News of the Restless

Sunny wuss.

Posted on November 30, 2016 by Sabina Becker

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Sir Wilfrid is not amused.

So, Justin Trudeau isn’t even attending the funeral of a rather important man who served as a pallbearer at his ol’ man’s funeral (and sat next to Jimmy Carter, to boot). This after actually saying a few nice things about Fidel.

Guess the right-wing hate got to him.

He also promised us “Real Change” during the election. Then he turned around and pulled a Harpo, okaying pipelines all over the fucking place.

What would his father say?

Actually, I know exactly what Trudeau père would have said, because it drew gasps the first time. And then more gasps when it became apparent that “Just watch me” meant just that. It became something of a motto for his entire political career. Pierre Trudeau didn’t give a rat’s ass what anyone thought of his friendship with Fidel, OR what the Alberta oilmen thought of the NEP. And that’s what made him an actual leader.

Meanwhile, Sonnyboy is still prattling on about Sunny Ways. A phrase he cribbed from another famously bold Liberal leader he didn’t choose to emulate in any meaningful way. One who even looked a bit like his old man.

I guess there really is only one thing we can call Justin for all this, and I kind of hope it sticks.

I call him Sunny Wuss.

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A major WTF on Moroccan TV

Posted on November 29, 2016 by Sabina Becker

A Moroccan TV channel is under fire, at home and abroad, for featuring a segment on how to cover up facial bruising caused by domestic violence. (Pro tip: “Use the yellow foundation, the white one lets the punch marks show through.” Yes, really.) These “beauty tips” normalize misogyny and physical abuse by allowing the abuser to pass as a non-violent man. And this in a society where a majority of men are overtly violent. Is this some kind of dirty joke? Nope…it’s quite in earnest. This is how they “help” abused women “get on with their normal lives”. As though a beating that leaves bruises could be called just another part of “normal life”! The prevalence of violence doesn’t even raise an eyebrow, much less a discussion on what it would take to make men stop abusing women.

As Cenk and Ana point out above, while various forms of woman-abuse are rampant in Morocco (more than 60% of all the Moroccan women officially surveyed reported being victims to at least one instance, whether financial, emotional, psychological, physical or sexual), it’s not as if people in other parts have anything to brag about. Every country and culture has its own abusive “traditions”. We would all do well to look at our own and tackle our problems at home, rather than being complacent and saying “Don’t worry, girls, it’s even worse over there!”

Here in Canada, one woman in every four will have experienced sexual assault in her lifetime. And that’s the general population of all North America. One college/university woman in every five has been sexually assaulted at school. In the military, women are twice as likely to have been physically and/or sexually assaulted by fellow servicemen as they would be in civilian life. And for those who wonder about the menz, female soldiers, sailors and aviators are about four times as likely to be sexually assaulted as their male colleagues. Yes, men can absolutely be victims of all kinds of violence…but when it comes to the sexual kind and domestic abuse, there is a definite gender skew towards women.

And this is in Canada…a country proud of its progressive domestic record. We have no laws against abortion here, and same-sex marriage has been fully legal across the country since 2005. There has been no ban on LGBT people joining the military since 1992. None of this is grounds for complacency; all of it is simply a basis for further progress.

And further progress is necessary. When a quarter of all violent crimes reported to police have happened in the home, and one college man in three says he would rape a woman if it wasn’t called rape (and he could therefore get away with it), we know that we have nothing to be complacent about over here. We may have come a long way, but we still have no small distance yet to go.

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Elián remembers Fidel

Posted on November 29, 2016 by Sabina Becker

Elián González, who was returned to his father in Cuba after a drawn-out custody battle between the US government and his distant relatives in Miami, remembers how Fidel took him under his wing after he came back to Cuba. He describes Fidel as a fatherly friend. That the relationship was genuine and close can be heard in his voice — often emotional, at times close to tears. He is intensely proud of his father, of being Cuban…and of Fidel, his friend and mentor, who took a personal interest in his education and well-being in all the years since that day. Today, Elián is an engineer with a university education and a bright future. And he is determined to be of as much service to his people as he can, following Fidel’s example.

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Quotable: Mikhail Baryshnikov on walls and conformity

Posted on November 28, 2016 by Sabina Becker

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At the rate things are going, we might even see Misha yearning for the good ol’ days of Soviet Russia.

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Music for a Sunday: What will the Holy Father say?

