News of the Restless

Ugh, Sophie…NO.

Posted on March 7, 2017 by Sabina Becker

Can you spot what’s wrong with this picture? Take a good close look:

It’s a lovely shot, don’t get me wrong. But the sentiments expressed alongside, while sweet, seem to me more fitting for Valentine’s Day than International Women’s Day:

…which is NOT International But-What-About-Teh-Menz Day. (That’s November 19, for those who seriously wonder.)

You can read the history of International Women’s Day at the UN’s site. As you can see, it was originally a socialist women’s day of action against unfair and dangerous working conditions in garment factories. Later, it became a day of commemoration and continued action by and for working women, and for universal suffrage. In 1914, it became a day of peace demonstrations as well, as war was looming in Europe. The day was something of a movable feast until 1975, the UN’s International Women’s Year, when the date was finally fixed at March 8, which it has been ever since.

And yes, socialist men did participate in the activities of the day, working in solidarity with women for gender equality on all fronts. And we love and appreciate and thank them for it. But this is not a day for paying tribute to those men (again, let me refer you to November 19, which is dedicated to men working for gender equality.) And let’s be honest: Every day is, in fact, men’s day in a patriarchal world!

On March 8, however, it’s about us. The women. It’s not another day to send us flowers; it’s a day to be mindful of what we want and need. And to remember not just how far we’ve come since the garment factory strikes of 1908, but how far we still need to go.

And this year, in particular, it will be a day of action for us all over again. As fascism rears its ugly head once more, in Canada and elsewhere, women are answering the call to action against it, and to prevent it from further eroding the already shaky rights we do have. There will be marches and demos; there will be solidarity with immigrant and refugee women; there will be calls for better protection for their rights, especially Muslim women who are currently being targeted for their veils by bigots.

All of these are urgent matters, and for that reason, we shouldn’t be sugar-coating the day. It’s more important for us all to act for women’s rights than it is to pay tribute to our male colleagues-in-solidarity.

So, sorry, Sophie. You tried, but you muffed it. Live and learn.

PS: And if you’re wondering why today is NOT a day to pay tribute to our good-looking PM, take a little gander at this. And remember, women are bound to be disproportionately affected by this bad decision. Happy Women’s Day!

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Why the “free speech” excuse is bullshit

Posted on March 6, 2017 by Sabina Becker

I hate Illinois Nazis. Especially when Canadians try to mimic their tactics.

So, lately, there’s been a whole lot of bullshit flying around up here. A bunch of covert Nazis got together in Toronto and other cities to protest M-103, a parliamentary motion (not a bill, not a law, just a motion) against Islamophobia. This probably without even having read the thing; right-wingers and their jerky knees are so easily triggered by the mere suggestion that they are, in fact, raving bigots underneath it all.

And sure enough, the sensitive little snowflakes tried to frame their protest as being in favor of free speech, not against Muslims. They tried to frame it as patriotism, not raving bigotry. They even played (repeatedly!) a song called “Wavin’ Flag” to underscore the “patriotic” angle.

There was only one problem with that little tactic: the singer of “Wavin’ Flag”, K’naan Warsame, is a Somali refugee. Also, he’s black. And a Muslim. And he clapped back with a witty tweet-string at the irony of a bunch of obvious white supremacists using his song as a pretext for barring others like him from Canadian shores.

Meanwhile, in Oshawa, Durham Regional Police are looking for a masked coward who threatened an 11-year-old Muslim boy…oh sorry, exercised his free speech in the face of a radical Islamist terrorist in the making.

You’d have to be blind not to see the crying need for a measure rather stronger than M-103, which is merely a non-binding parliamentary motion condemning hate-crimes against Muslims. But this is the sorry pass we Canadians have come to lately. We don’t dare crack down hard enough on the REAL terrorists here, who are white and home-grown and who want to remake this country in their own image. Even a rather mild declaration of Parliament brings out the Soldiers of Odin, PEGIDA Canada, and other assorted crypto-fascist lumpenproles who haven’t the guts to wear their swastikas out in the open because that would be giving their little game away. And they’re bawling over not being able to do that, even though they still can…that is, if they can handle being challenged, counter-protested (and grossly outnumbered!), and maybe fired from their McJobs for making the workplace too toxic with their ugly twaddle.

But clearly any little challenge to their supremacy is too many, which is why they turned out against M-103 only to be pwned by their own choice of anthems.

