Tackling corruption, Venezuelan style

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There’s been a lot of very predictable babble up here about how corrupt Venezuela is, how the government there is going to fall, blah blah blabbity blah blah. But so far, I haven’t seen any of the anglo whore media tackle this story from where it’s really at, so here goes a little something that they’re definitely NOT keen to report, and would like only too well to be able to sweep under the rug, as it totally nullifies their stupid little narrative:

On Monday, the revolutionary government will activate a centre of information for Venezuelans to make denunciations of acts of sabotage throughout the land.

The hotline, 0-800-SABOTAJE (0-800-722-68-253) will be active so that citizens can report any kind of irregularities that come up.

On September 12, President Nicolás Maduro explained that the line will be opened due to the economic war waged by the Venezuelan right-wing.

Maduro said that enemies of the revolutionary process were preparing a “plan of total collapse”, based on acts of economic destabilization, for which he called on the Venezuelan people to remain alert.

Last Friday, the Twitter account @NoAlSabotaje was activated so that Venezuelans could also denounce irregularities there.

The National Executive created the Superior Organ for Popular Defence of the Economy with the mission of guaranteeing supplies in the land and neutralizing all factors that would sabotage the economic life of the Venezuelan people.

The organization, which includes a civilian-military popular high command, will be presided by the head of state, Nicolás Maduro, and will function in Miraflores Palace, Caracas.

Members will also include the heads of the following ministries: Commerce, Alejandro Fleming; Food, Félix Osorio; Agriculture and Lands, Yván Gil; Communes, Reinaldo Iturriza; Women and Gender Equality, Andreína Tarazón; Youth, Héctor Rodríguez; Land Transportation, Haiman El Troudi; and Aquatic Transportation, Heberth García.

Translation mine.

It’s worth noting here that this Venezuelanalysis piece also talks about it a bit, placing the blame for the corruption and sabotage on the old capitalist Puntofijista state bureaucracy that Chavecito inherited (and Madurito, too). Those people are still in place, unfortunately, and seem to think they can’t be fired. But they can be bypassed, and at the highest levels of government, as Madurito and his ministers are showing by setting up the hotline right there in the palace. By bypassing the bureaucrats who are holdovers from the old, shitty pre-Chávez era, the corruption is most readily circumvented and tackled by those who are — or should be — really in charge. Namely, the Bolivarians.

We already know that power outages and food shortages are a time-honored way the opposition tries to manipulate public opinion and create panics and distaste for the government. It’s been done since pretty much the moment Chavecito took office, and it’s been going on in spurts ever since. Washington still insists on betting on these incompetents, idiots and corruptos, because they’re easy to bribe and manipulate (being supremely stupid, selfish and short-sighted themselves). But the majority of the Venezuelan people aren’t fooled, and Madurito’s approval ratings remain high, as do all those of PSUV candidates running in December’s municipal elections. Washington’s little darlings are riding so low that nothing short of sabotage will help them; but with their sabotages subject to public denunciation at the highest levels, starting today, that plan too will backfire mightily on them.

The only thing the opposition is going to win, at this rate, will be a race to the bottom.

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Music for a Sunday: Manifiesto

Bruce Springsteen pays a lovely tribute to Víctor Jara, the great Chilean folk singer who was murdered 40 years ago today. Here’s what he said (and sang):

In 1988, we sang for Amnesty International in Mendoza, Argentina, but Chile was in our hearts. We met many wives of the disappeared and they came with photos of their loved ones. It was a moment that will stay with me forever. If you’re a political musician, Víctor Jara continues to be a great inspiration.

“Victor Jara Lives”

I don’t sing for the sake of singing
nor for having a good voice,
I sing because the guitar
has sense and reason.

I have a heart of earth
and the wings of the dove,
it is like holy water,
it sanctifies glories and sufferings.

Here my song takes on
as Violeta* said
a working guitar
with the scent of spring.

Let it not be the guitar of the rich
nor of things that seem
my song is of the scaffolds
to reach the stars.

May the song make sense
when it beats in the veins
of him who will die singing
the true truths.

Not the fleeting flatteries
nor foreign fames,
but the song of a strip of land
that reaches the bottom of the Earth.

There where everything arrives
and where everything begins
a song which has been brave
will always be a new song.

Translation mine.

*Violeta Parra was another great Chilean folk singer. She died in 1967, fortunate enough never to have witnessed the death of Chilean democracy as Víctor Jara did. Like him (and Springsteen), she was a balladeer of the working class.

