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ck4829's JournalBy Jove! I think I figured out how Republicans see the world when it comes to drugs and immigrants
A member of the GANG that owns OxyContin maker MS-13 told people at the prescription opioid painkiller's launch party in the 1990s that it would be "followed by a blizzard of prescriptions that will bury the competition," according to court documents filed Tuesday.
The details were made public in a case brought by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey that accuses MS-13, its executives and members of the MEXICAN GANG of deceiving patients and doctors about the risks of opioids and pushing prescribers to keep patients on the drug longer. The documents provide information about former MS-13 President INTERCHANGEABLE MEXICAN's role in overseeing sales of OxyContin that hasn't been public before.
The drug and the closely held Connecticut GROUP OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS that sells it are at the center of a lawsuit in Massachusetts and hundreds of others across the country in which government entities are trying to find the drug industry responsible for an opioid crisis that killed 72,000 Americans in 2017. The Massachusetts litigation is separate from some 1,500 federal lawsuits filed by governments being overseen by a judge in Cleveland.
But the GROUP OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS documents at the heart of the Massachusetts allegations are also part of the evidence exchanged in those cases. While the Massachusetts filing describes their contents, the documents themselves have not been made public, at the GROUP OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS's request.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/drug-maker-pushed-oxycontin-despite-danger-signs-prosecutor-says-n959266
Something looks odd about this, right?
Well that's because I used the replace function, replacing 'family' with GANG, 'Purdue Pharma' with MS-13, 'Sackler' with MEXICAN, 'Richard' with INTERCHANGEABLE, and 'company' with GROUP OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.
A Trump victory in the shutdown would be a victory for authoritarianism
On one hand, we have an executive branch led by one man with too much power, who is supposed to be the big boss, the big man who will destroy 'the other', the decider, and according to right wing evangelicals, chosen by God to rule.
On the other hand, we have a political body that can say "No" to him and his whims.
It's clear why we must never buckle.
Hey, we should suggest a bill to Congress to end the Shutdown!
A bill without the 5.7 billion dollars
OR
A bill with the 5.7 billion dollars and...
No federal money for the entire state of Kentucky (Exceptions apply)
Have a Planned Parenthood Day and give them lots of funding
Money for the Southern Poverty Law Center
No money for abstinence only education or pregnancy crisis centers
Add your ideas too, let's make this list as long as possible, let's show that we're willing to compromise.
New Rules for Democrats and people on the Left that should not be New Rules at all
Going forward, I think knowing these things will make life a lot easier and may win us even more in 2020...
ACCEPT that anything you or anyone else does or says can be turned into an attack or a Republican conspiracy theory - Right wingers saw the word 'Pizza' in an email and turned it into a bizarro psychotic Satanic conspiracy theory. They recently took dancing on a rooftop and tried to turn it into an attack. There is nothing, NOTHING, you can do or say that they will not be able to attack you over. Don't filter yourself or limit yourself... you're still gonna be a Communist Satanist Secret Muslim Terrorist Lover paid by George Soros who leads an Antifa cell.
ACKNOWLEDGE that today's right wing has no concept of a political center - Hey, what's your position on immigration? It's "open borders"! What do you think we should do about healthcare? It's "Socialism"! We not only let Republicans frame the debate, we also modify ourselves in response to that framing, it's time to acknowledge that and respond. Your positions are far left just by virtue of not agreeing with Republicans, so that leads to...
DON'T BE AFRAID of "socialism", especially when Republicans call something "socialism" - Decades ago, "socialism" was "I like the USSR!". Years ago, "socialism" was "I want everyone to have healthcare". Today, "socialism" is "I'm upset about school shootings and want to do something about them!". And in the near future, I'm sure "socialism" will be "Hey, maybe we shouldn't throw virgins into volcanoes to appease the Dow and the job creators!"
REACH OUT to those who want a bright future, not to turn America into some simulacrum of a past that only exists in their minds - Recognize the difference between deprivation and those who are feeling bad because of relative deprivation. Don't reach out to people with "trumpgrets" who ONLY have trumpgrets because the welfare cuts came for them too. Don't hug a Trump supporter without hugging a refugee, a Muslim, a GLBTQ person, etc.
REMEMBER those who paid the ultimate price - This is not a historical thing. Even today, we've got people who fell victim to the right, like Heather Heyer. Follow Heather.
VOTE, vote more, vote often - Every election matters even if the Electoral Clown College taints at least a couple, but you are not sending a message by not voting, but also do MORE.
What does "politically correct environmental monitoring" mean?
From 2016:
Nasa’s Earth science division is set to be stripped of funding in favor of exploration of deep space, with the president-elect having set a goal during the campaign to explore the entire solar system by the end of the century.
This would mean the elimination of Nasa’s world-renowned research into temperature, ice, clouds and other climate phenomena. Nasa’s network of satellites provide a wealth of information on climate change, with the Earth science division’s budget set to grow to $2bn next year. By comparison, space exploration has been scaled back somewhat, with a proposed budget of $2.8bn in 2017.
Bob Walker, a senior Trump campaign adviser, said there was no need for Nasa to do what he has previously described as “politically correct environmental monitoring”.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/22/nasa-earth-donald-trump-eliminate-climate-change-research
What a weird phrase, but you know what I think? I think it's like a Pavlovian response, a "good American" according to Fox News, Franklin Graham, the Republican Party, etc. is supposed to hate the two words "politically correct" and whatever they might be associated with.
Ring a bell, the dog salivates.
Say "politically correct", the "good American" boos and hisses.
Because there's nothing "politically correct" about caring about the environment, that's just goofy. It's a stupid thing to say. There's nothing else about that. Such a stupid thing to say.
