Today’s
thought is not a new one, but it has just gotten another boost from – again, I
hope this does not hurt anyone’s feelings – science. The fact that human beings,
whether Adam and Eve, Adam and Steve or Darwinian-style evolution, are
originally from the African continent. So, whether this makes you sad or not,
we are all African if you go back far enough. And yes, that means more than 6,000 years. Ironic, ain’t it.
So
to all the white supremacists, racists, bigots, (I know “patriots” is one of them, but no; just
no) whatever you prefer to call
yourselves, fuck your little feelings, your discomfort and your sadness over
hearing the truth. The truth about American history, the truth about current
American events, and the truth about where all of you, all of us come from. Get
over yourselves. Wise the fuck up. And shut the fuck up already.
Rahsaan Roland Kirk –
Blacknuss
Have
a nice day.
This has been your Paying Attention™ Thought
For The Month.
Despite having a bullet-proof (it’s just an
expression) majority of mostly youngish radical-religious, right-wing,
painfully-white justices – two in stolen seats, Senate Ratpublicans will undoubtedly
display all the discretion, professionalism and gravitas of a clown car during
the confirmation process. The only question for these yahoos is which will they
bring on harder – the misogyny or the racism. While many on this
side of the aisle and the flip-side of reality can barely walk and chew gum at
the same time, I have a feeling they will manage to multi-task on this one. Only slime will tell.
A bunch of wealthy, white, male landowners –
just like the Founders intended, sitting in judgment of a black woman. And
certainly not the first time such a woman was tougher and smarter than all of
them put together. Think Michelle Obama, Anita Hill, Maya Angelou, Shirley
Chisholm, Angela Davis, Harriet Tubman, and thousands of slave women who had
plenty of brains, but not enough bullets to prevail.
You might remember Judge Jackson; she ordered
former White House counsel Don McGahn to testify before the House of Representatives.
In her decision the judge explained the nature of the American presidency by quoting
Founding Fathers James Madison and Alexander Hamilton and French diplomat
Alexis de Tocqueville. Perhaps the most well-known phrase to come out of that
decision was “Stated simply, the primary takeaway from the past 250 years of
recorded American history is that Presidents are not kings, and plaintiff is
not president.”
Loopy Lindsey, Kooky Kennedy,
Jerky Johnson, Hang ‘Em Hawley and Mopey Mitch
on their way to Senate hearings on accosting Ketanji Brown Jackson
The mammals on the
Court will remain greatly outnumbered, but at least there will be more
diversity while we wait for the current majority to shrink. Time’s a wastin’.
Vladimir Putin is obsessed with seeing democracy as a global
entity fail. This is nothing new. Well before his relentless crusade to get
Donald Tmurp elected president, Putin’s prime objective was weakening
democracy. No better stooge could have been created to accelerate Putin’s
mission than a brain-dead, narcissistic, autocrat-wannabe conman.
So, we expect Putin to attack democracy. What we did not
expect, though we really should have, was Putin not being the biggest threat to
democracy, particularly in America. The most clear and present danger to
American democracy is Donald Tmurp’s Ratpublican Party. This massive cadre of
fascistic white nationalists, that has infiltrated our government at the
highest levels, and has an enormous propaganda machine, is shamelessly
fomenting civil war. They are determined to take this country back in time to
when they thought America was great before. Today’s Ratpublican Party has done
everything short of supporting the return of slavery.
By many accounts,
including some of Putin’s close advisors (all of whom, one imagines, must fear
for their lives every waking moment, not to mention being awakened by hellish
nightmares based on real stories of past associates), Putin is rapidly
approaching Tmurp-like levels of mental incapacity. Perhaps the most telling example of Putin’s alternative
facts is his insistence that he is merely trying to stop Volodymyr Zelensky,
who is Jewish, and his neo-Nazi regime from committing (non-existent) genocide
in Ukraine. There's lying, and then there's looney toons.
