#Cortez Walton

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Debriefing ! Setlist de la soirée SIXTIES IMMERSION DiJerk Baldo au Drunken 20/01/2023https://www.mixcloud.com/.../dijerk-baldo-sixties-beat.../DiJerk Baldo au Drunken 20/01/2023 ⁃ Cocoa par MIGHTY TALLISH  ⁃ 
 ⁃ Save the People par BRUCE RUFFIN ⁃ 
 ⁃ Jockey Hinds par MIGHTY CHYPER ⁃ 
 ⁃ The Golden Fleece par JASON & The ARGANOUGHTS ⁃ 
 ⁃ If the Coast Is Clear par Nine Ton Peanut Smugglers ⁃ 
 ⁃ Brandy par JOHN HOLT ⁃ 
 ⁃ Drugs Mule par Nine Ton Peanut Smugglers ⁃ 
 ⁃ Peaches my love par ERIC DONALDSON ⁃ 
 ⁃  You Got Soul par Johnny Nash ⁃ 
 ⁃ The Harder They Come par Jimmy Cliff ⁃ 
 ⁃ Lively Up Yourself par Bob Marley ⁃ 
 ⁃ Chinese children par MIGHTY TERROR (BERT INNIS) ⁃ 
 ⁃ Rub A Dub Dub par The Equals ⁃ 
 ⁃ Bend Me, Shape Me par The American Breed ⁃ 
 ⁃ Life's Too Short par Tony Rivers & The Castaways  ⁃ 
 ⁃ Wooly Bully par THE JALOPY FIVE  ⁃ 
 ⁃ Gotta Wait par The Game ⁃ 
 ⁃ Come On Up par KAMA DEL SUTRA  ⁃ 
 ⁃ I Think We're Alone Now par Tommy James & The Shondells ⁃ 
 ⁃ Hog par THE GROUPIES ⁃ 
 ⁃ Look for Me Baby par The Kinks ⁃ 
 ⁃ I'm a Believer par The Monkees ⁃ 
 ⁃ Dead End Street par The Kinks ⁃ 
 ⁃ The Witch par The Rattles ⁃ 
 ⁃ Gotta Get the First Plane Home par The Kinks ⁃ 
 ⁃ Louie Louie par SIMBA ⁃ 
 ⁃ Too Bad You Don't Want Me par Chris Andrews ⁃ 
 ⁃ Midnight To Six Man par The Pretty Things ⁃ 
 ⁃ 66 5 4 3 2 1 par The Troggs ⁃ 
 ⁃ You Really Got Me par The Kinks ⁃ 
 ⁃ Thirteen Women par The Renegades ⁃ 
 ⁃ Gotta Get Away par The Blues Magoos ⁃ 
 ⁃ Shake par SHADOWS OF KNIGHT ⁃ 
 ⁃ Psyché rock par LES YPER SOUND (Pierre Henry et Michel Colombier)  ⁃ 
 ⁃ Slip Knot par Doug Johnson & the Outlaws  ⁃ 
 ⁃ Happy Times par The Box Tops ⁃ 
 ⁃ Nothin' par The Ugly Ducklings ⁃ 
 ⁃ Dimples par The Del-Rays ⁃ 
 ⁃ No Friend of Mine par THE SPARKLES ⁃ 
 ⁃ Garden of My Mind par The Mickey Finn ⁃ 
 ⁃ Complication par The Monks ⁃ 
 ⁃ Dirty Water par The Standells ⁃ 
 ⁃ Venus par Shocking Blue ⁃ 
 ⁃ Talk Talk par The Music Machine ⁃ 
 ⁃ I Don't Care par The Dirty Shames ⁃ 
 ⁃ 96 Tears par ? and The Mysterians ⁃ 
 ⁃ Soul on Ice par Fire ⁃ 
 ⁃ Bringing Home the Bacon par Queen Eve & the Kings ⁃ 
 ⁃ Do You Believe In Magic par The Lovin' Spoonful ⁃ 
 ⁃ Happy Feet par Robert Parker ⁃ 
 ⁃ I Gotta Go Now par Rex Garvin ⁃ 
 ⁃ The Nitty Gritty par Gladys Knight & The Pipsb ⁃ 
 ⁃ QI Hang Up (Part 1) par Warm Excursion ⁃ 
 ⁃ Highway Blues par Little Daddy Walton and Sons ⁃ 
 ⁃ Soul Food par Lonnie Youngblood (& Jimi Hendrix) ⁃ 
