Pretty sure I'll be spending the remainder of my days laughing and crying. Probably simultaneously. Some world. Hard to believe so many people are just carrying on with carrying on. What's the alternative? I'm not sure.
You said, "...so many people are just carrying on with carrying on. What's the alternative?". ...I 'm not so sure many except MAGA will carry on. -There will be just too much cognitive dissonance. I think there will be a major economic crash, caused by a total flat lining of average so-called "consumer confidence", because perhaps up to half of all Americans are so terrified and disgusted right now the last thing on their minds is buying more stuff and spending money into an economy controlled by maniacs!
Unless we are talking about weapons for defending themselves, and supplies to get through unrest, what the hell are these many tens of millions of people gonna have any interest in spending money on?!
My other forebodings are from my focus on psychology, history, and anthropology, as I described in a post I wrote this morning on my own page on Substack:
Russia, China, and N. Korea must be disbelieving of their luck. Literally may have the first Sec. of Defense nominee who gets turned down because his mother doesn't like him.
Anyone who didn’t see Project 2025 coming is a fool. So many magas thought that rump was bluffing and wouldn’t actually implement these policies. The joke is that his maggots will be the hardest hit. Nicely done you guys.
That Norman Rockwell picture creeped me out 😱 just like the MAGA Republicans do!! Thank You,Thom, for your article this morning ☕ and will reStack ASAP 💯👍
There is one thing that I don't get, given that Project 2025 and Agenda 47 lays out the game plan. Ali Velshi did a great job, of going through it chapter by chapter. And it starts with Trump reinstalling schedule F, as probably his first act. Why is ink being wasted on his cabinet appointments, This is not going to be just another, but different, administration it is the start of the deconstruction of our constitutional democratic Republic, and the beginning of a depression that will harm, especially, the MAGAts, and those that voted for Trump.
What we should be doing, instead of kvetching over his appointees is
Detailing the effects of his policies.
Let's start with tariffs, They will cost us not o nly in inflation, but in jobs. Americans need to know how,
Immigration will not only affect us with inflation, but with possibly starvation and disease for lack of fruits, vegetables, protein. Americans need to know how.
As regards Schedule F. I want to know who is Bidens puppeteer. Like a fool he rescinded schedule F which he could have used to flush all the Trump Humpers out of the Aegean stable, the result was, among so many other things, David Weiss pursuing Trumps vendetta against Biden by prosecuting Hunter.
Will Biden have the balls to issue blanket pardons for all the potential victims of Trump. I doubt it?
Biden took the most useful tool that Trump left him EO 139575, Schedule F, rescinded it and Trump will reinstall it in his first day in office. Who has his hand up Bidens backside and using him as a sock puppet.?
Let us focus on the acts of harm that Trump will do, as to warn the public,or at least that part which is paying attention. We know all of his appointees are predators,sexual or otherwise, ignorant and incompetent for the job, there is no need to discuss them and their pecadillos one by one, Lets focus on what harm Trump will be doing.
Struggling to keep track of Trump's nominations? Who's from Fox? Has been accused of sexual harassment or assault? Worked on Project 2025? A billionaire donor? Use this interactive map just updated (11/30) with comments by Pete Hegseth's mother blasting him for mistreating women for years and John Phelan, Trump's nominee for Secretary of the Navy who has little sailing experience but is a big donor...
The personalities don't matter Deepak, they are all of the same ilk. What we need to keep a sharp focus on is what they will do, the effect of their reign as they carry out Project 2025. That is what to expect in the year ahead, step by step.
The DOD, overall, is my biggest fear. Hegseth is both a hack and whack. So are the others. Bondi will be far worse than Barr and is definitely a pig/sheep in lipstick. Voight is repulsive. P2025 is repugnant and so is the lie no one thought to look at beforehand in that Trump and P25 went hand in hand.
But seriously, isn't this what a current POTUS takes an OATH to prevent? I don't get the OATH to preserve, defend, and protect the Constitution against enemies both foreign and domestic, when we clearly have both, if following norms, not releasing the indictment reports, and other things BIDEN/DOJ, is all we get and a bunch of voters who are consumed in a vat of bro-pods, expected to have been jurists, on 11/5/24.
The stopping of Trump should NEVER have been left up to the voters when two of the worst crimes against the country, were simply not resolved, prior to the voters going to the ballot booths. It is indefensible.
