State of the Disunion - Guns n’ Russians and the Neverending American Horror Story

Third Eye Cinema / Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine podcast

Hail Hydra! Immortal Hydra! Cut off a limb and two more shall take its place!

No, we're not doing another superhero cinema and television show, but making an apt metaphor about the neverending horror story that is MAGA and the pernicious spread of Trumpism in the corridors of American power.

Despite effectively cutting the hydra off at the head in the 2020 election, the movement continues unabated, aided, abetted and energized if not driven by a stonewalling collective of 51 malfeasants who, like a bunch of cut rate dimestore Gandalfs, declare "you shall not pass!" to any and every bill the American people demand, or that may actually alleviate all the financial crises and domestic terror incidents that beset us on an increasingly regular basis.

Why? In the name of power. At any and all costs, including the future of this country.

Defaming the Constitution and the principles our Founding Fathers and a few foresight blessed men (like Teddy Roosevelt, with his muckraking and trustbusting Square Deal, FDR with his social program creating New Deal and Johnson's Great Society, which gave us such things as social security, medicare and medicaid, fair housing, integration and more), these atavistic corporate owned plutocrats stoop to one new low after the next, distracting, dividing and using every dirty trick in the book just this side of legality (and often not) to rig the game in their favor. A minority seeking total control - including the right to your own body and destiny, romantic or otherwise - over the will of the majority.

And we remain apathetic, fighting amongst ourselves over petty "wedge issues", while the American conservative of old seemingly vanishes into history, and a literal cult of death and "burn it all down" nihilism driven by false narratives, false "theocratic" support, propaganda and social division-fomenting "talking points" takes its place.

If you're not part of the cult, whatever direction your politics lean, you have to know this is wrong, not to mention completely unAmerican.

And Covid, "monkey pox", an ongoing invasion of Ukraine and longstanding supply chain issues resulting from the aforementioned (and a drunken ship captain clogging up the main sea based global shipping route for weeks on end), not to mention trying to clean up the dumpster fire the Trump "Presidency" has left us with, have given a new leader the most difficult year and a half in office in living memory, with no feasible route to correct it all.

Because of 51 selfish puppets, dancing to their masters' tunes and denying any corrective measures in the hopes of regaining total control...and ending the "Grand Experiment" our Founding Fathers bequeathed to us.

Add in a rash of hate crimes around the nation, hitting one group or demographic after another, with and without military-grade hardware, from senior citizens to children, from malls to concerts to protest marches and 10K runs, right down to schools. Even walking the streets of our cities, in broad daylight. The body count rises, and they refuse to take action or allow anyone else to.

All in the name of power, and the nihilistic urge to "burn it down".

After our Marlowe show a few weeks back, here we rejoin the audience with another impromptu get together, talking these and many other pressing issues afflicting the state of the union, and suggest what should be some simple solutions everyone can enact, to hopefully turn this sinking ship back on course...and away from this road to certain destruction and a resurgent fascism, not to mention a return to serfdom for all not among their ranks in power and riches.

Then we'll wrap it all up by decompressing with some good laughs and banter about this, that and the other...

Weird Scenes Season 11 Episode 2: State of the Disunion - Guns n Russians and the Neverending American Horror Story

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