As usual, conservatives rewrite history for their own narrative. Duh, Lt. Uhura during the Civil Rights era? Female first officer? Asian helmsman? The first interracial kiss on TV between the captain and Uhura? All in the mid-1960s. Roddenberry was definitely ahead of the times.
Just a postscript to his Gatsby bash’s theme: “A little party never killed nobody.” I guess it shouldn’t be a surprise that someone who’s never liked to read never paid any particular attention to English grammar, either. Anyone who did must remember the rule that the meaning of a sentence with a double negative becomes its positive opposite.
With that said, I repeat the theme of Trump’s bash - “A little party never killed nobody.” Let that sink in . . . .
Little party? Yeah, but his Big Party will kill millions and he will revel in it. MegaMAGA Murder.
Slashing USAID is already killing people; it's expected that around 14 million more will die by 2030.
The really sick thing is that (as others are pointing out) the stories that the Rump loves most, of people like Gatsby and Hitler, Citizen Kane, Goodfellas, Hannibal Lecter … All with memorable heroic finales. Let's hope he gets one.
Old Christine tweets made my day. There will be more and more of those people who happily drank “liberal tears” who are now begging for help that won’t be coming anytime soon. The only way she will be able to continue to delude herself will be if the dems cave and help her out. I realize that, by definition, half the population isn’t very intelligent, but this kind of real life consequence may be just enough to wake them up. Here’s hoping and praying that the dems hang tough long enough to wake these folks up to who Trump really is. Enough of them and we can finally get rid of some congressional toadies next year.
I’m not optimistic though. Trump will keep blaming the dems for the shutdown and by then most will have forgotten who was really to blame for this.
"I've never been in this position before." Right - because when the Dems had "some" power they wouldn't let you starve even though you hated Biden and everything they stood for. The Dems are fighting for your right to affordable healthcare now, as you cry to your "savior" to give you food to eat. Hope you finally see the charlatan and his minions for who they are.
I agree with you 100%! The 🍊🤡 dipshit voters who voted for him are like: I did not vote for this! I’m like: Yes you did and voted for this. We tried to tell them before Election Day. But, they had their fingers in their ears saying: la la la la I can not hear you la la la la! Yeah, FAFO!
I do not give MAGA the credit to know the extreme irony of the Gatsby theme during their denial of food to the needy. So selfish and shallow are they that it was just an exercise in pointless, over the top self indulgence, per usual, while the little people suffer. Contemporary American conservatism in a nutshell
Yeah that's true, and Nick went. Dorothy Parker said that quote after Fitzgerald died too. When Taco croaks, yeah people will go to the funeral, but unless he croaks today, nobody will give a shit. More people will care about Biden; many more.
In another comment, someone mentioned that Trump is more like Tom Buchanan than Gatsby. I agree. Nobody will be saying "the poor son of a bitch" at his funeral.
first and foremost. Trump cannot read. So let’s get that out of the way. Secondly, did anyone ask Shane why he voted for a man who raped a woman in a closet, drugged and raped a porn star, and raped and molested children? Also someone that had six bankruptcies, including a casino? A tax cheat and fraud and a convicted felon. does Shane have any answers for why he voted for him? I need to know this. and she needs to read a book or two or go back to school because he doesn’t know how to spell.
Christine, being a decent person isn’t caring about others in need when you are in need yourself. It’s about caring about others in need when you yourself have enough. It’s recognizing that other people might be in situations, not necessarily of their own making, where they need help
And I will add that having worked 27 years in a disabilities clinic, that not all disabilities are obvious or physical. By definition, half of all people have to be below average. Some people are always going to struggle just because they weren’t given the faculties needed at birth.
I seriously hope that you have learned a lesson. And I also hope that you make it through this yourself. Realize that many people helping you by donating things are the people you hate
CORPORATE COMMUNIST BUSINESS PLAN (It’s not a conspiracy, it is a business plan.)
Why would anyone feel there is a need for a metaphor about Corporate Communism? The short answer: political marketing.
