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-- Fred Hampton, American Black Panther Party activist
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My message to the Lincoln Project: No, I kill the bus driver.
I say we haven't taken Trump seriously enough since Day 1, possibly through a misplaced trust in our institutions,whether it be Moscow Mitch and then-Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, the generals in his cabinet, Robert Mueller or the courts. I gave up listening to Stephanie Miller last year after the second or third time I heard someone on her show ask "How can we not laugh at this administration? How can we not?" I don't know—because it undercuts the seriousness of the danger we're in? Now we're staring down the barrel of fascism, assuming we're not already in the barrel. Anything the Trump Administration does stopped being funny to me a long time ago.
"We're all going to die, and probably horribly. But at least we can laugh at how completely ridiculous it is to be killed by a bunch of frog-worshiping manchildren."
-- Elizabeth Sandifer, back cover to the expanded edition of Neoreaction a Basilisk: essays on and around the alt-right (Ithaca, NY: Eruditorum Press, 2017 [2016])
I don't find that comforting at all.
Having had a stroke, I take Fergus as seriously as any other risk factor for an adverse health outcome, which he unmistakably is. Failing to do so has consequences, and I'm still living with consequences twelve years later.
Which brings me to my other point, each of us has our role to play in the eighty sixing of this awful fool, and some of us are limited by health, resources, and other circumstances.
I've been doing my dead level best to achieve the goals that article you read outlined since, oh, 2005? Somewhere around there. And I certainly don't intend to let up any time soon, god willing and the creek don't rise.
Especially now that we have such a stark unignorable contrast between the awful, awful, old white men conforming to the most awful of the laundry list of awful "traditions" right out there in front of god and the TV cameras, telling us why we can't have health care, equality, dignity, financial security, a future for our children, breathable air, drinkable water, and why we must die of the fucking plague so they can be reelected to make sure we continue not having any of those things, and then all of these beautiful, powerful, sane, compassionate women of color saying, no that is insanity, we don't have to live like that.
That's quite a contrast to come out of the gate with on our side.
I read the Twitter feeds of some women in Missouri, and the whole "black girl magic" thing didn't just appear out of nowhere. These women have been in this fight the whole damn time, and their recent success in fucking Missouri is one of the brighter spots in this ongoing shitstorm.
I can only hope that our efforts are as successful as they will have to be to overcome the level of cheating that we can see ramping up, and the other cheating we can't see but must assume is there.
Thank you again for the podcast. The covid has made its way into Oakhurst, and Briana went to the Camarena urgent care facility about some bad allergies she has been having and they very gamely tried not to freak the fuck out as some of her symptoms were stuffy nose and she made the mistake of mentioning that it made it hard for her to breath at night. So she had to complete the consultation on the phone from the car, but the medicine they prescribed seems to be working well, so sometimes doing things differently to stave off the goddamn apocalypse works out just fine.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
One of the republican mantra being shoved at you across the air waves.
How the GOP (in all) including their own party members that are working class that self flog.
Working class too lazy to get off the couch and return to the jobs that do not exist and those lazy ones with their liibtard comedic excuses of pre conditions that make them extra vulnerable to COvID.
My comic pastor Carlin preaches;
Conservatives say if you do not give the rich more money, they will lose their interest to invest. Same GOP says for the working class and poor. They will lose or lost all incentive to work because we gave them too much money.--- Amen
The Citizen soldiers. national Guard and the Reserves who hold civilian jobs and are out of work and stay prepared to defend our country in the military. Ready to be called out. Yes, they are working class and too lazy to get off the couch. If they wore hard working and inherited enough, they would not have enlisted to sit on the couch when called out to war.
As Trump leads the way as the going gets tough the Donald goes Golfing and the Senate GOP go on Recess.
How do we get the lazy off the golf course and the other lazy off recess.??
"We don’t think you fight fire with fire best; we think you fight fire with water best. We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism. We’ve stood up and said we’re not going to fight reactionary pigs and reactionary state’s attorneys like this and reactionary state’s attorneys like Hanrahan with any other reactions on our part. We’re going to fight their reactions with all of us people getting together and having an international proletarian revolution."
Fred was one hell of a guy, yet another hero taken from us too early.
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