Have I told you how much I hate these people? - Mike Malloy. It is every thinking person’s responsibility not to side with his or her executioners. - Albert Camus. Popular democracy anywhere threatens fascism everywhere. - The Scallion. A fascist junta of neocons using George W. Bush as its shill has taken over America by bloodless coup. What will it take for us to stage a revolution and take our country back? - Dot Calm. Drive a hybrid. Leave a lighter footprint on the planet. - Dot Calm.
Like Granny D, I have watched my own beloved country change, and I am angry beyond words about what I see. I grew up seeing America as the equivalent of the movie good guy, the hero in the white hat who came to the rescue of those in need around the world. I have watched in silent horror as the corporations, the captains and the kings of industry, used a comparatively small outlay of cash to buy the Republicans to use as their shills. George W. Bush is the puppet cowboy-king of shills, the proverbial emperor with no clothes. Every day, I watch these evil men legalize, legitimize, and institutionalize robbing the poor to pay the rich. They are carving up America like a giant carcass and doling out choice chunks of its meat to themselves and their cronies. Since the Democrats have been sipping at the same corporate teat where the Republicans have been gorging for the past generation, the fascists are free to do their worst; there is no longer any opposition. There is no one left to stand up for the rights of the American people, the Constitution, or the democracy, which I fear will be replaced by a fascist dictatorship in my lifetime. Wake up, America: we need a REVOLUTION NOW!
Hey, "pedophile pam" bondi--FUCK your oppo research, and FUCK YOU. YOU have ZERO integrity. YOU have ZERO ethics. YOU have ZERO credibility. YOU are a PEDOPHILE ENABLER--you may as well be a pedophile yourself. YOU DO NOTHING BUT LIE LIE LIE LIE. How DARE you impugn your superiors Blumenthal and Whitehouse. FUCK YOU!
Clearly, YOU APPROVE of EVERYTHING epstein, maxwell, and trump did. You condone the rape of every child they victimized. It makes me wonder: since you're so comfortable with republican pedophilia, are you a pedophile yourself?
Revisiting political violence: charlie kirk's murder and more
Just a few remarks before I offer up a few videos and memes for today...
I keep hearing what strikes me as a false dichotomy regarding the murder of charlie kirk: either people are "horrified" or "celebrating."
maga seems to think that the left is celebrating the hateful little man's murder--they think we're laughing and partying.
I think this is because they celebrate when one of theirs attacks Democrats, Jews, women, Latinos, LGBTQ+....
For example, I'm old enough to remember how republicans responded to the vicious attack on Paul Pelosi: they literally laughed; they lamented that he survived; and they made up stories they felt were as insulting as humanly possible (i.e., they pretended that the attacker was Paul Pelosi's gay lover, as if being LGBTQ+ is somehow wrong or less than).
In somewhat of a contrast, they at best shrug off when one of theirs mass murders school children; at worst, they screech that these mass shooting are hoaxes.
So of course they project their callousness to gun violence onto us--just as they project their homosexuality, bisexuality, trans genderism, and pedophilia onto us.
The truth is that, no, I do not celebrate charlie kirk's murder. Although I am relieved that he can no longer harm people with his own hateful voice, I never wished him any harm, wished him dead, or celebrated his gruesome murder.
I do feel grief that he was taken out through gun violence. Unfortunately, like maga, I too am somewhat too accustomed to the business as usual of gun violence in this country. I grew up around it. There was one mass shooting in my town just before I turned 7; there was another before I turned 8.
And I lived in a safe white bread suburban neighborhood with virtually no other crime--violent or otherwise--to speak of.
Those were the first two mass shootings I remember hearing of; my family and I lost several friends and loved ones to gun violence before I'd lived many more decades.
So, yeah, having grown up with gun violence, I see kirk's murder as a natural consequence of both the horrible, willfully violent American gun culture he himself helped foment and his own hateful, violent rhetoric.
