Everyday Erinyes #239

 Posted by at 11:18 am  Politics
Nov 072020
 

Experts in autocracies have pointed out that it is, unfortunately, easy to slip into normalizing the tyrant, hence it is important to hang on to outrage. These incidents which seem to call for the efforts of the Greek Furies (Erinyes) to come and deal with them will, I hope, help with that. As a reminder, though no one really knows how many there were supposed to be, the three names we have are Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone. These roughly translate as “unceasing,” “grudging,” and “vengeful destruction.”

Well, Joe has won Pennsylvania, and therefore the presidency. Trump will be gone. Trumpism, unfortunately, will not. Which means our fight is not over. Here is an article with some reasons why, and considerations for what needs to be done.
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5 reasons not to underestimate far-right extremists

Members of the Proud Boys right-wing extremist group arrive at a pro-Donald Trump rally in Oregon in September 2020.
AP Photo/Andrew Selsky

Alexander Hinton, Rutgers University – Newark

Far-right extremists have been in the news, with an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor and rallies like the one the Proud Boys held in Portland in September.

With a hotly contested election underway in a polarized society, many people are concerned about violence from far-right extremists. But they may not understand the real threat.

The law enforcement community is among those who have failed to understand the true nature and danger of far-right extremists. Over several decades, the FBI and other federal authorities have only intermittently paid attention to far-right extremists. In recent years, they have again acknowledged the extent of the threat. But it’s not clear how long their attention will last.

While researching my forthcoming book, “It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the U.S.,” I discovered that there are five key mistakes people make when thinking about far-right extremists. These mistakes obscure the extremists’ true danger.

A KKK march in Tennessee in 1986
In this Jan. 18, 1986, photo, a KKK group marches in Tennessee to protest the first national observance of Martin Luther King Jr.‘s birthday.
AP Photo/Mark Humphrey

1. Some have white supremacist views, but others don’t

When asked to condemn white supremacists and extremists at the first presidential debate, President Donald Trump floundered, then said, “Give me a name.” His Democratic challenger Joe Biden offered, “The Proud Boys.”

Not all far-right extremists are militant white supremacists.

White supremacy, the belief in white racial superiority and dominance, is a major theme of many far-right believers. Some, like the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis, are extremely hardcore hate groups.

Others, who at times identify themselves with the term “alt-right,” often mix racism, anti-Semitism and claims of white victimization in a less militant way. In addition, there are what some experts have called the “alt-lite,” like the Proud Boys, who are less violent and disavow overt white supremacy even as they promote white power by glorifying white civilization and demonizing nonwhite people including Muslims and many immigrants.

There is another major category of far-right extremists who focus more on opposing the government than they do on racial differences. This so-called “patriot movement” includes tax protesters and militias, many heavily armed and a portion from military and law enforcement backgrounds. Some, like the Hawaiian-shirt-wearing Boogaloos, seek civil war to overthrow what they regard as a corrupt political order.

A boat flies the Gadsden
During an April protest in Seattle, a boat flies the Gadsden
AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

2. They live in cities and towns across the nation and even the globe

Far-right extremists are in communities all across America.

The KKK, often thought of as centered in the South, has chapters from coast to coast. The same is true of other far-right extremist groups, as illustrated by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hate Map.

Far-right extremism is also global, a point underscored by the 2011 massacre in Norway and the 2019 New Zealand mosque attack, both of which were perpetrated by people claiming to resist “white genocide.” The worldwide spread led the U.N. to recently issue a global alert about the “growing and increasing transnational threat” of right-wing extremism.

A person wearing a 'Q' vest
The ‘collective delusion’ known as QAnon will be around for many years.
AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

3. Many are well-organized, educated and social-media savvy

Far-right extremists include people who write books, wear sport coats and have advanced degrees. For instance, in 1978 a physics professor turned neo-Nazi wrote a book that has been called the “bible of the racist right.” Other leaders of the movement have attended elite universities.

Far-right extremists were early users of the internet and now thrive on social media platforms, which they use to agitate, recruit and organize. The 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville revealed how effectively they could reach large groups and mobilize them into action.

