HAPPY NEW YEAR, THOM & LOUISE! May 2022 be your best year yet! Thanks for all your hard work and steadfast commitment to truth, justice, democracy, and decency! You are a national treasure and a gift to humanity! Much respect & bountiful blessings to you both!
To drive turnout, Democratic leadership and their spokespeople need to connect the dots from the machinations of the ultrarich and all-powerfull to low wages, high prices, lifetime debt, crime, ill health, lack of education, media disinformation, the gutting of democracy, the destruction of the the planet, and to most other regressive policies and terrible outcomes. The final dots, the biggest ones of all to connect, are what exactly the Democratic Party will do about it all and how they will help the common woman and man and their families struggling to survive in the face of such huge obstacles and pitfalls.
That's their job, and to do so IN PLAIN ENGLISH!
And the job of the Republican Party is to scatter the dots all over the table, take away everyone's pencils, and speak upside-down, inside-out Pig Latin.
I tried to translate "tough luck sucker " into pig latin, but oh well...I don't remember a time when "regular folks" didn't vote against themselves because they were afraid somebody else might get something, or they really fell for the propaganda that monopoly equalled cost-saving efficiency. (Yeah, for somebody, but not them!) The fascists win the slogan war, hopelessly. So sorry.
"ough-Tay uck-lay ucker-say!" aye-May uncle-ay aught-tay u-say ids-kay ig-Pay antin-Lay. Our-ay oldiers-say oke-spay i-tay oo-tay on-cayuse-fay ah-thay ermans-Gay. (My uncle taught us kids Pig Latin. Our soldiers spoke it to confuse the Germans.)
Haha, it's kinda wierd trying to write it out, as it's meant more for verbal communication. I'm pretty rusty now, but when you get the hang of it, you can speak it amazingly fast, and, usually, only the American ear will catch it. Foreigners who learned English as a second language can't make sense of it -- maybe a word here and there but not the entire meaning of the thoughts being expressed. Pretty cool.
Perhaps in the spirit of our decorative "Drug-Free School Zone" signage we will find ourselves living within a "democracy" of "Democracy-Free Freedom Zone" flags. These banners of course, backed by the zealotry of violence.
I like two things in this Report. You went back to the old-school definition of facism. That word is bandied about and used on too many people and in very complicated situations. Often it's because of the person's behavior and not because they have an ideology; they're just hateful. I get why people do it, but it is over-used like so many words these days.
The second thing I felt good about was use of examples from the AP, The Atlantic, and NPR providing forums for people to get the message out. Seriously, I think the next six months of the committee hearings will do more of this work to educate people about what trying to stop the election process with violence really meant. Hope springs eternal. That day involved bloody, bizarre, and criminal acts. Hey, that's entertainment! You can learn a lot from true-crime pieces.
Here's a good way to spend an hour on the first day of 2022: Amy Goodman's Thursday interview with Noam Chomsky.
Words of wisdom from a 93-year-old who needs no introduction, an old man as sharp as ever in laying out the hard truths of America, the land of the fabulously rich, sucking the blood from the working poor.
Very important information about the state of our democracy however I think you meant to say “statutes instead of statues when you quoted Justice John Paul Steven ‘s dissent of infamous Citizen’s United ruling.
I'll call it "MMM." My Mother's Mail. The 'WWW" was not needed to feed the beast. The Beast has always been with us. I think the Beast came over with self-selected fanatics from Northern Europe in the early days. Then the Beast incarnated via radio and print: Henry Ford and The Protocols and "Melanie in the Morning." Then Fox News; the apotheosis of The Beast marketing to The Beast! History teaches us, the good are weak. Only a legal hail mary behind a martyr held back the normal tide of tyranny in the U.S. Only the momentum of the dying hulk of the British Empire allowed Ghandi's movement to look hopeful, for awhile. I think the return to the mean means, practice your Heil salute and get yourself a Q flag to fly in front of your house. Silence will not be tolerated.
Old-fashioned snail-mail lists getting sold around were pretty good steroid! Gosh, I hadn't thought that maybe Facebook and Twitter making some effort might be better than the nothing that could be done about the mailing lists. Thanks for the happy New Year's thought. Now we need to figure out how to develop the consciousness of the connection between the MTG's of this world and DEATHS.
Being from far-northern CA, I want to call out Aaron Rodgers for shaming, and deaths of his home-town friends and neighbors, to whom he is a major hero. If he repented now, he could still save lives. Sure, some of them would burn their Rodgers posters, but they would pay attention, and even if just one got to thinkin', Aaron....Hello, Aaron?
HAPPY NEW YEAR, THOM & LOUISE! May 2022 be your best year yet! Thanks for all your hard work and steadfast commitment to truth, justice, democracy, and decency! You are a national treasure and a gift to humanity! Much respect & bountiful blessings to you both!
