tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16769170996992862902024-03-13T06:48:00.350-07:00Dinosaur SpeakTerry Simonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00611795590189464644noreply@blogger.comBlogger4113125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676917099699286290.post-54683658782681133692020-12-16T20:06:00.002-08:002020-12-16T20:08:45.104-08:00I Can't Breathe<p> <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tsfhTbmgGh8/X9rYFQbG1gI/AAAAAAAAQds/_LctLq9RCGQS8cDkOnrBPZxW7j8U0MbKgCLcBGAsYHQ/s965/Melania.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="732" data-original-width="965" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tsfhTbmgGh8/X9rYFQbG1gI/AAAAAAAAQds/_LctLq9RCGQS8cDkOnrBPZxW7j8U0MbKgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Melania.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><div>The Onion</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>TS<p></p>Terry Simonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00611795590189464644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676917099699286290.post-39050906673155410702020-11-29T23:55:00.002-08:002020-11-30T22:06:41.551-08:00No Direction Home--The Ruse <div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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We are literally advocating choosing evil. One has to look no further than any two major party candidates in the last century. Hell, one has to look no further than Joe Biden and Donald Trump. We are taught that it is perfectly morally acceptable to choose between a man who served as an architect of the modern day slave trade that is the post-Clintonian prison industrial complex and a man who imprisons children at the border in glorified concentration camps. These are both clearly evil human beings. Your average American recognizes this fact, and yet it remains perfectly mainstream to not only advocate giving one of these beasts a popular mandate for their crimes but it’s downright traditional to bully and humiliate anyone with enough of a conscience to refuse to play along.--</i>NR</p><p>The source <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/09/joe-biden-multiple-miggs-and-the-horrors-of-lesser-evilism/">per usual.</a> </p><p>Every election, different words and expression, since FDR compromised his way to The New Deal, and foiled the actual Left, when America had the real deal. Even he held a bastard side, of course.</p><p>My mother always said Delano "saved us," meaning my family's lives.</p><p>Biden doesn't have it in him. Neither does Kamala. </p><p>So no no no.</p><p><br /></p><p>TS</p>Terry Simonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00611795590189464644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676917099699286290.post-21980645195172390382020-10-02T21:14:00.004-07:002020-10-02T21:37:25.264-07:00What Goes Around...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v79G6RnvrPU/X3f6EWj3_BI/AAAAAAAAQbQ/CAnCaxiARFsTL5FFY_FrJ5zgW8JloOIlgCLcBGAsYHQ/s845/Glen_845x400.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="845" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v79G6RnvrPU/X3f6EWj3_BI/AAAAAAAAQbQ/CAnCaxiARFsTL5FFY_FrJ5zgW8JloOIlgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Glen_845x400.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Donald Trump is no different to me than any other stranger who is also a tyrant responsible for mass suffering. I really do not give a shit about him or his rather vile family members. If I am being honest, I will admit that, having been subjected to his Public Domestic Abuse for four years, I was not the slightest bit sorry to learn about his illness. Why should I be sorry? It’s not like my feelings about the matter caused his illness. Indeed, his own irresponsibility caused it. And surely caused many others around him to also become ill. He is a despicable man, and he deserves nothing more than he has given to others. It is normal and legitimate for those whose lives have been disrupted and threatened by a bully or a tyrant to feel some exultation when the tyrant suffers</i>.--JCI</p><p>Righteousness in a <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/10/02/whatever-removes-donald-trump-miserable-bastard-public-life-good">perilous time</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>TS</p>Terry Simonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00611795590189464644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676917099699286290.post-21955348321354653852020-10-01T21:21:00.003-07:002020-10-01T21:24:35.380-07:00Once I...<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8IHU9wdKfh8/X3apjI1Tz8I/AAAAAAAAQbE/_iZ62eYCv0YIJYXNIATlHjp9ufvjHXgNACLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/Causes-of-Homelessness.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8IHU9wdKfh8/X3apjI1Tz8I/AAAAAAAAQbE/_iZ62eYCv0YIJYXNIATlHjp9ufvjHXgNACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Causes-of-Homelessness.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Business <a href="https://www.steri-cleanoregon.com/homeless-camp?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI4sSsy4OV7AIV8R-tBh3DjgBwEAAYASAAEgIVlvD_BwE">as usual.</a></p><p><br /></p><p>TS</p>Terry Simonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00611795590189464644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676917099699286290.post-55462353412751574592020-09-30T23:43:00.000-07:002020-09-30T23:43:07.495-07:00America<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N8YBOeQg1vM/X3V54r6GjTI/AAAAAAAAQa4/60sMrR2Gi74ta1jDbhcquljdZPh2bWiGQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/cleaner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N8YBOeQg1vM/X3V54r6GjTI/AAAAAAAAQa4/60sMrR2Gi74ta1jDbhcquljdZPh2bWiGQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/cleaner.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Jesus, what a mess!!</p><p><br /></p><p>TS</p>Terry Simonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00611795590189464644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676917099699286290.post-59947990336320744392020-09-29T17:47:00.003-07:002020-09-29T18:36:03.902-07:00Debate? What Fucking Debate?<p><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eQ8pj87jhpE/X3PUaxQ-TzI/AAAAAAAAQak/x5_zGnB6rbwKb7GAR6lIB56tsR3oZ85JgCLcBGAsYHQ/s955/baby%2B1.