 ⁃ I Want Love And Affection (Not The House Of Corrections) par Nathaniel Mayer ⁃ 
 ⁃ B W SOULS par MARVINS GROOVE  ⁃ 
 ⁃ Tell Me What You're Gonna Do par James Brown ⁃ 
 ⁃ Hang Up (Part 2) par Warm Excursion ⁃ 
 ⁃ Little Flea par Prince Buster & The Maytals ⁃ 
 ⁃  Police & Thieves par Junior Murvin ⁃ 
 ⁃  Respect par Norma Fraser ⁃ 
 ⁃ Too Much Too Young par The Specials ⁃ 
 ⁃ Lip Up Fatty par Bad Manners ⁃ 
 ⁃ Ska-Ba par THE SKATALITES ⁃ 
 ⁃ Behold I Come par B. KALPHAT    ⁃ 
 ⁃ Wreck a Pum Pum par LORD CREATOR ⁃ 
 ⁃ Toot Last Train to Sla’Ville par MIXED BLOOD ⁃ 
 ⁃ A Message to You Rudy par THE SPECIALS  ⁃ 
 ⁃ Cool It par BILL CAMPBELL  ⁃ 
 ⁃ He’ll Provide par The Maytals ⁃ 
 ⁃ Express Yourself par Leroy Sibbles  ⁃ 
 ⁃ Feeling Soul par BOB ANDY ⁃ 
 ⁃ Rub Up Push Up par Termites  ⁃ 
 ⁃ Nanny Goat par Larry Marshall ⁃ 
 ⁃ Pain in My Belly par Prince Buster & The Maytals ⁃ 
 ⁃   -    I Can't Explain It par The McCoys ⁃ Sugar Sugar par The Archies ⁃ 
 ⁃ Peace of Mind par Count Five ⁃ 
 ⁃ Brown Eyed Handsome Man par John Hammond, Jr. ⁃ 
 ⁃ What You Gonna Do? par Brian Auger ⁃ 
 ⁃ Come On Baby (Raw Crude Teen Beat) par Al's Untouchables ⁃ 
 ⁃ Mercy, Mercy Baby par Ray Barretto ⁃ 
 ⁃ Funky Street par Arthur Conley ⁃ 
 ⁃ Happy Feet par DAVE ´BABY’ CORTEZ  ⁃ 
 ⁃ Beware of the Dog par Georgie Fame ⁃ 
 ⁃ Gonna Give It to You par PIC AND BILL ⁃ 
 ⁃ You Ain’t Nothing But a Devil par JIMMY McCRACKLIN  ⁃ 
 ⁃ Woo Hoo par TWANGY  ⁃ 
 ⁃ Mony Mony par Tommy James & The Shondells ⁃ 
 ⁃ Tiger par Brian Auger ⁃ 
 ⁃ Sookie par BOVIC (& L'Orchestre African Fiesta) ⁃ 
 ⁃ The Trip par Kim Fowley ⁃ 
 ⁃ Baby Under My Skin par Oscar & The Majestics ⁃ 
 ⁃ Pushin' Too Hard par The Seeds ⁃ 
 ⁃ Shakin' All Over par Johnny Kidd & The Pirates ⁃ 
 ⁃ Whole Lotta Woman par Johnny Kidd & The Pirates ⁃ 
 ⁃ Progress par The Pretty Things ⁃ 
 ⁃ I Get So Excited par The Equals ⁃ 
 ⁃ By My Side par The Elois ⁃ 
 ⁃ Yo Grito par Los Sirex ⁃ 
 ⁃ Getaway par Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames ⁃ 
 ⁃ Inside Looking Out par The Animals ⁃ 
 ⁃ Wild Thing par The Troggs ⁃ 
 ⁃ Commotion par Creedence Clearwater Revival ⁃ 
 ⁃ Baby Jane (Mo Mo Jane) par Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels ⁃ 
 ⁃ The Kangaroo par The Panics ⁃ 
 ⁃ It's One Thing to Say par The Riddles ⁃ 
 ⁃ The Memphis Train par Rufus Thomas ⁃ 
 ⁃ Break It Up par Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger & The Trinity ⁃ 
 ⁃ Take It Off par Groundhog ⁃ 
 ⁃ Peter Gunn par Duane Eddy ⁃ 
 ⁃ (fin)1ere Gnossienne d’ERIK SATIE par CLAUDE HELFFER

