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Monday, November 1, 2021 9:37 AM

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Scholars are mapping the international precursors of Nazism.


Good.

They can start with the star of David Biden* is unsuccessfully trying to have everybody forced to get shot in their arm.

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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."
You Know Who Else Opposed Vaccine Mandates? Hitler. Contrary to claims about “fascist” vaccine mandates currently circulating on the Right, the Nazis actually relaxed German vaccine mandates.

Republicans would have found much to like in the Third Reich’s vaccine policy, which was very much in line with their current recommendations: above all, it relaxed requirements for compulsory vaccination that had been in place in Germany for decades at that point, and went with a voluntary approach instead. We even have records of private discussions of Adolph Hitler and his Nazi colleagues clearly showing that, far from viewing vaccine mandates as key to their genocidal goals, the opposite was the case: they knew that withholding compulsory vaccination and other German public-health innovations would help kill more of the undesirable and “inferior” people who they wanted to rid from the world.

More at https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/09/vaccine-mandates-covid-pandemic-ger
man-nazi-inoculation-policy

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Monday, November 1, 2021 9:51 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


Would FDR and JFK turn in their graves if they seen the Democrat party of today


thye Neo-Liberals and their mistakes...Will they admit the truth?


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Not coincidentally, it has also become the party of censorship and the party of actively stifling free speech whenever and wherever it can, and enabling, emboldening and celebrating others who do so where it can't (yet).











Fox’s Doocy asks Biden about obscene payments to immigrants, his answer; look away, scratch head
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/11/01/foxs-doocy-asks-biden-about-ob
scene-payments-to-immigrants-his-answer-look-away-scratch-head-1156714/

Rampant corruption crippled Afghanistan. The international community did little to help.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2021/11/01/america-inter
national-weak-efforts-failed-afghanistan/5893471001/

US: Biden Govt In Plans To Resettle Over 55,000 Afghan Refugees Permanently: Reports
https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/us-news/us-biden-govt-in-plan
s-to-resettle-over-55000-afghan-refugees-permanently-reports.html

Kamala Harris barely appearing in public with Joe Biden any more as he flounders in polls
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/10/26/kamala-harris-barely
-appearing-public-joe-biden/

GOP Rep. Waltz: "Symbolic Victory" In Afghanistan Will Inspire Islamic Terrorism
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/10/31/gop_rep_waltz_symbo
lic_victory_in_afghanistan_will_inspire_islamic_terrorism.html

Biden opposition to Border Patrol mission harming national security, former chief says
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/biden-opposition-to-border-p
atrol-mission-harming-national-security-former-chief-says


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Tuesday, November 2, 2021 8:12 AM

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Cowards Are Destroying America

Back in July, Kay Ivey, governor of Alabama, had some strong and sensible things to say about Covid-19 vaccines. “I want folks to get vaccinated,” she declared. “That’s the cure. That prevents everything.” She went on to say that the unvaccinated are “letting us down.”

Three months later Ivey directed state agencies not to cooperate with federal Covid-19 vaccination mandates.

Ivey’s swift journey from common sense and respect for science to destructive partisan nonsense wasn’t unique. On the contrary, it was a recapitulation of the journey the whole Republican Party has taken on issue after issue.

When we talk about the G.O.P.’s moral descent, we tend to focus on the obvious extremists, like the conspiracy theorists who claim that climate change is a hoax and Jan. 6 was a false flag operation. But the crazies wouldn’t be driving the Republican agenda so completely if it weren’t for the cowards, Republicans who clearly know better but reliably swallow their misgivings and go along with the party line.

Consider, for example, the claim that tax cuts pay for themselves. In 1980 George H.W. Bush, running against Ronald Reagan for the Republican presidential nomination, called that assertion “voodoo economic policy.” Everything we’ve seen since then says that he was right. But Bush soon climbed down, and by 2017 even supposed “moderates” like Susan Collins accepted claims that the Trump tax cut would reduce, not increase, the budget deficit. (It increased the deficit.)

Or consider climate change. As recently as 2008 John McCain campaigned for president in part on a proposal to put a cap on U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. But at this point Republicans in Congress are united in their opposition to any substantive action to limit global warming, with 30 G.O.P. senators outright denying the overwhelming scientific evidence that human activities are causing climate change.

The falsehoods that are poisoning America’s politics tend to share similar life histories. They begin in cynicism, spread through disinformation and culminate in capitulation, as Republicans who know the truth decide to acquiesce in lies.

Take the claim of a stolen election. Donald Trump never had any evidence on his side, but he didn’t care. Despite the lack of evidence and the failure of every attempt to produce or create a case, a steady drumbeat of propaganda has persuaded an overwhelming majority of Republicans that Joe Biden’s victory was illegitimate.

And establishment Republicans, who at first pushed back against the Big Lie, have gone quiet or even begun to promote the falsehood. Thus on Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal published, without corrections or fact checks, a letter to the editor from Trump that was full of demonstrable lies — and in so doing gave those lies a new, prominent platform.

The G.O.P.’s journey toward what it is now with respect to Covid-19 — an anti-vaccine, objectively pro-pandemic party — followed the same trajectory.

Although Republican governors like Ron DeSantis (Florida) and Greg Abbott (Texas) claim that their opposition to vaccine requirements is about freedom, the fact that both governors have tried to stop private businesses from requiring customers or staff to be vaccinated shows this is a smoke screen. Pretty clearly, the anti-vaccine push began as an act of politically motivated sabotage. After all, a successful vaccination campaign that ended the pandemic would have been good political news for Biden.

We should note, by the way, that this sabotage has, so far at least, paid off. While there are multiple reasons many Americans remain unvaccinated, there’s a strong correlation between a county’s political lean and both its vaccination rate and its death rate in recent months. And the persistence of Covid, which has in turn been a drag on the economy, has been an important factor dragging down Biden’s approval rating.

More important for the internal dynamics of the G.O.P., however, is that many in the party’s base have bought into assertions that requiring vaccination against Covid-19 is somehow a tyrannical intrusion of the state into personal decisions. In fact, many Republican voters appear to have turned against longstanding requirements that parents have their children vaccinated against other contagious diseases.

And true to form, elected Republicans like Governor Ivey who initially spoke in favor of vaccines have folded and surrendered to the extremists, even though they must know that in so doing they will cause many deaths.

I’m not sure exactly why cowardice has become the norm among elected Republicans who aren’t dedicated extremists. But if you want to understand how the G.O.P. became such a threat to everything America should stand for, the cowards are at least as important a factor as the crazies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/28/opinion/republicans-vaccines.html



The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Wednesday, November 3, 2021 7:12 AM

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Our economy explained by . . . cookies!

There was a time in history when U.S. workers created 10 cookies. The rich kept 9 cookies and our economy failed in 1929.

Then as a Nation we decided that the rich should keep 3 cookies. And workers shared 7 cookies and we became the greatest country in the world.

Since 1971 that formula started changing. Nowadays, for every 10 cookies, the rich keep 9 1/2 cookies and U.S. workers fight over a half a cookie.
1:54 PM · Oct 31, 2021
https://twitter.com/jilevin/status/1454884392057376774

The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%—And That's Made the U.S. Less Secure
https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/

The Simpsons has been on so long that they went from a fairly standard single income middle class family with a house and three kids to an impossible fantasy world where a thirty four year old high school grad with no inheritance can have any of those things and still be 'lazy'.

Homer has a secure union job doing technical work he was clearly trained to do by his employer, they had a kid in their mid twenties and it hasn’t destroyed their life prospects. Without the family’s material circumstances changing the family became totally detached from reality.

That a show which was originally about a dysfunctional mess of a family barely clinging to middle class life in the aftermath of the Reagan administration has now become aspirational is frankly the most on the nose manifestations of capitalist American decline I can think of.

