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Thursday, October 10, 2024

Treason...

Benedict Arnold - Biography and image on Britannica 


© October 9, 2024, the Griot Poet 

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”

John Kenneth Galbraith

 

Giving COVID tests to Putin when no other Americans had them?[1]

No vaccines and thousands per day were dying?

Our options were the horse wormers hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin?

Our options were shining lights up our rectums and drinking bleach?

That’s beyond special: It’s sadistic.

How many examples do you need to compare competence and insanity?

 

The GRU, Russian intelligence, is flooding your social media feed with bullshit.

Just like they did in 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022.

You’re confused about what sources of information to trust: that’s the goal of it.

 

So-called “strongmen” are malignant narcissists.

They hide behind football field-length desks and take shits in golden toilets because they want to be worshipped as deities.

Satire, poetry, comedy, etc. is supposed to ridicule power.

For the “strongmen,” that is violence to their feeble egos pretending to be bigger than their fears.

Because of how they feel, they respond with actual violence.

 

By poisoning former agents in foreign countries.

Or, by gunning down opponents in red square or throwing them out of building windows.

By ignoring the death toll of a pandemic.

By tying assisting states with ventilators on which ones voted for him.

Or by pointing a mob at the Capitol to murder his Vice President.

Or by terminating The Constitution as soon as it’s inconvenient.

 

Treason (noun): betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government.

 

Like on January the Sixth.

By the way:

Private citizens doing diplomacy is a violation of the Logan Act.[2]

Yo, Christopher Wray and Merrick Garland!

He’s stacking more crimes than he’s stacking Benjamin’s!

 

4,500 FBI tips, the previous administration said to “not find any corroborating evidence” of Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulting Dr. Christine Blasey Ford.[3]

Which put “I like beer” Brett on the Supreme Court,

Overthrowing 50 years of precedent,

And bodily autonomy for every single woman.

Remember, remember the 5th of Roevember.

Because he wants poor women to die in childbirth,

And brute-forcing rich white women to goose the number of white babies to stave off the demographic time bomb set after the 1676 Bacon’s Rebellion.[4]

 

“Benedict Arnold’s” indebtedness led him to betray his nation in an act of treason.[5]

The Bard said in The Tempest, “Past is prologue.

Reversing this Manchurian Candidate’s name is an action verb: “Trump Donald!”

This is what every cognizant citizen has to do with their votes this election.

 

Eugenics = great replacement theory.

Which was a philosophy of racist South Afrikaners.

Famous billionaire South Africans who “fled” as children:

PayPal founder, Peter Theil,

David Sacks, anti-Ukraine troll and fundraiser for the orange fascist,

And Elon Musk.

All left Apartheid South Africa after Nelson Mandela’s inauguration.

Which probably means they were okay with his 27-year incarceration.

 

Who joked with Tucker Carlson about the sitting president and vice president hasn’t been in an assassination attempt, because “why bother?”

I guess to the destroyer of the platform formerly known as Twitter, they’re not “important” enough.

Who leaped like a jelly-belly fanboy in Pennsylvania.

(Probably the ketamine kicking in on all cylinders)

The only reason “X” is his social media site’s symbol is because the swastika was already taken!

 

In case you were longing for “the party of Reagan,”

“The Gipper” gave us “young bucks,” “welfare queens” and “African monkeys” as racist tropes.

Bishop Desmond Tutu called Reagan’s policies towards his country “immoral, evil, and [totally] un-Christian.”

 

What conservatives call “freedom” is deregulation that benefits their rich donors.

It rips away bodily autonomy from women.

It means defining marriage as between one white man and one white woman (exception: their side-chicks).

Everyone else is serfs in this neo-confederate republic where the only votes counted are cast by “rich, propertied white men.”

 

It’s why they went from a B-Movie actor to a has-been reality show business grifter,

After six bankruptcies, THREE from casinos!

The original idea was to have rotating billionaires: no one else wanted to do it.

Mark Burnett gave a platform to a malignant narcissist.


In the SNL skit, “Hillary, Actually,” the actress, Kate McKinnon, gave a prophecy on cue cards in 2016: “But keep in mind, if Donald Trump becomes president, he will kill us all.”

