demulcents

Trying to counter the inflammations of extremist forces in America

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Psycho

Donald Trump was so mentally unstable after losing the election that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, had to reach out to a very nervous China to assure them that he and the U.S. military were not going to attack China in the final days of the Trump presidency.  Intelligence available to Milley showed that China thought an attack could very well happen.  Milley let his Chinese counterpart know that Trump’s possible insanity would be stopped.

In other words, Milley and many in the military were so disturbed by the ravings of the lunatic in the oval office that they had to be ready to step in to avoid a world-wide bloody war.

They were ready to stop the psycho in the White House.  

This is not about a policy disagreement.  It is not about a military coup.  It is about recognizing and being willing to intercede to stop a possible action of a madman.  Trump has displayed his mental instability for a long time now, and it is clear that he was capable of great destruction.  Milley and others witnessed a raving lunatic totally disconnected with reality after his crushing loss to Biden.  He was nuts.

Thank you, General Milley.

Posted by demulcents at 10:44 AM
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Thursday, September 9, 2021

Republican witness tampering

Amazingly, the Republican leader in the House of Representatives is witness tampering in the House investigation of the January 6 violent attempt to overthrow the government and hunt down and kill then Vice President, Mike Pence, and the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi.  
 
"House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is threatening telecommunications and social media companies that comply with a request by the committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, declaring that Republicans “will not forget” their actions."
 
The Dear Leader of what used to be the Republican Party demonstrated persistently the way to break the law by witness tampering during the many investigations into his corrupt and anti-democratic actions.  For example, he praised potential witnesses against him like Roger Stone for standing firm refusing to tell the truth when being questioned by the law.   
 
The House has not yet requested records of communications by House and Senate and White House folks working up to and during the nauseating violence on January 6 of this year.  They have just told 35 telecom and tech companies not to destroy any records of concern.
 
It is not a mystery why McCarthy and the extremists in his House like Goetz, Gosar, Boebert, Green, etc. are making threats, they were very highly likely to be in on the planning and execution of the attempted coup.  They are in big danger if their collaboration and/or support for the violence becomes part of the sworn record.  I would hope that prison would be part of their futures for their attempt to overthrow an election.
 
It is pretty easy to find out which records to examine - just look at who is screaming the loudest threats.
 
Fascism is a pretty ugly thing to have to watch.
Posted by demulcents at 3:21 PM
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Monday, September 6, 2021

Why I got vaccinated

I have friends and acquaintances that I admire and respect that have not, or have not yet, gotten vaccinated.  I am sure that they have thought about this seriously, and that they are doing the best they can to protect themselves - and to protect those that breathe their air - from COVID-19.  I would just like to take a moment to share my reasons for being vaccinated. (I have links to each item below to click through if you like)
 
1.  VACCINES WORK - pandemic hospitalizations and deaths were rising geometrically prior to this January when our new president enacted a nationwide vaccination program, and then the hospitalizations and deaths dropped off a cliff to dramatic lows.  Sadly, with the mutation to the Delta variant and a refusal by one political party to vaccinate or wear masks the hospitalizations and deaths are spiking again.
 
2.   MERCURY - Mercury can enter the body in two forms - Methylmercury, which is in fish and which can build up in the body over time (one of the reasons I usually avoid fish); the second way is Ethylmercury (thimerosal) which is a disinfectant in vaccines to keep deadly bacteria out, and this form passes more quickly through the body. Mercury does not build up in the body from vaccines.
 
3.   DNA - the mRNA vaccines do not change or affect DNA.  They don't enter the cells where the DNA is.  They don't interact with DNA.  They don't alter DNA. 
 
4.   SCIENCE - I believe in science.  I know that the sun is 93 million miles from the earth, on average, even though I never took a tape measure to see for myself, because scientists figured that out and wrote it down.  I know that water is made of molecules made up of Hydrogen and Oxygen, even though they are too small for me to see, because scientists told me.  I know that photons exist as a wave of probability prior to observation and become a particle upon observation because scientists figured out a way to know that and tell me so.  And I believe that vaccines are safe because those scientists that are qualified, real actual epidemiologists, tell me so...... Are there reasons to distrust scientists?  Hell yes.  The tobacco industry had scientists who where were paid to lie to protect the tobacco industry.  The fossil fuel industry has scientists who deny human impact on Climate Change.  Does the Pharmaceutical Industry have unprincipled scientists promoting the industry?  Undoubtedly.  So, I have to take it on a case by case basis, and the overwhelming message from the most qualified medical scientists around the world is that the vaccines are safe.  I do not for a minute think they are just out for the money.  I think they are trying to save the world. 
 