Hell, they’re such big babies that even James Fucking Sears, a.k.a. Dimitri the Lover, is now pooping his diapers because, so he says, he can’t even mail greeting cards anymore. Of course he can; the only thing he’s not allowed to mail is his hate-rag, Your Ward News, a quaint “satirical” throwback to the days when there was no Internet, and thus no Stormfront and no Daily Stormer for the local yokels to get their daily fix of hate-speech — oh sorry, “political incorrectness” (note the quotes, there for a reason).

Meanwhile, in Halifax, nobody showed up to protest what the Toronto Star’s own Rick Salutin has sarcastically called “political correctness writ small”.

In a strange way, it’s encouraging to see them crying so hard, and pissing their pants with fear, about something so non-threatening. It means that neo-fascists up here are still running scared. And that’s because they’re grossly outnumbered and disempowered…for now.

Meanwhile, those just to the south of us, the same neo-fascists that these sad sacks are trying to emulate, are fast getting too big for their britches. And their motto is STILL “Free speech for me, but none for thee”. Need proof? Here it is:

Now, why do you suppose they’d do a thing like that?

Well, for starters, because protests work. Especially if the cause is popular and just. And in addition, because big protests against Drumpf have been called, and every single time, they’ve drawn much larger crowds than rallies for him have done. So it stands to reason that they’re trying to criminalize protests against themselves. How else are they going to get away with murder — oh sorry, “drain the swamp”? Especially with the Big Bigot so busy playing golf every weekend?

And besides, it wouldn’t look very good if they called a bigot rally and no one came. Or if K’naan decided to razz them over the tweeter, too.

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Music for a Sunday: We got computers, we’re tappin’ phone lines…

Posted on March 5, 2017 by Sabina Becker

…you know that that ain’t allowed:

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Wankers of the Week: Oops, Kellyanne did it again…

Posted on March 3, 2017 by Sabina Becker

Crappy weekend, everyone! And a very crappy one to Kellyanne Fucking Conway, who seems to be having yet another week from hell. I kinda-sorta feel you, girl…up to a point. I mean, I haven’t sat on my feet, on a couch, since I was maybe 8 years old…and never in shoes. My folks brought me up better than that. And here are this week’s other badly-raised brats, in no particular order:

1. Tomi Fucking Lahren. It’s hard out there for a white-grievance pimp, isn’t it? Especially when Iranian film directors win Oscars. There, there, widdle snowflake. Aren’t you happy that Daddy Drumpf kept the bad creative man out of your country? Diddums!

2. Joshua Fucking Feuerstein. No, Joshie dear, your Jesus isn’t cancelling out all the whammies we Witches laid on your Daddy Drumpf, either. But it sure is fun seeing you blow a gasket over it all.

3. Robbie Fucking Gatti. Good lord, dude, did you fall face-first into a vat of chocolate syrup? No, you thought you were being cute by putting on the blackface and wearing your everyday clothes, and claiming you were going as Tiger Woods for Halloween. That’s a very strange way of “seeing only character”. The only character I see in you is that of a pious hypocrite.

4. William Fucking Happer. No, carbon dioxide is NOT “demonized”, much less like “poor Jews under Hitler”. For one thing, carbon dioxide is a chemical. You literally cannot persecute chemicals. They are not people. And for another, someone who is not a climate scientist has no business calling climate science a “cult”. Especially if he’s from the cult of climate-science denial.

5. Tucker Fucking Carlson. And while we’re on the subject of the cult of climate change denial, get a load of him, flipping out at Bill Nye for trying to deprogram him. Bill, you’re a champ. And Fucker? You’re a chump.

6. Kellie Fucking Leitch. Pro tip, would-be CONservative leader: If you’re going to rail about “out-of-touch elites”, could you try NOT FUCKING ACTING LIKE SUCH A FUCKING ELITIST YOURSELF? Thanks awfully. PS: Also, WTF is up with this video? Were you on drugs, or was your propagandist? Ugh. PPS: Ha, ha, ha, NO. Trust me, lady…we’re laughing AT you, not WITH you. And by “we”, I mean regular Canadians, and not just the media.

7. Greg Fucking Locke. Oh dear, looks like someone REALLY hates it when people donate to Planned Parenthood in his name. You know what to do, Internets.

