Thanks for the reminder of how hard it is to use the word 'fascisti' in a poem that has any hope* of rhyming...'sheep-fleeced-i', 'suits-3-pieced-i'...I try, I try...
And they will certainly rewrite history to force it into the narrative they so desire. This is how we get to "Slavery was actually the best thing that ever happened to Black people because it forced them to come to America!" And "The US did not steal one-third of Mexico--we liberated it from people who would have just otherwise wasted it!"
Well, the Lost Cause and States' Rights narratives are most of it, have been taught for generations, and are firmly believed by at least one hundred million people. I had to direct one of the smartest people I know to the Cornerstone Speech and the records of the secession conventions….
I assume it's a variation on the Zionist claim that "we made the desert bloom" like all of Palestine was an empty wasteland til they got there. If anybody made Texas bloom, I haven't heard of it.
I'm suprised no one has referenced William Fucking Buckley's quote about the definition of a conservative (standing athwart history shouting "Stop!" when no one else dares, or some such shit). They've been telling us who they are for a long time.
Imagine what these cultural fogeys would have written when “Nude Descending a Staircase” debuted at the 2913 Armory Show. Oh, we don’t have to, we have Julian Street in the NYT describing it as an explosion in a shingle factory. But then again, Street didn’t bring up Marxism, since he wasn’t as brain dead as these mooks.
Sucha tragedy, that shingle factory explosion...wasn't there some dude who tried to save people? Kept a ledger of how many he could rescue? They even made a movie...
*sigh* As a demonstrably defective human being, I first picked up the GOP's hatred of facts and knowledge in the 80s so, you know, Roy's post is like when you're watching the freight train go by and like four miles of it's passed and there's still a lot of train to go. You know, like a long endless continuum here.
Too, when the dominant party has fully succeeded in pulling us back to the 18th century, fact and reality-based museum shows are going to be kind of painful.
Meanwhile, I have to haul ass to the Whitney; seems one of the child's classmates has a banana or something on exhibit.
"you're watching the freight train go by and like four miles of it's passed and there's still a lot of train to go" yeah but you go on watching! Congrats to the child's classmate.
That freight train phenomenon has a not-insignificant other in the west and south of this-here nation – the high number of folx dead from trying to race the train to the crossing. They don't wanna sit waiting for 20 minutes...
I got a story about an overnight stay at a tiny jail in the deep south, shootin' the breeze with the deputy, when he gets a call and then tells us "Keep an eye on the place, boys – gotta go clean up a mess..."
South Florida is now having waves of fatalities from exactly this with the new light commuter rail system. You can go on YouTube and find all sorts of videos of dumbass Floridians getting crushed by the train because they just can't figure out that 200,000 tons of hurtling metal will not stop in five feet when you pull your car in front of it.
And truly they are better off. Otherwise their heads would explode when they contemplate the fact they drive their coal rollers on marxist public roads...
'They can make a big stink, but they can’t make history'... I would go so far as to say they can't UNMAKE history, which is what the overarching modus operandi (sic) seems to me to be generally. Anything that contravenes their narrow world view isn't only bad, but must be erased from time and memory. Well, I pose the question, Morans, if Mr. Marx never existed what would you have to rail against? Large birds pooping on your cars? Kids on your lawn? Women and the control of their... oh, never mind.
You are particularly effective as a spokesman for public spaces.
(Sort of like a Lorax, except instead of trees you speak for the Museums. Have you ever written anything about Arboretums? Then you'd be speaking for the trees and the museums!)
Everybody talks shit on Bill Clinton and he probably earned every single bit of it. I just remember though, being so happy about No More Death Squads.
The US Arboretum here in DC is actually a pretty cool place, sort of a park with looser rules. People can drive around, sorta like a cemetery, but there's so much more to see on foot (including a secret-ish path past a pseudo-locked gate that winds down to the river).
The Missouri Botanical Garden in St Louis was quite nice when we visited years ago—although watch your step if the ginkgo trees are dropping fruit. Very messy.
Well now you mention it...Langston GC* is adjacent to the Arboretum. Built by the CCC & WPA in the 30's as an integrated course, and now on the National Register of Historic Places.
*Named for the first member of Congress elected in Virginia.
Edited to add: when my wife and I are traveling out in the hinterlands, where the hinters run free and the all the doors are labeled 'Out', we occasionally remark, when viewing a particularly lovely scenic wonder, how beautiful that place would be if it only had a golf course all over it...
