Rules for Fighting Back Against the Lies and Bullshit

1. Always be polite. Always record it.  This becomes especially important if you are actually attacked and need to prove something in court.  
   The agenda of right-wing tools is to provoke the their enemies into descending to their level.

   The rwNJ assholes want you to be violent, because it validates their sense of persecution. Also - and this is as creepy as it is stupid - they think you are soft and they can hurt you without repercussions. Do not descend, as it will make them fail and make them batshit crazy, and if you can make them lose their cool by being the sane one, then you win. If they blow their shit and attack you, you can show them “peaceful does not mean pushover” and smash them (exactly as they had hoped to trick you). They are insane, already, so be calm, let them scream. Post the vids of who is the uncivil shit. Always have a friend nearby as witness, ready to openly and obviously record belligerent behavior. Give the asshole a chance to change course. You don't want to get sued for “secret taping.”  That's illegal in some areas.
2. Money talks. Don't like the DNC? That's fine; I don't fucking care.  There are a shit ton of options, but you have to throw money at them. Go to ActBlue and pledge $5 to $10 per month to anything that strikes your fancy.  Want a Constitutional Amendment blocking “corporate personhood”? There's organizations for that.
3. Donate monthly to NPR.  The last bastion of real independent journalism. It's sick how much time and energy they have to waste proving they are, in fact, real fact-based journalists.  Donate money, since the oligarchs/GOP have been trying to destroy them for years.
4. Find anything in your area the GOP/rwNJ have been attacking and donate money to it.  If they are attacking it, that means you need it.
5. Watch CNN.  They do actually still ascribe to the principles of journalism and are done putting up with bullshit and fake civility.
6. Make sure you can vote. Get out and make sure your neighbors can vote. You'd be horrified how many people have been denied this right for stupid reasons that were easy to sort out, if they had only known ahead of time.
7. Call bullshit out as bullshit. This is important - one way the rwNJ corporate media succeeds is by controlling the message, usually by simple deluge. Call out bullshit when you smell it, so that anyone else coming along later sees it called out and has a chance to recognize the bullshit, too.
8. If you find yourself in a business with Fox or other propaganda media on the television, turn on your phone video recording and politely ask the manager to change it to anything not propaganda media.  If they comply politely, tell the world. If they decline politely, tell the world. If they turn into assholes, tell the world. Be polite! Always have a friend nearby as witness, ready to openly and obviously record belligerent behavior. Give the asshole a chance to change course. You don't want to get sued for “secret taping.”  That's illegal in some areas.
9. Follow the money. If someone is selling you a line of shit, how does he benefit from it? Who sold him that line of shit? How do they benefit from selling it? Who pays them to sell that shit? Who distributes their shit? Cut the flow of money, cut the flow of shit. Tell Coca-Cola and Kroger to stop advertising on Fox News or Rush Limbaugh, or asshole-blog-swill-du-jour, and that while they continue to advertise you will shop elsewhere. That you will advise your friends to shop elsewhere. Backtrack the money, and find the oligarchs - people like the Kochs, the Soroses, the Putins, or (I can't believe I'm throwing in this towel) the Rothschilds.  Find the ROOT CAUSE and dismantle THAT, and the rest sorts itself out.

Electiongeddon2020 Refuting Trump's Big Lie

Ah, yes, the "40+ judges all refuse to accept real evidence" claim. Some of those judges appointed by Trump. In at least ten states, including the District of Columbia.

And then it was finally killed by the Supreme Court, of which six (6) justices are Conservative appointees, including three (3) of them by TRUMP HIMSELF.

Because, sure, it's all a grand conspiracy against The Donald, and it's so evil how everyone eventually turns on him, no matter how inconsistent or insane he behaves.

Yeah, no. I've avoided going here, but it's been dragged here, so the belief that one man is special above all others, and everyone who stands against him is clearly part of some evil plot is the very definition of a cult. Congrats, Donald Trump is a cult leader (seriously, he fits so many of the key characteristics, including loyal worshippers who explain away his every flip-flop).

