Monday, August 17, 2020

Paying Attention's Random Summer Rerun

August 17, 2020

Been working hard at hardly working. And still celebrating Woodstock Days. While looking through the Paying Attention archives for some tasty tidbit, I stumbled across and accidentally read today's summer rerun post. It still seemed depressingly fresh; well, at least it didn't smell bad. So, if you have nothing better to do, have at it.

Ed Venture
Managing Editor


Let’s Call the Whole Thing Chrump

July 28, 2018
Do not adjust your set.  This is not a drill.  Do not duck.  Do not cover.  Do not go out into the hall, sit by the wall and put your head between your knees to protect yourself.  That trick never worked anyway.  Even though the Chrump phenomenon (which is only different in degree, not substance relative to the Republican’t Party) is the social movement equivalent of radiation poisoning, Bert the Turtle will not save us, just as it was originally nothing more than a diversionary public relations campaign.  Mitch the turtle will definitely not save us.  He has other priorities.

Chrump opened his campaign as a racist, with just a hint of fascism.  He preceded his campaign with virulent racism against America’s first black president.  We will ignore the constant perpetual lying about all of it, for the time being.  Chrump has made it safer and more acceptable to be a racist than it has been since the 1950s.  After all, if the president says some of the white nationalists, one of whom murdered a peaceful protester, “are very fine people,” well then, that’s gotta mean something.  And it surely does, just not what he wants it to mean.
As time passes, Il Douche displays more and more of his authoritarian – many would say fascist – tendencies.  Declaring the free press enemies of the people, insisting on locking up his opponents, threatening or firing anyone who displeases him. 
Chrump is not alone, not by a mile.  Der Furor recently pardoned right-wing commentator Dinesh D’Souza, who was convicted of campaign finance violations – coincidently, one of the myriad crimes Chrump himself likely committed.  The consistently delusional D’Souza retweeted Twitter posts with the hashtags #burntheJews and #bringbackslavery.  He claimed it was an accident.  Probably what his parents are claiming about Dinesh.
Melania’s insensitively ignorant jacket, worn presumably to denigrate her husband’s kidnapped children, was much more than inappropriate.  The “I really don’t care” message was drawn from fascist sloganeering, and the jacket seller has a history of peddling such hate-wear.  Her spokesworm insisted it was all innocent, just a jacket.  Just as she knew what she was marrying, she was quite familiar with the message she whore wore.
Don Jr.’s new girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle – who just left Fux News to work for the Chrump campaign – posed for a photograph with a Pizzagate (which, if you are lucky, you have no idea what this is, and I will let you keep it that way) conspiracy theorist who was flashing a white nationalist sign for the occasion.  She didn’t mean anything by it.  As we all know, when a right wing nutjob wants to take a selfie with you, there really is no choice but to jump right to it.  I do it all the time, or I probably would if I was more of an asshole.  Interesting side note: according to reports, Guilfoyle was fired by Fux for showing pictures of male genitalia – and naming names – to coworkers.  The best people.
So many coincidences, so little time.
It is not fair to lay all of this at the bone-spurred feet of Don Chrump.  Let us not forget, today’s Republican’t Party was reborn out of the ashes of the Dixiecrats, who left their party over civil rights progress, and then Nixon’s Southern Strategy on the heels of LBJ pushing JFK’s further perceived incursions into white supremacy in America.  So, the GOP is not the party of Lincoln.  They are the party of racists who turned their backs on Lincoln – not saying every Republican’t is a racist, just that racism runs very deep in the heart of the party.  Not being judgmental, just honest. 
Republican’ts have been much more honest since the atrocity they worked so hard to create began its campaign to Make America As Bad As Possible.  I recall during the campaign someone described many Chrump supporters as a Basket of Deplorables.  This was simply not the right thing to say.  No way that was a basket; it was garbage barge filled to overflowing.
He alone can fucks it
To pad his fascist resume, and taking a page out of Nixon’s playbook, Chrump also unveiled a list of enemies he wants to punish.  Chrump has his diaper all in a twist over several ex-government employees who have said mean things about him.  They will be added to the original list of enemies, the intelligence community (and intelligence in general), the free press, non-white people, most women, more than half of the American electorate and the truth – they all stand in his way.
I. Mangrey repairing.  I regret that Chrump has even one life to lose for his country.

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