THE HARRIS CAMPAIGN

In response to Donnie's Taylor Swift insanity this morning

Donald Trump's week of whining and spouting conspiracy theories has voters on both sides of the aisle ready to Forget That He Ever Existed. The American people want to be Out of the Woods of the chaos and division of the Trump era, leave behind the Blank Space of Trump's broken promises, and Begin Again by electing Vice President Harris to ensure America's future of opportunity is Long Lived.

Voters know All Too Well how dangerous Trump and his Project 2025 agenda will be if he wins. This November, we can make sure this is The Last Time we have to deal with his End Game of jacking up taxes on the middle class and ripping away Americans' freedoms.

Together, we can turn the page on the Trump Era and write a new chapter where all Americans Breathe easy knowing we have strong, steady leadership at the helm. We can make sure The Story of Us is one of progress -- and show Donald Trump we are not going Back to December of 2020. Like ever.

Playing

Martin Denny
EXOTICA - VOLUME III

Bigly mad.

Mad as a fucking hatter.

He's not fit to leave his motel without a crash helmet let alone have his own social media accounts or, I don't know, the nuclear codes.

And make no mistake - This is a lethal threat.

Medusa, Jesus, Sasquatch, Adam and Eve, Atlantis ...

All just oral traditions that were eventually written down.

Playing

Martin Denny
EXOTICA - VOLUME II

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Martin Denny
EXOTICA

GOVERNOR TIM WALZ

It’s really great to have all these women help us beat the smallest man in the world.

Daily Painting(s)

Bernard Buffet
LAPIN ET CASSEROLE ROUGE (1948)

Bernard Buffet
RAIE ET BROC (1948)

Playing

CLUB MOD on allclassical.org

Hosted by Andrea Murray

Reading

Ness Brown
THE SCOURGE BETWEEN THE STARS

Playing

Jack White
LAZARETTO

MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
Fascism: A Warning

A Fascist, however, expects the crowd to have his back. Where kings try to settle people down, Fascists stir them up so that when the fighting begins, their foot soldiers have the will and the firepower to strike first.

Daily Painting

Bernard Buffet
LE CRI (1967)

Watching

BLOOD DELIRIUM
[DELIRIO DI SANGUE]
Sergio Bergonzelli
Italy, 1988

Clown suit.

Like a roasted pig.

Playing

PJ Harvey
B-SIDES, DEMOS, AND RARITIES

MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
Fascism: A Warning

Finally, and even more seriously, I fear a return to the international climate that prevailed in the 1920s and '30s, when the United States withdrew from the global stage and countries everywhere pursued what they perceived to be their own interests without regard to larger and more enduring goals.

When arguing that every age has its own Fascism, the Italian writer and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi added that the critical point can be reached “not just through the terror of police intimidation, but by denying and distorting information, by undermining systems of justice, by paralyzing the education system, and by spreading in a myriad subtle ways nostalgia for a world where order reigned.”

If he is right (and I think he is), we have reason to be concerned by the gathering array of political and social currents buffeting us today—currents propelled by the dark underside of the technological revolution, the corroding effects of power, the American president’s disrespect for truth, and the widening acceptance of dehumanizing insults, Islamophobia, and anti-Semitism as being within the bounds of normal public debate.

We are not there yet, but these feel like signposts on the road back to an era when Fascism found nourishment and individual tragedies were multiplied millions-fold.

Daily Painting

Marcel Janco

BALL IN ZURICH (1917)

Watching

EL SUR
Víctor Erice
Spain, 1983

"JD is not weird. He's a solid rock. I happen to be a very solid rock. We're other things perhaps, but we're not weird. But he is a weird guy. He walks on the stage, there's something wrong with that guy, and he called me 'weird.' And then the fake news media picked it up, that was the word of the day: 'Weird, weird, weird,' they're all going. But we're not weird guys. We're very solid people who want our country to be great again."

Playing

Nandu Muley and Anindo Chatterjee
RAGA AHIR-BHAIRAV / RAGA RAGESREE

ISAAC ASIMOV

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” 

Daily Painting

Georg Baselitz
DAS LETZTE SELBSTBILDNIS II (1982)
[THE LAST SELF-PORTRAIT II]

Watching

THE BIKERIDERS
Jeff Nichols
USA, 2024

LINSEY DAVIS:
This is now your third time running for president. you have long vowed to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. You have failed to accomplish that. You now say you're going to keep Obamacare. Quote, unless we can do something much better. Last month you said, quote, we're working on it. So tonight, nine years after you first started running, do you have a plan and can you tell us what it is?

FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP:
Obamacare was lousy health care. Always was. It's not very good today. And what I said, that if we come up with something, we are working on things, we're going to do it and we're going to replace it. But remember this. I inherited Obamacare because Democrats wouldn't change it. They wouldn't vote for it. They were unanimous. They wouldn't vote to change it. If they would have done that, we would have had a much better plan than Obamacare. But the Democrats came up, they wouldn't vote for it. I had a choice to make when I was president, do I save it and make it as good as it can be? Never going to be great. Or do I let it rot? And I felt I had an obligation, even though politically it would have been good to just let it rot and let it go away. I decided -- and I told my people, the top people, and they're very good people -- I have a lot of good people in this -- that administration. We read about the bad ones. We had some real bad ones too. And so do they. They have really bad ones. The difference is they don't get rid of them. But let me just explain. I had a choice to make do I save it and make it as good as it can be or let it rot? And I saved it. I did the right thing. But it's still never going to be great. And it's too expensive for people. And what we will do is we're looking at different plans. If we can come up with a plan that's going to cost our people, our population less money and be better health care than Obamacare, then I would absolutely do it. But until then I'd run it as good as it can be run.

