politics
Politics does not dictate our collective cultural mindset as much as it simply reflects it; We've got to look in the mirror sometimes, and we've got one.
Gender Confusion
“Boys have a penis and girls have a vagina.” – from Kindergarten Cop In an email to the Los Angeles City Council supporting last year’s violent protest in front of Saticoy Elementary School a member of the NoHo West Neighborhood Council wrote about her belief that “aggressive activists in the LGTBQ+ [SIC] community [had] hijacked our education system in the name of equity and inclusion.” In her view, schools should only be focused on “math, reading, science and history”. However, the ignorant hatred directed toward an Olympic boxer from Algeria shows why our education systems need to delve into these topics.
By Carl J. Petersenabout a year ago in The Swamp
Burned, No Notice*
The air marshal hated this part of his job. A particularly unruly passenger got too drunk on the layover between his flight from Moscow to Paris at the Istanbul airport and had a physical altercation with someone who tried to calm him down. The drunk needed to be restrained, it took a lot of convincing for the victim not to file an official complaint, but the perpetrator was still stubbornly trying to board his next flight to Paris.
By Lana V Lynxabout a year ago in The Swamp
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
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
Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan Greeted by President Biden and Vice President Harris After Landing on U.S. Soil
In a momentous event highlighting the intricate dance of international diplomacy and the critical issue of wrongful detentions, two American citizens—Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan—were greeted by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris upon their return to the United States. This event, following a meticulously negotiated prisoner exchange with Russia, underscores the complexities of international relations and the U.S. government's steadfast commitment to protecting its citizens abroad.
By David Snamabout 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
