Helen of Troy Was a Half Goddess

And there is some weird part in the story of the seduction of her mortal mamma, with Zeus turning into a peacock.  It's some fucked up shit.  But memo to the assholes bitching and moaning about the new Odessey movie with a Black actress being cast as Helen?

Get Over Your White Supremacist Bigotry

Like the smart lady in the vid says.  It's a myth.  It's not history.  Homer's retelling of old tales of the old gods are not really the history of a people. It's their mythology, and old polytheist religion.  That is mostly . . .  reimagined Egyptian mythology and their old polytheist religion. Minus the obsession with death and rebirth.

So when you think of it.  They left out the best parts.  Messrs Ibis and Jacquel.  Otherwise known as Thoth and Anubis.

The scribe for the book of life and deaths, and his sort of counterpart, the lord gatekeeper to the afterlife and the realm of Osiris.

The OWL and the Batya Cat.

 Hey, look at me.  I managed to make a reference to Batya Unger-Sargon, without grabbing for the low hanging fruit of making a play on Batya's name, and subbing, sarcastically Batty.  Anyway.

For those of you not familiar, she is the allegedly former left of center, allegedly a journalist.  But even if she somehow qualifies as an opinion journalist?  On account of having such a gig?  I don't really consider opinion sharers to be journalists, on account of not following the ethnical, and other rules for real journalists.

Anyway, that maga, domestic Hitler fluffer has been making the rounds, wherever she seems she still can, to spew a favorable opinion of a layman's analysis of the insanely corrupt indictment against Former FBI Dir. Comey, and spew related dishonest talking points.  And she is one of the liars making the dishonest argument that the American "left" if not more specifically Democrats, are the worst offenders regarding violent rhetoric.

Now, a fact check.  In the past year, alleged incidents and "plots" from people identified as left of center has gone up and above the right wing loons.  But note, is more for 2025 then it has been in decades.  My response to that is firstly.  Lumping actual completed criminal acts together with "plots" is adding too much to the graph.  If you want an accurate picture, separate that shit. Make the chart just about actual acts of violence, not people thinking about maybe doing violence.

And after that?  Since we have a right wing, authoritarian regime that is out there in a unprecedented way for America, cracking down on the population?  With political bigotry, bias, and prejudice aforethought? Shit.  Why would any right wing Americans need to go out and commit hate crimes against the people they hate on their own?  

Wanna go beyond merely owning the libs and the browns and the Blacks?  Wanna  kick their asses and bust their skulls?  Join ICE!  They are recruiting!  Promising bonuses, and new and recently lowered standards! 

The overall 2025 figure does not include acts of violence committed by the Federal government and any right wing controlled states or cities.  Get my point?  The figure isn't cooked as much as it is technically inaccurate as far as actual, political violent acts committed.  And state sponsored violence is not beyond the category of political violence.  It's not exempt as data, even if arrests and convictions for that are not the rule.

Anyway, the OWL saw fit to do one of her stir the pot posts.   She shared without comment or context, some tweet from Batya, where she asserts with out any evidence at all:

"but the organizations producing that data are cooking the books so they can smear the Right with the Left's crimes.?

Reference to what I said about not following the ethnical, and other rules for real journalists.  

Further reference to what is the actual source of the data Batya blows off as cooked books, and smears.  And that would be DOJ stats, State and local stats.  Data culled from Federal and state and local criminal court filings.  And the kind of researchers who have jobs to track that shit, and if it's a proper honest academic job?  What ever they publish is instantly subject to informal if not quickly, formal peer review.

Parting shot (metaphorically speaking.)  Lately on my facebook wall, I have been posting pics and memes often with either of the following:

"Fucking republicans!"

Or "Fucking maga republicans."

And I am remind of the time I told a republican nut job lady I made the mistake of getting emotionally involved with, to fuck off.

She immediately accused me of making a violent reference.  So yes.  There is nothing new about fucking republicans escalating any criticism, push back, resistance, or negative comment as if it were some violent threat against them.  Because they are liars.  And delusional.  And very thin skinned.

Good Definition for Evil

 

And it well explains why Conservatism, as an ideology, and ordinary Republican Party beliefs are flat out evil.  Even before we touch the Nazification of the party from maganazism. 

Fucking Nazis. I mean Maganazis.

 

Pay Attention, You Idiotic Motherfuckers.

 It's not censorship when a web platform kicks people off because they are spewing bullshit. Remember. When The 1st Amendment was written, the people who ratified it did so when the printing press was state of the art, mass communication. And those guys knew and respected the unofficial printing press rule. Whoever owns and or controls the specific printing press, gets to decide what get printed on that printing press.