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Timothy Spall as Phil Olson, and James Gammon as Earl May, and a dead guy in a scene from Appaloosa (2008). Tim was born in London and has 155 acting credits from 1978 to 2022. In 2014 Tim was influential British painter JWM Turner in Mr Turner. Appaloosa was directed by Ed Harris. Ed's first directorial credits was Pollack, as influential painter Jackson Pollack.

Jim was born in Newman, Illinois, and had 146 acting credits from a 1966 episode of The Wild Wild West, to 2009. His other notable credits include episodes of Bonanza, Batman (as Osiris), The VIrginian, The High Chapparal, Gunsmoke, Kung Fu, The Waltons (8 episodes), Cannon, Charley's Angels (2), Cagney and Lacey, Murder She Wrote, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (as Teddy Roosevelt), LA Law (2), Tracey Takes On, Monk, Grey's Anatomy, and Nash Bridges (196 episodes).

Jim's film credits include Cool Hand Luke (as Sleepy), Urban Cowboy, Any Which Way You Can, The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez, Vison Quest, Silverado, Ironweed, Major League, Major League II, Wyatt Earp, Natural Born Killers, Streets of Laredo (as Charles Goodnight), Wild Bill, The Apostle, a voice in The Iron Giant, Cold Mountain, and Silver City.

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JOHN ISIAH WALTON is a New Orleans artist whose neo-expressionist works are internationally recognized for their commentary on race, class, identity, and current events through his irreverent, frenetic and sometimes absurdist style. His art has been on show at the Art Lab Akiba (Tokyo, Japan); the Atlanta Contemporary Biennial (Atlanta, Georgia); the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans, Louisiana); the permanent collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art; the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art (Biloxi, Mississippi); P339 (Brooklyn, New York); and more. His residencies include the Macedonia Institute (Chatham, New York) and the Joan Mitchell Center (New Orleans). In 2022, he will showcase work in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Influenced by internet aesthetics, Black identity, pop culture, and Louisiana history, Walton’s subjects are often unconventional and sometimes shocking. In the tradition of Basquiat, his work frequently has hidden meanings and symbols, and his choppy brushwork endows the work with the energy and intensity that the artist is known for. Rooted in concern about the social, economic, political, and cultural structures at play in contemporary life, Walton’s best-known series sometimes encourage discomfort. 

His breakthrough exhibit was 2015’s “Beaucoup Humidity,” curated by the legendary Diego Cortez. A behind-the-scenes exploration of service industry workers of his hometown, the series exemplifies Walton’s signature wit and personal experience to depict the New Orleans underbelly hidden from tourists. The series was preceded by 2012’s “Zulu Portraits,” which featured post-colonial portraiture of Black and white political leaders in blackface to remind us to deconstruct or disentangle an errant white American history. The title is a reference to the Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club parade krewe of New Orleans.

In 2016, Walton tackled the carceral state in a series featuring inmates of the Louisiana State Penitentiary known as Angola, portrayed through portraits of bulls and bullfighters. The series aims to examine our complacency with incarceration, and represents a more subdued but no less subversive approach to critical social commentary. The “Black Paintings,” a series Walton began in 2017, address issues of identity including visibility and invisibility, presence and absence, figure, and void. On canvases painted black, layers of neon-hued acrylic and oil stick depict scenes ranging from the mundane to the controversial. 

Walton was the first African-American member of the artist collective The Front and a founding member of both The Level Artist Collective and the Second Story Gallery. He has lectured about his work to the graduate program at UNC, Chapel Hill. He attended St. Augustine High School. (1999-2002) and graduated from Sarah T. Reed High School (2003). Walton received an AA degree in 2012 from Delgado College, New Orleans.

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Remembering Tom Bower 1938-2024

Actor Tom Bower has died at 86. His IMDB has over 180 performances listed. Most notably as Nixon's father in Oliver Stone's Nixon (this news comes just a week after Nixon screenwriter Stephen J. Rivele died), as Bad Blake's manager in Crazy Heart, and as Bob Odenkirk's father in last year's underrated TV show Lucky Hank (read my review here).

The link above is the obit from Hollywood Reporter.

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AOC joins socialist mayoral candidate India Walton in Buffalo for a GOTV rally.

October 23, 2021

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Over the last half decade of its emergence, the new socialist electoral politics has faced a genuinely existential challenge about its social basis: it has been a politics of mainly white and mainly middle-class activists, a reality that is ultimately incompatible with socialist analysis and vision. Insurgent candidates on the Left have succeeded where this group is numerous enough as an electorate, as a volunteer base, or both.

