Republic of Florida: Most pathetic terrorist group EVER.

Posted on February 15, 2018 by Sabina Becker

For those who thought that these guys were just some bunch of politically-incorrect-but-harmless “it’s okay to be white” guys…sorry, but they’re not. They are TERRORISTS. They were TRAINING terrorists, as “lone wolf” sleeper agents (who are neither lone, nor truly sleeping, EVER). And one of them took them at their word. At first, they say that yeah, he was one of them. But then, unlike Daesh (which claims every terror incident they can, even ones with no links to them), they wuss out of it when it becomes apparent that they are in deep shit for their ties to a very real, very demonstrably one-of-them terrorist.

And these dumbass chickenshits call themselves the Master Race, and think they are the future of an “ethnostate”? It is to laugh.

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All the unsurprising truths about the Florida school shooting (that I could find, anyway)

Posted on February 15, 2018 by Sabina Becker

This is just one. There are others:

Schoolmates who heard his violent rhetoric and threats thought he was “creepy and weird”. They avoided him. They also describe him as “passive-aggressive”, trying to be tough, and rude. Even among the school’s outcasts, he was an outcast. In fact, those who knew him the best predicted that he would turn out to be a school shooter.

He was abusive to his former girlfriend, and got into a fight with her new boyfriend. This was apparently one of the many “disciplinary problems” that got him kicked out of the school he eventually shot up.

And on a related note: Sorry, “incels”, he’s NOT one of yours…at least, not in the sense of being unable to date girls. He clearly had a problem with trying to control at least one girl he DID date, however, and that put a crimp in his efforts to maintain the relationship. As did his idolatry of Eliot Rodger, another infamous misogynist shooter. It’s no wonder that male dominance and misogyny are common factors in shoot-up violence, with guns being touted by their own manufacturers as a penis surrogate:

And yes, he did use one of those in the shooting, too. It was legally owned, to boot. His friend’s family, with whom he moved in after his adoptive parents died, made him keep it in a locked cabinet, but he had a key, so accessing it was not a problem for him. In other words: Fat lot of good THAT protective measure did.

And where could he have picked up those misogynistic, threatening, gun-fetishizing attitudes that so frightened and repelled everyone who knew him at school? Well, if you hang out with white-supremacist militias, as he did in his spare time, it’s kind of hard NOT to. The fascist group he was with, which calls itself “Republic of Florida”, is one of those “white ethnostate” groups that the Southern Poverty Law Centre keeps warning us about, even as the mainstream media keep fixating on the Antifa groups who are literally all that’s standing between mainstream society and the fascists who want to run it. No wonder his schoolmates were scared shitless of him!

Oh, and this same white-supremacist group helped him get his hands on at least one of his murder weapons, too. That makes them accessories to the crime, does it not? (Oh, and now they deny it, too. Big surprise! Pity they’re already on record as having him in their ranks.)

And I’m sure you’ll all be shocked, SHOCKED to know that, just like his hate-group confederates, he considered Muslims terrorists and was “no fan of the Jews”. And that they all consider feminism to be a “cancer”, even though their group apparently has a handful of female members. (Yes, I know. The irony is too rich for me, y’all.)

Oh, and get this: He actually posted, under his real name, on YouTube. Death threats, no less. He boasted that he would become a “professional school shooter” and planned to kill as many Antifa as he could. And while they were reported to, and investigated by, the FBI…nobody did shit to stop him.

So those who say they “never saw this coming” were clearly walking around with blinders on their eyes, their fingers in their ears, and going la-la-la-la-la. Even when it was literally staring them in the face, they REFUSED to see it for the credible threat it was. They chose, instead, to write it off as just “boys being boys”, trolling harmlessly on the Internet. Does that not make them culpable as well? At the very least, it makes them incompetent and criminally negligent. A firing offence, surely, if you’re with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which is an anti-crime outfit as well as an investigative one.

