I Can Handle The Truth
June 10, 2022
“Tonight I say this to my Republican [apparently,
that’s what she calls them] colleagues who are defending the indefensible. There
will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain.”
Liz Cheney, House Select Committee on January 6
Co-chair
June 9, 2022
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June 9, 2022, 10:00 PM
Chairman
Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi did his nation proud in introducing
the proceedings. Liz Cheney picked an excellent time for her first disagreement
with Donald Turmp. While her father was a saboteur of democracy, the younger
Cheney, who voted with Turmp nearly 100% of the time in Congress, stood up for
democracy in this critical instance. She laid out a convincing, damning
overview of the voluminous evidence of criminal activity by a bevy of buffoons –
including the head Hot Air Buffoon – that will be presented over the coming weeks.
Speaking of the Hot Air Buffoon, we saw never-before-seen
video of his daughter/ex-girlfriend Ivanka testifying under oath to
investigators:
“How did that affect your perspective about the
election, when Attorney General Barr made that statement [calling Turmp’s claim
of victory due to rampant voter fraud “bullshit”]?” the staff member asked.
“It affected my perspective. I respect Attorney
General Barr, so I accepted what he was saying,” Ivanka Trump answered.
Unfortunately, the obvious follow-up question, “Does
that imply it is safe to say that you do not respect your father?” was not
asked, or at least not shown during this phase of the hearings.
I
surely enjoyed spending a relaxing evening watching the festivities. Those were some seriously spunky
tourists visiting the Capitol on that day. But it was good to see the thriving
American tourist industry at its best in the context of a public Congressional hearing.
I barely even missed Sen. Sam Ervin.
It
did not place Proud Boy Turmp in the most flattering light. Usually unflattering
light just makes him look more orange. This light altered his normal hue to
something closer to the color of mud. However, not being the most aware or
self-aware, his delusion as usual won the day. So much winning. Too bad he
couldn’t live Tweet the proceedings.
“This
very fake witch hunt, only created out of so many lies just to get Turmp in
trouble. I’ve done nothing wrong in my whole life. I made America great again,
probably greater than ever, with the biggest crowds. I was, I would say, the
best president ever, and probably still am. Many people are saying that the
only reason anyone watched this very, very bad hearing was because it was all
about Turmp. All I have to say is Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV.”
It
is satisfying to think that the conman/reality TV phony might be finally
brought to justice by reality TV. Real reality TV. Though you just know that the disgraced,
twice-impeached, two-time-popular-vote-losing, one-term, seditious,
ex-president and failed blogger will claim the hearing only got excellent
ratings because it was about him. A very stable genius.
Let
loose the alternative facts.
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UPDATE:
Naturally, there was another mass shooting today. Three dead, trooper wounded in Maryland.
The
Insurrection Will Not Be Televised (By Fux News)
June 9, 2022
“Just remember, what you’re seeing and what
you’re reading is not what’s happening.”
George Orwell Donald J. Trump, July 2018
“We have a two-teared [I
assume he spelled it wrong in his very empty head] justice system. If you’re a
Republican, you can’t even lie to Congress or lie to an FBI agent or they’re
coming after you. They’re gonna bury you. They’re gonna put you in the DC jail.”
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Byberry)
You Heard It Here Last
(Hopefully)
Tonight, as America (hopefully) takes a brief respite from mass gun
murders to focus on saving our democracy, Fux News will not be wasting their viewers’
worthless time by airing the incredibly important, prime time, soon-to-be-Emmy-nominated,
live hearing of the House Select Committee on the January 6 insurrection. Instead,
Fux will be airing a Leni Riefenstahl film festival, a retrospective of Hillary
Clinton’s emails and Anthony Weiner’s dick pics, after which they will be
showing the murder of George Floyd on a loop for two hours with a Ted Nugent soundtrack.
As the Select
Committee was being formed the political arm of Fux News – the Ratpublican
Party – refused to take part in any investigation into their leader's
conspiracy to overturn Joe Biden's election. All but two Ratpublican members of
the House derided the very idea deciding to instead spend their time obfuscating
and fabricating even though many of them knew full well that they were doing
so. The rest of them are either too far gone to have any connection with
reality, or worse were part of the plot to overthrow the government. Many of
them claimed it was a witch hunt. Apparently, now that it has been discovered
that there was a were covens of witches, Fux wants to distract their
soft-brained viewers from any inconvenient truths that may have been unearthed.
They Hang Traitors, Don’t They?
The fakes at Fux cannot risk having their Silly-Putty-brained
audience exposed to non-alternative facts. Their fragile minds could be permanently
injured if exposed to what really happened in their names. They would be
traumatized by previously unseen footage of fuckwits just like them, laying
siege to the Capitol. The air in their heads would heat up and expand to
explosion if they are forced to acknowledge that their beloved disgraced, twice-impeached,
two-time-popular-vote-losing, one-term, seditious, ex-president and failed
blogger was as fully engaged and implicated in the treasonous act as a previous
Ratpublican president was when he ordered the break-in and subsequent cover-up
known as Watergate. Except that guy managed to get reelected before becoming a
pariah.
