This centers on four things:
1. Shipping out tons of US funds to Ukraine.
2. Selling Trump as a combination of Cartman (Southpark), Stewie Griffin (Family Guy), Cruella de Ville (101 Dalmatians), and Mr Burns (The Simpsons).
3. Making MAGA sound like a combination of Covid and the plague.
4. Allowing woke to be a national standard.
With all this semi-fascists chatter going on via the network news business....I sat and contemplated this 'word-game'.
Could you be just one-quarter-fascist, or 50-50 fascist, or three quarter fascist?
Could you be woke and still a tiny bit fascist?
Could you be normal at home, but full-up fascist at work?
Could you be a juvenile fascist?
Could you attend Sunday school, and hype your fascist side?
Could you avoid showing any movie from the 1950s, without being fascist?
Was Deputy Dawg, Space Ghost, or the Coyote (from Roadrunner fame) fascist?
In today's world, would Italian Benito Mussolini be considered full-up fascist, or just one-quarter fascist?
Are there more male fascists than female fascists, and why?
Finally, is there a rehab or propaganda program to counter fascism....without creating a whole counter-fascism angle? You know....fascism versus fascism?
1. When you go back and add up the participants of the Confederacy in 1860, it's something like 99-percent who were NOT slave-owners. So it's hard to sit at a table today and say they were pro-slavery.
If however, you examine the amount of biased news, corrupted chatter by both political parties, and the dynamics of the day....it was a 'us-versus-them' situation, and men felt compelled to fight over 'something'.
If you then take this script and apply it today? You get a very enthusiastic group, who in a single year....could go from simple woke-enthusiast to a fighting individual over 'something'.
It is odd how history repeats itself.
2. About fifty-percent of the hype that President Biden uttered at the Philadelphia speech....has been 'walked-back' by the President. He says he didn't mean all those things he said.
Just odd, but he makes so few speeches these days.....you have to assume he never read the speech text before that evening.
3. I noticed off one news site.....apparently Americans are applying for pay-Apps, where you can buy groceries, then 'loan' you the money, for you to pay back later.
Yes, for grocery money.
It looks remarkably like 1929/1930 in a way.
I'm one of those people fascinated by discussions on Neanderthals. This week, I sat through a podcast where a PhD guy sat and discussed this one odd difference between modern man living in this same age as the Neanderthal folks.
When you go and talk about a crowd of Neanderthal living in some cave or some location....the number goes from five to fifteen. Modern man in the same era? It could be as low as twenty but typically got into the 120-range (yeah, a tribal unit).
Why? No one has figured this element out.
You would think that with zero birth control and lusty relations going on....typically every two years, the Neanderthal gals were delivering new 'troops' to the clan. Were they more susceptible to disease or early death? Unknown. Was it simply bad luck and one out of every births lead to a death by age ten? Was there some weird ritual going on where someone was sacrificed every six years?
The problem with a low number in the tribe 'game'....for defensive purposes.....you just never can be sure of some fight with the other tribe on the far side of the valley. You might wipe most of them out in a hour-long battle and find two members of your clan were wiped out as well.
Were they just territorial and always inclined to fight over a forty square mile space with any intruder clan?
It's a silly question but you just wonder if the Neanderthals just never grasped that there was safety in numbers.
I sat this morning and watched the roughly 25-minute Philadelphia speech. Some observations:
1. The days where Biden could deliver a peppy and highly enthusiastic speech (probably as late as the 1990s) are long gone. It was a kind of speech that VP Harris should have given.
2. It was just odd how Biden walked to the podium with his wife....then she stepped off to the left.
3. Lighting? Well...it was somewhat dim. Maybe somewhat intentional....maybe accidental? I don't know. It was like they had a 40-watt bulb over him.
4. Scratchy throat thing? Well....yeah, one could notice that.
5. Maa-gaa chatter? It was a funny pronunciation that he tried to use for MAGA folks. How many times did utter the phrase? I stopped counting at ten.
6. The F-Joe Biden chants? Well....you could hear them toward the end.
7. For 2022, there hasn't been that many speeches made by the President and so it's hard to grade this one. I think a lot of people would suggest that 'beacon-to-the-world' status, that he uttered, has come and gone.
My humble guess? You might see one more speech like this prior to the end of 2022. It'll probably come just prior to November's mid-term.
It was a good piece on Political Insider today....topic? "It’s Easy Being A Socialist In A Country You Don’t Have To Escape From."
The general problem with absolute socialist countries....is that you reach some level where you have burned through the company-owed money, and go to private money....then wake up to realize there's no one much to finance your 'gifts' to the public. From that point on....you are in Venezuela.
You can always claim some success with marginal socialism....like Finland, Iceland or Germany....where you talk socialist a lot but your entire landscape is capitalist in nature.
I was in a office once where the topic came up....where would we escape to....if we could up and leave the US. No one really voiced Mexico or Canada. In fact.....most voiced places like the Philippines, Australia, Italy or Greece.....more for the scenic stuff and hospitality....than the economy business.
I've always been of a mind that giving some idiot kid (age 20) four months of time to travel around the globe...would bring 90-percent of people to the reality that it's hard to find a better economic place to live, than the US. I will admit....if it were just for scenery or food....I'd be in Italy in a heartbeat.
Yesterday, apparently some journalist had a chance to ask VP Harris how the college debt cancellation of $10k...would be financed. She had no answer. I won't say she was 'lost' but obviously....no one much in the White House has openly discussed the matter with her.
Eventually, someone will ask the question....from the White House staff around President Biden/VP Harris.....who has such college loan effect on themselves, and did they exercise undue influence on the President. At that point, the game will shift.
But there are three key questions that will be coming out in the weeks to come:
1. If President Biden gave a $10,000 credit this year.....could he give another 2nd $10,000 credit next year?
2. If President Biden can give this type of credit, why couldn't he do the same thing for farmers on farm loans or equipment loans associated with the farms?
3. Finally, can President Biden even give a simple three-minute talk on this subject that makes logical sense?
