Today's Republicans

Or, The Mindless Dead

Humanity's Crowning Achievement

Poison gas & death camps. Proud of yourselves?

I bet a lot of you are. Scum.

What A Hypocritical Shithole

EAT THE RICH! SOCIALISM NOW!!

“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”

A historian explains:

Writing during the carnage of the First World War, the iconoclast intellectual Randolph Bourne described the American revolutionary inheritance as a squalid marriage between the town capitalist and plantation patriarch. Glittering generalities of freedom and democracy, Bourne observed, were indelibly marked by their long captivity to the money counters and owners of human chattel.

[...]
 

Recent years have seen growing numbers of mainstream detractors from this consensus history – among the most prominent, the New York Times’s 1619 Project, which offered an account of a “new founding” adjacent to the one championed by civil rights liberals, but wildly traducing the original. The Revolutionary War, its lead author Nikole Hannah-Jones argued, was primarily motivated by the tawdry desire to give a free hand to Bourne’s plantation patriarchs “in order to ensure that slavery would continue”.

[...]

King observed something else that has since been mostly forgotten. American universalism was weak because it had been purchased “at bargain rates” – and often at someone else’s expense. The Black freedom struggle, in this sense, was about “more than the rights of Negroes”, as it revealed “systemic rather than superficial flaws” in US society. “Today, Black Americans have not life, liberty nor the privilege of pursuing happiness, and millions of poor white Americans are in economic bondage that is scarcely less oppressive,” King said.

In Trump’s second term, the expansionist pole of the American dialectic has instead returned with a vengeance, untethered from its worn-out emancipatory partner. “If you don’t believe in the Indian wars, you don’t believe in America,” could just as easily be a social media post from the Department of Homeland Security, or a slogan supporting Israel, a kind of US settler colony in miniature – as it seeks to further its own expansionist project in the Middle East.

The violence and corruption of the current era, however, lack any legitimating or moralizing framework, and are unlikely to be laundered as easily as it was in 2008 if and when the Democrats return to power. In the eyes of the world, the US is no longer “the cause of all mankind”, but its scourge. Reanimating stalled pretensions to racial progress, or other such bargain basement promises, will not absolve the empire this time. The town capitalists and plantation patriarchs are in the saddle – while our revolutionary inheritance, Paine’s “universal struggle for liberty”, awaits its next reinvention.

Don't hold your breath. Be ready for a boot stomping on a human face across this awful world.

Too Much Baseball?

P.S.: Peacock sucks. Makes me wonder if any Peacock/NBC/Universal executives their watch their own crap, or if they do & are happy w/ it. Can barely sell any ads, either. Only positive in this mess is that I needn't subscribe to Peacock, because I can watch by signing on to my cable system. Which is probably why it's now US$300.00 a fucking month. Death to pirates!

You're Telling Me?

Several eternities in an hr. is more like it.It. Never. Fucking. Stops.

From The Crime Blotter

Not that far from this reporter.I dunno about the reported "gunman"; could have been an angry spouse who didn't think an illegal gambling report would get the heat to do anything. Yrs. ago a friend who was selling reefer had a disgreement w/ his upstairs neighbor about my friend's loud music at all hrs. & the neighbor called the police & claimed my friend was selling heroin & had guns. Suffice it to say the police were happy enough to make a reefer bust.

Added Sat. Freak Out

I should've held yesterday's Freak Out for today, as Freak Out! was released 60 (Count 'em) 60 yrs. ago today. I see there's a docmentary for which Apple wants money.Standard rental $4.99, HD a buck more, HD purchase $12.99, standard $9.99. 

 Here's another thing you could watch about those halcyon days of yore when ...Sorry, no one seems to know where Part 1 is. I'm certainly beyond caring.

Covers, Plagarism & Mutation

Make The World (Cup) Go Away!

Abolute bullshit. Why don't you just cut off the players' hands? Competition between nations that doesn't involve armed conflict is phony posing. Why do you sissies have armies? And FIFA's corrupt bullshit, like all human activity.

Dimbulbs In Denial

They know which side their bread's buttered on, & who's buttering it.

