Monday, March 18, 2024

Elon Musk and Stonetoss Two Nazis One Twitter (Hans Kristian Graebener)

The “It” in question is the N Word…
 So, it turns out well-known Nazi cartoonist Stonetoss is named Hans Kristian Graebener of Spring, Texas.

But, you can't write this on Twitter (X) or even reference Hans Kristian Graebener because Elon Musk defends his fellow Fascists with suspensions and permanent bans on "his" platform.  Here's a Blusky thread from "Alejandra Calaballo".

And this is a 4 year old Reddit thread which provides a list of evidence of Hans K. Graebener's Neo-Nazi ideology.

Anyone who claimed Musk was a champion of Free Speech or wanted to make Twitter into a bastion of the exchange of ideas was willfully deluding themselves or a paid bad actor like Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss.

Elon Musk is the child of apartheid and far from distancing himself from that evil ideology of his childhood he's self-radicalized and embraced the Naked Singularity of Pure Nazism.

For a while the Left (broadly) was relying on Corporations to take measures to tamp down rightwing calls for violence, murder, and terrorism.  This is always a fool's gambit.  Corporations are people, my friend, but people who have a distinct taste for Fascism.  And the progressive social democracy favored by a large number of Americans is unpalatable to Corporations who see regulations and restrictions on their ability to make profit as an uncrossable line. 

Musk's self-own in purchasing Twitter has paid off with him being able to weaponize it and make it a platform for White Supremacists.

So, just like epic dumbass Chaya Raichik (Libs of Tik Tok), Hans Kristian Graebener (Stone Toss) wanted on-line anonymity to produce wildly racist, anti-semitic, and violent fascist content.  So, the revelation of his real name Hans Kristian Graebener of Spring, Texas) has been met with the standard disingenuous rightwing outrage of Doxxing!!! 

The problem for on-line Nazis has always been as their voice and presence increased on any venue or platform, Normies, Liberals, and Antifa abandon those platforms.  Thus, Nazis only have themselves to talk too.  Or Bots.  By taking over Twitter Musk ensured Nazis would be able to plague Normies, Liberals, and Antifa without fear of reprisal and with the backing of the Platform's Owner. 

On the one hand, Nazis being afraid to show themselves for fear of reprisal is a good sign for a society but, Republicans have fully embraced the threat of political violence and it's actual usage as a tool to win political power.

Meanwhile, while in the midst of permabaning anyone on Twitter (X) who mentions Hans Kristian Graebener Musk has taken to being a Heckler gainsaying  random people about Trump's "Bloodbath" threats to the Nation.

I've said before but you've got to understand the X Elon Musk loves is a thinly veiled stand-in for the Nazi Swastika.  Musk hasn't become more fascist as he's grown richer he's just getting more and more brazen about expressing it.

I’ll note the Supreme Court is hearing a 1st Amendment case today testing whether people have the unfettered right to spread lies, misinformation and foreign propaganda across any and all social media platforms.  It’s unsurprising the people and states who brought the case are Reactionary fascists wishing to spread Covid & Vaccine lies, and traffic in Hunter Biden laptop bullshit.  Nazis always seek to use liberal Nations openness against them to bring down that Nation.  

Republicans hate America and see their opportunities to replace Us with a Fascist Theocracy built upon White Power and right wing hatred, intolerance, and oppression.

Sunday, March 17, 2024

The Staging Grounds IV: It's going to be a Bloodbath

“Andrew Jackson as president was treated the absolute worst and I heard Abraham Lincoln was second but he was in this thing called the Civil War, so you can understand that.  But I said there’s no I don’t care Andrew Jackson or anybody else. Nobody is treat… when you think of the fake things. Nobody has been treated like Trump in terms of badly.” Delusional Paranoid Dementia Donald

    During his glitchy incoherent rants, demented fascist Trump has taken to making the most ludicrous declarations of his Presidency.  Everything was the greatest of all time.  Everything was the best it ever was.  Everything was perfect.  He did the most for whatever group he's speaking too.  And everything immediately went to hell because you stole the Presidency from him.  It's the final culmination of rightwing propaganda.  It's the Ultimate expression of the Gish Gallop.  But, it's not like the Corporate Media cares to fact check, correct, or call Trump what he actually is because the Legacy Media take their cues and stories from the rightwing media and frame everything through the lens of Republican bullshit.

The Corporate Media coverage of Trump has been shamelessly inadequate for years now and it won't get better anytime soon.

I can not imagine the media BREAKING NEWS shit storm if Vice President Kamala Harris declined to endorse the President the way Mike Pence declined to endorse Trump.

It would be a monumental story of unimaginable magnitude!  Not only would signal the end of Joe Biden's career but it would be no less than a harbinger of the end of the Democratic Party.  It would be lead News Story until such time as a new candidate for President managed to emerge, whom the Corporate Media would waste no time in declaring dead on arrival as they publish 'Oh well wait till next year' news stories and circulate DEMOCRATS IN DISARRAY, as the Media celebrates the coming Republican trifecta control of every single branch of the Federal Government. 

And yet... Trump and Pence is not even a two-day blurb.  

No one is coming to save us.  The media's job is to help Trump and that they will do it with every bit of chicanery, sagacious false concern, and amplification of Republican ratfucking necessary.

It was noted that in the week following the Hur Hatchet Report, the Washington Post and New York Times ran 70+ news stories on Joe Biden's Age, as every media outlet ran articles based on the one sentence Hur released.  So-called savvy pundits were plotting a brokered convention and a swapping out of candidates.

The pampered and petulant Uncommitted "protest" votes gains outsized attentional at every opportunity.

RFK Jr is still receiving coverage despite the fact his prime choice for running mate, Aaron Rodgers, is such a MAGA meatball he adheres to as many rightwing conspiracy theories as the number of times he's beaten the Chicago Bears. 

Trump is all in on the Fear & Anger stimulus response.  


"Now if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole — that’s gonna be the least of it," he added. "It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country."

