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Illustration: Guy Fawks mask wearing demonstrator. The V sign stands for "victory" and "vendetta". During WWII, Churchill used it to help reassure the British people in the war against fascism, especially Hitler. The BBC would start its news programs with the opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, the first four notes of it which are Morse code for the letter V.
OCCUPY INSANITY
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This is going to be a bit longer than usual. I'm trying to keep it short, but there are a few items that should be pointed out. You may want to bookmark this or download it – as you will.
Well, I've picked up a few items from QANON, but it isn't always easy to be sure what he is saying now that he is talking in tongues. I'm practicing listening in tongues, however, and have made enough regress to pass on a few important items, some of which have made it onto the news of certain outlets.
The first is an important public service announcement that has been covered a bit by Swanson Mcnear. [Middle names of Tucker Carlson]. If you do happen to see a mother with her child and the child is wearing a face mask, immediately report her to the police or Family Services. We can't let masks get out of hand.
THE EVIL GREEEN NEW DEAL: it will take away hamburgers and any other beef products. Beware of it. [Now actually, that bit of Twilight Zone madness has its origin in some study that theorizes that without beef products, climate goals could be achieved in 25 years. The fact is that other approaches are being proposed. I can not imagine any sort of bill being passed in any country that has so many McDonald's franchises in it.]
Finally, and I'm putting this in last, mainly because it makes me laugh so much that it is difficult to type – still, here it is: in Arizona, some group called the Cyber Ninjas has been enlisted to audit the votes again. This would be the fourth audit. The problem seems to be a bunch of ballots that were flown in from somewhere in Southwest Asia. They can be identified as false if they have bamboo in them. So, the hunt is on for bamboo in the ballots which led the the horrid pun that the GQP thought the election had been bamboozled from Mr. Fat Head. Well, I'm tired and that is enough of this crap. It is time for the Democrats to simply take over, pass bill s1 and get that crap over with.
Breaking from that
Lately, there has been a great deal of pity blathered about on India. Now, a great deal of pity and faux concern has been expressed on the situation, and everyone is free to feel as sad as they choose about the situation. However, I have not seen much repeat of the footage concerning perhaps millions of them, in all states of undress (as if it mattered) wading together in the Ganges river. The water seemed rather foul at the time, but it was made clear that this was some some of holy religious ritual. Fine. Also, their leader is one of the most right-wing nuts to come along in a long time (but who are we to boast with our GQP showing us up as idiots world-wide?).
At any rate, if this was not a so-called "Super-Spreader" event, it was a holy sacrament and I suppose that makes it ok. To me, it gives superstition a bad name. At any rate, lots of Covid there now, people dying by the thousands a day. Frankly, I thought the U.S. orgy festivals were bad enough, and stupid enough, yet this transcends them. At least those could be attributed to raging hormones. Well, perhaps the Ganges will be permitted to regain its pre-Covid level of pollution.
Back to the Absurd
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Jim Jordan accused of turning a blind eye to sexual abuse, Matt Gaetz under investigation for sex with a minor, Marjorie Taylor Greene harassed school shooting survivors and spewed anti-Semitic venom, but House GOP chooses to go after Liz Cheney for calling out the Big Lie. [And you expected what?]
Does anybody have any idea as to what the GQP platform is? What is it for? I know quite well that it is against anything Democrats try to pass. In fact, Moscow Mitch has said quite clearly that his entire purpose is to block anything the Biden administration is for. Quite clearly, it wants to support anything Donald Trump favors, but that can be elusive since the only question he has about anything is "What's in it for me?" It always has been.
The latest breaking news before mother's day is the defense argument for one of the insurrectionists on January 6, the day a bunch of frenzied morons tried to take over the Congress in order to keep Donald Trump in office, despite his overwhelming defeat by the Democrats. The guy's attorney says that his client is suffering from Foxitis and Foxmania.
Now, I do have some background in the DSM, sort of the official rulebook of the Psychological Association and can tell you that there is no such recognized condition. The best that can be said of his condition is feelings of inadequacy, a need to belong, and overactive hormones. Perhaps stupidity would be more likely, but then that condition is incurable. Fox itself has successfully defended itself in the past by saying "no reasonable individual could possibly interpret what the Fox evening commentators say is anything other than entertainment."
Now, GQP states are running like mad to stop this horrible trend of voting. Just recently, the Governor of Florida signed a bill making all sorts of voting more difficult. It was televised, but coverage of the non-event was allowed to be covered only by Fox News. I personally do not feel left out, as it were, by this fact because I would have little interest in watching such a vile event. However, since it is a public event, featuring the elected Governor of a State, one would think there is some sort of violation of the First Amendment at play. Even local stations were prohibited from witnessing the event. It is our opinion, that this is a butchering of free speech as well as voter discrimination. It is quite likely that GQP voters will be affected as much as Democratic voters, but it makes little sense.
There is a bill in Congress, passed by the House and known as HR1, that would ensure fairer elections. Fairer elections, clearly, would be detrimental to the GQP at this stage. It is now in the Senate, known as S1, and needs to be passed. However, the most often used term, filibuster, more accurately cloture, makes a 60 vote majority for anything to pass in the Senate unless it is sent through another process called "reconciliation".
