MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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GOP leaders skip Trump send-off in favor of church with Biden
By artappraiser on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 1:08am |Biden's idea, he invited them, read about it last night when the news was that McConnell said yes and confirmed right away, McCarthy took a while longer...
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seeing this just now reminded me to go look for a story on the above and post it:
It may be all be phony for appearances sake, but ya never know, our country is in a way lot of trouble right now and they are all going down in the history books for what they did and what they do from now on.
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 1:13am
It Took A Year — And A New President — But The US Finally Mourned The COVID Dead
While Tuesday memorial was a first step toward a national recognition of how much has been lost to the pandemic, some mourners are wondering what accountability looks like.
Nice to see a little human decency instead of everyone screaming in protest one tribe against the other with a wild pack of psycho alphas roaming amidst the tribal warriors, ginning things up much further, mostly just for their own gratification.
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 2:03am
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 2:04am
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 2:28am
as pointed out above: seriousness, it's a feature, not a bug:
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 2:54pm
Pickard is a major journo in politics in the UK, so I thought that might be of interest to share. Now I'm editing to add this tweet that came right after in my feed by a regular ole middle class type English art dealer that I follow who never ever tweets on politics, always English art history. First politician I've ever seen him mention that's alive:
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 3:27am
I remember watching the fireworks across the mountains early Jan 1, 2009, trying to find the hope with the economic meltdown, too many years of focus on the Mideast to the expense if everything else... Eventually the optimism came, not so naive, but one that set things in their place.
I'm still waiting for that to happen now - maybe a piece happened last night, but Trump's stolen 2 1/2 more months of our attention. But maybe it's coming. Even as I was appalled with some of the auto & other bailouts, i don't expect to be constantly pleased, but maybe pleasantly satisfied is good enough. 12 years down the road, and there should be some solace in knowing as bad as things feel, they're not as bad as 1988, as 1974, as 1939 or 1931. We don't need genius - we need competent humane leadership. All the hype of American exceptionalism, and the Senate being the "greatest deliberative body in the world..." and the greatest country that ever existed... all jacking ourselves off. We're as good as we are in any short set of years. The historical stuff is window dressing. The Yankees or Patriots aren't great because of what they did in 1972 - it's what they did the last 5 or 10 years, and where they're set for the next 5. But with big wars down, and before Covid hunger /poverty down, solutions evolving for global warming, ... the problems don't look that tough. Even with Covid, we have a bizarrely simple way forward with vaccines and possible cures - just to have a normal leader take it. Maybe 2021 is the year/decade of not creating problems where they don't exist.
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 4:19am
Mission Accomplished. Awful to sit around worried someone'll do something stupid, but we'll overcome.
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 12:27pm
Law and order wins again, generally a good thing:
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 12:34pm
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 12:41pm
wow forgot about that. call in the social workers?
(hey, Beschloss' tweet on JFK Jr. upthread, they should be able to do something with that? I don't remember in Qanon theory what he's supposed to do, tho.)
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 12:47pm
No no keep the faith. Trump was always more powerful as an outsider. He was constrained from acting while president but he spent his time gathering evidence on the pedophile ring of conspirators in control of the deep state. Now out of office he's free to deal with them and once they are removed, arrested, and jailed Trump will be acclaimed as
emperorpresidentby ocean-kat on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 1:45pm
"keep the faith"-you betcha-here they are borrowing more lingo from the far left--stoke the"burning hatred of injustice"
burning hatred, that's the key, keep fighting, leave the whole world blind. The main thing I liked about Joe, maybe the only thing,is that he does the love and even the kumbaya thing sometimes. Is it the way things really are? No. BUT this is a major leader, I do not want leaders stoking passions and hatred, I want leaders who try to calm passions and hatreds, between both people and countries. Anger is not a good governing platform for an executive manager. Stoking passions can be a legislative job if that's your thing.
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 2:25pm
The Left is not responsible for the gullibility of QAnon supporters
The Left is not responsible for those with accept white supremacists into their ranks.
