You Will Anyway

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

The nightmare

There is nothing to stop him now.

Just to keep hope alive in what may be a hopeless situation, I suppose.

Missouri and Arizona voted in abortion rights to their constitutions. And they elected Donald Trump. When he signs a national abortion ban, their abortion rights bills won't matter. California enshrined same-sex marriage rights. Project 2025 and SCOTUS are coming for that, too.

And, don't forget Ukraine, and other European countries. Trump will help Putin retake the old Soviet Union, and anything else he can. NATO is gone.

Goodbye Jack Smith and holding Trump to account for his many crimes. Goodbye to any hope of having a legitimate Supreme Court. Hello to prosecution of Donald Trump's perceived enemies in the country. And he has immumity. There are no restraints on him now.

Project 2025 will do away with the Department of Education, among other things. Bobby Kennedy, a conspiracy monger anti-vaxxer, is going to be over the health department.

Kamala's campaign was wrong: We ARE going back.

I may have overestimated America. The libs have been thoroughly owned. I may be done here.

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

WTF

They're already calling them.

And so it begins

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Hilarious

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

L O L

The woman has been wearing sunglasses indoors all day to hide her eyes. They would have given her away immediately.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

But of course

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Monday, November 4, 2024

VOTE

America the Beautiful lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates.

Her original 1893 poem was revised through the years to become what is our national anthem in 1911. We only learn the first and last verses. Here are the two important verses you didn't learn:

O beautiful for pilgrim feet,
Whose stern, impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!

O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine,
Till all success be nobleness,
And every gain divine!

Ray Charles always sang it with that verse about all success being nobleness and heroes with mercy. We're a long way from that America. (We haven't even made it to the brotherhood from sea to shining sea part.) Let's work for it.

Sunday, November 3, 2024

Meanwhile in Michigan

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Listen to Bernie

Out of Iowa

If you MUST look at polls...

One thing Sarah doesn't mention about old white women in Iowa is that they KNOW what life was like for women before Roe and Dobbs.

UPDATE 11:45 am:

UPDATE 11/05/2024:

"It takes only a bit of knowledge of history to realize how dangerous it is to think that the people who run the country know what they are doing." -- Howard Zinn

"It’s not about not having something to hide; it’s about having something to lose. What we lose when we’re under observation is our humanity...Rights are inherent to our nature, they’re not granted by governments, they’re guaranteed by governments. They’re protected by governments." -- Edward Snowden

"Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause.” -- Howard Zinn

"What we have is a foreign policy which is essentially a marketing strategy for selling weapons." -- Jill Stein

"We should always remember that the danger to societies from security services is not that they will spontaneously decide to embrace [Stasi style] mustache twirling and jackboots to bear us bodily into dark places, but that the slowly shifting foundation of policy will make it such that mustaches and jackboots are discovered to prove an operational advantage toward a necessary purpose.” ~ Edward Snowden

"America: just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable." ~ Hunter S. Thompson

"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws." ~ Mayer Rothschild

"News is what somebody does not want you to print. All the rest is advertising." ~ LACUNA

"What matters in journalism isn't politics, which are as universal and inescapable as breathing. What matters -- along with a fundamentally adversarial attitude toward government, without which "journalism" is simply public relations -- is integrity, transparency, evidence, coherence, and principle. These are the principles on which we should evaluate the quality of journalism, and their absence is why some journalists are so desperate to get you to focus on something else." ~ Barry Eisler

"There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack." ~ Molly Ivins

"The brain of our species is, as we know, made up largely of potassium, phosphorus, propaganda, and politics, with the result that how not to understand what should be clearer is becoming easier and easier for all of us." ~ James Thurber

"The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plane....When you hold up your arm and swear to uphold the Constitution, you don’t say, 'Except in wartime.'" -- George McGovern

"I’ll believe that corporations are people when Texas executes one." ~ Bill Moyers

"When did hope become a political dynamic? Hope is right below wishful thinking and right above performing a rain dance on the scale of activity." ~ Rich Hall

Life, as Explained in "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead"

GUILDENSTERN: What a fine persecution---to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

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ROSENCRANTZ : The only thing that makes it bearable is the irrational belief that somebody interesting will come on in a minute.

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GUILDENSTERN: But for God's sake what are we supposed to do?!

PLAYER: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life questioning your situation at every turn.

GUILDENSTERN: But we don't know what's going on, or what to do with ourselves. We don't know how to act.

PLAYER: Act natural. You know why you're here at least.

GUILDENSTERN: We only know what we're told, and that's little enough. And for all we know it isn't even true.

PLAYER: For all anyone knows, nothing is. Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that which is taken to be true. It's the currency of living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions.

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GUILDENSTERN : We act on scraps of information... sifting half-remembered directions that we can hardly separate from instinct.

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PLAYER: Life is a gamble, at terrible odds-if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.