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Showing posts with label White Supremacist Bullshit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label White Supremacist Bullshit. Show all posts
This move simply shows how President Adolf's "crime emergency" is just another example of his lies and bullshit and misuse of resources.
I was surprised that the Vikings traded for Adam Thielan. But I guess he's probably close to retirement and might want to end his career with the team he started with.
In a special election for an Iowa State Senate seat, a Democrat won in what I assume is usually a red district: "Democrat Caitlin Drey Wins Iowa Senate Special Election, Breaking Republican Supermajority." I enjoyed what the DNC Chair said: "Iowans are seeing Republicans of who they are: self-serving liars who will throw their constituents under the bus to rubber stamp Donald Trump's disastrous agenda - and they're ready for change."
I am going to have to use the phrase "self-serving liars" more often.
The current administration is possibly going to depress sales of EV vehicles even though EV vehicles are being bought in other countries in the world: "EV Sales Are Booming in America--For Now."
I doubt I'm the only person in the U.S. who does this, but when I change from one pair of shoes to another pair of shoes, I often have the Mister Rogers song in my head.
"Won't you be my neighbor?"
Since Moscow Don is likely not immune to being sued for his critical part in the Jan. 6 insurrection as related by NPR ("Appeals Court Says Trump Isn't Immune for Jan. 6 Riot Lawsuits"), I wonder how may class-action lawsuits can be lodged against that fascist wannabe goon.
I hope that white-supremacist grievance merchant is buried in even more lawsuits. The more the better. He's a serious threat to our country.
And the people who support him are delusional morons.
Even worse are the people who will vote for him who know he's a fascist-in-the-making, but they vote for him because of whatever issues he supposedly supports. In reality, he's a Republican in name only, a RINO.
He's not really conservative except for the far-right social-issue dog whistling he does on a regular basis.
I recently resubscribed to Mother Jones after not having a subscription for a couple of years. In the first issue I received this year, there's an excellent recount about how the GOP, from a historical perspective, has aided and abetted extremism and white supremacy for decades.
It didn't start with Moscow Don. The Republican Party has been pandering to racists and nativists and angry white people for decades in order to get votes.
The article appears to be a précis of Corn's book American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy. I'm thinking of buying it, but I'm concerned it will just make me more angry than I already am.
Regardless, as Corn relates in the next to last ¶ of his article, "But since at least the 1950s, the party has consistently boosted extremism, prejudice, paranoia, and rage. Sometimes this has led to the GOP prevailing in political battles. In other instances, voters have beaten back the cynical gambit."
As someone who has strong opinions about football uniforms since I watch a lot of American football, I have to say that the orange helmets and uniforms that the Chicago Bears wore last week were terrible.
Those helmets made me call the Bears team the "Great Pumpkins." And like the Great Pumpkin of Peanuts fame, they didn't show up at the end of the game in that snooze-fest that saw the Commanders beat the Pumpkins 12 to 7.
I am rewatching the HBO series Deadwood, and I got to episode 7 of season 2 and was reminded of this great scene, which has Swearengen giving advice to Merrick about stopping moping around and feeling bad for himself.
I deal with so many people who make excuses when times get rough. They need to listen to Al.
Here are some interesting factoids and stats from this month's "Harper's Index""
Percentage change since 2019 in the portion of Americans who believe environmental laws are worth the cost: -23
Percentage of U.S. voters who view climate change as the most important problem facing the country: 1
Of U.S. voters under thirty who do: 3
Portion of American young adults who have considered enlisting in the military: 1/10
Portion of those who are ineligible to enlist: 3/4
Percentage increase since 2019 in the number of independent bookstores in the United States: 34
Percentage of undergraduates who say they encounter at least moderate difficulty with online learning: 94
Percentage of Democrats that Republicans believe are atheist or agnostic: 36
Apparently the NFL is moving the Pro Bowl to become a flag football game. It was already that way in the past because like the NBA All-Star game, defense is optional in those silly games. Now the NFL is simply being truthful, which is a rare occurrence.
"How Kansas Kept Abortion Legal" by Amy Littlefield in The Nation is worth a read. I hope it's a bellwether for the upcoming mid-term elections.
