Nearing the second anniversary of this "emergency."

□ [John Schreiber tweets]

"Keep hearing of train burglaries in LA on the scanner so went to #LincolnHeights to see it all. And… there’s looted packages as far as the eye can see. Amazon packages, @UPS boxes, unused Covid tests, fishing lures, epi pens. Cargo containers left busted open on trains. @CBSLA"

They're looting trains.  That can't be something you're allowed to do, but Los Angeles is fine with that.

And now China's shutting down its ports.  Those are really necessary to transport supplies across an ocean which China does a lot of.  They say it's because of the virus, no idea if that's remotely true.

□ [“Biden Urges States And Businesses To ‘Do The Right Thing’ And Keep Forcing Workers To Vaccinate Despite Supreme Court Ruling"]

He doesn't care what the federal government says, he expects obedience or else!

□ [“Even Traffic Lights in Chicago Are Racist Now"]

Yeah those, uh, machines, sure hate darkies.  They're programmed to catch whoever is violating traffic laws and sure enough, it's always the blacks.  That's, uh, racist.

Ok, the people in charge are obviously stupid enough to fall for this so they must assume that everyone else is just as stupid, but isn't there any point where they realize that they're the idiots?  They're the ones passing laws and punish people who break them, they're the ones paying for these cameras and traffic requirements, and then they pick out a skin color who falls into that category and call it "racist"?

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One thing that's occurred to me as I focus on history is that I think I'm closer to identifying the issues of the punk movement circa 1977.  No idea how much it qualified as an actual political movement but it was promoted by people who did.  Otherwise, it was made by kids playing instruments in their guitars who were suddenly given major fame.

I'm sure a lot of it has to do with the British media which I don't pretend to understand but I think that they'd basically been stuck in one place since the Beatles and before that since the war.  That was generations earlier so now they have kids who know of nothing else and aren't interested in anything else.  At least there was still rock'n'roll.

There's also the interest in childsex which a number of British media people seem to have been caught in lately, even if they've been dead for a long.  The Sex Pistols got attention by bitching about that to a media perv on his tv show.  Then their manager, Malcolm McLaren would promote his next band, Bow Wow Wow, by having the 13-year old lead singer naked on record covers.

Not sure how much real success these bands had and at this point I'm coming to the belief that the sales figures are slightly better than being totally made up.  In Britain, they might not even be better than that.  But these acts got publicity.  They obviously did have some influence, especially when they were showed off to the USA.

I have to think that the intent was to get to the post-punk era.  '76/77 was effectively "Year Zero," a term which was started in 1975 Cambodia.  After that, the people in charge knew about the upcoming change in music (synthesizers) television (satellites) and computers.  British bands had already been doing music videos, soon the rest of the world would want their MTV.  Whatever talent rock'n'roll used to require was now gone.

This would explain why Guns'n'Roses was promoted so much as effectively being the last real rock'n'roll act and cut themselves down while leaving the room open for Nirvana to replace them.  At least G'n'R made some actual songs, Nirvana didn't even do that much and they were closer to what the new era's music would sound like.

Of course this description is all simplified, but I think it's a good summary of what I'm trying to look into these days.