I Can't Breathe

 

The Onion

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No Direction Home--The Ruse

The corporate media and Democratic Party are celebrating Joe Biden’s incoming cabinet as “the most diverse in US history,” proclaiming that the appointment of women, African Americans and Latinos to key cabinet positions is a sign of tremendous social progress.

In reality, Biden’s rainbow coalition of imperialist reaction encapsulates and exposes the right-wing essence of identity politics.--WSWS

The story, which you should read, is at the World Socialist website.

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Love Pissarro

But hate the new Blogger.

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Jim Carrey

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Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil Say Bidenheads

 

I don’t feel like I’m being hyperbolic here and I don’t see the concept of the lesser evil as being merely symbolic. 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.--NR

The source per usual. 

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.

My mother always said Delano "saved us," meaning my family's lives.

Biden doesn't have it in him.  Neither does Kamala.  

So no no no.

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What Goes Around...

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.--JCI

Righteousness in a perilous time.

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Once I...

 

Business as usual.

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America

 

Jesus, what a mess!!

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Debate? What Fucking Debate?

Biden will babble and Trump will lie.

What more need you know; that this show

Is put upon us by the lowest of the low?

BTW, if you can stand listening to these 

Rat fuckers, you are a  better person than I.

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Brilliant

 

Source: Common Dreams

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What's Going On?

Listen to this, listen hard.

I know people personally who ideologically despise Assange.  Liberals mainly.  I do understand why they're such goofs, but I refuse to take them seriously.

There is no excuse for what is happening to Assange other than a full embrace of American fascism.

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Triple Whammy

This bit of silliness from the Onion is a welcomed respite from the damned real world of fascist politicians, forest fires and plagues.

The latter two could hardly exist without the corrupt ineptness of the first grouping.

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9/11

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.--the Onion

Nineteen years and a sinking-boatload of wars later, America remains befuddled.

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Happy Family

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.--AD

The rest of DiMaggio's story.

The whole enchilada.


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Brutal

(Rachel Peters for the Oregonian)

So stunning, yet so tragic.  This is outside Canby, Oregon, near Portland.

My good friend RP Thomas lost his house as another fire roared through his subdivision in Talent, Oregon near the Cali border.

Talent and nearby Phoenix were both burned out.  Closer to Portland again, Molalla, with 8,000 folks, has been evacuated and may end up like the two southern Oregon towns.


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Update:  How Molalla was saved.  Read it.