Maybe I'm different than Justice Roberts who lives in a world that believes energy, in the EXECUTIVE, means criminality or that overzealous prosecutions don't include those which prosecute treason, coups, and espionage, by placing a crown on some criminal's head. Or that Fitzgerald/Nixon had nothing to do with Trump/immunity for criminal crimes. They haven't even defined what's immune, have they?
Federalists? Do they, or Robert's, when getting praised for their worship of his ad hoc interpretations, in truncating, Fed 70, Fed 51, and others know fkn anything the Founders stood for? They are absolutely corrupt, and as unaccounable as Trump, in their non-seriousness of this plague they've enabled.
Back to the voters, those bros aren't driving Teslas, but they just think Musk, the Elongelicals, is way cool. The immigrant blood diamond kid who didn't invent anything. Super cool. I like the people who waited for the "serial number" on COVID-19 to make the vaccine possible. That wasn't overnight and they aren't on any SM platform boasting about how they influence people with 3 word posts or replies to disinformation while heavily jacked on a cocktail of ketamine and other drugs. They aren't guilty for breaking the law and want the government to shut down to prevent the "health law fare" cops to come a shootin'.
Funny, Musk, doesn't like the FTC, WHY? The SEC, WHY? The CFPB, WHY? MUSK. MUSK. Who TF is MUSK?
If Musk wants to buddy up to WS and help why in the F would you tell Jaimie Dimon to go F himself as Chase battles 50B a day in cybercrime that is also a tax on CORPORATIONS/BANKS and us poor folk? If he wanted to help himself and WS and us poor folk he'd beef up the agency, get himself immunity/Starlink and it's a win-win. None of them know a fkn thing. Here's the secret: corruption will always exist. Decency will always exist. They can co-exist. Please think about that before accusations that are not what you think.
Dude, is my age and thinks everyone knows Crypto and can't play with himself in his sandbox along with other Crypto freaks and leave the damn dollar alone. Nope. He's the kid who had an erector set, not to build anything, just put it in the path of a heavy moving truck and watch what happens.
If lock-downs and vaccines are big ticket items why not hit up the, on track to a trillion, companies to pass out GLP-1 drugs and in crony style capitalism make the drugs non-diagnosis drugs and cut up the profits? DEATH be damned. Hate those overeaters as more people suffer from disease, by the very food RFK rebukes, but won't support the idea of helping people with the here and now rather than fixate on lock downs past or future.
Wait until the MAGA kids drop like flies, yes, intentionally crass, and they all continue to eat a cheap diet of processed foods because of.....everything. DEATH be damned.
Look, it's happening. It is screaming the day to day, point by point objectives to MAGA. They were willing to go to war over Trump's election loss. Wonder if they'll do the same for their kids, their jobs, their healthcare, their money, their knowledge in being duped?
Oh, and the Founders were VERY specific on a NATIONAL RELIGION. Can some one tell Russell for all of us?
God, he's 5 years younger than I am, and looks like a ball of Christian fun and family values! F 'em. I'll take my non-kid, recovered alcoholic (always will be an alcoholic), living in sin, losing a business during Bush's reign without filing BK and paying my taxes and negotiating with my creditors, unlike Trump ever did.
Grew up with an abusive, yet highly functioning, alcoholic father and still came out having strong convictions to do the damn right things. Have I always, nope. I'm no holocaust survivor, can't have a black person's experience, or a transgender's experience but I do give a lot of shits and that's what we all try to do with what we're given. Or, in the alternate world of the Yarvin's and cronyism and weird fkn crap, be like Trump-y/Musk-y.
I'll take what I have and if they take it, they can't, because that means they'd be decent human beings who have tried their best and not sold their souls to the underbelly of those who also had erector sets for the wrong purpose.
To quote a real Kennedy "Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by ACCIDENT, or MISCALCULATION, or by MADNESS". This upcoming admin has all three elements. We must find a path for us to live, in this uncertainty, while not being the victims of what is their destiny to the sword.
Take off the mask ASAP. The "big lie" that Trump won in 2020, Jan 6 vilence was "to stop the steal." Did he, with help of Russian psy ops steal the 2024 election?
Plus. Disinformation. Some voters here in Baghdad By the Sea were sent to the wrong location. Was this replicated elsewhere? Nationally bomb scares, Some polls in Dem precincts had to close.
One important Putin tactic to scare the weak shitless is his constant waving of his nuclear phallus. Do that to a lefty and they foul their underwear. Trump appeals to the isolationist in 1940 redux, then it was home grown NAZIs, today it is a horseshoe wear NAZIs and Marxist meet.
