Revenge of the Thin Blue Line 40: More Police Training is not the answer especially not "Street Cop Training"

Reform the Police, a refrain as old as Police themselves.  But, we will never get the proper answer until we understand the question?  "More Training" has been the Panacea to combat Police brutality and misconduct but, can the Police as currently conceived, designed, organized, and utilized be retrained?

More than a decade ago I became aware of the grotesque David Grossman and his On Killing / Warrior Cop police training, a course of instruction designed to turn even well-adjusted LEOs into sacred trigger happy panicked shooters and affording psychotic Police Officers the justification they needed to gun down any black man they saw.

Grossman's "Killology" training wasn't a bizarre outlier from a weirdo who never saw combat but, a highly touted and widespread methodology which had been taught to thousands of cops and merely the most visible of the Let's make police into brutal abusers philosophy. 

Sadly, it seems a vast swath of politicians were never aware of this training until it had already wrecked an entire generation of Police Officers in a similar way the Joe Rogan/Andrew Tate/Jordan Peterson toxic masculinity has warped and deluded the young generation of Zoomer boys these days.  The general approach was to simply allocate the money for "More Training" and let the departments pick and choose.

Therefore, in this Post-Ferguson era, we still see toxic training being sold to Officers and the content provided by these so-called trainers containing vulgar, rude, discriminatory, unconstitutional methods, demeaning misogynoy, and toxic masculinity.  

Street Cop, founded in 2012, is a private law enforcement training vendor that conducts business in the State of New Jersey. The founder and CEO of the Company is Dennis Benigno, a former law enforcement officer who worked with a municipal police department in Middlesex County, New Jersey, until 2015. 

Benigno claims to lead “one of the largest, if not the largest, police training providers in the United States,” impacting approximately 25,000 to 30,000 law enforcement officers nationally on an annual basis. In New Jersey alone, the Company conducts 40 to 45 courses annually, training in “excess of 2000 state and local law enforcement officers.” Included in the New Jersey course offerings is a case law class “tailored specifically to New Jersey,” which Benigno himself instructs.

Among other things, OSC found:

• Instructors at the Conference promoted the use of unconstitutional policing tactics for motor vehicle stops;
• Some instructors glorified violence and an excessively militaristic or “warrior” approach to policing. Other presenters spoke disparagingly of the internal affairs process; promoted an “us vs. them” approach; and espoused views and tactics that would undermine almost a decade of police reform efforts in New Jersey, including those aimed at de-escalating civilian-police encounters, building trust with vulnerable populations, and increasing officers’ ability to understand, appreciate, and interact with New Jersey’s diverse population; and
• The Conference included over 100 discriminatory and harassing remarks by speakers and instructors, with repeated references to speakers’ genitalia, lewd gestures, and demeaning quips about women and minorities.

The New Jersey Office of State Comptroller has a detailed report of the vile bullshit and borderline criminal misconduct taught at a 6 day seminar in Atlantic City in October 2021.  And what did The Founder of Street Cop, Dennis Benigno with his synthol oil muscles, and his instructors teach?  Why the same tired Reactionary Crap of Warrior Cop hyper-vigilance.  The repetition of the US and Them, Kill or Be Killed, Treat Everyone Like a Dirtbag Criminal and you might just go home alive.

I've been to a lot of training over the years and immediately steer clear of the hard-chargers who come in festooned in street tactical 5.11 clothing, wearing their duty/off-duty pistol in their low leg holster... 

What we always find with this type of training or an institution like Street Cop; is the classic reductive stereo-types which have been repeated since Joseph Wambaugh and Clint Eastwood invented them 60 years ago.  Righteous god fearing white christian police beset by the savage hordes of blacks, hispanics, queers, and others while namby-pamby bleeding heart liberals tie the Police hands instead of letting them do the righteous work.  Of course, the foundation stretches back even further to the lies Wyatt Earp and Tom Mix sold Hollywood of the lone lawman fighting for Law&Order over a 100 years ago.

Even today, right now, the Republican Party and rightwing propagandists continue to propagate this bullshit, the stereotype that if only "Our" Police were unshackled, if only the crime-coddling Democrats got out of the way, if only the media didn't broadcast Chauvin's extrajudicial killing of George Floyd crime wouldn't be out of control.

Never forget the people that say this are the ideological descendants of those who gave Nixon and Regan the free reign to use draconian methods in the "War on Drugs".  And were absolutely fine when the fucking terror was rained down upon poor and minority communities.  Back then Police didn't raid and bust ever rich white frat house at Dartmouth now did they?  But, once the War on Drugs began to impact little "Maddie & Connor", well then white society demanded leniency and counseling and treatment instead of incarceration and a life-long sentence which fucked millions by giving them a criminal record.

Do you know why the Republicans in Congress like Major Traitor Greene and that Coward Josh Hawley are still so mad at the Capitol Police?  Because Republicans expected the Police to aid them, and their rightwing paramilitary terrorists on January 6th in overthrowing the Government.

Remember the issue isn't just Reforming the Police or finding/fixing/removing the few bad apples it's also dealing with the bad faith efforts of conservatives to undermine solutions while demonizing the efforts in order to obtain political power.  Recall how Republicans and their compliant corporate media stenographers told the American populace that #DefundthePolice was the official policy of Joe Biden and every Democrat office-holder.  Then couple that with the Republican predilection of axiomatically defending every extrajudicial killing of a minority in America and you have the right ingredients for the Modern Reactionary Police.  A Police Force that will readily stomp on the faces of anyone who hinders the White Power Christian Fascist Nation the Republicans seek to turn the United States into...

Car Culture was a Mistake Part 4: Blinded by the (Head)Light

How high's the grille mama?
5 feet high and rising...

As we enter the Long Period of Darkness, euphemistically referred to as "Daylight Savings Time", everyone who commutes during rush hour on the jam-packed Chicago expressways does so in pitch black darkness.

As vehicle heights grew and the grilles of vehicles got taller and broader to become a solid 5 foot wall, these modern day Dreadnoughts are not only a deadly danger to pedestrians and bicyclists but to other drivers as well as these behemoths headlights rose in relation to the front grille.

The consequence of which, headlights now most often shine directly into the eyes of oncoming drivers.

Interestingly, the current generation of Hyundai SUV's, the mammoth Palisade, the quirky Ute Santa Cruz, the stalwart Tucson have all lowered their primary bulb headlights from the top of the front grille/hood to the middle of the front of their vehicles while adding a various array of recessed LEDs.   

So, you might be able to deal with raised eye-level headlights, if the increase in vehicle size wasn't also accompanied by a revolution in headlight technology.  I previously wrote about the Chicago and Cook County wide replacement of the orange hued high-pressure sodium street lights with LED.

