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.
