What do you think, dear worst-reader? Worst-writer going where no one likes to go? You know. Like. The useless #OKBoomer and its parentage will burn it down before ever ever ever given in to the idear that they might eventually have to pay for what it is they’ve done–in their mediocre mendacity. And now that the inevitable ww3 they ALL espouse is showing its lustful face in the Ukraine, Taiwan, the #Trump #Putin sixty-nine of joy… Wait. Worst-scratch that. Let’s move on.
What do the rich and privileged do before (ever) paying the piper? That’s right. They burn it. Burn it with fire, baby. And then they let the finance industry cover the loss. You know. The finance industry being things like insurance, tax (loss) write-offs, arbitrary forgiveness, where applicable: pardons, etc. I mean. How convenient that a ship, in the middle of the ocean–or at least far enough off-shore where laws don’t apply–can catch fire and let all the Porsches onboard turn to ash that will feed deep sea bottom feeders galore. Wait. What do you say, dear worst-reader? Do you say accidents happen and I’m stretching my conspiracy lungs a bit too far? Well, you may be right. Then again. Even if it is an accident how does capitalism explain that after all these years of shipping, shipping, shopping can a ship catch fire full of rich-toys-galore? You know. Rich toys that are built in bulk but there’s no earners to pay them all. What? Scratch that, too? Ok. Let’s get back to shipping, shipping and mindless shopping. Who’s gonna pay for ship inspections? Up-keep? Maintenance? Oh wait wait. Someone light a fag and throw the match in the wrong place?
As worst-noted here, dear worst-reader, there’s a lot of powerful STUPID out there in my beloved & missed united mistakes of #Americant. But is it all really that stupid? Or were you not confused by how the likes of Hulk Hogan was able to cash out über-big-time from a lawsuit that, if it wasn’t for the bankrolled lawyer team behind him, he probably would not have won. Needless to say I’m tickled that this article is starting to pose the same question. Will the likes of dip$hit #Americant get its vengeance through bankrolled über-legal-appeals galore? Yeah. Worst-writer will be following this one. Or maybe not.
Worst-posted to soon? Have to admit, dear worst-reader. Although worst-writer is highly charged with what #Elon is doing e.g. Tesla and SpaceX, there are times when I’m curious as to the moment that may turn him into another DeLorean. You know the deal. Big shot gets caught up in the blather of his ego, shoots his goo beyond the stars that starts getting in the eyes of those who don’t want red-eye and then they stick it to him financially and suddenly he’s hunted down for cucking luggage filled with cocaine. But on that worst-note I should die-gress. On the other hand. Maybe #Elon should shut his South-African slash Canadian trap and just get on with rockets in space. It seems his friend making ways isn’t all that flattering. Or maybe not.
Maybe it’s time, dear worst-reader. Time to have a worst-writer perspective regarding the up-n-cumming blood & guts human-juice-bar extravaganza that will be WW3. But don’t get me worst-wrong here. I’m not worst-sayin’ there’s gonna be war. But I’m also not worst-sayin’ that the war hasn’t already begun. I mean. Come on. Ukraine has been in a pseudo civil war–or is it a Russian proxy war against The West (NATO)–since 2014. And what about all the other conflicts that have taken place among and within all those former soviet satellites, not withstanding the former Yugoslavia? All of this, of course, is a by-product of how The West royally screwed the pooch when it abandoned Gorbachov way back in 1991. Or has anything other than consume-to-survive and free-will to be stupid done anything worthwhile in this post Cold War hell? Oh yeah. Shareholder value! Is it a surprise to read that worst-writer says he’s not shocked at how fcuked the pooch is?
The thing that gets to this worst-#Americant-expat is how much killing in the name of nationalism and geo-politics has been going on in #Eurowasteland and, of course, the middle-east for the past (insert your # here) years. I mean. Obviously. There’s plenty of coverage of the politics and the politicians but where’s the info regarding what all this krapp is really about? I mean. How many tens of thousands of people have died in #Eurowasteland since the end of the Cold War? And for what? I think the thing I’m trying to get at is: where are the missing parts of this confused and convoluted nation-state, human-behaviour, greed-mongering puzzle that can only come from #Eurowastelanders, Anglos and #Americants? Here’s a hint:
U.S. drives to keep its European and East Asian protectorates locked into its own sphere of influence is threatened by the emergence of China and Russia independently of the United States while the U.S. economy is de-industrializing as a result of its own deliberate policy choices. The industrial dynamic that made the United States so dominant from the late 19th century up to the 1970s has given way to an evangelistic neoliberal financialization. That is why U.S. diplomats need to arm-twist their allies to block their economic relations with post-Soviet Russia and socialist China, whose growth is outstripping that of the United States and whose trade arrangements offer more opportunities for mutual gain. (-Source: see link below; italics are mine)
Wow. Does that provide a few of the missing pieces of the grand puzzle? I especially like evangelistic neoliberal financialization. Anything using the word evengelical is a worst-go for worst-writer. Or do you believe that the sole reason I jumped ship (expatriated) was because I couldn’t handle all the greed-mongering and how my beloved & missed united mistakes turned opportunity into a commodity–which #Eurowastelanders, as usual, have also adopted? Indeed. The whole religious bat$hit thing that is #Americant wore on my soul more than that five dollar Texas whore that gave me the scratches way back when. Then there’s the de-industrialisation thing that #Americants, especially all of the conservatives (both-sides), latched onto as though their idears were the teat-leech-suckers of mother-more. In other worst-words, that which has given rise to post Cold War Western-ism that is the redistribution of everything from the bottom to the top is the driving factor in maintaining a world where there can be no political and social progress.
The worst-thing is, China’s economic and social ass-kicking is scaring the bee-jee-zees out of all the really, really old ugly white guys that run The West, aka #Americant hegemony. Why? Simple. As indicated from the quote above, if it continues on its current path, China will not only surpass the US economically but combined with Russia the two will enable a dollar $hitstorm the likes of which the US has never seen. Because of the US’s internal bat$hit political policies that have facilitated and enabled the resurgence of meritless hereditary privileged robber barons–mostly due to the utterly IGNORANT, STUPID and INEPT pseudo-wealthy middle-classes–the only way to save its arse is to strong-hand old allies back into the fold that was the Cold War. And since I live in one of those ally countries, I can tell you that a lot of Das Volk are not buying any of this krapp. The reason for all the skepticism isn’t because of how this may or may not influence #Eurowasteland’s consume-to-survive prowess but instead because most #Eurowastelanders just don’t see the point of following a country that devolves into a place/mindset that elects a piece of $hit like former prez piss-hair #Trump. It’s one thing to be a $hit-kickin cowboy that rants and raves about guns and fun and girls in wet t-shirts–all of which doesn’t matter as long the bourgeoisie can still buy Porsches when in their 70s. It’s another thing to put up a tried & true NYC $cumbag to represent western values and beliefs who also spends at least two hours every morning in front of a mirror turning his deathly white skin orange and fluffing his surgically implanted comb-over so that when he appears in public he looks like Cheeto-Jesus. And then get a load of the crowds of #Americants that support Cheeto-Jesus. Holly evangelical krapp!
America has lost its industrial cost advantage by the sharp rise in its cost of living and doing business in its financialized post-industrial rentier economy. -Source: see link below; italics mine
Rentier economics: consume-to-survive by means of unproductive finances (shareholder value) and meritless wealth. -Source: worst-writer and a bit of wiki
As usual I’ve gone off subject. What were we worst-writing about? Oh yeah. WW3. Well. Don’t you know, dear worst-reader, Vlad Putin, for the first time since I can remember, has actually earned a bit of my sympathy. Hear me out. I really don’t like the guy. If anything Russia probably deserves him as their two-bit, new & improved (pseudo) Tzar just like my beloved & missed #Americant deserves former prez Cheeto-Jesus. But since Putin already occupies a not so small swath of Ukraine (Donbas and Crimea), what’s the other real deal (puzzle part) that may or may not be influencing #Americant loss of its old school world order?
