#maga drivel

[lenbryant]

MAGA parents will have our school theater departments producing drivel instead of drama before you know it. They wouldn't want children feeling uncomfortable or raising WOKE issues. I guess the 2,500-year old "Oedipus" with all its murder, incest, suicide, mythical beasts, and bloody, self-inflicted eye disgorgement is out of the question now?

(NYT) It’s Getting Hard to Stage a School Play Without Political Drama

At a time when lawmakers and parents are seeking to restrict what can and cannot be taught in classrooms, many teachers are seeing efforts to limit what can be staged in their auditoriums.

July 4, 2023

Stevie Ray Dallimore, an actor and teacher, had been running the theater program for a private boys’ school in Chattanooga for a decade, but he never faced a school year like this one.

A proposed production of “She Kills Monsters” at a neighboring girls’ school that would have included his students was rejected for gay content, he said. A “Shakespeare in Love” at the girls’ school that would have featured his boys was rejected because of cross-dressing. His school’s production of “Three Sisters,” the Chekhov classic, was rejected because it deals with adultery and there were concerns that some boys might play women, as they had in the past, he said.

School plays — long an important element of arts education and a formative experience for creative adolescents — have become the latest battleground at a moment when America’s political and cultural divisions have led to a spike in book bans, conflicts over how race and sexuality are taught in schools, and efforts by some politicians to restrict drag performances and transgender health care for children and teenagers.

For decades student productions have faced scrutiny over whether they are age-appropriate, and more recently left-leaning students and parents have pushed back against many shows over how they portray women and people of color. The latest wave of objections is coming largely from right-leaning parents and school officials.

The final act in Dallimore’s yearlong drama in Chattanooga? He learned that his position at McCallie School, along with that of his counterpart at the nearby Girls Preparatory School, was being eliminated. They were invited to apply for a single new position overseeing theater at both schools; both educators are now out of the jobs.

“This is obviously a countrywide issue that we are a small part of,” Dallimore said. “It’s definitely part of a bigger movement — a strongly concerted effort of politics and religion going hand in hand, banning books and trying to erase history and villainizing otherness.”

A McCallie spokeswoman, Jamie Baker, acknowledged that the two school theater positions had been eliminated so the programs could be combined but said that “implying or asserting in any way that the contract of McCallie’s theater director was not renewed because of content concerns would be inaccurate.” She noted that the school has a “Judeo-Christian heritage and commitment to Christian principles,” and added, “That we would and will continue to make decisions aligned with these commitments should be no surprise to anyone.”

Drama teachers around the country say they are facing growing scrutiny of their show selections, and that titles that were acceptable just a few years ago can no longer be staged in some districts. The Educational Theater Association released a survey of teachers last month that found that 67 percent say censorship concerns are influencing their selections for the upcoming school year.

(Photo) After a production of “Marian, or The True Tale of Robin Hood” was canceled by a school in Fort Wayne, Ind., the students staged it at a local outdoor theater.Matt McClain/The Washington Post, via Getty Images

[liberalsarecool]

The fascism is Nazi 101.

No more dog whistles, this is just lazy as fuck nativism and racism.

MAGA is the death of conservative politics. The anti-immigrant drivel is coming from a guy with two immigrant wives who loves commie Putin.

[tenaciousgay]

How DID the local elections in the republic go down?

All I know is that FFG made a good few gains (followed by comments on the internet about how we are but a nation of children and we need the British back (nvm we in the north are still waiting for them to leave) and the usual drivel), SF made a few, and the far right came out with baseless accusations of voter fraud.

Overall, FFG lost seats and SF gained seats, despite FFG crowing about SF losing the election. Smug bastards.

Labor, Greens, and People before Profit also lost seats since the last local election.

Social Democrats (SD), Aontu, Independents, and Other parties gained seats.

There's an RTE link that's okay information. There's been some criticism of the lack of seeing the transfers and such on the tv, with only journalist information being a source of it.

The EU counts are still going on, though Dublins 4 seats were filled today via elimination. Nobody there beat the quota.

Limericks first democratically elected mayor was elected today too, and won in the same way, by last person standing. The quota was not reached by anyone.

Yes, the far right went off the deep end because few got in. There was no far right wave, thank fuck. So the far right have started coping the likes of maga and their baseless accusations.

