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mallorys_cameraJean-Luc somehow found the Substack in which I repurpose various political ruminations.
He is now courting me with long neocon rants about the odiousness of Joe Biden:
The Biden team was full bore neo-conservative in international policies, from refusal to negotiate with Russia before the Ukraine war, sabotaging of peace treaty of March-April 2022, maintaining troops in Syria to occupy the oil and agricultural part of Syria along with sanctions that made Syrian children at risk of starvation, along with enabling a genocide in Gaza. If there is justice, he will be brought up by the International Court of Justice.
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Honestly? I don’t know enough about international relations to refute any of this, and more honestly, I don’t like Biden enough to defend him.
After all, as a Senator, Biden defended Clarence Thomas, was instrumental in removing student debt as one of the things that can dissolved by bankruptcy, and fought to overturn Glass-Steagall.
Frankly, I was shocked when the Sainted Obama chose Unca Joe as his running mate. But then the Sainted Obama turned out to be a very mediocre President.
Though one thing the Biden administration did, of which I wholeheartedly approved, was the expansion of the Child Tax Credit as part of the American Rescue Plan and arrangement to have that credit doled out on a monthly basis. This had an enormous effect on child poverty rates, but alas! only lasted for a year and a half because it was tied into COVID legislation.
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Anyway, Jean-Luc appears to be stalking me.
I don’t actually disapprove of stalking: Everybody does it.
How else are you gonna find out about yr X-Boyfriends at two o’clock in the morning?
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In other news, I didn’t do a bit of useful work yesterday on account of RTT drafted me to edit his application for the Working Families Party’s endorsement.
RTT’s original was filled with oversharing and run-on sentences.
I ended up rewriting it entirely. This took four hours.
I have experienced firsthand how the system fails people who are working their hardest, and whose definition of success is simple: family, friends, joy, laughter, a job that pays a decent wage, a comfortable place to live, a healthcare system that cares more about healing than it does in making money. I’m lucky I didn’t fall through the cracks myself, and I don’t want to see any more people fall through those cracks.
I deserve the Working Families Party’s endorsement. I’m that rare extrovert who listens. I’m an excellent campaigner who’s worked successfully on behalf of many Ithaca community initiatives. Moreover, your endorsement will be an investment in a progressive future that can yield returns over many years.
Fulsome R Us! 😀
(That last sentence was an oblique reference to RTT’s opponent in the primary, a strident woman in her 50s who attends every single Ithaca City Council meeting, where she rants for at least 10 minutes about trigger warnings and safe spaces. She’s old, I wanted to say. You won’t get much ROI from endorsing her.)
Of course, RTT had to tell me how far I’d missed the mark.
But then he used most of what I wrote.
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Also, Ellen (of all people) needed to be talked off the ledge due to general despair over Trump’s inauguration.
WHY are you watching that thing? I asked Ellen.
I can’t stop myself, said Ellen. The comment re “only he and she from now on?” Hit me—I have a lot of mixed cousins who I love dearly. I don’t ever remember him talking like that before… Was that a new theme for him or no?
I gave her the rah-rah speech: Now is not the time for wound-licking! Now is the time to mobilize! Blah, blah, blah.
But I don’t want to hear one more thing about Elon Musk’s Nazi salute.
I mean, I would never buy a Tesla, but that wasn’t a Nazi salute. He was clearly holding his arm out to the side.
He is now courting me with long neocon rants about the odiousness of Joe Biden:
The Biden team was full bore neo-conservative in international policies, from refusal to negotiate with Russia before the Ukraine war, sabotaging of peace treaty of March-April 2022, maintaining troops in Syria to occupy the oil and agricultural part of Syria along with sanctions that made Syrian children at risk of starvation, along with enabling a genocide in Gaza. If there is justice, he will be brought up by the International Court of Justice.
###
Honestly? I don’t know enough about international relations to refute any of this, and more honestly, I don’t like Biden enough to defend him.