The complete lack of coverage by right-wing media of one of the most important hearings since Watergate will be anchored by none other than the race-baiting, fact-averse, neo-fascist propagandist Fucker Criminy Swanson Carlson. Who better to ignore reality and keep his lethally ignorant viewers comfortably dumb?
Donald Tmurp – The Voice of Treason
“So
look, all I want to do is this, I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one
more than we have (sic) [he meant “need” but is too stupid to complete a sentence].”
Donald J. Trump to Georgia’s secretary of state on January 4, 2021, just
two days before he let loose his dogs of war on the Capitol to overthrow the
American government he pretended to lead
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anxiety.
June 7, 2022
When
the Court gutted the voting rights act in the 2013 Shelby County v. Holder
decision, southern states that had been subject to federal oversight due to
racist assaults on voting rights suddenly felt free to disenfranchise black voters
with reckless abandon. The electoral carnage continues unabated and will not slow down until action is taken.
What
do we think will follow the Court’s striking down of Roe v. Wade in 2022? How
will forcing victims of incest and rape to bear their attackers' children
change America? We have already seen Texas, Oklahoma and other IQ-deficient/testosterone-overdosed/radical-Christian-dominated states take drastic measures to ensure that women are forced to either give birth or risk their lives and freedom in order to seek the medical care they choose.
Injustice For All (Well, Most)
Funny
coincidence - while all of these heinous affronts to democracy and humanity took at least five Supreme Court justices to agree to thwart the will of the American people, each of these travesties happened on
the watch of Chief Justice John Roberts. May his legacy reflect the devastation
his leadership has wrought on this nation during his reign of error.
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June 3, 2022
“If
you could wave a magic wand and eliminate Ted Cruz from America, there would be
substantially less gut-wrenching stupidity and death.”
Ed Venture,
American citizen
The fucking Ratpublicans continue to blame everything under the Sun except guns. They blame video games, music, lack of church attendance (are we supposed to force people to go to church now, and expose young boys to sexual abuse at the hands of priests – which I suppose is better than being shot to death, but I can’t say for sure), mental health, crappy doors, poorly armed teachers, not enough armed guards surrounding every school, church, bar, restaurant, grocery store, hospital, etc., abortions, Critical Race Theory, Jewish Space Lasers, Cheez Whiz, abolition, and reefer madness for all the gun deaths. Some of these were made up, but can you guess which ones?
The Gun Obsessed Party insists that since no kind of gun regulation will stop every gun murder or mass shooting, there is simply no point in doing anything accept keep weapons of war in the hands of anyone who wants them, whenever they want them and for whatever reason they want them, I guess until everyone without a gun has been gunned down in cold blood. USA! USA! USA!
Naturally, Ratpublicans will never support anything to improve mental health care, doors (or anything else) for public schools or accountability for sexual abuse at the hands of clergy. As far as church attendance, nobody has spent less time in church or followed the teachings of Jesus than Donald Tmurp. And why are all these shooters better armed than law enforcement? And just how well regulated are all these non-existent militias for which the right of the people to keep and bear arms are so necessary?
Fun Fact: While Ratpublicans repeatedly blame mental illness for gun violence, they insist that people who are known to be mentally unstable should be permitted to own firearms.
I. Mangrey, well-regulated.
June 1, 2022
There are a number of numbing issues currently overcoming our personal bandwidth - the latest mass shootings in Buffalo, NY and Uvalde, TX, et al, sky-rocketing gas prices, runaway inflation, and of course the ongoing slaughter and devastation in Ukraine. Unfortunately there are still the other more mundane cataclysms lurking in the background. The looming Ratpublican midterm infestation (the emergence of Dr. Oz in PA, ex-football star and current mental-defective Hershel Walker in GA, the dreaded return of Marge "Peach Tree Dish/Gazpacho Police/Marshall Law" Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert and countless, brainless others), and the horrifying prospect of Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy - presumably a descendant of Charlie McCarthy.
One week after Tmurp’s invasion of the
Capitol and attempted assassinations of Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi on January
6, 2021, hypocritical mental defective and wannabe Speaker of the House Kevin
McQarthy – during a momentary lapse of treason – told the American public from
the House floor that, “The president bears responsibility for Wednesday’s
attack on Congress by mob rioters.”
Just days after his
first and only brush with reality, McQarthy’s tiny, damaged brain reverted to
its default setting, sending him careening to Mor-on-Lago to kiss Tmurp’s ring,
ass and whatever. And McQarthy did not even rinse before using that same mouth
to proclaim his undying love for Drear Leader.
In a historic move, McQarthy
is now facing a subpoena from the House Select Committee on January 6 after
audiotape came to light featuring McQarthy suggesting that Tmrup should resign
on the heels of having incited our nation’s first Presidential Insurrection, in
a desperate attempt to hold on to power after getting crushed for the second
time in the popular vote. The audiotape contradicted McQarthy’s previous
vehement denial of ever having suggested anything of the sort.
