It will be a special day on earth when the whole kit and kaboodle of the frump fiasco is finito, done and dusted, over and bloody done with.
Decades of wasted time, running backwards and screwing everything up... finito. Hallelujah. A world wide holiday. Let’s call it “the Welcome Sanity day””
It will be a special day on earth when the whole kit and kaboodle of the frump fiasco is finito, done and dusted, over and bloody done with.
Decades of wasted time, running backwards and screwing everything up... finito. Hallelujah. A world wide holiday. Let’s call it “the Welcome Sanity day””
"Nick Fuentes, as sort of the organizer of the Groypers, expresses Holocaust denialism, white supremacy, white nationalism, pretty strong anti-women bigotry, he calls for a kind of return to Twelfth Century Catholicism."
The ages seem pretty dark over there. My mother, married to a rich "cracker" family, wrote to me that DeSantis is "helping them be safe." Yep: white, monied and close to the bastion of whiteness in mid-Florida, The Villages.
DeSantis' programs indeed pander to those who want a government which 'is helping them to be safe.' Safe from whom? This is the same rationale upon which the Second Amendment was based in 1789, guaranteeing the availability of weapons to enable States to be safe from those same forces. Today, subtract the States from the equation (as the SCOTUS did in 2008) and just make guns available to anyone. Behind it all is racism.
Racism is certainly part of it, but I think that there is also a fundamental refusal to rule out the use of violence to work one's will; and you see and hear it in their rhetoric in general. The kitted out cosplaytriot is sending the same message as the noose displayed at the insurrection, "we get to use violence if we want to". That differs starkly from what the Constitution says an official "militia" is and is for.
Like the schoolyard bullies (and Desantis) they wrap their reliance on violence with Orwellinan claims about rule of law, yet hold themselves out as somehow exempt from its restraints. Part of the function of governance is to provide channels that are as just as we can make them by which competing and conflicting agendas can be resolved without harm to society.
Althought that was not their intention, personal acts of violence were condoned by the politicized Supreme Court in 2008 in their DC vs Heller decision when it eliminated State-established militias as the beneficiaries of the Second Amendment right to possess and bear arms and left that unencumbered right in the hands of uncontrolled individuals. Since then, the hands of the SCOTUS have been bathed in the flow of blood unleashed by the late Justice Scalia's opinion. It will take a new Court, responsive to the public's wishes, to change things.
“The Groypers are essentially the equivalent of neo-Nazis…. They are attached to violent events like Jan. 6. Nick Fuentes, as sort of the organizer of the Groypers, expresses Holocaust denialism, white supremacy, white nationalism, pretty strong anti-women bigotry, he calls for a kind of return to Twelfth Century Catholicism. They’re an extremist group that is OK with violence.” This pretty much wraps up the Repugnants long game: to take the country back to the Medieval Period. And they will emulate the Hapsburgs…Donny can play, Rudolf I, who became German king in 1273.
12th century sounds like Disney World for these folks. Crusaders killing Muslims, serfs bought and sold like slaves to work the fields and mines. The only thing missing is hunting and killing witches, which was more a 14th -18th Century thing. But I imagine they could just mix centuries to get the maximum fun.
I am convinced that the actual message of "Reaganomics" and certainly the theme of it's implementation, was that democracy is a pathetic pipe dream, and the feudal lords were the proper natural leaders all along. And where did that notion come from? Follow the money.
Yes, the "Dark Ages" moniker is too broad, but too many of our better angels are suffocated when social authority becomes invested in somebody's say so, and often enforced with violence rather than collaborative exploration and empathy. The "Renaissance" and the "Enlightenment" were mixed bags as well, but supported questioning and exploration. Modern "Republicans" would have us believe that only they can fix it, and that anyone who questions their self-serving formulas is evil; when arguably obsessive hubristic self-absorption, to the point of sociopathy, is the essence of what evil is.
Despite Special Investigator Durham's claim of FBI insufficiency re: the Russian connection to Trump, it seems that Putin is weakening considerably. I take heart that his predicted failure in Ukraine might also signal to the right wing toadies here that they, too, are being exposed for what they are.
As much as I dislike being a wet blanket or a killjoy, don't hold your breath. Wherever there's a gaggle / GAG - gle of conservatives you can expect an accumulation of undiluted shite.
