Recent events reminded me of some points I failed to make in the "Nationalism is just Off Brand White Supremacy" edition so this is a continuation - I forgot to mention the radio program about Samoa and the personal experience with the racist American culture. Since then the Father of Bossa Nova died, the protests in Hong Kong continued and make Top News and Iran is barely enriching Uranium more and Trump is throwing a fit about it, among other things - the outcry against half the Border Patrol being in that racist, KKK Facebook group mocking migrant deaths came and went, I guess, while I was banned from Facebook for a week but I'm addressing it again. And one Democrat dropped out and a new billionaire loser one announced, today, keeping the total at 24. And NPR is getting so desperate to stop Bernie they even had the second News story focus on HER, a sign they are about to cave in that I have been predicting for months.
But let me talk about the Basics, the VERY basic beliefs that allow White Supremacy to grow so we can uproot it at it's CORE. It IS interchangeable with Patriarchy, White Supremacy, and I was unfair to ONLY focus on calling it White Supremacy instead of the Patriarchy "side" of it, last edition - but then again this is the Danger of Classification - it allows "Divide and Conquer" to be employed.
We really are all interconnected - my best phrase last time was probably "It takes ALL of us to overthrow the SOME of us that threaten the whole world." or something like that. If we "split" into Those Fighting Patriarchy and Those Fighting White Supremacy they have won half the battle already by dividing us. This is part of how "Classification" is an Evil of the Evil Empire.
Of course classification can have it's uses, science, etc - but we have accepted a Classified Reality as part of the White Supremacist / Patriarchal agenda. I heard some of a program on NPR last night, The Conversation, where the topic was Language and specifically Gender in Language and how it shapes our reality. The two guests agreed that introducing gender, in all words or say in professions, actor/actress, merely brought in the sexism existent in the culture, didn't create the sexism. The same applied for "mainsplaining" or "girl boss" or whatever words "reinforce" or "call into question" our sexist views by introducing gender. I always think of the word Witch and how we don't say "Male Witch" and I always considered that an Honor - if it was supposed to be respectful, in patriarchy, to call Actresses "Actors" - accepting that Male is "Preferred" - it is respectful in OUR world, the real world of the Goddess, of Nature, to honor the title that "usually" applies to women, to see the Feminine as the aspirational. It's interesting which professions even garner a "male" prefix - but I'm proud that as witches we are mostly on the next level, already. If it WAS meaningful I suppose it would come up but there doesn't need to be any need to say "male" witch any more than to pick "race" or any other qualifier to describe yourself - just maybe what kind of magic you are into, like I am a Fairy Witch, Art Witch, etc.
When I heard about Joao Gilberto passing away I had not heard so much about him before - but some interesting facts stood out. One was that he used to play his guitar during the soccer matches, following the mood of the team and the game with the mood of his music. And that he had lived alone or "gone crazy" in his later years. But what really stuck out was that he was considered the Father of, Inventor of the genre Bossa Nova - but he didn't consider it a genre, even, instead considered himself a Samba musician. When I was a kid my Nana had an organ - she probably still has it but I remember it from my youngest years - and it had a Bossa Nova and Samba setting for it's rhythms. So I and most people consider Bossa Nova its own Genre - but I just learned after his death how they were even related. Still he insisted his music was Samba - shouldn't we take his word for it? But as the Father this implies the genre isn't real... more than that it reminds me of how many musicians, how many artists, say they "can't be pigeonholed" - there is SOMETHING about Music that actively defies Categorization - it's not actually "fit" to be categorized.
The attempt to categorize everything eventually breaks the categorization system itself - because Magic, like music, defies categorization and everything is magic, has magic in it.
The whole system, the whole Evil White Supremacist system, is built upon Categorization, Valuation, and Hierarchy. At its CORE this is Male / Female, with Male Domination all the way down - but this leaves a path for Female Domination all the way Up, too. We just can't "win" the same way They, The Man, did - we can't "win" that way because it is a Loser's Way, a Losing Way - all you get down that path is Losing your Way.
Equality IS the antidote to Supremacy - you CAN see the inequality if you are just willing to look and then you can rectify it. It's not like we don't need ANY classification - I like to know if my weed is Indica or Sativa, I like to know if berries are poison or not, etc.
But we don't have ANY need to classify People - another news story was about Trump's Citizen question being shot down - for now - by the Supreme Court - and the Trump Nazis branding Roberts a Traitor for it - when they are the real traitors, they SHOULD know. it doesn't make ANY sense to Classify people with Valuation - to determine THIS or THAT, sure, it CAN be helpful - but ULTIMATELY the idea of "classifying" people is the foundation of White Supremacy. "That isn't the kind of 'Classless' you should be going for" is the meme that comes to mind.
We DO need to end the Classification, Valuation, and Hierarchy of people. Just end it. Treat people equally. Work to ensure equal rights. Destroy the obstacles - with Magic.
i should talk more magically - we can rid the word of these Nazis - we can remove them from Reality by believing BETTER things, by questioning and rejecting their foundations.
I heard a "model" version of "Nationalism is off-Brand White Supremacy" on the radio as I was considering this topic, last edition, and forgot to include it - the "Do American Samoans want birthright citizenship in the USA?" episode on NPR. It reminded me of moving to Colorado from Georgia - expecting it to be "less racist." Georgia always seemed really racist to me - there were black people and white people, mostly, and a pretty segregated society. It seemed like many, many white poeple were openly racist, and many more were racist by refusing to see the racism all around them but would say they weren't racist - and MANY white people were aware of how racist it all was but we "seemed" to be in a minority - at least voting and things (though we got electronic voting machines the same year we got our first Rapeublikkkan governor in 150 years and went "Red" since then) - we seemed to be in "too much of a minority to change things" - but again that is the result of Classification and Valuation, accepting the belief that there aren't enough of us, we aren't "powerful" enough, to change things.
Even one person can change things - it just takes more magic if you don't have help, but it always takes magic, the more the merrier.
When I moved to Colorado expecting "less racism" I was in for a surprise - they could be even MORE racist, in some ways, in Colorado - a leading Nazi politician almost won on the platform of ONLY conducting Government business in English - obviously intended as racism against Spanish-Speaking people and my son who only speaks ASL would be one of the many "unintended" victims, too.
What really shocked me, opening my eyes to this aspect of White Supremacy, was how many Hispanic people I met would make mean, racist comments about "Mexicans". I realized this was the way White Supremacy works - you oppress EVERYONE and let "certain" people feel superior to "other" people - your family was in a certain location for more generations, whatever. By feeling like you are at least above SOMEONE else you get sucked into the Bully System - it's exactly the same way Trump does Foreign Policy - "You will get Sanctions, too, if you trade with Iran and honor the deal we all made but Trump pulled out of." "If you don't stop these migrants we will increase Tariffs - UK Health Care is NOT trade but Migrants / slaves ARE" - how Trump explains Trade Wars in KKK-ese.
It's a Bully System - "You're with us or against us" / "If you dont stand behind the troops try standing in front of them."
"Just because I'm a woman is no reason to treat me like a second class citizen" Stephy just told Archie on Archie Bunker's place.
When it is ALL about classifying people - who is "illegal" - we can DESTROY the Evil System by defying it's classifications, rejecting it's valuations, dismantling it's hierarchy from the inside because we are ALL a part of it. It's run on our collective misery and we can shut it down with collective, collaborative contentment. We can replace the Evil System with a Good one.
In American Samoa they have an opposition to birthright citizenship that seems to be based in Right-Wing, conservative beliefs: They want to maintain at least two traditions, an enforced Prayer Hour on Sundays and a law that says you can only own land if you are 50% Samoan blood. I was reminded to talk about this because in The Rock's Fast and Furious spin-off movie I saw before Spider-Man - which is amazingly Anti-Ttump, I hope those fools make it a sensation by boycotting it - they go to his home country, American Samoa.
They talked about how they are SO patriotic, they have the highest enlistment in the Military and say the Pledge of Allegiance a lot - we said it every day in school in the South but not when I moved to Missouri. But they don't want citizenship, many of them, because they want to keep their traditions, the Prayer Hour and the Land Exclusion.
They say they don't want to end up like Hawaii and they would know better than me but Bloodline-exclusive landowning doesn't seem to be the only way to avoid what happened to Hawaii. And when they talked about it they always racistly mentioned a Chinese or Japanese person moving there and how terrible it would be if they could own land, just because they had kids there, waited a generation, or whatever - you could hear the imported racism, from America. But they don't want the citizenship because then EVERYONE could have it - they would lose their privilege.
This whole birthright stuff is the core of racism, and probably something we all basically accept, don't question, because regardless of religion we all SEEM to think, if we don't think about it too much, that we will be re-incarnated in our own bloodline.
What if we aren't? What if we reincarnate into totally different families? Doesn't that change how we would look at the whole world - make sure NO PLACE is a bad place to be born?
As long as there are rules that favor ONE group we will only have TWO responses, naturally, according to what we think of as "Self"-preservation. Exclusive "MySelf" / "OurSelf" preservation will always be racist, nationalist, Evil - it will always involve trying to Get Into the In Crowd.
But Inclusive "Self" preservation, ALL our Self, All of Us will save the world - it causes us to respond by Destroying / dismantling the system that favors only One Group and replacing it with one that favors all of us.
They used to ban anyone who didn't pray from the village -a death sentence. Now they are "less harsh" and only make them cook for the entire village. Threats of Slavery and Death - but that could be their ancient culture, modified - who am I to say they shouldn't enforce weekly prayers? They also don't make them pray - you CAN meditate. But then again I wonder if diversifying, adding other KINDS of prayer like orgies or whatever would "spoil" their system, anyway. And it's not like I want to - I'm not against Prayer or Magic and especially on Island cultures I can appreciate, through an antrhopology class I took about Irala, the Death Isle, how important magic is. But when it is obviously become a tool of the Right Wing to keep people in an oppressive and oppressing state - the basic program of White Supremacy, no matter who is doing the oppression as long as SOMEONE is getting oppressed - then I have to be suspect of it.
When the Chief or whatever they call him is the only one who gets to drive around making sure everyone is in their homes or pulled over on the road to pray or whatever - that's hierarchy. If it's important to the Spirits why not let the Spirits enforce it?
This gets into all sorts of theological territory about Intermediarys, theyve argued about this for centuries. Skip it. Cut to the chase.
In Hong Kong we have Top News every day about the protests against Carrie Lamb and the extradition law. Why didn't we get that kind of coverage, why don't we, for protests of Police Brutality and murders? Why do protests against the USA government get treated like "fads" to be whethered but the Anti-China protests are something we've invested in stoking for decades?
We bully Iran and anyone who sides with them. Venezuela, too. I'm disappointed the president of Mexico didn't just stand up to Trump - you HAVE to stand up to bullies or you become part of their Bullying Network.
Anyone who Stands Up to Trump, around the world, will have the SUPPORT and Respect of America, of REAL Americans who aren't Traitors and Nazis. After I typed the last edition I was pleased to hear, on Snap Judgement, a story-telling hour, one of many, NPR has selected in the Trump years to pacify us - and the host said his trademark "sign-off" where he says "how far from the news it is" but the same day, or next day, after I called for calling Trump out as a Nazi he said "You could walk up to an actual Nazi - because that's a thing, now" (establishing that even in this "hypothetical" this part, the actual Nazis part refers to Actual Nazis) "...punch him in the face until he howls for his president to save him..." - an obvious Trump slight. Proud that it magically happened, kind of.
We have an attempted coup in Venezuela and it looks like another one in Hong Kong, backed by America. If ANYONE is helping us overthrow Trump I don't know about it. Russia is "taking over" all sorts of countries, too - but I don't think we are competing with them at all, under Trump, everything he does, as weak as he is making us by intensifying the Fear and Evil, is in Putin's favor and surely pleases him, having his directions followed. Because the outcome is making things worse for everyone they "get" - the classic goal of trolling, wasting time on negativity.
I was going to write a whole edition about Brexit but let me just say it here: You know it is BAD - bad for England, bad for Europe, bad for Everyone - because you know it is what Russia, and Trump, and Local Fascists / Racists all want. You know it is bad. And not only that, the entire two years of wasted time debating it, 3 years, just shows "Government" - as it is - is completely unnecessary - they haven't done ANYTHING just shown their obsolescence. Not for failing to Brexit but for failing to end it in favor of a better idea and move on. Because breaking up Unions only serves Autocrats and the Worldwide Fascists taking over, from within and without.
So yeah the worthlessness of Government - as it is - and Brexit illustrating that, didn't deserve it's own edition - you just got tricked, trolled, played.
But I DO believe in government, in Good Government -and will write soon how it all works out with Oz - Future spoilers included. So read the Oz Books.
Good Government DOES things, takes care of people, rights injustice and eventually makes itself obsolete, as a Goal - because everyone is taken care of and Just.
We can start with gender equality and racial injustice and saving the planet from ourselves and ending war and fossil fuels -we can do IT ALL - we MUST do it all. We CAN save the world with Voting, for Bernie and other socialists, but they might still rig the system so we don't HAVE to accept their corrupt rules - we can just take over. It will be peaceful, I call it the #pillowrevolution because it can be easy, comfortable, fun, too.
It can, must be, Will Be, Magic.
The other fun news this week was the leaked memos from the UK Ambassador calling Trump "imbecilic" "insecure" and "incompetent" - brought to you by the letter "I" - and Trump's famous counter-punch, tweeting about him and disinviting him to dinner.
Part of the whole reason for Brexit was so they could "negotiate their own deals with America" and people really act like Trump's 4 years, if that, will be "forever" - but even before his first term he can destroy the "Special Relationship" so the UK is just some trash island country for off-shore banking and doesn't have a "Big Dog" buddy after all. Why would Trump do that?
Just ask yourself the follow-up: Would Putin Like it? Does it serve White Supremacy? (If Nigel Farrage becomes Ambassador, as Trump wants, it's like you've got your KKK-KGB Nazi Agents EVERYWHERE, on all sides -because you do.)
But we just stop them, stand up to them - their small-dicked bullies and we can just pants them and they will run away - promise. But lets do it, lets end the rule of these Nazis and not let them get this far, next time.
Or just wake the whole world up to Love so they NEVER come back. Like we tried to as Hippies in the 60's - sexual psychadelic #pillowrevolution but this time we WIN and Take It All
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
Sunday, July 7, 2019
Nationalism is Just Off-Brand White Supremacy: gagablog 175
"Nationalism is just off-brand White Supremacy." This was one of my last status posts before Facebookkk banned me again, for 30 days, for exposing a Nazi who was trolling a Tulsi group. I feel like it will be one of my famous quotes, like "What are the last three things you would make free?" - so I wanted to go ahead and explain what I meant. As I was composing this in my head the last few days it struck me to hear a report on American Samoa on NPR that focused on the debate of whether they would want birthright citizenship and other "full benefits" of being American citizens or stay the way they have it and the concerns illustrated this principle, that nationalism serves a Larger Program of White Supremacy.
My first inclination to make this statement came from considering the networking of worldwide fascist leaders, all the people Facebookkk and other Nazis, including the Russian Troll farms, are working to elect. The "klub" was exposed again at the G-20 summit where Trump was again distant from allies and cozy with Putin and Kim Jong Un. We know Trump is "working for" Putin but no one acts really upset about this. There was a report just yesterday about the UK Ambassador to the USA and all the embarrassing things he said: that Trump was insecure and had to be spoken to bluntly because he was too stupid to understand things, etc - things everyone already knew and the Foreign Office just confirmed the report and said the leak was "weird." But if Trump is so stupid, and he is, then what is the excuse for the Democrats being unable to stop him from doing anything? They, someone, DOES deserve credit for stopping SOME of the things he has tried to do but they can't just Stop him - because they aren't really trying to. If they were trying to they could. They can claim they don't have the numbers to impeach in the Senate but if they were really making the case they would get the needed numbers through public demand and forcing Rapeublikkkan Senators to take a stand one way or another - even if they DID fail to impeach they would succeed in making a record of who supported and who opposed Total Fascism in America.
I've said it before, here, and plenty of times online, but I still feel like the message isn't widely accepted that Trump is an actual Nazi. It's obvious in all the things he says and does and it's more apparent by considering the worldwide network he is part of. On Facebookkk it is SUPER popular to minimize the effect the Russian trolling and Facebookkk ads helped elect Trump: Trumpers just dismiss it entirely because they don't want Trump's "legitimacy" questioned but many, MANY people or Facebookkk profiles "on the left" also dismiss the Russian influence because they don't want to let The DNC and Hillary off the hook for rigging the Primary - which IS the reason Trump is President instead of Bernie. But personally I have ALWAYS seen Trump and Hillary as allies - I made a meme in 2015 or 2016 of the two of them on the front of the Titanic (which I found) and the caption "Don't Go Down With This Ship" - and the ship is Fascism and the fascists ARE all on the same side.
This is all enabled by Facebookkk - Facebookkk took the money from Russian oligarchs to sway the election for Trump, then paid ex-Israeli intelligence agents to cover up the story, then lied about it and said it was "silly" to think they influenced the election, then apologized for some of it. But they also sponsored Trump's Rapeublikkkan National convention and while they are "getting away" with this, and more - including focusing ALL censorship efforts against those of us who criticize Fascism, their greatest power is in censorship because the Truth DOES set everyone free - if it can just get it's shoes on.
While they "get away with it" the record of their "success" also condemns them, just as the screenshots I took of the reasons given for banning me show that they ALWAYS protect Nazis and White Supremacists- and make me proud to have criticized them well enough and getting the evidence of their bias even if it costs me a month of being able to speak on that platform. But they were also successful in other campaigns around the world and their success ALWAYS elects and empowers Fascists. This same Network, through Facebookkk, also passed Brexit - and by appealing to the same xenophobia and racism that they used to elect Trump. They used homophobia and classism to elect Bolsonaro in Brazil - and for months before that election they were reporting on how "popular" he was then three days before the election they admitted and deleted 150,000 fake Facebookkk and Twitter accounts supporting him - the same accounts that made him so "popular," online, that it made the news every week at least, increasing his "inevitability" and actual popularity - because most people do just want to fit in. In Brazil my understanding is that there are many races and cultures represented but the rich people are also White People and it is an obvious example of White Supremacism to elect Bolsonaro - who shares ALL the same White Supremacist agenda that Trump does: racism, sexism, homophobia, pro-Military, Pro-Police Brutality, Pro-Oil. I've always heard that actual German Nazis, from Hitler's regime, moved to South America to avoid prosecution - I've heard this all my life so it would not be a stretch for Original Nazis to be behind the rise of Bolsonaro, too. And through discussing this online I got a comment from someone who said their boyfriend was with the CIA in South America and they had pictures of Hitler and other things that showed they were obviously Nazis. I just heard that from someone on the internet but when it jibes with what I've heard of the Skull and Bones society at Harvard, where the Bushes and other Presidents belonged, that they were Nazi, drank from the skull of Geronimo, etc. it makes sense.
