If Music Could Talk

Mimi wrote: ↑

20 Jan 2017, 9:27am

Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑

20 Jan 2017, 9:25am

Mimi wrote: ↑

20 Jan 2017, 9:23am

Fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy night.

So you're saying it'll be fine by tomorrow?

What? You've never seen All About Eve? That's a fine Bette Davis quote right there.

Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑

20 Jan 2017, 9:32am

Mimi wrote: ↑

20 Jan 2017, 9:27am

Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑

20 Jan 2017, 9:25am

Mimi wrote: ↑

20 Jan 2017, 9:23am

Fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy night.

So you're saying it'll be fine by tomorrow?

What? You've never seen All About Eve? That's a fine Bette Davis quote right there.

I only recognize Star Wars quotes.

Silent Majority wrote: ↑

20 Jan 2017, 11:00am

I didn't hate Obama. He did awful, unforgivable acts and was a fool in his tactics when dealing with the banal evil bullies of the Republican Party. But I think he was acting out of a genuine belief he was doing good and, for some reason, when you're the head of an organisation that tends constantly to flashy, ugly use of expensive power, that matters. To me, in any case. But I hate the new President. I hate him so much, it uses up my energy. I hate him in what he is and what he represents.

Many people are unaware that a young Donald Trump appeared on the cover of a book called The De-evolution of Mankind, published in Scarfolk by Pelican Books in 1975.

From the introduction:
"Scientists predict that, at some point in the early 21st century, humans will stop evolving and will start the process of de-evolution. Several signs will herald this decline:
i. People will stop reading books. It's estimated that the length of an average book will be eighteen words, including the title and copyright page.
ii. Increasingly, people will only vote for leaders who can communicate using an abbreviated, primitive dialect, a sort of "Dunce Patois" in which whole sentences will be reduced to single words: "True!", "Bad!", "Shame!", etc.
iii. The distinction between the real and the imaginary will be lost and fictional characters will ascend to the highest posts of office.
iv. Human hands will shrink through inactivity and will become little more than tiny, feeble scoops [...]

[...] The mighty space stations we once imagined in our future will drift unpopulated because the knowledge required to reach them will have been either outlawed or carelessly forgotten. The threadbare remnants of mankind will scrabble around a dying earth, daubing themselves with orange mud to avoid being burned due to the global overheating they said would never happen. We will return to this development in Chapter 4, which is entitled 'Consummate Dickheads'."

Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑

20 Jan 2017, 12:04pm

From what I understood about Obama the man, no, there was little to hate. Intelligent, sincere, disciplined, and charismatic. But Reagan was also likeable on a personal level, so I don't especially care about that. So much of the wailing and moaning about the Obamas' departure is this loss of manners and grace. Isn't that like when those of us on the left or liberals mocked W. supporters because he was the kind of guy you'd want to have a beer with? It's really minor.

If he weren't liberal on cultural manners and stylish, and if he were a Republican, what we'd be focusing on more is the greater economic stratification, expansion of executive power, prosecution of whistleblowers and the press, drone strikes, the continued existence of Guantanamo, the rise of fascism in Europe, and ever-more turmoil in the Middle East. Even tho Trump will be worse, it's hard to make a case that Obama was anything but the continuation of an ugly status quo begun with Carter. Even the ACA was more bandaid than actual cure for the inhumane, market-driven attitude toward healthcare in the US. As Chris Hayes and Thomas Frank have each argued, Obama was part of that meritocratic liberalism that has made the US more of a winners and losers society. He, like the two Bushes and Bill Clinton, nurtured the conditions that have resulted in Trump. It's hard to celebrate any of that.

Mimi wrote: ↑

20 Jan 2017, 1:02pm

Anyone want to take bets on how long it takes for him to get impeached? (wishful thinking, I know)

Silent Majority wrote: ↑

20 Jan 2017, 11:00am

I didn't hate Obama. He did awful, unforgivable acts and was a fool in his tactics when dealing with the banal evil bullies of the Republican Party. But I think he was acting out of a genuine belief he was doing good and, for some reason, when you're the head of an organisation that tends constantly to flashy, ugly use of expensive power, that matters. To me, in any case. But I hate the new President. I hate him so much, it uses up my energy. I hate him in what he is and what he represents.