These Are All the Same Person
and there's nothing inside them
True story: Remembering that Gavin Newsom had released a political ad attacking Florida for its terrifying assault on freedom, I went to find the thing, and without thinking about it much I instinctively searched for “eric garcetti florida freedom ad.” It took me a good three seconds to figure out why the search results were borked: Oh, wait, that’s a different one. But anyway, here it is, or at least a version of it from the news:
Living in California, I can tell you with great confidence that the feeling of lost freedom hangs in the air here like smog, so this is some dark-ass LOL shit, right here. But the effort to strawman the evil fascist empire of Florida produces gems like this claim:
Those authoritarians in Florida, they ban books! State education officials review the textbooks produced by educational publishers, and they adopt some and they reject some — just like the NAZIS used to do, Hitler Hitler Putin something something. This is such low-hanging bullshit fruit that I’m literally yawning at the thought of talking about it, but let’s do this anyway. California also reviews textbooks, and adopts some, and rejects some, according to a set of state criteria:
So Gavin Newsom, digging around for reasons to call Florida an unfree state, comes up with…the fact that Florida has standards for the adoption of textbooks for use in public schools, and some books aren’t adopted — a thing that happens, routinely and really quite obviously, in the state where Gavin Newsom is the governor.
This is shit, pure empty gibbering. Gavin Newsom is some clothes with a bag of skin and fluids inside them, a thing of no substance at all. He’s a breast implant with a mouth.
Speaking of which. I’ve been watching events in the Netherlands with considerable interest, and so came across some discussion of this exchange last year in the Dutch parliament:
So a parliamentarian asks Prime Minister Mark Rutte about his relationship with Klaus Schwab, and Rutte responds by tut-tutting about conspiracy theories, implying that asking him about Klaus Schwab is comparable to saying that 9/11 didn’t really happen — after which the parliamentarian asking the question instantly and casually produces correspondence from Rutte to Schwab. But, really, a relationship between Mark Rutte and Klaus Schwab is this hard to prove:
So Rutte, hearing a question about his relationship to Klaus Schwab, takes the laziest, sleaziest, most nakedly contemptuous of all the possible approaches, casually gaslighting about something that’s not at all a mystery. Q: Do you know Klaus Schwab. A: That’s just a conspiracy theory. Go back up and review that picture, right up above this paragraph.
It’s like Hunter Biden saying he’s never heard of methamphetamine.
The laziness. Florida is banning books, I don’t know anything about this Klaus Schwab person. They must bore themselves as they say this shit. These interchangable men, these prominent nobodies, have no ability to make arguments, and no interest in making arguments. Like Justin Trudeau responding to questions about the abuse of emergency powers by ritually invoking “those who wave swastikas,” the middlebrow slogan-chanters of the contemporary governing class — Dan Andrews, Ted Wheeler, Eric Garcetti, Gavin Newsom, Jacinda Ardern, Mark McGowan, and on and on and on — have no substance of any kind. There’s an emptiness to them that’s universal and unvarying, like someone is programming different facial features onto a single governing hologram. There’s nothing there. They’re authoritarians, they’re profoundly destructive, and they’re so dull you can barely keep your eyes open to look at them.
It’s like we’re governed by really nasty and hateful jars of paste.
“Gavin Newsom is some clothes with a bag of skin and fluids inside them, a thing of no substance at all. He’s a breast implant with a mouth.”
“It’s like we’re governed by really nasty and hateful jars of paste.”
🤣🤣🤣
I know I’ve mentioned this before, but you are rivaling Charlie Brooker’s “people-shaped things” epithet.
P.S. I bloody love Gideon van Meijeren and featured that searing clip in this piece:
• “Letter to Governor Ron DeSantis” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-governor-ron-desantis)
Democrats/liberals are going to rue the day they injected themselves with the Crit Theory brain virus.
I get it, it feels so good at first to be blissed out on gnostic wisdom, to learn a few new magic words and phrases that promise to catalpult you to the top of Mt. Morality, to be born again in the same ideology as all those cool bluehaired kids, to learn that if you just constantly proclaim your love of the marginalized and hatred of the Nazi fascist bigots all doors will open and a heavenly light shall shine down upon you.
But, as we can see, a few years pass and what once seemed like a cool new worldview becomes rigid prison bars inside your brain that make it impossible to think or speak clearly, to do anything but spout stale slogans and throw infantile tantrums at the first sign of disagreement, and worst of all: the words coming out of your mouth that strike you as so brilliant and edgy only sound like deranged gibberish to anyone outside your cult.
Tell ME how this ends! Our entire ruling class has overdosed on a toxic brain poison that turns them into malevolent crackheads, and it's only getting worse.
Only Thermidor can save us now...