Says the guy whose best friend is a loser named Jack Daniels!
George Carlin on Why America Likes War and Militarism
“We like war because we're good at it!”
Molly Ivins: The best of the best!
The two people I miss greatly and wish were still alive? Molly Ivins and George Carlin, among many other such brilliant observers and writers from the recent past.
With their sharp, biting wit, they could both tell it like it was. No sugar-coating bad news, no soft-pedaling illegal political actions by elected leaders, and offering no apologies for this country’s misdeeds on the world stage, they shone a light on moral clarity and ethical purpose. Humor was simply a means to a larger end.
Both Ivins and Carlin treated their audiences like adults. In their own distinct ways, they helped us navigate an insane world by exposing and analyzing the absurdities all around us.
In perilous times like these, a healthy dose of honesty is something we could all use from elected officials, not the kind of vacuous BS we get from Trump and his Know-Nothing minions multiple times a day.
I can’t wait until the first Tuesday in November arrives, bringing the decisive change we so urgently need and clearly want.
We like war! We're a war-like people! We like war because we're good at it! You know why we're good at it? Cause we get a lot of practice.
This country's only 200 years old and already, we've had 10 major wars. We average a major war every 20 years in this country so we're good at it! And it's a good thing we are; we're not very good at anything else anymore! Huh? Can't build a decent car, can't make a TV set or a VCR worth a fuck, got no steel industry left, can't educate our young people, can't get health care to our old people, but we can bomb the shit out of your country all right! Huh? Especially if your country is full of brown people; oh we like that don't we? That's our hobby! That's our new job in the world: bombing brown people.
Iraq, Panama, Grenada, Libya, you got some brown people in your country, tell them to watch the fuck out or we'll goddamn bomb them! Well when's the last white people you can remember that we bombed? Can you remember the last white — can you remember ANY white people we've ever bombed? The Germans, those are the only ones and that's only because they were trying to cut in on our action. They wanted to dominate the world! BULLSHIT! THAT'S OUR FUCKING JOB!
Watch Out, Cuba!
Read this Carlin rant in full. Watch the longer video on why Americans like war and bombing brown people. Also read this analysis — How bombing brown people became a growth industry. Credit: Molly Ivins sketch credit: Goodreads.
Our Criminal-in-Chief
Criminal Negligence: Doing Untold Damage to Ourselves
Christian Nationalism vs A Call for Peace
Attribution: Matt Wuerker @mwuerker.bsky.social
Pope Leo XIV used his first Easter speech Sunday to deliver a resounding call for peace in times of renewed war, declaring, “Let those who have weapons lay them down!,” the Washington Post reports.
Said Leo: “Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace! Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue! Not with the desire to dominate others, but to encounter them! We are growing accustomed to violence, resigning ourselves to it, and becoming indifferent. Indifferent to the deaths of thousands of people.”
Just Jump
Delaying the Obvious
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Nothing Fake About This News
Someone Needs to Be Sent to The Hague
International law and justice demand it, lest the President of the United States engage in blatantly criminal behavior.
That much is clear from Trump’s unhinged rants about Iran.
New York Times: “No other recent American president has talked so openly about committing potential war crimes, legal experts, historians and former U.S. officials say. Wartime American presidents and their aides have usually insisted they were trying to follow international and U.S. military law, even if they violated it in some cases.”
“International laws aimed at preventing the horrors of total war are codified in a series of agreements, including the Geneva Conventions, the Hague Conventions, the Nuremberg Principles and the United Nations Charter. Deliberate attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure violate those. So does pillaging a country, which Mr. Trump has suggested he might do by taking Iran’s oil.”
“The Trump administration’s language and actions could have far-reaching consequences. Within Iran, it is likely to galvanize opposition to the United States, including among some ordinary Iranians who have protested their own government.”
Killing the Peace
Is It Time to Invoke the 25th Amendment?
Correct, He is DEFINITELY Not the Messiah
Major Iran War UPDATE
That’s All You Have to Say?
Is This What We Expected?
Unholy Behavior
Hopelessly Lost in the Fog of War
You Wanted Regime Change? Here It Is!
Going Up and Up
A Sign of the Times
No One Gets Past ICE
Be in Your Office Five Days a Week
Oh… and no casual Fridays!
A Tough Act to Follow
Lower and Lower
The Potemkin Legacy of Pam Bondi
Exit Right
Diary Poll
There are a lot of great journalists, comedians, and satirists alive today that I could have listed in the poll. Of the ones listed in the diary poll, only Ted Koppel and Dan Rather are still alive, though they aren’t as active as they were a decade or so ago.
It may be difficult, but try to choose one person you miss most. Thanks.
Please Read This
Attribution: Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social
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Manual Updates Posted Here
Going Off the Rails
Cavemen in Action
The Sweet Smell of Failure
Nope, Not True
They Will Find Him
Life in the Fast Lane
Worse Than Fat Man and Little Boy!
He Knows More Than You, Donald
The Times Have Changed
Demanding Sacrifices He Wouldn’t Make Himself
Hear, Hear!
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