New Feature: Soundtrack for today’s entry: RevCo
I’m getting tired of documenting what happens in this world now. Pay for a decent, reputable news source, and get real news. I’m still something of an Anglophile, so I read the U.S. edition of The Manchester Guardian and the BBC. This is what’s on my mind.
Exhibit One that caught my eye this morning was this piece of Buffoonery American: Again with the Stupid Bleach! So, rather than do something stupid and actually swallow bleach, a number of Americans are using ‘common sense’ and gargling with it instead. If bleach keeps away Covid-19, maybe roach spray will prevent cancer, and maybe Drano prevents heart attacks. The truth is, they ARE all good at curing diseases, since the patient taking them soon dies, and thus does not have to preoccupy themselves with diseases at all. Lest I get sued for the few dimes I earn selling my plasma,
DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES TREAT YOURSELF WITH ANY HOUSEHOLD CLEANING PRODUCT AT ANY TIME IN PERPETUITY THROUGHOUT THE BLOODY UNIVERSE!
That said, Exhibit Two is this: Former Trump Chief of Staff General Kelly: ‘Voters should look harder at who (you) elect.’ With all due respect, General, complementary advice would be that perhaps you should look harder at your perspective bosses. Waiting until we’re five months from his possible reelection is cutting it awfully close if you’re just trying to do the right thing. I’m relieved that finally some common sense is leaking out from a few of his former staff members. Another is former defense secretary General James Mattis. I am relieved that somebody finally is discussing the importance of the separation of powers. Why did it take 3 1/2 years for people in positions of power to finally say something that all 7th grade civics students know (even if they studied only a little)?
My main point is that so much of what is going on now IS important because it is has nothing to do with what President Caligula cares about This is what must be driving him bat-guano: he is not driving the news cycle now. Angry, real people are doing so. Go to your Google news and look at the Top Stories headlines. One about Buffalo police pleading not guilty, the next is about large crowds of protesters going to D.C. to mourn George Floyd, one is on Biden, and one on the 13th Amendment may end racist policing. The next is about activists working to sue the LAPD for their anti protest tactics. The last large-font story was on WH reporters being forced to sit close together for pointlessly aesthetic reasons. Five of the first six stories on my google news were driven by the actions of average people. The best part: Trump was not the point of any of those stories.
Instead we should consider the issue of my June 2nd entry regarding the nearly 1,300 unarmed black people who have been killed by police since 2015. Or, we can read about the many attacks on Native women: Native Women neglected, abused, murdered, disappeared….
Or, We can read about migrant children STILL being locked up in camps, vulnerable to the pandemic, and often without their parents. Migrants Families and the Virus.
All right, I need a spot of breakfast. More later, Bubba.
Okay, back for more. Ate a bit and then mowed the grass. Franklin Foer wrote an interesting piece detailing how the Trump Administration seems to be falling apart like an old sweater. It was published in The Atlantic and it was intriguing the way he documented just how badly things went this week for The Man Who Would Be Autocrat.
Still more evidence of high level resistance to Trump: Printed in Newsweek.
Let me finish my original thought. I started out reporting on a story describing the knuckle draggers we have in this country who are gargling with Clorox to ward off germs, along with most signs of life. Then I summarized a few stories of terrible things happening to citizens and guests of the United States. If these turkeys are teasing their tonsils with Total Home and cannot muster a supportive word for all these people who are being victimized by our government’s benign and malign neglect as well as its immoral direct actions……then pal, you just drink all the Total Home Cleaner you want.
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