I'm searching for a professional way of saying "bitch, please" without having to actually say "bitch, please." Here are suggestions from my friends on FB:
Your opinion is duly noted, but I respectfully disagree.
Bless your heart.
Per my previous email
Thank you for your interest.
Please send me these concerns in an email.
I'm sure that makes sense to you given your level of experience.
I'll take it from here.
I appreciate your input, but we will be going in a different direction.
Thank you very much, but I'm going to pass on that idea/opportunity at this time.
Thank you for the information.
Perhaps.
I've got you covered.
Ok, great.
While I cannot find it online yet, you should pick up the most recent issue of The Nation and read Stephen Berry's "Confederates Take the Capitol." Berry is the Gregory Professor of the Civil War Era at the University of Georgia. He penned a trenchant essay about the January 6th insurrection and its historical context.
Here's one of my favorite statements in the article: "At the base of most contemporary American conspiracy theories is the white male fantasy that indulges the feeling of being aggrieved, abused, dominated, or violated, precisely to justify the legitimacy of the ensuing white male vengeance and demonstrations of power and control."
A few ¶s before, he makes this important statement: "...they [students of history and politics] assume that a majority of people act in their material self interest. Especially in the American context, they often don't. They act in their cultural self-interest. Any government program that benefits everyone (whether Obamacare, mask mandates, or vaccines) benefits out-groups relatively more--and America's traditionally dominant class (white male Christians and their allies) like winning less than they like watching other people lose. They not actually cynical about government; they know it works, but they want it to work for them particularly, perhaps exclusively, as it usually has--or they want it to not to work at all."
In the wake of the mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso this weekend, I'm sure the apologists for Moscow Don and the NRA will cite the "troubled minds" of the shooters, send some worthless thoughts and prayers, and do absolutely nothing. Three writers for the Washington Post get it. The first is Philip Rucker's "'How Do You Stop These People?": Trump's Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Looms Over the El Paso Massacre."
The column by EJ Dionne Jr. is spot on: "On Guns and White Nationalism, One Side Is Right and One Side is Wrong." Here is most of a ¶ that is worth a read: "But may God also judge Trump for a political strategy whose success depends on sowing racism, reaction, and division. May God judge him for stoking false and incendiary fears about an immigrant 'invasion,' the very word echoed by the manifesto that police suspect was the El Paso shooter's. May God judge the president for cutting programs to fight white extremism at the very moment when the FBI is telling us that we are more at risk from white-nationalist terrorist than Islamist terrorists." The title of Jennifer Rubin's column coheres with my thoughts exactly: "There Is No Excuse for Supporting this President."
Her last ¶ is trenchant: "In sum, we are awash in hate crimes and white nationalist-inspired mass murders. We have a president whose words inspire and bolster perpetrators of these heinous acts. That makes Trump not only a moral abomination, which no policy outcome can offset, but a threat to our national security. Those encouraged by his words in recent years kill more Americans than Islamist terrorists. If that is not justification for bipartisan repudiation of this president and removal from office at the earliest possible moment I don't what is. Those who countenance and support this president for his white-grievance mongering are not merely 'deplorable' but dangerous." I don't care whom the Democrats nominate for president. Hell, I'll back Biden even though I've never been that impressed by him, and his policy stances are somewhat wishy-washy. We need to get that pathologically lying, white supremacist, sociopathic con man out of the White House.
Apparently people have a different view of some pretty simple concepts and terms such as these:
Collusion
Obstruction
Guilty
Treason
Lies
Criminal activity
If a Democrat like Bill Clinton or whomever would have done what Moscow Don and his campaign and his administration did, the GOP and their handlers/propagandists at FoxNews would be going ape-shit.
I am so tired of white supremacists.
Yet I'm reading the Henry Louis Gate's Jr. book about the Reconstruction and the "Redemption" period that instituted Jim Crow. It's like picking a psychological and intellectual scab. When I'm done with that fine book, I will move on to read K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches by Tyler Kepner. I am especially intrigued by the the sinker, which is a pitch I'm trying to get my pitchers on my baseball teams to try out. If thrown correctly, sinkers induce lots of ground balls.