And, although I lament that he died by murder, I can't help feeling relief that one such monster is no longer able to harm me or my loved ones. Sorry, maga, I'm just not stupid enough to feel horrified or grieved at the permanent departure of someone determined to harm me, just as, unlike you, I'm not stupid enough to vote for some pick-me who is determined to destroy me just because they look like me.
Sadly, one of kirk's acolytes recently committed a political murder on his behalf: he used his truck to mow down two teenage Latinas, one of whom he claimed "laughed" about kirk's murder...but since the victims were not white and/or male, the media are largely ignoring this case of political violence. (I wouldn't be surprised if this murderer both projected his own glee at violent attacks on Democrats onto Maria Niotis and was romantically interested in her and was rejected by her--probably rightfully so for his coming across as a violent creep. And perhaps he used kirk's murder as cover for murdering Maria not only for rejecting him but out of his own anger with himself for being attracted to and rejected by a Latina rather than a white girl. But this is only conjecture on my own part, and I digress.)
Compounding political violence is also a consequence of kirk's murder: although republicans are hateful and violent every day, they certainly don't seem to mind having--or, in the case of kirk's murder, inventing--any convenient excuse for really letting loose their rage on the innocent.
Their lust for cruelty and blood seems to know no bounds.
And that is a natural consequence of having trump as the standards bearer for the American republican party.
Friends, I remain convinced that good will come from all of this: that America will become saturated to the point of disgust with trump's reeking brand of mindless violence and constant corruption, treason, and law-breaking and that, as a nation, we will rise up and say, "ENOUGH!"
From the ashes of this phoenix, we will create a safer, more just, more peaceful, more equitable, and more prosperous America for all of us.
- Dot Calm's shadow
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"MILITARY’S REACTION TO PETE HEGSETH/TRUMP TALK #trump #maga #petehegseth"
Sadly, fox propaganda plays 24/7 on every TV in every military base and government office in this country. As a result, the rank and file eat it up, worship the orange foolius, and live ignorant lives completely unmoored from objective reality. But the top brass is more educated and has more no-kidding, no-bullshit experience in the real world. So if you were worried that our generals would cheer and applaud whiskeyleaks pete kegsbreath's and trump's micro dick energy prancing and peacocking, paranoia, illegality, treason, violence, and stupidity, cheer up--the top brass were as disgusted and revolted as the rest of us who happen to have more than two working neurons between our ears.
"BREAKING: IS GOOGLE BLOCKING TRUMP DEMENTIA SEARCHES? #shorts"
So, the fascists at google gladly dogpile on President Biden while blocking the truth on trump's obvious dementia and cognitive decline.... Watch the short and try it yourself: search on biden's dementia and on trump's dementia and compare the results of those two searches. It's shocking but, alas, not surprising.
"Charlie Kirk’s Own Words #duet #charliekirk #racist #misogynist #homophobia"
Again, the way you die does not redeem the way you lived. charlie kirk was a vicious, hateful, violent monster who gloried in punching down to harm innocent women, people of color, LGBTQ+, and other marginalized communities instead of using his voice and his platform to speak truth to power and promote peace and justice for all.
"I REFUSE to participate in this atrocity"
David Pakman outlines the fetid history of republicans weaponizing the federal budget process to create artificial government shutdowns and the associated crises that harm and kill innocent Americans. We truly don't have to live this way--we don't have to suffer at the hands of republicans who know not how to govern and lead but only how to harm and destroy. They are so psychologically damaged that they see us not as fully human--because they don't see themselves as fully human--but only as pawns to kick around and trample for fun, power, and profit. And that's why David Pakman refuses to breathlessly report on whether there will be a shutdown, when there will be a shutdown, how long the shutdown will last, or any of the other horse-race nonsense that fascist legacy media obsess over.