After Leopold’s 10 million and Hitler’s 6 million murders, Mr. Fix It proudly declares “Hold my beer!”

His followers are a lethal combination of sociopathy, stupidity, bigotry, evil, and a chaser of willful ignorance.

 

Biggie Smalls said: “If you don’t know, now, you know!”

His cult says, “We don’t know, and we don’t want to know!”

 

His cult ignores his crimes as he openly admits to them.

All conmen despise their marks for being stupid enough to believe them!

By lying about FEMA in North Carolina and Florida, he’s jeopardizing areas that would vote for him!

 

“Owning the libs” might be our species’ epitaph.

“Dictators for a day” tend to extend their tenures to infinity and their progeny.

“The Handmaid’s Tale” is utopia for morons!

Vote against this treasonous being.

Vote and save the human species.

I end this piece with the same quote I began with:

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”


[1] Kremlin Confirms Trump Sent Putin COVID-19 Tests While President, TIME

[2] The Logan Act, 18 U.S. Code § 953.

[3] Trump White House curtailed FBI's Kavanaugh probe, report finds, Avery Lotz, Axios

[4] Inventing Black and White, Facing History and Ourselves

[5] Benedict Arnold: A Name Synonymous With Treason, source: Intel.gov.

Friday, July 26, 2024

One More Thing...

Image Source: Wikipedia

© July 25, 2024, the Griot Poet 

 

“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language, and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly, so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be **one more thing**."

Toni Morrison

 

“DEI hire” and “colored” are both their “one more thing.” Don’t get distracted.

They’re trying to get you mad, so you’ll be defensive.

They based their efforts on pointing out the age of their previous democratic opponent.

They now have the distinction of having the oldest candidate in history,

Who also happens to be a 34-count convicted felon.

Who also has an election interference, insurrection at the Capitol, and an espionage case (once it’s reinstated) pending.

 

When you must urge your House members to stop using racist language, it’s probably because (Occam’s razor) they’re racists.

DEI, for them, is the N-word.

DEI means diversity, equity, and inclusion.

“Diversity isn’t their issue.

They don’t have a problem with tokens.

Their issue is with the last two words of the acronym.

Adding “accessibility” brings out their closet eugenics.

Their convicted felon candidate told his brother’s son that he should let his grandnephew DIE rather than financially help him,

After all, he must focus on grifting off his cult to afford the court cases I mentioned.

 

It’s a distraction. That’s why they’re doing it.

Seeing the Crypt Keeper, Stephen Miller, freaking out on Fox Propaganda is worth it.

For a Masters graduate from Duke University, he’s obtuse.

It’s sad that their only election strategy is to scare white people and “own the libs!”

 

But don’t get distracted!

They’re focused on Project 2025.

We’re about a week or a month out from their removing all doubt and calling our candidate both the N and B-words.

Ignore it!

Put your head down and work on through November 5, 2024.

 

Don’t get extracted!

Project 2025 is what they’re after.

This is a dark political synthesis of a shell game, whack-a-mole, and WHATABOUTISM.

They’re focused on what they’re doing.

If whites are going to be the next minorities, they’re planning to be the minorities who rule.

Project 2025 is the blueprint.

 

Don’t get distracted!

“But we’ve never had a black president.”

Problem solved. Next!

“But we’ve never had a woman president.”

We would have it if not for the Electoral College.

“She’s a DEI hire!”

We know that’s your latest “let’s go, Brandon.” We’re ignoring it. We have to work.

“She slept her way to the top!”

Your convicted felon:

Sexually assaulted E Jean Carroll and myriad others.

He raped his first wife and had an affair [against] her with the second.

He had an affair on his second wife with the third,

Then he had an affair on the third with a porn star,

As she was nursing their infant son, his FIFTH child by three women,

And paid the porn star $130,000 for sex he said didn’t happen!

“She’s antisemitic!”

Her husband’s Jewish!

“She’s anti-Catholic!”

Eh: Joe Biden?

“The lonely cat lady used to be a man!”

