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A Little Cheese with My W(h)ine! Media Destruction of Biden

We have this Man-baby in charge. I have never liked the man since using one of his real estate persons in Florida to purchase my first Palm Beach County home. That was 1996. I hoped I could get over the bastard. The bastard returned into my life in 2016. I wanted Hillary Clinton, as did most of those in the popular vote where Hillary won over the Man-baby.

We then had Joe Biden. I had always liked Joe Biden. Maybe there was an imperfection. But overall, I liked President Biden. I liked Vice President Kamala Harris, too. I find it disgusting those who think either one was “not qualified” enough. Usually it was due to some imperfection. Bullshit on imperfection because we are ALL imperfect at some point. But what is the overall picture?

Why have so many Americans lost sight of the appreciation for what America is all about, in SPITE OF IMPERFECTIONS at times? What has caused this?

First of all, it was Reagan/Bush and the removal of the Fairness Doctrine. BTW. When I mention it was Reagan, then someone contests me that it was Bush. I say Bush and someone contests me that it was Reagan. That is another problem with Americans of the Baby Boom Generation and younger. They don’t consider the point being made but feel compelled to shoot something down – perfection babies. That is bullshit. There is not perfection. But by not taking a look at the overall picture with Hillary, Biden and Kamala, we have ended up with this shithead whom a British tabloid called the “Man-baby.” I call him the Man-baby Trumpty Dumpty who has falls and everyone puts him back together again.

The Fairness Doctrine in the media was put together following World War II so as to protect America against what the Nazis did to Germany. Hitler Propaganda Minister Goebbels utilized a strategy to tell lies over and over again until they become the truth. Propaganda. Americans who suffered under World War II were intelligent enough to see that we needed that Fairness Doctrine. The freaking lousy Baby Boomers and younger cut off their noses in spite of their faces. Thus, they care unable to discern fact from fiction and fall in line, especially the younger ones who were never taught the words of the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution or Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, etc., who are not able to discern what is right and wrong with regard to morality and ethics. And these asswipes never learn from history that prohibition (alcohol, gambling and what not) have NEVER WORKED to teach a society right and wrong. That history shows us that censorship does not work, either. In fact, there are European examples today that regulation and moderation education work better than prohibition and censorship. Even Bobby Kennedy, Jr., gave a 2007 speech with FACTS and FIGURES that Massachusetts regulation of abortion did a better job of curtailing the number of abortions than the state of Mississippi (and so many lousy Dixie states from the old Confederacy and still fighting the civil war) did with attempts to PROHIBIT abortions. Stupid SCOTUS with no brains never saw this. And now I guess Kennedy believes “if you can’t beat them, then join them” – with his stupid idiotic asswipe crap about “anti-vax” vaccination position with no facts to back himself up.

Without the Fairness Doctrine, the media has become such an abysmal nightmare, it is unbelievable. During the Biden administration, how many times did the media put out good vibes about Biden’s accomplishments? How many times did the media keep broadcasting all the f***ing crap in front of crowds which the Man-baby gave us? People bought it, too.

How many times did I hear people AND the media complain about inflation during the Biden years? Many times. Yet the facts and figures told a different story and if one just looked at prices on the grocery shelves, one could see where there were increases and where there were not. If one was a skillful intelligent consumer on the DEMAND side of a capitalist market, they could have helped lower inflation even more. But no. Asswipe instant gratification Baby Boomers and younger HAD to have what they WANTED and never considered “what is it I NEED and how does that fall in line with prices?” Had the NEED outweighed the WANT, then one would have seen the price of beef short ribs to be over $10 per pound and dozen eggs to be over $5. There is no NEED for such when there are plenty of other options at lower prices. But no. Let us go along with the media and the result was to lambast Biden, Harris and the Democrats. You stupid jerks who cannot even discern the differences between what was right and what was wrong.

Furthermore, the environment for supply-side Reaganomics monopolies stupifies Americans. It has become far worse now than it was when we had more WWII generation people still with us. Don’t learn from history because the Republicans have done a number on civics and history education, let alone the information specialists in libraries who have been destroyed by the Republicans. Under leaders in business and education who were Democrats, I have witnessed business and education thrive with good results while Republicans worked to sabotage it all rather than work with others who were not so fixated on bulging pockets rather than a simple thing such as PROFITS. Profits not such a love of money that the executives bulge their pockets so much that we have seen an increase since the 1970s in salaries of those idiots in corporate board rooms increase more than 1000%. Ever check to see what has happened to the idea of living wages for common folk in that same time period? Something Bernie Sanders addresses. And where have jobs gone? Few can hold positions at the top and those jobs at the bottom have gone to other nations – nations which provide FREE HEALTH CARE while the billionaires of America with their freaking lousy puppet regime find ways to make it more difficult for common folk Americans to find jobs and receive adequate healthcare without going broke.

No. The reasons today’s fascist Republicans want to stupify Americans in this regard is this. It is all done for the whims of billionaires and others so as to get common folk on board the submarine which is heading for a crash on the ocean floor. And let us get scared by ICE and other maneuvering strategies by billionaires and their puppet regime run by a mentally ill bastard called the Man-baby.

I see the manipulation of the media to always show Trumpty Dumpty’s face on television, while all the good things Biden and Kamala accomplished are ignored, while the media is talking about bullshit like inflation, while it was actually decreasing and the Federal budget heading more towards a balance than towards insolvency which is used as a means to destroy Social Security and Medicare where the common folk have INVESTED their own money and don’t want it used for the Federal general budget items. Musk and others have devised this strategy towards insolvency of a government so as to use it as an excuse to STEAL from common folk and ignore the ROI we all deserve from money we put into that system. It is called SABOTAGE by Republican fascists doing the will of an autocratic oligarchy It is called THIEVERY by Republican fascists doing the will of an autocratic oligarchy. It is called VANDALISM by Republican fascists doing he will of the autocratic oligarchy.

The ones in control and power are the money lovers who stole rather than EARNED their way to the top. They did it to me and others like me in Florida who were laid off – as early a the 1990s. Sure. I should not be asking for a little “cheese with my w(h)ine” because after all, I got through it. I was lucky that I had friends who were Democrats who cared for me more than the Republicans who just went along with the fascists. But not all are so lucky to have had that. And I am not talking about Democrats who were leaders with handouts. I am talking about Democrats who often were NOT leaders but helped blaze a path of OPPORTUNITIES, not handouts. And that is the difference between the thievery of the wealthy who no longer make money the old fashioned way – the “earn it.”

The puppetry of the penis by the autocratic oligarchy needs to stop. Such asswipes make it easy to call Republicans Republi-dumss. Make it easy to see that the word Republican in the dictionary is found between “reptiles” and “repugnant.”

Anyone for cheese and wine, my friends and fellow common folk Americans? I’m ready! The “cheese” I hope for is a return to an environment with a Fairness Doctrine and recognition that hate speech and lying (slander) is NOT protected as free speech. That is my cheese with the wine.

Note: AI is supposed to work in WordPress. Seems it is being used to block me. So….

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Republi-DUMBS, the Repugnant Party

During my years working for democracy and to make democracy work in Florida, New York, and the land I love called the United States of America / WE THE PEOPLE, I have often had, out of right field Republicans make some kind of derogatory remarks about Democrats, black folk, immigrants, LGBT+, Jews, and various ethnic groups. I have commonly just sat by and smiled and laughed without being contentious in return. MOST of the time I have done that.

Sometimes I have stood up for the groups of people being denounced. But nobody likes to get into a contentious argument, do they? And I believe the American Fascist Party (aka Republicans) just loves to be hostile and openly hostile with no provocation. They are bullies who wish to see how far then can go as bullies. I have also experienced that with bullies who love to bully the gay or “sissies” or “nancies” of the world like me. I have had to take it on the chin.

After all, I witnessed such taunting of black folk in upstate New York after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. Out of the blue, white bastards would taunt black folk. I found it disgusting as a kid. I find it disgusting today.

In Florida, I worked with Democrats who did not give handouts to me with welfare or what not, but respected me enough to recognize my skills and talents enough to lead me on a path towards opportunities for employment. They did not just hand me a job. I earned the respect for jobs.