The first episode of The Simpsons is about the embarrassment of their household requiring a second income. That says something. Compare Family Guy, where it is made explicitly clear over and over that Lois' One Percenter parents pay their bills.

https://imgur.com/gallery/K7y0hSL

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Wednesday, November 3, 2021 7:29 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Our economy explained by . . . cookies!

There was a time in history when U.S. workers created 10 cookies. The rich kept 9 cookies and our economy failed in 1929.

Then as a Nation we decided that the rich should keep 3 cookies. And workers shared 7 cookies and we became the greatest country in the world.

Since 1971 that formula started changing. Nowadays, for every 10 cookies, the rich keep 9 1/2 cookies and U.S. workers fight over a half a cookie.
1:54 PM · Oct 31, 2021
https://twitter.com/jilevin/status/1454884392057376774

The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%—And That's Made the U.S. Less Secure
https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/

The Simpsons has been on so long that they went from a fairly standard single income middle class family with a house and three kids to an impossible fantasy world where a thirty four year old high school grad with no inheritance can have any of those things and still be 'lazy'.

Homer has a secure union job doing technical work he was clearly trained to do by his employer, they had a kid in their mid twenties and it hasn’t destroyed their life prospects. Without the family’s material circumstances changing the family became totally detached from reality.

That a show which was originally about a dysfunctional mess of a family barely clinging to middle class life in the aftermath of the Reagan administration has now become aspirational is frankly the most on the nose manifestations of capitalist American decline I can think of.

The first episode of The Simpsons is about the embarrassment of their household requiring a second income. That says something. Compare Family Guy, where it is made explicitly clear over and over that Lois' One Percenter parents pay their bills.

https://imgur.com/gallery/K7y0hSL

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two




If Democrats focused on THAT message and dropped all of their other horrible bullshit, AND ACTUALLY EVER FUCKING FOLLOWED THROUGH WITH ANY OF IT AFTER THE FACT, they'd never lose an election again.

PERIOD.

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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."

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Wednesday, November 3, 2021 8:50 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


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If Democrats focused on THAT message and dropped all of their other horrible bullshit, AND ACTUALLY EVER FUCKING FOLLOWED THROUGH WITH ANY OF IT AFTER THE FACT, they'd never lose an election again.

PERIOD.
Look at it from the Senate Republican side and ask yourself why no Republicans would ever endorse THAT message. Unless some Republicans change their minds, it will never become law because the Senate needs 60 votes to pass such a huge change. The Democrats cannot do this without some help from at least a few Republicans, but there is NOT ONE Republican who will.

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Thursday, November 4, 2021 2:59 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.



The Senate democrats can't even command a 50-vote simple majority because ... democrats.

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Sunday, November 7, 2021 7:14 AM

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The Senate democrats can't even command a 50-vote simple majority because ... democrats.
They have Senator Manchin of West Virginia who is really a Republican. Before Manchin, it was Sen. Joe Lieberman playing that role. Now that Lieberman got kicked out of the Senate, he plays that same role as a lobbyist. Here is how Lieberman did a Manchin to Obamacare:
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/newsletter-article/senat
e-democrats-drop-public-option-woo-lieberman-and-liberals-howl

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Sunday, November 7, 2021 7:18 AM

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Republican politicians are calling the infrastructure bill "communist" and "socialism" because they have odd ideas what those words mean:

Marjorie Taylor Greene @mtgreenee
Republicans who hand over their voting card to Nancy Pelosi to pass Biden’s Communist takeover of America will feel the anger of the GOP voter.
10:08 PM • Nov 5, 2021 • Twitter for iPhone
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1456820687230980105

Matt Gaetz @mattgaetz
I can’t believe Republicans just gave the Democrats their socialism bill.
11:09 PM • Nov 5, 2021 • Twitter for iPhone
https://twitter.com/mattgaetz/status/1456836212929486849

As for the Republican voters, same as with Republican politicians, they have strange ideas what "communist" and "socialism" are. Why are they that way? A mental illness, the bane of America:

Collective narcissism was the second-strongest predictor (after partisanship) of voting for Donald Trump in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

When people think of narcissism, they typically conjure up the chest-thumping, boastful, grandiose narcissist. But psychologists have identified a more vulnerable form of narcissism, involving a fragile, uncertain sense of self-worth, deeply steeped in shame and distrust, along with the typical antagonism and self-entitlement. In some countries, including the U.S., collective narcissism is more strongly correlated with grandiose narcissism—but overall, those scoring high in vulnerable narcissism are actually more likely to fall into collective-narcissistic thinking. Collective narcissists might be obsessed with receiving group recognition because, on a personal level, they feel deeply insecure about their own value and they desperately need validation. They might also be lacking in emotional resilience.

Collective narcissism isn’t a successful coping strategy; studies show that it doesn’t improve self-esteem. In fact, having collective-narcissistic beliefs probably increases one’s level of individual vulnerable narcissism: People who believe that their group’s greatness is not appreciated seem likely to start worrying that their own personal greatness is not appreciated. . . .

One preliminary study found that after participating in a six-week mindful-gratitude training, designed to fortify the ability to regulate negative emotions and cultivate a sense of gratefulness, collective narcissists were less likely to demonstrate sexism, homophobia, and prejudice toward immigrants.

It’s not clear how long all of these effects last, but these studies at least provide hints that group narcissism is not inevitable. Group-narcissistic beliefs can form early in life, but they need not develop. Children can be taught that their social identity doesn’t need to be externally validated to bring them meaning. They can feel inherently worthy without needing to feel superior.

More at https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/what-collective-narcissism-does-t
o-society/ar-AAQoeTn?ocid=winp1taskbar

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Thursday, November 11, 2021 1:21 PM

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The US Constitution did not in fact lay out three equal branches of government, but rather a system of “Judicial Supremacy.” Indeed most contemporary legal scholars accept that this is exactly what the outcome has been. No less an authority than James Madison, often considered the intellectual architect of the US Constitution, came to agree, advocating for a Legislative “Council of Revision,” writing:

"In the State Constitutions & indeed in the Federal one also, no provision is made for the case of a disagreement in expounding them; and as the Courts are generally the last in making their decision, it results to them, by refusing or not refusing to execute a law, to stamp it with its final character. This makes the Judiciary Dept paramount in fact to the Legislature, which was never intended, and can never be proper."

Madison proposed that, following an intervening election, the Congress could override an adverse Supreme Court decision by a supermajority vote of 2/3’s or 3/4’s of both Houses, saying:

"It should not be allowed the Judges or the Executive to pronounce a law thus enacted Unconstitutional and invalid."

More at https://angrybearblog.com/2021/11/brutus-the-anti-federalist-to-presci
ently-foresaw-the-imperial-supreme-court

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Friday, November 12, 2021 6:43 AM

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Inflation is all over the news these days (when Elon Musk isn’t) as the headline consumer price index posted a 6.2% year-over-year rate in October—the highest one-year inflation number since November 1990, 31 years ago. So, the common wisdom is that inflation is here, it’s pervasive, it’s going to persist and we’re in trouble.

Inflation lessens the real value of debt. The median American recently had about $65,000 in debt. Inflation has reduced the real value of this debt by almost $4,000 over the past year.

In 2020, American households had around $14.5 trillion in debt from their mortgages, credit cards, student loans, and other sources. Inflation of 6.2 percent means that the real value of that $14.5 trillion is now just $13.65 trillion in last year’s dollars.

In other words, the inflation over the past year has effectively transferred $850 billion in wealth from creditors to debtors. That’s a lot of money.

Most people are a mixture of creditors (e.g., you have a bank account) and debtors (you have a mortgage and student loans). But overall, this $850 billion has generated a big check written by the tippy-top of the income scale to everyone else. And as you’d expect, the people at the tippy-top don’t like this.

There is one rock that can kill two birds at the same time. The Federal Reserve can raise interest rates. This would slow the economy and increase the unemployment rate, lessening worker bargaining power. Less bargaining power would mean lower or nonexistent raises, which would eventually translate into lower inflation.