Too late to edit the above, but should add that a breezy whiz thru the wikipedia entry for the golf course shows how hard captains of industry and deep staters tried to steal the course for some other nefarious purpose. It is ostensibly a golf course but the real sport is high stakes vandalism of the public domain...
I'm sure that the plants and trees are grateful for your approval.
US Botanical Gardens also cool, for various reasons, mainly as the hothouse next to the Rayburn Bldg. And who doesn't love the idea of a hothouse adjacent to Rayburn?
Sounds like this exhibit is telling an inspiring story of overcoming oppression, and Conservative White Guys have always been a dependable source of the oppression that makes such stories possible, so where's the gratitude? You couldn't have written "Twelve Years a Slave" if we hadn't enslaved you in the first place, how about a cut of the royalties, huh?
Wonderful to hear there are plans for a National Museum of the American Latino! One can only hope that some day, American Fascism will be something kept safely under glass, confined to museum exhibits and not running free in the general population. Maybe they could open an annex to the Holocaust museum where they can put the golden statue of Donald J. Trump on display, future generations can make their own connections.
I don’t think of it as a “golden” statue so much as a statue carved in slightly melted butter… and, seriously, Il Douché’s representation really doesn’t deserve that delicious of a medium either, it’s just a bit more appropriate.
All the various diversity, equity and inclusion efforts continue to move forward in the world of higher-ed, despite all the sippy-cup-on-tray-table-banging from right-wing operatives. My cynical side says this is just a recognition on the part of higher-ed administrators that this is where their next batch of students/customers are coming from, but it wouldn't be happening without faculty and staff who really do this because it's the right thing to do. Good for them. The future belongs to us.
There's a usually fairly reasonable blogger who recently came out with the assertion that any statement of the form 'Because of the structure of society, Xs oppress Ys.' is 'rooted in Marxist analysis'. As he's not a mouth-breather, he does allow as how that's not the same as 'theyʼre Marxist', but—well, one thinks of the old 'vulgar Marxism', there is a pipeline from people like him to people who will make no such fine distinction.
(His more serious problem is that he acts as if it's not a slur of the 'Hitler breathed oxygen!' variety: Marx was not the first to make this sort of observation, and one need not agree with him in any particular to make such.)
A guess: they talk about native slaves in the missions without explaining calmly and rationally that they were net better-off because some of them escaped eternal torment thereby.
Great piece. Makes me want to visit the exhibit. Also, the even tone you take, and the exhibit itself seems to take, is a telling contrast from the apoplectic histrionics in the quotes from These Three right-wing zealots.
"They can make a big stink, but they can’t make history."
But they might break history...
They can't make history *now*, but just you wait until Derp Fuhrer makes his triumphant return with Ron "What, Me Fascist" DeSantis as his wingman.
Thanks for the reminder of how hard it is to use the word 'fascisti' in a poem that has any hope* of rhyming...'sheep-fleeced-i', 'suits-3-pieced-i'...I try, I try...
*note that ALL my poems are hopeless
At least she
Tried to rhyme fascisti
'He who controls the Pabst….'
Drives a Ford Futura!
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'[…]consoles the neuter.'
And they will certainly rewrite history to force it into the narrative they so desire. This is how we get to "Slavery was actually the best thing that ever happened to Black people because it forced them to come to America!" And "The US did not steal one-third of Mexico--we liberated it from people who would have just otherwise wasted it!"
And yet it's an endless source of frustration to them that their version of history never seems to catch on outside the Wingnut Bubble they live in.
Well, the Lost Cause and States' Rights narratives are most of it, have been taught for generations, and are firmly believed by at least one hundred million people. I had to direct one of the smartest people I know to the Cornerstone Speech and the records of the secession conventions….
"firmly believed by at least one hundred million people"
Yes, it's a BIG bubble, but a bubble nonetheless.
Thank you for NOT writing "and believed by 100 million firm people" because that would be icky...
many of those 100 million are less firm than jelly
I think the actual phrasing used would be "because it provided them free passage to America, which is totally affirmative action if you think about."
No notes for the second statement.
I assume it's a variation on the Zionist claim that "we made the desert bloom" like all of Palestine was an empty wasteland til they got there. If anybody made Texas bloom, I haven't heard of it.
Bob Wills would like a word...
Echoes Ayn Rand's comments on the Native Americans before the Europeans came.
They woulda wasted it – we laid waste to it, by thunder!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uEwGmjhquU
I'm suprised no one has referenced William Fucking Buckley's quote about the definition of a conservative (standing athwart history shouting "Stop!" when no one else dares, or some such shit). They've been telling us who they are for a long time.
