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A Bearable National Holiday

 

Labor Day.

One of the few national holidays that can't be wrapped in the fascist flag or provide an excuse for in-your-face representations of caustic nationalism.  And we won't be hearing empty exclamations of appreciation for laborers, or thanking them for...anything, really.

Labor Day is OUR holiday--the one for those hard-working, nose-to-the-grindstone folks who show up. We haven't let them plaster uniforms on us and send us off across the world to kill people for "freedom."  We just...work. Every hour of every day, to keep the country running.

Honestly, given the tenor of national politics lately, I'm surprised Labor Day hasn't been canceled.  Maybe the only reason it hasn't is that people have forgotten what we are actually supposed to be celebrating today (much like any other national holiday) and see it as the last frenetic weekend of the "lazy days of summer."

How about we pause for at least a few seconds to give a thought to the actual meaning of this holiday?

Let's hear it for the workers, people!

  

Pile On

 

 

Truth

 

Tyranny and Lies

 

One has to wonder how all these God-fearing “Christian” flag-wavers can so rabidly defend LYING as protected “free speech.”  

Ten commandments, anyone?

Or do you treat those the same as you do laws?

You follow the ones you like;

And the ones that require you to change your behavior in some way you DON’T like…

Well, that’s tyranny, and YOU don’t have to obey those

(Do you keep your arsenal of Constitutionally protected firearms so that you may some day go after your tyrannical God?)

 

Cheeto Messiah

 

Squashier and Squashier

Don't we all wonder...

 

...as the Wankmaggot stands indicted for a THIRD time...

THIS time for deadly crimes against the United States of America...

WHY IS HE STILL WALKING FREE?

Another July 4th

 

You would think I would be tired of publishing angry, disenchanted rants on “patriotic” national holidays. 

If things would seem to be getting better...or at least no worse...perhaps my angry heart could cool.

But "better" does not seem to be a word with any meaning when it comes to our national situation these days. And "bad" has a way of getting worse with the passage of time.

Last year, we had this: Celebrating Freedom in a World Gone Mad

Did we think it couldn't get worse?

Well, here are this year's highlights:

 

 

This, on top of our American way of "celebrating freedom."

Which would be...

Entitled "adults" exercising their freedom to act like spoiled children with vicious disregard for their neighbors, their neighbors' property, and the captive "pet" animals that they so zealously guard and promote the other 51 weeks of the year...by gleefully setting off random explosives in cramped, flammable quarters where any responsible 5-year-old would tell you that someone could be hurt or killed.

July Fourth.  Independence Day.  Increasingly, the best day of the year to see Americans at their worst.

King of the World

 

Disbelief and Anger Among Greek Shipwreck's Victims' Relatives as Millions Spent on Titan Rescue Effort

If anyone across the globe harbored any remaining tiny seed of doubt that money rules the world, the stories surrounding this month's global maritime "disasters" should pour the last drop of glyphosate on that seed.  

Three hundred Pakistani refugees perish when their over-crowded fishing boat sinks in the Mediterranean, and the world takes little notice...mirroring the response of the European agencies that could have averted the tragedy, but chose not to.  

Four ultra rich "adventurers" pony up a quarter of a million dollars each to ride a demonstrably flawed and dangerous craft to a century-old shipwreck, and disappear less than two hours into their journey.  A days-long, multi-million-dollar rescue effort ensues, with world press agencies providing a minute-by-minute accounting of the "drama" of a search made more urgent by the limited life-support aboard the shockingly makeshift vehicle...even though the US Navy had detected evidence of the disastrous outcome of the "adventure" minutes after the craft had ceased communication with the surface.  Four days and millions of dollars invested into a "rescue" for five rich men who had catastrophically imploded in the first hours of their foolish enterprise.

And three hundred poor men, women and children in a watery grave at the bottom of the Mediterranean.  No one will even bother to recover the bodies.

We should be outraged.

But we're not, are we?

 

    

On The Wankmaggot

A substantial portion of this blog—and others I have attempted and abandoned over the years—has been dedicated to political commentary, beginning with my take on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s election as governor of California in 2003.

So I feel somewhat obligated to comment here about the Tangerine Wankmaggot finally being charged with a crime, two years after nearly ending our government because he didn’t cheat quite enough to steal a second election to the highest post in the land.   

And, of course, that is not the crime with which he is being charged.

I hesitate to add to the all-Maggot, all-the-time that will now be playing on all platforms of American media for the foreseeable future.

One can only hold out the desperate hope that this has transpired far enough ahead of the 2024 election that it will not constitute a replay of the millions of dollars worth of free publicity that helped propel the Maggot to his first “victory” in 2016. 

But it’s not looking good.  I don’t look at CNN or Fox or MSNBC or really any news agency besides NPR and BBC news.

And both those outlets had the Maggot plastered all over their home pages all day Tuesday and into Wednesday.  The Madison Avenue  juggernaut is determined to continue to feed the insatiable and dangerous ego that has already demonstrated its desire—and ability—to rule the world.  All for the money.  It’s all about the money.   

How the fuck can we make them just…STOP?!