Ever since 2014 I’ve been worst saying that Russia’s issues could have been dealt with long ago if The West hadn’t turned its back on Gorbachov. Of course #Eurowasteland followed #Americant’s lead here. I need to read a bit more of that history to get better informed but I can say this since I lived through it. Russia and Putin’s greatest error is the idear that it either won or lost the Cold War. I mean. Obviously #Americant thinks it won and so it also thinks (believes) that it’s justified in living in the past, which has worked out pretty well for its oligarch classes and only proved how STUPID its middle-classes are. But the days of living on the laurels of #Americant hegemony have obviously run out. It’s taken a bit long, IMHO, but now lines are being drawn, steps are being taken, others (nations) in the world are asserting themselves. Since the only thing (so far) Russia has to offer the world is energy resources, it’s no wonder that it can’t just let Ukraine self-determine. Have a look at a map of Europe and Eurasia. Russia’s biggest problem when it comes to exporting the only thing of value it has to export is that it is somewhat limited in both shipping and pipelines. Russia has, don’t you know, the single largest nation-state land-mass on the planet. Hence the German-Russian Nordstream2 pipeline feeding western #Eurowasteland and, of course, Ukraine as a sea port for energy shipping. Considering all the other $hit that’s been going on with former Soviet Satellites hating on Russia because of their past, is it any wonder that Putin looks like that little kid being bullied in the corner of STUPID high-school. Of course, no one will actually physically attack that kid but everyone knows he’s f’n bat$hit crazy. But on that note I should die-gress. Or maybe more to come.
Trust me, dear worst-reader, when I say I know who I am. I am worst-writer. I am part of all-things worst. I accept it and I live it. And so. I can barely write. Boo-who. I don’t care about grammar and spelling and writing rules and blah-blah. Boo-who-who. So thank your god for spell checkers and whatever else technologist have enabled to allow me all this worst-writing. Oh. And. I could give two hoots about those who can actually write–and make a living doing it. Boo-f’n-who-who-who! On the other left foot, though, I do care about all the other amateurs, unprofessionals, dimwits that think they are, somehow, equal to the learned. You know. Equal by birth or privilege or hearsay spewed into them by their ugly, disgusting, rotten parentage. Hence #okboomer is nothing but mostly a bunch of dimwits just like me–especially the likes of Sarah Palin, former prez piss-hair and all-things #Americant political conservative BS. The difference between worst-moi and them? I don’t like authority (they love it) and I would prefer a government that is actually functional. And while I’m on the worst-subject of dysfunction…
Get a load of the article linked below, dear worst-reader. Did you read it? Ok. Here’s another sec to do so. Got it? Good. With that ingested (barf), are you about to join me in giving up on The DailyBeast? WTF? According to the article and its both-siderism-like slant, a bat$hit judge in the scum$ that is NYC has thrown out Sarah Palin’s malice case against the New York Times because the judge thinks her lawyers didn’t prove there was enough malice? Indeed. The fourth estate continues to tread further along that thin line of doing whatever it can to be part of (bulwark) democracy. Even if that means employing a bit of malice, though? Or maybe not.
Why does krapp like this get under worst-writer’s skin? Simply worst-put, it gets under my skin because it gives legitimacy to everything that is the LAND OF FREE TO BE STUPID. As I worst-write this that same judge has allowed the jury to continue deliberating–even though he’s thrown out the case. Which means they could come back and further legitimise fraulein Alaskan’s claim that maybe she ain’t as stupid as she obviously is. And that’s the worst-ticket, eh, dear worst-reader. For. Don’t you know. Sarah Palin, picked by a so-called rational republican as his Vice President running mate, is what probably opened the flood gates that could ONLY result in former prez piss-hair. You know. Let’s legitimise people who espouse right-wing bat$hittery. Let’s (the Republican Party) put up these idiots that think with their feelings on a pedestal because, well, right-wing and religious talking heads have occupied their minds with stupid-galore. On that worst-note, I should die-gress.
So let’s worst-quote a bit, shall we.
The Times … erroneously linked Palin’s political action committee and its rhetoric to the 2011 Arizona mass shooting that killed six people and severely injured then-Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. -Source of quote: see link below
Why was/is that link erroneous? I remember those cross-hairs vividly. How can any rational, thinking person not remember it? I mean. Isn’t Hollywood, toxic maleness, submissive femaleness, VIOLENCE, part of the foundation of the #Americant psyche? As so many prove on a daily basis, there is simply waaaaaay to much reactionary stupid in #Americant. Two, three generations of peoples are so dumb-downed that their only source of thought is what they can contrive out of riled emotions. How else can a human being cope with failing-upwards his/her whole life and then, somehow, never question how it all came to be? Republican politicians have normalised violence as their means to their political ends–because if there is no LOVE there can only be its antithesis. It’s everywhere with these Palin-like people–seventy-four million of whom voted to re-elect former prez piss-hair. Just give a listen to CPAC or faux-newz. And what about the violent rhetoric that lead to Jan. 6, 2021? Holy krapp, dear worst-reader. I mean. It’s obvious to me (based on the article below) that the judge throwing out this case is at least adhering to a kind of jurisprudence in his decision. But what kind? He’s obviously putting things off so that an appeals court can deal with it. I also get the feeling that if he could, if Palin’s lawyer were a bit better, then he wouldn’t have to navigate his way out or through this. Which brings worst-moi to yet another worst-declaration: the #Americant experiment is over, baby. It’s just a matter of time and a few more bat$hit republicans that are a tick smarter than Palin or former prez piss-hair and that’s all she wrote. Game over, baby. Fail upwards and embrace your fasces.
Source of screenshot: Reddit, r/politics, see link below.
There you have it, dear worst-reader. It’s not often I link to pay wall sites. Hence, I rarely visit salon.com anyway. But. As you can tell. Every once-a-once, I do go there–thanks to aggregation sites like Reddit. But that’s neither here nor there.
The worst-truth is, I don’t know how many posts I’ve worst-written where I’ve already said THEY will burn it down. “They“ being, not just the Republican bat$hit right wing, but, they also being a whole bunch of #Americants who, for the entirety of their lives, have not been able to recognise the soggy paper bag they’ve not been able to free themselves from called the #Americant dream. But. Again. That’s neither here nor there.
The thing is, dear worst-reader, when you have such a huge number of wannabes, followers, dumb-downed morons that mistake patriotism for nationalism, are clueless to the meaning of fascism, have no idear what history is, etc., can’t figure out that astrology is to astronomy what economics is to donuts… Ok. Forget that. My point is. The scariest thing about former prez pee-pee-hair and his followers (both direct and indirect followers!) is that the largest number of them ever voted for him in his re-election attempt. Obviously he lost and thank goodness there were enough on the other side to help in his defeat. But that is a huge number of stupid, don’t you know. I’m not sure how long smart can outwit so much stupid.
Good luck suckers.
Rant on.
-T
Link: Salon.com article worth a read (if you can get it for free).
Subtitle: When you’re smooth on top and can’t paddle like hell underneath is you still a duck?
A favourite movie of my youth, dear worst-reader, was Convoy. For a short while after that film I thought I was gonna be a truck driver. But then I got to know a truck driver who happened to be a single father to a girl that threw me for a tizzy. With her shirt wide open and just before I could get her belt loose, her Daddy’s truck roared onto the gravel driveway of their low middle class bungalow. Needless to say, after cutting myself pretty bad on the window sill upon leaping through it–a scar I still have forty-five years later–I quickly turned to an alternative job choice. From then on I was gonna be an air traffic controller. As we all know, that job didn’t work out either on account Reagan broke all the labour power of the entire airline industry of my beloved & missed united mistakes of #Americant. Moving on.
What in the world is going on in the far north of the #Americant continent? Is Canadiastan having issues? Or have you not followed all them Rubber Duck wannabes in their confusion? With that in mind, perhaps a short summary is at hand.
In the movie Convoy, the Rubber Duck, played by Kris Kristofferson, is a kind of anti-hero, western-like renegade truck driver that seems to have a lot of time on his hands while cruising the somewhat less than romantic highways of god-knows-where desert laden #Americant. In his boredom–that can only be embodied by #Americant low-low working class privilege–he gets caught up in a tizzy with a local sheriff who just happens to be the father of the Rubber Duck’s love interest. Long story short regarding how the lower classes fight THE-MAN, due to the coercive and punitive nature of #Americant law enforcement, the Rubber Duck ends up driving all over the place running away from the cops and is thereby joined by hundreds (thousands?) of other truckers who think whatever they want/can while protesting coercive government authoritarian impunity. And I hope you don’t mind this spoiler. In the end the anti-hero gets the girl but loses his truck. Oh yeah. Ali McGraw is great in this film too. Moving on on.
Why is it that I immediately associated this old movie with what’s going on in Canadia and the so-called Freedom Convoy 2022 (see link below)? I mean. The Rubber Duck may or may not have been fighting THE MAN–in that movie. Of course. It doesn’t really matter anymore who is fighting who because, well, Hollywood was doing what Hollywood always seems to do best. Namely it finds a way (subject matter) not to lose its shirt. You know. Losing money like Heaven’s Gate did a year or two later which certainly nipped money losing studios in the bud. #Nomatter.
