Clio, Muse of History: Lessons Learned, 27th Edition

[Red Square]

The Department of Retrospective Wisdom is proud to announce a new interactive installation honoring our longstanding tradition of learning nothing.

Behold Clio, Muse of History, commemorating yesterday’s mistake while stepping directly onto tomorrow’s.

It's been said that history repeats itself three times: first as tragedy, and a couple more times - for the stupid. The second and third rounds come with better talking points, worse memory, and a fresh supply of volunteers to insist this time it’s different - right up until the handle finds its target. The tragedy hurts; the reruns are just slapstick with paperwork. History isn’t hard to read, but it’s hard to practice while you’re busy posing.

See more such exhibits in our Museum of Permanent Amnesia at the Karl Marx Treatment Center.

[Red Square]

[Colonel Obyezyana]

Replies to this post have been far too slow in coming.

Come on, Comrades, step on it!

[jackalopelipsky]

The obvious solution is to ban rakes.

[Red Square]

If stepping on rakes is outlawed, only the outlaws will step on rakes.

[Colonel Obyezyana]

I wonder if this installation is still on display in our Museum of Permanent Amnesia at the Karl Marx Treatment Center:

It clearly represents a group that walks in rakestep.

[Margaret]

By their fruitcakes we shall know them.

[jackalopelipsky]

Get a rake!

[Red Salmon]

Most Equally Esteemed Comrades,

I wonder if Captain Neck Beard there has ever considered flank security or use of cover?  This fish also wonders if Minnesota allows open carry?  Isn’t Captain Neck Beard “brandishing”?  I wonder how accepting he would be at other times with persons strolling about “his area” displaying semiautomatic rifles?  He should stay close to cover.  I doubt he could scamper very far without experiencing a cardiac event.  Just sayin’.  Oh, and when you shoot at Law Enforcement, they multiply.  Seemingly exponentially.  Where will Captain Neck Beard’s reinforcements come from?

More to the point, are the Democrats looking for a Fort Sumpter?  They might want to skip ahead a bit to find out where that leads.  

Abomination From The Deep,

Red Salmon

[jackalopelipsky]

In ancient times, salting the fields of your conquered foes was how things were handled, can we update by raking Neck Beard’s yard? Maybe rake the whole neighborhood?

[trashmouth]

So, we’ll present resentment of ICE as a form of exercising their legitimate duties disguised as compassion, then enforce this compassion gift wrapped with a subltle form of “an appeal to the stick”, with arrogance and confidence, all of which is a form of social justice....?

[jackalopelipsky]

Rake ‘em, Donno.

[jackalopelipsky]

This loser brought an ax to a rake fight and hurt Don Lemon instead.

[Red Salmon]

Most Equally Esteemed Comrades,

Maybe Captain Neck Beard is a member of #BlackRiflesMatter

I’ll report to the rail yard…

Abomination From The Deep,

Red Salmon

[Red Square]

It's actually #BlackHelicoptersMatter, but shhh....

[Red Zeppelin]

Slightly off topic, but where THIS Comrade is at today:

In the predawn darkness of this very morn I trundled across the William Roth (spit, spit, Capitalist pig!) Bridge in my trusty (HA!) Lada into Northern Bidenistan.

I was heading towards my assigned job at the T-72 Plant where I toil selflessly in the name of The People ™ and made-up Production Totals, and was listening to Comrade* Steve Van Sant's Underground Garage when they played Laika and the Cosmonauts' Surfs You Right.

Now, granted, my go-to for Surf Rock is Messer Chups these days, but it got me thinking.....hmmm.....it's Tuesday......Laika is on the radio......could it be THE Tuesday? The fabled Glorious World of Next Tuesday of story and legend?

Are we really.......THERE???!!!

Alas, my hopes were dashed when some bourgeois wannabe Kommissar type in a shiny new Zil with Antifa flags on the front fenders cut me off in traffic and snapped me back to gritty reality.......sigh.....If not THIS Tuesday, when????

*Steve, Bruce, et al seem to all be Communist Party members in real life, or at the very least, the people Stalin called "Useful Idiots". Normally I'd be listening to Blues or Outlaw Country that early in the morning, or Ozzy's Boneyard.

[jackalopelipsky]

Laika is sooo Moon Doggy! Hey everybody, rake’s up!!

[Colonel Obyezyana]

More rake-stepping.

 
In the mid-1960s the original Star Trek series was a vehicle for adventure in outer space. It soon began to  rake in the money. With a large fan base, cinematic feature films, spin-off series, conventions and imitators, Star Trek evolved into an American cultural icon spanning the world.
 
By the mid-1990s, Star Trek began to oversaturate its market and overemphasize humanism.
 
By 2017, CBS All Access (later Paramount +) went woke with Star Trek: Discovery, which included superfluous wokism with openly gay characters, a focus on liberalism and collectivism, and a turn to coarse adult language that alienated many—if not most—fans. Discovery crowned its final episode by casting obese Democrat sore loser Stacey Abrams as President of the United Federation of Planets.
 
The series steadily lost viewers over the ensuing seasons. It was stepping on the rake by ignoring the fan base’s objection to Star Trek’s woke-washing. 
 
Unable and unwilling to accept the lessons of past failures, in 2026, Paramount + stepped on the rake again with Star Trek Academy, which seems calculated to alienate the fan base even further by smothering viewers with Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE). It may be the last rake for Star Trek.
 
For a good read, see this article:
https://spectator.org/starfleet-academy ... o-nowhere/