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Wankers of the Week: Blobfish

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Crappy weekend, everyone! What a shocker, eh…not all endangered critters are cute! Some are weird and even downright ugly. Okay, I can live with the blobfish; it’s kind of comical, actually. Now, if only these uglies would go extinct, in no particular order:

1. George Fucking Zimmerman. Looks like he tried and failed to do a “Stand Your Ground” with his estranged wife and soon-to-be-ex-in-laws after she went on TV and basically outed him as a selfish, narcissistic bastard and a domestic abuser. So, does anyone still want to believe he was innocent of the first-degree murder of Trayvon Martin? I guess what I’m trying to say here is, anyone wanna buy the Brooklyn Bridge off me? PS: And lest you doubt me, consider that there is nothing more incriminating than destroying the evidence.

2. Thomas Fucking Mulcair. Attack ads? Oh great. This country is looking more and more indistinguishable from what’s to the south of us, all the time. Thanks a lot, Tom, for collaborating with Harpo in making Canada unrecognizable, just like he promised.

3. Rob Fucking Ford. Is anyone else reminded of the petulant child who takes his ball and goes home when the other kids on the playground won’t let him win? Because Robbo is totally that. PS: Ha, ha. Epic image rehabilitation FAIL!

4. Jeff Fucking Sessions. Why?

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That’s why. He’s just joshin’, folks! He totally does mean to be partisan, and he’s wrong about Assad, to boot. Because Assad’s not the one who used them, remember?

5. Paul Fucking Elam. No fool like an old fool? Yup. And this week, this old fool decided to prove it by completely ignoring the long and not-so-proud tradition of sexism and rape culture at frosh week, which in practically every university on the planet dates back to the Bad Old Days before women were admitted. Instead, he’s going to blame his pet bugaboo, the same he blames for just about everything from global warming to diaper rash: FEMINISM! Yeah, that’s right…feminism made rape culture happen. By striving, among other things, to eliminate rape culture. Figure that one out!

6. Richard Fucking Dawkins. Thanks a lot for minimizing the harm that pedophilia does, DICK. I’m sure all the molested, raped and sexually abused kids out there feel better already, just hearing from you how little harmed you were by a pervert who stuck his hand down your pants, back in the day. I’m sure the molesters feel a lot better than that, though!

7. Pax Fucking Dickinson. Speaking of rape culture, Silicon Valley has it. And this asshole is a prime example of it. And yes, I’d call him an asshole to his face…right before slapping it straight into next year. PS: Ha, ha. PPS: Ha, ha, ha.

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8. Ezra Fucking Levant. Menschy Nenshi pwns pantloady putz. The End!

9. Kimberly Fucking Hall. Oh look! The preachy lady who slut-shamed all those teenage girls who Facebook-friended her shirtless sons deleted a blog post. And surprise, surprise — it’s all about how she met the father of said sons, whose precious virgin eyes she has taken it upon herself to protect from the pajama-clad vixens of Instagram. And how did she meet him? Well, he was shirtless. And leaning out a window. I take it she could see that he wasn’t wearing a bra. And also that it gave her a raging youngladyboner, which was promptly deflowered soon thereafter.

10. Ann Fucking Coulter. Why is gassing Arabs a bad thing? Oh, for exactly the same reason as flying airplanes into skyscrapers and starting needless wars of aggression is a bad thing. But gassing ghouls could be a good thing. Can we start with her, please?

11, 12 and 13. Jethro Fucking Botts, David Fucking Boulton and Kangmo Fucking Kim. Brogrammers have got to be the most useless shits in the tech industry. Certainly they produce the most useless shit apps. Does anyone need an app that records the user staring at boobs, or requires him to mimic a nasty wank? Nope. And more to the point, who the hell WANTS that shit? The only good it does is to let women know who NOT to date. (Or HIRE.)

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14. Terry Fucking Richardson. For directing Miley Cyrus’s latest video, which looks like (and probably is) one long, crappy American Apparel ad. And for being so creeptacularly creeperriffic that I can’t help but speculate that her much-hyped twerkin’-with-the-Pedobears “sexuality” isn’t really hers, it’s his. And it’s a projection. An icky, sticky, licky projection.

15. Brent Fucking Girouex. No, you can’t pray away the gay. And you can’t rape it away, either. Shouldn’t you be in jail? Why yes, you should.