I guess the only thing that is worst-comparable between real life and Hollywood is the low-low middle class truck thing. You know. A bunch of redneck truck drivers thinking they have answers and new questions and solutions and protests and something worthwhile to say all on account they are free. They were born free. Freedom is everything. Government is bad. Freedom! Short pause.
I’m not sure about you, dear worst-reader, but there’s a reason certain parts of academia these days stay away from terms like lumpenproletariat. Talk about opening a can of worms. Of course. As usual. Newz sources don’t really give off a/the vibe of telling the whole story, nothing but the story–so help someone’s god. Instead there’s a whole lot of krapp in the air where Canadiastan beer tastes like it comes from confused broken French speaking winemakers that mistake maple leafs for hops or barely or malt? (J’Rigole.)
Keep in mind, dear worst-reader, protesting THE MAN ain’t like it used to be. First. With the rise of Cheeto-Jeezus, aka former prez pee-pee-hair aka #Trump, social and cultural appropriation has taken a new (trucker’s) highway. Seriously. The best line from the movie Convoy, IMHO, is when Rubber Duck is asked how he got his name. His answer? And I worst-paraphrase.
My daddy told me that you should go through life looking smooth on the top but paddling like hell underneath. Like a duck.
Sound a little too Forrest Gump there?
Now. I don’t now about you, dear worst-reader, but one of the things that perturbed me way-back-when about the movie Convoy was the fact that rubber ducks don’t have any feet. Why the heck would an anti-hero claim that he’s gonna go through life looking smooth on top but paddle like hell underneath when he ain’t got no feet to paddle with? Am I splittin’ worst-hairs here? Maybe the Rubber Ducks dad was trying to get a different message across. Like. You’re a friggin duck. There’s a lot out there that wants to eat you with orange peels and Grand Marnier and roasted potatoes. Then again. We know what #okboomer has done with all that/their parental guidance.
Long live freedom to be stupid, baby.
So what is it that so many are protesting with their really really big vehicles these days north of god’s country? Covid-19 restrictions? Having to show proof of vaccination–in order to cross national boarders thereby stemming the spread of the worst pandemic in a hundred years? Vaccinations passports? Government? Freedom!
The good newz is, it’s becoming more and more obvious who/what these protestors are and who/what they are fighting for–even though they themselves think they’re fighting for something else. (Freedom!) Indeed. Of course. The thing that threw me for a tizzy here was more than just the Rubber Duck that has no feet. Which begs yet another worst-question: what is the end game of stupid going extra-stupid and then going full stupider?
And there you have it.
Good luck you queen subjects north of the greatest land of FREEDOM TO BE STUPID. And while you’re at it make sure you stock up on all those nazi and confederate flags. You’re gonna need something to burn after your stupidity burns everything else down.
Anybody surprised, dear worst-reader? I didn’t think so. Then again, how long can worst-writer entertain himself with $hits & giggles while his beloved & missed united mistakes of #Americant dwindles underneath the limp-Schwanz that is generation upon generation #okboomer that has given rise to former president pee-pee-hair? Then again again, there was that time I recommended to an old and confused friend (#okboomer) to get some religion in order to save her soul before becoming woman scorned. Indeed. The most frightening worst-thought preoccupying me is if she’s one of these consume-to-survive zombies throwing books in the fire of moron rage. But I die-gress.
It’s been a long time since I last (re)read Orwell’s 1984. Am I mistaken in the idear that book burning wasn’t a thing in that story? It’s almost as though, for the last twenty or thirty years, I don’t have to (re)read 1984. If you mix it with Huxley’s Brave New World you can pretty much explain everything going on right now. Am I wrong. Anywho.
Of all the things happening these days both pre and post former prez cheeto-jeezus, that mimics Orwell, there’s no need to (re)read anything. Just let things play-out. I mean. Even though book burning may or may not have been a thing in 1984 the whole fake-newz krapp certainly was/is. I mean I mean. Is the idear of fake-newz any different than book burning? Am I splitting hairs here? Which begs the worst-question: what comes after fake-newz? Let me worst-guess. Will this/my worst-blog be digitally and algorithmically altered by the/some powers-that-be? To make it fit THE narrative? Nomatter.
Winston Smith’s job in the Ministry of Truth is to change both history and current newz so that all information becomes propaganda to match the ideals of The Party? Or, in our case, the system (aka Capitalism run amok). Even though we don’t have a Ministry of Truth (not withstanding the likes of faux-newz, of course) there’s something out there controlling all-things life, death, misery, don’t you know. In our (real) times the likes of Internet For Stupid people, aka facebag, is full-on when it comes to controlling everything. You know…
Users are THE PRODUCT.
Algorithm(s) for selling THE PRODUCT.
It’s no wonder that a book burning in Redneckville #Americant barely makes any headlines. Hence the somewhat obscure pic above that I found on reddit (see source link below). Will the colour pic, taken only days ago, eventually go down in history as a pic of losers–just like the black&white pic above it? Who can know, eh, dear worst-reader. Just get a load of the people burning books. Which begs another question: who is organising all this nonsense? See article link below.
Some worry that history is repeating itself. To worst-moi, we should be more worried about being worried and thereby doing nothing because the whole repeat-thing is in full force. Or maybe not. Nomatter.
Disclaimer 2: if you don’t want to be bogged down with all my worst-writing, scroll to The Article below.
First, dear worst-reader. It’s been a long hiatus. And, don’t you know, during this down-time, worst-writer has contemplated getting rid of the blog (not that anyone would miss it). But something stopped me. Could it have been the election loss of former president pee-pee-hair? Maybe. Or could it have been the false hope that Oldman Biden would deliver? NOT! Or is there anything else left to worst-write as Putin tries to rustle up WW3? I mean. I’ve had about enough of all this $hit. Then again. I just can’t quit typing.
The reason I’m not getting rid of this blog, honestly, is because I don’t know how the fcuk to get rid of it. I can download it but it’s stuck in xml. I can’t code, which means I can’t get my text out of the xml file I download. Should I throw it away? Wow. That’s a lot of worst-writing to throw away. But let me stop there since I don’t feel like ranting about the proprietary tech bull$hit of WordPress that I chose (and pay) to use. I sleep in the beds I make, baby.
Today, dear worst-reader, let’s have a return-from-hiatus-rant looking at an article from DailyBeast. It caught my worst-attention. Why? It’s confusing. Or is it just me? Here’s the thing. And get ready cause, regarding the subject of this article, I’m biased. I adore Neil Young. I resorted to his music for solace and meaning and art as 80s music clamoured to the demise of pop, which we know today. Also. I vividly remember the feud Young had with, dare I even worst-write it, Lynyrd Skynyrd. That’s right. Fcuk that band and their “southern” bull$hit. Then again. Their ghosts must have cackled in their graves recently as their flag was taunted through the house of congress on Jan. 6, 2021. And on that note, I should die-gress.
But I can’t (die-gress). Neil Young wrote the song Southern Man in 1970. My mind weeps every time I hear it (along with a lot of other Young tunes). This song caused a stir which then caused the southern fcuk-you band (strike through) mentioned above to write their best known song (which you can look up on your own). And so. Fcuk sweet home… anything in the South, even before their ghastly redneck face resurfaced with vengeance on Jan 6, 2021. But before I get too far off subject, Southern Man lyrics:
Southern man, better keep your head. Don’t forget what your good book said. Southern change gonna come at last. Now your crosses are burning fast.
The Article
DailyBeast, worst-writer thinks, wants to convolute Neil Young’s recent stance against Spotify. How does DailyBeast do this? Young wants to pull his music off Spotify because he doesn’t want to be on the same platform with the/a new & improved Rush Limbaugh, aka Joe Rogan. For, you see, dear worst-reader, Young’s past, especially his “performative activism” against GMOs, is the same as covid-19 misinformation. According to DailyBeast. WTF? Please allow the question: Am I the only one confused?
Intent in…
Law: The state of mind necessary for an act to constitute a crime.
Comparing protesting GMOs with anti-vaxxers is ludicrous. And to write that Young’s efforts caused misinformation… WTF? At best, the GMO thing was/is, in my worst-mind, about corporate intention. Corporations, if you don’t know, are hell-bent on owning EVERYTHING. When people claim that corporations are only about profit, they are partly right. In the GMO thing, Monsanto uses technology to own the genetic material of the $hit we are forced to eat. You know, the industrial food (supply) that is 99% of every #Americant grocery store or every fast or less-than fast food restaurant. (Thank god worst-writer has never been to an Olive Garden!) Anywho.