Such as voter ID, they honestly claimed that it was sus that nobody was photo IDed. Your ballot card is valid ID enough. All the years I've been voting, I've only been photo IDed once, and that was for the recent referendum the far right also went batshit for.

I did hear one of the far right candidates was escorted out of polling stations for aggressive behaviour, which is good. And supposedly one may get slapped with a criminal record for breaking canvessing laws on election day.

[aokozaki]

The Murdoch’s are auss

Very good job noticing that mate, it's obviously not like I have a vocal disgust with SkyNews, NewsCorp's Australian vomit stain.

Obviously, when I complain about MAGA and QAnon fucks proliferating in Australia, the obvious gotcha is that actually, the news networks pushing that drivel are owned by an Australian, so you can't blame America (even though they're first and foremost American as fuck conspiracy theories).

Good job mate, you got me.

[scumgristle]

“Young men were willing to vote for him because they liked his vibes. They enjoyed how he talked tough about the economy. They looked back on his last presidency as a simpler time when Fortnite was in a golden age and they bopped to Travis Scott’s Sicko Mode at their middle-school prom”

These appearances helped soften Trump’s image. They made him palatable and positioned him as a benevolent, inspiring elder; the type of relative you’d gather around at Christmas who’d tell war stories about fearlessly draining the swamp. Never mind that he’s a convicted felon, has been accused of sexual assault by 26 women (with one judge declaring a rape allegation was ​“substantially true”) and is an aspiring dictator. Young men were willing to vote for him because they liked his vibes. They enjoyed how he talked tough about the economy. They looked back on his last presidency nostalgically, as a simpler time when Fortnite was in a golden age and they bopped to Travis Scott’s Sicko Mode at their middle-school prom. Trump, now, has taken over the Barstool Extended Universe, or the ​“Zynternet” – journalist Max Read’s riff on the way many young conservatives love the nicotine pouch Zyn. He’s been cultivating this pop cultural image for years by attending UFC fights and college sports; he even visited an Iowa State University frat house in 2023.

Now his influencer base includes all the ones from the 2010s’ ​‘Intellectual Dark Web’, the network of commentators who lashed out against PC culture and identity politics (the Ben Shapiros and Joe Rogans) and a new guard of popular radicals like Sneako, the white supremacist Nick Fuentes and, of course, Andrew Tate, who has been given credit for helping to radicalise so many young men. These creators thrive on poorly regulated social media – live streaming sites such as Rumble and Kick, and Telegram — that silo viewers and flood them with provocative clips. The hypercharged algorithms of X and TikTok, meanwhile, fuel far-right rage-bait content, whether it’s ridiculing Harris’s laugh or man-on-the-street clips with ardent Trump fans.

“He managed to brand MAGA as counterculture, like a defiant source of masculine pride, a rebellion for young dudes who already felt discarded, disenfranchised and resentful of women in their lives”

Obviously, Trump’s grand streaming tour is only one reason he won. There is inflation, Biden’s late exit and his administration’s abysmal response to the atrocities in Gaza. But the rightward shift of young men is alarming and worthy of attention – both because of what it tells us about the next generation and because, in an online hellscape inundated by podcast slop and hypermasculine drivel, it’s hard to imagine how the hell the left can start winning them back.

[elitist-asshole]

the absolute drivel on twitter is driving me more and more to be online on this hellsite instead. every ad there is trash (ex: conspiracy theory mashup, opinion piece in nature on how wind power kills more birds than outdoor cars and should be abolished before outdoor catkeeping promoted presumably by the author, bullshit maga political ads). even the tweets i’m being served on the timeline of ACCOUNTS I FOLLOW are going down in quality, it’s not remotely chronological, a good 10% is just tiktoks reposted. and i’m constantly having to mute the Stupid Discourse of the Day Words which change, well, every day or so. and this is for someone who is clearly a progressive/leftist/whatever and specifically interacts with those types of tweets/accounts while blocking/reporting weirdo far right shit.

