USA Big Business-plus, Press, Youth, Labor, Women, People of Color, Offspring of Past Immigrants, & New Immigrants, Read and Heed

Defending Democracy in the USA with the Wisdom of the Vote and Maximum of Voter Turnout

USA Big Business-plus, Press, Youth, Labor, Women, People of Color, Offspring of Past Immigrants, & New Immigrants, Read and Heed:

Big business, and mid-sized and small business too, do not fund or donate to the campaigns of authoritarian, anti-democracy political candidates running for political office, most especially those of US president, governor, and their vice-president or lieutenant-governor running mate, and legislators of the federal and state legislatures, as it is their tendency or compulsion and ambition once they are in office, power, to squat or entrench themselves there as despots and try to enlarge their power limitlessly and make their personal will the chief law, superseding constitutional and statutory law.  Currently, they largely do this by voter suppression tactics:  Block the Vote: How Politicians are Trying to Block Voters from the Ballot Box | ACLU, Voter suppression | Definition, History, Examples, Bills, & Facts | Britannica, The Top Five Voter Suppression Tactics - Rantt Media, 50 Ways to Disenfranchise or Suppress Voters ⋆ Reclaim Democracy!, Stacking the deck: How the GOP works to suppress minority voting | Berkeley News, How Republicans are trying to prevent people from voting after ‘stop the steal’ | US voting rights | The Guardian; and in the not so distant past they did so by Jim Crow terroristic beatings, jailings, pretext or not vigilante and mob hangings, shootings and home and church burnings and bombings of African American voter and voting-rights and civil rights activists in southern former Confederacy apartheid-system, white-monopoly-rule-and-rights states prior to the 1964 federal voting rights act of the US Congress and President Lyndon B. Johnson and in recent times by also GOP-supporter political scammer disinformation and intimidation campaigns by robo phone calls, fliers placed at residences -- if not also postal mailers -- and billboards against African American and Latinx voters and legally eligible voters.

Business, regardless of large size, money and power, will not be spared from their expectations and demands for submission and allegiance to their will, if they can have their way, as you witnessed with former such POTUS Donald Trump who publicly lambasted large corporations he had personal issues [apparent feuds and vendettas] with and against, and, in some cases, in doing so, he thereby diminished the value of their stock, Amazon and 16 other companies Trump has attacked since his election (cnn.com),  62 businesses Trump has targeted on Twitter (yahoo.com). In the case of then-CEO Jeff Bezos of Amazon Corp., Trump attempted illegally to have the US Postal Service charge higher rates on emphatically, publicly emphasized Amazon-sent packages, if not its so sent mail overall, and on those of unspecified, unemphasized other online retailers, than the uniform schedule of rates charged to all other businesses for the delivery of their packages or mail overall, Trump claims Amazon is ripping off post office, but it's complicated (cnbc.com), Trump wants Postal Service to charge 'much more' for Amazon shipments | Reuters, Trump Criticizes Post Office for Charging Amazon ‘So Little’ - WSJ. The then-US Postmaster General told Trump that the US Postal Service could not [legally] nor would she [attempt to] do such a thing. In addition of significance, Trump fired or indicatively stressed into resigning as his top presidential staff, while publicly disparaging them thereupon or thereafter, a series of theretofore educationally and occupationally highly accomplished and notable persons, Tracking turnover in the Trump administration (brookings.edu), as well as publicly diminished and attempted to upstage his top COVID-19-related medical-MD experts, Trump officials interfered with CDC reports on Covid-19 - POLITICO, The Trump Administration and the COVID-19 crisis: Exploring the warning-response problems and missed opportunities of a public health emergency - PubMed (nih.gov).

State of Florida authoritarian Governor Ron DeSantis, narcissistically full of himself, the equivalent of crap, is engaged in such a nonsensical and asinine dominance-and-submission protracted attack, feud and vendetta against Disneyland/World in the state of Florida because the CEO of Disney Company publicly criticized and apparently will not implement as policy in Disney Company as a private enterprise the anti-homosexual and anti-transexual ideological "Don't Say Gay" policy prescriptions and dictates of sissy/ish white-boots-wearing (Oh, so gay!) Governor DeSantis (Ron DeSantis' White Boots Steal Focus As Ian Recovery Continues | Across Florida, FL Patch) that have been imposed on the state government of Florida. When he initially failingly attempted to deploy his legal powers as governor of Florida to administratively strip Disney Company in Florida of its previous status as a distinctive self-governing municipal district in Florida, What’s the story with Disney’s own government in Florida? – The Mercury News, by declaring himself, Gov. DeSantis, to be the new sheriff in town, regarding the Disney Company municipal district, and appointing his own administrators (state board of directors or supervisors) over it, in order to punish its CEO and Disney Company for the CEO's sociopolitical independence from DeSantis, quite like a peeved mobster boss occupying the state of Florida's office of governor, DeSantis publicly mused, suggestively threateningly, that he could have a prison built next to Disneyland/World in Florida, which in any honest market analysis, if it were to happen, would be bad for business for Disneyland/World of Florida, and cautioned the Disney Company CEO in a press conference that he was exploring a [legal] way to undo his failure to take control of the Disney Company municipal district and then to take control of it, DeSantis threatened to put a prison next to Disney, but it may not be as scary an idea as he thinks — and in fact small Florida towns could probably use it way more (yahoo.com), Disney sues Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over control of Reedy Creek (nbcnews.com), Disney v. DeSantis judge called Florida governor's law 'dystopian' (yahoo.com). Such conduct by state of Florida Governor DeSantis and its GOP supermajority legislature rightly, as described by critics, looks like the weaponization of incumbent politics by the politically dominant GOP in elective government leadership office.  Moreover, it looks like it could be misused as a means of tacit intimidation and extortion, to negatively persuade and extract, via the power of fear and political intimidation (in using Disney Company and pending successive GRU Company, in a Democratic Party-dominant community with a similar district in Florida, as examples of the state of Florida's GOP governor's and supermajority legislature's discretionary ability to legally harm companies that won't pay to play the game of political payola), political and financial supplication and ingratiation to that legislatively super-dominant GOP political party and Governor DeSantis from other companies that are similarly state-government zoned in Florida through their company lobbyists and their other channels of likewise political schmoozing for their companies to stay safe with their like zoning status.

