Sunday, March 17, 2024

Fahrenheit 2024…

 

Source: Facebook meme, see also Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury

© March 12, 2024, the Griot Poet 

 

Fascism thrives on what the Kremlin calls a “firehose of falsehoods,” more accurately and colorfully described by the Leninist Steve Bannon as “flooding the zone with bullshit.”

 

The reason why it seemed like Chris LaCivita swift boating John Kerry’s Vietnam record had no point: there wasn’t.

The reason why it seemed like there was no point in the Barack Obama Birther conspiracy was because there wasn’t.

It seemed like there was no point in the eleven hours of Hillary Clinton’s testimony to Congress because there wasn’t.

It seems that there was no point in the Hunter Biden hearing because there wasn’t.

Robert K. Hur didn’t do himself, Jim Jordan, or James Comer any favors because that wasn’t the point.

The reason why Senator Katie Brit’s lies were so evident that Scarlet Johansson didn’t have to work too hard for SNL’s “scary mom” skit is because,

She wasn’t there to rebut the president’s State of the Union speech.

She wasn’t there to tout a different perspective on her party’s policies.

She wasn’t there to support her arguments with facts.

Fascism doesn’t care about that.

Mary Poppins sang, “Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down,”

Fascism presented with pretty faces is kind of like that.

She’s in a kitchen wearing a cross like a swastika.

Flat out LYING about a rape that happened twenty years ago when W was president.

The victim, assaulted in Mexico, NOT on the Texas-Mexico border, said Mama Christian was full of shit!

 

The point is,

What they say doesn’t HAVE to be true or even make sense. 

It’s a firehose of falsehoods.

It’s flooding the zone with bullshit.

It’s out there, in the ether, allowing Reich Wing news outlets to repeat it ad nauseum as IF it were true.

The goal of authoritarianism is to destroy truth, the foundation for democracy.

Parties that agree to a shared reality debate on policies addressing common issues.

The goal of fascists is to destroy any form of fact-checking.

The goal is to destroy your desire to understand anything.

The goal is to get people so tired that they give up trying.

 

You’ll escape to illicit drugs or alcoholic beverages.

You’ll escape [to] the myriad streaming services.

You’ll escape to meditation at temples, synagogues, mosques, and churches.

This is Marx’s “opiate of the people” on steroids!

 

All the while,

The one percent Hoover up all the money and assets,

Because they’re selfish bastards suffering from Hoarding Disorder and avarice!

 

I repeat:

Bernie is who we wanted.

But now,

 

The stage is set.

An aged Bruce Wayne had to come out of retirement.

The Dark Knight Returns as Dark Brandon.

Because the Joker staged a jailbreak at Arkham Asylum.

He pointed a mob at the U.S. Capitol.

He tried to hang Vice President Riddler!

The Joker wants to spring out 500 inmates in Arkham Asylum.

“Hostages” he calls terrorists.

Imagine “Killer Croc” in your living room!

 

He wants to ban books and not assault weapons.

He wants a Muslim ban re-instituted.

He wants the LGBT community to be invisible.

He wants women out of the workplace, no bodily autonomy, and back in the kitchen,

Because he needs [that] “Leave it to Beaver,” “Father Knows Best,” and “Ozzie and Harriet” propaganda bullshit!

Where mom can look gorgeous, hang clothes behind white picket fences, make a souffle, clean the house, help the kids with their homework, and have kinky sex with her alpha male even though she knows that he has a side chick!

 

I need Batman.

Throw in Catwoman.

I need Dark Brandon.

I need the Bat family with all hands on deck!

We need the Batarang, the Bat Rope, the Bat Boat, the Bat Wing, the Watchtower in orbit, and the Bat Swiss Army Knife utility belt!

 

We need to win THIS election.

Or, we won’t have any others.

What we’ll have is a public ceremony with a foregone conclusion,

Like the “election” in Russia, where Putin murdered his only opposition.

Like watching the Washington Generals versus the Harlem Globetrotters!

 

That last line was meant to be funny.

I’m using humor to get you to focus.

 

But that’s what happened in countries like Russia, China, North Korea, Hungary, Iran, and Iraq when Saddam Hussein led it.

 

If we fall, what’s left is a world of warlords.

