Tim Sheehy, Bernie Moreno, Eric Hovde, and all the Phony Men running to be Republican Senators

The race for United States Senate was considered disadvantageous for the Democratic Party until Kamala Harris and Tim Walz took over at the top of ticket.  Even now it's a toss-up at best.  And then you look at the the men the Republican Party put forth in so many states and you wonder why it's a toss-up. 

Having that Scarlet R absolves every one of these loser candidates of the need to have principles, or morals, or ethics, or values, little alone coherent policy ideas.

In Montana, Tim Sheehy has been lying outrageously about a bullet wound claiming it was from service in Afghanistan when it fact the loser weirdo shot himself while in Glacier National Park, most likely while drunk and playing around with a firearm.  Just despicable but, IOKIYAR.

In interviews with the Washington Post, the Glacier National Park Ranger shared his report and account of the events involving Tim Sheehy negligently discharging a firearm resulting in Sheehy shooting himself only later to invent a total bullshit story of being shot in Afghanistan but covering it up for fear his superiors would find out about it and someone would be reprimanded.  Just utterly outrageous to claim a combat wound (even if a ND friendly fire incident) to deny the truth he shot himself "accidentally". 

Last spring, Peach shared his account of ticketing Sheehy $525 for discharging a weapon in Glacier National Park in October of 2015 with The Washington Post — an account that was backed up by U.S. District Court and national park documents from the incident. The Post allowed him to speak on the condition of anonymity at the time because he feared political retaliation. But Laura Loomer and other conservative pundits quickly shared his identity online after the story published, leading to harassment, Peach said.

But in April, Sheehy told The Post that he sought medical attention that day because he fell during a hike and feared he had dislodged a bullet in his arm from Afghanistan that he had never reported to his superiors, for fear of sparking an investigation into its origins. He said hospital staff reported the gunshot wound to the local authorities, even though it was not fresh. Then, Sheehy said, he lied to Peach when the ranger came to investigate and said he had accidentally shot himself to avoid potentially triggering a military investigation into his former unit. 

In Texas,well-known closet case Ted Cruz was absolutely annihilated during a debate with Colin Allred.  Cruz's long history of being a creepy off-putting weirdo is well known as is his abject cowardice and treason.

In Ohio, Bernie Moreno is running on the hopes that white women over 50 will bow down and subject younger women to draconian Republican plans on Abortion because those women over 50 don't need them anymore.  So come home to daddy little ladies.

In my beloved Wisconsin, a Californian money launder for the Mexican Drug cartels, who lives in an Orange County Mansion by the sea believed by simply growing a bushy Tom Selleck mustache he'd able to unseat longtime Senator Tammy Baldwin

In Missouri, that infamous Coward Josh Hawley has been repeatedly destroyed by Lucas Kunce in debates, in a staged confrontation at a Missouri State Fair, and at every appearance.

Yet, each of these cowardly weirdo Phonies has a good chance at being returned to the US Senate for another 6 years.  The question; Why? has been the topic of discussion and the over-arching political question for the last 50 years.

The answer is actually simple;  Republicans tell comforting lies to white men to get them to vote for Republicans.  Republicans have spent the last 50 years crafting, refining, and honing this phony narrative.

I often write Republicans hate America, and it's absolutely true but, I also tag posts with a Republicans have nothing to offer the American people and that's not true.  What's more correct to declare is Republicans have nothing concrete to offer Americans.  No policies, no platforms.  But, they do have something to offer Fear & Anger.  Republicans entire platform is nothing more than what the Corporate Media calls "cultural issues", and from Republicans these are always, always, always lies.  Republicans for decades invent some false story, use that story to rile up their followers, and then ride the waves of anger and fear back into office.  Afterwards. Republicans do what they always do in office, eliminate safety regulations, cut taxes on Billionaires, further impoverish working class Americans, attempt to slash the social safety net, and slowly chip away at the American Dream.

Because that is the goal of each and every single Republicans in the Federal Government;  ending the American Dream and destroying the Untied States of America to replace it with a Fascist Dystopia. 

The Revenge of the Thin Blue Line 22: School's Resource Officers are out for Summer

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"You have no idea what it's like to be a coward." (Duet- DS9 1993) 

Cowardice is a very strong charge.  But, I don't know what to make of the Officers inability or lack of understanding at what was going to happen at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.  But, reading this report from parents and on-lookers screaming at the assembling Officers to, "Go in There! Go in There!" leaves a lump in my stomach and makes me want to just walk in and quit tomorrow.