Regardless of what his plausible reason given later is for essentially taking over governance of the Disneyland/World municipal district, municipally developed and self governed by Disney Company since circa 1967, after Disney Company filed a lawsuit to challenge the vote of Gov. DeSantis' newly appointed state board of directors/supervisors of the Disneyland/World theme park district to and that did procedurally nullify, possibly illegally, a binding vote and decision by a prior state board of directors for the Disney theme park district to extend or renew long-term Disney Company's municipal self governance of the Disney Company theme park district, it evidently is not and should not be confused with the ostensible real reason for the nullification, which was already expressed by DeSantis in DeSantis' menacing words stated in the hereinabove said press conference referring to the Disney Company CEO and Disneyland/World. DeSantis' and the state of Florida GOP-supermajority legislature's action in undertaking to do the same, following the Disney Corp lawsuit, to another economic or industrial self-governing utilities-zone district in Florida, whose state board of directors or supervisors and community are predominantly politically populated by constituents of the Democratic Party in a renewable-energy utilities enclave in Florida, Florida House passes GRU takeover bill with majority vote. What happens now? (yahoo.com), is indicatively meant to give the appearance to the public of Florida and the future court of law handling the Disney Company lawsuit that DeSantis' action against Disney was not one singling out Disney Company and of maliciousness against Disney Company, but was one based on political-economic philosophy, while leaving significant Republican and fossil fuels-related such business/industrial, etc., districts unaffected. Throughout Florida and the other states of the USA and the local governments within them it is a common practice for them to grant incentives, tax breaks and subsidies to major and major-growth-promising businesses to locate, invest, build or lease/rent, set up shop and hire in their states, cities and towns -- most visibly lately, like major and high-profile computer, online and financial tech, bio-medical, engineering, space, EV-manufacturing, solar, wind and biomass, and tourist entertainment companies as well as sports teams, etc.  Audacious hypocrisy and blatant roguery by Governor DeSantis it has got to be in his contradicting his sanctimonious politicoeconomic philosophical justification for politically going after and taking control of Disney's previously self-governing Reedy Creek improvement district and the largely Democratic Party voter-populated GRU improvement district, subscribed to clean, renewable energy power-supply sources and development in replacement of fossil fuels sources, by his patronizing thereinafter, as Florida governor, at Florida taxpayer-public subsidy of and state-government-employee payout support of and management commissions or fees to, respectively, a yacht company and NYC Wall Street pension investment and management firm favored by him, as reported in the news articles of the following click-on hyperlinks:  Forget Disney. Ron DeSantis Has a Surprising New Target (msn.com), Gov. Ron DeSantis awards Pensacola $3.9 million for American Magic HQ (pnj.com), BROKEN: Florida pensions invest with “Friends of Ron” donors (washingtonpress.com), DeSantis Allows Anti-“Woke” Giveaway To Big Wall Street Donors (levernews.com), DeSantis Offering Companies Incentives to Use Florida Ports Amid Backups in California (newsweek.com) , DeSantis Signs Bill Shielding Musk’s SpaceX From ‘Spaceflight Entity Liability’ (yahoo.com), A closer look at Elon Musk’s opinions on social issues (yahoo.com).  The therapeutic prescription for Ron DeSantis' foul character condition is a brain laxative, craniocolonoscopy and such enema, or a periodic regimen of these, long term.  (Also check out these news articles, though there are more, unlisted at this time, on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis:  DeSantis agency sent $92 million in covid relief funds to donor-backed project (yahoo.com), Gov. DeSantis signs controversial bill that allows use of radioactive material in Florida roads | Florida News | Orlando | Orlando Weekly, DeSantis' anti-DEI law creates 'chilling effect' among faculty, staff (yahoo.com), PEN America, Penguin Random House Sue Florida School District Over 'Unconstitutional' Book Bans (publishersweekly.com), Ron DeSantis's Antiscience Agenda Is Dangerous - Scientific American, This Publisher is Fighting Back Against Ron DeSantis - TheStreetThis Publisher is Fighting Back Against Ron DeSantis - TheStreet, Woman criticizes Florida’s new mandate to teach Asian American history in schools as promoting the ‘model minority’ myth (yahoo.com), Congressional Democrats claim DeSantis' elections police unit, FDLE is unconstitutional: What we know (yahoo.com), DeSantis, who blamed diversity initiatives for Silicon Valley Bank's downfall, pushed for rollback of bank regulations under renewed scrutiny | CNN Politics,No, Diversity Did Not Cause Silicon Valley Bank’s Collapse - The New York Times (nytimes.com), Marine who put homeless man in deadly chokehold is 'Good Samaritan', says Ron DeSantis (yahoo.com), Gov. Ron DeSantis To Send More Than 1,100 Agents to Texas-Mexico Border (yahoo.com), Ron DeSantis is sending Florida law enforcement and National Guard members to the Texas border (yahoo.com), DeSantis says he’ll consider pardoning Jan. 6 defendants, including Trump (yahoo.com).)  

Any state governor, like DeSantis, and legislature, like that of Florida, that mandate/s the abolishment of policies and practices in their state institutions and educational and honest-history curricula specifically of diversity, equity and inclusion of the fair presence of members of its various demographic populations or subpopulations historically excluded or unrepresented or misrepresented and marginalized or maligned therein, is/are acting against democracy and acting antidemocratically to foist a demographically homogenous or selective, unequal and biased as well as exclusionary state government system on a heterogeneous population. These authoritarian, antidemocratic-in-practice elected government leaders call requests or demands for, and denunciations of their abolishments of, state government policies for diversity, equity and inclusion of fair and merit-based members of the different demographic populations, implicitly nonwhite people and women in general, of the state in the employment of the state as "woke" and in representationally fair and honest social studies and history courses in the state's schools as woke and the unacceptable, and offensive to white school children and their parents (white people), Ron DeSantis Pushes Florida Bill to Protect White People From 'Guilt' About Racist Past (newsweek.com, teaching of propaganda (but not so for the traditional and long-the-standard monocultural teaching of USA history that is white-centric and sanctifying of white people, New Florida teaching standards say African Americans received some ‘personal benefit’ from slavery - POLITICO), declaring about all of it: "Florida is where woke comes to die," under their prejudicial and discriminatory elected-state-government retrograde-US-history, Jim Crow leadership.