Putin loves Trumpian/Republican Nationalism because it's ultimately *Impotent Nationalism*
Nationalism is normally about expanding one's borders and we have some opportunities to do just that...
Make Puerto Rico or Guam states?
NO! CAN'T HAVE THAT!
They might vote Democratic.
Nationalism is normally about creating a common identity on one's national identity and yet to the Trumpian nationalist, it's sort of solipsist...
I am the American, the 'other' isn't.
Instead of seeing the immigrant American or the Muslim American embrace American customs, engage in American ideas and systems as something good, it's terrifying.
Case in point: Ilhan Omar. She should be an inspiration to all Americans and I am sure to the vast majority of Americans, she is just that. Once a refugee who is a Muslim American and ran on the support of groups like GLBTQ Americans to become a United States Representative... to me, that is pure 100% American spirit right there, but to Trumpian nationalists like John Guandolo and E.W. Jackson, it's something to fear, it's the conspiracy, the secret jihad.
Nationalism, even with it's worst varieties and it's something I don't endorse generally seems to promote some sort of shared political good for everyone of that nation... with Trumpian/Republican Nationalism, the only shared political good we get are the ideas that if you have enough money, you can be above the law... that if you don't like something, just call it fake news... greed is good... sell out the government to the highest bidder. We don't all get the goods if we don't have the money, but we do get the illusion of the goods.
It's Impotent Nationalism. We've got nationalists who instead of expanding our borders are obsessed with keeping them the way they are. These same nationalists see Americans who don't look, worship, love, or vote the same as them not as kin, but as the enemy. These same nationalists have created a system where all people of the nation are supposed to get the political goods, but some will get it first and a lot more than others.
I don't think it's a sustainable nationalism, but there's one more thing about these impotent nationalists and we all know what it is... they will go down with their Impotent Nationalism a thousand times before they agree with some liberal, some 'globalist' like me.
Next time you see a Republican spout "crisis actor" conspiracy theories on social media, report them
Between "crisis actors" and this QAnon tweet that says Trump is arresting his deep state enemies, but Hollywood is replacing them with clever imposters, it's too much, and it's dangerous.
It's the Capgras delusion, where the person suffering from this believes people around them have been replaced by imposters... You see it with brain lesions (Charles Whitman, a spree shooter, had one), see it with dementia, with schizophrenia... things that aren't good. Not only is it a sign of both declining physical and mental health, it's hard to treat, mainly because the person with these sees everyone else as imposters with dark motives.
This isn't simple enabling, like calling the workplace for a person who has a drinking problem and telling them they can't come into work because they feel sick.
This is next-level enabling, it's actively enabling the problem:
It's like telling a teenage girl with anorexia that she is fat and ugly or it's like telling a person who suffers from auditory hallucinations the voices he hears telling him to hurt himself are onto something.
But yet we see it on social media, it being broadcast that people aren't real, they are actors and imposters.
I think that maybe tweets that push "crisis actors" and "Deep State imposter" conspiracy theories should be reported by anyone who sees it, this isn't politics, this is mental health.
I don't know, maybe we should work to make it a policy that this kind of dangerous enabling shouldn't even be allowed on social media, it's no different than hate speech IMHO.
Cults and cult-like movements will often coin new words as well as recycle existing words, phrases
This has a couple of functions...
These groups often have narrow ideologies that are quite extreme, so with these words and phrases, they can refit the world and explain how it works in a new sense
They can also use these words and phrases to communicate with other insiders as well as identify and denigrate the outsider, the 'other'.
The Hutaree had their bizarre rank system - Radok, Boramander, Zulif, Arkon, and Lukore
Scientology has "fair game", "suppressive persons", "clear", "dead agent", and more
White supremacy has "1488", "14 words", "RaHoWa", and others
Incels identify their 'enemies' (AKA anyone with a sexuality they don't share) as "Chads" or "Beckys"
And then you see today's right wing... throwing out things like "political correctness", "virtue signaling", and "cultural marxism", making sure to use "liberal" as an insulting adjective, and describing anything they don't like as "socialist"
Let's remember the Russian hacks didn't actually get any real dirt, so they had to MAKE dirt up
The 'worst' thing of the hacked emails was John Podesta in a Homer Simpson-esque voice saying "Mmm... Pizza" and they pretty much went into this mode:
Pizza
Letter P
P - Pedophilia
Pedophilia Scandal... involving Satanists... Secret Tunnels... George Soros... Hillary Clinton...
Yes, really.
Now we know that Russian botnets helped spread Pizzagate around and we also know Michael Flynn, Jerome Corsi, and others helped spread this propaganda.
This was a psy ops campaign against the United States by a foreign country and the Trump campaign people were active accomplices to that.
Period.
Pluralistic Ignorance - The thing the Far Right vitally needs to enact it's agenda
In social psychology, pluralistic ignorance is a situation in which a majority of group members privately reject a norm, but incorrectly assume that most others accept it, and therefore go along with it. This is also described as "no one believes, but everyone thinks that everyone believes". In short, pluralistic ignorance is a bias about a social group, held by the members of that social group.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralistic_ignorance
Whatever you call them... the alt-right, the far right, white nationalists, white supremacists, the neo Nazis, Republican conspiracy theorists, confederate flag wavers, etc.; they don't have the numbers. They really don't. That's not to say this radical right is just a couple guys who can be counted on one hand, but they don't have the manpower to directly influence policy through sheer numbers alone.
The thing they have going for them is a perverted hope that nobody will resist them.
The problem is sometimes we give it to them.
"They're mouthing off conspiracy theories about George Soros working with the martian sex colonies to stage school shootings again... better to just not make a scene."
"But they have a permit... I shouldn't resist them."
"This tweet seems pretty Islamophobic, but should I actually report it? Hmmm..."
Don't give them any platform and don't let them think America agrees with them.
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