Your “lonely cat ladies” are Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott!


A political earthquake happened on November 4, 2008,

When we elected the first black president.

Until then, their gaslighting assured a hegemony of forty-three white male presidents from George Washington to George W. Bush!

 

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”

Paraphrasing the pig in George Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” white men have been more equal than others![1]

 

New definition:

DEI = Delusion, Entitled, Idiocracy (hat tip: Charlemagne, the god).

Delusion, because your desperation led you from The Constitution to a deranged demagogue and convicted felon.

Entitled, like Brett Kavanaugh crying under his confirmation, cross-examination by soon-to-be President Kamala Harris!

Idiocracy, that didn’t take 500 years to come to fruition,

It won’t be a comedy starring Maya Rudolph and Owen Wilson.

Project 2025 will END the American experiment.

 

We are an essential nation that is consequential to the health and survival of the planet.

Remember what our ancestor, Tom Morrison, said:

“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being.”

 

Call for candidates.

Phone back.

Pass out flyers.

Post signs.

Check your voter registration.

 

“One more thing”:

Your “black job,” your white job, your Asian-Pacific Islander job, your Hispanic/Latino job, your LGBTQIA job, your naturalized citizen job, and your men’s and women’s work are to VOTE!

Vote down the ballot.

Vote for your Congressional Representatives and hold them accountable.

Vote for your Senators to represent your interests.

Vote for children and common sense gun laws.

Vote for women’s bodily autonomy.

Vote for the future and democracy.

Vote for the planet and the human species.

Vote for freedom and “the soul of America.”

Vote against tyranny and fascism!

White male patriarchy is terrified of losing power.

 

“One more thing”:

“We’re not going back!”

Not to the back of the bus, back in the closet, back in the fields, and back in the kitchens.

We’re ALL American citizens who know our power and who’ve had our taste of freedom.

 

“Do your work!”

We’ll rest later.

We’ll sleep better on November 5, 2024, when we all become their worst nightmare!

“We, The People,” have the power!

This is our finest hour!



[1] “All animals are equal, but some [animals] are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

 

Sunday, June 30, 2024

A Clockwork Orange...

 

Source: Meta Meme

Link: Wikipedia/A Clockwork Orange (film)

© June 23, 2024, the Griot Poet

 

The “Kubrick Stare,”

Became so iconic that the director’s name is attached to it.

It is a method of shot composition,

Where the main character stares into the shot, his head at a forward tilt,

A subtle technique to show the viewer that the character is at peak derangement.

 

Now, look at the mugshot from Georgia.

The “Kubrick Stare” has been co-opted.

The cult made T-shirts out of it.

And coffee mugs,

And koozies’,

Don’t forget the golden, graven image.

 

Word of the day: trumpery.

The Middle English means “to deceive,” “deceit or fraud,” and “worthless nonsense.

Today, it is equated with “treasonous shit weasel.”

You must love how detailed the English use of curse words is!

His family should have stayed with their German translation.

 

He pumped birtherism.

Question: What the HELL is a “black job?”

Does it count if you have a PhD in Nanoengineering?

 

He pushed conspiracy theories and flirted with QANON.

Then, he latched onto white Christian nationalism.

He has no redeeming qualities, personal philosophies, or core values, NONE, other than “winning.”

He’s demonstrated that he will go to any lengths to achieve it.

 

What’s my evidence for this?

After the January 6 insurrection, when he left office,

CIA assets and agents started “disappearing.”

A gentler version for "killed in action."

Black stars on an anonymous wall in Langley for remembrance.

Russian intelligence assets were probably visiting his bathrooms in Mar-a-Lago.

All the FSB agents needed were smartphones.

He’s a 34-count convicted felon.


A federal judge who was previously a correspondent for Miami flamingo dancing and yoga instruction is holding up the Florida espionage case.

Whose husband, Josh Lawrence, is a mob lawyer for John Rossatti,

A New York mobster and friends with you know who!

Maybe it’s me: I think there might be a problem with that.

 

Forgot about the debate.

It’s been a superfluous spectacle for six decades.

