About Last Week...
Amusk Time
Remember when, a few years ago, tens of thousands of people took to the streets demanding that oligarchs stay out of politics?
The protest of Mark Zuckerberg funneling aa half-billion dollars into the vote counting system, the fury over George Soros buying district attorney races across the country, the public anger at evil NGOs funneling millions into leftist political causes?
Well, neither do I.
That means they did not happen or – possibly – the media simply did not cover the events ad nauseum as has been regarding the Evil Elon protests.
“Scores of people took part in protests against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk across all 50 states and globally on Saturday, organized by a pro-democracy movement in response to what they call a “hostile takeover” and attack on American rights and freedoms,” blared and blathered CNN.
Note – using the word “scores” is a very odd choice because even I know thousands of folks (not as many as claimed, but still thousands” showed at the protests and a “score,” as we all remember from the Gettysburg Address, is 20 people. Hmm.
Anyway, the protesters demanded that Elon keep his “hands off” American democracy. If – when one considers Silicon Valley/FBI/Homeland Security/media censorship that has occurred over the past decade - there has never been a more ironic slogan in political history, I am unaware of it.
Maybe people didn’t protest Zuckerberg aggressive and flagrant election rigging effort because those concerned with the issue were too polite to publicly chant the obvious “Fuck Zuck!” slogan or maybe people were worried that even mentioning Soros in a negative way made them an antisemite (considering recent campus protests and on-going DEI issues, that, too, is deeply ironic.)
Either way, fun was had by all, the media will keep pushing the same concept because polls show that Musk is an even more polarizing figure than Trump (mostly because people think DOGE is stealing Social Security money somehow,) and the resistance will continue to be covered out of all proportion to its support.
If this weekend’s protestors were honest and consistent, they would have been out before when their “hands off!” democracy chant actually made sense.
Speaking of not actually making sense, California state Assemblyman Rick Zbur – arguing against a bill that would have boys out of girls’ sports – compared the ide – of course – to Nazi Germany and said trans people were sent to concentration camps.
We know gay people were, but trans as we know it today? Transvestitism, sure – everyone’s seen “Cabaret,” but actually trans?
"This is about this, this is about this bill," Zbur argued. "They were barred from public life. They were detransitioned. They were imprisoned and killed in concentration camps. And the way it started was the same kind of things that are happening in this country by the Trump administration."
“Detransitioned” – Zbur actually used that word. That’s like saying Moors were banned from space flight in the Middle Ages – it just doesn’t make sense.
Nasty things happened to gay people in Nazi Germany and that should never happen again? But to impose the current trans debate on the Holocaust is ludicrous.
The argument becomes even more preposterous when one considers what was being discussed – making sure boys do not play girls’ sports, thereby throwing off the entire competitive concept. Simply having to stay in your own gender lane when running track is not the same thing as, well, anything the Nazis did.
Speaking of ludicrous, one needs to always keep one’s ears open when taking public transit. A few days I heard a person LOUDLY discussing his father’s prison record before segueing into the crucial importance of getting a DJ for his cousin’s baby shower.
A “popping DJ,” actually.
I’ve never attended a baby shower and am pretty sure I have never caused one, but it would seem to me that a club DJ would be rather out of place at such an event.
Speaking of “Cabaret,” this week’s epigram is yet again not an epigram but the Wilkommen number from the film:
Speaking of transvestite, note the 27 second mark - I think it’s an homagee to a sort-of well-known painting and/or poster, but I just can’t place it.
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