That’s what all today’s inflation panic is ultimately aimed at: creating an economy with higher unemployment, lower growth, and more frightened workers

More at https://theintercept.com/2021/11/10/inflation-economy-debt-milk-prices/

Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle
Walmart pays so little that its on-boarding process has info on how to sign up for food stamps and Medicaid. How come the workers are "lazy freeloaders" but Walmart is just a "smart business?"
12:23 PM · Nov 10, 2021·Twitter Web App
https://twitter.com/DanPriceSeattle/status/1458500453004500994

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Monday, November 15, 2021 6:42 AM

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Donald Trump Is Out. Are We Ready to Talk About How He Got In?

“The First White President,” revisited

I’ve been thinking about Barbara Tuchman’s medieval history, A Distant Mirror, over the past couple of weeks. The book is a masterful work of anti-romance, a cold-eyed look at how generations of aristocrats and royalty waged one of the longest wars in recorded history, all while claiming the mantle of a benevolent God. The disabusing begins early. In the introduction, Tuchman examines the ideal of chivalry and finds, beneath the poetry and codes of honor, little more than myth and delusion.

Knights “were supposed, in theory, to serve as defenders of the Faith, upholders of justice, champions of the oppressed,” Tuchman writes. “In practice, they were themselves the oppressors, and by the 14th century, the violence and lawlessness of men of the sword had become a major agency of disorder.”

The chasm between professed ideal and actual practice is not surprising. No one wants to believe themselves to be the villain of history, and when you have enough power, you can hold reality at bay. Raw power transfigured an age of serfdom and warmongering into one of piety and courtly love.

This is not merely a problem of history. Twice now, Rudy Giuliani has incited a mob of authoritarians. In the interim, “America’s Mayor” was lauded locally for crime drops that manifested nationally. No matter. The image of Giuliani as a pioneering crime fighter gave cover to his more lamentable habits—arresting whistleblowers, defaming dead altar boys, and raiding homeless shelters in the dead of night. Giuliani was, by Jimmy Breslin’s lights, “blind, mean, and duplicitous,” a man prone to displays “of great nervousness if more than one black at a time entered City Hall.” And yet much chin-stroking has been dedicated to understanding how Giuliani, once the standard-bearer for moderate Republicanism, a man who was literally knighted, was reduced to inciting a riot at the U.S. Capitol. The answer is that Giuliani wasn’t reduced at all. The inability to see what was right before us—that Giuliani was always, in Breslin’s words, “a small man in search of a balcony”—is less about Giuliani and more about what people would rather not see.

And what is true of Giuliani is particularly true of his master. It was popular, at the time of Donald Trump’s ascension, to stand on the thinnest of reeds in order to avoid stating the obvious. It was said that the Trump presidency was the fruit of “economic anxiety,” of trigger warnings and the push for trans rights. We were told that it was wrong to call Trump a white supremacist, because he had merely “drawn upon their themes.”

One hopes that after four years of brown children in cages; of attempts to invalidate the will of Black voters in Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Detroit; of hearing Trump tell congresswomen of color to go back where they came from; of claims that Joe Biden would turn Minnesota into “a refugee camp”; of his constant invocations of “the Chinese virus,” we can now safely conclude that Trump believes in a world where white people are—or should be—on top. It is still deeply challenging for so many people to accept the reality of what has happened—that a country has been captured by the worst of its history, while millions of Americans cheered this on.

The temptation to look away is strong. This summer I watched as whole barrels of ink were emptied to champion free speech and denounce “cancel culture.” Meanwhile, from the most powerful office in the world, Trump issued executive orders targeting a journalistic institution and promoted “patriotic education.” The indifference to his incredible acts was telling. So much for chivalry.

The mix of blindness and pedantry did not plague merely writers, but also policy makers and executives. “The FBI does not talk in terms of terrorism committed by white people,” the journalist Spencer Ackerman wrote in the days after the January 6 riot at the Capitol. “Attempting to appear politically ecumenical, a recent bureaucratic overhaul during an accelerated period of domestic terrorism created the category of ‘racially motivated violent extremism.’” But only so ecumenical. “For all its hesitation over white terror,” Ackerman continued, “the FBI until at least 2018 maintained an investigative category about a nebulous and exponentially less deadly thing it called ‘Black Identity Extremism.’”

“When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide,” Tuchman writes, “the system breaks down.” One hopes that this moment for America has arrived, that it can at last see that the sight of cops and a Confederate flag among the mob on January 6, the mockery of George Floyd and the politesse on display among some of the Capitol Police, are not a matter of chance.

More, that Trumpism did not begin with Trump; that the same Republican Party some now recall in wistful and nostalgic tones planted seeds of insurrection with specious claims of voter fraud; that the decision to storm the Capitol follows directly, and logically, from respectable Republicans who claim that Democrats steal elections and defraud this country’s citizens out of their right to self-government.

This, of course, is not my first time contemplating the import of such things. “The First White President” was the culmination of the years I’d spent watching the pieces fall into place. Pieces that, once assembled, finally gave us Trump. I’m sorry to report that I think the article holds up well. This would be a much better world if it didn’t. But in this world, an army has been marshaled and barbed wire installed, and the FBI is on guard against an inside job. Whatever this is—whatever we decide to call this—it is not peaceful, and it is not, in many ways, a transition. It is something darker. Are we now, at last, prepared to ask why?

More at https://web.archive.org/web/20211104075921/https://www.theatlantic.com
/politics/archive/2021/01/ta-nehisi-coates-revisits-trump-first-white-president/617731/

Barbara Tuchman’s medieval history, A Distant Mirror The Calamitous 14th Century is free at the mirrors: https://libgen.unblockit.bz/search.php?req=Barbara+Tuchman+Distant+Mir
ror

Foreword - The genesis of this book was a desire to find out what were the effects on society of the most lethal disaster of recorded history—that is to say, of the Black Death of 1348–50, which killed an estimated one third of the population living between India and Iceland. Given the possibilities of our own time, the reason for my interest is obvious. The answer proved elusive because the 14th century suffered so many “strange and great perils and adversities” (in the words of a contemporary) that its disorders cannot be traced to any one cause; they were the hoofprints of more than the four horsemen of St. John’s vision, which had now become seven—plague, war, taxes, brigandage, bad government, insurrection, and schism in the Church. All but plague itself arose from conditions that existed prior to the Black Death and continued after the period of plague was over.

Although my initial question has escaped an answer, the interest of the period itself—a violent, tormented, bewildered, suffering and disintegrating age, a time, as many thought, of Satan triumphant—was compelling and, as it seemed to me, consoling in a period of similar disarray. If our last decade or two of collapsing assumptions has been a period of unusual discomfort, it is reassuring to know that the human species has lived through worse before.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Monday, November 15, 2021 9:04 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Inflation is all over the news these days (when Elon Musk isn’t) as the headline consumer price index posted a 6.2% year-over-year rate in October—the highest one-year inflation number since November 1990, 31 years ago. So, the common wisdom is that inflation is here, it’s pervasive, it’s going to persist and we’re in trouble.

Inflation lessens the real value of debt. The median American recently had about $65,000 in debt. Inflation has reduced the real value of this debt by almost $4,000 over the past year.

In 2020, American households had around $14.5 trillion in debt from their mortgages, credit cards, student loans, and other sources. Inflation of 6.2 percent means that the real value of that $14.5 trillion is now just $13.65 trillion in last year’s dollars.

In other words, the inflation over the past year has effectively transferred $850 billion in wealth from creditors to debtors. That’s a lot of money.

Most people are a mixture of creditors (e.g., you have a bank account) and debtors (you have a mortgage and student loans). But overall, this $850 billion has generated a big check written by the tippy-top of the income scale to everyone else. And as you’d expect, the people at the tippy-top don’t like this.

There is one rock that can kill two birds at the same time. The Federal Reserve can raise interest rates. This would slow the economy and increase the unemployment rate, lessening worker bargaining power. Less bargaining power would mean lower or nonexistent raises, which would eventually translate into lower inflation.

