“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped."
I predict that the American Civil War will now be called the War between the States, as it was in school books in the South when I was a kid in the 1960’s.
(One book began its chapter about Reconstruction with, “ Have you ever dressed up like a ghost on Halloween to scare people? This chapter will tell you how Southern men did that in order to protect their families and homes after the War ended.”)
Never think you’ve seen the last of anything. — Eudora Welty
The area where I attended college had a blue law that said you couldn't purchase anything but a necessity on Sunday - toilet paper, but no trash bags, baby formula but no spoons with which to serve it, gas for your car but no oil changes to keep the car from blowing up. I needed change for $100 - the gas station couldn't change anything over $20 - and my boyfriend bought wedding rings to get change (weddings are apparently in God's Plan - but the necklace I wanted to purchase had 'no ties to God' so we couldn't purchase that on a Sunday). During my years in that town, I hung around with a group of students calling themselves 'The Symposium." We would meet every week and discuss politics, the economy, whatever topic someone had brought to the table. One of the fun parts of being a member of The Symposium, was the weekly trip to the local library where we would sneak banned books onto the shelves. My book, in the vein of Fahrenheit 451, was "God's Little Acre," banned because of a brief sexual encounter in the book (and, I suspect, its flippant attitude toward religious nuts who use God as an excuse for their immorality) . Others in The Symposium restocked the library shelves with "1984," "Being There," "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," "Romeo and Juliet," "To Kill a Mockingbird," "Fahrenheit 451," and, this one was scary, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" which was banned because it 'contained an endorsement of witchcraft' (although I thought it was not an endorsement, but, rather, a condemnation of the witch). We would have field trips to the library and if 'our book' was missing, we would put a new one on the shelf, making sure to put the book in a new place where the librarian might not spot it. My favorite place to hide "God's Little Acre" was under "Self Help and Spirituality." I once put a copy under a wobbly leg of a table - it, too, eventually disappeared, but it lasted there for quite a while before being replaced with "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," which was the same thickness as "God's Little Acre" but apparently a better pillar upon which a table should sit. I would never have parted with my limited college spending money if they hadn't banned the books, so you are so correct that it backfired in a big way.
With the edict to eliminate DEI, these people are gleefully eliminating references of non-white people, because they think the ‘burden’ of acknowledging non-whites is itself DEI. It’s not a matter of “we hate minorities now”, it’s “we’ve always felt superior to minorities and it’s okay to show it again”. They only went along with it (acknowledging that non-whites are just as much people as anybody else) in the first place because they felt they had to. I’m reminded of something, potentially apocryphal, I overheard; during the 45th administration, one of its Kennedy Center board appointees allegedly complained “do we have to have another black person perform? We already had a black woman once this year.” I cannot verify that it actually happened nor do I have further context - I’m just reminded of the mindset.
Remember in the 60's when the City of Chicago and the state of California adopted very strict gun laws, endorsed by the NRA? It was a direct result of Black Panthers exercising their right to bear arms. Legal weapons in the hands of the oppressed? No - we meant WE, the oppressors, are the only ones with the right to bear arms; not anyone else! When the local and state government could not legally take guns from law abiding citizens, they had to DO something to disarm people who had decided that if the police were not going to protect their neighborhoods, they would do it themselves. How frail some white people are, that they will cut off their own noses to slite someone else's face.
Working at a university, I see so many frightened students who are legally here, but concerned they, too, will be rounded up and deported for some flimsy reason. You can't walk down a hallway without overhearing a professor reassuring a student that they won't be deported but IF they are, the professor will make sure they finish the semester remotely. One professor said "Here is my cellphone number - if you are deported, write an email to your R.A. and tell them I will pick up your cat and take care of him until you get back." What a sad little man it is that has students so afraid they will be deported they are making arrangements to have a professor pick up their cat to bring it home.
I confess I did not know the meaning of "OOO". I looked it up. After I answered the question.
And thank you, Gene. I did not know why the Convicted Felon was obsessed with tariffs, other than that he's stupid and insane. Peter Navarro isn't an economist. He just pretends he is. Actually, he's a con man just like the Felon is.
I realized after I clicked "No" that I DID know the meaning of OOO. It's just that I've been OOO -- retired -- for so long now that I momentarily forgot it.
I'm never really OOO since my office is at home and I am apparently on call 24/7. I fret when people don't immediately respond to my texts and emails, but I miss a lot of theirs when I actually am OOO because my computer is shut down for the night.