What’s left after the death of the “rule of law” is WHATABOUTISM.

Where fascists make up the rules of who dies and who lives.

 

Four years ago, we were running from Covid.

We were using eighteen-wheeler refrigerator trucks for mobile morgues.

1.13 million Americans were killed by negligence.

All we got from the germaphobe-in-chief was the quackery of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.

Oh, and let’s not forget injecting bleach and shining lights up our rectums.

AI and deepfake have already been deployed in this year’s elections.

From a fake Biden ROBO call telling people not to vote,

To Kate Middleton and the British crown putting out a photo taken years ago,

Orange Bone Spurs accused Democrats of using AI in the House testimony of former attorney Richard K. Hur,

Not realizing that the only “artificial intelligence” is his!

 

Before Project 2025,

There’s Fahrenheit 2024,

The attack isn’t just on democracy.

The attack is on our shared reality.

Confusion is where fascism thrives and spreads like a malignant virus.

 

Suggested antidotes to the firehose of bullshit:

“Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills” is an audio series by Yale School of Medicine Neuroscientist Steven Novella (The Great Courses).

Question EVERYTHING that you see on the Internet,

Particularly your feed on social media platforms,

See “The Social Dilemma” on Netflix.

Watch less news and more documentaries.

Go to a library, pick up a book, and READ it (too few of us are doing this).

 

After Fahrenheit 2024,

They will enact Project 2025,

In Star Trek, the Third World War starts in 2026. Coincidence?

 

Lastly,

Come to open mic for Spoken Word, music, and comedy venues.

The oligarchs want us to be angry at each other’s throats, not cooperating and plotting against them.

While they drink champagne in their exclusive Cul de Sacs.

The oligarchs want to burn your past,

The oligarchs want to steal your assets.

The oligarchs want to burn your futures.

While lining their pockets and destroying the planet.

Take your power back by voting,

“We The People” terrifies the terrorists!

Then, go to Spoken and Heard for your secular sermons.

Sunday, March 03, 2024

Notecards...

 

Image source: Libre Office Extensions - Index Cards

Notecards

© February 23, 2022, the Griot Poet 

 

This spell was written on an iPhone 11 XR.

It was emailed to the author using Gmail.

It was edited using Word and Grammarly.

It was finally uploaded to Griot Poet dot Blog Spot dot com,

Annotated with an appropriate picture relating to the topic and subject,

It will be performed at an online venue called Spoken and Heard at Kick Butt Coffee in Austin, Texas.

 

As a member of Toastmasters International,

I’m tripping that the New York Times and Axios,

Wasted ink and digital media to say that “the president uses notecards at a fundraiser.”

 

Toastmasters encourage notecards.

They allow you to organize your key points in a speech.

 

This poetry piece is a notecard.

Like the actual 3 x 5 analog,

It allows me to cover the topics, subjects, and themes I’m concerned about.

 

In Nashville,

Where the Nazis marched,

The twice-impeached,

Four times indicted,

The ninety-one counts felon said this:

 

“Everybody on both sides” agreed with the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

And:

“They want you to say what they want you, what they want to have you say. And we’re not gonna let that happen. You’re going to say as you want, and you’re going to believe, and you’re going to believe in God. You’re gonna believe in God because God is here, and God is watching.”

And:

“If you think about it, you have men, you have women, and you have religion. If you look at it, you have more than the men; you have more than the women. You have such power.”

Finally, yesterday, in Greensboro:

“Yesterday, we heard that Saudi Arabia and Russia will: Rhee, bee do, gah!”

 

Before that, he couldn’t even pronounce “evangelical” without slurring!

 

He bragged about putting the three mullahs on the court that axed Roe vs. Wade and said he supports In Vitro Fertilization.

 

Has he talked to the fascists in Alabama yet?

Where a baby chick is now, an unscrambled egg?

 

This is the guy that you want to have the nuclear codes.

He wanted to use one against a hurricane!

He might test one against a tornado (over YOUR city or rural municipality).

 

He wants to build concentration camps,

Because his psychotic hero in Russia has gulags,

Where he assassinated his rival, Alexey Navalny.

Who “died” of natural causes after a walk,

On a subzero continent,

With a windchill of minus 25 degrees Fahrenheit.

