After we can now see it's taken over 5 years for "Washington insiders" like Joe Scarborough and Jake Tapper to recognize Joe Biden was out of his mind,
and it's been since October 7, 2023 that Piers Morgan has failed to recognize what most the of the world has seen all along in Gaza,
AND after thousands of reporters walked through the offices of Theranos but - still - couldn't see anything wrong without the aid of a whistleblower,
It's safe to say Obama giving Oprah America's highest civilian honor for her influence on journalism and culture - after she peddled quacks and con artists, anti-vaccine tropes and "The Secret" - just keeps making sense.
In my last post, I marveled that Trump wasn't drunk or high, and, last night, John Oliver did the same – see above. Watching Trump, a former Democrat, in that clip, also reminded me of so many previous conversations I've had with members of the party, over, say, the 2012 Mayan predictions of the apocalypse, whether or not Jenny McCarthy was a trusted source for information about vaccines; whether or not homeopathic concoctions are "medicine," or whether or not AI is "god-like," or even whether or not the people who insisted on these things ever defended those positions.
Those conversations, which - like Terry Moran - I never wanted to have, all went exactly like Trump's. And I present Oprah Winfrey's invitation, and appearance, at every Democratic Party Convention, as evidence those insane debates were just as real, instructive, and destructive, as the one just seen on ABC News. The Democrats want to forget about them, or wish we would, because that's how we got to this place: Americans, being as looney - and as intolerable in their lunacy - as Donald Trump.
BTW - if you want to know the difference between Trump's two administrations - as you can see above, after his first election win, Rachel Maddow assured viewers we're "not in Hell." But, here, at the start of his second administration, John Oliver just assured Terry Moran he not only made the trip "Downtown" but even got a personal tour.
Which should answer The Atlantic's question "Is This the Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Culture?" pretty decisively. I mean, Trump was a "celebrity" before he was a "politician," so we're straddling the fence now, or combining the two, but - whatever you call it - Taylor Swift's Palestinian Genocide Tour definitely greased the wheels for America, finally, scraping the bottom of the cultural barrel. Somebody make a casserole. We've arrived.
TMR has always been on top of the NewAge movement, and the fraud that's emerged from it. At this point, it feels like that is the true business of the world: deceiving one another. How is it only now - 18 years after this blog began - that someone else admits we see cults "a lot nowadays: in the arts; politics, obviously; even in banks, for God’s sake. People rush to reinforce warped thought systems,..."? And, if they haven't been saying that, previously, what have they been saying, and why?
Holding up Dr. King's dream, to negate the fullness of the American dream that Dr. King wanted for black people’s lives, is a fraud. And, it’s a known fraud, as surely as homeopathic concoctions sit on pharmacy shelves. As surely as Hunter Biden was selling more than the mere “illusion of access”. As surely as Bill Clinton raped three women. Like the NewAge movement says, “It’s all connected.”. And it's obvious as Hell.
So a nation of suckers is rising, on the left and right, and expects blacks to get in-line. I know, it can be shocking to hear of anyone who doesn't buy into the bullshit everyone else has been celebrating, but TMR has always been about that. In 2000, I recorded a song about how I didn't want to go along with the tech industry, but today they're still trying to make me love Steve Jobs, after the music industry I loved has been warped in a way that, today, music consumes hardly a fraction of our lives, and has even less influence on our lives, than anyone ever imagined for America - formally the worlds leading purveyor of the world's culture.
At some point, conservatives must not merely stop, but roll back what’s been started, to preserve what we have. That first requires being willing to honestly look at what’s been done. The Democrats haven't proven they're willing to do it. Especially since Donald Trump has been on the scene. But, really, since Harvey Milk was killed. Look at that photo, above, and tell me Kamala is not either too cynical or too gullible to hold power.
Their demand is we either live and die as liars and fools, as they do - willingly - to feel safe. But I don’t think that's gonna happen. Why?
Americans don't trade freedom for safety: not everyone fell for Nazi fascism's okey-doke the first time, and blacks won't, for the NewAge flavor, either, whether the Kool-Aid''s ladled-out by the GOP, or Oprah Winfrey. This is NOT the People's Temple.
Like everyone's GOT to like cheaters. Tell President Macron to go have an "affair" with someone else's wife (that's the French term for "fucking" and, I know, he already has - with a Grandmother) before getting back to me on how great y'all's backstabbing so-called "culture" is. He knows the number: 1-900-BLAME A NIGGER.
"We are a political monoculture that’s intolerant of different views....we claim to welcome all perspectives, but are quick to attack — often in mobs — anyone who presents a view that appears to be in opposition to left-leaning ideology...Your colleagues are afraid because they know that they — not their ideas — will be attacked. They know that all the talk of “openness to different perspectives” does not apply...you can either keep quiet or sacrifice your reputation and career."