That’s what all today’s inflation panic is ultimately aimed at: creating an economy with higher unemployment, lower growth, and more frightened workers

More at https://theintercept.com/2021/11/10/inflation-economy-debt-milk-prices/


While somebody who is responsible with money and has zero debt is being fucked at both ends.



Maybe I'll have kid and cross over into Mexico and see if they'll give me a $450,000 check.


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Walmart pays so little that its on-boarding process has info on how to sign up for food stamps and Medicaid. How come the workers are "lazy freeloaders" but Walmart is just a "smart business?"
12:23 PM · Nov 10, 2021·Twitter Web App
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This is news is hardly new. This goes back to at least 2014 (when I was working at KMart and first heard about it). It probably went on for a long time before that too.

KMart paid even less than WalMart did and KMart couldn't even be bothered to inform their employees of these benefits at all.

After I'd gotten tired going to the grocery store and buying $25 of essentials only to see women with 3 kids in tow and a shopping cart so full it was spilling onto the floor pay with a SNAP card and go out to their Cadillac, I had applied for food assistance and was amazed to see that I qualified for the max benefit for a single person. At that time, it was double my property taxes over a full year.

That's when I started asking around and only one person on the night shift was getting them before I did. After that, I got a lot of people started on the process and had them bring in any paperwork for me to look over while we were on break and I got 6 others on food stamps that didn't even know they were eligible or how to even start the process.

My joke about KMart was "I work at KMart, so I can't afford to shop at KMart."





Getting SNAP didn't change the way I spent my money on food, so the nearly $200 per month was more than I needed and I was able to bank the extra. In Indiana, after 6 months of unemployment (if the unemployment rate gets under 5%, you are under 56 years old, and you don't have any kids), you are cut off of food stamps unless you work 20 hours per week. So once they cut me off I had about 7 more months of food banked.

Even though I've been unemployed for 2 1/2 years now, I don't qualify in Indiana, even when the unemployment rate was in double digits. Too many assets. Every state handles this differently. In Illinois you could have $10 Million in a checking account and they'd still give you food stamps. In Indiana the limit is something like $7,000 including any vehicles which aren't your primary vehicle. Easy to avoid the 2 car rule if you're living alone, but I'd imagine that a family of 4 or 5 has a harder time getting on it unless they all drive around with one car.

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Getting SNAP . . .
Republicans oppose SNAP:

Trump has made ending food stamps a Republican cause -- September 18, 2019

When he decided to take aim at food stamps by announcing cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, perhaps it shouldn’t have come as a surprise.

Earlier this summer, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced it would terminate broad based categorical eligibility (BBCE) for SNAP recipients, a move that would cut nutritional assistance for an estimated 3.1 million of the 36 million Americans currently enrolled in the program.

This is not the first time Trump has set his sights on slashing SNAP. His proposed 2018 budget cut almost 25% of the program’s funding over the course of a decade. The measure failed. So, when the Farm Bill came up for reauthorization, as it does every five years, Trump moved to terminate BBCEs and tighten work requirements within the sweeping legislation that encompasses US policy on agriculture, food safety, trade, subsidies, and nutrition programs.

The measures once again failed in Congress and the Farm Bill passed without them. And the president decided once again to circumvent legislators and let the USDA announce his plan without Congressional approval.

Except for the handful of Republicans that joined a group of 70 mayors speaking out on the measure, conservative leadership has remained quiet about any misgivings surrounding the proposal.

Much more at https://qz.com/1707804/trumps-cuts-to-snap-concerns-republicans-too/

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Monday, November 15, 2021 10:17 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Getting SNAP . . .
Republicans oppose SNAP:

Trump has made ending food stamps a Republican cause -- September 18, 2019

When he decided to take aim at food stamps by announcing cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, perhaps it shouldn’t have come as a surprise.

Earlier this summer, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced it would terminate broad based categorical eligibility (BBCE) for SNAP recipients, a move that would cut nutritional assistance for an estimated 3.1 million of the 36 million Americans currently enrolled in the program.

This is not the first time Trump has set his sights on slashing SNAP. His proposed 2018 budget cut almost 25% of the program’s funding over the course of a decade. The measure failed. So, when the Farm Bill came up for reauthorization, as it does every five years, Trump moved to terminate BBCEs and tighten work requirements within the sweeping legislation that encompasses US policy on agriculture, food safety, trade, subsidies, and nutrition programs.

The measures once again failed in Congress and the Farm Bill passed without them. And the president decided once again to circumvent legislators and let the USDA announce his plan without Congressional approval.

Except for the handful of Republicans that joined a group of 70 mayors speaking out on the measure, conservative leadership has remained quiet about any misgivings surrounding the proposal.

Much more at https://qz.com/1707804/trumps-cuts-to-snap-concerns-republicans-too/

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SNAP shouldn't need to be a thing, just like building a physical wall shouldn't need to be a thing.

Both of these are just band-aids on Cancer.

Both of these are also much more closely related than the media would ever acknowledge.

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SNAP shouldn't need to be a thing, just like building a physical wall shouldn't need to be a thing.

Both of these are just band-aids on Cancer.

Both of these are also much more closely related than the media would ever acknowledge.
SNAP exists because America has unmarketable food surpluses and widespread unemployment.
https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/short-history-snap

Everywhere I go, except in the United States, I've been asked by men with guns who I am and why I am in the country. Republicans think America needs a wall because Republicans don't think they should be asked who they are and why they are in the country.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

SNAP shouldn't need to be a thing, just like building a physical wall shouldn't need to be a thing.

Both of these are just band-aids on Cancer.

Both of these are also much more closely related than the media would ever acknowledge.
SNAP exists because America has unmarketable food surpluses and widespread unemployment.
https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/short-history-snap


SNAP has nothing to do with unemployment. There are people who work all of their lives and receive SNAP that entire time.

Depending on which state you live in, your not going to get SNAP benefits very long at all if you're not working. Indiana being one of them.

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Everywhere I go, except in the United States,


You don't go anywhere.

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I've been asked by men with guns who I am and why I am in the country. Republicans think America needs a wall because Republicans don't think they should be asked who they are and why they are in the country.

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If we made it clear that there was nothing for illegal aliens or their children if they come here, that shit would stop overnight. Absolutely no need for a physical wall.

Biden* giving away lotto tickets to criminals isn't helping matters.

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The following is an excerpt from Ta-Nehisi Coates’s October 2017 cover story, “The First White President.” You can find the full essay here: https://web.archive.org/web/20211104070621/https://www.theatlantic.com
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It is insufficient to state the obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not for this fact. With one immediate exception, Trump’s predecessors made their way to high office through the passive power of whiteness—that bloody heirloom which cannot ensure mastery of all events but can conjure a tailwind for most of them. Land theft and human plunder cleared the grounds for Trump’s forefathers and barred others from it. Once upon the field, these men became soldiers, statesmen, and scholars; held court in Paris; presided at Princeton; advanced into the Wilderness and then into the White House. Their individual triumphs made this exclusive party seem above America’s founding sins, and it was forgotten that the former was in fact bound to the latter, that all their victories had transpired on cleared grounds. No such elegant detachment can be attributed to Donald Trump — a president who, more than any other, has made the awful inheritance explicit.

His political career began in advocacy of birtherism, that modern recasting of the old American precept that black people are not fit to be citizens of the country they built. But long before birtherism, Trump had made his worldview clear. He fought to keep blacks out of his buildings, according to the U.S. government; called for the death penalty for the eventually exonerated Central Park Five; and railed against “lazy” black employees. “Black guys counting my money! I hate it,” Trump was once quoted as saying. “The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.” After his cabal of conspiracy theorists forced Barack Obama to present his birth certificate, Trump demanded the president’s college grades (offering $5 million in exchange for them), insisting that Obama was not intelligent enough to have gone to an Ivy League school, and that his acclaimed memoir, Dreams From My Father, had been ghostwritten by a white man, Bill Ayers.