Politico:
‘More people die in the winter’: [U.S. Sec. of Energy Chris] Wright downplays Europe's deadly heat wave
Lynsey Chutel / New York Times:   Europe's Scorching Heat Is Gradually Moving East

Zia Weise / Politico:   Why Europe's heat waves are still so deadly

Chloe Trapanotto / The Daily Wire:   I Lasted Nine Days Without AC. Europeans Don't Have A Choice.

Agence France-Presse:   Hospitals overwhelmed as Europe heatwave shifts east

Victoria Craw / Washington Post:   Heat wave blasting Europe is the worst ever recorded, researchers say

Zia Weise / E&E News by POLITICO:   ‘This is climate change’: European heat wave impossible without warming, scientists say

GV Wire:   Britain Breaks Record June Temperature as Deadly Heat Crushes Europe

Wright zeroed in on European deaths in the winter of 2022 when the Russian invasion of Ukraine drove up energy prices, saying “the mortality impacts of that are devastating.” His comments came as governments across Europe warned that this week’s record-high temperatures posed life-threatening risks, echoing the dangers of a 2022 heat wave that killed more than 60,000 people on the continent.

60,000? Missed that stat. Not a big enough number to impress the Sec'y.?

P.S.: Note Limey audience in "Heat Wave". Guessing it was Ready Steady Go!

J.C. Testifies

I've had all I can take of this country, your species & the non-stop money-grubbing bullshit. How much of their crap do they think we'll take before we rise up & explode? Ha! They know you're sheep, & you'll all stay w/ the flock.

Everything is so shitty and I am so tired of it all. Everything is just a squeeze or gimmick to rake the last dollar out of your wallet. I bought a portable air conditioning unit so I could run the central ac less, and the thing is not working after just a few weeks. So I tried to have it replaced and send the old one back but before they would do it I had to waste a bunch of everyone’s time talking to an agent and she asked a series of questions and then asked “Have you checked with the manufacturer?” and that is where I lost it.

“NO I haven’t fucking checked with the manufacturer and I don’t intend to and that’s because I’m not a fucking air conditioning repairman. I bought this from you, you sent it to me, it does not work, I want to send it back to you.”

At any rate they are sending a new one but how have we let everything get so fucking shitty. It’s gotten to the point that just getting anything done with a business is like dealing with a fucking car dealership. No I don’t want the add on. No I don’t want an extended warranty are you telling me you sell shitty stuff. No I don’t want fucking hell I WANT THIS THIS IS WHAT I FUCKING WANT NOTHING MORE NOTHING LESS.

Have you tried to cancel a streaming service or magazine subscription lately? Jesus tapdancing christ. Everything is awful.

Everything is just a squeeze to get their dirty fucking fingers and filch your last dollar. Shake and Bake doesn’t even come with the plastic bags to shake the food in anymore- you are paying 2-3 bucks for 8 cents worth of herbs, spices, and bread crumbs. Everything about modern life in America is irritating and dispiriting. The gutter racism. My god. Everything. How did it get this fucking bad?

They gave it to the pres. of United Healthcare, when does the next piggie get his or her just reward?

Note well that this reporter is more than willing to name names, assign blame & take sweet revenge. Tonight's shittiness is not being able to watch the Dodgers at the Padres bcause Mark of The Beast Bezos has bought it & wants more money than I'm already paying Spectrum for cable (w/ ads) because the former Bums of Brooklyn aren't happy w/ the revenue from ad-supported broadcasting alone. Fuck everybody involved w/ that crap w/ all the painful items you can imagine, like a set-top box Or a baseball bat. Let the punishment fit the crime. Or make the crime fit the orifice, one way or another.

Today's "Excitement"

Or what passes for it. Most/only "exciting" event while foraging & picking up medications.

Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow

Yesterday I spent one hr. & ten mins. in the hideous outside world of awful people & their bullshit, w/ nothing to show for it but this

&, on the sidewalk, some cable & a cross,

PPC is "a Belden company". Belden's reputable (or was) but why a subsidiary?

& medication refills.

Then, not long after returning, I rec'd. a call from the pharmacy's robot advising I had more pills waiting, so now I know what I'm doing today. Tomorrow, I may not open the front door, even to bother w/ the mail.

Friday Freak Out

Into the weeds & down a 60 yr.-deep rabbit hole.

