Saturday Night Radio Drama - Gordon Pengilly - Bailey's Way - Dallas Calgary

 Dallas Calgary 

 
Dallas: Given an assignment to uncover a hotel thief, Tanis unwillingly plays the part of a Chambermaid, but then finds there are other, more nefarious, things going on in the big hotel. 

I Love Southern Lefties

 

It Did Recently Cross My Mind

that if I'd just said, hell with it and let all comments in unmoderated, that I might have had one of those all hell breaks loose blogs that I could have monetized early and made some money out of it.  I regularly outraged people at other blogs I wrote for and commented on and expect I could have had huge numbers of clicks with just the regular stuff I post.   I often got hundreds of hateful comments at Echidnes, it was when I didn't mind brawling a lot on the comment threads.  At Chris Mooney's blog I had a brawl that almost went to a thousand comments.  That was when I said I thought PZ had faked his "Great Desecration."  When someone told me what he'd claimed about it it was so transparently implausible that I said I thought he'd faked the entire thing and never had a consecrated communion host, that he'd either made one of Wonder Bread or he'd cut one out of paper.  That got their knickers in a twist. 

But I had enough of that kind of crap at Duncan's blog and didn't think it was responsible for me to host the kinds of slander and libel and lies and false common received wisdom that is damaging to morals and American politics.  Who knows, maybe I'd have let the liars and slanderers and others make the comments into a club that had nothing to do with me, like you know who, and made a little ready cash out of it.

But I wouldn't have had a sponsored link to Amazon.  Even if I were depraved I'd have drawn the line at that.  

I might have had a fund raising week.   Though when I thought of that, once, I remembered what Quentin Crisp said  when he was brought up on charges of solicitation,  I don't ask strange men for money because I don't believe they'd give it to me. 

Maybe I should risk it and see what happens.  I could use a couple of dollars.  

The IHRA And Other Zionists Have Made The Word Mean Nothing

THIS ONE IS FROM SIMPS, the one who trolls me, though he didn't send me the original in the short string of posts that ended in the one in which I posted Owen Jones' video about the UN report about Israel targeting children,  To which Simps said: 

As always, you enjoy saying this shit far too much. Which is, of course, a classic anti-Semitic tell.

Now, I have given him a tiny measure of benefit of the doubt before, that doubt being mostly based in my knowledge of his general nescience and ignorance and inability to progress past the common received wisdom of the mid to late 1960s, exactly the kind of thing that I moved far left from as I thought about and researched and moved beyond as, in fact, anyone should from any kind of common received wisdom because none of that is adequate if you cling to them you will end up doing things like tacitly approving murder and associated crimes, or things that lead to those. 

The documented instances of Israel, the "most moral army in the world" targeting children, in some cases, perhaps especially in the age of drones in which the murderers are at no risk, themselves:

 

turning murdering children in specific ways into a game among the murderers.  I can well imagine the Nazis doing such things as the killing became quite routine for them, if I had time I'd research to see if those who study the Holocaust have documented that.  I'm sure Mengele found it very entertaining to find new ways to kill the children he murdered, often after torturing them in the name of science.  

If you object to me objecting to that, my only conclusion is that you approve of it or are at least not bothered by it even a little bit.  Only you shouldn't mistake that latter alternative as in any way morally elevated from approval of it, it is its exact equivalent.

The word "antisemitism" has no meaning, the IHRA and the governments and other entities that adopted their ultimate distortion of it to protect the crimes against humanity of Israel have made it meaningless, as I've pointed out before.  The same is being done to the term "blood libel."  Once you make a term of moral opprobrium into a shield for the worst of all crimes, they mean nothing anymore.  

Update:  You can compare the descriptions from those who witnessed the IDF in Gaza with this:

The mass murder of children is surely the most salient feature of National Socialist atrocities: from the first victims of the child ‘euthanasia’ campaign, via the 1.5 million murdered children of Jewish descent, to the so-called bandit children in the occupied Soviet territories. Especially young children succumbed to the starvation policy in various occupied territories; infant mortality assumed horrendous proportions. The ruthless murder of so many children in particular is a crime without historical precedent. Numerous children, furthermore, were deported, compelled to carry out heavy labour, sent to camps or subjected to barbaric medical experiments. Others were stolen from their parents and given up for forced adoption. The crimes committed against these defenceless victims are a vivid illustration of the moral degeneration of the perpetrators.