Platforms like Facebook and Twitter have recently attempted to ban many of them. But the alleged Michigan kidnappers’ ability to evade restrictions by simply creating new pages and groups has limited the companies’ success.

A German American Bund march in New York City
People carrying a Nazi flag march in New York City in 1937.
New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection/Library of Congress

4. They were here long before Trump and will remain here long after

Many people associate far-right extremism with the rise of Trump. It’s true that hate crimes, anti-Semitism and the number of hate groups have risen sharply since his campaign began in 2015. And the QAnon movement – called both a “collective delusion” and a “virtual cult” – has gained widespread attention.

But far-right extremists were here long before Trump.

The history of white power extremism dates back to slave patrols and the post-Civil War rise of the KKK. In the 1920s, the KKK had millions of members. The following decade saw the rise of Nazi sympathizers, including 15,000 uniformed “Silver Shirts” and a 20,000 person pro-Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1939.

While adapting to the times, far-right extremism has continued into the present. It’s not dependent on Trump, and will remain a threat regardless of his public prominence.

People wearing camouflage and carrying weapons
Members of the Boogaloo movement, seen here at a New Hampshire demonstration, seek a civil war in the U.S.
AP Photo/Michael Dwyer

5. They pose a widespread and dire threat, with some seeking civil war

Far-right extremists often appear to strike in spectacular “lone wolf” attacks, like the Oklahoma City federal building bombing in 1995, the mass murder at a Charleston church in 2015 and the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in 2018. But these people are not alone.

Most far-right extremists are part of larger extremist communities, communicating by social media and distributing posts and manifestos.

Their messages speak of fear that one day, whites may be outnumbered by nonwhites in the U.S., and the idea that there is a Jewish-led plot to destroy the white race. In response, they prepare for a war between whites and nonwhites.

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Thinking of these extremists as loners risks missing the complexity of their networks, which brought as many as 13 alleged plotters together in the planning to kidnap Michigan’s governor.

Together, these misconceptions about far-right extremist individuals and groups can lead Americans to underestimate the dire threat they pose to the public. Understanding them, by contrast, can help people and experts alike address the danger, as the election – and its aftermath – unfolds.The Conversation

Alexander Hinton, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University – Newark

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

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Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone, I listened to (Derrick Wang’s opera) Scalia/Ginsburg this afternoon. I hope that the time when people with such disagreements could be friends is not over, though I fear it is – it has become too clear that politics are not just politics, that morality is a huge factor in political policy and decisions. We shall see. And I know we shall not stop working for a better world.

The Furies and I will be back.

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Sep 182020
 

It’s another sick painful day here in the CatBox.  Since I have to be up for Diana’s visit, I might as well put the time to good use with this article, but this is my only article today.  Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update.  WWWendy is coming a day late, because she works her bartending job tonight, and Diana can change my patch when she’s here.  I’ll finish after Diana comes.  Diana thinks I should call in.  She does not think they’ll send me to the hospital.  She thinks they’ll just set me up with the stent surgeon.  TGIF!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:14 (average 4:43).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoons:

Trump* Virus Update:

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US Cases: 6,880,914
US Deaths: 202,307
Plus thousands of Trump’s GOP plague murders Republicans are hiding from us.

These stats come from worldometer, an international organization.  The NY Times also uses their data.  they are more accurate than US (Trump*-muzzled) stats.

Short Takes:

From Daily Kos: A Michigan pastor has been hearing a whole lot from the public recently after sending an email to journalist Sarah Jeong—which was then posted by Jeong on her Twitter account. In the email, the christian (with a little “c”) David Muns threatens Jeong with genital mutilation, calling her a “bitter Asian woman.” The entirety of his statement will be discussed below, and includes graphic language, but those are the broad strokes.

Muns was supposedly responding to a meme that attributed a fake quote to Jeong, from her time on The New York Times editorial board. Someone (or someones) spent a good amount of time coming up with some wildly awful things to say about white folks and white children, and then attributed them all to Jeong. These quotes were debunked back in 2018, but Muns, not much for reading deeply into things, clearly missed the memo.