[cryingoflot49]

Book Review

The Feminists by Parley J. Cooper

Lots of readers will reject this novel without ever bothering to learn what it’s all about. I’ll start by saying what Parley J. Cooper’s The Feminists is not. It is not incel manosphere drivel written so some scared alt-right creep will have something to stroke himself to while fantasizing about dominance and power. It isn’t a red pill book. It really isn’t even misogynistic. It certainly isn’t some garbage extremist manifesto like The Turner Diaries. If you’re a loony Republican MAGA-type, it will probably disappoint you. If you’re a knee-jerk, overly-sensitive radical feminist prone to fits of rage at the patriarchy over the tiniest provocations, you probably won’t like it much either. But if you are level-headed and prefer to see things through to their proper conclusion before passing judgment, you will actually see this novel as an argument for sexual equality, power-sharing between the genders, and the saner elements of Second Wave Feminism.

The story takes place in Manhattan, 1992. America has just gone through a period of transformation where women and men have equal representation in government. But a small group of high-handed radical feminists are dissatisfied with this arrangement and seize control of the state apparatus, turning the country into a dictatorship with gender segregation, men forcibly placed into the most menial positions of the labor force, and sexual relationships between men and women are illegal without prior written consent from the inefficient matriarchal bureaucracy. This is where Keith Montalvo gets into trouble. After a dangerous liaison with a willing, nubile young lady, the radical feminist storm troopers chase him through the streets of New York after curfew. He escapes underground in the now-defunct subway system and meets up with a gang of urban guerrillas preparing to overthrow the female government with acts of terrorism, sabotage, assassination, and armed insurgency. And this group is not made up entirely of men. They have plenty of women who are just as dedicated to the cause. One of them is a sweet and saucy young woman named Angela who falls in love with Keith.

The villain of the story is the Thatcher-like Mayor Fredericks who runs New York City from her private mansion. As far as being a mayor goes, Ms. Fredericks is doing a terrible job. Food has to be rationed, curfews are in place, transportation is limited to public buses due to fuel shortages, the buses are segregated by sex, and the streets are patrolled by bully feminist soldiers who don’t like men. New York City has become a dystopia because the feminists in power are more concerned with their power trip than they are with managing the services needed to keep a society functioning. The American feminist president is not any better at leadership and the entire country is in shambles. The radical feminists prove to be incapable of effective leadership.

So far you might be wondering why I say this novel is not misogynistic. For one, the characters who are written with the most depth are two women, Angela and Mayor Fredericks. Angela is the daughter of a prominent radical feminist and, while her feelings about her mother are confusing and contradictory, she loves her all the same as can be seen near the end during the assassination attempt in the theater. Angela opposes the matriarchal government, but she doesn’t oppose sexual equality throughout all of society. Compared to her lover Keith, she is portrayed with far more depth and leadership responsibility in the rebel group than he is. Keith is little more than an ordinary action hero with a couple small twists, one being the revelation of his identity at the end of the story. The other twist being that when the police catch him, he becomes the damsel-in-distress of the story, the maiden waiting to be saved by the noble knight in a gender-role reversal whose freedom depends on the heroics of Angela and her gang.

Mayor Fredericks is also well-drawn with a fair amount of depth even though she is a character who lacks empathy and a sense of fairness, having the sociopathic traits that probably propelled her into political power in the first place. She becomes morally conflicted when she learns who the captive Keith really is. Without giving away the ending, I will say that her actions at the end redeem her and humanize her after all the evil things she did up until that point.

Speaking of redemption, the other character who redeems herself in the end is the feminist president of the United States. Although her role is minor in the story, a statement is made when she resigns, handing her power over to someone who is better qualified to run the country. What makes her sympathetic is that she puts the needs of her country before herself and sacrifices her powerful position for the greater good of society. She admits that she wasn’t a good leader. Unlike a certain bloviating idiot who just so happened to be the 45th president of our country, she is smart enough to know when to quit. So while this novel attacks a fictitious matriarchy, it doesn’t indulge in misogyny, it isn’t full of male chauvinism, and it largely refrains from even making ad hominem attacks on the adversarial characters.

Another reason this novel is more feminist-friendly than you might at first imagine is that the absolute worst character in the story is a man. Rinehart is a male who takes Keith on a mission to blow up the armory where feminist troops are sleeping. During the attempt, Rinehart tries to kill Keith. Fortunately he fails but he later abducts Claire, a spy for the guerillas who works in Mayor Fredericks’ office. What he plans to do with Claire can only be guessed at, but his speech to her proves him to be an incel type, a man who hates women because he feels he can’t get the sex he feels entitled to. Rinehart is violent and cruel and rhe author includes him the story to show us what a man is not supposed to be. Claire survives and goes on to be active in the planning and execution of the gang’s plots of terrorism and sabotage, another of the story’s strong female characters.