It is important not to obfuscate the issue with semantics about how members of the middle class, unable to live off their property and forced to sell their labor, are really workers. Such an axiom may obtain in theory, and certainly it embodies an important political aspiration — but we cannot abstract away the concrete problem that college-educated professionals are separated socially and politically from the working-class mass base that socialist advance requires. Nor is it sufficient simply to note the impressive work of the many socialist activists who are more squarely working class, people of color, or both. At the same time, the limited but real strides toward a multiracial, working-class socialist base imply that these social origins are historically contingent rather than structurally fixed — and that effective political work can broaden the socialist movement.

The possibility of socialist realignment begins in the cities. There we find concentrations of downwardly mobile or indebted professionals, who have made up the most significant ideological cadre for socialist politics but have struggled to establish a sufficiently broad base. Brooklyn’s Emily Gallagher, the socialist New York state assembly member for Williamsburg and Greenpoint, provides a useful example: formerly an educator in museums (an industry that has seen significant labor activity in the past few years), Gallagher now represents neighborhoods that symbolize gentrification more distinctly than any others in the country. So ripe was her district for political turnover that she was able to oust an incumbent without institutional support from either DSA or the Working Families Party.

The radicalization of the lower layers of the professional middle class, however, also allows us to imagine a political continuum into the upper fractions of the working class. These groups are still different from each other, but less than ever before, particularly as first-generation college students burdened with debt and faced with limited career prospects grow in number and fill the ranks of the socialist movement. Figures like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Tiffany Cabán, and Jabari Brisport embody this area of overlap.

Often more stably employed but residually a notch lower in the class system are the organized professional workers, particularly concentrated in the social service industries — teachers and nurses especially — who constitute much of the durable political leadership of the militant sections of the working class. Figures like Cori Bush (nurse), Jamaal Bowman (teacher/principal), Phara Souffrant Forrest (nurse), Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez (teacher), and India Walton (nurse) exemplify this phenomenon in electoral politics; the Chicago Teachers Union’s Stacy Davis-Gates (and before her Karen Lewis) and United Teachers Los Angeles’s Cecily Myart-Cruz and Arlene Inouye do so in the labor movement.

Beneath this layer is another, both more militant and more diffuse: the low-wage, less regularly employed, more heavily policed and punished fraction of the proletariat that formed the riotous core of the 2020 street uprising. While it is less present in formal politics or trade unions and lacks visible spokespeople, figures like St. Louis’s Cori Bush, Buffalo’s India Walton, and Chicago’s Jeannette Taylor maintain real links to this social layer through the Movement for Black Lives.

It is also clear that friction occurs along the fuzzy boundaries between these layers. While they are all increasingly burdened with housing costs, the neighborhoods where they rent are typically not the same, and if they do overlap, one group encounters the other as the face of gentrification (even if newcomers’ presence is the result of much larger forces). Older members of the more secure working class may own homes (whose value may or may not be rising depending on urban geography), while younger professionals are frequently locked out of homeownership (though in some cases poised to inherit housing wealth from aging parents).

The jobs where they work are unalike: a precarious graphic designer does not struggle with the same economic problems as a teacher, a nursing assistant, or a custodial worker, much less an unemployed person. The kinds of debt they incur are quite different: student and credit-card debt as opposed to medical, court, auto, payday, and for the more secure stratum, mortgage debt. As we have been reminded repeatedly, the more stably employed and home-owning sections of the working class are presently much warier about defunding the police than either the socialist activists or the rebels in the street.

We can compare experiences across these boundaries and identify commonalities, then, but we cannot collapse them. Organizing is the form of activity in which this comparison makes up the content. As Gallagher puts it on her website,

I’ve been a renter, a roommate, a cyclist, a commuter. I’ve been unemployed, underemployed, and have known too many months where I scrambled to make rent. I’ve worked in retail, the gig economy, public education and the nonprofit sector. I’m a survivor of sexual violence and harassment. I have friends who have experienced police brutality and friends who have faced their rapists in court and watched them walk free. I’ve lost loved ones to traffic violence and the opioid crisis. These experiences don’t make me unique.

While these differences originate in the working class’s economic stratification, they’re often mapped onto and understood through racial divisions: the professional group (largely although not only white) does not mingle enough with the broader metropolitan working class (which is much less white) to foster the propagation of socialist ideas through ideological common sense and cultural atmosphere — the way it has mainly happened for the professionals. If Gallagher’s district were less white, she would have been far less likely to win initially; the same is probably true for figures such as Brisport, Cabán, and Ocasio-Cortez.

What this means, quite uncomfortably, is that African Americans — who most polling indicates are more favorably disposed to socialism in general and specific left-wing policies in particular than any other racial group — still remain largely separated from the official socialist movement. This is the political paradox that socialists must resolve: neither accepting the substitution of professionals as a political base, nor abandoning socialism because it has not yet won the working-class support it requires, nor becoming resigned to the inevitability of a largely white socialist movement, but rather analyzing and attacking the barriers separating the groups from each other. This is a challenge of the utmost political importance.

