Dear John, There is a difference between a fascist coup attempt lead from above and a mass insurrection.
Keith > On Jan 7, 2021, at 5:05 PM, Molly Hankwitz <mollyhankw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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: > # 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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