WOULD YOU LIKE SOME FRIES WITH THAT INSURRECTION?
Some Critical Thought on Reality and creating the Rogue Wave of 'Our Revolution'.
At the risk of filling the Stackosphere with more Trump (as this stunt was meant to do), I do feel that we need to address the elephant in the room. That being the GOP itself. Obviously, and at this point in the race, it is obvious that Trump himself, a) no longer has a brain, and b) no longer has a will or mind to win, and c) his every move (with the exception of his rambles) is now in the hands of some sort of Kabal that is canceling his dates, interviews and rallies left and right and putting him on Bro Podcasts, All Girl Town halls and this… 15 minutes at a McDonald’s photo op.
They are acting like they mean to lose the vote by firing staff, diverting donations while Kamala raises a billion dollars and Trump closes their ground game across the country. They are not trying to lose. They are, instead, intending to win by other means. Any means necessary, legal or not… They are, instead, in over thirty states and a hundred courts setting the ground work to confuse and contest the election. They are, instead, using analytics, podcasts and photo ops to create the illusion of a campaign. Like pretending that Trump ever worked at a McDonald’s. Or have a real-world job. Or relate to the working class.
MOCK DONALD’S
It does not escape me that Trump is using precious resources to mock Kamala while actually mocking the millions and millions who actually worked for McDonald’s as their first job or the even more who had some sort of minimum pay job, or even still do. Or two. Notice that I said ‘pay’ and not ‘wage’. Wages are actual pledges or contracts. A living wage is a guarantee. None of these things are anything that Trump understands but his handlers mean to keep him, his fans and YOU busy, while legislators, judges, electors already primed and others along the certification process commit insurrection.
And this is how they will do it. It will all be faked. Like a conspiracy theory brought to life. Carefully orchestrated and carefully faked but if you can create a Lie so large that no one can see the edges of it, it becomes Reality. Like a 78 yr. old TV star who faked his success as a successful business man while failing at everything he does. Including a failed presidency, Coup and now working at a McDonald’s.
All the while claiming that Kamala never worked a minute at a real McDonald’s, despite co-workers’ and relative’s reminiscences. Trump quipped that his 15 minute photo op was 15 minutes more than Kamala. Reality is what is on your screen and not in front of you, or even your own experience. If one in eight voters worked at McDonald’s it becomes a powerful metaphor to be co-opted by both sides. You have to decide which metaphor is based on Reality and which actually IS Reality. Real Reality…
REAL REALITY
Meanwhile, the proof here suggests that Trump’s staged event closed an actual McDonald’s for a day and his fifteen minutes of fame cost everyone who worked there a day’s pay. See how the promise of ‘wages’ is actually ‘pay’ if someone can fire you at will and without cause or even just close for the day. Should you actually read the note above and be tempted to give the owner, who owns five McDonald’s LLCs, the benefit of the doubt, know that the millionaire owner is against a living wage. as he whines to the Pennsylvania government below…
CRITICAL THINKING
The other Real Reality is that the people who created the Trump brand and are now at work on the JD Vance (also entirely faked) brand intend to rule the country by any means necessary and reduce and restrict real wages while deregulating corporations and cutting their taxes. How will this benefit the economy? It won’t. We know this as for almost fifty years of ‘trickle down’ economics. So, Trump trying to co-opt the McDonald’s brand by trolling Harris escapes far too many people’s critical thought.
If Kamala becomes president, she will not only be the first Black Woman but the first to have worked at McDonald’s. And a real fast food worker would have never tried to get fast food to the White House in DC just to sit on a table for numerous photos and get stale and cold. Just like no one would have filled a new box of fries to hand a customer while there were six already filled and waiting to be handed out. But all of this requires critical thought.
THIS REVOLUTION IS BEING TELEVISED
It comes as a shock to us old hippies that we are now ‘the Man’ and that the Far Right is ‘The Revolution’. And ‘yes’ it is being fully televised, streamed and packaged to buy our participation and approval for a full on insurrection and deconstruction of our democracy and its institutions.
This ‘smaller’ Fascist Food Government run by clowns wearing make up and pretending to actually work when neither GOP candidate has had any real job or government experience, is based on the premise that letting the Trolligarchy Rule as it believes that it already does while fronting up a cast of clown characters for our entertainment and distraction.
