Well…this is not really a political one…or it may turn into one as I get going here…we’ll see…I think I’ve done one like this the past couple of Memorial days and I still think it fits the true meaning of sacrifice for your country…but, after listening to all the crap going on at the races over the weekend and every one of the speakers talking about these service people dying to protect our “freedoms” and I really don’t think it is why they died in many cases…and I think the new “freedoms” thing is a right wing construct that they have used to usurp the true meaning and add it to their short hand of propaganda..I mean what is freedom to these people? It sure isn’t freedom for women to control their own bodies…it sure isn’t gay people having the freedom to love who they love…it sure isn’t schoolchildren having the freedom to come home alive from school…it sure isn’t the freedom for black people to not be killed by the police all over the country…and it sure isn’t the freedom to make this country a better place that the repubs have blocked at every turn…so, I call bullshit on the right…shouting freedom is only another way that they bludgeon people into being silent…they don’t care about freedom at all unless it is the freedom for the white, christian males to continue to dominate this society and run it for them and no one else. As I always do, I end with the poignant little song by Stephen Stills called “Find the cost of freedom”….”find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground…mother earth will swallow you, lay your body down” Have never found a more succinct statement on the cost of freedom…Stephen understands it…the repubs sure don’t…
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A few things…
Well…don’t know if I have the attention span today to do a long one on a single topic so I think I’ll do a few short ones…starting with the idiot in chief’s tweet for Memorial day yesterday…have you ever heard anything so self-serving and terrible? Starting with “happy Memorial Day” and then devolving into me, me, me…the tweet has been savaged all across the media since yesterday and it just shows that idiot boy can’t even fake having any human empathy….Memorial Day is not a “happy” day unless you are a psychopath like trump…and stating that the dead would love what he is doing to the country is just a new piece of evidence that he really IS a psychopath and mentally ill….and on Morning Joe this morning, Mika got right to the point in three words..”he’s not well”…and this doesn’t even address the pay for play scandal with China granting Ivanka valuable “trademarks” that she can use to make more money off her sweatshops there…this is a bribe by any other name and, until trump, would never, ever be acceptable..but these grifters just keep on grifting and the repubs do nothing…as usual…impeach…
Memorial Day…..
Well…this one could turn into a rant if I let it…but, I’m not sure if I should…with it being memorial day, I just watched a film about a couple of volunteer nurses that worked with a military doctor in the town of Bastogne during the battle of the bulge and I am just struck by the bravery and sacrifice these two women made…and their dignity doing it…one of them was killed taking care of wounded American soldiers when the Germans bombed the makeshift hospital where she was working and the other was gravely wounded…but she was back on the line the next day, working with the only doctor for the entire division that was defending the town…I see this kind of bravery is still being shown by our military to this day and it makes me howl with anger at the bloated monster who sits in the WH….who thinks he is worthy of being their commander in chief…they deserve better…we deserve better and the world deserves better….impeach….
Military overload….
Well…after enduring all of the sad stories and military worshiping during every US race yesterday, I wonder if anyone else is getting tired of it? Not tired of being thankful for the military but if I hear anyone else say “protecting our freedom” again I am going to scream. Saying that the soldiers that died in Iraq and Afghanistan were “protecting our freedom” does a great disservice to those who died in WWII and obfuscates what protecting freedom really is. After all, none of the countries in the middle east that we invaded where our soldiers were killed was a threat to us at all…I know, bin Laden was in Afghanistan but once he wasn’t, why the hell are we still there? The only thing I got from all of the military porn during the last week is “how come the guys that ordered these illegal wars are not in jail?” They should sit the repubs down that want even more “military action” and make them watch every story that I did over the past week to make them understand the human toll that their recklessness has cost….and we have to stop these endless wars so no more stories of our brave soldiers dying have to be told….that would honor the dead more than any flyover at any Nascar race would do…geez…