The fascist Trump MAGA right is using socialist as a bludgeon to attack every bipartisan social progress program of the twentieth century (yes, I mean FDR, Eisenhower, Reagan, Nixon, JFK, LBJ, Obama, Biden, et al). Ninety nine percent of the US population, because of Corporate Communist Fox, has no idea what socialism is other than being the spawn of Satan. It is time to put these liars on their back foot by being forced to defend the lack of a free and fair media.
In NYC a self described socialist Zohran Mamdani is leading in the race for Mayor. A recent tv ad by political entertainer and Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa attacked the leadership and ethics of Cuomo and Adams while yelling “Socialist” about Mamdani.
“Corporate Communism” is when oblivious and frequently incompetent corporations own the means of communication and the production of false information via the privatization of Big Brother (Palantir, Google, X aka Gulf of Twitter. Facebook, Amazon Instagram, etc). It is the worst of both utopian fantasies, e.g. altruism is a natural human trait and that the invisible hand is more than a metaphor.
A Note on Conspiracy Theory: A popular belief among life’s victims (conservavictims and libtards) is that they are not to blame for their lack of success because “those forces” such as space aliens, frequently with lasers, immigrants and beings with mystic power, e.g. The Illuminati are aligned against them, and “those people” (usually ethnic and or religious groups) all sticking together to subvert their pure patriotic programs.
Corporate Communism is anti-capitalism (Adam Smith and Ayn Rand). It is anti-communist, (Marx and Stalin). It is anti-competitive in its core. It hates the free market. Loves big government which it owns. Classic Capitalism and Classic Communism are utopian dreams based on the perfectibility of humans. The stunning materialist success of classic Capitalism in remaking the world is that it most closely follows the depraved human (that is us) indifference to consequences. The stunning failure of Russian/Chinese, Stalinist Communism is that it assumed that imperfect dogma dog bureaucrats could manage something other than being dogma dog bureaucrats; Red Guard political officers in every organization.
The Corporate Communist Business Plan Privatizing Big Brother:
• Elect a useful idiot wholly controlled by those with extortion and blackmail skills and evidence.(Trump-Epstein anyone?).
• Neuter Citizen Voting (Citizens United: corporations are people) an armed guard at polling places to demand “your papers please” to prevent non-proven voter fraud.
• Neuter The Free Press Aka the Fourth Estate and free speech while maintaining the fantasy of freedom (Free Speech Absolutist) through bogus litigation, denial of access, and ownership of the means of communication. Consolidation of media
• A note on Free Speech Absolutism: Free speech is absolutely protected from the government. That’s it, full stop. It does not mean everybody has the right to have their words and speech published, streamed, broadcast, sculpted, painted or sent via smoke signals “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one". A. J. Liebling”..
• Ongoing degradation and subjugation of women via BFFI (BruteForceFuckingIgnorance) and tax-free religion. E.g. Clinton, Harris, Warren, Klobuchar, Ferraro. Compare and contrast with Nixon, Trump, Bush, et al. G$D created man and woman in their own image but no one has ever seen him/her/them yet almost always has a beard. Hell, even Satan has a beard. Why do popular (actually all) religions get to have their superstitions subsidized by the government as tax free business? Please don’t say they do good work like the Godfather passing out turkeys on Thanksgiving right before DeNiro shoots him.
• Neuter Government Oversight of the economy (Chevron Doctrine), DOGE. and e.g. elimination of the CFPB Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
• Cut Education Funding (eliminate critical thinking and awareness of facts about tiny hands).
• The anti-capitalist mentality. Elimination of Classic Capitalism Free Market Competition via Anti-Customer Service (“Your call is very important to us and the robot will be right with you”), tax funded bailouts. Consolidation of industries to eliminate effective competition.
• Denying that personal information: medical, financial e.g. credit scores, accident, dating, social, religious is actually individual private property like homes, stamp collections, cars, shoes, underwear. This theft of private property is frequently self-inflicted via free shipping and rewards by uploading your life to Big Brother social media or most likely in terms of agreement you signed and never read. Let’s not forget DOGE: since there is no controls or oversight, possibly most Musk minions stolen data will wind up as an Xfile without rewards or free shipping.
o This from Consumer Reports: “Imagine being charged more for an airline ticket to a family member’s funeral just because you searched for their obituary online. ..surveillance pricing’ happens because corporations are allowed to secretly use your personal information against you – charging different prices based on how much they think you’re willing to pay, or how badly you need their product or service.”
o
• Indentured Servitude (Employee responsible for their pension and medical insurance).
