Monday, November 06, 2017

"Thoughts and prayers" = Republican for "FUCK YOU." The rich want tax cuts? Give them thoughts and prayers instead--see how they like it!

9 November 2017 update:

Treason's greedings, fellow Dot Calm Readers, Freedom Fighters, and Truth Crusaders!

Alas, I'll have to blawg, blawg like the wind this evening...

If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I'm taking my 86-yr-old Navy veteran dad across the country to see his 96-year-old veteran brother.

Gotta do this sort of thing while we all still can.

But it means curtailing my time with you so that I can pack and prepare for what promises to be a great trip.

That's why I'm doing this post as an update to Monday's post rather than as a separate post--it saves me a few minutes and lets me refer you down the page rather than to a previous post. Today, I hope you'll please scroll down and keep calling the Republican bastards and telling them literally not to kill us with their tax cuts for the rich.

Sometimes, I can make the calls; sometimes, I can't. It all depends on how the job is going and whether I can nab either telework or other time out of the office. This go-round, I haven't been able to call them all...I call and e-mail whom I can when I can...so my dad has been picking up the slack like a real champion. He's on a mission to call every last one of the bastards; this week, he's been averaging 12 calls a day.

Is my dad phuquen awesome or what?!

So, now that you have your mission, if you should choose to accept it, let me hit a few highlights of this week's n00z and click "publish" so that I can run off and pack.

Deal?

Good, because here we go.

Dunno about you, but I'm still basking in the election results.

What a resounding referendum on tRUmp and tRUmpism!

New Jersey dumped corrupt Chris Christie's fat ass for Phil Murphy. Virginia thumbed its nose at Ed "mini-tRUmp" Gillespie and elected Ralph Northam. And more women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ Democrats won their respective elections than I thought possible in tRUmp's America.

If you've been following me either on le blawg or on Twitter, you know that I live in Virginia, and you know from the returns from Loudon and Chesterfield Counties--which voted for tRUmp and which usually vote Republican--that Virginians are smarter than the Greedy Oligarch Putinists give them credit for.

GOOD.

In short, we shellacked the bastards for at least two reasons I can think of: we outright rejected their bigotry, and we don't trust them not to kill us just so they can crush the carbon from our bodies into diamonds to give their rich donors.

So far, we gained an unheard-of 14 seats. We picked up so many seats that, depending on how the recounts go, we could actually gain a majority in the State House. That would be l-o-v-e-r-l-y.

If I had more time, I'd go into the election results in detail. They certainly deserve the effort. For now, I'll let Randi Rhodes dish about Virginia...
..."What the Fuck Just Happened Today?" should have links to articles about the election--I can't say for sure, because I haven't checked and don't have time to check today. If you want more information than they have, DM me on Twitter and I'll find and post a run-down next week.

Boy, I realize that no politician is perfect and that they're all self-serving to a degree, but it is a YUGE relief to know that Ralph Northam and the Democrats in our State House will be acting as a buffer between us and tRUmp.

And I know for a fact that Ralph Northam and the Democrats in our State House aren't bigots and don't want to kill us just so they can crush the carbon from our bodies into diamonds to give their rich donors.

Whew!

Next on my list of topics: Puerto Rico.

Did you know that one of Whitefish's repairs has already failed, throwing those affected back into darkness?

Did you know that the FEMA folks have NOT been putting up sick and injured Puerto Ricans in the swanky, air conditioned hotels?

Did you know that the FEMA folks have been staying in those nice swanky hotels themselves?

That's right, friends--instead of helping those in desperate need, FEMA has been helping itself. They've been lolling in the air conditioning and dining on catered buffets, according to a guest on Margaret Prescod's "Sojourner Truth" program on WPFW today.

I'd already heard that the FEMA folks had been indulging in spa days, with labor for manis and pedis provided by embattled locals.

What do you expect when the standards bearer of their party is the most corrupt, selfish, callous thing on two fat feet?

Ethics and morality flow downhill, friends.

Next topic: the Greedy Oligarch Putinists in Congress are so treasonous...how treasonous are they?...that they categorically refuse even to be told the next time Russia hacks into and interferes in our election.

They don't just deserve to be locked up--they deserve to be strung up.

Last I heard, treason is a capitol offense.

We need to make an example of these bastards so that this shit never happens again.

GRRRRRRR!!!!!

Frankly, friends, I can't even...I just can't. The way they're destroying everything positive about our way of life, our institutions, our standing in the world...everything...makes me too fucking angry.

There are no words.

And, if there were, they'd be so incendiary that they'd probably melt teh Intert00bs if I were to use them.