They can be obvious about their fascism, as much as they feel comfortable, and though it causes a lot of evil for the fascists to feel so comfortable with Trump "running things" it also makes them expose themselves to readily apparent extremes - they have over-reached. In Brazil it might be obvious how Brazilian Nationalism is part of White Supremacy. In the UK it should be, too - the racists voted against the immigrants. Trump is friendly with Boris Johnson, broke precedent to endorse him in their upcoming election / selection process - and they both appeal to the racism in their countries to promote fascist agendas. Bolsonaro calls himself the Brazilian Trump and they keep interviewing people on the BBC who support the idea that Boris will be Their Trump. It's easy to see how all three of these are White Supremacists and how their agenda is the same. You know that Trump and other authoritarian leaders support each other, network together. These include Modi in India, Abe in Japan, Kim Jong Un in North Korea,
("Her ex-husband is less Indiana Jones and more Harry Potter?" Bob just said to Becker, who was laughing at his interests ex, played by the loser brother on "Two and a Half Men" - just now)
Duterte in the Phillipines, MSB in Saudi Arabia, Netenyahu in Israel, whoever in whatever country, apparently the Revolting Hafta or whoever in Libya - all of these people share the same fascist, homophobic, sexist, authoritarian views - share the exact same agenda as White Supremacists - and there may be some "variation" - India has the largest solar field, but as America is as Pro-Oil as anyone we have a Federal Center here in Denver and every spare inch of their ground is being covered with solar panels - but the agenda, the Big Agenda is all the same.
And it's KKK. This is why I spell Facebookkk with three K's because it's part of their agenda, it's completely in line - not just because they are Trump's RNC sponsors, got him elected, censor his critics, divert and "control" the conversation, etc - but because of all the other "Trumps", worldwide, they are helping to elect, or rigging the elections for.
They call themselves the "Invisible" Empire but when it becomes obvious who they are - Trump - and obvious who his friends are, who they are working with, then it's like we have a special upgrade to our vision where we can see the invisible, see the Predators in our midst.
When the only thing that makes these other leaders "Not" White Supremacists, when their agenda and alliances are all the same, is that they aren't "White", it just doesn't "excuse" them - they ARE all part of the White Supremacist agenda whether they even see it or not. It seems ironic to call India part of the White Supremacist agenda when they have the Caste System which is supposed to be "so much worse" than "just" racism, as portrayed in America, anyway - but really White Supremacy is the culmination of that long, terrible tradition - a Caste system color-coded by Racism to promote "whiteness." But even "White Supremacy" isn't just about "race" and racism - it is equivalent to Patriarchy, too, since sexism is so central to the agenda.
The point I'm making by calling ALL Nationalism "Off-Brand" White Supremacy is that it is all the same basic belief system, self-promotion, but the reality is that White Supremacists have control of the system that has been built upon THIS, non-inclusive idea of "Self"-promotion. We ruin the world by setting the Standard, from the Top, presumably from America the supposedly Most Powerful Country in the world - by claiming that power COMES from "self"- promotion, racism, greed, and setting those standards for the world - by building and using nuclear bombs, stockpiling them, then threatening and punishing other countries that try to follow suit - by everything "We" do we set the standard of Exclusive Self-Promotion being the way to go, make it appear to be the ONLY way. When in fact it is merely an Inclusive Self-Promotion, one that recognizes there are no "others", really, that IS the Only Way - and we can see that way when confronted with the various doomsdays brought upon us by following the Exclusive path. I even heard a capitalist billionaire on NPR saying the pitchforks will come for them if they don't convert to an inclusive capitalism that helps everyone instead of widening the wealth gap.
And "we" make Exclusion, force, violence, bullying, we make it the only way by pressuring others into it - but that system WILL collapse when we expose it, resist it, and forge forward into the OTHER way, the inclusive way, to save the world instead of ruining it. We can just question it - "Is America the Top of White Supremacy - or has Russia taken it's place since Putin is obviously controlling Trump?" - just question it, call it to question itself and turn on itself - and it WILL collapse.
I call it "off-brand" to make fun of it and to remind the participants that they are subservient to the Brand Name White Supremacists, Putin and Trump, that they are doing "their" bidding, really just Putin since Trump is a Pawn. So they are Traitors, to America, by siding with and dying with Trump on the grassy knoll of Amerikkka - all for Putin. And Hillary is in on it - let's not let her off, or ALL of the Corporate Democrats that keep enabling Trump with false opposition, for opposing Bernie, instead, who really would have beaten Trump and still will - if they "Let" him -
IF that's what they really want. Corporate Democrats are certainly off-brand white supremcists, like a Nicotine patch that supposedly helps you quit smoking is still made by the cigarette companies. Socialist Democrats are the only ones deserving consideration.
Why are people more scared of "Socialism" than they are of "Fascism" or "Nazism"? Because if we just call things what they really are then people WILL be able to make the right choice.
It doesn't matter if it is "Fifth Wave" Nazism or 19th Wave Nazism - they will lose because it is a losing ideology, a loser's ideology. It doesn't matter if it is 5th Wave or 17th Wave Feminism, it WILL win because it is a winning ideology, a winner's ideology - it is the ideology of the Future, the beliefs we WILL have in the future and WILL need in order to HAVE a future.
All of these patriarchs and racists and homophobes are all on the same side, with the KKK and Nazis and Oil Companies and Militaries - all the same side against US, the people and the planet. They are all in kkkollusion but WE, the People and the Planet, have the REAL power - if we just USE it. So their whole plan is to sow division so we CAN'T use our collective power - so no matter how many layers it takes it is always worth it to them to export their Supremacist ideas - just rebrand it as Nationalism.
This is why we have Brexit. This is why all these fascists get elected and supported in numerous countries around the world - they have Rebranded their White Supremacy for those other cultures. And they aren't even subtle about it - how many countries leaders have said "You've heard of 'America First?' Well we are going to make India First!" or whatever country. Even the countries we are supposedly "fighting" over are part of this whole plan, in fact CRUCIAL to the plan to provide a "place to fight": Israel, Syria, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, wherever - they ARE in "control", of things involving weapons, anyway, so they pick where to "fight" in order to continue the myth that we need Militaries at all.
As I typed that Christ *Chris, thanks typo fairies, told Becker "I love you" and he was like "I love you, too!! This is a big deal.." they were in the hospital and he had saved her by getting her there - but then she told the nurses "I Love You", too - it felt like the magical way to wrap this up - if we are exclusive, like we can ONLY love one person, or one country, then we will ruin the whole planet. If we are inclusive, we love everyone, we love ALL countries - we can SAVE the planet. Its US, all of US, against "us", some of us. "Let it be me, not her" the father just said on the St. Jude help kids with Cancer commercial. It is US, all of us, against "Some" of us - a part of us that has been corrupted.
We CAN heal ourselves, we can overcome our corruption - but only if we know what it is, identify it, and expunge it. In our case we can SEE, now clearly, this invisible empire, the KKK, the Patriarchy, the racism and sexism they rely on to prop up the Oil Companies and Militaries. And we can kill it. We can remove it. We can see it so we can expose it to the Light, to the Truth, that DOES destroy it.
I did a spell the other day, on Independence Day, to call Jesus and all good forces ("I need a towel" hayden just said on Coach) to rid the world of these Evil Forces. I believe it will happen but it WILL happen with all of us doing all we can to help it - and in doing so we will forge a WHOLE NEW WAY, a Whole New World don't you dare close your eyes! and like Alladin, like Magic, will use the Ultimate Power, Love, for Good, to win our place Ruling the World, In Love, and replace the Old World / New World Order, replace all those old orders that have kept this world this way for far too long.
My first inclination to make this statement came from considering the networking of worldwide fascist leaders, all the people Facebookkk and other Nazis, including the Russian Troll farms, are working to elect. The "klub" was exposed again at the G-20 summit where Trump was again distant from allies and cozy with Putin and Kim Jong Un. We know Trump is "working for" Putin but no one acts really upset about this. There was a report just yesterday about the UK Ambassador to the USA and all the embarrassing things he said: that Trump was insecure and had to be spoken to bluntly because he was too stupid to understand things, etc - things everyone already knew and the Foreign Office just confirmed the report and said the leak was "weird." But if Trump is so stupid, and he is, then what is the excuse for the Democrats being unable to stop him from doing anything? They, someone, DOES deserve credit for stopping SOME of the things he has tried to do but they can't just Stop him - because they aren't really trying to. If they were trying to they could. They can claim they don't have the numbers to impeach in the Senate but if they were really making the case they would get the needed numbers through public demand and forcing Rapeublikkkan Senators to take a stand one way or another - even if they DID fail to impeach they would succeed in making a record of who supported and who opposed Total Fascism in America.
I've said it before, here, and plenty of times online, but I still feel like the message isn't widely accepted that Trump is an actual Nazi. It's obvious in all the things he says and does and it's more apparent by considering the worldwide network he is part of. On Facebookkk it is SUPER popular to minimize the effect the Russian trolling and Facebookkk ads helped elect Trump: Trumpers just dismiss it entirely because they don't want Trump's "legitimacy" questioned but many, MANY people or Facebookkk profiles "on the left" also dismiss the Russian influence because they don't want to let The DNC and Hillary off the hook for rigging the Primary - which IS the reason Trump is President instead of Bernie. But personally I have ALWAYS seen Trump and Hillary as allies - I made a meme in 2015 or 2016 of the two of them on the front of the Titanic (which I found) and the caption "Don't Go Down With This Ship" - and the ship is Fascism and the fascists ARE all on the same side.
This is all enabled by Facebookkk - Facebookkk took the money from Russian oligarchs to sway the election for Trump, then paid ex-Israeli intelligence agents to cover up the story, then lied about it and said it was "silly" to think they influenced the election, then apologized for some of it. But they also sponsored Trump's Rapeublikkkan National convention and while they are "getting away" with this, and more - including focusing ALL censorship efforts against those of us who criticize Fascism, their greatest power is in censorship because the Truth DOES set everyone free - if it can just get it's shoes on.
While they "get away with it" the record of their "success" also condemns them, just as the screenshots I took of the reasons given for banning me show that they ALWAYS protect Nazis and White Supremacists- and make me proud to have criticized them well enough and getting the evidence of their bias even if it costs me a month of being able to speak on that platform. But they were also successful in other campaigns around the world and their success ALWAYS elects and empowers Fascists. This same Network, through Facebookkk, also passed Brexit - and by appealing to the same xenophobia and racism that they used to elect Trump. They used homophobia and classism to elect Bolsonaro in Brazil - and for months before that election they were reporting on how "popular" he was then three days before the election they admitted and deleted 150,000 fake Facebookkk and Twitter accounts supporting him - the same accounts that made him so "popular," online, that it made the news every week at least, increasing his "inevitability" and actual popularity - because most people do just want to fit in. In Brazil my understanding is that there are many races and cultures represented but the rich people are also White People and it is an obvious example of White Supremacism to elect Bolsonaro - who shares ALL the same White Supremacist agenda that Trump does: racism, sexism, homophobia, pro-Military, Pro-Police Brutality, Pro-Oil. I've always heard that actual German Nazis, from Hitler's regime, moved to South America to avoid prosecution - I've heard this all my life so it would not be a stretch for Original Nazis to be behind the rise of Bolsonaro, too. And through discussing this online I got a comment from someone who said their boyfriend was with the CIA in South America and they had pictures of Hitler and other things that showed they were obviously Nazis. I just heard that from someone on the internet but when it jibes with what I've heard of the Skull and Bones society at Harvard, where the Bushes and other Presidents belonged, that they were Nazi, drank from the skull of Geronimo, etc. it makes sense.
They can be obvious about their fascism, as much as they feel comfortable, and though it causes a lot of evil for the fascists to feel so comfortable with Trump "running things" it also makes them expose themselves to readily apparent extremes - they have over-reached. In Brazil it might be obvious how Brazilian Nationalism is part of White Supremacy. In the UK it should be, too - the racists voted against the immigrants. Trump is friendly with Boris Johnson, broke precedent to endorse him in their upcoming election / selection process - and they both appeal to the racism in their countries to promote fascist agendas. Bolsonaro calls himself the Brazilian Trump and they keep interviewing people on the BBC who support the idea that Boris will be Their Trump. It's easy to see how all three of these are White Supremacists and how their agenda is the same. You know that Trump and other authoritarian leaders support each other, network together. These include Modi in India, Abe in Japan, Kim Jong Un in North Korea,
("Her ex-husband is less Indiana Jones and more Harry Potter?" Bob just said to Becker, who was laughing at his interests ex, played by the loser brother on "Two and a Half Men" - just now)
Duterte in the Phillipines, MSB in Saudi Arabia, Netenyahu in Israel, whoever in whatever country, apparently the Revolting Hafta or whoever in Libya - all of these people share the same fascist, homophobic, sexist, authoritarian views - share the exact same agenda as White Supremacists - and there may be some "variation" - India has the largest solar field, but as America is as Pro-Oil as anyone we have a Federal Center here in Denver and every spare inch of their ground is being covered with solar panels - but the agenda, the Big Agenda is all the same.
And it's KKK. This is why I spell Facebookkk with three K's because it's part of their agenda, it's completely in line - not just because they are Trump's RNC sponsors, got him elected, censor his critics, divert and "control" the conversation, etc - but because of all the other "Trumps", worldwide, they are helping to elect, or rigging the elections for.
They call themselves the "Invisible" Empire but when it becomes obvious who they are - Trump - and obvious who his friends are, who they are working with, then it's like we have a special upgrade to our vision where we can see the invisible, see the Predators in our midst.
When the only thing that makes these other leaders "Not" White Supremacists, when their agenda and alliances are all the same, is that they aren't "White", it just doesn't "excuse" them - they ARE all part of the White Supremacist agenda whether they even see it or not. It seems ironic to call India part of the White Supremacist agenda when they have the Caste System which is supposed to be "so much worse" than "just" racism, as portrayed in America, anyway - but really White Supremacy is the culmination of that long, terrible tradition - a Caste system color-coded by Racism to promote "whiteness." But even "White Supremacy" isn't just about "race" and racism - it is equivalent to Patriarchy, too, since sexism is so central to the agenda.
The point I'm making by calling ALL Nationalism "Off-Brand" White Supremacy is that it is all the same basic belief system, self-promotion, but the reality is that White Supremacists have control of the system that has been built upon THIS, non-inclusive idea of "Self"-promotion. We ruin the world by setting the Standard, from the Top, presumably from America the supposedly Most Powerful Country in the world - by claiming that power COMES from "self"- promotion, racism, greed, and setting those standards for the world - by building and using nuclear bombs, stockpiling them, then threatening and punishing other countries that try to follow suit - by everything "We" do we set the standard of Exclusive Self-Promotion being the way to go, make it appear to be the ONLY way. When in fact it is merely an Inclusive Self-Promotion, one that recognizes there are no "others", really, that IS the Only Way - and we can see that way when confronted with the various doomsdays brought upon us by following the Exclusive path. I even heard a capitalist billionaire on NPR saying the pitchforks will come for them if they don't convert to an inclusive capitalism that helps everyone instead of widening the wealth gap.
And "we" make Exclusion, force, violence, bullying, we make it the only way by pressuring others into it - but that system WILL collapse when we expose it, resist it, and forge forward into the OTHER way, the inclusive way, to save the world instead of ruining it. We can just question it - "Is America the Top of White Supremacy - or has Russia taken it's place since Putin is obviously controlling Trump?" - just question it, call it to question itself and turn on itself - and it WILL collapse.
I call it "off-brand" to make fun of it and to remind the participants that they are subservient to the Brand Name White Supremacists, Putin and Trump, that they are doing "their" bidding, really just Putin since Trump is a Pawn. So they are Traitors, to America, by siding with and dying with Trump on the grassy knoll of Amerikkka - all for Putin. And Hillary is in on it - let's not let her off, or ALL of the Corporate Democrats that keep enabling Trump with false opposition, for opposing Bernie, instead, who really would have beaten Trump and still will - if they "Let" him -
IF that's what they really want. Corporate Democrats are certainly off-brand white supremcists, like a Nicotine patch that supposedly helps you quit smoking is still made by the cigarette companies. Socialist Democrats are the only ones deserving consideration.
Why are people more scared of "Socialism" than they are of "Fascism" or "Nazism"? Because if we just call things what they really are then people WILL be able to make the right choice.
It doesn't matter if it is "Fifth Wave" Nazism or 19th Wave Nazism - they will lose because it is a losing ideology, a loser's ideology. It doesn't matter if it is 5th Wave or 17th Wave Feminism, it WILL win because it is a winning ideology, a winner's ideology - it is the ideology of the Future, the beliefs we WILL have in the future and WILL need in order to HAVE a future.
All of these patriarchs and racists and homophobes are all on the same side, with the KKK and Nazis and Oil Companies and Militaries - all the same side against US, the people and the planet. They are all in kkkollusion but WE, the People and the Planet, have the REAL power - if we just USE it. So their whole plan is to sow division so we CAN'T use our collective power - so no matter how many layers it takes it is always worth it to them to export their Supremacist ideas - just rebrand it as Nationalism.
This is why we have Brexit. This is why all these fascists get elected and supported in numerous countries around the world - they have Rebranded their White Supremacy for those other cultures. And they aren't even subtle about it - how many countries leaders have said "You've heard of 'America First?' Well we are going to make India First!" or whatever country. Even the countries we are supposedly "fighting" over are part of this whole plan, in fact CRUCIAL to the plan to provide a "place to fight": Israel, Syria, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, wherever - they ARE in "control", of things involving weapons, anyway, so they pick where to "fight" in order to continue the myth that we need Militaries at all.
As I typed that Christ *Chris, thanks typo fairies, told Becker "I love you" and he was like "I love you, too!! This is a big deal.." they were in the hospital and he had saved her by getting her there - but then she told the nurses "I Love You", too - it felt like the magical way to wrap this up - if we are exclusive, like we can ONLY love one person, or one country, then we will ruin the whole planet. If we are inclusive, we love everyone, we love ALL countries - we can SAVE the planet. Its US, all of US, against "us", some of us. "Let it be me, not her" the father just said on the St. Jude help kids with Cancer commercial. It is US, all of us, against "Some" of us - a part of us that has been corrupted.
