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Ostrich Nation

Or do you prefer faux-bison, sir? It’s all the rage! Oh, sir, you’ll have to fight off the ladies, sir, if I may say so!

SPEECH AND DRAMA DEPT./
FOURTH ESTATE/FIFTH COLUMN/
GENTLEMEN’S HABERDASHERY DEPT.

The on-air correspondent at WUSA9 in D.C. had a great View of events; but you can hear the bewildered shock in her voice. Merely from the clip, it seems she was all set to wrap her story up as the usual centrist flag-waving featurette. Hear the scales fall from her voice, as she understands what’s really happening: this isn’t just a tawdry, infantile display of confused and terrified badly-socialized lunatics: it is in fact a pre-conceived, pre-planned staged terrorist demonstration bent upon violent vandalism and the overthrow of the election.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/shocked-by-the-capitol-building-riots-you-were-warned

Sinclair Lewis warned us well, but not apparently in the words attributed to him. Try this: “But he saw too that in America the struggle was befogged by the fact that the worst Fascists were they who disowned the word ‘Fascism’ and preached enslavement to Capitalism under the style of Constitutional and traditional Native American Liberty.” https://english.illinoisstate.edu/sinclairlewis/sinclair_lewis/faq/faq-homepage.shtml

In View of the mob violence at the Capitol that His Odium incited this week:
Click back to the Dog Days of August 2020, ages ago last summer. The Covid-spooked-at-last Republican Party had re-formatted their traditional “National Convention” as a bizarre, non-interactive TV broadcast. All the key Trump characters got time to fill an empty, flag-hung auditorium with bullshit — hysterical, nonsensical, threat-drenched, subversive, Apocalyptic, Fascist speeches. Re-View to hear nauseous Kimberly “Gold Leaf” Guilfoyle: https://valleyvillage.home.blog/2020/08/25/the-lady-or-the-tiger/

One after another, smiling but strident, Hyundai dealers and hypno-healers, they peered straight into the cameras and spewed hours and hours of terrifying racist propaganda, emotional histrionics, dark incoherent warnings, sex-and-power soaked premonitions, each and all calling on their supporters to make a last-ditch, do-or-die fight to seize power by violence, or their country would be swallowed by a socialist revolution. Exaggerating? Re-View, Patriot Reader, and gape open-mouthed at Rep. Matt Gaetz, calling for what we now call the Capitol insurrection in Crypto-Nazi code. Look for him to him to pick up Trump’s muddied colors. I’m surprised this creepo wasn’t fragged in his sleeping bag by the sorry boys assigned to his Cub Scout tent: https://valleyvillage.home.blog/tag/rep-matt-gaetz/

Why do I URGE you to Re-View this now? Because in the United States of Amnesia, the corporate media won’t, and every patriot should. You’ll actually feel better; stronger. You will. Trust me. You will laugh! And find God Herself laughing along with you, at them. Plus each speech comes with its own special antidote; and those will make you feel even better, and even stronger.

*Click! That Didn’t Take Very Long At All, Did It?

This; This!…Right Before The Georgia Elections. THIS.

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I’ve spent so many years imagining what might happen if the Democrats ever took the Senate. Now I can probably let all that go. The View is going out on a limb, to suggest that imposing genderistic Doublespeak upon our laws and government and all our public speech, is not a vote-winner.

https://news.yahoo.com/democrats-propose-ban-she-gender-021515663.html

**“Pelosi Introduces House Rule To Conduct Debates, Government Business In French.”** **“Pelosi Opens 24-Hour On-Demand Abortion Clinic On House Floor.”** “**Pelosi Calls For Hessian Mercenaries to Take Away Your Guns.”** All these were rejected as either too middle-of-the-road, or too obvious; finally, she chose the innocuous-seeming gender issue.

Do you think Red Hat Guy wants Nancy Pelosi policing his thoughts and speech? (The guy’s even wearing a mask for heaven’s sake! Why piss him off with P.C. RIGHT NOW????????????)

The fatuous New Yorker: “The Fight To Turn Georgia Blue”

It’s hard for me to think that a politician so established and connected and savvy in the…establishment…could make a proposal like this, ignorant of how bizarre, inappropriate, inflammatory, unnecessary, provocative, divisive, nonsensical, meaningless, incendiary, insulting, cheap, self-defeating, fascistic, and Big-Brothery-thought-police-witch-hunty-ukase-fiat-Puritanical it sounds. Not when control of the Senate and the national agenda is at stake. Not with Covid-19 scorching. Not with incomes blown apart and homeless roaming the land and evictions and confusion and chaos and despair already loose and our national nightmare oh, so close, so close to ending….or not, sigh.

It certainly serves the Democratic agenda to have it not carried forward, because it doesn’t exist. “Hey, if we don’t have the Senate, what can we do?” Well, I guess, nothing, as usual, eh? So just to make sure, why not climb up into the works, dangle your silk-stockinged tootsie over the machinery, and let slip your Sunday AIDS-Gardening sabots, which you just happened to have on? Is this too cynical? Is she just after all these years a MORON?

It’s Sunday; let’s hope all the mega-churched purple-turning Christians in Georgia miss this, while they’re maskless, singing praise to the Father, and to the Son and to the… — oops! I mean, praise to the Genderless Transcendent Deity, and to the Neutral Consubstantial Agnate Deity, and to the Holy Ghost. (whew that last one was easy.)

‘Who Shall Rule This American Nation?’

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THE FOLK SONG ARMY DIV.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Editorial-Schemes-to-overturn-the-2020-election-15840570.php

*I discovered* the song when Santa brought this for me (thanks!). I found the recording on YouTube…click below!

Not quite a folk song, unless we folks start singing it around. Nor is it a Civil War Song really: it was written in 1866 by Henry Clay Work (on the heels of his biggest hit, 1865’s Marching Through Georgia). This one is about Reconstruction; it channels Radical Republican rage that Black freedom was was being sabotaged by the South, and fumbled away by the despised and barely-elected “dictator” Pres. Andrew Jackson (D). But it might as well be about Pres. Trump and Sen. Josh Hawley, or Sen. Mitch McConnell, or Rep. Jim Jordan, and all the dangerous mob of MAGA Proud Boys. Hear it once or twice, and you’ll be well-armed to sing the chorus at your computer or TV screen this week when the flames of sedition are fanned. It’ll feel good!

That’s Clifford Jackson ringing the rafters, and William Bolcom working the Smithsonian’s 1870 Chickering parlor grand!

To understand the context of the song, View Thomas Nast’s masterpiece of cartooning, from Harpers of September 1866. It captures the same boiling Northern rage that overheated Mr. Work. All those Harper’s readers, in fact, probably bought the sheet music too! Click below for a full article in Smithsonian, with a fascinating tool allowing you to scroll over the page and bring up information. It’s an absorbing, sobering, Constitutional review pastime for this lockdown Winter of our Discontent. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/political-cartoon-explains-battle-over-reconstruction-180962351/

The Valley Village View

Welcome to the blog of writer and musician Andrew Martin. Here I'll post original photographs and observations as I encounter the history and culture of the San Fernando Valley, the City of the Angels, Alta California and the far-flung Pacific Rim… but mostly the Valley.