Masks ‘r’ Us

Flatten The Curve, Not The Earth

The Real World
June 29, 2020

“What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful.
How true that is.”
Dan Quayle - in a speech to the United Negro College Fund, May, 1989

I’m getting really tired of folks who whine about wearing a mask to protect those around them. They say the mask is making them sick. Or maybe you heard the testimony of one genius Floridian woman: “I don’t wear a mask for the same reason I don’t wear underwear; things gotta breathe.” Clearly, she is breathing through the wrong orifice and the oxygen is not quite making the long, futile trek to her brain. These mental defectives are making me sick, having to listen to them and the nuts…I’m sorry, experts they quote from the internets. I wonder who these people are planning to vote for in November. Just kidding.

Another Florida genius 

A woman I spoke with told me she wasn’t buying all this virus pandemic nonsense and doesn’t think wearing a mask does anything good. Turns out she also believes climate change is fake because they used to call it ‘global warming.’ She insisted that 97% of climate scientists versus 3% of climate scientists proves there are two equally valid sides to the story. She had no answer when asked what she thought about the fact that it is 100°F in Siberia.

I’m running near empty on time and patience for these people. If you don’t want to follow the laws and social norms, go back where you came from – either the country of your ancestors or your home planet.

When talking with one of these reality deniers, I decided I needed to assess the value of continuing the dialogue by asking what I now think is the ultimate question to assess mental competency. Consider asking this very simple question whenever you are confronted with the opportunity to attempt to talk with people who, let’s say ‘think’ differently. I asked this very nice, very religious, unrepentantly ill-informed person, who was very concerned about “the global elites” she constantly maintains are trying to create a one world order by making us protect each other by wearing masks, and creating fear over climate change, which these folks do not believe is real, this easy-to-answer question: Do you believe the Earth is flat? I expect this strategy will save me valuable time and strokes in the future.

Man holding what he claims is the actual Earth

 

The reply, which for some reason, due to some basic character flaw of mine, I did not expect, was, “Well, it could be flat or it could be round. I’m not really sure. It definitely might be flat though. I just don’t know.” That response was like a giant EXIT sign leading me safely out of the conversation. I did not waste the opportunity and quickly excused myself from the conversation. But, these people are all around us.

Side note: While anyone with even a fraction of a functioning brain, ever since Aristotle proved we inhabited a spherical globe in the third century before the Common Era, knows that we live on a sphere and not a plate, I’m pretty sure that physics makes it impossible for any celestial body to be “flat.” And what the fuck does flat mean to these folks anyway? Is it just a few inches thick? A few feet? Do they believe in mountains? The Marianas Trench? Is the Sun also flat? Saturn? My brain hurts.

For his part, the Denier-in-chief, who refuses to wear a mask, and thinks that testing causes more cases, insists that the virus he called a hoax (for which he recommended people ingest disinfectant and shine ultra-violet light where the sun don’t shine) is simply over. He is happily encouraging his devoted fans to show up for his rallies and expose themselves to some unknown number of infected defectives – after signing a waiver that they won’t sue him when they test positive for COVID-19.

Chrump insists all is fine, except for the fact that measures meant to protect him from catching the virus have been drastically increased. Chrump has a huge advance team (many of whom recently tested positive for COVID-19) making sure that everywhere he goes is safe for him. The rest of the suckers who insist on being directly exposed to Chrump’s unnatural orange glow can apparently go fuck themselves, which some of them seem more than willing to do.

We, though very likely not his devotees, just learned that Chrump’s campaign workers removed thousands of stickers that read “Please do not sit here” and were meant to promote proper physical distancing at the Tulsa arena where hardly anyone showed up to watch Chrump’s demented tantrum/rally. Hard to decide who is dumber, Chrump or his MAGAts.