I think W Effing B had a fantasy of standing athwart – kinda gave him the illusion of actually doing something instead of just faffing on about it...
Imagine what these cultural fogeys would have written when “Nude Descending a Staircase” debuted at the 2913 Armory Show. Oh, we don’t have to, we have Julian Street in the NYT describing it as an explosion in a shingle factory. But then again, Street didn’t bring up Marxism, since he wasn’t as brain dead as these mooks.
"He's not naked!"
Sucha tragedy, that shingle factory explosion...wasn't there some dude who tried to save people? Kept a ledger of how many he could rescue? They even made a movie...
Shingler's List?
Groan.
Thank you for your kind attention.
Never Again.
*sigh* As a demonstrably defective human being, I first picked up the GOP's hatred of facts and knowledge in the 80s so, you know, Roy's post is like when you're watching the freight train go by and like four miles of it's passed and there's still a lot of train to go. You know, like a long endless continuum here.
Too, when the dominant party has fully succeeded in pulling us back to the 18th century, fact and reality-based museum shows are going to be kind of painful.
Meanwhile, I have to haul ass to the Whitney; seems one of the child's classmates has a banana or something on exhibit.
"you're watching the freight train go by and like four miles of it's passed and there's still a lot of train to go" yeah but you go on watching! Congrats to the child's classmate.
Sometimes you watch, sometimes boredom wins.
As for the kid, the congrats are premature til I shlep down and investigate and dope out exactly what's going. It's still at the To Be Decided stage.
That freight train phenomenon has a not-insignificant other in the west and south of this-here nation – the high number of folx dead from trying to race the train to the crossing. They don't wanna sit waiting for 20 minutes...
I got a story about an overnight stay at a tiny jail in the deep south, shootin' the breeze with the deputy, when he gets a call and then tells us "Keep an eye on the place, boys – gotta go clean up a mess..."
South Florida is now having waves of fatalities from exactly this with the new light commuter rail system. You can go on YouTube and find all sorts of videos of dumbass Floridians getting crushed by the train because they just can't figure out that 200,000 tons of hurtling metal will not stop in five feet when you pull your car in front of it.
Wave your gun at it, that should work. I mean, what kind if cuck lets himself get pushed around by some socialist train?
No, they were crushed by Marxism, which is all mass transit is.
And truly they are better off. Otherwise their heads would explode when they contemplate the fact they drive their coal rollers on marxist public roads...
"dumbass Floridians"
Redundant much?
'They can make a big stink, but they can’t make history'... I would go so far as to say they can't UNMAKE history, which is what the overarching modus operandi (sic) seems to me to be generally. Anything that contravenes their narrow world view isn't only bad, but must be erased from time and memory. Well, I pose the question, Morans, if Mr. Marx never existed what would you have to rail against? Large birds pooping on your cars? Kids on your lawn? Women and the control of their... oh, never mind.
Defund the Coochie Police!
Charo votes yes
A genuine exerciser of her voting rites!
They can make a big stink, but they can’t make history.
Have they ever eaten at an authentic Mexican (or Peruvian, or Guatemalan, etc.) restaurant?
You are particularly effective as a spokesman for public spaces.
(Sort of like a Lorax, except instead of trees you speak for the Museums. Have you ever written anything about Arboretums? Then you'd be speaking for the trees and the museums!)
Everybody talks shit on Bill Clinton and he probably earned every single bit of it. I just remember though, being so happy about No More Death Squads.
I'm not so hot on plants and trees. I approve of them of course, but they don't thrill me. I'm a people person, in my own way.
The US Arboretum here in DC is actually a pretty cool place, sort of a park with looser rules. People can drive around, sorta like a cemetery, but there's so much more to see on foot (including a secret-ish path past a pseudo-locked gate that winds down to the river).
People gets weird about trees...
My wife loves the place.
She is hip.
We get there about once a quarter for the Procession of the Equinoxes.
The Missouri Botanical Garden in St Louis was quite nice when we visited years ago—although watch your step if the ginkgo trees are dropping fruit. Very messy.
The Bonsai/Penjing collection is breathtaking. I am weird about shrubs so the boxwood and azalea collections really got me.
And I loved the Capital Columns . And the Conifer
Collection - I'd love to see that in the winter.
Great place. The kind of place I figure Righties got a real hard on to sell if they get a chance.
"But... but... just think how much economically productive all this could be if it was a golf course!"
Well now you mention it...Langston GC* is adjacent to the Arboretum. Built by the CCC & WPA in the 30's as an integrated course, and now on the National Register of Historic Places.
