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  1. Here's what I learned from the Ronna McDaniel hiring/firing. NBC has some MAGA-fascists in top management ... and they tried to see what they could get away with hiring McDaniel, a known fascist election denier. Expert more NBC-MAGA efforts in the future. And elsewhere in the mainstream media, in the name of being "objective" and #bothsides. Hell, CAA, the top-shelf Hollywood-celeb talent agency was repping McDaniel! A known fascist election denier!
  2. What I got from that letter is that Jack Nicklaus is a fascist or fascist enabler. Even if he is too stupid to fully realize it. Time's up for making excuses for people who will "look past" the clearly fascist-theocratic policies of Trump-MAGA-GQP ... while justifying it by spouting off some BS propaganda about "patriotism," "family values" and the "American Dream." Those are some of the unchallenged code words for normalizing and justifying fascism/theocracy in 21st century America.
  3. I don't mind seeing a US President styling in a '67 Corvette convertible. Pretty damn cool in my opinion. I would bet a lot of Surly posters would dig having that car to cruise around in ...
  4. Regarding Trump not being held accountable for anything.... Here's one possibility: -- As we are repeatedly told by the Surly Lawyers and others, "the legal system is methodically and slowly working as intended with standard procedures" regarding Trump, even though it is years after stoking/aiding a violent insurrection, years after a phone call trying to overturn the election in Georgia, and all the other numerous felonies and civil judgments. -- So we just gotta have patience! Here's an equally plausible possibility: -- There are MAGA-friendly fascists throughout the courts and legal system, who work the "methodical system" and "procedures" to the advantage of Trump, for the simple reason they want Trump to be President and impose MAGA laws. -- Same in Corporate America and mainstream media. -- This also explains NBC hiring Ronna McDaniel, the #bothsides attitudes of mainstream media, billionaires helping with TruthSocial and IPO to give him a likely windfall (of some amount), and so on. Likely bottom line: -- There are MAGA-fascists in various levels of high-ranking power across America's institutions and corporations. These fascists want Trump to be elected and are doing their part, in their own way, within the rules and systems in place. This is the reality we face... at least as I see it. F*ck the patience!
  5. Bible + Billionaires (Yass, Dunn, Murdoch, et al) = Bad News for Democracy and Secular Society.
  6. Of course, the SEC is not there to protect democracy from corporate networks anchored in fascist-theocratic propaganda and election conspiracy theory -- owned by a wannabe dictator. Nope. Not the SEC function. Same with Corporate America ... Same with the mainstream media ... Same with American universities ... Same with the Supreme Court ... Same with Merrick Garland's DOJ ... Seems it is no institution's job to take on fascism and theocracy. But, there is all that American "freedom" and "free markets." Till they're suddenly gone.
  7. The NCAA ain't going to do jack shit. Neither is ESPN or anyone else. The SEC SEC SEC is the Southeastern Confederacy conference, that much is obvious. I'll say it again. The UT-OU SEC move was not about $$$ only. Far from it. Football is the smokescreen. The UT-Austin move to the SEC was orchestrated at the very top, above Del Conte and Hartzell. It's a post-BLM MAGA move by Abbott, BOR and Big Money Donors to align UT with the Confederacy and the fascist theocrats. I find it sickening. Disgraceful. F*ck the BOR and Big Money Donors.
  8. Just dropped in to say this is what fascism looks like: social chaos ... death ... destruction. In the name of law and order! This what you get when MAGA fascist Christian idiots still think they are battling Mexicans at the Alamo. The border wall has long been their version of Alamo 2.
  9. Like the National Debt Clock in Times Square, here is the Trump Debt Tracker: https://trumpdebtcounter.com Scroll down for the lulz!
  10. With all due respect, I would not count on any of the above. Why should we assume that MAGA-Trump-Bible-Fascist consciousness has not infiltrated the military, national guard, police forces, intelligence or the DOJ? .... To the same extent as rest of US population. -- After all, they all are exposed to the same religions and social media/mainstream media that MAGA idiot fascists are. -- Abbott seems to have no problem sending the Texas Guard to the border. -- The police have long been ready and willing to crack heads on "leftists" and "protestors." -- Don't forget that during W's war crime spree, the majority of Americans supported the use of torture by CIA-Military. NSA surveillance is already unchecked on us. Can't even count on the intelligence agencies to not turn anti-democratic. One thing we better hope is the majority of the Top Brass Pentagon are not MAGA and keep the military under control. Or use the military to reign in any violence from Trump-loving police and MAGA insurrectionists on and after the election. If the military go MAGA, game over. Democracy is finished.