The exceptional barbarity, pleasure and cynicism with which many German perpetrators murdered children – Jewish and non-Jewish alike – in the occupied Soviet territories is particularly disturbing. On one occasion, the head of the SS guard in the Minsk Ghetto, Adolf Rübe, led a child by the hand to the cemetery with the words ‘Now we’re going to join papa and mama’, where he then shot it. He had indeed killed the child’s parents a few days earlier. In the Lesnaya prisoner-of-war camp near Baranovichi, a German female doctor murdered an eight-month-old baby by lethal injection, only then to pose for a photograph with the child and its mother, who was present. In the village of Kovali in the district of Oktyabrsky, Belarus, German forces chased after fleeing children, caught them and threw them all into a fire. In nearby Dyomenka, little girls had their necks broken like chickens. Sometimes, during shooting operations, children were held over the pit by their hair and then shot; this resulted on at least one occasion in the shooter being left holding the child’s skullcap with some hair still attached after the child had fallen into the pit. One could cite many other such examples.

 Dr. Alex J. Kay
Senior Lecturer at the Chair of Military History / Cultural History of Violence, University of Potsdam and author of, Empire of Destruction: A History of Nazi Mass Killing

According to the IHRA "definition" of "antisemitism" noticing the similarities between what the Nazis did and what the IDF and "settlers" are doing in Palestine, Lebanon, etc. is "antisemitism."  

Right now Zach Polanski, THE ONLY JEWISH LEADER OF A MAJOR PARTY IN BRITAIN, the Green Party, is being targeted as "antisemitic" by the British media and establishment because of his criticism of the Israeli genocide. That designation can get you a lot worse legal and politican and societal treatment than being called a "communist" during the US red scare that is such a focus of so many a Hollywood movie.  That word became pretty meaningless, as Trump in the vestiges of his decaying memory calls it up in exactly the same way that made it mean nothing.  

 The list of Jews who are regularly labeled as "antisemites" is matched by a list of Gentiles who have never expressed hatred of Jews and who, unlike Zionists, distinguish between Jews and those who hold with the racist, apartheid, genocidal ideology that Zionism is in 2026.   I won't spend time pointing out what many, such as Rabbi Yakkov Shaprio has, that that common holding, which happens to be official Israeli law, has been a common feature of those who practiced antisemitism. 

The word means absolutely nothing, it has dissolved into meaninglessness through such use by Zionists, most of whom are not Jews but crackpot Protestants with some deluded Catholics and others mixed in.   As I said the other day,  I'm pretty confident that there is a much larger percentage of anti-Zionists among Jews than among the general population of the United States and in places such as Britain.   That is how dishonest and disgusting the use of the word "antisemitism" as a shield for the crimes of Israel has become. 

I'll Buy A Chance To Blow Up Trump's Fascist Arch

THE NEXT DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION should do what they did when Trump crapped up Atlantic City.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — One of President Donald Trump’s former Atlantic City casinos will be blown up next month, and for the right amount of money, you could be the one to press the button that brings it down.

The demolition of the former Trump Plaza casino will become a fundraiser to benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Atlantic City that the mayor hopes will raise in excess of $1 million

Opened in 1984, Trump’s former casino was closed in 2014 and has fallen into such a state of disrepair that demolition work began earlier this year. The remainder of the structure will be dynamited on Jan. 29.

“Some of Atlantic City’s iconic moments happened there, but on his way out, Donald Trump openly mocked Atlantic City, saying he made a lot of money and then got out,” said Mayor Marty Small. “I wanted to use the demolition of this place to raise money for charity.”

He stole lots of money and got out, what he always does.  Who ever heard of anyone who couldn't keep a casino going?  A business that's rigged so the house NEVER LOSES IN THE END.  A stupid but oily crook, that's who. 