When i was a junior in high school, i took a class ''US Government'' and we were taught that conservatives that governed like the ones now in the GQP are ''Reactionaries'' that is exactly what these scumbags are now, far right Reactionaries. There are very few real conservatives that remain in the Rethuglican party.
MAYBE " Conservatives of Convenience ", not unlike " Christians of Convenience ", & the 2 groups have a LOT in common since Evangelicals started worshipping the failed Antichrist Trump, even going so far as to compare him to Jesus when DJT has as much in common with
Jesus as I do with Genghis Khan or Rameses the Great.
Christianiods? Antichristers? Jesus said to help the poor and the stranger, reject great wealth, love, not shoot thy enemy, and to go ahead and pay the taxes. Sound like Trump?
I use other terms, some unfit for mixed company & certainly NOT the ears of those claiming to be " Christian ", such as my holier - than - Jesus cousin. I refer to her as " The Second Coming " or " Li'l Ms. Jesus ", just not to her face.
I have read that some churches have replaced their huge pictures of Jesus with huge pictures of TUMP, and that some have put a picture of TUMP beside their pictures of Jesus.. These TUMP idiots disgust me to no end. I just wished all of this would end, i am sick and tired of TUMP and his mentally deranged cult members.
At least one Evangelical called DJT " the Antichrist ", a voice crying in the wilderness, & indicated that he was DONE with him. Some of them like DJT's policies but are tired of him being a narcissistic buffoon & a 70 + BRAT.
That CNN town hall thing was disaster, all he did was tell the same lies over and over again. I didn't watch it, but i read all about it on other websites. I didn't watch it because personally, i can't stand the sight of him and hear his raspy, broken voice. He is a narcissistic, arrogant, pathological liar. I honestly do not see how anyone could like this cretin.
"That is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles -- right and wrong -- throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings." -Lincoln
It would be a special day, but will it ever happen? Trump, with loads of help from mainstream and social media, woke up the 20% of the US population who are true haters, and who have always been here, whom the rich have always manipulated to retain control over the majority.
I remember the Berlin Wall going up. I remember the Berlin Airlift. So did Obama, and he used it as the kernel of that great speech - misunderstood, alas, by some of the European translators.
Even if you date the Berlin Wall from the end of WWII (the Russians and East Germans had electrified fences and armed soldiers), it's still roughly 42 years.
Black Americans were stripped of most of their rights in the 1890s and 1910s. Legally stripped of their rights.
I'm not saying this isn't bad. I'm saying we've been through bad and we overcome it.
I'm 64. My mother not only didn't think she would see a black president in her lifetime -- she doubted I would see one in mine. She was pretty amazed she saw a Catholic president.
My mother raised us to understand that way too many people allow fear to rule them.
If she could see the world her grandchildren were growing up in she would be ecstatic.
But I will not live to see it. In my life time women gained rights that as I single parent were denied & now to have our right to be self determining individuals taken away is heart breaking. Although the undermining of our democracy has happened over a time of complacency, the personification of it & Christian Nationalism/ fascism will take more decades than I have years. I will not go quietly in hopes that the new voters will steer our country onto the process of becoming a democracy for all.
It will be a special day on earth when the whole kit and kaboodle of the frump fiasco is finito, done and dusted, over and bloody done with.
Decades of wasted time, running backwards and screwing everything up... finito. Hallelujah. A world wide holiday. Let’s call it “the Welcome Sanity day””
"Nick Fuentes, as sort of the organizer of the Groypers, expresses Holocaust denialism, white supremacy, white nationalism, pretty strong anti-women bigotry, he calls for a kind of return to Twelfth Century Catholicism."
Make the ages "dark" again.
The ages seem pretty dark over there. My mother, married to a rich "cracker" family, wrote to me that DeSantis is "helping them be safe." Yep: white, monied and close to the bastion of whiteness in mid-Florida, The Villages.
DeSantis' programs indeed pander to those who want a government which 'is helping them to be safe.' Safe from whom? This is the same rationale upon which the Second Amendment was based in 1789, guaranteeing the availability of weapons to enable States to be safe from those same forces. Today, subtract the States from the equation (as the SCOTUS did in 2008) and just make guns available to anyone. Behind it all is racism.
Racism is certainly part of it, but I think that there is also a fundamental refusal to rule out the use of violence to work one's will; and you see and hear it in their rhetoric in general. The kitted out cosplaytriot is sending the same message as the noose displayed at the insurrection, "we get to use violence if we want to". That differs starkly from what the Constitution says an official "militia" is and is for.