  11. Thanks. File that under New York Times plays right into Trump-MAGA's hand ... while disseminating its own "disinformation." -- Calling J6 a "riot" instead of the obvious thing it was: a violent insurrection. -- Using the dry "neutral" term "disinformation" instead of the more accurate and alarming term "propaganda" (subsets of which are lies and disinformation). -- Never once mentioning that propaganda is standard tactic of fascist regimes preceding takeovers. NEVER! -- Quoting Stephen F*cking Miller using "something out of dystopian sci-fi novel" to describe efforts to reign in his propaganda. Ya know, they could have quoted an insight from Orwell, Ray Bradbury, or other sci-fi writers with insights. But, nope, Stephen Miller, a f*cking fascist. -- Concluding with a sentence from Trump that trashed Biden, uttering propaganda that positioned himself as a beacon-like defender of free speech I could go critiquing the article, but it is the same old crap. The New York Times playing right into the hands an orange simian fascist lunatic ... under the guise of "objective" reporting. Lulz.
  12. I appreciate wit and comedy, like most humans on Planet Earth. But, sadly, I have come to realize these "political" comedians (Maher, Jimmy Kimmel, Trevor Noah, Seth Myers, Jon Stewart, etc.) are little more than corporate/media/comedy approved court jesters, tricksters, and clowns. -- They are like late night ice cream, snacks, or junk food. They might taste great, but are little more than sugar hits and calories that require more exercise the next day. In effect, the comedians are simulacra (copies in which original is no longer present) of critique that mask the near total absence of he systematic critique of the true conditions that produced MAGA-GQP Trump. In addition to the obvious racism and fascism (mostly ignored in media), there is the ideological and media consumption of our future overlords: -- TV's endless idiocy -- Worship of celebrities, billionaires, and football players. -- World Wrestling crap -- Religious fanaticism, creationism, fundamentalism (all with 99.99% free pass in media) -- Anti-science building for 40-50 years with the religious fanaticism -- The History Channel showing Ancient Aliens, conspiracy lunacy, Nostradamus and apocalyptic "End Times" biblical prophecy shows for f*cking decades. -- Paranormal and pseudoscience hit shows like The X-Files and in numerous Hollywood films. Bigfoot Hunter and Ghost Hunter shows, to name a few more. -- The near total absence of legit science (and its many meanings for humanity) in the media. The Science Channel is filled with idiot world shows more than real science. Sagan's and Tyson's Cosmos series are great, but nowhere near anough. -- Not much on legit environmentalism, except for Attenborough's great docs from BBC. -- The list is endless in our 24/7 media spectacle. Any evidentiary and empirical standards are mostly non-existent. All amplified by social media into a virulent malignant cancer in pop consciousness. TLDR: Comedians ain't saving us, but enjoy the late-night sugar hits.
  13. Note how Fascism and Fanatical Religion are ignored as threats for impending apocalypse in these two toons. -- When, in reality, those are the TWO BIGGEST HORSEMEN of the Apocalypse. (After I wrote this, I saw the Jesus cartoon above, but my point still stands) Happens all across our culture. All over Surly. Been happening for decades. -- That's why Margaret Atwood wrote The Handmaid's Tale in the 1980s after seeing Reagan and Falwell take over the GOP. Though I can see "fascism" and "theocracy" are appearing more in Surly and in some mainstream media, the bottom line is those terms are too scary or are in willful denial by the media and our nation's leaders, corporate execs, university leaders, and even Democrats. "Fascism" and "theocracy" should be in the headlines every day when discussing MAGA, GQP, Trump, Bannon, Christian Nationalism, etc. How can we defeat what we fail to fully identify?
  14. And yet, tons of Surly posters voted for W, twice! I am sure he's still a god in Dallas. (For the record, I have never been a Republican and did not vote for Reagan, the Bushes, or Trump.) W is a liar, war criminal, and evangelical idiot whose "Compassionate Conservativism" was a sham and mask for the his "Faith-Based Initiative" -- i.e. let's get the government in the theocracy business and end the wall between Church and State. His idiocy, evangelicalism, divisiveness, war crimes, and sports ownership paved the way for Trump, big time. And now this Rembrandt of Dallas has a book of paintings: Out of Many, One: Portraits of America's Immigrants. Of course, his White House policies were far from Y Pluribus Unum. I am sure SMU and his library will be celebrating this genius. Hell, they'll build him a museum or art gallery!! If W really believes in the title of his book, he should be denouncing Trump/MAGA/GQP all across the media landscape. He would have a platform in all major media. And yet he says nothing. F*ck W and the Trump-loving fascists in Dallas and its burbs.
  15. Did you not see the quote marks I put around "liberal" in my post? Of course, the Post and Times are not really liberal, but they remain damn near sacred texts for the mainstream liberals. Have been for decades. So please don't say I am "promulgating a stupid far right talking point." I left Texas 30 years ago and am not some conservative living in the burbs and lamenting "what went wrong since W" was elected. Atheist. Never a Republican. And since Reagan and Falwell joined hands in holy matrimony, I have been saying the ultimate GOP-Evangelical goal is a theocracy since my time on the 40 ... back when the Cactus Cafe was cool and the Continental Club was still a legit dive bar.
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