5.   SAMPLE SIZE - Because of the dire emergency of an entire world getting, spreading, and dying from COVID-19 the vaccines had to be rushed to the world faster than normal.  But, for goodness sake, there have been over 200,000,000 vaccines in the U.S. alone. So this is the largest sample size in human history.  Result?  about 6207 (.0018%) deaths from allergic reactions to the vaccine, and over 650,000 have died from COVID-19.  Hospitals are not filling up with vaccine reactions. These vaccines have been proven, deeply proven, to be much less concern than the COVID-19 itself.
 
6.   MUTATIONS - The longer COVID-19 exists, the more it will mutate to more and more deadly versions.  We are now dealing with the DELTA variant, which is about ten times more transmissible than the original virus.  There is already a mu variant.  In the past we have stopped deadly plagues with vaccines - polio, scarlet fever, chickenpox, smallpox, tetanus.  A sad experience is to go to an old cemetery and see many tiny headstones of children who had died from communicable diseases prior to vaccines.

7.   RUSSIA - Putin's Russia has been spreading anti-vaccination disinformation and propaganda long before the advent of COVID-19.  Russia's "Active Measures" in America and Europe is to find disagreements in a country and use social media to turn people against each other. America is a rich target for them.  Race, class, religion, etc. are all areas of disagreement, and with Russia's toxic input they become areas of hatred and and violent disagreement.  Destroying America's trust in vaccines serves two purposes - weakens us by making us more sick than we need be, and more importantly, weakens us by making us distrustful of science.   Remember that America beat the Soviet Union to the moon, and signature scientific glory.  So, what better to do for Putin than to weaken America's scientific standing in the world?

So, this is why I have chosen to be vaccinated.  
 
I know that some of the people that I admire have different reasons for themselves, but I confess that I do hope that some of my thinking might help them decide to join me amongst the vaccinated (and masked, of course).  (I think a few of my friends have medical conditions, or very tender metabolisms or immune systems, and expect that a vaccine can throw their carefully balanced and precarious system out of balance.  So, I see them as a justifiable exception, and wish them the best).
 
I don't really have any expectation that the politically motivated non-vaxers and non-maskers in the deep red portions of the country will pay any attention to the above because their stance seems to be based upon a notion of manhood and tribal loyalty.  They are proud to proclaim that the government is not going to tell them what to do (silly, the government tells them not to rob banks, or kill someone you are mad at, or drive drunk, or ignore stop lights, and they obey in those cases, but....)
 
But, even there I do have a bit of hope.

If my non-vaccinated friends continue to stay un-vaccinated, I trust that they will take extra measures to make sure that they do not inadvertently infect others.  I know I am doing my best to mask up during this Delta time, knowing that I can transmit even though I have no symptoms, and am vaccinated myself.
 
Posted by demulcents at 11:21 AM
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Saturday, September 4, 2021

The Texas assault on women's freedom

The Evangelical Christian fanatics have captured the Confederacy and Confederate dominated regions of other states. In Texas they have outlawed abortion after six weeks. Since a woman goes four weeks between periods she will have just two weeks to figure out the rest of her life in Texas. The worst part is that the Texas law offers some kind of bounty to citizen vigilantes to turn in any who aid in an abortion. They are actually legalizing and paying vigilantism.  To fanatics.  In America. 

Peel the onion just a bit and it is clear that the women who will be most affected will be poor women, mostly black and brown. So the Evangelical White Supremacists have found another way to harm non whites. Wealthy and middle class white women will find ways to travel for abortions. 

This law is disgusting. It is about white “Christians” dominating and dis-empowering women. The motivating energy of white supremacists seems to be very much around the idea of "putting people in their place".  In this case it is putting women in their place - in the kitchen and bedroom.  In the case of black and brown men and women it is putting them in their place as second class citizens who are kept from voting.  White supremacists see authoritarian white men as the top of the power pyramid and they dominate and control everyone underneath them.  

The truth is, of course, that the white domineering man has long ago fallen from his imagined throne, and women, gays, black-brown-yellow-red people have flowed into all aspects of American and world life.  But some keep trying to live in a John Wayne/Clint Eastwood world of Tough Real Men In Charge.  

Pathetic really.

Women are definitely noticing this Texan and Republican assault on their liberties and freedom of choosing the lives of their personal desires, and all but the most fervid evangelical women must understand that it is they themselves that are under attack.

I see this  horrible law shrinking the Republican Party. In the same way that extreme leftist antifa violence and extreme leftist thought and language control on campuses harm liberals, this preposterous attack on women’s freedoms should hurt conservatives. 

The Democratic Party's chances in 2022 and 2024 may have just taken a nice upturn.

Posted by demulcents at 11:05 AM
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I am a boomer who has been both a left winger and a right winger and am seeking to add some soothing energy to the inflamed polarizations of today's rhetoric. However, in the age of extremist Republicanism I see the best way to soothe the waters is to oppose the inflammations from the Right as needed.
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