Friday, December 8, 2017

World on Fire

California's burning and Trump's set the Middle East on fire with his proclamation about Israel. Stupid to enrage the Palestinians and then talk about moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, where it will be a target for protests and attacks. I only caught a little of the news on TV at work. It was galling to hear him say that he was merely recognizing "reality" by recognizing Jerusalem as the capital. He's divorced from reality and regularly declares facts as "fake news". Pretending that he supports a two-state solution when he's just driven a stake into it. Jerusalem is disputed territory, supposed to be worked out in the peace talks, but he's circumvented all that, declared Israel the victor, and he expects Palestinians to just accept that? The rest of the world to accept that? Fuck him and Netanyahu too.

TV News is as useless as ever; my local stations were reporting on FBI Director Wray and trying to cast doubt on Mueller's impartiality by talking about the guy that got fired long ago to make sure they didn't have any partisan bias. And of course there's the hysteria over Franken resigning. His awful speech trying to talk up his legacy while continuing to deny the allegations. After so many "I don't remembers" and "I take hundreds of photos", I don't give a crap about you, Franken. Shitty blogs like Daily Kos are still full of defenders who insist that we're giving in to Republicans. Fuck you deniers. This reckoning is for everyone, red and blue.

About the only good news lately was Australia's Parliament finally voting for marriage equality. In Texas, there's some new Democratic candidates signing up to run. Not sure how much I want to contribute again, given my disappointments after Wendy Davis and others. But we've got to at least try to get rid of Abbott and Cruz and Cornyn.

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