Everyone knows the story of how headlight technology in America was halted with the adoption of the sealed glass and steel circular parabola lamp in 1940.  This decision allowed for a one-size fits all standard across the Nation as vehicles began their steady increase in number.  A standard headlight allowed a driver across the country to get it replaced from coast-to-coast.  Change was slow, and while advancements in lighting, like plug-in halogen bulbs, projector bulbs, high-intensity discharge lights, and others are vastly superior, the increase in overall brightness has not been accompanied by increased safety.

Motorists continue to over-drive their headlights.  And opposing motorists need to shield their eyes from the blinding glare of on-coming traffic like Bono.

Republicans hate America 13: Amerithrax II: Fentanyl Boog-a-loo

In the Corporate Media rush to pretend George W(orst) Ever wasn't a complete fuck-up chickenhawk noob and instead you could tell by his Flight Suit crotch was actually made of Presidential Timber who Kept Us Safe was the memory-holing of the Amerithrax attacks;  which were quickly wrapped up as W(orst) was leaving office and conveniently blamed on a long-since dead biologist.

Well, rightwing domestic terrorrists are back to using the USPS as a vector for their terrorism again.  White Republican Domestic Terrorists are mailing Letters laced with Fentanyl to Election Offices Nationwide. 

The Threat to the United States from conservative extremists has grown and grown in the post World War 2 Era;  50 years of non-stop rightwing agitprop, 40 years of Ronnie Raygun blaming the government for all of white mens' woes, 25 years of Faux News Slander and Lies, 15 years of white hot rage at President Barack Obama, and 8 years of Dotard Traitor Trump fascist claptrap have brought us to now, an era when Republicans don't believe in the concept of the United States and consider voting by The Other to be a criminal act in and of itself; as a consequence Republicans have jettisoned the Democratic Republic and seek to replace it with an Authoritarian built upon the pillars of white power and Christian oppression.  

Letters containing fentanyl and other powders sent to election offices across the United States in early November temporarily disrupted ballot counting in several offices, highlighting the potential for threat actors to use this tactic to disrupt US election processes. This is consistent with previous attempts to send letters with suspicious substances to election-related offices and other government buildings during past elections with the intent to intimidate workers or disrupt procedures. Prior to the November incidents, the most recent case occurred during the August 2023 Washington state primary election, in which an election office received letters containing trace amounts of fentanyl.

 

Suspicious letters containing white powder were mailed in early November to election offices in California, Georgia, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington state. At least four of the letters tested positive for fentanyl in preliminary tests and at least one of the letters contained baking soda, according to open-source reporting and the US Postal Inspection Service. The sender or senders and their motives are unknown and investigations are ongoing.

The "sender and motives are unknown" Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure.  Now, whom do we know that is obsessed with "Election Integrity" and absolutely convinced the 2020 Election he lost was "Rigged"?  Who, I ask you, made a "perfect phone call" to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger asking him that "all he wants is for him to find 11,780 votes" to win the state's electoral college votes.

Republicans absolutely know that Traitor Trump won Georgia, but it was stolen from him; along with Nevada and Oregon.  Remember going up to the election conservatives were predicting a Landslide Trump victory and even now in 2023 a vast majority conservatives still believe Trump won in 2020.

California is added in because as we saw in the recent Newsom/DeSantis "debate" conservatives claim California is a hellhole instead of the economic powerhouse and place everyone wants to live in. 

The Pierce County auditor’s office in Tacoma, Washington, released images of the letter it received, showing it had been postmarked in Portland, Oregon, and read in part, “End elections now.”

Now, with the Corporate Media running with daily Fentanyl scare stories, you'd think this would be a bigger story but when you understand the media in this country is owned by the obscenely rich who want and yearn to have Trump back in power to crush labor and conduct a little authoritarian "grass mowing" the lack of nightly coverage makes sense.

The only thing Republicans want to talk about with Fentanyl is how the Biden Administration is seizing too much of it and how it's "illegals" bringing it in when in reality the Fentanyl is being readily shipped her by the monstrous thinly regulated Pharmaceutical companies and hidden in plain sight drug smugglers;  

The head of a police union in the San Francisco Bay Area faces federal charges for allegedly smuggling thousands of synthetic opioids into the U.S. from multiple countries with the intent to distribute them. 

San Jose Police Officers Association Executive Director Joanne Marian Segovia, 64, has been charged with attempt to unlawfully import a controlled substance -- specifically valeryl fentanyl, a fentanyl analog -- according to a complaint filed in federal court earlier this week. 

Between 2015 and 2023, Segovia received 61 shipments that were labeled "Wedding Party Favors," "Shirts Tops," "Gift Makeup," "Chocolate and Sweets," "Food Supplement," "Health Product" and "Supplement," originating from countries including Hong Kong, Hungary, India and Singapore, according to the complaint. In reality, they were illicit drugs, prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California allege.

Of course, white people have always enjoyed the assumption of being innocent while Blacks and Hispanics have always been targeted as guilty of something and a priori criminals by nature.  So as people smuggle fentanyl through ports of entry the people working in the area know there is no shortage of regular people, perhaps struggling financially or with addiction themselves, who are willing to drive a car load through the border.

"They're looking for somebody we're not going to pay a lot of attention to," says Michael Humphries, the port director in Nogales, Arizona, "They target certain people and they offer money to drive through," says Humphries, who spent decades with U.S. Customs and Border Protection trying to catch smugglers at official ports of entry. "I've been at this for over 36 years, and it's been like that forever."

But, don't expect Faux News or the vile House Republicans to stop fear-mongering Fentanyl, rightwing media propagandists figured out 60 years ago screaming about Crime! Crime! Crime! was a winning strategy, facts don't matter.  And when Republicans speak about Crime what they mean is Black and Hispanics,

Again, I commend you for manning the thin blue line that holds back a jungle which threatens to reclaim this clearing we call civilization. - Chickenhawk Ronnie Raygun speaking to International Association of Chiefs of Police, NOLA., 09/28/1981

"Holds back a jungle"... It's not that modern Republicans are more racist than in the past it's that the Corporate Media has been more than willing to ignore the vile racist and outright fascist crap Republicans have been spewing for decades.  And they still do it now as Trump's Vermin speech and his call to round-up various groups of people is still getting less coverage than HRC correctly calling Trump Supporters "deplorable".  There are a large cohort of Americans who want Trump back in power, the Plutocrats want it for the elimination of regulations and taxes, but the truly violent Republicans want it for the elimination of millions of Americans.