Guest post: Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention's Verve/MGM albums (1966-1969): comparing mix variations

All sorts of trivia on variations of themes, but this was new to me.

There is also an alternate master of the original stereo vinyl mix, with brighter EQ, that has been bootlegged. This tape is a fascinating mystery, because we don’t have much information about it. First of all, except for tape print-through problems, where one can hear remnants of a previous recording, its fidelity is higher than that of the regular stereo version of the album. The track order is completely different: it’s unclear whether this is an early configuration or a compilation of mixes. Most importantly, though, it includes an uncensored “It Can’t Happen Here” and a different edit of “Wowie Zowie”, including a short section that was removed from the final master, possibly at MGM’s request (see below). This version of the album is still unreleased.

An early version of the album was done in April, with a different track order from the final sequence completed two months later. For instance, "Wowie Zowie" (which would eventually begin side two of the finalized sequence instead, and was described by Zappa as "harmless", "cheerful" and apparently liked by Little Richard was the original planned lead-off track rather than "Hungry Freaks, Daddy", "Trouble Comin' Every Day" (which was inspired by the Watts Riots that took place the previous year) was included on side one rather than side three, and "Who Are the Brain Police?" (acknowledged by Zappa himself as one of the scariest songs on the album) took up the middle of side two rather than the middle of side one, with only "Help, I'm a Rock" (dedicated to Elvis Presley) and "Cream Cheese" (retitled "The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet") taking up the same concluding places on the early sequence that they eventually would on the finalized sequence.

"Wowie Zowie" itself originally contained a musique concrète section between the bridge and third verse that would eventually be edited out of the song as it appeared on the finalized sequence, while the third section of "Help, I'm a Rock", called "It Can't Happen Here", contained two additional lines consisting of the word "psychedelic" during the self-pleasure sequence and of the words "...since you first took the shots" immediately following the "we've been very interested in your development" line. Tapes of the early sequence were eventually leaked to European collectors and bootlegged on vinyl as The Alternate Freak Out! in 2010, with long-time Zappa associate Scott Parker later describing the early sequence's track order as having more conceptual "integrat[ion]" and "a greater amount of weirdness sprinkled throughout" than that of the finalized sequence during a 2011 podcast.

The label eventually requested that the two lines in question be removed from the "It Can't Happen Here" section of "Help, I'm a Rock", both of which had been interpreted by MGM executives to be drug references. However, the label either had no objections to, or else did not notice, a sped-up recording of Zappa shouting the word "fuck" after accidentally smashing his finger, occurring at 11 minutes and 36 seconds into "The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet". From the 1995 CD reissue of the album onwards, the formerly three-part "Help, I'm a Rock" was reindexed as two separate tracks, with only the first two parts ("Okay To Tap Dance" and "In Memoriam, Edgard Varèse) remaining under the "Help, I'm a Rock" title but with "It Can't Happen Here" becoming its own track, as "It Can't Happen Here" had been on the 1969 vinyl compilation Mothermania, where the two previously censored lines were also reinstated.

Compare & contrast. (Hope this is the original mix.)[The Wiki]

P.S.: Better title: "The Mothers' Verve/MGM albums (1966-1969): Comparing mix variations".

No, Really?

Who'da Thunk It?

You piled up & lit your own funeral pyre, idiots! Sorry I won't be here when the whole shithouse goes up in flames, but it's going be a slow death for those who outlive me.

Euthanasia's Next!

As if anyone wants to look at Fat Boy Trump or Stephen "SS" Miller, the alleged architect of this monstrosity.

The Americans Trump Would Rather Not See

There are some uncomfortably eugenicist vibes in Trump’s latest disability policy, which authorizes states to institutionalize more Americans.

Even before this memo, states have been slashing disability services for some time as a result of the Medicaid cuts in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill. The law’s advocates professed that the cuts would safeguard safety-net programs for the “most vulnerable Americans,” but so far children and people with disabilities are among the biggest victims. More than half of states have already cut home- and community-based services that support elderly people with disabilities living in their homes.

The irony is that, in the long run, these changes may be more costly, since institutionalization tends to be much more expensive than letting people stay in their homes with supportive care.

