demulcents
Trying to counter the inflammations of extremist forces in America
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Finally
Friday, April 19, 2024
Why authoritarianism? fascism?
There is a real desire of many Americans to turn the country over to fascists – strong, authoritarian, intolerant, cruel men (with some women vying to be included and be leaders). Why?
One thought is the feeling that the hierarchy of manly leadership has been destroyed by women and their surrogates, touchy feely idealistic socialists who are impractical and disastrously incompetent. In other words, the strong men have been pushed aside and made fun of and it is time for manly, hardheaded, morally upright men to come back to take charge.
Another thought is the disgust reflex that is much stronger in right-wingers than in left-wingers. I can relate my own experience of having taken a wrong turn in Vancouver BC and ended up driving through the hard section of town along the drug streets and saw shocking and truly disgusting people who were not only homeless but destroyed by drugs and living in their subsequent filth. I think many right-wingers think cruel intolerance and punishment and getting them out of sight is what is needed.
Another disgust reflex of some right-wingers seems to be an obsession about homosexuals. Normal people, or at least normal liberals, don’t pay much attention at all to gay men and women other than to treat them the same way they treat anyone – with no concern at all about their sexuality. But the homophobic seem to be plagued with images of genitals and anuses and are likely fighting the rise of personal sexual energies in themselves at these images. And they have been trained to feel shame about these feelings and they abreact with cruelty and oppression.
Maybe the core of it all is a terrible mistaken idea of what it is to be a man. The feminine manifestations of compassion, empathy, tolerance, softness, caring seem to be a violation of the mistaken notion of manhood which are manifest in hardness, cruelty, intolerance, demanding, bullying, instilling fear, dominating. They think to be a man is to dominate with cruel strength. And to be caring and cooperative is a failing of manhood.
I think we need to see the whole picture of what it is to be a man. Jesus gave us his image through his life and teachings. Budha did the same. Not insignificantly, Mr. Rogers on children's TV did much the same for decades and was portrayed beautifully by Tom Hanks in a recent movie. Manhood certainly includes tenderness, empathy, caring, nurturing and protecting, as well as the will to do difficult and courageous things.
Why is fascism attractive? A mistaken notion of manliness, might be the heart of it.
Monday, April 15, 2024
That person has a "Lot of Pussy!"
- Cassidy Hutchinson, White House aid - witness against Trump
- Liz Cheney, former Republican Congressperson - co-chair of House Select Committee on the January 6 attack to overthrow the government
- Leticia James, Attorney General of New York - Prosecutor of Trump many years of fraud in New York
- Fanni Willis, Attorney General of Georgia - Prosecutor of Trump attempt to find fake votes in the 2020 Georgia count for president
- E Jean Carroll, successfully sued Trump for $83 Billion for rape and defamation of character
- Stormy Daniels, porn star who Trump paid $130,000 hush money to hide having sex with him
- Arthur Engoron in the conviction of New York financial fraud case
- Scott McAffee in the Fanni Willis Georgia trial on the fake votes case
- Lewis Kaplan in the E Jean Carroll guilty of rape and defamation verdict
- Juan Merchan in the financial fraud covering up the hush money in violation of finance laws case
- Jack Smith, Special Prosecutor for two indictments, attempt to overthrow the government put and violating espionage laws by stealing classified secrets
They've got a "Lot of Pussy"!!
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Whatever you are guilty of, accuse the other of the same thing
- Is Trump guilty of trying to overthrow the government? Accuse Biden of the same;
- Was Trump impeached? Have his House supplicants impeach Biden;
- Is Trump guilty of graft and corruption feeding millions and billions of dollars to his children? Accuse Biden of the same;
- Is Trump fading into Alzheimer's dementia (like his father before him)? Accuse Biden of the same;
- Is Trump threatening to destroy the Justice System and use it to crush his opponents? Accuse Biden of the same;
- Is Trump promising to end presidential elections? Accuse Biden of the same;
- Is Trump guilty of violating the Espionage Act by stealing, hoarding, and possibly selling top secret military secrets? Accuse Biden of the same;
- Is Trump the greatest threat to Democracy in the world? Accuse Biden of the same;
- Is Trump guilty of etc. etc. etc. etc? Accuse Biden of the same.
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Make them submit
First, hit him with a massive fine. Then, when he violates the gag order again -
Prison please.
Monday, April 1, 2024
Why isn’t Trump in prison?
Friday, March 29, 2024
Can't you just shoot them?
President Donald Trump wanted U.S. troops to shoot protesters during racial justice demonstrations in 2020, according to a new book from former Defense Secretary Mark Esper.
“Can't you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?” Esper quotes Trump saying.
He was told NO last time. If he is president again he will have only Trump Cultists under him and they will do whatever he tells them to do. This is not hard to figure out.
