OK, lemme see if I have this straight. …
A fascist “leadership” that has installed felons, eejits, bullies, tools, and fools in positions of authority, unleashed a small army of masked, murderous thugs on the population, opened and filled gulags, started a needless, ill-considered, economy-strangling war it can’t seem to conclude, raised the cost of everything save labor while hoovering up gazillions for itself, its enablers, underwriters, and collaborators, insulted and/or shaken down nearly every international partner it has, revived dormant diseases, and constructed a convoluted, comical, rub-and-tug cult of personality, is suddenly clutching its stolen pearls and squealing about the perils of … communism?
Gloriosky, tovarisch! The capitalists have reached the bottom of their red-white-and-blue bag of tricks!*
You never saw Karl Marx tweeting shit like, “From each according to his ability, to … me.” But then this is the same crowd that was screeching about “tyranny” because a half-Black centrist was in the White House, mostly not fucking it up.
As we know, FreeDumb® is the most expensive kind.
We’ve never come within a gnat’s whisker of communism, not even when the Party was in its heyday. Neither has anyone else. That derned ol’ State just keeps refusing to wither away.
But we’ve gotten a pretty good look at actual tyranny. So, excuse the hell out of me for proclaiming myself a proud Groucho Marxist.
*Made in China.
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Don’t forget occupying DC with 5000 armed soldiers for months, a first. Or, how about the first multi-year appropriation ever passed for ICE that funds them until 2028. First attempted insurrection. First federal executive interference in an election. First felon president. First president to make over $400,000 a year hawking merch out of the oval office. First first family to bilk $60 million out of customers for a knock off Chinese phone they never delivered. First president to bilk supporters out of billions of bucks for worthless meme coins, and claim $643 million in fees in one year. First to pardon people for assaulting cops. I’m tired of all the firsts.
I wanted to keep the post under 10,000 words. Haw!
The Berlin Wall came down because all of those East Germans were smoking ditch weed cigarettes and driving two-and-a-half cylinder Trabants, but they could get their hands on Western media enough to know there was a better world out there.
Communism has its own problems that will never let it come close to full implementation. But Communism has never been our real enemy. It has always been the fascists dressed up like commies that had us looking under the bed in the middle of the night.
But Red-baiting and commie hippy yippie bashing has worked before, and no reason to think it won’t work again. Steve Jobs was talking about media when he said, there is no conspiracy, no bastards to shoot, because they are just serving up what we really want. But he could have been talking about politics just as easily. We all want to be fooled, want a story that makes the other side look bad, no matter how unbelievable it is.
How do we get folks to realize that going back to watching Sid Caesar on the Sylvania also comes with a Hudson River that can catch on fire, DDT in our groceries, white and black drinking fountains, and Triangle Factory fires on the regular?
I dunno if there’s any going back. The national attention span barely extends from A to B these days.
They yell “Boo!” We yell “Eek!” Rinse and repeat.
Tell you what: I’ve gotten pretty quick at thumbing “Delete” and “Report Junk” on the ol’ iPhone. But it’s not doing shit for my arthuritis.
Here in the Mitten State our perspective has changed in the last 48 hours. You cannot see across my property as wildfire smoke has decended to a Code Red level. I mean it’s really bad. Yet, I drove forth in a sealed vehicle and saw many cretins walking dogs, mowing lawns and many a work crew on street paving projects. And not ONE wearing a mask. I can literally wipe particulate matter off my front deck and consider what that would do to one’s lungs over an 8 hour shift fixing potholes or roofing a house. Oh… and the “feel like” temp was 100 with actual at 90. Commies? Hell,we have indeed met the enemy and it is US! We can kill ourselves off just fine without any help from commies, anarchists or those infidels who come here trying for a better life. Yessir, we’ll just keep on sending nut jobs and grifters to Washington and finalize our own extermination thank you.
