Loincloths for the Oligarchy
It comes to me at moments when the anger begins to reach a tipping point. Election "irregularities", Media Collusion, Federal Appointments to Donors. The Lies, The Hubris, The Corruption, and the impunity with which they do all these things
A fantasy of revenge against those who have acted in bad faith and have suborned our democracy. This would include donors, the media, the DNC, the campaign, and the candidate.
Am I leaving anyone out?
As is the custom in fantasies of this kind, I have omnipotent powers. In my capacity to reign over all, I round up the worst offenders, casting them off on a small mosquito infested island wearing only a loincloth for protection. Sitting on small wooden stools, their pale flabby bodies blistering in the sun, I would call out their offenses under the cool shade of a tree while I pleasantly sipped from a tall glass of iced tea.
You have a choice, I would tell them. You can work in a factory making solar panels and wind turbines. Or you can wash the crude oil off all of the marine animals damaged from latest oil spill. The irony of this would of course not be lost on them but being rendered powerless they can only stew in their own juices. Figuratively as well as literally.
They would work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week and be served a meal of antibiotic laden chicken processed from China, GMO corn from Monsanto, and water from Flint Michigan. The only form of entertainment would be watching C-Span where they would see that America had moved on from their bizarre disappearance with no one mentioning their names. As if they never existed . In their place there would be new legislators and new legislation with an emphasis on serving the people.
When the time came for them to anonymously assimilate back to society, they would be given $100 and a new pair of bootstraps.
Another irony not lost on them.
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You're a good person. My fantasies for them are less nice. :)
Zackly!
With the same right to a speedy trial that police give a young black man on the street with an imagined gun or other threat...
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
After hearing rumors of anarchists burning flags
lo and behold a photo this morning of 2 men burning a Confederate flag. What is the problem?
Seeing video of the marching protestors outside the fence with police phalanx and helicopters overhead, my thought was "this is a bloodless war zone in the city of the Liberty Bell". Irony abounds.
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The cynical part of me
Feels like they planned it this way. To rat fuck Democracy in the cradle where it was born would be the supreme joke for them, wouldn't it?
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Can’t you just see/hear Benjamin Franklin muttering imprecations
at the sordid spectacle?
“Fools! Tom, I told them, did I not? ‘A republic if you can keep it,’ I said. Just like that: ‘if you can keep it.’ Oh, did I tell them, Tom! But they didn’t listen, did they? They didn’t listen!”
“Come along, Ben. As it stands, for the moment there’s nothing more we can do for them.”
“And this miserable paper money they pass around — I wish they’d at least have the decency to stop printing my likeness on it.”
“Ah, Ben, but at least you adorn a century of dollars. My likeness is only on the ‘deuce,’ which, as we’ve seen, no one uses.”
Hey, we could joint-write a play! Make that cooperatively write.
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Sounds like a plan! n/t
Heh. Good one!
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
An anthem from the early days, featuring Ben
[video:https://youtu.be/TSP4ZaXhZ-U]
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. - e.e.cummings
Oh no, society is not taking them back....
You get to keep them.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
It's certainly kinder than the perpetual solitary confinement
that Chelsea Manning might well be heading for due to her suicide attempt.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
In my omnipotent power
I do not seek to sink to their level, but you are correct, this is sickening irony.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
orwell:
Just having a bit of fun
To ease the tension of this long long election.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
And Francisco Franco is still dead.
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Like a kilt
One needs a certain joie de vivre.
One only has to be packin the goods to do so?
All we can assess at this time it that its open to discussion.
Evidence? Citations?
Umm. Never mind.
Prof: Nancy! I’m going to Greece!
Nancy: And swim the English Channel?
Prof: No. No. To ancient Greece where burning Sapho stood beside the wine dark sea. Wa de do da! Nancy, I’ve invented a time machine!
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