They could start that as a starter event to clawing back the hundreds of billions of dollars of theft and grift and graft.   I'd also like to be the one to lock the cell and throw away the key on hundreds of the crooks.  

 

Flora Purim - Open Your Eyes You Can Fly

I needed something to get me out of the vileness that surrounds us so I went back fifty years. 

Fifty years.   Holy cow.  Fifty years.   Still works for me. 

The Roberts Court Republican-fascist Majority

is as racist as the most racist Courts in the history of that dishonorable Court.  It just nullified another federal law, passed by Congress, signed into law by a president, one that removes protective status from a list of those who came here fleeing violence and in many cases likely death.  And it's not the only one they have nullified just this week, using the Marbury power ever more as Louis Boudin predicted it would be more than a century ago. 

Amy Coney Barrett, alleged mother of two children adopted from Haiti, just put an ICE target on their backs by going with her five other Republican-fascist colleagues on the Court.  I'd really love to know what those children think of that, that is if they still understand that they are now going to be the focus of racial targeting by racist cops, racist ICESTAPO.   I wonder if that bitch cares enough to understand that's what she's done.  I suspect that in her lawyerly-liarly way, she can come up with lawerly lying language to pretend that's not exactly what she's done.   

Then there's Clarence Thomas, possibly the most anti-black "justice" he may have a worse record in many ways than that of James McReynolds.  

But all of the Roberts Court Republicans are thorough racists, partisan Republican fascists and enablers of what is objectively the worst president in American history.   They make Court reform not only entirely desireable they make it a necessity of maintaining not only a democracy but even an actual republic of laws and not Republican-fascist men and a few women in the mix.  

Just fuck off Nazi - An answer to a complaint

 

 

Israel,  their "most moral army in the world" is targeting CHILDREN in exactly the same way the Nazis targeted CHILDREN as those they especially wanted to murder. 

The Nazis advocated killing children of “unwanted” or “dangerous” groups either as part of the “racial struggle” or as a measure of preventative security. The Germans and their collaborators killed children for these ideological reasons and in retaliation for real or alleged partisan attacks.

Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about 1.5 million Jewish children and tens of thousands of Romani (Gypsy) children, about 10,000 German children with physical and mental disabilities living in institutions, as well as many Polish children and children residing in the German-occupied Soviet Union. Jewish and non-Jewish adolescents (13–18 years old) had a greater chance of survival, as they could be used for forced labor.

Israel is reproducing as closely as could be possible what was being done then.  I can't believe, given the context of who is doing it and the ideology of Israel that they aren't doing so intentionally.  

 

 

Feels Good To Say It

Usha Vance is married to a monster and remains married to him and breeds with him.   There is no way she doesn't know the evil he is part of and the plotting he and his billionaire owner are doing.  

To hell with her. 

Remember how many imagined Melania as a sympathetic figure, trapped in a marriage to a monster who was hurting People?  Remember those funny skits on Colbert's shows?   They were funny but that wasn't Melania it was People imagining her as someone who she is not.   She is a brittle, self-obsessed, selfish and totally rotten person.  

Same with Usha.   

Here Is What A Pro-"AI" Commentator Is Saying About Another Of The Big-Balls Billionaire Bro's "AI" Antics

 Meta’s AI Clusterf*ck Is Humiliating Zuckerberg

 

The beginning alone, talking about his superliner sized yacht and its attendant yacht should make you want to get a pitchfork and torch. 

These guys, their companies, their wealth is a danger to democracy.  I remember when they were touting "tech" as being clean industry,  now with their giant compounds spewing diesel fumes into poor neighborhoods and increasing carbon load in the atmosphere is added to the world threatening filth coming from the tech billionaires and their companies is going to either bring us all to serfdom like that described among the Meta workforce and far worse for those who the billionaire boys don't make money off of and death for anyone who isn't profitable to them.  The RFK jr - Stephen Miller neo-eugenics which is sounding ever more like 1920s Nazi propaganda is greasing the skids for that.  And I really mean that. 
 

