A Public Service Announcement from this broadcaster: don't call them Swasticars.

Please, don't call them Swasticars.

They are Teslas.

Not Swasticars.

Swasticars imply the swastika, which was a symbol of Nazism.

Swasticars are something you shouldn't call them.

Or wankpanzers, either. That insinuates that the owner/driver is masturbating in the vehicle, or sees it in some strange paraphilic manner. Also, that they are a Nazi.

Those all hurt Melon Husk's feelings. It drives down sales of Swasti--I mean, Teslas.

You know, the guy who makes Nazi salutes ON ACCIDENT. His fee-fees get hurt.

So, remember, never refer to them as "Swasticars" or "wankpanzers."

And certainly never refer to them this way in perpetuity on your social media.

So, remember, don't say "swasticar" or "wankpanzer."

Swasticar.

Wankpanzer.

Don't.

Moving forward with D, E, and I: hindsight is 20/20.

DEI has become the whipping boy of the right. As always, while the left was busy telling everyone: DEI GOOD! DEI GOOD!, without actually defining DEI, the right gladly took the cue and defined it for them, into an electoral and policy cudgel with which they continue to effectively pound Democrats at this writing.

[Hint: if you have to use an acronym in your campaign, you really have TWO campaigns: a campaign defining THE ACRONYM, and then the subsequent campaign USING the acronym]

The same has happened with the concept of being "woke." Each perfectly describes something clear FROM THE INDOCTRINATED, ACTIVIST LEFT, but not from other, more pedestrian, less activist perspectives. Without some kind of "rollout," to bring others up-to-speed, lefties hamstrung themselves for a race they ought to have won, easily.

What DEI-allied interests might have done all along was to roll it out, one letter at a time, in a marketing campaign. Kind of like the old Ad Council sort of ads. First cycle: Diversity (1-to-3, 15-second commercials), with examples. Second cycle: Equity (1-to-3, 15-second commercials), with examples. Third cycle: Inclusion (1-to-3, 15-second commercials), with examples.

Roll it out over a year or two, so people understand some simple examples from above, and are able to internalize them. Evaluate the results and gear it up for campaign time.

Would it work?

People of a certain age: how many of us remember "Give a hoot, don't pollute," "The Crying Indian," Smokey Bear, and others like that? Schoolhouse Rock?

Do we still trash the highways and rivers, or burn down forests regularly?

And it has been, what, fifty years since they initially played?

In addition to leaning far too heavily into identity politics (culture war bullshit, instead of the actual, unfolding class war at-hand), there has been an enormous failure on the part of the left to coherently advocate and promote novel concepts to new and disaffected voters.

It has been foolish for progressives and other activist lefties to assume that the center (and other generally-disaffected factions) share their lexicon and read from the same newsletters. Thus, in their use of DEI as shorthand, which has been given no linguistic value to other voters, they go into battle unarmed and unarmored. A complete "self-own."

So, how much is a basic, national, public interest ad campaign of maybe three-to-nine, fifteen-second commercials, spread over a one-or two-year campaign?

Tell me. I don't know. Then maybe we start a gofundme and recruit production staff.

There, that's three grand for my consultation fee. Thank you, I'll take cash or venmo.

Eric Trump OPENLY WARNS that they "can get so much worse."

So, Eric (the gummy, dumb one), posted a tweet, for twenty minutes, that warned enemies things will get much worse for people denying "The American Golden Age," and sounding not even a wee bit fascy at all.

I think it is important to note a few things, here.

First, that it was posted, at all.

Second, that it was taken down relatively quickly, but not quickly enough for the message to NOT get out.

Third, that speed of deletion makes for what Reagan would call plausible deniability, and Eric could claim it was posted in error by a fired staffer or what the fuck ever.

This was an order to stand by, exactly the way that Donald's "It's gonna be great!" tweet was, weeks before Jan 6.

This is a warning and no one is identifying it as so.

Dead to me:

ABC News

CBS News

Washington Post

New York Times

Forget something?

While you are never forgetting, on this day of selective remembrance, remember this: over 47,000 Palestinians, most of whom are women and children, are dead, and Donald Trump (friend to war criminal Netanyahu) wants to run who is left off the land. That is genocide. That is a war crime.

So, please, when you post this treacly shit about "never forget," expecting my tears to well up, remember that you are actively forgetting a holocaust happening in your own fucking time, perpetrated by the same people who killed three dozen American sailors in 1967.

Never forget? Never again?

Try to mean it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Israel-Hamas_war

Sigh...

I don't know about any of you, but it gets exhausting, after a while, looking around at where society has gotten itself, and then, again, choosing the path of keeping your yap shut and NOT screaming into the wind, "I FUCKING TOLD THE FUCK OUT OF YOU FUCKERS FUCKING YEARS AGO! AND NOW WE ARE FUCKING FUCKED! YOU ARE FUCKING WELCOME!"