We CAN heal ourselves, we can overcome our corruption - but only if we know what it is, identify it, and expunge it. In our case we can SEE, now clearly, this invisible empire, the KKK, the Patriarchy, the racism and sexism they rely on to prop up the Oil Companies and Militaries. And we can kill it. We can remove it. We can see it so we can expose it to the Light, to the Truth, that DOES destroy it.
I did a spell the other day, on Independence Day, to call Jesus and all good forces ("I need a towel" hayden just said on Coach) to rid the world of these Evil Forces. I believe it will happen but it WILL happen with all of us doing all we can to help it - and in doing so we will forge a WHOLE NEW WAY, a Whole New World don't you dare close your eyes! and like Alladin, like Magic, will use the Ultimate Power, Love, for Good, to win our place Ruling the World, In Love, and replace the Old World / New World Order, replace all those old orders that have kept this world this way for far too long.
Friday, July 5, 2019
"Judy was dead": Stonewall, Gaga, Freedom, Ghosts and Angels, 4th of July: gagablog 174
Today is the 4th of July, Independence Day, the day we celebrate Independence and Freedom in America. Trump had a parade in his honor which anyone who really respects what America stands for should be ashamed of - and Yahoo shared an article titled "Thanks to the Democrats Americans are more ashamed to be American than ever before." Because we are calling out the evil that Trump has revealed America can be - he doesn't represent America, he doesn't "only" represent White America - I'm white and many other white people agree with me that he doesn't represent us. What Trump DOES represent is White Supremacy. We may have not all realized it yet but many of us have - Trump has made America Evil just as the original Nazis made Germany evil. I wanted to comment on that article, "How Proud were Germans in THEIR Nazi years?" but didn't want to bother signing in. At least I will say it here - and I want to say some more then I want to turn to the original focus of this edition of the gagablog.
Just the other day i was banned from Facebook again for 30 days, again for criticizing Nazis. This time it was an admitted Neo-Nazi whose comments and profile were all about supporting Hitler and Nazis - I met him in "Tulsi Gabbard's Dank Meme Stash" and posted a screenshot of his profile there which had a pro-Hitler video link and a meme that was racist against black people. He is probably the one who reported the post and while I got a ban (requested a "review" but won't hold my breath) and his original posts, with the offensive content, are still there so I reported them. I made some memes but need to make more about how Facebook ONLY censors to protect White Supremacists.
This week it made international BBC news that a Facebook group of 9,000 current and former border patrol agents was exposed for them mocking the deaths of immigrants and other white supremacist activity. While it is true that anyone can be added to Facebook groups so not everyone in the group is guilty anyone who actually interacted with the group IS guilty and should be exposed for their hate speech and the whole agency should be exposed if literally half of its members are gleefully KKK, Nazi, or otherwise White Supremacists. That is ALL Trump stands for and this evil IS his responsibility - but also something that was probably going on before he took office, too.
But it's our responsibility to do something about it. AOC went to the detention centers and reported overcrowding and other abuse including that the women were only allowed to drink out of toilets. This confirms the Facebook Racist Group story and confirms everything we need to know about Trump and his supporters being actual Nazis. When they try to defend the Kiddie Koncentration Kamps they say they AREN'T as bad as Nazi Concentration Camps and are more like the USA's Japanese Internment Camps during WW2 - some of them are the same camps. But the truth is that those camps were one of our country's great shames, too, and so will the Trump camps be - and they ARE all concentraiton camps and everything Trump and Trumpers do and say proves they are Nazi.
Carson is talking about an earthquake last night in California, in the 80's or 90's, and there was an Earthquake in California today
But let me dispense with the evil of Trump and his perversion of the 4th of July and the country itself - I did a spell to end all the evil which surely will have to effect him. "What the 4th of July means to Nancy and Me" is what Carson is talking about, now, an article by Reagan, which makes the earthquake not the only tie-in with this episode. Gary Hart was the Democratic frontrunner. Sharks are chewing at AT&T underwater cables. Danny DeVito is on. (30 years ago, being introduced)
So I decided to write this a few days ago during the NPR coverage of Stonewall. I felt it had a particular Gaga connection for two reasons: She was at the 50th anniversary of Stonewall celebration and gave a speech which made the news and social media news. Then I saw her and Bradley Cooper on a tabloid magazine with the headline implying they were "finally" dating but I hope it's not true because he doesn't seem to be nearly good enough for her by half, he's not half the man she'd choose to be with if she knew the choice existed. But the important thing is Stonewall, is Freedom, true freedom, and I only mention that magazine cover because it was further emphasis I need to write this "now" when I saw it yesterday.
But the real inspiration came from Judy Garland and Stonewall. It stood out to me when they were playing readings of first-hand accounts of the Stonewall riots. One point they made was that for the queens and other people on the scene, Stonewall wasn't the "start" of the liberation movement because they had been fighting for liberation in the streets for years, on a daily basis, just to survive. But it was the Symbolic beginning, the event that sparked the organization of the movement - though I believe it also coincided with the first anniversary of an original parade (?). The interesting thing that really stood out to me was when one of the writers, Judy Woodlawn, wrote "It was a hot night, Judy was dead, and the cops were out busting balls." When I heard that I thought "Judy? Judy Garland? Dorothy?" - because I'm an Ozzite, a Fairy. And I just knew it was her - I thought it could have been any Judy - there is a St. Jude Commercial on as I type this, with Marlo Thomas talking, whom I watch on The Joey Bishop show any night/morning they show that era - I knew it was Judy Garland. Gaga says her name, "Judy" and she is one of those people known by one name - but it COULD have been another Judy, i didn't know the history. It could have been someone she mentioned who was known to the community. I've been thinking about writing this for days, since the anniversary where they played those readings, and just looked it up before writing this:
here is the link to the book The Stonewall Reader where the quote appears: https://books.google.com/books?id=-llnDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA164&lpg=PA164&dq=stonewall+%22Judy+was+dead%22&source=bl&ots=ZXIfDWageU&sig=ACfU3U347MpQBGkNvuzlZrykqgzASkr3Mg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiB7JDG2pzjAhXOLc0KHTUuBWAQ6AEwAHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=stonewall%20%22Judy%20was%20dead%22&f=false
In the context you can see other ideas suggested -that "Personally, I think that some queen took too many Tuinals, started ranting and raving and before he knew it, a revolution had started! When people are feeling fabulous, they don't want to take any crap from anybody, particulary the cops. And it was a hot night, Judy was dead, and the cops were out busting balls. Well, they went to far this time, and before they had a chance to get a grip on the situation, it had snowballed into the gay movement" - Holly Woodlawn, "The Stonewall Reader" page 164-165
So it was partly drugs, whatever Tuinals are, partly feeling fabulous - but another element was the heat, which makes people more prone to conflict - and another was the death of Judy. I looked it up, since I didn't know, and she died a week before. It made me think "why did she write that? If she was remembering this days, or years, afterwards, why was that an important thing to mention?
It set the mood, the time - but it also meant something. I don't know exactly what - I know Judy was a gay icon but I don't even know why, I'm not part of any gay community to ever learn about that, I just always knew she was. So her death meant something, effected the community. Her spirit was part of the riot, was part of Stonewall, was part of the start of the movement, according to someone who was there, reporting on the atmostphere *atmosphere thanks typo fairies.
But also according to my instinct - "maybe" no one will read this but that IS the reason why I am writing it, now, because she wrote "Judy was dead" because I could tell that it was Judy's Spirit who helped animate the movement - as I typed that the cook guest on Carson said "who" at the same time I typed it. His secret ingredient is Stock. Oh he's the bandleader.
If Judy was part of the spirit behind Stonewall then it isn't necessarily her Ghost who helped inspire it, who helped start it - actually it IS but it is also more than that. I'm going to watch fireworks and will return to finish this soon!
Well there is what seems like a small thunderstorm which may delay the fireworks show but hopefully only by a few minutes and not until tomorrow. But I decided to finish this if I can before the show starts.
It made me think of her "ghost" helping start the movement but it seems more accurate to say her Spirit which includes her spirit when she was alive and after death, into the future, to Now and me talking about this with the rain on my roof and dogs howling downstairs, the rain lessening, the fireworks soon, I hope.
It's not just The Ghosts who tell us what to do, or seek justice, it's Spirits from the past AND from the future. I've been planning a book, for a few years, now, about Ghosts and Angels - and Aliens and Fairies - and I guess I dance around some of the things I know I want to say in that book - but there is no sense avoiding or postponing things when I DO write this.
Angels and Ghosts are two ways of looking at the same thing, they are ways of looking at our own spirits before and after our life - but that also influence our life. It's time to go see fireworks, after all, so I will finish this when I return, again.
The rain stopped and held off just in time that we saw the fireworks and it started raining at the end but didn't really pour just made the finale extra exciting. Its now July 5th at 2 PM and I want to finish this up - I realized all the "differences" between ghosts and angels can be better discussed in my book and I will just focus on what I wanted to say about Judy and Freedom and Gaga.
As I turned on the TV it was "What's Happening!" and Dee was talking about their friend who had died, who was a baseball player and said "you can't get hurt sliding into a cloud." But I will talk about angels and ghosts in my book - the important thing is to mention how our Spirits can be instrumental in causing events on earth.
Our spirits are concerned with Justice, whether they are Ghosts who want redress or Angels guiding us to a more just world. Our spirits are into Justice as evidenced by a sense of Justice being a great, early concern of children and a passion of people throughout life. Our spirits cry for Justice, the spirits of our ancestors, of Angels, "and" the spirits we have in our lives - they all want Justice, they ALL KNOW what Justice is - it's like a basic part of Spiritual nature: Justice. They Live for Justice, WE Live for Justice.
And even though our spirits call us to atone for Injustice in the future, remind us of Justice lacking from the past, and just give us that sense throughout our lives, SOME people misunderstand the call for Justice or get confused or misled. But we all CAN sense what true justice is. Maybe some people get some quirky "thrill" from trolling, from seeking More injustice, against the wishes of their own soul and their place as part of everyone's collective soul. But people like this aren't real heroes. Their spirits, now or after they die, won't inspire Justice because they aren't coming From Justice but working against it - and everyone can tell. They aren't ever going to honor Milo Y. for leading the "Straight Pride Parade" because straight people weren't oppressed, there is no Injustice he is making anyone aware of, he is just being a cheerleader for more injustice. So he won't be remembered.
Even if Trump has managed to postpone the Harriet Tubman 20-dollar bill all he really accomplished by doing this is showing how deeply racist he is - "they untied us as are letting us walk around free" - Pete just said on Benson. And now the media anointing Biden in the midst of his racism being exposed just drags them down with him. Harriet Tubman will actually become more powerful after he "struck her down", will be more well-known because of the discussion Trump's racism causes.
The point is that you know people are good because they have Good Spirits. One of the best signs of a Good Spirit is the sense of Justice, and the Best, Most Powerful Spirits, with the greatest Power, Love, are the ones that are so in tune with True Justice that they are ahead of their time - they are, we are, in touch with The Future, when things are Better and even Wonderful - even like Oz: no money, no war.
But protesting the "loss" of Straight, White privilege is not Justice - because you aren't under threat in any way. Protesting violence against people due to racism and transphobia IS Justice because so many people are the victims of oppression. I saw a bumper sticker, a few collections of bumper stickers today. One collection was on a big personal truck: "Oil Lifestyle" and an "OL"-labeled Calvin pissing on "Jared Polis (POS)" - our first gay governor who promotes Green Energy, supposedly, but as far as I know hasn't done anything to "threaten" the Oil Industry or Oil Lifestyle yet - except hopefully lead to better Green jobs. Another on the way back had a sticker about "My rice-burner is better than a rickshaw" which I don't entirely understand except it sounds racist and "Proud American" and "If you don't stand behind our troops you're welcome to stand in front of them" or something that means support our troops or we will kill you. These bumper stickers were on two cars but were the Trumpiest ones I've seen in months - you kind of know those drivers share that same Nazi worldview.
And they are just wrong complaining about the "loss" of their lifestyle or whatever. If anything their lives suck because they are losers but it's not anyone else's problem or fault, it's not an injustice. Their whining and bootlicking and electing fascists completely diverts our attention and time away from fixing actual problems - and causes and worsens the worst problems we already have.
I should learn what Judy did that made her such a gay icon. I should watch her version of "A Star is Born" and see if her man is just as abusive and terrible and if you believe in Love you would just hope she moves on as soon as possible, like in Gaga's version, or if that is the Modern Twist. And I should listen to Gaga's soundtrack - I liked HER in it, she was amazing, and I wanted to hear more of her songs.
Even without knowing the details, even before I found out she had only died a few days before Stonewall - I just Knew that's what "Judy was dead" meant - thanks to her Fame, thanks to her Spirit, and thanks to my own sensitivity. This is how Spirit works - it seeks Justice and Remembrance and Honor.
There is No Honor in being evil, no matter how many parades you order - which got rained out, by the way, thank the Goddess. (The trend of the 4th of July 2019, in response to Trump's first speech by a president on this day for 70 years, was for veterans to film videos about how Trump is a disgrace to the military.) But there IS honor in speaking up for the spirits who have been "lost" - who have been mistreated even without their story being told. And the stories we DO know, even before we KNOW them, calling to us to find out more, as Judy is doing for me, now, will stay with us and take on the power and cause of others, even those whose names are forgotten.
For me Judy is Dorothy, more than anything - but Dorothy is more than anything, too. Gaga is Dorothy, and You and I are Dorothy - Dorothy is the Inner, Sweet Child version of Us who goes to Oz among the many things she does. She goes to Oz and ultimately shows others the Way To Oz.
I promised I would not spoil any Oz stories, until I write my better Good Government edition - and I halfway finished another one about Gender, being Feminine, and Toxic Masculinity - all masculinity being Toxic - which I will publish soon - but after that I will be speaking, soon, as if everyone already knew the Oz books so PLEASE read them!
Sondra has a new perfume on "227" and she says it is so strong she sprayed it on in the store and six mannequins followed her home - an Oz-like reference - and then they made a joke about Rose's blind date growing long fangs and claws at midnight like a werewolf.
The Point is that Good Spirits, Good Guides, come back to us in many forms. We can call them Ghosts, or Angels, but they ARE with us, as People, for periods of time, too, and we can recognize them and help them and BE them. "How you show up for the world, that's what's real" Liz Slyter "The accidental Icon" just said on her Go Daddy commercial I've seen hundreds of times.
If you don't know why bringing mannequins to life with a bottle is Oz-like you haven't read enough Oz Books - again, if you don't have time to read more than one just start with the Marvelous Land of Oz because all I have to say about Good Government will spoil that book if you haven't already read it.
"I thought you were about to screw your head off" Rose's blind date just told her - another Oz reference from a much later book.
Reading over this I realized I forgot to say that I first heard about Stonewall from the TIME-LIFE books which had some pictures - the same book series that I first saw hippies in that was so influential to me at a young age, probably 8 or 9. And it reminds me how powerful images are for telling stories, for connecting, for magic - and reminds me to make art, too, and finish writing that edition about gender. Here's to Liberty, and Justice, for ALL - not Just "Us". Because we are All part of All.
"Follow That Unicorn on the Road to Love" as Gaga says - the unicorn takes many forms but can always be recognized by her Uniqueness!
Just the other day i was banned from Facebook again for 30 days, again for criticizing Nazis. This time it was an admitted Neo-Nazi whose comments and profile were all about supporting Hitler and Nazis - I met him in "Tulsi Gabbard's Dank Meme Stash" and posted a screenshot of his profile there which had a pro-Hitler video link and a meme that was racist against black people. He is probably the one who reported the post and while I got a ban (requested a "review" but won't hold my breath) and his original posts, with the offensive content, are still there so I reported them. I made some memes but need to make more about how Facebook ONLY censors to protect White Supremacists.
This week it made international BBC news that a Facebook group of 9,000 current and former border patrol agents was exposed for them mocking the deaths of immigrants and other white supremacist activity. While it is true that anyone can be added to Facebook groups so not everyone in the group is guilty anyone who actually interacted with the group IS guilty and should be exposed for their hate speech and the whole agency should be exposed if literally half of its members are gleefully KKK, Nazi, or otherwise White Supremacists. That is ALL Trump stands for and this evil IS his responsibility - but also something that was probably going on before he took office, too.
But it's our responsibility to do something about it. AOC went to the detention centers and reported overcrowding and other abuse including that the women were only allowed to drink out of toilets. This confirms the Facebook Racist Group story and confirms everything we need to know about Trump and his supporters being actual Nazis. When they try to defend the Kiddie Koncentration Kamps they say they AREN'T as bad as Nazi Concentration Camps and are more like the USA's Japanese Internment Camps during WW2 - some of them are the same camps. But the truth is that those camps were one of our country's great shames, too, and so will the Trump camps be - and they ARE all concentraiton camps and everything Trump and Trumpers do and say proves they are Nazi.
Carson is talking about an earthquake last night in California, in the 80's or 90's, and there was an Earthquake in California today
But let me dispense with the evil of Trump and his perversion of the 4th of July and the country itself - I did a spell to end all the evil which surely will have to effect him. "What the 4th of July means to Nancy and Me" is what Carson is talking about, now, an article by Reagan, which makes the earthquake not the only tie-in with this episode. Gary Hart was the Democratic frontrunner. Sharks are chewing at AT&T underwater cables. Danny DeVito is on. (30 years ago, being introduced)
So I decided to write this a few days ago during the NPR coverage of Stonewall. I felt it had a particular Gaga connection for two reasons: She was at the 50th anniversary of Stonewall celebration and gave a speech which made the news and social media news. Then I saw her and Bradley Cooper on a tabloid magazine with the headline implying they were "finally" dating but I hope it's not true because he doesn't seem to be nearly good enough for her by half, he's not half the man she'd choose to be with if she knew the choice existed. But the important thing is Stonewall, is Freedom, true freedom, and I only mention that magazine cover because it was further emphasis I need to write this "now" when I saw it yesterday.
