The New York Times’ woke campaign “1619 Project” offers restitution for slavery with typical newspaper biz philanthropy: the in-kind contributions. Thus “all the news that’s fit to print” gets trimmed by what isn’t centric to the African American experience, but retroactively! The Grey Lady of Yellow Journalism is courting younger audiences fresh from history courses featuring personages created in their diverse image. As if the past is a pageant of participation awards purged of the characters whose relevance used to be the making of history. Never mind how you got here, the study of history is now a showcase of what insignificant role it’s your turn to play.
A study now indicates that people who’ve tested positive for COVID have reduced cognative abilities as compared to an average population sample. There has been a worry that those hopitalized for Covid-19 emerge with permanent brain damage among the myriad of outcomes. Without having tested the same group before infection, it is difficult to deny the probability that the virus is selecting for stupid. Not in the hospital emergency rooms I imagine, but maybe where it finds masked and unmasked.
The US media is sparing no effort to unseat President Trump by projecting landslide support for a return to a normal state of affairs, you know: wars, covert wars, and financial supremacy. Admitedly Trump is a constant and tiresome embarassment, but alas the Tump circus has also sidelined war and brought world peace. Try as the media might to restart the Cold War, our Clown-in-Chief befriends our supposed-to-be enemies and de-escalates the jingoist propaganda. And his baffoon act makes it impossible for career diplomats to pretend Capitalist America hasn’t always been a bullying asshole. Trump was the indictment which Ugly America deserved, yet deniers still RESIST, claiming he doesn’t represent them. Look in the mirror you mal-educated narcissists. Do you owe your vitality to infusions of Third World blood? Karma created Trump in your goddamn image. Now you’re hoping to enlist the Clinton-Bush-Obama good-times political machine to restore domestic calm so that warmongers, exploiters and profiteers can get the imperialist juggernaut back to cruising speed. Selfish Americans, you can’t even figure out that Team Biden is the uglier American by far.
SO “WOKE” America is protesting the racist brutality of capitalism’s hired thugs. What are the cops supposed to stop doing exactly? Are they supposed to let poor blacks breathe? Or stop killing poor blacks in such vivid disproportion? What an aimless message these riots bring! Of course the mainstream media is on board. Their theme is domestic unrest with an eye on regime change. It’s what they incite everywhere else. I’m surprised they haven’t labeled this a “color” revolution –except the color is already chosen and it’s their least favorite.
The only result of the visibility which the Black Lives Matter movement has brought to police lynchings is that now you hear regret that poor white criminals aren’t dished out the beatings reserved for blacks. Do we want more police brutality so long as it is equally distributed? Cops aren’t going to stop beating people. It’s their job. In an unequal, predatory economic system, cruelty is a cop’s function.
I also laugh at the celebrity blow-back at unfortunate white protesters who take up the chant “All Lives Matter” usually in earnest because their marches, reflecting their local populations, are mainly white. Their chants don’t negate “Black Lives Matter,” they broaden it. Face it, the BLM slogan is pedantic. Of course Black Lives Matter. The protesters are not illiterate and neither are the police, the supposed audience.
And BLM is such an inarticulate ask. Try “Drone Victims Matter!” Uh, agreed, but the US drone terror program is not going to stand down.
And “hands up” and “taking a knee” are demonstrations of submission. Ugh.
If the issue is in-the-line-of-duty lynchings, I’m sorry but there are unfortunates a rung below African Americans. Per capita, Native Americans die more often at the hand of law enforcement, and below them, the homeless. Constables have been “rolling” poor bums since antiquity. Vulnerable homeless are killed, white and black, in dark alleys, without witnesses sober enough to record it with charged cell phones and Youtube accounts at home. And without faith leaders to rouse their congregations, or order churchgoers to heel once the fundraising was done.
If the George Floyd protests are made to be about discrimination against African Americans in general, and not Floyd’s tragic death-by-cop, then who is co-opting the message really?
Fortunately these riots will prove a difficult genie to ride. Images of civil discord make Trump look bad, but the more violent they become, the more activated will be the middle Americans who cheer for order to be restored.