“The states are a little bit playing Russian roulette,” says Barkoff. “They’re saying: ‘Is this a person who is going to find some way to navigate these cuts, and find family or friends to fill in? Or is it someone who’s going to end up costing me three times as much because they end up in a nursing home or in the emergency room?’”

Who'll profit from the gas chambers, firing squads or whatever an AI comes up w/ for mass murder, Bezos or Musk?

[THEBULWARK]

Today In Mental "Health" & The First Amendment

A minimalist classic released 60 yrs. ago come July 23rd.

No More Dissent, Smart-Asses!

'It's All Very Scientific': Is The Government Going To Declare 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' A 'Diagnosable Mental Illness'?

Sounds like Soviet "psychiatry" to this reporter.Every accusation, &c. Read this & then decide who needs psychiatric help.

"Each level has approximately 8 to 10 symptoms and you have to have certain number in each category to be able to qualify," she explained. "For example, a mild case would include people who throw shoes at the television set when Trump comes on, or have a meltdown when they hear a song that is associated with Trump, like YMCA. The moderates—and there are many more symptoms, I can't really get into all of them—but for moderates, TDS has taken over more of their lives. And for severe, it's even at a higher level."

Lieberman claimed that people like Rosie O'Donnell, Mary Trump, Jimmy Kimmel, "would-be assassins," and "people who attack Teslas because of Elon Musk" would be classified as having "severe TDS" and therefore require psychotherapy so they can "work on the problems in them that make them hate Trump."

"For men, it has to do with men who have low self-esteem and they are envious of Trump because Trump has the stereotypically all the things that a man—an alpha male—would and should have," Lieberman said. "He has a great education, Ivy League education. He was successful before he became president. He's become president two times. He has a gorgeous wife. He has a wonderful family. All of these things that these men who have low self-esteem either don't have or don't have enough of or don't feel like they'll ever have. So somehow Trump is to blame for their not having these things."

"The women who have TDS are women who have problems with men, starting with the pussy hats," she continued. "So you would work with them to help them; Trump would be the man, like the worst man, the man that they would imagine it would be worse to be married to, because he's an alpha male and because that's what they can't deal with. So you would work with them to try to get them to not have so much hatred towards men, perhaps have good relationships with men. And so you're really not working on the [hatred toward Trump] because if you get into a conversation about like, 'Why do you hate Trump?' They tell you, 'Well, he does this, and this, and this.' It's not about that. Whatever they would say, whatever executive orders they might say, or whatever political thing or sociological thing, whatever they would say that he did that is bad; it's not really about that. It's about their feelings towards him as a man."

Just a guess, but no one "throw[s] shoes at the television set when Trump comes on"; simply changing the channel seems much more likely. Those in the know find it highly amusing that Lumpy is associated w/ "YMCA".

And are you still on about the pussy hats? Naturally, because it's all explained by S-E-X. Specifically, sexual confusion, after all, every sane & manly man wants to be just like "alpha-male" Trump, & apparently every woman should want to have sex w/ Trump, & not worry about all the stupid, vicious &/or evil things he does & says.

Dr. Lieberman seems awfully well-educated to be spewing inanities like this, but we see she enjoys attention, & writing books.

• Bad Girls: Why Men Love Them & How Good Girls Can Learn Their Secrets, Cogito Media 2010
• Bad Boys: Why We Love Them, How to Live with Them & When to Leave Them

What does ol' Doc Freud have to say about attention-seeking? And seeking toxic relationships. Might have an issue or two herself.

Summer's Here, & It's Too Damn Hot

For Sissy Euros Anyway

Stew in your own juices, nitwits. You did this to yourselves w/ your pig lives of producing & consuming using fossil fuels for power. Guilty as sin, but the punishment isn't enough.

Two More!

Other side of the Pacific:And an aftershock in Venezuela.I know these are probably unrelated, but are we absolutely certain?

More Damn Clouds

Get your fucking wires out of my shot!!!

Hemisphere Under Attack?

First NorCal, now a big one in Venezuela.Could be divine punishment. Not a nation or government that doesn't deserve to be beaten w/in a few centimeters of their vicious evil lives, at the least. Hell, collapse every damn structure on the planet, as if they were all Towers of Babel.

Shakin' All Over!