But the real inspiration came from Judy Garland and Stonewall. It stood out to me when they were playing readings of first-hand accounts of the Stonewall riots. One point they made was that for the queens and other people on the scene, Stonewall wasn't the "start" of the liberation movement because they had been fighting for liberation in the streets for years, on a daily basis, just to survive. But it was the Symbolic beginning, the event that sparked the organization of the movement - though I believe it also coincided with the first anniversary of an original parade (?). The interesting thing that really stood out to me was when one of the writers, Judy Woodlawn, wrote "It was a hot night, Judy was dead, and the cops were out busting balls." When I heard that I thought "Judy? Judy Garland? Dorothy?" - because I'm an Ozzite, a Fairy. And I just knew it was her - I thought it could have been any Judy - there is a St. Jude Commercial on as I type this, with Marlo Thomas talking, whom I watch on The Joey Bishop show any night/morning they show that era - I knew it was Judy Garland. Gaga says her name, "Judy" and she is one of those people known by one name - but it COULD have been another Judy, i didn't know the history. It could have been someone she mentioned who was known to the community. I've been thinking about writing this for days, since the anniversary where they played those readings, and just looked it up before writing this:
here is the link to the book The Stonewall Reader where the quote appears: https://books.google.com/books?id=-llnDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA164&lpg=PA164&dq=stonewall+%22Judy+was+dead%22&source=bl&ots=ZXIfDWageU&sig=ACfU3U347MpQBGkNvuzlZrykqgzASkr3Mg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiB7JDG2pzjAhXOLc0KHTUuBWAQ6AEwAHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=stonewall%20%22Judy%20was%20dead%22&f=false
In the context you can see other ideas suggested -that "Personally, I think that some queen took too many Tuinals, started ranting and raving and before he knew it, a revolution had started! When people are feeling fabulous, they don't want to take any crap from anybody, particulary the cops. And it was a hot night, Judy was dead, and the cops were out busting balls. Well, they went to far this time, and before they had a chance to get a grip on the situation, it had snowballed into the gay movement" - Holly Woodlawn, "The Stonewall Reader" page 164-165
So it was partly drugs, whatever Tuinals are, partly feeling fabulous - but another element was the heat, which makes people more prone to conflict - and another was the death of Judy. I looked it up, since I didn't know, and she died a week before. It made me think "why did she write that? If she was remembering this days, or years, afterwards, why was that an important thing to mention?
It set the mood, the time - but it also meant something. I don't know exactly what - I know Judy was a gay icon but I don't even know why, I'm not part of any gay community to ever learn about that, I just always knew she was. So her death meant something, effected the community. Her spirit was part of the riot, was part of Stonewall, was part of the start of the movement, according to someone who was there, reporting on the atmostphere *atmosphere thanks typo fairies.
But also according to my instinct - "maybe" no one will read this but that IS the reason why I am writing it, now, because she wrote "Judy was dead" because I could tell that it was Judy's Spirit who helped animate the movement - as I typed that the cook guest on Carson said "who" at the same time I typed it. His secret ingredient is Stock. Oh he's the bandleader.
If Judy was part of the spirit behind Stonewall then it isn't necessarily her Ghost who helped inspire it, who helped start it - actually it IS but it is also more than that. I'm going to watch fireworks and will return to finish this soon!
Well there is what seems like a small thunderstorm which may delay the fireworks show but hopefully only by a few minutes and not until tomorrow. But I decided to finish this if I can before the show starts.
It made me think of her "ghost" helping start the movement but it seems more accurate to say her Spirit which includes her spirit when she was alive and after death, into the future, to Now and me talking about this with the rain on my roof and dogs howling downstairs, the rain lessening, the fireworks soon, I hope.
It's not just The Ghosts who tell us what to do, or seek justice, it's Spirits from the past AND from the future. I've been planning a book, for a few years, now, about Ghosts and Angels - and Aliens and Fairies - and I guess I dance around some of the things I know I want to say in that book - but there is no sense avoiding or postponing things when I DO write this.
Angels and Ghosts are two ways of looking at the same thing, they are ways of looking at our own spirits before and after our life - but that also influence our life. It's time to go see fireworks, after all, so I will finish this when I return, again.
The rain stopped and held off just in time that we saw the fireworks and it started raining at the end but didn't really pour just made the finale extra exciting. Its now July 5th at 2 PM and I want to finish this up - I realized all the "differences" between ghosts and angels can be better discussed in my book and I will just focus on what I wanted to say about Judy and Freedom and Gaga.
As I turned on the TV it was "What's Happening!" and Dee was talking about their friend who had died, who was a baseball player and said "you can't get hurt sliding into a cloud." But I will talk about angels and ghosts in my book - the important thing is to mention how our Spirits can be instrumental in causing events on earth.
Our spirits are concerned with Justice, whether they are Ghosts who want redress or Angels guiding us to a more just world. Our spirits are into Justice as evidenced by a sense of Justice being a great, early concern of children and a passion of people throughout life. Our spirits cry for Justice, the spirits of our ancestors, of Angels, "and" the spirits we have in our lives - they all want Justice, they ALL KNOW what Justice is - it's like a basic part of Spiritual nature: Justice. They Live for Justice, WE Live for Justice.
And even though our spirits call us to atone for Injustice in the future, remind us of Justice lacking from the past, and just give us that sense throughout our lives, SOME people misunderstand the call for Justice or get confused or misled. But we all CAN sense what true justice is. Maybe some people get some quirky "thrill" from trolling, from seeking More injustice, against the wishes of their own soul and their place as part of everyone's collective soul. But people like this aren't real heroes. Their spirits, now or after they die, won't inspire Justice because they aren't coming From Justice but working against it - and everyone can tell. They aren't ever going to honor Milo Y. for leading the "Straight Pride Parade" because straight people weren't oppressed, there is no Injustice he is making anyone aware of, he is just being a cheerleader for more injustice. So he won't be remembered.
Even if Trump has managed to postpone the Harriet Tubman 20-dollar bill all he really accomplished by doing this is showing how deeply racist he is - "they untied us as are letting us walk around free" - Pete just said on Benson. And now the media anointing Biden in the midst of his racism being exposed just drags them down with him. Harriet Tubman will actually become more powerful after he "struck her down", will be more well-known because of the discussion Trump's racism causes.
The point is that you know people are good because they have Good Spirits. One of the best signs of a Good Spirit is the sense of Justice, and the Best, Most Powerful Spirits, with the greatest Power, Love, are the ones that are so in tune with True Justice that they are ahead of their time - they are, we are, in touch with The Future, when things are Better and even Wonderful - even like Oz: no money, no war.
But protesting the "loss" of Straight, White privilege is not Justice - because you aren't under threat in any way. Protesting violence against people due to racism and transphobia IS Justice because so many people are the victims of oppression. I saw a bumper sticker, a few collections of bumper stickers today. One collection was on a big personal truck: "Oil Lifestyle" and an "OL"-labeled Calvin pissing on "Jared Polis (POS)" - our first gay governor who promotes Green Energy, supposedly, but as far as I know hasn't done anything to "threaten" the Oil Industry or Oil Lifestyle yet - except hopefully lead to better Green jobs. Another on the way back had a sticker about "My rice-burner is better than a rickshaw" which I don't entirely understand except it sounds racist and "Proud American" and "If you don't stand behind our troops you're welcome to stand in front of them" or something that means support our troops or we will kill you. These bumper stickers were on two cars but were the Trumpiest ones I've seen in months - you kind of know those drivers share that same Nazi worldview.
And they are just wrong complaining about the "loss" of their lifestyle or whatever. If anything their lives suck because they are losers but it's not anyone else's problem or fault, it's not an injustice. Their whining and bootlicking and electing fascists completely diverts our attention and time away from fixing actual problems - and causes and worsens the worst problems we already have.
I should learn what Judy did that made her such a gay icon. I should watch her version of "A Star is Born" and see if her man is just as abusive and terrible and if you believe in Love you would just hope she moves on as soon as possible, like in Gaga's version, or if that is the Modern Twist. And I should listen to Gaga's soundtrack - I liked HER in it, she was amazing, and I wanted to hear more of her songs.
Even without knowing the details, even before I found out she had only died a few days before Stonewall - I just Knew that's what "Judy was dead" meant - thanks to her Fame, thanks to her Spirit, and thanks to my own sensitivity. This is how Spirit works - it seeks Justice and Remembrance and Honor.
There is No Honor in being evil, no matter how many parades you order - which got rained out, by the way, thank the Goddess. (The trend of the 4th of July 2019, in response to Trump's first speech by a president on this day for 70 years, was for veterans to film videos about how Trump is a disgrace to the military.) But there IS honor in speaking up for the spirits who have been "lost" - who have been mistreated even without their story being told. And the stories we DO know, even before we KNOW them, calling to us to find out more, as Judy is doing for me, now, will stay with us and take on the power and cause of others, even those whose names are forgotten.
For me Judy is Dorothy, more than anything - but Dorothy is more than anything, too. Gaga is Dorothy, and You and I are Dorothy - Dorothy is the Inner, Sweet Child version of Us who goes to Oz among the many things she does. She goes to Oz and ultimately shows others the Way To Oz.
I promised I would not spoil any Oz stories, until I write my better Good Government edition - and I halfway finished another one about Gender, being Feminine, and Toxic Masculinity - all masculinity being Toxic - which I will publish soon - but after that I will be speaking, soon, as if everyone already knew the Oz books so PLEASE read them!
Sondra has a new perfume on "227" and she says it is so strong she sprayed it on in the store and six mannequins followed her home - an Oz-like reference - and then they made a joke about Rose's blind date growing long fangs and claws at midnight like a werewolf.
The Point is that Good Spirits, Good Guides, come back to us in many forms. We can call them Ghosts, or Angels, but they ARE with us, as People, for periods of time, too, and we can recognize them and help them and BE them. "How you show up for the world, that's what's real" Liz Slyter "The accidental Icon" just said on her Go Daddy commercial I've seen hundreds of times.
If you don't know why bringing mannequins to life with a bottle is Oz-like you haven't read enough Oz Books - again, if you don't have time to read more than one just start with the Marvelous Land of Oz because all I have to say about Good Government will spoil that book if you haven't already read it.
"I thought you were about to screw your head off" Rose's blind date just told her - another Oz reference from a much later book.
Reading over this I realized I forgot to say that I first heard about Stonewall from the TIME-LIFE books which had some pictures - the same book series that I first saw hippies in that was so influential to me at a young age, probably 8 or 9. And it reminds me how powerful images are for telling stories, for connecting, for magic - and reminds me to make art, too, and finish writing that edition about gender. Here's to Liberty, and Justice, for ALL - not Just "Us". Because we are All part of All.
"Follow That Unicorn on the Road to Love" as Gaga says - the unicorn takes many forms but can always be recognized by her Uniqueness!
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Good Government, ULTIMATE "Endgame" Spoiler gagablog 173
I've been promising an edition about Good Government after the "Girl Free in a Boy's Body" edition and while I want to add more about that and I only have 30 minutes before going to Detective Pikachu but I want to try and establish the principles for Good Government in that time.
I promise a lot of things, here. The name of all of this, "Gagablog" promises that it will have something to do with Lady Gaga and Gaga Magic, a word I use for Oz Magic, Fairy Magic, the fun magic I talk about. This time it will, more than usual, recently - I admit I have been Out of Touch with Gaga, as much as I was in touch with her, magically, artistically, since 2016, and feel better to try to connect with her, more. I saw on Facebook an article from Vogue entitled "Five things you didn't know about Lady Gaga: how well do you know Mother Monster?" and was not surprised at all to find that they were all common knowledge, among monsters, anyway, but they established they thought they were talking to us in the title. Anyway, it does feel good to feel connected to Gaga and I regret "falling away" and look forward to getting back in touch, in more intimate touch, with the art and the magic, with the Goddess. I did see some early performances I'd never seen before, including Electric Kiss and the song before it about being Captivated - can't remember, now, feeling hurried, and the internet connection flagged and this isn't saving, oh, there it went, as the "Gimme a Break" themesong comes on.
Good Government is something I feel qualified to discuss as an Ozzite - from the Utopian Future of Oz where Government IS good, and as a person who worked in a position of authority after spending my entire life being anti-authority. When I had to reconcile my rebellious nature with a job I took, to take care of abused and neglected kids in a "treatment center" where I had to become an "authority" figure I realized the ONE kind of Authority that is Legitimate and Good: Taking Care of Others.
The ability to Take Care of Others, to Handle Things, this is Actual Authority. All authority that is built upon something OTHER than this is bullshit - and yet it exists and constructs the authority systems that seem "most powerful" in our world - and ARE Empowered in this world to the point that they are, and have been, the Powers governing human development for centuries. But these are evil powers based upon bullshit authorities like the ability to kill and create fear or the ability to amass vast amounts of money or control large resources. Controlling resources is FINE if the object of that control is Taking Care of Others - if that is the actual, genuine goal that having that Goal and ability grants authority to the person who has it. NOT having the Goal of helping others invalidates the authority of anyone even if they "control" resources.
The control of resources is enabled by force if it is not granted by the community in honor of the person's ability to meet the Goal of Caring for others. This is the basic principle of Democracy that we have denied and run away from - that the Patriarchy has avoided to preserve itself because actually empowering people is their destruction: the REASON why we vote to elect leaders AT ALL is so these leaders can SERVE us, serve ALL of us, in the best way. The standard for picking leaders SHOULD be "who can enable our government and society to use resources to benefit People / Nature THE MOST" instead of "who can harness the powers that be to benefit 'Us' and deny 'Others' as much as possible. In short we should Elect Bernie, not Trump.
Its Natural that the ability to Share resources the best is what makes a Good Leader. The ability to Hoard resources has always been the hallmark of a Bad Leader but has become "the way of the world" and so widely accepted, or expected even if our very natures always reject this idea - so that we basically think of Government as synonymous with Corruption. We are taught that "Good government" is an Oxymoron because they want us to accept that "power" always corrupts, etc.
SOME power DOES corrupt: Greed, fear, etc. But a Mother has more power than Anyone and when that power is attuned with the real Power that exists, the ONLY Real Power that exists, the power to take Care of another, the power of Love -well, it's obvious that is the source of REAL power. Natural power. The Unnatural power of Fear, of control through Violence and Deprivation - those don't come into Life until Later - and as False and Evil as they are it is THESE power structures that we have elevated and accepted instead of the ones we all know we naturally need, based upon Care.
Power based upon Killing, Fear, and Greed is simply Evil. Power based upon Care is Good. When we act like we believe this, like we believe in Good Government, we can Have it, we can Make it, we can Transform it.
I'm going to write more about the details of this, explain it all, but I've got 7 more minutes before going to see Pikachu. I realized I'm going about this backwards, trying to sell Utopia to Distopians - it's time to just break your world and show you what is outside, inside the shell - Egg incoming!
It's like this: Good Government is exemplified by Oz, by Ozma. I've always recognized Lady Gaga as our "Unlitmate Dorothy" who takes us to Oz - but she also is Ozma - and you don't know who Ozma is unless you read the other Oz Books. Read them now -because I've been avoiding, for YEARS, talking about this stuff "directly" ("that stuff is beautiful!" or something Nell said "stuff" as I typed that and Sammy Davis Jr. said it was made by "your aunt's husband's cousin on your father's side" ) - because "You" haven't read the Oz books - because I assume most people, in this century, haven't read them, yet - if we HAD read them, with the internet and video games and political movements uniting us, if we DID have the ideas, from Oz - we would have saved the world by bow *now, thanks, typo fairies.
We would have saved the world by Bow - Gaga's early Bows, the Bow she untied on the Met Gala red carpet... I have to go to the movie, now, but when I return:
How Gaga is not only Dorothy but Ozma - and who Ozma is. Ozma rules Oz, with Love - she Good Way, the easy model for Good Governent. And how we are ALL Dorothy, and Ozma, in our own spheres, on our own paths.
Love is the Rule, Love is how One can be a Good Leader. The secret I want to reveal, now, is that Ozma is a "young" Fairy Girl - and L. Frank Baum who wrote the stories once planned and began to create an island that would be Ruled by a Young Girl - this gave me the idea for one of the most basic "Rules of Good Government" - it should be able to be done, the decisions made, by a Sweet Young Child.
If it's too complicated or unnatural, inhuman, to be understood by an innocent child - if it's something you wouldn't want to tell her about, or explain to her - then it simply shouldn't be happening.
I can hear the "objections" - "are you saying complanies and governments that don't Help everyone are Illigitimate, have lost any claim to Authority or even their own amassed hoards?" Yes. "Are you saying we shouldn't have War or an Economic system if a kid can't understand it?" Yes - just get rid of it.
Last time I will avoid "spoiling" anything - Read the Oz books. I will be "finishing" this from the perspective of "It's ok to tell you about Ozma, how Gaga is Ozma, how we ALL are Ozma" next time. For now you can think of it as Bernie, the potential leader who represents the most Taking Care of Us and of Others - or as Tulsi Gabbard, the potential leader who stands most strongly against War and the Military Industrial Complex - you can also see them as the Nine Walkers with Tulsi as Frodo/Sam - but more on that, later.
You can think how a recent article said Gaga's Christianity was more what Jesus wanted - ok they said whay people are accepting, but it is what Jesus wanted - than Mike Pence's - you can think of it any way that works for you.
When I return I will explain it from the Oz persepctive, so read those books or I might reveal some secrets
Or, I will be talking more directly, calling to attention, the people who have already read these books - calling all Ozzites, calling all Oz - time to make this world what it SHOULD be.
I promise a lot of things, here. The name of all of this, "Gagablog" promises that it will have something to do with Lady Gaga and Gaga Magic, a word I use for Oz Magic, Fairy Magic, the fun magic I talk about. This time it will, more than usual, recently - I admit I have been Out of Touch with Gaga, as much as I was in touch with her, magically, artistically, since 2016, and feel better to try to connect with her, more. I saw on Facebook an article from Vogue entitled "Five things you didn't know about Lady Gaga: how well do you know Mother Monster?" and was not surprised at all to find that they were all common knowledge, among monsters, anyway, but they established they thought they were talking to us in the title. Anyway, it does feel good to feel connected to Gaga and I regret "falling away" and look forward to getting back in touch, in more intimate touch, with the art and the magic, with the Goddess. I did see some early performances I'd never seen before, including Electric Kiss and the song before it about being Captivated - can't remember, now, feeling hurried, and the internet connection flagged and this isn't saving, oh, there it went, as the "Gimme a Break" themesong comes on.
Good Government is something I feel qualified to discuss as an Ozzite - from the Utopian Future of Oz where Government IS good, and as a person who worked in a position of authority after spending my entire life being anti-authority. When I had to reconcile my rebellious nature with a job I took, to take care of abused and neglected kids in a "treatment center" where I had to become an "authority" figure I realized the ONE kind of Authority that is Legitimate and Good: Taking Care of Others.
