Happy end of October! And here, right in time for Halloween, is Donnie, looking more jack-o’-lanterny than ever:
Yep, his vest matches his makeup. And even without the added sound effects, it’s hilarious to see him fumble the door handle and nearly eat the tarmac before finally hauling his loaded diapers up and into the cab.
I just feel sorry for the actual working stiff who has to drive that truck, and whose cab is going to end up smelling worse than the contents of the bin. Now THAT’s scary!
Hey! It’s been awhile, hasn’t it? And hey again — it’s been a while since we’ve talked about Evo. What’s he been up to?
What else but going up against corruptos, cheating the Grim Reaper, and just generally being the world’s humblest badass. Check it out:
In short, just Evo’s usual. He’s been through this sort of thing before, probably so many times that he’s yawning at this point.
But there is one catch: This time, the assassins could be coming from inside the house, so to speak — according to him, they came on behalf of his own party’s current incumbent in the Palacio Quemado, Luis Arce. Who has been — well, let’s just say that he’s no Evo.
In fact, Arce’s been acting more like one of the opposition than one of the MAS party, and that’s why Evo’s running for president again in next year’s election, this time in opposition to him.
Arce’s approval rating is down to just 38%, and he’s already survived one coup attempt, by a renegade faction of the Bolivian military. He’s not the popular candidate that he was when he first took office.
Little wonder Evo is smelling blood. He’s won a constitutional challenge, too, so the “term limits” barrier is bunkum. He is within his rights to run, and he is doing so.
And moreover, he’s still the more popular guy by far. Which is probably why Arce & Co., in turn, have it in for him.
Now, it seems that they’re throwing all the half-cooked spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks. Everything from accusations of corruption to statutory rape are being tried, and I’m skeptical of all of it. In this age of weaponized scandal, it’s the only way to be.
Watch this space, folks, it’s gonna get very interesting.
Hey, everyone. Notice I didn’t just say “Who shot Donnie Drumpf?” That’s because Donnie wasn’t in fact shot. He was shot AT, for sure, and struck by shattered glass from a teleprompter that one of the stray bullets aimed in his general direction hit. That broken glass apparently nicked his right ear, and — luckily for him — that’s the only injury he sustained.
Others in the vicinity were less lucky. A 50-year-old firefighter, who was sitting behind Donnie at the rally where the shots were fired, was fatally injured by a bullet while trying to protect his family; two other attendees suffered serious injuries as well.
Meanwhile, the shooter’s identity had to be confirmed by DNA evidence, since the Secret Service took him down immediately (and made quite a mess of his head, so I’ve heard.) We now know who he is, though his motives are still unknown. And no, he was most certainly NO liberal, much less a Democrat. He was a registered Republican, and that’s only the beginning. He was also an aspiring sharpshooter who was anything but sharp at shooting.
Here’s Adam Mockler with some revealing details about his life, as recalled by his former high-school classmates:
Imagine that! The guy who missed Donnie was a lousy shot, so much so that his high school rifle team rejected him. Seems that he hadn’t improved significantly at shooting since then, either.
It’s also worth noting that the $15 donor to ActBlue, whom the right-wingers have been crowing about, was NOT the shooter, but a 69-year-old man with a similar name. Plus, this guy had a “Trump” sign in his yard. So, the “he was a Democrat” rumor can now be laid to rest.
As for the shooter’s motives, those remain unknown at this time. Let’s hope someone gets to the bottom of that.
PS: If you think Donnie deserves ANY sympathy for his narrow escape, please put that thought firmly out of mind. Here’s a leaked video of him on the phone with Bobby Kennedy Jr., the Kennedy scion turned anti-vax lunatic (and third-party spoiler candidate), immediately after the shooting. Does this sound like a man worth even a drop of empathy in the moment, much less a sympathy vote?
Nope, nothing in there but the usual chronic, pathological, terminal narcissism. Par for the course of someone whose first act, upon nearly being killed, was to literally grandstand over the heads of his own protective detail and urge his delusional followers to “fight, fight, FIGHT!”
Not the faintest expression of concern for the people who were hurt and killed at his rally. Nope, he didn’t call any of the victims’ families to express concern over their lost and suffering loved ones. He called a fucking quack with an extensive history of vile behavior. Not the faintest concern for anyone but himself, as usual.
If there is any takeaway from this whole episode, it’s this: Donnie doesn’t give a shit about the widow of a man who took a bullet meant for him. He doesn’t care about the health of anyone’s children, because he doesn’t know shit about viruses or vaccines. But he’s happy to take whatever aid he can from whatever craven sycophant is willing to glom onto his diaper-clad ass.