You can’t judge a book by its cover…or can you

A good friend decided it would be a good idea for me to watch one of these knuckle-dragging, faux patriot, science deniers explain why taking precautions to help not kill our fellow at-risk citizens is the death of democracy, among other things. I admittedly only got through about five of the 13-minute mumbo-jumbo, despite the performer’s admonition to watch the entire video. I will not bother you with the video itself, only with my response to my friend:

Why do you send me this nonsense? Why would I listen to some random dude on YouTube, who clearly does not know much about the country he claims he fought for? I don't like wearing a mask, but by almost all accounts, this helps reduce the spread of the virus – as does physical distancing and some degree of quarantining. I don't like wearing seat belts, but it's the law. I don't like driving under 80 mph, but it's the law. I don't think banning smoking in bars is fair, but it's the law. All of these restrictions on our behavior are trampling on our constitutional rights (or something), but were implemented for the greater good and/or our own protection. This guy, who says he loves this country, only loves the parts he agrees with. Fuck that shit. This is why cousins should never marry.

I. Mangrey reporting. Stay away from the fan, something foul is about to hit it.  

                                                                                               

New, Improved Travel Ban

Fattening The Curve
 

COVID Country
June 27, 2020 

 

Well, it looks like Hair Chrump may finally get himself a travel ban after all. Ironically, it will not exactly be the one he and Field Marshall Stephen Miller so carelessly designed during the early days of the Chrump anti-presidency to keep Muslims out of this country.

This new travel ban is being implemented by the European Union to keep out the COVID-happy Americans, until – to coin a phrase – “our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.” 

Oddly, our country’s representatives long ago figured out what the hell was going on. The House of Representatives tried to impeach what the hell was going on, but Chrump’s lackeys committed obstruction of justice. Now we are paying the price. Not only do we still have a Criminal-in-chief still at large, but instead of being the envy of the world, we are the pity of the world.

No sooner have we been allowed to leave lockdown and roam about the country freely, but the virus has resumed its work with a vengeance, and now it appears the people of the United States are being given a stay-at-home order by Europe. And who could blame them. The “man” in charge here is done everything he can to keep the situation as bad as possible, while most of the rest of the world has tamed the virus. New Zealand hasn't has a single case in more than three weeks. 

 

First Chrump ignored it, calling the pandemic nothing more than a hoax intended to ruin his presidency, then he just ignored it, then he told everyone else to ignore it, then he told us to drink disinfectant to fight the virus he insisted did not exist. Now he is ignoring it some more, while inviting thousands of his moronic minions to gather cheek by jowl in tight spaces, the better to infect each other.

The Spiro Agnew of the new millennium Mike Pence is now touting the “remarkable progress” in fighting the virus, telling reporters, “We slowed the spread, we flattened the curve, we saved lives.”

 

Behold the “flattened” curve

This, after two of the last three days saw the largest numbers of COVID cases since April,, and the number of lives we have not saved is pushing 125,000 Americans. So yes, Mike Pence, there are still some Americans you and your boss have not killed yet. But the blight is still young.

Chrump’s inconceivable stupidity has thrown the less than “remarkable progress” against COVID into reverse at 90 MPH. And Pence responded to the need for physical distancing and the wearing of masks, which have been proven beyond a doubt to be successful tactics for reducing the spread of the virus, with “even in a health crisis, the American people don’t forfeit our constitutional rights.” Yes, protecting yourself and others by taking reasonable and proven precautions is contrary to the Constitution. I guess according to Mike “Time for a quick reality check. Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn’t kill.” Pence, it’s time to start smoking in bars, restaurants, malls, bowling alleys and everywhere else again, and while we’re at it let’s get rid of those brutal restraints we call seatbelts, you know, in order to preserve our constitutional rights to be fucking morons.

 

Meanwhile, Chrump received a standing ovation from his mostly empty Tulsa arena of knuckle-draggers, for successfully transferring water from a very small glass into his very big maw with just hand. This, my fellow Americans, was clearly the (pun unavoidable) high water mark of the Chrump anti-presidency.

