#Demagogues

[palatinewolfsblog]

"Lies are often much more plausible, more appealing to reason, than reality, since the liar has the great advantage of knowing beforehand what the audience wishes or expects to hear." Hannah Arendt.

[republikkkanorcs]

[bostonwalks]

The path to peace in the Middle East. Regime change in Iran!

[agentfascinateur]

The bigoted demagogues Trump & Netanyahu :

For both, regaining or holding on to power means, among other things, subordinating judicial institutions that define and enforce the rule of law. That’s because both have hanging over them grave allegations of high crimes against the state.

[tribalephemeral]

Small Talk

Small Talk ….but there wasn’t any error, all the lies –:came together, no one questioned them;{ all alerting others to the weather .– singularly absent of demagogues ..::a spectacle was joined ever nightly *..#inside, the notes were compiling upon a desk . . { From my 2017 book Synaptic Syntactic available on major platforms such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, and Kobo, as well as direct…

[marlowe1-blog]

"The Barber" (The Stories of Flannery O'Connor)

Even more racism

The opening line is "it's hard to be a liberal in the South" and sure that's the main thing you get with this ostensibly liberal college professor going to a barber shop and getting an earful of racism from the barber and the barber's friends. They even ask the black kid what he thinks but they don't ask like they actually want an answer. They want the kid to agree with them.

And the professor, who is supposedly pretty smart, just takes it. So there's a ton of racist bullshit that you have to read because everyone in the barbershop sure loves to talk about the N---- staying in their place and how they love the really racist candidate as opposed to the not-quite-as-racist candidate (who they call a N----- lover)

When they ask the professor if he is a N---- lover, he says no. He wants to say that he doesn't love any race but he really can't. And his colleague teaches at a black college and then goes home every night and yells N----- out the word. Because this is the South and if you have to stop saying N----- for any length of time, it just builds up.

What does genius college professor do? He decides to debate them. Yeah, he's like those sad little liberal arts majors that came up to Steven Crowder's "Men are naturally better. Change my mind" booths and actually thought that they could change his mind. Only this guy is an adult.

He's an adult being written by a 21 year old grad student who probably only learned recently that you can't argue with some people because they are never going to change their minds. But he's hopeless.

He actually writes a speech. He actually writes a speech. Then when the racists at the barbershop largely ignore him, he punches the barber. So good luck getting a decent haircut from now on, dude.

Maybe this wouldn't feel so obvious after 8 years of Trump campaigning for president and the worst people suddenly shouting their racism from the hilltops (or their laptops) and how the narrative of "we should reach out and understand Trump voters because it's really about jobs and the vanishing middle class and we can totally change their mind" collapsed under scrutiny, especially when these dumbshits were dying of covid to own the libs (yay covid).

So a story about a guy who thinks that he can argue with racists and argue racists out of their racism or at least into a slightly less racist stance is not going to land the same as it might in a better era. Sometimes you just have to punch the Nazi. Which is obvious to everyone but the protagonist.

[ehj3]

NIGHT AND DAY

“You know I work all day / To get you money to buy you things” —John Lennon & Paul McCartney I happened to be driving down a rural two-lane blacktop further away from encroaching urbanity than I usually venture. Sharing the road with giant semis, slightly smaller pickup trucks, a lot of SUVs, and the occasional always inconsiderate BMW. On a straight multi-mile stretch of road between strip…

[rejectingrepublicans]

[socialjusticeinamerica]

There needs to be a national level discussion about eviction and not one with millionaire politicians putting their two cents in. I’m not justifying some gun nut shooting it out with law enforcement by any means but if this were handled differently lives could have been saved. Forcibly making someone homeless is one of the top ten most traumatic things that can happen and people are going to resist it. If it was indeed just unpaid taxes then other less severe measures could have been taken. Community leaders, social workers, and activists could step in and help plan a course of action. Sending armed officers in to every conceivable social situation needs to stop. The guy probably owed thousands while billionaires who owe hundreds of millions never have law enforcement sent after them.

Further, the push by Republicans to evict everyone immediately needs to stop as does their relentless drive to criminalize the unhoused. Nobody wants to be homeless. Decades of tough guy bully talk from right wing Fox News, conservative talk radio, Neo-confederate racist Republican politicians, and oligarch controlled social media has turned this nation into a cruel heartless place with no compassion for the vulnerable.

Red state legislatures are turning their privatized penal systems into debtors prisons. Being poor shouldn’t be a crime, nor should homelessness. We need solutions to lift everyone up not trickle down schemes to keep transferring wealth to the billionaire class.

Finally you can no longer be a Christian and a conservative. The term “Christian conservative” has become a contradiction in terms. Conservatism once meant low taxes, military preparedness, and a robust foreign policy that protected our allies and our trade. Now it has degenerated into being hateful animals consumed with rage, petty jealousy, contempt for the vulnerable, and hatred to everyone not in the MAGA camp. It is an abomination. A vengeful mob of ignorant degenerates led by media savvy Neo-Nazi oligarchs and power hungry Republican demagogues. Demagogues who preach literal Nazism, often openly quoting Hitler himself, to a mob that thinks wrong is right, hate is right, and corruption is good.

We have become the French Revolution in reverse. The angry mob is propping up the oligarchy that oppresses them while tearing down American democracy which seeks to level the playing field and treat everyone with equality, decency, and respect.

[fluorescentbrains]

i know that the biden administration is um severely mishandling the situation to say the least but given the deranged shit all the republican candidates are saying about palestinians i don’t think abstention from voting is the move

[catgirltoes]

*twirling my hair and giggling and kicking my feet* Gosh, I could totally be a political provocateur. I should start writing pamphlets. The girlies love my inflammatory rhetoric.

[sher-ee]

[spacevixenmusic]

Source: Avatar: The Legend of Korra [2012]

[an-ivy-covered-summer]

for fuck’s sake, can’t the bitch just spontaneously combust or something? that would save us all a lot of stress

[ribbonskulls]

demagogue. part of a series for wallpapers you could use.

[demiplanardemagogue]

A slightly vintage Strahd von Zarovich look, from his famous "Blue Pirate" period. Sadly, this look never quite took off.