Posted on November 27, 2016 by Sabina Becker

This song has been on my mind a lot in the last couple of weeks. I first heard it in the documentary Llaguno Bridge: Keys to a Massacre, where it was covered by Venezuelan politician Maripili Hernández, with the lyrics slightly rearranged. Here’s the original.

It’s kind of fitting that it’s been set to scenes of the Chilean fascist dictatorship at work, even though Violeta Parra died a several years before Pinochet’s coup. She was actually singing of the Spanish fascists, murdering a communist leader.

And here are the lyrics:

Look at how they talk to us about freedom
When they deprive us of it in reality.
Look at how they proclaim tranquility
When we are being tortured by authority.

What will the Holy Father say
Who lives in Rome,
When they are strangling his doves?

Look at how they talk to us about paradise,
When they’re raining bullets on us like hail.
Look at their enthusiasm for the sentence,
Knowing that they’re killing innocence.

He who officiated death like a hangman
Is calmly eating his breakfast.
With this they’re putting the rope around a neck,
The Fifth Commandment has no seal.

Amid more injustices, Mr. Attorney General,
My soul will have more strength to sing.
How lovely the wheat will be in the field
Watered with your blood, Julián Grimau.

Translation mine.

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638 failed murder attempts in Cuba

Posted on November 26, 2016 by Sabina Becker

The full length documentary of the 638 (!!!) failed attempts on Fidel Castro’s life. What does it tell us?

Well, besides that Fidel was incredibly clever (that’s a given) and at times just plain lucky (surprise!), it tells us a lot about the spooks, mobsters and gusanos who went up against him; the same who are celebrating in Miami tonight as though they’d actually won a war (they haven’t). In fact, it tells us more in the end about these sore losers than about him.

A bunch of people who go around all the time with assassination on the brain can’t possibly be healthy, and these clowns sure aren’t. They are all raving disociados. Even his former so-called best friend, the first would-be killer of Fidel Castro, can’t keep his facts straight: He claims Fidel had no family and no friends, that he was no communist, and that he was nothing but a “Fidelista” bent on absolute power for himself and no one else. All blatantly untrue. He was surrounded by family and friends. His own brother, Raúl, now president — what’s he, chopped liver? What are all those leftist heads of state in Latin America? How about all those Africans Cuba helped to free themselves from colonial white supremacists? What was Nelson Mandela? And what kind of power-obsessed non-communist not only states before the world that he’s a Marxist, but actually resigns from office when illness makes it too hard for him to govern any longer?

But of course, these questions are too inconvenient to the gusanos. Stopping to think things over, and realizing that one has based one’s suppositions on vague suspicions and outright bullshit, would only muddy up their plans to kill, kill, kill Fidel. Couldn’t have THAT, could we? Noooo. Better to spend all one’s waking hours dreaming up cockamamie ways to try to do it. Hundreds of them. None of them effective. Each one more idiotic than the last.

Sheer genius!

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Compare and Contrast: Two responses to Fidel’s passing

Posted on November 26, 2016 by Sabina Becker

Courtesy of Mrs. Betty Bowers, who quips: “For those of you looking for a way to respond to Fidel Castro’s death, here are two examples. The first is popular with humans. The second is popular with parrots.”

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And if that tweet seems too brief for you, here’s Drumpf’s (cough, cough) official response:

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Yeah. Mighty presidential and statesmanlike of the Tacky Orange Pussy-Grabber, eh? Just couldn’t resist being a complete shit, even for the few minutes it took to compose a one-page note.

At this rate, the United States of Amnesia will find themselves Forever Alone before they know it.

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History absolves Fidel at 90

Posted on November 26, 2016 by Sabina Becker

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I’ve been saying it for years: that Fidel Castro would live to be 100, and die thumbing his nose at Washington. I was only out by about 10 years: Last night, Fidel went marching on to victory. He was 90. But I’m pretty sure that as he was stepping out the door, he turned once more, looked down at Washington, DC…and put his thumb to his nose, and waggled his fingers.

And hey, I can afford to be over-generous in my estimates. Fidel always defied expectations. 60 years ago, who could have predicted he’d even survive the voyage on the Granma, much less fight Batista’s army and win? But win he did, and he and his comrades rang in the new year of 1959 with a victory roll, from Santa Clara all the way to Havana.