“Great Again” was never great to begin with.
Liberté, égalité, fraternité…et la victoire de l’unité? Mais oui! Le voici…
Pardonnez mon anglais, but DAMN. That’s some real beauté right there!
I was biting my nails on the first round, when it looked like Nazism was going to be making a comeback in France after nearly 80 years of freedom. Marine Le Pen, for those unaware, is the nepo baby of a man who had no problem associating with the old (and defeated) Nazis, after all. She’s a neo-Nazi in all but name, because these nouveaux fascistes are cowardly little shits who haven’t got the guts to wear their swastikas out in the open and take their fessées for it. She really has been making an effort to get in under the radar and turn France into something no decent person would even recognize. She may not be her party’s official head, but she is its driving force. So her party’s strong showing on the first ballot was a disturbing wake-up call.
Fortunately, the French have ears like lynxes for that sort of thing. This is the country that guillotined its last king, after all. And it is still the country that most frequently grinds to a halt when mass social discontent takes hold.
So what did the French left do to stop the next Nazi takeover of their land? What leftists everywhere should do but too often don’t — namely, put aside their partisan ideological quibbles and band together as a broad front to defeat fascism. (This is, incidentally, the very thing the German left also neglected to do in the 1930s. Anyone could have foreseen how THAT would end, but everyone was just running around with eyes shut and fingers in ears. And Germans have been paying for it, literally as well as figuratively, ever since.)
You can’t imagine how much I wish this broad-front left unity would happen in more countries, including my home and native land. We, too, are facing a fascist backlash right now. We’ve got pundits proclaiming a Toronto by-election (in a wealthy riding, which is the detail they keep glossing over) to be “a referendum on the Trudeau Liberals”, which in fact it is not. And the drums are now beating for a new election call, one in which a weaselly little con man who has been seen shaking hands with actual neo-Nazis would win.
I’m sick of our media’s blatant right-wing sympathies, and also of holding my nose and voting for the increasingly disappointing Liberals just because the NDP has never won my riding. I would really like to see a new progressive coalition kick this whole mess to the curb before a modern Hitler does to Canada what the OG monster did to my ancestral Germany, with the media seal-clapping its approval all the way.
Anyhow, blah blah blah: Catastrophe averted, at least in France. We can all breathe again. Tomorrow, we need to buckle down and learn from the French example. It would behoove us to be a bit less British, and a lot more French.
Oh, and maestro? A little musique, s’il vous plaît.
You think you’ve heard everything, and then something comes and smacks you upside the head with the fact that you ain’t heard NOTHIN’ yet. Sam and Emma have an incredible clip for us:
“We shall not have security as long as we shall not end the occupation…and we shall not have democracy as long as we shall not end the occupation.”
Translation: No justice, no peace in the Middle East.
What Israel’s doing to Palestine is a gross injustice that strips away all entitlement for them to call themselves “the only democracy in the Middle East” (which was always a bald-face lie anyway) and their armed forces, “the most moral army in the world” (which they never were and should never have harbored the illusion of being — just ask the survivors of the USS Liberty attack if you don’t believe me!)
Cue the outraged right-wing media shitgibbons and hasbaratchiks of AIPAC, howling for Ami Ayalon’s blood. Clearly the man is in the pay of Hamas.
Oh wait, he’s NOT? He’s the former head of the dreaded Shin Bet, Israel’s equivalent of the FBI? He used to work for Bibi Netanyahu himself? He’s the guy who understands, possibly better than anyone in the whole country, what a security risk it is for them to go on oppressing and trying to wipe out Palestinians?
Well. THAT’s embarrassing.
But not nearly as embarrassing as it’s going to be if Bibi keeps trying to pretend that the proposed ceasefire was his idea, when anyone with a working eye can see that it’s not. Or if he goes on trying to pretend that he actually wants peace, when what he really wants is to turn Gaza from the world’s largest open-air concentration camp to the world’s priciest beachfront real estate.
Al Jazeera has some good analysis and backgrounder on today’s failed coup attempt in Bolivia. Apparently a renegade general with a bad reputation even within the armed forces has tried and failed to seize power over the (admittedly weak) democratically elected government of Luis Arce. And that general, in turn, has ties to the Santa Cruz far right, who have repeatedly tried (and failed) to oust Evo Morales in the past. Seems that oligarchs don’t give up as long as there’s money to be made, and money to be paid (in this case, to the corrupto who was only too happy to be bought, seeing as he didn’t get what he wanted from the presidente.)