John Kerry beat “W” in every contest,

Four years later, we were in a financial crisis.

Hillary mopped the floor with the orange shit stain!

Four years later, we were IN the pandemic!

Can you see why I DISDAIN corporate media debates?

They’re all show, no substance, no policy discussion.

 

We’re not in a reality television script, but we’re being forced through one with very low ratings.

Fun fact: “MAGA” means “witch” in Latin.

Every time he yelled "witch hunt," it was a confession or a Freudian slip!

We’re not voting for “Uncle Joe” because we love him!

We’re voting because democracy is on the ballot!

 

Snapshot: A 15-year-old blogger was arrested for criticizing the Putin government on Telegram,

And sent to the Gulag as punishment.

He’ll be in his twenties before he sees daylight again.

If he survives it.

“I’d rather be Russian than a Democrat!” The T-shirt said.

Do me a favor, Key-Mo-Sa-Bee: emigrate!

(We’ll do a GoFundMe and HELP you pack!)

 

Think about your neighbors’ houses boarded up because they’re being “disappeared” for online displeasing a petulant potentate!

Think about the Palestinians, where Netanyahu’s “final solution” resembles the one Hitler had for his ancestors!

Think about Obergefell vs. Hodges[1] snatched away like Roe vs. Wade was (they’re coming for contraception and IVF next)!

Think about people of color giving up their seats again on public transportation.

Think about women, regardless of sexual orientation, becoming broodmares for the state!

 

The goal of the Russian government is to dismantle the liberal democratic order,

That’s been in place since the Japanese surrender.

Which is why they’re sticking their noses in every democratic election on the planet.

Before this 15-year-old kid, Putin jailed Pussy Riot!

 

Democracies fall into autocracies in a fortnight in the blink of an eye.

“America wasn’t Gilead until it was, and then it was too fucking late.” June, season four finale of “The Handmaid’s Tale,”

A Hulu series based on Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel first premiered in 2017.

The first year of his fascist regime.

We’ve been in this one-man “tribulation” for seven years.

 

Sinclair Lewis’s “It Can’t Happen Here”[2] was a warning:

Vote for democracy, not autocracy.

Vote for democracy, not enslavement.

Vote for democracy, not third-party spoilers.

Vote for democracy, which means now, Joe Biden.

Stuttering, shuffling, lost at times, but smart and humble enough to surround himself with competent leadership.

His Vice President is smart enough to replace him - and you don't have to like her either!

We might have been in this same place with Bernie Sanders.

Hold your nose and pull the lever.

Or we’ll all be trapped in the hideous world of “A Clockwork Orange,” with no real hope of escaping!

 

Carl Sagan said: “Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”

We must decide to survive.

I know. I'm tired, too.

But psychopaths don't take holidays.

And piles of ashes have no hierarchies.

I prefer conquering inequality by NOT dying.

BE the exception: VOTE.

Sunday, May 26, 2024

Cult...


 

© May 3, 2024, the Griot Poet

Source: https://www.rawstory.com/rs-exclusive/trump-cult-wearing-diapers/

 

When asked how fascism starts, philosopher Bertrand Russell said:

“First, they fascinate the fools. Then, they muzzle the intelligent.”

 

They never use facts and reality to justify their opinions; they use conspiracy theories to justify their “alternative facts!”

 

Because just wearing the red hats wasn't enough to convince the rest of us that they live in Arkham Asylum for the Criminality Insane.

 

They went from “I’d rather be red than Democrat,” pushing fealty to fascist Russia,

To now wearing Adult Depends in public ON purpose!

(We can all be thankful that they haven’t, like January 6, thought to fill them - yet!)

 

To recap:

They went from [rather being] Russian to championing incontinence!

Open rebellion and insurrection are now the hallmarks of “patriotism?”

 

Because the patriarchy astroturfing them is losing its gaslighting grip on society and shaping reality.

American oligarchs are panicking because they may have to pay the taxes they’ve been stealing and share resources!

 

The Dow Jones average crossed 40,000,

Unemployment hasn’t been this low since the early 1970s,

But that’s a complete disaster for oligarchy,

Because without high unemployment rates, starvation, inflation, poverty, and anarchy,

The self-proclaimed “masters of the universe” aren’t in control of ANYTHING.

