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| Thanksgiving 2019 |
Thanks to Covid-19 pandemic, Thanksgiving will be easier again this year. Fewer family gatherings.
But for those of you who do attempt to gather together to ask God's blessing, good luck.
My brother in Colorado is rather ferociously expressing his fear of inflation if the Build Back Better Act succeeds in getting through the Senate. But no danger of him showing up in Santa Monica for Thanksgiving.
My sister replied to him today with a meme from The Naked Gun, a film-spin-off of the 1988 television series Police Squad!
In the meme, police lieutenant Frank Drebin (played by Leslie Nielsen) shouts "Please disperse! Nothing to see here. Please!" in front of a destroyed building as bombs explode and voices shout.
I have no idea how this meme relates to Biden's Build Back Better plan, except that the building in it will need to be rebuilt.
Does she mean nothing to see in Build Back Better? Nothing to see in claims that inflation will result from spending for pre-K, child care, elder care, and extending the Child Tax Credit? Nothing to see in efforts to combat climate change? Nothing to see in expanding affordable health care?
Nothing to see in claims that inflation will not occur?
I didn't hear objections from my family about Republican spending for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Of course, those wars didn't cause any inflation. And Trump's tax cuts for the wealthy sure didn't cause inflation in anything but the stock market.
Little sis thought she could reply to bro without me seeing it, but her email went to all three of us. She made the following comments:
They want us to sit quietly and say nothing. And continue to vote for them while American Pravda tells us we're all good. (And the ruling class pelosis and aocs take the money and run.)
Speaking of SF there are now coordinated mass break-ins at high end malls--3 this weekend! We're all going to be on Amazon (the new J.C. Penney's mail order catalog).
Good luck getting through to Anne. If I say what you said, she bites my head off.
Confidential.
Fortunately, her family in San Diego won't be gathering together with us either. That hasn't been safe for years.
I pray that someday the political tensions in this nation will ease enough for us all to meet face to face and agree to disagree. Family values, right? I do love my sister and brothers.
Now to do an internet search to find out what she means by "American Pravda." And why she thinks Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a bartender by trade, is ruling class. And why Trump and his friends Rupert Murdoch, Sheldon Adelson, Joe Ricketts of TDAmeritrade, etc. are not ruling class and have not been taking the money and running.
Oh my God, American Pravda: My Fight for Truth in the Era of Fake News is a book by James O'Keefe, whom Wikipedia describes as an American right-wing to far-right political activist and provocateur. He produces secretly recorded undercover audio and video encounters in academic, governmental, and social service organizations, purporting to show abusive or illegal behavior by representatives of those organizations.
Amazon says: The "American Pravda" title is a play on the name of Pravda (meaning truth in Russian), a long-term Communist Party publication in the Soviet Union,
I didn't know my sister supports right-wing Republicans. I was hoping she was a Bush/Cheney moderate these days. I don't know whether she means the words "American Pravda" to refer to American newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post--or to the Biden administration. Or maybe Democrats in general.
I see that O'Keefe is a 37-year-old who twelve years ago made false claims against ACORN and caused its bankruptcy. He had to pay $100,000 in a settlement with one of the workers he misquoted. Apparently, he's a darling of Breitbart. Clearly he's making money off the fake news flames fanned by Trump.
Well, folks, happy Thanksgiving. If you share a big dinner with family, keep your mouth shut. Except for helpings of turkey and stuffing.
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