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.
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.
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 oran 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
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).
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 OFMIDTOWN
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.
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 16th 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
This has been your Paying Attention Thought For The Day.
Apparently, Donny’s best darlings – long-time-squeeze Hope
Hicks and daughter/mistress Ivanka – came up with a brilliant plan to make him
look great again after word got out that he had spent the previous Friday night
cowering in the White House bunker, with all the upstairs lights off because
angry protesters were in the neighborhood.Naturally, after several days of what in other circumstances would be
brainstorming, Chrump suddenly realized that he was actually in the bunker for
inspection purposes. What a coincidence. The Chrump girls thought that in order to counteract Chrump’s emergency
bunker inspection, it would be a good idea for Donny Dearest to pose with a
Bible to create an iconic image for posterity. It turned out not so much iconic
as moronic. Chrump looks like he’s holding up an active wasps nest and has no
idea what to do next.
Chrump desperately trying to
figure out what is in his little hands and how it got there.
Chrump had the streets of DC violently cleared of peaceful
protesters (and some clergy for good measure) so that he, in order to show how
strong and brave he was, walked from the White House to St. John’s Church, surrounded
by a veritable army of law enforcement in addition to his usual phalanx of
Secret Service in order to pose for his tremendous photo op.
Is that a Bible in your hand or
are you just mad to see me?
Chrump preparing to bravely bash a protester with the object he found in his hands
Before disrespecting the Bible and all it is meant to stand
for, Chrump went after the Constitution by threatening to sic the United States
military on American citizens to put down protests on the streets of America.
Chrump intends to implement martial law despite opposition from the governors
of various states Der Furor intends to teach a lesson. He is clearly desperate
to make America great again. Quickly and bigly.
Apparently, America Was Great…
When white invaders blithely committed genocide on this
land’s original people of color
When slavery was the law of the land
When only land-owning white men were allowed to vote
When traitors demanded “states’ rights” and attempted to
overthrow the government of the United States, completely not about keeping
their slaves
When, if we absolutely could not have slaves, segregation
kept black people where they belonged, as second-class citizens
When the KKK freely roamed the land burning crosses,
lynching black people and persecuting Jews and Catholics
When civil rights marchers – mostly black people – were
attacked with vicious dogs and fire hoses and billy-clubs
When the National Guard shot peaceful student protesters to
death
When police could kill black people with impunity
When the House Un-American Activities Committee ruined
people’s lives by accusing them of being communists
When Trayvon Martin was minding his own business only to be
stalked and killed by an unhinged white vigilante in the name of
stand-your-ground
This is the America longed for by Chrump and his MAGAts.
This is the America Chrump’s mostly white sheeple believe is their God-given
right. Do not doubt that many Chrump supporters would happily own slaves, would
happily see protesters beaten or worse, are fine with police killing unarmed
black people for any or no reason. Chrump said “MAGA loves the black people.”
This is what polite people call unadulterated bullshit. No one believes it.
Chrump certainly doesn’t believe it. There are very few very fine people on his
side.
“If you can only be tall because somebody’s on their knees,
then you have a serious problem. And my feeling is white people have a very,
very serious problem, and they should start thinking about what they can
do about it. Take me out of this.” Toni
Morrison, 1993
Yes.
You. Racist. Always have been. We have the receipts.*
The psychotic moron masquerading as president – because he
won the un-popular vote in 2016 – has continued his spouting of racist rhetoric,
currently in response to the protests resulting from the recent torture/execution
of George Floyd by four police officers in Minnesota. Chrump quoted racist Miami
police Chief Walter Headley, who in 1967 used the phrase “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” during hearings about crime in Miami.
Chrump also excreted other racially charged words out of his
face sphincter regarding fears that protesters outside the White House might
come for him. “If they had, they would have been greeted with the most vicious
dogs, and most ominous weapons, I have ever seen. That’s when people would have
been really badly hurt, at least.” What, no fire hoses?
First Amendment in action in Washington, DC
Presumably in order to avoid murdering more black people outside
the White House, Secret Service agents rushed Chrump into a safe bunker, as
protesters hurled epithets, bricks and bottles toward the White House housing
the Orange Gas Cloud. Right now, there are clearly no very fine people in the
White House.
Send In The Maroons
Late Monday afternoon, police on horseback, heavily armed military
police and Secret Service officers, park police and national guard teamed up to,
very aggressively, if not in fact violently (it was in fact violently,
including flash-bang grenades and teargas), cleared the streets near the White
House of what a reporter on the scene described as “an entirely peaceful
protest – not 90 percent, not 99 percent, but 100 percent peaceful protest here
today.”
This of course, came on the heels of Chrump ranting at
governors for an hour, calling them weak, telling them, “You’re making yourself
look like fools,” and inciting them to “dominate” protesters. Chrump called
protesters “terrorists,” demanding “retribution” and warned the governors they
would look like “jerks” if they did not send them to “jail for long periods of
time.”