Is Monsanto’s GMO strategy for controlling the food supply the same as a pharmaceutical company fighting a pandemic? Of course it is–but with a slight greed-mongering twist. Unlike the chaos of owning the food supply of a nation, which is ripe and open for manipulation-exploitation, a pharmaceutical company responding to a pandemic can’t just buy-out the disease. Is this a acute vs chronic conflict? Moving on.
What was/is Neil Young’s intent regarding GMOs compared to the intent of anti-vaxxers propagating misinformation? Put another way. To compare the scientific evidence of a pandemic to the way Young tried to fight the obvious misinformation regarding GMOs… Full stop, baby. I don’t know. Mind boggling stuff here. WTF is DailyBeast writing about? It’s me, right?
What is the intent of those who want good and those who don’t–at the behest of money, power, corporatism? Like much that is confused in these trying times of The Great Depression 2.0, how does one interpret intent? Is it clear-cut? The Jan. 6 commission seems to have a lot of clear-cut proof of intent regarding former president pee-pee-hair’s sedition. But is that the same as promoting, to a wide and vast audience, as Joe Rogan does, that covid may be something other than a pandemic? Or that scientists are all wrong about how the world cannot handle a pandemic? Or that scientists have worked their arses off to get a vaccine in record time? A vaccine that makes the likes of Pfizer & Co., more money money money–just like Monsanto wants to do with GMOs? But wait. Maybe. Just maybe. A brilliant singer/songwriter has, in the past, protested corporations OWNING farmers, seeds, food–the whole shebang. Why does one entity have to own EVERYTHING anyway? Wait. For DailyBeast this ain’t about the corporatism. Is it?
Remember, dear worst-reader, the first victims of the GMO scam are farmers. That’s right. Like most things #Americant now it’s all about a scam. The second victim will be you and me–but we’re used to scams, right red-hat guy? Why we haven’t felt the GMO scam? Maybe it’s because the GMO thing is chronic. It’s ongoing. And maybe it’s not about life or death–yet. No one knows what will come of it because, well, corporations don’t want anyone to know about what their real intent is, other than profits. Does a pharmaceutical company have the power to hide the/a pandemic? While you listen to a meaningless pop song, by, say, (name your current pop singer here), and continue to eat $hit and be merry (sarcasm off), I’m with Neil Young on this one. And Fcku Joe Limbaugh Rogan.
When the likes of Monsanto go unchecked, we (the world) will have no choice but to eat their food. No one got any issues about that? If we let covid-19 go unchecked… I think I’m well enough informed about this stuff to easily worst-write: this $hit is fckuing scary. But my worst-point is this: the thing about intent is that when it’s a crime it’s very hard to prove. Hence, #Scamerica. So what’s wrong with an old hippie trying to get the word out about the food we eat when his intent is to hurt no one? Keep up the good work Neil. Covid, on the other hand… Oh fcuk it. Count the fckuing dead–you idiots with the Make-#Americant-Stupid-More hats. Way to convolute things DailyBeast.
One last don’t get me wrong. I’ve eaten GMO food, I’ll probably eat more of it. What choice do we have? In fact. I love regular old fashion Cheerios (the ones without all the added, extra sugar). Regular Corn Flakes are great too. From what I understand, a lot of other veggies in, say, the frozen food section of a Stupid People Grocery Store, have been GMO’d for years. Is GMO safe? Probably. But I still want to reign in corporatism, regulate it, or at least open up ALL the info about it, put it up to objective scientific and public scrutiny, allow/enable (natural) competition to it and be informed if I buy something that uses it. In other worst-words, regulate the $hit out of corporations until they learn to play nice.
Neil Young’s protest against Spotify and Joe Rogan is warranted. It is a fight against corporatism. Who doesn’t want that? DailyBeast? Oh, wait. #MAGA and my beloved & missed united mistakes of #Americant has lost the fight against corporatism–but they’re all too stupid to figure that out. Hence the immaculate conception of the sibling to robber baron monopolies is all that’s left: vertical monopolies, baby. This is where, on the surface, on paper, it doesn’t look like a corporation owns EVERYTHING. You know, like in the old days (robber barons). Instead Monsanto works/functions to own EVERYTHING via finance, patents, copyright, and gatekeeping. Is it right that a corporation can control a farmer’s choice of where he buys his seeds? WTF. And don’t get me started on how GMO seeds work only with the pesticide created by the same company. Was that in Youngs’ movie, btw?
How many corporations do the same thing with their industry? I don’t know about you, dear worst-reader, but protesting GMOs, like Young did, was cool. If that confused people, like writers at DailyBeast, fcuk ‘em. If you can’t differentiate Young’s intent and the intent of the spawn of Limbaugh & Co, then your part of the problem. Young did not amplify anything anti- that was/is wrong or bad or hurtful (unless you’re a corporation). He did provide worthwhile info that people could discern–if they’re capable.
Amplified by Young, the anti-biotechnology movement helped lay the foundations of the anti-COVID vaccine movement today, giving it an arsenal of misinformation to be repurposed, mainstream articles to be referenced, and misguided laws to be held up as proof of inherent dangers posed by safe technologies. -Source: see link below
When shopping I always check for a GMO labels in part thanks to Neil Young. As far as the TV clip from the article with Young’s appearance on an #Americant late night comedy show promoting a movie? I wonder what vertically monopolised corporation pays Colbert’s bills. Anywho. I don’t need to stick my head in a barrel that is four feet away from me that stinks of $hit to find out what’s in it (discern). And if you ask me, from the quote above, it sounds like DailyBeast, for all its messaging about “mainstream media,” is only providing more fodder for repurposing future barrels of $hit.
Freedom = my WHO vaccine passport and most recent ersatz card.
The meaning of freedom, dear worst-reader? In these times the answer depends on who you are asking. If you’re asking a slave what freedom is, the answer should be obvious. Just give that a try with #Americants. If you’re asking a sick covid patient, who is perhaps on life support, is the answer less obvious? And so. What does one do when you don’t know you’re a slave or you’re intellectually incapable of understanding the seriousness of the covid? Hence the advent of conspiracy-theory mania a’la my beloved & missed united mistakes of #Americant. You know, that place that can’t even figure out the seriouesness of what happened on January 6, 2021. Of course, #Americant ain’t alone with the question that propagates the most bat$hittery there is. Hence the article linked below. For. Don’t you know, dear worst-reader. When the powers-that-be, those in the hot seat of decision making for the powerless and apoplectic masses, who couldn’t (intellectually) fight their way out of a wet paper bag, when they ask the question of what freedom is, the answer may or may not be obvious. And so. While the apoplectic and ignoramus masses pass on finding a/their answer–you know, so they can lap in the luxury of stupid-fun instead–thereby enabling and facilitating fascism–hence, former prez pee-pee-hair–freedom is only definable through the eyes of those who can afford it or have the biggest podium to speak it. And so. If you happen to be one of the apoplectic and ignoramus masses and then you actually try and answer the question, you will immediately be labeled a terrorist or, worse, a communist. And this is how fake, fiat, fiction becomes the norm in Orwell’s 21st century western world, baby. Or maybe not.
It wasn’t enough that the likes of Brexit and #Trumpism achieved their ultimate goal. You know, power over the world and power over ripping people, banks and heads of state off. Yet. After such power is squandered and the nevermore of yesteryore lies naked at our feet, I’ve still managed to acquire a CDC vaccination card (along with the actual vaccination, don’t you know). How can that be? If you listen to the rightwing talking heads you’d think that I owe my first born now. On the other hand. I’m so thankful for the vaccination that I’m dancing along side two-steppers, Irish kick dancers and let’s not forget the joy of mindless country music dancers in bumfcuk Kentucky, Pennsylvania, or, goodness forbid, Idaho. Indeed. And then there’s the thought that I have to return to #Eurowasteland in a few days where such a card will make my travels that much more less difficult. Freedom anyone? Not only does having such a card mean that I don’t have to pay stupid-money to get another PCR test but, somehow, some way, having proof of a vaccination goes well with all the other vaccinations I’ve had over the years. You know. All those vaccines I got in 2015-2016 because of my travels to India and parts of south east Asia, etc. But let me not get-on about how worst-writer, the most unsuccessful writer in all of history, travels. Or?
So what is freedom, dear worst-reader? Is freedom being able to choose between covid or a vaccination? Is freedom the 2nd amendment, which has become a/the mechanism to kill so many more so haphazardly? Or is freedom the special privilege whereby the Haves can so easily rule over the HaveNots? But on that note, I die-gress.
This is a screenshot of a tweet because embeds and URLs work like $hit in wordpress. Why? Oh why?