Originally (1983), when I moved from Upstate New York to Florida, I was living in the only Republican county in Florida: Pinellas County. I was registered as a Republican in New York. I was living during the time when Ronald Wilson Reagan (666) split the Republican Party from one of moderation with Gerald Ford to one of far right ideas and fascist attitudes of “my way or the highway.” Reagan began to weave a fascist dictatorship into the mixture while being a hypocrite in his opposition to the Soviet Union. He was not willing to work with others who disagreed with him and would denounce such people here in OUR nation made up of a community where consensus and compromise were necessary to solver America’s problems together and do so by recognizing how we all fit together. One example, for sure, was his opposition to R&D to solve this new thing (at the time) called AIDS. There were other examples in which he favored Jerry Fallwell and the disgusting group I shall title the “Christian Nationalists” at Liberty Road Baptist Church so as to begin to curtail freedom of religion in favor of a “nationalist” religion made up of hypocrites who were not familiar with the true Jesus Christ. The Republicans in Pinellas County at that time were still connected to the more moderate wing of the Republican Party and disliked Ronald Reagan for splitting up the party during the decade preceding the period I moved to Pinellas County.

I worked for Republicans in Pinellas County to help unseat a person who was a Democrat and sitting in the Florida House of Representatives. When we did door-to-door canvassing, we NEVER EVER had any Democrats in a gang of people who stalked us down the street and told us, “you are not allowed to go door-to-door, even if you are speaking with fellow Republicans.” Never did that EVER happen with Democrats. In the Democratic Party county of Palm Beach, in 2018 when DeSatan was running for governor against a black man, we had Republican gangs on the streets of Palm Beach County tell us, “you are not allowed to go door-to-door to speak with people.” We replied that we were only going to speak to Democrats, so yes, we are allowed to do that. But at that point, it made me feel very bad for going door-to-door in Pinellas County and work to unseat a Democrat in the Florida House. I felt ashamed of doing that after experiencing the BS of Republican gangs in Palm Beach County. That was one big example of what I have come to call the American Fascist Party (aka Republicans). There are other examples on my trip through life up to this moment in time.

I have had Republicans, out of right field (and I use “right” to make a point), call Democrats names. Names such as Dumocrats. I just had it happen TODAY while I was speaking with a Democrat. Typically, I have said nothing but to smile and laugh it off. The Democrat who accompanied me while being stalked in Florida, also a former Republican who HAPPENED to have lived and worked with me in Pinellas County, smiled and said, “yes we do have a right to speak with people and we shall continue.”

Today, my reply was to say, “the word Republican is found in the dictionary between the words, reptile and repugnant.” I have had it with the emotions of illiterate people who call themselves Republicans and get a kick out of taunting others. But unlike the black folk of the 1960s who were taunted by lousy low-life white folk, I try to follow more closely the pacifist remarks and examples of Martin Luther King, Jr. Words like “we shall overcome” and other pacifist remarks are in my vocabulary. The words about reptile and repugnant are somewhat passive remarks, but they only come AFTER someone says something like “DUMOCRATS.” I have NEVER pushed any words at Republicans which come out of “left” field (I might as well use the word left, although I am one of moderation). Never. I have written words about how the Republican Party is actually the American Fascist Party because I have evidence of things being this way with that one-time YANKEE political party which once worked more for moderation in life.

As Democrats in Florida, we never pointed our remarks of “reptile and repugnant” at Republicans. We simply would joke about it among ourselves. “Republican is in the dictionary between reptile and repugnant.” This was sort of like some of my gay friends who thought it to be funny, among ourselves in the gay community,” to speak in a facetious manner about homophobic bullies as being “fags.” Or the manner for black folk to lash out by use of the word “nigger” or “honkey” when speaking about those who disliked black folk.

And what about the Democrats? As a kid, there were the Yankee Democrats and the Dixiecrats. They all attempted to unite into one party called the Democratic Party. Unity was done by means of compromise and finding common ground.

However, the Dixiecrats were a bunch of turds in Dixie with white skin who promoted Jim Crow and lynching of black folk. They were fascists, too. Reagan pulled the Dixiecrats into the Republican (word between reptile and repugnant) Party, thus building a path for the American Fascist Party (aka Republicans). The Dixiecrats are white turds “still fighting the civil war,” as my dad would say in disgust. And Reagan was pulling them into formation as the American Fascist Party while using the name “Republican.” I would more likely call it the Repugnant Party.

It is interesting, too, that there is evidence that Man-baby Trumpty Dumpty has deliberately been appealing to the illiterate emotional ones of America. He does so because he knows they can be enticed by stupidity and lies and not know the difference. MAGA fits this bill very well. I have a shirt which says “the Bill of Rights is not about emotions.” MAGA Maggots and the Man-baby are about emotions and the feelings they have for people who do not fit their framework. Hitler was like that. Mussolini was like that. Hirohito was like that. Stalin was like that. Castro was like that. Mao Tse-Tung was like that. Daniel Ortega was like that. Putin and the leader of Hungary ARE like that today. Leaders in Brazil and Venezuela have been like that. The Taliban is like that. Shall I continue with the list which emanates primarily from HISTORICAL examples from which we as Americans should be LEARNING and not returning to re-live such crap in life, due to emotions.

Hitler’s propaganda minister, Goebbels, said, “if a lie is told over and over again it eventually becomes the truth.” Emotional illiterates don’t know the difference between the truth and lies, so they are easy to impress with lies being told over and over again when it appeals to their emotions. Intelligent people are suppressed by any leadership which resembles Hitler and Goebbels because they are intelligent enough to know the differences and do not become emotional experts or “drips under pressure,” as the illiterate ones are. The Man-baby and MAGA maggots are fearful of such intelligence because they know they can be challenged. So how do these idiots respond? By calling Democrats “Dumbocrats” and doing so with no provocation. Just as the dumb white kids of the 1960s in New York tried to taunt the black kids, these unintelligent illiterate dolts today attempt to taunt those who are intelligent because the dolts are in fear of such intelligence.

In days gone by, we often described those attempting to be “leaders” but lacked intelligence as experts or “drips under pressure.” The Man-baby and MAGA maggots, in attempting to consolidate their power, are nothing but “drips under pressure,” thinking they are experts. They are “experts” only in the narrow-minded knowledge they have and the inability to take a broader overview of situations and how they impact WE THE PEOPLE and not to be narrow and impact ONLY the racist, bigoted, prejudiced billionaire oligarchy.

In my life and career, I have had many Democrats, and not JUST leaders, have had a positive and productive impact on me by providing guidance for the path of life. I have not expected handouts, but certainly I believe and have experienced many people who need that safety net which is provided by SNAP or welfare or other means. On the other hand, I have had leaders of the American Fascist Party (aka Republicans) who have taken away from me. Shall I name people? In Florida, Jeb Bush, Rick Scott, Ron DeSatan, Marco Rubio, Pam Bondi. Just a few names but there are more. I can go into detail for all of them. I can also mention Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and the Man-baby Trumpty Dumpty. I have watched as Fascist Republicans have pulled the rug out from beneath other Republicans. For instance, the “victims” of such actions have been Charlie Crist and Mark Foley of Florida. In some instances, I could say I am also a “victim” of such actions. The Man-baby has even attempted to do the same with John McCain. There are others. In a communist dictatorship such actions would be called “purged from the party.”

Then there are those in the American Fascist Party (aka Republicans) who, they believe they can rant and rave against Democrats and no one should challenge them on their ranting and raving. Truly, this is an example of fascism and the idea of “my way or the highway” dictatorial procedures. No communication because it’s “my way of the highway.” Attempt to calmly ask the question, “please explain your dislike.” Reply. “I don’t know but I hate them.” But gee. If I had someone I did not like or did not respect, I could explain the reason why. Reply. “Don’t talk to me about this.” But gee. YOU were the one who brought it up and now you just expect of me to accept what you say and with no evidence or facts at all? I call such people “sick puppies.” Whether they are relatives or not, they are “sick puppies.”