 

The right attacks education for the same reason Frederick Douglass’s former enslaver said his learning to read “ruined him!”

 

But don’t call them a cult.

They get genuinely offended when you say that.

 

They use racist epithets, berating Asians,

Thinking that they did a mic drop on TikTok.

(They haven’t caught up to the irony of that yet.)

 

At Ol Miss, they make chimpanzee sounds in counterprotest to Palestinian students.

But don’t call them racists, and don’t call them a cult.

Fascists have feelings too, you know.

 

They are the shock troopers of wealthy marionettes,

Who manipulated their forefathers with pamphlets,

Gaslighting southern men to go off and fight for plantation oligarchs to own the enslaved labor of kidnapped Africans,

On land stolen by their fathers from Native Americans,

None of the poor fools would have the money to own real estate or humans.

Neither they nor the formerly enslaved would receive reparations.

Plantation oligarchs, however, did!

“Shell shock” and missing limbs were their only wages.

And, as a “booby prize”: the battle flag of Robert E. Lee’s North Virginia Regiment,

They continually misidentify as representing the ENTIRE Confederacy!

Read a book on actual history.

Now, their largesse lives on in the libertarian refrains: “state’s rights” (to own the enslaved), tax cuts, and my favorite: “family values” that they have never displayed.

 

“First, they fascinate the fools. Then, they muzzle the intelligent.”

He said he could “shoot someone on Fifth Avenue” and get away with it.

He said he “loves the poorly educated.”

 

Daily Kos said, “Nothing says ‘presidential ambitions’ like hush money schemes and secret recordings.”

 

They made a graven, golden, sandaled image of him in Florida,

Some kneeling to worship it,

But,

Please don’t make the Adult Depends-wearing people upset by calling them what they obviously are:

A cult. And a heavily armed one at that!

 

Jacob: etymology, Hebrew, “supplanter,” which is often interpreted as someone who seizes, circumvents, or usurps. 

The “Sons of Jacob” in “The Handmaid’s Tale”

Slaughtered their fictional versions of the Congress and the Supreme Court,

(Looking at you, Sam Alito!)

Usurpers and supplanters,

Looking like rabid cultists,

Who had LOST in their fictional world “a free and fair election,”

But what would it matter if they could match arsenals with the police and the military?

But what would it matter if elements of the police and the military JOINED them?

“Under his eye” becomes a possibility.

 

Now,

The polls are all over the place.

The only thing that matters now is that we #VOTE and volunteer for local campaigns if you can.

Phone bank,

When going to doors, knock carefully,

Work at polling stations,

The only way the fascists will win is if they cow us by fear into submission.

The Koch brothers and other oligarchs are interested enough,

To fund astroturf candidates who will guarantee them forever tax cuts.

To send armed mobs into school board elections,

Just like their fathers did the mob to crack down on unions.

Shakespeare said: “What’s past is prologue.”

 

Because the original philosophy of “Plato’s Republic” was not ruled by a people’s plurality,

But rule by an aristocracy,

It was a stratified society consisting of the ruling class, which had gold; the merchant class, which had silver; and the rest, which had brass.

The gold hoarders empower themselves to tell the “Noble Lie,”

A national myth promulgated by an elite to “maintain social harmony,”

A term called “pseudos” by Socrates,

Because, as far as truth,

Jack Nicholson said in “A Few Good Men” that the people “can’t handle it.”

This gaslighted pandering was.

Raised to Olympic levels when the Washington Post tabulated over 30,000 ignoble lies BEFORE the pandemic!

 

I will continue to repeat:

We’re fighting for democracy because we haven’t achieved it yet.

We’re currently participants in our own gaslighting,

Which dumbed down civics to “social studies,”

And history to standardized testing!

 

“We The People” must fight for reproductive democracy,

“We The People” must fight for representative democracy.

“We The People” must vote in numbers so large that they cannot manipulate the outcomes,

Or tell us ignoble lies that won’t satiate,

A desire for fairness, justice, and equality,

Or, we will have remote-control fascism by American oligarchs like Harland Crow.