I hope this is an indication that the Cascadia Subduction Zone is about to go, w/ the potential of a 9+ magnitude earthquake & 100-ft. tsunamis. Maybe some of the volcanoes will ignite & start spewing rocks & lava. We can only hope.

I really am awful, aren't I? It only seems fair for everyone else to suffer as I have.

Piracy On The Internet

Edward Teach, the pirate Blackbeard.

Mentioned these pirate bastards yesterday. Check the comments. At least my piece of plastic shit printer worked w/ actual H-P cartridges, unlike some people's.

Zuckerberg, you fucking crook, why do you let this shit go on? It looks like criminal activity to this reporter. Specifically, interstate & international wire fraud. Getting a refund from these jagoffs seems like pulling teeth. Are there no laws? Is there no att'y. willing to initiate a class-action suit against these pirates? I'm more than willing to visit Chatsworth w/ a can of gasoline & a lighter.

That's a fucking threat, squealer!! Are you in favor of people being ripped off? Then you'll call the police to turn me in & defend criminal activity. C'mon, rat!!

You Are Expendable

After replacing the humanoid wage-slaves, there won't be anyone w/ a job left to buy all the plastic crap Amazon wants you to consume.

Rise Up, Rasta!!

Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court rules Rastafari man can't sue Louisiana prison officials who cut his dreadlocks  —  The Supreme Court on Tuesday barred a former Louisiana inmate from suing prison officials who cut off his dreadlocks in violation of his Rastafari religious beliefs.
Ann E. Marimow / New York Times:   Supreme Court Bars Lawsuit After Prison Guards Shaved Inmate's Dreadlocks
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:   Supreme Court rules against Rastafarian man over religious rights claim against prison officials

Amy Howe / SCOTUSblog:   Court rules former Louisiana inmate cannot sue prison officials in religious dispute over long hair

Al Jazeera:   US Supreme Court says Rastafarian man shaved by prison guards can't sue

Brett T. / twitchy.com:   SCOTUS: Rastafarian Can't Sue Prison Guards for Shaving His Dreadlocks (Scott Wiener Whines)

Dilan Gohill / El País:   Supreme Court rules that Rastafarian ex-inmate cannot sue the Louisiana prison officials who cut off his dreadlocks

Chris Walker / Truthout:   SCOTUS Blocks Rastafarian Man From Suing Prison Guards Who Shaved His Dreadlocks

Ian Millhiser / Vox:   The Supreme Court's campaign to expand religious liberty now has a glaring exception

Alex Swoyer / Washington Times:   Supreme Court rules against Louisiana prisoner's lawsuit over shaved dreadlocks

Lauren Irwin / Deseret News:   Supreme Court rules along ideological lines in case involving religious rights in prison

Jack Birle / Washington Examiner:   Supreme Court denies Rastafarian's lawsuit against prison officials for cutting his dreadlocks

David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:   Inmates may not sue prison officials who violate their religious rights, Supreme Court rules

Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:   Supreme Court ends forcibly shaven Rastafari inmate's quest for damages

Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:   Supreme Court says Rastafarian can't sue prison officials over shorn dreadlocks

Melissa Quinn / CBS News:   Supreme Court rules ex-inmate can't sue prison officials for shaving dreadlocks

Jordan Rubin / MS NOW:   Supreme Court rules against Rastafarian prisoner who sued over shaved dreadlocks

KRDO:   Supreme Court rules against Rastafarian who sued prison officials for cutting his dreadlocks

"Where's The Outrage? Will No One Think Of The Children?"

Some people are "Thinking About The Children".

Oliver Holmes / The Guardian:
Israel continues to commit genocide by targeting children in Gaza, UN inquiry finds

Olivia Le Poidevin / Reuters:   Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says

Stephen Prager / Truthout:   UN Commission Finds 30 Percent of People Killed in Gaza Genocide Were Children

Aaron Parnas / The Parnas Perspective:   Republicans Issue Major Rebukes of Trump in House and Senate, Patel's Girlfriend to Perform at State Fair, Trump Lied About Vandals

RTÉ:   Israel's targeting of Gaza children resulting in genocide - UN inquiry

Joe Fisher / UPI:   U.N. says Israel is intentionally targeting Palestinian children