The ability to Take Care of Others, to Handle Things, this is Actual Authority. All authority that is built upon something OTHER than this is bullshit - and yet it exists and constructs the authority systems that seem "most powerful" in our world - and ARE Empowered in this world to the point that they are, and have been, the Powers governing human development for centuries. But these are evil powers based upon bullshit authorities like the ability to kill and create fear or the ability to amass vast amounts of money or control large resources. Controlling resources is FINE if the object of that control is Taking Care of Others - if that is the actual, genuine goal that having that Goal and ability grants authority to the person who has it. NOT having the Goal of helping others invalidates the authority of anyone even if they "control" resources.
The control of resources is enabled by force if it is not granted by the community in honor of the person's ability to meet the Goal of Caring for others. This is the basic principle of Democracy that we have denied and run away from - that the Patriarchy has avoided to preserve itself because actually empowering people is their destruction: the REASON why we vote to elect leaders AT ALL is so these leaders can SERVE us, serve ALL of us, in the best way. The standard for picking leaders SHOULD be "who can enable our government and society to use resources to benefit People / Nature THE MOST" instead of "who can harness the powers that be to benefit 'Us' and deny 'Others' as much as possible. In short we should Elect Bernie, not Trump.
Its Natural that the ability to Share resources the best is what makes a Good Leader. The ability to Hoard resources has always been the hallmark of a Bad Leader but has become "the way of the world" and so widely accepted, or expected even if our very natures always reject this idea - so that we basically think of Government as synonymous with Corruption. We are taught that "Good government" is an Oxymoron because they want us to accept that "power" always corrupts, etc.
SOME power DOES corrupt: Greed, fear, etc. But a Mother has more power than Anyone and when that power is attuned with the real Power that exists, the ONLY Real Power that exists, the power to take Care of another, the power of Love -well, it's obvious that is the source of REAL power. Natural power. The Unnatural power of Fear, of control through Violence and Deprivation - those don't come into Life until Later - and as False and Evil as they are it is THESE power structures that we have elevated and accepted instead of the ones we all know we naturally need, based upon Care.
Power based upon Killing, Fear, and Greed is simply Evil. Power based upon Care is Good. When we act like we believe this, like we believe in Good Government, we can Have it, we can Make it, we can Transform it.
I'm going to write more about the details of this, explain it all, but I've got 7 more minutes before going to see Pikachu. I realized I'm going about this backwards, trying to sell Utopia to Distopians - it's time to just break your world and show you what is outside, inside the shell - Egg incoming!
It's like this: Good Government is exemplified by Oz, by Ozma. I've always recognized Lady Gaga as our "Unlitmate Dorothy" who takes us to Oz - but she also is Ozma - and you don't know who Ozma is unless you read the other Oz Books. Read them now -because I've been avoiding, for YEARS, talking about this stuff "directly" ("that stuff is beautiful!" or something Nell said "stuff" as I typed that and Sammy Davis Jr. said it was made by "your aunt's husband's cousin on your father's side" ) - because "You" haven't read the Oz books - because I assume most people, in this century, haven't read them, yet - if we HAD read them, with the internet and video games and political movements uniting us, if we DID have the ideas, from Oz - we would have saved the world by bow *now, thanks, typo fairies.
We would have saved the world by Bow - Gaga's early Bows, the Bow she untied on the Met Gala red carpet... I have to go to the movie, now, but when I return:
How Gaga is not only Dorothy but Ozma - and who Ozma is. Ozma rules Oz, with Love - she Good Way, the easy model for Good Governent. And how we are ALL Dorothy, and Ozma, in our own spheres, on our own paths.
Love is the Rule, Love is how One can be a Good Leader. The secret I want to reveal, now, is that Ozma is a "young" Fairy Girl - and L. Frank Baum who wrote the stories once planned and began to create an island that would be Ruled by a Young Girl - this gave me the idea for one of the most basic "Rules of Good Government" - it should be able to be done, the decisions made, by a Sweet Young Child.
If it's too complicated or unnatural, inhuman, to be understood by an innocent child - if it's something you wouldn't want to tell her about, or explain to her - then it simply shouldn't be happening.
I can hear the "objections" - "are you saying complanies and governments that don't Help everyone are Illigitimate, have lost any claim to Authority or even their own amassed hoards?" Yes. "Are you saying we shouldn't have War or an Economic system if a kid can't understand it?" Yes - just get rid of it.
Last time I will avoid "spoiling" anything - Read the Oz books. I will be "finishing" this from the perspective of "It's ok to tell you about Ozma, how Gaga is Ozma, how we ALL are Ozma" next time. For now you can think of it as Bernie, the potential leader who represents the most Taking Care of Us and of Others - or as Tulsi Gabbard, the potential leader who stands most strongly against War and the Military Industrial Complex - you can also see them as the Nine Walkers with Tulsi as Frodo/Sam - but more on that, later.
You can think how a recent article said Gaga's Christianity was more what Jesus wanted - ok they said whay people are accepting, but it is what Jesus wanted - than Mike Pence's - you can think of it any way that works for you.
When I return I will explain it from the Oz persepctive, so read those books or I might reveal some secrets
Or, I will be talking more directly, calling to attention, the people who have already read these books - calling all Ozzites, calling all Oz - time to make this world what it SHOULD be.
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Collusion : gagablog 172
Since I last wrote this the summary of the Mueller Report came out and claimed there was "no collusion" between Trump and the Russians who meddled in the 2016 election. I've been pondering writing about collusion for weeks anticipating this report coming out - but I kind of always write about "collusion". Collusion is the heart of conspiracy - and magic.
~ One form of this magic, of collusion between words cast, thrown away, here, and the News, the Past, and the Future: 2-3 days after I wrote my Gender gagablog Trump's Transgender Ban went into effect in the Military - he started threatening it almost 2 years ago and it is still challenged in court cases but did take effect this weekend. In the days between my writing and the ban there was other news: DNA testing proved that the American Revolutionary War hero Casamir Pulaski was Trans or Intersex - this had been suggested decades ago but the DNA test of the supposed skeleton was proved to be Pulaski by a match with a known descendant. Looking up the story I learned he was called Father of the American Calavary, came from Poland where he was already a war hero at the request of Benjamin Franklin, and is said to have saved George Washington's life. I read a bunch of comments on the article showing who has Trouble with this idea - bigots and right-wing haters and "debaters" - and remembered Pulaski Street in my hometown, Athens Georgia, could be named after him. And I saw an article about other "gender-nonconforming" soldiers from the American Revolution or Civil War - but of course this wasn't a "new" idea for me, I was accustomed at least to the idea of women presenting as men in "war" or adventure from the Jerry Garcia's and the Grateful Dead's performances of "Jack-A-Roe". But it IS news to bigots, backward-minded people and Trump, even though the evidence is as old as America itself and far older. They are simply wrong: 11-14,000 transgender soldiers are already serving in the military so they/we obviously CAN do it - if ALLOWED. It is ONLY bigotry that says SOME people CAN'T do anything - that's always what it is. And the magic of this News story, the collusion of news, past, and Future -well, it makes the bigots suspect that the media "planned" the release of this information to fit an Agenda against them, against Trump.
The Truth is an Agenda that is Against Trump - this is about the collusion of making the world True again, of Accessing the Future we all Truly believe in. (These last two paragraphs were an edit in of The Whole Point I forgot to mention the first time I wrote this - this on 4-15-19, the rest from previous week)
"...4 hours before it landed, the second one two hours before it landed, this third space shuttle landing they only started the broadcast 30 minutes before it landed, people are getting more sophisticated these days (the 80's) - Johnny Carson just said, then "The Tonight Show Welcomes the Lawn Boy" he just introduced a new sponsor and held up a picture of a lawnmower.
This is "magic collusion" with what I am about to say - because everything IS "collusion", magically. It is the rougher, worse kinds of collusion that are intentional, to cause evil. But we "collude" with the World, with magic, all the time. We collude either with Good or Evil with everything we do, magically -and we mostly collude with Good. Most of the world is Good- which is why Evil requires intentional and misguided Evil Collusion to stay in business.
Now Carson is answering questions that were submitted to the Library, probably via mail, like Captain Flint is Long John Silver's Parrot. A Jeribome holds 4 champagne bottles according to Ed - and a Nebechadnezzer is twice that. Earth worms live ten years but Ed is questioning if that is in captivity or the wild? The tribe in Ecuador that shrinks heads are the Gevaro indians - and every question so far he says someone in the audience answers: What is the study of monologues? Boring, the audience member yelled out. "Why don't American Indians have beards? Simply a racial characteristic." If you are 80 years old you can request a happy birthday message from the president. How fast can an alligator run? 15 mph in short bursts. What does adam and eve on a raft mean - slang for bacon and eggs, they say (Carson and Ed) it is poached eggs on toast. Life span of an elephant? 40 years, 57 for the Indian Elephant, 35 years for the African. Who invented peanut Butter? St Louis doctor in 1890 (I thought it was George Washington Carver) Patron Saint of Lawyers: Ivo Hellery.
"People actually write into the library, or call them in." In the 80's before you could Google anything, Carson would do 10 minutes or so on reading out trivia like this.
Now You CAN Google anything. By extension, in The NEAR Future, we can all see (redacted) version of the Mueller report.
"I was holding the Oscar when Marlon Brando sent up Minnnie Ha Ha - no one would take it off me." "I think I remember her name - Sasheen Littlefeather - " just more "casual" racism on Johnny Carson, courtesy of Roger Moore.
But in the Future Future we will Know For Sure - in the Future Future instead of just looking up trivia information about things you can just scan a photo and know what the person lied about and how evil they were. Trump won't escape history even if he makes it out of the White House.
"Jack? One word from him and Mark will be tip-toeing down the Yellow Brick Road!" Furley said. Jack mansplained to Terri and Janet that a man dating a woman half his age was okay while a woman dating a man half her age was wrong because women need men to guide them, to point them in the right direction. ( ~ 4-15-19 edit: these TV-fairy-Oz references will be somewhat explained soon, hang in there, thanks)
I wrote this last evening then went to sleep. Since I woke up, on April 11th, I've seen some Antenna TV: at the end of I Dream of Jeannie there was a statue of Quan Yin ~ Goddess of Compassion and Love ~ I've never noticed before in the background of the final scene: an ingredient in Jeannie's cake was "the fountain of youth" and when she tried to recreate it, without the recipe, it turned Major Nelson old instead. Then on Bewitched there is a black girl who visits the Stevens and when Mr. Brockway, a client with a million dollar account, he thinks having a black kid and a white kid makes Darren "unstable" and cancels the account - until Samantha uses witchcraft on him to make him see everyone, including himself, as black. It's 5 people in blackface all to teach us a lesson about racism in like 1970.
"I discovered something about myself, I discovered I'm a racist. Not the out in the open kind, I was a sneaky racist - I just didn't know it myself." - Mr. Brockway. The black father replies with a quote about how exposing things is the start of the path to healing. Samantha invites Brockway to dinner and says it will be his final test: "We're having integrated turkey: white meat and dark."
"Even my last job, I had to quit because I wouldn't supply in the supply room" - Carol on Maude as I edit this, 4-15. Maude: "What is it with you men, you here 'divorcee' and it's a U-Turn to the Motel room." I didn't even know this stereotype until hearing it just now on this 70's TV show - but it fits. "I don't want her to get married because she is miserable but because she's ecstaticly happy."
I feel like explaining the relevance of these excerpts from Three's Company, Jeannie, and Bewitched. My previous gagablog, 170, was about Gender: Jack is an example of how "gayness" was stereotyped in the 70's and 80's - but he is pretending to be gay while his "manly" side is confirmed by his patriarchal, sexist statement to the girls - which they do challenge, some - but represents mainstream thinking which is still basically that way today, 40 years later.
Quan Yin, as a Goddess, gives us different perspective on Time: We are all Kids and Old, too.
Also there are two new commercials I've seen today, one for Covenant House - you can give $19/mo "Peabody - you remember him, he invented Thunder" - Endora just said - to help homeless kids. Previously we were reminded to give $19/mo for ASPCA - a TERRIBLE, awful commercial they should all be taken out and shot for making - or $19/mo for Shriner's Hospital - and AMAZING series of commercials starring Alec. ASPCA gives you a T-shirt for apparently funding two animal shelters and probably paying for a lot of euthenasia and they don't mention ANY lobbying they might do to change laws, ban breeders, etc, even though California now has a law, at least, that bans breeding and insists all pet sales must be from shelters. So it happens, but no thanks to them and their Sad Cameras and T-Shirts. By comparison Shriner's hospital commercials are inspiring and make you feel good about what they are doing and becoming a part of it and they send you a blanket. The new commercial for Covenant House is okay, not inspiring but not as depressing as caged puppies. And they give you a blanket.
While I'm mentioning it - it's a specially bad time for the ASPCA commercial because no one is raising money for the kids who cross the border that Trump is putting in cages. But the reason I mention the Covenant House commercial is it shows a homeless kid and asks "how young do they have to be for us to care?" and shows the girl turn into a baby sitting in a pile of clothes on the sidewalk and someone still just walking by.
This reminded me of Quan Yin watching the Boy Major Nelson with his Short Pants and Lolly turn into Mark Twain-looking Major Nelson. The way Time is a Plaything from some perspectives and nothing to play with, from others.
I'm afraid I could be accused of something (by fascists, fuck them) if I don't mention another commercial you can give money to because they people they take the money for have been dead for years, basically died the day after they filmed it. I won't mention it and take my chances - I am accused of calling people "Nazis" so much online that the "term loses meaning" except I'm Zealous about calling them out. Some people have used the idea that you can't criticize anything they do to become terrible fascists and Nazis - and they SHOULD be called out for it. Ok the commercial is for 100-year old holocaust survivors and seems like a total scam. But it sends a box of food maybe worth $2 and a note that says it is from "Christians and Jews" - for $25 dollars. And this commercial has been running for years - everyone in it besides the "Collectors" are dead as dead can be, now. It's exploitation of Holocaust survivors and their ghosts but if I criticize it, because the people who do it are "entitled" / established - I could be accused of being Anti-something. But I won't say it.
"I'm not in the Klan - I'm going to need a police escort just to get home tonight" Beau just said about Juan's scandal magazine (actually the school paper) claiming he has Klan Ties. - just now on Welcome Back Kotter.
The other new commercial is for Craftmatic's Easter Sale. It says "people will do anything - even pray - for a good night's sleep. "Next week I'm predicting 500 bucks" (for the paper) - Juan. "I think you're forgetting what's important, Juan" - Julie. "$500? Julie, go catch mice." -Mr. Whitman.
(April 17th Edit: "even pray" is what stood out to me in this commercial and I forgot to make my point about it - like it suggests that "praying" is a hard thing to do, or the LAST thing you'd want to do - but it isn't hard at all, it's the easiest, first, natural thing we are doing all the time - it's magic - but we can be doing it much better, especially if we realize we are doing it - and who we are praying "to" and "for" and whether that makes it easy or hard)
This is just a reminder from the TV show that "happens" to be on as I write this that the Fake News is Profitable and enables Powerful Fascists. Did ANYONE report on the "upcoming" election in Israel before the Day Of, yesterday? Is it because Russia~Trump already had their pick, Netenyahu, in place?
We heard about the election in Brazil for MONTHS before it happened. A Quick Timeline: Every Day for MONTHS new reports of how Bolsonaro was SO popular, leading polls. They would never mention the name of his opponent in these reports so less people would Google him or her and show support or oppose rising fascism in Brazil. Then, a few days before the election, they mentioned that Facebook or Twitter or both had JUST deleted 150,000 accounts that had been promoting Bolsonaro - for being fake. ~ DAYS before the election they delete the accounts that created the Buzz. Months before the election they Report and Report on how popular he is.
Break it down: They were reporting for months on the "surprising" but exorbitant popularity of Bolsonoro - actually NOT popular IN Brazilian social media but made to APPEAR that way by fake accounts -from Russia or "wherever" - but you KNOW they knew they were fake, all along. When Zuckerberg said it was "crazy" to think anyone, the Russians, influenced the Trump "election" using facebook he was Lying. When he said they didn't know that they were doing it, he was lying.
I don't need to point my Future Phone at him and hit the Lying? app to prove this. It's proven: Facebook hired a company, a company of former Mossad (Israeli Intelligence?) agents, to discredit anyone who tried to expose their collusion with Cambridge Analytica, letting CA violate everyone's privacy and steal our information to throw the election - the electionS since they probably used that technology to remove Bernie voters from the primary roles, too - the ONLY way to elect Trump was to have him beat Hillary because Bernie would have Destroyed him.
But the media - NPR, the Associated Press - the actual legitimate journalists - we complicit in this election of Bolsonaro - they COULD have looked deeper and found out, months earlier, that the accounts making him appear so "popular" and "inevitable" were fake and that their own reporting was contributing to his "inevitability."
(4-17-19 edit: Recent news was that public pressure caused the National Institure for Whatever to cancel a $30,000 per plate dinner honoring Bolsonaro: they can pretend it's "okay" but we are going to call them out, in this case specifically because of recent things he is doing, opening up the Rainforest to more mining and logging. But he'd done enough to boycott him / boycott all who support and profit from him. Public pressure got a Museum to return a gift from an evil Pharma Family, too, recently - altogether we KNOW who the Bad Guys are and just need to pray-magic and find the ways to end them, just opposing them everywhere. If we can't kick the oil companies out of power in America, Russia, and Saudi Arabia, etc, YET, we are learning how to do it in Sudan and Algeria and will adapt for our own needs. )
The People can take over - that is what America is all about and we got that idea 250 years ago or so, here, and it had been around, here, and elsewhere, long before that. And it happens more and more but is still being resisted by Old Power, worldwide. But it's obvious the way to do it - let the people do it, convince the Old Power to step aside - for the Good of EVERYONE, including them.
(4-17-19 This is why the "American Dream" - the Good One, the REAL one, IS for the Whole World - not just so you can "come here" - which should also be true - but so we can make Everyone in the world free to have the same dream: to ALLOW Good, instead of Force, Fear, and Evil, to Rule.)