Very good article, imo. Possibly somewhat more optimistic in tone than is strictly justified. But eh, preferable to needless cynicism.

[feelingbluepolitics]

Highest recommendation.

Koch "leaves behind a $50 billion estate, a gargantuan sum that made him one of the richest people in the world. In the past, that would have resulted in a massive inheritance for his heirs—but also a significant amount of revenue returned to the public coffers in the form of estate tax. If David Koch had died between 1941 and 1981, his estate (upon his wife’s death) would have been taxed at a rate of at least 70 percent after the first $10 million. Some back-of-the-envelope math would indicate that’s roughly $35 billion in tax revenue that could go toward any number of public services. (For reference, a 2013 estimate by the Department of Housing and Urban Development pegged the cost to end all homelessness in the United States at $20 billion.

"But thanks largely to a political climate David Koch and his brother Charles helped create, the federal government will never see anything close to that. Part of that is because of his libertarian network’s relentless campaign against the inheritance tax, rhetorically reinvented as the 'death tax,' which became a major political cause célèbre, despite the fact that 2018 saw only 1,900 taxable returns from those who died. The top tax rate on estates has dropped from 55 percent to 40 percent since 2000 alone.

..."But in broader terms, there’s one massive tax loophole that has helped the estates of America’s billionaire class balloon to unthinkable sums, while getting taxed at rock-bottom rates. Thanks to a tax provision called step-up in basis, capital gains on inherited assets—stocks, properties, and more—are totally wiped out upon death. It’s a tax giveaway from Congress that may outstrip all the rest.

"Put simply, step-up in basis is a tax provision that allows unrealized capital gains to reset to zero upon inheritance. When an investor parks money in stocks, property, and the like, and that investment gains in value over time, the gain is supposed to be taxed (though at a rate much lower than income tax rates, at just 20 percent) when sold. But if the asset is never sold, its gains never realized, and then passed to an heir, it will be reassessed at its current market value with those gains included. Its basis, therefore, 'steps up,' and the capital gains taxes that should have been levied on it are dropped to nothing.

..."The result, as we’ve seen, is dynastic wealth on an unbelievable scale. 'You get instances where the head of a family who’s on the Forbes list dies, and then all of a sudden their ten kids are all on the list,' noted Mark Mazur, Robert C. Pozen Director at the Tax Policy Center.

..."There’s no way to know exactly how much David Koch had taken advantage of this loophole, but it’s safe to assume he was well aware of it. It’s well known that the Waltons, the tycoons behind Walmart who make $100 million a day, position a majority of their holdings to avoid taxes in this very way.

..."Step-up in basis is far from the only beneficial inheritance policy the Koch estate has reaped the benefit of. In 2010, Obama conceded to a Republican minority in the Senate, signing into law a tax cut to 35 percent on estates over $5 million. The Trump tax plan, after flirting with eliminating the estate tax, raised the ceiling on tax-free estates to over $11 million per person.

"With Democratic presidential candidates turning their focus to wealth taxes rather than income taxes as a more effective way to combat runaway inequality, step-up in basis represents one of the more flagrant and easily rectified programs. It’s a huge giveaway that overwhelmingly benefits the very rich, while its positive-feedback nature amplifies wealth disparity. And while tax policy is decided by Congress, recent proposals from Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have already started to reverse a long-standing trend in the conversation about the estate tax, which has been steadily shrinking for decades."

This is just one of the huge and terrible costs to the public from Republicon policies. Yet meanwhile, Republicons want to go after people's Social Security benefits, which, by the way are taxed, since many people, especially after the Republicon Great Recession, must continue to work into their 70's.

"For the 2019 tax year, single filers with a combined income of $25,000 to $34,000 must pay income taxes on up to 50% of their Social Security benefits. ... If you have a combined income of more than $44,000, you can expect to pay taxes on up to 85% of your Social Security benefits."

https://smartasset.com/retirement/is-social-security-income-taxable

"Meet the hottest demographic in the labor market: men and women working not only past traditional retirement age but into their 70s, 80s and sometimes beyond. Over the coming decade, they'll be the fastest-growing segment of the workforce, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Among 65- to 74-year-olds, labor force participation is predicted to hit 32 percent by 2022, up from 20 percent in 2002. At age 75 and up, the rate will jump from 5 percent in 2002 to 11 percent in 2022. Meanwhile, participation rates among younger age groups will be flat or will even fall.