Most of the book is action-driven. It is written in the style of Hollywood movie from 1970s with wild and unpredictable plot twists, overblown combat sequences, gunfights, and a few good explosions all spiced up with a little family drama, a romantic subplot involving the two main characters, and a happy ending. It is essentially a gritty, action-packed thriller framed as a political statement about the need for sexual equality. If you are a fan of classic psychotronic cult films like The Warriors or Escape from New York, then this one is right up your alley.

I don’t think Leftist politically minded people have anything to fear from The Feminists. Certain radicals and extremists will be offended by anything that critiques the idea of a matriarchy, but more rational people will at least be sensible enough to detach themselves from the worst elements of the book like its being slightly dated in its method and meaning. And if you are still deeply offended by this book’s portrayal of feminism as you clutch your matriarchal pearls tightly enough to crush them, I say this to you: I have heard a lot of people say that the world would be more perfect if we had a matriarchy in charge. It is a dogmatic assertion and I don’t know if it is true or false. What I do know is that I have never heard any activists or theorists produce a realistic plan for establishing a matriarchy, running it, and defending it from the inevitable opponents who will try to tear it down. I have never heard a detailed description of what a matriarchy would look like. If you are not capable of providing these types of utopian details, then the opponents of your dreams will step in and take control; their version of your matriarchy will be one of dystopian nightmare. When that happens then you have already lost before you’ve begun. If your naivete and shortsightedness prevent you from reaching your goals, don’t blame it one anyone but yourselves. Sorry for my mansplaining, but sometimes outsiders can see groups of people more clearly than they see themselves. If that offends you, then so be it.

[blog-sliverofjade]

Howdy, I'm still alive. In case you were wondering what I've been up to *inhales deeply*

First, my biological mother died in February and I *knew*, but was too afraid to confirm my witchy senses and face reality. My adoptive mom told me in May and I reached out to the only bio uncle who didn't seem to hate my bio mom. Turns out this elderly relative is a MAGA hat, and to make an already weird "hi, we've never met, but I'd like to know more about my bio family tree" I'm pretty sure he thinks I'm a terrorist.

Oh, and my president basically declared me a terrorist, which should make things interesting next time I try and visit family because I wouldn't be surprised if I get pulled aside at the border and questioned about my anti-fascism sentiments.

Speaking of abuse of presidential power, I'm from the Portland, OR area. I wrote my politicians (which right wingers absolutely hate because they like to tell people to leave the US instead of fixing it, without realizing expats still get to vote), attended BLM protests where I live now (yes, BLM is pretty much in every English speaking country), and I spent over a month practically glued to livefeeds and Twitter, worried about friends and family being attacked by law enforcement, waiting for checkins that they got home safely.

My province is doing ok with the pandemic, and I tried to work from home, which was a disaster. Our border's still closed to the US, so I have no idea when I'll see my family again. To deal with that, I crocheted some things and sent a care package to my nieces.

A neighbour wanted a bird, so we let our mated pair hatch an egg (we normally throw them out because you can't spay or neuter birds and I won't run a bird mill). For about 2 months, any time I was home and not working, I cuddled a baby cockatiel.

Without giving my whole medical history, I'm finally getting answers after 15 years. It's likely endometriosis and I'm scheduled for surgery at the end of next month. Between that pain, menstrual issues, and someone poking around my nether bits what feels like every couple of months, I haven't felt like writing or reading fun, sexy times.

Big changes at work means that while I'm not laid off, I'm looking for a better job.

I've been hiding in video games, working on my German, French, and Spanish, and continuing to make my own clothing (I made a pair of sandals!) I am so extra, I'm even embroidering face masks for myself and friends and family (can you tell my love language is handmade items?)