There's an OOO on my Outlook calendar for one of my coworkers. Our team is supposed to set these appointments up in our Outlook for PTO (you do know what that mean, right?).
I encourage everyone to patronize the library and read what they don’t want us to read. My life hack is reading juvenile non-fiction because you get the facts in a shorter, easier digestible format. Coming out in August is Putin vs. Zelensky: The Russo-Ukrainian War: Why it’s happening and How It All Got Started by Ben Thompson
I gave my kid a book to read once. “Meh.”. “This book is being banned in school districts right now because they don’t want you to read it.” (Which was true.). Kid inhaled it. Now if only I could convince him they were trying to ban books on higher math…
Let's be clear, if Mad King Donald and his court can get away with simply saying "oops, administrative error" and directly disobey a court order --- one well within the jurisdiction of the court to issue --- the government could send any of us to a Salvadoran prison without due process.
It may be instructive that Numbnuts Navarro was once a progressive (or at least positioned himself as one) and (not surprisingly considering his assholery) unsuccessfully ran for office in San Diego five times between 1992 and 2001 as a liberal Democrat. A veteran Democratic political consultant who ran two of Navarro’s campaigns, describes his former client as “the biggest asshole I’ve ever known.’’ So when his obviously heartfelt positioning as a" strong environmentalist and a progressive on social issues such as choice, gay rights, and religious freedom’’ didn't work...
Navarro’s views on trade are considered so fringy that for years reporters covering him searched in vain for a credible source that could agree with him. Even protectionists think he's full of it. I understand Harvard is now willing to refund his tuition in exchange for removing mention of his PhD in econ from his credentials.
Those OOO emails caused some denial of service issues with email lists back in the early days. Someone would post something, the OOO email would respond, which would generate another OOO as it responded to itself, until hundreds (thousands - depending on how quickly the listowner was able to set the offender to nomail) of emails overflowed subscriber's inboxes.
I believe this will all turn out to be a huge grift, personally enriching Orange Julius and his cohorts in one way or another: Tariffs driving the stock market down? Okay, gang - let's buy up those stocks when they hit rock bottom! Tariff's encouraging businesses to 'return to the US?' Elon, empty one of those hundreds of warehouses you have been building all over the country and convert them, as we had planned, to start cranking out widgets to replace the ones we're making impossible to purchase from China. Deporting legal immigrants? Get your immigration lawyer friends to start handing out their business cards to the folks waiting in line.
Like they did at the start of Covid, the government people in the know have already been given the down low on what was coming so they can play the long game and cash in on the catastrophe. Insider trading at its best.
Trappers in the past trapped in a snowbound cabin were said to survive by trading furs. How can manufacturing return without workers? How can Trump round up workers and expect lower prices? He focus on the money and not the work required. So many of us have our limited views of what we will need to be great. And some really miss things. How can local governments give us needed services without enough taxes?
Even if you assume for the sake of argument (and that's being very generous) that some manufacturing will come back onshore --- and realistically, relatively little considering not only continuing uncertainty but the facts of life in an established global economy --- it will very likely be highly automated with far fewer actual jobs. Then there is the other very real fact of domestic life, that if you insist on discouraging immigration and deport those already contributing an estimated $100bn in taxes annually (but are themselves largely ineligible for federal public benefits), you are left with a rapidly aging native population leaving the workforce in numbers and in its wake, drastically reduced tax revenues at a time when social entitlement programs, some of which are already facing severe shortfalls, will be needed even more. Only using MAGArithmetic does this add up.
It is a paradox that the POTUS wants to deport workers and wants us to have lower price food and homes and even to have manufacturing. likely ou are right that he wants robots. I just presumed Trump is barking mad.
To sum up: some think if the money is in place or a bill has passed, it will all be done in the real world as envisioned in Washington. Trump's problem seems to ignore people that do the work. He wants to get rid of them and still manufacture stuff, build homes and get food to stores. With magic?
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped."
--- "1984," George Orwell
I predict that the American Civil War will now be called the War between the States, as it was in school books in the South when I was a kid in the 1960’s.
(One book began its chapter about Reconstruction with, “ Have you ever dressed up like a ghost on Halloween to scare people? This chapter will tell you how Southern men did that in order to protect their families and homes after the War ended.”)
Never think you’ve seen the last of anything. — Eudora Welty
Also: War of Northern Aggression
Yes, years ago I was on a bus tour of Charleston SC and that was the term the tour guide used.
We should thank the Naval Academy for its excellent reading list. Fortunately, censors are too stupid to learn that censorship always backfires.