I Forced Myself To Listen

to Kash Patel's beard croaking out the anthem.

I would bet that about ten thousand high school chorus members around the country who aren't pretending to be the Patel's honey pot as he lives with a gay millionaire in Vegas could have done a better job.  

As to Trump.  I think he's been inhaling too much while they were putting it on.   

 

If Israel Can't Exist Without Apartheid, Genocide, Lebensraum, Then It Shouldn't Exist - Hate Mail

I DON'T KNOW HOW IGNORANT OF HISTORY you can be and still be able to type but there was this thing call The Third Reich that couldn't exist without apartheid, genocide and Lebensraum and a large part of the world found it necessary to destroy it in about as terrible a war as has ever happened.  No state that can't exist without any of those should exist, in combination they certainly mark that state as one that shouldn't be allowed to stand as it is.  I am proud of my parents as being among those who volunteered to defeat Nazism.  Both members of the military in WWII. 

Ignorance of history is a danger to democracy.  By that I mean an accurate knowledge of what has really happened, not Hollywood, TV documentary "history."   Not "lost cause" bullshit "history."  Not Stephen Miller approved, racist Trumpzi "history." 

It's one of the worst things about the teaching of history that it goes from early to later.  I remember as we spent several weeks in "American History" in school on the stupid details of the "age of exploration" bull shit and so  barely got to the First World War by the middle of June.  I now know why that was, because the closer you got to the history of today, even then, that it would be controversial because telling the truth about American history and America's history in the 20th and 21st century would show America in about as bad a light as telling the truth about the genocide, land stealing, the concentration of wealth by the slave-holders and financiers who brought on the Revolution and wrote the Constitution with all its many evils and defects.   If we are really interested in having a real democracy, having People learn history relevant to us achieving and obtaining equality and, so, democracy and learning those things that have prevented that and endanger that throughout our history, is not optional.  Movies and TV and internet slop that lies about that will need to be suppressed.   I think that's as obvious as the fact that we need to overcome and defeat the white supremacists and billionaire-millionaire enemies of equality and democracy if we are to become a democracy (in any use of the word that deserves that name) and to retain it.  Laissez faire is irresponsible, it just lets the rich and the morally depraved do their thing and corrupt everything. 

I knew a guy in college in the 1970s, from California,  who really and truly didn't know that the Second World War wasn't just a Pacific basin war but had a large part of it that happened in Europe, the Middle East and in Western Asia.  One of his fellow Californians told me that they didn't really teach history in California, she'd gotten an A in her history class by writing and singing a nice song.  Back then he was a bizarre anomaly, in New England, at least.  Now it seems a lot of that is news to the college credentialed population generally.  

As the constant lying which produces America's funding and support of the Israeli genocide, the Nazi regime could not have existed without constant, flagrant and dominating lies.  Lies spread by the media, the print media, the new media of radio and the movies, lies told in organized groups, lies spoon fed to the young through things like the Hitler Youth.  

Telling the truth about the present and past is about as radical an act there is, lying is always a help to the most retrograde and evil.   It is one of the consciously articulated themes of my posting comments and pieces that the idea that there is some "right to lie" is one of the greatest idiocies of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the legal system that we either retained or developed and our general culture and discourse.  

As that comment you objected to about Danny Danon's blatant lying about Israeli genocide pointed out,  LYING IS THE MOTHER'S MILK OF FASCISM, whether that is Israeli genocidal fascism or American, also genocidal in aspiration,  white supremacist billionaire-boys-club fascism.   

Anyone who believes themselves to support democracy who believes there should be a "constitutionally protected right" to lie is as stupid as those Trumpers in '26 who still believe his lies with all their absurdity and immediate self-contradiction.  I would include the entirety of the Harvard Law School faculty who I'm aware of, probably every other major law school faculty, the goddamned ACLU, a huge proportion of the legal profession, the corporate media (having lies have the protection given to it by the idiotically vague and democracy destroying First Amendment is a boon to their financial interests) and pretty much all of the idiotic lefty media.  

