Jan6 Stuff

Jon Stewart with Anne Applebaum

Taking the death of democracy global.

Today's Problem

Hershel Walker's Abortion Controversy

Nope - I beg to differ, Jon.

Yeah, I get it - it's a joke. But even the vaccine thing would be ignored. The rubes are conditioned to accept, and to rationalize, and even to embrace whatever horror or contradiction comes from the candidate they've been instructed to support.

Daddy State Awareness

BASICS: 

• The Daddy State lies as a means of demonstrating their power. 
• The lies have practically nothing to do with the subject of the lies.
• Lying about everything is a way to condition us - to make us accept the premise that they can do anything they want. 
• THEIR GOAL IS TO DICTATE REALITY TO US.

The PACT Act

Senate Republicans actively blocked a piece of good legislation that would bring some relief to veterans.

(See post: Get it Straight)

Jon Stewart goes after 'em - "Senator Toomey won't sit down with this man - because he is a fucking coward."

Oh The Games We Play

It comes around to this: Putin has Brittney Griner arrested and detained and put on trial for trivial crap, thinking that he might be able to get Trump to play a role in getting her out - or just arrange it to look like Trump did it - which would give Trump some of the cred he needs to get back to the White House.

The Problem With Jon Stewart

BTW -  Dawn Staley  For  President 

Today's Reminder

Ignore for a minute the privilege and the class stratification implied, and notice the straightforward racism couched in terms of American exceptionalism.

"If black people study hard and work hard, they stand just as good a chance of success as anybody else."

The implication being that since most black people are still having inordinate difficulty attaining the status and the wealth and the success that white people enjoy here in USAmerica, then there must be something wrong with black people.

But no - there's no racism here - certainly no systemic racism - we're not a society built on racist policies - blah blah blah.

Tim Wise: It's not a glitch, it's a feature. The system has not failed brown people - the system is working as designed. 

Econ 101

The Problem with Jon Stewart

Same question as always - how come I have to search this shit out and get it from a former late night comedy guy who's moved into podcasting, instead of seeing it on my liberal TV box every fucking day, like the "conservatives" keep saying?

BTW, did you catch that last bit from Dr Owens? About the lack of a Power Theory in Economics?

IM(paranoid)O - the Daddy State is working hard to keep us from learning about Critical Race Theory, out of fear that we'll learn about the umbrella concept which is Critical Power Theory.

The New Jon Stewart

He's recycling a lot of his schtick from The Daily Show, and it doesn't come off as well.

He might be having a hard time figuring out how to get back into it - to provide some good comic relief without seeming to make light of some very heavy shit.

The Problem, With Jon Stewart

393 million guns

332 million Americans

There's something wrong here, America.

It seems like a very good idea to make it a lot harder for certain people to get guns.

• Sex offenders
• People with a history of violence, particularly Domestic Violence
• People on the Terrorist Watch List

And Stewart hits pretty close to what I've advocated.

 There's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

The problem With Jon Stewart

A clip from one of the segments. with Stewart leading a good discussion that points out some very big elephants in a very small room.

To reiterate that one point - there are no good wars. We can justify the project on certain ridiculously rare occasions, but we have to stay cognizant that there's just never a time when going to war isn't a matter of choice.

Mullens's assertion that we didn't have a debate before we went into Iraq seems to imply that we could've talked about it but chose not to.

If that's what he meant, that's bullshit

There was plenty of pushback from "the left", but this whole country got steam-rollered. We stood up and screamed our fool heads off, and we were immediately shouted down as a buncha hippie has-beens and leftie terrorist-loving blockheads. And the "liberal media" led the way on that one.

We were right about all of it. ALL OF IT. As usual.

6 trillion dollars disappeared during a 20-year splurge that made billionaires out of millionaires, and millionaires out of shiftless no-account grifters.

The real cost of it is always born by the people up front doing the fighting and the bleeding and the dying - and then "when it's over", the guys who spent their time at the broken end of the bottle get to deal with the continuing residual miseries of PTSD and SUD and the multitude of diseases caused directly by their service - all by themselves - ignored and dismissed by the assholes who turn a profit on human suffering.

There's something very wrong with the way we're doing things.

The people who make the decisions about going to war are the ones who profit from it, while everybody else pays the price.

Shit's gotta change.

Jon Stewart Rides Again

"Launching" soon - The Problem With Jon Stewart.