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Saturday memes and a lot of them
Men in Dresses
Real WOKE.
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I acquired the Ferengi meme of meme acquisition, of course! Stalin told me to!
Maya Angelou never met Helene
I saw lots of those supremely dumb “Get the gummint outta mah Medicare” signs all over town for the 2010 midterms.
Along with the ‘97% of the poorest counties in the US are in red states’ meme, I recently looked up the current (ish) stats on life expectancy in the US…9/10 states with the highest life expectancy in America are run by Democrats (average 79 years). 9/10 of the states with the lowest life expectancy are run by Republicans. (average 73.5 years)
Republican governance is hazardous to everyone’s health.
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Hi Bruce. Yes US life expectancy is more than five years down now and much less than other developed countries. But the republican right and their cronies are desperate to keep the population from seeing how others in countries less wealthy than our country live. They fear if the people know that the government could work for them and make their lives better like in the other countries and their lives would not be such a struggle there would be a massive revolt. One of the republican congress critters admitted the drive to make Europe put more money into their military was to reduce the amount of money they could spend on public welfare. Even Israel that our government insists we must protect and give 4 or more billions in aid to each year has universal healthy care. Yes their people don’t struggle with paying for drugs or medical treatment because the US gives them over 4 billion a year. Hugs
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But it’s still not OK for people to kill people. It needed to be said because I love this, all except the one that presents it’s OK for people to kill people.
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Hi Ali. Yes but remember the abortion doctors killed and the abortion staff assaulted where the people claimed they had to do it for the greater good, to save a life from imminent death? The right never called those people out because if they break the law and hurt people for their cause it is OK.
No we are not at the point where it is free game on the wealthy who have a boot on the neck of the people. But the meme and the things being presented show the reason why society is not sustainable at this direction and if you look at other dictatorships that have been over thrown like Syria it is because the people finally got tired of being raked over the coals and taken for everything they might have to give to the upper society. Hugs
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We are not the same people who kill people. We do not kill people, and it’s not ok for anyone to kill people. Uprising is one, thing, actual killing is a whole other thing.
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Hi Ali. You are really missing the point. You are stuck on we don’t kill people bit without seeing the bigger picture, without understand the idea that the wealthy are afraid now for the first time. There has been an uprising of at least one man against the wealthy and they are desperate to make an example of him and the lady I posted this morning. The wealthy must always be privileged to walk as gods above the chattel they drain of every quality of living.
No, the left doesn’t kill, and even the death penalty is wrong. Yet we sit back and let the right threaten it at every turn even at drag queen story hours with little kids present. Meanwhile the left plays nice and by the rules, not offending people’s feelings. The gay people showed we need a rough side also during the 1990s with both in your face loud interfering activism and behind the scenes acting to win people over. The right took that same way of acting to win the culture wars over the last 8 years that the left tried to go the high road. If we don’t want a dictatorship theocracy modeled on a 1950s stereotype that never really existed we better learn to get our hands dirty. Even now Pelosi is working hard to prevent AOC from being ranking member on the oversite committee as she pushes corporate 73 year old Connolly who has cancer. Even though cautious corporatism lost us the election, those wealthy old … people are going to keep it going until they die. It is like they are paid to lose, like the team that played the Globetrotters. Hugs
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I understand that they’re afraid. If that makes people happy, I’m happy for them.
But we know that what the wealthy and the rich do when they’re afraid is clamp people down. It needs to be made clear that people don’t kill other people, that it is not tolerated. If it is not clear to those who feel threatened, people will begin being arrested for threats. We’ve seen this happen already with a woman trying to deal with a claim, and being angry and saying something the wrong way. She’s in deep trouble, but any human could see, reading what she said, how an already paranoid person would take that as threat, and right after there’s been a murder. This is one of those times, like just after USA PATRIOT became law, that people should not be rude to the point of threat. Her words were a threat. She is likely not a threat at all, though. It’s something the rest of us ought to consider when words are hot over what I agree are very important issues and situations.
OK, off the soapbox. Everyone can still decide on that for themselves, and we can all get along.
