#deMockracy

[rozmorris]

When to write poetry, when to write prose? Interview with poet and fictioneer Mike Maggio

What makes a poem a poem? How is it a different beast from richly written literary fiction? In prose, it seems, we can do most of what a poem can do, beyond just telling a story. Creative expression, profound thoughts, metaphors. We can even control how the text falls in the reader’s mind through our use of cadence and line breaks. What’s the distinguishing difference with a poem? Mike Maggio is…

[mistress-chan]

Four Years - Take Two

TW: Fascism, Trump

First off I will say, I am afraid. I am afraid for myself, I am afraid for others, and I am afraid for the future.

Last year I wrote a little thing about how my rebirthday was and about how good things have been. This year I wanted to write about the total shit show that 2024 was but because this last week and a half honestly has made me want to relive 2024 I do not have the energy to. The current fascist regime in power seems to have a hard-on for making 1.3% of the American population’s life a living hell, I think maybe because one of his daughters came out as trans but what is to say. But now I wonder how long I will be allowed to be myself. If you were to tell me four years ago that I would feel this scared about the future I would not have believed you. I mean Trump again? But here we are with my rights already being stripped so those in charge can distract others from what is truly going on. I really hope in four more years I will be wrong with how dire it seems right now, but right now I am just fighting to get to year five.

I leave you with the song that has been playing daily for me for almost two weeks now.

Re-Gaining Unconsciousness by NOFX

(youtube)

First they put away the dealers Keep our kids safe and off the streets Then they put away the prostitutes Keep married men cloistered at home Then they shooed away the bums Then they beat and bashed the queers Turned away asylum-seekers Fed us suspicions and fears We didn't raise our voice We didn't make a fuss It's funny there was no one left to notice When they came for us Looks like witches are in season You better fly your flag and be aware Of anyone who might fit the description Diversity is now our biggest fear Now with our conversations tapped And our differences exposed How ya supposed to love your neighbor With our minds and curtains closed? We used to worry 'bout big brother Now we got a big father and an even bigot mother You might also like And still you believe This aristocracy gives a fuck about you They put the mock in demockracy And you swallowed every hook The sad truth is you would rather Follow the school into the net Cause swimming alone at sea Is not the kind of freedom you actually want So go back to your crib and suck on a tit Go bask in the warmth of your diaper You're sitting in shit and piss While sucking a giant pacifier A country of adult infants A legion of mental midgets All regaining their unconsciousness

PS. Maybe I will write about how 2024 really was sometime. Just not today.

[darkmaga-returns]

Trump Announces Liberation Day Tariffs. Bessent Warns Against Tariff Retaliation. European DeMOCKracy in Action. The end of Canada? Hamas rejects Israeli truce proposal. On the road to Gog and Magog?

Lioness of Judah Ministry

Apr 03, 2025

BREAKING: Trump Announces ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs on Foreign Goods

President Donald J. Trump has announced a series of new tariff rates at his administration’s “Liberation Day” event at the White House Rose Garden, including the imposition of a 10 percent across-the-board tariff on all foreign imports.

In addition to the 10 percent blanket tariff, Trump is set to impose a series of targeted trade levies on imports from 60 nations—with the tariff rate often being set at half that which the targeted country places on American exports as an act of generosity. “My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day. April 2nd, 2025 will forever be remembered as the day American industry was reborn, the day America’s destiny was reclaimed, and the day that we began to Make America Wealthy Again,” Trump said.

"Don't Retaliate": US Treasury Secretary Warns Against Trump Tariff Retaliation

Trump Tariffs: "My advice to every country right now is, do not retaliate," US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News.

Washington: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday warned trading partners that any retaliation to the barrage of new tariffs from the White House would only result in further escalation. "My advice to every country right now is, do not retaliate," Bessent told Fox News. "Sit back, take it in, let's see how it goes. Because if you retaliate, there will be escalation. If you don't retaliate, this is the high watermark."

Some Goods Already Under Tariff Will Be Exempt from Trump’s Reciprocal Tariffs

Certain goods that are already subject to some tariffs will not fall under the scope of President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs, which he announced on Wednesday, or “Liberation Day.”

A White House fact sheet notes that Trump’s reciprocal tariff will not be piled on top of some specific goods that fall under Section 232 tariffs, as well as energy products and some minerals that are unavailable in the United States: Some goods will not be subject to the Reciprocal Tariff. These include: (1) articles subject to 50 USC 1702(b); (2) steel/aluminum articles and autos/auto parts already subject to Section 232 tariffs; (3) copper, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and lumber articles; (4) all articles that may become subject to future Section 232 tariffs; (5) bullion; and (6) energy and other certain minerals that are not available in the United States.