If the oligarchists among you were to have your way and succeed in overthrowing democracy and our bill-of-rights constitutional government in the USA, certainly, as in the case in the other authoritarian governments of the world of now (like PRC China, Russia, North Korea, Myanmar, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, etc.) and historically (recently like formerly Hitlerian NAZI Germany, Stalinist Soviet Union-Russia and fascist Mussolini Italy, Franco Spain and Salazar Portugal), you, including right-wing media Fox News-Fox Corp, OAN and Newsmax, etc., would exist at the mercy, whim and fiat of the despot and his sycophantic authoritarian regime and would have to swear and render unrelenting allegiance, including obedience, favors, gifts and financial, to him and his rulership regime at all levels. Their spouses, children, other relatives, close friends, paramours and cronies would be societally privileged and get and hold tenured, overpaid prestige jobs as spoils-system and nepotism employees, or such ghost employees, in your businesses and organizations and the nation's public institutions. Where authoritarianism is established, the despot and his authoritarian partner political ruling class rule over big business, business in general, and the wealthy class, or oligarchs, regardless of how great their wealth is, as they please, and jail, imprison and kill them, likewise, if they feel uncomfortable with or offended by them.

And business and the wealthy would need to be taxed strongly under an authoritarian regime, with no tolerance for dissent or lobbying against it or for tax-code loopholes and breaks, in view of the large-scale collective wealth reduction and impoverishment of the former middle and under classes with the elimination of citizen constitutional rights (like the 1st amendment rights to free speech, assemble/organize, petition/protest, of religion/religious belief, or not, and affiliation, of the press/news, information and other communications-content, including entertainment-content, dissemination and publishing), the minimum wage and the social safety net and the consequential anemic and deficient tax production capacity for the regime resulting from these, to support the lifestyles of the rulers of the newly established USA-MAGA caliphate and its federal, state and local governmental subdivisions and infrastructure as well as its internal and external superpower military-police-industrial-SciTech superstructure complex.

As historically has been the case, there also would be periodic or constant purges of a changing percentage of underbosses and apparatchiks at all levels of government within the regime itself resulting from the fallout of natural interpersonal personality and psychological-turf conflicts, personal one-way or mutual animus, interpersonal rivalries and power struggles, loss of favor, becoming an outcast, and failure to meet performance demands. Same untimely flows of turnover of personnel at the different levels of government of the regime would be initiated from the top to show unquestionably which is the top tier of government leadership and command and who in it is the incontestable ultimate boss and commander and for such to instill and enforce -- by means of inducing a perpetual state of job- and career-loss insecurity, fear and worry, thus induced obsessive-compulsive-disorder-based systemic, mass paranoia, throughout the regime -- the exhibition of complete public and private loyalty and conformity on the part of all members of the regime to the regime and its despot, as well as to thereby, via such an always-concerned and mentally and emotionally on-edge (neurotic) needily-compelled and committed-to-cooperate regime, marshal the whole of the regime to hone the maximal operational efficiency of the regime in subserviency, sociopolitical promotion and glorification of the person and public image of competence, accomplishment and effective totalitarian control, vis a vis the authoritarian nation-state, of the hallowed despot-overlord of the regime. The cohering, stabilizing and fortifying force within and of the regime (its glue) is the prospective and regularly obtained real reward of a retirement pension and fringe benefits for an uncomplicated, compliant, dedicated and loyal service career by members of the regime to the regime and its leader, which is earned ongoingly by a majority of the regime members, high and low. If this sounds crazy, indeed, it is, and nightmarish, but is the reality in authoritarian, antidemocracy regimes, much like what USA society witnessed in the former POTUS Trump administration during the Trump USA presidency.

Employee-class people, not of the political class, under such regimes not only do you lose your democratic rights but you have no labor, or labor-related, organizing and negotiating rights, and often have from a negligible to no social safety net or entitlement or right to an old-age and infirmity, or disability, retirement pension, public or private, across most occupations.

In an aside point, all of the despicable and reprehensible brazen and hush-hush treatment and discrimination of the past accorded to women, especially young women and debutantes, and girls, as well as in a sexual reference to apple-of-the-eyes boys and male teens (sex-object prey male youth), on the part of society and morally double-life exploitative and abusive adults, particularly socially or institutionally powerful or revered adults, historically these typically, but not exclusively, being adult males, would be reinstated, relative to and dependent upon the social, wealth and power status of the offender and the same of victims, with impunity or degrees of it for the offender, regardless, internally to a race or ethnicity, of the race or ethnicity of the victim, except when the offender is a nonwhite transgressor, or especially an alleged black transgressor, against a white victim, Does Photo Show DeSantis 'Grooming High School Girls with Alcohol as a Teacher'? | Snopes.com, [Exclusive] [PIC] Ron DeSantis Accused of Attending Drinking Party With Students At High School Where He Taught - HillReporter |, Main events in E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit accusing Donald Trump of rape | Reuters, Trump’s civil rape case: what is he accused of and what happens next? | Donald Trump | The Guardian, Donald Trump liable in civil sex abuse case of E. Jean Carroll (usatoday.com), Ali Alexander Accused of Soliciting Nudes From Teen Boys (nymag.com). Also, wholesale and comprehensive unaccountable police and firearms-enabled death-and-terror-squad racist-white-mob brutality and killings of black men, women and children and terroristic, destructive attacks on their communities would shortly be reinstated, as a start, under the new USA-MAGA authoritarian regime. With people of color expunged from particular cities and states of such society, the likes of these same terrorist folks and those of their, for the most part, underclass, would become the compelled new grunge-class and subsistence-wages workforce, including agricultural produce-picker/harvester field workers, and associated socially problematical and inmate class in them of the USA-MAGA authoritarian society. Foreign export, import, currency, investment and military trade and political relations between foreign ancestral nations of racial and ethnic populations in the new USA-MAGA authoritarian society so discriminated against or expunged undoubtedly would tremendously suffer or collapse altogether.