Like the schoolyard bullies (and Desantis) they wrap their reliance on violence with Orwellinan claims about rule of law, yet hold themselves out as somehow exempt from its restraints. Part of the function of governance is to provide channels that are as just as we can make them by which competing and conflicting agendas can be resolved without harm to society.
Althought that was not their intention, personal acts of violence were condoned by the politicized Supreme Court in 2008 in their DC vs Heller decision when it eliminated State-established militias as the beneficiaries of the Second Amendment right to possess and bear arms and left that unencumbered right in the hands of uncontrolled individuals. Since then, the hands of the SCOTUS have been bathed in the flow of blood unleashed by the late Justice Scalia's opinion. It will take a new Court, responsive to the public's wishes, to change things.
As a Floridian, all I can say about the Villages is 🤮
I can't wait to see all those Villagers cleaning their own homes, mowing their own lawns, when there are no more immigrants left in the state
My sister lived in the Villages for almost two years. I helped get her out of that morass.
Now there is a picture! I imagine the reason many wealthier Floridians live behind gates & fences might be their concern of their "safety".
Have read about the Villages - To have to do their own maintenance & "labor" certainly would be interesting.
Might even cut down on their STD transmission rates. Have read it is quite high in the Villages (laptop does not allow emojis)
There may be early dementia in many Villages residents which would make them more susceptible to right wing BS. Critical thinking would be lost.
“The Groypers are essentially the equivalent of neo-Nazis…. They are attached to violent events like Jan. 6. Nick Fuentes, as sort of the organizer of the Groypers, expresses Holocaust denialism, white supremacy, white nationalism, pretty strong anti-women bigotry, he calls for a kind of return to Twelfth Century Catholicism. They’re an extremist group that is OK with violence.” This pretty much wraps up the Repugnants long game: to take the country back to the Medieval Period. And they will emulate the Hapsburgs…Donny can play, Rudolf I, who became German king in 1273.
12th century sounds like Disney World for these folks. Crusaders killing Muslims, serfs bought and sold like slaves to work the fields and mines. The only thing missing is hunting and killing witches, which was more a 14th -18th Century thing. But I imagine they could just mix centuries to get the maximum fun.
Although “the greatest witch-hunt in the history of our country” has taken place in the 21st century 😉
So long as they got to be despots.
I am convinced that the actual message of "Reaganomics" and certainly the theme of it's implementation, was that democracy is a pathetic pipe dream, and the feudal lords were the proper natural leaders all along. And where did that notion come from? Follow the money.
I said this way before chump. Nice that some of our MSM has “woke.”
There were some terrific opinion writers. Augustine. Thomas Aquinas.
Yes, the "Dark Ages" moniker is too broad, but too many of our better angels are suffocated when social authority becomes invested in somebody's say so, and often enforced with violence rather than collaborative exploration and empathy. The "Renaissance" and the "Enlightenment" were mixed bags as well, but supported questioning and exploration. Modern "Republicans" would have us believe that only they can fix it, and that anyone who questions their self-serving formulas is evil; when arguably obsessive hubristic self-absorption, to the point of sociopathy, is the essence of what evil is.
Shuddering, I agree with you.
Despite Special Investigator Durham's claim of FBI insufficiency re: the Russian connection to Trump, it seems that Putin is weakening considerably. I take heart that his predicted failure in Ukraine might also signal to the right wing toadies here that they, too, are being exposed for what they are.
As much as I dislike being a wet blanket or a killjoy, don't hold your breath. Wherever there's a gaggle / GAG - gle of conservatives you can expect an accumulation of undiluted shite.
When i was a junior in high school, i took a class ''US Government'' and we were taught that conservatives that governed like the ones now in the GQP are ''Reactionaries'' that is exactly what these scumbags are now, far right Reactionaries. There are very few real conservatives that remain in the Rethuglican party.
MAYBE " Conservatives of Convenience ", not unlike " Christians of Convenience ", & the 2 groups have a LOT in common since Evangelicals started worshipping the failed Antichrist Trump, even going so far as to compare him to Jesus when DJT has as much in common with
Jesus as I do with Genghis Khan or Rameses the Great.