About That Election

 

What Does Bozo the Orange Nazi, and Muskrat have in Common?

 Very special daddies!  Bozo's daddy was associated with domestic nazis, and muskrat's with South African nazis.

I am Not Calling The Owl a Racist. But That Clearly is Racist Bullshit

 Each and every motherfucking time a white person, criticizes Black people, in this case,  Kimberlé Crenshaw, with the words of another Black person.  Who usually is . . . surprise!  A conservative; in this case a Black British conservative, Kemi Badenoch.  Who proves herself to be as ignorant as white supremacist American conservatives, who criticize CRT without having done the reading.

How the fuck can any sane, rational, fair minded person take seriously the person who criticizes an entire, and decades old social and legal philosophy, without that person ever having done the reading?

This lady admits to having never read at least Kimberlé Crenshaw.  And yet has lots of opinions about those writing, those ideas.  But that is her fucking damage.  But there is no fucking excuse for some old white lady in  America to platform that shit.  

Not a defense of the views of the Black British Conservative.  All conservatives believe in an inherently evil ideology.  I have been saying that since a was fucking 12.  or 13.  But this lady was born in Nigeria.  And I don't know when she immigrated to the UK.  But the point is.  She clearly doesn't know shit about the contents of the data set represented by a Venn Diagram of American law, and America's history of white supremacy.

This lady admits that.  She proudly says she did not do the reading.  And whatever life she has lived, it wasn't even in The Americas, never mind the US.

No matter how pathetic and ignorant the Black British Conservative might be.  Not as pathetic as the retired white American former Con Law Prof is, for missing all that was wrong with the quote, and her platforming of it.

Anyway. Imma gonna link it.  And not talk about the owl again this year, if ever.

I don't make New Years promises.  But I will have aspirations, time to time, some of the time.

Ann Althouse Platforming Black on Black Crime. I Mean Racist Bullshit.

 

Matches my mood.

 

Not only, but particularly when Nazis are in charge.  Or about to be in charge.  All Republicans are Nazis.

Some Examples of White Privilege.

 If not, some internalized white supremacist leanings. 

Pining for the good old days, when racist jokes were largely tolerated.

Pretending they are still tolerated.

Saying people who criticize you for making racist jokes, don't have a sense of humor.

Saying people who get upset over racist jokes, need to just get over it.  That is what JD Vance said. 

Thinking you don't have to clearly apologize, when the warm up act for your show tells flat out racist jokes.

And lastly.  Having a hard time describing flat out racist jokes, as flat out racist. 

That is what the Owl did.  Or didn't do.

Trying to Cut Down.

 What is it?  Three weeks to the election?  I am trying to cut down on posting on my FB wall about whatever latest racist, hateful, dangerous, and or flat-out insane shit bozo says or does.  It's pointless.  I am even getting tired of thinking about why these maga lovers and sympathizers can emotionally connect with such a racist, hateful, dangerous, and or flat-out insane shit of a failed person.  It's obvious that tens of millions of Americans do.  Deal.

I am expecting bad, if not the worst.  I said it the other day, shit so bad we haven't see the likes of it since the Civil War.

But I am convinced, it's racism.  More than anything else.  It's the racism, be that of the anxiety over the loss of demographic dominance issue, or the ease with with particularly white Americans of the right wing-ish flavor, resort to racist scapegoating, instead of concluding:

Let's actually overthrow the actual ruling class, actually.

This is where we are.  And I am not in the mood to type, but I will say.  American Federalism has failed.  State Sovereignty, American style is killing America.  We need more than some reform.  We need to reinvent the government.  And with all the insane Republicans out there with outdated, and or insane ideas?  We really can't have a constitutional convention.

So we are right back to needing what I have been saying for decades, is necessary.  The GOP needs to be dismantled via RICO and other laws.

Our current system is unsustainable.  And fascism seems to be the plan, of the GOP be it  maga, or the usual suspects, take over again.

How Best To Succinctly Describe What Is Wrong With America's Government.

It's an anachronistic inadequacy.

I meant to go short here. But that new line of mine comes from a post I made last night, on my FB wall. Where most of my output goes. I started off with the following observation:

Our government is too bespoke for a certain time and place. The late 18th early 19th century, for the slave economy of the victorious former Brit North American colonies. And here I add. Yes. They did set up a government that in theory, was capable of reform, to avoid the kinds of repetitive civil and other domestic wars, that plagued the British Islands for centuries. And less than 80 years in, the US had a major, ugly, bloody civil war of it's own.