• Permanent Financial Crisis and business bailouts.
• Tax Free Theocracy. Christo Fascism
• Full Unemployment via “The Singularity aka Homo AI”
- They want confrontation and that is what they are trying to force. Not from the “Insane Leftists” but from the desperate right that have been ground down. Though this is not an us/them situation, there is a different mindset in play. The few on the right the kept calling for a Civil War, Violence against the left, etc are now on the other side of MAGA. They may very well get violent defending their home and family desperate for food and being faced in loosing their homes due to no income. This would be blamed on the “Insane Leftists” by design.
- The other thing is the reasoning of the partial SNAP benefits. They do NOT want any benefits to go out. The way to do this is to pay only partial benefits requiring a major processing nightmare for the state which will delay any November benefits for Weeks if not Months. As long as they do not pay in full no one is getting anything any time soon. The USA is a debt economy and the funds they are lining their pockets with are based on debt so they don’t care what happens to the $5 Billion in emergency USDA Funds as that is not part of what they are currently stealing from the country.
“It is unclear when low-income families who depend on SNAP will receive these partial funds. The Trump administration said it anticipates long delays — "anywhere from a few weeks to up to several months" — before benefits arrive in the hands of registered SNAP recipients.”
Star Trek didn’t “go woke.” Star Trek was ALWAYS woke.
Exactly
As usual, conservatives rewrite history for their own narrative. Duh, Lt. Uhura during the Civil Rights era? Female first officer? Asian helmsman? The first interracial kiss on TV between the captain and Uhura? All in the mid-1960s. Roddenberry was definitely ahead of the times.
We have Lucille Ball to thank for the series.
We can all aim to “live long and prosper”
An excellent parting wish that says it all in four words
🖖
🖖
🖖🏿
🖖🏽💫
Just a postscript to his Gatsby bash’s theme: “A little party never killed nobody.” I guess it shouldn’t be a surprise that someone who’s never liked to read never paid any particular attention to English grammar, either. Anyone who did must remember the rule that the meaning of a sentence with a double negative becomes its positive opposite.
With that said, I repeat the theme of Trump’s bash - “A little party never killed nobody.” Let that sink in . . . .
But lack of food and medical attention have killed millions
Little party? Yeah, but his Big Party will kill millions and he will revel in it. MegaMAGA Murder.
Slashing USAID is already killing people; it's expected that around 14 million more will die by 2030.
The really sick thing is that (as others are pointing out) the stories that the Rump loves most, of people like Gatsby and Hitler, Citizen Kane, Goodfellas, Hannibal Lecter … All with memorable heroic finales. Let's hope he gets one.
"A little party killed everybody."
And it is written, that the Wicked did celebrate while the Poor and Powerless suffered…
Then a time of Reckoning was born, when the World set about witnessing and purging itself of its own self inflicted diseases…
And there was much Rejoicing 🙏
Old Christine tweets made my day. There will be more and more of those people who happily drank “liberal tears” who are now begging for help that won’t be coming anytime soon. The only way she will be able to continue to delude herself will be if the dems cave and help her out. I realize that, by definition, half the population isn’t very intelligent, but this kind of real life consequence may be just enough to wake them up. Here’s hoping and praying that the dems hang tough long enough to wake these folks up to who Trump really is. Enough of them and we can finally get rid of some congressional toadies next year.
I’m not optimistic though. Trump will keep blaming the dems for the shutdown and by then most will have forgotten who was really to blame for this.
That MAGA dummy Christine is finding out that liberal tears do not replace like, real food.
Dear Christine@lovefortexasatx,
"I've never been in this position before." Right - because when the Dems had "some" power they wouldn't let you starve even though you hated Biden and everything they stood for. The Dems are fighting for your right to affordable healthcare now, as you cry to your "savior" to give you food to eat. Hope you finally see the charlatan and his minions for who they are.
FAFO.
I agree with you 100%! The 🍊🤡 dipshit voters who voted for him are like: I did not vote for this! I’m like: Yes you did and voted for this. We tried to tell them before Election Day. But, they had their fingers in their ears saying: la la la la I can not hear you la la la la! Yeah, FAFO!
