News of the Restless

Q. How impeachable is Donnie, really?

Posted on August 23, 2018 by Sabina Becker

A: A helluva lot more than even I knew. Really:

And so’s Mikey Pence, because he’s complicit up to his beady little eyeballs:

Unfortunately for Pence — but fortunately for everyone in America who likes women’s rights, their gay uncle Sal, and R-rated movies — his future looks bleak as well. It’s not just Trump who should be worried about his connections to Paul Manafort, or indeed, to the occurrences at Trump Tower or during the transition period between Obama’s presidency and Trump’s.

Now reporters are looking back in time.

According to a New York Times article that ran more than two years ago — as in, while we were all looking, but had no idea what we were seeing yet — Pence was literally hand-picked by Paul Manafort, the former campaign manager whose guilty verdict on 8 counts will combine with whatever he’s sentenced to after next month’s second trial against him for a rather lengthy prison stay.

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What’s more, although the news has gone relatively silent on Pence since Trump’s high crimes and misdemeanors have taken center stage, there has been talk since the beginning of the Trump presidency of what Mike Pence knew and when he knew it — and whether or not Pence lied in the case of what former adviser General Michael Flynn had told the campaign.

Pence picked by Manafort? The guy just found guilty on eight criminal charges? Yup. Which means that Mikey is impeachable as hell, too.

Like said earlier today: Impeach Drumpf. Impeach Pence. Keep impeaching. Lock the motherfucker up. And the vice-motherfucker, too. Keep locking until they’re ALL locked up. Because they’re a crime syndicate from toppum to bottomus.

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LOCK HIM UP!

Posted on August 23, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Finally, some actual talk about Donnie’s impeachment? Sure sounds that way:

Damn the stockmarkets, they’re all bubbles anyway. The whole world knows it. They have nothing to do with the REAL economy, which is suffering worldwide. Impeach the motherfucker, impeach the vice-motherfucker, impeach them all, and lock them ALL up.

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Old hash dealer sets up snitch site for prudish parents

Posted on August 22, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Shades of Mike Fucking Harris’s welfare fraud hotline…and the HarpoCons’ Barbaric Cultural Practices snitchline, eh? Yeah, Dougie thought all that fuckin’ bullshit was a fantastic idea, so now he plans to introduce something similar…for outing teachers who dare to keep step with modern times:

The Ontario government is launching a snitch site for parents to lodge complaints against teachers they believe aren’t following provincial curriculum.

In a press release issued Wednesday, Premier Doug Ford warned teachers against teaching the 2015 sex-ed curriculum the Progressive Conservatives repealed in July.

“We expect our teachers, principals and school board officials to fulfill their obligations to parents and children when it comes to what our students learn in the classroom,” he said.

“We will not tolerate anybody using our children as pawns for grandstanding and political games. And, make no mistake, if we find somebody failing to do their job, we will act.”

Can you believe the chutzpah? The biggest political grandstanders and game-players here are none other than the not-so-Progressive Conservatives of Ontario, who apparently think it should be a parent’s right to keep their children in the dark about issues that can’t be simply legislated under the rug any longer. And they are more than happy to bully any teacher who dares stand up to them.

And guess who the pawns are? Yup…KIDS. Not just those of regressive Conservatives (yes, I know, that is redundant), but everyone else, as well. Including the progressive majority of Ontario parents, who did NOT vote for this old drug dealer. (What’s that? You FORGOT that Dougie used to deal hash in the parking lots of Etobicoke to actual schoolkids? Well, have a little memory refresher.)

And of course, this is a done (pardon the pun, which is fully intended) deal. No haggling allowed:

Neither the premier nor Education Minister Lisa Thompson were made available for questions or interviews.

That’s probably because they have no bullshit-free answers to offer to the press, whom they’ve already declared to be the enemies of the ~~Conservatives~~ people.

So, what does their ~~harebrained nincompoopery~~ plan consist of? Well, a slight (but still outdated) refinement on the old curriculum, plus a little extra:

Until now the government said it would rely on the sex-ed curriculum from 1998. However, the government has now put forth a revised version of that curriculum, which was updated in 2010.

As part of a plan to ensure teachers only use the older sex-ed curriculum, the government unveiled a complaints website for parents — branded fortheparents.ca — and reminded them of other ways to complain about teachers both online and over the phone with the Ontario College of Teachers.

Yeah, that’s going to work out great. I foresee a buttload of crank phone calls, and a DOS attack on the planned website.

