So what’s Piggy up to today?
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When you finish and are forwarded to the stats page, there is a button called “Share”. It copies a link that you can paste into stuff.
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This seems important. From wiki:
The first known appearance of Miss Piggy was on the Herb Alpert television special Herb Alpert and the TJB, broadcast on October 13, 1974, on ABC. Miss Piggy’s voice was noticeably more demure and soft, singing with Herb, “I Can’t Give You Anything but Love.” The first draft of the puppet was an unnamed blonde, beady-eyed pig who appeared briefly in the 1975 pilot special The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence, in a sketch called “Return to Beneath the Planet of the Pigs.” She was unnamed in that show, but by the time The Muppet Show began in 1976, she had assumed something resembling her classic look—a pig with large blue eyes, a flowing silver gown, satin white long gloves, blue sheer shawl, and a hopelessly romantic persona.
ETA: My parents didn’t let me watch Eex and Violence. There is a void.
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Good, any fig leaf will work for me if it gets this case to trial in front of a jury with a full court press of the press, reporting daily on the corrupt shit show. It is not really fair to Comey to be put through that but he owes us for that late october shiv he stuck in HRC in 2016 and he can afford the lawyers and he is in no danger of conviction.
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Comey can fall back on his Irish Catholic upbringing and think of it as penance.
Nimis cogitatione, verbo et opere…
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Given that a prosecution of the Trump Administration by the Rrump Administrations seems highly unlikely, there must be angles. That seems like a good place to start.
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Unfortunately, I think most of the world’s best satire has failed, don’t you think? I mean – you know – A Modest Proposal, Candide, virtually every editorial cartoon ever drawn…Every article in The Onion..The satirists keep punching but after brief downturns in their fortunes the rich and powerful keep coming right back again. Unfortunately, satirists can’t take away their money or permanently and universally change humans’ susceptibility to the charms of that money and the confidence it bestows.
Fail as it might, though, I still much prefer a world with satire in it than one that would abandon satire because of its failures to facilitate a lot of change.
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Many people also forget the founding fathers were on the vanguard of enhanced airport security, specifically with the organization of the TSA Minutemen.
Also, the idea of providing free AOL CDs — with FREE MINUTES! — to all takers as a marketing scheme.
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Just a quick reminder before today’s meeting:
Mamdani polled a popular majority in his election.
Otto l’Orange never has, and he’s had three tries.
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As did the framers of the Constitution. In fact, they expected politicians would seek to extend their own power. Ambitious men pitted against other ambitious men. They also believed that the system of checks and balances they devised ultimately depended upon men of virtue who would jealously guard their honor.
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If satire were ineffective, it wouldn’t be so feared by every dictatorship in this history of dictatorships.
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How this works:
Rs pass a bill, over massive D objections, skyrocketing health care costs.
Ds refuse to fund the govt unless Rs agree to alter the bill and hold down health care costs. This is very popular, because–hang on, there’s some complex math involved here–people don’t want their health care costs to skyrocket. Rs refuse violently to budge, sticking to very unpopular position.
Media accuses Ds of wanting health care costs to go up because it’s bad politically for Rs. Apparently the idea is that because the R policy of skyrocketing health care costs are unpopular Ds want health care costs to skyrocket??? Whatever–the point is that anything bad in govt is the Ds fault. This conceit controls much of mainstream media political reporting and it’s hugely destructive.
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They also thought the conflict points would be states vs states (i.e. north vs south). And it was until the Civil War largely ended that fight.
They failed to see how political parties independent of individual state allegiances could completely undermine their system of checks and balances.
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Schrödinger’s Grand Jury
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We should start by prosecuting the emoluments violations, Musk’s self-dealing, and the Trump Corporation. The legal financial obligations from these will amass a chest of cash from which to pay penalties from the civil lawsuits about kidnapping, extrajudicial killlings, etc., that will in turn provide evidence of illegal activity to pursue criminal cases all up and down the GOP.
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Yeah, I overstated. Of course it’s effective to some degree and in some cases to a large degree.
I was just trying to acknowledge what I understood to be the assertion that it doesn’t solve things permanently and some things it doesn’t manage to solve at all. even short term…And I’m pretty sure that’s also true.
It’s clearly strong enough to be feared as an enemy by all authoritarian types. … They see any and all those who disagree as terrifying enemies, though. Authoritarians are huge snowflakes. So of course they fear disagreeemant that gets rooms full of people laughing at them.
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On many days, my resident cat tries to bring me there.
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Not sure it counts as satire, exactly, but this is one of my personal faves:
If you ask me what it means to be an American…that’s pretty much my response.
Sic Semper Tyrannis
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Reading Marcy Wheeler after this is going to be a riot.
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