16. Roosh Fucking Valizadeh. Finally, we know his last name; finally (ugh), we also know his face. Anyone else not surprised that this “famous” pickup artist is unattractive as all hell? Anyone else not surprised that he doesn’t know how nature really works? Anyone else also not surprised that he’s against laws forbidding (and punishing) domestic violence, because he believes the laws to be making a “special class” of the “weak”, while domestic violence is just “natural”? All of this kind of goes together, in its own ugly way…and oh, how I pity Ukraine for harboring this unsightly pile of human excrement and his ugly, ugly “thoughts”. (Note the quotes; there for a reason. As always.)

17. Glenn Fucking Beck. War is a “progressive idea”? Um, no. Conservatives have always disproportionately reached for it as a solution to all the fuckeries that they’ve made of their countries. And always, always ended up making a bigger fuckery of things than they already were. Funny how Biff conveniently forgets that. Even funnier, how conveniently he has suddenly turned against war when he used to be all rah-rah for it. Which is quite the contrast from real progressives, who have always been against it, and who have always had principles on their side, too.

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18. Bob Fucking Vander Plaats. And speaking of conservatives and making fuckeries, how about him? Funny how rightards are all for “free speech” when it’s them wanting the “freedom” to be Nazis, but they’re all against it when anyone else is trying to, you know, actually get free. Like, say, the LGBTs in Russia.

19. Neil Fucking Cavuto. Does anyone need further evidence that FUX Snooze isn’t news (or even “news”), it’s just a very bad fundamentalist cult? And this creepy overage kid behind their so-called anchor desk is the preacher?

20, 21 and 22. Michele Fucking Bachmann, Steve Fucking King, and Louie Fucking Gohmert. Now they’re blaming the Egyptians for 9-11? They seem to forget that the perpetrators of that one were almost all of them Saudis. But thanks, you guys, for the dipshit comic relief. Keep grasping at those straws; it’s so much fun to watch you guys slowly and painfully sink.

23. Gordon Fucking Klingenschmitt. John Jacob Jingleheimer seems to think it’s possible to be possessed by entities one does not believe in. Funny, because all the cases of demon possession I’ve ever seen involved people who DID believe. Those who didn’t were strangely immune. You don’t suppose there could be a connection there, eh?

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24. Bob Fucking Larson. Speaking of demon possession, this one’s got the worst case I’ve ever seen. He’s possessed by two demons named Svengali and Charlatan. He’s even infected his innocent teenage daughter and her two friends to do his bidding, and now they’re out to peddle kitschy “crosses of deliverance” and $200 “exorcisms” to the gullible in England. Unfortunately, they’re powerless against Harry Potter — who, though every bit as fictional as their schtick, is by far the better read.

25. Donald Fucking Trump. 9-11? It’s all about the hairpiece, baby. Srsly, this man’s ego never takes a day off. And that’s hilarious, because he’s got exactly NOTHING to be so damn egotistical about.

26. Samantha Fucking Power. Oh dearz, someone is butthurt about not being able to attack Syria. And she’s taking it out on the UN. The only difference between her and John Fucking Bolton is the gender and the sheepdog look he’s got going on.

27. Terry Fucking Jones. Meanwhile, someone else haz teh butthurt about not being able to make a bonfire of the holy scriptures of somebody else’s religion. Da poor widdle fing!

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28 and 29. Marvin and Stephanie Fucking Sapp. Same link, same thing, same stoopid. And same gross misconception as to the meaning of free speech. Newsflash: Destroying someone else’s words is NOT speech. It is SILENCING. Remember Nazi Germany? Wasn’t a bastion of free speech, morons.

30. Raylan Fucking Alleman. “Don’t educate your wimminz, they’ll only stop listening to their dumb ol’ dads and not submit to their rapey idiot husbands! And then who will men have left to feel superior to? NOBODY!” I guess that’s the basic gist of what he’s trying to say here. It’s certainly the impression I get. If this is that superior masculinist logic and reasoning I keep hearing so much about, it’s an epic fail.

31. Matt Fucking Forney. It’s sad enough that this right-wing woman-hater had a shitty blog (now defunct) dedicated to, well, hating women. Even sadder, he’s self-published a “best of” book. Saddest of all, the poor bastard has to blurb himself AND write his own “rave” reviews. And when the “current dystopia” (as he calls this world of not-misogynous-enough misogyny) ends, all the unsold copies (i.e., all the copies, period) will be pulped for toilet paper. Fully half of which will be used by women. Ha, ha.