That is, if Dougie ever manages to scratch up the funding for this dumbass boondoggle.

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Jordan Peterson, crap entomologist

Posted on August 22, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Is there any science that this loser lobster can’t twist out of shape in the service of white Christian capitalism and its outdated social hierarchies? No, apparently not. Today, it’s entomology, and it’s ants in particular that have caught his all-too-fertile imagination.

And of course, he gets them dreadfully wrong. Just as he does social structures in general, and human social structures in particular.

Just wait till he learns that all the ants in any given colony, with the exception of the drones (whose only job is to mate with the queen) are FEMALE. And that all those female ants, with the exception of the queen, are INCELS. Yes, that’s right, Jordy…your worker ants are all females who don’t get no luvvin’. Enforced monogamy NOW!

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Down goes Cohen!

Posted on August 21, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Ladies and gentlemen (and nonbinary folks too), we got him:

And yes, Donnie is likely to go down with him. He doesn’t even need to sing to Robert Mueller; he’s come right out and pointed the finger at none other than Donnie himself:

Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer, has pleaded guilty to eight counts in federal court in New York, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday evening.

They include five counts of tax evasion, one count of falsifying submissions to a bank and two counts involving unlawful campaign contributions.

Cohen’s conduct “reflects a pattern of lies and dishonesty over a significant period of time,” said Robert Khuzami, deputy U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, outside the federal courthouse in Manhattan.

The counts related to campaign finance violations involved payments that were made to keep two women quiet during the campaign, Khuzami said, noting that Cohen was “repaid at the direction of the candidate.”

Read that last phrase again: “…repaid at the direction of the candidate.”

No, seriously. Read it aloud: “…repaid at the direction of the candidate.”

Okay. Now that the operative, incriminating phrase has had a chance to marinate and sink in, let’s read the next paragraph:

Khuzami noted that Cohen was repaid by the campaign with invoices for “services rendered.” Those “invoices were a sham,” Khuzami said. They were “merely reimbursement for illegal campaign contributions.”

Right, kids, you know the drill. Reread that last phrase in the quotes: “…merely reimbursement for illegal campaign contributions.”

Got that? No? Again, aloud: “…merely reimbursement for illegal campaign contributions.”

Got it now?

Yes, kiddies, that’s right: Donnie’s gonna go down for (among other things) CAMPAIGN FINANCE IRREGULARITIES. Oh sorry, I meant to say VIOLATIONS.

And he’s going to go down for using his campaign war chest as a slush fund for paying off his former ladyfriends (snurk) and oh gawd, it’s gonna be heeeeee-larious. Because now, not only are those women no longer a dirty little secret (as he was trying to pay them to be), but neither is the fact that Donnie was using his ~~hardcore stupid~~ hard-working followers’ hard-won money to pay those mistresses off so that the scandals wouldn’t dog his campaign.

And now, here he is, squatting impotently in the White House, unable to ~~get laid to save his life~~ do anything but hold Nürnberg-style rallies and go golfing. When he’s not bitching out Melania and terrorizing poor little Barron, of course.

Sucks to be YOU, Donnie…and it’s about to suck even harder. Ha, ha.

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Music for a Sunday: What would Joan Jett do?

Posted on August 19, 2018 by Sabina Becker

She’d get together with Blondie’s own Debbie Harry and make beautiful feminist music that kicks fascist ass! What else?

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In which two white supremacists go cuck themselves

Posted on August 16, 2018 by Sabina Becker

This is so delicious, you’ll want to watch it several times to get the full flavor of it all:

The guy in the red gingham shirt is Patrick Little, the neo-Nazi who (thankfully) lost his run for a Republican candidacy in California. He’s talking to Jason Kessler (on the phone), the organizer of last year’s “Unite the Right” rally, the one where Heather Heyer was murdered by a Nazi who deliberately ran her and over a dozen others down with his car. Seems that Little Jason isn’t too thrilled about having to stay with his parents because he can’t afford a place of his own, thanks to the legal fees he’s paying because he’s being sued for his part in that vehicular homicide. And his dad is none to happy about the kid livestreaming from the parents’ bedroom. In fact, both of his parents are not impressed with this whole Nazi thing. He calls them “cucked”, but the truth of the matter is, he’s the cucked one, and he’s brought it all on himself.

