Once again, the dumbest permanent 10 year old in the country is claiming that, despite having been caught once again with both hands in the cookie jar, that he not only does not have his hands in the cookie jar, but there is no cookie jr, and besides, he has a perfect right to have the cookies anyway since it’s obviously his cookie jar.
I like this: "That doesn’t mean he and the lifetime losers from Flyover Loserville who constitute the American Right cannot be dangerous. They are a threat, if enough people don’t stand up to be counted in November, their threat will be truly dangerous."
I would consider the threat serious enough not to wear or display anything advertising which way I intended to cast my ballots when heading out to vote in November.
Freedom of expression and all, but I'd want every chance to be sure I get to cast my votes without any attracting interference or incident. Would probably wear black to mourn the death of uncorrupted justice.
Good idea because partisan stuff isn't supposed to be worn into most polling places anyway. Hopefully the next 6 weeks will see major steps toward the justice that we all seek.
I swear Jon Lovitz should bring out his lying guy character and do this material. I know Lovitz is right-adjacent, but come on man, this is comedy gold!
"Once again, the dumbest permanent 10 year old in the country is claiming that, despite having been caught once again with both hands in the cookie jar...." Sure worth repeating! It is hilarious.
It would not surprise me if he actually got caught that age, and stopped growing; from being punished. So, I also repeat myself from another comment:
After being a "student 68", living through that time of ideological frenzy rather than being an activist, I have been rethinking ideologies as ages: Conservatism belongs to the age around 10, developing a sound selfishness that we need to have as a base in our lives. Liberalism belong to the age around 15, trying out freedom without giving up our parents and family. Socialism belongs to the age around 20, when we realize there is a whole world that we belong to and are dependent of. - The stupidest cry from the 70ies was 'We must start with the children'; meaning we should first make the children socialists, which turned out to be parents demanding from their children to carry the burden of an ideology they did not manage themselves to follow. - To my experience children's loyalty to their parents is the strongest social force, building nations and empires. This loyalty is the closest humans come to agape, the godly love not asking anything back, and as a parent. there is nothing so easy to abuse
Olof, it has taken me some time to understand your comment. I look forward to your thoughts about my interpretation. You opened with a particular 10 year old (one of TC's characterizations of DJT) denying that he had both hands in the cookie jar -- again. After taking a stab at when DJT's development may have been arrested, you continue to assign political philosophies to different stages of human development , i.e., Conservatism at around age 10; Liberalism at 15 and socialism at around 20. Then you addressed parents transferring their responsibility to the child., thereby, breaking the trust between the parent and child. Now, I finally think I understand. I see 'love', which seemed in hiding, until I went through your comment step by step. Then I recognized a fundamental aspect of love, 'not asking for anything back.' You continued with an understanding of how parental abuse radiates. Thank you, Olof, for this basic connection between life and politics.
I'd make a slight adjustment to your excellent "political seven ages of man" take on things. I'd place Conservatism a lot earlier. after all, isn't kindergarten the time when kids get really exercised about their hatred of having to share? or possibly we can add "Libertarianism" to the mix and make the younger kids Libertarians and keep your scheme. or put Conservatism earlier and call the ten-year-olds Libertarians.
finally, I guess it depends on how you feel about so-called Libertarians and Conservatives. I absolutely loathe the ones who call themselves "Libertarians (the vile Rand Paul and his shitheel dad, along with all the other losers who read Ayn Rand in the tenth grade and took her seriously)," but I've been able to get along with some people who called themselves Conservatives (I'm not even sure of the names to put here after, say, Edmund Burke). I can't think of anyone running for office today I'd call "Conservatives." for the right take on that, I'll refer everyone (as Tom has done so frequently and so well) back to Hofstadter.
is it possible that I've just managed to confuse everyone as much as I seem to have confused myself?
Thank you David. I was first, confusing everyone! With expansions I hope we can all add to some meaning.
I absolutely agree about ages and numbers of years. I once had a project with children decorating the corridor in their school. They were 4-6th grade which means 11-13 years. It took me a while to realize that in handling of paints and images they were really between 2 and 20 years, which was comforting for my shortcoming as a non professional pedagogue.
Thank you Fern! I know I was trying to say too much for a comment on substack, but you got it!
Not only parents transferring their responsibility to the children; the children take that on from themselves, but in hiding. That's why it is so easily abused.