If you parade a Confederate flag in the halls of Congress that is on you.
If you align with white supremacists, that is on you.
The Right is experiencing circumstances similar to the Lost Cause myth
Also brings to mind anti-vaxcers and those who do not "believe" in climate change
Evil is justified because only they sees the truth.
No need to wear mask, for example
Ransack the Capitol, steal a laptop
This has nothing to do with the Left.
The fever can only be broken if people on the Right condemn QAnon, etc.
by rmrd0000 on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 3:02pm
Those on the Right have no policy ideas
They steal terms from the Left and distort them
On MLK Day, wingnuts and QAnon supporters were telling us how they agreed with the vision of Martin Luther King Jr.
Then they speak and vote against every policy King wanted.
King's words were correct,
The Right appropriated the words for their own use
King is not responsible for the nonsense spewed by the Right.
by rmrd0000 on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 4:35pm
someone said he was responsible?
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 8:09pm
Meanwhile, wondering if you really listened.
....I ask every American to join me in this cause.
Uniting to fight the common foes we face:
Anger, resentment, hatred.
Extremism, lawlessness, violence.
Disease, joblessness, hopelessness....
We can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbors.
We can treat each other with dignity and respect.
We can join forces, stop the shouting, and lower the temperature.
For without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury.
No progress, only exhausting outrage.
No nation, only a state of chaos....
--Inaugural Address by President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Jan. 20, 2021
Just a rhetorical, because actually I'd rather not hear your answer, as I would just expect more anger and outrage and partisan tribal screaming and I'd rather spend time listening to him and others like him.
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 8:50pm
three more presidents backing up Biden's message; I think I'll go with them rather than the "we just got to keep fight fight fighting the evil other" crew on dagblog; funny how they are just not talking about how 40% of the population is evil and I know they are far from naive:
must have learned something as a world leader for eight years each.
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 11:44pm
more pondering along the lines of quo vadis QAnon?-
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 9:17pm
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 12:46pm
new Twitter account, @potus, 12:36 pm, no ban-able behavior yet and no "this is disputed" addenda:
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 12:42pm
conservative Dr. Gottlieb (commissioner of the FDA, 2017-2019, among other things) on board:
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 12:57pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 1:07pm
Nancy's restraining him as only she knows how. Wild uncontrolled men straying off the reservation? Not in her House.
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 1:15pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 1:09pm
Major twitter thread confirms he actually owns 3 jackets.
And he wears good homemade gloves given him by a constituent.
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 1:13pm
I laughed and so would most New Yorkers, this is actually a joke of endearment, not defamation:
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 10:34pm
Entirely on-brand. I'm sure his 2 other coats were just used briefly in the campaign.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 01/21/2021 - 12:50am
and here's Uncle Marvin!
by artappraiser on Thu, 01/21/2021 - 5:39am
Bernie at Marvin Gardens etc al - the meme's bursting out all over
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 01/21/2021 - 8:44am
still staying with the Uncle Marvin thing, Bernie shows he is no commie, he still likes him some capitalism, capitalizing on a consumer trend with profits going to private charity
by artappraiser on Fri, 01/22/2021 - 7:13pm
One more
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 01/22/2021 - 11:57pm
They're gangnam up on Bernie
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 01/23/2021 - 4:31pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 2:49pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 8:56pm
If only Bush hadn't been such a jerk in office (or restrained the jerks he surrounded himself with). Makes a much better ex-Presidentm
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 01/21/2021 - 12:55am
the working class hero thing:
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 9:01pm
yup:
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 10:51pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 01/21/2021 - 12:28am
good point well made about tonight's festivities:
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 9:02pm
Masha Gessen raves: Amanda Gorman’s Inaugural Poem Is a Stunning Vision of Democracy, just published @ NewYorker.com
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 9:34pm
celebrating neo-conservatives:
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/20/2021 - 11:11pm
Just came to me watching this that nobody "took a knee." Just sayin':
by artappraiser on Thu, 01/21/2021 - 12:22am