..."Pure financial need is clearly a factor, too: Workers can delay filing for Social Security, save more for retirement and spend fewer years depleting those savings to fund living expenses. Seventy percent of experienced workers say they plan to work in retirement, whether full or part time, according to a 2014 AARP study; 35 percent of those ages 65 to 74 cite the extra income as the biggest reason why. 'Working a few more years and delaying Social Security until you're 70 can make the difference in retirement.'"

Unless money's tight and someone needs both sources of income -- what little they get to keep, at least.

https://www.aarp.org/work/working-after-retirement/info-2015/work-over-retirement-happiness.html

[trueconservativepundit]

AOC the Pretender: Busted for Using Staged Photos to Prop up Her ‘Concentration Camp’ Narrative

AOC the Pretender: Busted for Using Staged Photos to Prop up Her ‘Concentration Camp’ Narrative

By Sean Walton for The Daily Sheeple

On Monday, democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was criticized for pushing photos of herself seemingly intended to help quell the blowback she’s received from equating detention centers at the United States/Mexico border with WWII-era concentration camps.

The photos were apparently taken at a Tornillo, Texas, detention center, but did not…

[political-fluffle]

Your Florida Man has finally done it, Fort Walton Beach.

Congressman Matt Gaetz, proud representative of the Sunshine State’s First District, just made the evolution from plain old creepy behavior to tampering-with-a-witness territory.

A self-described “Libertarian-leaning Republican,” a champion of Florida as the new Wild West frontier, and all of 36 years old, Gaetz has finally worked his way up from infantile harassment of freshman U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, to getting into some real legal trouble. (...)

Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/fabiola-santiago/article226921779.html#storylink=cpy

In general, Putin Boyz are not so smart...

[luisjonate22]

Narratives **

https://youtu.be/rGcySBN7hPc

In this entry I will examine the critical question: How is a popular narrative the downfall of the most powerful man in the world?

To investigate this question, I've examined season two, episode five of the Prime series The Boys. The show revolves around the dark side of superheroes and how being subject to a private entity makes them corrupt, stubborn, and means of fear instead of respect because of how much power they have. In the episode, one of the main characters, Homelander (Anthony Starr), who also happens to be the leader of the superheroes, killed an innocent civilian in a foreign country due to his negligence—ultimately seen as a war crime because of abuse of power. Thanks to the media, a video of the incident became viral, so many protested against him. Homelander tries to talk people through his actions, but it's too late, and they have turned against him and don't admire or respect him anymore. However, Homelander uses his powers and low reliability to talk to the people and convince them with a narrative that intends to make the protesters understand that his actions were for the greater good, but he's horribly unsuccessful. He's ultimately unable to convince the angry people because of a crime everybody saw, which drives Homelander to desperately rely on fallacies and eventually flee the scene. 

The protest is led by Congresswoman Victoria Neuman (Claudia Doumit), whose persona is based on real-life Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. People like and support her ideas, and she's cheered for until Homelander lands right next to her and automatically silences the clamor of the people. This is the first narrative tactic used by Homelander–intimidation. The narrative is everywhere; there is no need to speak for him because his arrival has the outcome he hoped for. According to Palczewski, narratives are stories or characteristics that inform people's personal and public lives, either individually or collectively (118). The fact that he can quiet down a whole crowd by just making himself present tells us that he's not someone people are pleased to see and someone people fear. So, even though these people are protesting against him, it's a clear example that his presence is intimidating for the hundreds of people gathered. it’s not just the fact that they are intimidated by him. After seeing what he can do to innocents, these inferior people are scared that they might have a similar fate. 

 Later he uses another tactic that is a direct comparison with Ocasio-Cortez; he calls out Neuman by saying: "Isn't she great? Didn't you love her little walk like an Egyptian dance she made online? So fun…." This is an ironic remark by him, and he intends to make fun of her by pointing out a viral video of her (which is the same thing that happened to him). Even though he's trying to keep his sense of humor, it is evident that he's using an ad hominem attack on Neuman to reduce her credibility. An Ad hominem or an attack on the person is a personal argument against a specific individual instead of their idea. D.N. Walton also calls it "poisoning the well," and one of his ways to define it is that people are based on the arguer's personal circumstances and that she (Neuman) doesn't practice what she preaches (2006). In real life, many politicians have used the same tactic against Ocasio-Cortez because of a video she posted online in college. 