So, after Trump invoked the words "bloodbath" 
the Corporate Media rushed to clean up Trump's fascist drivel as they always do.  And Trump's team rushed to make sure the story wasn't "the Bloodbath" but, instead was understood in the proper context, 

“Biden’s policies will create an economic bloodbath for the auto industry and auto workers.”

It's the old Karl Rove playbook of attacking your opponent's strength as a weakness.  But, remember this tactic only works if the compliant Corporate Media uncritically plays along.

“If you’re listening, President Xi — and you and I are friends — but he understands the way I deal." as always Trump wants to have it both ways and the media lets him get away with it, he's great friends with President Xi even though he's super hard on Xi and kept China in their place with the Art of the Deal.

Trump then claimed he'll protect Social Security and Medicare (a scant week after he admitted he'll cut "entitlements") and if he loses the election you're not going to get another one.  IMAX doesn't have a screen big enough to capture the Projection.

You could claim "Bloodbath" is just a new variation of the American Carnage speech Trump has given before but, at this point there is no reason anyone should give Traitor Trump the benefit of the doubt about the intentions of the Republicans should they get back into the White House in 2025.  Trump absolutely means violence.

When people say this election is the most important in our lifetimes, cynical pundits like to roll their eyes and dismiss peoples' concerns.  But, those people know they won't be at risk or will even benefit from the Vile Republican 2025 Agenda.  Ben S Shapiro, one day after proclaiming Americans should never be able to retire and should be worked to death, declared he crawl over broken glass to vote for Trump. 

Trump told his crowd that immigrants aren't people,

“I don’t know if you call them people,” he said at a rally near Dayton, Ohio. “In some cases they’re not people, in my opinion. But I’m not allowed to say that because the radical left says that’s a terrible thing to say.”

It's quite clear what Trump and his gaggle of bloodthirsty lieutenants want if he steals back into the White House.  Most likely, they would come for migrants and Trans persons first.  It's questionable whether the American people would allow that but, the thing with Fascist Pogroms is once they are started they gain a momentum all their own.  

It's up to you to vote, to encourage others, to canvas, call or help out in every way conceivable.  The Republican Party sees a singular opportunity coalescing in 2024; a chance to forcibly install a Fascist Fundamentalist Theocracy, eliminate millions, and gut American Democracy for generations.

No one is coming to save Us.  No 14th Amendment trick will make Trump not the Republican candidate.  No Judge wants to convict Trump prior to the Election.  The Corporate Media will not accurately contextual the threat facing Us.  It's up to us to save ourselves and our very lives because if this iteration of the Republican Party gets into Power they will be coming for them.

Additional:

As if to make my point about Corporate Media obsequious deference and nefarious allegiance to Trump Queen Bigot and pampered rich white lady Kathleen Parker has a story out about how someone should drop out of this race for the sake of the Nation;  KAMALA HARRIS!




Saturday, March 16, 2024

The Staging Grounds III: Rightwing violence emanating from Kansas and North Carolina and Tucker Carlson too

Remember the OUTRAGE at Kathy Griffin for her bloody “decapitated” Trump Mask?  The calls for her immediate arrest, the death threats towards her, the Secret Service investigation?  The Cancel Culture???

Republican outrage, you see, is a one-way street.

Republicans not only don't punish other Republicans for issuing death threats and engaging in political violence, Republicans  reward each other.

So, that leads to the case of Michele Morrow in North Carolina.  There is nothing more Republican than running for an Office you don't believe in.

Morrow home-schooled her children yet is running to be the Superintendent of the North Carolina school system.  This is the classic case of Republicans picking a Governmental institution they wish to dismantle and running to be in charge of it.  Once in charge Republicans undermine, sabotage, and work to make Government not work.  Then Republicans tell their brain-washed followers 'Government Doesn't Work' and run on that platform.  It's a cycle of shit regurgitation.  

But, Michele "One L" Morrow running to destroy public schools in North Carolina fits with the long Republican tradition of hatred for public schools and the Department of Education because having such institutions undermines their brain-washing efforts.

Now, besides repeatedly calling for the execution of various Democratic office-holders Morrow descended with other Insurrectionists on the Capitol on Jan6th.  Once again we see the on-going and concerted effort to turn traitors into heroes and the ardent desire Republicans have to make Jan6th Independence Day 2.

Over in Kansas, last Friday, Republicans threw a $300-a-seat Premier fundraiser that included the beating of a martial arts dummy with a Biden mask and Let's Go Brandon t-shirt.

No you are Republicans
You Are This
I am utterly unsurprised that Chickenhawk coward, child-raping, domestic terrorist Ted Nugent was one of the other attractions at this event.  His entire aging rock star milieu is threatening to murder Democratic candidates and President. 


Since, videos of the violent event circulated, Republicans have backtracked and acted like this isn't what their party represents.  Of course, political violence is exactly what the Republican Party represents and encourages.

From Sarah Palin encouraging people to take aim and shot Democratic Congressmembers, to the Malheur bird sanctuary insurrection, to Charlottesville, to Jan 6th itself;  the Republican Party is invested in using violence to wrest political power.

Morrow and each and every one of those traitors who invaded the Capitol, broke through and ran around looking for Nancy Pelosi, AOC, and Mike Pence should have been gunned down on the steps.  We should have seen 2000 body bags, but instead after Traitor Trump sent them to Congress to overthrow the Government they were allowed to exit the building unimpeded, arms raised in triumph.

Demented Fascist Trump has promised to pardon the over 1000 conservative criminals who've been tried and convicted.  Which leads us to the 2024 elections and the one fact you must keep in the back of your mind as you go about your regular business and life for the next 8 months... 

In 2025, Republicans are going to call for the violent overthrow of the United States Government... again.  

Because Trump is going to lose that election.  Even the massive voter suppression, disenfranchisement and other dirty tricks Republicans always pull won't be enough to get this election close enough for Republicans or the Supremacist Court to steal.  RFK Jr won't be able to pull a Ralph Nader 2000 Florida effect.  That's why that odious slime bucket Tucker Carlson is already calling the 2024 election fraudulent.  Fortunately or unfortunately for us, Carlson is too much of elitist chickenhawk coward, a tough-talking dilettante, to actually do anything other than sit on his ass talking.

