Eggs

Just sitting here thinking about those “price of eggs” Trump voters who are gonna get a multimillionaire Treasury Secretary who supports giving even more tax cuts to the super rich but does not support increasing the federal minimum wage.

Great job

you fucking idiots

Revenge of The Three Stooges

Convicted Felon, President-elect Donald Trump has named Jon Voight, Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone as Hollywood’s “special ambassadors, with the aim of boosting domestic production of film and TV shows as the entertainment industry increasingly opts to shoot in other countries.

This isn’t a joke.

Trump thinks that these three guys will return Hollywood to it’s ” former glory”. You know, he wants to make Hollywood Great Again.

For some reason, when I saw this stupid stunt, I thought back on when Comic books were censored back in the 40’s and stories about Werewolves were banned.

It really happened.

Comics were seen as a blight on Democracy and there was an effort to torch the entire industry.

Of course the Comic book publishers didn’t want to be run out of business by the Government, so they put a little group together called The Association of Comic Magazine Publishers and they came up with a code.

The Comics Code

It included:

  • A crackdown on “sexy” images; no nude images
  • Criminals should always be bad and never triumph over good. Comics should make it clear that they should not be imitated.
  • Authority figures (cops, government officials, organizations) should be respected.
  • A ban on torture.
  • Werewolves, zombies, vampires, and ghouls couldn’t be used.
  • Entreaties against slang and “vulgar” language.
  • An order to respect the sanctity of the family (i.e., no divorce or gay people).
  • A ban on comics dealing in racial and religious prejudice — this sounds good in theory, but as the Comic Book Defense League Fund points out, it eliminated stories that challenged the religious beliefs of Comic Code administrator Charles F. Murphy and reduced representation of nonwhite people.

The Real issue with comics is that they did what Rod Serling eventually did with some of his Twilight Zone stories.

Serling couldn’t present stories about injustices- racial being one of the biggies, so instead of lines coming out of the mouth of some Bubba with a noose in his hand- he had the lines come out of the mouths of Martians

However, back in the 40’s that argumenet wasn’t going to fly- free speech, thoughts, ideas artwork were seen as threats to The US Government and it was not going to be tolerated.

It’s like Convicted Felon, Donald Trump is sending his Stooges into Hollywood to make it ‘user friendly’ to himself. He sees free speech and expression as threats to HIMSELF.

I think it’s safe to say that Trumps Three Stooges have had a hard time getting any attention in Hollywood. I mean, it’s not like they’ve had a lot of gigs over the years. Maybe they ‘re a little bitter over that.

But that’s Trump’s supporters in a nutshell.

They’re a bunch of white people who haven’t got what they feel they were entitled and those entitlements have gone to people who didn’t ‘deserve’ them the way they have.

What a bunch of babies.

I just hope that this time these idiots leave the Werewolves alone.

The Waste Land

Social Media- Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, Twitter, go ahead, chose a site any site and it’s safe to say it’s a Waste Land.

The ” food for thought ” is bad, the service is bad, and the cost of using it may not be in dollars and cents but it will cost you big all the same.

These Social Media site aren’t really about communication. It’s not the new ” town square” where we all show up and debate our ideas and share our opinions. 

Social Media sites are like those seedy bars with sticky bathroom floors where a bunch of drunk people sit around at tables or stand in a corner in front of a dart board with no darts roaring into each other’s faces about the world under fly speckled lighting fixtures until one of them passes out or someone  gets punched in the face and the cops show up and send everyone home.

I’ve been encouraging my friends to use blogs- you can get one free through Google ( used to be Blogger.Com if you’ve been out of the loop for awhile ) but I’m partial to WordPress.

I pay through the effing nose for my other blog, Enduring Bones because I want the option to use the old blogging format and I want the extra storage space for photos and pictures.

Ok. Time to get back on track:

The thing is, that much like Tik Tok or Youtube ( where anyone with a phone can be a star ) Facebook and Twitter is that they make you feel like you’re a writer, a Spin Doctor, that everyone is paying attention to  your quips and that those likes and hearts validate your points of view, that what you said is true

This is what I learned about Facebook.

It’s a purely transactional thing.

People like your stuff and in turn you’re supposed to go to their wall and like them back.

The darker side is, I’ve seen some of my friends FB pages and Tweets and their doctored selfies  and not only they do they not talk to people like that in ‘real life’ they don’t even  look like their pictures. 


It’s like reality doesn’t matter- in fact in matters so little  it can be bent  and changed with a flick of your finger.

On January 20th reality as we know it won’t exist anymore- not even on social media.

I suppose all I can do is write about it.

On my blog.

 

 

Whoa

 

I asked the AI option here at WordPress to generate an image of graves and bats.

Not Bad!

About That

Daily writing prompt
What’s the trait you value most about yourself?

Love you or hate you

love my fate or bemoan the lousy hand that life has given me

I will approach  all of those situations with a lot of ethusiasm

and humor.

 

 

September 26th, 2024

warty1

Photo: A.M. Moscoso

Is it really okay not to be like everyone else?

Is it really alright if you wear the wrong clothes?

Is it really acceptable to be who you really are?

I’m thinking that the answer is no.

I’m also thinking I’m fine with that.