If you call him a dictator, you might just be a victim of US crapaganda. And you might also be missing the point.

Fidel Castro was an anti-dictator. His birth circumstances were less than auspicious. He originally trained as a lawyer, and he was on track to win a seat in the Cuban congress. Like most Cubans of the day, he was a democrat, albeit one who recognized the flaws of the system. He changed his views after Cuba fell to an actual dictator named Fulgencio Batista, who in 1952 cancelled the election that he was about to lose, and strong-armed his way into office. It was Cuba’s ugliest hour, and it went on for years.

But there were stirrings of restless pride. Fidel, his younger brother Raúl (a trained physician), and 136 fellow rebels stormed the Moncada Barracks on July 26, 1953.

The assault failed. Most of the rebels were killed. Fidel and Raúl fled, and were later arrested. Several others were also taken prisoner. But the initial fiasco set the tone for a greater rebellion to come; it is the reason why Cubans say (as in the above song): “For us, it’s always the 26th”. On the stand at his trial for treason, Fidel uttered the line that would immortalize him: “History will absolve me”.

And it has.

Fidel Castro was a revolutionary leader. One who stayed as long as he could, while he was needed, and who retired only when age and illness forced him to do so. Even after his retirement (and make a note of it, real dictators never retire; they are only ever deposed and/or killed, sometimes by suicide), Fidel still served Cuba as its most trenchant political commentator. His column in Granma — the national newspaper named after the dilapidated yacht that took him and 80 other ragtag guerrillas back to the island from exile in Mexico — accurately pointed out the sides of history that Washington was reluctant to acknowledge, much less take to heart. And it made sense of the world not only to Cuban readers, but to anyone who cared to look its way. After all, Granma is accessible to the world, in English as well as Spanish. (So much for the claim that Cuba is a “closed society”…a claim which Fidel never failed to accurately point out came only from one source, the same that maintained a blockade against the island while hypocritically claiming to be the standard-bearer of global democracy!)

Fidel Castro was also a great survivor. 638 failed CIA assassination attempts bear witness to that. Everything was tried on him, from exploding cigars, to hallucinogens that were meant to drive him insane, to a face cream that was supposed to make his famous beard fall out, to a truly hair-raising scheme involving mutated monkey viruses that could cause a galloping cancer.

But unlike Samson, Fidel’s strength lay not in his hair; it lay in his people. The Cuban people were so loyal to the revolution — and to him — that they managed to keep out the gringo invaders time and again. The Bay of Pigs was the first and biggest salvo, but it was not the last. At May Day marches, they would chant: “Fidel, seguro, a los Yanquis dales duro” — Fidel, for sure, you will hit the Yankees hard!

And he did. By simply continuing to exist, Fidel remained a constant thorn in Gringolandia’s side. He was the emblem of a Cuba that refused to capitulate to capitalism, and become another Puerto Rico. Little wonder the Cuban people took such pride in him.

And at the worst times, pride remains what sustains Cuba and its revolution. It was not the Soviets, or their missiles alone, that saved Cuba from invasion; it was the Cuban people themselves. Their ingenuity saved Cuba time and again. They had learned from the guerrillas how to make do with very little. Even after the Berlin Wall fell, and Russian aid left the island, the Cubans dug in their heels and protected their revolution — and its leader. There is no more significant or ironic figure of that “Special Period” than Elían González, who survived the wreck of a flimsy raft (which had killed his mother) only to fall among squabbling, wild-eyed, anti-Castro relatives in Miami. He was returned to his father in Cuba, and today is an engineer…and a loyal revolutionary with no desire to return to Florida. Fidel Castro saw to that when he made sure young Elián was able to grow, learn and flourish; it was a pattern set by the revolution, which values free education and healthcare above all other things. It was a pattern in stark contrast to Gringolandia, which grows steadily…more loco by the day.