Shall Not Be Infringed 12: Unelected hooligan Amy Conney Barrett set to break Gun Laws in Illinois

The Supreme Sinister Six*

 The crime spree coming from the Supreme Sinister Six makes any comic book villain look stupid, petty, tame, or small.  The Six Republicans on the Court not only get away with mundane crimes like theft and bribery but, are busily pulling off the most villainous conspiracy ever shown in the Marvel Cinematic Universe;  the Destruction of the United States of America.

In this episode, Amy "Covid or Coathanger" Barrett, is set to strike another blow against Law&Order in Illinois.  A Colorado Law Firm filed an injunction on behalf of Naperville resident Robert Bevis and his gun store Law Weapons & Supply to Coathanger Barrett asking, whether under the SCOTUS decrees of DC v. Heler (2008) and NY State Pistol v. Bruen (2022), the Seventh District ruling on the Illinois Law was correct.  Always remember that what gun humping psychos rely upon is conflating man-made laws with the concept of "Natural Rights".  The MAGIC WORDS contained in the 2nd Amendment are a distillation of this, in that gun nuts and conservatives, claim certain laws are divinely inspired and thus not to be constrained by human laws.  This is of course, SHEER NONSENSE.  There are no "Natural Rights", there are no laws inspired by god or some Platonic ideal, the law is a human construct and nothing else.

So when you often hear disingenuous conservative gun nuts claim, Just Enforce the Gun Laws on the Books what they want is to derail discussions on curbing the unrestricted gun violence.  Then they rely on the Supreme Court decisions which have undercut gun laws passed in various states.  It's a brilliant if bad faith Catch-22 but, it serves the purpose of the Firearms Manufacturing Industry (and all those who derive $$$ from the free flow of guns throughout America) of one day eliminating all the laws on the books so that Guns truly Shall Not Be Infringed.  

Additionally, striking Gun Laws in Democratic states allows Republicans to claim gun violence is out of control in Democratic states.  And since conservatives are wholly ignorant of the laws of Cause-and-Effect, Republican traitors get to wave the bloody shirt of Out-of-Control Crime and ooga-booga scare their white voting base into electing more Republican Traitors.  Another brilliant Catch-22.

It must always be understood, conservatives cling to their guns because they fantasize about the day they will be able to round-up and shoot millions of Americans in a holocaust homage to their Nazi heroes.

The Sinister Six don't worry about gun violence because they are swaddled in so many layers of protection and have no fear about a mass shooter getting anywhere near them and they obviously don't grok the concept of domestic violence or worry about their husbands grabbing a gun to shoot their so-called loved ones.

*- The Supreme Sinister Six Rollcall 

1. Dr. Scotus Scuttle-Rights
2. Sam Alackto (of morals)
3. The Mysterious ACB
4. Sleepy Sand Silent Clarence
5. Boofer Kravenaugh the Drunkard
6. Gorsuch Bird Man

Unfortunately, we don't have a Spiderman to sock these 6 villains in the jaw and undo their nefarious scheme of destroying the United States of America, which is the goal of the Republican Party. 

LIHOP: Netanyahu determined to strike inside Gaza memo

Back in the old internet days before the Blogs Came, before the Age of Social Media, there were still the fading embers, remnants, and offspring of the decades old Usenet Message Boards wherein the LIHOP and MIHOP conspiracy theories emerged in response to 9/11.  Well... it appears the LIHOP has come true in Israel;

A YEAR BEFOREHamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, a document detailing plans to carry out the assault circulated among Israeli officials, according to the New York Times.   

According to the Times, three months before the attack, a veteran analyst with Israel’s signals intelligence agency warned that Hamas had undergone a training exercise similar to what was detailed in the blueprint.  However, according to emails viewed by the publication, her concerns were dismissed by a colonel in the Gaza division.   

“I utterly refute that the scenario is imaginary,” the analyst wrote in an email. “It is a plan designed to start a war,” she added. “It’s not just a raid on a village.”  In defense of her findings, the NCO said, “They are training, in large forces, for a big event. This is not a parade of power, this is preparation for the real thing.”

It seems highly improbable the female analyst's findings and report would simply be dismissed for her being a woman in a Nation which prides itself on making all citizens serve in the Armed Forces (as Gal Gadot can attest) and the comparisons to George W(orst President Ever) Bush ignoring the August 6th memo because he hoped to simply be a Calvin Coolidge style President are slightly inapt.

Israel knows Gaza is a hotbed for militants and the threat of rocket attack and other low-level insurgency is ever present, so ignoring warnings of an attack ala Bush "All right.  You've covered your ass.  Now watch this drive!" won’t provide the vicious criminal Netanyahu regime with the same level of no one could have predicted this defense.  The Israeli people know Netanyahu that thuggish murderer is responsible.

So, the question is did Netanyahu and his Likud extremists Let This Happen On Purpose (LIHOP) in order to begin the large scale ethnic cleansing and annexation of the Gaza Strip?  Well, sadly as the bombings have begun again and as we've seen from the Israeli military disregard for collateral damage we should heed what Netanyahu said just a few days ago,

“We will continue until the end, until victory. Nothing will stop us, and we are convinced that we have the power, the strength, the will and the determination to achieve all the war’s goals, and we will.”

Nothing will stop us...  So, when referencing the infamous August 6th Bin Laden memo it should be understood that Netanyahu is akin to Osama Bin Laden and was determined to attack in Gaza and if he needed a bigger more spectacular Casus Belli well... LIHOP.

Republicans hate Women 1: Revenge Porn Nick Sauer of Illinois

Former Illinois State Rep Nick Sauer - REPUBLICAN was sentenced to 90 days in jail and 2 years probation.  Clearly... Sauer is a "political prisoner" as his only crime was subjecting his girlfriend to a vicious campaign of "Revenge Porn"... Err make that two girlfriends!  Sauer used his ex-girlfriends nude photos to catfish men which is totally not gay or gross in anyway whatsoever and in a further illustration of the Republican axiom that Every Accusation Is A Confession (EAIAC) Sauer was on the Illinois State Sexual Harassment Task Force in 2018.

Republican men, hate women, with a passion.  A small number because they are closeted homosexuals, Nick Fuentes and Steven Crowder, for instance, some for religious reasons as women need to be subservient to men, but all Republicans are a full-blown Fascists so keeping the women down is a prime necessity.  

The Finger! The Epitome of Republican Maleness

A great deal of conservative women, who loathe the shitty treatment they receive from men, nonetheless support Republican policies, actions, mistreatment, and legal shackles.

Perhaps... They feel if their situation, being married to odious slime like Speaker Mike Johnson, Max 'Woman Beater' Miller, Matt 'Child Fvcker' Walsh, Michael 'Trans Curious' Knowles, or whomever is to be their lot, then other women need to be as unhappy, as constrained, and as abused as themselves. Call it the inversion of the Rising Tide theory;  The Self-Inflicted Hole in the Ship sinks All doctrine.

