And I Was Quietly Done With The Owl.

 But this one was too fucking weird to go unshared.

To recap.  The owl is a retired law prof and still blogger who, from her unique POV, blogs.  Sometimes she comes across as a kind of syntax Nazi.  Other times she comes across as a what the fuck you talking bout?  

Try this one.  To  set it up, she posted about some article in the Times, and she is nitpicking the word choices.  

"I wonder how the NYT heard the "quiet conversations" and how, assuming you could hear them, you would know that the interlocutors had a particular feeling and it was unshakable, and how, assuming you would know that, the feelers of the unshaken feeling felt that they knew the contents of the mind of the man in her life, that he both wants to support the woman and doesn't want to admit he's having trouble doing what he thinks he is trying to do."

Firstly.  She speculates all the fucking time, so I do not get why she is so confused by people maybe  speculating.

Secondly,  a quiet conversation is not the same as silent.  Sheesh.

Thirdly, why should everyone be totally literal, even?  Who made her the boss of all media?

Lastly.  I am not going to put her in the same deteriorating mental state category as bozo.  He who is the maga man candidate.  However if a woman spoke like that to me on a first date, I would end it fast, and never want to repeat.

Why Bozo Isn't Losing Polling Points for Being Insane-scary.

I think "The Daily Show" accidentally figured out what is really going on.  However.  I grade hard.  And I love that about myself.

I don't find bozo funny, charming, or at all entertaining.  I have actually had root canal.  And I would put suffering more than five straight minutes of him on a par with root canal.  At least closer to that than five minutes of any true "reality"  TV show.  Which I despise with a passion few can understand, unless they also despise "reality"  TV with a similar passion.  And I mean, where it really isn't a real competition, as in cooking, or singing, or a variety act competition.  And the only one of them I can at all stand is, "The Voice."  And I am far from a loyal viewer.  I am fickle.  Anyway.

My default is you do you boo.  But not when it comes to voting for bozo.  Be amused by him, if that is your low tastes.  But voting for him is a crime against many of your fellow Americans.  And yeah.  That is the point in voting for him.  In all seriousness.

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.

Motherfucking Nazis, and Sympathizers.

 I have decided it is perfectly fair to call any flat out Bozo supporter a Nazi.  In similar reasoning, it is fair to me to call anyone who is sympathetic to bozo a Nazi Sympathizer. 

To be fair.  I have been calling Republicans Nazis for decades.  Back in the day when only the marginal extremist fascist minded ones would say say out loud, they wanted to do mass deportations, and use the military on American citizens of the other party.  But now that Bozo, the GOP candidate for POTUS is saying shit like that at his rallys and in interviews? 

The previously fringy Nazi shit is now mainstream GOP policy position.

All Bozo supporters are Nazis.

All those who are sympathetic to him are Nazi Sympathizers.

Hey.  Owl.  You are very sympathetic to bozo.  I have not seen you raising any alarms about his plan to de qualify legal immigrants, and shove them in camps pending mass deportations.  Or criticize his plan to unleash the military against perceived enemies in the other political party.

He is spewing pure Nazi level ideas.  That makes him a Nazi.  And you are sympathetic to him.  And not opposed.  Just saying.

 

About that VP Debate. And the Whiny Yale Lawyer.

 

Konspiracy Kids

 So when the charges came down against NYC mayor Adams.  I was a little suspicious about them.  Not really the charges but how the investigation even started?  But I was not going to read the indictment unless paid to.  It's a lawyer thing.  Sometimes I will read shit if I am interested enough.  Sometimes I take the, pay me to do it, position. 

I don't think he is beyond graft. But US Attorney offices are political to start.  Political appointees hire staff.  And the job attracts ambitious lawyers.  And taking down the high and mighty as a US Atty has launched many political careers. 

Never mind FBI is not a totally objective agency.  Shit.  I remember hearing about Giuliani having some still then, loyal buddies on the NY office a few years back.  But we shall see.  

PS.  I read some where that one of the AUSAs on the case is a former Kavanaugh clerk, who not only signed the we ex clerks endorse him,  letter.  Back during that contentious confirmation process.  Oh.  And the bitch already got dinged by a Fed judge on a public sector corruption case, for prosecutoral overreach. 

So even if what the meme says is often mostly true.  Sometimes, having inside knowledge will at least make someone very cynical about some shit.

And if there is anything I am cynical about, it is where humans and power over other humans is at issue.

A Rare Moment of Praise for The Owl, (but zeroed out.)

 I respect what she said about that racist movie, made by racists, called, "Am I Racist?"

They are racists because, only a racist would think it would be a good idea to make a movie making fun of racism.  To start a project to belittle anti racism, is to support actual racism, actually.  Sometimes life is that simple!  Sure, they would say they were going after some hustlers  and well meaning but wrong minded people who just happen to see racism everywhere  (it is, actually.  Said broadly without going on a tangent.)

So I criticize her for putting money in those racist's pockets!  Bad Owl.  Very bad!

"That sums up what bothered me about the movie. The filmmaker had an agenda, so I couldn't trust him to be fair to the people he was tricking. And of course, tricking them itself is unfair. The fact that he lured them by paying the fees they demanded — including $50,000 for one women — might make some people think they deserved what they got."

But her take is sort of  . . .  objective and reasoned:  But anyone could have come to tat conclusion with out watching the movie after paying money for a ticket and thereby supporting the racists who made it.

So the financial support for the project cancels out any props for her take on it.

Confession.   I am someone who was talking about the need for antiracism, more than three decades ago.  I do not appreciate the mission of attacking DEI and all of the anti racist endeavors.  Some people might think I am being unfair in calling the idea and motivation behind this movie to have been and remains,  mostly to "publish" racist propaganda.  But there is more to it than that.  They are making some money on it.  Come to think of it.  This is the major takeaway from the project.

On group of grifters set out to "expose" another alleged group of alleged grifters. 

But the targets are in it at least partly, if not greatly, for a higher purpose.  After all.  If the anti racists succeed.  Then they are going to have to find something else to do.  But the actual efforts by the people behind this project show, there still are way the fuck too many racists in America.  Accuse them of being in it for the money all ya like.  But the anti racists are not going to run out of racism to fight, any time soon.

So the movie ultimately proves the need for anti racists.