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UTUSN's JournalThe undoing coming, that comes for all - a poem(?)
I put myself to sleep last night with plans
of little things put off for months and years,
things that irritated when passing by them,
like removing the wire foot fence barriers
put down to keep dogs from exploring out,
dogs long ago lamented, the current one
not needing them:
Two pliers, wire cutter, garden stool, sun hat,
thinking short shrift, only to discover
the difficulty and length of the entwined wire,
and how exhaustively complicated
had been my effort back then...
Finally done, then on to the other task,
pruning to the ground the spiked bush
that had stabbed and bled me while mowing
close there the last three times.
It's the season of Undoing, having started
a few years past, divesting possessions,
painfully the books, but whatever mundane
tools, utensils, furniture, yet
precious knickknacks, bestowed
to whomever without the history and care.
But even foliage, trees, to make it easier
to mow without obstacles to prolong
the cutting while the years left allow.
Growings planted and replaced,
over thirty years, no more planting.
The Undoing that comes for all in different
forms and extents. Those who thought
their whole mission was to propagate,
amass, and tend, and calling everybody
else "selfish," finding what they call
"Downsizing," beginning with the
"Empty Nest," ostensibly lamentation,
not secretly joyful and liberating
for that secretly coveted "selfishness"
of Self?
The season of Undoing, of things and
doings and pairings that all go
out of style and secretly always were.
David PAKMAN to "Dr Phil": "You are a right-winger!"
While I barely viewed a certain Phillip Calvin McGRAW all these years from revulsion of his sliminess, I dismissed him on the benefit of the doubt that I thought he was sort of non-political. But in recent weeks my Wingnut Radar clicked On with his appearances publicizing his new "News" network, here https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218724874 and here https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218722188 .
Here I present as validating evidence from a professional political commentator:
It's Pisces season - my picks
Who said we Pisces don't have a sense of humor (nobody) - Gilbert GOTTFRIED, Billy CRYSTAL - and what about Aussie-alligator Steve IRWIN, Josh-the-voice-GROBAN for heaven sake! - BARDEM, BIEBS, Nyong'o, Sharon STONE, *LIZA* for heaven's sake! - Glenn CLOSE! -
We're a *talented* bunch, what can I modestly say
*** By the bye, just a PSA fyi, we Pisces are most compatible with Virgos, are (used to be, never again) fools for Aries, are protected by Cancers -
Hey! - am from the '70s alternative junk (never fell for Scientology or the Jesus Freaks)
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https://people.com/celebrity/celebrities-who-are-pisces/
The water sign is known for being empathetic, imaginative, intuitive and, like, totally popular! The twelfth sign of the zodiac, symbolized by a fish, runs from Feb. 18 through March 20
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Whoa, mixed up "Dana" with the LOESH wingnut
My post was about LOESH and ROGAN, not BASH (I'm 77), my point stands. Here's my first draft:
In my University of YouTube studies, I've picked out where they've gotten some of their pretend insights - not that the videos weren't insightful but that those two pass them off as their own.
An pic - (take *that*, grammar Prescriptionists! )
Themes:
* Bells, origin story, Navy ship bells, collectibles/hoarding
* Donkey/elephant figurines - our political divide
* Olive bottles - ancient reference
* Mouth of Truth
He' a mess
First I accepted him as a prime Lib.
Then I was mystified when he knocked Crossfire off of CNN.
Then I was disturbed his making nice to O,'Reilly.
Then I was pissed his pandering to Glen Beckkk's come together rally in DC.
Is he 3rd Way?
Then more with the Jerry LEWIS preaching and scolding for his charity.
Now back, couldn't make it?
Not for me.
My local radio talk show wingnuts got my email about their conspiracy propaganda on the BIDEN Report
How to tell if an opponent is being authentic? When they cut the crap and reply with *FURY*.
For example, Wingnut #1 thought he was wounding me (back when) when he claimed that I had, not one single time EVER, never tried to put myself in the shoes (EWww) of the piteous Deplorables, to try to UNDERSTAND them or have any kind of charity or tolerance of them. Actually, I wasn’t stung because it was so obviously false.
But yesterday, the Wingnut #2 cut the crap and replied with *FURY*. The issue was not the Department of Justice Special Counsel’s final report of No-Charges on BIDEN’s documents. But to that, later.
First, was his surface crap, that started with the lie, (findings) “about two VERY SIMILAR cases,” his framing that the BIDEN and Drumpf cases are THE SAME but differently unfairly treated. At this late date (as with Benghazi), the surface lie was exposed from the beginning but not stopping the Deplorables’ repeated LIE. No need to rehearse the truths in detail: How BIDEN’s case is NOT the same as Drumpf’s, the latter’s being criminal intent, refusing to return the docs, obstructing justice, lying, etc.
So then he proceeded with his usual crap of a pitiful impression of Drumpf’s voice, the non-comic intent being to make Drumpf seem funny and attractive, trivializing and infantilizing the real issues, schoolyard mocking, bullying, and ridiculing the opponents. And he went on and on with his “comedy” until Wingnut #1 attempted his spineless, devil’s advocate “explanation” (from his profound insight, cough-cough) of what We-Libs “believe” – being that Drumpf wanted the docs to SELL or GIVE them to the country’s enemies.
First, while I don’t put any such nefariousness beyond Drumpf’s capacity as a motive, I usually don’t resort to the farthest possibility to lead-off with as speculation. And while this specific speculation has passed by in media yakking, it hasn’t been presented as an official position by Libs.