While American autocrats
are working to re-litigate the Civil War, the Russian strongman is trying to
get the SSR back together, even if he has to wipe out most of their
populations. Vlad the Mad has also threatened historic conflagration should
anyone dare stand against him.
Donald J. Trump July 23, 2018
Remember when this psycho was
on Twitter?
“Whoever tries to hinder us, and even more so, to create
threats to our country, to our people, should know that Russia's response will
be immediate. And it will lead you to such consequences that you have never
encountered in your history. We are ready for any development of events. All
the necessary decisions have been made in this regard. I hope that I will be
heard.” Vladimir J. Putin February 24, 2022 Guess
these two use the same writers
Putin to U.S. “Duck and cover
motherfuckers!”
Most of the Ratpublican Duma is vigorously siding with
Putin. Let us not forget that the moment Barack Obama became president,
countless Ratpublicans and their media enablers began singing the praises of
Putin, while denigrating Obama at every turn, and down every straightaway.
Then, Tmurp surrounded himself with Russophiles like Paul Manafort, Mike Flynn,
Steve Bannon and others too numerous to mention. Once installed as president
despite losing the popular vote handily, Tmurp took up Putin’s causes while weaking
the United States with impunity. So here we are.
Rare photo of movie night at
Mor-on-Lago
King Ratpublican Tmurp made his feelings known as Putin
surrounded Ukraine, poised to initiate the most illegal war-of-choice since
Bush/Cheney invaded Iraq. Here’s what the Toxic Twit had to say about his
benefactor,
“I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I
said, ‘This is genius.’ Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine—of Ukraine.
Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful. So, Putin is now
saying, ‘It’s independent,’ a large section of Ukraine. I said, ‘How smart is
that?’ And he’s gonna go in and be a peacekeeper. That’s the strongest peace
force. We could use that on our southern border. That’s the strongest peace force
I’ve ever seen. There were more army tanks than I’ve ever seen. They’re gonna
keep peace all right. No, but think of it. Here’s a guy who’s very savvy, I
know him very well. Very, very well.”
From Newt Gingrich, to Lindsey Graham, to Josh Hawley, to the
GQP House Caucus, to John Bolton (remember this no-nothing asshole?), to Mike
Pompeo, Ratpublicans of all smells are rushing to microphones to call Joe Biden
weak and ineffective, and Putin strong and masterful. For his part, Pompeo, a
recent secretary of state and former CIA chief, recently gushed on Fux News
that Putin “was a very talented statesman” who “has lots of gifts.” Pompeo
added, “He was a KGB agent, for goodness sakes. He knows how to use power. We
should respect that.” Respect is not exactly the first word that leaps to my
mind, but then I still have at least minimal control of my faculties. And,
despite its many faults, I’ll still take the U.S. over Russia.
While another ex-secretary of state Condoleezza Rice has
called Putin “megalomaniacal,” Pompeo has praised him as “very shrewd” and “very
capable.” Putin’s media outlets are replaying clips on a loop of Pompeo's
praise on Russian
state TV. So Makeshift Mike must be right.
In another interview last week, Pompeo said, “I have
enormous respect for him – I've been criticized for saying that.” This is how
today’s Ratpublicans run for president.
Fucker Carlson cannot imagine why everyone is being so mean
to Putin, “asking” his audience, “Why should I hate Putin?” Followed by a
laundry list (in question form of course – does this pinhead think he’s always
on Jeopardy?) of things Putin didn’t do to poor little trust fund baby Fucker.
“Did he ever call me a racist? Has he ever tried to get me fired for
disagreeing with him?…yada, yada, yada.” Hey Fucker, you might want to know
that Putin doesn’t get people fired for disagreeing with him – he gets them
dead, you ignorant slut.
Insurrectionist fan-boy Josh Hawley was a bit less
obsequious, “America has an interest in Ukraine’s independence and territorial
integrity, and we have a strong interest in deterring Russian adventurism. But
these interests are not so great that we should commit ourselves to fight
Russia over Ukraine’s future.” Funny thing, Joe Biden specifically stated that
we have no intention of fighting Russia. With senators like this, who needs
democracy?