"Political Violence, Charlie Kirk, & Mormonism"
Sarah is a farmer, and she was brought up mormon. The suspect in the charlie kirk shooting, as a mormon, "looks like family" to Sarah. She says that mormon children are brought up by a village, so there is a lot of unity and cooperation among adults in rearing mormon children; there is exactly one way a mormon is expected to live their life; and there is zero teaching or understanding of how to deal with people who are different or what to do if you happen to be different yourself. So she says that mormonism truly primes children for radicalization--I would add that republicanism itself, of which mormonism is a sect, radicalizes boys. (Side note: a mormon, like a catholic, qualifies as "christian" only when it's convenient for republicans.) And on top of all of this, mormonism comes with guns. LOTS of guns. And lots of training with guns. So, if you grow up mormon and miss one or more mormon milestones, get tired or frustrated with the tightly circumscribed life mormonism insists is god's plan to make you happy, are LGBTQ+ or love someone LGBTQ+, reject all the institutionalized sexual abuse, or otherwise care about someone different or are different yourself, like so many other mormons, you are brought up to eschew empathy at all costs, and you can end up like the young white blonde "ideal republican" man who allegedly shot charlie kirk.
"Groypers Love Femboys"
I mentioned a post or three ago that the alleged kirk shooter is a groyper, meaning a follower of nick fuentes, for whom charlie kirk wasn't maga enough. groypers are incels who groom other incels to replace women, whom they abhor with a seething passion, by feminizing themselves. groypers are obsessed in a positive way with transgender women for the same reason. So the charlie kirk shooter having a feminized assigned-male-at-birth romantic partner fits with the groyper identity as we understand it.
"Let's talk about Trump’s international weakness on full display...."
trump is so extremely, excessively weak, stupid, traitorous, and incompetent that we really could see World War III under this regime. putin flying armed military drones over our NATO ally Poland and bibi attacking our ally Qatar are Very Big Deals, but trump is sleepy, low energy, low information, and callously and ignorantly dismissive, submissive, and supine in such matters of true importance.
"Let's talk about Trump's Jan 6 own goal...."
So. trump CAN deploy the National Guard...but only to terrorize the innocent Americans trump has declared war on, not when there's a very real insurrection and violent attack on the nation's capitol.
"11 Dems just voted for Tr*mp's bill to put immigrants in prison for YEARS. It'll cost taxpayers $$"
Blue maga is apparently a thing, and they're just as hateful, inhuman, traitorous, and cruel as red maga. tom suozzi just got in. This shit is why people think both parties are identical.
Congressional switchboard 202-224-3121
All 11 Democrats who voted for the bill represent battleground seats and are Republican targets next year. They were Reps.
Henry Cuellar of Texas
Don Davis of North Carolina
Laura Gillen of New York
Jared Golden of Maine
Vicente Gonzalez of Texas
Adam Gray of California
Kristen McDonald Rivet of Michigan
Frank J. Mrvan of Indiana
Marie Gluesenkamp Pérez of Washington
Tom Suozzi of New York
Gabe Vasquez of New Mexico.
"Fox SPIRALS as Hosts LOSE IT on AIR"
brian kilmeade committed the crime of stochastic terrorism by casually calling for the murder by lethal injection of homeless veterans and other vulnerable, innocent men, women, and children. kilmeade committed a crime in the state of New York that should get him and fox propaganda taken off the air permanently and prosecuted for said crime. The other fox hosts didn't even challenge kilmeade on his disgusting, murderous, thuggish demand. Dare I say it? "You first, bri bri."
"Why Farmers Voted For Trump"
Farmers ARE rich. Farmers are NOT working class. Remember, all that land and farm equipment COSTS. Farmers KNEW trump would start trade wars and cost them serious sales money. But they voted for benefits including easier enslavement of their workers, and they expected free money hand-outs from trump like they got last time. But just like trump always stiffed contractors once they were no longer needed, trump is stiffing farmers because trump no longer needs them.
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES! RELEASE THE TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES!! RELEASE THE TRUMPSTEIN FILES!!!
Hey, donald john trump: FUCK YOU! Go fuck yourself! Fuck you, fuck your entire regime, and fuck all republicans that voted for, support, and enable you!
We're not scared of you. You're trash. You only do what you do and say what you say because you're weak, stupid, and terrified of everything, including your own shadow, and you know it.
I guess Kenvue, makers of Tylenol, were shaken down but didn't play ball...?