Gun cultists and crazies, in support of authoritarianism and autocrats as government leaders or rulers, would have to lose all of their guns, not only their mass-casualty-combat guns but also and even their home-protection and hunting guns, to the authoritarian state for it to preclude, if not also beforehand and afterward to quell, armed resistance, bolting, rebellion or opposition and rivalry, whether large or small, or dispersed or concerted, or sporadic or constant, or overt and/or covert, to it and the potential overthrow of it. It is the military, versions of a Gestapo, assorted police forces, political bosses and selectively licensed persons, for the most part, that and who have access to firearms under authoritarian regimes. Most foreign governments also restrict who can own or possess firearms and the types of firearms that can be owned or possessed by their citizens and subjects.  The scheming despot politician may lead on his gullible, dupe populist gun-aficionado support base into believing that the population would continue to have, as well as would have maximal, gun-ownership rights under his regime, but such rights would be temporary under the establishment of the authoritarian regime, in aiding the overthrow or phaseout of our traditional bill-of-rights constitutional democratic-republic form of government and society, but thereafter they would be incompatible with the durable stability, security and survival of his regime and its effective totalitarian rule.

(The horrific epidemic and contagion of gun-violence massacres and mass woundings in the USA will go on and on and on and on...with the legal and easy access to these guns of mass injury and slaughter for as long as they remain prevalent in the USA population and will increase in frequency and scale proportional to their proliferation.

Thoughts, prayers and condolences have not resurrected or healed the killed, wounded and maimed victims, nor paid or pay their funeral and related medical bills, nor support those who are thereby disabled and unable to earn a living and/or family-supporting income, nor have they stopped the gun-violence mass victimization carnage.)

We each in the overwhelming majority in the USA have a vital interest in supporting, protecting and guaranteeing our E Pluribus Unum democratic bill-of-rights constitutional republic, our constitutional democratic republic, even if we do not like one another's social and cultural values, ethos, mythos, music, taste in sports and/or preferred sports team/s, food and drink choices and cuisine, education, political party, ideology, religion, socioeconomic or social class, gender, sexual preference, ethnicity or race, etc.

People whose parents, and you who directly, came to and settled in the USA in flight from authoritarian regimes, when you qualify to vote by birthright or by naturalization as a citizen of the USA, do not vote to elect to or to retain in political office and leadership in the USA authoritarian-politics people like those from whom your parents or you fled, as they, when they are elected to political governance office, will attempt to impose authoritarian, despotic rule, with themselves as the political power squatter and ruler, wherever they hold power, locally, statewide or nationally.  A narcissist with and in power at the helm, or in climbing to the helm, ultimately can hardly be controlled by others without force because as a narcissist he or she is self centered and selfish to the utmost -- that is, egocentric and/or egomaniacal, or a megalomaniac -- and with the power at and of the helm.

Objection to GOP-Controlled State Legislative Manufacture of Authoritarian Governance and Anti-Personal Liberty Laws in the Needless Inspection and Social Policing of the Genitals of School Children and Teens, Legalized Voyeuristic and Sadistic Sexual Harassment Laws of Children and Teens

 

Objection to GOP-Controlled State Legislatures or both Legislatures and Governorships in Manufacture of Authoritarian Governance and Anti-Personal Liberty Laws in the Needless Inspection and Social Policing of the Genitals of School Children and Teens, Legalized Voyeuristic and Sadistic Sexual Harassment Laws of Children and Teens, Yet Doing Nothing to End and Opposing Gun Control Laws to End the Decades-Long Recalcitrant Epidemic of Rapid-fire, Powerful-Bullet and High-Bullet-Capacity Assault Gun Mass Slaughters of School Children and Teens


If there is such a dominant state legislative and governor's consensus concern for consideration and slating it to be made law, with regard to the institutional inspection and verification of the sex or genital sex of children's and minor teens' bodies, as though they are livestock or human chattel without the basic human right to respectful and dignified treatment as a human person, with adverse legal sanctions for violation of that law by not submitting to it on the part of children, parents or institutional authorities, parents via a referendum,

(Quancy@QuancyClayborne: Hey NON VOTERS THIS IS WHAT YOU NON VOTED FOR

Now adults can legally see your kids' junk (male or female). I guarantee two things are going to happen.

1 - pedophile a plenty
2 - pics of your kids' junk all over the internet

Santiago Mayer@santiagomayer: Holy fuck. Kansas Republicans just overwrote the Governor’s veto to enact a bill requiring genital inspections on student athletes. These people are sick.)

should have the first, and, the beforehand go or no-go there, voice and vote of consent to and in consideration of the legislating of that law concerning the gender genitalia inspection and classification of institutional record of their children, current, future and potential children. Such inspections in themselves are transgressive of children's sense of bodily autonomy, privacy and dignity, apart from the right of parents and authorized caretakers to exercise control over their proper and good bodily care and hygiene, sanitation and health practices, conduct and socialization.

No one should have the right to inspect the genitalia of youth or adults except by the consent of the individual (or the parent/s or specific guardian of the subject youth) or when justified for national security (NS) purposes or in the probable-cause criminal arrest of an incriminated suspect, as in a body cavity search for NS secrets, etc., contraband or stolen valuables for incriminated, arrested suspects, by a medical doctor or authorized nurse practitioner legally bound to a confidentiality oath.

If biological sexual identification must be made, it most reliably can be done by doing simple, simultaneous double-check genetic tests on them from saliva or hair-strand samples from them. Those with XX chromosome pairs or variations of this pair in the cells of their bodies are biological females whereas those with XY chromosome pairs or variations of this pair in the cells of their bodies are biological males, even if in rare instances their genitalia is/are of the opposite sex, as certain abnormal, or out-of-the-ordinary, uterine chemistry of the mother during pregnancy can redetermine or change the genetic-chromosomal predisposed sex of the fetus-infant to that of the opposite sex or to intersexual genitalia. A third category of public restrooms, locker rooms and competitive sports' games and events separately associated with the genders should be made available for the latter and within-female and -male biological sex-type variants, such as genetic-chromosomal XXx and XYy types, as well as transgender identity children and adolescents of minor age, at their and their parents'/'s choosing.