I. Mangrey recoiling. Let’s agree to disagree dispose of them. Electorally, of course.
BONUS TRACK:
Charles Mingus - Oh Lord Don't
Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me
Now that ex-Commoder-in-chief Tmrup has
been caught with boxes of classified documents that he did not flush down the
toilet, now that Tmrup’s accounting firm has tossed him out on his badly dyed
ear claiming that any numbers they received from Tmrup’s “businesses” over the
past nine years cannot be trusted, now that one judge has ruled that the two
Dons and Ivanka must testify in Letitia James’ criminal case (Eric already
testified, pleading The Fifth 500 times), and a federal judge found that Tmrup
can be held accountable for his leading role in the Jan 6th
insurrection in a civil case filed by several members of Congress and members
of law enforcement who were under threat of death that day. The civil case has
the potential of massive dollar awards to the plaintiffs. These will not be
like the pittances Tmrup paid to some number of porn stars to keep quiet,
meaning Team Tmrup may have serious problems meeting expenses after all the
payouts. Have we got a deal for him and his crime family, and it gets him
squarely in front of the cameras again, where he always longs to be.
An excited television executive
producer, after being pitched this show said, “We’ve got a sequel that will
absolutely crush the original series. In most cases, the sequel simply bombs.
Best case scenario, it does almost as well as the original. Not this time. What
we have here is pure television gold. No! Diamonds! They’re forever, right?
Nobody will be able to resist this obvious mega-hit. It will kick off with a
block of weeknight prime time episodes, but the plan – if this thing goes the
way we think it will, sponsors are literally begging us for slots – is to
create something like C-SPAN. That’s right, 24/7 baby. All Tmrups all the time. No one will be able to touch these
ratings. Believe me. This will make reality TV great again. The greatest. We
would like to thank Rudy Giuliani, the once-and-future crack-head Mike “My Stupid-Fucking-Pillow
Guy” Lindell and of course, the one and only Big Don Tmrup. No one did more to
make this blatantly criminal family what they are today. We love you Donny.”
TV Or Not TV, That Is the Question
Get
ready for the most addicting reality TV of all time. This will be the biggest,
most terrific, most beautiful show ever. This is no hoax folks. Join us for
TMRUP
FAMILY HOUSE ARREST
They’re all together, forever,
having a ball…and chain
Many people said that Tmrup could do whatever he wanted – and for so many,
too many years he simply did. Fake Tmrup charity, phony Tmrup University, fake
billions in wealth. Grab ‘em by the p*$$y…well, he said he could, they called it assault, rape pedophilia. He
thought he could pay some of them off to keep quiet about his affairs, but then
his “attorney” blew the whole thing up and spilled the beans. Tmrup said he
could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose a single vote. As it turned
out, doing that might have been less of a problem than what he actually did.
Conspiracy, money laundering, campaign finance violations, fraud, tax evasion,
obstruction of justice, attempted coup, immeasurable ignorance. He’s lucky that
racism and fascist tendencies are not in and of themselves, crimes. Tmrup also
reportedly flushed presidential documents down the toilet – the very same
toilet he drank out of.
Anyway, the whole whacky Tmrup
family will all finally be back home where they belong, in their big beautiful
Mor-on-Lago, but now they will all be together all of the time. All of them.
All the time. They can get in, but they can’t get out. Doomed to a life of
McDonald’s, KFC, Taco Bell, Diet Coke, and all the court documents they can
eat. Delivered right to their door – because they cannot leave. They’re all
under house arrest.