Four other
Ratpublican congressmen – including Alabama’s own Mo Brooks who spoke at Tmurp’s
pre-invasion pep rally wearing a flak jacket, telling those assembled that “Today
is the day American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass,” and then
cheering on the attempted coup from inside the Capitol – were subpoenaed along
with their feckless leader in connection with their aiding, abetting and
perhaps helping to plan the horrific insurrection aimed at ending democracy in
America.
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democracy.
These Are The Times That Fry Men’s Souls
May 30, 2022
Memorial Day in America. We observe
this national holiday to remember and honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice
in defense of our democracy. In defense of our commitment to protecting life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness under the umbrella of this Great
Experiment, this Republic-if-we-can-keep-it. This is how Benjamin Franklin
described the newborn nation when asked by Mrs. Elizabeth Willing Powel, “Well
Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy?” as Franklin left the Constitutional
Convention in Philadelphia on September 18, 1787.
It is unfortunately time to add another cohort to those we memorialize every year on Memorial Day. As their numbers continue to rise day after day, year after year, we must add the many Americans who have perished as a result of the Ratpublican/NRA war – the American/Gun War – that continues to rage across this nation, to those memorialized every year on this day.
The NRA-owned Ratpublican party continues to defend the rights of guns to wantonly take the lives of Americans on a daily basis. They defend large-capacity magazines. They defend assault-style weapons. They defend the rights of mentally ill individuals to wield weapons of mass death. They defend the rights of people to arm themselves in our streets and places of gathering without background checks, without licenses, without training, without being part of a “well-regulated militia.” They refuse to protect the rights of innocent Americans to not be mowed down in streets, to be gunned down in places of worship, in schools, or anywhere else normal people should feel free to enjoy life and liberty and pursue happiness without living in constant fear of being murdered for no reason.
Meanwhile, the NRA convention was held as planned
in Texas (Coincidence?)
just days after the massacre, where speakers exhibited Dali-esque creativity in
blaming everything under the Sun EXCEPT GUNS for all our mass shootings. The tone-deaf/brain-dead
event, featured none other than Donald Tmurp and Ted Cruz. Though he did attend
a fundraiser hours after the shooting occurred, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott decided
not to show up to the NRA gala in person; he was probably afraid of getting
shot. No guns will be permitted in the venue. Just Gun Nuts.
Both Tmurp and Cruz trotted out Wayne LaPierre’s
deranged pronouncement, “The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy
with a gun.” We now know that 19 law enforcement
officers were standing outside the door
to the Classroom of Death for 45 minutes – minutes that meant life and death…well,
death
The defense rests.
From Their Cold, Dead Hearts
Less than a year ago Abbott proudly claimed Texas as a “Second Amendment Sanctuary State” – whatever the fuck that means. At the signing ceremony Abbott said
“Politicians from the federal level to the local
level have threatened to take guns from law-abiding citizens – but we will not
let that happen in Texas. Texas will always be the leader in defending the
Second Amendment, which is why we built a barrier around gun rights this
session.”
Maybe someone should have built a barrier around the
Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
Ratpublicans (and Joe Manchin) constantly talk about being “pro-life.” Their actions are consistently “pro-death.” Watch what people do, not what they say. Now, watch the Supreme Court loosen gun laws. Checkmate.
I. Mangrey reflecting.
Bitch
Cassidy
May 28, 2022
Louisiana has one of the worst
infant mortality rates in the nation. However, according to today’s Schmuck For
The Day, Senator Bill Cassidy, his very special state does not have a problem
with infant mortality. No, the
real problem is that there are just so many Blacks in Louisiana, and that
affects their overall rate.
You
may be interested and then horrified to know that Cassidy is a – gulp –
licensed physician. So don’t get sick in Louisiana. Cassidy is the senior senator to
his confederate, the even scarier, crackerier, and very possibly dumber John
Kennedy. Tough call on that one.
In
case anyone was wondering just what the fuck the Pelican State Pinhead was
getting at, he fearlessly spelled it out. “About a third of our population is
African American; African Americans have a higher incidence of maternal
mortality. So, if you correct our population for race, we’re not as much of an
outlier as it’d otherwise appear.”
Um, Black Deaths Matter
One
would be perfectly within one’s rights to assume that Cassidy believes that it
would be much fairer if African Americans in his state would be counted as 3/5
of a person. That should square things.
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Musk You Elon?
May 27, 2022
As
if that weren’t enough, Musk now claims that despite being a long-time Democrat,
he will now be voting for Ratpublicans. Apparently, he cannot resist the
political savvy and personal charms of pols like Marge Taylor Greene, Lauren
Bobert, Matt Gaetz, Ron DuhSantis and all the other super geniuses on that side
of the aisle. Oh, and who can resist all that snappy insurrection?
To
be fair, there is at least one other high-profile clod who many people who are
not Elon Musk think should STFU:
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