Miss Kabul
Elvis has left the building. At last.
…and as the band was playing him out, the Beltway chattering class was in a mass conniption over all those poor, helpless collaborators we left behind, and our lack of political will, and how, if we could only piss away another trillion or two and tough it out until mid-century, we could lick those mean old Taliban once and for all.
In the days leading up to Elvis’ departure from the building, the press was full of screeching and howling about how this wasn’t going to be like the evacuation of Saigon, honest it wasn’t, seriously, for real — and the louder they howled, the more convinced I was that it would be like the evacuation of Saigon, except even more awesome.
I was 18 when I watched terrified Embassy flunkies being plucked off the roof by the choppers on TV. The draft had officially ended around 1971 or so, but I still had to register. Got a ready-to-burn card and everything. The day Saigon fell, I was about two weeks from graduating high school, and classified 1-H.
Turn out the lights, the party’s over…!
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Up, Up, And Awa-aayyy!
Alright, just so I’m straight, here… we’re being thrown out of our homes, we’re losing our jobs, there’s a new COVID-19 wave hitting, fascists are terrorizing our streets, the cops are mass murdering us — not to mention that millions of us all over the country still don’t have broadband service — and Mr. Counterinsurgency Big-Shot at the White House wants to fly balloons over Cuba to “provide internet service” while they hijack connections to broadcast US State Department propaganda, including the Voice Of America.
Christ, I hate this goddamn country. I really, really fucking do.
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At Last!
Despite the vaccine, we’re still getting sick and dying in huge numbers out here. We’re also still unemployed or trapped in shit jobs, or being thrown out of work, about to lose our homes. Some of us are already homeless and our poverty has been criminalized. Some of us are being murdered by the police.
In the face of all this, what’s Priority One for the Democratic Party?
Giant asteroid hurtles toward Earth. A liberal basks in the glow, “Now Trump is going to pay!”
— Vastleft, @vastleft on Twitter 08.09.2021
Yep, you guessed it. Their empty-ass January 6 show investigation which will achieve absolute zero, and which will be dragged out clear into the midterms to raise money.
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Late this past spring, even while the Delta Variant was spreading in Europe and elsewhere, Gropin’ Joe went on TV in the White House Rose Garden, pulled off his mask and declared the pandemic over, calling it “a great day for America” — following later this summer with what had to be the weakest, most pointless COVID vaccine policy ever. Regular testing and a mask requirement? That’s it? Not “get vaccinated or get fired”?
Needless to say, the Washington Post and crew were right on top of it, cranking out articles about how wonderful it is to be re-emerging, to go back to “normal”, sometimes vaguely insuinuating that people still wearing masks in the grocery store were “the new weirdos” — as opposed to the knobs who thought they were being muzzled and forced to breathe their own CO2, who were last year’s weirdos.
Yeah… that sure aged well, didn’t it? Seems that Biden & Gang are employing the same strategy Trump did after the last election.
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