Donald Trump And His Lawyers Are Making Sweeping Allegations of Voter Fraud In Public. In Court, They Say No Such Thing


Trump Cries Voter Fraud. In Court, His Lawyers Don’t.
Pressed by judges, some attorneys representing Trump back away from claims

Trump Campaign Has ‘No Credible Or Reliable Evidence’ Proving Voter Fraud, Nevada Court Rules

Trump’s legal team cried vote fraud, but courts found none

Why Trump’s lawyers can lie to you but not to a judge


Trump Lawyer to Pennsylvania Judge: Nope, I’ve Got No Evidence of Voter Fraud

Post-election lawsuits related to the 2020 United States presidential election



Trump and his allies filed more than 40 lawsuits challenging the 2020 election results. All of them failed.


But, hey, you know, everyone is out to get The Donald, because they're all jealous of him. Or something. Yeah, I don't get it either. The "does that even make sense?" test fails time and again when I try to listen to right-wing talking points. (Seriously? Blood-drinking pedophiles? Because, sure, millions of cops, teachers, law enforcement officials, and generally decent human beings all NEVER EVER noticed. Yeah. And space aliens live at Area 51.)

Inauguration Day 2021

I have a bad feeling about the United States Inauguration Day 2021.  Personally, I think Rep. Nancy Pelosi needs to be in California that day.  This is because Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden are sworn in during the same ceremony, one right after the other, which means they are in the same place, at the same time.

Speaker of the House Pelosi is next in the chain of command, should shit happen.

Lunatics willing to storm the Capital Building are willing to plant Very Large Bombs in DC that day, possibly nuclear, if the lunatics can get ahold of them.  They're batshit crazy enough to consider everyone in DC - especially the "anti-Trump" Republicans - to be a "traitor," and President Trump (sexual predator, traitor) has already announced he won't be there, so their demagogue isn't there to be a meat shield.

I really want the day to go well, with no violence anywhere.  But, I doubt it will, and the GOP will be there afterwards to fuck America more.

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GOP lying whiners worse than ever

 It's 2020, and the GOP are even more fucked up.

The Lincoln Project are either "anti-Trump" Republicans,  which automatically makes them better human beings than "pro-Trump" Republicans, or they are Republicans that decided any party that Nazis, white supremacists and domestic terrorists are willing to embrace as "our kind of leaders" is absolutely fucked up.

So, below is a snippet from a Politico article, and here is my color commentary:

We have "not-as-far-right" Republicans harassing "Nazi-embraced-far-right" Republican's employees.

We have "Nazi-embraced-far-right" Republicans whining about being picked on, and either:

* Lying about who is "picking on them" - that is, deliberately lying that "not-as-far-right" Republicans are a "leftist mob" (by any sane definition,  the Lincoln Project people are still hard right);

OR

* It's really proof the "Nazi-embraced-far-right" Trump Republicans are so fucking far off the cliffs of hard right, that the "merely hard right" Lincoln Project people are - by comparison - "leftist";

OR

* (and this is really the most likely) BOTH.

Electiongeddon2020 - Biden is President - Get Over It

"It can't be that the object of our cult worship (Trump) lost and won't continue to be our fearless, self-absorbed leader! Therefore, there must - MUST - be some evil conspiracy involving hundreds of millions of people, all out to get our Godman Trump!"

Because, yeah, that totally makes sense outside some deranged horror novel.

#Electiongeddon2020

 

Spreading COVID-19 in the United States

The United States of "You call that a pandemic? Hold my beer!"

I was looking at the CNN COVID-19 spread webpage again today, and got annoyed how the logarithmic chart they use makes it look like the spread is slowing down (not their intention, but most people don't understand logarithmic charts).  So, I dug around to find one that shows it in linear scale, instead.

Then I thought I'd mock it up, to really try to spell it out for the slow kids in the classroom.

"You can't cure stupid."  - Old axiom

"...but maybe a virus can kill it."  - COVID-19 corollary

The Safety of Being White, United States 2020

As a white person I can do all of these things without thinking twice:

I can go birding (#ChristianCooper)

I can go jogging (#AmaudArbery)

I can relax in the comfort of my own home (#BothemSean and #AtatianaJefferson)

I can ask for help after being in a car crash (#JonathanFerrell and #RenishaMcBride)

I can have a cellphone (#StephonClark)

I can leave a party to get to safety (#JordanEdwards)

I can play loud music (#JordanDavis)

I can sell CDs (#AltonSterling)

I can sleep (#AiyanaJones)

I can walk from the corner store (#MikeBrown)

I can play cops and robbers (#TamirRice)

I can go to church (#Charleston9)

I can walk home with Skittles (#TrayvonMartin)

I can hold a hair brush while leaving my own bachelor party (#SeanBell)