As for the American Fascist Party (aka Republicans) stealing from me, it began with the employee stock I owned. It was necessary to steal it from me so as to make sure the largest stockholder pockets were bulging with money. There are more examples I have to offer, too. But let me just limit to this one.

At the same time I lose money, I have to listen to Jerry Fallwell or other hypocrites in the “Christians Nationalists” push this idea that the “Ten Commandments should be posted on government buildings.” “Thou shalt not steal” is the Eighth Commandment in the Bible, out of the Ten Commandments. Yet, it is these religious groups who endorse the actions of the American Fascist Party (aka Republicans) where stealing by the leaders and the billionaire oligarchy is done all the time. The mere words of “trickle down” by Ronald Reagan indicates a “reverse Robin Hood” trend in which “free markets” opened up the thievery by such folk to do as they want in killing capitalist competition, limiting what people over a certain 6-digit income should contribute into the FICA (Social Security), lay off people and take their stock holdings (as with me), purchase favors of our government (buy elections with PACs and Citizens United) so as to obtain tax credits that hard working Americans who seek opportunities for success, don’t get, and layoff employees so the CEOs get a better salary (it’s not about profit) and we can watch as such CEO salaries have increased by about 1000% over the time that living wages for all have decreased.

Overall, I am fed up with people who make claims that Democrats are “dumb” and do the same thing those in control of the American Fascist Party (aka Republicans) do. You are wrong about this and I can prove it. But again, the reply is that “I am not going to listen to you because you might win over my argument.” Really? The only ones who win or lose are those in our society overall. Not me. Not the person who might have a warped outlook of Democrats, so warped they would call us “Dumbocrats” or other names and NOT be willing to humble themselves to learn the facts of the situation. I just outlined the facts over my lifetime. And the only Democrats I MIGHT not care for as much are those who are too wimpy to take a strong stand against the American Fascist Party. Sure. It is nice to be diplomatic and a statesperson.

When the competition is the American Fascist Party (aka Republicans) and not a political party which believes in democracy, the very form of government which, for nearly 250 years has made this nation great, in spite of some imperfections along that timeframe, one can no longer be so diplomatic. And that is a tough statement to accept, especially as a TRUE Christian who rejects the heresy of the “Christian Nationalists.” If you are younger ones who have NOT been taught the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution or the words of the Gettysburg Address, you are wishing for something easier in life so you fall prey to the lies of the Man-baby and the American Fascist Party (aka Republicans PLUS the MAGA maggots). Be careful what you wish for, though. Because while consolidating power for a fascist government, in the end, you could end up as Niemoller said of Hitler (and there are different versions of this):

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

This is not about a “persecution complex.” It is not about paranoia. It is about considering that we are all human beings who seek opportunities in life. We are all human beings and thus do not live by a barbaric Machiavellian message of “the end justifies the means.” We are all human beings who can be moral and ethical enough so as to obey the 8th commandment about thievery against others, as the billionaires today have done and are attempting to consolidate their power with one political party: the American Fascist Party (aka Republicans) or the Repub-DUMBS or the Repugnant Party.

The leadership for the Repugnant Party comes from the money-loving suckers at the top who are evil. The leaderships for the Democratic Party does NOT base its power on the billionaire group. It may HAVE some billionaire supporting it and for reasons of supporting the grassroots, not just themselves (in many cases). The Democrats work to obtain grassroots money. Sadly, Man-baby Trumpty Dumpty wants to eliminate such grassroots financial support becasue he and MAGA maggots are cowards and afraid of competition just as much as the “free market” supply-side Reaganomics folk are afraid of capitalist competition so they use “free market” as a free ride to form monopolies. The description given here is fascism.

The GOP with their fascist MAGA maggots are “too dumb” and the dummies “will fail.” These dummies are a bunch of people with foul mouths who taunt others and such perverts will fail. They are the dumb ones, not the Democrats. Republi-DUMB.

That makes the person today who called Democrats “dumbocrats” to be a repugnant Republi-DUMB just for making such a remark which is not based on facts, only emotions. I have outlined the facts here. And I say to repugnant Republi-DUMBs (of course, your lack of intelligence and you are unable to, as with an alcoholic, acknowledge being such), if you should experience any Democrat who is NOT like I describe here from my many years of experience, then let us know. Seriously. I wish to know who they are who are so troublesome to your dimwitted illiterate emotional ways to such a degree you feel you must make a derogatory remark to a person like me who was simply being positive about life and working towards what is best for all humanity, human equality, and human justice. In other words. Principles for humanity. A DEMOCRAT for a democracy and a DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC, as our Founding Fathers defined for us and has worked for so many years, in spite of any failures along the road of the timeline of the existence of this nation.

f you think we are “dumb” because we refuse to go along with the billionaires who run our government, then you are wrong because we stand for America “… with liberty and justice for all.” And be careful for what you and other young asswipes wish for (who lack appreciation for what we have in this nation) because if you were to live in a fascist nation with a fascist government and you were to call the leaders of that government, “dumb,” you might be executed or lined up with others and shot down in genocide. THINK.

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What is Fascism and How to Identify Fascists/

First of all, let me explain my background knowledge. I was trained to lead democratic groups based on Roberts’ Rules of Order for Parliamentary Procedure. Compromise and consensus were two very important words I learned. A leader does not control by trying to control others with his/her opinions and force those opinions upon others. Democracy is about discussion and coming to consensus by means of compromise, if necessary. If you don’t like this description of democracy, then leave this nation and find one that does and see that you do not befall execution or genocide. My heart would bleed for such lainbrains, then. But then, I am NOT a bleeding heart. I rely on learning from history, not re-living history or repeating history. My heart aligns with other human beings of all kinds so we can ALL achieve success and satisfaction in life, even if it means we do NOT always have our way in a minor way, but are not forced to do what we don’t like.

Fascists are those who wish to control what other human, beings eat, drink, have sex, so as NOT to be merry.

  • Prohibition of alcohol is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Prohibition of drugs is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Prohibition of porn is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Prohibition of abortions is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Prohibition of nudity is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Prohibition of guns is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Prohibition of prostitution is fascism (even Christ, who said, “judge not lest you be judged,” told a crowd who wanted to judge a prostitute that “the one who has no sin should throw the first stone”); regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Censorship of information is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Lying and slandering is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Government run by authoritarianism is fascism; teaching how to run meetings with Roberts’ Rules of Order for Parliamentary Procedures is democracy; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Shutting down communication because it goes against someone’s opinion is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Attitudes of “I must win with my opinion only” is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Telling someone “don’t speak to me about politics” is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Forcing economics based on love of money with criminals who gain most of the money due to the evil love of money is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Free markets left unregulated and without the balance defined by capitalism is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Business monopolies which destroy competition is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Supply-side Reaganomics, a one-sided economic system, is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Jim Crow was/is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Anti-Semitism is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Anti-civil rights and anti-voting rights is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • One group controlling other groups in society is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Foreclosures and taking real estate and property from people is fascism (and this includes the white man taking from the indigenous, Castro taking from Cubans, and the Bolsheviks taking from Russians); regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Thievery, murder, genocide, executions, corporal and capital punishments are fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Anarchy produces fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Apathy produces fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
  • Not voting produces fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy

Have I said enough to make my point? I could go on and provide a never-ending list. Have I made my point? Or are you too stupid to humble yourself and learn? Shame on you. Everybody is ignorant, but no one has to remain ignorant and if they do, they become stupid.

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It is Not JUST the Man-baby

Everyone talks about hoping Trump can be removed from office. But what needs to be done is to destroy the Man-baby Regime. The entire regime. For the entire regime is a puppet of the wealthy billionaires who are white supremacist fascists. This is thanks to Citizens United and a SCOTUS black man married to a white man, Clarence “Uncle Tom” Thomas. What is important here is to “follow the money” and that goes beyond JUST the Man-baby.

The strategic plan has been written. The plan is to destroy democracy and replace it with a fascist authoritarian regime. Such a fascist authoritarian regime has the same characteristics of King George III, the mentally ill crowned person of Britain which the colonists opposed and defeated in the American Revolutionary War. Had the colonists lost, a large number of them would have been executed by the King George fascist regime of the time period of the 1780s. Thus, while some stupid Americans have no brains so as to be convinced that instantaneous gratification can be done by an authoritarian regime and takes more time with a democracy. But that instant gratification means more than half the population would not be happy. The only peace with justice which could be achieved by a fascist regime is to make false claims and false witness of those who oppose the regime and then execute AND implement genocide among the population.