The house that fake wealth built bought
Beautiful(?), soon-to-be-bankrupt Mor-on-Lago
The Electoral College cannot
save them now. Never again will they eat or visit or slowly sip their
much-loved Covfefe. They will not enjoy another visit to the very beautiful
mountain beaches of Nambia – the island nation that exists only in the fevered
mind of their child patriarch, little Donny, Sr. The beautiful island of
Nambia. An island surrounded by water. Big water. Ocean water. And, it is
landlocked.
This time for real, he will not
be visiting his many fabulous golf courses worth millions or thousands of
dollars, depending on who is asking. All those tax cuts he gave himself? Can’t
use them where he’s not going.
The realest TV you will ever
see. The most fun you will ever have. Don’t miss it. Don’t miss them. Let’s get Tmrup the greatest
ratings in television history. Make America greater than ever, or at least
greater than the Tmrup days. It’s a low bar after all. Not so much a bar as a
chalk line on the ground.
You have never seen reality TV before. Ever. You may think
you have, but you are wrong. Believe me. Hear me now and thank me later. I
alone can fix this. Forget the Kardashians, the Real Housewives, Survivor, Big
Brother and all the rest of the fake-reality TV pasteurized, processed
entertainment product. Here comes the real deal. You will not be able to look
away. You will not watch any other shows. You will seriously consider quitting
your job. I mean, more than usual. The best, most beautifully terrific
entertainment is coming soon.
The Tmrup Show, which officially lasted five of the longest
seasons in television history. It brought us some of the most riveting
alternative reality programming this side of Fear Factor. It gave a
grifting psycho tv “personality” a starring role to end all roles. And plot
twists beyond belief. The guy who should have been voted off the show in the
first five minutes, after flaunting his racist bona fides at the bottom of
“his” golden escalator, ended up in the White House. Polling showed that most
Americans would have been less surprised, and had more confidence in leadership
if Mr. Ed had become president.
The Tmrup “men” after learning
they must testify in New York State, and the looming new reality show they cannot escape The two Dons are delusional; Eric has no idea what’s happening
With each grueling episode, the majority of his audience hung
in there, despite their better judgment, only to grow more weary, more
disgusted, more emotionally and mentally unstable day after day, month after
month and year after fucking year. Obviously, there were some who cherished
their Human-Cheeseburger-in-chief, and hung on his every ill-advised,
incoherent, insincere tweet, the thousands of senseless lies, and endless
idiocy. Oh, and the racism – Tmrup made Archie Bunker look like the Fresh
Prince. The feces-flinging-faithful watched with glee, while most of us looked
on with clenched fists, teeth and eyes. But, we all continued to watch, however
painful it became. And, as you well know, it was perpetually and profusely
painful right up until it was mercifully cancelled.
So what will we do now for entertainment? Watch black people
get assaulted and murdered by racist cops and assorted civilians? Watch all our
coastal cities drown in climate-crisis sea level rise? Hope that Russia sets
off nuclear combat by invading Ukraine? Watch Bitch McConnell decay right before
our tired eyes? All electrifying cell-phone-based reality-tv video to be sure.
But not good enough. America needs something so special, so inspiring, so
hysterically fucking funny as to literally crack thousands of ribs across this
great, bigly land of ours.
Tune in next time to learn about an exciting new television
event you won’t want to miss.
Many
people believe that the Civil War ended more than 150 years ago. The shooting
may have ceased after Appomattox, but the essence of the war never stopped.
Yes, slavery, as it existed then, is no more, but the oppression of the
descendants of slaves continues unabated for all intents and purposes. The
people who continue this legacy of hate and racism are the driving force behind
today’s Ratpublican Party. And Mike Pence has no problem with that. Or if he
does, he is sure is keeping it to himself.
Racism, anti-Semitism, insurrection,
what’s not to love
The
party of the insurrection and their leader who fomented, incited and delighted
in the violence at the Capitol on that day continues their efforts to pretend
nothing out of the ordinary took place that day, despite hours of video, nearly
150 law enforcement officers injured, and more than 700 arrests and 70 (Is that
all? Really?) sentenced. And they continue kneeling on the neck of democracy.