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="955" height="168" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eQ8pj87jhpE/X3PUaxQ-TzI/AAAAAAAAQak/x5_zGnB6rbwKb7GAR6lIB56tsR3oZ85JgCLcBGAsYHQ/w273-h168/baby%2B1.jpg" width="273" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D1JYTVpHxgI/X3PVAAD5btI/AAAAAAAAQas/5u8OdkS4uncTwPUN9YYDwA5WoTjWIbiEQCLcBGAsYHQ/s275/biden.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D1JYTVpHxgI/X3PVAAD5btI/AAAAAAAAQas/5u8OdkS4uncTwPUN9YYDwA5WoTjWIbiEQCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/biden.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Biden will babble and Trump will lie.</p><p>What more need you know; that this show</p><p>Is put upon us by the lowest of the low?</p><p>BTW, if you can stand listening to these </p><p>Rat fuckers, you are a better person than I.</p><p><br /></p><p>TS</p>Terry Simonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00611795590189464644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676917099699286290.post-32175734681015791672020-09-29T12:50:00.000-07:002020-09-29T12:50:02.031-07:00Brilliant<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d103GBjb68Q/X3OO6Y6ixXI/AAAAAAAAQaY/9CclaOsrmlU_D-o_FsNLS3GbigiTFY2HACLcBGAsYHQ/s450/chicken.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="450" height="276" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-d103GBjb68Q/X3OO6Y6ixXI/AAAAAAAAQaY/9CclaOsrmlU_D-o_FsNLS3GbigiTFY2HACLcBGAsYHQ/w397-h276/chicken.jpg" width="397" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Source: Common Dreams</p><p><br /></p><p>TS</p>Terry Simonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00611795590189464644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676917099699286290.post-1012438018824151262020-09-19T21:25:00.004-07:002020-09-19T21:41:53.833-07:00What's Going On?<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kWe2wEKHEfs" width="480"></iframe><div><br /></div><div>Listen to this, listen hard.</div><div><p>I know people personally who ideologically despise Assange. 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I do understand why they're such goofs, but I refuse to take them seriously.</p><p>There is no excuse for what is happening to Assange other than a full embrace of American fascism.</p><p><br /></p><p>TS</p></div>Terry Simonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00611795590189464644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676917099699286290.post-28705749152282877892020-09-17T12:08:00.001-07:002020-09-17T12:11:49.540-07:00Triple Whammy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kdXCTlkzbt8/X2OyILTa7SI/AAAAAAAAQZ0/yci7l3pMIconaOwH-rzLBwRTJGs20vQvgCLcBGAsYHQ/s300/fascists.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="300" height="133" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kdXCTlkzbt8/X2OyILTa7SI/AAAAAAAAQZ0/yci7l3pMIconaOwH-rzLBwRTJGs20vQvgCLcBGAsYHQ/w168-h133/fascists.jpg" width="168" /></a></div><p>This <a href="https://www.theonion.com/nra-issues-f-rating-to-bugs-bunny-for-tying-up-guns-i-1845061098">bit of silliness</a> from the Onion is a welcomed respite from the damned real world of fascist politicians, forest fires and plagues.</p><p>The latter two could hardly exist without the corrupt ineptness of the first grouping.</p><p><br /></p><p>TS </p>Terry Simonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00611795590189464644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676917099699286290.post-81356997477532870732020-09-11T12:35:00.004-07:002020-09-11T12:40:55.144-07:009/11<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>TOPEKA, KS—Feeling helpless in the wake of the horrible Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that killed thousands, Christine Pearson baked a cake and decorated it like an American flag Monday.</i>--the Onion<br />
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<i>There has been much reluctance on the American “left” to discuss Trump’s electioneering efforts, and his politics more generally, with reference to the threat of fascist politics. Most Americans assume “It Can’t Happen Here,” drawing on the famous title of Sinclair Lewis’s seminal novel about the rise of fascism in a country that historically prides itself in democratic politics. U.S. media discourse routinely downplays talk of fascism, preferring terms like “authoritarianism,” or the more innocuous sounding “populism” to describe Trump’s anti-democratic tendencies. For example, in the first six months of 2020, a search of the Nexis Uni database reveals that the New York Times included the terms “fascist” or “fascism” alongside references to the Trump administration in 56 articles, compared to 161 articles referring to the Trump administration within the context of “authoritarian” politics or “authoritarianism,” and 193 articles referencing Trump alongside discussions of “populism” or “populist” politics. [1] Similarly, my review of the iPoll database, which is a clearinghouse for national polling data, finds that, for the professional polling organizations operating in the U.S., not a single group or poll bothered to ask Americans between 2016 and 2020 about their opinions of the “fascist” or “fascism” question, at all or in relation to the Trump presidency</i>.--AD<br />
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<i>I had never heard a publisher or an editor invoke morality in this way. Assange believes that journalists are the agents of people, not power: that we, the people, have a right to know about the darkest secrets of those who claim to act in our name.</i><br />
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<i>It is this morality of purpose that so threatens the collusion of powers that want to plunge much of the world into war and wants to bury Julian alive in Trump's fascist America--</i>JP<br />
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Terry Simonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00611795590189464644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676917099699286290.post-67475138902528259492020-09-05T13:08:00.001-07:002020-09-05T13:08:38.720-07:00The Angels of Anarchy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>“Anarchist Jurisdiction” is one of the great oxymorons in the Age of Great Oxymorons…</i><br />