As an aside, I am constantly insulted and bewildered why the vaunted white working class puts stock into these doughy, wide-waisted rightwing propagandists who don't do any real work but, just sit on the expansive behinds talking shit.  Is it an unconscious dream to emulate their success and wealth from not working?  Is it an unspoken desire to have someone tell them what to do?

But, more importantly does Tucker Carlson have enough pull to convince a rightwing terrorist or two to launch attacks on President Biden or Vice President Harris?  Maybe.  And that is the big question for Election Day and in the aftermath of Trump's next defeat.  Have Republicans trained up enough paramilitary domestic terrorists to cause real danger to America?  This time, at least, we won't have the erstwhile President encouraging terrorists to attack, placing co-conspirators in key military units, or stopping National Guard and Police from responding to the violence.

I do think there is going to be Election Day violence.  Will Michele Morrow declare herself a Freebooter Captain and stand-up a paramilitary group?  Will the Kansas Republicans declare themselves free to attack the Real President Biden instead of an effigy?  Will Derrick Van Orden convince enough of his fellow mean drunks to descend on Madison, Wisconsin to beat up election judges and college students voting in Wisconsin?

Will Arizona Republicans launch a sneak attack on the ballot polling places? 

I don't know but I do know that rightwing domestic terrorists have already begun killing Americans and have the backing of major elected Republicans as well as King Traitor Trump and see 2024 as a confluence of events, influence, and political backing from the Treasonous Republican Party to effect an overthrow of the United States.

I'm afraid they are going to take their shot. 

Friday, March 15, 2024

The Staging Grounds II: Fascist Kristi Noem and Leftist Jason Isbell have something in common

They both decided to get their teeth fixed.

For years, Isbell had crooked teeth. When one commenter said they liked his former teeth, Isbell explained why he had the work done.  “I had bone loss, severe infection and neuralgia, and without the repairs I wasn’t gonna be singing much longer,” he wrote. “Like I don’t know if I mentioned this in any songs or interviews or whatnot, but I’m a recovering alcoholic from Alabama. It should really make sense to everyone.”

Now, the overwhelming majority of adults with teeth problem stem from childhood poverty and the inability to afford braces and other fixes in their youth which would alleviate the need to fix them in adulthood.

But, for some reason because American medical care cleaved dental care away from healthcare coverage we are stuck with this byzantine multi-layered system.

In case you unaware of Jason Isbell, he's "a recovering alcoholic" whose music often touches, sometimes quite deeply and quite personally on addiction issues, as well as relationships and his natural far left Progressive beliefs.  Isbell is famous for zingers on Twitter.  For instance, skewering Oklahoma Faux Tough Guy MarkWayne Mullin.

While, Isbell's dental procedure was done for medical reasons Noem got her teeth done in a pathetic transparent attempt to appeal to Donald Trump.  She wants to be the Vice President, and while schtuping Corey Lewandowski I'm sure discussions on how best to appeal to leering Trumps rapey libido.  

But, even though Noem has always been considered "Hawt" by Republican male gaze standard she's done a lot of surgery to her face (cheeks, nose, lips, now teeth) and pulled several stunts to burnish her rightwing bonafides; like opening up the Sturgis

It's Evolution, Baby!
Motorcycle Rally during the early peaks of Covid prior to vaccinations.  And sending the South Dakota National Guard to the Texas Border (perhaps this is the training for Desensitization and Dehumanization Republicans know they have to inculcate in the Army National Guard to handle liquidating migrants in "The Staging Grounds")

PIERRE, S.D. – Today, Governor Kristi Noem announced that she will deploy South Dakota National Guard troops to the southern border later this spring. This will be the fifth time that the South Dakota National Guard has deployed to the southern border to assist in border security efforts during the Noem Administration. 

 

“The border is a warzone, so we’re sending soldiers,” said Governor Noem. “These soldiers’ primary mission will be construction of a wall to stem the flow of illegal immigrants, drug cartels, and human trafficking into the United States of America.” - February 20, 2024


It's a "war zone" Noem said but, not according to conservatives who've travelled to the border themselves instead of listening to lying press releases from Republican governors...

I would prefer they all hang together but, I will
accept if they all are hanged apart...

"It's not what I expected. But then again, I don't know what I expected. I can tell you it's not as bad as what I thought. So that's kind of eye-opening in itself, too."
Noem is also pretty sure she can get away with petty abuses of power which Trump himself is famous for, such as using her office to get her daughter preferential treatment as she progressed through a real estate appraiser licensing program administered by the state, or doing paid advertisements for her recent orthodontic operations and for a specialty foot store (ed: I just realized Noem is selling foot impressions to MAGA men.)

Of course, Noem won't face any consequences for her abuse of power,  Republicans are never held accountable, and rightwing media has been working to make her a star for many years now because Republicans know when you're a Star they let you do it...

Thursday, March 14, 2024

The Staging Grounds

Budding War Criminal Stephen Miller is a mere
39 years old.  If he follows in the footsteps of his
idol Henry Kissinger, he'll be with us for 61 more
 
Stephen Miller may have coined the term for the next American Mass Murder campaign.

Like The Killing Fields, his casual dropping of the term "The Staging Grounds" when speaking of the Republican plan to round-up and "deport" 10 million people has a darker and sinister tone when one actually considers, in concrete terms, what the Republicans actually propose.

Stephen Miller: You establish large-scale staging grounds for removal flights where you grab illegal immigrants and move them to the staging ground and that's where planes are waiting to remove them to go home. You deputize the National Guard to carry out immigration enforcement

One of the things which gives me hope as the Republican Party slowly sinks the Black Hole of Fascism is that actually carrying out the Orders from Nazis like Stephen Miller, Mike Flynn, Steve Bannon or whomever is not something enough Americans are desensitized to do at this point.  National Guardsmen aren't ready, thank god, to be tasked with kicking in doors of trailer park homes and pulling people out to be moved to "The Staging Grounds"...