Individuals with congenital genitalia that does/do not correspond to their genetic-chromosomal sex or gender, which is their fundamental [biological] sex or gender, are nevertheless socio-biologically, congenitally-exogenously the sex type or gender of their genitalia and should socially be grouped with the gender people of their genitalia in situations where separation of the biological sexes or genders is socially advisable and practiced. However, since genetic-chromosomal XY, and variants of this, males and those who are physically fit individuals with female genitalia would tend (on average) to have a muscle mass, speed and power advantage over biologically fundamental [physically fit] genetic-chromosomal female-females (although genetic-chromosomal, or fundamental biological, females tend largely to have a substantial muscle and general body flexibility advantage over males), therefore congenitally genital females who are cellularly genetic-chromosomal male should compete in a third category of swimming, boxing and track-and-field muscle-power sports from biologically normal females and males -- but congenital males who are cellularly genetic-chromosomal XX, and variants of this, females with male genitalia should be free to participate in the third category of gender sports or that of males.

The Bill of Rights for Parents legislation proffered by GOP Congress members that does not protect the right to life and freedom from harm or threat typically from mass-assault firearms at schools of school children and teens is an insincere PR and politricks gimmick, sideshow and scam. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1641831493927333890 …

What's Up with Ron DeSantis' Objection to USA-NATO Military Aid to Russian Invaded Ukraine, With Him Advising that USA Take Care of the USA?

Like eliminate:

Social Security insurance retirement, Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, food stamps, public K-12 school meals ("the socialism" ((social safety net and lifeline for modest and low-income people, of whom there are scores of millions in the USA, the minimum wage and income taxes, which pay for the physical, public-saftey and public-health public infrastructure)) DeSantis decries and croaks so much about, along with woke, in his public speeches); diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI), which he has baselessly tied in a news comment by him as causal for the string of bank failure in the USA over the week of 03-06-2023 to 03-12-2023; truth and reality in educational/history content and in educational, sports and employment access, hiring

(The New York Times@nytimes: Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida said in a statement made public on Monday night that protecting Ukraine is not a vital U.S. interest and that policymakers should instead focus attention at home. https://nyti.ms/428mOlu )

and advancement, he has admonished and called for their end; restrictions on the types of guns, ammo and accessories purchases, ownership, age access and public carry; and the public voices, independent data gathering and analysis and exercise of public-health decision making of state and local government medical and disease experts and authorities.

Elimination of the social safety net, initiated by the FDR New Deal economic program of 1933 and 1935, and income taxes, established by the 16th amendment in 1913, has been the explicit agenda of the conservative big-money core of the Republican Party since the origin of each of them, especially during the later part of the 1929 to 1939 Great Depression, inherited by the Democratic Party FDR administration from the GOP President Herbert Hoover administration, with emphasis then on the elimination of the FDR New Deal upon the origin of the New Deal poverty and unemployment relief and national economic stimulus programs of the President Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, from 1933-1945, but an agenda rejected by the GOP US presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard M. Nixon, Ronald W. Reagan and Donald J. Trump, which is why it is no longer a consensus but is a publicly unequivocal agenda within the GOP, and, moreover, because as so it is a political-elections losing agenda with each the Democratic Party voters overall, a majority of independent voters and a majority of the current voters of the GOP. To get rid of the social safety net, the big-money power factors of the GOP must do so administratively, legislatively, via the US Congress and a compliant president, or one whose veto of the legislation the GOP would need to have the majority membership numbers in Congress or would need to muster enough bipartisan votes in Congress to override the presidential veto. The GOP membership of the House of Representatives in Congress has regularly tried to use the annual federal budget funding proceedings and negotiations, and the threat of a government shutdown or an actual shutdown, to induce the Democrats in Congress and the Democratic Party president to do this dirty deed for them and take the political fallout blame for doing so, needless to say, unsuccessfully, (1) The Democrats on Twitter: "Mitt Romney said he’s “not aware” of any Republican officials who want to cut Social Security. We pulled the receipts for you, @MittRomney. https://t.co/VHmlKD9Xql" / Twitter.  The GOP has pursued its objective of getting rid of federal income taxes by modifying that objective and chipping away at them by federal legislative tax loopholes, deductions, credits and special rates, tax cuts after tax cuts, etc., favoring foremost or primarily the high-income class and powerful and big-money corporations rather than by improbably, or impossibly, trying to repeal the federal income tax 16th amendment law to the US Constitution, which is why the campaigns of most Republican Party nominee US presidential candidates campaign for reducing federal income taxes and why members of the high-wealth class and major corporations pay little or no tax.  As long as those making income of $500,000.00 and less yearly pay the bulk of the taxes for socialism they have come to like such as public and/or funded roads and highways, street lighting at night, sewage and electrification systems and a dominant in power national defense and imperial military, benefitting themselves, they are amenable to an income tax system to support these and little else.  They will rail against the sight of the social and public blight and nuisance, for them and the stable haves of society, homeless populations, many within which are working homeless persons and their families unable to afford rental residences with their insufficient and meager wages, pensions, or other income, of most major cities and many towns of the USA and blame them for their plight, yet stand against affordable housing, mandatory employee versus and over non-benefits poorly paid gig worker status, adequate wages, guaranteed public retirement pensions, supplemental public assistance and medical, dental and mental-health care for them.

