Some time ago, this guy who is currently involved with Bliss Fest called me up and asked for permission to put my old tape on You Tube. I thought I told you guys about it at the time, but apparently, I didn't.
Nothing new to report, but I'm still here.
You know even as I was writing that distinction between communism and fascism I was thinking what's the damn difference anyway. Well you know I am kind of a comsymp. From each according to their abilities to each according to their needs. Aren't we all in this together? Doesn't seem right that the boss should make a million times more than the lowliest employee.
But in practice it doesn't work well. It's not in human nature to share alike and the commies in charge of splitting up the pie always seem to get the bigger slice. And then there is that thing where if you are going after something like a little raise for all the workers it doesn't seem right to kill a bunch of people. But if you are creating the worker's paradise and ending all inequality, well it just might be worth it, so the commies tend to be a bit severe.
I believe what Putin is saying is that the Ukes are nazis, and true enough when the Germans entered Ukraine they got a pretty good welcome from the Ukes, eager to be free of the Russkies and more than happy to turn over their Jews. But that was then and this was now.
If the Russkies didn't think they were on our side, neither did we think we were on their side. It was classic the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Patton, and I reckon a lot of our other generals, wanted to keep going east to topple Stalin.
In WW I the commies had just taken power and the first thing they did was drop out of the war to begin establishing the workers paradise. Probably a good thing because the war was not going well for their side.
Well happy weekend Gennulmens.
Commies call people they don't like "fascists", and fascists call people they don't like "communists". I think that's because, in their world view, those are the only two political factions that matter. The rest of us are decadent capitalists, already cast upon the ash heap of history, and thus irrelevant. Putin may indeed be a fascist, but he has been quoted as saying he's a communist. Okay what he actually said was that the Ukrainians were trying to "de-communize" their country, as if they hadn't already done so some 30 years ago. It would be more accurate to say that Putin was trying to re-communize Ukraine as part of his goal to re-establishing the former Soviet Union.
The reason I called FDR a commie lover is that he has been quoted as saying, "Some of my best friends are communists". To be fair, the commies were supposed to be on our side in those days, and it was fashionable in some circles to be sympathetic to them. Truth be known, the Russians probably didn't think they were on our side, they thought we were on their side. To this day, their history books refer to World War II as "The Great Patriotic War". I don't know what they call World War I, or if they even acknowledge that it happened.
Sorry about the crude language in my last post, I must have been in a sucky mood last night. The good news is that I seem to have gotten over my recent writer's block. Maybe I just needed to blow off the condensate that had accumulated in my steam lines.
Now look what you have gone and done, put your post behind a warning. A little unfairly in my opinion and I read through Google's community standards and I would guess it was either hate speech, calling Biden a senile old Bastard, or sexually explicit for the joke about the cocksucker.
The senile is just standard republican boilerplate, a little strong though, doddering might be more apt. But Bastard seemed uncalled for. To me a bastard is a sonofabitch, which is to say kind of a mean guy, which I don't think fits Biden, and the capitalization of the word, kind of bizarre.
I didn't find anything sexually explicit about the joke, which I thought was pretty good, by the way. I think it is just the word cocksucker, and maybe the way it was used so often. We are used to motherfucker, motherfuck this, motherfuck that, but cocksucker you don't hear so often so it is more shocking. We'll see if the current post ends up behind a warning.
Of course republicans have been calling every democrat a commie for as long as I can remember, but I think it is strange to call out FDR. We could never have defeated Hitler without the Russkies. And I know how you hate Nixon dropping down to visit the doddering Mao down in RED China. But Nixon built his career calling other people commies. It's been written that he went there thinking they would help him get out of Vietnam (which was pretty stupid because it was the Russkies backing the Vietnamese), or that he wanted to sell Big Macs there, or most likely to make more trouble between the RED Chinese and the Russkies, which sounds more like his style. The man loved to start trouble.
The lamps are going out all over Europe some English diplomat wrote on the eve of WW I. Less than thirty years later Churchill said the lights are going out in response to Mussolini, Franco, and Hitler. And not too long ago we had Trump, and that Brexit guy, and the guys in India, and the Philippines, and in Brazil, Italy, and the darling of the current reps, the guy in Hungary. And now in Russia too. I see these guys as like the fascists of WW II, hatred of immigrants, minorities, democracy seen as a weakness, purveyors of the big lie, that kind of shit. I think Putin is more a fascist than a commie and that's why they like him.
That's all for the day. Interested to see if I too end up behind a warning for my copious use of the C word.
I think so.
Two and a half years older than me, and I am still pretty spry, getting around town just fine, if a little slowly, mentally at the top of my game except that sometimes while reading some dense material my mind wanders and I have to go back and read a few paragraphs. And I have to double check everything I write for typos or strange words appearing in the middle of a sentence, and even after double checking I miss some things. And names and words, on the tip of my tongue until I need to say them and even as I am getting my tongue aligned they flee like frightened butterflies. I would never be able to hold a press conference in front of a band of shouting reporters.
Maybe ten or fifteen years ago if you had asked Dianne Feinstein if she would resign if she noticed her mental powers fading she would have replied, as I am sure we would have, of course I would. But now it has caught up with her and I don't think she realizes it and it is a huge problem for her party. Ruth Bader Ginsburg (almost had to look up her name except that I remembered RBG) had a mind that was still in tip top shape, but, you know, cancer. She could have dropped out before Obama's term was over, but she didn't and now we have that awful Amy Coney Barrett.
Well we just don't want to hang things up, go quietly to the retirement home and from there to assisted living and then the floor above for the mentally impaired. We don't even want to think about it. The best thing to do is just believe we will be in tip top condition forever. Best to let the grim reaper take you by surprise because there isn't much to be gained by thinking about him beforehand.
But Joe has already announced that he is running and we dems don't want a messy fight because, if the grim reaper doesn't come a knocking, Trump will be the candidate of the reps, and better to risk a doddering Joe than a full of fire Trump.