After reading the linked article, worst-writer concluded that he has a gripe with what’s being said. That gripe, don’t you know, has to do with the claim that the tobacco industry created modern science denialism. Although it is a worthwhile claim, it’s totally inaccurate. For. Don’t you know, dear worst-reader. The origin of everything denialism in my beloved & missed united mistakes of #Americant goes much deeper–and much further back than the industrialisation of the tobacco leaf. Indeed.
Think in terms, dear worst-reader, of the Wizard of Oz. That’s right, I’m talking about the man behind the curtain that no one should pay attention to. Also, think about the tried & true elixir salesman, who, like The Wizard, traveled around #Americant in a horse drawn trailer selling sugared horse piss as a cure all. But don’t get me wrong. I’m not even blaming these industrious salesmen. Where would #Americant be without them? Would we even have a Steve Jobs without all the old conmen of yore?
My worst-point is this. I too quit tobacco years ago. For me, though, it was no big deal. In fact, I could puff at a cig here and there right now and it would not cause me to resort to wanting another one. Reason? There are more important habits. And so. Like most things in (this) life, I’d just laugh off habits (cause I can’t afford them anywho) and brush my teeth and… Now. Alcohol is a whole ‘nother thing. Yea. If only I could quit that one. But let’s move on.
Doctorow is obviously right in calling out the origin of science denialism. I just think that call should go a bit deeper and thereby call-out the idiots that buy-in to this $hit.But what does (could) worst-writer know.
Why am I surprised, dear worst-reader? Did I believe that Bitcoin was impenetrable? Did I think that the government or authorities would never crack the kryptonite–that could take down the likes of Bitcoin? Or did I simply think, ultimately, Government doesn’t really care–if there may or may not be some competition? That is, somewhere in the back of my worst-mind, I thought (dreamt?) that because government monopoly on currency could never be broken and only at best dented by crypto-currency, it would just stand by and watch the show go on and on and thereby giggle once or thrice as the masses lose their collective $hit about the value of block-chain generated currency. But guess what, dear worst-reader? Worst-writer be all-kinds of wrong.
According to reports, government crypto authorities (FBI) employed one of three tactics to break into the recent ransomware payments from the Colonial Pipeline attacks that almost crippled gasoline supplies for the entire south east of the united mistakes of #Americant. An act, by-the-buy, that made me laugh my arse off. Not unlike any of the ransomware acts previously perpetrated, worst-writer couldn’t help but perform cartwheels along with exuberant $hits & giggles with these recent perpetrations. Indeed. So is it entertainment for those of us who not only question the idiocy of old money in #Americant but also could give a hoot what happens to that old money? That said and before I get too far off worst-subject, the three tactics employed by crypto authorities (FBI) in order to reign in the simple genius of ransomeware pirates includes the following:
Someone from Darkside snitched and provided access
The criminals were careless which could have given access to emails or other related correspondence
Either Bitcoin or a Bitcoin exchange snitched
Not sure about you, dear worst-reader, but something about this story gets to me. I mean. Don’t get me wrong. I’m glad they recovered something from the ransomware. Heck, over $4m dollars (of very, very old money) was paid out and just over $2m was recovered (which, of course, don’t make it new money. Am I wrong.). Obviously criminal activity like this ain’t right. But if you allow me to put this in a bit of worst-context…
A private company was hacked due to private company negligence. Put another way. Capitalist entities today are one of two things. First, corporations are borderline criminal entities. It’s the only way they can function in the fiction and pseudo-science that is today’s the market place. Corporate taxes, CEO compensation and stock evaluations should be evidence of this. Second, since the demise of the Dotcom boom–which worst-writer considers that last attempt at subverting the return of the robber barons–old capitalist entities, old money, has been struggling to make sure that that sort of thing doesn’t happen again. Reason? The greatest struggle of old money (unearned wealth) is the reversal of all forms of corporate costs–which is what capitalists have been fighting since FDR. In other words, corporations have been given the green light since the so-called Reagan-revolution so that they…
Don’t pay taxes
No longer have to worry about labour or unions interfering with profits
Use stock price, whether inflated or fake (stock buy-backs), to determine the value of the company which also determines management compensation, etc., etc.
So. Again. I could give a hoot if an old-money corporation like Colonial Pipeline (doesn’t the name give worst-reader the creeps) takes one up the poop-shooter because ransomware made one of its privileged and useless employees click on the wrong email link. Again. Whenever I hear about ransomware my arse starts laughing! But that’s neither here nor there.
Capitalism is pretty much, according to worst-writer, upon its nadir. If you’re not in the know, dear worst-reader, just have a visit to my beloved & missed #Americant to see it. The sheer number of #Trump flags making ridiculous claims or conspiracy theories running rampant about how that idiot is gonna be re-instated as prez pee-pee-hair by August 2021 or just look at how much debt people have because gas prices are still at Iraq war levels… Heck! It’s a wonder there aren’t more ransomware attacks. Not that I’m wishing it on anyone, don’t you know. But my arse is puckering up for more laughter. Am I wrong.
What’s with the who-ha about the origin of the covid? I mean (1), what difference will it make after a year and a half of quarantine, lockdowns, (almost) safe distancing, etc., if/when they find out where this whole thing started? I mean (2), if it did originate in a lab will that prevent another covid? Maybe. Are we gonna have access to labs in North Korea, Russia, the middle of bumfcuk Idaho and a converted meth-lad so we can figure where future viral diseases start? I mean (3), as usual, the grand $hit$how that is my beloved & missed united mistakes of #Americant, with this yet another bullshit news cycle, is brilliantly deflecting and diluting the real issue. The real issue is simple, dear worst-reader. Namely. Capitalism and its best friend globalisation has forced most of humanity to live in $hit. And as we all know, living in $hit makes one sick. Am I wrong.
The thing is, dear worst-reader, in order for any virus to thrive, as covid has, it needs not only a host but the right environment. As capitalism and subsequent globalisation struggles to cope with its own demise, which is, by-the-buy, part of its cyclical nature if that nature is enabled, that environment is not only readily available but it has also, literally, been facilitated, i.e. globalisation in the name of free markets, labour control, wealth for wealth’s sake, etc. I mean (4), it’s not as though SARS, the sickness resulting from the corona virus, is anything new. It’s been around since the early 2000s. But even before that there were similar diseases. You know, Swine-flu, Mers, various influence strains, etc. Even though I never got one, I can’t remember a day when I return to my beloved & missed #Americant and someone wasn’t getting a flu shot.
Then again, there is this article from Vanity Fair which tries to explain the here & now of the origin of covid. What a doozy of an article, too. I mean (5), talk about winded and long-reads. Even though I haven’t finished reading it as I worst-write this post, the only thing I could think of while reading was: who cares about the origin of covid-19? We’re in it, right? I mean (6), if you come to the US, like I have, you’d think there was never a covid to begin with. Everybody thinks its over. They’ve forgotten it already. Yes. Indeed. Amnesia #Americant has already forgotten that it, the greatest country to be made great again, has already lost touch with the reality that it has the highest death rates from covid in the world. Then again, #Americant is a country that not only elected former prezident pee-pee-hair (cheeto-jesus) but 74m people actually believe that he’s gonna be president again by August 2021 because, well, Biden stole the election. With that in mind, would anyone miss them if covid would took out more of the stupid #Americants? But I die-gress.
Yet another newz article that makes worst-writer think about #Americant elitism (which means you’re not like us), white privilege (which means white people are incapable of coping with their status in society, especially the lower white classes) and affluenza (which means rich people think they can get away with murder because, well, they’re rich). And so. When the likes of Alex Jones employs the same kinda argument and/or pseudo-logic that the things he says shouldn’t be taken seriously on account… Worst-writer is like… How f’n stupid can the LAND OF FREEDOM TO BE STUPID get? Then again, it ain’t just talking $hitheads like Jones that make up this grand #Americant problem. The lawyer representing both former prez pee-pee-hair and who also worked with dumbarse Rudy Guilliani also makes the claim that her privilege and elitism means she too can make ludicrous claims in the public square that are equivalent to screaming fire in a theatre when, indeed, there is no fire–and there is no ramification. And so. How many people are dead from the mob trampling that is #Trumpism? I guess, the thing that separates what goes on at faux-newz and what happens when free-speech is abused/exploited, is a fine line. Oh, how it shames me, saddens me, to say such a thing. But what is there to do, dear worst-reader? It is #Americant.