It's really shocking the utter contempt Republican men have for the women whom nonetheless vote for them.  Just blatant disregard, disrespect and a pathological hatred bordering on murder.

I mean I know white women expect their money and skin tone to save them from the upcoming Republican Fascist Distopia.  And their adherence to the rightwing agenda to afford them a special privileged niche position but when push comes to shove (and spousal abuse is a Republican value remember) conservative women will be subjected to Texas transvaginal ultrasound roadside checkpoints just like all the other sluts.

Additional:

The Nazi Mom's for Lebensraum Florida chapter founders Christian and Bridget Zeigler were sexually involved with some woman and Christian Zeigler apparently believed raping her was his right as a Republican leader.

Christian Ziegler, Florida’s GOP chairman and husband of Sarasota County School Board member and Moms of Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler, is under criminal investigation after a woman filed a complaint with the Sarasota Police Department alleging the longtime Republican official had raped her, according to a heavily redacted police report obtained by the Florida Trident. 

Can't Stop Thinking about the Roman Empire...

"You ever hear of Masada? For two years 900 jews held their own against 15,000 Romans.  They choose death over enslavement.  The Romans? Where are they now?

"You're looking at them asshole..."  - The Sopranos (1999)

So, this TikTok phenomenon of Ask Your Man how often he Thinks about the Roman Empire is super irritating...

Now, I know in Internet time I'm very late to this "issue".  But, the Roman Empire isn't going anywhere...

I guess part of this is the feeling I want to have that I was into Rome before it was cool (kind of like the phenomenon of liking a band before they were big) but, of course that's not in anyway reality.

The Roman Empire has been forefront in the minds of Europeans since Odoacer was named Rex of Italiae in 476.  And of course, Charlemagne thought of nothing but the Romena Empire before and after his coronation as Emperor in 800.  William Shakespeare (if you believe Shaxkspere wrote Shakespear) wrote 4 plays about "The Roman Empire", 

And Edward Gibbon's 6 volume Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is as old as the United States.

There have also been famous novels turned into films or series, such as Quo Vadis by Polish Nobel Laureate Henryk Sienkiewicz and Robert Graves' I, Claudius and Claudius the God.

And then there is The Film Industry, in Hollywood and abroad, which has been making films and TV series about Rome and the Roman Empire for over 100 years.  Certainly many of them are biblical in nature, Ben-Hur or The Robe starring Vic Mature come to mind.  Of course, modern revamped interest in Rome writ large probably stems from the Russell Crowe/Ridley Scott film Gladiator in 2000.

New Speaker Mike Johnson can't stop thinking about all the Gay Sex those virile muscular Roman sword swishing gladiators were engaged in.  But, it seems that the current fascination with "Rome" per se is this toxic masculinity nonsense associated with this Hard Times paradigm.

And this whole stupid Hard Times meme featuring a silhouetted faux hoplite is nothing more than a dumbed-down bastardization of the Polybius cycle of government.  and reminds me of all the stupid incels and men going their own way posting I Studied the Blade memes and We Hunted the Mammoth rhetoric.

I guess Chuck Palahniuk was 20 years too early with Fight Club...

Car Culture was a Mistake Part 3: Everyone drives like a maniac

You say the laws are getting harder to obey 
And the rules 

are being broken every-day 
You got the picture, 

and now your time has come 

Anarchy is open season 

for everyone

- Mutiny on the World, Armored Saint (1984) 

Besides crime sprees and DUIs there are all those other traffic violations, drivers commit daily. 

Now some of this is the media sensationalism, which always always always will run with Crime is Out of Control and remember Crime is synonymous with cities and cities is synonymous with BLACKS! so these news stories on speeding and bad driving never get around to the reporting anything other than white people have Vibes that blacks are maniacs.  

So, for instance the recent story of a rich, white, super entitled toxic white man driving his Bentley at 100+mph towards the Rainbow Bridge POE is immediately recast by rightwing propagandists as a Terrorist attack by Hamas with Iranian passports because the the immediate lies told by conservatives are never really debunked but, become a sort of residual reminder about crime/the border/terrorism being bad under Democrats!

And as a matter of course, certain people get, fawning media pieces, which highlight their humanity and their struggles instead of being neatly slotted into the category of career criminal;

THIS IS NOT the sort of life Rebecca Grossman was supposed to be living.  The 58-year-old former flight attendant turned socialite was meant to be spending her middle years enjoying the bounties of upper-class privilege. Married to one of L.A.’s most successful plastic surgeons—Peter H. Grossman, founder of the Grossman Burn Foundation and whose father founded the Grossman Burn Center, which took in actress Anne Heche after a high-speed crash in Mar Vista in August and where Jay Leno was treated in November following a garage gas fire—she had everything a real housewife of Hidden Hills could possibly want: A $7.6 million nine-bedroom ranch house in a gated community right next door to a movie star (well, Lori Loughlin), a thriving family (two teenage kids and an adopted daughter—a young burn victim Grossman and her husband adopted from Afghanistan in 2002 so that she could be treated at Peter’s hospital—two horses, five dogs, and a 100-pound turtle), a wardrobe that would have Lisa Vanderpump biting her knuckles with envy, and an expensive—and, as it would turn out, fatefully fast—Mercedes coupe.  

The above story ends with media-crowned "socialite" Rebecca Grossman playing a "frisky game of cat and mouse" at 80+ mph, while driving drunk, obliterating two children while they walked in a crosswalk.  Being safely ensconced in a 5000 lb guided missile grants people the feeling of invulnerability.  There are many other factors at play here.  Everyone is habitually late for whatever appointment, job, meeting, yoga session, they have.  Everyone routinely uses their phone while driving.  Everyone underestimates the amount of traffic they will run into in the Chicago-land.

I don't believe in the red-light cameras and automated speed monitor tickets, it's just a back door tax on working class people.  Also we've seen how unscrupulous companies bribe susceptible politicians and then manipulate their systems in order to make violations happen.  Millions of dollars in fraudulent fines... 

And the Rules of the Road? Don’t make me laugh the vast majority of drivers treat the "Rules of the Road" as a loose guideline to be adhered to only when absolutely necessary (i.e. when they see a squad car).  No one ever drives the speed limit.  Ever.  School zones?  Fuck them kids.  Residential streets?  Whatever I'm Late!  Main thoroughfares, well 9 miles over isn’t really speeding!  Highways!  Highway to Hell at 100 miles per hour!

Police have themselves to blame only partly for this as 1) there are just way too many vehicles to stop and most departments are handling such a large volume of other calls (whether they should be or not) and 2) most drivers don't give a fuck.