One footnote on the Separation of Church and State. There has not been much separation in mid & southwest Red states for decades. In the 70s, I completed grad school in Fort Worth and taught at SW Med School in Dallas living on the buckle of the Bible Belt for a total of 8 years. Later, in the 90s, I spent another 7 years managing a federal lab supporting the FAA & DOD in Oklahoma City. There has been no separation of church and state in either state that I could discern. In OKC, a pick-up line I overheard twice in bars was, "Have yew bin sayved?" It appears to be the norm for preachers to recommend for whom to vote, in addition to spreading Alt-Right conspiracy theories from the pulpit.
For example. At a party for my staff one evening in OKC, a guest asked me if I knew about the secret underground prison they were building at the airport where Okies who did not turn over their guns to the Trilateral Commission (a Clinton-era hoax) would wind up. I asked where he heard that. "Why Pastor Brown last Sundee." he replied. I then explained that the OKC airport was a central hub for prisoner transportation, and the subterranean holding cells were insufficient as the prison population increased over time, so they were just adding a few more cells where prisoners would wait between flights so as not to freak out cash customers in the waiting areas. Yet the clergy turned a trivial truth into a GOP fear & loathing tale.
Raised a Catholic in Chicago and Detroit, I never heard politics or Alt-right conspiracy theories during Sunday Sermons. In fact, I did hear about Father Coughlin in Detroit - one of the first radio evangelists was pro-Nazi and was roundly condemned by his Church for his behavior. His broadcasts were terminated by FDR as we approached WWII. Another radio evangelist, Catholic Bishop Fulton Sheen moved his radio program to the new television. Sheen became the first televangelist. Sheen was careful to avoid politics in all his programs.
I am unaware of the IRS ever revoking the tax-free status of any radio or television evangelist for political rhetoric or obvious corruption, much less a church with a loose-cannon pastor like Coughlin or, apparently, many protestant pastors in Texas and Oklahoma.
Well, this is really a fine mess of things for sure, Thom. They voted for it, here it is. Crazy backward stuff from now on. I have my passport and I am planning ahead. I might be headed to one of those blank hole counties soon enough. TrumpASTAN, really is not my plan.I do hope the people who voted for all this nonsense will still have some semblance of thought and count their days. Thanks, Thom the mask has more than been pulled off. They are all so very ugly. Glad I’m not like that. Kamala really wanted to save us from all this bad too. This is what we get.Billionaires running the country Amok. Enjoy your ride in TumpASTAN Land man. Thom!
History tells us little for dealing with fascism. These people are evil. So I’m going to say this every day somewhere because we need to keep democracy’s light on. Our schools are local but corrupt because they groom their boards yo rubber stamp. Run for a school board on a save democracy platform. School boards are now groomed to rubber stamp authoritarian administrators often up to no good. We can grab the school boards and the schools back and create an island of democracy. Learn about what’s going on at WhiteChalkCrime.com. Abraham Lincoln warned that the way of the schoolroom in one generation will be the government in the next. It’s our schools that paved the way for Trump. We must use that path to save democracy. Their plan is charter schools to take from us this power about which most people are clueless. We must get on boards and fix our schools before they succeed at ending public schools. You don’t need to have a child in your district to run. And if you can’t run help others campaign. We can all do something.
Thank you especially for highlighting the disastrous picks from HHS down. The Great Barrington declaration was pure ignorance and casually lethal. It is no exaggeration that letting Covid rip would have killed millions more, and accelerated exponentially what is already a mass disabling event in terms of Long Covid.
It is only common sense to expect a demoralized healthcare workforce to quit en masse if an even more lethal H5N1 pandemic takes off, and we are crippled with poor leadership and antiscientific policies that would potentially kill us and others to follow.
H5N1. Maybe even whatever mystery is taking off in Congo right now. It’s potentially catastrophic with such leadership.
Lindsey M. Burke, the author of Project 2025 chapter 11 Department of Education, just published an article entitled; "Education Policy Reforms Are Key Strategies for Increasing the Married Birth Rate".
