#you’re an idiot at best and just as much of a fascist predator as him at worst

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Superstition

SAT SEP 26 2020

Everything hopeful that I wrote in the last entry, two days ago, has come under heavy fire... from the left.

Not that anybody reads this blog.  They don’t. 

Rather, it’s a kind of survival instinct to beat back complacency.  Don’t think for one second Biden has this in the bag, because if we do... not enough people will vote, and he’ll lose!

And I get it!..  We all remember 2016, when Clinton lost, because Democrats were overconfident, so many of those who weren’t super happy with her getting the nomination, either stayed home, or voted for a third party candidate, to symbolicly protest the two bad options we had in Trump and Hillary.

Nobody want’s a repeat of that in 2020.

But I feel like there’s a different shade of danger in getting too superstitious about Trump’s 2016 win.

A lot of factors were at play that year, as they are this year... from voter suppression tactics, to social engineering campaigns by Russia, being waged on Facebook and Twitter, to overconfidence, to apathy... but the one factor that was not at play, either that year, or this year... is magic.

I know I’ve speculated a lot about how all the Trumps on all the timelines managed to weasle their way into the Presidency at some point, between 2000 and 2028... and that on all of them, it’s a disaster... but...

...He doesn’t get into power by magic.  It’s because of the state of the Republican party, here in the turn of he century... and the birth of the internet, with all the upheval that has brought about.

The GOP was getting pretty scary back when W Bush was elected.  That was not a normal transition of power.  Peaceful, yes... but highly abnormal.  Bush basically declared his own victory, and then... acting with extreme confidence... Sued Gore to concede, before the last of the votes were... re-counted, in that situation... for just a few counties in Florida.

The Supreme Court backed him up... not on any valid legal argument... but on his confidence, and the endorsement of Fox News.  

Confidence matters!

And it doesn’t just matter... the Supreme Court has already set the legal precident that... when the Presidency is up for debate... confidence is decisive.

And we were just lucky, in 2000... that it was W... and  not Trump... but... W was still a huge nightmare President.  He used 9/11 as the excuse to do a lot of terrible things, including torture.  He sent our brothers and sisters in the national guard, and the U.S. Military into a pointless war in Iraq.

He, and his congressional cohorts, also squandered the historic budget surplus Clinton had given us... so badly... and lifted so many regulations on wall street... that by the end of his second term, we were plunging into a depression.

The housing market collapsed first... the first time property values had deflated since the end of WW2, and they weren’t just deflating, they were falling over a cliff.  And then the banking collapse began, in October of 2008... threatening to destroy civilization.  Look it up.  It was fucking serious.

Now, W never fantasized about serving a third term, or being President forever...

...but the GOP of 2000-2008 would’ve backed him up, if he had fantasized about dictatorship.  They were already that hell bent on world domination (hence the unilateral war in Iraq).

Trump is not magical.

He’s the product of an already corrupt GOP, who, was just waiting for the right idiot. 

Bush was not stupid enough... must go stupider!  Bush was not racist enough, or angry enough... must go full racist!  Must go full anger!

And that should have failed.... but now we had smart phones... and Twitter.  Never forget that Trump has been our first and only Twitter President.

He and his cronies, both in Moscow, and NYC, took full advantage of a moment in social media history... when it was still brand new, and all the rage... just hitting it’s first peak in popularity... with a population that was still very naive to it’s potential dangers.

Good timing?  Yes.  All predators have good timing.

Ruthlessly cunning?   Yes.  All predators are cunning and ruthless.

Magic?  No!

Before the invasion of Normandy... did they say, Nobody jynx this by thinking we’re gonna win!  Stop being so confident, Charmichael!  You’re gonna make everything worse than it already is!  Knock wood!

No.

They took a thorough assessment of the situation, and the enemy, and, with their best men, came up with a compitent plan... then threw everything they had at the bastards... crazy duck boats, delivering mass produced tanks and jeeps, and fully loaded soldiers... and numbers.  They knew they had the numbers.

And it was a hard battle, and the casualties were high, but they won.

Those U.S. D-Day casualties, by the way?..  2,811.

We’ve crossed the 200,000 mark, for U.S. Casualties of Covid19, in just seven months... at the hands of a madman, backed by a corrupt party, who will resort to anything to stay in power.

This is not the time to get superstitious.

And that goes for this mentality... about it being the worst year in history... that’s been going on since early 2016, long before anybody thought Trump could ever win.  Back in early 2016, it was simply the deaths of beloved icons such as Prince, and David Bowie, that made everybody complain that it was the worst year ever.  

It wasn’t as happy a year as 2015!  Waaaaah!

That mentality has not changed.  2017 was the worst year ever.  2018 was too.  As was 2019... such a horrible year.  And when Covid came along in early 2020... Well!  This really takes the cake!