32 and 33. John Fucking Kerry and Henry Fucking Kissinger. Oh look! The new war criminal (in the making) is seeking advice from the old one. Isn’t that just precious? Whatever happened to the Winter Soldier? And why the hell is Kissinger even still alive?

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34. Sarah Fucking Palin. She’s still the grift that keeps on giving! Fucking snowbilly just can’t seem to keep her name off this list, can she?

35. Benedict Fucking Cumberbatch. So, the comely Mr. Cumberbatch, alias “Sherlock”, is fine and dandy with the government (that is, PUBLIC SERVANTS) keeping secrets from the people but simultaneously spying on them? Also, he sure was nasty to Chelsea Manning. And apparently, he misgendered her, too. Wanks one and all. Nope, not a fan here. Sorry. No can be, after that.

36. Robin Fucking Thicke. Looks like the untalented douchebag son of an untalented douchebag father just suffered a further setback in his quest to make mediocrity hot. The university students of Edinburgh have voted to ban his misogynous little “subversive” ditty. The kids are okay…well, some of them, anyway. Ha, ha.

37. Stephen Fucking Harper. Why?

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He’s also the most do-no-good PM we’ve had since Brian Fucking Mulroney. Hell, he’s actually made me nostalgic for ol’ Lyin’ Brian. And that takes some doing!

38. Pamela Fucking Geller. Look who thinks she and her patron shitferbrains, Robert Fucking Spencer, are going to expand their infantile hate-empire to Toronto. Look who’s in for one helluva shock. Torontonians want none of her!

39. Pamela Fucking Wallin. Aww, poor Pammy-wammy haz a mad, because she got caught with her hand in the cookie jar and had to put ’em all back! And she thinks she was “lynched”? Sorry, Pammy, but bleached blonde is NOT the New Black! Resign, you horrid creature. You did PLENTY wrong. And you know it.

40. Justin Fucking Bieber. I’m sorry, but until this little shitweasel learns to pull up his pants and stop horking loogies on his fans, he has no business being in front of a camera. And that includes his own.

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And finally, to Anders Fucking Behring Fucking Breivik. Yeah, that’s right…Pamela Fucking Geller’s little genital wart. He’s getting a free education in political science, of all things. Well, let’s hope that his profs flunk him if he expounds for very long on the whole “cultural Marxism” theme. Or if he tries to make an apologia for neofascist terrorism his thesis, as I suspect he will. Maybe he’ll finally acquire some sense…but I wouldn’t bet on it. BTW, the party he’s associated with just got its sorry ass into the Norwegian parliament as part of the new ruling coalition. I hope the thing goes downhill faster than the walls of the steepest fjord.

Goodnight, and get fucked!

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: You want charm? You got it.

It’s Friday the 13th! Do you need something to ward off bad luck? Here you go:

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It’s El Ecuadorable, channeling Chavecito, and charming the socks off not only the little cutie in the foreground, but the man in the background, too. If that doesn’t keep your demons at bay, nothing will!

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Never forget.

I will walk the streets again
in what was bloodied Santiago,
and in a beautiful liberated square
I will stop to weep for the absent.

I will come back from the burning desert
and come out of the woods and the lakes
and I will evoke, on a mountain in Santiago,
my brothers and sisters who died before.

I, united to those who do much and little,
to those who want a free country,
will fire the first bullets
sooner rather than later, without rest.

The books will come back, the songs
which murderers’ hands burned.
My people will be reborn from their ruin
and pay back their faults to the traitors.

A boy will play on a tree-lined street
and sing to his new friends,
and this song will be the song of the soil
to a life cut short in La Moneda.

I will walk the streets again
in what was bloodied Santiago,
and in a beautiful liberated square
I will stop to weep for the absent.

40 years ago today, 9-11 came to Chile with gunshots and a roar of jets over the presidential palace, La Moneda. The coup was launched from Viña del Mar, on the coast, with CIA and US military “assistance” to the fascist troops of Pinochet. But really, it was Pinochet and Co. helping the US in the end, using Chile as a laboratory for libertarian cuckoo economics enforced by fascism.