Now, when most drivers see a squad car whether it be State, County, or Local they still slam on those brakes and observe the rules of the road I do think defensive driving and deference to Police while driving is a thing of the past because of the way Police departments have exhausted the good will with their unlawful and evil actions.  Once that capital is burned through, as it has been, it takes a lot of time to reaccumulate it and requires an extraordinary effort from Police.

Republicans hate America 12: Short Man Syndrome and Violence

Trump is more Pig Napoleon

"I still remember Napoleon.  He was a General.  He was a Beast too, but a true General.  Diabolical...  Unscrupulous...  Intelligent... Being his adversary taught me everything I know.  You see my dear Prince, experience is paramount."  - 

Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, from the Danish series (1864)

 

Looking forward to the latest Napoleon biopic, this one by acclaimed director Ridley Scott a well-known Francophile, and starring Joaquin Phoenix.  The "Napoleon Complex" was always referenced vis-a-vis the short man syndrome.  I suppose it was residual British propaganda and hatred for the little Corsican leaking into American discourse, in order to downplay and minimize Napoleon's military career and out-sized influence on the 19th century.

Because Napoleon Bonaparte was an average sized man, the influence he exerted on Europe and the Americans which lasted throughout the century, caused his detractors and enemies to be in awe of him.

Trump is physically not a small man.  He's well over 6 feet tall and well over 3 bills in weight.  His domination of the American political landscape is now in its' 8th year and he'll be the Republican nominee in 2024.  Trump's accomplishments are to have gotten away with being a business failure many times over held aloft by his criminal connections with the Mob early on and then Russian gangsters in the 1990s.  The depictions of Trump as some He-Man superhero and the bizarre cult of people who make such images represents one of the scary realities of his influence, Trump isn't anything special but he makes his cult fell special, he let's them be their worst selves, he encourages their worst desires, and they love and see in him what they want themselves to be.  Trump plays this up when he artfully declares They are not after me, they're after you...

The GOP Fash project, what they desire of themselves, upon him.  What the Corporate Media, purposefully, continues to ignore is Trump Supporters don't love him despite his vile vulgar crudeness but, because of it.

"We’re Christians, and we can look past that. It doesn’t bother me,” 59 year old Lori Carpenter said of Trump’s insults and crudeness. Her relative, 71-year-old Marsha Crouthamel, agreed. 

Carpenter added, “Joe’s gotta go, and the ho shouldn’t have been there in the first place.” The “ho” was Harris, she clarified, before offering another nickname for Harris that was even more vulgar.

No one wants to admit it the stark truth for a variety of reasons mainly because it would result in the terrible acknowledgement that the Left has been right FOR FIFTY FVCKING YEARS, the Corporate Media Horserace Coverage of Politics brought us here, their non-stop fawning fact-free coverage of Trump in 2015 and 2016 and their dismissal of Democratic warnings of Republican malfeasance and perfidy were prescient.  And they want him back.  Biden's low-key leadership is boring and his behind the scenes diplomacy doesn't send a tingle up the legs the way Trump's impromptu you never know what he'll say today.  The real frightening conclusion of Trump's last 8 years is like Napoleon, everyone is in Awe of Trump and the Media want him back in power because they love what he meant for them.  

But, amongst the rest of the Republican traitors, who view crudeness, phony strength, and fake toughness above actual ability and empathy, small man syndrome is real, as they are unable to emulate his Trump's Influence.

Somehow the section on Little Boots Ron DeShrimpus  got excised, obviously the fact that DeShrimpus is at best 5’8 and a half inches tall and needs to wear lifts in his faux cowboy boots is a symptom of short man syndrome but is dangerous to We, the People because he’s going to take out his rage at being small on Us.  The good news for  Little Boots Ron is while the more you see of him the less you like, there is that much to him.

James Comer, who's leading the Hunter Biden Dick Pic circus is a man as tall as his face is wide, and happens to be "guilty" of the same family loan/payback he claims is a dastardly impeachable crime by President Biden.

In Pilates, it's called the "short box"...

MarkWayne Mullin, is a faux tough guy who loves to play the "Do you wanna go?!?!?"  game with the Teamsters Leader Sean O'Brien.  MarkWayneMullinWayne claims to be a Biter and he'll bite someone anywhere and was especially incensed when Sean O'Brien shared a picture of WayneWayneMarkWayneMullinWayne standing on a box to appear taller behind a podium. WayneWayneWayneWayneWayne then had to be reminded by Bernie Sanders he's supposedly a United States Senator as well as a phony self-made businessman.

Clay Higgins, who is such a Dirty Cop, he's been stripped of his Badge twice claimed the FBI hired "Ghost Buses", because the truth that Republican multi-millionaires Ginni Thomas (no relation to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas) and Charlie Kirk boasted of hiring and filling hundreds of buses and planes with well-to-do Insurrectionists for January 6th can't be true; like say the Burberry encrusted man-children Christian Kulas and Mark Kulas Jr of Illinois Kulas Maids was totally a set-up or Iced Earth Guitarist Jon Schaffer  

George Santos has a baby, is it his baby? Well, who knows!  Is he really "George Santos"?  Well who knows, but Republicans sure loved to vote for him and would do so again.

Republican Tommy PotatoBrain continues to keep the top military promotions open so when Republicans throw their next Coup Attempt the military will be up for grabs!  Republicans saw that the military was not going to flow to their side during the Jan6th Coup Attempt and by decapitating multiple high level commands they are at least giving themselves a fighting chance to have a few military units join their side when Trump loses in 2024.

Meanwhile, Mike Johnson watches porn with his son, has no bank account, and stands athwart the Wall of Separation of Church and State shouting Halt!  Oh and all those freedoms and liberties you people think you have?  Well, Mike Johnson has some Good News for you!  All those bad laws (like birth control and interracial marriage) will be gone when Republicans take control of the Federal Government again;

“There’s been some really bad law made. They’ve made a mess of our jurisprudence in this country for the last several decades. And maybe some of that needs to be cleaned up.”

But, despite all their worst efforts and declarations none of the Little Napoleons, the pint-sized Putins in the Republican Party can engender the vitriolic fervor Trump arouses in his Cult,

Judge Arthur Engoron and his law clerk Allison Greenfield have been inundated with death threats and antisemitic attacks after Donald Trump targeted the judge and his assistant on social media. 

According to testimony given by Greenfield to Charles Hollon, a court officer-captain in the Department of Public Safety, the clerk “has been receiving approximately 20-30 calls per day to her personal cell phone and approximately 30-50 messages per day on combined sites of social media, Linkedln and two (2) personal email addresses.” 

Trump's first disastrous administration gave him experience.  The 2024 Election is going to come down to a budding Fascist Dictator showing signs of mental derangement from syphilis and vowing to round-up and eliminate millions of people and Joe Biden who is old and does boring statecraft.  The Corporate Media and 75 millions Americans are going to do everything they can legal and illegal to make sure Trump steals back into the White House and destroys the United States of America.