8. Sean Fucking Spicer. Oh dear. Looks like Sean Sphincter is really living up to his accidental nickname. And he’s doing it by smearing made-up shit all over REAL reporters, who are reporting real news whether he likes it or not. PS: And the Sphincter is also smearing dead navy SEALS. Lovely!

9. Simon Fucking Bailey. Pedophiles who only look at kiddie porn are “lower-level offenders” who shouldn’t be criminalized? Uh, what? How can anyone say this when those same “lower-level offenders” are the ones actually generating demand and a market for child abusers who upload that god-awful shit?

10. Bonnie Fucking Verne. And while we’re on the subject of people who should have nothing to do with children EVER, how about her? She’s all for killing undocumented immigrants. What the hell kind of example is THAT supposed to send???

11. Wayne La Fucking Pierre. And then there are those who should have nothing to do with guns EVER…including The Peter, who’s so paranoid and so far removed from reality that I think every firearm he owns should be confiscated just for his own safety.

12. Robert Fucking Davi. Washed-up has-been D-lister says WHAT? Drumpf is “virtuous”? Strange idea of virtue this cretin has, considering his boy is the most corrupt US presidunce in the history of ever, AND a pussy-grabbing john, to boot.

13. Rick Fucking Santorum. Pre-existing conditions are a “scam”, are they? Well, then. This begs the question of Icky Ricky Buttsploodge and what his stupidity and dissociation are — and why HE’s not getting kicked off HIS plan.

14. Gary Fucking Naeyaert. So, you like shaking your wife (and any other woman who opposes you), eh? Well, maybe someone ought to shake YOU, Mr. Charter School Bully…and by that, I mean the way a terrier shakes a motherfucking RAT.

15. Andrew Fucking Pierce. So, trans people are “gender fascists”? For what — EXISTING? Figures that the Daily Fail would publish such drivel. Along with bullshit about how Justin Trudeau is going to pose nude for a gay magazine, which he hasn’t done and never would. And just think, kiddies, this one is mad because he claims to have fought for gay rights in the Eighties. O RLY? Not as a Tory, he didn’t. Meanwhile, out in the real world, at least four of those “gender fascists” have been killed just this past week alone. By REAL fascists.

16. Kevin O’Fucking Leary. So, now we know…he’s not just a sexist, he’s a sexual HARASSER. Who uses no-pants skyping to retaliate over having to “work for women” at the CBC. And then he calls himself a “feminist” when challenged on his pantsless antics? Christ, is this man 12 years old?

17. Jeff Fucking Sessions. No, JugEars McMarbleMouth, pot does NOT cause violence. You might be thinking crack. Or meth. Or booze. Or whatever the fuck you’re on. But pot? The worst it could lead to is two stoners drowsily arguing over who gets the last bag of chips at the corner store. PS: Another lie? Boy, BYE! PPS: Aaaand BOOM! Time to live up to your words, Jeffy-poo.

18. Mark Fucking Chelgren. Hey! Remember him? The guy who wants to “balance” academic faculties in Iowa by (illegally) inquiring into the voting habits of prospective hires? Well, guess where he got HIS education? Yeah…at a not-so-reputable institution. Maybe you’d best leave the balancing to the steakhouse scales, eh pal?

19. Paul Fucking Ryan. You know how those Randroid Repugs are. They “never give up on a dream”. Especially when it involves being the literal death panel for tens of thousands of uninsured US citizens a year. You know, kind of like Nazi Germany but without all the swastikas and cattle cars?

20. Janusz Fucking Korwin-Mikke. Women need to be paid less because they’re weaker and stupider than men? That’s a weak and stupid argument from a weak and stupid man, whose weaknesses and stupidities include racism and sexism. Maybe HE should be paid less, too — a LOT less. Maybe even nothing at all, at least in the Europarliament!

21. Sebastian Fucking Gorka. I know I’ve been laughing at this idiot all week, but really, how can one NOT? I mean, he just keeps jumping up and down, pointing and gesticulating, obviously begging for the attention from the major media. Yeah, yeah, dude, we get it. You’re an unqualified dunderhead with a pompous way of talking. We KNOW! Don’t make everyone review your laughable diploma-mill Ph.D. dissertation, now…

22. Ingrid Fucking Carlqvist. And while we’re on the subject of unqualified dunderheads with a hard-right hate-on for Muslims, how about HER? Surprise, surprise, Sweden doesn’t like her…but FUX Snooze does.