And finally, there are those who say he “snapped” after his adoptive mother’s death. Does anyone take this seriously? I don’t. Because people who “just snap” and then commit violence tend to be a lot more random about it. They don’t go for years on end dropping creepy breadcrumbs here and there, hinting at a violent personality seething away just below the surface. They don’t brag in advance of what they’re going to do, especially not on the Internet. They don’t go to such premeditative lengths as pulling a fire alarm so as to have easy pickings for maximum carnage as the occupants exited the building, or try to blend in with a fleeing crowd after the shooting is over. No, y’all, this was not a case of someone basically good who “just snapped” when he lost his mom. It was someone who planned this. And if his mother’s death had anything to do with this at all, it was just the final match to a fuse that had been reeled out over several years. He MEANT to do this.

And there are, ultimately, no excuses for it.

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Heroes for Today: The sweet revenge of Lissa Lucas

Posted on February 14, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Well, that was a few days ago. Look at Lissa Lucas today:

In an interview with The Intercept two days after being thrown out of the legislature, Lucas wondered if Shott had overplayed his hand by having her expelled. “He brought so much more attention to it by having me thrown out,” she noted.

It has certainly helped her fundraising.

As of this writing, her campaign has raised more than $50,000. Lucas told The Intercept that this is a nearly elevenfold increase from the $4,000 she had raised prior to her address at the legislature. “I’m blown away,” she said.

The significance of this amount cannot be overstated. The website Ballotpedia tracks the total campaign contributions in District 7 for every campaign cycle going back to 2000. Lucas’s sum raised so far is more than twice the $17,498 raised by all three candidates in 2016. It is larger than the total funds raised during any cycle in the district in the 21st century. (The second-highest fundraising was $23,994, raised by four candidates in 2006). The current amount raised by the incumbent, Republican Jason Harshbarger, is not yet publicly available, but he raised just $9,300 in 2016.

Lucas is doing all of this without attending the high-dollar fossil fuel fundraisers she has criticized many in the legislature for patronizing — including Harshbarger. In December, he was hosted at a fundraising event by a phalanx of fossil fuel lobbyists brought together by the West Virginia Oil and Natural Gas Association.

I’m shocked, folks. Not by the amount she managed to raise just by lifting her voice up a bit; she’s earned that. I’m shocked, rather, by how little it takes to buy off a corrupt lawmaker in West Virginia. A couple thousand bucks and a fancy dinner and booze-schmooze at the local chain hotel? SOLD!!!

And I am pleasantly surprised by how quickly things can turn around. Even in one of the poorest (and most corruption-ridden) states in the Union, a woman who spoke out found massive support…and proved that you don’t need Big Oil and Big Frack money to mount a successful campaign. You just need to be there on behalf of those who will actually elect you…namely, THE PEOPLE. And they will reward you far more richly than Big Fracking Oil ever could.

PS: Here’s Lissa Lucas, talking to Jimmy Dore about the bill, its corrupt sponsors, and why it’s unpopular:

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Baby Jesus and Alex Jones have semen on the brain

Posted on February 13, 2018 by Sabina Becker

That’s right, folkies…they both got triggered (to wank on the air, or at least the Internet) by a gnarly vein in Barack Obama’s temple.

Honestly, these ‘wingers obsess more about sex than people actually HAVING sex ever do.

And oh, what the heck…I’m now triggered as well:

“Abominate” THAT, motherfuckers.

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Weinsteingate gets worse…

Posted on February 13, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Jesus H. Christ. Just when you thought Harvey Fucking Weinstein had reached peak awfulness, up come new allegations that blow everything previous out of the water:

Yup…he had an actual small army of people to aid and abet him, right down to giving him his boner shots so he could rape (or wank in front of) unwilling actresses. And oh yeah, he used his connections to the White House (!) to threaten anyone who stood in his way, too. Even to the point of claiming that the Secret Service would “help” him, which they certainly are NOT in the business of doing, but which an impressionable (and starving) young actress looking to break in would probably not have the wherewithal to question, never mind standing up to.

The mind boggles.

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What’s wrong with Jagmeet’s tweet?

Posted on February 13, 2018 by Sabina Becker

On first glance, this looks about right, right?

But there’s a huge howler in this tweet from our federal NDP leader, Jagmeet Singh. Take another look, and see if you can spot it.

Give up yet?

It’s that word, “legacy”.

On first glance, it seems correct, but it’s not. Here’s why:

Colonialism never ended in Canada. And the Indigenous genocide, as the farce of the Colten Boushie murder trial shows, has yet to end.