The nasty email that Muns sent reads: “How about if we took all the little bitter Asian women and had a lottery and cut their clits like the Muslims do. Not a very classy position is it, neither is your trashy little bitter personality towards white men. Only in a world where journalism is controlled by brain dead Liberals do you people even have jobs.” 

If I were not feeling so bad, this typical Republican pseudo-Christian (the exact opposite of a real Christian) POS would get a parade! What a jerk!  RESIST!!

From NY Times: When Donald J. Trump first ran for the White House, he promised to “come up with a great health plan,” one that would repeal the Affordable Care Act but replace it with something better while maintaining its biggest selling point: protecting people with pre-existing medical conditions.

Once elected, he swore he had a “wonderful plan” and would be “putting it in fairly soon.”

On Tuesday night, President Trump was at it again, during a town-hall-style meeting broadcast on ABC, where he was schooled by Ellesia Blaque, an assistant professor of Africana and ethnic literatures at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania. She told him she had a congenital illness, demanded to know what he would do to keep “people like me who work hard” insured — and cut him off when he tried to interrupt her.

“We’re going to be doing a health care plan very strongly, and protect people with pre-existing conditions,” Mr. Trump told her, adding, “I have it all ready, and it’s a much better plan for you.”

Amen. This lie is old bullshit. The only “health care” plan we’ll ever see from Trump* and/or the Republican Reich is RepubliCare. Those who can pay get overpriced care. Those who can’t pay get the RepubliCare Death Benefit. They get to die.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast of past protest): People Got To Be Free – The Rascals

 

Ah… the memories!  Protest like the 60s!  RESIST!!

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Aug 252020
 

It’s a tired day, here in the CatBox, but I did get a nap this morning.  My meeting with Diana was routine, except that Trump* was speaking when she arrived.  I gave her a barf bag.  She appreciated it.  WWWendy is coming tonight to destink the rancid TomCat, change my pain patch, do lots of gooping, and help with chores.  Close the lid before you flush, so the Republicans don’t get away!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:31 (average 4:15).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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US Cases: 5,917,479
US Deaths: 181,204
Plus all the GOP Plague murder victims Republicans are hiding from us.

Deplorable RNC Take:

When I got up for supper the Republican National Convention was already underway.  Dressing, which I have to do in bed, takes me about 15 minutes, so I tried to count the lies.  I failed.  Actually, I gave up, when I had counted 75 before I finished dressing.

It was truly ugly.  They called Trump* Virus ‘China Virus’ and praised Trump* for the magnificent way he has protected us from it.  They set their platform as whatever their God damn Fuhrer wants.  Do you remember the McCloskys, those vile racists, who got a ‘Republicans on Parade for threatening BLM protesters with guns from their front yard?  They were the stars of the show, behind Trump*.  They said Biden and the “Democrat Party” want to do away with the suburbs, implying that black people would move in and make them slums.

Here is a complete summary of everything that occurred.

The person at the bottom of the picture is YOU!

Short Takes:

From Reuters: In a claim likely to intensify the controversy surrounding one of the most influential figures in the American Christian conservative movement, a business partner of Jerry Falwell Jr has come forward to say he had a years-long sexual relationship involving Falwell’s wife and the evangelical leader.

Giancarlo Granda says he was 20 when he met Jerry and Becki Falwell while working as a pool attendant at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel in March 2012. Starting that month and continuing into 2018, Granda told Reuters that the relationship involved him having sex with Becki Falwell while Jerry Falwell looked on.

Granda showed Reuters emails, text messages and other evidence that he says demonstrate the sexual nature of his relationship with the couple, who have been married since 1987. “Becki and I developed an intimate relationship and Jerry enjoyed watching from the corner of the room,” Granda said in an interview. Now 29, he described the liaisons as frequent – “multiple times per year” – and said the encounters took place at hotels in Miami and New York, and at the Falwells’ home in Virginia.

