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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust Another Super Healthy Week Spent Arguing Whether or Not Science is Real and Mob Violence is Bad
The American Right will not, dear reader, be made to eat their peas. Peas are tyranny. Sure, peas arent honestly that bad, and eating just a few peas could save your life, and if everybody just ate their fucking peas for a little while we could, as a nation, finally stop dying in droves and get back to our lives, but BLERG BLARK SHEEPLE YOULL PRY THOSE PEAS INTO MY COLD DEAD MOUTH BENGHAZIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!! Anyway. I better get on with the blog before I bludgeon this poor metaphor any further.
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Have you noticed, a few reporters from the ol Appalachian diner beat seem to have been reassigned, to finally inquire of those of us who reside in objective reality how we feel about once again sacrificing our standard of living and our safety to the conniptions of the spiteful and misinformed? Turns out, we dont care for it.
I confess, its the petulance that gets under my skin. MASKS? AGAIN? they whine, a nation of full-diapered brats in sore need of Wonka-style discipline. They just keep flinging their Legos all over the floor and stomping on them and screaming and blaming us for the pain and I am 31 flavors of over it.
You hear about Lauren Boebert, that cud-brained ball of unfettered hate, childishly flinging an offered mask in a House staffers face, and ENOUGH, okay, you have murdered ENOUGH people with your idiocy and your filthy, evil lies. Stop throwing these silly, performative tantrums, just SHUT THE FUCK UP and let the grown-ups finally, FINALLY do whats necessary to slow the senseless loss of life.
These fits about masks
how the fuck are you still on this shit, you crazy, stupid, sheepfucking asshats? These theories yall have, about masks and Covid and whether to trust doctors or game show hosts on such matters
theyre not holding up too terrifically well, have you noticed that? You could almost say theyve been disproven every single goddamn day for a year and half. By the ever-growing mound of body bags. You fucks.
And still we have Republican Governors, like those devout death cult archbishops, Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis, actually issuing orders to make it harder, or even impossible, for local governments to fight the virus spread, (special racist carve-out, of course, for xxxtra Nazi pointz) demanding, with the full force of their offices, that Covids extra-contagious new variant be allowed to spread unhindered throughout the populace. To deny the reaper a single victim is a crime under the rule of these maliciously insane men.
You are indecent people pursuing indecent goals. There is already so much blood on your hands, Birnam Wood is probably parked on your front fucking lawn right now.
Please stop killing us. Youve killed SO MANY PEOPLE for such stupid, stupid reasons. Just stop. Please, you fuckheads. PLEASE.
I am sincerely sorry that youve given your hearts and your minds over to this sense-annihilating rage; from where Im sitting, it looks like a tremendously unpleasant way to waste the few precious years were allotted on this Earth. But this thing where millions of you refuse to live in the real word, teetering on the brink of violence at all times, and the rest of us just
I dunno, patiently absorb the casualties yall inflict in your madness? Its not gonna work out, campers.
The House Freedom Caucus demanded Kevin McCarthy expel Marjorie Taylor Greene from the Republican Conference, over her history of inciting violence and spreading disinformation.
Excuse me, thats not right. The HFC demanded the Minority Leader expel Matt Gaetz for trafficking minors for sex.
Jeez, no, I dont know whats gotten into me tonight, the Freedom Caucus demanded McCarthy expel Paul Gosar for fundraising alongside holocaust-denying white supremacists. As any decent person would.
JUST KIDDING, the rancid wad of warthog sphincters men call the House Freedom Caucus demanded ol Keville Chamberlain excommunicate neither criminals nor bigots, but Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, for the damnable sin of loving their country too much to abandon it to the darkest, ugliest belief system humanity has discovered to date.
Freedom Caucus. The advertising firm of Draper & Orwell sure has been busy.
Anyhow. Kinzinger, you see, joined Cheney on the January 6th commission, having taken the apparently partisan stance that Terrorism is Bad and Should Be Opposed. I know theres an awful lot of huffing and puffing going down on the Sunday shows and editorial pages, but Id like to think were strong and smart and sober and honest enough, you and I, to acknowledge that the one fundamental debate in American politics right now is Nazi Mob or Nah?
As you know, the commission held their first public hearing this week, and
yeah, those are the sides. We all watched the footage. There was a Nazi mob on one side, and the other side was a bunch of cops, battling for their lives, and the lives of the folks the LITERAL NAZI MOB was attempting to, you know, murder.
Im just saying, this is a fairly low moral/ethical hurdle to clear.
And yet.
Eager to distract, or at least obfuscate, Elise Stefanik, who certainly doesnt seem to have grown tired of the ten-dollar Joe Goebbels Halloween costume she donned in search of power, sauntered out, with the propagandists courage, to tell anyone whod listen that ACTUALLY Nancy Pelosi Capitol Rioted herself, because one Big Lie deserves another, I suppose, and another, and another, until the camps are open and the worlds on fire. Elise, you greedy nitwit, you do not understand the forces youre toying with.
Yknow who understands? Mike fucking Flynn understands. When he waves around an AR-15, playfully musing aloud, Maybe I'll find somebody in Washington, D.C.," he knows full well he is dispensing another dose of a constantly-reinforced message, that violence against political opponents is perfectly justifiable. Stochastic terrorism 101. Just sit back and wait for the next incel to snap.