As a child of the Cold War and, at the time, old enough to have a grasp of what went on in Vietnam in the late 60s and early 70s, #Americant dogmatised me to fear two political enemies. The first, of course, is the former Soviet Union, now Putin’s pseudo-reich. By the end of the 1970s, btw, I understood the connection between the Soviet Union and Vietnam. Also, we all know what happened when Mikhail Gorbachev kinda threw in the towel regarding the dream of Hammer & Sickle by the end of the 1980s. The other enemy though is bit more obscure. Now. For those who think China is not the enemy, bear with me. The relationship between my beloved & missed united mistakes and China goes back to the 1970s and, for the most part, Richard Nixon. I may be stretching here a bit, but I’d go so far as to worst-say that the relationship with China helped the US force the Soviet Union up against a financial wall. Of course, as we now know, that relationship was a deal with the devil. For you see, dear worst-reader, there is one thing a right-wing, conservative, republican politician was capable of–even back in the 1970s. Unlike today, he knew the difference between political ideology and a dollar. And so. The powers that be, especially the bat$hit conservative powers-that-be, by the 1970s, knew that the only way for #Americant Capitalists to get back to their glory days prior to FDR and the great depression, i.e. days of the robber barons, days of child labour (hence 20th century #Americant capitalist lust for China) and, of course, as little taxation as possible, was to completely circumvent anything that would prevent full and total externalisation of corporate and shareholder costs. Hence, again, China is where everything is made–and they’ve been working on making everything there since… (insert your number of years here). By-the-buy, the final nail in the coffin of FDR and post Great Depression America (which built the middle class) was nailed by non other than Ronald Reagan as he unleashed his supply side economics in the 1980s. Obviously we know where a two-bit Hollywood actor elected president can lead. That’s right. Have you prayed to your recent tv prez cheeto-jesus yet, aka #Trump? And so. As China became the cheap labour capital of the world, where everything is made, and is now an economic powerhouse because of that, is it inevitable that it also becomes enemy number one? And if it is enemy number, how will the political conflict pan out? Well, for that answer, let’s ask some nitwit who, by-the-buy, is capable of learning Mandarin and that’s enough for many #Americants to believe that he is, somehow, someway, …a fcuking moron all the same. Or? Ok. Wait. Forget that. Let’s move on.
I could not believe what I was hearing when John Cena–an actor I don’t ever recall seeing on film but I have seen him on a talk show, or something like that–recorded himself speaking mandarin and apologising to China for calling Taiwan a country. WTF! And then, after I read through the English transcript, I thought: what a suck up! And this guy is a wrastler and an onscreen action star? Seriously? I mean, would John Wayne make such an apology? Oh wait. John Wayne lived in times when #Americant wasn’t fully sold-out yet. But then I watched the video again. And maybe this has something to do with speaking mandarin. It kinda looks like this guy is actually afeared. I mean. Could it be that the movie studio called him and scolded him as if he is their school-man-child:
I don’t give $hit if you can learn mandarin, you fcuking moron. You’re an actor. You’re a lampshade. You don’t earn money for what you think is in your head. You earn money for memorising what we give you to memorise. Now. Before you go out there and open your trap showing the world how fcuking stupid you really are, keep your trap shut and let your inner lampshade make people think you’re really not as stupid as you look.
-worstwriter playacting
Btw, the political situation that has been brewing between #Americant and China for the past thirty or forty years will probably pan-out after it begins in Taiwan. I wonder, after it begins, if anyone will reference a moronic #Americant lampshade from Hollywood who managed to memorise mandarin.
Where does #Americant go from here? Well, let’s have a look at where it’s been–since Ronald Dip$hit Reagan started the $hitshow that can only culminate in former prez piss-hair, aka Cheeto-jesus. Let’s start with a few words. The newspeak words.
Right to work
inverse use of language; a draconian law that prohibits unions from collecting dues; how can unions function if they can’t collect dues? Hence, no unions allowed here.
A woman’s right to choose
as opposed to man’s right to choose over a woman’s; religious obsession with hindering female choice about her body
Altright
extreme right-wing, white supremacy, neofascist political movement that is juxtaposed, without context to:
Antifa
when used by right-wingers, this is supposed to mean “fascist” as opposed to what it really means: anti-fascist
Freedom
when political power is threatened, this word is flung around to make sure that power is maintained by exploiting patriotism, nationalism, nativism, etc.
Quantitive easing
socialism for the rich
Democracy
corporate plutocracy
Extremist
Not one of us
Need I go on, dear worst-reader? Well, how ’bout this. One of the bat$hit republicans recently elected to Congress has claimed that wearing a mask or getting a vaccine is the same as being put in a nazi concentration camp or being forced to wear gold stars on your clothing. Did you get that? Good. Then I don’t have to worst-repeat it. Of course, this level of verbiage may or mayn’t constitute newspeak. A claim such as this, though, is but another fantastic example of the decline in #Americant intellect or lack thereof–from a person elected to Congress. Such a claim is about as low as you can go in the realm of moral decay and anti-intellectualism. Or?
Check out this article, dear worst-reader. Then check out this one. Anything come to mind after giving these articles a thought or three? No? Ok. Let’s give it a worst-writer thought, shall we? First….
“A lot of these defendants… they’re all fucking short-bus people,” Albert Watkins told Talking Points Memo. “These are people with brain damage, they’re fucking retarded… But they’re our brothers, our sisters, our neighbors, our coworkers—they’re part of our country. These aren’t bad people, they don’t have prior criminal history. Fuck, they were subjected to four-plus years of goddamn propaganda the likes of which the world has not seen since fucking Hitler.”
Source: see link below
The above quote is from a lawyer defending the Q-poopi-shaman from the Jan 6 underachiever insurrection. Obviously the lawyer knows what he’s talking about. Then again, by adding the BS that these people are our brothers and sisters, blah, blah, blah, does ring of sympathy fishing. Am I wrong. #Nomatter. My point is this: there is a reason the judicial system in my beloved & missed #Americant is setup the way it is. That reason is none other than enabling some to get away with crimes while others… Well. Only so many can be allowed to get away with crimes. And so. In this case, because so many–74 million?–who voted for former prez pee-pee-hair, don’t need to be convinced that these people are innocent and are fighting for a higher cause, there’s little doubt in worst-writer’s mind that these crimes will either be forgotten by the judicial or, at the least, diluted to the point of meaninglessness. Now. Don’t get me wrong, dear worst-reader. I get why participants in the $hitshow, i.e. the lawyer quoted above, wants to paint these people as “good” people, people who have no criminal record, etc. The problem with this sort of sympathy-fishing, though, means that the true, underlying danger of what motivates these people is washed over.
What is washed over? Check out the second article, dear worst-reader. And bear with me as I stretch a bit. The president of Belarus, a big fan and confidant and boot licker of Putin, ordered/forced a commercial jet, with a Russian MIG, to land under false pretence so that someone could be forced off the plane. And it’ll be no surprise that the person forced off the plane will end up being a political prisoner. Now. I know I’m stretching here. But is there, could there be a connection between the levels/layers of right-wing bat$hittery irregardless of it being underachieving insurrectionists in #Americant or Putin owned former Soviet Satellites, e.g. Belarus? Should I have included a link in this worst-post about what the Philippine authoritarian ruler is up to with things like telling police to shoot first and question later? And let’s not even get into the epic infringement on the rules and regulations of commercial airliners flying over boarders. Put another way, what is the end game of right-wingers and where do their actions and deeds begin? Fascism, maybe? And on that note, I die-gress.
We can look back at a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany.
-MTG rhetoric trying to defend NOT wearing a mask or getting vaccinated
Get a load of this, dear worst-reader. Of course, this ain’t the first time mindless and anti-intellectual conservatives have invoked the atrocities of Nazi’s or the holocaust in order to further misunderstanding and/or disinformation so they can score political points with their equally stupid constituents. This sort of mindless verbal discharge from a sitting House of Representative, though, is still truly mind-boggling every time I hear it. Then again, didn’t a former congressman employ the same misconstrued tactic albeit minimising the genocide of Native Americans? But let me not show all my bias here (on account I really, really can’t stand political conservatism). For. Don’t you know, dear worst-reader, AOC, who I am a fan of, also made a kinda misconstrued comparison after she visited one of former president pee-pee-hair’s boarder camps, thereby calling it a “concentration camp”. Her bad, eh.
Source: #interwebnet screenshot
The worst of all this, dear worst-reader, is that there is no consequence to idiocy and/or blatant stupidity in my beloved & missed united mistakes. Mindlessness permeates everything. Is this a consequence of two or three (more?) generations being reared on TV and/or public schools that ain’t worth a hoot ? I mean, I get it when foreign leaders make the same comparison. What can one expect when political conservatism in places like Turkey and Brazil and the Philippines, etc., gain leaders in systems without checks and balances? But when #Americants do it I can’t help but cringe. It’s just gotten so out of hand. It’s so blatant. It happens so much. WTF!