I can party on New Years (#OscarGrant)

I can get a normal traffic ticket (#SandraBland)

I can lawfully carry a weapon (#PhilandoCastile)

I can break down on a public road with car problems (#CoreyJones)

I can shop at Walmart (#JohnCrawford)

I can have a disabled vehicle (#TerrenceCrutcher)

I can read a book in my own car (#KeithScott)

I can be a 10yr old walking with our grandfather (#CliffordGlover)

I can decorate for a party (#ClaudeReese)

I can ask a cop a question (#RandyEvans)

I can cash a check in peace (#YvonneSmallwood)

I can take out my wallet (#AmadouDiallo)

I can run (#WalterScott)

I can breathe (#EricGarner)

I can live (#FreddieGray)

I CAN BE ARRESTED WITHOUT THE FEAR OF BEING MURDERED (#GeorgeFloyd)

White privilege is real. Take a minute to consider a Black person’s experience today.

#BlackLivesMatter

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Alt-right chickenshit assholes

The "alt-right" are chicken shit snowflake assholes, too afraid to grow up and own their failures, instead constantly blaming others. This isn't rocket science; it's just not making excuses for their selfish cowardice anymore.

Also, Cthulu needs you to save him from the chickenshit snowflakes victim-wannabes. How fucked up is that?


"Though most of weird fiction has evolved past Lovecraftian pastiche and even explicit use of Mythos tropes, and rightfully so, discarding Lovecraft and relegating him to the margins would encourage Waffle-SS cosplayers to come out of the woodwork and claim him, and by extension the roots of cosmic horror itself as their own, and the Cthulhu Mythos would go the way of Pepe the Frog and tiki torches. If you’re sick of Lovecraft now, wait until the alt-right claims Cthulhu as a meme. Once that happens, the party’s over. The LA punk scene had to work tirelessly to call out Nazis and skinheads to stop them co-opting what they built, to keep a vital outsider scene from falling into the hands of elimationist imbeciles."


Source: https://forbiddenfutures.net/lovecraft-means-never-having-to-say-youre-sorry.html

Blue Pill, Red Pill: not the same

In 2019, Democrats call for Democrat Virginia Gov. to resign over a 35 yo picture. Meanwhile, GOP ran and defended white supremacists in 2018. If you think "both parties are the same," then you're a fucking self-absorbed idiot hiding your head in the sand to congratulate yourself for being too lazy to pick a side.

If you think "both sides are the same," then you are enabling white supremacy and you are poisoning America and the world with your childish laziness, and unwillingness to act like a grown-up and make a choice.

Very nearly everything wrong with 2019 in one image

This reminds me of that goody fake game show in Time Bandits, which I was also reminded of when reading the Shadowrun game vision of the future in which game shows and sitcoms often involve people dying.  And then we have Hunger Games, right?  Humans love their blood sports, just as long as it's someone else dying, and we can pretend the oligarchs get their comeuppance in the end, even though we know bloody well that they don't.

But humans also love their sex. And love viewing women as sex objects, right? I mean, history shows this, and #MeToo wasn't some spontaneous outrage, but was really backlash against the unraveling of progress in equality since the 1960s. It's beem really stunning how equality has been unwound and now avowed sexual predators sit in the White House and appoint an accused sexual predator and emotionally unstable asshole, to the Supreme Court, while enabling sociopaths in the Senate overrule the will of the American people to support both scum.

Americans love to think of women as sex objects, and all too often, we women have accepted this, and bought into it, and been broken down by it.

I've always thought of Howie Mandel as just plain weird. I don't know of anything particularly wrong with him.

But, the advert image says "Here is Howie! See Howie! This show is about Howie! Oh, and come and see the parade of skin-tone diverse, basic body type-identical eye candy we parade every day behind Howie!"

Yeah, lovely pandering to base interests there, people. Yuck.

Make Veteran Franklin Davis famous

Viral Photo Shows Homeless Vietnam Vet, Franklin Davis, Sweeping The Vietnam Veterans Memorial During Shutdown

So, apparently, it's not just a meme. He's a real guy, who really does this.

Franklin Davis has cancer and diabetes, and is kicked out of the Washington, D.C., homeless shelter where he stays at 8 a.m. each morning.

