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hatrack

(60,798 posts)
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 09:10 AM Wednesday

Memo To Dumbass America: Say "Howdy!" To The Electric Fence

Last edited Wed Nov 6, 2024, 12:01 PM - Edit history (2)

Will Rodgers once noted that there are three ways of learning: you can learn by thinking about something, you can learn by reading about something, and then there are those who have to pee on the electric fence. Well, here we are, and just so you know, the electric fence is being strung up as we speak, as you bask in the glory of the triumph of "Real America".

When will the peeing begin? Hard to say, but here are a few guesses:

Maybe it'll be when your wife dies from an ectopic pregnancy that can't be treated, because "Pro-Life" elected officials in your state - or maybe at the federal level - decided her life was meaningless, compared to the bundle of cells in her body. Or maybe it'll be when the prenatal death toll hits the tens - or hundreds of thousands per year from miscarriages and septic illegal abortions. But nah, it'll probably actually be when it impacts your life, not before.

Maybe it'll be when an 850 millibar hurricane smacks into Florida or Louisiana or Texas and relief is still weeks away weeks into the disaster, because it was cheap, fun and profitable to privatize federal emergency response agencies. Or maybe you live in a city that didn't vote for Shitstain, making emergency response to that area a low priority. Oh well!!

Maybe it'll be when your kid dies or is disabled thanks to whooping cough or measles, because vaccines BAD; maybe when your SS and Medicare go away, because tax cuts for Peter Thiel and Jamie Dimon were more important; maybe when the cost of just about fucking everything jumps 50-75% instantaneously because of tariffs - after all, to quote Orange Jesus, "Trade wars are good and easy to win".

But hey, whenever, you voted for this, and you'll be able to access the fully-charged fence starting at noon EST on January 20th.

There's another electric fence in this analogy as well. It surrounded Monowitz and Birkenau, and for those in the Sonderkommando Canada, if they couldn't handle the . . . . "work" they were assigned any longer, they could always walk over and grab the fence. I only hope it doesn't come to something even faintly resembling this, but if deporting 10 to 20 million people is already in the works, then you know that camps and fences are already in the mix. The rest is just a question of . . . voltage.

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Memo To Dumbass America: Say "Howdy!" To The Electric Fence (Original Post) hatrack Wednesday OP
Maybe it'll be when immunized police kill enough POC, but I doubt that'll matter. live love laugh Wednesday #1
Not to Dumbass America . . . hatrack Wednesday #2
Agreed onethatcares Wednesday #4
Life as someone who thinks about things is... Hugin Wednesday #3
What rule of law? cachukis Wednesday #5
" . . . those it protects but does not bind, and those it binds but does not protect." hatrack Wednesday #6
We are in for it. cachukis Wednesday #7
Camps were physical locations that were identifiable places of murder Lulu KC Wednesday #8

onethatcares

(16,563 posts)
4. Agreed
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 09:19 AM
Wednesday

and they'll be playing that lee greedwad song at full blast while doing it. (greedwad is on purpose)

Lulu KC

(4,144 posts)
8. Camps were physical locations that were identifiable places of murder
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 11:53 PM
Wednesday

These murders are and will continue to be decentralized. Without an ability to grasp cause-and-effect, the blame is never pinned on the murderer. If it could, Hitler would look like Mr. Rogers in comparison. (Kind of like nonpoint source pollution.)

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