Noem, cont. thank you for scribbling down my ludicrous, hysterical, cornpone view of antifa that doesn’t actually exist with a clubhouse, like my own interior terrorist program you know of as ICE where we hunt down and abuse anyone who might be “foreign” and tackle, zip tie and arrest them without evidence, separating them from their families and threatening to deport them to places they’ve never lived, including children, because why not and am I living my best, reconstructed life? You bet I am. Corey, did you have Juanita pick up our cleaning and lay it out for us on the Admiral’s bed by color and then designer?
Noem is a complete embarrassment, her brain apparently as filled with chemicals and crap as her face. The posturing, the wardrobe changes, the cornball patriotism as she shacks up with another lying, bullying Trump monster to “mischief” as they neglect their souses at home. Cosplay Cruella!
Advance from despair and the darkness of solit'ry men
Who are chained in a Market they cannot control
In the name of a Freedom that hangs like a pall
On our cities and their towers of silence we shall destroy
Now is the time to begin to determine directions
Refuse to admit the existence of Destiny's rule
We shall seize from all heroes and merchants
Our labor, our lives and our practice of History
This, our choice, defines the truth of all that we do
Seize on the words that oppose us with alien force
They're enslaved by the power of Capital's kings
Who reduce them to coinage and hollow exchange
In the struggle to hold us they're bitterly outlasting
Time to sweep them down from power. Deeds renew words.
Dare to take sides in the fight for freedom that is common cause
Let us all be as strong and as resolute
We're in the midst of a Universe turning in turmoil
Of classes and armies of thought making war
Their contradictions clash and echo through Time
Y'know, according to TrumpCo I ought to be in jail for typing this out (and I did it easily by memory; this is one of my favorite songs of all time and the anthem begins at 12:19). Because this here is the Real McCoy. 100% pure Marxist/Leninist-inspired revolutionary Socialist rock music circa Britain 1975. Fuck Johnny Rotten. Fuck Joe Strummer. This is Henry Cow -- Tim Hodgkinson, composer -- pre-punk, touring European political youth conventions and playing full-blown avant garde music. It's an easily singable modal melody but the harmonization is whacked ;)
Many of you won't like Henry Cow. They're very dissonant.
They're also one of the greatest and most powerful rock bands who ever existed:
gave Henry Cow a listen and like you said, they're very "dissonant" and to my musical ears, hard to listen to. And unfortunately, I couldn't make out the words (no idea how you "easily" remembered the lyrics), but even without understanding the words the SPIRIT of the thing came through loud and clear: fuck the crooked establishment, power to the people.
I don't see how it's gonna motivate all those millions of Independents who need to vote out Trump, but I've been feeling very discouraged lately and Henry Cow has given this old-timer a shot of youth-juice.
I might even get back in the game and start writing again - take some inspiration from Henry Cow and kick some ass.
Last night I watched a docudrama (Einstein & the Bomb) where he said, in 1933 Germany: "The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate evil than from those who commit it."
So between Henry Cow and Einstein I guess it's time to kick some Trump ass. This American Fascism bullshit is getting out of hand. And it must be stopped.
For regular ol' boomer classic rock fans, Henry Cow would wind up in the unlistenable bin right next to Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica ;). Believe me, Abe, I didn't post this as some kind of organizing template, a call to arms to Generation Jones liberals who were Marxism-curious as young adults and who also eat atonal music for breakfast. Not exactly too many of those to flip elections ;)
I'm not into their music, but I'm sure into the SPIRIT behind their music. Stand up and call it like it is and kick some ass.
I may be a 79-er looking over the horizon (I see Nazi Germany over the horizon) but the old rebellious youth juice is still pumping and it's really really time to get my punk on, and to get into MAGA's face. This ain't funny no more.
Look at my hometown, Chicago. Priest takes a pepper ball in the eye from a rooftop goon, Innocents being shoved into vans because of their skin color, all by masked men.