That same white middle class wants their landscapers and household help to be hispanic who won’t expect to be treated as equals. Immigrant labor is preferred for the same reason. The upper class don’t have to discriminate by skin color. If you are underclass, YOU Do Not Matter.
Supposedly all of America is expected to suppress its racism. That’ll happen when you cease showing deference to family members over strangers, or when you quit disabusing sports fans for rooting against your home team. Clans, schools, ethnicity, and nationality are natural constructs where people feel communal bonds. They are also the only instinctive means by which people find their strength in numbers. Strange we’re all being told to disavow those instincts.
Meanwhile ethnocentrism relating to religious affiliation, if you’ve got one, is still encouraged. Nationalism, when it comes to kicking other religious ass overseas is still applauded. What of that racism?
When cops start beating bank chairmen, when the international brotherhood of man includes the bosses who deploy the cops and not simply the dupes more easily oppressed with racist state terrorism, then we can consider integrating the role of police into our vision of a desirable community. In other words, it ain’t going to happen. Calls to disband or defund the police are great, but until people wield the political power to do it, the calls will be easily refused.
Focusing on race doesn’t unite people, and it doesn’t only divide black and white, it attempts to efface everyone’s chief means to draw individuals together in united fronts against their common foe. Once we’re all free we can talk about equality.
Now addressing the systemic repression of blacks is another matter. African Americans were not immigrants. They alone came to these shores without the promise of the American dream of making a better life for themselves. REPARATIONS and affirmative action, that’s the only recourse to attempt to redress such inequality of footing.
Join the protests if you want, but know they’re serving only the corporate agenda of international liberalism. If you’re all about that, do your best to pull the demonstrations toward the peaceful, lest our president benefit from the gesture of saving middle America from anarchy. But know that team .gov holds all the cards when it comes to inciting and even instigating the violence. They are both ANTI and FA.
The ‘phoney ‘ impeachment was real, but the Republican prosecutors, appointed by Trump,Republican judges and Republican Senators and enough Republican Congressmen who all chose Party over Country, abetted by Republican propaganda at FOX News, and even after the Dictator in Thief had Matt Schlapp threaten Republicans who didn’t sell their souls entirely to Trump.. Notable was Schlapp threatened UberKapitalist Mitt Romney.
It’s a dark reflection of the Gestapo courts, where the accused would have a PHONY trial, with a Gestapo attorney a Gestapo prosecutor and decided by a Gestapo judge.
“Legal” in the lowest degree. Donald knows that as his father was a racist supremacist elitist StormTrooper.
Trump is a psychopath who gets sexually aroused by torture and murder. Like with the kids in ICE concentration camps. he has proxies do the dirty work and shield him from retribution.
Donald Fuck. Only it’s the wrong type of bill, like the time you went to a fancy restaurant with your wife and kids and maybe your siblings, and the waiter brings you a bill that’s somewhere around a thousand bucks but you left your wallet home…
yeah, THAT kind of bill. Now The Great Budget Slasher had a budget around a trillion and I have to remind people that a thousand X a thousand is a million and a million X a million is a Trillion. In hippy parlance is is expressed as “Dude, that’s a lot of bread!”
but the budget, historically somewhere in the red at every quarter… it had an almost reasonably recognized amount of bread. A little bit beyond half the estimate from the previous fiscal cycle.
And the Wall Street thieves pissed and moaned and breast-beating and dire predictions of the End Time and they’ll be moving their ill-gotten money offshore.
But this Trillion dollar $1,000,000,000,000 TeraBux actually is entirely unfunded.
but the same low-life 1% also bitched about (still do) how the dollar bill is an IOU and says so.
it means the pigs are going to get away it , again.
and ten PIGS to beat down a Real Man who is unarmed and shackled. What wondrous heroes they are… And our beloved Klangaroo Kourts will quickly get these heroes back on the take err beat, yeah.. that’s the ticket… beat 10 against one again.
all you republiklan cops and cop suckers can talk as much as you want, YOU have free speech, but you sure do beat down anybody who talks back to YOU and usually only 4 PIGS if the the victim is shackled, you have 3 PIGS holding him so you can kick him in the face. Like your mommas taught you that.