The idea that libertarianism is actually a form of fascism may be anathema to those who still naïvely and quaintly assume that it’s all about personal and economic freedom, but the facts are that Chile was on a true course toward freedom under the democratic socialist, Salvador Allende (the “life cut short in La Moneda”), and certain powers-that-be (and still are) in the United States of Amnesia couldn’t have that. There was dire talk of “ruin”, and of course, Milton Freedman’s “Chicago Boys” were only too happy to ruin the Chilean economy ahead of the coup — and destroy it utterly thereafter. THEY reduced it to the irreparable state it is still in today. Chileans cannot forget 9-11, because that is the day their democracy died, and they have yet to get it — and their sovereignty — all the way back.

If you wonder why the OTHER 9-11, the one the US is commemorating today, happened…this might just be a clue. It’s the imperialism, stupid. Other countries want to be free to make their own decisions, and other people deeply resent it when US-trained “experts” parachute in to fuck it all up on them. The OTHER 9-11, the one that happened in 2001, is the blowback from US interference in Afghanistan and the Middle East. What’s truly insane is that it’s still being used to justify wars in countries that have nothing to do with that day at all; the latest to get blamed is Syria, which is still on the warmongers’ radar. After all, there is still that arch-capitalist military-industrial complex to feed. And fascism is nothing but capitalism minus gloves…

It’s just like some people have never learned the lessons of history, isn’t it?

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An open letter to Johnny Weir

Dear Johnny:

So, I heard you still plan to go to Sochi in spite of everything. Well, Johnny, I must confess I’m baffled and disappointed. Is this the same Johnny I loved so much for his fearlessness? The one who boldly skated to this oh-so-gay song?

Or the Johnny who stood up to homophobic bullies with guts and grace?

I miss that brave guy, Johnny. And I don’t think that Russian army uniform is a good look for you, either. Armies the world over have a nasty “tradition” of hazing any gay guy who is unfortunate enough to be outed. Just ask Chelsea Manning how that worked out for her back when she was still going by “Bradley”.

Sure, you say you’re willing to brave arrest for being there with your Russian spouse and all. And you seem very confident that nothing bad will happen to you because you speak Russian and love Russia. I hope for your sake that it’s true. But you’ll be doing too little, too late, even if you do get arrested; the real push is on now. The anti-gay law has people’s attention already. Nobody needs you to publicize to the plight of LGBT Russians. Activist organizations are doing that already. You are, quite literally, Johnny Come Lately.

You say you’re an Olympian and that this supersedes everything else about your identity. And maybe for you, right now, it does. But you won’t always be a competitor. You will, however, always be a gay guy. And so will your partner. And you will not always be safe. You yourself have (rightly) made it clear that you still face discrimination and inequality in your own country. Even if you are safe in Sochi, other parts of Russia will still be off limits to you for as long as that anti-gay law is on the books.

But, Johnny…this is not about you. It is not a question of security at Sochi. And it’s not about other gay athletes, either. This is about the LGBT Russians. They, not you, are the ones who will bear the brunt of this horrible legislation.

They, not you, are the ones who don’t feel safe in public ANYWHERE.

They, not you, are the ones who will be forcibly parted from their loved ones — especially if they have children.

They, not you, are the ones facing prison.

They, not you, are the ones facing fascist gangs emboldened by the laws.

They, not you, are the ones facing violence on the streets every day.

They, not you, are the ones facing death just for being different.

And they, not you, lack the privilege of elite athleticism to shield them from the worst of it.

Yes, Johnny, I know you want your shot at the podium. I wish you the best of luck; I wish you all the luck in the world. But even if you’re not harassed, beaten up, turned away by border police, or arrested, you’re still making a mistake by going. And you’re not doing your Russian LGBT fans any favors by being there. Your planning to skate will not change anything. Letting the show go on like nothing is wrong is not an effective strategy, never was, and never will be. On the contrary, it is a tacit way of acquiescing.

A boycott may sound isolating to you, Johnny, but it actually lets Russians who oppose these laws know that the world is standing in solidarity with them. Radical protests work. And LGBT Russians have turned out on the Internet to let the world know that they appreciate the support. The vodka boycott is already having an effect, and an Olympic boycott, because of the sheer volume of sponsorship dollars, will have an even bigger one. How would you feel if no one tuned in to see your big moment at Sochi, Johnny?

Pretty isolated, I would guess. And wouldn’t that be ironic, just as you’re going for glory?

I know, I know. You don’t want to be an activist. You want to be an Olympian. Maybe even a gold medalist. It’s a laudable ambition, but don’t be too surprised if you come home with a lump of something tarnished and unrecognizable hanging off your neck instead. If that happens, Johnny, take heart and remember: It was never about you.