The area where I attended college had a blue law that said you couldn't purchase anything but a necessity on Sunday - toilet paper, but no trash bags, baby formula but no spoons with which to serve it, gas for your car but no oil changes to keep the car from blowing up. I needed change for $100 - the gas station couldn't change anything over $20 - and my boyfriend bought wedding rings to get change (weddings are apparently in God's Plan - but the necklace I wanted to purchase had 'no ties to God' so we couldn't purchase that on a Sunday). During my years in that town, I hung around with a group of students calling themselves 'The Symposium." We would meet every week and discuss politics, the economy, whatever topic someone had brought to the table. One of the fun parts of being a member of The Symposium, was the weekly trip to the local library where we would sneak banned books onto the shelves. My book, in the vein of Fahrenheit 451, was "God's Little Acre," banned because of a brief sexual encounter in the book (and, I suspect, its flippant attitude toward religious nuts who use God as an excuse for their immorality) . Others in The Symposium restocked the library shelves with "1984," "Being There," "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," "Romeo and Juliet," "To Kill a Mockingbird," "Fahrenheit 451," and, this one was scary, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" which was banned because it 'contained an endorsement of witchcraft' (although I thought it was not an endorsement, but, rather, a condemnation of the witch). We would have field trips to the library and if 'our book' was missing, we would put a new one on the shelf, making sure to put the book in a new place where the librarian might not spot it. My favorite place to hide "God's Little Acre" was under "Self Help and Spirituality." I once put a copy under a wobbly leg of a table - it, too, eventually disappeared, but it lasted there for quite a while before being replaced with "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," which was the same thickness as "God's Little Acre" but apparently a better pillar upon which a table should sit. I would never have parted with my limited college spending money if they hadn't banned the books, so you are so correct that it backfired in a big way.
With the edict to eliminate DEI, these people are gleefully eliminating references of non-white people, because they think the ‘burden’ of acknowledging non-whites is itself DEI. It’s not a matter of “we hate minorities now”, it’s “we’ve always felt superior to minorities and it’s okay to show it again”. They only went along with it (acknowledging that non-whites are just as much people as anybody else) in the first place because they felt they had to. I’m reminded of something, potentially apocryphal, I overheard; during the 45th administration, one of its Kennedy Center board appointees allegedly complained “do we have to have another black person perform? We already had a black woman once this year.” I cannot verify that it actually happened nor do I have further context - I’m just reminded of the mindset.
Remember in the 60's when the City of Chicago and the state of California adopted very strict gun laws, endorsed by the NRA? It was a direct result of Black Panthers exercising their right to bear arms. Legal weapons in the hands of the oppressed? No - we meant WE, the oppressors, are the only ones with the right to bear arms; not anyone else! When the local and state government could not legally take guns from law abiding citizens, they had to DO something to disarm people who had decided that if the police were not going to protect their neighborhoods, they would do it themselves. How frail some white people are, that they will cut off their own noses to slite someone else's face.
https://www.history.com/articles/black-panthers-gun-control-nra-support-mulford-act
The concept of “otherness” was probably really handy back when we were all organized at tribal levels, but it’s seriously handicapping us now.
Working at a university, I see so many frightened students who are legally here, but concerned they, too, will be rounded up and deported for some flimsy reason. You can't walk down a hallway without overhearing a professor reassuring a student that they won't be deported but IF they are, the professor will make sure they finish the semester remotely. One professor said "Here is my cellphone number - if you are deported, write an email to your R.A. and tell them I will pick up your cat and take care of him until you get back." What a sad little man it is that has students so afraid they will be deported they are making arrangements to have a professor pick up their cat to bring it home.
I believe that wise 'possum from the Okefenokee summed it up (in another context): "We have met the enemy and he is us."
I confess I did not know the meaning of "OOO". I looked it up. After I answered the question.
And thank you, Gene. I did not know why the Convicted Felon was obsessed with tariffs, other than that he's stupid and insane. Peter Navarro isn't an economist. He just pretends he is. Actually, he's a con man just like the Felon is.
I realized after I clicked "No" that I DID know the meaning of OOO. It's just that I've been OOO -- retired -- for so long now that I momentarily forgot it.
I'm never really OOO since my office is at home and I am apparently on call 24/7. I fret when people don't immediately respond to my texts and emails, but I miss a lot of theirs when I actually am OOO because my computer is shut down for the night.
There's an OOO on my Outlook calendar for one of my coworkers. Our team is supposed to set these appointments up in our Outlook for PTO (you do know what that mean, right?).