As "Day One" approaches the outrage continues in the various picks to head agencies. Weren't trump's followers promised "Make America Healthy Again"? That's a good one isn't it with the gang that can't shoot straight in charge of the health of America. I'm guess Dr. Herd Immunity wants kids to go back to getting childhood diseases. I had them all & was fortunate, this herd member survived. But the case of mumps that I had was really something, I hallucinated, got out of bed & tried to climb the walls of the bedroom! Not something you want your kids to go through. But according to these dipshits it's well worth the pain & suffering & death to get that herd immunity going. Here's hoping it's their family members that succumb. I've given up on caring about people that support the incoming administration. I spent the last 9-10 years trying to understand why people chose him as their paramour in 2016. I sympathized with their plights of being ignored by society. I understood the pain of losing jobs as I had suffered those changes too. So, I finallhy got to a place where I could understand them voting for trump in 2016 but as that first administration plodded along abusing & disavowing laws & traditions that make the US the country it was I realized that my work at understanding the why was not worth the effort. And now that the 'people' have spoken again to support this felon etc I have no desire to understand the people who voted for him again or for those too lazy to get off the couch to vote. I don't care about their problems, they can reap what they sowed but if I hear anyone of them complain, I will not hold my tongue. They may have just voted to end the American Experiment. I for one will fight to maintain that experiment & will try to make it a better place but don't expect any sympathy from me when they start to suffer. When SNAP disappears & they can't afford to feed their kids I"ll tell them to ask their hero to help! When health care goes down the drain & they suffer & die don't come running to me to care. I'll say the platitudes but there will be no sincerity behind my words.
I wish Leon the worst of luck replacing any fleeing progressive Tesla customers with reactionaries. Given that the latter are orgasmic over "rolling coal", detuning their diesel pickups to run less efficient and belch smoke like a train from 1830, methinks he'll come up short.
That Vance edit of the Rockwell painting is curious. Editing himself into it as his boss's dutiful trad wife, is a contradiction to the throaty defenses of he-man masculinity he was pushing on the campaign trail. Maybe his adherence to that traditional masculinity is like everything else with these guys: a lie.
Pretty sure I'll be spending the remainder of my days laughing and crying. Probably simultaneously. Some world. Hard to believe so many people are just carrying on with carrying on. What's the alternative? I'm not sure.
You said, "...so many people are just carrying on with carrying on. What's the alternative?". ...I 'm not so sure many except MAGA will carry on. -There will be just too much cognitive dissonance. I think there will be a major economic crash, caused by a total flat lining of average so-called "consumer confidence", because perhaps up to half of all Americans are so terrified and disgusted right now the last thing on their minds is buying more stuff and spending money into an economy controlled by maniacs!
Unless we are talking about weapons for defending themselves, and supplies to get through unrest, what the hell are these many tens of millions of people gonna have any interest in spending money on?!
My other forebodings are from my focus on psychology, history, and anthropology, as I described in a post I wrote this morning on my own page on Substack:
https://mikemonett.substack.com/p/despair-stage-two-and-the-attunement .
Russia, China, and N. Korea must be disbelieving of their luck. Literally may have the first Sec. of Defense nominee who gets turned down because his mother doesn't like him.
Anyone who didn’t see Project 2025 coming is a fool. So many magas thought that rump was bluffing and wouldn’t actually implement these policies. The joke is that his maggots will be the hardest hit. Nicely done you guys.
That Norman Rockwell picture creeped me out 😱 just like the MAGA Republicans do!! Thank You,Thom, for your article this morning ☕ and will reStack ASAP 💯👍
There is one thing that I don't get, given that Project 2025 and Agenda 47 lays out the game plan. Ali Velshi did a great job, of going through it chapter by chapter. And it starts with Trump reinstalling schedule F, as probably his first act. Why is ink being wasted on his cabinet appointments, This is not going to be just another, but different, administration it is the start of the deconstruction of our constitutional democratic Republic, and the beginning of a depression that will harm, especially, the MAGAts, and those that voted for Trump.
What we should be doing, instead of kvetching over his appointees is
Detailing the effects of his policies.
Let's start with tariffs, They will cost us not o nly in inflation, but in jobs. Americans need to know how,
Immigration will not only affect us with inflation, but with possibly starvation and disease for lack of fruits, vegetables, protein. Americans need to know how.
As regards Schedule F. I want to know who is Bidens puppeteer. Like a fool he rescinded schedule F which he could have used to flush all the Trump Humpers out of the Aegean stable, the result was, among so many other things, David Weiss pursuing Trumps vendetta against Biden by prosecuting Hunter.
Will Biden have the balls to issue blanket pardons for all the potential victims of Trump. I doubt it?
