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Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Tuesday Crumbtacular - Cheer Your Bad Self Right Up!
Despair catches the post-Aquarian mood nicely, whilst Art & Beauty offers the eternal hope of redemption thru Culture! Out th' ass!
See youse bums after the election ... don't let us down ...
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Okay this link is REALLY hard to find
ReplyDeleteTake a can home with you, Katy!
DeleteAhh! There it is. OK thanks man, it's been fun already. Cosmic vibes and all that.
DeleteVoted early and I would do it often, if allowed. True story: when I was a high school freshman, I was home "sick" one day. Two guys in dark suits and ties knock on the door. I answer and the are looking for the original pmac, my grandfather. I advise them that his current residence was the cemetary at Independence St. and had been for the past 2 years. Someone had forged his name of the voting polls for an election that was held about 6 mos prior. The guy who won the Congressional seat election was refused to be seated by the House (there actually was honor amongst thieves back then) and he was ultimately convicted and served time.
ReplyDeleteEveryone should just take a deep breath and wait for 24 hours without looking at the news (OK, it's not likely I'll manage that).
ReplyDeleteThanks for the high quality distraction, Farq.
Growing up in Louisiana the joke was the election didn't begin until New Iberia's Puggy Moity was on TV or a body washed up in Lake Pontchartrain and then to vote early and often. True story: Willie Morris, _Harper's_ editor and the pride of Yazoo City, Mississippi, once gave a talk at LSU and told the crowd he always told told people in New York that if you wanted to understand Louisiana politics you had to understand Louisiana wasn't the southern US but northern Costa Rica. A few years later, he spoke at LSU again and apologized for his crack, noting that Costa Rica was _a lot_ more democratic than Louisiana.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, as I always remind my students, we are the makers of history (albeit not under conditions of our own choosing; thanks Karl-the-forgotten_Marx-Brother) and I hope everyone who can is out doing so. No matter what happens tonight or over the next few days, there's a generation of work that lies ahead of us. Might as well get started.
There was an election in Plaquemine Parish under the Perez dynasty, for which there were more votes cast than what constituted the entire population of the parish.
Delete"Judge" Leander once called my father a communist and without missing a beat turned to my mother and told her he was delighted to meet her and she was every bit as lovely as he'd been told. The mind boggles.
Deletefor those of you who have not figured it out yet, South Louisiana was/is a small place....
ReplyDeleteMy ex-wife's father was a HS teacher in Plaquemenines at one point in his life. He got into a dispute with Leander and shortly thereafter when the parish paved the dirt road where his house was located, they mysteriously failed to pave the area directly in front of his property.
ReplyDeleteI've tried it once before and failed miserably, but I am going to try harder this time & TRY to do do what Willie's kid says (Seeds, anyone?)(NO, not Sky Saxon & co.!):
ReplyDeleteTurn Off The News (Build A Garden)
Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real
I believe that every heart is kind
Some are just a little under-used
Hatred is a symptom of the times
Lost in these uneducated blues
I just want to love you while I can
All these other thoughts have me confused
I don't need to try and understand
Maybe I'll get up, turn off the news
Turn off the news and build a garden
Just my neighborhood and me
We might feel a bit less hardened
We might feel a bit more free
Turn off the news and raise your kids
Give them something to believe in
Teach them how to be good people
Give them hope that they can see
Hope that they can see
Turn off the news and build a garden with me
Trust builds trust
All that negativity's a bust
Trust builds trust
Don't you wanna be happy?
Turn off the news and build a garden
Just my…
Show of hands:
ReplyDeleteAny victims of "White Privilege" here?
Slippery slope this type of discussion...
Results are not looking good so far . . . .
ReplyDeleteSeriously?!
I heard the news today, oh boy...
The worst part? I bet that there's not gonna be no "Jeopardy!" tonight. Or maybe there is............. Dare I turn on NBC about now to find out....???
ReplyDeleteWe are trying to get out in Jan. Regardless, as soon as we can, we are out of here. Its looking better for a Biden win, but the Senate is def in the grips of the GOP, so even if Biden prevails, status quo wins. People want to blame lower income whites, but Trump increased his base with all ages/income/educational levels of caucasians - including women. And, he picked up more AA votes this time. Its beyond comprehension and not sad; its sickening. Hillary was right; Trump's base are the deplorables.
ReplyDeleteI heard today that he actually lost votes with white males, but on votes of white women (okayyyyy), latinos (okayyyyy,some like the strongman-style of Trump and especially the carribean Isle ones have always been surprisingly right wind) and - here's the kicker - blacks. HOW THE FUCK IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE? I mean, I don't know if we have any black four or five guys, but seriously, how do you vote for the guy who's cuddling up to right wing and white supremacist groups. How? I'm just utterly at a loss here.
ReplyDeleteHere's the thing: Four years ago you could still kinda sorta give Trump the benefit of the doubt. Sure, he's a loudmouth and an asshole and a mysoginist - but if people went with the whole "businessman who knows deals and will revitalize the economy thing, however fraudulous and shady his business dealings were, you could with a lot of effort kinda sorta see were they came from.
Now, four years, no one who voted for that orange fuck has an excuse. No one. You vote for him because of his racism, not despite it. Voting for Trump in 2020 "for the economy" is like saying you're supporting Hitler in 1944 because of the autobahn and not because all your Jewish neighbours have all mysteriously vanished.
Seriously, fuck these people and their bullshit justifications. Even if Biden makes it, the fact that half the fuckin' country still supports and wants that piece of shit in office tells you all you need to know about how fucked up the US of A is.
I can't get angry. I'm beat. It looks like the majority of americans simply stand for things that I can't get behind.
ReplyDeleteHang in there ...
ReplyDeleteIts more likely than not that Biden will win (but, its 2020). Still, there are deep rooted malignancies in the US that can only exist by virtue of racism.
DeletePearls of wisdom, Farq. Thanks.
DeleteWelp, Biden has it. Interestingly, both of the Georgia senate seats are headed to run-offs and that will decide who controls the senate.
DeleteI cannot locate the link. I'm at wit's end. Please????!!!
ReplyDeleteNovember 3, 2020 at 10:09 AM - comma
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