I. Mangrey reporting.

What’s In A Shame

Stolen Land, Ruined Lives

Turtle Island
June 25, 2020

Aunt Jemima is finally being retired for blatantly obvious reasons that have been blatantly obvious for a very long time. Similarly, Uncle Ben will be joining her in retirement. One cannot help but wonder how it is that the overtly racist name/logo of the National Football League’s Washington, DC franchise, which I will not include here, can escape the current scrutiny brought down on so many others by the lynching of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and the Black Lives Matter protests covering the globe?

Let me say today, on the anniversary of George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry getting their asses handed to them by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana in 1876, that is long past time the football mercenaries representing our nation’s capital ditch their disgusting name and logo.

Along with all the other hateful racist slur imagery, the name of the team I’ve been calling Washington Racists’ has got to go. Their chosen name would be bad enough anywhere in the nation built on land stolen via genocide, but in the nation’s capital? Really?

Bruce Cockburn – Stolen Land

Or maybe you’d prefer a live version…

 

Before Chrump’s stormtroopers attacked them with teargas…oh, I’m sorry – pepper spray – and clubs, and the reporters witnessing this tableau were ordered to vacate Lafayette Park in Washington, DC, protesters attempted to take down the statue of genocidal monster, and favorite past president of the current White House occupant Andrew Jackson. Donald Chrump and Andrew Jackson had similar personalities. It seems likely that had Chrump been alive in Jackson’s time he would have gladly owned slaves and happily seen to the mistreatment (at best) of the native peoples he would have seen as worthless and in his way. Jackson should have been removed from Washington, DC while in office, before he became a statue.  Thankfully, there is a less-than-zero chance that anyone will ever erect a statue of the current president.

Except maybe this:

Or this… 

An unrepentant slaveowner, Jackson was responsible for the infamous Trail of Tears, the forced removal of tens of thousands of Indians collectively referred to as the Five Civilized Tribes (the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee, and Seminole tribes) from the American southeast in order to clear the land for plantations run on slave labor. Indian removal was Jackson's top legislative priority upon taking office, something he had been championing for more than a decade before becoming America’s seventh president. Approximately 4,000 Indians perished during this death march and all of their lives were essentially destroyed, as this nation’s original inhabitants believed they were literally inseparable from their homelands.

And the team that purports to represent our nation’s capital continues to flaunt their racist logo and name. At least they weren’t called the Washington Jemimas.

Patriotic American attempting to rid public
land of one more memorial to a genocidal racist

I. Mangrey reporting. This land is your land, this land is my land, but first it was their land.

Crowd Size Matters

Guess They Got Tired Of Winning

Tulsa, (Not) OK
June 22, 2020

The Hindenburg of presidents Donald Chrump threw caution to the wind and the COVID-19 pandemic under the bus to restart his campaign for re-election. After backing down as a result of the righteous outcry to stay fuck away from Juneteenth, by delaying his assault on anti-racism by one day. This was still within the margin of terror, as Juneteenth has historically been a weekend-long celebration.

Oh! The lack of humanity!

Nonetheless, dozens of Chrump lovers braved the coronavirus pandemic they believe does not exist and the Chrump presidency they believe does exist, to catch a glimpse of their beloved leader, and very likely COVID-19. Many people are saying that rally attendance was down because of reports that six of Chrump’s advance team tested positive for COVID-19 and had been traipsing around Tulsa for a week or so, visiting bars and restaurants, not wearing masks, infecting an as yet undetermined number of locals. These inconsiderate slobs also tested positive for being in the employ of President Death. But, does that make them bad people? Well, that is a prerequisite for the job, so it is safe to assume, yes. Many other people are saying that rally attendance was down because people are just so sick of winning that they cannot take one more day of Chrump as president. Either way, when Chrump looked out on his very, very empty arena, he was reportedly shocked and horrified.

Possibly fearing inhaling COVID-19 and/or fumes from the
Orange Gas Cloud, most people stayed away from Chrump’s infection rally.