 

And cult shock troopers swaddled in Adult Depends, whose only wage and solace is,

They are making us miserable in the process.

 

Made popular by the ADP or the Adult Depends Posse!

It will be the equivalent of them outfitting their gas-guzzling trucks with smokestacks to “own the libs,”

These “stable geniuses” never realized they were on the same planet!

It will be the equivalent of them shooting themselves in the foot, looking at our horrified faces, and laughing!

I, for one, am voting to prevent this dystopian nightmare from happening.

Merrick Garland: Use the Insurrection Act to put these psychopaths in prison!

I end this piece by encouraging you to VOTE!

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Four Questions Plus One...

 

Hundreds of UT Austin students and faculty gather on campus for pro-Palestine protest, Ren Leija, Senior News Reporter, The Daily Texan, April 24, 2024

© April 25, 2024, the Griot Poet 

 

Opinion: A new set of ‘Four Questions’ for anti-Israel protesters

by Congressman Steve Israel as reported by The Hill: https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4619331-a-new-set-of-four-questions-for-anti-israel-protestors/

(Summarized for brevity)

“Question 1: On Oct. 7, the terrorist group Hamas slaughtered young Israelis at a music festival as well as other civilians in surrounding communities. They murdered, stabbed, shot, raped, beheaded, burned. They forced children to watch the butchering of parents. They cut off women’s breasts, killed the defenseless elderly, abducted, and continued to hold innocent civilians hostage. Did you protest that massacre in the days, weeks, months after Oct. 7. At least once? Did you fly flags, wave banners, and demand justice?

 

“Question 2: In the ongoing civil war in Sudan, at least 13,000 to 15,000 people have been killed and 33,000 others injured. Over 6.5 million are internally displaced and more than 2 million others have fled the country as refugees. Here too, innocents have been beaten, burned, raped, tortured, murdered. Meanwhile, according to the human rights group Oxfam, Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine has killed more than 10,500 civilians, including 587 children, “as constant bombardments, mines, and drone attacks have left a generation traumatized, displaced, and fearful for their lives.” Have you protested the grotesque and persistent war crimes in Sudan or Ukraine? If not, why not? Why do civilians in Sudan or Sevastopol seem less important to you than in Gaza?

 

“Question 3: In Gaza, Hamas violated international law with a heinous military doctrine that forced its own innocent civilians to become Israeli military targets. It embedded weapons systems in hospitals, schools, and residential apartments. (Many foretold the strategy on day one: Hamas massacres Israelis, Israel responds by targeting Hamas weapons in civilian infrastructure, casualties skyrocket, the world turns on Israel, and the university protests ignite). Have you protested Hamas’s illegal tactics of deliberately putting innocents in harm’s way? Have you demanded boycotts, divestment, and sanctions for nations that fund, enable, and empower Hamas’s crimes against humanity?

 

“Question 4: You chant: “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free.” In fact, the Hamas charter continues to insist that the geographic borders of Palestine extend “from the River Jordan in the east to the Mediterranean in the west and the north to the south,” i.e., the entirety of Israel, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank. And while I’m asking — why is it that while I support a two-state solution in which Jews and Palestinians live with full rights, your chant seems to support the purging of one?

If not, why not? Why do you protest only Israel?

“Two-state solution is the only resolution.” Chant THAT!

 

My plus one:

Have you read “Perceptions of Palestine” by Kathleen Christison?

Who asked this insightful question: “If a broader frame of reference on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict had been employed, allowing a less warped public discourse, might not years of warfare have been avoided and steps toward peace achieved much earlier?”

Or did you read a post on the Internet and join a “flash mob” in response?

Or anything else other than your own curated news feeds?

 

This piece is not for getting me snaps.

It’s about encapsulating for you digestible facts.

 

Anger is a powerful emotion.

The adrenaline rush can be overwhelming.

Some researchers have suggested that it may [even] be an addiction.

Source: https://psychcentral.com/lib/is-anger-an-addiction

 

News outlets no longer have the independence of getting all the advertising dollars.