And like to unimpede:

"His attempt" by bluff federally unconstitutional laws and state governor executive orders and fines to command and overrule federally constitutionally protected, and independent from government control, private-enterprise, freedom-of-the press and freedom-of-speech publications media and platforms and their user-subscriber policies and rules; likewise to curb federally constitutionally-protected public protests, of black Americans, by authorizing [racist, antidemocracy] persons to strike them with their automobiles when they enter and walk through public street crosswalks between sidewalks... ... ... ...and by his mantra croaking campaign about and against woke (apparently, the green economy and transition from fossil fuels to clean, renewable fuels and user tech, industry, infrastructure and homes and building, egalitarianism, DEI, empathyism in working to aggressively reduce and end homelessness and poverty, while not blaming the victims of these for their plight, tax fairness and accountability for the rich and big business) in the attempt to slur the positive meaning of the word woke (commonly meaning socially, spiritually-morally/ethically and intellectually awake, enlightened and fair) and to weaponize it and adversarially misapply it to his social and political counterparts to try to socially and politically smear, discredit, marginalize and defeat the social-justice and clean-energy-economy cause movements.

In his head, by this, he might think he would be able to resume illegal interstate human trafficking by plane and bus loads, on a grand scale, of undocumented immigrants, or unauthorized immigrants, into the USA who made their way to his home state of Florida, from out of Florida and to west-coast and northeastern cities, especially those with black mayors, although he has been reported in the news to be bemoaned about and feeling envious of Texas Governor Greg Abbott because his state of Texas has a border with Mexico, the primary entry location of undocumented immigrants into the USA, whereas his home state of Florida does not a border with Mexico, depriving him of the justification to complain, politically dramatize about and demagog the undocumented Latin America immigrant problem to the extent and in the fashion Government Abbott has.

This BS-headed bullfrog of a man might even believe that the defeat and takeover of Ukraine by the Russian armed forces, as a result of a cutoff of [robust] USA and NATO military aid to Ukraine for resisting and repelling the Russian armed forces invasion and war of occupation, conquest and takeover of Ukraine, or large and politically-economically geo-strategically significant parts of it, would clear the news media of news stories on this war distracting to his BS, evidentiary-baseless, spurious croaking that the Silvergate Bank, Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failures of the week of 03-06-2023 to 03-12-2023 were because of DEI, diversity, equality and inclusion [policies], and not the latent kick-in effects of GOP deregulation (by GOP Trump presidential and Congressional MAGA-deregulation policies and legislative stripping down the Dodd-Frank Act, intended to prevent banking and corporate corruption and major financial failures, during the Trump presidency) again of banks and industry, as was the case for them in the 1986 and 2008 S&L and banking and financial services corruptions and mass failures under other GOP presidencies, that were monopoly dominated by non-DEI, non-diversity-equality-and-inclusion, executive leadership, in which DEI (diversity, equality and inclusion) is an organizational philosophy and practice that opposes discrimination and exclusion on the basis/bases race, ethnicity, religion and gender.

Maybe somehow in his bleeping, unwoke, sleep-croaking head he might imagine it would permit him to host more booze-drinking parties with underage high-school girls.

Reply of Explanation to Critic of Convergent Evolution

Feedback to Critic of Convergent Evolution

I received a comment on the forum Eons concerning the extinct saber-toothed big cat species (saber-toothed tigers) saying that convergent evolution of its saber teeth or like features by other, different species of that species' era of existence could not have miraculously evolved the same or a similar trait and that convergent evolution essentially is a fraud and indoctrination. I replied to him in depth about how convergent evolution works and is a fact and to the overall forum separately and compactly with the following commentary:

 

 "Coincidence/co-in-cidence, also co-incidence, in reference to convergent morphology, being convergent evolution, occurs naturally on varying scales throughout nature, such as with the different cell species of the eukaryote type cell having a common cellular structure versus the different cell species of the prokaryote type cell having a different than the former but common structure, and with atoms regardless of their atomic species, element kind and atomic number, having a same organization and structure, for all by force of cosmological, evolutionary circumstantial nature. The convergent evolution of saber teeth, tusks, fangs and horns, etc., in different species, is initially, in their environmental as well as more specialized competitive and integrative ecological contexts or niches, natural-selection survivally adaptive strategy outcomes by and for different species.  In the wild, overall evolution, as well as convergent evolution, proceeds by, 1. “beneficial mutations,” like light or dark skin color resulting from, and differentially functionally better compatible with, cold and lower-light versus hot and sunny climate (thermal and light exposure, amplitude and intensity conditions), 2. "circumstantial mutations that may be neutral, positive or negative" that are induced and distributed widely in a population segment of a species by its breeding isolation and insularity over many generations of offspring from the rest of its [general direct source] species, 3. “adaptations” (anatomical, physiological, somatic, or body or body-part, change brought about in the body by the bodies of the organism species acclimating ((in all regards, including biochemically and microbiomically)), adjusting  and survivally fitting the species into the environment or ecological niche of its habitation or operation, or both -- change agents that in the wild include local animal species culture in which, in particular, the change related consequential gainful, rewarding and successful environmentally interactive behaviors or practices of the species of organism or their bodies become normative, generationally, and can spread within the species to other distant locations), such as, in contrast to our great ape species cousins ((chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans, gibbons, which have four hands or four hand-feet, Photos of the feet of the great apes - Yahoo Image Search Results, 704 Ape Foot Stock Photos, Images & Photography | Shutterstock)), non-hand-feet, in which the fingers and thumb of horizontally locomoting quadrupedal  great-ape back feet-hands (gradually configure or reconfigure and change/develop) into toes, on bipedal, upright locomoting or ambulating (walking, skipping, hopping, jumping and running) primates, hominins, inclusive of humans, better for long-distance running and enabling hominin and humans’ front arms and hands, freed from locomoting the body quadrupedally upon the ground and gripping trees, or their parts, to routinely carry things, make and handle things, importantly, tools and weapons, and to hunt, fish, work, gather, accumulate and stock or store things, and 4. “general, not exclusive, reproductive preference,” hierarchically, for individuals best able to survive (including to fight), function, do, compete, get, produce and thrive associated with the trait/s produced in them by the environment and by their competitively, etc., advantaged physical, behavioral, performance and skill (including talent propensity, like musical ability as observed in the dancing displays of some bird and lizard species, singing in bird species, and singing and dancing in all human races and ethnicities, with tiers of talent across the individuals, and like fighting ability for most species, with tiers and scales of baseline ability across individuals) set of biologically hereditary and experientially acquired traits, ontogenic endowment, or such individual-differences trait profile, in scales or variations and gradations of the traits of the body and its parts and the idiosyncratic design inflections or subtlties of these.  This state of affairs does not mean that low reproduction preference individuals do not get to mate and reproduce but that higher and highest preference males and females get more mating and reproduction opportunities and dominance as well as wherewithal and opportunity to better privilege their offspring in species populations, in general.  These forces of evolution, in the case of convergent evolution, account for the ability to fly with wings of diverse species such as most birds, bats, dragonflies, queen ants, butterflies, moths, honey and bumble bees, wasps, fireflies, common flies, mosquitoes, praying mantises, etc. There is also a species of near-flight flying squirrels whose individuals sail in the air, with a kite-like modification of their bodies while doing so, from tree to tree, Photos of flying squirrels - Yahoo Image Search Results , Photos of flying squirrels - Yahoo Search Results ,"