After all, as a Senator, Biden defended Clarence Thomas, was instrumental in removing student debt as one of the things that can dissolved by bankruptcy, and fought to overturn Glass-Steagall.
Frankly, I was shocked when the Sainted Obama chose Unca Joe as his running mate. But then the Sainted Obama turned out to be a very mediocre President.
Though one thing the Biden administration did, of which I wholeheartedly approved, was the expansion of the Child Tax Credit as part of the American Rescue Plan and arrangement to have that credit doled out on a monthly basis. This had an enormous effect on child poverty rates, but alas! only lasted for a year and a half because it was tied into COVID legislation.
###
Anyway, Jean-Luc appears to be stalking me.
I don’t actually disapprove of stalking: Everybody does it.
How else are you gonna find out about yr X-Boyfriends at two o’clock in the morning?
###
In other news, I didn’t do a bit of useful work yesterday on account of RTT drafted me to edit his application for the Working Families Party’s endorsement.
RTT’s original was filled with oversharing and run-on sentences.
I ended up rewriting it entirely. This took four hours.
I have experienced firsthand how the system fails people who are working their hardest, and whose definition of success is simple: family, friends, joy, laughter, a job that pays a decent wage, a comfortable place to live, a healthcare system that cares more about healing than it does in making money. I’m lucky I didn’t fall through the cracks myself, and I don’t want to see any more people fall through those cracks.
I deserve the Working Families Party’s endorsement. I’m that rare extrovert who listens. I’m an excellent campaigner who’s worked successfully on behalf of many Ithaca community initiatives. Moreover, your endorsement will be an investment in a progressive future that can yield returns over many years.
Fulsome R Us! 😀
(That last sentence was an oblique reference to RTT’s opponent in the primary, a strident woman in her 50s who attends every single Ithaca City Council meeting, where she rants for at least 10 minutes about trigger warnings and safe spaces. She’s old, I wanted to say. You won’t get much ROI from endorsing her.)
Of course, RTT had to tell me how far I’d missed the mark.
But then he used most of what I wrote.
###
Also, Ellen (of all people) needed to be talked off the ledge due to general despair over Trump’s inauguration.
WHY are you watching that thing? I asked Ellen.
I can’t stop myself, said Ellen. The comment re “only he and she from now on?” Hit me—I have a lot of mixed cousins who I love dearly. I don’t ever remember him talking like that before… Was that a new theme for him or no?
I gave her the rah-rah speech: Now is not the time for wound-licking! Now is the time to mobilize! Blah, blah, blah.
But I don’t want to hear one more thing about Elon Musk’s Nazi salute.
I mean, I would never buy a Tesla, but that wasn’t a Nazi salute. He was clearly holding his arm out to the side.
Can't lose
Date: 2025-01-21 05:33 pm (UTC)But this is a can't lose tactic for attention-seekers like Melon Husk. He doesn't care (cf his endorsement of AfD) if he's thought to be a fascist (it's a fascist salute, culturally appropriated from Mussolini, and only later became a Nazi one, at which Hitler was rather bad and half-hearted).
And he dominates the news cycle in a way the DOGE (yawn, nobody cares) can't. He's already having problems with the other "DOG" Vivek, and he might be under the bus in a quick minute if he gets under the Pres' skin much more.
I don't chalk that up to some diabolical cleverness, just the instinct for attention by edgelording cosplay.
Re: Can't lose
Date: 2025-01-21 05:57 pm (UTC)Musk is mega-creepy, but I'm giving him a pass here.
And I really wish the self-styled lefties giving that one airtime would do something more productive than playing endless rounds of Ain't It Awful.
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Date: 2025-01-22 08:58 am (UTC)Jean-Luc could do with learning to write like you instead of demonstrating his powers of superbore.
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Date: 2025-01-22 11:30 am (UTC)But he is very rich, so he won't.