The Cuban revolution sparked others in Latin America. Everyone from the Sandinistas in Nicaragua to the Montoneros of Argentina drew their examples from what Fidel, Raúl, Camilo Cienfuegos, Che Guevara, and the other Cuban revolutionaries did. Sometimes they failed horribly; Che’s attempt to overthrow the dictator of Bolivia, for instance, ended with his execution at La Higuera. An uprising in Venezuela, in 1992, ended as ignominiously as Fidel’s storming of the Moncada. But even the failures of the revolution planted the seeds of later success: Hugo Chávez, drawing inspiration from Venezuela’s own failed guerrilla movement, became the democratically elected president of Venezuela in 1999, and promptly set the Bolivarian Revolution in place, to popular fanfare. Evo Morales, in Bolivia, took up where Che left off, and kicked predatory foreign interests (including the DEA and the US ambassador, Philip Goldberg) out of the country. Dilma Rousseff, a former Marxist guerrilla, became president of Brazil. And in Uruguay, a former Tupamaro guerrilla, Pepe Mujica, also became president. All of them were inspired by Fidel; all of them were his friends.

But these victories have not made anyone complacent. The pushback against the left is hard and getting harder by the day. Cuba is preparing for another possible US invasion even now. Latin America is still fighting the same revolution that Fidel began in Cuba, right at this moment. It won’t end until the last US-backed fascist dictator is swinging from the gallows, and Washington finally learns to bargain in good faith with the people and countries who refuse to be its “backyard”. For that, the example of Fidel remains as necessary and relevant as ever.

Fidel’s remarkable ability to seize the moment took on an ominous tone just the other day, when he announced that he was retiring from all public life because he didn’t have much longer to live. He predicted accurately. This morning, the world awoke to the announcement that he had died.

But as with so many other things that have been said about him by the media, that’s not exactly true. Fidel is immortal now. History has indeed absolved him. Cuba is still Cuban. And the immortal revolution he set in motion…continues.

Hasta siempre, Fidel.

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Wankers of the Week: Black Friday White Fragility Special Snowflake Edition

Posted on November 25, 2016 by Sabina Becker

Crappy weekend, everyone! And a very crappy Black Friday/US Thanksgiving to all you good folks who are belching turkey fumes as we speak. Hope none of you got trampled (or shot) by any sale-crazed psychos out there today. On the other hand, I think that fate is entirely too good for all of the following, in no particular order…

1. Tila Fucking Tequila. Between her and Michelle Fucking Malkin, I never cease to be amazed at all the Asian white supremacists in the woodwork. How DO these idiots square their Nazi sympathies with the fact that THEY. ARE. NOT. WHITE??? Do they think they’ll seriously get some kind of free pass just for singing off the same hymn sheet as the people who secretly hate their non-white guts? Newsflash, ladies…those ovens don’t care how ideologically in-line you are. Once you idiots cease to be useful to the cause, in you’ll go. And no one will haul your fat from the fire…literally.

2. Jedediah Fucking Bila. It doesn’t matter in what capacity he showed up to see the play. Veep-elect Mike Fucking Pence could not be LESS marginalized. He’s a WASP, remember? The traditional US ruling class, in other words? Oh, never mind. No use trying to educate the brain-dead…

3. David Fucking Sanguesa. Dude, you were not merely having a bad day. You are living a bad life. And no, you’re not mentally ill; you have rectocranial inversion, to be sure, but that’s easily cured by pulling your head out of your capacious ass. Don’t blame Starbucks for your own shittiness. You have a track record for rotten behavior, and it just went public. You lost business because YOU ACTED OUT. Nobody wants to do business with shitty people. Period. End of.

4. Kellyanne Fucking Conway. Fuck you, spokesdroid, I don’t need to watch a single word I say. I’m not the one in the business of lying for a desiccated tangerine who just dragged all the major media up on the carpet to either threaten or bribe them, I’m not sure which. I will say whatever I damn well please, and will disregard anything short of an actual set of legal papers served to me at home. Which, BTW, has NEVER happened no matter who has threatened me and/or had their widdle feelings hurt by my opinions. OR my marshalling of facts.

5. Kevin O’Fucking Leary. He’s trying to position himself as the Canadian anti-Drumpf, but he sounds far too much like him. Plus he’s belligerent and thin-skinned like him, too. He’s not ready for his close-up, Mr. DeMille.

6. Kellie Fucking Leitch. When you’re so far off the rails that the author of the book you’re telling everyone to read says you’re crazy, that’s also pretty damn bad. No author appreciates being misread, but being promoted on the basis of misreading, by a fascist with obvious aspirations? Kiss of DEATH. PS: And this isn’t helping you either, you evil toadstool. You are openly advocating CENSORSHIP in the name of capitalism. PPS: Ha, ha!