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
What was Roe v Wade based upon?
Saturday, March 23, 2024
Watch out
Thom Hartman gives us a warning:
A. The U.S. warned Putin that they had intelligence that a terrorist attack in a Russia was very possible.
B. A horrendous terrorist attack killed about 130 civilians
C. Muslim ISIS claims responsibility in response to Putin’s barbaric slaughters in Muslim Chechnya two decades ago.
D. Putin vows revenge against…Ukraine, claiming they were responsible
E. Putin uses this “Reischtag Fire” pretense and massively escalates his slaughter of Ukraine - nukes?
F. Why? Because Putin’s subservient, Donald J Trump, is keeping his Trump Authoritarian Party (mistakenly called the Republican Party) from funding Ukraine. So Putin senses America will not be able to stop him
G. So Putin slaughters and conquers Ukraine with the help of Trump and his MAGA/Putin Cult.
So, I extend this logic forward:
H. Next step for Putin? The rest of the Balkan states - re-establish the Soviet Empire boundaries
I. Putin says “Thanks, Donny - now stay out of my way while I conquer Europe”, and Trump says “OK, I hate NATO anyway”
I think that’s the plan, but I think Putin needs Trump to be in power in America, and I believe that is not going to happen, he is disintegrating before our eyes. Plus I think he is unelectable, dangerous, violent, but will fail in his next attempted coup.
Plus, I think Putin is also disintegrating before our eyes, and Russians are getting sick of his war and his corruption. Time for Russians to end Putin’s war.
I hope.
Thursday, March 21, 2024
The John Gotti rule
Thursday, March 14, 2024
The continuing attempt at Revolution
For those who didn't know - Liberal Thom Hartman is hearing Republican plans to overturn the election results in November and install the mentally ill Donald Trump in the White House and capture the country.
- Future presidential elections
- The Rule of Law in America
- All abortions
- All birth control
- Any and all opposition to Putin's Russia conquest of Europe
- Gay marriage, gay relationships in public
- Black and brown voting
- Social Security
- Medicare and Medicaid
- Environmental regulations and protections
- Financial regulations and protections
- Anti-monopoly and anti-trust laws
- Clean air
- Clean water
- Government support of green energy
- Public transportation
- Affirmative action
- Unions
- Public Schools
- Public lands
- Pubic parks
- etc.
But I believe in the goodness of America. I believe we will stop this abomination. But please understand that these folks are very serious.
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Trump just keeps paying for the legal fees of those he sues and loses to
In case you didn't know:
Trump is ordered to pay legal fees after failed lawsuit over the Steele dossier
Dumb person who has a decades long history of overwhelming small pocket plaintiffs with endless legal costs is running up against people who are not caving in to his cruelties. And he not only loses the court cases but has to pay the legal costs of defending themselves against this bullying fraud.
Sunday, March 10, 2024
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Trump's court cases
Of those surveyed, 20 to 25 percent said they did not know, and 20 to 25 percent said they were “not sure” what the charges against Trump were; in other words, nearly half of those surveyed had little or no comprehension of the array of allegations against him."
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
One of the many dangers of a Trump presidency
Monday, March 4, 2024
Some good news
"French Lawmakers Enshrine Access to Abortion in Constitution
Legislators passed an amendment giving women the “guaranteed freedom” to end their pregnancies...""
Sunday, February 25, 2024
Putin is destroying America via Trump and Johnson
Thursday, February 22, 2024
CPAC extremists vow to destroy American democracy
Posobiec made the comments during the opening day of CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, in Washington, D.C., Wednesday.
“Welcome to the end of democracy!” Posobiec declared. “We’re here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on January 6th, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this right here,” he said, holding his fist in the air. “That’s right, because all glory is not to government, all glory to God.”
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Alabama to prosecute make-believe abortion BEFORE impregnation
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Sunday, February 18, 2024
Russia takes key Ukrainian town Avdiivka because House Republicans refuse to arm Ukraine
Friday, February 16, 2024
Putin's America - coming fast
Friday, February 9, 2024
Please step aside Joe
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Reduce oil based plastic with cork?
Monday, February 5, 2024
On the verge of total collapse?
Friday, February 2, 2024
Summary of British disgust of Trump
The Former Guy is many disgusting things. This writeup from a British wit says it so concisely. I just show it in directly, no comment needed, other than a hearty you-betcha!:
Someone on Quora asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:
"A few things spring to mind.
Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.
For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump's limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever.
I don't say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it's a fact. He doesn't even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn't just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It's all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.
Well, we don't. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.
And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.
Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.
He's not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.
He's more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.
That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.
So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy' is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
• You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it's impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.
God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.
He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.
In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.
And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:
'My God... what... have... I... created?
If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."