It is worth mentioning that Homelander's tactic was useless because no one moved a muscle when he mentioned Neuman's video. Also, it's palpable that what he's trying to do is divert the attention from what he did to the woman everybody was cheering for. He is unethical, racist, and misogynistic because he mocks her for her heritage, her gender. His overall goal is to override the attention she's gathered toward his being seen as the "good guy"; he's trying to change a narrative that is already stuck with him. Nevertheless, she's not intimidated by Homelander, and she is still standing next to him while he mocks her. Even though we can see fear in her face, she knows that bailing out will send a message of fear to her followers. Thus far, Homelander has done nothing more than convince the public that Congresswoman Neuman is right. 

Next, Homelander addresses the public about the video and the incident they saw. He walks among the crowd and talks with indifference. Because of the way he's speaking and his body language, there is no sign of remorse, but rather displays of his bragging about how he did it for the people so they can keep seeing him as a hero and not a war criminal. He says: "Everybody is upset of the video, of me stopping the terrorist, and I'm upset too, and we don't want innocent people to get hurt…." He's trying to be empathetic and turn the narrative around that he committed a war crime. His intention to convince the public that he did that to save American lives is useless because he doesn't show any sign of remorse. 

Empathy is an essential part of rhetoric because it is one of the most productive speech manipulation techniques (Antonova 2011). Every public speaker knows this. That's why many speeches in politics focus a lot on understanding emotions and showing empathy. Someone who shows this characteristic is more likely to be trustworthy, and the audience feels more connected to them. Homelander tries to derive the attention of his narrative as a villain to this great hero by showing empathy but fails miserably. Seeing people's faces as he talks to them, you can only see fear, anger, preoccupation, distrust, and many other characteristics opposite to what he's trying to transmit. If I were in the audience listening to this alleged hero talk, I would only be thinking, "What will he do to us when we no longer support him? Will he willingly kill us because he's got the power to do it?" It's just a question if he wants to or not. Also, I'd like to think that he wouldn't because he's been the hero for so long–but right now, people can only think of him as the villain, and his words are not changing that mindset for anyone. 

Lastly, Homelander uses the wrong words that make the public lose those emotions previously stated, and he faces his greatest fear, which leads to a mental breakdown and thoughts of mass murder. As he indifferently addresses his crime, he says, "Well, sometimes these things just happen," to which a reporter asks, "Wait, has this happened before!? How many times!?" And people start shouting, calling him names, and booing him. Homelander knows he's lost the upper hand now, so his replies have turned meaningless. The fear has escaped the audience's faces, and now they are all clamoring. "You don't speak for us!" is being shouted ubiquitously. 

People had overcome that fear they had when he first entered, shouting insults and calling him names. This demonstrates people's freedom of speech in the United States. However, it enrages powerful entities because when ordinary people unite against a doctrine, it doesn't mean good news for those who rule. After all, they want change to happen. This was Congresswoman Neuman's goal from the beginning: to wake the people up. Even though they were wide awake, they have now overcome that fear of this almighty man who is allegedly invincible. This is a clear reflection of American politics, how a single representative can vouch for thousands of people for a common goal and ultimately achieve it. 

Homelander proceeds to imagine himself using his laser vision to murder everybody because he couldn't override the narrative of his being seen as a war criminal. When he returns to reality, he knows that is an impossible thing for him to do because that would only make matters worse. He will no longer strictly be a war criminal, but also a mass murderer. His last words are, "You guys are the real heroes. God bless you," before he flies out in despair. 

We can perceive the desperation in his eyes; he was unsuccessful in overriding a narrative already stuck with him. As a prominent public socialite, Homelander cannot afford to make any mistakes that will harm him, so instead of doing what his imagination told him to, he fled. Nowadays, lots of politicians do the same as Homelander did. 

To sum up everything that has been stated thus far, we can see that Homelander's intention to override his narrative as a war criminal and a villain is unsuccessful. It ultimately culminates in his breaking down and fleeing the scene before doing something he would regret. It shows the realities of politics and how corruption works for those in power by swiping everything under the rug and cleaning their names. Still, when a narrative is so strong, there is nothing even the most powerful man in the world can change because his reliability is nowhere to be found anymore. An unreliable narrative means nothing, even though there may be something.