23. Mike Fucking Bost. Hooboy. Where to start with him? Well, how about the fact that he’s too big a wimp to appear at town halls anymore. Seems to be a trend, especially over there on the right…and the further right you are, the less you can stand the heat, apparently. But what should really get him booted the fuck out of the kitchen is his racism. I mean really — who says “orientals” anymore, much less linking Asians (I’m assuming the Chinese, during the Cultural Revolution) implicitly with barbaric behavior? Ugh.

24. Gregory Fucking Lenehan. “Clearly a drunk can consent”? Not when she’s passed out in the back seat of a cab, she can’t. Jeebus. Does anyone have to explain incapacitation and unconsciousness to you? How the hell did you even graduate high school, never mind law? And how the fucking hell did you become a judge with such a poor sense of judgment?

25. Ron Fucking Johnson. Nothing says “man of the people” like sending cease-and-desist letters to constituents who keep trying to contact you because they need your fucking help. You can put on the other pointy hat and go join #23 in the corner for that.

26. Claire Fucking McCaskill. Liar, liar, pants on…how’s that saying go again? Oh dear, I smell something smoking. And it’s coming straight from your own tweeter! Grab the fire extinguisher!

27. Mike Fucking Pence. Hillary Clinton did what? You don’t say. And you did it even worse? You don’t say!

28. Brandon Ray Fucking Davis. Doesn’t matter who’s president (for however long) now. The law still says that you don’t get to run people down, even if they’re gay and you’re drunk and you don’t like it. How about THEM apples?

29. Thomas Fucking Quiggin. Lest you think that #21 is just an anomaly from Transylvania, via the US of Amnesia…nope. We have far-right, Islam-obsessed, terror-happy freak scenes in Canada, too. And he is one of them, and just as unqualfied as his Transylvanian-American counterpart. Oy, oy, OY.

30. Roger Fucking Marshall. Just because there are some poor people who don’t want healthcare, doesn’t mean you can get away with the “so I shouldn’t have to pay for them” excuse. If they don’t want it, they won’t use it. Meaning, they won’t cost you a cent anyway. You, sir, are not only a pious feckin eejit, you are a shitbag who takes Jesus’s name in vain.

And finally, to Der Fucking Drumpf himself, AGAIN. He really outdid himself this week with the claptrap, literally using a bereaved woman to trap the claps for him and make him look “presidential” to the talking heads, who of course were stupid enough to oblige because no one wanted to be the evil meanie to point out that the poor dear lady was being shamefully used. As usual, it was up to Michael Moore to say what no one else in the media dared. But hey! Pity it’s not working. How do I know? He’s even lost FUX Snooze. And everyone knows how they clap like well-trained seals for any terrible thing anyone with an R after their name does! And now the Big Orange Baby is whining that the very word “Resist” is slowing him down too much. It’s cutting into his golf time at Mar-a-Lago — oh sorry, the Winter White House, you guys! And it’s got him so distracted that he can’t even spell a simple two-syllable word in his tweeting anymore. (Keep that shit the fuck UP, y’all hear?)

Good night, and get fucked!

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Antisemitism? Pshaw!

Posted on March 2, 2017 by Sabina Becker

It’s all just false flags, kiddies. “Doctor” Sebaaaaaastian Goooooorka said so:

And it’s not just that ridiculous cartoon count who’s saying it. There’s this Drumpf surrogate:

A senior adviser to President Trump linked the latest wave of threats against Jewish community centers to Democrat in a Tuesday tweet.

Anthony Scaramucci tweeted it is “not yet clear” who is responsible for the threats, noting that some Democrats reportedly incited violence during Trump rallies.

“It’s not yet clear who the #JCC offenders are. Don’t forget @TheDemocrats effort to incite violence at Trump rallies,” he tweeted while linking to an article from right-leaning Breitbart News about a Project Veritas investigation of “trained provocateurs” at Republican events.

And he’s not the only other one, either. Even the Big Bigot His Own Big Orange Self is saying so:

During a meeting with state attorneys general on Tuesday, President Trump reportedly suggested the repeated bomb threats against Jewish community centers and schools around the country in recent weeks could be false flags.

Those comments echo former KKK Grand Wizard and outspoken Trump fan David Duke, who has been pushing the false flag conspiracy theory.

According to Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s account of the Tuesday’s meeting, when the threats came up, Trump said, “sometimes it’s the reverse.”

