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But You Can’t Make People Listen [1]
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Date: 2025-02-13
By David Glenn Cox
It is difficult sometimes caught living in the space between the lightning bolt and the thunderclap. Years ago, I was in a bad car accident. As the car skidded off the Interstate my last thought, “We’re not going to get out of this.” I woke up in the ambulance surprised myself that I was still alive. But I’ll never forget that feeling of life in an instant. Beyond fear and mental confusion. “We’re not going to get out of this.”
So, with this peculiar habit of mine I’m left in a quandary. What to do? When I say that I was raised around politics. I mean it! From my earliest memories politics. JFK posters in the windows. Humphrey/Muskie! “Nixon’s the one!” Yeah, a big one! I was in Dallas in 63, Montgomery/Selma in 65 and Chicago in 68. After the Kennedy Assassination my father took us on a business trip with him to New Orleans. “What’s the old saying, Once ONI always ONI?
It would be easy enough if I didn’t care, but you can’t have that kind of background and write about flower arranging. You could; but it would be cowardly and dishonest. I didn’t come all this way for nothing! On the one hand I could write articles of doom and gloom and Armageddon. (like everyone else) On the other hand, write tongue and cheek articles trying to laugh off the Fascist takeover of my country and the destruction of my way of life.
The King demands to be made head of the Kennedy Center and the Board members timidly raise their paws from where they’ve hidden themselves beneath the table. So afraid, Zeus might throw a lighting bolt. The King declares the Kennedy Center is too woke. The Nazis also locked up what they called “degenerate art.” Instead, they produced crap they called art designed as visual propaganda to reenforce their Nazi ideology.
Some bright boy had the idea to put on an art show. Two exhibitions side by side. On one side the “degenerate art” and on the other, the new and improved state sponsored art. The exhibition of “degenerate art” had a line around the block waiting to get in while new and improved was a ghost town and both exhibitions were soon shut down. When the King controls art, there is no art. Art produced by the state is only propaganda. The Pharaoh always tries to make himself look innocent in stone.
New York Stooge and self convicted criminal Eric Adams smiles and pretends like nothing unusual is going on. To save his own backside he’s sold out the entire city of New York to the King. And the news media says, “wow, they just dropped the investigation. How bout that?” Just ignore it and move along. Sure, it smells like a great big steaming pile of corrupt shit. But I’ve got a great six figure job here, I’ll just censor myself. No point in making people angry. The King is only going to do something even more outrageous tomorrow.
The King has told the Associated Press if they didn’t refer to the body of water directly west of Florida as the “Gulf of America” the King would limit their access to the White Palace. The King publicly directly threatens a major news organization. And their fellow stalwarts and champions of the Free Press news media say, Also in the news. A man raises 500-pound pumpkin in his basement. But he can’t get it up the stairs! How about calling it the Sea of Silliness or Bay of Bullshit. It’s nothing but Nazi Art.
The King looks to make a big show where the King looks all powerful and wise in all things. Hostages and American prisoners are released because they fear the strong arm of the King! What did we give in exchange for those prisoners? Never you mind! You write, “They fear the strong arm of the King!”
The other night on the radio, I heard an ESPN announcer comment on Canadians booing the American national anthem. Calling it “uncalled for.” Uncalled for? The King through no other reason but his own personal pique and greed, decides unilaterally to take over their country and Canadians shouldn’t boo? The largest threat to the survival of the human race since Los Alamos comes along, threating to take their homes and freedoms by force and they shouldn’t boo? Well, you know how rowdy hockey fans can be. They’ll boo anything be it high sticking or threats to their lives and sovereignty. Just imagine if Canadians had taken a knee during the anthem.
Fortunately, I don’t have to worry about losing my job, just surviving it. Maybe I could write a book, “How to Build an Audience While the World Collapses!” It’s no fun writing this. But if I wrote about anything else I would be hiding. It would be giving in and knuckling under. I would be no better than the overpaid prodigals of paper pulp and generated factory bullshit.
The King declares Ukraine will Not join NATO! (Russian Demand) Defense droid and man hanging on a lamppost Foster Hegseth says, returning to pre-2014 borders is unreasonable, hick. (Russian Demand) The US will not put peace keeping troops on the ground in Ukraine (Russian Demand). News Media reports the King is negotiating an end to the war! But not really. The King is doing to Europe and Ukraine what Eric Adams just did to New York only a thousand times worse.
It sort of reminds me of a book I read once, “1177 B.C. The Year Civilization Collapsed” Or “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.” History teaches a dictator’s bluff and bravado only works for a short time. Then chickens begin to come home to roost. The know-it-all doesn’t know it all after all. Prices and inflation skyrocket brought about by the Kings own declarations. The King declares! You’re not arresting those migrants fast enough!
Losing thousands of Federal workers adds to unemployment. Cutting foreign aid depresses farm prices. Tariffs decreases trade and increases inflation. Fortunately for the King, these calamities won’t be reported on much by the free press who have been replaced by the corporate yes. “We’re not going to get out of this.”
“But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.”
― Ray Bradbury
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