The Man-baby Trump Regime is a puppet of the money people like billionaires. The only answer is simply NOT to vote for ANYONE who is Republican, especially those who are very open to support of Trump. But all others can easily hide their support of the Man-baby, just to get along with others who don’t like the Man-baby Regime.

It is good for the opposition to raise enough money to oppose the Man-baby. But the Man-baby Regime is made up of cowardly people who have fear that such money can hurt them. Such demonic people are happy to hide their nasty parts and push all the stuff which can put up smoke and mirrors to cover over the true intentions of their strategic plan.

By the opposition pushing to raise tons of money, they also put aside the possibility of educating Americans about the true intent of the fascist authoritarians and what the results can be without a democracy and peace without justice among the population. To achieve peace is to execute and perform genocide. That is a very big lack of justice when it is defined by fake accusations and fake witnesses.

Lee Moran of Huffpost reviewed the Daily Mirror description of Trump and reported on Lawrence O’Donnell’s MSNBC reaction. The following is a portion of what Moran wrote:

The Daily Mirror reported on the president’s lie-filled speech to the United Nations on Tuesday via the one-word, withering headline “DERANGED.”

In one subheadline, the tabloid described Trump as the “world’s most powerful man-baby,” a brutal description that O’Donnell went on to use to taunt the president with again and again during his monologue.

It is nice to focus on the “man-baby.” Makes us feel good. At the same time, this example plus many other “feel good” activities draws our attention away from investigating where the money goes to support him or “follow the money trail” and eliminate the money trail.

Is the only thing we can do is keep giving money to defeat the man-baby or more investigation research about that money trail and shut down the trail? FDR shut down assets of those who wanted to destroy democracy and were people who followed Hitler. Teddy Roosevelt filed lawsuits against the wealthy as he was wealthy himself. Are the more wealthy like TR so engulfed in subjugation by ritilin or Prozac so they just cower in a corner somewhere, while the demonic ones with a love of money continue to zap others?

And don’t listen to those who claim, “there is nothing we can do” or “there is no hope.” By people saying this and these all become self-fulfilling prophesies. Rather than people repeating what can be done, they repeat what cannot be done and they predict the future.

A self-fulfilling prophecies being repeated over and over again will validate what is said that “united we stand, divided we fall.” Except the prophecy and prediction come true with a collection of many people using negative self-fulfilling prophecies.

To unify for the good of democracy, we need to be proactive against everything which surrounds the Man-baby and that regime. Period.

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Resounding Loss Statement Means Demonstrating Being a WIMP

​Wimps, wimps and nothing but wimps. Afraid to say emphatically, “Do not vote for Republicans. PERIOD.” Wimps are afraid to say this. But the Republican Party is NOT the Republican Party to which I registered when I turned 18 and registered to vote. IT IS NOT. The Republican Party SHOULD be called the American Fascist Party. PERIOD. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. If you want fascism, you would vote for an authoritarianism which is no different from what Gus Hall and the American Communist Party wanted.

Just because Blakeman has mucho dollars does not mean a “resounding loss” for Governor Hochul. That indicates the American Fascist Party (aka Republicans) want to push fear and intimidation about not having enough money to win. In the process, these fascists bury all other issues because they cannot defend the other issues with facts rather than emotions. Get real. Get tough against fascists.

Let’s get real and face the reality of what is happening. Stop being WIMPS. 

Begin to address civil rights.  Just because a Muslim heads New York City, challenge strongly what the American Fascist Party (aka, Republicans today) are saying about Muslims being “terrorists.”  One Muslim might do something distasteful which is similar to what some white Christians might do. With white Christians then, does it mean ALL white Christian people are bad? Doe it mean all white people are terrorists? Go to hell if you think that because you are letting your EMOTIONS run your brain and with absolutely no logic.

Be strong, not weak.  Don’t be WIMPS.

Challenge the idiocy of “bloody” Man-baby fascists like Blakeman and say they follow a goosestep similar to the one done in Nazi Germany under Hitler.  Hit hard. Does the majority support Nazi or fascist ideas?  What the hell is the fear of saying such things?  If the majority is like that, then I will eat my hat.  Stop being so kind.

Convince New Yorkers that they should NOT vote for ANY Republican at ANY level because they are all in lockstep with fascism and a party claiming to be Republican.  Speak out that the Republican Party should not be called the Republican Party but the American Fascist Party.  Split the Republican Party down the middle.  Be tough.  Be hard.  Don’t beat around the bush.  Give examples of achievements of integration and multi-cultural multi-racial society.  Get tough.  Be hard.

Speak out that the love of money, not just money itself. The love of money is the root of all evil.  Money is what we use to live our lives financially stable, so it is NOT evil. Make the difference. Greed and selfishness go with money-loving jerks. Speak about such people as being money-loving jerks who don’t care if they take from others so as to gather much money together. by means of the free market that despicable freaking lousy Reagan gave to them on their path to amassing money out of love for money, not other human beings.

Speak out that profits are not love of money, but a matter of living financially well in a capitalist economy. 

Speak up that “disposable income” is a lousy term to use to represent PROFITS for the common man and woman. Profits are NOT a love of money but just like “balance” in our personal wealth so we can all live a life of “pursuit of happiness.”  

Paradigm shifts about attitudes need to be said.  DO IT.  

Resounding loss is a pitiful statement from wimps.  Stop being wimps.

Back in the day, Joe Biden should have stood behind Anita Hill at the hearings to confirm Clarence Thomas.  Stop playing Mr. Nice Guy and DO SOMETHING.  NOW before it is too late. How about if we learn from the history of that ordeal and not cry in our milk about something which happened several decades ago?

One writer says, “According to fascists, only those who share the correct attributes can be part of ‘the people’ and therefore true members of society. Others are outsiders, perhaps tolerated as guests if they respect their place and society feels generous. But outsiders have no right to be part of the democratic order: Their votes should not count.”

To be quite frank and to put it bluntly (not mildly), the idea that “only those who share the correct attributes” can be part of “the people” is a BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT statement.

Further, f***ing Tucker Carlson is an asswipe and a traitor. “This helps explain why Tucker Carlson claims “our democracy is no longer functioning” First of all, show us the evidence of this statement that “democracy is no longer functioning.” Secondly, rather than unleash DESTRUCTIVE forces, work together for REFORM of any problems in our democratic government. Find some thoughts from ideas of BEST PRACTICES and invoke them, don’t destroy what has worked for 250 years, you asswipe MAGA Maggots and Tucker Carlson. Go to hell.

The full statement from the author mentioned above: “This helps explain why Tucker Carlson claims ‘our democracy is no longer functioning,’ because so many nonwhites have the vote. It also helps explain why Carlson and others so vigorously promote the ‘great replacement theory,’ the idea that liberals are encouraging immigrants to come to the U.S. with the specific purpose of diluting the political power of ‘true’ Americans.”

This is all a BULLSHIT and treasonous statement made by Tucker Carlson. He needs to be executed for treason. PERIOD. He is worse than Benedict Arnold who defended mentally ill King George III of Britain. We executed Timothy McVeigh for his attack on black people in Oklahoma. Carlson and the fascists are doing nothing more than re-defining the Pledge of Allegiance where it says, “liberty and justice FOR ALL.” And this is why, for more than 20 years now, I have been attempting to highlight this statement in the Pledge and no one pays one damn bit of attention to what I say. Instead they listen to jerks like Carlson.

I have also been highlighting words such as “… life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Another wording I have been highlighting is the following three words: “WE THE PEOPLE…” which are the first three words of the U.S. Constitution (Preamble). I usually point out that it does not indicate an aggregate few groups like, “we the billionaires of America” or “we the white folk of America” or “we the fascist thinking people of America” or “we the Bills fans of America” or… so on.