This is typical of the hypocrisy of Republican pseudo-Christians, the opposite of real authentic Christians. FYI, Falwell now refuses to resign from Liberty UniversityRESIST!!

From YouTube (Jeff Merkley Channel): Merkley Speaks Out Against Secret Police

 

Jeff could not be more spot-on about Trump’s* GOP Gestapo! Oregon leads the way! I’m so glad I worked on his campaign in 2008, the year he won his seat from Oregon’s last Republican Senator, Gordon “Goose Step” Smith!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast of protest): “Like a Brick Thrown in Troubled Water” – a Roy Zimmerman song parody

 

Isn’t that the truth?!!?  Kudos to left-wing protesters!  RESIST!!

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Aug 082020
 

It’s a very tired day, here in the CatBox.  JD, would you please cover Bill Maher?  I have another lead story that needs doing.  Yesterday they increased my Fentanyl dosage to 25 mg, so I’ll be in less pain starting with my next patch change Monday.  The PET scan was not good. My oncologist is seeking insurance approval for a drug called Pembrolizumab. The chances of severe side effects (excessive immune response) are less than 5%. If it works, which is a long shot, it will tag my cancer cells with markers that allow my own immune system to recognize and attack them. If insurance will not approve, because it’s a long shot, or if it doesn’t work, I’ll be fortunate to see 2021.  I hope you have a great weekend.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:02 (average 5:46).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

0808TrumpVirusMap

US Cases: 5,098,494
US Deaths: 164,144

Short Takes:

From Alternet: The Sturgis, South Dakota motorcycle rally in 2015. This year’s rally, now underway, is expected to attract 250,000 people.

It would be too much to expect the millions of Americans who choose to celebrate their personal identity with intentionally loud and purposely obnoxious, high-polluting machines, operated at speeds in excess of 70 mph on our nation’s highways, with zero protection between themselves and the roadway, all to care equally about potentially infecting other people with an invisible virus.

Still, for at least a discrete subgroup of those folks who claim the “individual freedom” to face a fatality risk 26 times the rate of other motorists, attendance at the annual Sturgis motorcycle rally in Sturgis, South Dakota this year in the midst of the deadliest global pandemic in over a century, signifies a quantum leap of sorts in both irresponsibility and crass disregard not only for their own lives, but for the rest of the people in this country as well.

Certainly many bikers are not Republican fools.  They will not be there.  The deplorable Republican Sheeple will spread Trump’s* Republican plague far and wide!  RESIST!!

From NY Times: Jerry Falwell Jr., one of President Trump’s most prominent and controversial evangelical supporters, will take an indefinite leave of absence from his role as president and chancellor of Liberty University, the board of trustees announced [pseudo-Christians delinked] on Friday.

The news comes days after Mr. Falwell posted, and then deleted, a photograph on Instagram of him posing alongside a woman with his pants unzipped and his arm around her.

Mr. Falwell did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Earlier in the week, he apologized for the photo.

Franklin Graham, who leads the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, defended Mr. Falwell in an interview on Friday evening.

“He is a great leader and he has taken this school — it is one of the largest universities in the United States. He’s done an incredible job,” Mr. Graham said. “He is a great leader and I certainly support him.”

I thought you might appreciate this follow-up. I wonder how many BJs Graham has gotten on Falwell’s yacht. RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast of protest): Barry McGuire – Eve of Destruction

 

Are we in the eve of destruction from the Republican Reich? Kudos to left-wing demonstrators!  RESIST!!

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Aug 062020
 

It’s a cool day here in the CatBox with 77° forecast, and humid as hell.  It’s also a busy day, as Store to Door is delivering my groceries.  I have to unpack and put them away.  I had other things to do, so I have no time for a morning nap.  Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update.  In the morning WWWendy will be destinking the vile TomCat, changing my patch, doing chores and gooping.  Then we go to the hospital, where Evelyn, my Oncologist, will interpret my PET scan.  I’ve seen the results, and to me, they look pretty bleak.  But I guess I should not be disappointed that I’m dying.  That’s what dying people do.  In addition, Becky, my palliative care specialist will talk to us, and I expect her to increase my Fentanyl patches from 12.5 mg to 25 mg.   Saturday WWWendy and WWKristen are going to the mountains until Tuesday morning.  Diana, my home palliative care nurse, changed her schedule to change my patch on Monday.  Then WWWendy will come a day late on Tuesday.  Crazy enough?  Have a great day!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:32 (average 5:48).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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US Cases: 4,975,279
US Deaths: 161,660