And if you don’t want to do the right thing, other people will.

Love,

Bina.

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Quotable: Gene Roddenberry on civilizations

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Music for a Sunday: Lady Diamond in the sky

Welcome to the inner workings of my mind:

Don’t let all the candy colors fool you. This is dark stuff.

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Wankers of the Week: BOHICA, Syria

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Crappy weekend, everyone! Well, it looks like Syria is the next stop in the oil wars disguised as “humanitarian interventions”. Another BushCo war, brought to you by His Barackness. Charming! That Nobel is looking thoroughly tarnished by now. And the following people are no better, either:

1. Mark Fucking Kessler. Dude, you’ve worn out your welcome. Go suck your “friend”, preferably while “he” is loaded for bear. With the safety off, please. PS: Cops who run private militias are in fact committing TREASON. And uttering death threats? That’s a crime too. Where are the federal agents? Doesn’t Pennsylvania have state troopers? Somebody come get this dude, he’s gonna blow. And he shouldn’t have the chance to take anyone with him.

2. Anthony Fucking Weiner. Trying to “sound Jamaican” at a Caribbean carnival? You’re a fuckin’ wanker, mon. PS: Dancing to violent homophobic music is a wank too.

3. Aaron Fucking Klein. See what happens when you try to make Jim Crow faaaabulous? You get iced. And that ain’t no sweet cake, ha ha.

4. Scott Fucking Lively. Oh joy, the preacher-man who brought “Kill the Gays” legislation to Uganda is now trying to get Russia to do the same. Instead of fighting the gays as if they were Nazis, how about remembering what it was that the Nazis did to the gays…and recognizing that Russia is perilously close to the same? After all, this preacher is currently facing trial as a human rights abuser…

5. John Fucking McCain. Why?

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That’s why. Playing games on the phone during a hearing on whether the US goes to war against Syria is a really cavalier fucking wank.

6. Betsy Fucking Karasik. So, teacher-student sex is supposedly harmless just because some of your friends did it with no apparent ill effect? Actually, Betsy, there were plenty of ill-effects, only you were all too fucking stoned to see them. It doesn’t have to lead to injuries or death to be a crime. First and worst, a pederast got away with molesting children. And don’t tell me that teachers who fuck students don’t favor them unfairly over their peers when it comes to marking, too. At the very least, it poisons the classroom atmosphere when everyone knows that Mr. So-and-So is sleeping with a student, and no one does shit about it. Bottom line, an adult who is in loco parentis has no business laying hands on their charges, EVER. It’s incest when a parent does it, and rape when a teacher does it. No ifs, ands, or “the times were different” buts.

7. Miley Fucking Cyrus, again. Nice non-apology, honey. You “made history” for all the wrong reasons. And the hell you “didn’t think about it” — that entire show was planned, choreographed and okayed at the highest levels. You’ve been dropping unsubtle hints for months that you’re a twerkin’ fool. You thought about it plenty, and you still went ahead with that pandering, racist shit. Because it made you a helluva lot more money than you honestly deserved. Of course, to admit THAT would be “overthinking”, wouldn’t it?

8. John Fucking Kerry. Whatever happened to the antiwar GI who came back from Vietnam to toss his medal ribbons on the Capitol steps in protest of a futile war, and who testified at Winter Soldier? Apparently marrying the heiress to the Heinz fortune changed his perspective. A LOT. Because now, he’s a warhawk with Syria in his sights. And now that he’s rich, he doesn’t have to worry about some poor or middle-class boy dying for his mistakes.

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9. Richard Fucking Cohen. No, Miley’s twerking didn’t cause the Steubenville rape…that happened before she started doing that corny booty-dance. It’s post hoc, not propter hoc, you stupid old asshole. PS: RAPISTS cause rape. Period. End of story.

10. Theodore Fucking Shoebat. Well, it looks like his dad has passed the crazy down to the next generation. This makes a good case for the involuntary sterilization of all conservative religious fanatics does it not?

11. Craig Paul Fucking Cobb, again. Newsflash: “White Separatism” IS racism. And no, Jews didn’t invent the word gay, nor did they invent its current usage. That would be gay people. And they didn’t do it to keep white people down, because NOTHING keeps a ruling class down. Except maybe stupidity, which is in rank abundance anyplace where neo-Nazis congregate, under whatever fucking name or “racialist banner”.