Certainly, rightwing propaganda has been warping and radicalizing (Red-pilling) a large number of, mostly white, young men.  One of the things which has been the biggest disservice to young men is the Youtube algorithm.  I'll watch Democracy Now!, TYT, Luke Beasley, David Pakman, the Majority Report, and the fucking algorithm will foist Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Charlie Kirk, Ben Shapiro and any number of reactionary shitweasels into my feed.  No matter how many times I choose to block it.  But, Harvard educated Ivy-league elitist lawyer Ben Shaprio's videos "destroying" college kids keep getting in there.  So, these young men alone watching content get sucked down the rightwing rabbit hole of extremism.

But, how many triggered conservative domestic terrorists ready to do violence do we have in the country?  50,000?  100,000?

Certainly, there are some cosplaying guerrilla units out there practicing for "the Boogaloo", and they could do real damage and kill people.  Remember the Wolverine Watchmen and their plot to kidnap and murder Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer?  But, to form a coherent unit structure and perform complex tasks with 5-paragraph orders to infiltrate and extract targets?  And no actual military or law enforcement unit is going to take orders to round-up and shoot LGBTQ people from a Matt Walsh or Michael Knowles showing up in a Trump Commissar uniform.

The danger is that leadership of Police Departments and US Military units will order their subordinates, underlings, and units to perform these tasks.  Fo instance would deputies in upstate Lewis Co, New York simply follow the orders of skinhead Unconstitutional Sheriff Mike Carpinelli, who was just re-elected to another 4 year term and believes he's the most powerful government official in his county?  If, Kris Kobach ordered the Kansas State Police to stop every car to check for migrants and people with unlawful genders listed on their driver's license will the Troopers simply shrug and say, 'Well, we're checking for violations so the innocent have nothing to fear'?

Most likely, the CBP will be tasked as they are near the border and they've already been indoctrinated through reactionary propaganda and working conditions to treat Migrants poorly.  Additionally, this would allow Republicans in far away locales like Iowa and Missouri who claim, for easily deduced reasons, that The Border Crisis is the biggest problem EVAR, while not seeing the day-to-day mistreatment of other human beings, to sagely nod their head and agree with Greg Abbott that immigrant children should be chewed up with saw blades and used for fish farm food.

I suppose the natural evolution would be the so-called "Inkblot Strategy" of couinterinsurgency expanding out from Authoritarian and supportive regions, say Missouri or Texas, into the rest og America.  But, right now I'm not worried because while the Republicans absolutely want to impose a Fascist White Power State with concentration camps and death squads the infrastructure and willpower isn't there...  yet...

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Republicans Hate America 25: Ben S. Shaprio says 'Work will set you Free'

 I can not stress enough how much Republicans HATE You.  Republicans hate Americans with a visceral passion.  And they get perverse pleasure at getting the people they hate to vote for them.

And no this isn't another leftist screed about how white people vote against their interests.  White people, especially poor and working class (the only workers the Corporate Media acknowledges) get exactly what they want from Republicans in office;  bad faith morality, racism, religious hypocrisy, and non-stop attacks on oppressed and powerless people.

If you think this post title is in bad taste Shapiro
defends rabid racist Jew-hater Elon Musk and 
argues for the extermination of the Palestinian people
However, every so often, a Republican will make it clear they intend to fuck over the working class by stealing social security and white people get indignant and upset... not at the Republicans mind you but, at Democrats, for instance when President Biden points out the Republicans absolutely intend to cut and swindle people out of the Social Security.

Back in 2010, Republican John Boehner, the soon to be Speaker of the House after leftists got mad Barack Obama didn't turn the United States into Plato's Utopian Republic, proposed eliminating Obamacare, raising the Retirement Age to 70 and making drastic cuts to the slender America social safety net.  Americans still voted in the Tea Party Extremists.

So, it's little surprise that Republicans continue their quest to impoverish Americans and ensure no one can every retire.  Here's Harvard educated elitist Ben SShapiro plainly stating American workers should not get to retire EVER but should work up until the day they die.

No one in the United States should be retiring at 65 years old. Frankly, I think retirement itself is a stupid idea unless you have some sort of health problem.  And let's be real about this - it's insane that we haven't raised the retirement age in the United States. It's totally crazy. Everybody that I know who is -- who is elderly, who has retired, is dead within five years. And if you talk to people who are elderly and they lose their purpose in life by losing their job and they stop working, things go to hell in a handbasket real quick.  It's totally insane that you believe that you should be able to work from the time that you are essentially 20 to the time that you are 65 -- which is a 45 year period -- pay in, and then you'll receive Social Security benefits sufficient to support you and your family, you and your wife or whatever, for, like, another 20 years. That's crazy talk. That is not fiscally sustainable.

Ben posits that workers should consider they must work from 20-85.  Life Expectancy for men in America is 73, for women is 79...  the reason Americans die within 5 years of retirement is because they’ve worked themselves into the grave.

 Perhaps Ben is considering how his leisurely life will play out and expects to make it to 85.  Must be because he's not doing anything anyone in the world would consider "work".  Remember Ben counts sitting on his ass talking about Barbie for 2 hours, or complaining about rap music, or demanding Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) send him pictures of her feet as "work".  This pampered dilettante has never done a day's labor in his life, has never had a real job, never served in the military, never helped his community, never put a shovel in the dirt, or hammered a nail into a board.  But, like all rightwingers he feels absolutely qualified to lecture others about things he has no experience and no knowledge about and he always has.

Ben Shapiro is a man of leisure who has taken his Elite Education and coddled upbringing and used it to advance murderous illiberal and authoritarian Republican governments for 20 years.  He argued anyone protesting the Iraq War should be tried for sedition and treason under the Espionage Act.

If you protest this War I have no intention of fighting you should be arrested! 

I'm certain my Reactionary police officer co-workers believe people shouldn't retire at 65 even though some can retire at 50 and even the Tier 2 pensioners can retire at 55.  I Got Mine, Fuck You remains an animating principle of rightwing politics. 