It is often said that Trump has no real ideology, which is not true — his ideology is white supremacy, in all its truculent and sanctimonious power. Trump inaugurated his campaign by casting himself as the defender of white maidenhood against Mexican “rapists,” only to be later alleged by multiple accusers, and by his own proud words, to be a sexual violator himself. White supremacy has always had a perverse sexual tint. Trump’s rise was shepherded by Steve Bannon, a man who mocks his white male critics as “cucks.” The word, derived from cuckold, is specifically meant to debase by fear and fantasy — the target is so weak that he would submit to the humiliation of having his white wife lie with black men. That the slur cuck casts white men as victims aligns with the dicta of whiteness, which seek to alchemize one’s profligate sins into virtue. So it was with Virginia slaveholders claiming that Britain sought to make slaves of them. So it was with marauding Klansmen organized against alleged rapes and other outrages. So it was with a candidate who called for a foreign power to hack his opponent’s email and who now, as president, is claiming to be the victim of “the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history.”

In Trump, white supremacists see one of their own. Only grudgingly did Trump denounce the Ku Klux Klan and David Duke, one of its former grand wizards — and after the clashes between white supremacists and counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August, Duke in turn praised Trump’s contentious claim that “both sides” were responsible for the violence.

To Trump, whiteness is neither notional nor symbolic but is the very core of his power. In this, Trump is not singular. But whereas his forebears carried whiteness like an ancestral talisman, Trump cracked the glowing amulet open, releasing its eldritch energies. The repercussions are striking: Trump is the first president to have served in no public capacity before ascending to his perch. But more telling, Trump is also the first president to have publicly affirmed that his daughter is a “piece of ass.” The mind seizes trying to imagine a black man extolling the virtues of sexual assault on tape (“When you’re a star, they let you do it”), fending off multiple accusations of such assaults, immersed in multiple lawsuits for allegedly fraudulent business dealings, exhorting his followers to violence, and then strolling into the White House. But that is the point of white supremacy — to ensure that that which all others achieve with maximal effort, white people (particularly white men) achieve with minimal qualification. Barack Obama delivered to black people the hoary message that if they work twice as hard as white people, anything is possible. But Trump’s counter is persuasive: Work half as hard as black people, and even more is possible.

For Trump, it almost seems that the fact of Obama, the fact of a black president, insulted him personally. The insult intensified when Obama and Seth Meyers publicly humiliated him at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in 2011. But the bloody heirloom ensures the last laugh. Replacing Obama is not enough — Trump has made the negation of Obama’s legacy the foundation of his own. And this too is whiteness. “Race is an idea, not a fact,” the historian Nell Irvin Painter has written, and essential to the construct of a “white race” is the idea of not being a nigger. Before Barack Obama, niggers could be manufactured out of Sister Souljahs, Willie Hortons, and Dusky Sallys. But Donald Trump arrived in the wake of something more potent — an entire nigger presidency with nigger health care, nigger climate accords, and nigger justice reform, all of which could be targeted for destruction or redemption, thus reifying the idea of being white. Trump truly is something new — the first president whose entire political existence hinges on the fact of a black president. And so it will not suffice to say that Trump is a white man like all the others who rose to become president. He must be called by his rightful honorific — America’s first white president.

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I couldn't make it through the first paragraph of that racist tripe.

No thanks.



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I couldn't make it through the first paragraph of that racist tripe.

No thanks.
I have heard actual Ku Klux Klan members say the same, plus that they weren't racists. Then I would laugh. Then they would ask in all seriousness, "What's so funny?" which would make me laugh again. Then I'd say never mind, but I'd be thinking how these guys are too stupid to live long. Those Klan members are dead, before they were 60. They actually were too stupid about themselves and what they truly are to live long lives. Keep smoking, 6ix. Scientists are lying about the health hazards of smoking. Cigarettes will make you live longer, not shorter. And scientists are lying about vaccinations, too. Vaccination for Covid-19 will harm you.

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When Donald Trump lost the presidential election. Republican consumer sentiment plummeted, and kept plummeting for over a year. In November 2021 it came in at 37.2, the lowest it's ever registered. Lower than the 1980 Carter recession (55.1) and lower than the 2009 Great Recession (48.3).

https://jabberwocking.com/republican-hysteria-over-the-economy-has-rea
ched-record-levels/

In a sensible world, voters would have both a reasonably accurate picture of what’s happening in the economy and a basic understanding of what aspects of the economy are under politicians’ control. In the world we live in, neither of these things is true. Data show a huge divergence between what people say about the state of the economy, which is quite negative on average, and what they say about their own personal finances, which is fairly positive. This divergence suggests that people’s views on the economy reflect what they’re seeing on often partisan news media and what their politics say should be happening, rather than what they themselves are experiencing.

In reality, economic perceptions are largely shaped by media coverage — and, increasingly, by partisanship. Republicans now have a more negative assessment of economic conditions than they had in March 2009, the depths of the financial crisis, when the unemployment rate was 8.7 percent and the economy was losing 800,000 jobs a month.

https://web.archive.org/web/20211117014616/https://www.nytimes.com/202
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Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


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The Senate democrats can't even command a 50-vote simple majority because ... democrats.
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They have Senator Manchin of West Virginia who is really a Republican.
Manchin's not 'really' a republican. He's a democrat, who calls himself a democrat, and who's recognized by his fellow democratic senators as a democrat, and who runs on a democratic ticket. So you saying he's 'really' a republican is just you ... lying ... again.
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Before Manchin, it was Sen. Joe Lieberman playing that role. Here is how Lieberman did a Manchin to Obamacare:
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/newsletter-article/senat
e-democrats-drop-public-option-woo-lieberman-and-liberals-howl
You claim that Lieberman killed the public option. But EVEN YOUR OWN LINK DOESN'T SAY WHAT YOU CLAIM. There were A NUMBER of democratic senators who didn't want to see the public option, or even just medicare for all, in the bill.

This is from the opening paragraph from your link:
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Democratic senators traveled to the White House on Tuesday for a meeting with President Obama aimed at building a united front on health care, and Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman said he'd likely join with them in backing a measure that dropped a government-sponsored insurance program.


And btw it was Max Baucus - another democrat - who's been given credit for writing the basics of Obamacare.

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Bullshit and more bullshit from 1kiki.
The unethical politicians blur their positions and the media reports their obfuscations. But once in a while their actual positions become crystal clear. Immediately, the unethical politicians squirt ink into the water to make their escape from what they did, and media reports on the ink swirling. Manchin and Lieberman are examples of unethical politicians who get away with claiming to be somebody other than who they are: rich guys who are taking bribes to support the desires of other rich people. The media won't say that while the politician is alive because it would cause trouble for the media. The media will wait about 50 years, when it no longer can make any difference, like it does when the definitive history of a crooked and very dead American politician is finally published, documenting what the politician's true positions were, previously obscured by the politician's smoke, mirrors and the media's fear of being sued.

Here is Manchin blowing smoke. The local price of gasoline is set by the international price of petroleum. The Federal government, despite what Manchin is insinuating, has no control over international prices. Every word I have ever heard from Manchin is more bullshit, same as this 30 seconds:



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I couldn't make it through the first paragraph of that racist tripe.

No thanks.
I have heard actual Ku Klux Klan members say the same


No you haven't. You've never met a Ku Klux Klan member, let alone try to get them to read their first book.

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No you haven't. You've never met a Ku Klux Klan member, let alone try to get them to read their first book.
You proved you are foolish. If you do that in front of the wrong people, they stomp you into the hospital. That has happened to you, 6ix. Never happened to me.

I feel like this holiday season, it's important to remind people of the true meaning of Christmas: ghosts terrorizing rich people in the middle of the night until they agree to pay their employees more.

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No you haven't. You've never met a Ku Klux Klan member, let alone try to get them to read their first book.
You proved you are foolish. If you do that in front of the wrong people, they stomp you into the hospital. That has happened to you, 6ix. Never happened to me.