The repugnant Ratpublican base comprise the same people who still insist the Civil War was about states’ rights. These are the people who do not want their children to be exposed to any words, thoughts or books that might dangle their tiny, fragile, white minds above the roiling waters of non-alternative facts, which might cause them some discomfort, or heaven forbid, self-reflection. And these are the same people who continue kneeling on the neck of democracy.
Golden (Rainbow, actually) oldie video interlude
Fuck
Mike Pence!
This has been your Paying Attention™ Thought
For The Day.
Donald
Tmurp famously does not use email. Or formulate coherent sentences. Or know how
to spell most words. More comfortable yelling insults and big lies, he was much
more at home tweeting. Before being jettisoned for spreading disinformation
about COVID-19, Twitter was his preferred means of assaulting our senses in
written form. Many people were saying this was in part because he could not focus
long enough to create statements any longer than 280 characters.
During
the 2016 presidential campaign Donald Tumrp had this to read aloud about
Hillary Clinton’s fake email scandal: “People who have nothing to hide…don’t
destroy evidence to keep it from being publicly archived, as required under
federal law.”
That was then This is now: Witnesses reported seeing Turmp
literally ripping up documents in the White House, and on at least one
occasion, according to former Turmp aide Omarosa Manigault, shoving the hand-shredded
evidence into his face sphincter. More recently we have learned that Turmp
removed 15 boxes of documents, including some marked…wait for it…classified, with some documents labeled top secret,
from the White House and took them to Mor-on-Lago when he finally, grudgingly was coerced into leaving the White House. The National Archives were forced to go to Mor-on-Largo – I hope the received hazard pay – to retrieve the documents by
authority of the Presidential Records Act.
It is believed that there were also
an unknown number of documents that were destroyed in “burn bags” and permanently
lost. And who knows what else this life-long criminal is hiding. One assumes
that since Trmup believes he is president-for-life, he can do whatever he wants
since, and I quote, “When somebody is the president of the United States, the
authority is total. And that's the way it's got to be. It's total.” Therefore,
it only goes to show that any documents that he wants belong to him in perp…etuity
Tmurp’s famous, altered weather
map featuring his “Sharpie bubble”
was one of the illegally pilfered documents retrieved by authorities
According to our sources, it was proudly displayed on his refrigerator
Royal Flush
It is well known that Turmp has serious potty issues. Number
one, he reportedly spent a good deal of time tweeting from that particular
porcelain pedestal. Number two, he also went on frequent toilet tirades, for
example, “I won’t use the example of toilets ‘cause it’s sort of gross, right,
but let’s use it anyway. People are having to flush it seven, eight, ten,
twelve times.” We may now have new insight into why this mildewed-melon-masquerading-as-a-mammal
was so focused on frantically flushing his toilet.
New reporting from Maggie Haberman reveals that while Turmp
was in office, “staff at the White House residence periodically discovered wads
of printed paper clogging a toilet, and believed [Trump] had flushed pieces of
paper.” According to Haberman, staff members would periodically find his
personal toilet clogged. The plumber (presumably, not one of Nixon’s Watergate
guys) would have to come and find the source of the problem, and what he would
find would be clumps of printed paper. Apparently these papers were flushed
whole, and not digested like the ones he shoved into his misshapen maw. It would not be wise
however to rule out the possibility that at least some of these documents were
pre-chewed before being deposited in the crapper, like a mother bird preparing
food for her hatchlings. So just to be clear, these documents could have
emerged from either end of the president, or placed by hand, or any combination
thereof. The mind reels. The stomach churns.
In any event, it seems that either Turmp was attempting to
illegally dispose of government documents or he was, as many suspected,
literally wiping his ass with the Constitution. Clearly a full, far reaching
rectal investigation is in order. We must look into his entrails.
