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| The Legion of Doom - or Congress, Bizarro World |
Bizarro World was for a short time a hit comic book series published by DC Comics, in which everything was backward and the world was not a globe but a cube.
In the Bizarro world of "Htrae", society is ruled by the Bizarro Code which states "Us do opposite of all Earthly things! Us hate beauty! Us love ugliness! Is big crime to make anything perfect on Bizarro World!" In one episode, for example, a salesman is doing a brisk trade selling Bizarro bonds: "Guaranteed to lose money for you". Later, the mayor appoints Bizarro No. 1 to investigate a crime, "Because you are stupider than the entire Bizarro police force put together". This is meant and taken as a great compliment.
Bizarro World was intended to be a joke or a parody. Language and meaning were in effect reversed in meaning. Up meant down, while Go!, Come Back! etc. mean the opposite.
The salesman is profiting somehow from selling bonds that lose money? Wouldn’t he instead lose money by Bizarro World’s standards? Wouldn’t that be a mark of virtue? Everything that is done and said in Bizarro World depends on the rational epistemology of the reader.
But then you look at Islam, which to pretend “journalists,” continues to be a “Religion of Peace,” even though its massacres, murders, rapes, and crimes are innumerable over the course of 1,400 years.
The House of Representatives has become its own Bizarro World, with the majority in it having said they will endorse Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “New Green Deal.”
Socialist wonderkind Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest female Congressional rep in history, says "The world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change."
A minimally “optimistic” forecast about the success of the New Green Deal in Congress by Business in Insider indicates that:
Ocasio-Cortez has succeeded in generating enthusiasm for a Green New Deal, with 92% of Democrats and 64% of Republicans supporting such a plan, according to one survey. But it's unlikely the resolution will pass in the House, let alone in the Republican-controlled Senate.
“I probably have a generational reaction to it…But in any event. I’m not in the censorship business.”
Pelosi added that she wouldn’t have used that language but that it was “nothing worse than the president has said.”
“Baby, they don’t,” Tlaib said she told her son, before adding, “because we’re gonna go in there, we’re gonna impeach the mother f***er.”
Pelosi said her reaction to Tlaib’s statement was “generational,” implying that she was “old fashioned,” excusing herself by citing an irrelevancy.
Tlaib is an unapologetic anti-Semite who is opposed to Israel and its existence. She was appointed to the House Foreign Affairs Committee by Pelosi, who will not remove her. The Committee regularly discusses aid for Israel. Pelosi knows the nature of Tlaib, Cortez, and IIlhan Omar
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s statement on world ending in 12 years, and other bizarre statements.
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| The Speaker of the Bizarro House |
Ocasio-Cortez has succeeded in generating enthusiasm for a Green New Deal, with 92% of Democrats and 64% of Republicans supporting such a plan, according to one survey. But it's unlikely the resolution will pass in the House, let alone in the Republican-controlled Senate.
In the meantime, not allowing Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to steal the thunder, hijab-happy Omar, uttered her own controversial statement about Jews and Israel, and was appointed by Pelosi to the House Foreign Affairs Committee:
Last month, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) promoted Omar to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, despite controversy about Omar’s past antisemitic rhetoric and her radical anti-Israel foreign policy views.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said last week he would “take action” to discipline the two, although it’s unclear what he could do to them.
Trying to sound “hip,” In response, Omar tweeted: “It’s all about the Benjamins baby” — slang for large sums of our currency. [Referring to the $100 dollar bill, with its picture of Benjamin Franklin)
Then, in response to another Twitter posting questioning who Omar “thinks is paying American politicians to be pro-Israel,” the congresswoman answered “AIPAC!” — the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a powerful lobby that organizes conferences and congressional trips. (As the New York Times notes, AIPAC does not contribute to political campaigns.)
So, here we are in Congress’s Bizarro World. In Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s world, the world would be a cube, not a globe, and the campaign to destroy the U.S. would be regarded as a positive. However, the whole concept of a world that works backward is an “unworkable” absurdity as it is a contradiction of everything that is. A “positive” can’t be achieved by accomplishing a “negative.” In George Owell’s 1984 terms, this is “double think.” It is contradictory. But this contradiction is a living thing and wholly reflects the Marxist dialectic. And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is definitely a Marxist. Omar and Tlaib are hateful anti-Semitics.
See my column “The Weird Sisters of Congress” from January 24, and “Everything Wrong with Congress,” from January 22.
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ReplyDeleteKeep going Ed! You're one of a tiny number of Objectivists saying what needs to be said, as opposed to the PC Obleftivist bromides of the treasonous Brook et al, and you say it better than anybody.
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