Yeah. Asking somebody to leave a party because the homeowner was calling the cops surely means that you should retaliate by suckerpunching them when their back is turned and ganging up 4-on-1 to stomp and stab them.

Only in your world, dude. In your sad, scary, violent world.



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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

No you haven't. You've never met a Ku Klux Klan member, let alone try to get them to read their first book.
You proved you are foolish. If you do that in front of the wrong people, they stomp you into the hospital. That has happened to you, 6ix. Never happened to me.


Yeah. Asking somebody to leave a party because the homeowner was calling the cops surely means that you should retaliate by suckerpunching them when their back is turned and ganging up 4-on-1 to stomp and stab them.

Only in your world, dude. In your sad, scary, violent world.
Over in the Kyle Rittenhouse thread your story goes that Rittenhouse was the victim and the people he murdered had it coming. I'm pretty sure, 6ix, that way you misunderstand reality (or a house party) and the way you run your mouth when you should be quiet is why your life is troubled. Oh, and your feeling that you won't have to work isn't helping you.

'Kyle did nothing wrong'? or the crimes of the Kenosha Shooter
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=63838

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Thanks to Capitalism:

Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle
66% of big companies are making higher profits now than before the pandemic.
Make no mistake: Companies aren't raising prices because of inflation or supply-chain issues. They're using that as an excuse to raise profits and hope you'll fall for it
8:17 PM · Nov 16, 2021·Twitter Web App
https://twitter.com/DanPriceSeattle/status/1460794292126068740

Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle
You ever notice how when there's some issue in the world - higher oil prices, supply-chain woes - companies say "we're forced to raise prices?" But then when that issue is resolved, they keep raising prices anyway? Almost like it's really just cover to increase profits.
10:49 AM · Nov 17, 2021·Twitter Web App
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Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle
6 years ago today I raised my company's min wage to $70k. Fox News called me a socialist whose employees would be on bread lines. Since then our revenue tripled, we're a Harvard Business School case study & our employees had a 10x boom in homes bought. Always invest in people.
12:10 PM · Apr 13, 2021·Twitter Web App
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CharlesM Oct 9, 2021 wrote about the movie "Lamb":

This review contains spoilers. Lamb is to Animal Farm as Elephant (2003) is to Elephant (1989). It is a story of our times told through allegory. Despite the low budget and minimal cast and filming location, it has a lot to offer in narrative and cinematography. I highly recommend this film to anyone who is a fan of symbolism, Russian literature, and/or precision storytelling. I do not recommend this film to literally anyone else. You will not enjoy it, you will think it is slow, you will think nothing happens, you will think the "twist" is underdone, etc. Honestly can say, Lamb is my new favorite film, and I eagerly await Valdimar Jóhannsson's next project.

(SPOILERS AHEAD)

In most basic terms, Lamb, to me (I will only emphasize this once, this is my opinion, I do not pretend there is an exact takeaway from any work of art, as art is subjective) is about the struggle between old and new, framed in the trope of man vs nature. I do not think this film was exactly political, but I will use the terms conservative and liberal in reference to their respective philosophies. Conservative being the will to remain true to tradition, the way things have always been. Liberal being the will to bring about change at any cost. I think each character represents a specific point on the spectrum between neo-conservative and neo-liberal. The mother lamb being neo-conservative, the brother being conservative, the dog being neutral, the father being liberal, and the mother being neo-liberal. The lamb itself is not a character, but an idea. A third party ("the twist", or "the monster", or "the naked sheep man") conceived this idea. The idea was born, and the neo-liberal hijacked it and raised it as her own. The neo-conservative objected and took a stand against the perversion. The neo-liberal, unconfident in her actions against nature (the conservative ideal), silenced the neo-conservative (the only thing standing in her way of change) with a weapon. The conservative literally drops into the story. He initially objects to the perversion, but is too distracted by consumerism (cigarettes, sports, alcohol) to become uncomfortable enough to take action. In fact, when he does muster the strength to use the weapon against the idea, he eventually concedes. He is all talk, no game (see Facebook boomers). I have more to say on the mid portion of the movie, but I will leave that up to you to determine. The ending, though, is brilliant. Eventually, he who conceived the idea comes to take the idea back. In this struggle, the neutral party is killed in the crossfire, leaving only the extremes to duke it out. Using the same weapon used to silence the neo-conservative, the new conservative force silences the liberal, leaving only two polar opposites. Old vs new. But now, both sides are moved to physical action against each other in pursuit of their ideal world. This is the paradigm shift. In my opinion this is telling us that without balance in the progression of society, the liberal philosophy will always prevail. For a conservative force to meet the liberal, though, would be as impossible as the mythical goat man that represented it. This is just my take, though.

I've heard many critiques of the film. None of them attempted to interpret it at any more than face value. Walking out of the theater, I spoke with a man claiming to have a master's in English writing. He said the movie was horrible. I pleaded with him to the contrary, describing the symbolism. He simply didn't see it. If the Russian revolution never occurred, yet Animal Farm was still written verbatim, would it still be an allegory? In the same vein, if you weren't aware of the tides that move us today, would you realize that a story was calling it to your attention? I don't think his master's degree in English failed him, no, I think the true horror of the movie lies in the ignorance of the masses, the sheep, to the greater meaning of our world.

https://www.metacritic.com/movie/lamb-2021/user-reviews

Exactly what is going on in ‘Lamb’? The director and star unpack the wild Icelandic fable
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021-10-08/lam
b-ending-explained-noomi-rapace-valdimar-johannsson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_(2021_film)



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Carl And Carlson by A.T. on NOVEMBER 26, 2021

I signed off Wednesday:

"I can’t begin to list all the things I give thanks for, beginning with my amazing parents — and their ancestors for emigrating to this wonderful country — going all the way to the present day and your readership. And a thousand things in between. Happy Thanksgiving!"

Carl’s response:

"Don’t forget to give thanks that this wonderful country is surviving despite your support for the corrupt Marxist/Democrat anti American party. I am giving thanks for your silent support for the despicable anti-Semitic, anti-American Squad and their peers is being despised as it should be by educated Americans, not elitist Harvard grad bloggers. I am giving thanks that revolting arrogant people like you will thankfully lose to the fed up masses in 2022 elections."

It is of a piece, broadly speaking, with Tucker Carlson’s view of January 6th. Which you must read to see — as if you didn’t already know — how dangerous this all is. ( https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tucker-carlson-patriot-purge-is-fascist
-january-6-revisionism_n_6192b4a9e4b05e93cbb3c1d7 )

And how it’s possible that smart, well-intentioned people like Carl — who surely think they’re on the right side of things — have been so misled. And become so strident.

Have a great long weekend.

https://andrewtobias.com/carl-and-carlson/

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Dr. Trevon D Logan @TrevonDLogan
American democracy is very, very young. It is not even 60 years old. Look at voting registration and voting by race in Mississippi counties in 1946– in some cases no Black people voted. None. When people are nostalgic for the “good old days,” this is what they mean.
7:40 AM · Nov 28, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
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For reasons that we could discuss at length, it's really hard to demonize Republicans. For years they've represented wildly irresponsible views, the worst of which at the moment is the conviction that Democrats stole the 2020 election and that justifies passing new laws that give Republicans more power to count votes. It really doesn't get much worse than that, and even so most non-Democrats simply don't consider this a big deal.

So the right question to ask is: If even something this alarming produces little more than a yawn outside the ranks of Democrats, what the hell would it take to make people genuinely afraid of Republicans?