Check out: https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=Awr9zMhdnexj3bcEu49XNyoA;_ylu=Y29sbwNncTEEcG9zAzMEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Nj?p=Ocean+animals+with+tusks&fr=yfp-t#id=2&iurl=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.britannica.com%2F45%2F76045-050-BE6E2127%2Fwalrus-males-tusks-females.jpg&action=click.

One might even be able to scientifically classify the extinct saber-toothed big cat's saber teeth as tusks, that by interactive gender attractiveness dynamics eventually became therein evolutionarily high-preference in desirability, to the female saber-toothed cats, traits (ornamentally so more than practically) for natural-selection reproductive mating and breeding, apparently like the tusks of walruses and two-tusked narwhals are now.

However, when such traits become ornamental (become functionally autonomous, such as ornamentally or aesthetically highly valued and divorced from the survival and perpetuation of the species) and survivability disadvantaged, they can contribute or lead to the extinction of the species. 

 

Saber teeth of the saber-toothed big cats may have gradually developed and culminated initially in these cats into an adaptation of extraordinarily competitive and effective defensive and attack fighting and hunting dagger teeth that by having been external and large were also scary and intimidating to ferocious competitor predator species, conferring predatory free reign to them, apart from with same species predation and reproductive mating-rights competitors, as well as special power status and sexual-mating desirability and attractiveness for them within the species and therein priority in breeding preference rights commensurate with their size, increasing them by sex and breeding selection much further to excessive and purposefully impractical size, though they may have remained frightening as tusks and have been more frightening in their oversize, as perceived external saber or fanged teeth, to competitor predator species.  Even if they became less deadly with their mouths, they would probably have known and been able to hunt and fight as well as maul and kill with their powerful legs-arms and deadly big-cat claws.  The tusks of large tusked animals of our era, such as of elephants on land and walruses in oceans, especially when they are in groups, may be perceived as scary to and intimidate or make cautious predator species, as may the external fanged teeth of musk deer,  Musk deer - Yahoo Image Search Results, and multiple species of vampire deer, Vampire Deer Facts (why some deer have fangs) - World Deer ,  Vampire Deer Exist: These Musk Deer With Fangs Are Terrifyingly Cute - The Dodo. 

 

In brief, biological evolution is the biological structural modification (gradual or incremental, cumulative genomic and morphological) of a species with the reproductive descent of the species over long time spans of many generations, in its interaction with and its, via its members and their individual differences in physical and functional traits (individual difference endowments), ability to negotiate and adapt to and survive and thrive in the environment, or its ecological niche, through the multifactorial circumstantial processes of environmental and reproductive natural selection.  Mutagenic and bio-adaptive change, and therefore, evolution, takes place in bacteria and viruses very rapidly in comparison to multicellular and such complex organisms.  Behavior, or behavioral training, in itself, that does not systemically and systematically impact on, generationally, and change the anatomy and physiology and that has not biologically stabilized, or anchored, that change of a species, has not been proven to be [linearly or reliably] heritable and evolutionary for the offspring of mere individuals or family lineages, though it may be facilitated and optimized for them by social nurture. However, mass-scale majority-population exposure to a critical level and duration of radiation, chemical-toxin or deleterious-microbial or pathogenic agent...   

 

 

The Midterm National Elections of 11-08-2022 Are Also A Referendum on the Do or Don't Candidacy of Donald Trump in the 2024 US Presidential Election

The Midterm National Elections of 11-08-2022 Are Also A Referendum on the Do or Don't Candidacy of Donald Trump in the 2024 US Presidential Election

Trump is publicly airing the possibility that he might run for the US presidency again in the 2024 US presidential election because he has been investing heavily with his endorsements of and campaigns in behalf of GOP US candidates running for elective high-level state and federal office, especially for US senator and HR representative office, in the national elections of November 8, 2022, and wants to gauge his believed impact on those elections, based on the count of GOP election gains and losses in them. If the GOP wins a majority in one or both of the houses of the US Congress, or if a significant majority, or maybe a majority, of the candidates he has endorsed and campaigned for are elected to the offices for which they were candidates, he will soon after these elections officially declare his candidacy for the US presidency in the forthcoming US presidential election of 2024. He is feeling cautiously confident that these elections will generally favor the GOP in wins and is announcing his personal interest now in the 2024 US presidential election to motivate his GOP voter base to vote Republican and vote preferably for the GOP candidates he has endorsed in the 2022 elections of November the 8th -- in other words, he is working to get out or turn out his voter base. The national general elections of November 8, 2022 are a referendum on whether or not Trump is sufficiently politically competitive and should run for the US presidency, again, in 2024.

 

Defund and vote dump the garbage-dump GOP and Donald Trump!

Advice of New Guy On High at Twitter that “Shared Power Curbs Worst Excesses of Both Parties, So Vote for a Republican Congress, given the Presidency is Democratic,” Is a Flawed Nostrum

Concerning today’s midterm national elections, the advice of the new guy on high at Twitter that “Shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties, therefore I recommend voting for a Republican Congress, given that the Presidency is Democratic,” is a flawed nostrum.

