White Supremacists Disguised as Black Lives Matter Arrested

It's official, confirmed by law enforcement in Virginia. A group of White Supremacists disguised themselves as Black Lives Matter protesters to disrupt a peaceful protest, have been arrested.

“There were white supremacists marching under the banner of Black Lives Matter, an attempt to undermine an otherwise overwhelmingly peaceful movement toward social justice,” Richmond Virginia mayor Levar Stoney said.

The news report indicates that the mayor "thanked Black Lives Matter protesters for trying to stop the white supremacists from provoking violence and destruction." Some of the white supremacists were charged with felony assault on a law enforcement officer and felony possession of a firearm while rioting.

Who would've thunk? White supremacists infiltrating the protests to instigate riots. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you, shocked NOT.

[ Top cartoon courtesy of Mike Thompson from USA Today. ]

The United States On The Brink Of Civil War

Just a day or two ago, I had planned to write about the NRA and the private militia groups. They spent decades claiming they needed guns in case government forces turned against its citizens.

Their main argument always has been that the Second Amendment was created to give citizens the opportunity to fight back against a tyrannical federal government. I am sure some of you recall this argument right?

Just last May, some of these heavily armed right-wing militias gathered at Michigan Capitol, to protest stay at home orders. I am sure you remember the images from some of those confrontations. These same folks are now watching government forces assaulting citizens in Portland, and surprisingly, these right-wing militias who always complained about tyrannical federal government, are now rooting for the government. As long as the ones being beaten are black, brown, Portland Wall of Moms and Wall of Vets.

Methinks things are going to turn ugly, quickly.

Today, about 500 hundred of a all-black armed militia, NFAC “Not Fucking Around Coalition", marched through Louisville, Kentucky, to protest police brutality. Members of the "Three Percenter” far-right militia group also gathered their members in the same location. Both groups support gun rights and opposition to government “tyranny.”

Two heavily armed opposing militia groups, facing each other in the streets of our cities. Sounds like a recipe for disaster.

Tired of winning yet?

[ The images are courtesy of Bryan Woolston from Reuters. ]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Delivers a Lesson in Decency on the House Floor

Just in case you missed it, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez anti-misogyny speech on the House floor last Thursday, in response to Rep. Ted Yoho sexist attack on the steps of the Capitol is being hailed as inspiring.

Rep. Ted Yoho messed with the wrong woman.

Ocasio Cortez was praised across the board for her speech, by politicians and personalities alike. Senator Kamala Harris wrote on Twitter : “Sexism permeates our culture, and members of Congress are not immune. Thank you AOC for that powerful speech and for speaking out about abusive behavior that women and girls across our country endure every day. We cannot be silent.”

In my opinion, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez speech on Republican Ted Yoho's sexist slur destroyed his lame apology. And I agree with Ocasio Cortez when she says that we are living in a culture that accept violent language against women. If powerful men in Congress behave this way toward women, what kind of example are we setting for our next generation of young men?

Meeting Offline Can Be A Minefield

What do you do when your date looks nothing like his or her pictures? Personally, I think using deceptive photos online is manipulative and a huge waste of people's time, so I don't have any sympathy for people who do that.

Earlier this week, I read an article about men sharing stories of the times they've walked out of dates. If a person is out there dating, I am sure at some point they've been in a situation where they wish they could just walk out.

Reading this article, reminded me of a date I had about 15 years ago at Hard Rock Cafe. I had been in touch over the phone a couple of times with a woman I met on a dating site. She sounded nice; she also had several pictures on her profile. I invited her for brunch at Hard Rock Cafe.

I tend to invite to meet face-to-face, usually a week or two after connecting with someone.

She arrived and didn't look like her pictures, I had a hard time recognizing her. Within 5 minutes of meeting her, and before I could said anything about the pictures discrepancy, she berated and belittled the waitress for being too slow taking her order. As I later learned, she was in a rush; had arranged another date with someone else for after our brunch.

Meeting offline can be a minefield. That day I realized pictures in a profile mean nothing. While appearance can tell us certain things about people, it doesn’t tell us everything. Looks matter, but personality matters so much more.