~ One form of this magic, of collusion between words cast, thrown away, here, and the News, the Past, and the Future: 2-3 days after I wrote my Gender gagablog Trump's Transgender Ban went into effect in the Military - he started threatening it almost 2 years ago and it is still challenged in court cases but did take effect this weekend. In the days between my writing and the ban there was other news: DNA testing proved that the American Revolutionary War hero Casamir Pulaski was Trans or Intersex - this had been suggested decades ago but the DNA test of the supposed skeleton was proved to be Pulaski by a match with a known descendant. Looking up the story I learned he was called Father of the American Calavary, came from Poland where he was already a war hero at the request of Benjamin Franklin, and is said to have saved George Washington's life. I read a bunch of comments on the article showing who has Trouble with this idea - bigots and right-wing haters and "debaters" - and remembered Pulaski Street in my hometown, Athens Georgia, could be named after him. And I saw an article about other "gender-nonconforming" soldiers from the American Revolution or Civil War - but of course this wasn't a "new" idea for me, I was accustomed at least to the idea of women presenting as men in "war" or adventure from the Jerry Garcia's and the Grateful Dead's performances of "Jack-A-Roe". But it IS news to bigots, backward-minded people and Trump, even though the evidence is as old as America itself and far older. They are simply wrong: 11-14,000 transgender soldiers are already serving in the military so they/we obviously CAN do it - if ALLOWED. It is ONLY bigotry that says SOME people CAN'T do anything - that's always what it is. And the magic of this News story, the collusion of news, past, and Future -well, it makes the bigots suspect that the media "planned" the release of this information to fit an Agenda against them, against Trump.
The Truth is an Agenda that is Against Trump - this is about the collusion of making the world True again, of Accessing the Future we all Truly believe in. (These last two paragraphs were an edit in of The Whole Point I forgot to mention the first time I wrote this - this on 4-15-19, the rest from previous week)
"...4 hours before it landed, the second one two hours before it landed, this third space shuttle landing they only started the broadcast 30 minutes before it landed, people are getting more sophisticated these days (the 80's) - Johnny Carson just said, then "The Tonight Show Welcomes the Lawn Boy" he just introduced a new sponsor and held up a picture of a lawnmower.
This is "magic collusion" with what I am about to say - because everything IS "collusion", magically. It is the rougher, worse kinds of collusion that are intentional, to cause evil. But we "collude" with the World, with magic, all the time. We collude either with Good or Evil with everything we do, magically -and we mostly collude with Good. Most of the world is Good- which is why Evil requires intentional and misguided Evil Collusion to stay in business.
Now Carson is answering questions that were submitted to the Library, probably via mail, like Captain Flint is Long John Silver's Parrot. A Jeribome holds 4 champagne bottles according to Ed - and a Nebechadnezzer is twice that. Earth worms live ten years but Ed is questioning if that is in captivity or the wild? The tribe in Ecuador that shrinks heads are the Gevaro indians - and every question so far he says someone in the audience answers: What is the study of monologues? Boring, the audience member yelled out. "Why don't American Indians have beards? Simply a racial characteristic." If you are 80 years old you can request a happy birthday message from the president. How fast can an alligator run? 15 mph in short bursts. What does adam and eve on a raft mean - slang for bacon and eggs, they say (Carson and Ed) it is poached eggs on toast. Life span of an elephant? 40 years, 57 for the Indian Elephant, 35 years for the African. Who invented peanut Butter? St Louis doctor in 1890 (I thought it was George Washington Carver) Patron Saint of Lawyers: Ivo Hellery.
"People actually write into the library, or call them in." In the 80's before you could Google anything, Carson would do 10 minutes or so on reading out trivia like this.
Now You CAN Google anything. By extension, in The NEAR Future, we can all see (redacted) version of the Mueller report.
"I was holding the Oscar when Marlon Brando sent up Minnnie Ha Ha - no one would take it off me." "I think I remember her name - Sasheen Littlefeather - " just more "casual" racism on Johnny Carson, courtesy of Roger Moore.
But in the Future Future we will Know For Sure - in the Future Future instead of just looking up trivia information about things you can just scan a photo and know what the person lied about and how evil they were. Trump won't escape history even if he makes it out of the White House.
"Jack? One word from him and Mark will be tip-toeing down the Yellow Brick Road!" Furley said. Jack mansplained to Terri and Janet that a man dating a woman half his age was okay while a woman dating a man half her age was wrong because women need men to guide them, to point them in the right direction. ( ~ 4-15-19 edit: these TV-fairy-Oz references will be somewhat explained soon, hang in there, thanks)
I wrote this last evening then went to sleep. Since I woke up, on April 11th, I've seen some Antenna TV: at the end of I Dream of Jeannie there was a statue of Quan Yin ~ Goddess of Compassion and Love ~ I've never noticed before in the background of the final scene: an ingredient in Jeannie's cake was "the fountain of youth" and when she tried to recreate it, without the recipe, it turned Major Nelson old instead. Then on Bewitched there is a black girl who visits the Stevens and when Mr. Brockway, a client with a million dollar account, he thinks having a black kid and a white kid makes Darren "unstable" and cancels the account - until Samantha uses witchcraft on him to make him see everyone, including himself, as black. It's 5 people in blackface all to teach us a lesson about racism in like 1970.
"I discovered something about myself, I discovered I'm a racist. Not the out in the open kind, I was a sneaky racist - I just didn't know it myself." - Mr. Brockway. The black father replies with a quote about how exposing things is the start of the path to healing. Samantha invites Brockway to dinner and says it will be his final test: "We're having integrated turkey: white meat and dark."
"Even my last job, I had to quit because I wouldn't supply in the supply room" - Carol on Maude as I edit this, 4-15. Maude: "What is it with you men, you here 'divorcee' and it's a U-Turn to the Motel room." I didn't even know this stereotype until hearing it just now on this 70's TV show - but it fits. "I don't want her to get married because she is miserable but because she's ecstaticly happy."
I feel like explaining the relevance of these excerpts from Three's Company, Jeannie, and Bewitched. My previous gagablog, 170, was about Gender: Jack is an example of how "gayness" was stereotyped in the 70's and 80's - but he is pretending to be gay while his "manly" side is confirmed by his patriarchal, sexist statement to the girls - which they do challenge, some - but represents mainstream thinking which is still basically that way today, 40 years later.
Quan Yin, as a Goddess, gives us different perspective on Time: We are all Kids and Old, too.
Also there are two new commercials I've seen today, one for Covenant House - you can give $19/mo "Peabody - you remember him, he invented Thunder" - Endora just said - to help homeless kids. Previously we were reminded to give $19/mo for ASPCA - a TERRIBLE, awful commercial they should all be taken out and shot for making - or $19/mo for Shriner's Hospital - and AMAZING series of commercials starring Alec. ASPCA gives you a T-shirt for apparently funding two animal shelters and probably paying for a lot of euthenasia and they don't mention ANY lobbying they might do to change laws, ban breeders, etc, even though California now has a law, at least, that bans breeding and insists all pet sales must be from shelters. So it happens, but no thanks to them and their Sad Cameras and T-Shirts. By comparison Shriner's hospital commercials are inspiring and make you feel good about what they are doing and becoming a part of it and they send you a blanket. The new commercial for Covenant House is okay, not inspiring but not as depressing as caged puppies. And they give you a blanket.
While I'm mentioning it - it's a specially bad time for the ASPCA commercial because no one is raising money for the kids who cross the border that Trump is putting in cages. But the reason I mention the Covenant House commercial is it shows a homeless kid and asks "how young do they have to be for us to care?" and shows the girl turn into a baby sitting in a pile of clothes on the sidewalk and someone still just walking by.
This reminded me of Quan Yin watching the Boy Major Nelson with his Short Pants and Lolly turn into Mark Twain-looking Major Nelson. The way Time is a Plaything from some perspectives and nothing to play with, from others.
I'm afraid I could be accused of something (by fascists, fuck them) if I don't mention another commercial you can give money to because they people they take the money for have been dead for years, basically died the day after they filmed it. I won't mention it and take my chances - I am accused of calling people "Nazis" so much online that the "term loses meaning" except I'm Zealous about calling them out. Some people have used the idea that you can't criticize anything they do to become terrible fascists and Nazis - and they SHOULD be called out for it. Ok the commercial is for 100-year old holocaust survivors and seems like a total scam. But it sends a box of food maybe worth $2 and a note that says it is from "Christians and Jews" - for $25 dollars. And this commercial has been running for years - everyone in it besides the "Collectors" are dead as dead can be, now. It's exploitation of Holocaust survivors and their ghosts but if I criticize it, because the people who do it are "entitled" / established - I could be accused of being Anti-something. But I won't say it.
"I'm not in the Klan - I'm going to need a police escort just to get home tonight" Beau just said about Juan's scandal magazine (actually the school paper) claiming he has Klan Ties. - just now on Welcome Back Kotter.
The other new commercial is for Craftmatic's Easter Sale. It says "people will do anything - even pray - for a good night's sleep. "Next week I'm predicting 500 bucks" (for the paper) - Juan. "I think you're forgetting what's important, Juan" - Julie. "$500? Julie, go catch mice." -Mr. Whitman.
(April 17th Edit: "even pray" is what stood out to me in this commercial and I forgot to make my point about it - like it suggests that "praying" is a hard thing to do, or the LAST thing you'd want to do - but it isn't hard at all, it's the easiest, first, natural thing we are doing all the time - it's magic - but we can be doing it much better, especially if we realize we are doing it - and who we are praying "to" and "for" and whether that makes it easy or hard)
This is just a reminder from the TV show that "happens" to be on as I write this that the Fake News is Profitable and enables Powerful Fascists. Did ANYONE report on the "upcoming" election in Israel before the Day Of, yesterday? Is it because Russia~Trump already had their pick, Netenyahu, in place?
We heard about the election in Brazil for MONTHS before it happened. A Quick Timeline: Every Day for MONTHS new reports of how Bolsonaro was SO popular, leading polls. They would never mention the name of his opponent in these reports so less people would Google him or her and show support or oppose rising fascism in Brazil. Then, a few days before the election, they mentioned that Facebook or Twitter or both had JUST deleted 150,000 accounts that had been promoting Bolsonaro - for being fake. ~ DAYS before the election they delete the accounts that created the Buzz. Months before the election they Report and Report on how popular he is.
Break it down: They were reporting for months on the "surprising" but exorbitant popularity of Bolsonoro - actually NOT popular IN Brazilian social media but made to APPEAR that way by fake accounts -from Russia or "wherever" - but you KNOW they knew they were fake, all along. When Zuckerberg said it was "crazy" to think anyone, the Russians, influenced the Trump "election" using facebook he was Lying. When he said they didn't know that they were doing it, he was lying.
I don't need to point my Future Phone at him and hit the Lying? app to prove this. It's proven: Facebook hired a company, a company of former Mossad (Israeli Intelligence?) agents, to discredit anyone who tried to expose their collusion with Cambridge Analytica, letting CA violate everyone's privacy and steal our information to throw the election - the electionS since they probably used that technology to remove Bernie voters from the primary roles, too - the ONLY way to elect Trump was to have him beat Hillary because Bernie would have Destroyed him.
But the media - NPR, the Associated Press - the actual legitimate journalists - we complicit in this election of Bolsonaro - they COULD have looked deeper and found out, months earlier, that the accounts making him appear so "popular" and "inevitable" were fake and that their own reporting was contributing to his "inevitability."
(4-17-19 edit: Recent news was that public pressure caused the National Institure for Whatever to cancel a $30,000 per plate dinner honoring Bolsonaro: they can pretend it's "okay" but we are going to call them out, in this case specifically because of recent things he is doing, opening up the Rainforest to more mining and logging. But he'd done enough to boycott him / boycott all who support and profit from him. Public pressure got a Museum to return a gift from an evil Pharma Family, too, recently - altogether we KNOW who the Bad Guys are and just need to pray-magic and find the ways to end them, just opposing them everywhere. If we can't kick the oil companies out of power in America, Russia, and Saudi Arabia, etc, YET, we are learning how to do it in Sudan and Algeria and will adapt for our own needs. )
Now the news of today is Blurry Image of Black Hole / Event Horizon and an Israeli Mission to the Moon which crashed on the Moon but was deemed a success. And Netenyahu "winning" or tying his election - more likely to form a government, they report / influence - and saying he will annex the West Bank and Golan Heights. When they asked a Palestinian about that on NPR as I drove back from the mall to get a Wario Amiibo he said at least he was telling the truth about it instead of gaslighting everyone as the "peace talks" and "two-state solution" have done so far, promising peace and dialog but only favoring one side.
At least Trump is being honest about the bias built into the whole system, too, I guess. He may see it as pragmatic to "take the hood off" and openly play ALL White Supremacy cards including supporting the apartheid in Israel.
(4-17-19 edit: Trump used his second Veto to block the resolution to stop funding Saudi Arabia's war against the people of Yemen, so he can keep funding it. And he said it threatened his "constitutional powers" - which I think merely proves that the powers he THINKS he has from the Constitution are actually the specific powers that the Constitution was INTENDED to prevent him from having.)
I will have to write a specific edition all about how White Supremacy uses EVERYONE to do it's bidding - but this was supposed to be about the Russia-Trump collusion more specifically - as a Wing of that White Supremacy - and Collusion more generally, about Magic.
The other recent news has been developing peaceful revolutions in Algeria and Sudan - people overcoming Oil Oligarchies with PEACE, the exact thing we need to do in this and a number of other countries. And another story about Russia - 3 Russians with briefcases of money, one of whom was also the key figure in buying the 2016 election for Trump - who paid at least 6 different candidates to run in the Madagascar election.
I want to wrap up what I forgot to say about Bolsonaro, in the context of fake media accounts /election influencing, before I talk about Madagascar / USA, though: they did another piece on NPR about an Alabama Democrat who wanted revenge against the Russians for trolling Democrats in 2016 so he "fought fire with fire" and made a Facebook group to sow division between Prohibitionist Republicans and "Business", Pro-Alcohol Republicans - because the upper half of the state is "Dry" counties thanks to the Former (which surely supports bootlegging and other industries and evils based upon being able to criminalize and exploit drunk women and drunks in general) And He did it all personally, with help from one person in Washington DC who made memes and directed content -and he was their "go-to" to make it sound Authentic, Alabamian - and one other DC person who put up $100,000 dollars to do it. But basically 3 people, a funder and two content people. And their group ended up with so many thousands of members and their most popular video viewed 4 million times.
But all of this, who knows if it effected the voter turnout as they intended by "sowing division and discontent" - I think they could have if they picked something actually more provocative and exposing than Prohibitionism, even in backwards Alabama - but my point in mentioning it was this is what 3 people and $100,000 dollars can do on social media: get a bunch of rednecks to watch a video about virgin mint julips. But watch it 4 million times.
So if they HAD developed better, more controversial topics - like, if you really want to troll the Republicans the way they trolled us, make a KKK group and talk about how openly you want to be able to express your beliefs, as your heroes Trump and Steve King etc are managaing to do. Just claim it all and be "proud" of it if you want to fake it and break them. - The Alabama Troll Group in the radio story had too much "scruples" to even do a "Fake AK-47 Giveaway" even though they KNEW that would get the most views. I'm not into trolling, personally, I advocate the opposite and will soon be writing a book on the cure for ALL trolling, at every level.
My point is 3 people and $100,000 dollars had this much influence based on some Alabama concern everyone outside that state has to be reminded exists in the last century. But 150,000 fake accounts in Brazil all talking about how great Bolsonaro is, that can do some REAL damage. And did.
And however much they spent in Madagascar - maybe it doesn't cost THAT much but they paid candidates registration fees and paid them more money, basically got them into the race, and their "deal" was that they would drop out and let the "winner win" - so while the Report was that the Winner of Madagascar's Presidency was NOT paid by the Russians, that they found, when SIX of his "opposition" were, to split the vote against him, isn't it the same thing? That the Russians picked the winner?
So they Did Brexit, Russian trolls are responsible for ginning up and controlling the conversation so "no one" thought about Ireland, etc, before the vote. They did Brazil, with 150,000 fake accounts making Bolsonaro seem popular. They did the Yellow Vest protests, as I predicted here weeks or months before the first reports of it came out in the news - it smelled like vodka, to me. They did Madagascar, too. And they did Trump.
Did he even have to know about it? Does he really "know" anything or is Trump the perfect "Mob Boss" because he really is too stupid to "know" much so everything can be done around him, just in his name, in buildings with his name on them?
Does the Technique the Russians used in Madagascar remind you of anyone? Oh, I don't know, Maybe Hillary? We have five or six or more clear examples of the ways Russians like to influence elections. The Mueller report supposedly has details of Russian meddling based on two years of investigation with all the resources the FBI has, supposedly the "best intelligence" in the world. But that doesn't come out yet and is 300 pages long.
Let's see if I can do a better job in one paragraph just because 1. I care. 2. I'm a genius. 3. I'm high / weed is legal and fantastic here. 4. I'm psychic.
Russia used paid facebook ads and paid facebook fake news to influence the American and Brazilian election and to cause Brexit and the yellow vest Protests. In America the media depicted Hillary as inevitable - in Brazil they predicted Boslonaro. If this reporting wasn't paid media bias by Russians it was surely influenced by what they did pay for, on social media. In America this "inevitability" worked against Hillary actually winning, in Brazil it worked in Bolsonaro's favor. This was not an "accident" - Russia wasn't pulling for Hillary and "failed" - they were obviously pulling for Trump and got what they wanted. MOST of what the trolling accomplished in 2016 was "busting up" the Bernie movement - SUPPOSEDLY to benefit Hillary, the Russians might have known it was all for Trump but Hillary's own paid and unpaid CTR Trolls didn't and thought they were helping her. "Hillary inevitability" helped do that, helped the Hillary trolls think they were actually numerous enough to make up for the Bernie support they tried so hard to turn off, and helped the Russian Trolls and others who KNEW it was all to elect Trump, not Hillary, convince the public that they Had to vote for Trump. And so did all the stories they paid for to influence people against her. But promoting her, when she was terrible and really could never really "win" except maybe by believable cheating, was a way of depressing the vote among liberals and the left.
Now if Russia paid Bernie to run and drop out, like they did the Madagascar "contenders", THAT would be a bombshell news story. And maybe they did. But if they paid Hillary, "helped" Hillary, or tricked her into thinking they were, that would be a pretty good story, too. And the first comparison I thought of when I heard the Madagascar story was with Hillary. And we know they did, in some ways: We know when Hillary was Secretary of State she sold Russia the rights to 25% of America's Uranium - I remember because I was worried she was "comping" them for World War 3, to give them a leg up so they could start it sooner.
(4-17-19 edit: of course they have "enough" nuclear weapons already - but it isn't actually about being able to blow up the world 1000 times instead of only 700 times, it's about Business of making New Weapons. Someone said on the radio that "until we live in an Ideal World we will always need a Military" to which I say "lets' cut to the chase." I also saw on facebook Today that Trump Called Jimmy Carter about China on Saturday night and on Sunday Carter talked to his Sunday School class about it, telling them China was Leading the World because they didn't waste any money on War since 1979 while America has been at war all but 16 years of our history.)