And back then after the war, and ever since. The nation has failed to fix the shitty government, that was designed for a specific time and place, where slave owning and anti slave states could agree to a framework for a functioning national government. Which arguably yet functions. But in lots of ways, badly. And seems to, if not makes something close to another civil war inevitable? Could lead to a dictatorship. A mean, ugly and stupid, government led by a figurehead who sees all there is as believing to them. Like a nightmarish, cartoonish version of the monarchy the colonies rebelled against. Never mind, that by the time of the Hanoverian kings, the divine rights of kings was a thing of the past, in Britain, at least.

But It Is About Race. Racial Privilege!

White mediocrity.  Maybe the reason so many white people are perfectly happy to have low expectations for white boys is drilled into their vapid, inferior brains so relentlessly from birth, it is just too dominant.  A white person has to be exceptionally intuitive, smart, and curious, to do the thinking, and analysis, and arrive at the correct conclusion.  America isn't a meritocracy.  What it is is a society of racist privilege, and the ruling faction has such wide and great control, they can have extremely low standards for their own.

After posting that vid about stupid orange bad man's excuse for being a barely coherent idiot, and calling out that ex law professor for (as she did on her blog) in some way shape or form, communicating the idea stupid orange bad man might be some kind of genius.  I put the two ideas together.  America has for the most part and most time, had very low standards for white boys.  And oddly enough, many think they are genetically superior.  Stupid orange bad man, is the poster child/troll for that shit, those people.

I am not going to go long here.  Google the issue.  Read the book.  But I want to take one more run at the Owl.

Yo! Lady!  When you were a law professor, how would you have graded a student's paper if the format/style was like bozo speaking at one of his rallies?  If you had to slog and suffer through 20 rambling, incoherent pages before the student finally made their point, would you reward them or penalize them?

Curious minds want to know.

 

Trump praises his own rambling as part of brilliant strategy called 'the...

It's one thing for the orange poster child for Dunning-Kruger to insist his incoherence is genius.  It's an entirely different matter when retired law professors say that.

Shame on you  Owl.  Particularly for being so shameless.  And an apologist for the dimwitted dictator,

Both Can Be True.

 I am not white.  The Leper Messiah, or bozo, is really so fucking white, there is no possibility he could do anything to get whiter.  And I really think the people who love or merely get him, are also excessively white.  As a cultural matter.  As, there are some not genetically white  folk out there who fall into either category.  And then there are true outliers.  And crazies. 

But maybe part of the reason I so despise Bozo is he is the poster child old man for 

Most possible vile white man, without a criminal history of racist violence.

Yeah.  But ya know? This is not a new realization.  I call him the Leper Messiah because calling him the white trash Messiah could come across as too harsh, to some people.

But yesterday, I called him white trash, on Facebook.  But in Spanish.  So far, I am getting away with that.

Why Does She Think What She Thinks Makes Any Sense? Rhetorical Question, But

 The OWL is at it again.  But I am minimizing my posts about her.  Might just give up, as I am cutting way back on . . . the tiresome.  Anyway. . .

Earlier this week, she posted on her blog, about  some article that mentioned some super serious, tiny dancer student, who did not want to mess with the most basic movement class.  She wanted to wait till next year, when they actually teach the tiny ones how to dance. The Owl asked the insane question:

"Is it okay to love seriousness in 5-year-olds? Mostly, we want the very young to laugh and play — experience delight. What's up with early-arising seriousness?"

Where to start?  She knows nothing about human psychology, never mind early childhood development psychology issues.  How the fuck can a human in America make to their 70s, and seem to be amazed by super serious children?  She spent the bulk of her adult career on a college campus.  Granted, at the law school.  But college campuses are fertile ground for super serious children.  Not all, but many faculty brats are like that. 

I won't go much longer, but I am a big ballet fan.  I love going to the matinee.  And there I get to see the fun loving , silly young girls who are high on the experience.  But.  I also get to see the kids from the ballet company school who see the afternoon performance, after morning class. So I am personally used to seeing tiny, serious ballerinas.

But that level of seriousness is all over.  Sports, academic subjects, other pursuits.  Nothing new or remarkable about super serious kids, lady!

Again.  Like I said before.  She doesn't get the limitations of  her own barely, likely above average mind.  To be fair, I have, only, an above average mind. But I know it.

Now on to politics.  And her sympathy for the devil,  I mean bozo.

Despite the legally trained mind that was a legal academic mind.  Se has bought into the other big lie.  The one about how bozo's enemies have allegedly twisted the legal system to go after him, for political reasons.

Because the Manhattan DA is in some "conspiracy"  with the Biden admin., for bringing State of NY charges from before Biden  even, was POTUS, against bozo?