Next topic: tRUmp's DOJ wants Time Warner to sell off CNN because tRUmp can't handle the truth.

That's fucking fascist at the very least and illegal at most--the predisent [sic] is not supposed to interfere to that degree with individual businesses, especially not to coddle his own personal grudges.

I don't think tRUmp and his sidekick KKKeebler elf will succeed, but it's fucking scary that they'd try--it's fucking scary that KKKeebler elf would even entertain such a notion at orange twAtler's behest. After all, Sessions has been in government since before sliced bread was invented, and he has to know that this shit is unethical if not illegal.

My next topic provides yet another reason why I wanted to make this post an update rather than a stand-alone: school backpack sellers are now offering bulletproof inserts.

Jesus ass-twerking Christ...

What kind of message are we sending our children that we have to buy them pitiful, woefully insufficient little pieces of body armor because the Republican party is so irredeemably latched onto the teat of the NRA?

Scroll down to see just a few of Dot Calm's remarks about making bulletproof vests into daily fashion.

Last topic for today: Roy Moore is a serial pedophile who justifies sexually assaulting minors by likening his behavior to the biblical story of adult Joseph espousing teenage Mary.

Excuse me while I barf.

It never fails, though--the more homophobic the Republican, Christian, whatever is, the clearer it is that he or she is gay. The ones who claim that sexual orientation is a choice are all bi. And every last abstinence-only Christian was promiscuous before marriage and/or has at least one prostitute and/or mistresses on the side.

In short, the more sanctimonious they claim to be, the more immoral they actually are according to their own standards...and the ones who come down hardest on what they call sexual immorality are the worst offenders themselves.

I feel for those poor kids Moore abused.

They never saw it coming. They were just kids. Moore's behavior followed a pattern. The four then-teenage women now on the record are surely just the tip of yet another Republican frozen shit iceberg.

Republicans have one word for Roy Moore's behavior...

...Presidential.

- Dot Calm's shadow

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6 November 2017 post:

Treason's greedings, fellow Dot Calm Readers, Freedom Fighters, and Truth Crusaders!

Before we dive in to this week's river of blood, don't forget:

Use the contact information below to tell your members of Congress that, if they touch Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security, WE WILL SUE their asses off for every penny we've ever paid in PLUS INTEREST.

Tell the bastards to protect Robert Mueller from being fired--the tRUmp-Russia investigation must continue and complete independently from its perpetrators' criminal influence.

If the Greedy Oligarch Putinists pull off their murderous theft of the poor's meager subsistence to fatten the already obscenely rich, I'll have no choice but to spirit my dad outta Dodge. Costa Rica is looking like our best option. My dad reminded me of our friends and family in Europe, but Costa Rica may be better for the prices and the health care. I can't believe that our beloved nation has devolved to the point that it may truly become impossible to live here any more, but there it is.

Whew.

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School Uniforms
Assorted plaids in attractive BULLET-PROOF
no-iron colors
--Dot Calm, 29 July 2013
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And now...onto this week's mass shooting.

Shootings--especially mass shootings--were one of Dot Calm's absolute hot buttons.

Like I rather frighteningly presciently said last time, if we do jump ship, we won't have to worry about getting caught in the next bump stock-fueled gun massacre.

Well, the Sutherland Springs church shooter didn't have a bump stock, but he did have a semi-automatic and was able to murder 27 innocent souls and injure several others. According to the NY Times, he was able to wipe out eight members of one family. His victims included an18-month-old baby, the pastor's 14-year-old daughter, a pregnant woman, and a septuagenarian. He left some congregants as the sole survivors of their families.

We all knew immediately from the media coverage conspicuously free from blaring headlines that the guy was A MUSLIM that he had to be white. This was confirmed by media calls for sympathy for the devil shooter and tRUmp's obvious refusal to denounce the shooter as an "animal" or demand mass deportations.

We all also knew immediately that the shooter was a white male because all tRUmp and the Repukes had to offer was thoughts and prayers.

That disingenuous offering of alligator tears also clued us in immediately that tRUmp and the Repukes don't give one flying fuck about the victims.

After all, the shooting happened in a CHURCH, where the victims were ALREADY PRAYING.

If prayer worked, they'd still be alive today.

Repukes are calling it a success because a good guy with a gun allowed the shooter to kill 27 lucky people before bringing him down.

They are saying that God answered the congregants' prayers by graciously allowing their bodies to be torn apart by rapid-fire bullets.