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Terry Simonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00611795590189464644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676917099699286290.post-81507370016675512162020-09-01T10:18:00.002-07:002020-09-01T10:37:05.182-07:00Into the Streets...Again<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>It doesn’t look great for Slow Joe Biden, belatedly rising from his basement while the Orange Malignancy takes its white nationalist hate show on the road.</i><br />
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<i>Donald Trump is in fighting shape, throwing out one fascistic jab and neo-McCarthyite hook after another. The Orange Menace looks cocky. He’s relishing the fight. He’s mangling truth and distorting reality with reckless abandon. He’s ready to rumble.</i><br />
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<i>Trump knows what he’s doing and where he is. This is what he’s about. This is where he excels</i>.--PS<br />
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This time you should vote the "lesser-of-two-evils," obviously. Cast aside one stooge, then go after the corporate clown in time.<br />
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Terry Simonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00611795590189464644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676917099699286290.post-38143975381690731412020-08-28T14:37:00.001-07:002020-08-28T14:37:07.200-07:00Seven Bullet Holes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Terry Simonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00611795590189464644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676917099699286290.post-50475921488418514642020-08-21T15:39:00.001-07:002020-08-21T15:41:47.843-07:00The Conformists Have Their Daze<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>Fifty-years after its making I’m yet convinced that Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist is not only among the greatest films of the director’s career, but one of the greatest films period.</i><br />
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<i>Bertolucci (1941-2018) began his career in revolt, lashing out at the injustices of capitalism and the blinding middle-class decadence he witnessed as a young man. The son of an affluent and highly regarded poet, he was born in Parma, Italy. As a young man, Bertolucci fell under the spell of family friend Pier Paolo Pasolini, who gave him his first job in cinema and became his mentor.--</i>TS<br />
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Terry Simonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00611795590189464644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676917099699286290.post-3641139927190246922020-08-20T18:09:00.001-07:002020-08-20T18:11:12.196-07:00Something New<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I may have a new piece <a href="http://counterpunch.org/">in <i>CounterPunch</i></a> tomorrow. So watch for the weekend long format with 30 or more articles. It'll be my first published article in many months.<br />
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There are reasons for this, which I won't get into. But they're very real.<br />
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<i>Claiming that the Democratic party had embraced “progressive” ideas such as universal health care and free public education, Sanders declared, “Many of the ideas we fought for that just a few years ago were considered radical are now mainstream.”</i><br />
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<i>This is a ridiculous fraud. Joe Biden was the Senator from Delaware, the corporate tax evasion capital of America. His entire life has been dedicated to the defense of the social interests of Wall Street, consummated by his stint as vice president under an administration that funneled trillions to the banks, declared crooked bankers “too big to jail” while it allowed millions of families to lose their homes. Harris is a vicious ex-prosecutor and California Attorney General who dragged non-violent drug offenders to prison and presided over the nation’s largest prison population.</i>--PM<br />
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Come on, man. You know what the DNC is dishing is <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/18/dems-a18.html">complete bullshit.</a><br />
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Terry Simonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00611795590189464644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676917099699286290.post-79957328063209109362020-08-17T18:31:00.003-07:002020-08-17T21:18:25.977-07:00Dead Man Walking?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>On 11 August, Biden ended months of media speculation that had been intensified by his advanced age and clear signs of cognitive decline. Of course, Harris might end up serving out the remainder of his term should he die or otherwise become unable to fulfill his functions as president. Biden has even himself spoken of being “a transition candidate”, which implies he doesn’t expect or perhaps even intend to serve a full four years should he win</i>.--PB<br />
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Terry Simonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00611795590189464644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676917099699286290.post-33386993534399811592020-08-15T20:26:00.001-07:002020-08-15T20:30:17.483-07:00The Righteously Pissed Off Jimmy Dore<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Terry Simonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00611795590189464644noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676917099699286290.post-19193664426367874112020-08-15T17:26:00.001-07:002020-08-15T17:53:14.893-07:00Prove You're Not a Pile of Shit<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Funny, I got a MAGAC fundraising <a href="https://politics.theonion.com/trump-unable-to-produce-certificate-proving-hes-not-a-f-1819590270">letter yesterday.</a> How in the hell they pulled my name out of the hat I don't know. <br />
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