When The Day Comes That AOC Runs For President

 It's NOT a 'if' question....it's a when question.

I generally believe that in 2027.....AOC will edge out and show up in Iowa two or three times....to stake a position in the 2028 Presidential election.

Winning any of the first four primary states?  Well....Iowa is a 50-50 shot (depending on competition.  NH and SC might be slightly higher chances.  Nevada might be the only 100-percent shot that she has.

The problem that 20-percent of all statements that she's made up to this point....sound like 'trash' that a 12-year old kid would utter?  That is the most significant problem about her, and these statements will be dragged out in the Presidential campaign.

No real resume?  That will be mentioned over and over, but I think Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama have both proven that the resume doesn't matter much.

Could she win?  If debates get thrown into the mess....she probably would be a one-star player at best.  But the news media is looking for some Jesus-like character to emerge from the woods, and she's probably the best candidate to fit that requirement.  So I would start preparing myself in five years....for something that involves AOC as a Presidential candidate.  

What Was The Haymarket Affair?

 In the 1880s, there was a evolution taking place in America....over rights of workers.  Unions were leading this on, and in major urbanized areas....there was a lot of conflict going on.

So in Chicago, around Haymarket Square....around early May of 1886....a demonstration was scheduled.  Most people were led to the idea that it was all peaceful and just supposed to send a 'message'.

The day prior to this (3 May), police had gotten into some type of scuffle and killed a protest guy....and injuring a couple of other folks.

In the middle of this event on the 4th of May....with police trying to bust-up the protest demonstration....dynamite was thrown around.  You can ask various questions, but no one knows much of anything....other than 7 police were dead and around four protest folks were no longer among the living.  A fair number of folks were wounded from the blast.

What came up in the weeks after this....around eight individuals were arrested and held to be anarchists'.  Some evidence was presented to say that one of the eight probably made the dynamite device.   Evidence that this guy threw the device at the police?  None.  Local Chicago court felt enough evidence was there.....so seven of the eight were convicted and sentenced to be hanged....with the 8th getting a 15-year period in state prison.

Roughly 18 months after the blast.....four of the seven were actually hanged (Nov 1887).  Around six years would pass and the remaining folks were pardoned by the state governor, who deemed the whole process and accomplishments to be 'pretty crapped up' (my expression, not his). 

If you dig through all the history to this.....the dynamite device itself only killed one single policeman, and wounded six others.  

It's what comes immediately after this where a bunch of people (police included)....pulled pistols and just started firing rounds.  A whole bunch of shooting erupts.....with seventy-odd people wounded, and four dead folks on the ground (from the gunshots, not the bomb).

The numbers business being faulty?  There's been various discussions over the years and some people think the wounded number might be two or three times what is generally regarded as 'fact'.  A lot of wounded people just walked away....preferring not to admit being anywhere near the event.

What the Chicago news media did after this?  Well...they blamed the union folks, and the term 'anarchist' started to get uttered at the same level that 'militia-members' gets uttered today.  

The accusation of infiltrators or 'insiders' being uttered?  This is a curious thing.  Pinkerton agents were quickly pointed as possible in the planning process, and maybe the use of the dynamite itself.  

Some or all of the legal proceedings simply 'cooked-up'?  Well....this gets brought up and there's little you can do but read the accepted history and go over the suggested false-history (fake news, more or less).

The court hearing (running from 21 June to 11 August)?  More or less....a circus atmosphere.

The bomb 'thrower' ever brought to justice?  No.  No one could ever get a serious bit of evidence to say who this was.  

The fact that there are a serious number of Germans in the middle of this anarchist accusation?  Well....that is an odd part of the story.  Maybe there were just a lot of radical Germans who immigrated into the US, or maybe they were wild characters to start with.

Enough material for a twenty-hour mini-series?  Oh, without any doubt.  But you'd be dragging up a lot of 1880s history which people of today simple aren't aware of. 

All of this.....of an incident where more people were dead from gunfire, than the actual bomb itself?  Yeah, that is an interesting part of the story.  

Trying to Define Fascism In Today's Age

 If you went up to most people (in the US) and asked them to define fascism....they'd stand there for about 30 seconds and half of them would suggest the Italian or German governments of the 1930s.  Beyond that.....they might utter that it's strict and very much like a right-wing dictatorship.  But there's little else they could say.

The fact that it can be a right or left government?  Oh, well....it's possible.  

The fact that people might vote such a government into place?  Oh, that's possible as well.

Does fascism descent from a progressive government?  In most cases, yes.

The fact that you have to regulate life (in extreme ways)....in order to bring fascism into everyone's life?  Yeah, that's generally the path.

The trend that you need culture 'wars' going on....to pave the way for fascism in your government?  That's another path.

 As much as we all think that things are evolving and changing.....we might want to go back and revisit the definition of fascism.  

Just Something You Notice About YouTube After a While

 You can chat about ghosts, but the minute you talk about Covid.....you could be accused of misinformation.

You can talk over steroids in the 1990s of baseball, but the minute you talk about Covid.....you could be accused of misinformation.

