He's not the only one to be beheaded. Cruz, DeSantis, McConnell, Koch...We also need leaders who will go after the leeches in major way. Where's the campaign; who's telling the people's story and depicting the darkness of the Republican Party?
He's not the only one to be beheaded. Cruz, DeSantis, McConnell, Koch...We also need leaders who will go after the leeches in major way. Where's the campaign; who's telling the people's story and depicting the darkness of the Republican Party?
Wherever did you get THAT idea from? The Saudis? The Parliamentarians who condemned King Charles I to death?
I spoke of beheading a movement, not a man or men. A clear metaphor.
Another clear metaphor, but seemingly more neutral, corresponds to what I expected to be done by wise leaders after 9/11. But the leadership was not wise and this action was not taken.
What action?
Defusing a chain reaction bomb.
Rumsfeld, Liz Cheney's father, George W. Bush et al, did nothing of the sort. They activated the bomb and more than fulfilled terrorists' wildest dreams.
The consequences are still with us in the Old World.
So is it surprising that the shock-and-awe vultures should have come home to roost?
Kathy Clark doesn't like the idea of grasping this nettle, the obvious dangers... Who likes what has to be done? No difference -- it must be done, so do it.
Good morning, Peter. I woke up at 12:35 AM and soon thought of the Founding Fathers. The current state of the USA and, perhaps, the coming celebration of Independence Day led me to think of them in a general way.
The sway of White Supremacy; White Nationalism; autocracy; power, greed, grievance, misogyny, the Supreme Court; far right, fundamentalist Christians; a large gang of ghoulishly dangerous traitors crawling together as termites, leeches and snakes devouring the very structure of the peoples' house.
Given the chaotic nature of Substack's comments threads once a certain quantity of verbiage has accumulated, I don't know if there is any connection between what you have just written and earlier exchanges, in particular between myself and you and myself and Kathy Clark.
When, following the JFK assassination, Malcolm X made his momentous statement about "chickens coming in to roost", I was already too shocked to understand.
I understand too well now, and so should everyone. Except that elephants may have the capacity never to forget but today's Americans (and too many others) survive in such a sewage tide of deliberately propagated confusion that even if they had elephants' ears and the eyes of owls or eagles, they'd neither hear nor see. And what they felt they might not understand...
Hence my insistence, repeated ad nauseam, on separating the speaking heads of sedition definitively from the body politic and social.
But the trial must not be long dragged-out theater like the O.J. Simpson case. It must concentrate on the worst crimes and sentence accordingly.
For the rest, Americans in particular and human beings in general need to understand that we are now being bestowed the uncomfortable privilege of seeing that causes have consequences, and how what we have done to others comes back round full circle... to us.
How was I speaking for you? -- I am not aware of having done that.
If I've done something wrong here, I apologize, but I was just trying to mention that I'd also been exchanging with you, because, as I mentioned, it is difficult to retrace some conversations on this site when there's a huge amount of traffic.
As a result, some conversations get truncated because, being the ultimate anti-nerd, I can't find my way back to them.
As far as I am concerned, all the remainder of the comment I made consists of my own view, no one else's.
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Ah, wait a moment, now I see what you are referring to:
"Kathy Clark doesn't like the idea of grasping this nettle, the obvious dangers... Who likes what has to be done? No difference -- it must be done, so do it."
But isn't this is all free, open discussion? You expressed your understandable unease about both action and inaction and I recall answering you, using a different metaphor. This is just a repetition, but the main burden of my comment here was a rebuttal of Fern's rather strange remark -- as though I'd dream of separating any human being's head from their body! I'm no Robespierre!
I repeat my overall point of view, namely that when faced with a great danger inaction is not an option. Typically here, one is left on the horns of a dilemma, because there is no way of avoiding danger, whatever one does or does not do.
Fortunately, the responsibility for indicting these criminals does not fall to any of us...
He's not the only one to be beheaded. Cruz, DeSantis, McConnell, Koch...We also need leaders who will go after the leeches in major way. Where's the campaign; who's telling the people's story and depicting the darkness of the Republican Party?
Wherever did you get THAT idea from? The Saudis? The Parliamentarians who condemned King Charles I to death?
I spoke of beheading a movement, not a man or men. A clear metaphor.
Another clear metaphor, but seemingly more neutral, corresponds to what I expected to be done by wise leaders after 9/11. But the leadership was not wise and this action was not taken.
What action?
Defusing a chain reaction bomb.
Rumsfeld, Liz Cheney's father, George W. Bush et al, did nothing of the sort. They activated the bomb and more than fulfilled terrorists' wildest dreams.
The consequences are still with us in the Old World.
So is it surprising that the shock-and-awe vultures should have come home to roost?
Kathy Clark doesn't like the idea of grasping this nettle, the obvious dangers... Who likes what has to be done? No difference -- it must be done, so do it.
Good morning, Peter. I woke up at 12:35 AM and soon thought of the Founding Fathers. The current state of the USA and, perhaps, the coming celebration of Independence Day led me to think of them in a general way.
The sway of White Supremacy; White Nationalism; autocracy; power, greed, grievance, misogyny, the Supreme Court; far right, fundamentalist Christians; a large gang of ghoulishly dangerous traitors crawling together as termites, leeches and snakes devouring the very structure of the peoples' house.
YOUR NIGHTMARE
Given the chaotic nature of Substack's comments threads once a certain quantity of verbiage has accumulated, I don't know if there is any connection between what you have just written and earlier exchanges, in particular between myself and you and myself and Kathy Clark.
When, following the JFK assassination, Malcolm X made his momentous statement about "chickens coming in to roost", I was already too shocked to understand.
I understand too well now, and so should everyone. Except that elephants may have the capacity never to forget but today's Americans (and too many others) survive in such a sewage tide of deliberately propagated confusion that even if they had elephants' ears and the eyes of owls or eagles, they'd neither hear nor see. And what they felt they might not understand...
Hence my insistence, repeated ad nauseam, on separating the speaking heads of sedition definitively from the body politic and social.
But the trial must not be long dragged-out theater like the O.J. Simpson case. It must concentrate on the worst crimes and sentence accordingly.
For the rest, Americans in particular and human beings in general need to understand that we are now being bestowed the uncomfortable privilege of seeing that causes have consequences, and how what we have done to others comes back round full circle... to us.
GASP!! Is it ok to use my name like that and speak for me?
How was I speaking for you? -- I am not aware of having done that.
If I've done something wrong here, I apologize, but I was just trying to mention that I'd also been exchanging with you, because, as I mentioned, it is difficult to retrace some conversations on this site when there's a huge amount of traffic.
As a result, some conversations get truncated because, being the ultimate anti-nerd, I can't find my way back to them.
As far as I am concerned, all the remainder of the comment I made consists of my own view, no one else's.
*
Ah, wait a moment, now I see what you are referring to:
"Kathy Clark doesn't like the idea of grasping this nettle, the obvious dangers... Who likes what has to be done? No difference -- it must be done, so do it."
But isn't this is all free, open discussion? You expressed your understandable unease about both action and inaction and I recall answering you, using a different metaphor. This is just a repetition, but the main burden of my comment here was a rebuttal of Fern's rather strange remark -- as though I'd dream of separating any human being's head from their body! I'm no Robespierre!
I repeat my overall point of view, namely that when faced with a great danger inaction is not an option. Typically here, one is left on the horns of a dilemma, because there is no way of avoiding danger, whatever one does or does not do.
Fortunately, the responsibility for indicting these criminals does not fall to any of us...
Over to you, Merrick.
Over to you We the People.