Biden took the most useful tool that Trump left him EO 139575, Schedule F, rescinded it and Trump will reinstall it in his first day in office. Who has his hand up Bidens backside and using him as a sock puppet.?
Let us focus on the acts of harm that Trump will do, as to warn the public,or at least that part which is paying attention. We know all of his appointees are predators,sexual or otherwise, ignorant and incompetent for the job, there is no need to discuss them and their pecadillos one by one, Lets focus on what harm Trump will be doing.
Struggling to keep track of Trump's nominations? Who's from Fox? Has been accused of sexual harassment or assault? Worked on Project 2025? A billionaire donor? Use this interactive map just updated (11/30) with comments by Pete Hegseth's mother blasting him for mistreating women for years and John Phelan, Trump's nominee for Secretary of the Navy who has little sailing experience but is a big donor...
https://embed.kumu.io/180a9da9e9ae0a2a475b8131e7077d9e
The personalities don't matter Deepak, they are all of the same ilk. What we need to keep a sharp focus on is what they will do, the effect of their reign as they carry out Project 2025. That is what to expect in the year ahead, step by step.
Trump takes "baffling with bullshit" to the absurd level.
The DOD, overall, is my biggest fear. Hegseth is both a hack and whack. So are the others. Bondi will be far worse than Barr and is definitely a pig/sheep in lipstick. Voight is repulsive. P2025 is repugnant and so is the lie no one thought to look at beforehand in that Trump and P25 went hand in hand.
But seriously, isn't this what a current POTUS takes an OATH to prevent? I don't get the OATH to preserve, defend, and protect the Constitution against enemies both foreign and domestic, when we clearly have both, if following norms, not releasing the indictment reports, and other things BIDEN/DOJ, is all we get and a bunch of voters who are consumed in a vat of bro-pods, expected to have been jurists, on 11/5/24.
The stopping of Trump should NEVER have been left up to the voters when two of the worst crimes against the country, were simply not resolved, prior to the voters going to the ballot booths. It is indefensible.
Maybe I'm different than Justice Roberts who lives in a world that believes energy, in the EXECUTIVE, means criminality or that overzealous prosecutions don't include those which prosecute treason, coups, and espionage, by placing a crown on some criminal's head. Or that Fitzgerald/Nixon had nothing to do with Trump/immunity for criminal crimes. They haven't even defined what's immune, have they?
Federalists? Do they, or Robert's, when getting praised for their worship of his ad hoc interpretations, in truncating, Fed 70, Fed 51, and others know fkn anything the Founders stood for? They are absolutely corrupt, and as unaccounable as Trump, in their non-seriousness of this plague they've enabled.
Back to the voters, those bros aren't driving Teslas, but they just think Musk, the Elongelicals, is way cool. The immigrant blood diamond kid who didn't invent anything. Super cool. I like the people who waited for the "serial number" on COVID-19 to make the vaccine possible. That wasn't overnight and they aren't on any SM platform boasting about how they influence people with 3 word posts or replies to disinformation while heavily jacked on a cocktail of ketamine and other drugs. They aren't guilty for breaking the law and want the government to shut down to prevent the "health law fare" cops to come a shootin'.
Funny, Musk, doesn't like the FTC, WHY? The SEC, WHY? The CFPB, WHY? MUSK. MUSK. Who TF is MUSK?
If Musk wants to buddy up to WS and help why in the F would you tell Jaimie Dimon to go F himself as Chase battles 50B a day in cybercrime that is also a tax on CORPORATIONS/BANKS and us poor folk? If he wanted to help himself and WS and us poor folk he'd beef up the agency, get himself immunity/Starlink and it's a win-win. None of them know a fkn thing. Here's the secret: corruption will always exist. Decency will always exist. They can co-exist. Please think about that before accusations that are not what you think.
Dude, is my age and thinks everyone knows Crypto and can't play with himself in his sandbox along with other Crypto freaks and leave the damn dollar alone. Nope. He's the kid who had an erector set, not to build anything, just put it in the path of a heavy moving truck and watch what happens.
If lock-downs and vaccines are big ticket items why not hit up the, on track to a trillion, companies to pass out GLP-1 drugs and in crony style capitalism make the drugs non-diagnosis drugs and cut up the profits? DEATH be damned. Hate those overeaters as more people suffer from disease, by the very food RFK rebukes, but won't support the idea of helping people with the here and now rather than fixate on lock downs past or future.