Republicans hate America 11 : Wishing and praying and hoping for a Terrorist attack on the Rainbow Bridge POE

Republicans hate you.  With a fervor with a passion normally reserved for jilted lovers.  Republicans hate you so much they will lie about anything and everything.  Republicans are literally insane, mad with the lust for power, and insatiable in the quest to harm America.

Because Republicans fundamentally want to change the country and they can't do that honestly and they can't do that with accurate descriptions of their policies and that can't do that with reporting facts; they can only accomplish their desire to turn the Nation into a simulacrum of Freedom & Liberty by lying.

So it begins...  They began with the false somber tone Republicans always adopt; their worst fears are turning true, confirmation of a vehicle packed with explosives, Iranian passports located outside the vehicle, the border is being invaded by Hamas terrorists, and then morphed those somber "facts" into a sweeping condemnation of the President Biden and the Democratic Party and anyone who would show sympathy for migrants.  Because don't you know the Border is a Disaster! 

Because Republicans win by creating and then exploiting Fear & Anger.  They must keep their ill-informed drones in a state of perpetual terror, afraid of the hordes ready to rob, rape, and murder them but, for the policies of the Republican Party.  But, for draconian rule of Republican Fascism.

The reality of what happened at the Rainbow Bridge POE is immaterial.  That it was another illustration of the toxic car culture of America; a rich Upstate New York man drives his quarter-million dollar Bentley 100+ mph to get over the border into Canada to attend a KISS concert and in so doing also kills his unfortunate wife in the process doesn't matter because thousands of Republicans (including elected Senators and other officials) tweeted out the BORDER TERRORISM BIDEN FAULT story which becomes part of the subjective reality of the rightwing collective unconscious.

One thing is certain though Republicans are correct we are at war... with them...  Republicans are engaged in a low intensity Civil War against Us punctuated by spectacular violence from their AR15 armed domestic terrorists and buttressed my the bureaucratic violence they conduct when republicans gain enough political power.  Fascism is here and it's planning on making the 2024 elections the last ones in American History.

Republicans hate America 10: Assault on Free Speech and the Nation of Laws

Faced with a never ending parade of news reports on the "legalized" bribery of Republican Supreme Court Justices, the Court has adopted a tepid Code of Ethics.  The most despicable aspect is rightwing Billionaires who seek to destroy the Nation and replace it with a simulacrum of a Democracy modeled on the electors and feudal government of the Holy Roman Empire know they don't need an explicit Quid Pro Quo with their SCOTUS pawns but simply give them gifts, trips, and millions in benefits with the unspoken understanding the Supremacist Court will rule in favor of Plutocracy and NeoFeudalism every time.

We've been dealing with disingenuous Republicans and Corporate Media efforts to rationalize and justify bad faith Republican propaganda for decades, that I don't believe there's any point in complaining about it in an attempt to change "journalists" minds anymore.  Journalism consists of very few prepositions but, amongst them are both sides are the same, both sides want what is best for the Nation writ large, both sides may disagree on policy but, Republican disagreement is from a sincere standpoint.  Any large scale journalists who may disagree with this find themselves in the oft repeated quote from Upton Sinclair, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

At this point the right has been stewing inside their own agitprop and farting and regurgitating each other's farts for so long that they've succeeded in alerting basic tenets of the American Democratic Republic going all the way back to John Adams dictum we are "a government of laws, and not of men." 

Because we aren't a Nation of Laws anymore, from SCOTUS on down, Republicans have made a mockery of law & order.  The Law is a human endeavor and a social construct, by conservative thinking has always gravitated towards the bullshit philosophical belief of Eternal Truths and immutable laws set down by a higher power (God, the Founding Fathers, biology, etc...) and the liberal ideology of a living constitution or changing times are thus a sacrilegious affront to eternal truth.

When you couple this with the religious fervor which justifies any crime under service to a "Higher power" well under this rubric there can be no violation of the Constitutional protections, legal rights, settled law, norms, principles because the righteous are right in the eyes of the lord.

So, Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against Media Matters of America, for MediaMatters accurate reporting on his platform "X", former known as Twitter.  I hope everyone realizes Musk uses that X as a thinly-veiled Swastika stand-in.  Musk's lawsuit is of course, without merit but, in Republican America the only merit which matters is if the thing in question helps advance the Rightwing agenda of Oppression, Intolerance, and Adulation of the Rich.  Everything else is superfluous and immaterial.  

Stephen Miller let it be known there are numerous conservative Attorneys' General who would like to criminally prosecute a leftwing media group who commits the unpardonable sin of accurately reporting what Republicans say and do.

Because this is already the year Republicans have their sights set on using the awesome power of Government to stifle speech they don't like.  In Florida, State Senator Jason Broduer proposed a Blogger Registration Law (SB1316) which requiring "bloggers" to register with the state if they wrote about elected officials, failure to register would result in a fine per day per post.

In August, a small Kansas Police department lead by Chief Gideon Cody raided a newspaper.  It seems it was Cody was probably involved in a relationship with the local bar owner who made allegations agains the newspaper owner but, when it comes constitutional protections its' dependent on who you know. 

Certainly, marginalized individuals and groups know what Republicans legislatures, judges, and governors can do to them.  In Murfreesboro, Tennessee an "indecent behavior" ban is a weasel-worded ordinance allowing Police Officers to enforce the State and Local laws outlawing LGBTQ+ persons existence. 

And if you are one of those people clinging to the concept of Law & Order, or the checks and balances will save us, or Trump can't pardon himself, or believe your status as a person not normally targeted by rightwing anger then you are fundamentally misunderstanding the nature of the Modern Republican Party.  It's pure Fascism and therefore the Law is what they say it is and your rights are nothing they need to respect.

The political Revolving Door (County, Wisconsin) seems to have let Nazis in

As goes Door County Wisconsin so goes the Nation...

The Washington Post has another article on Door County. This makes sense because Door County is one of those things White People Like.

Anyway in the article about the swingin' nature of Door County (the previous one on this exact same topic was in June) has voted the last 6 elections for the Presidential winner.  But, like most Americans this 2024 election fells like a slog and they are just tired of politics.

Well... Voting for Republicans has consequences

While the people who live on the "Quiet" Side or the Party Side of the Peninsula tend to be more liberal south of Sturgeon Bay is farmland.  And like most of the large expanses of Wisconsin farmland its' peoples have been infected with the rabid reactionary virus of Republican fascism.

Now, much of the electoral defeats in Wisconsin have come down to rightwing ratfvcking of elections and obscene gerrymandering providing Republicans with statewide victories even when they lose the over all vote totals overwhelmingly.  Wisconsin voters have continuously pushed back against Republicans, which has just made Republicans turn to more outrageous non-democratic means of holding onto political power.