I encourage everyone to patronize the library and read what they don’t want us to read. My life hack is reading juvenile non-fiction because you get the facts in a shorter, easier digestible format. Coming out in August is Putin vs. Zelensky: The Russo-Ukrainian War: Why it’s happening and How It All Got Started by Ben Thompson
I gave my kid a book to read once. “Meh.”. “This book is being banned in school districts right now because they don’t want you to read it.” (Which was true.). Kid inhaled it. Now if only I could convince him they were trying to ban books on higher math…
Soon we’ll learn that the Underground Railroad was a song by The Grateful Dead. .
Switchman’s sleeping …
Or the name of the song will be changed.
I am terrified with what might be in store for the Museum of African American History
Let's be clear, if Mad King Donald and his court can get away with simply saying "oops, administrative error" and directly disobey a court order --- one well within the jurisdiction of the court to issue --- the government could send any of us to a Salvadoran prison without due process.
It may be instructive that Numbnuts Navarro was once a progressive (or at least positioned himself as one) and (not surprisingly considering his assholery) unsuccessfully ran for office in San Diego five times between 1992 and 2001 as a liberal Democrat. A veteran Democratic political consultant who ran two of Navarro’s campaigns, describes his former client as “the biggest asshole I’ve ever known.’’ So when his obviously heartfelt positioning as a" strong environmentalist and a progressive on social issues such as choice, gay rights, and religious freedom’’ didn't work...
Navarro’s views on trade are considered so fringy that for years reporters covering him searched in vain for a credible source that could agree with him. Even protectionists think he's full of it. I understand Harvard is now willing to refund his tuition in exchange for removing mention of his PhD in econ from his credentials.
Thinking back to Trump's infamous Jan. 6th speech: "If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore."
Well, we are now ready to "fight like hell" because we don't even recognize our country anymore.
Overworked, Overcaffeinated, Overit
Oversexed, Overcome, Oops (aka "Toobin'")
Those OOO emails caused some denial of service issues with email lists back in the early days. Someone would post something, the OOO email would respond, which would generate another OOO as it responded to itself, until hundreds (thousands - depending on how quickly the listowner was able to set the offender to nomail) of emails overflowed subscriber's inboxes.
I had to code around that for one of our software packages in order to stop the looping.
Just like the clip of the Waymo taxis beeping at each other in their parking lot! https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c17gqverg99o
And trump won more black votes than any republican in the last 50 years. Fucking incredible. People are so stupid
I believe this will all turn out to be a huge grift, personally enriching Orange Julius and his cohorts in one way or another: Tariffs driving the stock market down? Okay, gang - let's buy up those stocks when they hit rock bottom! Tariff's encouraging businesses to 'return to the US?' Elon, empty one of those hundreds of warehouses you have been building all over the country and convert them, as we had planned, to start cranking out widgets to replace the ones we're making impossible to purchase from China. Deporting legal immigrants? Get your immigration lawyer friends to start handing out their business cards to the folks waiting in line.
Like they did at the start of Covid, the government people in the know have already been given the down low on what was coming so they can play the long game and cash in on the catastrophe. Insider trading at its best.
Trappers in the past trapped in a snowbound cabin were said to survive by trading furs. How can manufacturing return without workers? How can Trump round up workers and expect lower prices? He focus on the money and not the work required. So many of us have our limited views of what we will need to be great. And some really miss things. How can local governments give us needed services without enough taxes?
Even if you assume for the sake of argument (and that's being very generous) that some manufacturing will come back onshore --- and realistically, relatively little considering not only continuing uncertainty but the facts of life in an established global economy --- it will very likely be highly automated with far fewer actual jobs. Then there is the other very real fact of domestic life, that if you insist on discouraging immigration and deport those already contributing an estimated $100bn in taxes annually (but are themselves largely ineligible for federal public benefits), you are left with a rapidly aging native population leaving the workforce in numbers and in its wake, drastically reduced tax revenues at a time when social entitlement programs, some of which are already facing severe shortfalls, will be needed even more. Only using MAGArithmetic does this add up.
It is a paradox that the POTUS wants to deport workers and wants us to have lower price food and homes and even to have manufacturing. likely ou are right that he wants robots. I just presumed Trump is barking mad.
To sum up: some think if the money is in place or a bill has passed, it will all be done in the real world as envisioned in Washington. Trump's problem seems to ignore people that do the work. He wants to get rid of them and still manufacture stuff, build homes and get food to stores. With magic?
I usually render it OoO.