A quick note to say my recent filibuster entries were criminally removed from the activity stream of this website. So I took the time to copy and paste the links and titles back into it, for the record, for a properly sequenced timeline, but no. Some jerk-wad hacker removed those too. I was hacked again. That’s how important the idiotic conventional wisdom of the misinterpreted filibuster argument is, I guess, to them. It really dampens the motivation to post or update the site further knowing political hack puppets can come along and delete my work with a few clicks. It’s another unaccountable violation normalized in this monopolized system and another example of how ridiculously vulnerable the internet is, by design. The internet, like our society, is designed for exploitation by nefarious intentions. I suspect the activity stream ranks better in search algorithms compared to my politically blacklisted articles and blog posts. So the “powers that be” delete my activity to censor language they don’t want people to hear.
So I’m discouraged but not done. I’m not defeated, per say. Just overworked and underpaid, as usual. Still, It’s worth repeating here, especially after having been deleted, the mutated filibuster rationale is being justified by misinterpretation and everybody is in on it. The presiding officer of the senate can rule any filibuster out of order anytime they want. It is literally the difference of saving our democracy, or not, and our defenders are ready to surrender it to a procedural strategy that is implausible and unconstitutional. It is the most obvious betrayal of our constitution one can imagine, by those sworn to defend it. But, nobody notices. All of the explanations and justifications I’ve heard are wrong, and I’ve heard them all. This betrayal is especially important because the majority vote intention of the constitution, and democracy itself, is that important. Everybody should demand that the senate rules be compliant with the constitution and its majority vote intention. But nobody does, apparently, but me. Them’s the rules, they say, when they’re not. Notice how the necessary rule change is never defined. Unfortunately, without a majority, it’s all a moot point.
I’ll get back to the filibuster asap.
There’s so many plot-points of massive importance being reported with deceptive and blatant bias recently. The insurrection investigation, the coronavirus bailout, The crypto economy, and so much more. All of which are not what they seem, as reported by independents and corporate shills alike.
Corrective commentary is needed asap, imo.
Tonight though I have to add a word about Juneteenth. It’s a new word to me, despite being a news junkie. I first heard it a few days ago and now it’s a national holiday, just like that. It’s been foist upon our collective consciousness like the adoption of an unexpected family member. You’re like, what? If there was any debate about it, I didn’t hear it.
Which brings up another point. The house should be holding hearings on all kinds of things, but they don’t. So much legislation to sell and so much disinformation to correct, with too few hearings being held, is negligent and very suspect at the least. It’s congressional dereliction. In light of the failing Biden agenda, they should be holding hearings to expose the truth wherever and whenever possible.
But, Juneteenth is a federal holiday now, out of nowhere. Apparently federal workers will get another paid holiday now because some Texas dirtbags disobeyed the law. My first thought is why not have a holiday celebrating the thirteenth amendment? That law made slavery illegal. Clearly, that’s the act that should be recognized annually for celebration, not slave-holding dirt-baggery by Texas supremacists, or even their failure.
What is this government thinking? The states are legislating voter suppression and the federal government appears powerless to stop them. Juneteenth reeks of inadequate appeasement to counter the critical race theory sweeping the country, but it won’t. The notion that our history and American institutions are inherently racist is hard to deny. Those who continue to enjoy their excessive privileges, white people or otherwise, won’t likely even try. They prefer to not hear the grievance, as a strategy.
Lincoln proclaiming emancipation for confederate slaves should be celebrated as the most heroic deed relevant to our society attempting to transcend slavery. That would be an appropriate national holiday. It makes Juneteenth a footnote, at best, by comparison.
A holiday recognizing Texas dragging their slave-holding feet against emancipation is an outrage of historical proportions, imo, regardless of who celebrates their failure. Texas should be ashamed for defying the law, but they’re not. I’m sure many of them are still proud of what they did back then, as Texans. Juneteenth is a recognition of supremacist resistance to end slavery. Federal holidays should be reserved for legislative victories and achievements towards democratic success.
Speaking of Texan dirt-baggery, after JFK was killed in Dallas, we should have sold Texas to Mexico and exploited Texans for cheap labor in an ironic retribution for that assassination. They’re destined for Mexican-style democracy anyway. We should encourage them to go.
Surely, I jest. But that brings me to the more important point.
Federal holidays should be guaranteed to any president that is assassinated in office or murdered afterwards, or killed while campaigning for office. Their holidays should be celebrated on their birthdays with every worker getting the day off, paid for by taxing the extremely wealthy. All national holidays should be paid vacations for everybody, not just federal workers, and they should be paid for with a wealth tax, exclusively, to benefit the public.
One way to understand the eternal struggle of humanity is the public versus private paradigm, where one side prospers at the other’s expense. Presidents are typically assassinated to profit private interests, or so it seems. The motivation to assassinate public leaders could be neutralized by assigning a financial penalty to profitable private interests when that happens, regardless of guilt. If public leaders are harmed physically, private interests should pay dearly and directly, financially, for the public loss. A holiday for everybody paid for by the extremely wealthy could be a deterrent to criminal actions against the public by private interests. It’s worth a try.
What sense does it make to give another paid holiday to federal workers because slaveholders in Texas refused to recognize that their unethical behavior and repugnant economy had become criminal, years before? A federal holiday for that makes little sense comparatively, yet there it is. For most of us it doesn’t change anything.
I just spent some time reading about Jubilee days and Juneteenth also being a celebration day of black culture. I’m still not convinced it’s the proper day or reason for a federal holiday despite previous celebrations, but there’s no point now in quibbling. I applaud the victory, however minor it might be. I’m sure it will provide hope and meaning to many and that alone is valuable, to them, at least.
We should be smarter about the things we recognize for holiday celebrations. I won’t take the time to compare other holidays and what motivated them, but there’s plenty of debate that should occur to ensure we celebrate the right things as we attempt to move forward in unified purpose, for justice. Like voting, it should be a national holiday. The ratification of the constitution could be another important holiday to impress upon future generations the importance of democracy. The courageous people who officially made democracy our law should be celebrated by us forevermore as the greatest generation of patriots, ever. Their efforts should be annually juxtaposed with those who erroneously think they are patriots while betraying our democracy or preventing its potential.
Citizens need to better understand the difference between the quest for justice and the quest for money and how those competing interests actually conflict with each other. Private money corrupts democracy. That understanding is self-evident. That would help define the struggle for corrective legislation. Federal holidays should make clear that we celebrate achievements towards a more perfect union that promotes the general welfare with laws towards peace, justice, and equality, by democratic means.
Celebrations of cultures are nice, but not necessarily beneficial to our collective struggle for democratic representation, nor do they rise to the importance of a federal holiday, imo. Juneteenth will actually cloud the ongoing struggle of humanity by pretending the struggle is over, or close to it. Like Clarence replacing Marshall on the bench, or Obama becoming president. Our collective progress is debatable. We will now supposedly begin to celebrate black culture as a holiday once a year, if we can afford it, as we legislate voter suppression against those who can’t. We will continue to discriminate against those who lack the adequate representation to celebrate economic emancipation, regardless of their race. And that should be recognized for what it is, inadequate.