Just look at how the RCMP treated Colten’s family on the night he was killed. It reeks of colonialism. They barged in demanding to know if his mother was drunk. They had no sympathy for her shock and grief. In every word and deed, they acted as if Colten had been the murderer, not the victim. It all begs the questions: If it had been the family of a white person killed by an indigenous shooter, would they have acted the way they did? And if not (because of course not), then why was there this discrepancy in terms of response?

Just look at how the trial was stacked against the victim, and in favor of the killer. Not one Indigenous person on the jury. It was truly a jury of the murderer’s peers: all white, all racist. Of course they were going to believe every bullshit thing he said. Even though not one word of it was believable. Hey, if a white guy said it, he must be right and innocent. Right?

Well, no.

The residential schools may have been closed, but the mentality that conceived and built them is still very much in force. Nobody is distributing smallpox-ridden blankets to the First Nations now, but they are still being forced to live in ghettos on the worst lands in the country, with none of the public services that everyone else seems to take for granted. And even in those godforsaken places, if something is found under the soil that white people want (and can make vast sums of money from), the rights of those living there get studiously, institutionally ignored. Pollution infests the waters of Grassy Narrows, where mercury poisoning is wreaking slow but sure havoc on an entire Indigenous population. Attawapiskat, ridden with suicides due to poverty and hopelessness, is still festering, too, though it’s sitting on top of a literal diamond mine. These are not the exceptions of Indigenous life in Canada; they are the rule.

Meanwhile, Indigenous burial grounds are being stolen so that wealthy white developers can plop condominiums and golf courses onto them; the Oka crisis of a generation ago is still an open sore, as is the shooting of Dudley George (by the Ontario Provincial Police!) at Ipperwash. These things have not ended. They have simply been swept under the rug, to be ignored, again. As long as money can be made, and by the “right” (read: WHITE) people, who cares?

And when Indigenous people lead the fight against oil pipelines (which no one with any common sense could want), they suffer harsh crackdowns…while actual white supremacists are being tolerated (and going utterly unabused, and even getting an assist from police) in the name of “free speech”. Hell, the Colten Boushie case even echoes that of another Indigenous man, shot many years ago by an actual, self-admitted white supremacist!

Why do you suppose that is?

There is still the belief (largely unspoken now, but still prevalent) that white people are “better” than anybody else. That this land belongs to them alone, by virtue of their coloring, their language, their history of imperialism. That those who lived here first don’t even count as people, because some distant monarch, centuries ago, said that they didn’t. That those who cannot conform absolutely to laws and values imposed by a white, British, colonial government are less than human, and therefore undeserving of equal treatment. And that even when they do, they still get treated like lawbreakers simply because of the color of their skin, the shape of their features, and the non-Anglo names they bear. That’s it, in a nutshell.

That’s why Colten Boushie’s family were treated like criminals by the police, while an actual killer — HIS killer — got preferential treatment from the legal system. That’s why every preposterous lie was believed, and the truth was brushed aside, during this farce of a trial. That’s why there’s so remarkably little outrage among white people here, even though all decent folk of any color should be fighting mad.

To the white-supremacist mindset, you see, nothing wrong happened here: a dirty Injun trespassed on an innocent farmer’s land, menaced him just by existing while brown, and got what he deserved: a bullet to the back of the head. And if the farmer wants to say it was all an accident and he only meant to “scare” him, well, who are WE to contradict him?

Colonialism hasn’t been dismantled. It simply lives on under a thin new guise: modern ultra-capitalism and the so-called rule of law.

There can be no talk of a “legacy” here, because we have not put this problem behind us. It’s still alive, and it’s ugly as hell. Jagmeet Singh, though he means well, is as much a party to it as we all are, simply by his inaccurate choice of words.

If we are to start addressing the problem, we need to call it by its right name first. We cannot say “a legacy of colonialism”. We must say ONGOING COLONIALISM first. We cannot talk of a “legacy” of genocide; we just say GENOCIDE outright. Not until we face up to it directly can we begin to tackle the matter as we should. Whitewashing our language is not going to clean up the mess we’ve made, and it’s time to quit pretending it can.

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It’s not the tequila, Don. It’s YOU.