The School Resource Officer (SRO) Program has been a monumental failure.  I'm not just talking about the failure of the Officers involved in the latest mass murder school shooting but, the execution and whole scope of the program itself.

First and foremost, FUCK YOU TED CRUZ schools shouldn't have to be hardened into Super Max Prisons in order for We, the People to have any piece of mind yet as you listen to every proposal by conservatives they refuse to address the reason for school shootings (i.e. the proliferation of easily obtainable firearms and the Republican refusal to enforce any restrictions on the sale or purchase of firearms).  Disgusting fat slimy fuck Ted Cruz went on and on and on about fucking doors as the culprit in the Mass Shooting.  As if rightwingers didn't demonstrate on January 6th that Rightwing Terrorists can easily go through windows too.

The Republican playbook after these shootings remains the same; set up an alternate cause, it used to be mental health or video games, today's excuse is "doors".  Then obfuscate and deflect and run out the clock.  In a week or two, the public will be distracted by the price of gas or baby formula and Republicans can cash their latest check from the Russian Intelligence Services funneled to them through the NRA.

Republicans not only refuse to adopt common sense already proven gun laws to reduce gun violence in America they also refuse to enforce the laws already in existence.  It's part and parcel of the Republican two-step with guns wherein they get to claim gun laws don't work (Look at Chicago, they always scream) while also purposely undermining the those gun laws so they can claim they don't work.

I've read the two Officers exchanged gunfire and then lost contact with Ramos eventually, a Border Patrol Ofc went inside and shot the killer.  Contradicting earlier reporting Ramos wasn't wearing body armor, wasn't confronted and responding officers apparently cowered and dithered outside for 40 minutes as Ramos executed 21 people. Unlike, rightwing fantasies of gunplay when real bullets fly prudence does demand you seek cover but, you can not allow this as a responding Officer you've got to go in IMMEDIATELY.  Now, I'm not as base and vile as Ted Cruz or the other elected Republicans, I understand that going up against Ramos is almost certain death, AR-15 vs. handgun, but why don't rank and file Police understand what their predecessors knew?  I.e. More Guns = More Gun Violence Q.E.D.  

Republican gun policies have ensured Officers are going to be outgunned initially and letting the Firearm Industry flood the Nation with high-powered, easily obtainable weapons is not freedom.  It is not liberty.  It is not Lawful.  It is a Murder-Suicide Pact.  Police Departments, by their very nature tend to be conservative, but, why have Officers by and large moved into the Reactionary framework of the MAGA mindset?

For one, Use of Force training for Police has completely warped their minds.  Villainous psycho Dave Grossman has taught a whole slew of Officers to be trigger happy and expect an ambush at a moment's notice leading to too many Officers acting as though their daily routine patrol is a convoy in fucking Fallujah.  This heightened danger mode and constant fight or flight response is a stress that the human body can not tolerate. 

SROs are nothing more than a way to introduce state violence onto juveniles, especially and overwhelmingly on minorities, at an early age.  Additionally, as rightwing anti-tax bullshit continues to put a squeeze onto communities, Departments and municipalities have increasingly turned to School Officers to extract money from families and overwhelmingly Police target minorities.  Often because white parents always, always, always put a stink if their child is to be ticketed.

Juveniles shouldn't be subjected or treated to police enforcement in this manner.  Fortunately, last July my Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois legislature outlawed lying to juvenile suspects during interviews and interrogations especially the classic tactic of claiming you have evidence when you do not.  A time worn tactic to elicit a confession.  This was illustrated in The Wire when Bunk and the Detective Lieutenant fool the black juvenile suspect with a copy machine pretending it's a lie detector and the Cops wondering "How many years you figure we been doin' this same shit?" Another replies, "20 at least".  

Of course, perhaps even worse than the use of Police against Juveniles the image that made the rounds on Twitter was of all the schools in which a School Resource Officer failed to stop the shooter.  I don't know if it's wholly accurate but, it does reflect reality of unrestricted gun violence in America.  Police Officers are seen routinely killing unarmed black people on video and seemingly never stopping mass shooters. 

"But you’re not black,” the Cobb County Lt. Greg Abbott interrupted. “Remember, we only kill black people. Yeah, we only kill black people, right? All the videos you’ve seen, have you seen any white people get killed?”

