The thin blue line flag flying in company with the confederate battle flag means it probably will not be around much longer. I have no problem with that but I could never say that around my coworkers. No way. To me…it does not even represent Law Enforcement- it brings to mind a thin blue line of New Deal Democrats who are the only hope for this country. Bernie and AOC are our candidates and we are only going to vote for Biden because we have to. Dear God everyone has to.
At least Biden gets a few points with the gun nuts. I made my own Joe Biden shotgun.
I had a blog post describing this weapon with it’s side-mounted dot sight and received so much hate mail I had to remove it. Gun nuts are a touchy bunch.
Just got off work. Good news! The pool where I swim is finally open and I can swim laps again. My eyes got all watery I was so happy. And the DNC is underway.
While counter demonstrators accused the militia members and their supporters as promoting racism, a Florida militia member who gave his call sign as “Rick Rat” said his participation wasn’t “a race thing.”
“Everybody should come together and march on DC and get all the damn Democrats out of office,” he said. ”What I think they are trying to do is start a race war.”
Rick then launched into a version of a popular internet conspiracy theory known as QAnon and accused an unnamed group of Washington “elites” of being pedophiles.
“They are killing the kids and selling their organs,” he said.
Credit: Alyssa Pointer
Around 1 p.m., following an uptick in fighting between the groups, police marched through downtown with riot shields and dispersed the crowd. Behind the police, a unit of the National Guard waited in case they were needed, but the vast majority of protesters left peacefully. By 2 p.m., downtown Stone Mountain was quiet.
Stone Mountain police Chief Chancey Troutman said he told the groups they had three minutes to disperse.
”If they didn’t disperse in those three minutes, arrests would have been made,” he said.
Shaddi Abusaid contributed to this report.
Anti-vaxxers, QAnon, and the Alt-right are combining into a psychotic monster. It is accelerating which is exactly what the “Accelerationist’s” want. Waiting for judgement day? The day, “Der Tag” is a definite possibility. Especially with The Presidential Crimes Commission in the works. What better reason to burn down a nation than to avoid prosecution?
The three people I am most interested in hearing from this guys podcast are AOC, Chris Hedges, and…George Monbiot. I should start my own podcast. My daughter even said I should.
18:49 to 20:00 explains it all. Then 29:00 to 30:30. And…33:40 to 35:00.
YouTube comment: We are so conditioned to Trump doing whatever he wants and getting away with it that putting him in prison does not seem possible. It is not going to be that way when he is no longer the President. Considering everything he has done and things we do not know about yet, and placing yourself outside of this alternate reality that is Trumpism, it would appear almost certain he is going to prison.
Timothy McVeigh was trying to make the Turner Diaries a reality. Every true believer white supremacist in the U.S., I will take a wild guess and say about a million of them, is thinking right now might be the only chance they will ever have to accomplish what McVeigh attempted- to start a race war. A war that will see death camps exterminating all minorities in the United States and making Aryanism the state religion. It seems crazy to even consider the nightmare scenario of a genocidal race war- but with the average age of whites at 58 and those of minorities 27, this is the only chance at any Rwanda-style ethnic cleansing the white supremacists are going to get and they know it. The numbers don’t lie.
Because it is possible Trump will try and wreck our fragile democracy in an attempt to stay in power the Neo-Nazis know this as one factor. That so much distrust has been sown with conspiracy theories like QAnon and the President branding the media as fake news, branding those fighting fascism like Antifa and branding social justice movements like BLM as “terrorists”, the Neo-Nazis know this is another factor. And of course the virus is the third factor and this all adds up to their big chance. I am scared.
It will not take much to light off something that will be very hard to stop. Russia and China know this.
She knows their secret- that a percentage of whites hate/fear non-whites and want non-whites disappeared. That is the true base of their power.
America is- 23 in education.37 in healthcare.34 in raising family index.No high-speed train.Highest number of homeless people.Highest number of incarcerated people.78% of people live paycheck to paycheck.Stock market is not economy of Americans! Where 90% of money belongs to top 10% of the population, it’s a wallet for the rich.