Here in the Mitten State our perspective has changed in the last 48 hours. You cannot see across my property as wildfire smoke has decended to a Code Red level. I mean it’s really bad. Yet, I drove forth in a sealed vehicle and saw many cretins walking dogs, mowing lawns and many a work crew on street paving projects. And not ONE wearing a mask. I can literally wipe particulate matter off my front deck and consider what that would do to one’s lungs over an 8 hour shift fixing potholes or roofing a house. Oh… and the “feel like” temp was 100 with actual at 90. Commies? Hell,we have indeed met the enemy and it is US! We can kill ourselves off just fine without any help from commies, anarchists or those infidels who come here trying for a better life. Yessir, we’ll just keep on sending nut jobs and grifters to Washington and finalize our own extermination thank you.
Here in the Mitten State our perspective has changed in the last 48 hours. You cannot see across my property as wildfire smoke has decended to a Code Red level. I mean it’s really bad. Yet, I drove forth in a sealed vehicle and saw many cretins walking dogs, mowing lawns and many a work crew on street paving projects. And not ONE wearing a mask. I can literally wipe particulate matter off my front deck and consider what that would do to one’s lungs over an 8 hour shift fixing potholes or roofing a house. Oh… and the “feel like” temp was 100 with actual at 90. Commies? Hell,we have indeed met the enemy and it is US! We can kill ourselves off just fine without any help from commies, anarchists or those infidels who come here trying for a better life. Yessir, we’ll just keep on sending nut jobs and grifters to Washington and finalize our own extermination thank you.
Here in the Mitten State our perspective has changed in the last 48 hours. You cannot see across my property as wildfire smoke has decended to a Code Red level. I mean it’s really bad. Yet, I drove forth in a sealed vehicle and saw many cretins walking dogs, mowing lawns and many a work crew on street paving projects. And not ONE wearing a mask. I can literally wipe particulate matter off my front deck and consider what that would do to one’s lungs over an 8 hour shift fixing potholes or roofing a house. Oh… and the “feel like” temp was 100 with actual at 90. Commies? Hell,we have indeed met the enemy and it is US! We can kill ourselves off just fine without any help from commies, anarchists or those infidels who come here trying for a better life. Yessir, we’ll just keep on sending nut jobs and grifters to Washington and finalize our own extermination thank you.
Here in the Mitten State our perspective has changed in the last 48 hours. You cannot see across my property as wildfire smoke has decended to a Code Red level. I mean it’s really bad. Yet, I drove forth in a sealed vehicle and saw many cretins walking dogs, mowing lawns and many a work crew on street paving projects. And not ONE wearing a mask. I can literally wipe particulate matter off my front deck and consider what that would do to one’s lungs over an 8 hour shift fixing potholes or roofing a house. Oh… and the “feel like” temp was 100 with actual at 90. Commies? Hell,we have indeed met the enemy and it is US! We can kill ourselves off just fine without any help from commies, anarchists or those infidels who come here trying for a better life. Yessir, we’ll just keep on sending nut jobs and grifters to Washington and finalize our own extermination thank you.
Damn, that’s a lot of Herbs! I saw that smoke alert in Detroit. Unhealthy is what.
Dear Herb, Herb, Herb & Herb. Oh, and the other Herb too. I hope you get some nice light cool winds soon to blow the smoke away. Perhaps up the biggest loser president’s cornhole. In the Pacific NW where I’m at, the winds have kicked up (15 to 20 mph) and the temp has dropped down into the 60’s. It’s very nice. A nice day to help my Mom off to another life.
May all you scoundrels enjoy a pleasant bike ride tomorrow.
Dear Herb, Herb, Herb & Herb. Oh, and the other Herb too. I hope you get some nice light cool winds soon to blow the smoke away. Perhaps up the biggest loser president’s cornhole. In the Pacific NW where I’m at, the winds have kicked up (15 to 20 mph) and the temp has dropped down into the 60’s. It’s very nice. A nice day to help my Mom off to another life.
May all you scoundrels enjoy a pleasant bike ride tomorrow.