Of course Danny Danon (an actual, life long fascist*) constantly lies, of course Trump (the previous comment in parentheses applies here,too)  lies all the time.  Of course the "Israel right or wrong" crowd lies just as certainly as Republican-fascist favoring media lies on behalf of Republican-fascism.  Fascism can't live when People know the truth, it's what sets People free.  Which is why our First Amendment, and especially as it has been made to be by the Supreme Court,is actually one of the things most in need of revision if we are to not revert into white supremacist fascism of the kind that sustained America's genocide and slavery and de facto slavery even after the Civil War, the passage of the Civil War Amendments, into the Jim Crow period and now in the John (Roberts) Crow reversion to American apartheid.   America will never be a democracy until things such as white supremacy are actively and effectively disempowered and driven into extinction.  And Israel will never be a real democracy until its like is extinct there. If it can't be one, well, real democracy, egalitarian democracy is the one and only legitimate form of government.  That is the one thing that Thomas Jefferson got spot on in the Declaration of Independence we are about to so hypocritically celebrate in a few days. 

* From his youth, as a member of Betar, a youth group founded by the fascist Jabotinsky and which, in the US, even the ultra Zionist ADL calls a hate group.  

One Of Reese's Funniest And Most Righteous

 
Trump’s Green Water Nightmare 

 

With An Extended Version of The Great New Hit, "They About To Drag You"  with hilarious draggings from the internet. 

I'll add that I've come to the conclusion that the roughly 1/3rd of  Americans who are still with Trump after the past 500 days are hopelessly stupid, mostly  feeble-minded white supremacists who have to be defeated continually, made discredited and held to not hold any legitimate ideas.  They need to be dragged into impotence where even the uninformed don't want to be associated with them.  They are a danger to us, a burden to us, a national disability as they have been from the start.  If Democrats take control they have to dump the idea of ever being fair to them ever again,  DON'T BE FAIR TO FASCISTS, DON'T BE NICE TO NAZIS, DON'T BE SIMPS FOR SUPREMACISTS. 

And I apologize to "Simps" for using that alliteration in this context.   

I Am Again Accused Of "Hating Israel"

HATING A "COUNTRY" IS IRRATIONAL BIGOTRY.  The idea that someone could hate a group of millions of People with any honest reason might apply to some People but it doesn't apply to me.   I can say that I despise anyone who could knowingly support the Israeli government in place or, in fact, any of those which have been in place for the entire time of their war on the Palestinian People.  The fact that Israel is a democracy of the sort that the South African apartheid government was means that those who supported that government are accomplices to their crimes.   And their lies.  Listen to the flagrant and typical lying of Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, his typical Alan Dershowitz tactic of lying and talking over someone who refutes his lies to shied Israel from its genocidal policy that is exactly the one that Stalin imposed on Ukraine and other governments have been damned throughout the centuries for using as a means of controlling and killing helpless and subjugated People.  

 

That kind of blatant lying in defense of genocide, intentional mass starvation, apartheid and Lebensraum acquisition AND NOW SELLING OF LAND STOLEN FROM PALESTINIANS, THE WHOLE POINT OF IT, is OK with a majority of voters in Israel.  I most certainly hate the Israeli government, this one, the ones which have been in place since the ascendancy of the Facists since Begin's first one was formed.  I hate the alleged Labour governments which did plenty of displacing and stealing land and killing and stealing right from the start, Israel was born in that kind of violence as all colonial project nations are.  It is a stain of sin that the United States will never and should never be allowed to forget, the effort to atone for that and similar sins such as slavery, the subjugation of Women, etc. should be what rules our politics, instead the force of evil, our indigenous form of fascism, white supremacy has steered our politics as the slave holders and financiers who wrote the Constitution intended it to.  Israel's sins are exactly the same kind as those of the United States, I oppose those here, I'm not cutting a foreign country, Israel, any slack that I won't for my own country. 