[ The top picture was taken in 2010, The Hard Rock Cafe guitar image was taken in 2017. ]

The Unites States of Amerikkka Is Becoming A Third World Dictatorship

Remember when Barack Obama unleashed his secret police and paramilitary troops to occupy, terrorize American citizens, and snatch them off the streets?

Me either.

In an authoritarian move, federal agents in camouflage and without badges are rounding up American citizens. Federal agents with no identifying insignia are pulling peaceful Portland protesters into unmarked vans.

Fascism has arrived to America.

Sounds like the kind of stories you used to hear about the KGB. Not very American if you ask me, normalizing disappearances is a fascist move. They'll snatch up people and keep them however long they want. Argentina, Chile did it. Lots of dictators have.

The nerve of Republicans to judge places such as China and North Korea when our country is doing the same type of shit hypocrites. Amerikkka is becoming the biggest shit hole in the world.

The Orange Clown is playing dictator.

We have an occupying force in Oregon, that the mayor, Governor and Senators have condemned and requested to leave. Governor Brown says President Trump is invading Portland as an election stunt.

Question, what constitutional authority our fascist government has to snatch peaceful protesters off the streets?

I thought all the right wing gun fondlers were stockpiling their weapons against tyranny. Oh, it's their guy doing the tyranny, so it's OK? When did these police officers stopped being Americans and started being un-American fascist brown shirts?

All they need are the swastika armbands and the 1930's look will be complete! Is it Heil Hitler! Yet?

[ Original police cartoon courtesy of Cagle Cartoons. ]

Discuss.

Sitting On The Iron (Torture) Chair

Tomorrow after work, I'll be seeing my dentist for a regular check-up for the first time this year. I am glad I made it through without any problems or any emergency dental care during COVID-19.

He is the best dentist in my area, bar none. The first time I went to his office, needed him to help me with a tooth [ repairing a cavity in a front tooth ] my previous dentist had severely damaged. If you are anything like me, you'll feel varying degrees of anxiety when you find yourself sitting in the torture chair. Especially if you have been traumatized by a rough, uncaring dentist as a child.

Considering the dental horror stories you've probably heard about root canals, I was sweating bullets when I sat in the torture chair. He performed a root canal and saved the tooth during my lunch hour.

During my regular teeth cleaning appointment last year, I told him jokingly, he is going to have to relocate to the south with me when I retire. It is very hard to find a good dentist these days.

Book : Too Much And Never Enough by Mary Trump

If there is one thing that this fascist administration is accomplishing bigly, is making publishing book companies richer.

According to a news report, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, who was the first lady close adviser and loyal confidant for 15 years, will release an "explosive" tell-all book titled [ "Melania and Me" ] on September 1. Just in time for the election.

I mean, what else is new? What can she say on this tell-all book that we don't already know? We've already seen Melania's lesbian soft porn pictures. Have you seen the images where Melania appear with the Donald and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell? Maxwell is accused of "assisting Epstein's abuse of minors by helping to recruit and groom victims known to be underage".

Methinks that after the Orange Clown loses the election, he will be very busy at the Donald J Trump Presidential Library, keeping track of all the anti-Trump books that will be written about him.

By the way, the "explosive" tell-all book by Trump's niece [ "Too Much And Never Enough" ] is coming out earlier than expected. The book is scheduled to be published this coming Tuesday, July 14, 2020.

Did you noticed how all these books are classified as "explosive"? Even Bolton's book was supposed to have "explosive revelations"; yet, it went over like a dud.

Discuss.

Tales From The Trumpster Fire

The Orange Clown is an embarrassment to the legacies of the four men carved into Mt Rushmore. Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia said it best, "yesterday we watched the most un-American speech ever delivered by an American president on the July 4th weekend".

The Orange Buffoon-In-Chief basically called everyone that doesn't support him un-American and traitorous. He used our Independence Day to tell a majority of our country that we are not welcome here in America. In other words, if we don't love him, we don't love our country.