It's not "coming", IT IS HERE
I saw a clip today of Bannon being asked about Trump '28
Swears they have a plan to make that happen. No one should doubt it
Any city in a blue state will be invaded by lawless goons and he's on record as saying he'll look at the Insurrection Act.
And Fox News and spineless Senators and Reps will support it all
The true Conservatives are going to win this…because that is who founded this great nation. Their policies (although somewhat archaic now) were about limited government, limited power, and the maximization of individual justice over authoritarian abuse.
So glad you are in this fight, Rick, and your commentaries give me heart. Suggested viewing for the movement, along with the inspiration of the Ukrainians, is the movie "Casablanca," the scene at Rick's place where the Germans' martial song is drowned out by French resistance leaders and citizens singing "La Marseillaise." Actually, the whole film, which was made in 1944, when the fate of Europe and the free world was unknown. It was the Americans who turned the tide against the Nazis and saved the world. Now we have to save ourselves.
Rick—you’re correct. Out in the streets and more than that, a massive boycott. Which brings me to a more specific pleading to you. As a pilot you must be familiar with Signature Aviation. It’s also T the fuel and infrastructure supplier to planes ICE uses for its operations. https://groundice.org/signature-aviation. PLEASE BOYCOTT SIGNATURE AVIATION and get your fellow pilots to do the same. Because all of us have gotta be the guardrails now. Thanks.
Deborah, we saw from the Jimmy Kimmel/Disney episode that hitting them on their financial bottoms WORKS. That's about the only thing that gets their attention.
I'm watching you now on YouTube. I'm 55 and I have nothing to lose. I raised my kiddo. I've warned my family. I'm ready. I'm in Vermont taking a 1.5 day respite - the last safe state? NEVER VIOLENCE! NEVER TRUMP!!!!
Nowhere is safe. I was way up north and Trump flags were flying. It's like northern CT, or the "Other CT" as we call it. We have to be careful though, CT is changing, it's seeping in! Courage is needed!!!!
Thank you for these messages, Rick. This is a difficult message but it had to be said.
Just as Zelensky said he didn't want a ride, he wanted ammunition, we don't want despair, we want hope and that comes from resistance. Jane Goodall said in her last interview that we live in dark times but to never give up - ever. She never forgot Churchill's rousing speech against the Nazi's. Well now, here we have the new Nazi's reincarnated in our midst. Let's not act like the Weimar Democrats in the 1930s. Lets learn from history.
So what do we do?
Should
Griping
Farmers
Be jailed
As
Terrorists?
Stephen Miller wants to know?
Not only will they NOT be jailed
They'd vote for him again tomorrow if they could
9AM: Sign foreclosure papers for my farm
10AM: Go vote for Trump
F’ck you, Ice Barbie
Sing joyously together my fellow protesters!
Here comes the sun / doo-doo-doo-doo
Here comes the sun / And we say, “it’s all right”
We the people / He’s just a dumb orange lonely whiner;
We the people /It feels like years that he’s been here.
Here comes the sun / doo-doo-doo-doo
Here comes the sun / And we say, “it’s all right”
We the people / The smile’s returning to the faces;
We the people / It seems like years since it’s been here.
Here comes the sun / doo-doo-doo-doo
Here comes the sun / And we say, “it’s all right”
Sun Sun Sun / Here it comes [repeat 4 more times]
We the people / We know that ICE is surely melting;
We the people / It seems like years since it’s been clear.
Here comes the sun / doo-doo-doo-doo
Here comes the sun / And we say, “it’s all right”
Here comes the sun / doo-doo-doo-doo
Here comes the sun / And we say, “it’s all right”
It’s all right…
Noem, cont. thank you for scribbling down my ludicrous, hysterical, cornpone view of antifa that doesn’t actually exist with a clubhouse, like my own interior terrorist program you know of as ICE where we hunt down and abuse anyone who might be “foreign” and tackle, zip tie and arrest them without evidence, separating them from their families and threatening to deport them to places they’ve never lived, including children, because why not and am I living my best, reconstructed life? You bet I am. Corey, did you have Juanita pick up our cleaning and lay it out for us on the Admiral’s bed by color and then designer?