This is a question I've been pondering for years and I still come up blank. The simplest answer, I think, is that Republicans are generally conservative in the literal sense: they want things to stay the same, and extremism in the defense of doing nothing just doesn't bother most people. Conversely, it's easy to demonize Democrats: liberals want to change things, and extreme changes are scary as hell. So liberals are working under a handicap from the start.

https://jabberwocking.com/how-can-we-make-more-people-fear-republican-
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Robert Reich @RBReich

Average weeks of paid family leave for parents:

Slovakia: 164 weeks
Finland: 161 weeks
Hungary: 160 weeks
Norway: 91 weeks
Korea: 64 weeks
Germany: 58 weeks
Japan: 58 weeks
Sweden: 55 weeks
Poland: 52 weeks
Canada: 51 weeks
Denmark: 50 weeks

United States: 0 weeks

11:47 AM · Nov 29, 2021·Twitter Web App
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Jaberwocking.com: How can we make more people fear Republican rule?"


That's not the question you should be asking.

Figure out why you're so fucking awful and fix it.

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Investment banker Bill Derrough argues in the Columbus Post Dispatch that It’s time to give Joe Biden his due:

. . . Personal bankruptcy filings are at the lowest levels since 1985. Unemployment is down to 4.6% from nearly 7% when Joe Biden was elected president and average hourly wages are the highest for Americans than they have ever been.

. . . Notwithstanding many naysayers, under President Joe Biden’s administration, the United States economy is not just back on track to tremendous growth, but, thanks to a number of legislative and administrative measures, is on its way to being less trickle down and more bottoms-up. Perhaps the most significant of these so far is the Biden Administration’s infrastructure bill. . . .

And the story will, I think, be even better, when that landmark physical infrastructure bill is joined by its counterpart, the human infrastructure bill, very possibly this coming month.

Together, they will go a long way toward revitalizing our economy — and righting the imbalance that’s grown ever more extreme over the past 40 years.

Namely, the imbalance between ordinary Americans, who have been doing most of the nation’s work . . .

. . . and those at the very top, who have been reaping most of the rewards.

I’m a fan of Jeff Bezos, as I’ve acknowledged before. But would he or anyone dispute that much of his $200 billion net worth derives from the labor of others?

The economic squeeze most Americans find themselves in, that Trump tapped so successfully, is brutal. Voters have every reason to be frustrated and angry. But the culprit are not Jews or blacks or asylum seekers hoping to pick our tomatoes. The culprit is a party whose signal achievement in recent decades has been lowering taxes on the very rich while blocking progress, wherever it can, for everyone else. The culprit is not Benghazi, that consumed so much of their attention, but the oil-industry-inspired invasion of Iraq — on the drawing board before 9/11 — that wound up costing us trillions.

And no, these two infrastructure bills will not meaningfully prolong or amp up inflation.

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Raid the Republican Party to save the party

Martin Skladany wrote in March (and his argument is just as strong now):

Democrats’ instinct after winning the White House and Congress in 2020 might be to stand back and let the Republican Party slowly self-destruct. Such inaction would not necessarily preserve democracy. A Trumpist GOP would continue to win elections, maintain power over certain states, and could regain control of the Senate or House in 2022.

The responsibility of saving the Republican Party — and the rule of law — has been thrust not onto principled Republicans alone, but also Democrats and independents. To do so, they must contend with a primary system that easily could end the political careers of the Republicans who crossed Donald Trump in defending the 2020 elections, such as Georgia’s Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

Democrats and independents need to cross over and vote in Republican primary elections. Such “reverse primarying” could ensure that the general election at least would be a choice between candidates who believe in the sanctity of elections and good governance.

Raiding a party’s primary is typically done to scupper a rival party in the general election by voting for their more extreme candidate. I propose the opposite: increasing a moderate Republican’s chances by cutting the far right off at the knees. Nearly 60 percent of GOP voters want Trump to keep playing a major role in the party. Eradicating the danger of extremism will require more than focusing on voter registration and increasing turnout. Non-Republicans need to “primary from across the aisle,” and do it nationally.

Some Republicans who value facts are defecting from their party, rather than fighting to take it back. Starting a third party composed of Republican emigres has been recently floated. If these developments continue, who would remain to haul the Republican ranks back to reality?

Even if Democrats could win every election — which they can’t — it is in their collective national interest to hobble far-right extremists and conspiracy-theorists in the GOP. Otherwise, the country’s fissures could widen and we likely won’t have seen our last attempt to overturn an election.

Should Democrats care if the same policy is applied to their party? No. Both moderate and left-leaning Democrats believe in democracy and the will of the people, even if there are sharp policy distinctions between them. Ultimately, any Republican at heart who registered as a Democrat might vote for more left-wing candidates to attempt to sink Democrats’ chances of success in the general election, yet this concern is likely not as important as the need for Democrats to ensure they don’t lose our freedoms through having despotic Republicans win elections.

More at https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/541108-raid-the-republican-party-
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Outlawing Abortion Will Increase Child Poverty. Republicans Couldn’t Care Less.

US Supreme Court justices weigh whether to uphold a Mississippi law (Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health) that bans abortion after 15 weeks and overrule the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

The old Democratic line about Republicans is that they care deeply about human life right up until the moment a child is actually born, and then they’re on their own. The party has spent decades fighting to abolish abortion and preaching the sanctity of life, all while supporting the death penalty and opposing social spending programs aimed at helping struggling parents and their kids.

This month, that dynamic has been on display perhaps more vividly than ever before.

After Wednesday’s oral arguments over Mississippi’s abortion ban, the GOP-dominated Supreme Court appears ready to fulfill the dreams of conservative activists everywhere, and fully overturn Roe v. Wade, setting the stage for dozens of other states to outlaw the procedure in short order. Meanwhile on Capitol Hill, Republicans are busy fighting against Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Act, much of which is aimed at supporting parents with childcare services and tax credits for reducing family poverty—the sorts of priorities that a party that actually cared about children, as opposed to fetuses, might embrace.

If the conservative movement sees ultimate success in Dobbs, the rest of the country will soon relearn that outlawing abortion is a pro-poverty policy, and that Republicans are offering nothing to address its dire consequences.

I’m not saying Republicans are necessarily hypocrites for opposing the specifics of Biden’s family agenda (plenty of progressives have found fault with its various pieces). But, with the exception of Sen. Mitt Romney, whose genuinely bold proposal for a child tax allowance went nowhere within his party, the GOP has nothing resembling an alternative to Democratic plans that would help the many women who will now have no choice but to birth children they lack the means to support.

And let’s be clear: If Roe falls, as now seems likely, it is all but certain that more American children will be born to poor single-parents, many of whom already have children they are financially struggling to raise. That much should be obvious to anyone who takes even a brief glance at abortion statistics. In 2014, 49 percent of women who terminated their pregnancies survived on incomes below the poverty line, 55 percent were unmarried and not living with a partner, and 59 percent had already given birth at least once before, according to the most up-to-date analysis by the Guttmacher Institute. A major study that asked nearly 1,000 women why they were seeking abortions found that three of the most popular answers were finances (40 percent), issues with the father (31 percent), and the need to focus on their other children (29 percent).

More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/12/scotus-will-gaslight-us-un
til-the-end.html

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I have received a request to update my old chart showing the number of politically-related criminal convictions per administration. Happy to oblige:

Republicans 95, Democrats 1



The Trump number looks low, but cabinet members who resigned for dodgy behavior never got criminally convicted of anything.
https://jabberwocking.com/our-updated-score0-republicans-95-democrats-
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Lies, from as left as you can possibly be without being Emperor Xi, jabberwocking.com.