You could convene a table-talk of six people over Big Foot, but the minute you talk about Covid.....you could be accused of misinformation.

You could have a six-hour chat about stupid diet ideas, but the minute you talk about Covid.....you could be accused of misinformation.

You could enchant people with personal opinions about transmission repair (not being a certified mechanic), but the minute you talk about Covid.....you could be accused of misinformation.

You could have a long talk over Australian vacation ideas, but the minute you talk about Covid.....you could be accused of misinformation.

You can speak over Trump and the hoax Russia-gate, but the minute you talk about Covid.....you could be accused of misinformation.

You could have a two-hour critical (very negative) talk about Neil Young's music from the 1970s, but the minute you talk about Covid.....you could be accused of misinformation.

You could have a full hour of interviews from blacks who support voter mandates and voter ID, but the minute you talk about Covid.....you could be accused of misinformation.

You could sit and have a 30-minute conversation with a Mennonite untrained nurse on how to handle colds and flus without over-the-counter drugs, but the minute you talk about Covid.....you could be accused of misinformation.

You could talk about the difference between French demons and Mexican demons, but the minute you talk about Covid, well.....you know.  

Something wrong here?  Eventually, a majority of people will figure this out, and YouTube will be identified as something similar to 'MySpace'.  

My Ten Movies That I Could Not Get into

 1.  Matrix.  After having seen all four (1/2 I've probably seen twice)....I just don't get it.  

2.  The Last Airbender.  About 30 minutes into it....I felt like the story dwindled out....there was nothing. 

3.  Cats.  My wife dragged me to a theater to view the movie.  Out of the 300 potential seats on a Friday evening, there were twelve seats filled.  I consumed all of my 40-ounce Coke to maintain staying awake.  

4.  Batman and Robin (1997).  Maybe it read well on paper, but this movie just fell apart by the mid-way point.

5.  McCabe and Mrs Miller.  This 1971 western sometimes appears on people's top ten lists of westerns.  Frankly, it's probably got the worst script of any western I've seen, and the ending simply doesn't 'fit'.

6.  Bolero (1984).  If you have to watch it....mute the sound, play some 'Dirty Dancing' type of music in the background and just observe Bo Derek.

7.  Battlefield Earth.  It's been 20 years since it came out, and I'd say that it's one of the worst scripted and acted movies in the science fiction arena.  

8.  Cabin Fever (2016).  I stopped at minute 25 in this 98 minute movie.  It's basically a scare-you type script, where some virus is killing folks left and right.....all based out in the rural world.  

9.  Wagons East (1994).  John Candy's only acting in a cowboy western.  There's maybe six jokes in the whole movie.

10.  Blue Steel (1934).  When you can find it....this 54-minute cowboy western features a young John Wayne, and has a single paragraph describing the whole story.  It's one of those movies where virtually every 'extra' had a line to say, and nothing makes sense. 

Observations

 1.  Who is Neil Young?

Well....not anyone who has been on the top 100 music charts for at least thirty years.  

Should we mention that by leaving Spotify....that contract deal was paying him around $750k a year, it'll take a while to find a new service, and they probably will offer only half that amount?

2.  If your politician (mayor, governor, House Member, Senator) says they won't meet you face-to-face, if you are non-vax.....does your opinion radically change?

3.  Trump's chatter that he will re-instate the military folks who've been kicked out for refusing the vax?

It puts the Pentagon in a lousy position....if this occurs....what about back-pay?  The discharge just up and disappearing entirely?  

4.  This attempt to re-make the Robin Hood story into a different gender/ethnic character?

Canadian TV company at work.  Maybe it'll make it through a dozen episodes of production, but I doubt if it survives the first year.

5.  If you got Shingles....should you read up on vitamin D, and be tested?

Yes....there's a fair amount of studies out there and you might want to understand the relationship to vitamin D shortfalls.

6.  If the Russians invade the Ukraine, and US troops are captured......just how will President Biden handle the POW crisis?  

When in the Presence of a 5th-Grade 'Kid'

 

It's kinda like when you are engaged in a conversation with a 5th-grade know-it-all kid who wants to explain evolution, IP addresses, the way that water-towers function, orbits of satellites, mercury thermometers, string theory, Wi-Fi, Pi, or cryptocurrency.  After a while, you tell the fifth-grade kid to scram.

Maybe fifty years ago...some idiot politician could say something and six months later....we'd just forget about what the guy said.  

Today, all this gibberish that was said in 2019/2020....is just laying there.  You pick up a piece and then you remember.....oh yeah, he did say that crap two years ago.

The truth is....if the 5th-grade kid would just limit himself and talk over Gilligan's Island and what the castaways should have done, it'd be OK.  If the kid would just discuss fumes put off by scented candles for three lousy minutes.....it'd be OK.  If the kid would just limit himself to discussing the starting pitchers of the Braves....I'd be willing to sit and talk about their upcoming season pitching staff.

But if you got a 80-year old talkative guy who is acting like a 5th-grader and just jabbering away with nonsense....well....you'd like to ask him to get off the porch, and just go home.