It's All Coming Into Focus...

[lame54]

If we all have polio we can't march in the streets
If we all have whooping cough we can't make our voices heard
And if we do manage to get out and protest loudly we will be mowed down by roving killer Tesla's
And grocery prices will still be high

[fierywoman]

1. You forgot: and it will all be Joe Biden's fault.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Keep people sick and poor. Just like Russia and North Korea.

Makes people focus on survival, and not take any risks.

[sagetea]

9. Invictus

My favorite line is

"And Though my head is bloodied, it is unbowed"

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51642/invictus

sage

[Irish_Dem]

13. I loved this poem in school.

Everyone had to memorize and recite this poem to the class and teacher.

Yes I loved the line you cited.

And: I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.

[littlemissmartypants]

28. I performed it in drama class. It was fun. ...

I still remember every word. ❤️

[kimbutgar]

38. Thank you for sharing the words are so correct for this period we are going to face in the next upcoming years !

[moniss]

15. A long time British philosophy for their

"colonies" around the world as well.

[Irish_Dem]

18. Since we are now a Russia colony, seems an appropriate strategy for Putin to take.

[moniss]

20. I'm expecting at some point in the next 4 years

we will see an announcement of "cooperation" efforts between the Russian military and the US military and joint "training" exercises taking place here in the US.

[Irish_Dem]

21. China too.

China has the largest military in the world right now, but they are inexperienced and untested.

They also cannot get the hang of the NCO system which is how the US won WWII.

They would LOVE to train with the US military.

And they would steal all US military secrets the first month.
The ones Trump has not already sold them.

[moniss]

22. Excellent point about the NCO matter.

I think a major reason, among several, why the NCO idea is so hard for brutal authoritarian regimes to make work effectively is the nature of such regimes to not give the level of trust needed to personnel down in the chain.

[Irish_Dem]

24. Yes the Russians and Chinese cannot get the hang of NCO hierarchy and how it works.

The Chinese have been trying to invent an NCO class but just cannot get it right.
They tried using junior officers out in the field and that did not work out well.

Yes the authoritarian governments just cannot wrap their heads around the idea of letting
boots on the ground make field decisions.

That is one reason Putin has had so many generals killed in combat. They are on the front
lines directing troops and in harm's way.

Russia and China would love to get US training. But as you point out they are going
to have to trust their NCOs and I don't know if they can do that.

The problem is that in China and Russia the military is so corrupt you cannot trust anyone.

[yardwork]

27. I didn't know that about the NCO system.

It makes sense.

[BonnieJW]

17. I'm listening to Nicole right now

RFK wants to take.polio vaccine off the market. Polio!!!!! Does anyone under 60 know anyone who had polio? No, because it was eradicated. I'm 75 and I remember polio. My cousin had it and was left with problems on his right side. Useless right hand and arm. I remember kids in leg braces and crutches. Why would anyone turn that loose on the country? If a foreign country did this to us, they would be guilty of bio terrorism

[Irish_Dem]

19. First degree murder of Americans.

Pre-planned, pre-meditated, with full intent to kill people.

[moniss]

23. Yes I remember also.

The "Mother's March of Dimes" and the base organization started by FDR back when we called it "infantile paralysis". Yes a long history with March of Dimes.

What they did to people during Covid was an example of how they do not care if average people live or die. They won't care about this either.

[KPN]

3. Mother nature at work thinning the herd.

[EarthAbides]

4. Even more focus

We are in a fast moving car headed towards a cliff and no one is trying to stop it. We all know what is happening but everyone is trying to act like this is all normal and we will get democracy back. Gut wrenching...

[OMGWTF]

5. The Rethuglican plan is to keep us sick, poor, and stupid.

[bagimin]

25. Yeah, and we already have a head start.

[littlemissmartypants]

29. Ouch. Speak for yourself, please. ...

[Timewas]

6. When they get going

The high grocery prices will be one of our lessor problems

[Old Crank]

7. Ever the optimist I see

[erronis]

8. If there's money in the solution, they'll be all over it.

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Look at the venture-vultures buying Long-Term-Care (LTC) facilities.