For What It’s Worth
This latest display of violence by law enforcement against
mostly black people began shortly before Chrump went on national television and
threatened to employ the full force of the military to stop the violence, which
has been committed by a tiny minority of protesters across the country in
recent days. Not one word by this brutal sociopath, about black people in
America living in a state of constant fear of being killed by police for
selling a cigarette, or possibly passing a counterfeit $20 bill, or just being
black. This chickenshit racist bastard who it should be recalled hid from
military service behind fake bone spurs – receiving five deferments, tying him
with fellow brutal sociopath Dick Cheney – and who told Howard Stern in 1993, “Dating
is like being in Vietnam. You're the equivalent of a soldier going over to
Vietnam. I've been so lucky in terms of that whole world. It is a dangerous
world out there – it's scary, like Vietnam. Sort of like the Vietnam era. It is
my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave soldier.”
A recent poll found that 52 percent of Americans responded
yes when asked if they thought Donald Chrump is a racist; 37 percent said no. Apparently,
around 37 percent of Americans are racists.
Maybe Chrump considers himself
a person of color.
I’m pretty sure dying oneself orange does not count.*
* 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 recoiling.
More Trouble Every Day (Release date: June 27, 1966)
Presidents and many other public servants take an oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the
United States.”There is no mention,
unfortunately, of the need to understand, or at the very least to read the
Constitution prior to, or if not before, then surely after taking that
oath.It could not be clearer that
Donald Chrump has never read the Constitution and it goes without saying that
he does not understand any of it – with the possible exception of the last
phrase of the Second Amendment, which has been drilled into his mostly empty
skull by his benefactors at the NRA.
To be fair, why would he bother to understand it?It does not mention his name even once,
though I am sure there’s a Sharpie with his name in it just waiting for the
right moment to fix that perceived slight.The Constitution does refer to the president of the United States, but
does not speak to whatever it is that Chrump is doing.He damn sure is not acting like anything
described by the Founders.
Chrump places executive
take-out order
Chrump obviously has no clue what the First Amendment means
(until a week ago, he thought it was the Fist Amendment), as he continues committing
internet/digital atrocities unabated, thanks to its provisions.His latest insult to America and our Constitution comes via tweet…I mean
executive order first threatened via tweet.It was an executive order aimed at Twitter of course, since Twitter is
almost all he ever “thinks” about.Twitter
dared provide a link to actual factual information as counterbalance to blatant
lies on a recent Chrump tweet.Der Furor
decided this was an intolerable affront to the First Amendment.It was, of course, precisely not that.
I don’t doubt that someone (though I cannot begin to imagine
what lone, ultimately ridiculed voice among Chrump’s fellow swamp rats that might have
been) attempted to explain this to the demented, decomposing cantaloupe-in
chief, but as we know, once Chrump gets an insanely idiotic idea into that bony
balloon on his neck, there is just no shaking it loose. Speaking of not shaking loose, F*&#book’s
Marc Zuckerberg is showing no signs of freeing his lips from Chrump’s rear
end.Zuckerberg has made it clear that
he has no intention of trying to keep F*&#book from aiding and abetting
those who – like Donald Chrump – incite, disinform, and lie incessantly on his
platform.Zuckerberg is only concerned
with churning out product – that is, F*&#book users, whose profiles, habits
and thought processes are handed over to corporate vampires and populist
demagogues.
Twitter, for its part, seems intent on keeping up its new
policy of trying to protect reality from Chrump’s Trail of Tweets.Twitter’s most recent attempt being the
addition of a warning label on Chrump’s tweet, which was meant to fan the
flames of violence in response to the police murder of George Floyd in
Minnesota, for “glorifying violence.”Just for the record, Twitter has not taken down any of Chrump’s
horrifying tweets, they merely added a touch of sanity, something clearly both
abhorrent and alien to Chrump.I guess
we’ll see what happens.
Not to mention, seedy
Chrump’s oath presumably requires him to faithfully execute
the law.
Reporter: Mr. Chrump, your oath comes with an expectation
that you will faithfully execute the law.
Chrump: The law?I
thought it was to faithfully execute the country.And I don’t do anything faithfully. And you can't make me since I have total authority. Have I told you about how bad the toilets and
showers are?And my great Electoral
College victory? Biggest ever.Just like my crowd size, and certain other
things – all very large, probably the biggest ever – that I can tell you.Anyway, with the help of McConnell and my
great army of lawyers, I am executing the law.It should be dead any minute now.
As far as the other branches of government, they
are supposed to be public servants, not the president’s servants.Their oath is also to the Constitution, not
to protect and/or serve the president.They work for us, not for the president, and not for their own personal
gain.Republican’ts gave up on that
quaint notion long ago.They don’t give
a flying fuck about actual Americans.
Republican’ts worship at the
feet of a golden (orange, actually) calf (cow, actually)
The current
Republican’t majority Senate is solely concerned with protecting this
president, mostly from himself, but also from justice and the
Constitution.No one embodies this
anti-Constitutional, anti-democracy approach to governance better than the malevolent,
malignant master of malefaction and misanthropy – Moscow Mitch McConnell.Moscow Mitch went from modest means to
multi-millionaire during his time as public servant conman.