Obscene 😡💯
I do not give MAGA the credit to know the extreme irony of the Gatsby theme during their denial of food to the needy. So selfish and shallow are they that it was just an exercise in pointless, over the top self indulgence, per usual, while the little people suffer. Contemporary American conservatism in a nutshell
None of them have read the book more than likely.
He's bad enough but all those dipshits at that stupid party are even worse!
As I recall, nobody went to Gatsby's funeral except his father. Trump's father is deceased, so he won't even have that at his funeral.
But I will happily dance and sing!
And come to the funeral in a red dress!
And, I think, Owl Eyes: "The poor son of a bitch."
Yeah that's true, and Nick went. Dorothy Parker said that quote after Fitzgerald died too. When Taco croaks, yeah people will go to the funeral, but unless he croaks today, nobody will give a shit. More people will care about Biden; many more.
In another comment, someone mentioned that Trump is more like Tom Buchanan than Gatsby. I agree. Nobody will be saying "the poor son of a bitch" at his funeral.
I still love this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDpI2Sz4Ynw&list=RDFDpI2Sz4Ynw&start_radio=1
🤣🤣🤣🤣
first and foremost. Trump cannot read. So let’s get that out of the way. Secondly, did anyone ask Shane why he voted for a man who raped a woman in a closet, drugged and raped a porn star, and raped and molested children? Also someone that had six bankruptcies, including a casino? A tax cheat and fraud and a convicted felon. does Shane have any answers for why he voted for him? I need to know this. and she needs to read a book or two or go back to school because he doesn’t know how to spell.
Christine, being a decent person isn’t caring about others in need when you are in need yourself. It’s about caring about others in need when you yourself have enough. It’s recognizing that other people might be in situations, not necessarily of their own making, where they need help
And I will add that having worked 27 years in a disabilities clinic, that not all disabilities are obvious or physical. By definition, half of all people have to be below average. Some people are always going to struggle just because they weren’t given the faculties needed at birth.
I seriously hope that you have learned a lesson. And I also hope that you make it through this yourself. Realize that many people helping you by donating things are the people you hate
fix this system? man bust that shit wide open, crush it into a fine mist!
HOW WE GOT TRUMP 2.0
CORPORATE COMMUNIST BUSINESS PLAN (It’s not a conspiracy, it is a business plan.)
Why would anyone feel there is a need for a metaphor about Corporate Communism? The short answer: political marketing.
The fascist Trump MAGA right is using socialist as a bludgeon to attack every bipartisan social progress program of the twentieth century (yes, I mean FDR, Eisenhower, Reagan, Nixon, JFK, LBJ, Obama, Biden, et al). Ninety nine percent of the US population, because of Corporate Communist Fox, has no idea what socialism is other than being the spawn of Satan. It is time to put these liars on their back foot by being forced to defend the lack of a free and fair media.
In NYC a self described socialist Zohran Mamdani is leading in the race for Mayor. A recent tv ad by political entertainer and Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa attacked the leadership and ethics of Cuomo and Adams while yelling “Socialist” about Mamdani.
“Corporate Communism” is when oblivious and frequently incompetent corporations own the means of communication and the production of false information via the privatization of Big Brother (Palantir, Google, X aka Gulf of Twitter. Facebook, Amazon Instagram, etc). It is the worst of both utopian fantasies, e.g. altruism is a natural human trait and that the invisible hand is more than a metaphor.
A Note on Conspiracy Theory: A popular belief among life’s victims (conservavictims and libtards) is that they are not to blame for their lack of success because “those forces” such as space aliens, frequently with lasers, immigrants and beings with mystic power, e.g. The Illuminati are aligned against them, and “those people” (usually ethnic and or religious groups) all sticking together to subvert their pure patriotic programs.
Corporate Communism is anti-capitalism (Adam Smith and Ayn Rand). It is anti-communist, (Marx and Stalin). It is anti-competitive in its core. It hates the free market. Loves big government which it owns. Classic Capitalism and Classic Communism are utopian dreams based on the perfectibility of humans. The stunning materialist success of classic Capitalism in remaking the world is that it most closely follows the depraved human (that is us) indifference to consequences. The stunning failure of Russian/Chinese, Stalinist Communism is that it assumed that imperfect dogma dog bureaucrats could manage something other than being dogma dog bureaucrats; Red Guard political officers in every organization.