This week, the Vietnam veteran has been heading to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial park, cleaning up the trash that has accumulated during the ongoing government shutdown. The homeless veteran gained some viral fame this week after CNN published a picture of him cleaning the park on a cold and wintry day. The picture was shared on Reddit and reached the top of the front page, attracting plenty of praise for the quiet sacrifices from Davis.

Source: Here (I copied key text items, to emphasize Davis and why this meme and story are important, so even if the source link breaks, this information persists.)

Davis was spotted by photographer Stephen Voss, who saw the veteran picking up garbage and sweeping away leaves around the memorial. Davis said he wanted to honor those who lost their lives in the Vietnam War.

Davis is one of many Americans who have decided to pitch in during the ongoing government shutdown, including many who have gone to national parks overflowing with garbage and human waste to help clean up.

Boot-stomp appropriateness?

Okay, tell it to me honestly, is it only because I'm not black, that the image of a black man wearing "I've been boot-stomped" latex pants seems slightly inappropriate?  I mean, I am a cynical bitch, but even so, I'm probably just overthinking this.

Or, maybe it's just that he's such a handsome devil?  I'm going with that.  Damn, but he is fine :-)

Healthcare costs more than taxes

Just so we're clear, as a percentage of my household income:

* Taxes (state, federal, disability, blah, blah): 7.75%

* Health Insurance Premiums (NOT including dental, life insurance, vision or short-term disability, JUST the Cigna Health Premiums for doctor, prescription and hospital): 9.72%


Taxes: 7.75%

Cigna: 9.72%


That's HOUSEHOLD. If we were single-wage-earner household, that 9.72% would be higher. (One year, it was 15% [!!] thenk-yew-not-very-much)

Fuck your "free market capitalism" bullshit. I fucking want a goddman "Medicaid for All" safety net, in case I lose my fucking job, or just can't fucking afford it.

Fuck the GOP and Trump and they're "don't let anyone know Obamacare is still available for those people who desperately need health insurance and can't find it any other way!

Fuck GOP governors who refused Medicaid expansion for the low-income of their states - that is to say, they refused billions of dollars of money that could have come into their state, and the lost billions of potential wages and tax dollars those poor people might have earned/produced if they had been able to afford medications or doctor visits.

It's called psych warfare, and Trump is waging it on you

It's called "psychological warfare," and it doesn't require half a brain to accept reality and see that "conservatives" are being played for suckers and saps. Wake up people, and stop letting yourselves be played like puppets. You don't have to give a shit about "libtards," but quit being naive about who is pulling your leash and you're worshipping them for treating you worse than dogs.

All the Reasons Brett Kavanaugh should not be anywhere near SCOTUS

Sometimes the best thing to do, is just show you the memes.

Veterans before Billionaires

This isn't rocket science; it's getting our fucking priorities straight.

Cadet Bone Spurs wants you to cut benefits for veterans to give tax breaks to his family and his wealthy buddies.

Then they sell you t-shirts that say "Vets before refugees."

Nah, I got a better idea: "Vets and refugees before fucking billionaires."  I mean, Jesus was a refugee.

Americans need to pull their heads from their asses and get their priorities straightened out.

h/t +Laura Natale

Sinclair Broadcasting: Fuck Them Back

Ultra-Fuck America Corportist Propaganda media company Sinclair Broadcasting Group is public stock.

That means, for about 40 bucks, you can buy a share, and get the annual stockholder report, get other special insider reports, and have a say in who sits on the Board of Controlling Assholes.

Okay, for one share, you don't get so say shit about who sits on the Board, but here's the trick: You do get a ticket into the annual shareholders meeting.

Once you're inside, you don't have to advertise how many shares you own. You just act like a grown-up. You act like you own the place. You express your dissatisfaction with the current Board. You sow all kinds of dissent and fuckery. You meet up with other socially conscious shareholders. You learn what the Board of Assholes is up to and leak it to the world to undermine their underhanded fuckery.

For about $40 and a couple days a year, you can fuck with the biggest American fucking assholes in the world.

I just bought myself a pile of shares, because I'm tired of this shit, and I'm fighting back.

This from NBC News

The source video from Deadspin. It really is creepy.

The original article on Deadspin

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CIVILITY? - Earn it, you crude, selfish asswipe

I've covered this topic before, about how Republicans (not necessarily conservatives) are rude assholes, hiding their rudeness behind "plain talk."

#CIVILITY ??  Fuck your Trump demands for that which you do not give, and the plague horse you rode in on.