Now, are these the same religious fascists who made that creepy little finger-cross sign when they swore in their fake government the last time they lashed out against Evo? Or are they some new cult? Is Elon Musk behind this coup too, or is it another home-grown bum that we’ve probably seen here before? And are the CIA and/or Mossad also somehow involved?
Questions, questions. I’ll be ferreting around for answers. Stay tuned…
Is Czar Vladimir the Terrible getting desperate for warm bodies to boost his failing, fascist-imperialist war on Ukraine? It would appear so. He’s actively trying to recruit some of the worst people in the US:
Yeah. He tried to bring in Scott Ritter. SCOTT FUCKING RITTER, the convicted sex offender, who tried to solicit sex from what he thought was an under-age girl. Never mind that the real thing would never talk to a guy his age (source: was once a teenage girl myself, and any guy outside of high school was ancient to us). Nope, he really thought he was going to score a 15-year-old! And that it totally wasn’t a police decoy chatting him up.
And just think, this is what passes (wayyyyy too often) for “intelligence” in the US. The military-spook-industrial complex is rife with these kinds of guys.
But just in case you thought this was an isolated incident, or that Russia was only trying to capture a former US agent to pump him for whatever info they thought they could get this late in the game, or score propaganda points by painting themselves as the world’s one true bastion of freedom, or whatever cockamamie shit Pooty-poot thinks will fly…remember these fuckleheads from my home and native land?
The Feenstra family, led by Arend and Anneesa, relocated to the country seeking refuge under its stringent anti-LGBTQ laws, but the reality of life in Russia has proven to be a stark disappointment.
The family’s disillusionment began when their bank accounts were suddenly frozen upon their arrival, the funds from the sale of their Canadian farm deemed “suspicious” by the Russian banking system. This move left them stranded without resources in a nation where they found themselves linguistically isolated, unable to speak Russian or find English-speaking assistance. Anneesa Feenstra’s subsequent outburst in a YouTube video expressed her exasperation: “I’m ready to jump on a plane and get out of here. We’ve hit the first snag where you have to engage logic in this country, and it’s very, very frustrating.”
Despite the initial setback and the stark cultural and language barriers, the family has since stated that their funds have been unfrozen and they intend to remain in Russia “for the long haul.” Arend Feenstra had earlier expressed in a press conference the motivations behind their move, citing “a lot of left-wing ideology, LGBTQ, trans, just a lot of things that we don’t agree with they teach there now” as the impetus for seeking a new life in a country he believed would protect his family from such influences.
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
I figured something was up when Russia was promising “freedom villages” (or some such BS) to far-right foreigners looking to escape the oppressive LGBT-friendly policies of the west. Now I know: They’re actively looking for real, live GROOMERS. The kind who are so hellbent on having things their own way that real, live kids — either their own, or those of the “western dissidents” they’re trying to woo — will ultimately suffer for it.
I’m really hoping the Mad Czar meets a Ceausescu-style demise, but I’m not holding my breath.
…or, it’s a day ending in -day, and the most gormless buffoons in the US of Amnesia are just at it again, as usual:
Yeah, that’s right. Not even 24 hours after the container ship Dali hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, MD, a bunch of quacking morons decided to make wank-bank off it by insisting it was a terrorist conspiracy somehow caused by “DEI”. When, in fact, it was most likely due to mechanical and/or electrical failure on board the vessel, as you can clearly see here:
When you see the lights go dark on the ship, that right there is a terrible sign. The loss of electrical power means not only problems with visibility in the dead of night, but also that the ship lost power to its forward thrusters, which would have helped to keep it centered and on course in its channel, i.e. not hit the bridge. The black smoke from the funnel is also a bad sign; it speaks of engine failure, possibly even a fire on board.
Conspicuously absent, however, are any signs of a bomb going off. Or anything else that smacks of terrorism.
What DID happen, however, was a mayday call which resulted in police diverting traffic away from the bridge, to minimize the number of cars that might fall into the water, and consequently, the number of lives lost. Not the sort of thing you’d expect in a terrorist incident, where the objective is to cause as much harm — and fear — as possible. And certainly nothing to do with any kind of “DEI” hiring practices, which the right is currently squawking its collective guts out over…at least until the next shiny bit of nonsense comes along.
But then again, I’d never expect any of those bozos to traffic in anything remotely resembling an inconvenient fact.
Hey y’all, you might want to start buying stock in Orville Redenbacher again. Why? Oh, no particular reason…
…okay, maybe ONE good reason:
Yeah, that’s right, bitchez. This is happening. Not just two, but THREE of the worst entities in right-wing “media” are gonna be duking it out to see who gets to be king of the neofascist dunghill.