I like this: "That doesn’t mean he and the lifetime losers from Flyover Loserville who constitute the American Right cannot be dangerous. They are a threat, if enough people don’t stand up to be counted in November, their threat will be truly dangerous."
I would consider the threat serious enough not to wear or display anything advertising which way I intended to cast my ballots when heading out to vote in November.
Freedom of expression and all, but I'd want every chance to be sure I get to cast my votes without any attracting interference or incident. Would probably wear black to mourn the death of uncorrupted justice.
Good idea because partisan stuff isn't supposed to be worn into most polling places anyway. Hopefully the next 6 weeks will see major steps toward the justice that we all seek.
I swear Jon Lovitz should bring out his lying guy character and do this material. I know Lovitz is right-adjacent, but come on man, this is comedy gold!
What a friggin dickhead...
Can the J6 committee subpoena him to testify?
He'll probably fight it and then say nothing.
Sure would be something for the country watch an ex-president “take the 5th” about 400 times.
"But Trump playing the Big Bad Wolf and threatening to blow our house down cannot be allowed to dissuade us."
Stand up and be counted
"Once again, the dumbest permanent 10 year old in the country is claiming that, despite having been caught once again with both hands in the cookie jar...." Sure worth repeating! It is hilarious.
It would not surprise me if he actually got caught that age, and stopped growing; from being punished. So, I also repeat myself from another comment:
After being a "student 68", living through that time of ideological frenzy rather than being an activist, I have been rethinking ideologies as ages: Conservatism belongs to the age around 10, developing a sound selfishness that we need to have as a base in our lives. Liberalism belong to the age around 15, trying out freedom without giving up our parents and family. Socialism belongs to the age around 20, when we realize there is a whole world that we belong to and are dependent of. - The stupidest cry from the 70ies was 'We must start with the children'; meaning we should first make the children socialists, which turned out to be parents demanding from their children to carry the burden of an ideology they did not manage themselves to follow. - To my experience children's loyalty to their parents is the strongest social force, building nations and empires. This loyalty is the closest humans come to agape, the godly love not asking anything back, and as a parent. there is nothing so easy to abuse
Olof, it has taken me some time to understand your comment. I look forward to your thoughts about my interpretation. You opened with a particular 10 year old (one of TC's characterizations of DJT) denying that he had both hands in the cookie jar -- again. After taking a stab at when DJT's development may have been arrested, you continue to assign political philosophies to different stages of human development , i.e., Conservatism at around age 10; Liberalism at 15 and socialism at around 20. Then you addressed parents transferring their responsibility to the child., thereby, breaking the trust between the parent and child. Now, I finally think I understand. I see 'love', which seemed in hiding, until I went through your comment step by step. Then I recognized a fundamental aspect of love, 'not asking for anything back.' You continued with an understanding of how parental abuse radiates. Thank you, Olof, for this basic connection between life and politics.
I'd make a slight adjustment to your excellent "political seven ages of man" take on things. I'd place Conservatism a lot earlier. after all, isn't kindergarten the time when kids get really exercised about their hatred of having to share? or possibly we can add "Libertarianism" to the mix and make the younger kids Libertarians and keep your scheme. or put Conservatism earlier and call the ten-year-olds Libertarians.
finally, I guess it depends on how you feel about so-called Libertarians and Conservatives. I absolutely loathe the ones who call themselves "Libertarians (the vile Rand Paul and his shitheel dad, along with all the other losers who read Ayn Rand in the tenth grade and took her seriously)," but I've been able to get along with some people who called themselves Conservatives (I'm not even sure of the names to put here after, say, Edmund Burke). I can't think of anyone running for office today I'd call "Conservatives." for the right take on that, I'll refer everyone (as Tom has done so frequently and so well) back to Hofstadter.
is it possible that I've just managed to confuse everyone as much as I seem to have confused myself?
Thank you David. I was first, confusing everyone! With expansions I hope we can all add to some meaning.
I absolutely agree about ages and numbers of years. I once had a project with children decorating the corridor in their school. They were 4-6th grade which means 11-13 years. It took me a while to realize that in handling of paints and images they were really between 2 and 20 years, which was comforting for my shortcoming as a non professional pedagogue.
Thank you Fern! I know I was trying to say too much for a comment on substack, but you got it!
Not only parents transferring their responsibility to the children; the children take that on from themselves, but in hiding. That's why it is so easily abused.