 

Every other word out of the mouth of this psychopath is a word salad.

 

Yet,

The New York Times,

And Axios,

And the mainstream media 

Are getting worked up because:

The president uses notecards.

 

The guy who enacted “Project Warp Speed.”

At “all deliberate speed,”

To get vaccines into the arms of Americans to stop the deaths and bleeding,

 

The guy who did “Infrastructure Week” was the president who uses notecards!

 

At this writing:

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is at 39,131,

The RECORD used to be just above 30,000.

The Standard and Poor is over 5,000,

Both are records set by the current president,

Inflation is by the 1%,

To politically wound the “No Malarkey” guy who GAVE you this,

 

But the New York Times and Axios are getting their journalistic panties in a wad,

 

That the guy who regrouped NATO,

The guy who is standing up to Putin instead of performing political fellatio on him,

The guy who’s trying to win the Ukrainian war so that the next invasion isn’t into Poland and the rest of Europe.

The guy who had to console Navalny’s widow and daughter,

While “Orange Bone Spurs” made it about HIMSELF!

However,

The REAL scandal is that the president uses notecards!

 

By the way:

I learned Calculus, Chemistry, Physics, Computer Programming, Nano Materials, Nano Physics, and Nanoengineering using notecards.

SORRY to disappoint you!

 

By the way:

If great speakers are always supposed to “riff it,”

Nailing their soliloquies with relative ease,

I hate to be the one to tell you:

Home slice ain’t even doing it with a teleprompter, a fake tan, fake hair, and lack of sleep!

 

My warning to the 4th Estate:

Fuck around and find out!

Both candidates are old: so is Bernie. But we can’t have him.

These are our two options:

One candidate uses notecards.

The other uses [word] salad and is audibly slurring!

 

You’re going to “both sides” us into what might be our last election.

He called you “fake news.”

His cult called you “Lügenpresse” (lying press),

Just like Hitler and his Nazi cult did.

If you haven’t noticed, his Brown Shirts call themselves Proud Boys and Oath Keepers!

 

This is Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols’ wet dream!

Janet Napolitano’s 2009 warnings about right wing extremism is still prescient.

 

Your smarmy “both sides” commentary will land you on cell block six!

You’re going to “cutesy” yourselves into CIA black sites!

With a comforting picture of Stephen Miller like “Big Brother” watching you!

 

Don’t worry, though.

Poets will be right there with you.

We promise to whip your asses if we’re on the same Gulag cell block,

And scrawl some verses on the walls about it before they throw us in the furnaces,

Comedians will kick your ass and make jokes about it.

Because the two things we know about Baby Huey:

He can’t take a joke, and he can’t handle the truth!

 

Fourth Estate: You want to “both sides” this?

You want to expend paper and electrons on the fact that the president uses notecards (and ignore the mental illness of his opponent)?

 

Fuck around and find out!

Along with the First Amendment,

You will be the cause of your own extinction!

Friday, February 16, 2024

Definition...

 

Revisiting the January 6 Insurrection - One Year Later, Sam Sanders, Jinae West, Anjuli Sastry Krbechek, Andrea Gutierrez, Liam McBain, Nathan Pugh, Jordana Hochman, January 7, 2022, NPR

© February 5, 2024, the Griot Poet

Insurrection (noun): an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government. Merriam-Webster

 

“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”

Article 14, Section 3.

Not a coup or a civil war.

It doesn’t have a time stamp that disqualifies you if your riot was “three hours or less.”

 

It’s simply for

“Revolting against civil authority or an established government.”

 

It sounds like blocking the appointment of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court.

It sounds a lot like trying to overturn a free and fair election that you LOST!

It sounds a lot like a Supreme Court trying to spitball The Constitution to allow a criminal with 91 federal counts against him to run for the office he figuratively shat on!

His followers had bowel movements in the Capitol.

 

I’m not a lawyer. I’m a scientist.

Except for a Certificate in Microelectronics and Photonics,

From Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey,

And a short course on semiconductor processing at the University of Florida,

 

All of my STEM education occurred at the same Black College,

Four students walked from and into the F.W. Woolworth counter on February 1, 1960, and ignited the Sit-In movement,

North Carolina A&T State University is the largest HBCU on the planet.

