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The Orange Jesus and The Apocalyptic Legislative Loonies
Soooo…. The Champion of the entire right wing has spent all the money the National Republican Committee had on hand. I’m too financially challenged to gauge what that means exactly, but if the NRC is paying for Their Champion’s legal bills, they have some collecting to do or Christmas 2024 is not looking cheery. The Champ has 91 felony indictments against him.
By John Worthingtonabout a year ago in The Swamp
Demands vs Agreement
I think folks sometimes forget the difference between agreements and demands. In recent weeks we have seen politicians indulging in demands. It’s full out “my way or the highway.” Take that guy who lives in Florida but is the senator for Alabama. What’s his name? The washed out football coach. Toomy Tumbleville, yeah something like that. This poor guy really wants to make his mom proud. The problem is there’s nothing to crow about. Toomy has “religious” reasons for not promoting US military personnel. Since there are some 300+ military officers whose lives he has made more difficult, Toomy is making a demand. There is no space for agreement in his stance.
By John Worthingtonabout a year ago in The Swamp
A Cacophony of Riots.. Content Warning.
Tommy Robinson or Stephen Yaxley-Lennon to give him his birth name set up the EDL. The English Defence League was allegedly set up to counter Islamism. An extremely fascistic branch of Islam. Such groups that fall under this banner could be the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, IS, and countless other groups. The EDL would gather to confront mosques being built, gather in Muslim areas, and be there to stop Muslim protests about British troops parading. Subsequently, Robinson stepped down as the group leader and the group seemed to go quiet.
By Nicholas Bishopabout a year ago in The Swamp
J.K. Rowling and the Slippery Slope of Western “Feminism”
The 2024 Paris Olympic Games were fraught with controversy even before they began. From threats of dumping feces into the Seine by the French to debates over whether the opening ceremony mocked Da Vinci’s Last Supper or paid tribute to the Feast of Dionysus—Olympics = debauchery = Dionysus = god of the Seine River and the Olympics' "gay" origins.
By Karina Thyraabout a year ago in The Swamp
The Lost Art of Knowing
When one of the regulars down at Iona’s Salon and Nail Emporium gets to going on about how that good-for-nothing thing she married, only because she was pregnant and her mom insisted, is doing something she doesn’t quite approve of. Something like hanging pictures of scantily clad women up in his man cave, but no one really cares or even notices. She goes on about that all the time and he hangs up the pics just so she has interesting stories to tell when she stops by Iona’s every Thursday at 4:00. Being a regular at Iona’s does not carry much social or international import, as one might imagine. However, the same does not apply to someone who aspires to be the President of the United States. That office demands experience, temperance, wisdom, patience, formidable poker skills and perhaps more than anything else, the ability to make world-class errors, repair them as best as they can be repaired and just keep on keeping on as fairly as you can afford to be. It does not, and never will, require a thin-skinned revenge-a-maniac who is indulgently appeasing his every waking moment just so he doesn’t go wild doxing anyone in sight. Just because they never genuflected when in his presence.
By John Worthingtonabout a year ago in The Swamp
All That Glitters Is Not Gold
For some strange reason there are those who lean to the extreme right who seem to think that reality is optional. There are a number of ways they seem to find that gives them an option so they can follow the flow of reality or to go off on their own only to encounter the gravity of returning to reality. That they can give their word about an issue only to go back on their word if they get cut off on the way to the office could be an option. Isn’t there a “five second rule” for giving your word like there is for dropping food on the floor? Isn’t giving your word the same as taking your hand off a chess piece? Once your hand is off the piece, that’s your move. In other words, taking your hand off a chess piece makes that move real. If you will recall we have our Wolf Watcher and Anti-Fraudster-in-Chief safely ensconced in a safe place which may or may not have padding on the walls but it does have an antique modem replete with its own dedicated hard-wired telephone cable. A man has to Truth when a man has to Truth, after all. I think the WWAAFIC wore out his welcome because there was nothing real in his claims of dictatorial domination. That’s the trouble with insisting that reality must conform precisely to a preconceived map of what has been determined reality must be. That whole act results in disappointment more often than not.
By John Worthingtonabout a year ago in The Swamp
The Kerfuffle over the Right Wing’s Insistence on Conjuring Alternate Realities
Apparently, I do not have the ability to claim alternate realities as real. I don’t know how this happened, but I’m stuck watching this reality that most of the world seems to see the same as I do. I just do not have the skill set that will elevate me to the alchemy necessary to conjure a living reality that no one but me can see or experience. I’m just a little jealous of most of the right wing for their collective abilities to see plot twists in events that I just do not see at all.
By John Worthingtonabout a year ago in The Swamp
Farage: Tommy Robinson in A Suit?. Content Warning.
Nigel Farage posted a video on X (formerly Twitter) that the religious identity of the 17-year-old attacker was being held from the public. The police said the stabbings in Southport, north of Liverpool were not terror- related. False information was posted on social media about the fact that the 17-year-old attacker was a Syrian who had got to the UK by boat. Whereas the alleged identity of the attacker is British or Welsh born in Cardiff to Rwandan parents. The attacker is being held in police custody pending wider investigations. The police have steadfastly denied that the teenager is Muslim.
By Nicholas Bishopabout a year ago in The Swamp
Democracy in danger
Democracy in danger Modern politics is harming voter participation Democracy used to be said to be government by the people for the people. Now that does not exist. Lies and deceit by political parties, is so common that the people just shrug and say, “they all do it”. There is not even great outrage at the discovery of deliberate deceptions. On the 4th July 2024 in Great Britian, an election was held. The socialist “labour” party won the most seats in Parliament, by a large majority but the voter participation was the lowest for 20 years, it is widely accepted that many votes were cast on the basis of the voter did not want the centre right party, the Conservatives also known as Tories, to continue in power. So labour won because of voter dis-satisfaction with the Tories rather than because they have better policies. This is not good for democracy.
By Peter Roseabout a year ago in The Swamp
How the Magalizer Grows Seemingly Righteous Pelf
Can we talk? The guy who held the office of President the last time is not as well as he once was. He’s older. Not a lot older, but he is at an age where a year can make a very noticeable difference in abilities. It’s been four years. A lot can happen in just one year. I have no doubt that nearly everyone who reads this will have had the experience of losing an older loved one or friend who went from celebrating one Christmas to missing all the other Christmases to come. That person had no idea that it would be the last Christmas they would ever know. No one knew. Dementia can linger just beneath the surface of awareness for years before it strikes and quickly overwhelms the abilities.
By John Worthingtonabout a year ago in The Swamp
The Don has a Math Problem
Question: Why does Don Poorelone throw ketchup on walls? Answer: So he can’t see what’s written there. The Stable Genius, Don Poorelone, has a math problem. Well, that’s one of several problems he has, but the math problem is the most significant of them all. The nature of the math problem is not enough Republicans are voting for him in the Primaries. Elections are won in the ranks of the undecided, it’s true. But when Republicans are wandering off the reservation before the main event even takes place, it does not bode well for the Republican nominee. If the Republican dyed in the wool faithful are jumping ship then you can bet the independents are not buying passage.
By John Worthingtonabout a year ago in The Swamp