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Update: The oldest people in the Democratic Party managed to keep their power a bit longer. Connolly won by a dozen votes. The republicans used the energy of Marge Greene and their rabid right attention getters to gain more attention and votes, our side is keeping the donor base happy and the oldsters’ in congress money flowing in so we keep our side stuck in the 1980s refusing to let the younger generations take over. Biden refused to move aside, Pelosi is acting like the democrats leader even though she turned it over to someone she undercuts all the time, and RGB refused to step down after having cancer repeatedly so a democrat could replace her … what is it with these people refusing to retire and let younger people with far more energy take over? Younger people who can relate better to the country that these people in their 70s and 80s sequestered in their wealthy districts in their expensive homes, with their millions from deals made while they are in the congress, these people have lost touch with the public. I am so tired of them. So very tired. As is the country. That is why the republicans are winning, they are showing strength and energy and our people can hardly talk or walk stairs. Hugs
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Part of it with some of the oldsters is, they do know their constituencies, and there is the real possibility, no matter how Democratic the area votes, they’d vote for a Republican over an unknown. For Democrats, it’s not a power thing, because really. What little they get they don’t use anyway.
In some districts, possibly Rep. Pelosi’s, the state party may have great, um, input re candidates, as they do with state party platform, so there could need to be a state and district party structure change (more young people!) to fix that.
It’s going to also take a real influx of involved, young voters, as well as party position holders, and young people ready to run for offices. Some young ones-AOC-was one (and she’s not old!) when she first ran-are able to run for higher, national offices early. Many will have to work their ways from local to state level offices, then to national. I saw David Hogg is running for a spot on a Dem committee! I don’t know which one, but even if it’s his precinct committee chair, he gets to form and vote for the local party’s policies, etc. There is change! He’ll also be a delegate to at least the state level, and could be to national. He could be snapped up by the state party who may be able to afford to pay him. He could get to AOC’s level sooner because of his coverage for the years he’s already been activist. So, it can be done!
More things like that have to happen everywhere. I’m tired of the oldsters, too; If I’d run for an office I’d be out by 60, then I would turn around and volunteer for their office, with my mouth shut, to help the young ones get things done. And bring cookies!
OK. So that got long, possibly off-topic. But I’m thinking of lurking young people who may not be aware of how things can happen, and that there are oldsters who support young people. So, I’m leaving it all up there for those readers. There is a place for everyone to do this.
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Hi Ali. I like that you said if you were in office you would be out at 60 years old. But that denies the pressures these people face in the office. I admire some of the progressive squad for giving to them.
The fact is all you have to do is google the wealth of the members of congress when they ran for office and where they are now. Take Pelosi. She was a rather well off person in the upper middle income with her husband being new to the investment business. Now they are multimillionaires, making far more on their stock trades than the normal average. Plus there is not only the money that these people have access to it is the power.
In the 1980s I was a new US Navy recruit with bad motion sickness. I was once so sick they were preparing to fly me off the ship to a hospital. I made the mistake of telling my adopting mother of this. My adopting mother who worked for the state called our state senator complaining. I got removed from my ship. I think I could have taught myself to handle it with a bit more time. I only went out on two cruises and it was in local waters. Due to her call the senator from my state contacted the Navy upper command and it was put in my service record “No US Navy ship I was on could leave a dock”.
Because of the job I choose which was for men was at sea only which was what I wanted to do, I was discharged with over $2,700 due to her interference and the power of a senator. To this day I can not be allowed on a US Navy vessel if it is not moored to the dock. That is the power congress people have. They don’t give it up willingly.
And yes I was so angry because they thought making me have to leave the military would put me back under their control, under their roof where my abuse could continue, I stopped that by immediately joining the Army.
But my point is that what most of these old congress people who want to raise the age of retirement is that while they have staff that do everything for them and a paid for office with all the benefits, most workers bodies give out doing their jobs because they do not have constant paid for staff doing their every whim. Construction workers and hospital workers for example can’t tell staff to cook their meals or do their daily chores like congress critters can. They lose sight of this and claim everyone can do like 86 year old Chuck Grassley that just won another 6 year term. Really? Sucks doesn’t it. Hugs
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