We know that Hillary had some deal with Russia to get dirt on Trump - now Trump is trying to investigate THAT to say it is the only reason they were ever investigating him though this is a lie because he was already under investigation. In fact maybe Hillary did it just to BE guilty to give Trump this ammunition, too, like she gave Russia the Uranium. You have to consider that they are on The Same Side and Both Got Away With It, so far.
And it's not hard to see: they both work for Oil Companies, Trump and Hilary, and Putin does, too. And all their Cadre of Right-Wing Leaders, who are all "mysteriously" friends all the sudden: Bolsonaro, Netenyahu, Orban, Kim Jong Un - whoever they've got they are all "buddies" and they are trying to make another one, Guido, in Venezuela with their cruel power-cutting attempts at a coup.
Did these guys all just discover each other? "Whose in that presidential palace over there? You're a Nazi, too? Let's be friends!" No - they were all "in on it" from the start - it's collusion.
Or rather, kkkollusion. Maybe some of them, MAYBE Netenyahu or Bolsonaro or Kim Jong Un, MAYBE they would be put off from the whole Organization, League of Evil, if they knew it was actually KKK. Maybe.
My point is that it becomes really easy for the rest of us to diagnose the problem - fascism, White Supremacy, if you just CALL it that.
Just pull the hood off and see who is under there and then you will KNOW. Fred taught us that on every episode of Scooby Doo and millions of times more than that show was shown via memes, so far.
If you add the now proven technique of Russia paying for candidates to run and drop out - and the same businessman who went to Madagascar was the key player in the 2016 election in America, too, so you know it's in his bag of tricks - did he pay Hillary to run and Lose, or trick her into thinking she would win? Did he pay Bernie? Since Russia does use fake accounts to raise support and influence the conversation, maybe they DID help Bernie reach such great numbers - but they DIDN'T pay tens of thousands of people to show up at his rallies, that was actual, genuine support. And they didn't have to pay for that many trolls to support us, just to sew division and maybe harassment, because there were already plenty of us showing support online to create the huge movement it became, both in groups and at rallies. But Hillary DID tell her supporters to come out and take over the "secret groups" they had been controlling in her "coronation" speech after the DNC and there has NOT been the same ability to find groups and "collude" the way we, the People, did last time. This is partly because of who set those groups up in the first place, trolls for Hillary with or without Russian support - but also reflects how Facebook works, now.
Facebook has weaponized stupidity. They allow trolls to bait people and ban/censor them for the mildest reactions to the trolls yet when these same trolls far worse, actual-rule breaking behavior is reported Facebook says it is "fine." They intentionally, personally or with their algorithms, allow fascists and censor anti-fascists. It's the same favoritism we see in all this bias, it's White Supremacy. And they DO know about it because everything else that is proven when they say they didn't know about it, they did. They aren't THAT stupid, they are even stupider in another way, at the Soul level, for accepting being pawns of a White Supremacist World Government Conspiracy.
And they say we, the left, have a "conspiracy" to change the world, to take the power away from the fascists. Maybe we do but it sure isn't powerful enough yet to make the progress we actually need. Maybe there IS a conspiracy to make everyone equal, for instance, to ensure basic rights for all. It's a conspiracy that has been going on for centuries and the common factor is that everyone who is "in on it" is In League with the Future - because the Future WILL be that way.
But the past hasn't been that way, has been based on the idea that we will NEVER get there so you better preserve the hierarchy and your place or aspiration to the top of it. That's the conservative view, making sure nothing changes so evil stays intact. But we HAVE to change, the consequences of our irresponsible actions will ALWAYS force us to improve, that's just Life, that's just how it actually works.
I heard on the radio today that Chevron had purchased Anna Darko, the biggest oil/energy company in Colorado. They mentioned that Anna Darko had "weathered the bad headlines of a gas explosion that killed two people" and other recent awful stories - but the way they said it, not that they had Killed Two People with Negligent Practices, but "weathered the headlines" - like it was all about the Oil Company as a Victim and The Only Thing that matters is NOT human life, just Perceptions and Headlines. Same story with Boeing letting planes crash as long as they can minimize the "damage" - to their reputation.
I heard something good on the radio the other day, too. It was just one of the newscasters summing up, in his own words, I think, his definition of Democracy and it was really good and beautiful so I wrote it down. But I can't find my notes, now, so I will wing it and come back to fill in any details, later. He said the cool thing about Democracy was the built-in impermanence, that we know we don't have it right, yet, there will be more to fix, so we plan to change it all the time. This reminds me of the Truths of Buddha and Jesus when he said the Cornerstone will be rejected. Which reminds me I happened to read an article about the new movie Mary Magdelene today and will just say it was crazy to hear it mention "some women in conservative Christianity challenging it's patriarchy" or whatever because that's not something you can challenge from within, like that, when you are so fraught with it. Plenty of people are challenging it by leaving those churches, those belief systems, or from the outside to begin with - it's just ironic because even this article mentions how Mary tells Peter he basically has it wrong, that these churches and their descendants are just wrong about Jesus.
This brings me back to the collusion I wanted to talk about at the start and got into politics instead. I failed to mention an armed revolution in Libya that is threatening the capitol in Tripoli, too. Russia supposedly doesn't mind the General attacking the city and while the International Community is apparently supposed to -the government that DOES exist in Libya, or did at the time of this writing as far as I know - is supposedly backed by the International Community - but America, at least, just evacuated most of their personnel from Tripoli.
I'm not saying "we" or anyone should go in and fight to stop this armed Revolution, I'm just saying it seems telling that we are "supposed" to care but no one really does, only Russia saying it is "fine" but maybe he is the leader they want, there. And maybe "we" do, too - they admit in news reports that he was trained by the CIA and lived in Virginia for 25 years. But they act like that doesn't mean he is an agent of the US.
I don't know, for sure, who these people are. But I do know the best way to address them is to think of them as Colluding. I thought it was worth writing down a radio story about someone who became governor of an African state, i forget in which country, maybe Somalia - but he ended up in jail for asking for money to use an airport to swap money for hostages taken by pirates. Or being "in league" with the pirates. The journalist interviewing him in jail seemed sympathetic but concluded that while he thought he was innocent he may have worked with the pirates and not done what others would have done to add layers of accountability, to blame someone else. In other words, he colluded but if he had been GOOD at collusion they wouldn't have been able to pin it on him.
It seems like Trump's "counterpunch" to the Mueller Report is trying to investigate IT and therefore discredit it. Why would he want to discredit it if it exonerates him? Probably because it doesn't: only the Summary pretends to exonerate him, in order to buy him a few more weeks before the rest is released.
I included the Pirate story because Trump isn't like that - he is WELL adapted to Organized Crime, so well that of course he covered his tracks. But there were like 17 or 21 indictments of people in his campaign - and maybe this was all for show, they weren't trying to actually SCARE or punish anyone - one of them got two weeks in jail for lying to the FBI, for instance. I wonder if anyone else who ever did time for that ever did so little. Anyway.
It may be that they are "all in on it together." But we will know who ISN'T in on it by who finally busts them. Which will happen.
It may be easier for some to see the forces behind this collusion as Demonic or Alien. Reptilian themes, that an Alien Reptilian Race controls parts of our world, governments, culture, etc, and some claim that they take human forms so various politicians will be accused of being Reptilian, in disguise. Ideas like Aliens controlling us, or Angels / Demons, aren't bad, if they work for you, use them. Just understand that it does boil down to Good and Evil no matter who is "behind" it.
At every level it is Good and Evil and of course one tactic of Evil is to masquerade as Good. But you know some things are wrong - such as Trump's racism and anti-immigration. The news, today, was that he is "threatening" to send the immigrants to Sanctuary Cities throughout the US. How is this a "threat"? This is exactly what we want -why is the "media", on behalf of the "Left", supposedly -or at least the people - why are they characterizing this as "bad", as a "threat", or repeating Trump's rhetoric that these people are an "infestation" so he wants to "spread the infestation" as Jeffrey Toobin said? Don't accept his terms - DO accept the people.
Call Trump on this one: SEND us your tired, your needy -send them to us. We will take care of them - of EVERYONE - if We Have To Change The Entire System To Do It. We WILL Be The REAL America, What America Claims and Dreams of Being. That's actually the larger Goal - let's make it happen. Let's take advantage of Trump's racism to get these refugees into cities all over America and CHANGE those cities, change the whole Country, based on the Vision we had in the beginning. We will have to do more to take care of the poor people already IN these areas, too, so accelerating this to accommodate refugees, well, the refugee influx may be the only way to get the "claimers" to get off their asses and allow affordable housing to be built, etc, to make it all happen - for everyone.
I was going to make a comic where the villain was Lady Liberty - but Trumpified into a Bad Guy. But now maybe I will rework her as a Hero, after all, or a Hero with a Dark Side, too. The point is that IS what the IDEAL of America is. Trump is Anti-American, in this way, and represents the Evil we have to overcome to be what we truly are. Putin and all their other cronies are examples of this, too, and whether we can Prove the Collusion of Methods we KNOW the collusion of Purpose and Belief, and that is enough to stop them AND their Alien/Demonic backers.
Especially when you consider we have Alien/Angelic backers, too - even if they play by different rules sometimes THEIR power, our power, Good, actually wins in the end.
(4-17-19 edit: Just the news of Trump's veto proves he is with Saudi Arabia / Oil Companies, not America. Also "telling" was the arrest of Juilan Assange and responses and reporting on it: The Ecuadorian president who revoked his asylum said that Assange never criticized Russia, when asked if he thought he worked for them, so he didn't know but maybe. Even if he was working specifically for Russia, to elect Trump, however, this doesn't invalidate the truth of the countless memes about Wikileaks and the DNC - he didn't write the emails, just hacked them and published them. But the DNC are the people who actually wrote what was in them, what was so damning. Hillary actually instructed the DNC/Media to promote Trump as a "pied piper" candidate - even if she really believed this, instead of being in on the KKK plot to elect Trump from the start, as I suspect, she is STILL responsible for how this "tactic", to be the lesser of two evils, actually helped elect Trump. And the DNC is totally responsible for why we don't have president Bernie instead of Trump, already, and the only reason we won't be able to elect Bernie, if we don't, in 2020.
But this reminds me of one of my favorite recent insights. Trump is evil, but also part of an evil system. Hillary is evil, but also part of an evil system. And they are both victims of the evils system - we all are. Anyone who is doing evil, any small asshole evil, IS doing evil, being evil - but they are also part of, and victim of, an evil system. One TACTIC, method of the Evil System is to get us to blame each other, to hate and fear each other - instead of blaming and hating the system itself, together. It runs on getting us to blame Someone, instead of blaming It. If we look at even the beneficiaries of the Evil System as victiims of it we can find novel ways to free ALL of us from it.
Also Notre Dame caught fire but so did the third holiest mosque, on the same day, with almost zero coverage while Notre Dame is almost all the radio news talks about. And someone, possibly white supremacist, burned down a number of black churches in Louisiana, and maybe a White Church, too, to "cover their tracks" by mistake or it's not only race-related - but it surely seems to be. But these aren't receiving millions in donations from all over the world, just the "preferred" site, Notre Dame. This will be a source of shame when the favoritism of the coverage is reviewed in the Future, just as all this concern while injustices everywhere are ignored is wrong and will be exposed and changed, soon.
Also before I forget, speaking of praying all the time, or "even praying" to get what we most need, the last story I heard on the radio is how Terry Gou , President of the company Foxconn, says he is running for President of Taiwan after being inspired by or following the order of the Chinese Sea Goddess Mazu - he said she told him to spread peace when she appeared to him in a dream but he is her godson and she has guided him from childhood. This is what I'm talking about, alliance with Better Goddesses, confirmed by "news" just days after writing about it - and further confirmed in the Future. End 4-17 edit)
My own personal gender story as related in gagablog 170 deal with this "collusion" idea, too. In a "normal" sense there was No Collusion between the world and me in helping me identify as a Girl, of sorts, 30 years before this started becoming acceptable. I didn't have any Examples or language to express these ideas or identify with, so I probably had the idea of being a "lesbian boy" or just Fairy by 1983 or 4. And I wanted to give credit to Boy George for opening up the idea of not being "Mainstream", for me, and even more the Oz books for making me feel at home in the Fairy World and with Different-Gendered heroes - and the overall Love of the Goddess. And I have to thank Weed, and the Grateful Dead, and psychadelics and mysticism and poetry and art and music, generally, for nurturing these parts of me. And Nintendo and Samus Aran - and being able to choose female video game characters which is honestly the "main way" I express my femininity, "physically'. And my mom for buying me The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde when I was like 15 or so, and Oscar Wilde, and others. There were writers and beliefs that helped me along the way.
And it helped, it always was flattering to me, when online people often comment that they thought I was a girl, even though my name is Andrew.
Is that the same as a George Soros funded conspiracy that is trying to make countries accept immigrants and gay people? Well, it wasn't the result of that, specifically, in the 80's. That Soros conspiracy is what the Right Wing fearmongers spread because they are the ones insisting we remain afraid of immigrants and gay people. And as much as he IS doing that, really if THAT is his goal instead of just maintaining the same power structures that prevent it, then good for him, he IS part of this conspiracy that goes back to Jesus and before and carries us into the Future and better understanding of whatever aliens are helping us get there, too. And this is the Magical Collusion which we are all as much a part of as we are willing to believe and act. It's OPEN to everyone but doesn't force or scare anyone in, it just allows us to discover who we actually are.
I have to go to work for now but will re-read this and add some before I finish, maybe find my notes.
Sunday April 14th: The Magical Collusion I'm talking about is the Conspiracy of the Future to save us all, to show us the direction to save ourselves. Of course it is possible to Collude with this conspiracy - it's all the inspiration, art, and protest in the world, ever. But it's rare, in this world, to actually find groups to actually collude to reach the goals of the Future. Because those groups stand to destroy the Status Quo so The Man does everything it can to suppress and stifle their influence.
While I had No One to Collude With in my entire life, no one I've ever really expressed my gender identity to, personally, ever in my entire life - but I HAVE felt the Collusion of the Unity of the Future through a few Mystical Channels - it was my understanding of all the mystical and gnostic writings I read when the internet came out as a teenager. But The Future, of Freedom and After Patriarchy was shown to me by the Oz books as a young kid, too. I could tell that this prophecy from the first quarter of the 1900's, in the Oz books, was what our world would become in the Future: No Money, No War are two of the hallmarks of it. Since then I've started identifying as a Fairy, and from the Future myself - and the more I believe in it the more Obvious it becomes - and the more frustrating the obstacles they keep throwing up to stop this progress.
I will write a whole book about Gaga / Oz magic - the magic of fairyland, the Collusion of the Future that pulls us all in.
The next community I discovered, which accepted and supported my ideas that challenged binary gender and other mainstream ideas were the Hippies and specifically the Grateful Dead. And weed and psychadelics themselves but honesty demands that I credit the Grateful Dead, and other musicians in general, for even making weed and psychadelics possible through the most repressive decades in America. It can't be underestimated how much weed and psychadelics are the magical collusion glue for EVERYONE to access the freedom of the future. And the Grateful Dead did other things, too, that make it the Best Mystical Countercultural Example of America: the whole Family, the whole movement (as I wrote Whole Family the Slimgenics spokeswoman said Whole Family on my TV - its the Gimme a Break marathon for Spring Break) was for Civil Rights and Environmentalism, against sexism and racism and classism, tolerant and accepting and welcoming to all. And The Grateful Dead did something else no one has done for centuries, or ever, quite like this. It's The Festival - the precursor to cities.
I heard on the radio last night that Cities have become the dominant living conditions for humans and before Cities existed their precursors were Sacred Sites like Stonehenge. These sites were the destinations for gatherings that took place at certain times of year. The huge festivals annually or seasonally eventually gave rise to more permanent structures and residence at these sites and as these grew they eventually became cities. The problem with Cities is that they all share the same characteristics, even the ancient Metropolises in America and Egypt and everywhere: they all rely on hierarchy and classism, the whole structure of cities produces and supports a Ruling Class. One revolutionary idea of the Grateful Dead was countering this trend by restoring the Festival precursor of the City - instead of a festival that happened at a predetermined place and time the Grateful Dead were a Nomadic Festival which made every place it went, every time, into a sacred space - or rather restored the sacred aspect to spaces that "Our" culture denies the sacredness of.
So the Grateful Dead made a "City" but a Ancient, Holy, Festival city, and presented a whole new model of "commerce" to people based upon Music, Art, Craft, Ingenuity, Barter, Food, and Abundance -the ancient principles and excitement that brought us together in greater numbers to begin with. The anthropologist on the radio said we are "naturally" inclined to live in village groups of 50-100, which is why Small Town life seems so appealing - but we've obviously also developed a taste for Much Larger communities - we just do them wrong. The Grateful Dead were a reminder and a vision of how we CAN do it, right, and still like in super huge groups together, but live Well.
America claims to honor Success really well but it is conspicuous that the Grateful Dead are the most Successful band, ever, in America by Many, many metrics - but America is afraid of them, mainstream America is afraid of giving them the respect they are due because even after decades of trying to ignore and marginalize them and the ideas they represent they ARE the ideas of the Future -and Past - which are the ONLY ones that will save us from ourselves: Environmentalism and Equality and Liberty and Freedom.
I mentioned the Ancient City in America, millions of people, that I recently heard an anthropologist on the radio saying was like all other cities, with a Ruling Class in houses 40 times bigger than the poor, in certain parts of town. He suggested that this City collapsed when everyone just abandoned it - not after a disaster, per se, but his idea was they just left and abandoned it, like a revolution, because they saw the whole thing, the Hierarchical city, as a Mistake and returned to their more natural, smaller group communities. This was hundreds of years ago, they just came to the realization that the danger of Cities was THIS, hierarchy and oppression, and just gave them up.
Maybe we weren't as wise in other cultures or maybe we just had too much "keeping" us in the city model - but we DO want that Festival, that massive gathering and celebration and all the Abundance and Art it allows - and we even want Cities to make that more permanent, too - but when you think about it all the BEST cities have Art, are the Best because of their art and Culture and Food - THIS is still what makes cities Good and CAN exist without the evils of hierarchy and oppression.