You can tell what a great time Chrump had by watching his sorrowful trudge after his two-hour Son of American Carnage rant to a half-empty* BOK Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As Chrump slowly, but very powerfully dominated the very slippery, treacherous and brutally unpredictable terrain – much like a golf green on a sunny day – from Marine One to the White House, Chrump looked like Ebenezer Scrooge after his visit with the ghost of Happy Christmas future, where no one shows up to his funeral because everyone hates his guts.

If you know the title of the song someone added,
you get an extra 10 points

It looks by all appearances like if he wants real crowds to show up, Chrump will have pay many more people much more money to waste their time standing around for two hours watching another of Chrump’s public psychotic episodes, while he yells nonsense and brags about how great his apartments, boats, cars, buildings and ex-wives are. That shouldn’t be a problem though; did he mention that he’s very rich?

Speaking of presidential campaigns, many very serious journalists, wearing their most sincerely serious faces are asking numerous women purported to be on Joe Biden’s short list for vice president if they are qualified for the job and ready to be president on day one.

First of all, I don’t recall anyone asking Mike “Time for a quick reality check. Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn’t kill.”** Pence if he was ready to be president on day one. And he had agreed to be the running mate of a repeatedly bankrupt conman, ex-reality tv phony who could barely spell his own name despite having put it on a number of buildings he did not build.

Putting that aside, there has been no one less prepared – who later proved beyond a shadow of a doubt he is still unprepared even after 1250 days on the job (so to speak) – than Donald Chrump, who still insists the coronavirus that has already killed more than 120,000 Americans is a hoax created by the media to hurt his presidency, and who said that testing should be slowed down (which he apparently already did), if not stopped because it is the testing that causes people to get the virus that he does not believe exists.

If the question of preparedness can ever be asked again, it surely cannot be asked of any Democrats during this election cycle unless it is also and repeatedly asked of Chrump. And when he responds, “Yes of course I am. And I would say that no one has ever been more prepared, or done a better job, or ever will even come close to doing as good as I have, ever in a million, maybe even a billion years. Believe me.”, there should be hearty, gut-busting laughter by the questioner and anyone present at the time, laughter that should only end at the next commercial break.

* Some might call it half-full, but those are mostly half-wits. (Actually, it was closer to 2/3 empty.) One observer noted, “It was hard to tell whether there were more empty seats or more empty heads in the venue.”
** Actual Pence quote from 2000.

I. Mangrey reacting.

John Bolton – Profile In Scourge (And Greed)

Pride And Cowardice

June 21, 2020

Current swamp maggot/White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said of John Bolton’s yell-all book, “It’s the deep swamp political equivalent of revenge porn. The guy got fired because he didn’t obey the chain of command, because he was out of touch with what President Donald J. Trump stands for as far as foreign policy.” Wow, being out of touch with Chrump’s foreign policy (as if such a thing existed) is the first decent thing John Bolton has done in his entire political career. And, “deep swamp?” Really? How exactly did Bolton become Donald Chrump’s third – maybe fourth, who can keep count with all these best people flying all over the place – National Security Advisor? Did he sneak in while no one was looking? Or did someone, maybe someone in a position of authority, maybe like a president with a very good brain who knows all the best people assign Bolton one of the highest positions in the federal government? We may never know.

Bolton and fellow swamp things

Whatever may come from John Bolton’s possibly upcoming book, which the fascist Justice Department is suing to stop from being published*, we must not forget that he is not a hero for telling all he knows about all the horrific escapades of Donald Chrump. Bolton is a pathetic, greedy, little coward. He may have the same mustache as the evil Professor from Felix the Cat, but he reminds me of this clip of Daffy Duck:

 

At least Daffy showed some guts tangling with the Tasmanian Devil. Bolton had every opportunity to take a swipe at the Tasmanian Douchebag Chrump, but he kept his mouth shut when it counted, presumably in order to maximize interest in his book. No matter how many mind-boggling tales Bolton may tell, it cannot excuse his decision to fuck America one more time, by sitting there in “The Room Where It Happened” – which oddly enough is the title of his traitorous book – watching it happen, and further enabling it to happen by doing nothing to stop it from happening. Nothing but a greedy, little coward and a long festering stain on the fabric of this nation.