Investigative journalists are rare and have given way to valuing access.

Probing the powerful too much will get them dismissed.

Thus, the genesis of “softball” questioning.

The daily newspapers have been reduced to magazines.

The Yellow Pages can be ripped apart by prepubescent teens.

So, the only card the “fourth estate” must play is from the prescient movie “Network”:

“I’m mad as HELL, and I won’t take it anymore!”

 

They do it on your news feeds and your favorite network news channels,

Bonus Read:

“Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business,” by Dr. Neil Postman.

Your anger is managed and part of the programming.

Thus, we have the “warring factions” George Washington warned us about in his farewell address.

 

Nuance (noun): a slight difference in sound, feeling, meaning, or appearance. It's often used to describe the more delicate aspects of something, especially in language, writing, or interpretation.

 

I understand your passion.

You’re the generation that has had to endure the sadistic spectacle of endless school shootings.

You’ve had to endure endless RUN-HIDE-FIGHT drills and ZERO gun control legislation.

You had to endure “Zoom fatigue,” which wasn’t a THING before the pandemic.

By design, you’re strapped with debt before you graduate college, and people wonder why you’re not starting families or buying houses.

You’re watching a warning Earth, and it’s a coin flip between political parties on whether we’ll survive it.

 

But, as someone old enough to remember Kent State and A&T,

Seeing what is happening from Columbia, Emory, and UT,

Like many college campuses in the 1960s,

Protesting the Vietnam War vigorously,

The Civil Rights Movement, Star Trek, a Man on the Moon, and the “Dawn of the Age of Aquarius” were pregnant with possibilities.

 

Unfortunately,

It led to the election of Richard Milhous Nixon on a “law and order” ticket.

He did some GOOD things:

The EPA,

Enforcement of anti-discrimination laws against the father and son New York real estate developers refusing to rent to black residents (the son, astonishingly obtuse, would become president),

And he appointed one of the seven republican justices who voted FOR Roe vs. Wade in 1973.

 

Then:

He proceeded to break almost every law that then existed.

It led to the deaths of over 50,000 Americans and millions of Vietnamese citizens.

It led to the prolonged injuries and deaths of troops exposed to “Agent Orange.”

It led to the Watergate scandal and our current mistrust of government institutions.

It led to mostly black, white, Jewish, and Hispanic GIs coming home to be spat upon and called “baby killers.”

 

Because it’s easy to get behind any Pied Piper with a bullhorn or a podcast.

“TikTok” was never a part of the First Amendment,

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act needs to be amended.

So that Mark Zuckerberg and other tech moguls can stop wasting our time, “apologizing” and doing nothing.

Flash mobs don’t require much attention,

Or thinking about the consequences,

Adrenaline, like any drug, is a hell of a fix.

 

It’s not easy, I realize, to consider the nuances of a situation.

Your satisfaction with pimp slapping “the system” might lead you to the election of a narcissistic psychopath bent on “retribution” who will have the nuclear codes.

He tried to nuke a hurricane, oblivious to the consequences.

His solution to fires due to climate change was to “rake the forests.”

He told us to inject bleach,

Shine lights up our rectums,

And ingest the horse dewormers Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin.

He killed over a million citizens during a pandemic.

He’s bent on retribution and imprisoning anyone who goes against him.

 

“Are you better off now than you were four years ago?”

Hell yeah, pilgrim!

 

“Two-state solution is the only resolution.”

Or the sixth mass extinction WILL be the “final solution!”

 

This election isn’t about Democrats vs Republicans.

This election is about whether we’ll ever have another one.

This election is about whether women are citizens or state-owned broodmare cattle.

This election is about if the government goes “1984” and invades our bedrooms.

This election is about Democracy vs Fascism.

This election is about empathy vs cruelty.

This election is about survival vs extinction.

 

There is “world peace” on Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto (maybe a planet) because there are no HUMANS on them!

As Earth once was, “peaceful” without us.

And,

After Armageddon, any argument you tried to make about the “lesser of two evils” will be [horribly] irrelevant.

There will be no Palestinians, Israelis, or humans left to lament.