But, Shapiro is far from the first rightwing influencer to argue you don't get to retire peasant, you work until you drop.  Racist Rush Limpballs made this argument years ago,

No, you're not supposed to retire when you're 55. You sound to me like you are totally capable of still working. People are retiring now at 50 and 55 and so forth when they are still capable of working. According to the tables at 55, you've got 22 years left... ~ Racist Limbaugh, [Crooks and Liars]

Infamous Twitter Troll Catturd2, claims he came to his conservatism by listening to Limbaugh daily while working.  Catturd2 has turned in his work pants for rightwing trolling finding it much more lucrative to tweet and be paid by Elon Musk.

Republicans hate You.  They hate an America in which people can possibly find relaxation and enjoyment instead of dropping dead on the job.  Republicans don't believe in the American Dream.  They don't believe in the American people.  Republicans hate America.

President Joe Biden believes in America.  He believes in giving the American people freedom and a chance to live.  This is why Republicans hate Him.  The choice is simple;  Joe Biden and the American Dream or Traitor Trump and jack-booted Fascist Dictatorship.

Republicans hate America 24: Traitor Trump's brain is melting but, he's still savvy enough to steal your Social Security and use your dead relative's body for a photo op

"We heard the Saudi Arabia and Russia will rebe beerb ba baaaah..."


 It is now obvious Trump has either full blown dementia of full blow Fascism;  whether it comes from the spirochetes in his brain, from advancing sundowners syndrome, substance abuse, plaque induced psychosis, or his love of Hitler matters little.  He's no longer the off-the-cuff, rambling racist he used to be but, a confused wannabe Dictator who can barely present a coherent sentence during his long bigoted tirades, crude and ugly insults, and open appeals to Authoritarianism

But, no matter how deep into dementia and glitchy aphasia he sinks into Trump knows when he's not getting his taste.  As with NATO funding, Trump sees Social Security as a big pile of Cash of which he is not getting a cut.  And cut Social Security is exactly what he will do,

“First of all, there is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting, and in terms of, also, the theft and bad management of entitlements,” Trump responded “Tremendous bad management of entitlements. There’s tremendous amounts of things and numbers of things you can do.”

First of all, this is tremendous gibberish.  Tremendous.  Secondly, this fat fascist fuck absolutely will sign any piece of crap legislation put in front of him.  He'll cut Socials Security, Medicare, anything which he feels he entitled to a cut of.  He's a giant gelatinous blob who repeats whatever he thinks will get him an applause line.  When he can actually coherently produce a sentence that is...

All he can do is regurgitate the Ackshullaly Biden rightwing talking points the rest of his speech is mangled, garbled gibberish, insulting diarrhea, substituting the wrong word, flowing into a confused miasma of disconnected thoughts, disgusting innuendos and frightening declarations of fascism and authoritarian desires.

Trump openly praises Dictators who then reveal that Trump tells them exactly what he will do when he's returned to office.  Viktor Orban flatly stated Trump told him he'll immediately cut off aid to Ukraine which coupled with Trump telling "POTEN" he can do whatever the hell he wants demonstrates Trump and Republicans know there natural allies are Russian Fascists.

Back in October, I can not imagine the fucking ballistic fallout if a Democratic President denounced Prime Minister Netanyahu and praised Hezbollah in the wake of the Hamas militant butchery the way Traitor Trump did.  since then Trump hasn't said anything about the Gaza Crisis because he has no ideas other than his fantasy counterfactual that Israel wouldn't be attacked.

I told you years ago, that when Republicans were back in power they would move to turn Jan6th into the Second Independence Day and engage in their tradition of revisionist history turning Criminals, Traitors, and Insurrectionists into Heroes, Patriots, and Martyrs.  Trump's bluntly declaring he'll pardon all the convicted criminals who engaged in the Insurrection and probably all the unindicted co-conspirators and planners like Ginni Thomas .

And yet, the Corporate Media still will not come out and declare what is obvious before the entire Country's and World's eyes;  Trump is a rapidly degenerating mess who yearns to use the Federal Government to harm his enemies.  And what's worse, the school of parasites and remoras circling his bulbous ass yearn to use the Awesome Power of the Government to murder millions of people.

Millions.
 
Lakan? TRUMP! Now Smile!
"During my four years, nothing happened,” Trump told a gathering of NRA members in January in Pennsylvania. “And there was great pressure on me having to do with guns. We did nothing.”

But, we are led to believe that this smiling Ghoul, desecrating the United States Flag for a photo op of the "grieving" family of Laken Riley all mugging for the camera, spelled her fucking name wrong after autographing it is fit to be President and cares to protect anyone.  And I'm supposed to believe Republicans GIVE A FUCK about Americans or anything?

Yet… Day after day legacy media journalists attack President Biden for using notes while Trump calls his wife the wrong name, most likely, because he hasn't seen her in years.

Oh no... the Corporate Media is letting us down again, if you are naive enough to still believe the Media isn't completely in the Tank for Trump and Republicans.  If instead you understand that while this or that individual journalist might be Liberal, the Corporate Media is owned by the Plutocracy and they want Trump in Power because Republican control of the Government means no taxes and less and less regulations.  The people hurt by Republicans don't matter to the 1%.  

Trump and the Republicans plan to cut Social Security and Medicare and retired white Boomers are champing at the bit to vote for this degenerate Rapist a 3rd time.

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

White Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf wants a $1.2 Billion dollar handout from Illinois (Don't forget about Da Bears!)

"Socialism, communism, whatever you want to call it, is never the answer." Hank Steinbrenner in 2011, just 2 years after Steinbrenner and the New York Yankees received $2 Billion in public funds subsidized by the New York City and State taxpayers to build Yankee Stadium III.

One of the biggest and most successful scams the Ultra-Rich 1% pulled on America was the Trickle-Down Economics scheme.  Give Us large amount of public money for free and the economic benefit of us using it for ourselves will flow downward onto everyone else.  There is stuff flowing down from the 1% onto us but, it sure ain't economic benefits...  And while they were aided and abetted by Republicans and other conservative politicians the goal has always been the same to gain access to public monies in order to Privatize the Profits, and Socialize the Losses.