As if that were not sufficiently atrocious, Bolton has the gall to criticize Democrats for only going after Chrump for his treasonous dalliance with Ukraine instead of exposing all the other similar attempts with countries like China to help him win in 2020. Bolton accused Dems of "impeachment malpractice," blaming them for not issuing a subpoena for him to testify. I'm sorry, I didn't realize that patriots needed to be legally compelled to step forward and tell the American people the truth about their insane, traitorous leader. The truth of what they personally witnessed.

A boy and his dog

I don’t recall where in the Constitution it instructs those who take an oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” are required to not preserve, protect and defend the Constitution, and instead sit silently by and watch the constant commission of high crimes and misdemeanors, and then fight calls to testify about same, and then sell your collisional, delusional story for big bucks. This is reminiscent of O.J. Simpson’s post-acquittal (for murders he almost certainly did commit) book “If I Did It.”

Well, Chrump did it, Bolton watched him do it, blamed others for him keeping quiet and then making money off it, and still pretends to be a patriot. While more than a dozen other public servants risked their long-held jobs by testifying against the most corrupt, and vindictive president in our history for the same malfeasance Bolton wants us to pay to read about, Bolton sat there with his head up his ass (I guess he likes how his mustache tickles his insides) teasing his book. Fuck you John Bolton. He was always a war-mongering asshole; he never saw a war he didn’t like, and always wished he could have started more. Now he has placed an oozing, moldy cherry squarely atop the shit sundae that was his career.

*Fun fact: Bolton’s book has already been vetted, published, printed and distributed to no small number of select persons in the media; for example Stephen Colbert.

I. Mangrey reporting.

Thought For The Day

Black Lives Matter

June 19, 2020

Juneteenth 2020. Under the orange gas cloud of the most racist American president in a very long time.

On June 19, 1865 Union army general Gordon Granger exposed a dirty little secret in the city of Galveston, Texas. On that day the last slaves in America learned that they had been freed almost two and a half years earlier thanks to the Emancipation Proclamation. That of course came after the defeat of the treasonous Confederacy, whose “heroes” are finally receiving their just desserts. Statues of these enemies of the United States are finally being, in many cases unceremoniously, removed from public view. Probably not a bad idea to put monuments to these hateful bigots to rest – somewhat more than two and a half years after they officially became the vile losers they always were.

Billie Holliday – Strange Fruit

Now we just need to remove one more monument to racism, a living hateful bigot, a heinous enemy of the United States, from the highest office in the land and from the People’s House. Hopefully, not by another war between the states, but at the ballot box.

Gil Scott-Heron – Winter in America

This has been your Paying Attention Thought For The Day.

You're welcome.

What is your thought for the day?

Dumb Man “Walking”

Pot Calling The Kettle Fake

June 17, 2020

I would say Donald Chrump is a freak of nature, but there is absolutely nothing natural about him. Fake skin color, fake teeth, fake “hair.” He also has a fake “fortune,” fake doctors, has had a fake charity, a fake university, fake tax audit and is currently a fake president. Despite him and his doctors lying about his weight, Chrump is physically obese, and despite his claims of having a “very, very large uh-brain,” he is mentally emaciated.

This dangerous mutant proved once again during his phucked-up photo op at West Point that he is unable to manage the seemingly simple task of transferring liquids from various containers into the otherwise useless hole beneath his nose like a normal person, or even most abnormal people for that matter.

Most five-year-olds can drink from a cup with one hand,
but not this one – someone get this “man” a sippy cup*

No one is better, more consistent or more pathetic at making excuses for just about anything than Chrump. Important things. Meaningless things. Things he previously bragged about doing. Most recently Chrump, who is two years younger than Keith Richards (who has ingested more booze and done more drugs than most 10 men combined) but moves like someone 20 years his senior, looked completely out of his (or anyone’s) element as he descended a typical handicap ramp after delivering his completely useless commencement speech to the hostage graduating class at West Point last week.