You may remember, (Hopefully not) when the Classified
Document Consumer said of Hillary Clinton, “She sent vast amounts of classified
information, including information classified as top secret. Top secret. Okay?
and this is where they said that she was extremely careless, and frankly I say,
grossly incompetent.” Grossly incompetent? You mean like someone blithely
divulging extremely sensitive top-secret information to Russian agents in the Oval
Office, putting a key ally’s operations in jeopardy? Like that?
James Comey, Donald Tmurp, Vladimir Putin and much of
the “liberal” American media used Clinton’s so-called Email-gate to assure, purposely
or otherwise, Tmurp’s Electoral College victory in 2016. As we all know, it was
repeatedly determined that Clinton was sloppy, but not criminal. Unlike some people
we know, who are both.
Many people are asking: Can you impeach a twice-impeached ex-president? While #45 ended up facing his post-second-impeachment
trial as ex-president, both actual impeachments took place while still in office. So the question still stands. As does the need.
How about a dead one?
And I would be remiss if I did not say, Lock. Him. Up!
According to Greene, who joins the Orange
Ogre with her recent permanent suspension from Twitter, told fascist radio host
Seb Gorka, “Ultimately, the truth is it's our Second Amendment rights, our
right to bear arms, that protects Americans and gives us the ability to defend
ourselves from a tyrannical government. And I hate to use this language, but
Democrats, they're exactly...they're doing exactly what our Founders talked
about when they gave us the precious rights that we have.” She does not in fact
hate to use this language, or she would stop using it. At least it was
refreshing to hear her take a break from comparing everything she doesn’t like
to Nazis and the Holocaust.
Legitimate Political Discourse Rides Again
So many of these
Ratpublicans cannot stop referencing the Holocaust in insane analogies. Maybe they
would be better off switching to the Crusades. I hear they were pretty bad, and
more in their wheelhouse.
More recently Greene warned Americans of “Nancy
Pelosi’s Gazpacho Police” and something about her patriotic (Did she mean
idiotic?) buddies who assaulted the Capitol being held in the Democrats’ gulag
(Did she mean goulash?). Every time she opens her mouth, America’s collective
IQ drops a point or two. If she had any brains, Margie would just STFU. Clearly,
her precious Second Amendment says nothing about the right to keep and bear
brains.
This has been your Paying Attention™ Thought
For The Day.
How else to explain it taking him 13 months
to reassert his “belief” that Turmp “was wrong” about Pence’s authority to hand
him the election?
Pence did briefly come out against the
violent assault on the Capitol with a tepid, “Today was a dark day in the
history of the United States Capitol.” He never mentioned how many times he had
change into clean underwear while running and hiding for his life that day as
his boss’ Red Hats rampaged through the Capitol chanting, “Hang Mike Pence!” Did
that slip his mind?
Pence then went mute on the subject. He never
said Turmp was wrong about anything until just the other day. Unlike McConnell,
McCarthy (Kevin, not Joe), and lily-livered Lindsey Graham, Pence never even
for a moment connected Turmp’s months of frantic planning and violent rhetoric
on that day to the Capitol siege and the gallows with Pence’s name on it. I
hope Pence doesn’t have some sort of undiagnosed brain-eating disease that
causes him to say shit he doesn’t mean.
Just asking your Paying Attention Question For The Day.
Song
lyrics like Roger Daltry singing, “Who the fuck are you?”, or Grace Slick’s
“Doesn’t mean shit to a tree” line, or the chorus of Dan Bern’s “Missing Link”
(below) are too toxic for American sensibilities, but professional dissemblers and white supremacists like Rush
Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Joe Rogan and Fucker Carlson (good thing this isn’t television or
radio, or we wouldn’t be allowed to use the actual name of Fux News’ number one
asshole…I mean asset) are permitted to essentially yell “Fire!” in a crowded
theater every fucking day (well, Limbaugh is finally dead, but you get the
point). There are many more of these verbal assaulters whose names will not be
mentioned. Because they are unsafe for public consumption.