There is nothing revolutionary about this revolution except the fake telegenics of its 24/7 streaming to give The Big Lie the credence of realism that only people in a world where AI and Analytics and Algorithms really rule.
But as much as we all like McDonald’s or even fondly recall it as our first job (or last in the case of Trump) it is not really a ‘job’ with ‘wages’. Just as it is not really ‘Food’ with ‘Nutrition’ (some would argue it also is without taste). The Fascist Food Goverment being offered or proffered by the GOP at large is a lowest common denominator Reductio ad absurdum version of governing that is purely carpetbagging by Corporate Trolligarchs who leverage our addiction to ‘cheap’, ‘fast’ and what I term ‘White Food’ as a racial and food metaphor (Bleached Wheat, Fat, Salt, Sugar and Chemicals). You get the metaphor and where I am going…
THE NEW MASON DIXON LINE
The idea of North vs. South has evolved over time until, in 2016, it became Red vs. Blue. Red came to mean Rural and Blue came to mean Urban/Suburban. This, has now been reduced to what it really has been all along. White Male and Allies vs. All Females and Allies of Color. Not a geographical line but one of chromosomes and polymers like melanin.
These are the traditional markers of the Haves vs the Have Nots. ‘Have’ referring t o Have Power, Have Money and Have Privilege. It is ‘power’ that rules politics but its products are wealth and privilege. Something ‘Men’ traditionally have and prevent all others from sharing…
So, this election is about Two Revolutions. One for each side… Their Side vs. Our Side.
HOORAY FOR OUR SIDE…
DemocratWomen are fond of referring to a mythical ‘Bluenami’ that will sweep away the Republican Men and the image above is often invoked to denote what it will take to capsize the men in the fishing boats. That famous painting actually depicts a tidal wave that occurred in the Bay of Kanagawa. That is not a semantic difference. The difference is that a Tidal Wave of those proportions happens when specific conditions are met. A super wave, a so-called ‘Rogue Wave’ like the one pictured in the painting can be instructive for our side:
CAUSATION - It must have a cataclysmic cause such as the storm surge of a hurricane, tai-phun or earthquake. This causes procession of waves that converge with the tide causing it to rise. Think the cataclysmic events of the undoing of Roe v. Wade and the George Floyd (and other) Murders.
HITTING BOTTOM - This wave or series begin to coalesce into one great wave that rises as it hits the bottom as it nears land. While we as Dems have had many waves or ‘Bluenamis’ we have, until now, hit rock bottom in terms of our determination to no longer allow allow the literal ‘Man’ to control our reproductive rights, gender and sexuality rights and even the Right to Live.
THE BAY - Finally, this wave must be compressed into a bay where a landslide or backwash is occurring. The tallest ‘Rogue Wave’ was in the Lituya Bay in Alaska in July of 1958. Such a tidal wave met up with the surge caused by a 7 point earthquake. The resultant backwash before the wave caused a massive powerful flood to come down the river. Meanwhile, the mountainsides of the fjord like harbor collapsed into a landslide of rocks into the harbor. This happened all at once causing a 1720 foot high wave. That is 500 feet taller than the Empire State Building.
For Dems, the confluence of the Election Tide, the Cataclysmic Dobbs Decision, the multiple Police Murders like George Floyd all being compressed into the harbor of intersectionality while Trump creates a backwash and avalanche of further ‘causation’ to have Republicans and Third Partiers join the Dems is what creates the Rogue Wave needed on Novemeber 5th. Not just a Bluenami but a Hundred Million Votes or the equivalent. I say that last part because I believe that we will be allowed to get away with fewer votes if Third Partiers and Republicans stay home. We haven’t even factored in an Orangetober Surprise…
Mind you, this is not a prediction but a recipe of what is needed to win.
MAKE IT SO…
To go from Recipe to Prediction requires that great rising wave we see trending to be compressed into the Bay we call the 2024 Election. We cannot make all the moving parts happen but we do control the energy of the wave and that is getting out the vote while depressing the opposition. That latter part belongs to the PACs, Politicians, Pundits and Possibilities yet unknown.
The rest is up to YOU…