"...It just might be a speech that'll show up in history books someday, depending on whether the votes Americans cast next Tuesday help preserve democracy or, like the January 6 insurrection, mark another stage in a slide into authoritarianism."
Didn't I cover this in my book? Look up the part where I talk about a memory hole.
Riiiiight, because the solution to creeping fascism is holding toothless Congressional committees, waving signs, drum circles, pink pussy hats, and wearing a color-coded ribbon.
Do it, Joe! DO IT! Biden Threatens Windfall Tax on Excessive Oil ProfitsClimate activists have wanted such a levy for years.https://www.motherjones.com...
President Joe Biden on Monday threatened to pursue new legislation that would tax the windfall profits made by fossil fuel companies this year if they don’t ramp up production to help bring down the historically-high energy costs being felt by everyday Americans.While Biden’s announcement primarily took aim at inflation, which polls suggest is the biggest issue threatening Democrats in the next week’s midterm elections, activists have long called on taxing the fossil fuel industry to help pay for efforts to address climate change, close environmental justice disparities and accelerate the clean energy transition.
In my life I can count on one hand the times I offered a contrary opinion to a RWNJ that did NOT elicit shouting, insults, threats (including death threats), name calling, deflection, disparagement, rhetorical malpractice, vehement emotional outburst and superhuman rudeness. To hear them say it you might think I had personally killed Lindbergh's baby or force fed Elvis his fatal dose of pills! But I only ever asked for tolerance for people and a share of the wealth for everyone living in the world's most prosperous nation state. Or else I looked at them "funny". It never takes much to set them off.
And I am tired of it. I don't do anything they like. So forget me trying to build a bridge to or reach out to people who clearly state they hate my guts and would love to see me dead.
Man, all I had to do was open the door before they knocked because I'd seen them walk past my front window one time and wear a black Maleficent t-shirt while holding my place in the Satanic Bible* the other. Your way sounds much more fun.
*interesting read, kinda trippy. I was reading it because my dad claimed to know LeVey when he was a circus barker looking for an easier scam and landing on religion. Never did find out how true that might have been...
About a week after I moved to Portland, some religious peddlers (I don't know whether they were Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, or what) knocked on the door at an hour which I deemed much too early and also when I did expect nor wish to receive visitors.Guy: *Knock knock*Me [mean cranky voice]: Yeah, what?Guy: Have you heard the good word of the Lord?Me [turning New Jersey accent up to eleven]: SHADDUP!! BEAT IT! GIDADDAHERE!!*confused shuffling of feet on other side of locked door**step step step step*
"...It just might be a speech that'll show up in history books someday, depending on whether the votes Americans cast next Tuesday help preserve democracy or, like the January 6 insurrection, mark another stage in a slide into authoritarianism."
Didn't I cover this in my book? Look up the part where I talk about a memory hole.
yrs,
Saint George Orwell
Riiiiight, because the solution to creeping fascism is holding toothless Congressional committees, waving signs, drum circles, pink pussy hats, and wearing a color-coded ribbon.
Predictable. Inevitable. Heinous.
Or put them on planes and ship them to blue states.
exs, in general, are far from unbiased. That is why you do NOT use them as job references.
No, the solution is voting.
He's married? The universe is TOTALLY insane!
Do it, Joe! DO IT! Biden Threatens Windfall Tax on Excessive Oil ProfitsClimate activists have wanted such a levy for years.https://www.motherjones.com...
President Joe Biden on Monday threatened to pursue new legislation that would tax the windfall profits made by fossil fuel companies this year if they don’t ramp up production to help bring down the historically-high energy costs being felt by everyday Americans.While Biden’s announcement primarily took aim at inflation, which polls suggest is the biggest issue threatening Democrats in the next week’s midterm elections, activists have long called on taxing the fossil fuel industry to help pay for efforts to address climate change, close environmental justice disparities and accelerate the clean energy transition.
In my life I can count on one hand the times I offered a contrary opinion to a RWNJ that did NOT elicit shouting, insults, threats (including death threats), name calling, deflection, disparagement, rhetorical malpractice, vehement emotional outburst and superhuman rudeness. To hear them say it you might think I had personally killed Lindbergh's baby or force fed Elvis his fatal dose of pills! But I only ever asked for tolerance for people and a share of the wealth for everyone living in the world's most prosperous nation state. Or else I looked at them "funny". It never takes much to set them off.
And I am tired of it. I don't do anything they like. So forget me trying to build a bridge to or reach out to people who clearly state they hate my guts and would love to see me dead.
Rich Lowry/tawdry/dishonest. Synonymous or same thing?? You decide.
I'll be here for it.
Beats saying, "I told you so."
Seems like the only thing the Israelis learned from the Holocaust was how to be genocidal fascists themselves.
Man, all I had to do was open the door before they knocked because I'd seen them walk past my front window one time and wear a black Maleficent t-shirt while holding my place in the Satanic Bible* the other. Your way sounds much more fun.
*interesting read, kinda trippy. I was reading it because my dad claimed to know LeVey when he was a circus barker looking for an easier scam and landing on religion. Never did find out how true that might have been...
About a week after I moved to Portland, some religious peddlers (I don't know whether they were Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, or what) knocked on the door at an hour which I deemed much too early and also when I did expect nor wish to receive visitors.Guy: *Knock knock*Me [mean cranky voice]: Yeah, what?Guy: Have you heard the good word of the Lord?Me [turning New Jersey accent up to eleven]: SHADDUP!! BEAT IT! GIDADDAHERE!!*confused shuffling of feet on other side of locked door**step step step step*
Not the most flattering comparison, but I see her point.
Don't tell me, let me guess: The gist of it is, "I never REALLY liked or supported TFG, not REALLY."