The White Sox are looking to move from the old 35th and Shields in the Bridgeport neighborhood to the 78, but in order to accomplish this move, poor, poor Jerry Reinsdorf needs to bum a couple o' bucks from the people of Illinois.

Jerry Reinsdorf has engaged in several tactics reserved for rich plutocratic assholes.  First, Reinsdorf dusted of his 1990s playbook and threatened to move the Chicago White Sox, this time to Nashville, Tennessee.  In the 1990s, Reinsdorf successfully bilked Illinois Governor Big Jim Thompson and the people of Illinois out of hundreds of millions of dollars to repair Comiskey Park by threatening to move the club to St. Petersburg, Florida.

So, last month just before Governor J.B. Pritzker's budget address, Reinsdorf went to Springfield to press the Governor and Legislature for $1,200,000,000 in public assistance in the building of the new White Sox stadium.  Reinsdorf and his investors would come up with the additional funding for the extended stadium grounds.

Rich people stay Rich because they don't pay for things with their money.  Governor J.B. Pritzker is rich he's a real Billionaire unlike the Orange Hitler so he knows this.  Pritzker has been adamant that no public money is going to build sports stadiums,
“I think I’ve been fairly clear about the fact that the taxpayers’ dollars are precious,” Pritzker said in response to a reporter’s question at an unrelated event. “And the idea of taking taxpayer dollars and subsidizing the building of a stadium as opposed to, for example, subsidizing the building of a birthing center, just to give the example, does not seem like the stadium ought to have higher priority.”
Unfortunately, there is a quirk which might allow not only the White Sox but Chicago Bears access to a government handout;  Mayor Brandon Johnson has been stepping all over his own dick and needs win, or to be clearer he needs not to be the Mayor who 'lost" the Chicago Bears to Arlington Heights.
“As far as public dollars, we haven’t gotten into any of those specifics just yet,” the mayor said of discussions with Sox officials.  "But I will say that we’re gonna explore all options. But we have to make sure that we’re doing right by the people of Chicago. … Everything is on the table here."

Why is everything on the table?  Jerry Reinsdorf is so rich he has quietly for the past 2 years been buying up the vacant parking lots in and around the United Center, Home of YOUR HIS Chicago BULLS!

Meanwhile, the Chicago Bears are floating the idea of tearing down Solider's Field and putting up a state-of-the-art doomed Stadium on the Lakefront.  They've even proposed using $2,000,000,000 of their own money.  As a comparison, Stan Kroenke of the LA (not St. Louis) Rams spent $5,000,000,000 on the SoFi Stadium, without public assistance, although the NFL did some money as well.

But, this is all posturing as the Chicago Lake front is protected by statute from building on it, as George Lucas learned when he proposed his gaudy Star Wars museum.  The Bears have already knocked down the old Arlington Racetrack, accompanying side buildings and that vast open area is going to house their Stadium, a Bears Museum, hotels, restaurants, probably apartments for players and coaches to live in, and all that revenue will go right into the extended Halas Family pockets.  It's a no-brainer.  But, at this point the Bears seem to be trying to reduce their financial commitment to the Arlington Heights community and surrounding school districts because they can rely on the non-stop messaging of "Trickle-Down" effect being good enough for the peoples who should feel privileged we wish to build a stadium in their community and probably should provide us incentives to do so!

Hand-outs to the MegaRich are called stimulus and the Rich love getting other peoples' money.

Monday, March 11, 2024

Republicans hate America 23: If you love Migrants so much why don't you house them?

"We can fight about fixing the border or we can fix it..." - President Biden, State of the Union March 7, 2024.

If you love the immigrants so much why don't you put them in your house?  In Chicago, at least, one man is doing his best to answer this disingenuous rhetorical retort with "Alright..."

Joselin Mendoza sleeps on the floor of a cold stone basement with her two kids at a house in Roseland.

The property’s owner Chris Amatore came by in a truck one day in January and offered her the chance to leave a city-run shelter before she and her family were kicked out.

He has now resettled close to 500 migrants in 15 buildings around the city, spending $150,000 of his own money, he said.

Amatore’s solution isn’t a long-term fix — for himself or the migrants, who are grateful for the vacant buildings they now call home. He is facing strong backlash from community members and city officials, as housing experts raise alarms about what is going to happen to thousands of people without assistance. 

This man's humanity, compassion and dedication to his fellow man are beyond reproach.  He's a General Contractor who founded, a company Manage Chicago, most likely buying and flipping homes and buildings.  Now... Flippers and General Contractors can be ruthless predators but, Chris Amatore apparently put his money where his mouth is this winter.

However, 'this why don't you do it' is the Gotcha Lib! rhetoric question rightwingers use to put you on the defensive and "prove" you're a hypocrite when it comes to the so-called Migrants crisis.  Now, understand the Republicans don't frame this as a human crisis but use the phrase Border Crisis.  This is deliberate.

The reason I (or even a business like Manage Chicago) don't simply house all the immigrants is the same reason I don't simply solve the Israel/Palestine problem... Such problems are too big for any one person to solve or handle alone.  Of course, this is precisely the reason Man (Homo Politicus) came together to form Government in the first place; to deal with problems which are too big for anyone to address.  Of course, the Republican solution for immigrants is the same for the Palestinians; Total Eradication.

Now, this Gotcha Lib! bad faith device has been used by rightwingers before as they've said this for decades about homeless (or unhoused people) i.e. if you really want to hep the homeless you'd let them stay in your house.

And now a variation is being used to undermine the military aid to Ukraine as Republicans have apparently discovered many Veterans Republicans have been fucking over for years are homeless.

Of course, Republicans are full of shit because just like everything they say they have no intention of every following through.  But, they've played the Corporate Media to reporting Republican words are as good as action.  Being a conservatives means having No Memory and shamelessly using their past panics and phony crisis to undercut the current dilemma. 