And then we had to watch the Fascistic Four, Gaetz, Gosar, Gohmert, and Greene, shamelessly attempt to drum up sympathy for the goddamn terrorists. Painting them as political prisoners, held in appalling conditions, at the very same time America watched them try to beat cops to death with whatever they could get their hands on. Sitting U.S. Congressmen, brazenly siding with Brownshirt thugs, against their own country and Constitution, against the very law enforcement officers who sustained injuries and trauma protecting their ungrateful asses. In the clear light of day. In case youre wondering about how that pile of marble puke suddenly appeared at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial.
Good news is, the burgeoning Fifth Column Caucus is still puny enough to chase away with a single whistle. Lets keep it that way, huh?
Speaking of congressional traitors, Alabamas Mo Brooks confessed he was wearing body armor while addressing that famous gathering of Normal Tourist Visitors️ back on a certain January Wednesday, totally ordinary attire for non-violence-inciting speeches like the one Mo delivered to the crowd that would shortly attempt to lynch the Vice President of the United States. Odd that Brooks gambit, to force the Justice Department to defend his treachery, at taxpayer expense, failed so quickly, isnt it? May this be merely the first of many setbacks, you detestable shitpile.
Oh, and it turns out Gym Jordan, who tried so desperately to force his subpar self onto the commission, hoping to drag the proceedings down to his own clown-passed-out-in-a-truck-stop-outhouse level, couldnt have served on the committee anyway, on account of the time hell need to spend in the witness chair, having enjoyed, by his own grudging admission, a little chitchat with a certain recently-defeated Mussolini knockoff, on the above-mentioned Wednesday in January. Whoopsie.
Incidentally, while the Children of the Candy Corn spread disease throughout the land and work like hell to eliminate the right to vote, theyve also decided, as a culture, to boo, berate, and otherwise shit upon the nations Olympic athletes, specially the Black ones, but dont you dare call them racist, you cancel culture ruffians, anyway, back to valorizing the white supremacist terrorists and mocking the heroes who kept them from their nefarious goals.
Congratulate Clay Higgins, the first Republican Congresscreep to catch Covid
twice. Whats that? Was a second bout with a potentially lethal virus enough to get our boy Clay to back off the racist conspiracy theories n disinformation n whatnot? Oh, my sweet summer child.
If you dont mind me snapping that last fraying thread your sanity barely clings to, all this lunacy, this atrocity, this brain-melting fuckery, has been perpetrated in the name of fealty to Donald J. Trump, the J stands for My endorsement cant even carry a comically-low-turnout Republican primary in Texas anymore, but keep on tithing, rubes. 18,279 votes, out of a total of 39,116. Thats all the power the Dotard in Decline is capable of actually manifesting in the world these days.
Further demonstrating the retail political mastery that delivered both of Georgias Senate seats, all sixteen of their electoral votes, and a tasteful gift basket of soaps and lotions to the opposing party, Pumpkin Spice Pol Pot took to his vastly diminished platform to once again attack members of his own team, this time for backing the astronomically popular bipartisan infrastructure bill. His effort will once again prove impotent and ineffectual, and yet Republican deference will remain undiminished. They are a submissive people.
Hey look! Still more proof Tangerine Idi Amin illegally pressured federal officials to join Operation: Make America Trumps Forever! Remember back when the lame duck President neglected a raging pandemic in order to focus on overthrowing the government-in-transition and seizing power forever? Those were just the goddamn wonder years, werent they?
Oh, also, the Department of Justice ordered Treasury to finally turn Wee Donnie One-Terms tax returns over to the House Ways and Means Committee, but I doubt a career criminals most ferociously guarded secrets will ultimately yield anything significant. Certainly not a six-figure annual piss hooker budget.
The MyPillow Guy appears to be breaking up with Fox News, because he believes single-handedly funding Tucker Carlsons White Power Hour ought to grant him Big Lie-spreading privileges, and doesnt it absolutely suck that this is how the world works? That a deranged dolt like Mike Lindell has been granted so much influence over the information consumed as news in this country? I wanna talk to the manager, dammit.
Say, if all this foolishness has left you in a fascist-smashing mood, have I got a comic book for you! Marguerite vs. the Occupation, written by your humble masked blogger, (in his mild-mannered alter ego, admittedly) tells the story of a young woman joining up with the French Resistance to get the goddamn Nazis out of her house. Resistance comics for a Resistance audience, thats what were doin here. You will dig this shit, I promise. Read more about it here.
I want to thank everyone whos already backed the Kickstarter, I wouldnt be able to do this stuff without you. Anyhow, if youre on the fence, nows a great time to take the plunge; weve added some stretch goals, because weve got ourselves a real pretty book here, and wed like to give it the presentation it deserves. Were live until August 19th.
Either way, stay safe out there, friends. Dont let the Delta variant getcha. Or any howling mobs of unimpressive white people, either. Just
look both ways before crossing the street, is what Im saying
we live in interesting times.
SheltieLover
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crickets
(25,983 posts)You made me laugh at all of the nonsense we're dealing with. Thank you!
littlemissmartypants
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(50,303 posts)Hugin
(33,198 posts)shit show. We may as well read the program.
Thanks, SC.