He only cares about himself. Even so, billionaires think their money will protect them from climate disaster

It is a weird and warped mindset — they know it’s coming but they are convinced that they can buy their way to safety.

Donald, though, is so psychotic that it’s hard to tell what he knows.

I highly recommend Douglas Rushkoff’s book “Survival of the Richest: escape fantasies of the tech billionaires.” Or the interview/lecture on YouTube:

It's the people with arsenals against all the rest of us. From babies in preschools to old people dancing...

From young people dancing to folks in any house of worship praying and opening their hearts to the stranger in their midst. All of us just going about our lives.

There is a streak of madness and hate running through American culture, and I have lived long enough to watch it burst into poisonous bloom, every petal a bullet.

I have lived long enough to experience duck & cover drills — growing up knowing that at least the Enemy was outside our borders. To watch the drills go away with the fall of the Soviet Union.

And I have lived long enough to watch us turn on ourselves, and to create an Enemy inside our borders, such that the smallest schoolchild is now taught “active shooter drills” — which are no more protective than “duck & cover,” except that the Enemy is right here and right now, and schoolchildren from K - 12 are shredded to unrecognizability by weapons designed for use on the battlefield. “We’ll need to use DNA to ID them all” has become a thing.

Pogo was right all along. “We have met the Enemy, and he is Us.”

Query for Old Timers Who Remember Post 9-11 Laws Restricting US Civil Liberties...

I need some sources I can readily cite. All my activist files from the Post 9-11 era are in an old computer In the garage. I did start looking online this morning, because I wanted to pull together my thoughts, but inquiries about incursions into our civil liberties brought up volumes and volumes of info (remember “Total Information Awareness” ? ) We were well and truly fucked. As I said when Barack Obama was elected: “It’s not over. All this is, is a chance for America to get it right.” And we didn’t — we elected Trump after Obama.

This query is specifically related to the BushCheney administration’s desire to monitor who purchased what books and who checked out what books. I distinctly recall that:

* They wanted Librarians to keep tabs on who checked out what, and be prepared to report it to the federal authorities upon request
* They wanted booksellers to do the same

What brings this up for me is a current discussion at DU (link below) in which it seems that history has all gone down the memory hole. There’s some who just don’t get it that book banning is not trivial, and not about “protecting” kids. They really think book stores are using it as a sales gimmick.

I started writing, but wanted to say more. I know you all can help me dredge up what seems buried in my memory.

Thanks to whoever replies.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=18515251

I was driving down the main street of my town, on the way to a meeting of the VFP...

…over at the old Veterans’ Memorial Building. It was night and traffic was slow, as usual. I was anxiously listening to the news — and they did it. BushCheney did it. I began to curse. GD MF SOB. I kept it up until I realized that anyone can read lips when the speaker is using 4-letter words and I was driving slowly enough for them to do so.

What was I thinking? HE LIED. People were going to die wholesale because HE LIED. GD MF SOB I watched the cable news stations willingly submit themselves to unabashed propaganda in order to make a wrongful war happen. They trotted out special graphics and wrote special theme music, and ran it 24/7. Of their own free will. WHY?

The propaganda push was so blatant that several elderly Europeans of my acquaintance, including my mother in law, were getting sickening flashbacks to the 1930s. I was already involved in the local peace community at the time, and became a liaison between my friends at the VFP and other groups, which is how I met many people.

I’m not a veteran, nor am I a pacifist. In those years I still thought the country of my birth could be salvaged, and the VFP, gods bless them, were the antiwar marchers who marched under the US flag they had fought for. So I marched with them, and eventually was asked to join, and after a time they found out I knew how to chair a meeting…

But on that night, the wrongful war we tried to prevent began. And it unfolded as we knew it would, but with added corruption because this was BushCheney and the GOP and there was money to be made.

GD MF SOB

It's clear that some remember the Nixon-Kissinger relationship....

When does George Santos skedaddle out of the US? And where does he go?

Doesn’t Brazil want him back for some crime or other?

Peace to all my DU friends on this Thanksgiving. Peace to our war-torn world...

When someone thinks humans are inherently evil, they also think humans need to be stomped down hard

Why they focus so obsessively on sex is anyone’s guess — maybe because it brings us pleasure and closeness, and after all, if our very natures are inherently evil, why so is every indication of our sexuality.

Therefore, sex and sexuality need to be stomped down hard, driven into the shadows of shame and the darkness of twisted power-over. Power-over anyone perceived as weaker, like women and gay men, and over anyone actually weaker, like children.

Individual thought, differences of any kind, all evil.

Mike Johnson is sick and twisted and belongs nowhere near the halls of power.

Any normal person should be able to smell his festering psychic stink from across the country.

"A Miracle is Brightest in the Dark" -- The Marsh Family will break your heart...

Kick. Rec. Bookmark. Thanks for Thomas Jefferson...