They've even started monetizing Hospice Care.

Funeral homes, mortuaries, graveyards --- all targets for these vultures.

I'm guessing they'll actually make it illegal to take a canoe out to a deep water and self-dispose (add weights to keep you down...)

[lame54]

10. They'll sell you the weights

[erronis]

12. But crypto-shit doesn''t have any weight/mass. It floats to the top, just like they do.

[littlemissmartypants]

31. A little morbid but not far from the mark. ..

I've already been thinking about euthanasia. I'm going out on my terms if things get dicey. I'm going to have to make a plan.

I certainly don't want to end up in a torture chamber a lá Bashar al-Assad.

The entire time I was watching the news coverage I was thinking I hope that this doesn't give President Psychopath any ideas. Oh. My. God.

[dawn5651]

11. sad but true...and for polio 3 vaccines plus the booster is a 100 percent against catching polio. this is nutz

[moniss]

14. How did you know that the secret new model

Tesla is called "Killer"? Was it because "Widowmaker" wouldn't fit on the fender?

[soldierant]

16. More likely because it kills gender-neutrally.

[yardwork]

26. Tim Snyder mentioned recently that a healthy population cares about one another.

An unhealthy population, facing short brutish lives, is easier to control.

The billionaires aren't complex thinkers. Musk isn't brilliant, he's just very crafty. He and his buddies are focused on one thing only: power. They eat think and breathe ways to get power over everyone else. Money, obviously. But that's not enough.

One must find ways to subjugate everyone else. Create a population of illiterate, miserable fools who will be glad to enslave themselves to the billionaires.

No need for education beyond technical knowledge. They want plumbers, carpenters, software engineers. They don't want anybody to know history, literature, philosophy or basic science.

No need for a broad-based or equitable health care system. There will be doctors and hospitals for the very wealthy, and everybody else can use Ivermectin and apple cider vinegar for their care.

[J_William_Ryan]

30. "If we all have polio we can't march in the streets..."

Or not.

This thread illustrates what fascists do – distract with ridiculous disinformation and lies.

Get the population obsessed with non-issues like drones and vaccines so they don’t notice their rights, protected liberties, and freedom have been taken away.

The threat isn’t the return of polio – the threat is the tyranny of authoritarian Republican minority rule.

[lame54]

32. So you guaranteeing...

These irrational anti vaxxers will leave vaccines alone?

[littlemissmartypants]

34. Multiple things can be true simultaneously. ❤️

[lame54]

35. Like how you just agreed with...

2 opposing opinions

[littlemissmartypants]

36. Yep. ❤️

[littlemissmartypants]

37. Anti vaxxers by definition leave vaccines alone. ..

[littlemissmartypants]

33. Bingo. ❤️

[Nigrum Cattus]

39. It's even worse than that

This is eugenics. They believe if you weed out all the "weak" humans
you get a better "breed" of humans. 100% nazi crap.
https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/educational-resources/timelines/eugenics

[Blue Owl]

40. If a big chunk of the population "dies off".....

Who will purchase products and goods and services from all the businesses owned by the billionaires? Wouldn’t that ultimately harm them in the end by greatly disrupting the economy?

[Initech]

41. I wish these assholes would all go buy their own island and fuck off from the US.

If they want to live in a fascist hell hole, they can do so without me.

[Blue Owl]

43. Yeah -- why do they gotta drag the rest of us down?

And I’m still not convinced that the hopeless red states shouldn’t just break off from the rest of the country and live in their own magamoron country where they are shit on and stepped on but keep asking for more…. Why should the the rest of us be dragged down by these mouthbreathing troglodytes?

[lame54]

42. Russia is impoverished...

But Putin may be the richest person in the world
Him or Musk - not clear