Ten pig coward asswipes to beat down 1 shackled prisoners… fuck yeah I repeated myself. You gestapo bitches repeat yourselves… same thing every god-damn time, shackle a prison and beat him down, by multiple pigs, and you get videos of it, give copies of your ‘victory’ so you can jack each off to it, it’s what sadistic pukes to
in short, Trump is claiming Imperial Privilege and his Fascist Goons aka RepubliKlan Cartel. The ‘president’ incited a riot in Virginia this past weekend, telling them to kill Americans in America. That’s Treason and Sedition and if McConnell and Trump wish to contest that the traitors can post a warrant.
so since do the Nazis a ‘secret’ agenda?
Miller organized the Nazi march in Charlottesville VA to demand that everybody in America must worship (with our taxes) the Civil War statues of murderous racist fucks as (especially) Nathan Bedford-Forrest who had 300 U.S. soldiers murdered and not one of his ‘men’ was prosecuted. As it was so it still is. Miller and murderer James Fields were only ‘following orders’. Ordered by a hidden entity even Chump fears, no doubt, because he ‘didn’t order the hits’ and he ‘doesn’t know who did’.
Meanwhile, the gaggle of goose stepping Republiklan preachers in the Senate have proclaimed a month after the El Paso Walmart Massacre 4 times announced Trump is the Messiah. So one more announcement of Biblical magnitude… one of the Demon Spawn relatives of the long-dead Shah of Persia is claiming the throne of Iran… just another Hereditary Dictatorship Trump and his minions, Like Miller, are trying to make it happen. And establish a Trump Dynasty in Murka. those there Right Wingers love them some Hereditary Dictatorship
you just don’t get a headline that very often. Get me not happy of that. I could use a lot less of it. Teddy ‘potty panties’ Nugent will regal us with a boast that if he had been there he would have killed (not ‘harmed’) more targets because stabbing isn’t as effective as bullets.
love the sentiment but livor is something you only experience after death.
Trump gladly boasts of his many felonies but hasn’t brought any such attacks on the part of Iran The Iranians detained ”hostages” but the U.S. jailed thousands of foreigners and when, at two being diagnosed very ill the Iranians released to the US. How many American dungeons psychotic jailers ever doing that even for American citizens. Who’s the savages now/then?
Before my misguided stint in the Air Force ‘National Lampoon’ had a ‘revenge’ issue and on the cover showed a stereotyped Saudi being punched in the face. And the revenge was all about the Gulf kingdoms (and Mexico, and Cuba and Venezuela and a bunch of other petroleum sources) having control of their prices for their product. It’s like going into King Soopers with a gun and demanding the Kroger Cartel to give you the food at a price you like. And instead of going to a different store you start and maintain threaten the management and other customers until they ‘see things your way’. And one of the ‘revenge’ tactic was …What if our navy ahem… ‘deserted’ and ‘stole the ships’ and took up piracy. They posited ‘It wouldn’t be OUR fault if those bad men became the terror of the waves, now, would they?’ and pointed out that Queen Elizabeth the first did exactly that. And Episcopalians revere her as a protestant saint. And she had a whole lot of English people including her family KILLED because they had more claim to the throne. Not that I give 2 shits about hereditary dictators. ‘strange ladies lying in puddles distributing swords is no basis for kingship. if if I went about saying I was an emperor because a moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away! Say I was a loon!’ (one of my favorite quotes)
But back to the real absurdity and silliness, other than the Lampoon was advocating mass murder, there was a picture of a submarine displaying a Jolly Roger and the caption ‘yo ho ho and 3 dollars a barrel for Arabian Crude!’
Jimmy Carter refrained from threatening sovereign nations nor did he advocate killing people nor taking property of other people nor did he have himself the emperor of all the world.