Since April, Robin Vos, who considers Wisconsin a solid Republican state when you simply exclude the voters of Milwaukee and Madison, has been engaged in the time-honored rightwing tradition of looking for post hoc justifications for his pre-planned Impeachment of Justice Protasiewicz because voters made the wrong choice and Justice Protasiewicz is going to undo the outrageous gerrymandered district drawn by Vos, Fitzgerald, Scott Walker and all the other anti-democratic goons ruining Wisconsin.

And with so many anti-democratic forces working in the state, it's not surprising a group of Neo-Nazis "The Blood Tribe" would feel free to march in Madison, (yes I know it's Dane County not Door).

As to The Washington Post article which relates the weary tales of various retired people, tavern owners, and small business people who long for a time when politics wasn't so fractious, divisive, partisan, and all-encompassing. I can only imagine these people blissfully ignored everything Republicans did to divide the Nation after George W. Bush's spectacular failure on 09/11/2001 (You're either with us or with the terrorists), never heard Republicans shout "You Lie" at President Barack Obama, never had Faux News on in the background of their favorite Supper Club, and are unaware Traitor Trump proclaims he will use the Government to lock up numerous people into Concentration Camps.

"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."

Republicans hate America 9: Release thousands of hours of video of the Insurrection, proving January 6th was an Inside Job by Republicans

III Percent Fedsurrection, BOOM!

Senator Mike Lee of Utah, whose ancestor was a vile genocidal traitor, who yearns to put 9 year old children into coal mines, and has planned for 15 years to steal your Social Security released a gotcha video *proving* the Feds pulled off the January 6th attempted Coup d'etat.

In response to the Colorado Judge's ruling stating Traitor Trump was absolutely responsible for the Insurrection and attempted Autogolpe, leading to the invasion of the Capitol building by hordes of MAGA festooned criminals and rebels, Speaker Mike Johnson and the Republicans have tried to deflect by releasing roughly 40,000 hours of video captured on that fateful day when Republicans declared an End to the Democratic Republic. 

Because that is what happened that day;  Republicans failed in their effort to topple the duly elected President and Vice President of the Untied States; Joe Biden and Kamala Harris but they succeeded in delaying the process, invited domestic terrorists into Washington DC, and today still cling to the utter despicable lie that Trump somehow won the Election but it was Stolen.

What Trump, the Republicans in Congress, Steven Miller, Steve Bannon, and the other conspirators who orchestrated that criminal conspiracy against the United States hoped would happen was more violence.  They planned for a BLM counter-protest, which would absorb the regional police response, they held the other response forces at bay, they denied requests by Governors to send in National Guard units, they hoped the rapidly overwhelmed Capitol Police might begin shooting, they expected some members of the Police to fall in with the Insurrectionists, they expected Trump's Secret Service detail to have Mike Pence in their custody, they expected the official Electoral College ballots to go missing, they thought the proceedings would be "temporarily" halted.  If that day were bloodier and even more chaotic then Trump and his cadre of criminals would have invoked Marital Law and he would have stayed in power, the back-up plan would also have the Congress and Pence declare they don't know who won the election thus leaving it in limbo and Traitor Trump in power.

The Treasonous scum who aided and abetted that attempted Autogolpe are still in the Halls of Congress today and still trying to undermine President Biden, and the United States Government.

Clay Higgins, best known for his thin arms and crimes as a Police Officer, told Republican FBI director Christopher Wray he had the evidence and "Ghost Buses full of FBI agents and informants dressed as Trump supporters" did Jan6th.

Major Traitor Greene demanded new Speaker the Fascist Fundamentalist Mike Johnson conduct a New Jan6th Investigation, which will result in "ACCOUNTABILITY for ALL the lies, deceit, and lives ruined".  Greene doesn't care how many times her evil lies are shown to be evil lies because her audience isn't the American people; it's the MAGA criminals, and her goal isn't finding the Truth; her goal is to destroy the United States and enshrine Fascism.

Bigger than Mandela

Never forget conservatives hold the two diametrically opposed viewpoints about Jan6th in their head simultaneously;  the Rioters on Jan6th were all Antifa and Feds dressed to look like Trump supporters to discredit their lawful assembly and righteous #StoptheSteal, and everyone arrested, prosecuted, and incarcerated for actions on Jan6th is a political prisoner greater than those listed in The Rock.  

Why else would a rightwing provocateur Charlie Kirk delete his proud admission of sending "80+ buses full of patriots to DC to fight for this President."  Why else would Republicans ignore the communications between Supreme Court spouse Ginni Thomas and Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in December 2020 and January 2021?

Every time Republicans attempt to flog the specter of Jan6th they prove it was an Inside Job, orchestrated by Traitor Trump and the Republican Party.  Republicans will never face the truth about that day because it lays bare their entire hateful, viscous, evil political ideology and undercuts every lie they tell themselves, the media, and their supporters.  Republicans are Traitors who hate America and seek to destroy the United States and replace it with a Neo-Confederate Slave State held aloft by the twin pillars of White Supremacy and Christian Fascist Fundamentalism.

ETA:

It should be noted that Trump wanted to lead the March on the Capitol and even though he was informed by the Secret Service multiple persons were armed, Trump stated matter-of-factly, 'They're not here to hurt me.' 

(No) Ceasefire in Gaza

A pound of that same merchant's flesh is thine: 

The court awards it, and the law doth give it. - The Merchant of Venice, Act 4, Scene 1

A fragile 5 day ceasefire in Gaza appears imminent .  This comes as welcome news.  According to The WaPo reporting the deal;

A detailed, six-page set of written terms would require all parties to the conflict to freeze combat operations for at least five days while an initial 50 or more hostages are released in smaller batches every 24 hours. It was not immediately clear how many of the 239 people believed to be in captivity in Gaza would be released under the deal. Overhead surveillance would monitor movement on the ground to police the pause.

The stop in fighting is also intended to allow a significant increase in the amount of humanitarian assistance, including fuel, to enter the besieged enclave from Egypt.

I am grateful for the efforts of President Biden and Secretary’s Blinken and Lloyd Austin and all the administration officials working on to contain this situation.  It matters having competent and trusted people running the US State Department.

The Israeli forces at the behest of their Extremist government have exacted 10 times the pound of flesh taken by the Hamas fighters on 10/07.  Netanyahu, of course, claimed the IDF killed “thousands and thousands” of Hamas terrorists.  He could hardly have claimed otherwise because that would have been a blatant admission of his failures and reckless policy positions.