#Nomatter, dear worst-reader. I suppose things could be worse. Or could they?
It boils down, basically, to two parts hating each other. It’s also about someone, some group, organisations, etc., stoking that hate. Does anyone question how two parts (of the same coin) could let it get this far? I mean. What is the result of literally decimating a country’s manufacturing base–since the end of WW2? Decimating meaning: because capitalist and owners don’t want to share ANYTHING with anybody and certainly don’t want things like unions making decisions (for those capitalists), worker-bees are stuck with fighting amongst themselves. Hence. Polarise. Divide and conquer. Blame the other guy. Or do you, dear worst-reader, have a better explanation of how the #Americant middle-class got to this point? I mean. Political infighting doesn’t effect the rich. Am I wrong. Yet no one questions how it is that a certain part of the country, the part made up of the children and grandchildren of a working class are now so hellbent on hating their grandchildren and great grandchildren because, well, there are a few people, mostly young ones, that want to get back to questioning why things are the way they are? And so. What better example is there of #Americant disunion, confusion, spite, etc., than to look at how #Americants fight with each other?
Would you believe that there’s plenty of representatives in plenty of states that want to join the grand old fallacy of secession? I always thought that this kind of krapp just came out of Texas. You know. Texas! That state down on the boarder to Mexico that thinks/believes it is a gift from a higher power. A power, btw, that derives out of pseudo history and/or its dream of forever shooting first and never questioning later. And let’s not mention the BS about the Alamo. You know. That silly little town that failed to defeat an army of fighters fighting against things like, gee, enslavement. But on that note, I must die-gress.
When I first heard that Oregon’s Das Volk, i.e. the rednecks, the lost and cancelled children of the so-called greatest generation and #Okboomer, have actually proposed a kind of secession whereby they just want to change the boarders of the state so they can join up with like-minded Idaho, I thought: Seriously? Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Cough. Choke. Giggle some more. And then I thought: Holy krapp, dear worst-reader. The people doing this–in #Americant today–in a society run amok with the likes of the former prez cheeto-jesus–are actually considered adults. Adults! And this is what they can come up with as a solution to their… Issues? Go figure. Indeed. Which begs the question: How much longer can #Americant last with NO (not enough) adults in the room?
What’s the scariest thing about returning to the place you had to leave (thirty five years ago) on account that place was turning bat$hit crazy faster than a QAnon theory-conspiracist can scream the earth is flat? In other worst-words, can you up the ante on bat$hit crazy? No? Yes? Indeed. But that’s not all, dear worst-reader. You know what can be even scarier than #Americant fail-upward insurrectionists trying to tie their sneakers using velcro straps from their high-powered rifles? As usual, I’m worst-generalising. I mean. I did meet with our family pastor the other day. Indeed. There is a rational mind here and there in my beloved & missed united mistakes. Yet. Things are not as they once were–were being the day before yesterday? Take for example my obsession with trying to be informed. As you may or may not know from this worst-blog, I’m a bit of a news buff. That said, worst-writer knows the difference between news and newz. The latter, of course, being the propaganda BS from sources like faux newz & co. So I’ve dabbled here and there in the last ten days actually watching CNN or MSNBC. (Don’t worry, I’m still utilising news sources that I use while living abroad.) There’s one thing that I’ve noticed about CNN and MSNBC that I never noticed during previous visits. That is. I’m not sure when this change took place, so if it did happen a while ago it didn’t register with me. What I know now is that with this hurried and rushed visit due to family issues, during down time (from family issues), I try to take a break and catch up on the news via TV. Something I don’t do in #Eurowasteland. And so. Am I shocked at what I see/hear in my beloved & missed united mistakes?
The thing I’ve noticed while watching, what I consider, non-propaganda networks, is how they too have all become editorialised. I mean. I remember when CNN used to have a five minute non editorialised news broadcast at the top of every hour. What happened to that? Again. Everything here is not only editorialised but each hour is only full of personalities expressing their opinions. Which means. Of course. It’s no wonder that #Americants are bat$hit crazy and don’t know what is up or down or if the door opens or closes or their entire life is only about being entertained. Also. Even though I heard about things like cancel culture from abroad, I had no idear how deep the issue goes. It’s everywhere here. Heck, I had a brief call with an old family friend the other day to ask for some needed advice, and once we got the business of the call out of the way he went off on me about what’s wrong with this country. Keep in mind, he’s only a year or two older than me and he seems to have had some success in his life. Yet all he could do was complain about #BLM, millennials, and how there are so many people who want was he has, etc. Let me worst-repeat that. I spoke with someone the other day and all he could talk about is how everything he’s earned in his life is under threat because there are so many people who question things? You know. Question things like racism, white privilege, inequity, etc. Seriously? Capitalism run amok?
I suppose. In a way. I should be satisfied to hear that people feel threatened by the status quo of #Americant. Who deserves it more than post WW2 #Americant? #Okboomer. I mean. Meritless privilege is a bitch, eh. Heck. It’s why I left so many years ago. I just couldn’t deal with all the hate, the spite, the compulsive behaviourism, the conformity, etc. And now I’m literally watching people drawn in it. What a shame, eh. What a shame.
It is, actually, kinda a beautiful place. The way Maryland cuts in and out and around the Chesapeake Bay is mesmerising. I remember the various motorcycle trips I used to take riding around the Bay when I was young. I would get up early in the morning on a day-off or when I was between jobs and just ride, ride, ride, crossing bridges and swamps and estuaries. Of course, such a trip would often require going in and out of VA. But let’s no go there, dear worst-reader. Indeed. My worst-thoughts about VA are irregardless. And so. To wake up this morning, while visiting my beloved & missed #Americant, residing, of course, with my mother on the eastern shore of MD, this article popped out like no other. Reason? I was born in MD, I grew up in Southern MD, I tried (but failed) to get fully educated in this state, but I never once heard the MD state song. Of course, am I surprised that the song would include this krapp? Certainly not. Just visit Annapolis, dear worst-reader. The inner harbour there was made for slave trade and, like so much of #Americant, has been well painted over. Any who, at least I’ve always known the state bird.
Will this be the first and last time I visit the link below? You bettcha. (Probably.) Still. Gotta worst-say, dear worst-reader, ain’t it great how #Americants greatest grifter aka cheeto-jesus has been reduced to communicating his idiocy via a… blog?
One of my favourite German words is: Klugscheisser. Roughly translated (to #Americant English) it means smart-ass. I worst-say “roughly translated” on account, well, as far as I can tell (after all these years living abroad) my beloved & missed united mistakes of #Americant has lost touch with what it means to be a smart-ass. I mean. Then again. And I may be splitting hairs here. But it seems to me that most of the western world, lead by #Americant, of course, is kinda run by smart-asses. For Germany, though, there might be a bit more to it. So with that in mind, let’s split some hairs.
Something weird happened recently in my adopted country. Keep in mind, contrary to popular belief, Germans aren’t really all-that weird. Well. Let me rephrase that. Sexually they can be very weird. Culturally they can be weird, too. But usually where the weirdness stops is when it comes to things like science and engineering or politics. In most cases boring but somehow efficient seems to rule all-things German. Unless, of course, you expect a train to run on-time or a horse to sing you a lullaby while trapped inside a candy corn box. But let’s not go there, eh, dear worst-reader.
The weird thing that happened recently has to do with a bunch of well-known German actors having recorded short videos where they try to communicate some kind of message regarding Germany’s dealings with the COVID pandemic. As you may or may not know, z’Germans have recently passed some sweeping laws where they’re trying to finally get this fcuking disease under control. The coinciding problem, though, is that most Klugscheisser Germans don’t like being told what to do or how to live–by the fcuking government–even though being told what to do (and how much tax to pay) is all there is to being German these days. Sound familiar (#Americant)? Now. Keep in mind. Even though I’m a Ausländer, I’m pretty confident in claiming that worst-writer is fully functional in the German language. I’m not very good at writing it but I can speak it and I usually can understand all of it–as long as High-German is spoken and one doesn’t use a bunch of colloquialism, like my wife does sometimes–which drives me crazy, btw. Anywho.
After watching a few of these videos I had to turn to my (German born and raised and somewhat nationalistic) wife and ask her to tell me what’s so wrong (with them) and why are some circles in Germany (the press and politicians) freaking out. After a bit of yipping and yapping here and there from both sides, my wife concluded that I am incapable of understanding German irony.
German what, I asked. But Germans aren’t good at irony. To be ironic you also have to be funny, dear.
