It's not really such a coincidence that Easter falls on April Fools Day, right?
Apr 1, 2018
Mar 31, 2018
The Mob Abides
This is Arizona state representative Eric Descheenie:
I've heard this one floating around the net, and finally decided to look it up.
Surprise surprise, it does indeed show knuckleheaded "anti-immigration" freaks letting their shit overrule whatever shriveled critical thinking skills they still retain.
Snopes:
The incident occurred during a chaotic, five-hour long demonstration on 25 January 2018 at the Arizona capitol building where roughly a dozen anti-immigration activists turned out to protest the social justice lobbying group Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA) — though the group was there to advocate for pro-labor legislation, not immigration. Protesters alleged that LUCHA was “trying to advance social, racial and economic justice for DACA recipients, illegal aliens and their illegal families.” According to state lawmakers who were at the scene, the protesters were visibly armed.
The protesters were raggin' on Descheenie (who is of Navajo descent), questioning whether or not he was in this country legally.
A Native-American; an American Aboriginal - they needed him to be "alien"; they saw him as "alien"; so they went after him because he looked alien.
But they're not part of a racist mob looking for an excuse to satisfy their blood lust.
I've heard this one floating around the net, and finally decided to look it up.
Surprise surprise, it does indeed show knuckleheaded "anti-immigration" freaks letting their shit overrule whatever shriveled critical thinking skills they still retain.
Snopes:
The incident occurred during a chaotic, five-hour long demonstration on 25 January 2018 at the Arizona capitol building where roughly a dozen anti-immigration activists turned out to protest the social justice lobbying group Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA) — though the group was there to advocate for pro-labor legislation, not immigration. Protesters alleged that LUCHA was “trying to advance social, racial and economic justice for DACA recipients, illegal aliens and their illegal families.” According to state lawmakers who were at the scene, the protesters were visibly armed.
The protesters were raggin' on Descheenie (who is of Navajo descent), questioning whether or not he was in this country legally.
A Native-American; an American Aboriginal - they needed him to be "alien"; they saw him as "alien"; so they went after him because he looked alien.
But they're not part of a racist mob looking for an excuse to satisfy their blood lust.
Mar 30, 2018
Today's Tweet
It's pretty fucked that guys like 45* - operating on the premise that "International Boundaries Are For Suckers" - find it so easy to sell the rubes on the absolute necessity of "Border Security".
When Capital is free to go wherever its most likely to turn a profit, but Labor is chained to its country of origin, people trying to work for a living are always the losers.
Trump: If only the US-Mexico border could be as good as the barbwire, hyper-militarized DMZ between North and South Korea!!! pic.twitter.com/QPMBDwxJ4e— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 30, 2018
hat tip = Bob Cesca on Twitter
Mar 29, 2018
A Brief Manifesto
A reminder. A short list of items to help us stay grounded:
- Earth is not flat
- Vaccines work
- We've been to the moon
- Climate change is a thing
- The universe is expanding
- Math is the universal language
- Chemtrails aren't a thing
- Weather weapons aren't a thing
- We are made of star stuff
- Science is like magic, only real
Today's Tweet
There will be stoopid
God grant me the serenity to accept that Trump supporters are morons, the courage to tell Trump supporters they are morons, and the wisdom to not be a Trump-supporting moron.— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) March 27, 2018
Mar 28, 2018
Today's Juicy Morsel
45* has elevated a lawyer named Andrew Ekonomou(**) to a lead position on his Russia Probe team.
Ekonomou said that since he began working with Sekulow, he has attended meetings with Mueller’s team. He said he brings more criminal experience to the table than Sekulow. Ekonomou is a member of The Lambros Firm LLC, a boutique firm in Atlanta, which mostly handles civil and criminal racketeering cases for D.A.s around the state.
(**) I can't find a bio for this guy.
On Chickens And Roosting
Ari Melber's The Beat on MSNBC, via Crooks & Liars:
Ari Melber covered a topic that would be getting national attention, were it not for the frenetic 24/7 news cycle coming out of the Trump administration.