Wait until the MAGA kids drop like flies, yes, intentionally crass, and they all continue to eat a cheap diet of processed foods because of.....everything. DEATH be damned.
Look, it's happening. It is screaming the day to day, point by point objectives to MAGA. They were willing to go to war over Trump's election loss. Wonder if they'll do the same for their kids, their jobs, their healthcare, their money, their knowledge in being duped?
Oh, and the Founders were VERY specific on a NATIONAL RELIGION. Can some one tell Russell for all of us?
God, he's 5 years younger than I am, and looks like a ball of Christian fun and family values! F 'em. I'll take my non-kid, recovered alcoholic (always will be an alcoholic), living in sin, losing a business during Bush's reign without filing BK and paying my taxes and negotiating with my creditors, unlike Trump ever did.
Grew up with an abusive, yet highly functioning, alcoholic father and still came out having strong convictions to do the damn right things. Have I always, nope. I'm no holocaust survivor, can't have a black person's experience, or a transgender's experience but I do give a lot of shits and that's what we all try to do with what we're given. Or, in the alternate world of the Yarvin's and cronyism and weird fkn crap, be like Trump-y/Musk-y.
I'll take what I have and if they take it, they can't, because that means they'd be decent human beings who have tried their best and not sold their souls to the underbelly of those who also had erector sets for the wrong purpose.
To quote a real Kennedy "Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by ACCIDENT, or MISCALCULATION, or by MADNESS". This upcoming admin has all three elements. We must find a path for us to live, in this uncertainty, while not being the victims of what is their destiny to the sword.
Take off the mask ASAP. The "big lie" that Trump won in 2020, Jan 6 vilence was "to stop the steal." Did he, with help of Russian psy ops steal the 2024 election?
Circumnstantial evidence that Russians tried to scare prospective voters shitless. Lots of propaganda that there would be election day violence. Election workers were intimidated. Ballots and ballot boxes burned. DOJ knew about the project by Sept. 4. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-disrupts-covert-russian-government-sponsored-foreign-malign-influence
Plus. Disinformation. Some voters here in Baghdad By the Sea were sent to the wrong location. Was this replicated elsewhere? Nationally bomb scares, Some polls in Dem precincts had to close.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrFb-rLVF10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfs2kC0xOmU
We've discussed Spoonamore previously.
One important Putin tactic to scare the weak shitless is his constant waving of his nuclear phallus. Do that to a lefty and they foul their underwear. Trump appeals to the isolationist in 1940 redux, then it was home grown NAZIs, today it is a horseshoe wear NAZIs and Marxist meet.
One footnote on the Separation of Church and State. There has not been much separation in mid & southwest Red states for decades. In the 70s, I completed grad school in Fort Worth and taught at SW Med School in Dallas living on the buckle of the Bible Belt for a total of 8 years. Later, in the 90s, I spent another 7 years managing a federal lab supporting the FAA & DOD in Oklahoma City. There has been no separation of church and state in either state that I could discern. In OKC, a pick-up line I overheard twice in bars was, "Have yew bin sayved?" It appears to be the norm for preachers to recommend for whom to vote, in addition to spreading Alt-Right conspiracy theories from the pulpit.
For example. At a party for my staff one evening in OKC, a guest asked me if I knew about the secret underground prison they were building at the airport where Okies who did not turn over their guns to the Trilateral Commission (a Clinton-era hoax) would wind up. I asked where he heard that. "Why Pastor Brown last Sundee." he replied. I then explained that the OKC airport was a central hub for prisoner transportation, and the subterranean holding cells were insufficient as the prison population increased over time, so they were just adding a few more cells where prisoners would wait between flights so as not to freak out cash customers in the waiting areas. Yet the clergy turned a trivial truth into a GOP fear & loathing tale.
Raised a Catholic in Chicago and Detroit, I never heard politics or Alt-right conspiracy theories during Sunday Sermons. In fact, I did hear about Father Coughlin in Detroit - one of the first radio evangelists was pro-Nazi and was roundly condemned by his Church for his behavior. His broadcasts were terminated by FDR as we approached WWII. Another radio evangelist, Catholic Bishop Fulton Sheen moved his radio program to the new television. Sheen became the first televangelist. Sheen was careful to avoid politics in all his programs.
I am unaware of the IRS ever revoking the tax-free status of any radio or television evangelist for political rhetoric or obvious corruption, much less a church with a loose-cannon pastor like Coughlin or, apparently, many protestant pastors in Texas and Oklahoma.