At the apex of this Bermuda Triangle of fashy awfulness, we have a guy named Jeremy Hambly, who runs a YouTube channel called The Quartering, where he drones on ad nauseam about videogames, women who don’t even know he exists, and other assorted hateful shit, when he’s not busy drunkenly petitioning Elon Musk over Freeze Peach, and running in terror of an actual journalist doing actual journalism. (That would be Lance, above, who has him dead to rights for suggesting on his now-deleted tech tip channel that anyone with child sex-abuse materials on their computer should scrub them from their hard drives before taking that machine to the shop, because the techies can and will look.)
Oh, and also, Jeremy is on record for drunkenly pissing in his basement when he lost a round and his wife was out getting pizza without him. Yes, really.
You may want to listen to that with headphones on to get the full tinkle.
Anyhow, this silly jizz-sock from the moldy side of YouTube is going up against a Malaysian fascist Twitter reply guy who recently found out that the whole world collectively hates his guts, and even the most ardent death-penalty opponents would most likely celebrate if the notoriously repressive government of Malaysia actually executed him for…some minor offence or other. Personally, I was only sad to find out that they hadn’t, YET. (Maybe they will? We can always hope.)
And also, Jeremy’s mad at Ezra Levant’s crapaganda outlet, because reasons.
So, while we wait for the fallout to finish falling out, help yourself to some popcorn. And savor that melted butter on your fingers, because it won’t be half as delicious as the irony.
Unless you’ve been living under a lichen-covered rock in the woods, you’ve probably heard by now of Nex Benedict, the indigenous transgender high-schooler in Owasso, Oklahoma, who died of a brain injury on February 8 of this year, shortly after being beaten up in a high school bathroom by three girls. Nex, who used he/him and they/their pronouns, shouldn’t have had to go in there at all, since that bathroom didn’t correspond to his actual gender. But since he was designated as female at birth, by Oklahoma law he wasn’t allowed to use any other facilities but the girls’ room.
And apparently, the school’s meanest girls took violent exception to that.
Even though the school district supposedly had an anti-bullying policy, Nex had been bullied ever since he came out as trans. And his tormentors always got away with it, because Oklahoma state law was on their side, and the legal situation is getting worse by the day. Oklahoma is the state with the largest number of anti-LGBT+ bills currently tabled. It’s not hard to imagine how a situation like that might embolden a bully, or a clique of them.
So, on February 7, three bitches jumped Nex in the bathroom. A scuffle ensued. Nex’s head hit the floor at some point during the assault, and he blacked out. Despite his obvious injuries, the school did not call an ambulance for Nex; his mother had to drive him to hospital herself. He was also able to give a statement to the police in the hours following the incident, but the head injury he sustained in the bathroom proved fatal the following day.
Nex Benedict was just 16.
Nex’s death has spawned protests, but so far, no criminal charges have been laid. The killers are still at large, apparently still in school, and still protected by the hateful environment the school district has deemed to be acceptable. The local police, too, don’t seem to think the matter is worth arresting anyone over. Nobody, it seems, is willing to hold anyone accountable for the death of Nex Benedict.
Nex might still be alive if LGBT+ acceptance had been an actual thing in Oklafuckinghoma, where some of the world’s most repugnant Republicans hold sway, and where failed Brooklyn realtor and highly successful fascist hatemonger Chaya Raichik, a.k.a. “Libs of TikTok”, was hired by the state not so long ago as some kind of advisor to their public library system.
Chaya Raichik is a professional stochastic terrorist, whose only real talent in life is to stir up murderous hate against anyone whom she deems to be a “groomer” of children, particularly if they’re teaching school or in any public setting where children might also be present. She lives for attention, and likes to turn a blast of raw sewage on anyone who is politically and socially progressive, or who dares to be honest and vulnerable about their LGBT+ life. Her shit-disturbing has even led to bomb threats at children’s hospitals. She’s uniquely unqualified to advise anyone on anything, let alone a state’s public libraries on what media its children should be allowed to peruse. Yet there she is, drawing a fat paycheque for doing nothing except what she’s been doing all along…i.e., stirring up hate and generally poisoning the atmosphere every time she farts out a tweet.
Well, one local man has had enough of her and the fascistic flunkies who hired her. He has taken a stand, and his confrontation with the elected officials (and by extension, their unelected “advisor”) is a thing of beauty to behold:
Ahhh. Isn’t that satisfying?
I don’t yet know what difference it’s going to make in the grand scheme of things, or to the Nex case in particular, but let’s hope that Sean’s speech here is the beginning of the end for anti-queer fascism in Oklahoma.