Greg Abbott is saying that people should go armed to church because either he loves a live-action shooting gallery or he learned nothing from the Las Vegas massacre, where fully-armed musicians on stage were helpless during the hail of bullets because they knew that they could be mistaken for bad guys with guns when they were really good guys with guns--they realized they could hit innocent people by accident or get shot themselves or increase the death toll by hampering police efforts to stop the real shooter.

Repuke authorities are saying that Americans should plan on being shot dead everywhere they go because freedom...

...as in, the shooters' freedom to murder us all outweighs our freedom to exist.

And the FOX fux say that church is an awesome place to get murdered.

And you wonder why I call the GOP the pro-death, pro-suffering party.

Maximizing death and suffering is their art form.

One smart Tweep said that we should ban ammunition or make it $1000 per bullet.

I agreed, saying that there should be a 72-hr waiting period, multiple trips, running a gauntlet of protestors with pictures of victims, seeing ultrasounds, getting examined, and hearing sermons before you can get your bullet.

I'll add: not all states should carry bullets, and you should have to get permission from your parents, your spouse, your ex, your rapist, and your potential victims before you can buy your bullet.

And your boss can fire you for buying a bullet.

Another smart Tweep said that we should take away all the guns and replace them with thoughts and prayers--let the angry, irate ammosexuals, as they grieve and mourn their lost guns, rely for their tangible comfort on thoughts and prayers, which are surely by Republican standards far more effective than guns.

I agreed and said that, since thoughts and prayers work so well, we should give the rich thoughts and prayers instead of tax cuts.

And I went on a Twitter tear, storming down the warpath against all those murderous, bloodthirsty House and Senate Republicans offering fake, useless thoughts and prayers on the one hand while taking tens of millions of dollars in filthy NRA blood money on the other.

Fucking hypocrites.

Every last one of them should hand his or her dirty NRA blood money over to pay for the medical care that the GOP stole from the 500+ victims of the Las Vegas shooting and the Sutherland Springs shooting and the Colorado Wal-Mart shooting and the rest of the goddamn shootings.

And then they should resign.

Remember, those shooters didn't act alone.

They had the help--the cover and support--of every Republican representative and senator who preferred taking NRA blood money to enacting sensible gun laws after a gunman mowed down 20 children at Sandy Hook.

In other words, we knew the debate was over before it started when the Republican party made it clear that the lives of innocent children matter less than NRA blood money.

The sad truth is that the Republican party is so far gone that we have no other choice but to vote the bastards out--if we want new and decent gun laws, we need a new, decent, and Democratic Congress.

So VOTE...vote tomorrow like my dad and I are doing...vote like your life depends on it because IT DOES.

- Dot Calm's shadow

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SLAUGHTERHOUSE, USA
 
WOW!
We can barely keep up with the shootings!
Where will it end?
Better stay away from malls,
don't send your beloved children to school...
home school...
in fact,
don't leave your home except for essentials.
This holiday season,
 why not give bullet-proof vests
to those you really love?

This is a war zone!
 
HEY, LaPIERRE, ENOUGH YET???
--Dot Calm, 5 November 2013
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If thoughts and prayers are so effective,
let's give the rich thoughts and prayers
instead of tax cuts.
-- Dot Calm's shadow, 6 November 2017
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If you can stomach a quick 'n' dirty tally of each fresh new hell we find ourselves in with Putin's cock holster squatting in the White House (eww!), don't forget to check out What The Fuck Just Happened Today?

And if you prefer to watch your n00z and analysis in carefully pre-screened nuggets on YouTube, check out my videos page--Dot Calm's shadow's M00bies from The Resistance.

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Contact Congress and give the bastards a piece of your mind!

E-MAIL your own members of Congress and be counted (by law):


FAX your own members of Congress and use "Letter2editor" to send a letter to your local paper:

Text "Resist" to 50409 

and then

CALL THE BASTARDS!!!!!

First, call your own senators, be they Republican or Democrat.

Next, call everyone on this handy triage list:
  • John McCain
  • Susan Collins
  • Lisa Murkowski
  • Jeff Flake
  • Shelley Moore Capito
  • Bob Corker (use his e-mail link below if the phone doesn't work)
  • Rob Portman
Then, if you can (with a brief script, plan on two hours to call all 52), please click each contact below (source: https://contactsenators.com/party/republican) and call every one of these bastards:

Republican Senators

This is a list of all current Republican U.S. Senators (52 total):

If you want numbers for all of the senators, click here for Daily Kos's directory.

If you want numbers for all of the representatives, click here for the House's directory.

covfefe, when the walls fell

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posted by Dot Calm @ 7:56 PM