Just after Mike Pompeo stepped down from CIA, Trump declared that he was promoting Gina Haspel to run the CIA, touting her as a great choice. Well, many Americans have a different opinion. Both Democrats and Republicans have reservations leading back to Haspel's past history as the person who had oversight over a CIA "black site" in Thailand. While an open investigation into torture was underway, evidence was destroyed. Haspel claims to not have given the order for tapes to be destroyed, though.
Ari Melber discussed this in an extensive segment on his nightly show, The Beat, on Tuesday night. It was hard hitting, deep dive into what Haspel's confirmation could mean for our country, as well as how we would be viewed by the world.
Olbermann, Special Comment, 11-05-2007:
(paraphrasing) Torture causes people to plead, and to break, and to provide the most authentic-sounding fiction - it does not cause them to tell us the truth.
Gina Haspel is implicated in the effort to cover up the crimes of the CIA. It's not unreasonable to think she's looking to complete that project, and if she's willing to go that far, there's nothing to keep me from thinking she'd be willing to let 45* use the CIA against American citizens on American soil.
I hope she's just intending to polish up the CIA's image and to protect its standing in the federal power structure. But she's compromised, which can be a very bad thing in itself, and could easily mean she'll be further compromised, feeling the need to do more bad things as she tries to compensate for all those other bad things - and on and on and on.
That's the kind of geometric expansion of shit that happens when we refuse to hold government accountable because we've become comfortably numb and we only really care about "our team" winning.
Today's Tweet
Because it always ends up being about the voters - Republican's efforts to the contrary notwithstanding.
Well said: “They sold their souls for political power — and the check bounced.” @jmeacham on @JoeNBC, commenting on how Pennsylvania went for Trump in 2016.— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) March 27, 2018
Mar 27, 2018
Eerie Parallel
From Wonkette:
Sixteen-year-old Jaelyn Rose Willey was taken off life support last night after having been shot in the head by Austin Rollins, a boy described by police as a “lovesick teen.”
Police described Austin Bomber Mark Anthony Conditt as a “very challenged young man” who was dealing with “challenges” in his personal life. “Challenges” that he was unable to find a way to deal with that did not involve killing two people and injuring five others. People he’d never met, who very likely did not have a thing to do with his “challenges.”
Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz was abusive to his girlfriend and was so obsessed with her that he threatened to kill her new boyfriend. He killed 17 people.
Guns are a problem. I’m not saying they’re not. We need gun control. But what we also need is for men, as a people, TO STOP FUCKING MURDERING PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY CAN’T GET LAID.
Women are also rejected. Women also spend their teen years pining after dreamy boys who will never love them back. You don’t see us going around murdering people over it. You don’t see us setting up internet communities for the purpose of talking about how evil and shallow men are for not taking us to pound town.
It suddenly occurs to me that sometimes, this American shooting shit looks a little too much like the "Honor Killings" that everybody loves Islam for.
Something To Remember
Median Net Worth in USAmerica Inc last year was about $80,000.
Average Net Worth was about $180,000.
There are about 550 billionaires, and something like 10 million millionaires up in this joint.
Some basic arithmetic makes it pretty easy to imagine how fucked up American Wealth Distribution has become.
Bill Gates walks into a soup kitchen, and the average net worth of the people in that room goes up into the hundreds of millions.
But you've still got Bill Gates and about 100 stone broke homeless people.
This is not a particularly rich country when 99% of the people are doing all the work while the other 1% get all the goodies.
Average Net Worth was about $180,000.
There are about 550 billionaires, and something like 10 million millionaires up in this joint.
Some basic arithmetic makes it pretty easy to imagine how fucked up American Wealth Distribution has become.
Bill Gates walks into a soup kitchen, and the average net worth of the people in that room goes up into the hundreds of millions.
But you've still got Bill Gates and about 100 stone broke homeless people.
This is not a particularly rich country when 99% of the people are doing all the work while the other 1% get all the goodies.
Today's Tweet
There'll be some changes made.
Risk-averse corporate entities making highly visible contributions to formerly controversial causes is exactly what profound cultural change looks like https://t.co/J1RnXbKCxY— David Frum (@davidfrum) March 24, 2018
Sam Cooke - A Change Gonna Come
Man In The Mirror -(cover) Joyful Noise
What's Goin' On -(cover) Playing For Change
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