The Corporate Communist Business Plan Privatizing Big Brother:
• Elect a useful idiot wholly controlled by those with extortion and blackmail skills and evidence.(Trump-Epstein anyone?).
• Neuter Citizen Voting (Citizens United: corporations are people) an armed guard at polling places to demand “your papers please” to prevent non-proven voter fraud.
• Neuter The Free Press Aka the Fourth Estate and free speech while maintaining the fantasy of freedom (Free Speech Absolutist) through bogus litigation, denial of access, and ownership of the means of communication. Consolidation of media
• A note on Free Speech Absolutism: Free speech is absolutely protected from the government. That’s it, full stop. It does not mean everybody has the right to have their words and speech published, streamed, broadcast, sculpted, painted or sent via smoke signals “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one". A. J. Liebling”..
• Ongoing degradation and subjugation of women via BFFI (BruteForceFuckingIgnorance) and tax-free religion. E.g. Clinton, Harris, Warren, Klobuchar, Ferraro. Compare and contrast with Nixon, Trump, Bush, et al. G$D created man and woman in their own image but no one has ever seen him/her/them yet almost always has a beard. Hell, even Satan has a beard. Why do popular (actually all) religions get to have their superstitions subsidized by the government as tax free business? Please don’t say they do good work like the Godfather passing out turkeys on Thanksgiving right before DeNiro shoots him.
• Neuter Government Oversight of the economy (Chevron Doctrine), DOGE. and e.g. elimination of the CFPB Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
• Cut Education Funding (eliminate critical thinking and awareness of facts about tiny hands).
• The anti-capitalist mentality. Elimination of Classic Capitalism Free Market Competition via Anti-Customer Service (“Your call is very important to us and the robot will be right with you”), tax funded bailouts. Consolidation of industries to eliminate effective competition.
• Denying that personal information: medical, financial e.g. credit scores, accident, dating, social, religious is actually individual private property like homes, stamp collections, cars, shoes, underwear. This theft of private property is frequently self-inflicted via free shipping and rewards by uploading your life to Big Brother social media or most likely in terms of agreement you signed and never read. Let’s not forget DOGE: since there is no controls or oversight, possibly most Musk minions stolen data will wind up as an Xfile without rewards or free shipping.
o This from Consumer Reports: “Imagine being charged more for an airline ticket to a family member’s funeral just because you searched for their obituary online. ..surveillance pricing’ happens because corporations are allowed to secretly use your personal information against you – charging different prices based on how much they think you’re willing to pay, or how badly you need their product or service.”
o
• Indentured Servitude (Employee responsible for their pension and medical insurance).
• Permanent Financial Crisis and business bailouts.
• Tax Free Theocracy. Christo Fascism
• Full Unemployment via “The Singularity aka Homo AI”
• Return of a King (Donnie The Dumb)
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2 Things of note.
- They want confrontation and that is what they are trying to force. Not from the “Insane Leftists” but from the desperate right that have been ground down. Though this is not an us/them situation, there is a different mindset in play. The few on the right the kept calling for a Civil War, Violence against the left, etc are now on the other side of MAGA. They may very well get violent defending their home and family desperate for food and being faced in loosing their homes due to no income. This would be blamed on the “Insane Leftists” by design.
- The other thing is the reasoning of the partial SNAP benefits. They do NOT want any benefits to go out. The way to do this is to pay only partial benefits requiring a major processing nightmare for the state which will delay any November benefits for Weeks if not Months. As long as they do not pay in full no one is getting anything any time soon. The USA is a debt economy and the funds they are lining their pockets with are based on debt so they don’t care what happens to the $5 Billion in emergency USDA Funds as that is not part of what they are currently stealing from the country.
“It is unclear when low-income families who depend on SNAP will receive these partial funds. The Trump administration said it anticipates long delays — "anywhere from a few weeks to up to several months" — before benefits arrive in the hands of registered SNAP recipients.”
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/04/g-s1-96372/snap-benefits-november-government-shutdown