12. Gordon Fucking Klingenschmitt. John Jacob Jingleheimer is getting perilously close to busting that aneurysm. He’s telling wedding photographers to fuck up their work in the name of Christ, and then warns that they’ll all be bankrupted and starve to death. Well, yes, if that’s the way they’re going to be, they will. And they will have it coming, too.

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13. Bryan Fucking Fischer. Can you say ANACHRONISM, kiddies? I knew you could, and I know he can’t. For the record, there were no gay bars in München until the late 1960s or early 1970s; until then, German gays just hung out in the same bars as everyone else, drinking the same beer and getting loud and obnoxious the same damn way. Someone please give this stupid fucker a history lesson.

14. Vladimir Fucking Putin. Next thing you know, Pooty-Poot will be telling us some of his best friends are gay. Nope, I’m still not buying it.

15. Linda Fucking Harvey. But hey, if all his gay friends desert him, isn’t it nice to know that Pooty-Poot will still have American comrades in institutional homophobia?

16. William T. Fucking Woodward. Want evidence that the Bush Doctrine (and Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law) is a great way to get away with cold-blooded murder? Here ya go. Florida Man, that motherfucker, has done it again.

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17. David Fucking Barton. No, science and math don’t require fear of the Lord…or of anything else, either. What they require is that people not let fear and dogma stand in the way of learning…just like any other subject. Which, by the way, I’m pretty sure this God-botherer flunked.

18. Justin Fucking Bieber. I don’t care who she is, and I don’t care how much hip-hop you listen too, white boy — you do not get to use the N-word.

19. Alain Fucking Delon. Once he was a dashing French actor. Now he’s an old fuddy-duddy with sad opinions. But you know what’s sadder? Once, a gay guy “wooed” me, just like this guy says to do…and it didn’t work! He wound up marrying another man and adopting two kids with him. Yeah, that’s right…dashing French actor’s love advice FAILS. Who’d of thunk?

20. Robin Fucking Thicke. What’s that smoke I smell? Oh…it’s coming from his pants. Yeah, he played grab-ass with this younger woman who was not his wife and even stuck his tongue down her throat, and he wants us all to believe his wife was okay with it? Surrrrrre she was. And she’ll be even more okay with it when she gets back from her lawyer’s office. After she’s done with all the happy-married-couple fakery, of course.

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21. Geraldo Fucking Rivera. Oh, the delicious irony of an egotistical geezer (who once ragged on black boys for their clothing choices, only to be shown repeatedly in a hoodie) getting slut-shamed over a selfie. It’s just the gift that keeps on giving, eh?

22. Casey Fucking Smith. Funnily, black people don’t appreciate having their neighborhoods characterized as the “bad” part of town. Or listed on a website (now defunct, ha ha) that “tracks” ghettos.

23. Shemane Fucking Nugent. Congratulations, you’re an idiot. Everything you’ve done so far (especially your choice in spouses!) is one big long bad life choice. You are the embodiment of all that is wrong with your country. And you make the case for stricter handgun controls just by existing.

24. Courtney Fucking Stodden. Anyone surprised to see her shilling for PETA? Didn’t think so. They have a long and misogynous history of using heavily surgically enhanced women (who are famous for reasons even flimsier than their clothes) to make their case for veganism — or putting people off it, more likely. And by the looks of things, Courtney’s had a few more things “done” since we saw her last. It is not an improvement. If she could get it all undone, that would be nice. If she could just go away and never be heard from again, that would be nicer. (The same must also be said for PETA, in all fairness.)

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25. Robert Fucking Pattinson. Method actor, or just a very literal Hollywood wanker? I know which one MY money is on…

26. Pat Fucking Robertson. Not only is Patwa a filthy old charlatan who’s made a very tidy fortune from playing on people’s darkest fears, he’s also one who’s made a very tidy fortune from meddling in the political affairs of deepest, darkest Africa. And during the Rwandan crisis, at that. Even to this day, he’s making bank off it…and threatening to sue anyone who tells the truth about what “Operation Blessing” really was. I hope he does, and I hope he loses. It might finally pull the wool off his flock’s eyes, and that could only be a Good Thing.

27. Rick Fucking Wiles. Oh noes, the gays are coming to kill us all! End Times! End Times! Cerebral hemorrhage about to blow! Man the pumps!