"These are not fears without cause because we tear down posters welcoming Trump supporters. We regularly propose removing Thiel from our board because he supported Trump. We’re quick to suggest firing people who turn out to be misunderstood, and even quicker to conclude our colleagues are bigots. We have made “All Lives Matter” a fireable offense. We put Palmer Luckey through a witch hunt because he paid for anti-Hillary ads. We write each other ad-hoc feedback in the PSC tool for having “offensive” ideas. We ask HR to investigate those who dare to criticize Islam’s human rights record for creating a “non inclusive environment.” And they called me a transphobe when I called out our corporate art for being politically radical."
So, someone's getting around to detailing *some* of the cult's behavior now - they just still haven't stuck the word "cult" on it. Then again, they're not really breaking it all down, yet, either (except to notice "free speech" is not a Facebook concern - just like it's not a NewAge liberal concern...): these guys only care about their one aspect of it, as most newbies will. They'll change. Once they fully grasp it in it's totality. And as totalitarian.
(Ted "Black Lightning" Patrick, the father of cult deprogramming)
We don't call it "unfinished business" because it's finished
I can't be bothered with what white Americans - who, after 400 years, still can't grasp that blacks are people facing massive, life-threatening, injustices - "think" about what I write and say. They thought we were animals, and even furniture, and still call us "savages," so why should their thought process - if it can even be called that - change my mind? Because some of them are feminists? Please. They ain't black feminists, because black feminists "get it," and ain't joined the whites in their bullshit:
Give 'em time, Baby: These lame brains may not understand, but - as always - they'll be forced to cope with us, eventually, because this is about FREEDOM, and we are the "Real Americans," so no matter how long it takes THEM, we don't stop, and we won't stop, and we can't stop, BECAUSE WE CAN'T BE STOPPED,...
Only in this racist country does it make sense to have 400 years of a mind-bending story and, instead of telling that, spend our time making white guy comedies just to piss off a Korean boy king:
Ayn Rand, white's conservative cultist of selfishness and national irresponsibility - along with all the others - should never have been resurrected
Thank goodness, oppressed culture's don't naturally roam to making slaves, sending people away in cattle cars, or firing squads, because America's caucasians would be in some trouble going forward in history. Of course, TMR (always ahead of the cultural curve) long ago switched to an all-white-all-the-time-call-out format, while Salon's Brittney Cooper has only recently gotten to the point where whites have her"utterly undone."But it's Jezebel's Brit Bennett, who finally confesses what everyone's thinking:"I Don't Know What to Do With Good White People." She's got me there, too, because - after my trial-by-fire with emersion in white "culture" - I now have a hard time identifying what "good" even means, in the shitshow that is white America revealed. I mean, considering what hardships whites are saddling blacks with, as I write this, would it be wrong for future generations to subject white's ever-more-unreasonable asses to slavery, cattle cars, and firing squads? White's obstinance (and laughter) in the face of our deaths, coupled with their historical willingness to see others suffer for their benefit, makes it a tough call. "Ethics," as we know it, becomes questionable in their presence - which, in a way, has always been the "good" white people's point. Confronting the weight, of living with 4 centuries of white bullshit, I just wrote something like the following, in an email, to a "good" white person a few days ago:
Reading "a society of solipsism" really brings the point home, for me, because that's what TMR's been blogging about this place for almost a decade. This "modern" society that said the late (and suicidal) Spalding Gray was "brilliant" as he talked about pot affecting his "kundalini," and made multiple con men and women rich selling "The Secret," but today calls Will Smith's Scientology-schooled kids "crazy" for spouting the same inherited garbage everyone was applauding as they grew. (Picking on the black kids really brings the cowardice of these people, not to mention their corrosive racial dynamics, into view.) I could say, "make up your minds, people!" but I'm no longer sure many others have one - or ever have. It's just been my slow torture, equal to anything I've read in the recent report that's got everyone so outraged, now. You've all become Dick Cheney, dripping with evil and the stench of death, to me.
And the world turns. By 2044, whites will be the minority and the kids of these monstrosities, who will be spouting THEIR PARENT'S inherited nonsense, won't have the cover of their parent's superior numbers - so what to do? I imagine future generations will be at a loss, because protecting those who've always been hurting blacks, merely to protect their egos, won't be a winning proposition to the formally oppressed. White's perversion of MLK's teachings are already causing non-violence to lose it's currency and, after another 30 years, and faced with this already-heavily-armed white population, I can't see how it'll last. (If whites don't believe in non-violence - and their heavily-advertised and newly-purchased arsenals clearly say they don't - why will anyone else?) And it's today's remorseless "good" white people, through their open hostility and willful inaction, that will have made it so. They demanded it be this way, and everyone's finally heard them, and these "others" will have no choice but to respond accordingly.
I guess, looking at it objectively, only a very-pre-emptive "congratulations" - for any future carnage to caucasians - are all that can reasonably be offered,...