I don't hate anyone who has opposed that or who has come to oppose it after the undeniable spectacle of Israel's genocide in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon, I despise anyone, Israeli, American, Canadian, European, etc. who supports the country that does that.  As I have pointed out, in the United States the majority of them are not Jewish,  I would be very surprised if American Jews by a far higher percentage than non-Jews have been or are now opposed to the entire Zionist project which has gone the way that Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, and many Jews in the 1940s and onward predicted it would go, full on fascist.   Some of the worst of the American Zionists are dispensationalist pseudo-Christians who bought into the Scofield Bible bullshit dispensationalist scheme and there are millions more of them than there are Israeli fascists to despise.   If I "hate Israel" because of the genocidalist racists and apatrheid supporters there, I'd have to hate the US as much on account of those "christian" Zionists here.   But I certainly don't because I don't hate the Americans, Jewish and Gentile, who oppose it.  

I Go Do Some Garden Work And This Is What I Found Was Posted Two Hours Ago

Elon's SpaceX leads global stock crash 

 

I Won't Post Another Article Or Video

but I feel I have an obligation to post periodic reminders that the "AI" bubble is gonna burst.   And the billionaire rush to get those IPOs is because they know that their con job is about to explode in a way that makes 1928 look quaint. 

Charlie Kirk was a Terrorist: Change My Mind - Posted For Purposes Of Free Speech During Pride Month

 

I've looked up a few of the issues cited in this video and came to an article that noted how many times Kirk took the 5th when he was deposed by the January 6th investigation by the House.   If I have the time I'd like to go through a transcript of that to see exactly what he and his liar,  uh, that is lawyer thought he was exposed on.   I can't vouch for some of what is said but,  then,  the Kirk cult can't honestly vouch for much of anything their idol said. 

He was a terrorist who is on video and record as saying that all of the school shootings, all of the church shootings, all the nightclub and concert and movie theater shootings, all the gun deaths were worth it.  I've heard that the millioniare who funded his start up fascist organization was against Covid-19 protections and he ended up dying of Covid and Kirk the gun death diminisher died by gun death.   It's not often in this life that you see such clear examples of people reaping what they've sown. 

By the way, I'm not much of a tee shirt wearer, at least on the outside, but I'd wear one that said what that guy's says, "Make Lying Wrong Again."  

I Am Generally Unaware Of What The Degenerate Gwyneth Paltrow Is Getting Up To

nor most of the other Hollywood A or B or D listers,  even those who market candles that supposedly have the aroma of their genitalia,  but I listened to this profound moral indictment of her and after looking up what it was a response to,  a terrible chill of familiarity physically came over me, from my legs up through my back and into my scalp.

The sense of bliss among the rich and "spiritual but not religious" is something I've noted here before, for example the "Buddhism" of Mark Zuckerberg and others.   A secondary issue that especially struck me is the perverted concept of "freedom" that is handled so insightfully and, I most respectfully will say, poetically in this poem of moral outrage is one I hope to say more about soon.   The perversion of the concept of freedom, especially when it is called "liberty" in the modern English speaking world is among the most dangerous of distortions, something perennially relevant here in the land of the supposedly free and the supposedly brave. 

But what struck me also, apart from the citation of the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian People by the Zionists and the safe,  passive, filthy rich supporters of the last European colonial project with their own sweet asses planted on North America or Europe, is that it reminded me entirely of this.

Campo Di Fiori

In Rome on the Campo di Fiori
Baskets of olives and lemons,
Cobbles spattered with wine
And the wreckage of flowers.
Vendors cover the trestles
With rose-pink fish;
Armfuls of dark grapes
Heaped on peach-down.

On this same square
They burned Giordano Bruno.
Henchmen kindled the pyre
Close-pressed by the mob.
Before the flames had died
The taverns were full again,
Baskets of olives and lemons
Again on the vendors' shoulders.

I thought of the Campo dei Fiori
In Warsaw by the sky-carousel
One clear spring evening
To the strains of a carnival tune.
The bright melody drowned
The salvos from the ghetto wall,
And couples were flying
High in the cloudless sky.

