cyclonefence
cyclonefence's JournalWhat Pete Hegseth and these other chest-thumpers don't seem to understand
is that rules of engagement work both ways. Don't they see that if we start killing people who pose no threat--people who are drowning--we don't get to complain if *our servicepeople* are tortured, mistreated and killed when they are hors de combat?
Typical of conservatives, who are unable to imagine themselves in any situation other than what they imagine themselves to be.
Re-education camps for conservatives: force them to read novels.
Trump has always been drowsy
but now he's flat-out falling asleep in public. I wonder if the old rumor that he sniffs crushed Adderall has anything to do with this. We know he's been diagnosed with some kind of cardiac problem, and one of the worse things to take when you have a heart problem is a stimulant like Ritalin or Adderall. Maybe he's been abruptly deprived of the one thing that was keeping him awake.
As Belle of the Ranch says, "It's just a thought."
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
Yep, that's us.
So angry I can't see straight.
Thanksgiving coming up; who's denying food to needy Americans? REPUBLICANS
Thanksgiving coming up; who's fucking up air travel on the busiest air travel day of the year? REPUBLICANS
Big increases in Obamacare premiums just about to burst on the scene, whose fault? REPUBLICANS
Judges beginning to force Trump's hand on SNAP *and* on invasions of blue cities by ICE and Nat'l Guard--whose loss? REPUBLICANS
Massive voter support for Democracts just days ago--whose loss? REPUBLICANS
WTF is wrong with us? Why couldn't we have held out? What do we have left to bargain with?
I wanna be sedated.
I'm signed up for the No Kings protest on the 18th
I'm going to take a card table, buy a big platter of cookies, and my sign will read "ANTIFA BAKE SALE." I'm rather proud of myself for thinking that one up.
(cookies will be free, of course--George Soros will reimburse me)
An encouraging phone call to my (Republican) representative
Brian Fitzpatrick represents my part of PA and was one of ?2 Republicans to vote against the Big Terrible Bill, after his office was deluged with phone calls.
I called his office on Friday and said to the young lady who answered--yes, a real person, not a recording--that I wanted Rep. Fitzpatrick to be courageous and compassionate and vote to have the full Epstein files released. I told him that these women deserved some kind of justice, and that it was within his power to help them attain that. I did not chide or tell him to grow a backbone, which has been the content of my previous calls.
The woman I spoke to was very, very interested in what I was saying and asked me to repeat it slowly so she could write it all down. I think his office is beginning to understand that he represents a purple district and that he'd better start paying attention to what we want, although I bet release of the Epstein files is important to the red part, too.
Anyway, want to encourage us all, especially those of us too decrepit and too broke to do much else, to use that phone at least a few times a week. I think it helps.
ICE Hires
Suggestion: organize brown-skinned Democrats with Hispanic-sounding last names who are certified American citizens to apply for jobs with ICE. Work on the enemy from within.
Redistricting
Here is my suggestion for Democrats in states where redistricting is going to eliminate Democratic representation: we all re-register as Republicans before the primaries. That will confound redistricting efforts based on voter registration, and it will give us our own opportunity to "primary" particularly loathsome Republicans.
The general election, assuming we are all going to vote for Democratic candidates anyway, can serve as our primaries.
Whaddaya say, sirs?
Russia has mail-in voting (and has had since 2020,
when Vladimir Putin issued the order to allow it and some form of electronic--via computer--voting from home).
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/5/24/putin-changes-russias-electoral-law-to-allow-remote-vote
No butterflies this year
No butterflies at all; a couple of those little white cabbage moths. One hummingbird.
Everything has gone to hell.
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