So, idiot trump and idiot rfk, jr., are now telling us that acetaminophen, brand name Tylenol, causes autism even though autism was first named and diagnosed in 1943 and acetaminophen wasn't used therapeutically until 1950 or marketed as Tylenol until 1955.
Fortunately, only maga people are stupid enough to forego pain and fever relief during pregnancy thanks to these two morons they revere as gods.
Let idiot trump and idiot rfk, jr., go shine flashlights up their asses and eat horse paste and drink bleach; the rest of us will continue to remain rational and follow the science.
So, donald john trump and all his republican gay bois crashed Grindr--again!
Apparently, with all the merch and grift and republican pedophile campaigning and saber rattling and chest thumping and classlessness and tastelessness and willful ignorance and hate and stupidity and vileness and DL gay hook-ups--enough to crash Grindr! AGAIN!! Just like at the last republican convention (and many before it)!!!--and kkk and nazi rally speeches and battle cries, including the lies and filth that spewed from trump's orange face anus, maga nazi charlie kirk didn't get much of a memorial at his memorial.
Maybe charlie kirk wasn't maga nazi enough for the groyper maga nazis, but at least he died for his deeply held belief in his right to be shot dead by any insane maga nazi with a gun and the training to use it.
donald john trump and jeffrey epstein were not only pedophiles but also gay lovers--prove me wrong.
Nobody hates women more than trump, epstein, evangelicals, and other republicans. Every single one of those assigned-male-at-birth people is closeted gay, bi, trans, and/or pedophile. But don't believe me--just look at the statistics, and look at what they say and what they do. Not one of these "men" loves women. Not one wants to impress or care for or care about women. They're all about impressing each other--not women.
president* donald john trump is a fat, stupid, ignorant, senile, demented, narcissistic, sociopathic, murderous, treasonous, rapist, pedophile, evil, sick, sad, WEAK, subservient, terrified, unloved, unwanted, unpopular, whiny, sucky baby
Just speaking for Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Joy Ann Reid, Mehdi Hassan, and anyone and everyone else trump wants to but CAN'T silence. trump is weak; WE ARE NOT!
Alleged maga mormon shooter tyler robinson was the ideal republican child growing up in the perfect republican home, family, neighborhood, and environment.
He was white.
He was male.
He grew up in a comfortable home with enough to eat.
He grew up in a non-urban neighborhood with few to no people of color.
He grew up in a god-fearing, devoutly religious, church-going christian family in rubiest reddest Utah.
His mother and father were married and cis-heterosexual.
His father was in law enforcement.
He was brought up to understand and respect guns.
That family knows only republicans--his grandma says they're all maga, and they don't even know any non-republicans.
According to republican propaganda through the decades, these are the exact conditions required to keep kids from turning to crime, including using a gun to commit murder.
But it seems that tyler robinson hated charlie kirk, so he used a gun to shoot him dead.
Why is there such a disconnect between republican propaganda and the very real reality of rampant republican violence?
Because republican propaganda is lies.
republicans lie because the nra owns them--they refuse to deal with the real problem, so they resort to lies and propaganda.
The real problem is that America is infested with guns.
There are more guns here than people.
It's safe to say that anyone who would even strongly consider--let alone actually commit--the crime of murdering one or more other people with a gun is mentally ill.
But every other developed nation on this planet has mental illness! And video games! And liberals! And atheists! And people of color, poor people, queer people...!
And NONE has the epidemic of daily gun violence and mass shootings we do in America.
It's only here, where we worship the sanctity of guns and sacrifice expendable innocent schoolchildren to them, that the most common cause of childhood death is not car accidents or disease but gunshots.
IT'S THE GUNS, STUPID!!!
Friends, we must vote out every republican in perpetuity.
We must vote in only Democrats at every level of government, from local dog catcher up to President of the United States.
Democrats may not be perfect, but they're the only practical opponents we can deal with and win against to make America a better, safer place for all of us.
