February 2025

2/9: SUPER BOWL SUNDAY — LIX
Today marks Super Bowl LIX, a cultural event that often draws people together for socializing and celebrating. However, I’ve decided to skip this year’s game. It’s not because I’m anti-football or anti-socializing. In fact, I enjoy both. But my reason for not watching is to protest the commercialization of this precious cultural event so destroyed by billionaire oligarchs.

Now, I don’t have any issues with billionaires, athletic stars, or advertisers in general. They all contribute to society in their own way. But the intense competition and commercialism surrounding the Super Bowl have become unhealthy and detrimental.

It’s not just the teams and players who suffer. The advertisers and billionaires themselves are caught up in the pressure to outshine their competitors. This pressure can lead to neglect of other important aspects of life, such as social skills and the well-being of their constituents.

Teams often prioritize hiring the best players over the needs of their fans, and athletes are pushed to the brink of physical exhaustion in pursuit of success. The advertisers, in turn, face the pressure to pay astronomical advertising fees, which may compromise product development and product quality.

Finally, the billionaires’ focus on wealth-building often comes at the expense of the civilization that brought them success. This commercialization of the Super Bowl has turned it into a spectacle that is more about money and fame than about the sport itself.

And gives the fans a false reason to have fun.

2/7: Social media is the new nuclear weapon!
I roundly reject using ALL popular social media until they change their algorithms to spread love and joy instead of fear and hatred.  You should, too. After all, they are all owned by the billionaire oligarchs who best control you through fear and hatred. Only you can change that by hitting their pocketbooks where it hurts!

2/6: ELON MUSK ON PARADE
Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI) announced he would introduce the ELON MUSK Act—the Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy Act—which would ban federal contracts for Special Government Employees, similar to the bans for members of Congress and other federal employees.

— “Technology has completely transformed politics, and most people don’t even realize it.

“Being sensible in modern American politics is nearly impossible because social media algorithms are designed to spark outrage. They push people to extremes because it’s profitable—because anger is addicting.

“And as politics has changed, so have our expectations for politicians. The 2020 Joe Biden brand of decency and kindness is dead. People don’t want decency anymore—they want someone who will fight for them fearlessly and viciously.

“They aren’t playing nice. They aren’t delivering measured outrage. They are calling things out for what they are, and doing so boldly and unapologetically. This is why they have more media appearances, more social media impressions, and more attention than most elected officials, including leadership, in the Democratic party.p

The sooner Democratic leadership understands this new landscape, the sooner we win. The sooner we take back majorities in legislative chambers, build momentum going into the midterms, and set the stage to defeat MAGA in the next Presidential election.

If Democrats don’t course correct and steer away from 2008-2012-2016 brands of “we’re the good guys!” messaging we will continue to lose. The fear of being labeled as mean or hateful has only hindered our ability to reach people who rightfully are outraged at what is happening not just here in America, but across the globe.” — the gist if Olivia Julianna’s post on Substack

— “Oligarchs like Musk will continue to have more and more power, and we less and less power, until we heed Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s warning that “the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism.”

"Repeatedly, the power of working people acting through their unions has brought down dictators—think Solidarity in Poland or the COSATU in South Africa—and many more.

"Thus, it is for us—as it was for those facing down the robber barons in this country and the rise of fascist movements here and in Europe—to recognize that rebuilding democracy and restoring shared prosperity has to begin with the robust democratic counterweight only unions can provide. There are no shortcuts or workarounds.” — The Contrarian 

2/5: The world urgently needs an altruistic figure with the gumption like Elon Musk to confront and dismantle oppressive regimes, including strong-man, autocratic, and dictatorships. This individual should establish a comprehensive program to minimize the need for emigration – The cornerstones of a truly free world.

We have not been in more serious trouble since we almost lost the War of Independence. And this time we don’t have Lafayette to help us. And we’re letting it happen with our eyes wide open!

ALL of us are in this same airplane. Musky-Trump is at the controls of the locked cockpit and is flying us bang straight into that mountain ahead! (Why do they have parachutes on?)

2/4: You should always sit in a chair facing west because if the earth suddenly stops spinning, you will slam into the wall back first, thus possibly saving your life.

2/3: The ICC needs to issue an arrest warrant for Trump, Musk, Thiel, and every Republican in Congress for crimes against humanity for shuttering or allowing the shuttering of USAID and its programs.

— It’s just a name; Trump was halfway right about the name of the body of water that gouges our continent. The complete rename should be “The Gulf of North America” — or more specifically, “The Gulf of Southern North America” — or more blatantly, “The Great Gulf Between USA and Mexico.”  In further thinking, the USA is the only country in North America that does NOT consist of genuinely united states.

– Congress should exercise its right to subpoena Elon Musk. If he refuses, Congress then has the authority to DENATURALIZE and deport him back to South Africa, where he can focus on resurrecting Apartheid. And, while they’re at it,  do the same with Peter Thiel!

2/2: Canada ought to rename the Detroit River, the Windsor River and Lake Erie, Lake Quebec.

2/1: WE JUST GAVE THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM TO ELON MUSK!  He can now empty the coffers of Fort Knox with impunity. Thank you POTUS , congress and SCOTUS 😰

Musk and his team are CIVILIANS. They do not answer to the American people. They can’t be impeached!!! Is congress asleep? Did congress drink Musk’s elixir? 

Fortunately, when he loads his thousand Tesla Trucks with the gold bars,  he can only get as far as the batteries’ charge. That should give us time to shut down the grid.

“Elon Musk’s team has gotten access to the Treasury Department’s payments system.” — NYT

2/1: we need four new constitutional amendments.

• All American citizens have absolute control over their health and their body. This includes decisions concerning abortion and ending one’s life.
• No American citizen is immune to the law. This includes all members of the American government.
• The Supreme Court shall consist of 13 members each with a term of 13 years which are staggered such that one justice term shall expire each year. A justice can be reappointed but can only serve a maximum of three terms. No Supreme Court seat shall remain vacant longer than five months.
• The national anthem should be encoded within the constitution to be “America The Beautiful”. Replacing The Star Spangled Banner.”