Who
can forget The Doors who were told they could not sing the lyric “girl we
couldn’t get much higher” by Ed Sullivan? Sullivan insisted they change the
line to “girl we couldn’t get much better.” Jim Morrison ultimately said fuck
you to Sullivan, not literally, but instead by singing the original lyric on
live television, and the band was banned from ever appearing on the show again.
Tom
Petty had to record two versions of his song You Don’t Know How It Feels, to
save listeners from the line, “let’s roll another joint.” In the “clean”
version he says, “let’s hit another joint,” which is kind of funny as the savvy
listener will understand this is not necessarily much better. But, I digress.
If
words could literally hurt like sticks and stones, as opposed to just
figuratively or as is too often the case, indirectly, Fucker Carlson would be
spending much of the rest of his miserable trust-fund-prolonged life behind
bars and gagged.
And
aren’t people who threaten the lives of White House occupants immediately
visited by the actual men in black – the Secret Service? Are not words like, oh
I don’t know, “Hang Mike Pence!” a federal offense? I know I would never risk
saying such a thing to a Secret Service agent, on television, or radio, or even
on a little-read blog.
What!? I didn’t say a fucking thing.
And
what about when one of the two major political parties calls the violent siege
of the Capitol, in service of a sitting president inciting the overthrow of the
government, calls beating Capital police with Turmp and American flag poles (literally
the sticks of “sticks and stones”) and various other weapons of bodily harm “legitimate
political discourse?” have filthier words ever been spoken?
Dan Bern – Missing Link
I. Mangrey, who
never has slurred adiscouraging
word, andwhose eyes
are not cloudy. OK?
Donald
Turmp was the most disgraceful, unqualified, anti-democratic candidate ever to
run for the presidency, yet he became the Ratpublican standard-bearer.
He
and countless members of his campaign worked with Russia to defeat Hillary
Clinton.
Turmp
lied relentlessly every single day he was in office, ultimately totaling 30573
over 4 years*…that we know of, since we also know that he had a habit of
(illegally) tearing up countless presidential documents by hand, causing a need
for aides to reconstruct them per the Presidential Records Act of 1978, mandating
the preservation of all presidential records (Hmmmm, wonder why we needed that
law). As we now know, this includes records that have been hand-shredded
(sometimes to confetti-sized pieces) by a criminal president who spent more
than a year screaming about Hillary Clinton’s handling of her communications.
He
was impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, related to his
personal attempts to strongarm the president of Ukraine into bringing bogus
charges against Hunter Biden. The Ratpublican Senate refused to convict,
despite overwhelming evidence of high crimes and/or misdemeanors delivered by
numerous patriots who witnessed Turmp’s depredations.
After
being bailed out by his enablers, Turmp took revenge against everyone who told
the truth about his criminal activities.
Turmp’s enablers,
sycophants, suck-ups and sock puppets
Turmp
stood up for Nazis, white nationalists, Confederate fetishists, and Qanon (who he
claimed he knew nothing about except “they like me very much”), and Vladimir
Putin at every turn.
He
probably provided more aid and comfort to the COVID-19 virus than any person on
the planet, was verifiably responsible for hundreds of thousands of American
deaths, and suggested people drink disinfectant as a treatment for the virus he
nurtured.
After
losing in a landslide to Joe Biden, Trump insisted the election was stolen,
spread his Big Lie, and mounted a vast campaign to overthrow the government.
This campaign culminated (in truth, it remains ongoing) in Turmp inciting a
horrendous terror attack on the Capitol, where his supporters tried to hang
Mike Pence, assaulted and in some cases murdered law-enforcement, smeared feces
on the Capitol walls, and attempted to steal documents necessary to
ceremonially certify the Electoral College count on January 6, 2021.
To
top off the most disgusting presidency in American history (and that’s saying
something), Turmp is impeached a record second time. Again, mountains of
incontrovertible audio and video evidence presented by House managers were not
enough to convince Senate Ratpublicans to convict the obvious, shameless
criminal. The one many of them rightly, albeit briefly, blamed for the
attempted coup.