Posted on February 12, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Holy shit. You have GOT to see this…

And if you thought the mike-drop was immature, and the camera-circling thing was creepy, listen to the parts that Sam & Co. read aloud.

My only question is, what fucking idiots voted for this guy in the first place?

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Music for a Sunday: You walked right out of my heart

Posted on February 11, 2018 by Sabina Becker

…and now it’s all over:

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Wankers of the Week: Donnie’s Yugest-Ever Military Parade

Posted on February 10, 2018 by Sabina Becker

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Crappy weekend, everyone! So, I guess you all heard that Donnie wants a yuge, yuge, YUGE military parade in honor of his…what? His shrivelled cheese stick, maybe? Well, whatever. I’m happy to oblige him with a parade of sorts. And here come the marching morons, in no particular order…

1. Don Fucking Cherry. Newsflash: Cold weather today doesn’t mean global warming isn’t happening, just as the fact that you ate stale Timbits today doesn’t mean there are no famines anywhere in the world. In fact, our recent spate of super-cold weather is directly attributable to global warming, as any actual, trained climatologist will tell you. Also: WTF is a “cuckaloo”?

2. Katie Fucking Hopkins. Well, well. Looks like I might have to change her unaffectionate nickname from Hatey Katie to Ketamine Katie. Because good ol’ Hatey stumbled head over heels into a K-hole while documenting a case of reverse ethnic cleansing that isn’t actually happening.

3. Kellyanne Fucking Conway. Going on TV is the same thing as being “under oath”? I guess that’s just another Alternative Fact, eh?

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4. Arthur Fucking Jones. Welp, looks like the Repugs couldn’t scare up a single non-fascist candidate to represent them in a certain district in Illinois. On the plus side, they’re gonna lose bigly, because he is BUGFUCK. Ha, ha.

5. Matt Fucking Whitman. Meanwhile, in Halifax, the village idiot retweeted a bunch of fascists. And lest anyone think it’s an isolated incident, it’s not. He’s got quite a track record for racism, bigotry, and generalized hardcore stoopid.

6. Michele Fucking Bachmann. Well, whaddya know: for once, she listened to God. And God said NO!

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7. Donald Fucking Drumpf, Jr. Whoa there, big fella. If you’re gonna be tossing around big-ass words like communism, shouldn’t you first learn what they actually mean? PS: And no, nobody wants to be YOUR valentine, either.

8. Tom Fucking Brewer. Windpower isn’t renewable? Uh, put on your dunce cap and join #1 in the corner there, bubba, because it is the very definition of.

9. Samuel Fucking Wurzelbacher. Will not-Joe the not-a-plumber kindly please leave the building at long last? Yer 15 minutes are up, bub. Kthxbai.

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10. Jack Fucking Posobiec. How many times, Jacky, does anyone have to tell you never to go up against Sarah Silverman? Because you can’t win with her. And on that note: How’s it feel to be a Nazi getting pwned by a Jew? Ha, ha.

11. Ann Fucking Coulter. Because it’s been a while since I listed the Coultergeist, how about this? Even God Herself doesn’t care what religion the winning quarterback of ANY football game is. But this pathetic perambulating string-mop does…or at least pretends to.

12. Quentin Fucking Tarantino. Yeah, this one’s a bit belated because it didn’t come out in the media until now, but…it’s a wank, all right. And he is now officially cancelled.

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13. Logan Fucking Paul. Dude, you really need to dream up new, positive ways to draw attention to yourself. I suggest going the fuck away, permanently. No, really — GO THE FUCK AWAY, NOW.

14. Christopher Fucking Raines. Welp, looks like the Libertarian Party of South Carolina is gonna have to find itself a new candidate. This one just went to jail for threatening teenagers on the internet.

15. Andy Fucking Biggs. Since when does anyone owe Donnie a round of applause? Uh, since fucking NEVER. And no, God doesn’t give a shit, either.

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16. Stephanie Fucking Hamill. No, of course it’s not unreasonable to want a parade…unless it’s just to glorify yourself. Which is EXACTLY why Donnie wants one. Oh, and also to make the French one for Bastille Day look small. Why no, that’s not megalomaniacal at ALL!