The Orange Clown just promised that no one will ever desecrate Mt Rushmore, while he is desecrating Mt. Rushmore himself.

He tried to use bigly words, like totalitarianism, but can't pronounce them. Pronouncing totalitarianism is almost as hard as reading a daily briefing for this Clown. No wonder he screwed it up. For someone who loves totalitarianist regimes and wouldn't think twice about turning America into a theological totalitarianist state, it sounds as if he has never spoken the word totalitarianism before. Meanwhile he’s pointing the fingers at Biden’s cognitive decline. Oh the irony.

He is reading words on the teleprompter and you really feel that he is speaking word after word without understanding what he is reading. He didn't write it, has trouble reading it, and doesn't comprehend what he's reading. I can't imagine how this man got through school. He has the vocabulary of a drunken mentally deficient illiterate that grew up in a tin shack next to a garbage dump.

The Orange Clown is an embarrassment to the legacies of the four men carved into Mt. Rushmore. He is inept, incompetent, dishonest, amoral, selfish, greedy, immature, lazy, unfocused, functionally illiterate, and ignorant.

The economy's in the toilet, 44 million of Americans filed for unemployment, over 130,000 Americans dead from COVID-19, riots and lawlessness has spread throughout our country, soldiers deployed against American citizens.

Can you imagine how Republicans would’ve reacted if President Barack Obama had done this?

Are we tired of "winning" yet?

Discuss!

Wear a Mask. The Life You Save May Be Your Own.

As a healthcare worker, I am dumbfounded at our elected officials refusal to wear a mask. For the last two months, president Trump has trashed mask wearing, undermining his own government's advice.

2012 GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain condemned masks. I just learned yesterday that Cain is now hospitalized infected with COVID-19, less than two weeks after attending Trump's Tulsa, Nuremberg rally.

Texas Governor, Greg Abbott, who had said he did not believe in mandatory masks, is now reversing himself and is threatening people with fines up to $250 dollars. Last Wednesday, Texas reported almost 9,000 new cases, the highest one day total in Texas since the start of the pandemic.

Texas and Florida governors have been miserable failures protecting their citizens because they cared more about pleasing Trump. Two days ago, Florida shattered records with over 10,000 new COVID-19 cases in a single day.

As a healthcare worker, I've witnessed firsthand, friends and co-workers infected with COVID-19. I don't want to become another COVID-19 statistic.

As of today, July 3, 2020, the number of Americans who have died from COVID-19 is 130,000 people. I am not Nostradamus, but at this rate of daily infections, I predict that by Labor Day we will surpass the 200,000 mark. Our government response to this pandemic has been a complete and utter disaster. Our government has failed us.

About 100 million registered American voters did not cast a ballot in 2016. There's the old adage that "every nation gets the government it deserves". If you don't vote, you should not be complaining about the incompetence of Trump's regime. You had a chance to have a say in the outcome, and you blew it.

Discuss!

Game Over for Trump. I Like Presidents Who Aren't Traitors.

It's been five days since the report first came out, and the White House is still downplaying it claiming Trump wasn't informed that the Russian government paid bounties to Afghan militants who killed American troops.

If what the White House says now that Trump wasn't informed is true, the report makes him look weak. If he was informed, it means he lied about not knowing. If this report is true, and Russia's actions resulted in the deaths of American soldiers in Afghanistan, the president and everyone still defending him are traitors.

If that’s not treason, I don’t know what is.

Either Trump is a liar and he was briefed, or his national security people knew and kept it from him. Somebody committed treason, it's just a question of who. It is curious that the Stable Genius doesn't seem interested in getting to the bottom of this story. The Stable Genius is more upset at the tearing down of Confederate statues than of Russia putting bounties on our soldiers in Afghanistan.

There are now reports the White House knew about the bounties in 2019. If the report is true, and the bounty program resulted in deaths of US troops, I will say this again, the Stable Genius and anyone still defending the indefensible are traitors.

Anybody out there who's not working for Putin still supporting this traitor?

The smell of corruption out of the White House is becoming overwhelming! Soon you'll need a mask not for COVID-19, but for the stench of corruption.