Dangling
Pardons, Simple
As
if all of that was not sufficient to disqualify this deplorable douchebag from
ever showing his face in public again, let alone running for office, Turmp recently
told rally-goers in Texas, “Another thing we’ll do – and so many people have
been asking me about it – if I run and if I win, we will treat those people
from January 6 fairly. We will treat them fairly. And if it requires pardons,
we will give them pardons. Because they are being treated so unfairly.” I
assume he has a good treason for saying this.
Presumably,
neither Turmp nor his simple-minded, seditious supporters understand that
pardoning someone presumes, and enshrines for all time, the fact that the
pardoned party was guilty in the first place. They also missed the fact that
Turmp was still technically president for two weeks after his failed coup, and
could have theoretically pardoned all his little criminals then. But that is
only because he thinks they are all suckers and losers. Or maybe because not one of those fuckers was
arrested during the four-hour-long assault. Nonetheless, Turmp did
not stop at offering up phony pardons for the traitors who attacked the
Capitol. He urged his mindless minions to “protest” should any court dare put
him on trial for any of the many crimes for which he is currently on the eve of
indictment. We all know what Turmp means when he talks about white folks
protesting.
But
wait, there’s more…there’s always more…
Apparently
not satisfied with the current state of indictments against him, Turmp took a
few moments to reiterate that he attempted a coup, whining that the House
Select Committee on Jan 6, which he claims is fraudulent, should be
investigating Mike Pence for not “overturning the election” – his words…and
mine.
Nonetheless,
Susan Collins (and an as yet unofficial number of other Ratpublican
office-holders) would not rule out voting for the disgraced, twice-impeached, seditious, ex-president and failed blogger should he again be the party’s nominee in 2024.
Collins, you may recall, was given permission by another Russian loyalist –
Moscow Mitch McConnell – to vote in favor of the second impeachment. Collins
probably thinks Turmp will have learned his lesson by then.
Now, I Digress…
Can’t
wait to see how the
ever-concerned-about-everything-except-what-she-should-be-concerned-about
Collins will vote on Biden’s undoubtedly qualified and undoubtedly
African-American woman nominee to the Supreme Court. We already know her boss
McConnell would prefer a “real” American. Collins has already expressed her
patented concern about “the way that the president has handled this nomination,”
which she whined was “clumsy at best.” This of course, has nothing whatsoever
to do with the quality of any potential nominee.
Clearly,
Ratpublicans insist (believe?) that only white males are capable of looking at
issues of race, gender, class, whatever, objectively.
I
find it amusing that anyone would give one iota of credit to
Mike Pence for, after 13 months of unrelenting cowardice, finally saying that
his former owner was “wrong” about Pence being able to “overturn the election.” Worse late than never. Pence is nothing but a self-serving cynic looking to salvage his political
future. I would not even waste a gallows on him. He deserves nothing but our bile. And maybe a show on Spotify.
I
also find it amusing that so many Ratpublicans act like Turmp is an aberration.
He is not. He is them and they are him. All con, all the time. No shame, no
guts, no class. Gross. Old. Party. Fuck ‘em.
And
just to put the urine-infused icing on this seven-layer feces-flavored cake,
the Ratpublican National Committee has now officially, purposely, in writing, with
no sense of shame, irony or fascism, labeled the murderous, shit-stained,
treasonous January 6, 2021 terror attack on the Capitol as “ordinary citizens
engaged in legitimate political discourse.”
And,
so to bed.
Leonard Cohen – Everybody Knows
*In the
spirit of undeserved generosity, we will assume three “working” days per week times four
years (remember, Turmp also “worked” very short days, and took 307 golf days,
so really at best he “worked” approximately 400-500 days, but we’ll ignore all
that) which means Turmp lied some 50 times per “work” day. One would be excused
for thinking he had some kind of lying bonus in his contract with Putin.