Al Jazeera:   Palestinian children targeted in genocide, war crimes in Gaza: UN inquiry

Middle East Monitor:   Israel continues to commit genocide by targeting Palestinian children, UN says

The fake fascist news isn't trying to claim "antisemitism". I suppose they haven't gotten the messaging message yet. They're between a rock & a hard place here; they hate the Jesus-killers, but have to keep 144,000 of them alive for the eschaton to happen, & they're scared shitless of the Mohammadans/Muhammedans, so they've invoked Judeo-Xian values & decided to finance Israel's genocide. The blood is on your hands too, Americans. Why aren't you sheep outraged about these children? Oh. Silly question to ask you two-faced shitheels."Them kill the Cat, them kill the Duckie"

Not "Tired", Exhausted!

Been Getting The Old Run-Around!!

Spent the early afternoon screaming & yelling at incompetent, lying cheats involved in fucking me in iNternet & interstate commerce. (Then wasted 1.5 hrs. typing this screed, which few will read, & they'll probably just laugh at me. You'll be laughing from the other sides of your mouths soon enough, unsympathetic jerks.) DoorStepInk is in Chatsworth (Valley scum!) so that's not interstate. Do not deal w/ these mother-fuckers! Should have checked some of the comments on their ad: "Doesn't work, they are no help & won't give me a refund," yada yada. Do not buy anything from a Facebook advert, ever, period. And look at this pseudo-patriotic bilge:

Gawd damn America, I say!! 

This is a complete & absolute lie. I was given no such options. 

Woman I talked to there kindly informed me that H-P "e" series printers (I have a 2855e) don't take remanufactured ink. Thank you so very gawddamn much for letting me know on your website or when I ordered it, you fucking assholes!! I believe the Cath-licks refer to that as a sin of omission, rather than of commission. Evil lies either way! Then she says she'll e-mail me a return label, & asks if I have any way to print the fucking thing. No, you dumb hoor, that's why the hell I'm calling your stupid ass in the first place!! And screw every single person at Hewlett-Packard in every damned orofice twice w/ a rusty chainsaw! I dare say everyone who has ever owned an H-P printer will agree w/ me on that. Hell, if anything were to start a worldwide revolution, it might well be by uniting the world against those rat-bastard pirates. I'm sure Hewlett & Packard spin eternally in their graves after seeing what their names have been reduced to by filthy pig greed. Now I have to leave the fucking house & go to Target if I want to use this bullshit printer. Fuck everything.

And Yankee Dabbler. Sent me a defective box car in fucking April, dealt w/ an incompetent buffoon who somehow couldn't find my 'phone number for a month because it was "blocked" & he was apparently unable to find it in all the information Yankee Dribbler has on me. Somehow he did find my e-mail, sent me an e-mail promising that some other fuck would send me a return label which hasn't happened for two wks. now. They finally acknowledged me today after an angry e-mail, but I didn't hear the 'phone ring, & called again so damn angry the chickenshit asshole hung up on me. I fucking hate people who get all pissy when you scream at them & call them the cheats, crooks & liars they are after they've spent two months ignoring or fucking w/ you. "Oh, don't curse me." You self-righteous prick. If I'd been in the same room w/ you ... You bastards sit there in New Jersey thinking I can't do one damn thing about your bullshit, then you claim "Oh it was just miscommunication". FUCK YOU!

Another outfit to watch for is Sagebrook Home, which advised my order was coming by UPS, which continued not to have the package, so I called them & they kindly sent a replacement, which arrived a day or two after the original order showed up, but shipped via FedEx. Done by some ignernt cracker moron warehouse worker in AsheSummerville, NC. Fuck you, moron!! I advised them of this wks. ago & asked them to send a return label. No action, as the saying goes. Today I called, rather than e-mailed, & had the operator/receptionist track down the person so I wouldn't be transferred to some bullshit answering system that won't record a message. (COWARDS!! Answer your fucking 'phones!!) So I did speak to her & she e-mailed me the damn label. Finally. Would've kept the damn thing but there is literally no place to put it in this tiny dump.

In conclusion, I so hate this fucking bullshit world of fucking bullshit & everybody in it, because you made it this way you pieces of shit.