But the point is that *THIS* is what made the Wingnut #2 drop his crap and *EXPLODE*!!!!!!!!!! He was authentically STUNG and WOUNDED, yelling, “He was *NOT* going to SELL them!!!!!!!!!!”
*** Haha. But back to the Benghazi template of truth telling: It is false to portray the DOJ and Merrick GARLAND as having investigated BIDEN because there was criminality suspected. The investigation was done on the basis of an ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION and pro forma, because not appointing a Special Counsel would fuel wingnut conspiracy propaganda that would fester into an abcess, which is going to happen anyway. And GARLAND took it further by appointing a WINGNUT as Special Counsel, with GARLAND knowing that there would not be anything to charge beyond a reasonable doubt, but that if the Counsel was NOT a Wingnut, the outcome would be portrayed by wingnut propaganda as corrupt covering up. So when the Wingnut Special Counsel found NOT ENOUGH, the propaganda would be nipped in the bud.
That said, the Report was laced with the usual Wingnut cheapshots (“elderly man with memory problems”), which however, was actually necessary to support the lack of criminal intent.
So here is who the wingnut Special Counsel is (below). Oh, Robert Kyoung HUR, I had no idea he was a hyphenated American, which will rub the Deplorables wrong.
But first, Libs on the internet front lines of verbal sparring have suggested our nickname for Drumpf be, “Just Citizen” or Criminal Defendant. I say we should call him: Criminal-Traitor-Mobster-Rapist-Conman.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_K._Hur
…. ...was born in NYC of South Korean parents. ….
After law school, Hur was a law clerk for Judge Alex Kozinski of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (61% reversal rate) from 2001 to 2002, then for Chief Justice William Rehnquist of the Supreme Court from 2002 to 2003.[2]
He then served as Special Assistant and Counsel to Christopher A. Wray, then Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Justice Department's Criminal Division. From 2007 to 2014, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Maryland, where he prosecuted gang violence, drug trafficking and firearms offenses, and white-collar crimes. He was formerly a partner with King & Spalding in Washington, D.C., where his practice focused on government investigations and complex litigation.[4]
Hur rejoined the Department of Justice as Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General, a top aide to Rod Rosenstein after Rosenstein became Deputy Attorney General. He was a liaison to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.[5]
On November 1, 2017, Hur was nominated by President Donald (Criminal-Traitor-Mobster-Rapist-Conman) Trump to be the next United States Attorney for the District of Maryland.[6] ….
On January 12, 2023, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Hur to oversee the United States Department of Justice's investigation into President Joe Biden's alleged mishandling of classified documents during his time as vice president.[12] ….
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My personal history with Ms SWIFT. And about being zapped for the "Tay Tay" term of endearment.
The first I heard of Taylor SWIFT was in 2013 when Kanye WEST stepped on her award, showing what a jackass (as OBAMA called him) he is. What I saw was this perfectly nice and VULNERABLE young woman having public humiliation thrown at her. I didn’t know anything else about her, none of her music. The little I looked up afterward was that she grew up White rich. This info was useful when soon my local radio talk show wingnut who prides himself on his country club White Privilege, commented how gah-gah he was over her, reinforcing my profile of him as being a White Privilege stick-in-the-mud. But even he couldn’t diminish my image of her as being just NICE.
Next, in 2014 she put out this song, “Out of the Woods,” which slayed me. Her verbal introduction was startling, how one of her relationships was characterized by “anxiety.” The SONG is smashing, fits all my pop criteria. But in recent years it now means to me the total, complete ANXIETY that the jerk-ahole Drumpf has inflicted on me/all of us since 2015. But as always with me, the MUSIC/MELODY is the #1 thing, lyrics being secondary (if the MELODY ain’t there, the words don’t matter, no matter how good they are). As such, I have not sought out any other of her music. I only like what I like, one thing here, one thing there.
THIS song - uh, "ERROR"? - internet news says her vids have been removed? :
Next, the conventional pop cliché that she writes songs about her relationships is all that filtered down to my level. And then came the years of jackass Kanye WEST’s and the KARDASH woman’s feuding and harassing her.
Skipping ahead, news that she had achieved self-made billionaire status, fine. Next, another breakup followed swiftly (yeah, I know) by the current blazing romance with a perfectly nice-seeming jock who has a nice brother and family, and his own independent career success. Fine, my passing, none-of-my-business “concern” that fizzling out is always a possibility -- gadzooks, something else for my anxiety!1
I never heard she was political, lately heard she had commented favorably (endorsed? ) about BIDEN/Dems (in 2020?). Now seems the wingnut whackjobs are in a political dither that she might be a political force against them. Fine with me, although the rumble that the Dem operative-professionals are actively trying to recruit her officially is a *concern* because clueless, uncharismatic political Pros usually screw things up.
*** But on a personal level, with the current kerfluffle about politics and her, I made some positive comments here about her and linked “Out of the Woods,” and referred to her *affectionately* as “TayTay,” naively thinking I was being totally acceptable, and to my horror, I got ZAPPED as being “disrespectful” and exercising “infantilism” against her. I had never heard that this was a pejorative, besides that the Jock was said in a tabloid that HIS nickname for her was “just Tay,” with NO/ZERO objection from her being noted. Now there have been others posting “Tay Tay” while not being scourged for it. Repeating, it was a term of endearment from me, who was trying to be “with it” and “hip” and kewl. Never works for me.
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