LOL John Young...Congressional rituals appeared overly dainty and passe, it is true...
To Felix... <The other question is if the democratic party, and Biden in particular, is willing/able to use the new slim majorities to enact transformational change. I think there is a strong inclination among the Obama centrists who seem to be dominating the new administration to see Trump as an aberration -- creating by the Russians, Cambridge Analytica or some other force unrelated to them --> Yes, very true...a resurgence of the coastal elitism which Trump railed on on behalf of his base. <and go back to the status quo before Trump.> Attempt to bring about "certainty"? <The only area where there seems to a real political will to implement change, rather than simply 'restore decency'> Let's hope Biden's presidency will not simply slip into this role only...as he, while more comforting than wild Don, can be anemic... <is climate change, which, of course, would be a catalyst for much wider changes if taken seriously> I believe yesterday was an ingenious smokescreen invented by Trump & Co...as patriotism...to obscure the fact that in the last two weeks Trump has auctioned off the Arctic wilderness to fossil fuel companies... https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/05/trump-arctic-national-wildlife-refuge-lease-sales and ended endangered species protections for wolves https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gray-wolf-removed-endangered-species-act/ and is currently trying to limit civil rights for minorities - https://worldnewsera.com/news/us-news/justice-dept-seeks-to-pare-back-civil-rights-protections-for-minorities/ "The Trump administration has long sought to eliminate protections for groups at risk of suffering such impacts, arguing that the Civil Rights Act as passed by Congress only safeguards against intentional acts of discrimination." Elvis is leaving the building...! Molly On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 1:31 PM John Young <j...@pipeline.com> wrote: > Yesterday was thrilling for its replication of 1968 in challenging > status quo across many stolidities of thought, behavior, belief, > acceptance, complaint, compliance, modest defiance, embrace of > bipartisanship, hypnotic left-right cum socialist-capitalist ifatuous > deology, intellectual vacuity secured by tenure and perquisites, > condescension toward the unlearned, prattling of stale truisms, idle > sophistry of argument, ample funding of compendia of little read > volumes of propriety and profiteering. > > 68 tipped the rancid tub of placidity and before injection of > precarity entered the cliche-driven market, there were a few years of > turmoil, some fatalities at Kent State and the West Village, a few > break-ins at FBI offices and blood splatterings at military bases, > levitation of the Pentagon, trials of celebrity dissidents, police > bombings of Philly rowhouses, seeds of feminism implanted, sexual > liberation of birth control narcotics. All this before the aging > rebels were enlisted by academia to herd the young upcoming teens > into chutes of branding and alumnae funding. > > The Capitol Liberation, brief as it was, got widespread media play > almost effortlessly, followed by resulsive outpouring of > opportunistic bray about democracy at risk, which by today had become > as stale, rancid and deflated of novelty and significance as days > before the Georgia election. > > Congress pulled an all-nighter then left town with nothing to show > for the squeals of rhetoric about Capitol Police failure, 25th > Amendment, impeachment, clipping Trump's social media wings, > amounting to who the fuck cares, let's get back to Covid-19 agoniste. > > Is January 2021 to finally supplant May 1968 as navel gazing of the > best and brightest (cliches abundant)? Sleepy Joe and silent Kamala > do not appear to be prepared to combat Pence pardoning Trump than > Gerald Ford Nixon. Bring up the bodies even if QAnon and ilk. > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org > # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: >
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