Short Takes:

From Daily Kos: Despite how many times you hear “what goes on the internet, stays on the internet” some people just don’t learn. Deleting a photo doesn’t make it go away, yet infamous Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. seems to think otherwise. Again, Falwell has deleted something on social media—but this time not because of its obvious racism, but its bizarre nature.

The photo posted on Falwell’s Instagram was captured and shared to Twitter by Houston Chronicle reporter Robert Downen before it was deleted.

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Hat-Tip and kudos to JD for suggesting this subject. When I lived in Phoenix, a close friend (platonic, not carnal or professional) was an exclusive call girl. She told me that when there were conventions of Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians (the polar opposite of real authentic Christians) in town, she and her friends had to import girls from Las Vegas. There weren’t enough hookers in Phoenix to meet the demand for their services. As he parties on his yacht, bought with funds bilked from his victims, Falwell shows that he’s as big a hypocrite as his father was. Of course, that’s a Republican trait.  RESIST!!

From ProPublica: A teenage girl carrying her baby arrived at the U.S. border this summer and begged for help. She told federal agents that she feared returning to Guatemala. The man who raped her she said had threatened to make her “disappear.”

Then, advocates say, the child briefly vanished — into the custody of the U.S. government, which held her and her baby for days in a hotel with almost no outside contact before federal officers summarily expelled them from the country.

Similar actions have played out along the border for months under an emergency health order the Trump administration issued in March. Citing the threat of COVID-19, it granted federal agents sweeping powers to almost immediately return anyone at the border, including infants as young as 8 months. Children are typically entitled to special protections under the law, including the right to have their asylum claims adjudicated by a judge.

Under this new policy, the administration is not deporting children — a proceeding based on years of established law that requires a formal hearing in immigration court.

It is instead expelling them — without a judge’s ruling and after only a cursory government screening and no access to social workers or lawyers, sometimes not even their family, while in U.S. custody. The children are not even granted the primary registration number by which the Department of Homeland Security tracks all immigrants in its care, making it “virtually impossible” to find them, Efrén C. Olivares, a lawyer with the Texas Civil Rights Project, wrote in a court declaration arguing that the practice is illegal.

This travesty is criminal and deplorable, typical of both Trump* and the racist Republican Reich! On a related note, I’ve been watching and highly recommend Immigration Nation on Netflix, which Trump* and Barrf tried to ban. It makes me want to scream in anger and cry at the same time.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast of protest): Armageddon Days Are Here (Again)

 

This clip refers to Crawford Caligula’s Republican Fourth Reich. GW ChickenHawk was saint compared to Trump*, Putin’s Pee-Pee Puppet, Fuhrer of the Nazi Republican Fifth Reich! Kudos to the left-wing demonstrators! RESIST!!

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Jul 142020
 

It’s a very busy day here in the CatBox.  WWWendy and her friend Kristin are coming to destink the foul TomCat, gelp with chores, and prepare a ton of goop.  This is my only article today.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:52 (average 4:59).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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Map Reference: (click through for interactive map)

US Cases: 3,480,097
US Deaths: 138,273

Short Takes:

From Crooks and Liars: It’s really hard to muster much sympathy for people like these, people who stubbornly refuse to accept science and common sense and in the end work against the common good. Waldron voted in the majority against a countywide facemask mandate only last week.

I think that, when this Republican arrives in hell, he’s going to find a lot of stupid Republican Sheeple, who are furious at him!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (RWW Channel): Scott Lively Says Giving Women the Right to Vote Was a ‘Product of the Soviet Bolshevik Revolution’

Barf Bag Alert!!