I don’t agree with the conventional wisdom that Hamas goal was to draw the surrounding Arab nation and wider Islamic world into conflict with Israel.  That’s an out-of-date idea from 60 years ago.  The disproportionate and frankly criminal Israeli response to the brutal attack 50 days ago has harmed Israel internationally in a way not seen for decades.  This is the end of Netanyahu’s political cater and has turned a large focus on the vile Settler violence in the West Bank.

Of course, the bloodthirsty extremists on both sides will not be placated but that lends more credence and urgency for the Israeli people to work with the Palestinian Authority and other moderate groups to reach a longer lasting 1 state solution in the region.

Israeli Fascists and American Christian Zionists agree No Ceasefire, Kill the Palestinians from the River to the Sea, "All of Them"

Look You! This totally real book was found in a
Palestinian child's room just after being bombed

"Israel is the shining city on the hill. Israel said — God says of Israel, “Israel is my first-born son.  Jerusalem is the city of God. Jerusalem is the shoreline of eternity. Jerusalem is the eternal capital of Israel, today and forever."- John Hagee leads the Pro-War Rally in DC as he and others yearn to see the blood of 2.2 million Palestinians shed in Gaza.

Hagee is infamous for creating the Hate Group CUFI (Christians United for Israel) which, as fitting rightwing beliefs, actually stands for the opposite of everything it says it defends.  Hagee, is a Fascist Fundamentalist, who succors Israel because in his belief system, Israel will herald the Apocalypse causing Jesus to return at which point all the Jews (save a select few) will die (as well as the Muslims, Atheists, Hindus, Shintoists, and others) in Holy Fire so God can reign for a 1000 years on Earth.  Hagee who has infamously given sermons about God sending "A Hunter" (i.e. Hitler) to punish the Jews for not returning to Israel as they are Biblically commanded too wants this War to continue and escalate because it will eventually lead to the Destruction of the World and the Rapture...

Perhaps, as more speak out and protests become more frequent first, understand Police are not your allies. When Republicans take power back they will task Police forces with violently attacking protestors, beating immigrants, and rounding-up homeless people and the Police by and large will comply with those orders.  The Constitutionality of the Arrests or detentions will be ignored or justified under the guise "Officer Safety" or the declaration that the protest itself is unlawful and thus everyone at it is subject to arrest.  Just as the Capitol Police did in violently breaking up the Peaceful protest at the DNC this week.  As an anecdotal aside I've seen and personally spoken to people in the town I work with who have declared the flying of a Palestinian Flag to be an Act of Terrorism and worry that their precious little children will be targeted by Hamas.  Unfortunately, the group have decided to "report" the flying of the flag and other "suspicious" activity to the Police and expect a Police response.

Secondly, one of the misattributed quotes which has become a bedrock principle of rightwing belief is the statement, "If you want to know who rules you, look who you are not allowed to criticize"...  Blah blah blah blah blah.  Republicans are the king of hypocritically complaining about that which they themselves are guilty of;  Also known as the acronym EAIAC, (Every Accusation is a Confession) because right now as we sit here, protests against the on-going Atrocities and War Crimes in Gaza are met with Police Violence, arrests, and immediate condemnation and cries of Anti-Semitism especially from Republicans who see the Israeli Terror in Gaza as their ticket back into political power.

Certainly, Sean Hannity and Faux News see the upside and the potential political gain to be made from declaring anyone who supports the Palestinian cause or even a Ceasefire as a Pro-Terrorist, Pro-Hamas as the Post 9/11 playbooks were taken off the shelves to be used once again.  Any protest, statement, Twitter note is back to the good old GWoT days of being on the side of the Terrorists.  In shades of Zell Miller, Fox has been promoting and hosting Democratic Congressman Brad Sherman of California, who claimed the recent protest was more violent than January 6th and declared everyone who supports a Ceasefire is Pro-Hamas.

So now, the Democratic Party and erstwhile Liberals (Amy Schumer) have let their bloodlust and 100% support for brutal killings of Gazan's burst forth without regard for "consequences" because since the horrific 10/07 Hamas assault on Israeli citizens, bloodthirsty supporters of Israel have felt absolutely free to demand the death and displacement of everyone in Gaza.

Piers Morgan has decided the the Atrocities in Gaza are his ticket back to relevance as he adopts a Jerry Springer style format.  Piers has brought Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef twice to explain the brutality of Israel dating back decades using his rye humour and biting sarcasm while Piers plays the Just Asking Questions (Jaqoff) disinterested outside observer.  

But, Morgan also invited the bloodthirsty madman Shmuley Boteach on to "debate" against Cenk Uyger, Boteach adopted all the shut down trolling techniques rightwing fascists have employed for decades in such formats and instantly identified his insatiable lust for the murder of Palestinians and declared every critique a "blood libel".  Boteach of course, is a murderous psychopath, a literal genocidal Nazi, and you could argue his vileness is atypical and then you learn a murderous cabinet minister Amichai Eliyahu openly advocated for the Nuking of Gaza and declares there are no civilians in Gaza.  Or when Israeli Knesset member Ariel Kallner demands a Second Nakba;

“Right now, one goal: Nakba! A Nakba that will overshadow the Nakba of 48. Nakba in Gaza and Nakba to anyone who dares to join! their Nakba, because like then in 1948, the alternative is clear,” the Likud Party member wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Hey you! Ogle my Tits
while you kill Palestinians
"All of Them"

The calls to ethnically cleanse Gaza are so open from Israeli butchers that Netanyahu has had to chide and tell them to stop talking so openly and so publicly about murdering or displacing every person in Gaza while Netanyahu boasts of killing thousands of "Terrorists".  The propaganda campaign of the Israeli government is aimed at keeping the US and Europe on board with their massive campaign of revenge and murder.

The open calls for Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide aren't just coming from blood-thirsty Israeli Madmen but, from Americans.  In Florida, Tits Ahoy Representative Michelle Salzman cold-bloodedly shouted "All of Them", when a Democratic State Rep asked a rhetorical question about how many dead Palestinians would be enough...

I, myself am on the side of the oppressed people and right now the Brutal Reality is Palestinians and Israelis are oppressed and captive to the Evil Extremists of Hamas, the Netanyahu and Likud Party, and murderous Jewish Settlers in the West Bank, and the groups in the US and Europe who for whatever reason to seek peace and instead don't mind how many people die in the "Holy Lands".

Sadly, here in the States the Left and the Democratic Party are tearing themselves apart and I can only hope that this isn't going on a year from now because while syphilis deranged mentally incompetent Trump doesn't have the mental acumen to take advantage of this, his vile handlers and the parasitic Republican Party do, and they are going to use the murderous anti-Muslim bloodlust just like they used their murderous anti-Muslim jingoistic Warmongering in 2002 and 2004 to win political power.