I figured it out! The USA is becoming one big Flannery O'Connor novel!
A Good Man is Hard to Find on Both Sides...
Happy July 4th, I guess... I hesitate calling this Independence Day since that is an American Value that the Conservatives want to remove, except for themselves and then, only for the White Men eventually. We are reeling from last week’s Supreme Court Hearings.
Ugh! After West Virginia vs. NRA, Grover Norquist’s Wet Dream of Drowning the Government in the Bathtub will come true. Except it will not be the Bathtub but by sea level rise coming up the Potomac. This originalist approach (brought to us who thought that the choice of Trump or Clinton was pointless and took their votes elsewhere (most likely they drowned their votes in the bathtub) is now about to be selectively applied to every agency such as the Department of Interior (this includes the Bureau of Indian Affairs which was given Statutory Authority on July 9, 1832), Department of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, Department of Education, the Commerce Department, etc.
The basic idea was that only the rules created at the inception date of these agencies were authorized by Congress and that Congress didn’t authorize these very same agencies to come up with new and appropriate rules to roll with the times and respond to emergencies. Apparently we live in a Static Universe set way back in time sometime between 1973 and 1640. In this new concept of time, it has melted and refrozen like the Ben and Jerry’s in your freezer during last summer’s heat dome and Time is now sort of a frothy mess. Eat it with your spoon.
In the arguments for banning Abortion, Alito cited Sir Matthew Hale, an English judge and lawyer who lived from 1609 to 1676. He believed women were either property or witches, and murdered at least 2 at the Stake. Note that President Washington wasn’t born until 1732 and hadn’t begun his long career as a cherry logger. He had all of his teeth. Should we really be basing our modern laws on Foreign Agents who believed in Witches? Oh - I forgot that many of the Conservatives do believe in witches and many work for Putin. My bad.
Now the Supremes are talking about, among other things, Banning Contraception. If this specifically comes up I will organize a PAC to make sure the the oldest form of birth control, the Pull-Out Method is included on the chopping block, just to ridicule their insanity. All that Wasted Sperm!
Meanwhile, the Earth is heating up, we are about to lose the Amazon Rain Forest, and Putin is threatening everyone with Nukes. But I guess its important to protect Human embryos, though not their Hosts. At birth, these embryos become their own agent with their own agency and should not receive a penny of assistance that they never earned. These new borns need to get off their asses and make us some new Ford Explorers. Investors on Wall Street who also didn’t earn the same pennies will get all of the pennies in this Libertarian nightmare. They always need more pennies…
This dystopian nightmare in progress is our frothy future. Angry people yelling at us with fire and brimstone. But these very same people don’t have to understand what the fugg their yelling means. God does that for them - they are just the vassal (pi) Thanks to their homeschooling methods which entirely consists of yelling like this to their children (this, by the way, is Child Abuse) nobody know what the fuck they are yelling about, including the ones doing the yelling. Its not up to us to know - just the very same god that unleashed Putin, Trump and Covid on all of us understands. The same god apparently could give a fugg about the planet he created.
This is how the Republican Side of Congress talks during Biden’s State of the Union speech.
Some of the Wrath of God is being set to Heavy Metal! At least it makes a bit more sense and is meant for good - he is trying to blow away Covid with the Wrath of God. Works for me, along with Vaccination and Boosters, Masking everywhere, freiquent testing and Social Distancing. And this preacher keeps giving us viral laughs!
Back to the Future: apparently there will be more “Emergency” hearings this week but I am too tired to parse the news after last week. I did watch the hearings where we learned about that Smear Campaign called KetchupGate as well as a look into Trump’s Backseat Driving Style. I hope this week’s hearing is all about his Witness Tampering which is the Felony they will get him with. Felons can’t run for President. This one will still try though, and probably succeed and win, thanks to the Supremes who will fast track his appeal.
Meanwhile the Democrats, who have been handed a Single Issue Cudgel from God to drive the Republicans out of existence, are instead breathlessly whispering about the winning prospect of Hilary in 2024. Yeah that will work!
I am at or just have passed my Cyclothymia hypomania peak. Can you tell? This is turning into a bad one. The latest idea started with the great opera by Gerald Berry and using what he left off. To create the libretto he took the play by Wilde and simply chopped off all that didn’t drive the plot, The rest he set to music. Weird music in Stockhausen’s style with frightening vocal ranges. I sent the OperaVision link to a very thrashed and shredded Craig Verm one late night after he had just finished performing as Don Giovanni and nailing it. He intended to watch this nightmare for a few minutes - but couldn’t look away and stop and fell asleep at Sunrise and had horrifying dreams in Pastel.
After safely visiting friends up here for FiddleTunes, I told Nancy of my sudden idea to capture all the words that Barry left out in the libretto and set those to music. Would call it The Impotence of Being Dishonest and turn it into an allegory about our current Supreme Court. I may still do that. But then, I thought of last week’s hearing. What a Story! I am going to find the transcript and that will be my libretto raw source. I hope to cast Lady Bracknell for the Liz Cheney role.
To bring it all together…
All of the above and some of the videos from the hearings can be listed in the “What the fugg did I just watch?” category. This last video includes the line “I am a Celibate, Madam!” which reminds me that Celibacy will also be outlawed along with the Pull Out method and all other forms of Contraception.
I need to pull out of this computer before the screen starts talking to me and telling me to go do strange things like Order a new Marcel Dreux Accordina Ludovic Beier Model. Its a great time to buy stuff from the EU and the UK - and to send dollars to certain people in Ukraine directly such as this one via PayPal (sending to a friend): naprikovsky@gmail.com You can find out more about Vladyslav at https://www.youtube.com/c/JohnAravosisDC Money directly to people doing good work with it, instead of some big agency who skims off 85% for administrative costs!
(The (PI) in one of the above paragraphs means “Pun Intended”. I am starting another blog this week focusing on my selection of my addiction. The title acronym is CCCP which looks like USSR in Cyrillic. But this new Substack will have nothing to do with Russia or the former Soviet Union, except to poke fun at the poor selection of Chocolate available to them probably. The first “C” is “Casey’s”.
I will announce it here in about a month.)