LINSEY DAVIS:
So just a yes or no, you still do not have a plan?

FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP:
I have concepts of a plan. I'm not president right now. But if we come up with something I would only change it if we come up with something better and less expensive. And there are concepts and options we have to do that. And you'll be hearing about it in the not-too-distant future.

"They're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats. They're eating the pets of the people that live there, and this is what's happening in our country, and it's a shame."

Donald J. Trump
Presidential Debate
Sept 10, 2024

Playing

Les Ménestriers
VIVE HENRI IV

Playing

Les Ménestriers
HAS TU POINT VU...

A. R. MOXON

Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.

That word is "Nazi."

Nobody cares about their motives anymore.

Daily Painting

Frank Frazetta
TREE OF LIFE (1970)

Watching

Vice President Harris vs Mr.  Trump

The thing I'd most like to hear from Vice President Harris tonight:

"I thought we came here to debate policy and a vision for America's future, not listen to an elderly white billionaire piss and moan for 90 minutes about how persecuted he is. Donna? George? Is this what we all signed up for?"

Playing

Les Ménestriers
RENAISSANCE
French Medieval and Renaissance Folk

Playing

Les Ménestriers
LE BOUVIER
French Medieval Folk Music

ROBERT O. PAXTON
The Anatomy of Fascism

While Mussolini toiled long hours at his desk, Hitler continued to indulge in the lazy bohemian dilettantism of his art-student days. When aides sought his attention for urgent matters, Hitler was often inaccessible. He spent much time at his Bavarian retreat; even in Berlin he often neglected pressing business. He subjected his dinner guests to midnight monologues, rose at midday, and devoted his afternoons to personal passions such as plans by his young protege Albert Speer to reconstruct his hometown of Linz and the center of Berlin in a monumental style benefiting the Thousand-Year Reich.

After February 1938 the cabinet ceased to meet; some cabinet ministers never managed to see the Fuhrer at all. Hans Mommsen went so far as to call him a 'weak dictator.' Mommsen never meant to deny the unlimited nature of Hitler's vaguely defined and haphazardly exercised power, but he observed that the Nazi regime was not organized on rational principles of bureaucratic efficiency, and that its astonishing burst of murderous energy was not produced by Hitler's diligence.

Daily Painting

William H. Johnson
THREE DANCERS (1944)

Watching

ABOUT DRY GRASSES
[KURU OTLAR ÜSTÜNE]
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Turkey, 2023

I was informed this morning that resisting, or even pointing out, the rise of/slide into theocratic autocracy is synonymous with being a militant leftist. 

The things you learn on social media.

Playing

Dmitri Shostakovich
SYMPHONY NO. 5 IN D MINOR, OP. 47
SYMPHONY NO. 10 in E MINOR, OP. 93

Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
Hallé Orchestra

HEATHER MARSH
The Creation of Me, Them, and Us

Beware of your contribution to the growing banality of evil lest you yourself become a cog in the machinery of terror.

Daily Painting

John Bellany
SCOTTISH GOTHIC (1992)

Watching

LONGLEGS
Osgood Perkins
Canada-USA, 2024

Leon's gender affirming needs are very special.

Abortion after birth is also called an NRA fundraiser.

Playing

Göran Söllscher
ELEVEN-STRING GUITAR

Works by JS Bach, Ernst Gottlieb Baron, François Couperin, David Kellner, Jan Antonín Losy, Johann Pachelbel, Christian Petzold, Johann Helmich Roman, Silvius Leopold Weiss

ALBERT CAMUS
The Plague

And, indeed, as he listened to the cries of joy rising from the town, Rieux remembered that such joy is always imperiled. He knew what those jubilant crowds did not know but could have learned from books: that the plague bacillus never dies or disappears for good and that perhaps the day would come when, for the bane and the enlightening of men, it would rouse up its rats again and send them forth to die in a happy city.

Daily Painting

Andrew Wyeth
PERPETUAL CARE (1961)

How many more GOP fundraisers?

Playing

CLUB MOD on allclassical.org

Hosted by Andrea Murray

Reading

Flann O'Brien
THE SHORT FICTION OF FLANN O'BRIEN

Yes, but does he pronounce it "Thighland?"
 

Playing

Joseph Haydn
CONCERTO FOR VIOLIN, PIANO, AND ORCHESTRA IN F MAJOR, Hob. XVIII:6

Johann Nepomuk Hummel
CONCERTO FOR VIOLIN, PIANO, AND ORCHESTRA IN G MAJOR, OP 17

Solomiya Ivakhiv
Antonio Pompa-Baldi

Theodore Kochar
Slovak National Symphony Orchestra

OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY
American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning to America

Fascists use patriotism and religion to manipulate dumb people. Fascist propaganda works best on the dumbest of the dumb. They don't know when they're being lied to. That's why it's no coincidence that the MAGA death cult are the dumbest people in America.

Daily Painting

Dmitry Kustanovich
THE BULLFINCHES (2016)

Watching

1984
Rudolph Cartier
UK, 1964