America's choices: the Nazis or the Fukawis

During the time of covid-shutdown America, I stumbled across a voice howling (on Substack) from the Florida wilderness, which I felt was a good bit more tuned in than most of what I saw online. A recent sampling:

My Two Senses

What I'd Rather Be Doing
Ol’ Flawriduh Cracker

Mar 13, 2023

I spent most of my career in creating stuff and imagined that I would be spending most of my time doing stuff to amuse my nieces and nephews… Instead I am spending inordinate amounts of time alerting my fellow Americans to the coming wave of Christo-Fascist, Authoritarian, Oligarchy that continues to pretty much unabated to destroy our great experiment in a Democratic Republic.

BTW this thing pretty much began in the modern era with the Dulles Brothers (Nazi Lovers) and the once considered laughable John Birch Society whose dogma then is now that of the modern Republican Party. 

My next post will provide a “hi-light reel” of that arc in our history that we apparently just fail to see. 

Sloan Bashinsky

Sadly, you are correct. Alas, the Democrats have done and continue to do plenty to end the Republic, too. About all of which a buddy of mine and I also have tried our darnedest to try to wake up the dead, But then, I think in Gospels, Jesus told someone who wanted to attend a funeral, instead of following him (Jesus), "Let the dead bury the dead." But then, if we don't keep shooting off our mouths, blowing our wannabe trumpets, how will God view that? I think it was Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who said, "Silence in the face of Evil itself is Evil. God will not hold us guiltless." Maybe ETs will say enough is enough! And invade to save the planet from Earthlings😎.

Ol’ Flawriduh Cracker

Sloan, we need clear leadership that is willing to call Republicans Fascists and to rally the 50% of Democrats in my state that do not vote. If they did this state would no longer be in the grip of Republicans.

Instead, they seem to believe that denial of what the Republican agenda is or that it is bluster is the only defense.

When we are reduced to waiting for miracles to intercede, then we are in real trouble.

Thanks for your comments as always

Sloan Bashinsky   

I have been less kind to the Republican side. I have likened them to Nazis. Look at any Trump rally. Seas of white faces. In the law is the doctrine, res ipsa loquitur, Latin for, the thing speaks for itself. Res ipsa is evidentiary, admissible as evidence, determinative proof. 

The American right ignore what Ivana revealed about Donald. When they were married, he kept a book of Hitler's speeches in a cabinet on his side of their bed, and sometimes at night he pulled out that book and read it. It boggles my mind that any woman, or black, or brown, or yellow, or red American, votes for Trump.

The Democrats, of whom I am not either, remind me of the famous in some circles Fukawi tribe, who are always getting lost and gathering in a circle and sitting down and chanting, "Where in the fuck are we? Where in the fuck are we?" 

If half the Democrats in Florida do not vote, perhaps only God and ETs are all that's left to hope for? 

As if someone elsewhere was reading over my shoulder: 

Yahoo Finance
White House demands Pence apologize for 'homophobic joke' aimed at Buttigieg 

LIBBY CATHEY
Mon, March 13, 2023

The White House on Monday asked former Vice President Mike Pence to apologize for what it called a "homophobic joke" he made over the weekend geared at Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

"The former vice president's homophobic joke about Secretary Buttigieg was offensive and inappropriate, all the more so because he treated women suffering from postpartum depression as a punchline," White House press secretary Karine-Jean Pierre said in a statement. "He should apologize to women and LGBTQ people, who are entitled to be treated with dignity and respect."

Pence, headlining at the annual Gridiron Club dinner in Washington for journalists and politicians, mocked Buttigieg for taking parental leave after the birth of his adopted twins while he said Americans faced issues with air travel.

"He took two months 'maternity' leave whereupon thousands of travelers were stranded in airports, the air traffic system shut down, and airplanes nearly collided on our runways. Pete is the only person in human history to have a child and everyone else gets postpartum depression," Pence said, according to reporters present.

Notably, Buttigieg's twins were born prematurely, developed Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection (RSV) and one was hospitalized and put on a ventilator, a point his husband, Chasten, called out in a tweet directed at the rumored 2024 presidential hopeful.

"An honest question for you, @Mike_Pence, after your attempted joke this weekend. If your grandchild was born prematurely and placed on a ventilator at two months old - their tiny fingers wrapped around yours as the monitors beep in the background - where would you be?" he said.

Donna

Pence is as bad as Trump.  If he thinks he is funny he isn't.  He is another republican disgrace.  Don't Run Pence.  You won't get votes because the Trump lovers are going to hold it against you that you wouldn't throw the election.  Only smart thing you have done in years.

Sloan Bashinsky

Pence impressed me on Jan 6, by standing firm, and later, by saying Trump put him and his family at risk. Pence then waffled, didn't seem interested in Trump being prosecuted for trying to overthrow the national government. If Pence is so "pro-life", why isn't he frothing at the mouth ongoing for Trump being prosecuted? 

What this Independent cannot accept is the 2 months leave Pete took from a cabinet position. I think he should resign. I think he has cost the Democrats votes in 2024. 

My personal history is, I fathered three children by the same woman. She was wasted after each birth. I got up in the middle of the night to bring her our new baby to nurse. I changed the baby's diapers and washed them out in the toilet, and went back to bed and to sleep. 

After our first child died at 7 weeks of sudden infant death syndrome, we were devastated. I could barely move. I was in law school. I took one day off from classes and then returned to class. It was horrible. Yet, I had to keep moving. 

So, I can sympathize with Pete and his spouse in that way. And in another way. I have a granddaughter who felt like she was male and had surgery to become male. I view religious freaks like Pence as terrorists. 

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