Oligarchy not democracy
2020, Greater China topped the list with a billionaire population of 799.
1 In corona-related deaths#1 In obesity#1 In gun-related deaths
They’re going to sell off the USPS, the ONLY department mentioned in the Constitution, to private enterprise.
Trump is straight up lying: Ocasio-Cortez graduated cum laude from Boston University in 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in both international relations and economics. In high school she came in second in the microbiology category of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair with a research project on the effect of antioxidants on the lifespan of the nematode . In a show of appreciation for her efforts, the MIT Lincoln Laboratory named a small asteroid after her: 23238 Ocasio-Cortez.
And they gave AOC one minute at the DNC.
Every day I am more and more disturbed by the confusion and disinformation degrading the credibility of any of those things we have always trusted. It is extremely serious- and Trump is the main villain.
Voting rights…that’s not our thing. A Trump spokesperson said it. Nobody cares? Really? Neoliberalism is dead set against democracy; a population that has been made into wage slaves will eventually reject the propaganda used to brainwash them into voting against a living wage, social security, financial industry regulation etc., and then their racket is exposed. Very soon it will be a question of either voting all these corporate owned politicians out or rolling out the guillotines.
Well…my garage door opener is talking to me again. When it malfunctions I have come to believe God is telling me I am doing something wrong. It has become a kind of oracle to me. When there is some decision pending or drama going on I let the garage door decide. Crazy, right? Not really. Very human. Today it worked perfectly and that meant my inclination to let go of some emotional baggage instead of heading out the door with it is how to proceed. I feel better. And…I have a couple days off.
My neighbor is flying one of those blue green orange stripe not-a-U.S. flag and it is disturbing. I don’t like it. But if I was to go and tell him “that is not the U.S. flag” he would get very upset. America is in trouble. Same if I went and told the people across the street their motorcycles with no mufflers are absolutely loud and unacceptable. Their outlaw-motorcycle-gang-I-am-merica attitude would not tolerate that and I would have an even more serious problem than those damn things sitting there “warming up” at all hours. Same as if I told my neighbor in the opposite backyard their truly gigantic and always angry attack dog barks at me and mine over the fence whenever we show ourselves- and I actually have a handgun in a kitchen cabinet in case that monster jumps the fence. They would doubtless tell me attack breeds are misunderstood and theirs is not really mean, just a good watchdog. Right. My community is mostly conservative in this military midwest town and 400 horsepower pickup trucks and Trump stickers are common. Most of my coworkers own AR-15s or Kalashnikovs or some flavor of military weaponry.
Everything that is wrong with America. But they mostly think climate change is a hoax and the rich are on their side- and they are everything “right” about America. They certainly are “on the right” and likely believe everything said on the Fox News white power hour.
My comment from YouTube: “Doctors, lawyers, scientists, and engineers are the four “legs” of civilization and are the intelligent and hard working upper percentage of the IQ range. Most of us, the “average people” (no shame in admitting you are not a rocket scientist), are simply not capable of performing at their level. If academia had not been corrupted into the scam it is then the smartest and most driven among us would have credentials that we trust and this would be the qualifier for public office. That said, they are imperfect human beings exactly like the rest of us. Many of them are real creeps (and highly visible), while some of them are great people while the rest are some of both. In a democracy, the trick is the average citizen like me being able to think critically and pick the best representative. See how that is supposed to work? The mortal enemy of America right now is propaganda and straight up lies being almost all the citizenry have to work with.”
Crazier and crazier news every day. Looks like the Post Office might finally be the end of America. Very possible though most Americans have other stuff on their minds. That is the problem with a spoiled self-centered population- they eventually get what they deserve. On the bright side Kamala Harris is the VP pick. If Joe resigns due to health problems we will have a black woman as president.
It may seem…wrong…to go from the pandemic to another world but the future is waiting for us make it happen. The reasons for America’s failure to control the virus is obvious to most of us. Most of us will elect a new president on that issue alone. There is going to be life after this is over…except for those who die of course.
Ice on the Moon 