Same goes for Little, who is broadcasting from a boat because he’s afraid his landlord (“Shlomo”; how stereotypey can an antisemite get?) is going to throw him out. And he’s gonna have to sell the boat to pay his own legal fees, or whatever. My question is, how does a Nazi get his hands on a boat in the first place? Those things aren’t cheap. Who are all the dumb cucks who spent money so he could buy one of those? Maybe he’ll have to sell it (at a loss, he stresses) to pay these suckers back.

Any way you slice it, it’s funny as hell. Both of these fascists aren’t looking so high and mighty now.

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Ex-Nazi: “Intellectual Dark Web” is a gateway drug to fascism

Posted on August 16, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Christian Picciolini, a former neo-Nazi turned antifascist author and deprogrammer, talks with David Pakman about racist and sexist garbage science, and how it serves as a point of entry into much more radical, outright fascist politics. He also tells what got him out of the Nazi cult — namely, having to sell more than “white power” records to make ends meet, and being forced to interact on a human level with the very people the Nazi cult had taught him to view as subhuman. His solution of choice? Better education…to get to alienated young people BEFORE they can turn into fascists. And “filling the potholes” in people’s social needs, too. In other words: Prevention is better than cure.

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DC Metro wastes taxpayer dollars to coddle white supremacists

Posted on August 14, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Ahem. Before we get on with this story, let Sister Rosetta remind you of glory:

Ah, that was great. And now, the not-so-great:

WASHINGTON — Metro closed down a gate at the Vienna station to the general public on Sunday for the “Unite the Right 2” rally participants to have police-escorted access onto a train car, drawing anger from Metro’s union, saying they were lied to.

A few weeks ago, Metro Board Chair Jack Evans said the agency was considering having special trains or cars to separate white nationalists from the public.

After union workers and Metro riders began to react to the controversial idea, Metro said in a statement that they would not offer separate trains for the rally.

Metro’s largest union, ATU Local 689, called out Metro on Twitter saying the agency lied to riders and the public with the decision to close down the gates to the general public after the agency had said that they would not offer separate trains for the rally.

The union said Metro General Manager Paul Wiedefeld lied to the public “when the truth was more convenient.”

The north entrance of the station was closed to the public and the gates were only opened for Unite the Right participants Sunday after noon between approximately 1:20 p.m. and 1:40 p.m.

One of WUSA9’s photographers was among those denied access to the station as rally organizer Jason Kessler and his group purchased SmarTrip cards and boarded the train bound for Foggy Bottom.

Many took to Twitter to ask Metro why the decision was made to close the gates.

According to Metro, the gates were temporarily closed for “crowd control.”

What a lie. The crowds were piled up outside the gates, so what “crowd control”?

The only way this bullshit makes any sense is if you look at what they were REALLY doing there, namely CODDLING THE WHITE SUPREMACISTS. Because those fragile snowflakes couldn’t bear to be challenged on their fraudulent, fascist bullshit. And because they sure as hell couldn’t be arsed to share their train car with those uppity black folks who refuse to sit in the back of the bus any longer. Why, they might even have to strike up a conversation with those people. Can you imagine? And then they’d have to find out that — gasp! — they’re not actually superior to those with more eumelanin in their hides.

And from there, it would logically follow that wanting a “white ethnostate” (translation: genocide of anyone who doesn’t at least outwardly pass as white) makes no sense at all. Because if black people are not so different from white people underneath it all, what would be the point of white supremacy — oh sorry, “separatism”? And what would be the point of their widdle (as it turned out, VERY widdle) “Unite the Right 2” rally, which was supposed to be a grand show of fascist force but turned out to be a downright piddling show of fascist farce?

I sure do hope that the expense of hiring extra security, and cordoning off a train car just for two dozen fashy haircuts, was worth it to DC Metro. And I sure do hope that it will still be worth it when the inevitable class-action lawsuits start to roll in on Metro management, the police, and anyone else behind this shitshow. Because that was taxpayer money — the people’s money — that went toward procuring a secure, separate train car for a bunch of wankers who don’t care about any people other than themselves. And who are, at bottom, determined to wipe all those other people out.

That train ain’t no clean train, that train.

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No, Jordy, you’re totally not political…

Posted on August 13, 2018 by Sabina Becker

…you’re just a far-right ideologue and simpleton masquerading as a profound shaman of archetypal wisdom. Big fuckin’ difference, eh:

But sure, keep pretending you’re above the fray. Your loser-lobster followers will never catch on, because they’re all carapace and no brain, just like you.

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