calimary
calimary's JournalWouldn't be me.
And it does have a way of coming around, doesn't it.
There's one show on there I call "the salad tongs show."
I dont and WONT watch Pox Noise - just on principle - but Ive seen glimpses of that show at times while randomly changing channels.
I dont know what the real name of the show is, or exactly when its on. Nor do I care. But just one glimpse is enough to be revolting to me. You have a set with sofas and the glass coffee table in front of it. There are five co-hosts, a man and four women. He sits in the middle. And around him are splayed these glossy women, wearing very tight-fitting, very short sheath dresses or skirts, and they sit, bare legs crossed at the knees, with fancy spike-heeled what we used to call fuck me shoes on the ends of all those legs. And the legs arent crossed demurely, like the royals sit, legs crossed at the ankles and over to the side. These have the feet wide apart, so from the knees down all you see are these extended salad tongs. Four pairs of em.
And it took only ONE time seeing that to switch on a and what the hell are they messaging with THAT image?????!?!!? indignant reaction in me. Literally ALL YOU SAW were those four pairs of legs displayed in wide v configurations from locked-together knees down to the fancy-ass shoes at the end of each leg. And theyre always tanned and slink-looking and the skin is always glossy and oiled. And it goes through my mind: Okay, who are you trying to appeal to? I get it. Horny old men. Right? And just exactly what is being inferred here? The subliminal messaging youre dishing up with those four fancy pairs of glossy oiled salad tongs... yep. I get it. I know what youre trying to do here.
And Ive gotta say, it leaves me feeling so disgusted and turned off - and PISSED off - that I immediately want to grab a protest sign and find a march somewhere.
Add "Ghoul" to "Waffen-SS" and you've nailed him.
Remarkable!
At our old place, I left birdseed out in front every morning. Soon enough, I noticed I had customers! Birds would sit on the power lines along the street and wait, every morning. Sometimes Id see 16 or 17 of them all in a row up there, waiting for me and my birdseed! There were black phoebes, house finches, mourning doves, and a blue jay or two.
My husband said that when hed sit outside, reading, on the deck, hed hear the distinctive black phoebe chirp and sure enough thered be one on the chimney, sitting and waiting - and, I guess, alerting. He said he thought I was being paged. Just on a hunch, I went out front and sure enough, the place where I always dropped birdseed was empty! I was being called to resupply!
Yep.
I have also heard "Jabba the Barr."
I apologize for not knowing who came up with that. But I know greatness when I see it!
So basically we should just shrug and "let this one go"
to use the phrase The Asset used while leaning on Comey to turn a blind eye to Mike Flynns betrayals?
Im just concerned about what will be in the history books. We have it in the books and on the books that Clinton was impeached basically for lying about a sex act with a consenting adult. The Dem-controlled Senate did not vote to convict, so the CONS who owned the House werent able to remove him from office. And, granted, with the GOP owning this Senate, even if this Democratic House impeached, wed likely see the same outcome.
But that impeachment stuck. Its there on President Clintons historical record - for all time. For a comparatively insignificant offense - basically because thats all they could get him on after a four-year inquisition and 60 or 70 million taxpayer dollars going through everything they thought they could find, short of combing through his bellybutton lint?
So whats the choice then? Must we let trump skate? With no such blemish on his record in the history books? Without that punitive asterisk by his name that denotes his inclusion on that particular wall of shame?
With all due respect, my friend, I cant agree. I dont think we should just let that one go. Or let trump skate. And yes I know the cost could be high in the next election.* This wasnt some stupid peccadillo with a consenting adult. He and his were in bed with the fucking RUSSIANS (also known as a HOSTILE FOREIGN POWER)
* I put an asterisk in to add one BIG point about why now is not necessarily, and need not necessarily be, a history-repeating-itself scenario. Conditions are different now. Its been said that if Nixon had had a Pox Noise behind him as trump now has, hed have survived Watergate and served two full terms. I think thats a fair assumption.
But guess what WE have? A reawakened, organized, and energized grassroots platform. A supergroup so to speak, of activated forces under the Indivisible banner. The Indivisible movement is well established by now, flowering in every Congressional district in America.
Were really on it, in my Individible group. We issue directed and well-researched call to action emails every week. We meet with our somewhat unruly Congressman every month. We have two Postcard Parties a month to put our directives to our House and Senate Reps in writing, we partner with the larger neighboring Indivisible Oregon chapter in multiple ways, and we even have one of our own running for school board next month. Our Direct Action committee chair has been reaching out to other progressive groups and he reported to our leadership meeting yesterday that the reaction is enthusiastic across the board. They want to team up with us. Eager to do so. Were not rolling over and giving up or going back to sleep.
And similar stuff is going on from coast-to-coast. Indivisible has been publicly credited for the successful blue wave last November that washed 40 republi-CONS out of the House of Reps and gave Democrats the majority again. In our little neck of the woods, we bolstered the re-election of Governor Kate Brown and flipped a state House district in our own backyard.
Dems didnt have a powerful backing infrastructure during the Bill Clinton persecution, until it was already underway and grassroots efforts started sprouting to lobby Congress to move on. That eventually crystallized into what we now know as MoveOn.org.
So we have tools now. We have muscle now. We also have a track record of the old slogan getting things done. Flipping the House of Reps and an army of other improvements at the stage and local level across America, for example. The Big Woke, as it were, is on OUR side this time.
Sorry about the length...
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