 Republicans have claimed over and over again in committee meetings and interviews that Joe Biden is so senile he can't speak.  Biden just talked rhetorical circles around every Republican in the chamber.

One of the avenues of attack, Republicans have taken on President Biden is to invent "The Border Crisis".

In Katie Breathy Britt's, vile lie filled speech she referenced the border 9 times without mentioning the people.  Well, except to tell a Massive Lie (using the Excluded Middle Fallacy) about a trafficked young woman allowing rightwing drones to believe it was happening under President Biden when, in fact, the situation occurred in Mexico, in 2004, when George Worst Ever was President.

But, have you noticed that in order to demonize President Biden, it is necessary for Republicans to remove humanity from "The Crisis".  Dehumanization is the first step towards death trains and concentration camps.

But, Republicans are planning far, far worse.  Rightwingers across the country claim the Border is the biggest issue facing America.  They've dutifully been conditioned and if Trump gets back in, they will dutifully support the next step for the "illegals";  Rounding-up and elimination.

Mike Davis, one of the men under consideration by Trump and the Project 2025 for Attorney General, proudly told rightwingers in September 2023 he would “unleash hell on Washington, D.C." , would "indict President Joe Biden and every other scumball, sleazeball Biden,” and helping pardon those found guilty of crimes associated with the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol. 

“We’re gonna deport a lot of people, 10 million people and growing—anchor babies, their parents, their grandparents,” Davis said. “We’re gonna put kids in cages. It’s gonna be glorious. We’re gonna detain a lot of people in the D.C. gulag and Gitmo.”

Steve Bannon, says the 2024 Election is a referendum on "deportation" of 10,000,000 people.

But, remember there always is that unspoken middle between what Republicans openly talk about now and the physical deportation of 10 MILLION people.  How do you find them?  How do you arrest and process them?  Where do they go when awaiting deportation?  

Stephen Miller went further, 
“You grab illegal immigrants, and then you move them to the staging grounds, and that’s where the planes are waiting”

"The Staging Grounds" are that unspoken middle, Millions of people in concentration camps and you absolutely know that will result in huge number of deaths, rapes, and other crimes as once Republicans have successfully demonized "illegals" and have millions of people in custody far from peoples eyes it will be easy for Conservatives to simply accept the liquidation of these people.

In 2025, if they've managed to secure power Republicans will destroy the United States of America.  Democrats build, Republicans destroy.  The choice for President is clear and simple;  Either you support Joe Biden and the United States or you fundamentally wish to end the Democratic Republic and replace it with a Christian Fascist Nation.

Additional:

I don't think it can be stated strongly enough just how much Republicans hate America and loathe the American people.  Republican Senator James Lankford was censured by the Oklahoma GOP for being seen during the SOTU saying "It's True." as President Biden laid out exactly how Donald John Traitor Trump scuttled the Bi-Partisan Border Security Bill.  There is no greater sin than correctly reporting Republican actions.  Republicans absolutely have no interest in governing or solving problems; they are laser-focused on destroying the United States.  Republican-led domestic terrorism is coming when Trump loses in 2024, be prepared...

Sunday, March 10, 2024

Republicans hate America 22 : Tradwife Katie Britt breathy lies

 You can tell how much Republicans hate you by how easily they lie to you.  It's despicable and shameless and designed with one goal in mind place their rightwing drones into a constant state of Fear & Anger.

Katie Britt started off her State of the Union response by claiming Senator isn't here job,

My name is Katie Britt, and I have the honor of serving the people of the great state of Alabama in the United States Senate.  However, that’s not the job that matters most.  I’m a proud wife and mom of two school-aged kids.

Love that Joker!
So... one of the most powerful people in the United States Government and therefore the world claims not to be a politician.  I've mentioned before that every Republican runs as an "Outsider" like Wisconsin Drunk Van Orden claims on his campaign website. It's so fucking trite and insulting and the Corporate Media lets them get away with it constantly. Trump claimed to love the title of "Outsider" in a Feb 2024 interview with Maria Bartolomo on Faux News. 

But, Britt's horrific creepy lie-fest was punctuated with one of the most brazen lies of omission yet tried by a Republican. First though, Britt's weird breathy voice is a "virtue signal" to the Fascist Fundamentalists that she's a docile Tradwife, as this "Fundie Baby Voice" has been adopted by evangelical and female TikTok influencers and is immediately recognized by the faithful.


And much has been made of Britt's attempts to go from happy warrior, to tearful mother, to assertive but not angry woman, all while Republicans told her to smile more during her empty Kitchen response.  Britt’s Kitchen was as empty and bereft as she is of morals, ethics, and principles.

But, Britt told a tale of woman subjected to horrific sexual violence from the time she was child. 

I traveled to the Del Rio sector of Texas, where I spoke to a woman who shared her story with me. She had been sex trafficked by the cartels starting at age 12. She told me not just that she was raped every day, but how many times a day she was raped.

We wouldn’t be OK with this happening in a third-world country. This is the United States of America, and it’s past time we start acting like it.

President Biden’s border crisis is a disgrace. It’s despicable. And it’s almost entirely preventable.

Now, I am in no way discounting this women's tale of violence and trauma or saying the story is untrue but, Britt's Lie is in telling this story as though it's a direct result of President Biden's border policies. It isn't.

The woman in question, Karla Jacinto Romero, is an incredibly brave activist who has told her story of subjugation and sexual abuse for decades now. Former AP report Jonathan Katz uncovered this and I recommend watching his video essay detailing the fundamental dishonesty in Britt's recounting of the incident.  I suppose in an irony of ironies despicable liar Katie Britt didn't even "SAY HER NAME" during this shameless co-option of Karla's trauma.

This is a shocking level of insincerity and brazen dishonesty which and I want you be clear, NO LONGER FUCKING MATTERS anymore. Republicans have successfully groomed and cultivated a cult and have no need to worry about lies, slander, misconduct, or even criminal conspiracies harming their electoral chances.