Well, this is really a fine mess of things for sure, Thom. They voted for it, here it is. Crazy backward stuff from now on. I have my passport and I am planning ahead. I might be headed to one of those blank hole counties soon enough. TrumpASTAN, really is not my plan.I do hope the people who voted for all this nonsense will still have some semblance of thought and count their days. Thanks, Thom the mask has more than been pulled off. They are all so very ugly. Glad I’m not like that. Kamala really wanted to save us from all this bad too. This is what we get.Billionaires running the country Amok. Enjoy your ride in TumpASTAN Land man. Thom!
History tells us little for dealing with fascism. These people are evil. So I’m going to say this every day somewhere because we need to keep democracy’s light on. Our schools are local but corrupt because they groom their boards yo rubber stamp. Run for a school board on a save democracy platform. School boards are now groomed to rubber stamp authoritarian administrators often up to no good. We can grab the school boards and the schools back and create an island of democracy. Learn about what’s going on at WhiteChalkCrime.com. Abraham Lincoln warned that the way of the schoolroom in one generation will be the government in the next. It’s our schools that paved the way for Trump. We must use that path to save democracy. Their plan is charter schools to take from us this power about which most people are clueless. We must get on boards and fix our schools before they succeed at ending public schools. You don’t need to have a child in your district to run. And if you can’t run help others campaign. We can all do something.
https://open.substack.com/pub/karenhorwitz/p/the-prologue-of-a-graver-danger?r=px1l8&utm_medium=ios
Thank you especially for highlighting the disastrous picks from HHS down. The Great Barrington declaration was pure ignorance and casually lethal. It is no exaggeration that letting Covid rip would have killed millions more, and accelerated exponentially what is already a mass disabling event in terms of Long Covid.
It is only common sense to expect a demoralized healthcare workforce to quit en masse if an even more lethal H5N1 pandemic takes off, and we are crippled with poor leadership and antiscientific policies that would potentially kill us and others to follow.
H5N1. Maybe even whatever mystery is taking off in Congo right now. It’s potentially catastrophic with such leadership.
Lindsey M. Burke, the author of Project 2025 chapter 11 Department of Education, just published an article entitled; "Education Policy Reforms Are Key Strategies for Increasing the Married Birth Rate".
As "Day One" approaches the outrage continues in the various picks to head agencies. Weren't trump's followers promised "Make America Healthy Again"? That's a good one isn't it with the gang that can't shoot straight in charge of the health of America. I'm guess Dr. Herd Immunity wants kids to go back to getting childhood diseases. I had them all & was fortunate, this herd member survived. But the case of mumps that I had was really something, I hallucinated, got out of bed & tried to climb the walls of the bedroom! Not something you want your kids to go through. But according to these dipshits it's well worth the pain & suffering & death to get that herd immunity going. Here's hoping it's their family members that succumb. I've given up on caring about people that support the incoming administration. I spent the last 9-10 years trying to understand why people chose him as their paramour in 2016. I sympathized with their plights of being ignored by society. I understood the pain of losing jobs as I had suffered those changes too. So, I finallhy got to a place where I could understand them voting for trump in 2016 but as that first administration plodded along abusing & disavowing laws & traditions that make the US the country it was I realized that my work at understanding the why was not worth the effort. And now that the 'people' have spoken again to support this felon etc I have no desire to understand the people who voted for him again or for those too lazy to get off the couch to vote. I don't care about their problems, they can reap what they sowed but if I hear anyone of them complain, I will not hold my tongue. They may have just voted to end the American Experiment. I for one will fight to maintain that experiment & will try to make it a better place but don't expect any sympathy from me when they start to suffer. When SNAP disappears & they can't afford to feed their kids I"ll tell them to ask their hero to help! When health care goes down the drain & they suffer & die don't come running to me to care. I'll say the platitudes but there will be no sincerity behind my words.
I wish Leon the worst of luck replacing any fleeing progressive Tesla customers with reactionaries. Given that the latter are orgasmic over "rolling coal", detuning their diesel pickups to run less efficient and belch smoke like a train from 1830, methinks he'll come up short.
That Vance edit of the Rockwell painting is curious. Editing himself into it as his boss's dutiful trad wife, is a contradiction to the throaty defenses of he-man masculinity he was pushing on the campaign trail. Maybe his adherence to that traditional masculinity is like everything else with these guys: a lie.