At times wind from the burning
Would driff dark kites along
And riders on the carousel
Caught petals in midair.
That same hot wind
Blew open the skirts of the girls
And the crowds were laughing
On that beautiful Warsaw Sunday.

Someone will read as moral
That the people of Rome or Warsaw
Haggle, laugh, make love
As they pass by martyrs' pyres.
Someone else will read
Of the passing of things human,
Of the oblivion
Born before the flames have died.

But that day I thought only
Of the loneliness of the dying,
Of how, when Giordano
Climbed to his burning
There were no words
In any human tongue
To be left for mankind,
Mankind who live on.

Already they were back at their wine
Or peddled their white starfish,
Baskets of olives and lemons
They had shouldered to the fair,
And he already distanced
As if centuries had passed
While they paused just a moment
For his flying in the fire.

Those dying here, the lonely
Forgotten by the world,
Our tongue becomes for them
The language of an ancient planet.
Until, when all is legend
And many years have passed,
On a great Campo di Fiori
Rage will kindle at a poet's word.

Czeslaw Milosz

I'm Asked Why I Have Such Contempt For The Legal Profession And Especially The Supreme Court

I've got a serious health issue to deal with, on my own, I can't afford medical care for it, thanks to the Republican-fascists, so I can't give a fully up to date answer.   But here's one I gave as the last of the New Taney Court was being installed by them.  Though I will note that the refusal of Republican judicial nominees to even admit that the Constitution says what it unambiguously says, as has happened over and over again as Democrats have asked them to admit that is a routine event before the Republican-fascists in the Senate confirm the worst nominees to courts in modern history. AND THE GODDAMNED AMERICAN FREE PRESS HASN'T HAD MUCH OF ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT IT.   The goddamned free press has proven that unless they are required to tell the truth in service to democracy they will be about as reliable a protector of it as the modern Republican Party.   

Thursday, October 15, 2020
Don't Let The Wrapper Fool You Amy Coney Barrett Is Cold-Blooded Legalistic Evil
  
"Men like to substitute words for reality and then argue about the words,"
Edwin Armstrong, inventor of regenerative circuitry, superheterodyne circuitry and FM transmission*

In Amy Coney Barrett's near total non-responsiveness to Democrats, even to the extent that "textalist" fraud would not even note that the clear text of the Constitution does not give a Trump the power to delay the date of an election and that it specifies, exactly the minute that a Trump's term of office ends and if he refuses to go he is a criminal, she showed that she might be less full of macho bluster than her colleague Brett Kavanaugh but she's every bit as dangerous and dishonest as he is.

I have listened to a number of the exchanges with some of the Democratic Senators that show her cold-blooded method of looking for ways to do terrible things, something that her fellow Republican-fascist judges and "justices" do all the time, something that is all too common in the legal profession which has done so much to earn the disdain that so many of us feel for it. I get the feeling that a lot of those lawyers on the Democratic side of the Judiciary Committee must feel finally freed to blow the whistle on how truly evil so many members of their profession are, from sleazebag lawyers in service to oligarchy to the judges they argue in front of to the Supreme Court.

I think Senator Sheldon Whitehouse's dissertation on the flood of dark money that the "free speech" rulings by the court have released into the American political system will be a classic in exposure of corruption, corruption which the Supreme Court released even as it was told that this would be the effect of those floodgates being opened so there is no possible claim that Roberts et al didn't know exactly what they were doing. I will point out that for a good part of that the phony-liberal icon, the ACLU was thick as thieves with the dark money interests. I have not looked closely to see if anywhere there is a full study of the funding and associations of the ACLU to see if it has a significant relationship with the dark money machine but if they aren't getting paid to do what they have been able to see will result in this corruption - and they've been doing it for pretty much the entire existence of the ACLU - if they're not doing it for money they're a good example of the total cluelessness of the secular modernist "enlightenment" mindset. But, then, they're the ones who figure the Nazis and KKK should be free to get another bite at the apple despite who gets killed by them.  I cannot hide my disdain for the ACLU and the "civil liberties" industry that has given these fascist "justices" the language and the cultural idiocy that has been the tool of such corruption in the United States.  I'm sure to have more to say about that as they've got so many real liberals and "leftists" gulled so completely.