Republicans are Baby Murdering Rapists who love when children are shot to death

"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,” Senator Bill Cassidy told Politico.  "Correct our Population for race" means let a large amount of black women die from lack of prenatal care.

The GOP is a nihilistic death cult hell bent on turning the United States into a Fascist Theocracy.

One of the greatest tricks the GQP pulled was to get the Corporate Media to accept their framing of issues.  Now, this is a little cooked because the current Media is set up to push the agenda of Billionaires and the Rich, just like the Republican Party but, it's also been a great method of letting Republicans claim that their words are the equivalent of actions.  Republicans claim to be pro-life, heavily invested in patriotism, and with an eye towards liberty.  They say these things but, they don't follow through with actions because they don't have to, the words like prayers are enough to satisfy their followers.

Those Empty Thoughts & Worthless Prayers are also the only thing Republicans have to offer to the families of victims of the latest school shootings.  Republicans offer these things up because it is literally the least they can do but, Republicans know the Corporate Media will treat Thoughts & Prayers as equivalent of action.

Meanwhile, the Republicans are simply running out the clock on the latest mass shooting, knowing their bigoted hardcore followers don't care and the rest of the American people are too distracted in dealing with all the problems Republicans created to address gun violence that hasn't yet affected them.

And the Republicans can count on-line vile lying Rightwingers to spread all sorts of lies and misinformation as Alex Jones and others did with We Have to Talk About Sandy Hook, the way Major Traitor Greene stalked Parkland survivor David Hogg in DC and others claimed he wasn't present.  Already Republicans and conservatives are flooding social media with claims the murderer was Transgender (the latest boogeyman the right is using to undermine and destroy the United States).

The Left (in general) failed to respond because since the 1960s the Left saw conservatives cloak themselves in Flag and God so they ceded these things to the Right because of how repugnant conservatives made the concepts of patriotism and religion.  What the Left did not Not understand, unlike the Unionists in the 1860s did, is the American Flag, patriotism, and religion are things you take back from the Fascists.

And make no mistake that's what the Modern Republican Party is; Fascist.  Deeply.  Thoroughly.  And with a keen eye towards inflicting pain and violence on their True Enemies, Democrats, Liberals, and Progressives.

Elected Republicans wake up in the mid-morning after their coke-fueled deviant orgies and contemplate how they can harm Americans and the Nation.  From the most Hate Filled Republican Senator to the most vile TV newsman, Republicans spend every second of every day making things materially and morally worse for Americans because the Conservative Agenda is to Destroy the United States and replace it with their Neo-Confederate Fundamentalist State.

I could fill this entire post with bizarre, violent, hateful, vile, disingenuous, frightening, menacing social media posts, statements, State Laws, radio broadcasts, and Supreme Court ruling which demonstrate how far Fascist the GOP has descended but, to what point?  The Corporate Media is tasked by their owners and operators with helping to advance the Rightwing Agenda and with making it palatable to the large swath of Americans who can't be bothered or are too frazzled and barely hanging on to vote and organize against the Republican Fascist Death Cult.

And that is what Republicans count on.  By consistently making things materially worse for Americans Republicans know they can then blame their recalcitrant undermining of the Nation on the Democratic Party and be assured the Corporate Media will gleefully adopt rightwing taking points.

Note, the Media freakout over the withdrawal from Afghanistan and the ease which Republicans are all allowed to vote against any Governmental effort to address the baby formula shortage while Republicans still get to claim the mantle of Pro-Life.

It's the same way Republicans get to aid the NRA in flooding the Nation with easily obtainable firearms, while undermining Law&Order but, get to be labeled the Pro-Police Party and defenders of children; the very same children Republicans helped murder in the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.  All while blaming the Democratic Party for the damage the Republicans have wrought, as Baby Killer Ted Cruz did in the immediate aftermath.

After the GOP takes control of the House and Senate and enough Governorships through their decades long and time-worn methods of voter discouragement and disenfranchisement; they will have the Governmental edge to outright steal the 2024 Presidential Election and then like all good Fascist Disctatorships will allow the Form to continue even though all elections will be no different than the Saddam Hussein lead Ba'ath Party "democratic" elections.

After the GOP Fascist takeover, the Corporate Media will dutifully carry out their role of hyping the latest Rightwing propaganda and pretending the State of the Nation is the same as it ever was...