*Named for the first member of Congress elected in Virginia.
Edited to add: when my wife and I are traveling out in the hinterlands, where the hinters run free and the all the doors are labeled 'Out', we occasionally remark, when viewing a particularly lovely scenic wonder, how beautiful that place would be if it only had a golf course all over it...
Too late to edit the above, but should add that a breezy whiz thru the wikipedia entry for the golf course shows how hard captains of industry and deep staters tried to steal the course for some other nefarious purpose. It is ostensibly a golf course but the real sport is high stakes vandalism of the public domain...
"Bonsai/Penjing collection" yeah – amazing...
In your own misanthropic way.
Spoken like a True Cannibal.
I'm sure that the plants and trees are grateful for your approval.
US Botanical Gardens also cool, for various reasons, mainly as the hothouse next to the Rayburn Bldg. And who doesn't love the idea of a hothouse adjacent to Rayburn?
Is the hothouse Brett Somer adjacent Gene Rayburn?
Klugman, surely.
Well you said Rayburn, and I'm sticking with that
Rightwing geezers don't like *anything* that doesn't center Conservative White Guys, so. . .
Sounds like this exhibit is telling an inspiring story of overcoming oppression, and Conservative White Guys have always been a dependable source of the oppression that makes such stories possible, so where's the gratitude? You couldn't have written "Twelve Years a Slave" if we hadn't enslaved you in the first place, how about a cut of the royalties, huh?
Hearted for the...uhh...
Hmmm...
I think "Chutzpah" might be the word you're looking for.
Nah...whenever I say "chutzpah" people just think I'm clearing my throat in an overbearing way...
No Piss Christ exhibit?
Christ pissed...Hitler pissed...ergo...
Wonderful to hear there are plans for a National Museum of the American Latino! One can only hope that some day, American Fascism will be something kept safely under glass, confined to museum exhibits and not running free in the general population. Maybe they could open an annex to the Holocaust museum where they can put the golden statue of Donald J. Trump on display, future generations can make their own connections.
I don’t think of it as a “golden” statue so much as a statue carved in slightly melted butter… and, seriously, Il Douché’s representation really doesn’t deserve that delicious of a medium either, it’s just a bit more appropriate.
I like to imagine a Gummi Trump, crafted by Gummi artisans who work exclusively in the medium of Gummi.
All the various diversity, equity and inclusion efforts continue to move forward in the world of higher-ed, despite all the sippy-cup-on-tray-table-banging from right-wing operatives. My cynical side says this is just a recognition on the part of higher-ed administrators that this is where their next batch of students/customers are coming from, but it wouldn't be happening without faculty and staff who really do this because it's the right thing to do. Good for them. The future belongs to us.
Careful there, boyo – that last line sounds a little too "Trump Youth Anthem-y" if you catch my drift...
Reminded of this ........♪ ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♪
I wish I had a pencil thin moustache
The Boston Blackie kind
A two toned Ricky Ricardo jacket
And an autographed picture of Andy Devine
Aside from the moustache, these things are readily available on Ebay, wish no more!
There's a usually fairly reasonable blogger who recently came out with the assertion that any statement of the form 'Because of the structure of society, Xs oppress Ys.' is 'rooted in Marxist analysis'. As he's not a mouth-breather, he does allow as how that's not the same as 'theyʼre Marxist', but—well, one thinks of the old 'vulgar Marxism', there is a pipeline from people like him to people who will make no such fine distinction.
(His more serious problem is that he acts as if it's not a slur of the 'Hitler breathed oxygen!' variety: Marx was not the first to make this sort of observation, and one need not agree with him in any particular to make such.)
Get Hitler outta my lungs!
> denigrates Christianity
A guess: they talk about native slaves in the missions without explaining calmly and rationally that they were net better-off because some of them escaped eternal torment thereby.
Great piece. Makes me want to visit the exhibit. Also, the even tone you take, and the exhibit itself seems to take, is a telling contrast from the apoplectic histrionics in the quotes from These Three right-wing zealots.
I gotta tell ‘ya - I could only read the first 2 paragraphs of this because racist White people are so fucking exhausting.
I literally CAN NOT read, here, or see anything more about their FUCKERY than what appears on the local & national news.
I read up on the exhibit and museum a while ago. I look forward to seeing the museum.
they lost their property to the Communists
to these guys, that is Communist barbarism
Terrorists: their guys
Freedom fighters*: our guys
*Fighting freedom where'er we finds it!