That’s what Republicans do. That’s why he didn’t get re-elected. An Electoral College ‘win’ for Reagan because there were enough murderous a$$wipes.
Trump the Draft Dodger wasn’t brave enough to fight so he had his minions do it for him. The military which invited to join right out of a Private ‘military’ Snob Factory academy just like his slumlord thief daddy and he, like Linsey Graham, dodged the draft. He is guilty of Murder and Treason and so is every one of you Skinhead Klan Fourth Reich cowards who supports him. You have blood on your hands. You have been guilty of the murders from the beginning, the StormFront and InfoWars wired up Adam Purington and the Church and Synagogue burners and bombers and gun “men” and the murders of children the immigration Concentration camps and the Walmart in El Paso. The so-called “angel moms” don’t protest anybody over any murder committed by Trump and his equally racist minions. he never fought just as he never work. Typical 1%. And miraculously in the middle of impeachment he has to bomb Iraq which is supposedly an “independent” nation supposedly “liberated” by the soldiers he’s sending back into hell. To hide his OTHER felonies. Ain’t working…
COMMERCIAL AIRPORTS take great care to exclude weapons and explosives from their passengers’ bags and accessories. Why bother when authoritarians can bypass security regulations and restricted airspace with armed drones? US officials brag that they killed the world’s Number One Bad Guy, an Iranian major general named Qassem Soleimani, who they claim was responsible for American casualties. Naturally the precision airstrike killed Soleimani’s entourage as well, including Brigadier General Hussein Jafari Nia, Major-General Hadi Taremi, Colonel of the Guards Shahroud Mozaffari Nia, Captain Waheed Zamanian, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy-commander of the Iraq’s People’s Mobilization Forces, and Mohammad al-Shibani, Muhandis’s son-in-law. No word yet on what their crimes are alleged to have been, had charges been brought and the group been summoned to a court of law, as would be done in any self respecting international law abiding society. Anyhow NBD, the U.S. of Assholes has traded its nocturn Seal Team raid Death Squads for MQ-9 Reaper drones guided by War Room extrajudicial assassins. And Yanks no longer shy away from Death’s Head nomenclature. We’ve gone from Predator drones to Reaper. Ha ha “Grim Reaper” get it? America Fuck Yeah! No, you dumbfuck blimpnecks, that drone is actually a sower. Of a grim harvest.
A gunman goes into a church –have you heard this one? Essentially the latest headline goes: Texas church gunman kills two armed churchgoers before being killed by yet another. That’s a lot of Texas church gunmen. Apparently when the shooting stopped even more worshipers pulled out their guns. Let’s see, the lesson about needing a gun to defend oneself doesn’t add up so well in this example. In Texas totting a gun to church means you have a one in three chance of surviving an attack by a fellow gun believer. Sunday’s two victims were armed after all and it didn’t save them. And if we think about this charitably, as we ought to because the first gunman, the troubled one, was a churchgoer himself, having a gun didn’t save him either, the actual odds become one survivor out of every four church gunmen. God rest everybody’s piece. So the lesson here is, don’t go to church! And especially not if you are packing. If a fellow troubled soul doesn’t shoot you, security will.
JOE BIDEN thinks he can sway voters by saying he’d consider a Republican as his vice-presidential pick. Then he explained about choosing a running mate: “Whomever I would pick, were I fortunate enough to be your nominee, I’d pick someone who was simpatico with me, who knew… what my priorities were and knew what I wanted to do. We could disagree on tactic, but strategically we’d have to be on the exact same page.â€
How’s that for truth in advertising? Biden thinks he might be on the exact same page as what’s supposed to be the other party. HA.