If women are not barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen, they are not fulfilling the role Republican Supply-side Jesus intends for them.  Republican Supply-side Jesus is the false Jesus Republicans invented to justify their hate, greed and lies.  He is the exact opposite of the real Jesus  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast played at Woodstock): Ten Years After – I’m Going Home(Woodstock 1969 Concert), Mono-Mix from 1969 Cotillion LP recording.

Dedicated to all who were or wanted to be at Woodstock with me. Ah… the memories!  RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

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Jun 252020
 

It’s a busy day, here in the CatBox.  Store to Door will be delivering groceries, and I have to put them away.  Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update or an Open Thread.  I have a doctor coming from Providence Medical Group at Home.  What I can publish depends on how long she is here.  How many Republicans does it take to screw in a light bulb?  The answer is ∞.  Republicans want to keep you (and their idiot Sheeple) in the dark.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:09 (average 4:44).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

0625TrumpVirusMap

Cases: 2,463,923
Deaths: 124,308

Short Takes:

From NY Times: The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Cory T. Wilson of Mississippi to a New Orleans-based circuit court over united Democratic opposition, handing President Trump the 200th federal judicial confirmation of his tenure and achieving a Republican goal of filling every appeals court opening by the end of the year.

In winning Senate approval, Judge Wilson, a conservative state court judge and former Mississippi legislator, became the 53rd federal appeals court judge installed by Mr. Trump and cemented a milestone in a judicial legacy that has reshaped the federal courts during his administration, including putting in place two Supreme Court justices. Republicans lauded the achievement. The vote was 52-48.

This is a sad day for America. There are now 200 more reasons that justice here will be undermined for many decades.  RESIST!!

From Crooks and Liars: Lighthouse Pentecostal Church in Union County, Oregon is tied to 236 cases of COVID-19 in the area — in a county with 258 cases.

And of course, the church in eastern Oregon cited Donald Trump’s demand that states allow churches to open as the reason they restarted services, against the law which didn’t allow religious groups to convene in large gatherings.


These Republican pseudo-Christians (the opposite of real authentic Christians) love to infect their neighbors with Trump* virus for their beloved criminal Fuhrer Trump*!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (Adam Schiff Channel): Rep. Schiff on CNN: Barr is the Second Most Dangerous Man in America

Since Barrf is the third most dangerous man in the country (You forgot Bought Bitch Midnight Moscow Mitch), impeach him!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Neil Diamond – Sweet Caroline High Quality


Ah… the memories! RESIST!!

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Jun 232020
 

It’s a steamy day here in the CatBox with 90° forecast and high humidity.  Yesterday’s doctor visit never happened.  The office called right when she was supposed to arrive and told me she could not come because she was ill.  We rescheduled for Friday morning.  I’m still doing very well on the Fentanyl.  Have you flushed a Republican today?

Jig Zone Puzzle:  Today’s took me 3:02 (average 4:42).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

0623TrumpVirusMap

Cases: 2,389,785
Deaths: 122,659
Recovered: 1,003,320

Short Takes:

From The New Yorker: Donald J. Trump on Monday called his successful drinking of a glass of water at his Tulsa rally his proudest achievement as President.

“I brought that glass of water up to my mouth and drank from it without spilling a drop on my tie,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “You can look at the tape. There was not a single drop of spillage.”

Trump added that, while drinking a glass of water was an impressive achievement in itself, executing it so well in front of such a large crowd made it even more extraordinary.

Dang, Andy! What large crowd? Do you think the idiot* added Clorox? RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): COVID-19 Crisis Has Arizona Reeling; Trump, Heedless, Plans Visit

Criminal Fuhrer Trump* does not care about how many people he murders by spreading his virus to Sheeple, stupid enough to attend his events and to all the people they infect with Trump* virus. Criminal Fuhrer Trump* cares only about hos greed and extending rule of the Fifth Reich. I bet that those pseudo-Christian pastors will soon be selling those bogus ionization units.  Any takers?  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Bad Moon Rising – Creedence Clearwater Revival (HQ – 5.1 Studio )

Ah… the memories!  RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

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