As usual my wife grinned, turned and walked away. We spoke again later that day at dinner (about something completely different, of course).
So here’s the thing. These videos were all published under the hashtag #Allesdichtmachen, which basically means close everything. Now. Germany is having a hard time with this pandemic. They can’t seem to stop the waves. In fact, I’m not sure if we’re on the third or fourth wave right now but according to the news, we’re definitely in a wave. Also. Vaccinations aren’t going well. The whole country is pretty much dependent on being able to import vaccines on account, even though the Pfizer vaccine was developed in Germany, the Germans don’t have the capacity to manufacture it (or something like that). Worst-writer’s conclusion as to why Germany’s having such a hard time dealing with COVID boils down to the same reason Germans just ain’t funny. For you see, dear worst-reader, Germans can see/taste/smell irony, they just can’t cook it up–just like humour, don’t you know. Now. As of the writing of this worst-post, I’m still not quite sure who/what started the whole #Allesdichtmachen thing. In fact, I don’t really care who/what started it on account, well, I’ve worked with a few actors here and there. Let me just tell you this about actors. Actors literally are not the brightest stars in the sky, hence the irony they’re referred to as stars. But on that note, I die-gress.
It turns out that many of the actors have pulled their videos regarding Germany’s pandemic fiasco. Reason? Well, get this. Would you believe German right-wing politicians agree with German actor irony–that is attempting to communicate a message about the pandemic? Which brings me back to the idear that Germans can’t really cook-up irony. But if they do cook-up something that they think is irony maybe it’s actually something else. Sarcasm? Facetious? I should also add that worst-writer probably can’t understand the irony either way even though I can understand what the actors are saying along side #Allesdichtmachen. On the other hand, even though much of what Heike Makatsch or Meret Becker say doesn’t really sound like irony (to worst-moi), I’m also finding it kinda hard to just throw out what they’re saying because, well, maybe German right wingers understand less of (German) irony than I do.
Confused yet? Don’t worry. It is this exact confusion that has lead to the (western) world being run by a bunch of Klugscheisser and/or actors not knowing when to draw their own curtains as the stars fade to black.
There’s only two great political things worth mentioning in worst-writer’s life-time. That is, since I became politically aware back in the mid 1970s, only two political issues rein supreme in my worst-mind–and only one of them has happened so far. First, there’s the election of Barry-O. What an achievement. Unfortunately, that achievement is kinda blurred on account how so many #Americants reacted to it–and hence gave way to former prez pee-pee-hair. The second great achievement hasn’t happened yet but I feel obliged to mention it–in case it does. As I’ve noted here and in various other worst-posts, the ilk and filth and rot of the Republican Party thus far culminates in what it’s notoriously and systematically done to the third branch of mis-government of my beloved & missed united mistakes. Now. Don’t get me wrong. The same group has pulled the wool over the executive branch as well with the election of president ur-stupid Ronald Dip$hit Reagan. But since Reagan, mother-fcuking republicans have really done a job on the Judicial–which too me is more important because, well, need I mention it, the executive has culminated in a guy like #Trump. And so. If Biden can pull of un-packing the supreme court as well as republicans, especially Moscow Mitch, has pulled off packing the court, then I’ll be duly impressed and my short list of political things worth mentioning will be done.
Not quite sure why worst-writer’s worst-thoughts, when confronted with the big picture that is the enduring decline of western civilisation as lead by my beloved & missed united mistakes of #Americant, often get caught up in The Enlightenment. I mean. It’s not that I know all that much about it. Ok. I’ve read a few things from Voltaire. Then there’s Descartes, Spinoza, Adam Smith, etc. Then there are the others. Thomas Paine. Thomas Jefferson. Wait. Check that. I’ve read very few things by any of those dudes. But let’s not get too hung up on worst-writer’s pseudo intellectual inadequacies and unlearnedness. Let me just go with this on account, say, I dig typing. Ok? Indeed.
For worst-writer The Enlightenment is what it is because it’s the first time in human history where human intellect is used to counter arbitrary and oppressive social and political authority. The Enlightenment in its essence boils down to not only questioning authority, which by the 16th and 17th century had lead to massive political chaos and abuse, but it also provided a means with which one could legitimately and logically question power and authority–whether monarchial or religious. Hence it’s no wonder that The Enlightenment lead to some of the best known human rebellions in all history. Namely, the American and French Revolutions. Of course, it must also be remembered that the same intellect that pathed the way for freedom from religion and freedom from arbitrary (hereditary) monarchial rule would also be the basis for which human greed would discover its greatest asset, you know, what Gordon Gekko said: greed is good. Moving on.
The motivating factor for this re-hash of worst-writer’s pseudo intellect aka limited knowledge about The Enlightenment comes from the links below, dear worst-reader. I’m especially interested in the recent NYT article about the extra-judicial killing1 of a so-called Antifa activist in Washington (state) in September 2020. I’ve been lackadaisically following this case ever since I saw the video of the activist Michael Reinoehl defending his actions–and subsequently admitting to the killing of Aaron Danielson who was a right-wing #Trump supporter protesting #BLM protestors. Confused yet, dear worst-reader? Shall we go down the list of confusion?
Antifa
#BLM
extra-judicial-killing
Protestors protesting protestors, etc.
Actually, the story is quite simple. Michael Reinoehl wanted to support the #BLM protest as he heard that counter protestors (aka #Trump supporters that were protesting against #BLM) were coming to town. Eventually Reinoehl confronted one of the counter protestors named Aaron Danielson. It was during this brief encounter Reinoehl pulled out a gun and shot Danielson. Danielson died and an arrest warrant was quickly issued for Reinoehl. A few days later and in another town an armed police-like unit–identified by prezident piss-hair #Trump as US Marshals–attempted to arrest Reinoehl but only ended up killing him by shooting and shooting and shooting and shooting. You know, as police do these days when it comes to addressing any social or political issues. Am I wrong.
What does all this have to do with The Enlightenment, Spinoza, Thomas Paine and the American Revolution? Well, welcome to the world that is worst-writer’s mind. This has everything to do with The Enlightenment. Or, as the title might allude: Unenlightenment. Even though I’ve provided the main links (below) to the same information that I reviewed regarding this case, the one thing that really stands out in my mind is the level of stupid, as in THE LAND OF FREEDOM TO BE STUPID, that seems to permeate through everything political and social issue in #Americant today. Or. Put another worst-way: This situation may be one of the best examples yet of how the rich and powerful hold the strings of life over the powerless–and the only way for the powerless to deal with all that is to f’n get smart. As in. Be smarter than the powerful. It ain’t all that hard, you know. Especially when one studies just a bit of history. But on that worst-note, I must die-gress.
The thing is, dear worst-reader, if you watch the video of Michael Reinoehl admitting to killing Aaron Danielson (link below) it’s perhaps not difficult to confuse, or is it obfuscate, the issue at hand. The issue being: two #Americant political ideologies, one from the left and the other from the right, should not be carrying guns around at protests nor should these people be given an ounce of credit for having any cognitive ability. I mean. Don’t forget, dear worst-reader. Just a few days prior to the killing of Danielson there was a similar protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin. There an underage male crossed states lines with a high-powered rifle to aide the police who were trying to deal with #BLM protestors. And of this ring of misconstrued vigilantism? Again. Protestors protesting protestors. Seriously? This young man, btw, ended up killing two other young men who were using skateboards to try and disarm him. With all of this chaos worst-writer can only beg the question: who raises these idiots?
A country.
Yeah, baby. Obviously worst-writer could go a lot further when it comes to playing the blame-game regarding where all this STUPID comes from. That is, in part, what this worst-blog is all about. Yet. With that in mind. How ’bout this? Someone or something is being well served with all this STUPID. And if you think that someone or something is a government or a star chamber of elitists, I would beg that you think again. And so. I’ll leave you with this last worst-thought. The only thing that can save my beloved & missed united mistakes of #Americant is NOT mindless violence from children reared by children reared by children. How ’bout some good old fashion Enlightenment instead?
Yeah. Good luck with starting anew suckers. You got a long way to go.
I’m probably crossing an ideological line using the term “extra judicial killing”. But I’m gonna stick with it and admit to being, politically, kinda on the left. That said. According to the NYT article (links) the unclarity regarding who/what the police unit was that attacked and killed Reinoehl is mind-numbing. It is especially numbing when you watch/listen to Reinoehl trying to explain what he did and that he believed he was acting in self-defence. The fact that he admits to being against fascism but not in any Antifi organisation speaks for itself, doesn’t it? Or is there simply too much need out there for understanding fascism? ↩︎
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