My
grandfather was an engineer (normally would have been a commissioned
officer but he was a sergeant…) on the U.S. team working on rocketry
with the von Braun team at Taiwan, Austria, White Sands, Aberdeen, a
bunch of completely classified, the last was in Germany with no
dependents allowed… 1966-67 and while he never blabbed, but a couple
of his comrades at the VFW who should have to shut the h3// up but
didn’t… the gist of it was and is the Soviet program steadily beat our
collect hindquarters on a regular schedule up to and beyond the moon
landings. Because they at the time neither parties could find water on
the moon. You won’t get any of this in junior high school… but the
landers wasn’t the focus. Going down, that is. The important experiment
was and still is that you can with a minimal energy from the moon to
lunar orbit, slingshot to Earth orbit and land (on water) the equivalent
of 10 nuclear ‘devices’ landing exactly where and when predicted. To
put a missile base would have and now might be, easy-peasy. But the
precious O2 which we all need and love needs water, as there is no air.
Scientific
American magazine (1983) confirmed that but just a little sidewise,
putting the targeting the minerals on the moon as the designated
mission. Do any readers serial believe that the belligerent parties have
given away their wet-dreams of total domination by putting a Russian,
Pentagon, China, India, Pakistan, the list grows steadily? Setbacks and
lost test pilots be da..ned and Boeing, a huge Military-Industry Complex
veteran, do you really think they’ll stop with such a project? A
250,000 distant from any group could just attack it? Really? When
whatever vehicle would be seen from the moon during the entire 3 days to
get there? Yeah, right.
War and Peace, the novel, has an aristocrat lieutenant in one of the many wars of the Tsar(s) and had been for months being the darling of St Petersburg, is finally at war, and he in his shock he exclaims “Why, they’re shooting at me! Me who everybody loves!”
Suck it, Chump. Your Silver Spoon Trust Fund your coward draft dodger slumlord daddy and all of the derivatives, well, Trumpty Frumpty, all the kings horses and all the kings men well. …you know the rest.
You gave the green light for the murders of 24 people in El Paso, and the children dying in your concentration camps, the murders at the Tree of Life Synagogue … What goes around comes back again and you get no sympathy or pity. Say a prayer to your god satan.
this will be published other places as well. Get used to it.
and every tyrant has the proletariat.But the victims often stop obeying and instead hang the dictator and his ministers. There are no longer telegraph poles but there are a few trees around. Or so it’s said. Think of that when the natural slaves tell us in the most pious oratory that the rest of us must allow the murders, thefts and other unrighteousness under the doctrine of “respect his office” like you do when lynch uniformed scum such as Arpaio and Maketa and Elder and their henchmen… They’re murderers at least by proxy, like Trump. And the presidents who spoke great pompous swelling words of equality and liberty …Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Tyler, Andrew Jackson,James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, George Washington, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, Andrew Johnson…but only for ‘whites’ and not all or even most of them… and the slaughter of Native GOD-DAMN AMERICANS … none of those mentioned kept the promises to the tribes… yeah, let’s worship them and ‘their office’ …and how many of you loudmouth skinhead hate-mongers gave that level of ‘respect for the office’ to Carter or Clinton or Obama?
They for instance during the 2000 election had tee shirts with a picture of Ronald Reagan, John Wayne and George W Bush wearing cowboy clothes and the caption ‘my heroes have always been cowboys.’ But none of them were ever cowboys. Or real soldiers. OK Bush DID join the Air National Guard, weekend warrior… and he deserted from that.
then their weird hangup about a little girl in England who retrieved a sword out of a pond. My take on it, since it was of recent make, like maybe ten years… so it could not possible be Excalibur by 1500 years… oh, did I not point out these goofballs actually believe that it’s real and that the sword Excalibur could only be wielded by the True King of England… cue the funny part via Monty Python Players… ‘Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government…. ‘
which moves into equally silly National Enquirer ‘news paper’ as they predict the Queen of England was at death’s door for the past 30 years and she’s banish this or that member of her family and which heir would be crowned by her which is bullshit.
Parliament chooses the next monarch. Since George the first who was least obnoxious of the English court. Least likely to burn Britain into a new Stone Age. Back to the gibberish they spew about Wayne, Reagan and Bush being some sort of heroic figures.
It is, sadly, their perception, their ethic, the crap they teach their kids… Oh, the Enquirer is one of Trump’s investments.