28 and 29. Jim Fucking Jordan and Tony Fucking Perkins. In case anyone seriously believes the Repugnican teabaggers and the Religious Reich are suddenly anti-war peace doves, you can forget it. They’re still as war-hawky as ever. And they think that the perfect way to fund a war on Syria…is to strip the federal healthcare budget. There are no words foul enough for the cynicism of these bastards.

30. Larry Fucking Pratt. Shorter: Government out of everything…except old age pensions for us gun-mad geezers! Hands off my Social Security, you commie pinko scum!!!

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31. Glenn Fucking Beck. Can someone please bonk Biff on the head again? He’s developed a sudden case of amnesia. And he can’t for the life of him remember how it was that he and his fascist ilk are the ones who divided the country.

32. Kimberly Fucking Hall. Lady, if you’re so worried about your teenage sons’ virgin eyes getting prematurely deflowered by braless girls taking selfies in their jammies, here are some things you can do INSTEAD of slut-shaming all those girls: Unplug the family Internet. Take away the boys’ cellphones. And make them stop posting all those shirtless photos of themselves. Because girls have eyes too, you know!

33. Kenneth Fucking Cole. Marching to war on Syria? Think of all the shoes! And the best way to do that is to open mouth wide and insert foot, natch.

34. Thomas Fucking Kersting. Instead of teaching cash-strapped parents to take “personal responsibility” by starving their children at school, how about funding the school lunch program by getting rid of anyone on staff who thinks like this guy? Because let’s face it, hungry kids can’t learn, and neither can frazzled adults. But smug, overfed assholes? Yeah, they can afford to starve. Maybe then they’ll learn something about taking personal responsibility for what comes out of their mouths, for a change.

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35. Adam Fucking Tang. Yeah, trying to set a road-racing record in Manhattan and then bragging about it on the Internets…great idea. Never mind the horrible example it sets, not to mention all the other drivers and innocent bystanders your little stunt endangers. Or the fact that all it takes is one unforeseen little something to send you careening to your own death. YOLOYOLOYOLO.

36. Dana Fucking Perino. Newsflash: the words “under God” weren’t always in the Pledge of Allegiance. And the pledge didn’t always exist, either. I’m willing to lay good odds that more than a few of the Founders were unbelievers. Anyway, when’s the last time the dumbest blonde after the Coultergeist ever darkened the door of a church? If you don’t like inclusivity and freedom of thought, Dana, you can always move yourself!

37. Alexei Fucking Zhuravlev. For anyone still hoping that the Russian “gay propaganda” law was limited to the public sphere, you can now get stuffed. They really ARE out to get the gays, and they’ll do it one law at a time. Today they’re stripping them of their kids; tomorrow, it’ll officially be their lives. Bet on it.

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38. Mike Fucking Huckabee. Peace activists who don’t want to come off as anti-black are “racist”? Wow, Hucky Fudd just set a whole new world record for sheer stupidity and cognitive dissonance there!

39. George Fucking Zimmerman. Is there yet to be a week when he doesn’t wank? This week he’s a two-fer: He was busted for speeding AGAIN, and his wife is (finally) leaving him for good because he really is a massive fucking dickhead. And oh yeah, he killed Trayvon just after she walked out on him earlier. Psychopath much?

40. Rush Fucking Limbaugh. Yeah, that’s right…the Pigman wrote a children’s book. Never mind that he has no kids and his program is not fit for children’s ears (or anyone else’s, come to that). One wonders why he wrote it. I suspect his sex-tourist adventures in the Dominican Republic — a known pedophiles’ paradise — may have something to do with that!

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And finally, to the fucking US Congress. Or rather, all of the fucking congresscritters who voted to bomb Syria. Funny how there’s always enough money and political will for another fucking war, but never enough for hospitals, schools, highways and all the other things it takes to, you know, actually get your country back on its feet again. Oh yeah, and WHERE ARE THE FUCKING JOBS? Don’t say “in the military”, unless you’re willing to tack the words “industrial complex” on the back end of that, because that’s certainly where all the money is going. Sweetest fucking scam EVER.

Good night, and get fucked!

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Chavecito, Lucerito…

‘Scuse me while I miss this guy:

Chavecito on Aló Presidente, serenading his two oldest daughters with a llanero folk song, “Lucerito” (Little Star). Can’t believe he’s already been gone six months. He’s still the star that lights my way, and still the reason I keep up this regular Friday feature. This is one star that will never really go out.

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