I have to say that even those Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee who regularly drive me nuts like Chris Coons and Diane Feinstein did a great job this time, though they certainly know that nothing they revealed or said or forced Amy Coney Barrett to reveal by her refusal to answer even the most obvious questions will make the slightest difference to her being put on that putrid court and doing untold damage to untold numbers of people from it. Some of their clear strategy of laying a record wasn't immediately apparent until I listened a second time.

One of those who I think is not often enough noted as a skilled questioner and deep thinker is Senator Mazie Hirono. Her exchage of yesterday exposed the cold-blooded, indifference that Barrett clearly practices that can be shielded by judge talk and lawyer talk and leaglistic babble, the kind of thing that can make the most seemingly respectable, even lovely people self-righteously do terrible things mostly to those too powerless and poor to strike back.

In her exchange with Barrett, Senator Hirono cut through it by noting the discrepancies between Barrett's babble and what she had written in her appalling dissent supporting one of Trumps anti-POOR immigrant policies that even she noted the devastating and dangerous effects it would have, which Senator Hirono supplemented with actual, real life examples of the effects that Barrett wasn't bothered by using legal babble as to why she didn't figure it was any concern of hers. I think one of the reasons that the Federalist Fascist judge choosing mechanism for the Republican-fascist party chose Barrett is that they figure hiding evil behind the facade of a white-woman with seven children would make it an easier sell than another preppy rapist. But no one should fall for the packaging, Amy Coney Barrett is as evil and cold-blooded as Alito or Gorsuch or Kavanaugh, she might even be as pathologically cruel as her hero Scalia or his sidekick Thomas. But I think their timing will make her the masthead figure on the decision that takes away healthcare from tens of millions and probably many more, maybe even on another Supreme Court coup putting Trump back in the presidency. It might seem unfair to put all the blame on her but that's a matter of Republican-fascist choice and the choice of Barrett herself.

I think the last hope of the United States staying together is if there is a big enough turn out throwing out enough Republicans in the Senate that the Democrats will have the guts to expand the courts and force reforms such as those Sheldon Whitehouse exposed that that the corrupt Supreme Court has needed from the start. Clearly they can't be counted on to police themselves, they've been getting away with murder since the start. I was interested to note that one of the cases that Coney Barrett put beyond anyone's questioning was Marbury v Madison, the one in which the Supreme Court gave themselves a power that appears nowhere in the Constitution that Barrett is all "textualist" over. Well, that power is nowhere in the text, it was not put there by amendment, if privacy rights can go, if other rights can go on the basis of it not appearing in the text, why should that corruption ridden court be able to make an exception for that self-granted power which no legislature, federal or state has passed into the text of the Constitution?
 
* Edwin Armstrong is a person who got robbed by the court  system on behalf of rich men, some of who claimed his inventions as their property when they couldn't even understand a technical description of what he'd created.  I doubt the judges who helped rob him had any understanding of the physics and math behind them and didn't care, figuring in their lawyerly liarly way that "the law" was sufficent to make their judgements real.  Only it was the clumsy fiction of the law that gave them that power.  One of the things I've read about him noted that he was deeply skeptical about theoretical procedures and thought experimentation and reasoning were more likely to get you somewhere.  I think he knowingly made that statement based in his experience with crooked courts and judges who were the servants of the rich and so powerful.
 
Clearly the legalistic practice of an Amy Coney Barrett who can look at the terrible things her rulings create will find legalese to ease any vestiges of conscience she might experience, though I'm not terribly impressed with such problems from her cultic "handmaiden" catholicism.  I'll bet she hates Pope Francis.

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It is impossible to fully express my disdain for Roberts and the rest of his racist liar Republican-fascist majority,  It might be possible that I hate him more than Richard Nixon.  

If any so-called Court reform doesn't nullify the Marbury power that has been used to destroy equality, democracy, economic justice, etc.  it will be no reform.  The Roberts Court's record should be the last straw.