The bullies pushed too hard.

Bullies, and bullying, come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, color, and gender. Bullying exists in a variety of forms across the spectrum of patho-psychology, from the largest DSM-V-identified conditions and diseases, to the smallest of immeasurable slights in the quantum world that is interpersonal experience.

For decades, we have allowed bullying to fester, under the guise of capitalism and competition, and some vaguely-defined notion of American exceptionalism. Somehow, bullying almost always manages to keep itself just BARELY on the side of acceptability and "plausible deniability" (a phrase given to us by the Reagan administration, go figure). A lot of the time, it is assisted by both the knowing and unknowing fellows of the bullied person or persons. Whether the assistance is recognized or not, it is there, and any lack of recognition is, usually (in my opinion) a sort of chosen ignorance.

The little elementary school student who takes cuts in front of his or her disabled classmate, and the fellow two-dozen classmates who stand by, doing nothing. The middle schools girls who loudly titter and audibly badmouth the unpopular girl amongst themselves in gym class. The high school boys who manage to game the system, working together to cheat their way into multi-valedictorianship, leaving three-hundred other students wondering what THEY did wrong in their honest hard work, and the teachers who never seemed to fucking wonder, "why do these five boys continually surpass all others, by such a large degree, and always seem to be in the same class, and in the same work group in each class? I guess we will never know."

The co-worker who is not above stealing another's lunch from the work fridge, and the co-worker who knows, but dares not risk their income by making a stand. Or, the fellow employee who will "forget" to share crucial workplace information.

The person who buys a Hummer because they stand a better chance at survival if they ever cause, er, I mean, GET INTO, an accident. Or, the driver of the Tesla who believes right turns from the left lane are signs of independence and freedom (certainly not gross negligence and ignorance). Or the buyer of the Cybertruck (no explanation required).

Why in the name of your Lord and Savior does American society ALLOW this continual hailstorm of bullying, safe from balance or recompense? Little bullies grow up to be health insurance CEOs, willing to trade a slow death for a few dollars for every life lost. 

Little bullies grow up to be political leaders, aided by their simps who believe that , someday, with enough grit, hard work, and well-placed bullying, they, too, can be the top bully. 

Little bullies become police officers (but, be honest, you always knew that). Just mentioning this because to leave it off would be irresponsible of me.

And, yes, bullies also have kids. But the kids have been molded in an atmosphere of bullying and cruelty (just like dear ma 'n pa), well-positioned to become the next bullying generation, and stand to inherit their bullying parent's millions of dollars in bloody bully money, so fuck off with that spurious argument. Lots of kids are parentless because of some bully, somewhere (health insurance CEOs are MVPs in the bully world), exacting their small or large measure of bullying on an weak and defenseless fellow human, all for the sake of the almighty fucking dollar.

All the while, society shrugs 350 million pairs of shoulders, and sighs that "nothing can be done, because what can *I* do. Nothing has ever been done, isn't BEING done, and why should *I* be the one to do anything? After all, *I* am doing juuuuust fine, right now. Ain't no one coming for ME. No paycheck-to-paycheck, here; I have at least TWO paychecks between myself and living under an overpass on I-75."

America, you fed, diapered, coddled, mollified, passed, hired, promoted, recommended, encouraged, and elected bullies and their bullying. Do not be surprised when the bullied decide they have had enough. And, please, do not fucking claim that anyone rejoicing is celebrating murder.

Because applauding what Luigi Mangione is accused of doing is not "celebrating murder," it is celebrating a long-suppressed American sense of justice, a long-forgotten self-defense of the bullied against the bully. It is a restoration of balance and order. It is a shoring-up of the fundamental tenets of American freedom.

And, I will celebrate that every fucking time it happens. Each time, I honestly sleep better that night.

Some thoughts... On American Revolution.

The only thing that the ruling class understands is force, and a true threat to their comfy lifestyles. Until you slap their nose, they are willing as hell to drop a boulder on your head over a request from you for five cents. After some slapping, they are more than happy to give you a dime.

All else is simply explanation.

Americans have forgotten--FORGOTTEN--how to do "revolution," and it shows.

Mangione showed us the way. Not Chuck, but Luigi: scion of wealth, well-educated, well-read, articulate, a very productive member of society (by today's up-is-down standards, to be sure), and, face it, an attractive young man, but having that one fatal flaw in, and/or for, the rich and powerful: a soul, and the means.

Restoring balance in an off-kilter, capitalist nightmare.

One denial at a time.

He is the Adjuster.

What are YOU?