No way to know so much now in these times, for a certainty.
So there is this Liberation of getting to decide what’s true
or the harsh sentence of being condemned to decide; which?
–clairesay

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I was moving to a beat
That I’d never felt before
So I opened up my eyes
And I took a look around

I saw it written across the sky
The revolution starts now
Yeah, the revolution starts now
The revolution starts now

When you rise above your fear
And tear the walls around you down
The revolution starts here
Where you work and where you play

Where you lay your money down
What you do and what you say
The revolution starts now
So what you doing standing around?

Just follow your heart
The revolution starts now

Steve Earle

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Four and a half out of the iconic five days in the bag, and tonight I ran out of another almost-essential, which turned out to be salsa.

Although before that happened I slept unbelievably long and straight through, and when I finally began to wake for good I could feel how happy my body was, and I could feel the fog lifted away from my brain.

That’s what the smoke is, I can reveal now.

It’s the fog you eat to deaden the very fucking real pain of living, and it’s good at its job, which is why it is so god. Damned. Addicting.

I expect any honest junkie would tell you the same.

Tomorrow imma finally crawl outta the hole far enough to drop the water bill payment and other mail and to fill the jug on the way back, and when I do fill it, I know I’ll be walking in just long enough to buy a tenspot of painkiller temptation.

Whether it even gets unwrapped is another question.

Very much open.

Right now I’m asking myself what the right thing to do is, given that
the revolution starts now.

What kind is it, and what specifically is being rebelled against, and most of all: How.

Hunter pointed us in the direction of knowing that these are the political questions that actually matter, but he also studied the campaign trail, and the situation has changed.

The campaign trail won’t ever get us anywhere ever again.

For the text of our sermon we turn again to the book of Dore.

AOC’s Subservience To Pelosi & Party Exposed

He’s back in his sober no-yelling mode, still pointing to the pair on the Hill who are coming around to making his points for him.

Who are coming around to prove him right maybe, but certainly to prove right the words of the unholy fool Massie, who saith:

"This will be obvious in short order."

Obvious, that they sold us down the river, and obvious that by THEY …

We mean not only the Turtle McConnell, and not only the corporatists like Pelosi and Schumer and the profiteers like Richie Carolina and Feinstein by the bay, but by our own rhetorical blood brother and sister kin.

Dore claims: Bernie hasn’t returned Ralph Nader’s calls since 2000.
(What does that tell you? From what I can tell, he is also ignoring the Greens, who are pleading with him to take over the top of their ticket. And of course the reason would be precisely the same, as with Nader, right?
Biden is no Al Gore. And even if they cheated and replaced him, with say … Michelle Obama … what the fuck difference would it make? None. Her husband was Wall Street’s bitch like the rest of them, and proved it in the last ‘stimulus’, and she would be too, even if she could beat the Orange Satan.)

Dore claims: Bernie’s speech about the unemployment section of the horrific stimulus bill was pure kabuki, because unemployment was going to stay in regardless. I don’t know if this is true. I see no real reason to doubt him.

Dore, during the shrieky parts, kept claiming: to be The Only One Telling the Truth, which was patently false–he was quoting David Doel and other Davids too. So points off, though not ones that matter.

Dore claims: that Saagar doesn’t go far enough in his critique, because the stimulus ‘does absolutely nothing’ for people, which is also patently false, and also probably not false enough to matter.

Here is the most cogent rebuttal of Dore’s positions I was able to find …

Defending Progressives, A Response to Jimmy Dore and Max Blumenthal

… although honestly I only watched the first quarter of it myself, because Ignetti the Ecomodernist is clearly not a revolutionary and I don’t have time for that shit.

Not a revolutionary, but not a counterrevolutionary either. If you want one, you have to go for Alyssa Milano, as in:

Alyssa Milano Cancels #MeToo For Joe Biden

That was a damn ugly segue, but I’m posting this one last for two clunky reasons. One, if you don’t know already, this (underlying) story is why I felt free to call Biden rapey the other day.

Two, check out what Doel says in the pinned first comment. His video was immediately demonetized.

By your friends at Google, who are also, obviously, against the revolution of the you and the I.