Rather than let criticism roll off his back, Chrump amplified the event by, 1) tweeting about it, and 2) making pathetic, ridiculous excuses. Oh, and of course, the lying. Can’t have a Chrump statement without lying.

Slippery? NFW. Momentum? WTF?

Attempting to negotiate a standard handicap ramp, and looking like a
man walking on legs he bought yesterday, Chrump appears slower and
less stable than Nik Wallenda crossing the Grand Canyon on a 2” wire.*

If you haven't already, see for yourself

The Lt. Colonel trying his best to walk as slowly as Chrump had no trouble walking like a man who has actually walked before. For the record, it is very unlikely that such a ramp would be the slightest bit slippery on such a warm sunny day. And that “final ten feet” was about two feet. And, is that what Chrump thinks is running?

Then there’s Chrump’s frighteningly fake face coloring. Looks (below) like he got his little hands on a bad batch. Perhaps, among his many, many weaknesses, like his inability to listen, think or move very well, Chrump also can’t see too well. As I have said many times over the past few years, anyone who sees what Chrump sees in the mirror before going out in public and says, “Yep, that looks good,” has any number of issues, not the least of which is serious emotional problems and probably brain damage.

Someone should teach him how to wash
his face or more likely, do it for him.*

* As always, we apologize for posting such graphic and disturbing images; we hope no one will be emotionally scarred or made physically ill for having seen this one.

I. Mangrey reporting. Just callin’ ‘em the way I see ‘em.

An Indecent Prop Asshole

He's Just Not That Into You...Or Anyone Else For That Matter

June 15, 2020

“I don’t mean to sound bitter, cold and cruel,
but I am, so that’s how it comes out.”
                              Bill Hicks

Chrump was not satisfied with his angry, upside-down Bible photo shoot, in which he blindsided the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Defense Secretary, using them as props. Chrump held the Bible like he was making an example of it, punishing it in full public view because it angered him in some way – most likely because it failed to mention that he was the greatest person God ever put on his (Chrump’s that is, as far as he's concerned) Earth.

Donald Chrump is the toilet paper stuck to America’s shoe

Involuntarily attempting to outdo himself – after all that was a two-fer, humiliating both the Bible and top military officials at the same time – Chrump decided to mock, insult and endanger the health of West Point’s graduating class of 2020 (and their families) by dragging them back from all corners of the country, in the middle of the pandemic, solely for the amusement of the Commander-in-chief, who insisted they watch him struggle to read a pathetic speech he did not understand and they did not need to hear, in person rather than the remote graduation everyone else in the entire fucking world is doing these days. Chrump as always, was concerned only with massaging his insatiable, unstable ego, and with proving he is boss by throwing his overweight around. Everything is but a prop to Chrump. He has no respect for anyone or anything. Never has, never will.

But Wait, There’s More…

“I could shoot all of you and not lose a single vote.”

Chrump is also using his won fawning followers as props, willing to risk their lives, but in true Chrump fashion, making them sign a waiver - a pre-nup of sorts, before getting into bed or an arena with him – lest they contract COVID-19 because they stood elbow to eyeball without masks just to be in the presence of, and please their idol.

In one way or another each of us, whether for him or against him, takes our lives into our hands every day with Donald Chrump at the helm. whether it be the virus he is aiding and abetting, the racism his is fighting to inflame, the grifting or the treason, he has us all hanging by our fingernails over the Grand Canyon of evil incompetence that is Chrump's very essence.

The incumbent idiot, who cannot handle walking down a ramp without looking like the oldest person alive, and apparently cannot drink from a glass without using both of his little hands, also needs two slogans just to be safe. Chrump has “Keep America Great” right alongside “Transition To Greatness,” and his mindless minions can’t see that these mutually exclusive messages don’t quite belong together. Just as they cannot see that “Donald Chrump” and “President of the United States” do not belong together. 