“He just said, ‘Sometimes it’s the reverse, to make people — or to make others — look bad,’ and he used the word ‘reverse’ I would say two or three times in his comments,” Shapiro said, according to BuzzFeed’s Chris Geidner. “He did say at the top that it was reprehensible.”

“I really don’t know what he means, or why he said that,” Shapiro, who is a Democrat, added. “It didn’t make a whole lot of sense to me.”

Of course, they’re all at great pains to deny that they said what it sure as hell sounds like they said. Drumpf will, without fail, trot out his own son-in-law as “proof” that he is not an antisemite, and that he’s the least antisemitic person in the world. Not that it would convince anyone with an actual grasp of how real antisemites think and behave, including the most infamous one of all (whose own DNA revealed his Jewish and North African roots).

But this is how they get plausible deniability with their detractors while keeping on dog-whistling to their supporters: They say-it-without-saying-it. They bring it up as a mere “possibility”, a “suggestion”, not a hard statement of fact. But they bring it up. And the fact that they bring that idea up sure as hell smells like they want someone else to think it.

The whole purpose for their bringing this absurd “false flag” theory up is to deflect the public’s attention. To distract us from how their own bigoted, coded rhetoric is stirring up those asshats who kick over tombstones in Jewish cemeteries. Or who embark on what sure as hell looks like a co-ordinated campaign to call in bomb threats to Jewish community centres, or spray-paint swastikas on synagogues, or leave bullet holes in their doors. They get to disclaim all responsibility for stirring up the hateful, AND at the same time, to justify doing so even further. Because when it’s a “false flag”, it suggests to the True Believers of Drumpf that they are right to harass Jews. And Muslims. And any other ethnic minority that’s currently being singled out for a lambasting from WASP Central. Anything that Those People complain about is suddenly framed as just a play for sympathy, and nobody should sympathize with Them!

And when nobody sympathizes with the vulnerable, the vulnerable have no defences left. By the time open season is actually openly declared, the ground is already seeded and the wells all poisoned. Long before the first death camp is built, the propaganda will already be there to convince the public that Those People are unscrupulous and devious and MUST be dealt with. And that it must be done with the hardest possible hand.

If this isn’t fascism without swastikas, then what is?

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Right-wing terrorist threats at Concordia U.

Posted on March 1, 2017 by Sabina Becker

Hello, Montréal Police? Have I got a tip for you! Guess what showed up at Concordia University lately?

Charming, isn’t it?

Like everything the “alt-right” (translation: white supremacists too chicken to wear their sheets in public, and/or neo-Nazis who don’t have the courage to strap on their swastikas), this thing is ugly as fuck, with a poorly designed logo. And while they purport to be “Canadian Citizens” (big whoop!), they use a very un-Canadian color scheme. Probably because red, white and black would be too obvious.

And get a load of what they wrote, too. Who still uses that archaic spelling, “Moslems”? Wingnuts without a clue, that’s who. The same who think that just because Der Drumpf stole an election to the south of us, he’s suddenly “our” president too. Nope! This is CANADA, fools. We have a Prime Minister, and it ain’t him. And his “election”, being a sham, has no bearing on our politics, and if you think it gives you licence to behave like the KKK, you’ve got a harsh awakening coming.

And the best chuckle is the threat. “Artisanal” explosive devices? Oh, you mean like BOMBS? Wow, what hipsters those neckbeards are all of a sudden. A bomb threat! How meta!

Of course, one thing that hasn’t changed with the times is the fact that if you have to use a bomb — or the threat of one — to get things to go your way, you’re a colossal fuckin’ wuss. And I sure hope this band of cowards gets arrested before they have a chance to set off one of their “artisanal” bangers.

Oh, and a final pro tip for our hipster-racist would-be terrorists: You can leave the Jews out of your bomb threat. They’ve dealt with enough of their own just to the south of us lately, and the threats were coming from assholes just like you.

PS: Raw Story has picked this one up and run with it. Apparently this bunch is a subsidiary of a KKK-like group in the States with connections to Dylann Roof, which would no doubt explain the old-fogey spelling of Muslim — as well as the un-Canadian sentiments and color scheme.

PPS: CBC reports Montréal Police have searched all the buildings in question and found nothing. This “C4” group is even more cowardly than I thought. But maybe now cops will finally start taking Internet threats seriously, because that’s how this one was issued.