17. Lonnie Fucking Beatty. What’s that? There’s a naked man on acid, covered in cooking oil, yelling incoherently? Oh, pay him no mind. That’s just Pennsylvania Man, giving Florida Man a run for his money!

18. Scott Fucking Baio. Chachi, Chachi, Chachi…you’re facing charges, charges, charges! Ha, ha.

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19. Paul Fucking Marciano. What the hell difference does it make if Kate Upton’s 17-year-old boobs were real or not? If they were good enough to be featured in your ads, based on her modelling portfolio, isn’t that real enough? Or was the casting just an excuse to grope her during the shoot, crudely proposition her as well, and then insult her when she said no?

20. John Fucking Moody. “Let’s focus on the winner of the race — not the race of the winner”? Great idea, pal. How about you start by not moaning so much about the fact that the US team is now “Darker, Gayer, Different”? Because the way you make it sound, it’s like it’s 1936 in Berlin all over again. Only this time, Jesse Owens is being pissed on by the Nazis among his own countrymen. PS: Ha, ha!

21. Piers Fucking Morgan. Justin Trudeau makes a joke (admittedly a floppy one), and guess who didn’t get it? Yup, this guy. And a whole bunch of other right-wing snowflakes. Whatsamatter, guys, you jealous or something? You sound awfully…triggered.

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22. Andrew Fucking Scheer. Isn’t it touching that somebody is still willing to sing the “old”, sexist lyrics of “O Canada”…which, as luck would have it, are actually not that old, and also a bastardization of the gender-neutral original? And isn’t it just so fitting that that somebody is HIM?

23. David Fucking Barton. No, dude, you weren’t declared an “enemy of the state” by Obama, or anyone else for that matter. Sadly, you’re neither intelligent nor important enough!

24. Alex Fucking Jones. Because it wouldn’t be a wankapedia without him beating his meat over something he’s bound and determined never to understand, here he is, pulling his pud over trans people. You’re welcome!

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25. Anthony Fucking Mundine. He wants the death penalty for all queers because they’re “unnatural and confusing to society”? I wonder how long before he’s caught in a public toilet, taking a wide stance. Place your bets, ladies ’n’ gents…

26. John Fucking Stanard. Meanwhile, in Utah, people are waking up to find out that “traditional family values” really does mean “paying a woman with a fake name for oral sex on the side”. And worse: They voted for it.

27. Rob Fucking Porter. Beating the shit out of not one, but two terrorized former wives? Perfectly kosher in Donnie’s White House of Horrors. But talking about it? That’s a major no-no.

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28. Don Fucking McIntyre. Yet another gross, rapey Con is out, out, OUT. And this one did it to minors, too. So long, Poop Schlong.

29. Mike Fucking Pence. Wouldn’t stand for anyone in Pyeongchang but the US? Show some respect for countries other than your own, Mikey. Jeebus. And you wonder why the whole world says “Yankee Go Home”? You can stop wondering now.

30. Rush Fucking Limbaugh. And because it’s been a hot minute since I last listed the Pigman, here you go. After decades of harping on debts and deficits, suddenly he thinks they’re not important anymore. Either he’s come down with dementia, or else it’s Donnie-mentia. You decide!

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And finally, in lieu of a dishonorable mention, an announcement: I’m taking a break from wanklisting for an indefinite while. Not for any shortage of wankers (hell no), but because I’m exhausted and need some time to recuperate. Don’t worry, this blog’s not going anywhere. Regular posting will continue as usual, but the weekly wankapedia will be on hiatus until I see fit to bring it back. And when I do…WATCH OUT, MOTHERFUCKERS.

Good night, and get fucked!

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Cops Behaving Badly: Murder by sheriff’s order

Posted on February 8, 2018 by Sabina Becker

A disturbing incident in Tennessee, in which a deputy who shot a suspect AFTER his car was successfully nudged off the road feels more remorse than the sheriff who ordered him to use deadly force when none was necessary. So much so that he appears to vomit afterwards. And who could blame him for doing so? He just killed a man for no good reason. Well, of course, unless you think valuing your cop cars more than human life is some kind of valid reason.

And the worst part is, he got away with it…for now. The victim’s widow has decided to make a federal case of it, and I’d say she has a good one. The evidence is all right there in the video footage, disturbing as it is.

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