And there is a defensive advantage, to growing cynical, and refusing to be surprised by more bad news, however terrible... and calling it out, and laughing in it’s face.

But that advantage is blunted, if you get too superstitious... in this case... assuming every day and month of every year is going to be worse and worse than the last, because it’s just fated to be so... and only losers hope.

No.

We are in a very dark hour, I’ll grant you that.

From climate change, digging in its talons around the planet, and promising to deliver much worse, on the regular, for centuries... and a Caronavirus that just won’t go away, because American fools can’t get the concept, and don’t have the decency to give a shit... to Trump, threatening to plunge the United States into a fascist nightmare, from which the nation may not recover without a civil war that sparks World War 3.

It’s not looking super great.

But the future is not inevitable... as any time traveler would be happy to preach.

Just as any move they make, can have drastic effects on the timeline... so does any move you make... especially in a dark historical hour like this. 

I still firmly believe, that Trump will not succeed in his bid to hold on to power.  He’ll be defeated, and he’ll be forced out, by January 20th.

We have the numbers... and the brains... and the resources... to get this done.

All we need now, is the certitude... and fortitude.

Lose the superstition!

I’m going to bed.

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BRITAIN: BBC Comedy Show Spawns Social Media Storm With Real Housewives Of ISIS Sketch [VIDEO]

Joking about the Islamic State can be a dangerous matter. A BBC comedy show featuring a sketch called “The Real Housewives of ISIS” has come under fire for trivializing the very real issue of Jihadi brides. The sketch, lampooning the Real Housewives TV series and posted online Tuesday to promote the show Revolting, features four British women in hijabs discussing their new life in the Islamic State.

Perhaps predictably, the response from social media was less than enthusiastic. Many said it was “distasteful” when there were many cases of British girls under the age of 18 who had been groomed online and lured to the Islamic State. But not everyone has been offended, with several Twitter users pointing out that the whole point of satire was to bring people down to a level. “If you can mock something, you’re not scared of it,” posted one person. “ISIS want to be feared. Don’t give them that. And yes I’m Muslim, and a leftist.”

The Milkman

I have a hard time being sympathetic toward people who are either so stupid or so unstable that they can be lured into joining ISIS via online “grooming”. Mockery is the least they can expect.

ElenorRigby

If you’re that weak-minded, maybe the world is better off without you.

Jeffrey

It is, though it’d be great if you could just pass yourself away without taking a hundred bystanders with you.

Yalma Cuder-Zicci

This is how I’ve felt about “Trump as comedy” for the last six months. It trivializes how dangerous he actually is.

Todd20036

It helps us to deal with evil when we can laugh at it.

james1200

I heard someone say, maybe even right here on JMG, that the best way to deal with fascists is to laugh at them, because they just can’t deal with it. That is certainly true about the humorless Trump; his skin is as thin as his political qualifications. We need to do nothing but laugh at Trump, ISIS and other lunatic fools because it gets to them and throws them off their game.

Ore Carmi

You have a good point. During the summer, I did not believe Trump would ever be elected. I underestimated the lack of rationality of the American populace. I’m mortified. I’d found him funny and worthy of ridicule. After the election, I couldn’t even smile.

Bared Bear

I’m still holding out in my mind (yes, I’m a little bit of a Pollyanna) that Trump was never really elected by voters, that he was projecting when he kept saying that the election was rigged, and that he was given the title by a clusterfuck of Mafioso, Russian, and FBI working together to bring on another coup to they can harnass “merikkka for their own evil agendas. But I so often misunderestimate the stupidy of ‘merikkka.

Ore Carmi

It’s frightening when we start asking, “wait, would a coup be bad?” For me, honestly, it’s more about all the frightening things the Republicans in Congress are trying to push through–dismantling healthcare, giving subpoena power to their staffers, gutting ethics oversight, messing with Medicare, wrecking the economy… How do we stop them?

fuow

Well, for starters, we could vote.

marshlc

I believe this to be true. The entire election smells to high heaven.

fuow

PT Barnum got the number of ‘real’ ‘meriKKKans’ right a long time ago. What we liberals are bad at, awful at – voting. It makes us even stupider than they are.

marshlc

I think mockery serves a useful political purpose.

But it’s got to be intelligent mockery, and have a point.

I know that the “orange cheeto” type mockery of Trump is popular around here, but to my mind it’s not the most useful kind. Making fun of Trump’s hair turns him into a kind of pet, rather than pointing out the outrage that he is.

The kind of mockery that Jon Stewart used to do, on the other hand, can help deflate the Emperor with no clothes.

Yalma Cuder-Zicci

I agree. I am afraid that because Trump is such an infinitely ludicrous person people are going to settle into this dense fog of mockery as a source of entertainment and not take his real dangers seriously.

safari

another_steve

“Laughter: The best medicine.”

