Friday, January 20, 2017

Inauguration Daze

I’m in a New Jerk State of Mind

January 20, 2017 – The First Day of the Last Throes of Your Life
I was out for my morning constitutional (nothing will ever be constitutional again I fear) and was pleasantly surprised to see there is still breathable air, and one would assume - somewhere behind the gathering clouds - the Sun. I will not assume the same come tomorrow, but or the moment I will remain hopeful. I have never tried writing while in a cold sweat, convulsing, with my head buried under the covers, but that is probably how I will be spending my day (if not the next four years) so here goes nothing. And nothing going sounds like a damn good idea right about now.
Heeeere’s Donny
Starting at one past noon today we will finally get to see just what-the-hell-we’ve-got-to-lose. For the majority of us it will be the ability to sleep or keep our food down. For many millions of us it will be health care and you know…the ability to be alive. For fewer millions of us it will be our freedom, our homes and/or families. For a sizeable minority it will be the ability to look at ourselves in the mirror because we voted for the most ignorant, incompetent, hateful, vengeful, narcissistic douchebag ever to dis-grace our nation’s highest office. The good news is that the shitstorm will not begin exactly at one past noon because as Der Furor told the Times of London, “… [D]ay one – which I will consider to be Monday as opposed to Friday or Saturday. Right? I mean my day one is going to be Monday because I don’t want to be signing and get it mixed up with lots of celebration.”(actual quote) Hang on to your whatevers folks, I expect a good bit of turbulence before we land. Make sure you know where your hair-sick bag is and as always be sure your Orange-gas mask is in place before you try to help anyone else put on theirs. Fortunately I managed to finish the piece below yesterday before total paralysis set in…
Press to Open
January 19, 2017
Chrump’s recent press conference tantrum showed off his unique (i.e., fascist) ability to intimidate the press. Don’t get me wrong, corporate media has been disgraceful in their coverage of Chrump throughout the campaign era. They let him get away with everything short of murder – Chrump, after all, only threatened murder (as far as we know). It remains critical to the very fabric of democracy that a free and independent press do the people’s work and call out the establishment when it flies in the face of the people’s best interests. Such behavior is already rampant as Chrump prepares to take our government as his own in order to demolish life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
During his first real press availability in almost six months. The Orange Gas Cloud shouted down a CNN reporter trying to ask a question, calling CNN fake news and refusing to let the reporter speak. The man with the fake hair, fake skin coloring, fake populism, fake wealth that he is putting into a fake blind trust, perpetual fake outrage, fake election victory, the man who is fake news personified, is all bent out of shape over any fake news that dare not emanate from his mouth, thumbs or wrong end of the feeding tube, or from his spokesmutants.
You’re a loser! And you’re a loser! You’re all losers! Sad!
I want all of you dishonest medias out of here now!
Chrump paraded out his lawyer to ‘splain how the very-well-sighted trust will work as the new Con-artist-in-chief divests the American public of any right to question His Hairiness and his business dealings. The attorney works for a prestigious law firm – the best law firm ever – Morgan, Lewis & Bockius – won the 2016 “Russia Law Firm of the Year” award. This is not fake news. Chrump is fake news. Real fake news. Or the new fake real.
Self portrait, painted by someone else
The prop du jour for this farce was an absurdly conspicuous pile of what to the low-IQ viewer appeared to be file folders. Reporters were not allowed to inspect the documents, which appeared to all present to be empty (like Chrump himself) and in mint condition (completely unlike Chrump).
Rene Magritte’s Fake Man with Fake Folders

Beyond Breaking
Broken News
It will be interesting to see if corporate media will continue to let Chrump crap all over it. Maybe reporters will decide that they might as well do their damn jobs. Chrump already hates their guts and nothing short of them going Full Conway and sugar coating every single vowel movement, blatant lie and dastardly deed will keep Chrump from treating the media like something he stepped in while fixing his “hair” on a windy day.
Naturally, Republican’ts believe the federal government is nothing more than a nuisance that interferes with corporate profits, while helping people who do not deserve help. They think much less of journalists, especially those who insist on fact finding and challenging the powerful as they attempt to run roughshod over the hoi polloi. In reality the façade of governments and nations is wearing thinner and thinner and has significantly less chance of survival as we move further into Alt-reality. This type of thinking is not new. It came up in the great 1976 Paddy Chayefsky movie Network. Although it’s been said many times, many ways...
The forces of nature do not stand a chance
Lest we imagine that this distaste for the press belongs solely to The Chrump, Paul Ryan wants to outlaw the First Amendment from Congress. Our founders obviously never intended the public to be privy to what they were doing. No photos or videos allowed on the House Floor since no photos or videos were allowed in 1776. Ayn Rand would be proud. George Washington’s teeth would burst into flames.
Donald Tinyhands cannot cope with a free and independent press – including what passes for such here in Amerika. As much as the press was the K-Y Jelly that eased Chrump’s penetration into the White House, they are still not submissive enough to placate his unquenchable thirst for attention and subservience. Unless they bow, scrape and massage his ever-wounded bloated ego, he will not be mollified. No one dare question the great and powerful Don. There is a plan afoot to banish the press from the White House press briefing room. They are to be moved off-site. Chrump referred to the press as, “among the most dishonest people in the world.” He harassed them, he threatened them, he caused his minions to verbally assault them to the point where one female reporter required armed protection lest the verbal assaults morphed into physical violence. Frank Zappa ironically, warningly told us many years ago, “It can’t happen here.” It is happening. Here. Now.
As always every word he utters is actually about himself
I. Mangrey reporting. Resist and replace.
If you see something, do something.
                                                                                                    Mad in USA

And now, how about a moment of Zen…

Charles Mingus - Free Cell Block F, 'Tis Nazi U.S.A.

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