We must vote for Democrats up and down the line in perpetuity because it's the only way to root all money out of politics; tax the rich into paying their fair share and tax billionaires out of existence; restore human rights to women, children, people of color, LGBTQ+ folks, seniors, veterans, and other poor and disadvantaged Americans; restore accountability to politics and media; restore democracy by eliminating the electoral college and establishing one person-one vote; and end the infestation of guns and the epidemic of gun violence.
It's time, and we can do it.
There are more of us than there are of them.
If you have any doubt regarding whom to vote for, listen to what Black women say, and watch what Black women do. Watch Tabitha Speaks Politics. These ladies have been through it all, and they know what the most practical course of action is every step of the way.
Quit with the purity tests and focus on eliminating fascism, reducing harm, and doing what's BEST for most of us.
The alleged charlie kirk shooter is a groyper, NOT a trans, a person of color, an immigrant, a leftist, an ANTIFA....
groypers are dedicated followers of nazi nick fuentes's brand of republicanism. The term "groyper" comes from an Internet amphibian meme (e.g., pepe the frog is a groyper). groypers are a sect of republicans (i.e., maga) that is at war with other sects of republicans (i.e., also maga). Specifically, groypers are an even more white nationalist, homophobic, nativist, sexist, antisemitic, and fascist sect of republicans that put trump's and our enemies' interests above America's.
The divide between the groyper nazis and the charlie kirk nazis is that groyper maganuts think that charlie kirk and his maganut followers aren't maga enough.
Yes, you read that right: charlie kirk wasn't nazi enough for groyper nazis.
That fact seems to have been the motivation for charlie kirk's shooter to murder him--kirk wanted the epstein files released, and the shooter, being a groyper, objected to putting trump's interests below the interests of innocent children whom trump, epstein, and other rich and powerful men repeatedly raped and traumatized.
So, again, the WHITE CIS REPUBLICAN MAGA MAN who shot charlie kirk dead is a white cis republican maga man--a mormon, in fact. NOT a transgender person. NOT a person of color. NOT an immigrant. NOT a leftist. NOT ANTIFA--although we ALL should be ANTIFA!
charlie kirk's murder--not assassination because he was not a political figure--was maga on maga violence.
I also stand corrected on the professionalism of the kill shot that took out nazi charlie kirk: Daniella of Knitting Cult Lady served as a Lieutenant in the military, and she and others familiar with hunting families, such as the maga mormon shooter grew up in, says that such a kill shot is easy for someone as well trained from as early on as the maga mormon shooter. Daniella says she was a lousy shooter but could have made that shot. Unlike republicans, I believe the experts.
So let's all start ignoring charlie kirk's senseless, unjustified murder to the same degree that we as a society ignore daily senseless, unjustified femicides and daily senseless, unjustified mass shootings of innocent schoolchildren.
Cheri Jacobus: "Evidence mounts that the Charlie Kirk murder was an inside job. Stay skeptical."
There was one kill shot that seems very professional. kirk was somewhat influential, but he was not a big fish. He was just not important enough for anyone on the left to want to murder him; he was just important enough to trump to make a big PR splash--and he broke with trump over the epstein files, so maybe trump was pissed off at him enough to be happy to sacrifice him. (And I just thought of another thing: remember in the 80s and 90s how mobbed up trump was in NY and NJ? Maybe trump called in a favor from an old mob buddy's sharpshooter.) And who benefits? Certainly not the left--but trump has been lusting to wage even more war on us, and this trigger event seems like enough of a justification. Another key point: trump is capable of even more evil than any of us normal, sane, rational, decent, compassionate people can imagine. As Cheri says, this is how evil people get away with so much. And remember: this is exactly what charlie kirk worked so hard for. Maybe you and I don't support what happened to charlie kirk, but charlie kirk sure did.
So. charlie kirk was shot dead at one of his nazi rallies in Utah. Thoughts and prayers for his survival and recovery magically fixes everything, amirite? Personally, I'm devoutly thankful that this poor simp incel can no longer harm innocent Americans with his vicious platform of hate. Ya think trump will send in the National Guard and actually DO something about our insane gun violence? Or is it too soon to ask?