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Lies, from as left as you can possibly be without being Emperor Xi, jabberwocking.com.
There is an actually list of criminals:

2017–2021 (Donald Trump (R) presidency)
Executive branch

Lieutenant General Michael Flynn (R) National Security Advisor. Pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. He asked to withdraw his guilty plea which the appeals court panel ruled 2–1 in Flynn's. However, after a request from Judge Sullivan for an en banc rehearing the decision was vacated. An 8-2 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, kept alive the Department of Justice case that Attorney General William Barr had ordered dropped in May. The court also refused to remove U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, who has been overseeing the case. The case was ultimately dismissed as moot after President Trump pardoned Flynn.[178][179]

George Papadopoulos (R) Foreign policy advisor, pleaded guilty to making false statements to FBI agents relating to contacts he had with agents of the Russian government while working for the Trump campaign. He was sentenced to 14 days in prison, 12 months' probation, and 200 hours' community service. (2017)[180][181][182][183][184]

Rick Gates (R) 2016 Deputy Campaign Chairman to President Donald Trump (R), pleaded guilty to conspiracy and lying to investigators concerning his work lobbying with Ukraine as well as tax and bank fraud. He was sentenced to 45 days in prison and three years' probation. (2018)[185][186][187]

Paul Manafort (R) Campaign Manager for President Donald Trump (R), was charged with 18 counts of tax and bank fraud which involved keeping $65 million in foreign bank accounts and spending $15 million on himself. He was found guilty on 8 counts.[188][189][190] March 18, 2019: Manafort was sentenced to 47 months in prison.[191] On March 13, 2019, Manafort was sentenced to another 43 months for charges of federal conspiracy and obstruction.[192]

Roger Stone (R) Trump Campaign Adviser, was indicted in January 2019, on "one count of obstruction of an official proceeding, five counts of false statements, and one count of witness tampering" during the Special Counsel's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 Trump election campaign.[193] Stone was found guilty by the jury of nine women and three men, who deliberated for seven hours over two days before convicting Mr. Stone on all seven counts.[194][195]

Legislative branch

Chris Collins (R-NY), pleaded guilty to insider trading (2019).[196]

Duncan D. Hunter (R-CA), pleaded guilty to misuse of campaign funds (2019)[197]

There are many more Republican criminals listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_federal_politicians_con
victed_of_crimes

Of the people who I know voting for Trump twice in Texas, every one of them I knew to be crazy long before Trump ran for office. Crazy people vote for a crazy man. If you voted for Trump a second time, and justified it by saying the harsh stories about him were fake, you are faking sanity.

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Quote:
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Lies, from as left as you can possibly be without being Emperor Xi, jabberwocking.com.
There is an actually list of criminals:


Of course there is. Nobody is denying that there are Republican criminals in office.

Just laughing about a graph that shows there aren't any Democrat criminals.

You're an idiot.

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Quote:
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Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Lies, from as left as you can possibly be without being Emperor Xi, jabberwocking.com.
There is an actually list of criminals:


Of course there is. Nobody is denying that there are Republican criminals in office.

Just laughing about a graph that shows there aren't any Democrat criminals.

You're an idiot.
6ix, unless you can attach names to Democratic criminals who worked in the White House, and describe their crimes, the dates and all that stuff, you are a lying sack of shit. But the actual people I know (6ix is not included in "actual people" because I've got no proof 6ix even exists outside of fireflyfans.net) who voted twice for Trump -- the most lying President in history -- are lying sacks of shit in ordinary life, long before Trump got into politics. Trump is their kind of sack of shit.

There are 6,900,000 reasons to think Trump is a lying sack of shit:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Is+trump+a+lying+sack+of+shit%3F

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If Trump Voters Lived in Germany, They’d Be in the Fascist Party. No, not that one.

By Jonathan Chait

A recent international YouGov/Global Progress survey, which came to my attention via the Liberal Patriot, framed the political choice facing the public in an interesting way. It asked which position comes closest to the poll taker’s own belief: “We need to be vigilant against groups trying to impose new cultural values and views about religion, gender, immigration, or race that don’t reflect our society’s traditional values” or “We need to be vigilant against groups that undermine democracy by attacking judges, questioning election results, and promoting societal unrest based on conspiracy theories, racism, and anti-scientific claims about vaccines and climate change.”

The question, in other words, is whether threats from the social and cultural left are more serious than threats from the conspiratorial and illiberal right. What is perhaps even more revealing was the split among voters in different right-of-center parties. Supporters of the British Conservative party were split almost evenly between fearing cultural change and fearing right-wing extremism. Supporters of the Christian Democratic parties in Germany deemed the far right a much larger threat. But Trump voters, on the other hand, took a dramatically more conservative stance, deeming the cultural left a bigger threat than the far right by overwhelming margins.



Indeed, if you want a comparison to the Republican perspective, you can only find it in a far-right party like Germany’s AfD, an extremist faction that has combined attacks on immigration with unsettling revisionism around the condemnation of the Third Reich that has been a foundation of Germany’s postwar political consensus.

The Republican party is an extremist outlier in comparison with major conservative parties in other democracies. That radicalism has been most evident in the GOP’s unique anti-statism: No other mainstream party categorically opposes new taxes under any circumstances, universal health insurance, or government action to limit greenhouse gas pollution. This poll illustrates a dimension that has come to the fore in the Trump era: a fixation with politics as a venue for existential cultural conflict.

American conservatives have believed for decades that liberalism represents a threat to American liberty that cannot be contained solely through democratic channels. The conviction dates back to the shattering experience of the New Deal and the right’s inability to win it back, and found expressions through spasms of reaction ranging from McCarthy to Nixon to the Gingrich tactics of government shutdowns and total war. During Obama’s first term, the Republicans we now see as sober and reasonable were making hysterical predictions like “America is approaching a ‘tipping point’ beyond which the Nation will be unable to change course” (Paul Ryan) and “We are only inches away from no longer being a free economy” (Mitt Romney).

Trump’s influence on the party has been to draw this belief to the fore and make it the party’s defining principle. Trump beat out his Republican primary rivals by positioning himself as the candidate who would fight most ruthlessly against their enemies.

More at https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/if-trumpers-lived-in-germany-t
heyd-be-in-the-fascist-party.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Saturday, December 4, 2021 10:13 AM

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Another graph of completely made up bullshit.



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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


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Another graph of completely made up bullshit.
Two-thirds of Republicans believe American democracy faces a major threat. A poll among voters under 30 years old finds 70 percent of Republicans think American democracy is either failing or in trouble. Yet another poll finds 30 percent of Republicans agree “true American patriots might have to resort to violence in order to save our country.” The people who believe the system is under threat are themselves the threat to the system.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/if-trumpers-lived-in-germany-t
heyd-be-in-the-fascist-party.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Saturday, December 4, 2021 11:19 AM

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Another graph of completely made up bullshit.
Two-thirds of Republicans believe American democracy faces a major threat. A poll among voters under 30 years old finds 70 percent of Republicans think American democracy is either failing or in trouble. Yet another poll finds 30 percent of Republicans agree “true American patriots might have to resort to violence in order to save our country.” The people who believe the system is under threat are themselves the threat to the system.


We believe that Democracy and America is under threat BY the System.

99% of the violence in this country is perpetrated by Democrats, so go fuck yourself and your hypocritical theoreticals while denying reality Second.

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Saturday, December 4, 2021 12:21 PM

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We believe that Democracy and America is under threat BY the System.

99% of the violence in this country is perpetrated by Democrats, so go fuck yourself and your hypocritical theoreticals while denying reality Second.
"We"? Who is "We"? Where did you get the 99%? I will quote you:
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Another graph of completely made up bullshit.
Your number 99% is bullshit. You have nothing to back up that number, other than you and your "We" are lying sacks of shit. Trump is the ultimate sack of shit, with his phony facts and his "Fake News" when he gets caught lying.

Trump, January 22, 2020, On coronavirus: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”

All over the world, except in America, everybody knows Trump is crazy: https://www.deccanherald.com/international/world-news-politics/4-years
-of-donald-trump-as-us-president-in-10-quotes-912979.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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"We"? Who is "We"?


Rational people. The ones who are going to make sure Democrats are destroyed across the country next November.

Certainly not you.




You've got nothing, except a bunch of made up graphs by Leftist websites trying to push a narrative.

You're the one pretending that Antifa/BLM violence, arson and robbery happening all through 2020 was not violence, arson and robbery.

I don't need a fucking bullshit graph to backup my claims. There is plenty of video evidence out there despite the Lying Leftist Legacy Media's attempts to remove it.



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