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40 years of human-rights abuses in “democratic” Venezuela, documented

Posted on March 1, 2017 by Sabina Becker

The Caracazo of February-March 1989 was just the tip of an iceberg. A peaceful protest against a government betrayal, just the latest since “democracy” came to Venezuela in 1958, met with violent crackdown. As the social order disintegrated, looters stormed shops, carrying off whatever they could. And no wonder: The sudden devaluation of the Venezuelan bolivar, the disastrous neoliberal “package” pushed by then-president Carlos Andrés Pérez, and the resultant unaffordability of basic goods (which shopkeepers hoarded in backrooms so they could jack up the price on grounds of false scarcity), made robbery a necessity. Officially, the death toll was in the hundreds; in fact, it is in the thousands. And Venezuela has not had a full reckoning of that massacre, or the many others that preceded it, until now.

What does a country really look like during 40 years of weak, foreign-managed “democracy” which is a front for fascism and state terrorism? Ask Venezuelans; they know. And one Venezuelan in particular has this to say about it:

Events which occurred during the Caracazo, as the popular rebellion of February 27, 1989 became known, constituted the largest massacre during the Punto Fijo period (1958-1998), according to Aldemaro Barrios, member of the Commission for Justice and Truth which investigated cases of state-sponsored terrorism during that period.

“The Caracazo came to be the largest massacre in terms of the number of persons killed or disappeared during the Punto Fijo period, and also constitutes the largest genocide in Latin America, because it was determined that there were around 300 persons killed, but thousands of disappearances,” said Barrios of the results of the Caracazo, which some human rights organizations say totalled more than 3,000 dead.

Barrios observed that between 1958 and 1998, one constant was the criminalization of popular struggles, which translated into repression and state-sponsored terrorism resulting in massacres, such as those of the Caracazo, El Amparo, and Yumare.

All these events were investigated by the Commission following its installation in 2013, with the objective of revealing the truth about crimes of state committed by Punto Fijo-era governments.

After four years of investigation the Commission issued its final report with the register of 10,071 victims of murder, torture and disappearance for political reasons between 1958 and 1998.

Barrios stated that each case had repercussions for at least three members of the victims’ family groups, for which reason the total could reach some 30,000 persons affected directly or indirectly.

Translation mine.

So we can see that the Punto Fijo era of managed “democracy” was anything but democratic. Two ossified authoritarian parties, one “liberal” and the other “conservative”, swapping power; Washington behind both; no chance for genuine democracy, let alone the social reforms needed to make Venezuela sovereign and ensure that everyone’s needs were met. Is it any wonder that the Caracazo erupted? And is it any wonder that this happened, a few years later?

Real democracy in Venezuela was conceived in the failed military uprising of 1992…and the Bolivarian Revolution that followed, seven years later, with the election of Hugo Chávez Frías, who led the uprising and, even in prison, kept the faith until both he and his country were finally free. Even now, Venezuela’s freedom is being pooh-poohed in the northern hemisphere because it wasn’t granted by gringos, but taken by locals. And as the shadow of fascism falls across the US of Amnesia, it’s important to look at what Venezuela was, and what it became, what it is today, and what it has no desire to go back to again…because Gringolandia is now where Venezuela was in the 40 years before it finally had real democracy.

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Finally, anti-gang laws put some real thugs behind bars

Posted on March 1, 2017 by Sabina Becker

Mirabile dictu, the anti-gang laws of Georgia have actually put a couple of white supremacist gang members (and several of their equally white-supremacist buddies) behind bars. And without violating either the First OR the Second Amendment, because this was a clear case of terrorism, caught on video. Who the hell threatens to shoot up a child’s birthday party? Well, if the kid is black and you’re a bunch of white yahoos in Georgia, these people — that’s who.

And if you need any more proof of how “post-racial” the United States of Amnesia aren’t, here are some crunchy nuggets for thought: This happened, as the Young Turks say, about a month after Dylann Roof shot up a black church in Charleston, having gone with a specific plan to terrorize and kill black people (and even went to a second church planning to kill some more). This gang of white thugs threatened to do the same, but somehow didn’t get that far. Mostly they just thought it would be a cute idea to drive around black neighborhoods in their big ugly trucks with their big ugly flags, hollering slurs, and brandishing loaded guns to back up their racist death threats.