Noem is a complete embarrassment, her brain apparently as filled with chemicals and crap as her face. The posturing, the wardrobe changes, the cornball patriotism as she shacks up with another lying, bullying Trump monster to “mischief” as they neglect their souses at home. Cosplay Cruella!
Rick, can we get your thoughts on what happens when the demented/cankled/felon is no longer taking in oxygen? What then? Just curious.
Now is the time to begin to go forward
Advance from despair and the darkness of solit'ry men
Who are chained in a Market they cannot control
In the name of a Freedom that hangs like a pall
On our cities and their towers of silence we shall destroy
Now is the time to begin to determine directions
Refuse to admit the existence of Destiny's rule
We shall seize from all heroes and merchants
Our labor, our lives and our practice of History
This, our choice, defines the truth of all that we do
Seize on the words that oppose us with alien force
They're enslaved by the power of Capital's kings
Who reduce them to coinage and hollow exchange
In the struggle to hold us they're bitterly outlasting
Time to sweep them down from power. Deeds renew words.
Dare to take sides in the fight for freedom that is common cause
Let us all be as strong and as resolute
We're in the midst of a Universe turning in turmoil
Of classes and armies of thought making war
Their contradictions clash and echo through Time
Y'know, according to TrumpCo I ought to be in jail for typing this out (and I did it easily by memory; this is one of my favorite songs of all time and the anthem begins at 12:19). Because this here is the Real McCoy. 100% pure Marxist/Leninist-inspired revolutionary Socialist rock music circa Britain 1975. Fuck Johnny Rotten. Fuck Joe Strummer. This is Henry Cow -- Tim Hodgkinson, composer -- pre-punk, touring European political youth conventions and playing full-blown avant garde music. It's an easily singable modal melody but the harmonization is whacked ;)
Many of you won't like Henry Cow. They're very dissonant.
They're also one of the greatest and most powerful rock bands who ever existed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EerSdBq9n8
gave Henry Cow a listen and like you said, they're very "dissonant" and to my musical ears, hard to listen to. And unfortunately, I couldn't make out the words (no idea how you "easily" remembered the lyrics), but even without understanding the words the SPIRIT of the thing came through loud and clear: fuck the crooked establishment, power to the people.
I don't see how it's gonna motivate all those millions of Independents who need to vote out Trump, but I've been feeling very discouraged lately and Henry Cow has given this old-timer a shot of youth-juice.
I might even get back in the game and start writing again - take some inspiration from Henry Cow and kick some ass.
Last night I watched a docudrama (Einstein & the Bomb) where he said, in 1933 Germany: "The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate evil than from those who commit it."
So between Henry Cow and Einstein I guess it's time to kick some Trump ass. This American Fascism bullshit is getting out of hand. And it must be stopped.
Thanks Bob for the inspiration
For regular ol' boomer classic rock fans, Henry Cow would wind up in the unlistenable bin right next to Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica ;). Believe me, Abe, I didn't post this as some kind of organizing template, a call to arms to Generation Jones liberals who were Marxism-curious as young adults and who also eat atonal music for breakfast. Not exactly too many of those to flip elections ;)
I'm not into their music, but I'm sure into the SPIRIT behind their music. Stand up and call it like it is and kick some ass.
I may be a 79-er looking over the horizon (I see Nazi Germany over the horizon) but the old rebellious youth juice is still pumping and it's really really time to get my punk on, and to get into MAGA's face. This ain't funny no more.
You don't exactly have to look to the horizon
It's kinda right here, right now, Abe
Look at my hometown, Chicago. Priest takes a pepper ball in the eye from a rooftop goon, Innocents being shoved into vans because of their skin color, all by masked men.
