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Divad123's JournalPhysician heal thyself
I wonder is Trump will try any of the 'cures' that he suggested the rest of America try?Maybe a bleach drip? I particularly want a picture of a UV lightbulb us his ass!
Anti taxers are hypocrites and parasites
Anti taxers are hypocrites and parasites. Whenever someone says, “Just what part of my hard-earned money belongs to you”, and argues against taxes, they are conveniently forgetting that the services provided by government are there to keep society going and are the price we pay to live in a civilized society.
This is particularly repellent when an academic says this, and hypocritical too; unless they work at a private university that receives no government funding, their salary is payed for by the taxpayers, and according to them, if taxation is theft, they are receiving stolen goods.
Do they drive to work? They are using roads payed for by ‘stolen goods’. Do they use electricity in their homes? Again, they are using something paid for with ‘stolen goods’.
The list goes on and on. If they want to be morally consistent, they should not use anything payed for with tax dollars.
Who benefits most from anti-tax arguments? It’s the 1% who have lawyers busy finding every tax loop hole, the ones who set up think tanks and lobbying firms to cut their taxes and in the case of the ‘tea party’, create a political movement of working class dupes pushing for policies that benefit the super wealthy and actually make life for the working class worse.
This is obvious to anyone who’s been paying attention, but I felt that this needed to be laid out explicitly in a time when most folks are focusing on other things. Peace.
We are the storm
So “We are the storm” is the slogan for Texas, and also for Qanon. In typical fashion, instead of changing it to something that doesn’t give recognition to crazies (and secure their votes), they deny that that is what they were doing, and double down and turn it into an expression of religious freedom.
After all their so called ‘principles’ have been shown to be lies, all they have left is religion, and so the political strategies of the right are now instantly translated into religious principles.
Now you’re not criticizing their strategy, your criticizing their religion, and they (and every televangelist) can scream ‘religious persecution’.
It plays well in Ohio.
So it goes.
pollitics to religion
So “We are the storm” is the slogan for Texas, and also for Qanon. In typical fashion, instead of changing it to something that doesn’t give cover to crazies, they double down and turn it into an expression of religious freedom.
After all their so called ‘principles’ have been shown to be lies, all they have left is religion, and so the political strategies of the right are now instantly translated into religious principles. So it goes.
Hope I'm wrong
Last night on Fox some of the talking heads were talking about ‘cancel culture’ and one of them spouted, “when you don’t let people speak, that leads to violence.”
Besides using part of a Bill Maher episode out of context, (journalistic standards, what journalistic standards?!), the trained seal speaking gave a clear and not too subtle direction to some of their audience—if you can’t be heard, get violent.
I’ve been expecting to see something like this—the repubs have done everything to get and keep the white militia vote, and like true republicans, your going to see and hear more of the talking heads raise violence, with a wink and a smiling nod, as a way of influencing the November election. It will be framed as a ‘sad but inevitable--a NATURAL RESPONSE--to the ‘evil democrats’ who want to destroy America.’
Fox will transition from encouraging fascism as the ideal moral form of government for America to directly advocating armed revolt by ‘all right-thinking peoples’ with democrat candidates in the cross hairs. But first they will probably target their most articulate critics.
Trump WILL go in November, but the ‘blood and soil’ crowd will NOT go quietly, and some of them are retired military.
Here’s to hoping I’m wrong. Stay tuned.
Successful psychopaths
Successful psychopaths are attracted to the republican party for the same reason pedophiles are attracted to the catholic priesthood; it gives them ‘cover’.
There are at least a hundred right wing ‘think tanks’ out there fine-tuning carefully crafted lies phrased in the language of high sounding ‘principles’ whose aim is to harden and increase the biases of average American in such a way as to get them to vote for candidates that will enforce a vicious status quo.
They play to the strength of hatred and intolerance and hide it in the language of high-sounding principles.
Their strength is based on carefully managed bigotry, sold to them as a virtue.
They feel good about themselves and smarter when given an ideology that tells them that their bigotry is a virtue.
They sell a return to a golden age of the 50’s, that is, a pre-civil rights America. To bring this about, right wing radio shows have for decades stoked the fires of bigotry. Is it any wonder that folks who listen to their message eventually act on it?
Realizing that they have ‘jumped the shark’, they are pulling back and trying to regain credibility for their core ideology. But there in lies the problem; their core ideology is the fountain head of all things foul that they have fostered on the American public.
All they have to do is kill hope
What the republicans have to kill is hope.
Now we see the other side of republicans.
Suddenly they have become conscientious nuanced legislators.
Instead of regurgitating fox news talking points and conspiracy theories with outrageous indignation, suddenly they have become conscientious nuanced legislators.
Rand Paul
His actions put the lie to his words.
What a difference a plague makes.
"It would speak volumes for the racial pain and the hurt of generations," Booker said
It would create a symbol of hope, and the republicans know that a symbol of hope is one that they cannot allow to happen.
"I seek to amend this legislation not because I take lynching lightly, but because I take it seriously, and this legislation does not," Paul said, arguing that "this bill would cheapen the meaning of lynching by defining it so broadly as to include a minor bruise or abrasion. Our nation's history of racial terrorism demands more seriousness from us than that
Because He takes it more seriously than the democrats and the black lives matter protestors, he must stand in the way of anything being done.
Well, he does. The antilynching bill would create a symbol of hope, and the republicans know that the creation of a symbol of hope is one thing that they cannot allow to happen.
Symbols matter. To give a symbol of hope to a historically disenfranchised racial group with a racial cultural group memory of slavery is a direct threat to the conservative world view.
Social justice as a political force in a culture that survives by systemic injustice is….
Removing confederate flags is important, but if that is all that is done then republicans and their white supremist supporters can say, “mission accomplished”—they will have done the bare minimum to placate the calls for social justice without making any meaningful systemic change.
“mission accomplished”
Paul said in a statement that he aims to add an amendment to the legislation that would create a "serious bodily injury standard" so that only crimes involving "substantial risk of death and extreme physical pain" are prosecuted as lynching.
Their privilege is dependent on maintaining an unjust system whose laws and institutions favor historic economic elites—the first ones to sit down at the monopoly game. The last thing they can allow is the enfranchisement of a racial group with a cultural memory of slavery who demand a truly level playing field.
Re-posted from somewhere
education
This is kind of obvious, but one way to get more qualified teachers,(once money for better schools is available), is to give tax breaks to individuals choosing education as a career. How about legislation that teachers pay no federal and state taxes for 15 years as long as they are working as a teacher?
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