I met the first black astronaut from an HBCU, Dr. Ron McNair,

My grand teacher in Goju Ryu Karate,

I shook hands with his Frat brother, Jesse Jackson.

I heard Leontyne Price sing Opera and Desmond Tutu preach against Apartheid there.

My Physics Professor, Dr. Elvira Williams, was the fourth African American woman to receive her Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics in the nation and the first in North Carolina.

When I mentioned this to a manager at Motorola,

Who had the same Physics book in his work office as I did in my home office by Halladay and Resnick,

“Mr. Harvard” suddenly remembered a meeting he had to attend (that no calendar had scheduled).

 

So, I don’t compare us to your Ivy League institutions: You haven’t gotten where we are.

Harvard directly benefited from enslaved labor.

A&T and HBCUs were our reaction to it after emancipation!

Let freedom ring had to include education.

Which one of us is the better institution is purely academic.

Ivy League school graduates get the pedigree.

HBCU graduates get the PRIDE and extended family.

Unlike Bo Derek’s cornrows and Travis Kelce’s fade, you haven’t culturally appropriated that!

 

So, please let me disabuse your impression of esteemed, solemn, and wise Ivy League-educated Justices:

Defending a guy whose nickname in his birth state is “Dumbo Gambino” is stupid!

He didn’t win his Queen’s borough or home state in 2016 or 2020!

Your parents could have saved their money paying for people to take your SAT and LSAT tests for you!

Or, bribing the test proctor to pump up your scores!

 

Six of you spitballing the Constitution is the judicial equivalent of shooting yourselves in the foot!

Do you THINK that there will be three coequal branches of government: the Legislative (Article I), the Executive (Article II), and the Judiciary (Article III - you) if Dumbo Gambino and his hired thugs from the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025 enact their fascist wet dreams?

 

You’re afraid of armed mobs NOW?

Homeboy will have Seal Team Six!

And he’s indicted with his frivolous “absolute immunity” lawsuit that he’s willing to use them!

 

See the second season of “The Handmaid’s Tale” on Hulu,

A novel by the Canadian poet Margaret Atwood,

The crazed fascist lunatics called themselves “The Sons of Jacob.”

Stormed the U.S. Capitol and slaughtered the Senate, House of Representatives, the White House and the Supreme Court,

Closed all bank accounts owned by women,

Flushed bodily autonomy down the toilet,

To sanctify violent rape and prostitution,

Banned all books, censored the media and Internet,

Before they set up the Republic of Gilead,

Stop me if this sounds familiar!

“Will be wild” (aid and comfort?) probably preceded it.

 

“Fascism is mental pathology in politics.”

A gem from Dr. Bandy Lee,

One of the experts [who] warned us about the dangers of a psychopath running a political party.

 

Chief Justice Roberts,

Here’s your chance to impress me,

Since “stare decisis,” Latin for “precedent,”

Doesn’t mean shit to you or the five other Christ-o-fascist Mullahs,

 

Let an HBCU STEM graduate,

Give all of you a chance,

To take a test that I HOPE you can pass:

 

Insurrection (noun): an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government. Merriam-Webster 

 

Who is that “civil authority or established government” that insurrectionists would revolt against?

Three guesses!

Saturday, February 10, 2024

Perspective...

 

Source - Science: evidence is intelligence, Facebook

January 28, 2024, the Griot Poet


This spell is a poetic composite of trolls online I have encountered and how I handled them.

After posting several pictures of my hero, Dr. Ronald E.McNair, and others for February,

I received this short missive from someone in their mommy’s basement:

 

“Since we have Black History Month, why don’t we have White History Month? Why do we have Women’s History Month, LGBT History Month, Asian-Pacific Islander History Month, and Hispanic Heritage Month? Isn’t that reverse racism? Isn't that heterosexual discrimination? Don’t ‘all lives matter?’”

 

I often encounter trolls who think that they are being clever in posting things like this,

Their mentality involves “narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy and sadism.”

Source: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-online-secrets/201409/internet-trolls-are-narcissists-psychopaths-and-sadists

 

My wife always asks, “Why do you BOTHER answering them?”

My answer is always the same: “Because they asked!”

 

“We already have one,” I started my preamble.