The writer of the article continues with: “The importance of seeing the people as an exclusive, privileged group, one that actually includes rather than is represented by the leader, is also at work when Trump denigrates Republicans who defy him, even in the smallest ways, as “Republicans in Name Only.” The same is also true when other Republicans call for these “in-house” critics to be cast out of the party, for to them any disloyalty is equivalent to defying the will of the people.”

What the writer fails to mention is that the “privileged group” today is nothing more than what Europe had with the “privileged group” of the aristocracy and divine right to rule. We fought our American Revolution to tear down that notion. Anyone bringing this up today is a traitor to the U.S. and our American Revolution with the Declaration of Independence of 1776.

All of the quotations above are found in a writing at UC Davis by Mark R. Reiff, 8 November 2022. The writing appears to be somewhat well researched, but could also touch those who are confused by democracy. Therefore, we should share suggestions for reform, not destruction of democracy. First thing is to fully understand how democracy should be best handled and fascism does not do it justice at all. And a democratic leader of the 20th Century made a succinct statement about democracy which people should not just pass off and come to understand it.

Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II (against the Hitler regime) said: “Democracy is a very bad form of government, but all the others [including fascism and Nazism and authoritarianism and communism and autocracy and benevolent dictatorships] are so much worse.”

Taking a closer look at what Churchill said, we can say that “democracy is slow becasue we must attain a consensus and that takes time. Autocracies and authoritarianism has one person to make a quick decision. Don’t argue that. But what if that decision does NOT take into account an overall view of ALL the people, as fascism does? What happens to the portion of the population who ends up getting stamped on by such a hasty decision. Even a declaration of war is a slow process in a democracy and there is a reason for it. The Man-baby’s attacks on Iran have demonstrated this and if you don’t take a look at what has happened, then all I can say is you are a dumb jerk dismissing what I say. Furthermore, it was the Republicans who sabotaged efforts in the 1930s and 1940s to send aid to help protect Britain and other nations in Europe from Hitler’s war to FORCE people to abide by fascism. And what did Hitler do to groups who refused to abide by his dictatorial stink? Genocide. Who can justify genocide when democracy would help to avoid genocide. Reiff of UC Davis never even mentions this in his 2022 article. Gaining peace without justice means people are executed and murdered. Fascism creates such a barbaric society. We can learn from the historical examples of fascism in the Roman Empire. Reiff never touched on these aspects so as to LEARN FROM HISTORY, rather than the f***ing emotions generated because something in democracy does not work for some people.

Which means that Reiff never touched on the ideas regarding civilized society and civility v. barbarism with execution and genocide. Even Cubans displaced by one authoritarian regime when they were living under another authoritarian regime have come to America and MANY have pushed for civility in America. Not all Cubans, like f***ing Rubio, but MANY have done so. But then. What is Rubio’s background? He is not only Cuban, but also comes from an Italian Mussolini fascist background.

Learn from history, Mr. Reiff and incorporate thoughts of civility and civilization which require guidelines with democracy and balance to make life better, as is defined by our American Founding Fathers.

Rather than work for destruction of democracy, here is my list of suggestions for reform. (There are many more which can be added to this list and in a democracy can be added by others who refuse to simply dismiss mine and replace with their egotistical inspired suggestions, as would happen with fascists who survive because they think they are experts or… “drips under pressure”).

(1) Eliminate the Electoral College; it is an outdated 18th Century guideline (2) Eliminate gerrymandering; it is an outdated 19th Century guideline. (3) Have the members of the House of Representatives reflect the same percentage of the entire population as the example of our House of Representatives when we began this government in 1790; in this case, we made a mistake in updating the original 18th Century guidelines. (4) Return to the 18th Century definition of the U.S. Senate when governors of each state appoint two senators; too many candidates for the people to vote make the election process confusing – vote for governor and understand the governor appoints the senators. (5) If MAGA and the Man-baby have such a thrill out destruction, then DESTROY THE PACs and put limits on campaign financing so one group of people with all the money CANNOT control our government – oh, I forgot but those asswipes who have all the money are not usually those of color, are they? In other words DESTROY the SCOTUS Citizens United Decision. (6) To put a limit on campaign financing, have members of the House of Representatives serve ONLY one term which coincides with the 10-year census; KISS. (7) While we are at it, stop the “till death do we part terms of SCOTUS.” (8) Change the dynamic nature of changes of congressional districts to one of a static nature and still assure that each House member represents the number of people stipulated by the laws or has a weighted vote according to the population. (9) Return to the days of balance in the economy which were put in place by the Roosevelts: Teddy, Franklin D., and Eleanor. Notice there are Republican and Democrat in those I named, but no fascists. (10) DESTROY ICE. (11) Solidify the voting rights and civil rights acts into constitutional amendments. (12) Resume and/or increase the teaching of history and civics in public education, including memorization of the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution and Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. (13) Resume and/or increase the teaching of the history of ALL people who have made this nation happen and demonstrate how much we should appreciate what we have in this nation, due to ALL people in this nation. (14) Stop corporal punishment in all American schools because it goes against some people’s religions and our Constitution guarantees a freedom of religion; we CAN create humility for the purpose of having people learn and it can be done WITHOUT corporal punishment or humiliation of people and children so as to create a humility to learn; could be done should we all come together rather than some working to sabotage such efforts. (15) Finally, and most importantly, if we keep ICE, than use it to DESTROY the entire Trump Man-baby Regime, MAGA shitheads, and the American Fascist Party which sabotages democracy. Why do we have the elimination of teaching of civics and history in schools? Because this has been a plan carried out now for decades, since the original fascist, Reagan, who claimed he represented something other than authoritarian Communism. He did not. Sabotage and telling lies over and over again so the lies become the truth has been the Goebellizataion of America since Reagan and no one listened to those of us who pointed it out. We were crazy, don’t you know? Why have we ended up like this? Because of the Bush elimination of the Fairness Doctrine and wimpy Obama, when asked to put it back in place, not doing so. What an example of a unilateral authoritarian mechanism than what George H.W. Bush did, as well as Reagan. We may have delayed much of what we see today by keeping Bush to only one term. The sabotage of the banking industry also began under Bush with his son, Neil and the S&L hoax when Neil was caught with his hands in the cookie jar. What a deliberate way to destroy the S&L and banking regulation created by FDR. And Jeb Bush used it in the early 2000s in Florida (perhaps Trump was also involved?) by manipulating the price of housing so much that in just a few years, prices of housing went up 125%. This was an increase which far exceeded the length of time of a 30-year mortgage. It destroyed the housing market and banks like Chase and Bank of America swooped in to pick up the pieces so as to raise prices to levels so high that only the wealthy could afford the housing while common folk were forced to rent and lose the homestead exemption in Florida.

Side note. Once again, apparently the MAGA maggots have some instrument of destruction on WordPress to block the AI image generation I have used in the past on WordPress. All of a sudden it has stopped. I will continue pointing this out until WordPress does something to sabotage whatever app it uses and destroy and shut down the sabotage. I have tried 20 times to generate an image. I have tried several different types of image generation. Apparently, I am being blocked.

Was Maeleine Albright targeted with bad words because she was too intelligent regarding fascism and the fascists building power and control within the Republican Party were fearful about what she could accomplish? Were too many Americans too stupid to notice or just bent on going about with their partying and sex to take notice? I wonder.

I make no apologies for using words as bullshit, shithead, and hell, so forth. If there was not too much of our media focusing on pushing what the fascists want, I would not be using this language. Until that stops and we return to the Fairness Doctrine in the media, I refuse to stop using vulgar language. Please note how many times I like to use f***ing rather than the true word. I try to stop there.

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Steppin Out

On Create TV (PBS Binghamton broadcast channel 46, WSKG), there is a program about travel around the world.  The purpose of the program is to learn about how people live in various places foreign to us and what other cultures are about.  It is titled Steppin Out.  The host is a Cuban-American guy who grew up in Miami named Joseph Rosendo.  We can learn quite a bit.  

Rosendo ends every show with the following quote from Mark Twain:  “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”

I am now Steppin Out. The topic is white folk here refusing to become familiar with black folk.  

Sadly, I think this Twain quote needs to be repeated over and over again for white folk here in Tioga County.  The following is the reason why I say this.

