Wednesday, November 06, 2024

The Second Tower

It wasn't a fluke.

It wasn't pilot error.

It wasn't instrument failure.

This is what Republicans wanted, and now they have achieved it.

For longer than I'd care to think about we have been warning anyone who would listen that the Republican party was building a monster machine, and that if this went on, it would end in tears and terror. 

The Conservative elite laughed those warnings off as Liberal hysteria and crackpot alarmism until it was far too late.  Now most of the Conservative elite bends the knee to the demons they created, while a few flail around trying to understand what just happened, and a fewer still seem willing to entertain the possibility that the Republican base they helped to create really are a mob or reprogrammable meatbags and completely lost to reason.

The legacy media mocked and ignored those warnings as absurd, or childish or otherwise unserious, or somehow too shrill and strident to be "tonally" acceptable.  They categorically refused to see the danger coming for them with knives out until it was far too late.  Now most of the legacy media bends the knee to the monsters they enabled, while a few stumble about looking for an answer -- any answer -- that doesn't implicate them.

As for me, other than being unutterably sad at the outcome of the election and fearful in a hundred new ways about the future, nothing has fundamentally changed in my estimation of the forces at work in our country.  The Republicans party remains a fascist killdozer being run by hobgoblins and grifters.  The legacy media continues to be a near-comatose husk of its former self, being run by amoral moguls and fascist-friendly cooperators.  

The dangers have escalated and are much more immediate, but other than the fact that no one need bother with figleave hyphenates like "neo-" or "proto-" to describe what is very clearly our  American fascist party, the job remains the same.  Protect the weak and the vulnerable who didn't ask for and do not deserve any of this, support each other and take it one day at a time.  

So whether you are a person of faith or not, whether in victory or defeat, this by  John Wesley remains sound advice.

“Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.”

Best of luck to us all. 

-- driftglass



I Am The Liberal Media



5 comments:

Jon Sitzman said...

Well said. Good luck to us all.

wibble said...

Having a bad bout of "Burn It All Down" at the moment... ~>X[

...I wish I could say that I was surprised, but gods, these people.

Dave McCarthy said...

how long until Olbermann uses "killdozer"?

Robt said...

Now the election was rigged to me. To think I served and fought in war to defend my fellow Americans so they could live in freedom only to hand it over to the Hoover era bwealthy, the Hitler adoring now dictator who wants NAZI generals. As long as government power is used harshly to punish their fellow Americans they been assimilated to hate on.
I expect Trump to executive order everything to Big macs with fries to [adorning all his J6 traitorous criminal allies. What he can;t or doesn't E.O. McConnell will certainly rid the senate of the filibuster to accomplish what his billionaire donors paid for him to do and of course Trump will get his cut of the money to sign into law. Of course the SCOTUS is in place to rule to convince us that GW Bush is president sort of made up legal speak to help justify., Fact is, SCOTUS is off the hot seat from coming president defector now that Trump is elected.

Have a lot of considerations to endure. Looking at my investments to ensure marker crashing doesn't ham me as much .
There is some reflecting on the Democrats control of the senate. Why they did not ruthlessly use their majority to change things. Sure Manchin and the Arizona ditsy stood to preserve the filibuster and even Biden refused to entertain adjusting the imbalance of the federalist justices by adding to the court was passive in my opinion. How our justice system bent over for criminals backed by wealthy lawyers.
Right now, the aner level bubbles up with the thought that Americans who support and endorsed this political march to collapse of a nation. deserves every rotten bite of the apple they bit into.

mjs said...

Just waiting for another well-meaning conservadem to come along and explain to us that shit sandwiches aren't all that bad.