February 1 to February 28,

February 29 on leap year occasions,

 

I start my retort,

Like a lawyer in court,

With “what if” scenario questions:

 

What if Thomas Jefferson,

Who wrote the poetic “All men are created equal.”

Wasn’t also pedophile-raping a fourteen-year-old baby named Sally Hemming?

Whose mother was also the product of rape by Martha Jefferson’s father?

George Washington had dentures made out of the teeth of enslaved servants.

DL Hugely pointed out on Instagram that humans are complex,

You can “write dope shit” and still be a psychopath.

 

What if the freed, formerly enslaved Africans were immediately paid reparations?

What if they got government subsidies for real estate and property expansion, just like the government did white western settlers?

What if they were taught a quality education for participation in the body politic?

What if Black Wall Street In Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Rosewood in Florida hadn’t been razed out of existence?

What if the fusion government in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898 had been allowed to exist?

What if the Ku Klux Klan hadn’t killed or thrown out the elected officials, razed the black newspaper, and threatened its editor with lynching?

What if Central Park was still the black township of Seneca Village?

 

Would there have been an Emmett Till?

Would there have been a need for a Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Would there have been the need to “Sit In” at the F.W. Woolworth counter?

Would there have been a March on Washington on the same date that Emmitt was lynched?

Would Trayvon Benjamin Martin have become his modern equivalent?

Or Jordan Davis, Reneisha McBride, Sandra Bland, Breona Taylor, Michael Brown, or too many, I'm too exhausted to name?

Dr. King wouldn’t have left Dexter Avenue Baptist Church’s pulpit,

And might have lived to a ripe old age without much incident.

 

What if the descendants of the white men who lynched Emmett Till, a child, stopped taking potshots at his grave marker?

What if the practice of Black History Month is corporate whitewashing of what Dr. Carter G. Woodson originally intended?

Dr. Woodson gave oppressed people the tools to fight against gaslighting.

Just like they jumped on the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion bandwagon after lynching George Floyd on livestream.

 

What if Malcolm Little’s dad hadn’t been lynched?

What if his mom hadn’t been committed to an insane asylum?

What if he and his siblings hadn’t been split up in foster care?

You wouldn’t have created a Malcolm X.

 

What if, indeed?

Because if all these hypotheticals had happened,

We wouldn’t be having this conversation!

 

You’re so vexed about not having a month specifically named for your culture,

You missed the point that our hidden history is a reliving of shared trauma.

Just like Asian-Pacific Islanders Month has to discuss the Chinese Exclusion Act, the fact that the U.S. interred George Takei and his family (Mr. Sulu of Star Trek), and the U.S. TOOK the Kingdom of Hawaii as a naval coaling station!

Just like Women’s History Month is about struggles with patriarchy.

Just like LGBT History Month must discuss the assassination of Harvey Milk, the murder of Matthew Wayne Shepard, and the police attack on Stonewall.

Just like Hispanic Heritage Month has to discuss Cesar Chavez, the plight of Hispanic agricultural workers, and the fact that “remember the Alamo” is superfluous,

Since you conveniently forget that the whole conflict was that Mexico wouldn’t extradite escaped Africans back to the United States!

 

Cubans who escaped Castro were allowed to touch Florida’s shores,

Haitians, whose ancestors repelled French colonialists, are turned back with a shoulder shrug.

 

As a matter of fact,

HAITI had to pay FRANCE for 122 years: reparations.

20 to 30 billion in today's dollars.

The cost of colonizers losing free enslaved labor,

Started in 1825 directly to the Gauls, having the gall to ask for it,

Transferred in 1922 to the National City Bank of New York, now Citibank.

This HEIST is the cause of Haiti’s poverty, NOT indigenous religious practices!

 

So my perspective,

To your objections,

Is like Jack Nicholson said in “A Few Good Men,”

“You can’t handle the truth,” or this smoke!

 

Interestingly,

My online troll choked,

And I did not read a single word of rebuttal from them going forward.

Sunday, January 21, 2024

Get Over It...



© January 8, 2024, the Griot Poet

David Blight,

Professor of History and African American Studies at Yale University,

As pointed out on Jonathan Capehart’s Sunday Show,

The day after the third anniversary of January 6,

The murder of nine churchgoers at Mother Immanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina, happened in July 2015.