Too many times, I have heard some put down black folk in a derogatory manner.  They call black folk in a derogatory manner, “Nigger.” Whether it is local black folk or President Barack Obama, the derogatory addressing of black folk has been used in Upstate New York and by more Upstate New York people in Florida than white folk from other areas (like Ohio or Boston), we have heard such lousy words.  Even a good friend from Crane School of Music, a Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia fraternity brother, who grew up in the Seneca Lake region, used such language, to my great surprise and resulting disgust.  I guess I was foolish to ever ignore whether he would have done that in college.    

It goes further than just a derogatory word. How about a statement degrading the practice of having Black History Month each February?  (Sometimes in the same sentence, to degrade having Women’s History Month each March).  One of my replies to such statements is to consider the number of times each year we celebrate White History Month each year?  The summer Friday night NV Depot concerts.  White culture history on display.  White music played and rarely any black culture music from Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Duke Ellington, Count Basey, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Little Richard, Chuck Berry.  We hear white country music and other genres of white music.  I don’t say this to complain about the choices.  I say this to challenge anyone who puts down the February Black History Month Celebration, for it was at such celebrations at the college where I was professor and helped schedule lifelong learning events, where we heard the Billy Holiday song about “fruit hanging from trees” and learned about Jim Crow lynching which hung the “fruit,” or innocent black folk, from trees in Dixie.  Even at such a Friday night concert, we departed when there was a song about “white” Dixie and the Dixiecrats and the crowd stood.  We only stand for the unity represented by the “Star Spangled Banner,” as much as we don’t like “bombs bursting in air…” We also stand for the “Pledge of Allegiance” where we repeat words like “for liberty and justice FOR ALL…”  This is not an opinion, it is the correct ATTITUDE.  It is not politics.  It is the correct ATTITUDE.  

Our Newark Valley Historical Society does a wonderful job in promoting history of this valley in Tioga County of Upstate New York.  It maintains the Bement-Billings Farmstead.  Who were the owners of the 19th Century Farmstead?  They certainly were not black folk.  So each year, we have the Apple Fest.  We celebrate white culture and its history every year, whether at the Apple Fest in October or all year long when the museum and grounds are open to the public.  

Even Johnny Appleseed (real name John Chapman,  1774-1845) was a white man.  

I find it disgusting for those who portray “victimhood” upon white people as a result of “Black History Month.”  

As for the history part, should we shut up about a WHITE ancestor to Ezra Cornell (and my own white ancestor), Thomas Cornell, Jr., when he was WRONGLY executed in Rhode Island in the late 1600s?     Yet, a lousy evil man we call DeSatan of Florida tries to stop the history of black folk who have faced the same thing.  Shall we re-write the Cornwell / Cornell history?  Go to hell if you think we should because such people I only hope they rot in hell and their hatred goes with them.  

Sadly, the white people’s area up here in the valley of Tioga County, NY, has some really lousy looking homes which are kept in bad shape. Why? It is a lousy solution to just tear them down. Europe has buildings dated centuries before the buildings here, but are still able to keep them in decent shape and looking good. What is done here? Nothing as they sit there in a dilapidated and disgusting shape. Are white people not proud enough to make things look better? They were when I grew up here in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. What has happened?

In comparison, I recall a white supremacist driving a shuttle to the airport in Florida. We drove through a very attractive looking neighborhood. The shuttle driver began to explain how the neighborhood was a neighborhood of black people. He comments “how lousy the neighborhood looks.” I spoke up and explained how I fail to see how lousy it looks because the houses are well kept, the lawns looked so very good, and the entire area was very attractive.

As I think about that dumb lainbrained shuttle driver and his comments, I think about white neighborhoods here in the valley of Tioga County and how lousy and disgusting the buildings and lawns look. I can also compare the village of this valley which had a business district destroyed by fire in 1981 and how it looks so lousy in this “white” area with everything empty and nothing re-built. Even fires in places like Toronto when it contained a much smaller population were re-built. But not in this “white” community here where it looks dismal compared to the neighborhood of black folk a white supremacist shuttle driver made noises of complaints.

For those who know how to do Steppin Out, such hatred of other cultures is an attitude, not politics, opinions or anything else.  And I might add that I would wager that Joseph Rosendo (host of Steppin Out) would be opposed to the Man-baby’s use of troops in Cuba.  

Mark Twain, who lived some of his life in Elmira, NY, said:  “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”  War, weapons of mass destruction, and troops are fatal to innocent people and children.  Mark Twain is to be respected, with his moral and ethical attitude.  

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Mr. Steves and Humanism

Rick Steves’s Best of Europe. Very educational program about Europe. Have learned many things about Europe, such as the Burgundy area of France. Love the wine from this area. I learned how the soil makes the flavor of the wind. Makes sense, but had never thought about it before.

Learned about the 100-year war along the Dordogne River in France. Learned about force-feeding of geese to produce the precious livers for a pate which is delightful among many people.

My disappointment? When Mr. Steves described the Cathars who were wiped out entirely by genocide of the Roman Catholics, he described the Cathars as “heretical” Christians. He took on the “norm” of the Roman Catholic faith which is wrong. By speaking with this tone of face, he encourages Trump and MAGA folk plus the billionaire Christians of mega churches and Roman Catholic bishops and others in encouraging them to move forward with murder of the LGBTQ folk. I find this disgusting and repulsive.

First of all, the Cathars, like the LGBTQ today, are only 10% of the population. They are not a large enough portion to impact all. The LGBTQ know how to love fellow human beings and have fellow feeling for one another than most of the population. So, if 10% of the population can influence others about love one another, what the hell is wrong with that? They don’t FORCE people to believe what they do, but teach what true humanity is by means of example. Same as with Cathars.

Taking this one step forward, it is also important to recognize that the Cathars saw human beings in this manner. Materialism (love of money) as being evil and in opposition to the true Christianity taught by Jesus Christ: “love God… love your neighbor as yourself.” Love your self for who you are, not to be condemned by wicked ones who dwell on sin. Those who judge on the basis of sin are the lovers of money and materialism who wish to control the population so as to maintain their own materialistic values.

I would argue there are more passages in the scriptures which talk about love of money as being the root of all evil than about homosexuality. Jesus Christ became VIOLENTLY angered at the money changers in the temple for making “His father’s house a den of thieves.” Paul explains to Timothy that “love of money is the root of all evil.” Paul may have quoted a passage from Leviticus about “men sleeping with men,” but only to convince the Gentile pagan-worshiping crowds that having sex in the pagan temple is wrong. And a local Baptist church had a pastor caught having sex with a church woman on the pews of the church, but will condemn homosexuals who are recognized by another denomination.

In all these examples, the heretics are not people like the Cathars who chose humanism over materialism, but like the wealthy fat pigs and an oligarchy which resemble the “dukes, lords, popes, and bishops” of Medieval days (and beyond) who worked to control the masses by falsely proclaiming who are the heretics. Because after all, to have a “divine right,” as they claimed, they could not possibly be heretics. Which is the reason the Founding Fathers created the United States of America. Now. Stop the brainwashing that violence and guns are better than views about anti-vanity love and sex which are more civilized.

Mr. Steves. I think you need to re-think how you present some of the religious information because you have a tone of a homophobe who thinks gay folk are “heretics.” Get a life, Mr. Steves. We enjoy your documentary educational presentations otherwise.

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Perhaps Clarification Necessary, From Historical Evidence, too?

Dear Fellow Community Members:

A very good letter to the editor appeared in the Feb. 2 edition of The Times-Tribune of Scranton, PA. From Richard London of State College, who writes, “Socialism bluster ignores reality.” London touches on the “knee-jerk reactions” of Republicans who are always clamoring for a fight with Democrats (as I interpret this; you can interpret it as you like). I have viewed this contentious attitude from Republicans since I was a Republican myself and EXPECTED to be contentious with all Democrats. I kid you not. I remained with that party in Florida for many years and am sad I did.