Scarier, though, than even what these terrorists planned to do is the realization that, so long as no one gets killed or threatened with death, the US of A rewards actual racism. Look who got “elected” (note the quotes, there for a reason) to the presidency, where he most clearly doesn’t belong, by white assholes who kvetched, obstructed Congress, and teabagged for the entire eight years a black man was in the White House. Now laws protecting people and the environment are being stripped away by executive fiats written by an actual, overt white supremacist. How long before racists who threaten or deal actual death start getting off scot-free again — under laws that specifically condone them?

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Trayvon’s murderer endorses FUX Snooze

Posted on February 27, 2017 by Sabina Becker

In a turn of events that should surprise no one, we have this:

Yes, that’s right, folks. George Fucking Zimmerman — who gunned down Trayvon Martin in cold blood for being black and out at night, in a hoodie, buying iced tea and Skittles at the corner store — “respects” Drumpf, and thinks FUX Snooze is a reliable news source.

Next thing you know, he’ll be praising Breitbart, too.

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Sebastian Gorka is a ridiculous cartoon

Posted on February 27, 2017 by Sabina Becker

Seriously. You have to hear this guy talk. Sam Seder & Co. had a field day with him:

Can you hear the cackles in the background as Gorka (gawd, his name sounds like Gurke — the German word for cucumber and/or pickle) goes on in his snooty accent about “the backbone of America”, a place he probably would never deign to actually go? He’s so over-the-top ridiculous that the mockery surrounding the clip of him speaking is hard to tell apart from the idiocy of the man himself. (Insert crack here about jokes practically writing themselves.)

So, who IS this doofus with the effete tones of a “noble” cartoon villain from Transylvania? And how did he wangle his “advisor” slot in the Drumpf Administration of Misrule?

Well, we already know about that silly medal he wears everywhere. It’s the emblem of some dubious hereditary order established by an antisemite, ostensibly to honor patriotic heroes of Hungary, but really it’s meaningless other than as an inherited marker of whose grandpa hated Jews the most during the ugliest chapter of modern European history. Any thinking Hungarian would be ashamed that such worthless trinkets still exist, let alone that anyone would be proud to wear one (and insist on doing so everywhere, as this pompous twit does). But there does seem to be a certain subset of them that prizes trifling baubles dedicated to “heroism” (Attila Vinczer, our own “Horseless Hun”, comes to mind). And that subset invariably veers fascist.

Even sillier than his unearned medal from the Modern Dark Ages, though, is Gorka’s pretension to “expertise” in all things Islamist. He is, of course, no expert in anything (except, maybe, grifting — and even that is debatable). But he did try to insert himself into the trial of the surviving Boston Marathon bomber, Dzokhar Tsarnaev, as an “expert witness”. Never mind that he is neither an expert NOR a witness, and that he is utterly clueless as to the motives of the Brothers Tsarnaev, who were in fact Chechen separatists, not part of a global Islamist jihadist conspiracy (as Gorka tried to portray them). He tried to get himself in there, and was denied by the court. They probably took one look at his “credentials” and laughed. (Who wouldn’t?)

Somewhat less funny, though, is his (non-)response to a question about his antisemitic pin and political ties. I guess, if you’re a flimsy cardboard cut-out of a cartoon count from Transylvania, you’d probably be kind of reluctant to publicly address such things too. No doubt he’s hoping this will all go away, so he can continue to coast on his unearned laurels.

Which finally leads us to how he got in there. Well, how else? The exact same way as his buddy, Steve “Ginblossoms” Bannon. Breitbart! Where bullshit goes not to die, but to ferment. And where idiots of all fascist stripes get high on the fumes. Naturally, Gorka was on their masthead as a “national security editor”, and one can only imagine Ginblossoms pitching him to Der Drumpf for a role once taken up by Henry Fucking Kissinger.

After all, “experts” in precisely nothing need a nice high place to perch so they can splatter their droppings as widely as possible. And all the statues in the park are already taken by the pigeons.

PS: Oh, dear Goddess. Check THIS out:

This drawling pseudo-intellectual nincompoop is even more ridiculous than I thought. His so-called doctoral dissertation is rubbish; it wouldn’t fly even at the high-school level. AND he, like Boss-Man Drumpf, is so hypersensitive about his image that he attacked an actual terrorism expert for criticizing him on Twitter…and then wussed out on his threat to go mano-a-mano with him.

You really can’t make this shit up.

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