Covid Democracy vs. The Orange Fartcloud

Covid Democracy vs. The Orange Fartcloud
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Nobody asked us how to fight this thing. We just got told, here is how it is going to be. There is firm logic behind the premise that you cannot fight a war by democracy. You cannot vote on when to stage D-Day and you cannot let “the people” decide on how to protect human life from covid.

So we just got told not to wear a mask – excuse me, to wear a mask. Then we got told that it was ok to eat dinner on the side walk – excuse me, it was not ok to eat dinner on the sidewalk.

Meanwhile, we get told that democracy is under attack by Donald Dipshit Trump. He was going to send the Proud Boys to keep black people from voting. Excuse me, he is fraudulently claiming that the election was a fraud. Excuse me, he is growing horns out the side of his forehead.

Maybe that part about the election is chilled out. All the news platforms say so. I’m not going to miss him once he really is gone – but I suspect Trump in Exile will get humongous ratings. His “enemies” will see to that.

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Back to business without the Orange Fartcloud – stimulus is important. 5000 pages important, hammered out over several whole days of “negotiation.” Busy public servants signing off on over a thousand pages of “law” per day! That Nancy P’s got some stamina, doesn’t she?

Top item – reduce the scale by half of what the Orange Fartcloud proposed two months ago. It was about a trillion too much. Fuck him.

What else? The devil used to be in the details, but we can trust our leaders now that the Orange Fartcloud is kinda out of the way. So after all 5K pages got approved by the Leaders of our respective political parties in Congress – it went to the full bodies for a vote in three hours.

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Why read the fucking thing? The “deal” is done and who are politicians to get in the way of the Will of the People? As set forth by the Adults In The Room, of course.

Correct democracy – not the lunacy of “populist” pandering to idiots who live in red states.

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And we got idiots in this country who still think that there is any democracy for Trump to destroy. It was long gone before he got here. In fact, that is how such a shameless scumbag got here in the first place.

Merry Christmas All. It has been quite a ride . . . .

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RantingRooster's picture

We all know the crap the DNC / Democrats and the media collusion with Hillary and her campaign pulled during the 2016 election.

Seems they have been at it again. Jimmy Dore speaks with Jordon Chariton about the "Shadow App" used for the Iwoa Caucuses, that was a total disaster.
[video:https://youtu.be/PKB0H_SFoAg]

If you have soured on Jimmy, then here's Graham Ellwood discussing the same thing with Jordon Chariton as well.
[video:https://youtu.be/e_oqTjxmF6g]

Both Jimmy and Graham are discussing Jordon's article at the Intercept.

“The DNC was directly involved in the development process,” Nicholas Klinefeldt, a former federal attorney appointed by President Barack Obama, told the Iowa Democratic Party state steering committee in the December 12 meeting about the findings of an investigation he led alongside former Iowa Attorney General Bonnie Campbell.

Klinefeldt’s revelation about the committee’s involvement counters the DNC’s claim it made immediately after the Iowa caucuses. Back then, the DNC claimed it had “absolutely no involvement” in the development or coding of the Shadow app, which was supposed to record and report caucus results.

When Third District state party member Kim Callahan asked investigators to expand on the DNC’s involvement, they failed to elaborate, simply confirming that the DNC wouldn’t cooperate with its investigation.

When do we consider firing squads for these criminals?

Drinks

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C99, my refuge from an insane world. #ForceTheVote

We have only the suggestion of democracy. Our corporate leaders tell the DNC and RNC who to put on the ballot, and the DNC and RNC are also corporations.
They are not elected, but are supported in theory and practice by the 99% who just don't quite understand what is going on.
One day, the 99% will catch on and rise up.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

lotlizard's picture

Respectable racism (Yasha Levine)

This bigotry isn’t coming from the “lower-classes” that liberals love to mock so much, but from very top — the crème de la crème of our media and political class

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@lotlizard
It was only HER that mocked the lower classes.

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I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.

enhydra lutris's picture

@The Voice In the Wilderness

lower classes, but that led vast hordes of self-styled "liberals" to jump on that bandwagon and not only mock them but also to spread a vast amount of lies about them, racist, misogynist, far-right, neo-nazi, uneducated, near illiterate, and on and on and on. Oh, and, of course, they were all Trumpers and liars about everything.

That "culture" lies just below the surface now, but will surface on demand should labor be so belligerent as to actually ask for anything, such as maybe some of the shit Obama promised but never acted upon.

be well and have a good one

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

wendy davis's picture

from the barrel of a gun, or by way of War by Other Means: the CIA fomenting internal insurrections, illegal crippling economic sanctions, agitprop galore, and NGOs like the OCPW, as well as (anti-pink tide) geopolitical alliances like the OAS.

so...i was planning to crowd source the 55000+ pages of the 2021 H.R. 133 Consolidated Appropriations Act. not interested? how cn i blame thee, save for Knowing is better than Not Knowing, imo.

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@wendy davis

Apparantly this is the longest written bill in history. For economic relief for a global pandemic. The pork in this bill is just the elite telling us that they can strip all assets from the country and leave it a rotting corpse of its former self. That is what has been happening since Reagan started futzing with the tax bill to make it less fair to the lower classes and since then it's been an all out rush to race to the bottom. Hell we don't even teach our kids about what the rest of the world does.

BTW republicans are not anti immigrant. Oh noes they will allow up to 300,000 thousand immigrants to come and work here on HB1 visas like Harris sponsored/passed a few years ago and just recently a lot more of them were allowed to come in and work while millions of Americans have lost their job. Immigrants are fine as long as they can pull their weight. How many come every year on the farm VISA? And others? As always it is the effing hypocrisy that drives me nuts.

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The message echoes from Gaza back to the US. “Starving people is fine.”

wendy davis's picture

@snoopydawg

are), the ($900 billion?) Craptastic Covid Non-Relief bill was only a small part of the $1.7 trillion omnibus funding until sept. 30, 2021 Big Bill. it's another christmas tree dingleberry bill that our rulers lobbied to have their pet projects approved en masse,, 'just to fund the gummint for the rest of this fiscal year.

and yes, there's pork in it, gobs of it, but there's plenty of war and more war against Our Enemies in it, plus loads of Aid for Our Friends to continue to help fuck over the already ruined and oppressed of Their Enemies. Israel, for example.

so Kamala the Laughing Camel created that? did she then claim it was another version of Amerikan 'good neighbor policy'?

speaking of hypocrisy, Twitter is full of US elected officials flouting their own lockdown rules policies and...traveling for the holly-days. and biden wants to open schools again, so:

Biden team's multibillion-dollar school testing plan takes shape;
The proposal under consideration calls for the federal government to cover the cost of providing tests to K-12 schools throughout the country; politico.com

'President-elect Joe Biden is weighing a multibillion-dollar plan for fully reopening schools that would hinge on testing all students, teachers and staff for Covid-19 at least once a week, according to four people with knowledge of the discussions.

The proposal under consideration calls for the federal government to cover the cost of providing tests to K-12 schools throughout the country. These could then be administered regularly by staff at each school, providing results in minutes.

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Biden said earlier this month that reopening most schools is one of his top three pandemic-related priorities. And his choice for education secretary, Miguel Cardona, spent recent months pressing for the continuation of in-person learning as Connecticut's education commissioner.'

but if you ever doubted that Pope Francis really IS a liberation theologist at heart, doubt no more!

and yes, Gates lobbied and has received $4 billion for his GAVI project.

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