The Conservative Cave

I'm on my way to the ABC Islands of the Caribbean for eight days aboard the Celebrity Beyond starting Saturday April 27. The first place I hit will be the Ocean View Café BUFFET bar where not only a plethora of delicious food is awaiting me for lunch tomorrow but also I can start drinking again. In fact, I think I might start drinking a few beers today so all those drinks won't be a complete shock to my system. Oh, and our Steve Kane Radio Show group also has a serious mission project aboard ship. Namely to try out ALL the Martinis on the Martini Bar menu. Perhaps we shall determine which is the best Martini aboard.

Augiedog (2,546 posts)

The supremely stupids are trying to figure out how immunize Trump but not Dem presidents.
The presidential oath that all presidents swear to protect and defend the United States Constitution from all enemies (excepting Trump by his own admission) will require President Biden to get rid of the orange anus. His failure to do so could result in his own justifiable impeachment.

This bizarre Twilight Zone scenario that the supremely stupids are entertaining as a valid exercise of constitutional rationality has gone down the rabbit hole of Hollywood “B” movies. They are trying to defend the indefensible in an ultimate attempt at installing a ‘King’ whom they believe will end the idea of no man is above the law as long as it’s a white man.

The convoluted anti intellectual thinking being promulgated in the dark corners of the Stoney edifice is the ultimate result of the anti ‘Woke’ clan. Their desperate fears of an educated electorate coming for them along with the clear demographic shifts evident for the future clearly terrorize these robe wearing wanna be priests of lawlessness.

Immunizing the orange anus without providing the same for President Biden would be a transparent step to far even for them. Although they might just go full fascist, remove their conical masks and burn down the whole experiment in democracy.

I find it almost impossible to believe we are having this argument in this country. Absurd, as it obviously is, here we are nonetheless. I try to think of an analogy that wakes up the sleeping populace to the danger presented by this conservative…no, strike conservative and insert whatever pejorative you like for them…court majority. Perhaps this analogy will help; this is like removing all the bones from a human being.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218897348

Behind the facade of normalization, even high-income lifestyles have been ghetto-ized.

Consider the defining characteristics of a ghetto:

1. The residents can't afford to live elsewhere.

2. Everything is a rip-off because options are limited and retailers / service providers know residents have no other choice or must go to extraordinary effort to get better quality or a lower price.

3. Nothing works correctly or efficiently. Things break down and aren't fixed properly. Maintenance is poor to non-existent. Any service requires standing in line or being on hold.

4. Local governance is corrupt and/or incompetent. Residents are viewed as a reliable "vote farm" for the incumbents, even though whatever little they accomplish for the residents doesn't reduce the sources of immiseration.

5. The locale is unsafe. Cars are routinely broken into, there are security bars over windows and gates to entrances, everything not chained down is stolen--and even what is chained down is stolen.

6. There are few viable businesses and numerous empty storefronts.

7. The built environment is ugly: strip malls, used car lots, etc. There are few safe public spaces or parks that are well maintained and inviting.

8. Most of the commerce is corporate-owned outlets; the money doesn't stay in the community.

9. Public transport is minimal and constantly being degraded.

10. They get you coming and going: whatever is available is double in cost, effort and time. Very little is convenient or easy. Services are far away.

11. Residents pay high rates of interest on debt.

12. There are few sources of healthy real food. The residents are unhealthy and self-medicate with a panoply of addictions to alcohol, meds, painkillers, gambling, social media, gaming, celebrity worship, etc.

13. Nobody in authority really cares what the residents experience, as they know the residents are atomized and ground down, incapable of cooperating in an organized fashion, and therefore powerless.