“Attack of the Murder Robots!” (or How a Congressional Science Lab blew up Democracy.)
A light- hearted parody- or weird actuality? You decide.
Kids, don’t try this at home.
Democracy is under attack by robots.
Congress could have prevented this situation in which we find ourselves, this historical cliffhanger, in which an authoritarian megalomaniacal criminal plays footsie with the fate of humanity and unleashes robots to attack our democratic values, but no.
Supreme Court also left the door open, to Fascist/friendly operatives and robot/ friendly outcomes. Now we see what can happen.
sigh.
They have unleashed the robots on our political system!
Unlike my contemporaries, I believe the Framers of the US constitutional system sensed the potential robot-problem. They were well aware of it, but admitted that, in order to function, a certain amount of good faith and luck was involved.
The Framers hoped we would do the right thing, and not invent robots to send to Congress with a mission to self-destruct and sabotage the command structure, so that rich people might be free.
Wrong!
So if Smith actually prevails, the judgement could ensure voter rights where Congress has failed to do so.
(Duh!)
This IS personal.
Roger Stone, top advisor, with Steve Bannon, to Trump, well before the election of 2020 said the voter intimidation and the proposed fraudulent schemes would be aimed specifically at California voters- to override the liberal vote which he knew would win in 2020.
“Fuck you, California!” said Stone. That’s a quote. From his mouth to God’s ears.
And that means I was an actual targeted victim of the multivalent and malevolent scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
I, and every other voter in America, was/ were made victims, representatives of whom would be replaced in public office -by robots.
It’s good Smith sees that, as one disclosed indictment, in the hoped-for soon-to-be-released charging document, is expected to address the rights of all voters as infringed by the GOP crime spree.
And I feel that victimization keenly. Especially when, so soon after the election, the Supreme Court found no human rights in the Constitution worthy of respect.
That stung, since we won that election and those Supreme Court seats were, virtually, ours.
Trump, incidentally, was activity recruiting militias (“stand back/stand by”) and courting QAnon, the same week in September that he nominated Coney Barrett to the US Supreme Court. This was just weeks before the presidential election. Which Trump lost on November 7, 2020.
And that month also he and his Attorney General Wm Barr- who is tasked with defending the rights of all Americans- disparaged mail- in ballots and normal voting procedures as fraudulent then also. And then Trump and Barr both attacked the USPS, founded by Ben Franklin.
Remember how Trump had Covid at that debate? The “stand back/stand by” debate?Nice.)
And then they unleashed the robot hordes.
(Hey, remember when Trump invoked the Second Amendment as a threat to Hilary Clinton on the campaign trail? No robots picked up on that, than god.)
So who is or are the true Enemy (-ies) of the People, again?
Benjamin Franklin knew the answer, but you do not need a Ouija Board to figure this out.
A cream pie in the face of Trump on tv would be a nice first step right about now. That’s about all I could hope for. It would disarm him entirely. But don’t bother the Secret Service. They have enough to worry about right now.
Sadly there can’t be justice because the damage done is so extensive and ongoing and fascists are working still on the disestablishment of Congress.
Taylor Green and Jordan in Congress – and RFK Jr, too- are much like Survival Research Laboratory projects, each like a robot designed to destroy itself with mechanical arms equipped with hammers and maces and chains that bash its own carapace and bounce around destroying the entire field, so that the damage left overwhelms the ability of the institution to recover.
Tell me they’re not robots, or robot/equivalent. I’m listening.
Putin won that hand nicely. I no longer consider the Republican Party a thing.
Speaking of robots, there is a distinction without a difference between robot warfare and actual random mass shootings. If random robots were dispatched, invented by a Sci-fi obsessed mastermind, and went around blasting shopping malls, the effect would be identical to what we have in real life. The statistical inevitability, the same.
Interesting, that destabilizing democracy using frail humans heavily armed would be a thing to advertise and uphold and wave a flag from a shiny truck over.
Fricking murder robots everywhere. I speak in metaphors, Meta. Don’t freak out. I come in peace.
Discuss.
Come to think of it, I’ve been sitting next to an ocean of information my entire life.
Started out as a trickle. Howdy Doody was just off the air. Before my time. Miss Barbara had a magic mirror. There was that. There were ten books for sale at May Company. And there was a Carnegie Library. Jack Parr was on the tv. Not more than one rotary dial telephone. There was quiet talk.
In lieu of information, parcheesi.
Transition. Pulse. Satellite. Bathysphere. Iron lung. Iron curtain.
It’s possible that ocean overwhelmed everything around 1968. I won’t go into it. It was bad it got worse and worse massive maverick waves of information. It became abysmal throughout the decades. As in, falling into the abyss: an imaginary maelstrom in which imagination is really the foundation stone of reality one grasps to one’s heart like a life preserver made of pure lead. It came out of pencils and file cabinets in the workshop. Next to the tool chest. There was a Texas Instruments calculator and a roll of tape.
How to Make Friends and Influence People.
I said influence “people”- not the weather.
Still, oceans of information.
Now I’m bobbing around the surface again and there’s RFK Jr floating by on a log.
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