"I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights."
-- Charlie Kirk
Welp, ya can't say the guy didn't give his life for his strongly held belief in the importance of guns over American lives.
(To be clear: am I glad kirk was shot to death? NO. I don't condone violence, political or otherwise, and I do support the same kinds of reasonable, rational gun control that EVERY other civilized, developed nation has. But am I glad kirk is gone and can no longer harm innocent women, trans people and other LGBTQ+, poor people, people of color, ...? YES. Yes, I am glad kirk is gone. Seriously, how difficult is it to try to live your life so that sane, rational, reasonable, compassionate, DECENT people don't feel a tremendous sense of relief when you die?!??)
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN/TRUMPSTEIN/TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES! Oh, and rfk, jr., is a threat to humanity--EXACTLY what maga voted for!
And now...as promised...in no particular order (except how I collected them except for the fact that I saved a funny or three for the bottom of the post as a reward for those who scroll all the way down)...I bring you today's memestorm (with poor old Blogger's somewhat random spacing). Enjoy!
- Dot Calm's shadow
Of course nobody voted for trump because of the qualities listed--trump has none of those qualities. trump has zero positive qualities whatsoever.
Fucking grifters. It isn't just maga spending their grocery money on enriching the trumps--it's also foreign powers investing billions of dollars to control our government.
maga voted for this with their eyes wide open.
Suffering? I think they enjoy it. Otherwise, they wouldn't keep voting to harm themselves.
Alas. Bastards. They're no better than susan collins; they can all go F themselves.
Tax the rich and the churches out of existence! Let's use that money to help and save people, not to torment and kill them!!
Or a woman. Or from rfk, jr.
That's right, kids--hitler was a catholic, not an atheist.
Same, bro. Same.
Yes! Completely annul trump--fire every judge and appointee; overturn every executive order and law; cash out every trump property and account and give every Democratic voter a reparations check. Also, NO Secret Service protection for ANY republican in or enabling of the trump regime.
Also, NOT a trans person; not a drag queen.
EVERY red state has a higher per capita rate of murder and violent crime than ANY blue state. Blue states are safer; Democrats are better for humans, the economy, and the planet; and water is wet.
We need to legalize making the bringer of frivolous lawsuits pay for both parties' legal expenses and time lost by the hour. Doing this would stop 100% of trump family lawsuits before they start. Nonetheless, it helps that melania has indeed confirmed that epstein introduced her and trump and that she and trump boinked for the first time on epstein's sex trafficking plane. I'm waiting for her to confirm that she was epstein's lay before he handed her off to donald once she was too long in the tooth for epstein. I wonder which she likes better: epstein's egg or trump's acorn-sized mushroom.... (I'll bet epstein at least smelled better than diaper dumpy-pants trump.)
Yes, and we need to teach little boys that they are responsible for their own actions--to quit blaming little girls--and that little girls are people, too, just like little boys. While we're at it, let's teach little boys to be more polite, kind, respectful, and empathetic. Adult men need to learn all this, too--women have far out-evolved them thanks to how everyone is socialized in this sad, benighted country.
Oddly enough, even sharia law theocracies allow legal abortions on demand....
I need trump and every one of its enablers behind bars before I'll listen to a word any of them has to say about who else deserves prison for what. This is the most criminal, corrupt, cruel, ignorant, hateful, selfish, destructive, hypocritical, arrogant, traitorous regime in American history--and the least capable, helpful, service-minded, intelligent, patriotic, serious, compassionate, educated, and credible.
Let's doge (pronounced "douche") trump and vance and all their weekly taxpayer-funded vacations, shall we!
Thing is, trump's icestapo is renditioning and disappearing even Aryan-looking people to foreign torture gulags for fun and profit. Can't possibly imagine why that would be bad for tourism to the U.S., either....
So, it looks like I was right: trump did rape little boys as well as little girls!!
And so can every other republican and everyone who didn't vote for Hillary, Biden, or Kamala.
Some of us are still watching cartoons into our 40s, 50s, 60s, ....