In August of 2015, “he who shall not be named” came down that escalator to announce his run for the presidency.

He deliberately announced his run for the presidency after Dylann Roof killed nine black worshippers at a prayer service to incite a race war in


South Carolina,

The first state to secede from the Union,

The reason stated in their Articles of Secession, Nikki Haley, was the enslavement of African people.

 

After a mass murder in the state of Iowa,

The twice-impeached,

The four-times indicted,

Ninety-one felony counts charged criminal defendant,

He told a crowd of supporters in Sioux Center, Iowa, that “we’re really with you as much as anybody can be.” After stating the tragedy was “terrible” and “horrible,” He insisted: “We have to get over it. We have to move forward. We have to move forward.”

 

The Iowa Perry High School principal,

Dan Marburger,

Who had led the school for 19 years,

Who had graduated children to careers, colleges, and universities, the military, but more importantly, mature U.S. citizens, succumbed to his injuries from the shooting.

 

“Get over it.”

That’s his true sentiment.

Like Life’s, a film in the early 2000s with actress Kirsten Dunst.

Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/kaitlinstevens/20-reasons-why-get-over-it-is-the-best-2000s-teen-film-no

 

If he prevails, “thoughts and prayers” will become a verbal relic.

This country hasn’t had one thought or uttered one prayer since Sandy Hook!

So long as republican politicians are in the gun industry’s pocket.

Speaking of which:

Wayne LaPierre quit after decades of mismanagement,

Because Letitia James’s fraud charges against the NRA were too much heat!

The same gun nut that missed every target on a hunting trip!

The same con artist that expensed for himself from the NRA $7,000 designer suits and tried to purchase a mansion in West Lake, Texas, from member donations!

The same charlatan who has run the con of elevating The Second Amendment to scripture status since the 1970s!

 

“Get over it!”

Because, in this tragicomedy, “he who shall not be named” is the clown face of Oligarchy.

 

“Get over it!”

Because this “American Carnage” isn’t touching their exclusive Cul de Sacs!

 

“Get over it!”

That's because the stock ticker for “Smith and Wesson” goes up before the toe tags!

 

“Get over it!”

Because they lifted the prohibition against the mentally disabled owning firearms in 2017 to terrorize American citizens!

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/president-trump-made-it-easier-mentally-ill-get-guns-when-n1039301

 

“Get over it!”

Because divisions between seemingly disparate groups are how the oligarchy maintains power and influence!

 

Because,

African Americans contesting with Hispanics,

Aligning Native Americans with savagery,

Asian/Pacific Islanders challenging Affirmative Action in college admissions,

Muslims against Jewish citizens,

Rural America contesting Urban Dwellers,

Everyone contesting the LGBTQIA community,

 

Plays into the hands of oligarchy,

Because if we’re strapping for crumbs at the Lazarus table of an unjust system,

NO ONE is working on dismantling it!

 

Some of us so are gaslit to be upset that in 2045,

So-called “white” people will be 49.7% of the population.

You’re missing the point that the oligarchy wants you to miss:

If you partnered:

African Americans with Hispanics,

Asian/Pacific Islanders with Native Americans,

Muslim Americans with Jewish Americans,

Rural Americans with Urban Americans,

The LGBTQIA with EVERYBODY,

 

The fraction becomes this:

All of us: 99%. Oligarchy: 1%.

 

“We the people” could get sane gun control legislation,

“We, the people,” could get a free college education,

“We the people” could get environmental regulations that mitigate climate change impacts on cities and rural communities,

“We the people” can return bodily autonomy to women, [the voting majority] of this country,

“We the people” can remove lead pipes from rural and urban communities,

“We the people” could decrease income inequality that exacerbates criminality, climate, and societal instability.

 

Because the fraction that terrifies sociopaths:

All of us: 99%. Oligarchy: 1%.

That’s why “Occupy Wall Street” had to be crushed!

 

Know this:

There is no equivalent functionality for a billionaire/oligarch/grand poobah/potentate/sheik in nature.

 

They aren’t “stable geniuses”. They are Ketamine-addicted, coke-snorting grand theft artists!

 

That fact is what they don’t want you to get.

And “we, the people,” on November 5, 2024, will NOT “get over it!”