What my partner and I have observed is this. There is no goal of Republicans to solve the problems of this nation, but just act like dictators and force everyone to go along with their desires. It began under Reagan and we viewed it during those years. My partner and I did not actually meet until 2005, but when we compared notes, it was astounding as to how our notes matched each other. I can say the same thing about his now-deceased brother who had been a Republican for many years.

it is unbelievable to be in “Yankee-land” and have difficulty in finding people who are on the same page as we have been since coming together in 2005. This letter to the editor is one of the first we have read which demonstrates being on the “same page” with someone up north. Sad to see that this does NOT come from the Gannett Pravda of Binghamton which has condensed the size of its newspaper, reduced the information it once provided, and evidently does not provide information for those of us on this same page. We really dislike Gannett as it also took over the newspaper where my partner worked for some 33 years as a copy editor. That newspaper in Palm Beach County did the same thing – condensing the information to nothing and then claiming, “no one reads newspapers.”  Of course they don’t when the saboteurs at the top reduces them to nothing. Perhaps that also explains why it is so damn difficult to find people here in the Southern Tier who are on the same page? Just a conjecture on my part.

In light of what I just said, let me share that letter by Richard London (perhaps a professor? I have no idea, but his address is State College, PA).

Socialism bluster ignores reality

Richard London

State College, PA

The Times-Tribune (Scranton, PA), 2 Feb. 2022

Editor: An accusation that Republicans love to hurl at Democrats is that they are “socialists.”

Do Republicans understand what American socialism, also called “democratic socialism,” really is? Do they confuse it with Soviet socialism, from the old U.S.S.R. days, or modern socialism in authoritarian places such as North Korea or Venezuela?

Socialism, or socialization, is any structure in which a governmental agency – federal, state or local – collects funds from the general public via taxes, and uses the money to provide a service back to the population at little, or no, cost. The arrangement has been authorized by the people, though their representatives; hence democratic socialism.

Everyday examples of socialism include public schools and highways (state level), Social Security and Medicare (federal level), and public libraries (local level). Nearly all Republicans embrace and enjoy these benefits provided by the socialization mechanism, but many of them decry socialism in general.

Maybe it’s a knee-jerk reaction to Democratic social issue proposals. Maybe Republicans just don’t understand the term. Maybe they understand, but want to turn public opinion against proposals by using a loaded term from the past.

The difference between Republicans and progressives is not that progressives accept socialization and the Republicans reject it, since both clearly accept it. Both are willing to use the mechanism for examples such as education, highways and libraries, and even for retirement and health insurance plans (at least for the elderly); progressives want to use it for additional things to benefit the public.

There are some parts of this letter, I wish to place add-ons, but will not go to long length to do so. Being that i spent 40+ years in education and as a librarian, I feel there is one thing I wish to add regarding the statements about libraries being part of the “socialization.” The public library here in Newark Valley exists due to an endowment more than 100 years ago from two Republican families here in Newark Valley. I am told that it is able to run by means of dividends from that endowment. I speak of the Tappan-Spaulding Memorial Library in Newark Valley. The Tappan family, especially, was once a big family here in Newark Valley. Republicans, for sure.

I mention this because of the “bluster” surrounding socialism. This library was never one of socialism, but one of capitalist investment and return on investment, by way of dividends earned.

With this being said, Mr. London’s comments about Social Security and Medicare can be challenged as NOT necessarily being socialism. That is where people today, I believe, are confused as to what socialism AND capitalism are about. The aristocracy of the 19th Century grabbed hold of the ideas of capitalism and spun those ideas around so as to benefit the aristocracy and supply side economics. Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican “progressive” tried to spin the thoughts of capitalism to those of REGULATED capitalism. Remember TR was called the “trust buster?” Remember that Thomas J. Watson was nearly arrested, before founding IBM, for working at NCR and working to do a Trump-type of thing; “destroy the competition.” Regulations almost sent Watson to jail. He reformed when he created IBM and there are many who can be thankful for that. It was those idiots who took over the corporation after Watson who sent it reeling to North Carolina and Texas.

Social Security and Medicare have received funds, just like a CAPITALIST endowment, from the common folks like you and me. The “bluster” over socialism, in my humble opinion, has totally destroyed the ideas of endowments, dividends, and return on investments. Thus, we have Trump and Republicans working to destroy Social Security and Medicare, in the name of anti-socialism which is described by Mr. London in his letter.

It is damn difficult to find anyone on the same page I am with regard to the practicality and REALITY of capitalist considerations of Social Security and Medicare. I’ll be damned if I can find anyone who does not conform to the false notions of Karl Marx which blames capitalism. Karl Marx SHOULD have blamed the aristocracy of the day and its grip on promoting supply side economics which they called, “capitalism.” The stupidity of some economists of the 1970s and then Reagan in 1980 brought back this notion about supply side economics and today, we are falsely giving accusation to Social Security and Medicare as being socialism when, in reality… (REALITY is a word in the title of Mr. London’s letter to the editor), the money we all put into those government programs gets stolen from us, by both Democrats and Republicans alike, to use for government programs (like war and a war on drugs for the sake of drug lords which apparently now focus on the locality near the old IBM on Washington Avenue, Endicott) where they should not be used. We common folk forfeit the ability to gain dividends from our CAPITALIST investments, due to this false talk about it all. 

I know everyone wishes I do not make the article so lengthy. But let me tell you about how my lack of length and detail and no one understood my writings about the Ozempic med saved in a refrigerator for three months, rather than one month. Until I went into detail with a comparison of Ozempic in a refrigerator to milk in a refrigerator over three months, no one even tried to consider what I was saying and THINK, as Thomas J. Watson suggested IBM employees do.  THINK is for the sake of common folk, Middle Class, and democracy. Republicans today don’t want THINK, so they work to destroy public education, while Democrats sit around like a bunch of wimps and let the Republicans do what they want. That is REALITY, as pointed out by Mr. London of State College, PA. That is the reality to which I address.

In college at SUNY Potsdam History program (I minored in history, behind my major of music education), I was introduced to books by Dr. Daniel Boorstin. Dr. Boorstin eventually became the only decent part of Ronald Reagan of the 1980s. Boorstin was appointed as Librarian of Congress (after I earned my Masters of Library Science from Syracuse University). Dr. Boorstin’s book series is titled, The American Experience. Each book was about some different aspect. The Explorers. The Colonials. The one we read was about the American DEMOCRATIC experience, but I have purchased and partially read the others in the series. They are very interesting.

I am going into this detail as background for what I am about to say. Boorstin’s democratic experience includes a chapter about the first insurance commissioner in Yankee-land Massachusetts, Erasmus Wright. What does he have to do with what I am saying here? Because in the 19th Century, Erasmus Wright took on big insurance of his day who were run by criminals who took people’s money for life insurance but rarely had the money left over to pay when the people died. To me, this is no different than big homeowners insurance (especially in Florida) taking our money and never considering the capitalist investment and the dividends available when the money is not used. Instead, we always end up with a zero return on investment. Same thing with life insurance when Erasmus Wright of Massachusetts took it on. Same thing, too, with employer-provided health insurance for 40 years, many times with money contributed by ME, the EMPLOYEE, and nothing in funds to collect dividends. I am angered by Blue Cross & Blue Shield for the money I contributed over 25 years as a college professor and now being told by Medicare Blue Cross Blue Shield (Excellus) that “they cannot pay for pre-existing conditions;” while I pay premiums for six months.  UHC of AARP says the same thing, while I paid membership dues to AARP for some 20 years or so. That endowment with dividends works for the local library. But lawyers and accountants with their big fat wallets, make rules against the thinking about endowments into insurance for us little folks who pay all the taxes. I don’t recall the name of the health insurance coverage I had prior to 1995 when I began working for the college, but there is an investment there, too. Add to that privatized insurance what I have paid into Medicare and Social Security (FICA) over 40 years total and I should have enough of dividends to help pay for my health care and retirement.

But the norm is to only do this with big fat pigs of corporations, but not for the common folk. And then have to listen to the “bluster” about socialism which “ignores reality.” I write and write and write and write and write about these things and neither Democrats or Republicans pick up on it. I would expect that of lousy fascist Republican leaders who defend the fat pigs, but what about the Democrats? Nothing but wimps who are afraid of being blasted by false “bluster of socialism?” It is sickening.