7. Mark Fucking Downey. Well, looky here. The white supremacists are indeed emboldened, and this one so much so that he’s already taken the liberty of asking Drumpf to persecute the Jews…and make his fascism mainstream. If he tries, he’s gonna see that the shitstorm whirling around his head has only just begun to howl. Ha, ha.

8. Tom Fucking Price. Oh, so he thinks all women can easily afford birth control? Oh sure, we can buy it from a coin-op gum machine…except we totally can’t. Men like him have seen to that! We can only get the Pill by prescription, and for that, we need doctors and pharmacists, and those all cost. In the US, which unlike my home and native land has an arch-capitalist medical mess on its hands, that means you pay an arm and a leg. Yet somehow, old coots like this out-of-touch moron can always get their Viagra paid for by any existing drug plan. Maybe that should change, eh? And meanwhile, ladies of Georgia, perhaps you’d like to flood this man’s office with your prescription birth control bills, so he sees how many of you there really are!

9. Pat Fucking McCrory. Recount all you like, bubba, but you LOST, and the recount will show that. And frankly, I’m surprised it’s even that close, considering how badly you’ve dragged your state through the mud.

10. Dennis Fucking Scranton. You want to see gays hanging, old man? Like Matthew Shepard on that fence out in your state? Oh, NICE. How about we do the same to YOU, then? Don’t like that? Fine, then, keep your big mouth shut…and don’t open it again unless you’re planning to resign your post, because there has never been a bigger fucking disgrace to the horrendous, out-of-date Electoral College than YOU. I don’t give a shit how old you are or how you were raised. There are plenty of others who’ve reached your age without being so immoral as to call for the deaths of people who’ve never done a thing to them. Emulate their example, and if you can’t — go fuck yourself with a traffic cone.

11. Jeff Fucking Essmann. Same link, same old shit, different asshole. You’re refusing to be part of the solution? Then you are part of the problem. His remarks DO represent your party, thanks to the office you installed him in and refuse to remove him from. You, sir, are a goddamned ENABLER. You can fuck yourself with the same traffic cone after #10 is done with it.

12. Charlie Fucking Kirk. Oh, a “watchlist” for “liberal” profs. Cute. You must be another of those little Nazis-without-the-guts-to-say-their real name, then. Or maybe you’d prefer me to call you a McCarthyite? I’d rather just call you white trash, personally. And I’d like even more to see you taken to the curb, where you belong.

13. John Fucking Primomo. Nobody cares who you voted or didn’t vote for. Telling people who they should get behind and support politically is NOT YOUR FUCKING JOB. If you want to do your job right, tell people to respect the laws, not the “presidency” (which, in any event, Der Drumpf is NOT)…and do so yourself, since you seem to have forgotten how.

14. Carl Fucking Higbie. Oh lordy, this guy again. Didn’t I list him last week? Still busy spinning, I see. Just as Boss Man Drumpf is busy chewing out the media for showing his extra chins and not making him look unrealistically good. He’s too busy seeking the biggest ego-boost ever. No wonder he has no time for denouncing all the racists hailing him.

15. Gwyneth Fucking Paltrow. Well, look who finally consciously uncoupled…from her own damn brain. No, a Drumpf presidency will not be fun for me…even though I’m Canadian, and this wanklist will practically write itself! And I don’t think it will be terribly entertaining for anyone else who doesn’t directly stand to profit from it financially, either. And no, I will NOT be “opening my mind” to this, because I’ve seen what it looks like when your brain plops out. It’s expensive, it’s gaudy as fuck…but it sure as hell is not pretty. Just like Gwynnie’s taste in everything, as luck would have it!

16. Tim Fucking Allen. Isn’t it nice to know that Tool Time Timmy…is in fact quite the tool himself? Calls himself an “anarchist” while endorsing an oligarch. Yeah. Home Improvement? I wouldn’t trust this clown to improve a potting shed. And Tool Boy? If you hate showbiz and its liberals so much, just GTFO. You won’t be missed by anyone with a working brain.

17. Geert Fucking Wilders. Oh fuck, HIM again. And of course, Bleachbrains McNazifuck is gonna make his own trial an opportunity to masturbate publicly on the stand about how hate speech is “freedom of speech” and how he’s some kind of anti-PC hero, because OF COURSE HE FUCKING WOULD. Kudos to his prosecutor for the tersely worded smackdown, too. If only Gabby Geert could learn such verbal economy for himself.