I am reminded of the time in my juvee defense lawyer days, when the judge painfully explained to the prosecutor they had over charged some shop lifting kids, as being part of a criminal conspiracy,  Which bumps a misdemeanor to a felony.  Short version is, the judge explained the kids were shop lifting at the same time. That is not necessarily a conspiracy.  By the same token, several criminal law suits against bozo at the same time, is likely just that. The inability to think the defendant is more likely a recidivist, career criminal, but instead is some victim of a political witch hunt, is to my mind . . .

evidence of a broken mind.

I will end it there.

Bloodbaths, and Bias, and Brain Farts

 I don't click links to Joe Rogan.  He doesn't merit it.  And I am only mentioning him as the OWL's post that triggered me here?  It deals with something that happened on one of his podcasts.  He had Psychologist Jonathan Haidt on.  And they talked about the now infamous bloodbath comment.  Owl said she was disappointed in him because . . .  badly articulated reasons.  But the seeming gist was, they used an edited clip of the remarks, and Haidt . . . did not condone the use of the extremely violent rhetoric? I guess?

She often fails to attempt to make a point, often.  She often just posts shit, and leave it to the observer to figure out her position or why, why posts the shit?  Here she failed to connect the dots.  She likely would have penalized that level of failing to make sense, when she was a law prof.  I have to guess.  Anyway . . . 

I call her out for being awful.  Just because someone doesn't agree with her, doesn't mean they are "mentally failing," as she says.   Just because someone doesn't share your biases, doesn't mean they are cognitively failing.

Now granted.  One's view on how horrible the bloodbath comment was, may be  greatly affect by how one feels about bozo?  And yet.  Reasonable, neutral minds  could be offended by the use of that bloodbath comment, even given the full context.   Never mind, that according to objective psychologists and people who just grade hard on that kind of violent shit.  The ex president I call bozo, is not what passes for a clear and thoughtful communicator.  So anyone who claims to be sure what the fuck he is saying, isn't. Very often.

Lastly.  As someone who got dinged for saying, "Burn the motherfucker down, metaphorically speaking," on FB.  I can attest to the fact.  Some people have no fucking tolerance for that violent rhetoric, even when the fact it is being used metaphorically is clearly stated.  (Which bozo never does, at first at least.)

But I was  likely dealing with a bot.

But that bot was created by a live human.  I guess.

The OWL is really too fucking willing to cut the crazy ex president slack.  That is how I see it.

To Be As Kind To The OWL As I Can. People Are Free To Make Wild Guesses.

 But is not the way to look smart.  To spew shit like Drunk Uncle, at the bar, on his fifth brewski.

Here is the context  A very biased, pro bozo article in The Post, where it is guessed that bozo might just let NYAG seize his properties.   As if not being able to post cash or bond is "letting" anyone do anything for an appeal of a civil judgment pending appeal.  Anyway, this is the retired law prof's thoughts on the matter:

"I've been thinking about this. Trump could let the March 25th deadline arrive and force James to act. Let her seize Trump Tower. How will that look? How can she manage the place? What will people think? Is he calling her bluff?"

It's not a bluff.  It's court procedure.  And this is fucking NY City!  Any number of experienced managers will gladly manage the property.  For fees.  And or put that shit on the market.  For fees.

Now the article regurgitates what has to be a mostly bullshit line about how no one will want to do business in NYC anymore.  That was allegedly a quote from someone close to bozo.  And there was some other line of bullshit that bozo losing his property will help him in the election?  Not likely.  And granted, I really want him to go so fucking nuts  the protective detail has to admit him to a psych ward, or hospital.  I don't have odds of it, but hey.  He is getting crazier, and crazier.  He might not even make it to the convention. As in, physically unable to be there.  Even maybe not able to be on camera remotely  (from a hospital room.)

Like I said. People are free to make wild if not and also stupid guesses.

For the record, I am not predicting his total mental break down.  But like Wednesday Addams says in the one movie.  "Wait."

But What if That is the Ultimate Hell?

 For months, I have been describing the current social and political reality, featuring the monster I call bozo, as a dominant force in the land, as:

"A bummer bad acid flashback, in the middle of a bummer bad acid trip."

And as well, as not only a nightmare, but someone else's.  As my own nightmares would be better scripted, and more entertaining.  Which historically speaking as the sole user of my own mind, usually has been the case.

But what if that is the ultimate nightmare?  To be stuck in someone else's hell scape?

I will end this quickly and just say, getting stuck in either bozo's or any of his follower's ratchet, toxic, diseased minds would be a horror of horrors, for me.  Just having to share existence with them, is torture enough. And if that violent, hate mongering horde gets control of the Gvt again?  It will be a whole other level.  Just a few minutes ago.  I saw some headline quoting bozo saying, he wants to jail the members of the Jan 6 Committee.  Yes.  It is that bad in America. It is definitely  a nightmare, no matter who's?

 

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