No wonder a friend and colleague (professor) had to talk me out of leaving this nation back in 2016 when lousy Trump was elected, so I could live in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, or even Scotland. This friend said, “we need people like you who are willing to stand up against what is going on.” Here I am. All alone.

But then again, I cannot collect ANY Medicare in any of those nations, thanks to the bullshit of Republican fascist control. So why bother? The only options? Live in the mountains of Mexico and Central America where I have to live in heat and humidity, which I really is lousy for me.Should I have the dividends earned for Medicare, FICA, and PRIVATIZED insurance, over many years, I might have a chance of living in those other nations.

I might add that it was a Democrat who put that homeowners’ insurance crap in place in Florida. Shame on him. But then again. What the hell did Jeb Bush, Rick the Prick, or DeSantis do to reform it from that? Nothing. Yet, some miserable SOB in Pennsylvania will attack our Democratic Party governor in NY for trying to find a solution to the gun problem by way of “bail reform.” Why? Because those idiots in Florida have more interest in the wealthy fat pigs than they do about the impact of insurance criminals on common folk. DeSantis puts in place stupid ignorant rules to put down the teaching of history regarding slavery and sexual identity in the schools. No. He does not do something to actually help the common folk, only for the damn fundagelical Southern Baptists of the Baptist Conservative Network and other ultra right wing religious bastards. But for insurance? What does DeSantis, Rick the Prick or Jeb Bush do about that? Not one damn thing, as they gerrymander the state in order to maintain a one-party legislature and governorship (with TERM LIMITS, too), which were CREATED by gerrymandering for the sake of central Florida white supremacists.

I am obviously very angry about these situations and become angry at anyone who supports these damn Republican fascists.  So I write. And I write. And I write. And I write. Someone pay attention and stop leaving me all alone and not seeking the same page with me (common ground); or perhaps HIDING what they truly believe, especially if they are not impacted by racial or sexual identity issues.

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A Little History About the Truth Regarding Capitalist Economics Might Help

When working to complete a minor in History at the undergraduate level, I took classes from a professor who was a professor with a PhD from Binghamton University. This professor had us reading several books in her classes and included these additional books as textbooks for the class. I ate it all up. Likely it is those texts which I still own today, outside of what I kept from my major.

One book we read was The Americans: The Democratic Experience. It was authored by a University of Chicago History professor named Dr. Daniel J. Boorstin.  I have retained a copy of that book and added several other Boorstin books in his “Americans” series. The Americans: The National Experience.The Americans: The Colonial Experience. Several others in that series.

When I completed my Masters of Library Science degree at Syracuse University, I worked in database management and library research instruction. It was a wonderful career. In the early years of my career, President Ronald Reagan had appointed Dr. Boorstin as Librarian of Congress. Having read Dr. Boorstin’s books, I was thrilled. I was more thrilled at Boorstin than I was about Reagan with his adversity to unions which shut down the Air Traffic Controllers organization and his favoring IBM and opposition to unions when he destroyed AT&T, the Unix operating system, and the CWA, in the name of “deregulation” and supply-side economics.”  Same thing in the electric utility industry with its IBEW. Deregulation in the name of “supply-side economics” and “trickle-down theories of economics.” I was thrilled by Boorstin and still am with the knowledge I learned from him that supersedes the limited historical stuff we have all been taught in schools.

According to Boorstin, one of the first “regulated” examples of the “democratic experience,” was the establishment of insurance commissioners in America.  The example given by Boorstin was that of a 19th-century Massachusetts insurance commissioner named Erastus Wright. At the point in time that Wright was regulating insurance, there were no actuarial tables for determining premiums, the long-term investments made, and the results of the benefits regarding life insurance.  People were putting their money into life insurance, but the management of the companies were chaotic about it and figured the money was there for them to spend. Then, when someone with a policy died, they were told there was no money. Like imposing something for the collective freedom of all (masks and vaccines, not personal injury lawsuits), Wright came up with the table which was expected to be used when figuring premiums and benefits. It worked. All that regulation of insurance has been curtailed and, instead, we have lawyers pursuing personal injury lawsuits against big insurance, spending tax dollars beyond belief, and there is no safety net for the consumer on the demand side of the capitalist market. Sad.
Thus, we see the same thing happening to Social Security and Medicare. We put the money in and then, as exited with Erasmus Wright’s time, when the benefit is to be drawn, based on dividends earned over time, we are listening to lousy folks saying, ‘there won’t be any money in such a such a year.”  As with the life insurance of the the 19th-century “democratic experience” of Erasmus Wright regarding the insurance in which people had dumped their money, we are observing our money, over time, being squandered in other ways.

This example dealt with private enterprise, but it took a government to regulate private enterprise, not the other way around when we have private enterprise controlling the government. Unless we do something, there may be no hope for the future, as our hopes and desires for future generations lies in the hands of greedy, selfish aristocratic brats who really don’t understand the ideas of capitalism and the “democratic experience.” So what do they do? They throw out BS about it all being socialism or communism. The actual communists are the fat pigs who control a government and destroy ideas for regulation by vandalizing and sabotaging regulation, whether in a PSC or elsewhere, with bribes by means of martini lunches with the “lunch crowd.” Corruption, just as with the situation Erasmus Wright identified.
Furthermore, we accept this corruption so much that we look the other way when it occurs. We look the other way when there is a corrupt government in Afghanistan and people don’t want to affiliate with such corruption, so they lay down their arms, for the sake of the Taliban. Rather than look at the details of what is happening, the ones who did nothing to work for justice and peace, push to wrongly blame President Joe Biden for a pullout which was created by those who support the money (Saudi Arabia and other sources) behind the Taliban (and the Saudi royal family member, Osama Bin Laden).  They work for peace and then set a timetable for withdrawal, but never work for peace AND justice. What a shame.  Just like the money from the oil contingent of the world, we sadly got involved in Vietnam, too, and then had to pull out and betray the South Vietnamese with their corrupt government, too. The difference? It was LBJ who started it all in Vietnam and there is proof that John F. Kennedy was NOT gung ho about doing it. Today, we don’t blame the Texan who got us involved in Afghanistan, but look to blame a person who took office in Jan. 2021 and had been left with a timetable for withdrawal created by Donald Trump.

Inconsistency in America. How sad.

Even worse is that Americans have short memories and don’t learn from history. If there was learning from history, more folks would be more brilliant and not listen to the BS of moneyed people who want to attack the Democrats.   That, too, is sad, for sure. But it keeps me involved in writing. This gives me a sense of success, knowing I lay out principals and ideas for consideration and hope that America can coexist by learning regarding the true history of capitalism, democracy, and seeking peace and justice. We don’t want to be wimps who look the other way at corruption, whether in America or Afghanistan, and make for justice which does not simply give in for the sake of peace. Justice. Consistency. Destroy corruption. Lift up ideas for good and true regulated capitalism and democracy. And then we can achieve peace. 
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Professor Douglas Willet Cornwell (Retired)

Newark Valley, NY

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———————————“Love your neighbor as yourself.” “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” “The problems of the world are not that some people love in a different way. The problems are that so many people don’t know how to love at all (CGA, 1970).” A Puritan is someone in fear that someone, somewhere, is having a good time. “Liberty and justice for all [not priorities on individual and selfish rights].” “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”  “We the people, in order to form a more perfect union [and overall wealth of American society]…” 
​Benjamin Franklin: “​Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are ​affected.” Stacey Abrams: “Compromise about actions, but not about values.”  Oscar Wilde: “​​​I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”  Oscar Wilde: “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” Benjamin Franklin: “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”  Whoopi Goldberg: “To handle this COVID-19 pandemic effectively, we all need to get on the same page.”  Note: To be clear, I do not like being patronized. I do not express my disdain over what happens to my fellow humans just for my own sake and to pursue favors and handouts. I do it in order to gain R – E – S – P – E – C – T for me and for millions of other Americans of any race, ethnicity, religious belief, or sex and sexual identity who try to walk in integrity as they attempt to achieve, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  PERIOD.  One nation under God [our Creator] with liberty and justice for all.

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