The recently departed Neil Innes, presciently
sings a song of Donald Chrump, while also predicting
Chrump's signature "hair" style, circa 1973

I. Mangrey reporting.



It’s The Racism, Stupid

In The Land Of The Bigot The Racist Is King*

June 12, 2020

 

Some people thought that President Death was going to speak about bringing the nation together – not many, but some. Okay, so no one actually thought that, but some hoped he might. Well, not really. A life-long racist who, along with his KKK-sympathizing crook of a father, was found guilty of restricting occupancy in their New York City apartments to white people. The man who caterwauled for years about Barack Obama not being born in America. The man who literally began his campaign for president by calling Mexicans criminals and rapists (remember, he is always and only talking about himself).

The man who said he will not stand for the renaming of U.S. military bases currently named for traitorous Confederate lowlife losers who killed Americans in their quest to continue slavery. The man who fake fucks flags. Who called African nations “shithole countries.” The man who has barely mentioned the name of George Floyd. The man who is calling for more policing in the face of a national outcry for less, claiming his iron mini-fist is “dominating the streets with compassion.” Compassion and teargas. Compassion, teargas and rubber bullets. Compassion, teargas, rubber bullets, and an almost fanatical devotion to himself.

Chrump white-splaining racism at Dallas megachurch

This is the man who shamelessly, and with no sense of irony, yesterday said, “We have to work together to confront bigotry and prejudice wherever they appear? But we’ll make no progress and heal no wounds by falsely labeling tens of millions of decent Americans as racists or bigots. We have to get everybody together, we have to be in the same path. I think if we don’t do that we have problems, and we’ll do that, we’ll do it, I think we’re going to do it very easily. It’ll go quickly and it it’ll go very easily.” What about if we accurately label tens of millions of Americans as racists or bigots? Will that help?

That’s right folks, you heard it straight from the racist’s mouth. The man who called Nazi and white supremacist marchers in Charlottesville who marched with torches in support of Confederate statues and chanted “Jews will not replace us” “very fine people,” ensures us that the racism he so fervently adheres to, as do so many of his faithful followers, will disappear almost like magic “very easily.” Yep, just like that fake pandemic that disappeared after the first 15 cases went very quickly and easily to zero…right before their meteoric climb to now over 113,000 dead Americans (with new predictions of at least 250,000 by election time) – and probably tens of thousands more than that by many estimates.

So go on out to your local drinking establishment and hoist a few to the very easy end of racism in America, which will be here any minute now. right after the very quick end of the COVID-19 pandemic. If your local drinking establishment is closed for some strange reason, and you are white, just break in and have a good time. If you are not white, consider self-quarantining. And not because of the coronavirus.

Speaking of coronavirus, Chrump is planning to once again stick his tiny thumb in the eye of all African Americans by holding his upcoming rally on June 19, known as “Juneteenth,” the day slavery finally ended in America, in Tulsa, Oklahoma where a bunch of white people slaughtered the local black population and burned their city to the ground. Organizers of this race-baiting event put the following disclaimer on their website:

“By clicking register below, you are acknowledging that an inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any public place where people are present. By attending the Rally, you and any guests voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19 and agree not to hold Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. liable for any illness or injury.”

The bloated, orange bigot was right about one thing though, many of us are going to work together to finally end the systemic racism at the core of American society. But, obviously, considering it has been going on for 400 years, it will not happen easily. And it’s about 400 past happening quickly. Someone might want to fill Mr. Chrump in on the details.

*But we can and we must vote this fucker out (as well as the whores he rode in on).

I. Mangrey reporting.

Say Their Names (And Stop Talking Shit)

Stupid White People

June 9, 2020

A good friend forwarded a video from someone with whom I am thankfully not acquainted. I admit that I opted not to watch the video after reading the set-up from the original sender. Here is the text:

NYC WAS FINISHED BEFORE THIS... THEN THE CORONA VIRUS AND NOW THESE RIOTS (OH I FORGOT, I MEANT PEACEFUL PROTESTS), THOUSANDS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO RETURN TO WORK AND THATS THE LEAST OF IT.  CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO OF  MIDTOWN