18. James Fucking Oakley. Hey yeronner, “hanging judge” is only supposed to be a figure of speech. And it doesn’t speak well of your judicial impartiality if the sight of a black defendant’s photo is enough to turn you into the leader of a fucking lynch mob.

19. Daniel Fucking Benjamin. No, you don’t get to call other people racists for calling out your racism. It’s racist to glorify drivers who deliberately run down black people — as YOU did. And it’s racist to make other people’s shitty driving about the Black Lives Matter movement — as YOU did. Try getting the hell out of the kindergarten playground before you enter politics, dude — the whole “I know you are, but what am I?” strategy is transparently idiotic and unoriginal, to say the least.

20. Alana Fucking Annette Fucking Savell. Why the double Fucking? Because it wouldn’t be a fucking wankapedia without a Fucking Florida Woman! And because this one is so gun-mad and stupid-drunk that she seriously can’t be arsed to just ASK her guests to leave, but thinks that shooting them in the leg will somehow make them hop to it. That’s why.

21. Jonathan Fucking Fortier. What is it, pray tell, that the Fraser Institute actually does for a living? Well, if this “senior fellow” is any indication, it churns out McCarthyite crapaganda…fifty-odd years past its expiration date!

22. Tommy Fucking Hilfiger. Hark, the voice of fashion medicrity speaketh! But hey, at least Tacky Onassis finally found someone with a Big Name™ to dress her. And his creations promise to be about as exciting as the canned vanilla pudding she already wears, too!

23. Joe Fucking Scarborough. Barack Obama didn’t “fail”, he was obstructed. And he didn’t come into office as “black Jesus”, he came in as a BLACK PRESIDENT. Which is actually WHY he got obstructed by all those racists from YOUR party, you fucking moron. Oh, and way to whitewash all those swastikas behind your boy Drumpf, too. Yes, I’m sure that pointing that out is really a bad strategy, unless you actually want to DO SOMETHING ABOUT ALL THE FUCKING NAZIS, duh.

24. Tony Fucking Blair. Yes, we do need to hear from current and former world leaders denouncing Der Drumpf and spreading fresh hope. But not you, Toady, not you. You were Dubya’s poodle, remember?

25. John Fucking Tory. Tolls on the DVP and Gardiner? Uh, shouldn’t you take a look at how well that didn’t work out for Toronto’s OTHER toll road, the laughable 407? And why the hell is it so damn hard for you Cons to just TAX THE FUCKING RICH and BUILD PUBLIC TRANSIT, instead of dinging ordinary folks who have to commute because they can’t afford TO’s record high housing prices?

26. Nigel Fucking Farage. Get ready, USA…here comes yet another insufferable bomb-throwing twatwaffle with a plummy accent, across the pond to make you miserable. Wasn’t Milo Fucking Yiannopoulos enough hypocrisy and idiocy for you? Well, you can do something about it…call him the fuck out whenever you see his idiotically grinning face. You’ll probably recognize it from that time he appeared in Drumpfy’s tacky brass elevator.

27. Mike Fucking Yenni. Who’s got two thumbs, has been caught sexting a teenage boy, and still claims not to be gay (but only because to come out would cost him his job)? THIS GUY.

28. June Fucking Pridmore. How does it feel to be your friendly local Racist of the Week? Ha, ha. Slavery is over, and so’s Jim Crow, honey. And so’s your job. Your “man” can’t buy anyone. Not even the new crooked WHITE president. And you wonder why nobody trusts banksters? They can’t even keep their facts straight, much less their figures.

29. Bill Fucking Schuette. Yes, folks, you read correctly: The Fucking Attorney General of Michigan thinks that schoolchildren have no fundamental right to literacy, and therefore, that their class-action suit against the crumbling school system of their crumbling state is without merit. I really have to ask where HE went to school, and what diploma mill (in a Third World country, no doubt) graduated him.

30. Michael Fucking Flynn. Well, there goes the “at least Drumpf isn’t an interventionist/imperialist/whateverist” argument, right out the window. His prospective national security advisor is not only a fucking crackbrain with a tinfoil helmet and a toy missile down his pants, he’s all set to fight the next (imperialist/inteventionist/whateverist) world war! Even wrote a book about it with Michael Fucking Ledeen. Gee. I can’t wait to hear how much worse Hillary Clinton would have been now!