No member of the GQP is willing to cross the idiotic Trump wing of the party, so there will be no cloture unless reconciliation is used. The current parliamentarian would rule against using that process because it is not related to the budget. However, it is. The lead party, the majority party, appoints the parliamentarian. All that needs to be done is to appoint a different parliamentarian. The GQP has done this in the past, so there is precedent.
Some other issues: the bill that did go through reconciliation, the one that gave you the extra $1,200 and made so many other economic benefits, and was opposed by every GQP member, is now being boasted of by the same members of the GQP as if they had passed it and that their voters or constituents should take advantage of it: "I am pleased to announce that the Federal money is now available to you, he said." [Of course, he voted against it. Hypocrisy is rampant. And, Moscow Mitch stated openly that he is 100% against anything that the Democrats try to pass. He then tried to walk it back, but the point was obvious.
Now there is a reason this is so completely disgusting to me: I grew up in Chicago when Dick Daley became Mayor. I am also somehow related to the late Mike Royko, but even as I matured and he had moved to the right-wing Tribune because "at least it was a newspaper" after Rupert Murdock bought the liberal paper he worked for, we could never pin down how we were related, exactly, but both accepted the fact, deciding what difference did it make anyway?
In fact his generation saw things quite differently than mine, but our goals were similar. He once published a book titled BOSS, a collection of his past articles. At the time, he did anger Daley several times and as Daley's wife saw the book on the shelves at the local A&P (grocery store) she raised hell with the manager. In fear, the manager had to keep the book off of his shelves. Mike's reaction ran something like this, I quote from memory as best I can: "I wish she had done more. I mean, the phrase BANNED IN BOSTON certainly helped sales of a book, Ulysses by James Joyce the first example, but banned at the A&P just doesn't have the same ring to it." But I digress. I will just say that you can find him in conversation with Studs Terkel on You Tube, and also get a flavor for his real personality. Studs had a radio program every day at 10 am on WFMT. I think there is still and archive of both his programs and Mike's columns available on WFMT and the Tribune, respectively.
Some years ago, I was on social media swinging away at Obama when someone asked "What did Obama lack?" I said "Spine". Daley, for all his faults and eventual slide into autocracy, at least made things happened. The same can be said of Lyndon Johnson. I hated the bastard at the time because I was of draft age and thought the war in Vietnam was both wrong and a mistake. I was working part-time at the library at the University of Illinois and had easy access to browse all sorts of shelves. Upon looking up the history of the country, it became clear that they had been defending their land for at least 1,000 years. The French did not last there, and China finally gave up. It was a stupid idea and I had the impression that John Kennedy thought so as well. Naturally, he was assassinated.
At any rate, he had promised to implement all the policies JFK supported. At the same time, Mr. Koch, father of the tea party guys, supported Barry Goldwater, a
Republican, who promised to "bomb Hanoi into the stone age". The choice seemed clear. LBJ was elected and promptly escalated the war.
However, at the same time, he did push through the Voting Rights Act that the south hated because it allowed Blacks to vote – it became a federal law. Additionally, he created Medicare, something FDR wanted but was never able to implement. Johnson, therefore, threatened or cajoled both Republicans and Southern Democrats on both of these bills and several more. At the time, he pointed out that the Democratic party has lost the South as a result for at least a generation, the only exception being Jimmie Carter from Georgia who had a habit of listening to Bob Dylan songs and reading sane articles. That was all stopped by Ronald Reagen, a spokesman for corporate America and eagerly supported by right wing nuts, including ex-Democrats who had become Republicans.
The point is that both Johnson and Daley managed to do things that, on the whole, were good for the American people. Daley during the protests that gathered around the Democratic convention at the time had actually, as some people from his circle said disparagingly, "Ah, duh old guy started ta believe what he been sayin fer so long. Dat means he's gone off his rocker. I quit"! Hubert Humphrey had backed Johnson (as if he had any choice) and therefore lost the election to, of all people, Richard Nixon! Whatever one says about Nixon, it is often overlooked that he created the EPA which could have helped stop the current climate crises the planet faces. Ronnie Ray Gun would have none of that.
Now the GQP is intimidated by Donald Trump, a racist demagogue and a con man. It is unpopular by a clear majority of the American people, but it will try to remain in power by reversing all these "Socialist" voting laws. Especially, keep those black folk from voting because they are inferior, white people, actually white men, are supreme and God wants them to have control over this great "Democracy". Well, right now the Democrats do have a majority in both houses. They can manage to get voting rights passed, S1, which will rule over all these mass efforts in various states to keep the GQP in control.
The real question is will they? I can assure them that if the GQP takes over in the next 19 months, they will not allow any niceties to inhibit them. They are even displacing one of the most right-wing ideologues in their own party in favor of someone with a much less right-wing bias because the right-wing one actually acknowledges that Trump lost the last election. They need to act now, and ruthlessly. That's enough.
