Neo-Nazis call anybody whose skin complexion is darker than a sheet of paper “mud people”. So now we have Tucker Carlson dog whistling neo-Nazis by calling immigrants “dirty”.
Wow. Just wow.
These right-wing racists aren’t even trying to hide it anymore, are they?
– Badtux the Astounded Penguin
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She was seven years old.
Her father turned her over to the U.S. government because they had been without food and water for several days. He turned her over to the U.S. government in hopes they would provide food and water and shelter. Instead, for eight hours they provided nothing. No food. No water. No medical care. No warm bed to sleep on. Just a cage, that’s all, a cage and some mylar “space blankets”.
Her father had reported to authorities that she needed medical care. They didn’t provide any. They didn’t try to get an air ambulance to airlift her to the hospital. It was not until she was transferred to a station further inland that had a nurse on staff that she got any medical attention, and it was too late by then.
There are people who are celebrating this death. Who are saying, “this is a signal to all of Central America, don’t come here, we’ll kill you!” These same people call the refugees “animals”. But we all know who the real animals are — they are the ones celebrating the death of a child, not the ones mourning it.
– Badtux the Sad Penguin
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Right wingers point at Venezuela when whining about the perils of socialism. Bull. Try Denmark or Sweden if you want a socialist country. The chaos in Venezuela is about racism, not socialism — the Blancos (whites) owned the economy, got kicked out of office by the Indios (brown), and think destroying the economy will get them voted back in. It’s all about “the punishments will continue until you vote us whites back into power!” They would literally rather destroy the country than relinquish economic and political power to people they consider their racial inferiors. The most hilarious thing of all is that if you put the average Blanco and the average Indio side by side, the average white American wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between them!
I boarded with a Blanco when I was in college. He was a racist piece of shit. I’ve heard many of the exact same things out of the mouths of Blancos today that I heard back then from that jerk’s mouth. They are as bad as the old white elites of the American South who were willing to shut down all government services rather than allow blacks equal access to them. Which is where most anti-government sentiment in the United States stems from, BTW — it’s grounded in racism and in utter spite, a willingness to cut off services to themselves rather than share them with people they consider their racial inferiors.
But anyhow: the chaos in Venezuela is basically about a race war between the Blancos and Indios. Socialism is incidental to that, and more about the Indios trying to punish the Blancos for the Blancos torpedoing the economy as the Blancos try to punish the Indios for voting them out of power than about any real ideological convictions. The situation in Venezuela was caused by a civil war between races, not by socialism. Socialism has its own issues and inefficiencies, but it doesn’t cause race wars. That just isn’t a power of any system of economics.
– Badtux the Geopolitics Penguin
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Since I mentioned I took him to the vet yesterday…
His long-time vet called me back with test results today.
His final words: “This all looks pretty darn good for a 16 year old cat. Whatever you’re doing, keep doing it!”
Heh.
– Badtux the Elderly-cat-owned Penguin
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By request. (And title change by request too 🙂 ).
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I am just swamped with kittens, cats, and holidays.
President Dumpster Fire has been Constitution-shredding dumpster fire for the month I’ve been away. No big deal there. Meanwhile, my Facebook page is one constant stream of cute kitten pictures… kittens who take an astounding amount of work to deal with as I get them ready to adopt out. Two have been adopted out and are now driving their new owners nuts with their frenzied energy and cuteness, one kitten is stubbornly refusing to tame down and I have to work with him one on one a lot. Sigh.
And yeah, TMF is still around. Took him to the vet today. He has developed a heart murmur, not unusual in a 16 year old cat. We’ll see what the blood work says when the labs come back tomorrow…
And meanwhile I’m preparing for my Christmas trip back to Louisiana. I won’t be taking the detour through Dallas this year. The old friend that I visited regularly there died unexpectedly. Another part of my past gone. Sigh.
– Badtux the Busy Penguin
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Talk of another American Civil War is going mainstream. The MAGAts don’t seem to mind. They think they’ll win one if it happens.
They are, of course, wrong.
Wars are generally won by the organized. Most of the MAGA-hats have never organized anything bigger than a church potluck, and a lot of them couldn’t even manage that. Meanwhile we here in the civilized states have organized some of the biggest corporations known to man, with world-wide supply chains and millions of employees. We control the logistical supply chain of the nation from the civilized states. The ships, trains, trucks, and planes that keep the nation’s goods moving are owned by us and run from our states.
The MAGA-hats are expecting the police and military to enter the fray on their side as their margin of victory. That expectation is the only reason why they would even dare try to wage civil war. But that was true in the first American Civil War too, where most of the U.S. Army and its equipment and gear went to the South. In the end it didn’t matter, the South proved unable to manage its economy to maximize its assets and was beset by inflexible leadership that chose generals based upon compatibility with Jefferson Davis rather than based upon competence (thus the sidelining of their best general, General Joseph Johnston, at multiple critical points because Jefferson Davis didn’t like him). In the end guns win battles but logistics are what wins wars — and we have the logistical expertise here in the civilized states.
My guess — in a second American Civil War the eventual outcome would be the same as in the first — the bubbas will mismanage their economy to the point where their armies collapse for lack of food and boots while at the same time food rots in the field because they cannot get it from where it is grown to where it is needed because they lack the logistical expertise, equipment, or mindset. Things would get bloody long before then, of course, and they could probably win some quick victories before lack of a logistical tail takes its toll, but in the end logistics will tell.
– Badtux the History Penguin
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