And finally, to all the fucking fake-news purveyors out there. From California to Macedonia. Congratulations, neckbeards…you’ve made your bundle. But at whose fucking expense? Don’t kid yourself that you only gamed Google and the advertisers who bought space on it. You also helped throw an election to someone who’s out to vacuum up all the profits for the 1%, and guess what? You may have made some money that might be impressive for some pizza-faced kids in the boondocks, but that ain’t nothin’ compared to the oligarchy that’s now poised to take over the White House and all the remaining branches of the US government, too. The world is about to go to shit, and guess who helped drag it into the toilet. Yes, YOU. But hey! Pat yourselves on your smug little backs. You just proved that casino capitalism works. And now it’s about to work for a bunch of assholes who already have too much, but who think that too much is never enough. And they are going to take it all away from you and leave you wishing you’d never written a single three-exclamation-point headline for your fake news sites. Feel proud of your “achievements” yet?

Good night, and get fucked!

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Justice for Jo Cox, but the media are still spineless

Posted on November 24, 2016 by Sabina Becker

So, the piece of Brexit-shit who murdered a pro-Remain British MP is finally behind bars for life. He won’t be getting out ever. He is officially recognized as an incorrigible menace to society. That’s the good news here.

The bad is that the media are still too cowardly to name the real problem. Ever since the assassination, the terrorist was called merely a “timid gardener” and a “loner” who was “mentally ill” and must have “snapped”. Even now, they’re still hesitant to call a spade a goddamn shovel. Still downplaying the fact that he is a RACIST, an ISLAMOPHOBE, a FASCIST*. One who first stabbed, and then gunned down Jo Cox, not in a moment of blind psychosis, but in a planned, deliberate, FASCIST attack. One that absolutely was not the act of a “lone wolf”, either, but had accomplices. And connections to FASCISTS in other parts of the world.

This begs an awful lot of questions. Here are mine:

Why is it so hard for the media to say, up front, that FASCISM, not mental illness, is the problem here? Why is it so hard for them to admit that FASCISM is a problem that pervades the western hemisphere, and that it has been one, despite wars ostensibly aimed at ending it, for about a hundred years now? And that it has its roots in another odious -ism, one which has been a problem in the west for about four centuries…namely, RACISM? Why can’t they draw the obvious connections between the two?

How could anyone fail to make the connection between the FASCIST crime and the FASCIST slogans the FASCIST yelled as he was committing it?

Why is mental illness constantly being trotted out as an excuse every time a FASCIST commits a FASCIST crime? And conversely: Why are non-white criminals never seen as mentally ill, but only ever as thugs? Why are brown and black faces always presented in the worst light, while white ones (including Latin-American and Jewish, albeit under constant protest from FASCISTS) tend to get the best?

Why can’t the media admit that if anyone is a natural-born cold-blooded thuggish murderer simply by virtue of race, it is WHITE MEN? And why are they forever giving these WHITE THUGS a free pass by always looking first to “mental illness” as a root cause of their violent crimes, instead of RACISM and FASCISM?

Are the media themselves just inherently RACIST and FASCIST? Even the so-called “liberal” media? Or are they capitulating to a larger trend toward RACISM and FASCISM from the overtly RACIST and FASCIST “conservative” media, who have been ramping up the ugly rhetoric unimpeded ever since the Fairness Doctrine was shredded and pulped for toilet paper? Does it even matter anymore? Would bringing the doctrine back change anything now that the shit has grown legs and crawled out of the sewer?

Will the media ever start taking a good hard look at themselves, and how they have permitted this sickness to flourish? Will they ever hold themselves accountable? Have they taken a good look at their headlines lately and felt ashamed at the RACIST and FASCIST frenzies they have whipped up by covering immigrants, refugees, and wars the way they have?

More to the point: What are they planning to DO about their coverage? Anything? Anything at all? Will they finally admit their own complicity in RACISM and FASCISM, or will they just go on perpetuating it, business as usual…maybe even ramping it up a bit to compete with the Breitbarts of the FASCIST scum-blogosphere? Will advertisers finally twig to what they’ve been funding and pull out of any media who are complicit in FASCISM? Or will the temptation of all those hungry FASCIST eyeballs prove too great for anyone to resist?

These are by no means all of my questions, but they are the ones that come to mind at present. There will be others. Watch for them, because you won’t see them asked in many places besides this one.

*I capitalized these words for a reason. You can figure it out.

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