessary tool of oppression. The ultimate irony—enough to make angels weep—is racism solves nothing. Not a damn thin...

Corporate GOP loves factory farms  Food production becomes a cut-throat market (Globalization)  Independent farmers and farmer cooperatives viewed as competition by corporations  Independent farmers sustained by USDA subsidies  GOP orders USDA to move to Kansas  Most USDA employees refuse to move  USDA effectively shut down as federal agency  Subsidies for independent farmers ends  Independent farmers stop farming; farming cooperatives forced out  Corporate factory farms can't keep up with the demand  Imported food is banned by high tariffs  Food prices skyrocket (at this point the process has spiraled out of control)  Most Americans face death by starvation  GOP rides the horse of Famine into greater power  Processed faux food cheaper than real food  Factory farms use slave labor  Major grocery chains stores torched by starving protesters...

Fascinating how wealth and class privilege still act to protect Epstein from his crimes. People are wondering how Epstein got all his money, floating the idea of elaborate blackmail schemes. Epstein seems to float in a isolated pool of turpitude, the solitary villain, fiendishly luring innocent men into his whiles. Dear gods: the pimp on the street doesn't get his money from blackmail--blackmail would get that pimp killed or ratted out on. Epstein made his money pimping children to his clients, period. And who were his clients? The 1%. The wealthy elite who consider themselves above the law; the REPEAT clients who hired Epstein to find MORE female minors for their extravagant orgies, their clandestine meetings, the rich and powerful who would not hesitate to have Epstein killed if he threatened to tell anyone of their "business" dealings. Epstein made a fortune selling children as sex slaves to the soulless monsters who could afford to sate their lusts without fear. I am ...

Hopefully, with the experience he's just gained, Trump will be able to open a hot-dog stand next July 4th.

The consequence of a stratified hierarchy--beloved by conservatives--is we, the people, all die, be it a military death, a religious death, a medical death, or an economic death; we die slowly and painfully, and our deaths are usually meaningless.

I had to turn on the heat pump last night. [Marshals crane backing up while hoisting Summer] "Okay, back a little more ... little more.... Right there! Okay, set 'er down easy--" BATHUMP. "Awesome; there's Summer right it belongs, just after Spring." Thank the gods: can we now kindly drive a wooden stake through the heart of Game of Thrones as an act of mercy? Why do we keep thinking bad fiction makes for good media? Think GoT is good fiction ? Read Mark Twain's Seventeen Rules for Writing . Made biscuits today since I'm not paying $$$ for a loaf of bread. I like how Trump is multi-tasking all the different levels of Dante's Inferno  Trump will occupy after he dies. Satan will need to install a light rail system just to shuttle Trump around to meet his just punishments. At least Trump will improve Hell's infrastructure.... Mock Paper Scissors : Little Kremlin-on-the-Potomac: tengrain: ' And then   Fox News had a nutty...

I've had it with Facebook. Invasive monitoring, nurturing neo-fascist hate speech to increase their revenue, selling our personal data to obviously Russian think tanks, who then put Trump into the Oval Office--I'm done with Facebook. Yes, Google has its problems as well, but seems a better choice to me for now. Let's see how this works out....