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.

Spring is Here!

I am not even getting started about the illegal war but to say:

War crime.

One of my favorite classes in law school was International Law. My grade suffered because it was entirely based on a paper.  And I was a day late getting it in.  Was docked a whole letter grade.  I had this bad habit in law school of picking very ambitious topics, and mine was environmental refugees.  So yeah. My interest in it is both old and deep. Considering that I previously took international based political science classes.  Old and deep.  Anyway.

On to domestic tragedies.  

ICE at airports is not the issue as much as how ICE needs to be shuttered.  The successor unit needs a very limited jurisdiction.  And if it takes 90 days to reevaluate under stricter qualifications, the former ICE agents who want to work in the new unit, and screen newbies?  Then so be it.  Remove the pathological and artificial quotas and we can easily live with 90 days of hiatus.

I will just now jump to ordinary politics.   This meme well represents my current mood.  The Democratic party clearly is better and governing, and has a truly moral moral foundation. Which is a large part in the being better at governing part.  But these days they seem not good, sorta bad at politicking.  Particularly when some of the leaders still insist that being more centrist, and or populist is the answer.  Fuck that.   

Zohran Mamdani's success in getting elected Mayor of New York might not be the template for other areas and offices,  But he campaigned on progressive positions and got the rank and file in NY excited.  I know.  I was at that last big rally before the election.  It was a homecoming for Democrats who remember and never forgot what we are supposed to believe in, and do.  

We believe in letting people be.  We believe in equal justice for all.  Not just the people who are most like us.  And as opposed to the ignorant shit republicans say about us.  Most of us do not believe in free stuff just for the joy of giving free stuff.  What we actually believe in is paying the debt owed to groups and individuals who were denied equal justice and rights.  And we also believe in helping those who need help.  Don't be judgmental when you could be helpful.

And what we do it try to enact policies and govern to achieve that.

 The French Are Better At Democracy, And Resistance.

I am taking the rare risk of posting a vid before watching all of it.  Mainly because I am sure it is what it claims to be about.  And I keep saying shit like this.  If Americans could get down like the French we would never have had a second orange Hitler term.  He would have been run out of the fucking country!

Defending Racist Bullshit Is Like Promoting It. OWL!

 But I am not going to flat out call her a racist for how she covered the latest racist, white supremacist scandal caused by orange Hitler.  However, I call the difference a difference without distinction.

She made two posts about it as of this point in time.  In neither does she call it out for the racist horror it is.  In the first, she publishes what eventually became the current official excuse.  Sime staffer did it.  Orange Hitler admitted watching the first part.  but said he never saw the other part.  In her second one, she at least recognizes that the excuse could be bullshit, or as she says, "Or that's what Karoline Leavitt wants us to believe."

She is less interested in the blatant, psychopathic racism of the current POTUS than she is about his," social media method."  Which is where the second post goes  and ends.  She even posted a vid allegedly about that.  I lasted about 36 seconds.  He is revolting.  I was hoping there was going to at least be some analysis, but it was just him being his insane racist self.  That is why I barely got past half a minute.  That is about all I can take of him.  He is that revolting.

Anyway, her take on this latest racist, white supremacist scandal caused by orange Hitler says all we need to know about her, to judge her.  I would argue.

He Seems Incoherent Because He is!

 I am not going to make this so  much about the OWL.  But she posted something idiotic on her blog today.  Essentially she is one of the people who still give credit to orange Hitler's incoherent communication style under the label he uses for it.  The weave.  

Maybe I have spent too many hours reading psychology texts, and keeping up with the revisions and new editions of  The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, (currently Fifth Edition, to fall for that shit.

Add to that my BA in one of the story telling arts, Theatre.  And all the Communications and Video and Lit classes taken, and it is easy for me to get to the point.  An incoherent communication style, is evidence of an incoherent communication style.  Which itself is compelling evidence of a person having an incoherent mind.  