This was merely Britt's biggest lie as her awkward code switching and her stern breathy voice bore FALSE WITNESS against the President.  But, while on line Republican operatives were angry at Britt’s terrible presentation the right wing doesnt care about Britt's shameless.  Retreating to the well-worn canard, 'Oh they all lie. Especially Biden! He's the biggest liar' and therefore having condemned all politicians as exactly the same they absolve themselves of any moral conundrum in voting for Republicans, which is the whole fucking point of Corporate Media BothSides rhetoric, false equivocation, and constant push to excuse Republican perfidy.

We are in for a fight everyone.  Republicans hate You.  Do what you can to defeat these Republican monsters in the November Election because they see Trump's election, the Six Supreme Court Injustices, the compliant Corporate Media, and Authoritarianism Rising with in Europe, in South America, and the Fanatical Genocidal Wars in Ukraine and Gaza as the perfect opportunity to finally destroy the United States of America and replace it with a MAGA Empire held aloft by the pillars of White Supremacy, Corporate Hegemony, and Fascist Fundamentalism.

As always Be Brave if you can but, be ready to fight for your very lives because Republicans are coming for them.

Republicans hate America 21: Drunken Van Orden strikes again at the SOTU

Republicans have a substance abuse problem.  In the wake of President Biden’s rousing State of the Union speech, conservatives decided to claim Biden was on drugs.

Now, understand whenever Republicans make an accusation it’ always a confession of their own behavior.  During Trump's maladministration it's been revealed that the White House was awash in speed, Xanax, and other drugs and former Admiral Ronny Jackson, was a pill-mill Doctor handing out prescription drugs like candy.  Of course"Admiral" Jackson is now Texas Congressman Ronny Jackson in case you didn't know, and is no longer an Admiral having been quietly demoted in July 2022 due to a scathing Inspector General's report, which was buttressed by Jackson drunken and amphetamine filed attack on Texas deputies in August of 2023.

Like Ronny Jackson, Wisconsin Republican Derrick Van Orden is a mean drunk.  Now, there's a difference between an alcoholic and a drunk.  Mother Jones claims Derrick Van Orden has an anger management problem but, by Van Orden's own admission he's embraced being an obnoxious, booze filled raging asshole drunk throughout his life.

So, this year it was Drunken Van Orden's turn to be a disrespectful, obnoxious heckler during President Biden's State of the Union shouting "Lies" and claiming the speech could have been given by “could have been delivered by Joseph Stalin or Mao Zedong or President Xi.”

Unable to criticize the substance of President Biden's speech they focus on style.  Of course, besides being boorish, Republicans have nothing to offer the American people so they have to heckle, they can’t offer up concrete policy ideas because the only thing Republicans are offering up is hatred and bigotry.

Derrick Van Orden was a Navy Seal.  I wonder how his XO would have handled Van Orden drunkenly acting out in unit formation or during training ops.  Of course, Drunken Van Orden has an extremely high opinion of his leadership and moral grounding having written Book of Man: A Navy Seal’s Guide to the Lost Art of Manhood. According to the book’s description on Amazon, “Stories of fist fighting, fishing, and driving fast cars are all interwoven with the principles of what used to be known as basic manhood, but has now become a lost art.”

What mean Drunk Van Orden calls manhood has been recognized as vicious and vile bullying since The Great Santini, and while Republicans may confuse being an abusive asshole with "manhood" Americans recognize this type of behavior is unacceptable.  Hopefully, Wisconsin voters will recognize the same this November.

Friday, March 8, 2024

Fighting Joe Biden not so Sleepy State of the Union Rope-a-Dopes Republicans again

The choice between Battlin' Joe Biden and the Toxic Treasonous Predecessor remains absolutely clear and easy.

I'll be darned but President Joe Biden remains a force during these speeches and Major Traitor Greene and every Republican remains a classless piece of shit.

Fighting Joe delivered an absolute knock out State of the Union address.  A feisty engaged speech filled with concrete ideas and promises to fight the Republican forces of Fascism.

Again, Republicans have nothing to offer the American people.  Republicans have no policies, no political platform, no aspirations, no ideas.  Republicans stand for nothing.  Don't ever forget Republicans routinely take credit for Bills they vote against and deny culpability for the bigoted and hateful laws (IVF) they do pass. Mighty Joe Biden called them out on it again!

The Entire Republican Congress are naught but, trolls and hecklers.  They have no self-control and no decency.  It's the natural endpoint of 40 years of incestuous rightwing propaganda; Republicans have been sitting in their rightwing bubbles endlessly farting and then inhaling in each other’s farts. In fact, Republicans have been huffing their own farts for so long they believe their own agitprop about Biden’s age, as the GOP continues to engage in incestuous amplification.

Yet, Joe Biden is perfect at responding to this type of heckling and continues to get the better of them, even though he’s older and slower he still beats them. 

Contrast Joe's witty retorts and extemporaneous ad-libs as he's heckled with Trump's responses to interruptions during his fascist rallies.  When Trump is interrupted his brain ceases functioning, he stops, gets visibly angry, continues to sweat profusely, breathes hard, and yells to get them out of here like your angry Faux News watching Uncle gets when you interrupt their racist harangues. 

It's impressive.  Fighting Joe, the Delaware Dandy, the Son of Scranton, is a canny old fighter just out-boxing them over and over again.  Watching President Biden set-up obvious rhetorical traps and watching Republican howler monkeys simply start shouting and flinging shit at him and "I'll be darned..." if Fighting Joe didn't come out on top again.  And make no mistake, Republicans absolutely want to steal your Social Security, because Republicans hate you, they hate American, and the hate the American Dream of being able to retire and enjoy your golden years.

I wish President Biden could look over his long career and decide to hang'em up but, I know he sees what an existential threat to American Democracy MAGA is, and he can't sit on the sidelines and watch the Toxic Treasonous Predecessor destroy the United States.

Again, the choice is clear, simple, and easy;  either hand the Federal Government over to a gaggle of Nazis or bring Joe back for 4 more years of easily the best President of Joe Biden's long lifetime.