Yes, it was all caps, an obvious clue right off the bat, but it was mercifully brief so I read through it and replied to my friend thus:

Has whoever sent you this heard of George Floyd? Or Eric Garner? Or Breonna Taylor? Or Trayvon Martin? Or Rodney King, Amadou Diallo, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Sandra Bland, Philando Castile, Tamir Rice or Ahmaud Arbery, to name a few? They will not be able to return to work either. They are all dead. Permanently. Because police or white vigilantes killed them for no reason, other than being black, which – and your friend might not be aware of this – is not a choice. Unlike being ignorant, race is not a choice. I'm guessing you got this from a white guy. A clueless white guy. Maybe help him out, before he shows his ignorance in public again.

Spirit – Mechanical World

Side note: In no way condoning the burning and looting of private property, property is repairable and replaceable. However, there seems to be much more violence being perpetrated by law enforcement than by all the looters combined. And that includes those who are looting in order to make sincere protesters look bad. Sure, some of the violence is borne of frustration, but no small amount is being committed by outsiders who have no interest in black lives. And the violence committed by law enforcement is against people, not property. Though it has not been confirmed or reported in any way, it is worth saying that Donald Chrump has personally paid agitators to commit mayhem and destruction, which he sees as helpful to his re-election. This is very possibly untrue, but what the heck, spread the word.

Kimbery Jones – Co-author / I’m Not Dying With You Tonight

With any luck, Ms. Jones and a few of her closest friends will get to have a face-to-whatever-that-thing-on-Chrump’s-neck-is. It’s a damn good thing she is looking for equality and not revenge. I would not want to get on her bad side.

Our chief bunker inspector might want to take another longer look at his accommodations – maybe another time and a half would be in order. Then he can venture out and start having his coronavirus party rallies where he and all his faithful, feckless followers can infect each other to their hearts' content. 

In 2016 then-candidate Chrump in his unmatched ignorance, arrogance and racism asked Black Americans, “What the hell do you have to lose?” In case there was any uncertainty as to how to answer that question then, Chrump has made damn sure that they and all the rest of us have a good answer now.

I. Mangrey reporting.      
                                                                                       

                                                                                

Thought For The Day

Black Lives Matter

June 7, 2020

Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love was once the city of horrible racist Mayor Frank Rizzo who Gil Scott-Heron described as, “the high school graduate Mayor of Philadelphia, whose ignorance is surpassed only by those who voted for him.” Too far north to lionize Robert E. Lee, Philadelphia instead propped up the next worst thing and immortalized the homegrown, hometown bigoted thug in bronze.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Protesters defaced and tried in vain to damage Rizzo
before he was ultimately removed from public view

With the backdrop of the George Floyd-inspired Black Lives Matter protests currently supplanting the deadly Chrump-inspired coronavirus across the globe, current Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said, “The Frank Rizzo statue represented bigotry, hatred, and oppression for too many people, for too long. It is finally gone.”

Meanwhile, Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser made some changes of her own to the city she leads. Bowser had requested that Chrump “withdraw all extraordinary law enforcement and military presence” (the proverbial knee-on-the-neck of her city) “from Washington, DC.”

When Chrump isn’t “inspecting” the White House bunker, which he said he has done “two and a half times” whatever the fuck that means, he is busy pouring gasoline on the fire of frustration and anger burning across this land. Chrump cares only for his base – a base filled to the brim with hate and fear, and let’s not forget ignorance, lots and lots of ignorance – as he calls hundreds of thousands of mostly peaceful protesters “thugs” and threatens to burn the Constitution by sending active duty troops to put a stop to the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of assembly.

In order to make clear who runs Washington, DC – home to United States presidents, and place from where the current resident recently committed voter fraud – Mayor Bowser did some redecorating of 16^th Street leading up to the White House:

This is not photoshopped. It was painted at the request of DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser.

Bowser also renamed the square in front of St. John's Church, where Chrump pulled his Bible stunt after having his path brutally cleared, “Black Lives Matter Plaza.”

Peter Gabriel – Biko

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