Since and beginning with the election of Barack Obama as US president in 2008, the Republican Party Congressional members in both houses of the US Congress have founded and adhered to the politically partisan strategy and practice of relentless gridlock against and obstruction of legislative initiatives, with the exceptions of tax cuts, cuts of or to social spending, or benefits to primarily the fossil fuels companies and big business, of the Democratic Party member US president to deprive the Democratic Party member US president of legislative successes and achievements that could boost the political popularity and reelectability of the Democratic Party member President and/or the electability of other Democratic Party member public office incumbents or debut candidates for public office -- this Republican strategy sprouted its roots in the Democratic Party Bill Clinton presidency, elected in November of 1992 and reelected in November of 1996.

Furthermore, a democracy or true republic (which is a representative democracy with democratic administrative and parliamentary governance processes, protocols and laws that govern the representatives) does not internally nor should in external alliances share power with invader-colonizer, dictatorial, autocratic, oligarchical, fascist, authoritarian, totalitarian, NAZI pigmentocracy, racist, ethnocentric, theocentric discriminatory and apartheid regimes. The GOP now embodies the autocratic, oligarchical, fascist, authoritarian, NAZI and racist sentiments and conduct of these.

In paraphrase of the words of GOP US Congressional members and a recently departed very popular GOP-promoter radio talk-show personality, after Obama took office as US president in January of 2009, the said GOP strategy was intended to make the Obama presidency a failed one from start to finish in his first term, which, against the odds for Obama, it did not from then to over the whole of his reelection second term.

Defund and vote dump the garbage-heap GOP and Donald Trump.

The GOP's Sham but Effective Slanderous Issue of Rising Crime Under Democratic Party Elected Governance Leadership

The GOP's Sham but Effective Slanderous Issue of Rising Crime Under Democratic Party Elected Governance Leadership

The GOP sham-issue campaign of crime increase under Democratic Party elected leadership governance is a stable one for the GOP in which even though crime rates nationally have overall declined under the Democratic Party leadership Clinton, Obama and Biden presidencies compared to and over those of their GOP predecessor and successor presidencies, nevertheless crime, and egregious crime, from household crime and street crime to organizational and institutional crime and to commercial crime and white-collar crime of all kinds, of individual and group, folks white, pink, black, brown, tan, yellowish and red, men, women, adolescent and child, lowly and highly educated, and of no to high wealth perpetrators, occurs across all presidencies and in all cities and towns all of the time, making crime and the issue of crime an alway available politically demagogic issue of attack at any time against a Democratic Party president, governor, mayor, attorney general, district attorney or sheriff who does not fight back informationally and in informational political campaigns with the truth-establishing facts.  

The shocking new mode and trend of the crime of smash and grab, grab and dash, and mob and grab at jewelry, high-end boutique and department stores, typically recorded on store cameras and televised and picture printed in newspaper and online news, has wrongly become associated in much of the public mind with slack public governance and law-enforcement by and under elected governance officials of the Democratic Party.  The naive and impractical slogan of "Defund the police," a slogan in disregard of crime being universal and endemic to human society and in defiance of overwhelming commonsense, asserted by GOP activists and political candidate critics of the Democratic Party as being the ideology and an agenda point of the Democratic Party is another falsehood that has hurt the Democratic Party, which does not represent the politics and historical political tactics of the organization that coined it.  Both of these issues have been misassociated with and pinned on the Democratic Party and hurt the election bids of an important number or many of its candidates for elective offices.  

While there are always fluctuations in crime rates in which there will or may be a periodic or current critical-level increase in a particular type or number of types of crime as well as against a particular demographic subpopulation of victims or set of such demographic victims, overall crime rates may not increase or may decline. 

(Most of the people of the USA probably realize or know that the indeed real spike in violent attacks and harassment of US citizens and visitors in the US of Far Eastern Asian physical identity is tied to the public rhetoric in mockery and disparagement of China and Chinese culture that was repeatedly uttered by President Trump in his apparent reaction of upset to the investigative finding that the COVID-19 pandemic originated in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), as well as to conspiracies stories widely circulated in the US by right-wingers that the COVID-19 virus was a biological warfare agent or test agent created in the PRC and was deliberately or accidentally released from a microbiology lab in the PRC.)

Democratic Party candidates, fight back now and henceforth with the facts, the data. I have read and heard the facts on crime in the news ongoingly now and for decades leading to now.

The staple GOP campaign game is to slander Democratic Party elective governance and law-enforcement office candidates as being weak on crime control and punishment (while the GOP and its elected officials and candidates for elective public office almost unanimously oppose legislating, at any level of government, the banning of military featured and grade semiautomatic guns, accessories and munitions characteristically used in massacre murders that have become routine in the USA), to routinely offer tax reductions, favoring the rich and big business (their premium, most valued political money donors), at the expense of public health and services support for the socioeconomically displaced and indigent, with contempt and insensitivity toward homeless women, children, adolescents, men, the disabled, the sick and elderly, and at the neglect of public infrastructure left to decay, and at the sacrifice of and taxation of Social Security pensions, to in part pay for the tax cuts by federal budget-management offsets, to blame Democratic Party elected officials for excessive taxing and social, as opposed to military, spending, and to blame elected Democratic Party public governance officials for undocumented immigration [of primarily nonwhite people], a problem they have done nothing about legislatively when they were able to with their combined presidential and both Congressional houses control, most recently under the expressively anti-Mexican Trump presidency (maybe because duplicitously while they complain about undocumented immigration to their grass-roots xenophobic constituency, they also want to keep a supply of subminimum wage, with no fringe benefits, undocumented immigrants and workers, with unrecognized legal rights in GOP-governed and controlled states, coming, when needed, and finding their way to certain GOP-governed and controlled states and businesses wanting their labor).

Incidentally, the inflated gas, utilities-energy and food prices are the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic-related national social and business down-scaling and shutdowns, on a global basis, begun and mismanaged under the Trump presidency for the US, drastically reducing employment, and the production of goods and their shipment to retailers and customers, resulting in shortages of goods relative to the local and global consumer demand and competition for them, and from the Putin regime of Russia and its OPEC partner nations reducing the supply of oil and gas to NATO member nations and the USA, driving up the price of the supplies of them available in these nations. This inflation and these inflated prices are not the cause of the Biden presidency.