I realized at an early age that The Grateful Dead were doing this and always loved their music and what the represented and had great friendships with the few deadheads I was lucky enough to meet. I only made it to one "show" while Jerry was alive, and didn't get in just went to the Lot, the "City" outside the show, in Atlanta in 1995. But I made it to a number of their shows since then and these fragmented strains had the same welcoming feel - but you COULD say "I missed out on a thing that they had to start" - except I didn't because when The Thing is The Future we ALL have a part to play in making it come true and can play it better the more we realize this and go for it.
I had to mention Boy George for his influence on me as an artist and Cultural Influencer - as a hero. And I got to see Culture Club in concert last year and it was amazing, just an incredible, fantastic show. He said things that will stick with me forever, too: "Are you really in love with the person you are here with? (Cheers) If not, have you considered that maybe YOU are the problem?" He might not have said it just like that but all his messages, of the songs and banter, were Radical Love. I had to mention him again, here, to explain my ideas of "collusion". I was reminded by my Fairy Friends, in the TV ("she got hung up in the fantasy because I looked like Sammy Davis Jr - I wanted to go bowling, she wanted to go to Frank's house" - Sammy just said as "Albert" on Gimme a Break.) when Mallory asked Alex to tell her his secret on Family Ties yesterday: "I told you MY secret, that I love Boy George." And Alex says "That's not secret, that's just weird." Mallory was my biggest crush growing up, I wonder if it helped me think of Boy George as a role model to think Mallory loves him, too - because even if Boy George wouldn't want to be with Mallory I definitely wanted to and wanted to be Like Me - Girly - but to be attractive to beautiful Girls. I didn't, and still don't, have a Model for my gender identity AND sexuality in American Culture, that I know of - Maybe Santa - except the Oz stories, I guess - but they remain "secret" to most Mainstream America.
But at least now there is Language in our culture for these things. People do have more examples of Gender and Sexuality and more ways to talk about them. The Hippies had made a lot of this possible in the 60's and the Grateful Dead carried the torch for it into the Next Century - apologies to MILLIONS of others who "Colluded" in this effort, the Revolution of Music, Art, and Activism, it's just that the Grateful Dead did something exceptional, unique and GIANT - and I still have instant connection with people based upon our shard love of this music - and the fact that it is an identifier of these progressive and futuristic/mystical ideas.
I was sensitive to the Role The Dead played and the way it WAS Counter-Cultural, counter to all the Bad things in our culture to promote the Good ones - to Make a Good Sacred City Model for all the others to see and live up to, for example, and to cultivate and grow these new ideas in people individually and in communities of all sizes. And in every sense - I could go on too long but must at least mention how the Music-Sharing community of the Grateful Dead influenced the creation and development of the internet - from the invention of the PC on acid to the focus on music sharing, via the mail, in the early internet days which pioneers and influenced the direction that file-sharing went. To Bill Gates offering a billion dollars for the Grateful Dead "Vault" of recordings.
Rap has actually become the worldwide music of protest. It's not only the most popular music form it is a genre that people worldwide adopt and make their own. Historically Rap will likely be seen as the Music of the Revolution because the Whole Rap Community, worldwide, WILL be responsible for inspiring the most changes and actions. There are many parallels and a common goal between the Grateful Dead and Rap, for example, and Rap artists connect with the community more intensely than other music artists, too, by the nature of it. The specific way The Grateful Dead was intentionally creating a community around consciousness IS unique to them, for how they did it, but you see the same kinds of things from other artists and the Social Consciousness aspect is shared by MOST other musical artists - or at least parts of it. But music DOES bring us together and bridge gaps - another news story from yesterday was about a concert and speech Yo Yo Ma gave on the border of Laredo Texas and the Mexican town of Nuevo Laredo (?) which consider themselves the same town even with the border between them - he played the cello and pointed to the bridge and said Music, Culture, builds Bridges, not Walls.
As I sat down to write this some more Grandpapa on Gimme A Break explained why football is boring: "A bunch of millionaire white guys throwing the ball to a bunch of millionaire black guys." This reminds me of some notes I took on a radio program - still can't find my notes but I'll just finish this with what I remember from them. One was a report on the scrutiny of NBA referees. They've tabulated and calculated all of their calls and can determine how much bias comes into making the calls: racial bias, hometeam favoritism, underdog favoritism, celebrity bias, etc. They can calculate it and report it to the refs so they can try to work on it, try to improve it - which they can only do by eradicating conscious bias AND working to identify and rectify unconscious bias, too. The newscaster talking about this made one vague reference and comparison with the epidemic, centuries-long epidemic, in America of cops killing and abusing black people due to bias and injustice of institutional racism built into the system. But they can't even get reports of how many people they kill, etc, much less all the details they do for NBA refs.
That says a Lot - we CAN do this, we can address bias, we have the understanding and even technology to give us much more Advanced Understanding, and we CAN apply it. But how long will it take to apply these same programs to police work that we are doing for NBA refs? We have to start with the WILL to do it, which is what we lack: we only convict the 1% of the most indefensible police murders of civilians, the rest ALL get paid leave and eventual acquittal because the that is the WILL of the system, the intention of the system and most individuals in it, consciously through racism and less consciously through unwillingness to challenge the racist system. They just say "the policeman was scared" and they can get away with anything, basically, while failing to step back and recognize the Basic Fact that in EVERY situation like this the officer is the one introducing fear and danger into the situation in the first place. There is no consideration given for how fearful the system and police themselves make the population - because that is their whole point, the whole design.
The other radio program that I remember taking notes for was about people crossing the road and cars not stopping for them. They did a study where people would try to cross the road when a car should yield to them and note how fancy the car was and whether they stopped. The poorest cars were 1's and the richest cars were the 5's. The study showed that 100% of the "1" cars, the poorer cars, stopped for the pedestrians. But 40% of the "5" cars sped right through, ignoring the law, safety, and the existence of other people. They presented it as evidence of people who feel privileged flaunting the law, feeling like they don't apply to Them.
That is the basis of White Supremacy - and we live in a White Supremacist country and world. Plenty of people are aware of this because they CAUSE it, they are behind it. Others are "behind" it without realizing what it is, they are in collusion - We are all in collusion - with this evil when we take advantage of it, when we benefit from privilege - or even when we fall into ANY way of treating others like we don't have to care for them, like we don't have to stop for them in the crosswalk because OUR car is too fancy, our business too important. Or thinking the "rules" - the real rules of how we do things, not the rules of how things SHOULD be, say that if we run over someone in a fancy car everyone should be worried about the dent in the fancy car. That's the way we think, that Stuff is more important then People, because White Supremacy demands the valuation and Devaluation of people.
But REAL living, the countercultural Future that will replace the Patriarchy, does NOT devalue people, it only increasingly appreciates ALL of us.
This is why I'm so grateful to be a Girl Free in a Boy's body, Two-Spirit Male, whatever I manage to call myself - and to have realized I was this was as a kid, Born This Way, even decades before there was much cultural acceptance for it - in one of the the heights of Reaction to new gender ideas, the 80's. 4-17-19 - because it Kept me Out of It, Looking in, and not Part of it. All the jokes and insults against being a Girl or being Girly, on TV or in society, thousands and tens of thousands of times, to this very day - all of them were just signs, to me, that the person presenting these ideas were unevolved and repressed. (as I typed that Mr. whoever keeps telling Hazel to "stay out of it" on Hazel on my TV. - Mr B, that's his name.)
We are currently in another height of reaction to this, Kavanaugh's fraternity's "Two genders!" and "No Means Yes!" Patriarchy/Rape chants and all the Trolling of the Trump Era -
because Trolling, lying, weaponizing stupidity is the last "power" the Right has, and it's about to be swept away. We're better than that and we are going to BE better than that, soon.
I'm grateful to be this way because it always gave me a critical eye for the culture that insists there are only "certain" ways to be, or certain ways to be or colors to be are more "Superior" than others, which is a lie. I've seen through these lies for years.
And I didn't have anyone "colluding" with me, working with me - except magically, Fairies, Weed, the grateful dead, rap, electronica and other music and art, Oz, mystcicism, poetry, Zen, Nature, Love, The Goddess - all of these things "conspired" to help me Envision and help Realize the Future. In that sense Everything, Time itself, "Colludes" with me, with all of us, with Freedom and the Future itself - and with Angels and Ghosts and Aliens and Fairies, if you like to think of them, too. If you do like to think that way it becomes easy to see how the Evil forces in the world are in collusion with Demons and Bad Aliens and Bitter Ghosts, etc.
But for now its especially effective to point out to everyone the actual people who are making this happen, who are propping up White Supremacy. And all the Right Wing Leaders are banding together and making no bones about it in the Trump era - he will be an anti-hero like Gollum taking all the evil down with him.
So they are claiming they haven't "proven" his collusion with Putin, but maybe the report actually did. And either way if you just step back you can see it, the collusion, so easily in everything he has said and done before and after taking office - it all serves "Russia's" agenda of promoting autocratic power and destroying democracy and the power of people, worldwide, to do good things by derailing us into populism and fascism. But this is the White Supremacist goal, Patriarchy, over even Russia's involvement - Putin is a Pawn in this, too, whether you consider Aliens running it behind the scenes or ONLY people, Putin isn't one of the kings he imagines himself to be, just another Pawn of White Supremacy. So is Bolsonaro and Netenyahu and Trump, all Pawns, no matter "who" runs the show, "really."
The important thing is that ALL of that collusion is Evil but there IS collusion with Good, for everyone, and it becomes increasingly obvious what that is and how to do it. When I was a kid in the 80's we had the first warnings of climate change and felt sure that WE had to be the generation to turn things around - and we didn't do it. We made SOME progress, we made Earth Day a thing for a while, but apparently the Oil Companies etc redoubled their efforts (4-17 in fear of Earth Day) to buy the politicians and promote stupidity to obstruct the change we needed, and won with their money. If we have to get rid of money, entirely, to stop their ability to obstruct us, so be it, we can do that, first, if we have to - there are ways. The point is that THIS generation, NOW, the young kids are actually doing it, boycotting school worldwide to demand action. WE, the People, ALL the Real People, untrolled and unpossessed by evil - secretly ALL of us once we start cutting evil out - are with them on this. And We can change ANY government and ALL government if we need to, to save the Planet - we just have to follow the example of the kids.
The Revolution, Peaceful Revolution (the only kind that will ever work, anymore, and maybe really that truly ever worked) in Sudan replaced their long-standing dictator, Bashir, with a General - then replaced HIM with another General the next Day, who "seems" - is reported to be - better. But the people are still in Charge, making the demands for the changes they need, and keeping up the protest. The way it's reported, the way any human soul can detect, the protesters are right and should get to form the kind of government they need instead of an exploitative one they've suffered under. But while The People, worldwide, can sympathize, can seek the same solution in our own countries, The Media and "International Community" support them - the GOVERNMENTS of the world do not, so far. In the reporting last night I learned that America had been "working closely" with Bashir in recent years - to fight terrorism. Which makes you think while we principally should be with the People, we, as a Country, as a Government, lost our Ally and don't have the will to show true principle and support the people, because the whole idea threatens "Us" - meaning our Government, our system, the whole system of White Supremacy. And the same system is ultimately what is ruling so much of the rest of the world, or so many governments are in the sway of America/Russia - whoever, at this point.
The fact is we never support the people, no government in the world is, really, they are all effectively in "collusion" to support Government -Bad Government. Because Good Government, like Good Cities, ARE possible but they are a threat to Bad Government, what we have now. I don't know if Maduro's government is GOOD in Venezuela but I DO know that even if it COULD be Good it is harder for it to be good if America is sabotoging them. And when we send "aid" but are willing to fight to force it into the country instead of just giving it to refugees in the surrounding countries it's obvious the whole "caring" aspect is a lie and ruse. So you KNOW we're evil, in the wrong, in this case and can only assume that the Governments we feel threatened by are the ones challenging us with better ideas that would threaten our system. But our system IS wrong and needs changing and the threat of IDEAS is that they will inspire US to make the changes we need, for ourselves, instead of having to rely on someone taking us over, or the Benevolent Aliens, etc, showing their hand. We CAN do it for ourselves by believing in ourselves.
The People of Sudan recently did it, twice, and the people of Algeria used peaceful protest to force their leaders to resign, too. The "Question" is who will take power and the "doubt" the media expresses is that the "people" can do it - but of COURSE they can do it. The only real Question is can the Power Structures built by fear ALLOW them to take over? Can the Local Military - and Militarism worldwide that controls ALL Big Government("s") - EVER "allow" the people to rule? Can the military get over itself and give them what they demand - or will the Military stay in league with ALL bad Governments and Militaries of the world by insisting only another Proven Power can "take over"?
(4-17-19 This is why the "American Dream" - the Good One, the REAL one, IS for the Whole World - not just so you can "come here" - which should also be true - but so we can make Everyone in the world free to have the same dream: to ALLOW Good, instead of Force, Fear, and Evil, to Rule.)
Ultimately we WILL realize that we are ALL in collusion - with Good - but we may have been duped and tricked into collusion with Evil, as individuals, as cultures, as communities and Nations - but we just IMPROVE all of those things, at every level.
Music and art have ALWAYS pointed the way to do this and can reach the level of potential we need to change the whole world. That is why I responded so strongly to the Grateful Dead, I could tell all the ways they were doing what we needed most. But I was "too young" and too sequestered to get "into" it, to feel part of it - even though I always felt accepted and part of it, for my part, and still do, feel like part of keeping it all alive and introducing more folks to it. But it was "before my time" so without the personal experience of being there it made me appreciate the larger experience, the influence on culture, the magic of it, and just the music, too. But I did feel like I missed it, in a lot of ways, and wished for something else like that.
Lady Gaga was the next phenomenon to give me that sense - and I love it when she calls us "hippies" and says The Monster Ball was a "Post-Punk Wizard of Oz" because it tells me she envisions it this way, too. The Grateful Dead did a lot for gender understanding, countering sexism and homophobia and bigotry as part of the whole ethos of Nature and Pacifism and Socialism/Communalism, too. Lady Gaga's message became more acutely focused on Gender and Sexuality and we obviously desperately need to overcome the obstacles to appreciating these in order to evolve.
This is why I feel so strongly about the Little Monsters and Lady Gaga as part of a cultural revolution but I have felt hindered by being "too old" now, to participate in the Little Monster community - even though I know little monsters of all ages are accepted and appreciated I just haven't participated. And I've always felt this was my participation, writing this, but also know it wasn't "enough." While I would like to feel and be part of more community I believe my best way is to make my own art, music and writing - I just have always had such issues fitting in. I talk to much. But maybe if I wrote my books and figured some folks already knew what I had to say I would have less to try to say in the moment.
I'm grateful for the magical collusion of everything that has helped me feel and recognize and believe in Good in the world, in people, in Nature, in the Goddess. I'm eager for community, that I feel Part of, actively, that provides that Collusion as well - but maybe I have to Make that for myself. It would make sense because the only communities I want to be part of ARE "countercultural" to the White Supremacy we live under -so all of them are threatened and marginalized and "pushed outside".
Deadheads and Little Monsters are everywhere, probably WAY more Deadheads, but another group I "belong" to is Witches and there may even be as many Witches, or more, as Deadheads - yet we aren't United, we aren't In Collusion - except magically. There is that meme that Republicans believe Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is leading a coven of Witches "cursing" Trump 24-7 and in a WAY, in magical collusion, she is, We Are, You Are Too Whether You Know You're A Witch Or Not -
but then again wouldn't it be nice to actually put that together, to make a Practical Version of the Magical Collusion? Shouldn't we do that for Everything? We make Art, we express our truest beliefs, and we DO this, we MAKE practical versions of the magical collusion that seeks to save us all and the world.
And we defy the Evil One.
I did find one note I want to include: I was watching TV the other day and saw a Trump reference on the Partridge Family. The were recording a song to Save the Whales but a man named Mr. Fletcher, "Squint", claimed rights to the whale song and wanted half the profits. He was orange, old, squinty and a conman so of course I thought of Trump. And he said "Make this great country great, land of the home, free of the brave." They trick him into donating his money to the whales, too, by getting him on TV with Howard Cossell and shaming him into it - he says "what good is money when nature needs me?" - to look Good on TV. What would it take to get Trump to change his tune, to shame him out of the obvious implications of everything he says? Maybe it's impossible - he's a shameless White Supremacist. On Gimme a Break they are going to see "A Star is Born" and Nell says "it will break your heart to hear Judy Garland sing" - which I take as a sign to finish this and not even bother rereading or editing it.
At the end Squint says "You set this whole thing up with Howard Cossell!" - the Partridges colluded with the media to get him to do the Right Thing, applying social conscience. Again, what media would have to Collude, with Good, to ask Trump what question to make him respond to social conscience - to look Good to people? Nothing has worked so far, he just further confirms and deepens his collusion with Evil. But we just need to call him out as Wrong - and EVIL for it. We have to condemn the evil, even if he would refuse any chance to repent and redeem himself - all the more reason to constantly offer those opportunities with Good Questions, Good Collusion.
4-17-19 edit: and report, if I forgot before, that Bernie DID call Trump out for being racist, sexist, and a bigot - and WILL defeat him by awakening our national conscience against these things again.
That Squint character was before Trump "existed" as a celebrity, but was a "comment" on him, especially at this time - Money DOES not do any good when Nature needs you, but since he refuses to realize that he remains the standard bearer for Greed / Evil. This magical comment is "collusion." The show that came on that night was Sabrina the Teenage Witch. They gave each other "neck things" and I wrote it down, then the next minute, at the cafe, they called out their number, number 17. 17 is MY number, my magic number - but it has also been used by the Qanon Trump conspiracy folks. Was Sabrina in some 17, Neckware/Noose prophecy of the KKK-Trump-Q connection? Maybe, that's how magic works. Or maybe I just mentioned it because "Q" and THEIR "17" and all of that is such bullshit can you imagine what an actual CREATIVE person could do with a corralled audience of conspiracy nuts? It's too easy to encourage stupidity - blame others for what you do, stir up fear - there is a Nazi playbook for all of these tactics. And we can see who uses that playbook - they ARE all in the same collusion with the same evil.
And we, just by following our Nature, our spirits, can see the Collusion with Good that is offered to us and what it means. See through the evil, believe in things THEY say "Can't be done." And Do them.
Love, Peace, Art, Magic - these are Our Revolution! And We CAN even elect leaders that help lead us to it - but even better, in the meantime, and after that, we can BE those leaders, in our own lives, communities, cultures, and worlds.
4-17-19 PS: Collude! Collude with 'Tude! Collude with Good - with the Goddess!
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