Silver Badger

I hope this skit does not cause bloodshed. Muslims have no more of a sense of humor than christians.

Michael R

My first thought was ( unfortunately ) worry about the safety of the actresses .

kaydenpat

Yep. ISIS deserves mocking though.

Goodboy

It’s not a matter of if but when. Their religious psychopaths take being made fun of as a insult worthy of death.

Bj Lincoln

Only the extremists are humorless. The average Muslim probably found it funny because they know it is only extremists

kaydenpat

Is it bad that I laughed?

safari

Only to people who don’t understand comedy.

Bj Lincoln

Bared Bear

Nah. I laughed too. Religions (or anything that takes itself so seriously) to me are pretty much the epitome ridiculousness. I mean Christianity is a complete sham and has shunned even the façade of what is supposedly their most sacred reasons for existing (helping those in need, loving one another, bring compassion into the world, etcetera) over to just being the power-mongering, political bitches in heat that they are.

I do have a hope that in 50 to 75 years, that Islam will truly be the religion of peace and rightfully supersede Christianity… which will be relegated to even more obscure idiots like those who pay for Scientology membership. And that at least 100 years from now, humanity will have totally outgrown the need for religion.

kaydenpat

To be honest, I wouldn’t want to see Islam supersede Christianity. I’d just like to see all religions take their rightful place outside of politics and the public square. Worship whoever and whatever in the privacy of your homes and places of worship. I don’t need to hear about it.

another_steve

^^ Yes. Very well-put, kaydenpat.

Worship whomever you want. Worship the corner fire hydrant if you want. I could not care less.

Just don’t make me pay for it out of my taxes — and do it privately, outside of the public square.

Bared Bear

I agree that religion must be kept separated out from politics and the public commons. But I do think there’s a lot of beauty to their religion… to many religions. I don’t need to believe in it to appreciate it. (Just like I can appreciate Scarlett Johansson’s beauty… but that doesn’t mean that I want to worship her sexually).

It’s when religions are allowed to metastasize… to become something much more in a society or your personal life than something that should be quietly contemplated like a nice cup of hot tea that you enjoy all the fuck alone and not thrown in your neighbor’s face (or bed).

Colonel Panic.

Budge up and make room on the naughty seat then.

Goodboy

I think it was great and brave of the producers and actors.

Sean Williams

karmanot

Yes, why yes, but you can ALWAYS sit by me and do it!

geoffalnutt

That’s a great way to get dead. Religion doesn’t take kindly to being made fun of. Hello?

Bj Lincoln

Only humorless extremists take it the wrong way. They are the ones with the problem.

Ore Carmi

I disagree. People who have been recently traumatized by ISIS would probably also not find this funny. Not that that should bar people from making comedy.

boatboy_srq

If you’re going to exclude from comedy any humorous situation that is potentially painful, pretty soon you won’t have anything you can laugh about.

Cousin Bleh

That video is no more distasteful than the actual Housewives. And at least it was funny.

dcurlee

PeterC

I might have found it funny, if I could have understood it. On my computer it arrives on U tube which is in short blips (stops and starts) which makes it totally Non-understandable., Must rely on pictures.

james1200

I really wish the press would stop covering it as news when a few hundred people are outraged about something stupid on Twitter. The P.C. Brigade on Twitter are not a representative sample of the population at large (any more than the Nazi Brigade there is) and the mainstream press is feeding into this constant “outrage cycle” in the news about utter bullshit like this. It just wears people down and they tune out real outrage being committed out there (and it will help Trump, who’s actual criminal actions will just be part of the background noise.) This skit was funny; fuck anyone who thinks otherwise and I refuse to believe even the British have become this humorless.

safari

If you think twitter is bad, wait until you see tumblr.

james1200

Tumblr seems awesome and not just because Tumblr porn is so much better and kinkier, lol! I love Tumblr! They have a PC brigade but they have everything and whatever happens on there isn’t covered by the press like it reflects the attitude of everyone in our society, which is how the press covers Twitter, which was my point.

btw, I don’t know if this makes me a hypocrite since I was condeming being overly PC but this is one of my fav Tumblrs and it will be very important in the age of Trump’s Nazis; a Tumblr that makes employers aware of any racist assholes they have working for them and getting their ass fired.

safari

Tumblr does have superior porn.

Millstone

I didn’t know tumblr had any content other than really filthy, really great porn.

David Walker

I can’t decide whether you’re being redundant (filthy = great) or really, really enthusiastic. Both are totally acceptable.

Mike Solo

I laughed, and comedy is a very important tool. Now that it has aired, maybe more will realize that groomed jihadi brides actually is a problem

another_steve

Making fun of the enemy is good therapy.