Bessent: ‘Not Sure’ Why Mexico, Canada Weren’t On Tariff List, I’m Not in Talks

During an interview with Bloomberg on Wednesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that he wasn’t sure why Canada and Mexico were left off of the chart on reciprocal tariffs put out by the White House earlier in the day and he isn’t involved in tariff talks, but later said in another interview, while discussing how the tariffs relate to other countries that there is a calculus around non-tariff barriers, currency manipulation, and subsidies.

Bloomberg host Annmarie Hordern asked, “The President had this huge chart showing all of the different rates. Canada and Mexico, notably missing on that chart. Why is that?” Bessent answered, “I’m not sure.” Hordern then said, “I imagine that has to do, potentially, because they’re already in negotiations, previously, with the 25%.” Earlier, Bessent said that he’s not a part of the negotiations over tariffs.

US issues new Russia-related sanctions -Treasury Dept website

The United States issued new Russia-related sanctions on Wednesday, adding five people and four entities to its list of specially designated global terrorists, according to the Treasury Department website.

[dakrolak]

[wordisdrawn]

Let the Reign of Error begin.

Demockracy \dih-mok-ruh-see\ noun; a government which purports to be "by the people”, but whose own systems discourage and prohibit the equality of all members. See also: electoral college

[corvid-420]

I need to raise around $3600 bucks to run for governor if Newsom is recalled, because freedumb and demockracy or whatever.

[cavalierzee]

Israel Is A deMOCKracy

What happened to “diversity”?

Israel is an Apartheid Entity!

If that’s the case, then jews shouldn’t be allowed to live in predominantly Christian and Muslim nations.

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The New European 227 cover “DEMOCKRACY” by Chris Barker

[adjns]

How the MeriKKKan flag has been used historically. #JusUS ##Freedumb #DeMockracy

[garudabluffs]

The Making of Vladimir Putin  [spurred on by demockracy]

Tracing Putin’s 22-year slide from statesman to tyrant.

PARIS — Speaking in what he called “the language of Goethe, Schiller and Kant,” picked up during his time as a K.G.B. officer in Dresden, President Vladimir V. Putin addressed the German Parliament on Sept. 25, 2001. “Russia is a friendly European nation,” he declared. “Stable peace on the continent is a paramount goal for our nation.”

<>SLAM POETRY : “Poetic pronunciations of superior ethnic persuasion credentials, out-of-my-mouth like flies, AND not-to-be-denied.”<>

“True Russians”, he said, would “spit them out like a gnat that accidentally flew into their mouths” and so achieve “a necessary self-purification of society.”

“By their mentality and culture, the people of Russia are Europeans.” -V.P.

Timothy Snyder, the prominent historian of fascism, put it this way: “Having toyed with an authoritarian rule-of-law state, he simply become the oligarch-in-chief and turned the state into the enforcer mechanism of his oligarchical clan.”

In 2006, Anna Politkovskaya, an investigative journalist critical of rights abuses in Chechnya, was murdered in Moscow on Mr. Putin’s birthday. Another Kremlin critic, Alexander Litvinenko, a former intelligence agent, who had dubbed Russia “a mafia state,” was killed in London, poisoned with a radioactive substance by Russian spies.

Members of the activist group Pussy Riot in a Moscow courtroom in 2012

“The unthinkable can happen. Russia’s war of choice in Ukraine is proof of that. Watching it unfold, Ms. Bermann told me she had been reminded of lines from “The Human Stain” by Philip Roth: “The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can’t stop.”

READ MORE https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/26/world/europe/vladimir-putin-russia.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab

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[itsimprensadorock]

Metal Sem Fronteira: A Belga Primal Creation

Metal Sem Fronteira: A Belga Primal Creation #primalcreation #wacken #metal #heavymetal #musica #lançamento #imprensadorock

Conheçam Primal Creation: a banda lança seu debut em 2017-  Demockracy, recebido com muitas críticas delirantes e abriu algumas portas para o moderno thrash metal. Em 2018, eles foram convidados a fazer uma abertura para o Skeletonwitch e fizeram um show de apoio para o D.R.I. Sua jornada pelo underground não parou por aí, porque um ano depois, em 2019, Primal Creation venceu as finais de batalha…

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Tweet from #deMOCKracy (@BernieUpstateNY)

#deMOCKracy (@BernieUpstateNY) Tweeted:

If the Senate doesn’t sign relief the bill on Monday, unemployment benefits WILL lag and claimants will not get paid on time. Unemployment offices cannot change how things work on a dime, Hakeem. GET THE BILL SIGNED IMMEDIATELY. https://twitter.com/BernieUpstateNY/status/1363504318675111940?s=20

[cavalierzee]

The Only deMOCKracy In The Middle East