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.
He Brags About Doing The Crime, When Do We Get To Watch Him Do The Time
February 3, 2022
Just so we're clear: One of the most racist people you've ever seen, who
claimed he is the “least racist person anywhere in the world” is calling
African-American prosecutors who are attempting to hold him accountable for all
manner of crimes, most of which everyone saw this racist asshole commit, racists.
Go fucking figure.
Turmp somehow (probably brain
damage from snorting so much Adderall, and the fact that he is a life-long racist, conman and sociopath) managed to call the three black prosecutors – two
district attorneys and one attorney general – “vicious, horrible people, they’re
racists, and they’re very sick, they’re mentally sick. In reality, they’re not
after me, they’re after you.” He must practice this insane shit in front of the
mirror every day. It makes sense, since he is always and only talking to and
about himself.
Turmp regales his festering
followers with titillating tales of treason
(possibly photoshopped...or prophetic)
You Can’t Catch Me, I’m The
Ginger-Faced Man
As usual, Turmp could not help
himself from admitting to his crimes. Publicly. In writing. He whined to the marks
at his recent Texass rally that “Mike Pence did have the right to change the
outcome, and they now want to take that right away. Unfortunately, he didn’t
exercise that power. He could have overturned the election!” For those of you just tuning in,
this statement is both stunningly wrong on its face, and massively illegal.
“Put
me in jail. Put me in jail.”* Donald J. Trump, January 30,
2022
How many times can
a disgraced, twice-impeached, two-time-popular-vote-loser, one-term, seditious,
multiply-subpoenaed ex-president and failed blogger admit to treason before
getting the Ethel and Julius Rosenberg treatment? Unlike Turmp, the Rosenbergs never
publicly committed or incited treason, and proclaimed their innocence until the last. It’s
like if every Sunday Jeffrey Dahmer set up his grill, and a picnic table to eat
his victims on national television as though he was simply enjoying a hot dog
and apple pie.
As if to flaunt their blatant
racism in our faces, Ratpublicans in many states are hurriedly creating conditions
and laws unabashedly designed (thanks to Chief (In)Justice John Roberts) to stop
black people from voting.
*Actual quote (possibly taken out of context, though more
likely a spectacularly Freudian admission)
Ratpublicans are not content merely sabotaging
the ability of people of color and as many Democrats as possible to vote. Or
stealing Supreme Court seats. Or mounting an insurrection to overthrow the
United States government. Or giving all of our tax dollars to the wealthiest
Americans. Or making sure poor people stay poor. Or packing local school boards
with COVID-spreading, neo-fascist numb-nuts.
Several red-meat states are worried that white,
Christian, heterosexual men are becoming an endangered species. That their
fragile egos, and hard-fought image as the epitome of civilization is being
battered by facts and history. They want schools to teach both sides of the
Nazi Holocaust, but pretend that they had nothing to be ashamed of when it
comes to slavery, which they would prefer you just pretend was no big thing
anyway.
For their latest ploy to whitewash history, and they
hope by extension, the future, they are busily banning all kinds of books. Yes,
for those of you who remember books, you would be excused for thinking that
banning books went out with brown shirts, death trains and gas chambers.
Unfortunately, like so much else from those days of ignorance horror, and toxic
whiteness, book-banning is coming back in vogue in red states all across the
land. Besides banning masks, vaccines, science and reality, the freshly minted
governor of Virginia Glen Youngkin, (What, no recount?), was first out of the
gate, hard(ly) at work banning anything that vaguely implies that white people
in America, and one presumes anywhere on God’s white Earth, ever did anything
to be ashamed of, since God chose them to be in charge of everything, and none of that stuff really
happened anyway.
When
not quoting Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to make it sound like he loved
white folks and thought black people just needed to get with the program,
Youngkin is finally putting a full stop to something that never actually
happened – teaching Critical Race Theory in public schools in Virginia. Youngkin
has set up a tip/snitch line so that good white folks can rat out anyone they
think is teaching Critical Race Theory. Thank blond, white Jesus that Youngkin had the
courage to, oh I don’t know, grovel before MAGAts as he tries to woo them away
from various Don Turmps to clear a path to the White House.
Burn,
Asshole, Burn
It
is not only Virginia that is hell-bent on taking us all backwards in time. Why
would they stop with banning books? You know they want to clean up – well,
whiten up – America. Pretend slavery never happened. Deny the Holocaust. Pray the
gay away. Get rid of voting. It can’t happen here? It is in process at this
very moment. Several states are doing their best to do the worst. They will not
stop voluntarily. They must be figuratively beaten down. At first.
It ain’t spring break, it’s a psychotic break!
You won’t believe what these yahoos are up to. Inappropriate for…well, everyone! Jews may not replace them, but somebody better do it!
Texas
wants to ban a book titled We the Students: Supreme Court Cases for and
about Students by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD). The book delineates the
constitutional rights of public school students and was sponsored by the
Supreme Court Historical Society. The book includes a case in which the Supreme
Court struck down the removal of books from public school libraries.
Not
to be out-dumbed, a Tennessee school board has banned the ground-breaking
graphic novel Maus by Art Spiegelman, the only graphic novel ever to win a
Pulitzer Prize. Maus is considered by many to be the gold standard for teaching
children about the Holocaust – the one where the Nazis murdered six million
Jews, not the one where people were required to wear protective masks to keep
from dying and killing others during a deadly virus pandemic – just so we’re
clear. Some board members felt that the book’s language was rough. Others
weighed in that the actual Holocaust was kind of rough. Surely there must be a
happier way to teach children about it. Something like Adolf and the Funny
Solution. Maybe it would have been better not to have it.
Does genocide always have
to be such a bummer?
Speaking of murderous
dictators, why is everyone surprised to hear people like Fucker Carlson siding
with Putin and Russia? All the talking heads seem to have forgotten that the
moment Barack Obama became president, all kinds of Ratpublicans began singing
the praises of Putin. I wonder why they pulled such a 180 on Russia, lauding a “strong”
Putin while deriding a weak Obama. Anyone
with a shred of honesty knew exactly why these frightened white men sided with Putin.
Now, these shameless traitors will side with anyone over any Democrat, because
Democrats are supported by and (sort of) supportive of people who look like
Barack Obama…whatever that means. And just look at the way these racists
(there, I said it) are reacting to Joe Biden’s “threat” to put a black woman on
the Extreme Court. They would rather he nominate Putin.