We here on this blog do it all the time, most recently with respect to Donald Trump, the Sexual Predator-Elect.

David Walker

Hell, Mel Brooks says that’s why he wrote the movie “The Producers.” That was a bit more than 20 years after WWII and he felt that making a musical about Hitler was a way to knock him down. Great concept, great movie.

BeaverTales

If you are dumb enough to leave the UK to be a jihadi wife, you probably deserve to be widely and resoundingly mocked for your stupidity.

james1200

Didn’t we all used to laugh at ourselves? I laugh at gay stereotypes, or the mocking of them, and in fact most human beings can laugh at themselves. But it’s not just Jihadis who’re humorless: a lot of people in our society want exemption from being laughed at, including Trump’s followers, who according to even some on the left, are victims of PC culture (because they can no longer call people the “n” word without being called on it, I guess), and because Hollywood ignores them by not setting romantic comedies in Kansas but always setting them in New York and the general mocking of their culture by mean liberals (which is sister-fucking and making meth in the back yard, as far as I can figure out.) There was a Vice article talking about how Trump won because we’re big, elitist meanies to the flyover states and even Bill Maher has said something similar. Everyone wants protection from being made fun of now, I guess.

PickyPecker

Frederick

Also see: Chaplin, Charlie ‘The Great Dictator ‘

Ore Carmi

Maybe it’s because I haven’t been directly affected by ISIS violence, but I was amused.

Dot Beech

I can see PBS affiliates optioning this for viewing in all the US Red States.

MBear

This white male colonialist (//hatever the current terms are against why I find this funny) in me found this funny. #Awkward

Andymac3

This ���twitter storm’ is a storm in a tea cup. it’s what the Daily Mail and all the day time news shows thrive on.

The comedy clip was great, I really miss British humor over here almost as much as I miss dropping the letter ‘u’ from the word humour.

pj

next episode….the housewives help out by duck taping a sassy gay guy to a chair.

Snarkaholic

If you can mock something, you’re not scared of it!

Natty Enquirer

Looks fantastic. If people aren’t pissed off, your satire isn’t working.

If people watched the whole show they would realise it takes the piss out of all politics, not just ISIS, but also the Labour Party, UKIP, and the Conservatives. It took a stab at the lack of resources in the NHS, also council houses that were being knocked down for property for the rich and so on. Some of the skits were part Candid Camera style too. It was very well done. Attacking injustices with humour is very effective way of memory retention of a bad situation. American politicians should be mocked more in this manner, for their ass-holery. If you are thinking of joining ISIS you are an ass-hole, if you try to evict poor people from their homes you are an ass-hole, if you are a conservative trying to turn health care into American version of it you are an ass-hole…and so on.

fuow

Yup, make fun of something evil – it works about as well as anything else to end it. Seriously. Of course the SJWs and the humour-challenged PC-Politessas are upset about this. A sense of humour is the one essential difference between gay activists and feminists – we have one, they all too frequently do not.

The sketch is clearly about the women who want to become Jihadi brides, not the ones who are forced. If the implication had been “What’s true for the dangerously unbalanced members of ISIS and their psycho groupies is true about all Muslims” I would have been offended. After watching it, I’m only offended because so many of the jokes felt a bit stale.

no religion lacks a “force virgin pre-teens into “sacred” marriages” sub-sects, my friend. they all do it.

June Gordon

It was cute, but went for all the obvious jokes. That being said, I think it is important that NOTHING be sacred from mockery, especially religion.

Megrim Twist

We need MORE satire, not less.

well, go on and hate me now. cause, i had no problem with it. it was a bit heavy handed, but the joke parts were funny, and like jokes that i make, if a bit less obviously.

religion isn’t “special.” it’s OK to say, “believing in mythological beings is stupid.” you shouldn’t want to shoot me or fire me or kick me for saying that. if you do, YOU are the problem. Jeebus and the rest of them will come and spank me silly when they get mad enough with me. i’ll be over here, waiting for that to happen. meanwhile, all of us should be focused on our bills, kids, dogs, food, bridge game making a small slam, yoga… if the fairy beings need help, let them come and ask for it, or better still, pay for it.

Jmdintpa

well i see we are starting off the new year right… offended !

karmanot

For Allah’s sake, let the Burka Badies BE!

Earl

I might sign up to watch tv again if it’s shown here.

Acronym Jim

Perhaps young women seeing this kind of satiric skewering will be less inclined to be groomed online.

Jean-Marc in Canada

Personally, I laughed; then again, I’m an adult who can discern comedic satire and not some wilting regressive left/far right snowflake. Seriously, the only people who should be offended are ISIS and that’s a good thing.

Source

http://www.joemygod.com/2017/01/05/britain-bbc-comedy-show-spawns-social-media-firestorm-real-housewives-isis-sketch-video/