Particularly as his mental state, said casually and not as a credentialed professional's diagnosis, is demented and deteriorating.  I have to wonder about anyone still buying into that witless drivel about how its a deliberate choice.  He's the president of the fucking USA!  He isn't an avant garde, Hip Hop playwright and or beat box poet.  Perhaps not under Article II specifically, but as national chief executive, it is at least within the reasonable expected duties to be able to clearly articulate things about the nation and his administration of it's affairs, instead of doing "art."

No one should think why can't he do both?  There barely is enough time in the day for even more able people to do "the job."  And this bitch has less talent than a bucket of vomit.  So he fails at both, far as I see.

I am reminded of a sweet, and very attractive girl who worked on the same case with me, years ago.  Our office was located near NYC's Madison Sq. Park.  A lot of homeless people and otherwise mentally dysfunctional folk could be found there, any given day.  So one day we were talking about those kinds of people.  She mentioned to me something about how she liked talking to them.  I, a former family court lawyer who had several clients with issues, previously, could and did not agree.  I said flat out, I try to avoid them.    I literally actually backed away from her, to make a visual point.

Now I an not going to say only crazy people want to talk to crazy people.  But most of the people I know who do are either licensed mental health professionals, or people like lawyers who have a professional reason.

Not all that long after that chat, she got fired.  Her work was usually below quota, but one day she managed to not do any work at all.  I ain't saying she was crazy.  She wasn't incoherent.  But girl was not really living deeply enough in the usual reality most people I know exist in.

As if she had her own version of the weave for how she perceived life, significantly different than the reality based people have.

I am trying to be polite.  She was cute, and nothing but nice to me.  But yeah. Just past eccentric I would have to say.  The kind of difference the current version of the DSM would place on a spectrum you would not want to be, if being considered mostly normal matters to you at least.

Some people just don't give a fuck.

Oh, and one last thing.  orange Hitler is bat shit crazy, and on the bad side of the spectrum for several of these disorders.  Nevermind.  He is pushing 80.  A very unhealthy man, who likely has some organic brain problems that we likely will never know about, for sure.

I will actually thank the O.W.L. for a change

 I did a net search for, "People who are huffy and don't know it's not a good thing."  The OWL triggered that because, today she posted a link to the Oscar's nominations, with the following huffy, to my mind at least, comment:

"I don't think I've ever been less interested in the nominations. I haven't seen or been interested in seeing any of these movies. "

I am reminded of those tiresome, right wing idiots who pretend the earliest years of SNL were the only good years.  Fucking imbeciles.  Likely their dislike of the show goes back to the Reagan era.  Because they are fucking  imbeciles who hate their psychopathic, political figures being mocked.  But I digress.

But my search led to some good amusement.  I got a link for the definition of "huffy" on Urban Dictionary.  And I suppose there have been fakes for years.  I remember seeing specific people being called out, so yea.  It's not a reliable source.  But as there were at least three wildly divergent,sex  fetish themed definitions, I am thinking all were fugazys.

But I was amused.

Last note.  I am willing to guess there might actually be some actual humans who give a fuck what the OWL thinks about contemporary cinema.  Not me.  Not for that.  Not for any topic.  When she gets huffy like that, it makes me think she is something of a watered-down Karen.  Not likely to have a full meltdown in public over stupid, ridiculous shit.  But yeah. Likely often thinks like that.  And posts it on her blog with no self-awareness that . . . passive-aggressive, Karen style huffy remarks are not a good thing."

Just Too Much Going On

 

Republicans Fucking are not Better at the Economy.

 Republicans are bad for the economy. Beyond rational doubts.

It boggles my mind how anyone can believe Republicans are better at the economy.  No matter how well I understand on an intellectual level, the capacity for delusion among puny earthlings.  I still don't get it, emotionally.   Not only does someone have to ignore decades of recorded facts, and the mountain of data.  But for most of the fools who support or are members of the GOP?  They have to deny the reality of their own lived lives.