Works Cited:

Amazon Prime. (2020, September 18). The Boys, Season 2 episode 5

Antonova, A. (2011). Gema Online® Journal of Language Studies. Empathy As Speech Manipulation Target In Pre-Election Discourse Of Great Britain , Volume 11(3), 97–107. https://doi.org/10.17576/gema 

Palczewski. (2012). Bodies in action and symbolic forms. Bodies in Action and Symbolic Forms, 117–146. https://doi.org/10.1524/9783050095097.xxiii 

Walton, D. N. (2006). Poisoning the well. Argumentation, 20(3), 273–307. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10503-006-9013-z

[shecantsim]

Getting goosebumps just standing in front of the home where her father was raised. Shinako couldn’t believe this was her grandparent’s house. She only wish they both was still alive so she could actually see them in person. However, her cousins Daisy and Cortez (children of Marigold) are living here, along with Daisy’s husband and daughter.

[letsjanukhan]

AOC-Sanders-backed Buffalo mayoral candidate trails despite June primary win: report

AOC-Sanders-backed Buffalo mayoral candidate trails despite June primary win: report

Despite support from two nationally known progressives, the party’s far-left mayoral nominee in Buffalo, New York, was trailing early Wednesday – lagging behind the incumbent mayor she defeated in a primary earlier this year. Progressive India Walton had the backing of both U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., but when the city’s voters went to the…

[newsfact]

Dem mayoral candidates now stressing law and order over BLM, ‘defund the police,’ report says

In big-city mayoral elections, attracting enough votes to win apparently matters.

In city after city, Democrats who previously heeded Black Lives Matter’s calls to “defund the police” by reducing law enforcement budgets or reallocating police funds to other uses are now stressing crackdowns on crime as Election Day nears, The Washington Post reported Saturday.

“Mayors aren’t stupid, and they understand if taxpaying residents of their city start leaving, as they did in the 1970s, the whole city is endangered,” Ned Hill, an Ohio State professor who studies city politics, told the newspaper.

“Mayors aren’t stupid, and they understand if taxpaying residents of their city start leaving, as they did in the 1970s, the whole city is endangered.” 

— Ned Hill, Ohio State professor

Debates on addressing lawlessness are also taking place in cities without competitive elections, the report said.

NYC DETECTIVES STRUGGLE TO KEEP THE PEACE AMID LOW STAFFING, LACK OF SUPPORT

The Democrats in cities such as New York City, Buffalo, Cleveland and Seattle may simply be reacting to the data, according to the Post, which cited last week’s Pew Research Center poll that showed 47% of Americans want police to receive more funding, not less.

New York City’s Democratic mayoral candidate, Eric Adams, greets NYPD officers in New York, July 7, 2021. Adams is a former NYPD captain. (Associated Press)

That figure was up from 31% last June, amid racial justice protests, the Post reported.

U.S. cities saw killings rise by 30% in 2020 – representing the largest single-year spike since the federal government began tracking the information in the 1960s, the newspaper reported.

Perhaps reflecting the shift in voter sentiment, New York City’s Democratic mayoral nominee, Eric Adams, is a former NYPD captain, while GOP nominee Curtis Sliwa is a longtime anti-crime civic activist.

Progressives adjust

Even progressives are making adjustments, according to the Post.

In Buffalo, far-left mayoral candidate India Walton – a community activist backed by U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. – now emphasizes better police accountability and roles for mental health professionals in reducing crime rather than her previous calls for defunding police and profanity-laced shouting during anti-police protests, the Post reported.

Democratic Buffalo mayoral nominee India Walton is seen June 22, 2021. (Robert Kirkham/Buffalo News)

Nevertheless, Walton is trailing Byron Brown, Bufffalo’s incumbent Democrat mayor, by 17 points in a recent poll despite having defeated Brown in a June primary. Brown is now trying to retain his office as a write-in candidate.

“Mayoral candidates are being compelled to respond to realities on the ground,” Bruce Katz, director of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University, told the Post.

“Mayoral candidates are being compelled to respond to realities on the ground.”

— Bruce Katz, Nowak Metro Finance Lab, Drexel University

Portland’s strategy

In Portland, Oregon, which last year saw a string of more than 100 days and nights of civil unrest, even Democrat Mayor Ted Wheeler – who was reelected last year — has changed his view of some issues regarding law enforcement.

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In September, Wheeler admitted that a “hands off” approach to policing for an August clash of opposing protesters was “not the right strategy,” Fox News previously reported.

But low police morale resulting from last year’s the “defund the police” movement has been blamed for Portland’s struggle to recruit officers for its resurrected gun violence unit.

Last week Portland police Chief Chuck Lovell stressed the importance of staffing the unit after the city saw 19 shootings over a 54-hour period.

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Socialist Candidate Sinks in New Poll After Receiving Endorsements from AOC and Chuck Schumer

With flaming firebrand New York Democrats such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer endorsing socialist Buffalo mayoral candidate India Walton, what could go wrong? A lot, […]

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