It's not "coming", IT IS HERE
I saw a clip today of Bannon being asked about Trump '28
Swears they have a plan to make that happen. No one should doubt it
Any city in a blue state will be invaded by lawless goons and he's on record as saying he'll look at the Insurrection Act.
And Fox News and spineless Senators and Reps will support it all
"Rise, like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number!
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you:
Ye are many—they are few!"
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
I love that💙💙💙
Oh my god, how perfect! What a call to arms!
I often make the error of watching on YT from YT and not here and have to suffer thru ads. Powerful Rick Thank you.
The true Conservatives are going to win this…because that is who founded this great nation. Their policies (although somewhat archaic now) were about limited government, limited power, and the maximization of individual justice over authoritarian abuse.
Thank you Rick for all you do ✌🏼
Hold Fast 🇺🇸
So glad you are in this fight, Rick, and your commentaries give me heart. Suggested viewing for the movement, along with the inspiration of the Ukrainians, is the movie "Casablanca," the scene at Rick's place where the Germans' martial song is drowned out by French resistance leaders and citizens singing "La Marseillaise." Actually, the whole film, which was made in 1944, when the fate of Europe and the free world was unknown. It was the Americans who turned the tide against the Nazis and saved the world. Now we have to save ourselves.
Such an emotional scene. What kind of black heart would side with the Nazi's?
MSH, there are a lot of reasons why people surrender their souls to fascist leaders.
Here are a few reasons that I've pondered over the last few years:
Review of Eric Fromm's "Escape from Freedom"
https://kamala4prez.substack.com/p/erich-fromms-escape-from-freedom
Review of Richard Hofstadter's "The Paranoid Style in American Politics"
https://kamala4prez.substack.com/p/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics
Review of Madeleine Albright's "Fascism: A Warning"
https://kamala4prez.substack.com/p/fascism-a-warning-by-madeleine-albright
Rick—you’re correct. Out in the streets and more than that, a massive boycott. Which brings me to a more specific pleading to you. As a pilot you must be familiar with Signature Aviation. It’s also T the fuel and infrastructure supplier to planes ICE uses for its operations. https://groundice.org/signature-aviation. PLEASE BOYCOTT SIGNATURE AVIATION and get your fellow pilots to do the same. Because all of us have gotta be the guardrails now. Thanks.
Deborah, we saw from the Jimmy Kimmel/Disney episode that hitting them on their financial bottoms WORKS. That's about the only thing that gets their attention.
I'm watching you now on YouTube. I'm 55 and I have nothing to lose. I raised my kiddo. I've warned my family. I'm ready. I'm in Vermont taking a 1.5 day respite - the last safe state? NEVER VIOLENCE! NEVER TRUMP!!!!
Debi, people of all ages are getting fed up with this new American Fascism.
I think no one and nowhere is safe (Trump says up front that he's firing Democrats).
But it's time for courage.
Nowhere is safe. I was way up north and Trump flags were flying. It's like northern CT, or the "Other CT" as we call it. We have to be careful though, CT is changing, it's seeping in! Courage is needed!!!!
Thank you for these messages, Rick. This is a difficult message but it had to be said.
Just as Zelensky said he didn't want a ride, he wanted ammunition, we don't want despair, we want hope and that comes from resistance. Jane Goodall said in her last interview that we live in dark times but to never give up - ever. She never forgot Churchill's rousing speech against the Nazi's. Well now, here we have the new Nazi's reincarnated in our midst. Let's not act like the Weimar Democrats in the 1930s. Lets learn from history.
Trump is even angrier now that he didn't get the Nobel.
think of the irony: he didn't propose a middle east peace plan to make peace and save lives, he did it to win the Nobel Prize that's he consumed with.
And all this time President Nobel Prize is waging war on his own people!
Yes, Abe, that's indeed who he is. I wish more people realized that and that failure has led us to where we are today...
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