Christians of Convenience, great descriptor, or maybe Pharisees
American Neo - Pharisee Hypocrite party ? I'm sure some acronym could be strung together from that.
Christianiods? Antichristers? Jesus said to help the poor and the stranger, reject great wealth, love, not shoot thy enemy, and to go ahead and pay the taxes. Sound like Trump?
Daniel I think of many of the ‘Christian’ evangelicals as Judasites.
I use other terms, some unfit for mixed company & certainly NOT the ears of those claiming to be " Christian ", such as my holier - than - Jesus cousin. I refer to her as " The Second Coming " or " Li'l Ms. Jesus ", just not to her face.
Daniel How about Pontius Pilate? This could make her think (for the first time?)
😂
Keith, the resemblance to “prarasites” is too good to miss. But do these people know who Judas was? What betrayal means?
Virginia These folks don’t know who Judas was [look in the mirror?] and don’t know the difference between Holy Toast and Holy Ghost.
Perhaps they should sign up for Parasites Pilates with Pontius.
I have read that some churches have replaced their huge pictures of Jesus with huge pictures of TUMP, and that some have put a picture of TUMP beside their pictures of Jesus.. These TUMP idiots disgust me to no end. I just wished all of this would end, i am sick and tired of TUMP and his mentally deranged cult members.
At least one Evangelical called DJT " the Antichrist ", a voice crying in the wilderness, & indicated that he was DONE with him. Some of them like DJT's policies but are tired of him being a narcissistic buffoon & a 70 + BRAT.
That CNN town hall thing was disaster, all he did was tell the same lies over and over again. I didn't watch it, but i read all about it on other websites. I didn't watch it because personally, i can't stand the sight of him and hear his raspy, broken voice. He is a narcissistic, arrogant, pathological liar. I honestly do not see how anyone could like this cretin.
John These days a US Government class should describe the GOP as Reactionaries and false fact Defactuaries.
Oh, man, you DO have a way with words. 😂
"That is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles -- right and wrong -- throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings." -Lincoln
I couldn't have said it better!
It would be a special day, but will it ever happen? Trump, with loads of help from mainstream and social media, woke up the 20% of the US population who are true haters, and who have always been here, whom the rich have always manipulated to retain control over the majority.
I don't disagree but I may not see that in my lifetime.
Or you may.
If you're old enough, do you remember watching the Berlin Wall come down?
All things are possible.
I remember the Berlin Wall going up. I remember the Berlin Airlift. So did Obama, and he used it as the kernel of that great speech - misunderstood, alas, by some of the European translators.
How wonderful!
Did you think it would ever come down?
Because I didn't -- until it did.
And I wept.
Which I never would have predicted.
Gorbachev didn't get much in the way of thanks.
From neither side.
Hopefully, history will cut through the BS and give him is due.
How long did that take?
28 years.
Putin became president of Russia in 2000.
23 years ago.
Even if you date the Berlin Wall from the end of WWII (the Russians and East Germans had electrified fences and armed soldiers), it's still roughly 42 years.
Black Americans were stripped of most of their rights in the 1890s and 1910s. Legally stripped of their rights.
I'm not saying this isn't bad. I'm saying we've been through bad and we overcome it.
I'm 64. My mother not only didn't think she would see a black president in her lifetime -- she doubted I would see one in mine. She was pretty amazed she saw a Catholic president.
My mother raised us to understand that way too many people allow fear to rule them.
If she could see the world her grandchildren were growing up in she would be ecstatic.
We will get through this.
But I will not live to see it. In my life time women gained rights that as I single parent were denied & now to have our right to be self determining individuals taken away is heart breaking. Although the undermining of our democracy has happened over a time of complacency, the personification of it & Christian Nationalism/ fascism will take more decades than I have years. I will not go quietly in hopes that the new voters will steer our country onto the process of becoming a democracy for all.
I wish I could be so optimistic.
It helps if your first thought on reading the latest Republican inanity is "I will not let those bastards win."
Anger is a perfectly useful emotion - when channeled into action.
"We live in capitalism. It's power seems inescapable. But then, so did the divine right of kings"
Ursula Le Guin- National Book Awards, 2014
If you can imagine such a day, you are far more optimistic than I am.
I still fantasize about waking up on Nov 9, 2016, and hearing that Hillary has been elected, and that everything after is an oft bad dream.
Well said, Diana! Why don't we call it that day, come on.
AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!