Love & Light, xoxo
Frances in Cottage Grove, WI
To drive turnout, Democratic leadership and their spokespeople need to connect the dots from the machinations of the ultrarich and all-powerfull to low wages, high prices, lifetime debt, crime, ill health, lack of education, media disinformation, the gutting of democracy, the destruction of the the planet, and to most other regressive policies and terrible outcomes. The final dots, the biggest ones of all to connect, are what exactly the Democratic Party will do about it all and how they will help the common woman and man and their families struggling to survive in the face of such huge obstacles and pitfalls.
That's their job, and to do so IN PLAIN ENGLISH!
And the job of the Republican Party is to scatter the dots all over the table, take away everyone's pencils, and speak upside-down, inside-out Pig Latin.
I tried to translate "tough luck sucker " into pig latin, but oh well...I don't remember a time when "regular folks" didn't vote against themselves because they were afraid somebody else might get something, or they really fell for the propaganda that monopoly equalled cost-saving efficiency. (Yeah, for somebody, but not them!) The fascists win the slogan war, hopelessly. So sorry.
"ough-Tay uck-lay ucker-say!" aye-May uncle-ay aught-tay u-say ids-kay ig-Pay antin-Lay. Our-ay oldiers-say oke-spay i-tay oo-tay on-cayuse-fay ah-thay ermans-Gay. (My uncle taught us kids Pig Latin. Our soldiers spoke it to confuse the Germans.)
Haha, it's kinda wierd trying to write it out, as it's meant more for verbal communication. I'm pretty rusty now, but when you get the hang of it, you can speak it amazingly fast, and, usually, only the American ear will catch it. Foreigners who learned English as a second language can't make sense of it -- maybe a word here and there but not the entire meaning of the thoughts being expressed. Pretty cool.
Perhaps in the spirit of our decorative "Drug-Free School Zone" signage we will find ourselves living within a "democracy" of "Democracy-Free Freedom Zone" flags. These banners of course, backed by the zealotry of violence.
Funny. Sad. True.
I like two things in this Report. You went back to the old-school definition of facism. That word is bandied about and used on too many people and in very complicated situations. Often it's because of the person's behavior and not because they have an ideology; they're just hateful. I get why people do it, but it is over-used like so many words these days.
The second thing I felt good about was use of examples from the AP, The Atlantic, and NPR providing forums for people to get the message out. Seriously, I think the next six months of the committee hearings will do more of this work to educate people about what trying to stop the election process with violence really meant. Hope springs eternal. That day involved bloody, bizarre, and criminal acts. Hey, that's entertainment! You can learn a lot from true-crime pieces.
Here's a good way to spend an hour on the first day of 2022: Amy Goodman's Thursday interview with Noam Chomsky.
Words of wisdom from a 93-year-old who needs no introduction, an old man as sharp as ever in laying out the hard truths of America, the land of the fabulously rich, sucking the blood from the working poor.
https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2021/12/30?autostart=true
Don't worry, be happy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU
Love him forever. If only it mattered.
It matters. That music video is how I like to remember Robin Williams. All three of them were close personal friends.
Very important information about the state of our democracy however I think you meant to say “statutes instead of statues when you quoted Justice John Paul Steven ‘s dissent of infamous Citizen’s United ruling.
I'll call it "MMM." My Mother's Mail. The 'WWW" was not needed to feed the beast. The Beast has always been with us. I think the Beast came over with self-selected fanatics from Northern Europe in the early days. Then the Beast incarnated via radio and print: Henry Ford and The Protocols and "Melanie in the Morning." Then Fox News; the apotheosis of The Beast marketing to The Beast! History teaches us, the good are weak. Only a legal hail mary behind a martyr held back the normal tide of tyranny in the U.S. Only the momentum of the dying hulk of the British Empire allowed Ghandi's movement to look hopeful, for awhile. I think the return to the mean means, practice your Heil salute and get yourself a Q flag to fly in front of your house. Silence will not be tolerated.
Old-fashioned snail-mail lists getting sold around were pretty good steroid! Gosh, I hadn't thought that maybe Facebook and Twitter making some effort might be better than the nothing that could be done about the mailing lists. Thanks for the happy New Year's thought. Now we need to figure out how to develop the consciousness of the connection between the MTG's of this world and DEATHS.
Being from far-northern CA, I want to call out Aaron Rodgers for shaming, and deaths of his home-town friends and neighbors, to whom he is a major hero. If he repented now, he could still save lives. Sure, some of them would burn their Rodgers posters, but they would pay attention, and even if just one got to thinkin', Aaron....Hello, Aaron?