3/5/21: I woke up late today, tugged at the curtain and peaked outside to see if Trump fans were partying in the Glendale streets. The sun was shining gloriously; but revelers were absent.
I stayed up late last night, waiting for Donald J. Trump to come riding back on a golden moonbeam. The QAnon folks promised he would come again, like Jesus, only fatter, and without the positive message for humankind.
According to “Q,” Trump was going to return on March 4, the
old date for presidential inaugurations.
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Trump will not be returning in the nick of time to save Mr.
Potato Head’s potato penis.
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So I kept vigil till midnight. Nothing. I thought maybe “Q” meant Pacific Coast Time. I drank coffee and waited until 3 a.m. here in Ohio.
More nothing.
I thought: Well, maybe “Q” meant Hawaiian time…or American Samoa time…but even the coffee failed.
I drifted off to sleep.
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NOW, IT’S MORNING, and the QAnon believers are feeling glum. Joe is still in the White House. He didn’t spontaneously combust.
That means America is doomed, at least by “Q” standards. For example, let’s consider what the right-wing talking heads have been insisting is a current critical issue. If you missed the story, Hasbro decided to get “woke” and pretend Mr. Potato Head was no longer a “Mr.,” and his lovely spud spouse, Mrs. was no longer a “Mrs.,” and our children would all have to grow up playing with Lesbian Potato Head. Now we know the bitter truth. Trump will not be returning in the nick of time to save Mr. Potato Head’s potato penis.
It was bad enough to learn that Mr. Potato Head had lost his
manhood. It got even worse for the Q Crew this week when the estate of Dr.
Seuss decided not to print any more copies of six of his works.
A close scrutiny of the imagery and captions in several of
Dr. Seuss’s works revealed biases that no longer seemed acceptable. To be
frank, this blogger had never heard of five of the six titles dropped from publication. He shall
not therefore mourn the loss of McElligot’s Pool. What I do know,
however, is that every talking head on Fox News and Newsmax – speaking of
potato heads – was flipping out this week over the loss of the possibly racist
literature. Tucker Carlson swore that if we lost Dr. Seuss, we would “lose
America.” That seemed hyperbolic.
TUCKER CARLSON VIDEO OF SEUSS….
In fact, we were not “losing” Seuss, even. We were “losing”
select Seuss books, possibly with good reason.
I know many of Dr. Seuss’s works hold up brilliantly. At least one book dropped, The Things I Saw on Mulberry Street, my children enjoyed. I had a vague memory of a possibly racist drawing of an Asian person in that book; and the Seuss estate cited that drawing as reason for dropping publication of the work. I had also seen cartoons of Japanese Americans done by Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss before he became Dr. Seuss) after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
If you wanted to stir up fear – and then lock up 110,000
people, including 77,000 U.S. citizens – a few racist cartoons never hurt.
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Irrational fear led to the internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans. |
In any case, when I heard Tucker howl it struck me that Carlson was having a tough time coming up with new and ever more absurd ways to scare and distract his avid fans. The right, generally, is having a hard time looking for stories to petrify the Trump base. That meant they had to resort to attacking the Biden family dog (see the entry for: 2/23/21).
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Green New Deal have been good for a thousand days of right-wing rage. But that story down in Texas, that the whole power grid froze solid because of the Green New Deal didn’t hold up any better than the Texas power grid in a deep freeze. Even Gender Neutral Potato Head could have told you – for starters – that the Green New Deal has never been implemented. So to blame Ocasio-Cortez would be akin to saying the Cat in the Hat did it. In fact, when this blogger bothered to check, he readily discovered that wind turbines can be winterized to work in much colder weather than Texas suffered recently. In Canada, for example, which is, I believe, farther north than Texas, wind turbines actually work harder in winter when strong Arctic winds sweep across the country.
So, did liberals with their climate change agenda cause
the Texas fiasco? Or was it Texan politicians and poor planning and
preparation? I’ll give you a hint. It wasn’t Sam I Am who did it, either.
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American
Petroleum Institute may endorse carbon
emissions tax.
IN FACT, there are much bigger concerns to address than the
question of Gender Neutral Potato Head’s genitalia. Climate change would
certainly deserve more coverage at Fox News and Newsmax and on Rush Limbaugh’s
daily radio hour from Hades. Not the “it’s a hoax” kind of attention. Rather, the
“handwriting’s-on-the-wall” biblical kind of s***. If you missed the real news,
because you spent an entire day listening to Fox News rail about the left-wing
“cancel culture,” we had more proof this week that the Green New Deal, or
something akin to it, may soon be forced upon us by grim reality. Even the
American Petroleum Institute is preparing to endorse a proposal which would tax carbon
emissions.
Reality is sinking in around the globe. Volvo became the latest automobile manufacturer to announce it was pushing faster in the all-electric-car direction. By 2025 the company promises at least half of new vehicles will be electric-powered. The rest will be hybrids. The company will have at least a million electric vehicles on the road by the end of that year. By the end of the decade, the Swedish manufacturer will be producing nothing but electric vehicles. By the time this blogger’s new twin grandsons (now one month old) are big enough to drive, the gasoline-combustion-powered auto will be as much a memory as the Stanley Steamer.
Climate experts have already pointed out the dangers that accelerating changes pose to human life on Planet Earth. Alterations in the jet stream, for instance, have allowed colder Arctic weather patterns to drop farther south into the U.S. in recent years.
Think: Texas Deep Freeze 2021.
Now we have a climate change effect you may have never heard of, or worried about, but should. The biggest “river” in the world is actually the Gulf Stream current, which sweeps out of the Caribbean, passes along the eastern shore of the U.S., and then bends across the North Atlantic. This warm current helps keep Great Britain, and large swaths of Europe warmer than would be normal at such latitudes. And if the current fails, the ramifications would be huge. Now scientists warn that increasing melting of the Greenland ice cap is altering the balance of the waters of the North Atlantic. The “river” is being slowed. Its flow is being disrupted. A complete failure could ruin a country like Scotland, which sits on a latitude as far north as the southern tip of Greenland, and Ireland, which might end with a climate more like Newfoundland.
Someone should explain this to Tucker Carlson.
POSTSCRIPT: Before some right-wing numbskull interjects, “Oh ho, so now you claim parts of the world are going to get colder because the climate is warming…” let’s stick to the simplest possible facts. NOAA reports that the ten hottest years (globally) in recorded history have been:
2016
2020
2019
2015
2017
2018
2014
2010
2013
2005
As for Rejected-President Donald, I predict he’ll go down in world history as a central villain in the story of how mankind either failed or succeeded (despite him) in addressing the premier challenge of the twenty-first century.
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