Now I just have to get over my anxiety of reading my WIPs to figure out where I was, because let's face it, it's gonna be cringey for me no matter what. I haven't even been reading or listening to any books/short stories (I usually read about 150 a year, and I'm only at 96) because I get so spun up in the "I suck, but I should write because I've somehow conned people into liking my drivel" that my guilt and anxiety spike. I started to avoid AO3 and Tumblr because of it to the point where I had to step down as a tag wrangler because I wasn't doing my job.

tl;dr Fuck 2020

[never-was-has-been]

I get it. "mainstream Democrats" (MSD's) are starting to commend Trump's ability to "own" his supporters at the rallies he conjures up. WHY? Because MSD's believe that THEY should use the same methods Trump uses to captivate his audiences, regardless of how dense and idiotic they are and how they respond with violence . The Republican party has become an EXPERT at moving the Fascist Christian mindless MAGA supporters to keep Trump as the sole candidate for President...again! In other words, the MSD's think they too need to use that strategy. They're dead wrong. Biden won't do that and neither will any Progressive candidates (if there are any left that have notoriety among the national Democratic party). Progressives have become "rare birds" in this country's political spectrum, and they're STILL being hunted by MAGA's and MSD's alike, because Progressives don't let Christianity or anti-communist drivel affect their thinking or take their loyalty to common sense and social democracy away from them. Once again the Democratic party is emphasizing "Centrism" along with Christianity and anti-communist ideologies that have NO BUSINESS being included in a Progressive movement...NONE! When DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz did a full court press to eliminate Bernie Sanders as the Primary winner in 2016, the Democrats showed their hand and showed their WEAKNESS. We all know what happened after that. This time, Biden will take the country back to a point where Democratic leaders are still to the RIGHT of Center; but in their minds, MORE acceptable than the extreme right wing MAGA's. We're headed down the same road we were on in 2016, and I'm seriously concerned that when Biden wins, he will need a distraction to keep wolves from his door..."how about a World War, folks!" Stay tuned...

[swan2swan]

Sometimes I wonder if I’ve been doing it all wrong.

I wonder if I should have put on a red MAGA hat four years ago and just spent all my time around family and friends spouting off the latest conspiracy drivel until they all got angry and annoyed and wound up driving themselves to liberalism.

[calicojack1718]

Conspiracy theorists lack critical thinking skills: New study -- The New Daily

Of course YOU knew this the whole time. You can't be thinking critically -- no matter how much of your own research you do -- believe this drivel. But, now it is #ScienceFact

The Making of the Republican Stooge Voter: A Review of “Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right” Well, no duh, right? But, poking fun at the right-wing MAGA Nation rural Christian white folk isn’t exactly the point. Like it or not, these people inhabit the same planet and country that we do, so we have to make nice with them at some point so we can all live…

[cksmart-world]

SMART BOMB

The completely unnecessary news analysis

by Christopher Smart

July 13, 2021

GOODBYE GREAT SALT LAKE — HELLO BABYLON

How can you have a Salt Lake City without a Great Salt Lake? Here's the honest truth: The Great Salt Lake is drying up — FAST. Soon it will just be a dusty depression where crazy people drive ATVs around in circles kicking up toxic dust. But it was just three decades ago that Gov. Norm Bangerter installed gigantic pumps on the lake's western shores to drain the rising waters before they flooded the airport. Back then our mountains got 600 inches of snow each winter. But we're faced with another problem now: It would be like having a Bonneville City without Lake Bonneville. Dumb. There is a lot of denial, but if history is any guide we could end up like Babylon, Carthage and Angkor Watt. People would say, what is Salt Lake City? as though it were Palenque. No surprise, Mayor Erin Mendenhall is having none of it. She commissioned a new city flag and pressed the City Council to pass an ordinance forbidding the lake from drying up. Not least, SLOC is seeking the 2034 Winter Olympics like there will be a Great Salt Lake and other stuff, like snow. We need a new name that will reflect more aptly where we live. How about something like New Egypt. We could import camels and the Utah Travel Council would just love it: “Greatest Humps on Earth.”

HATE CRIME IN PANGUICH? SHUT UP!

There are certain places you shouldn't go if you have a Biden or Obama bumper sticker on your Subaru. Blanding, Utah, comes to mind. And if you have one disparaging Trump, you should never leave Salt Lake County. But this latest bit of news actually scared the hell out of Wilson and the band: A 19-year-old woman was charged with a hate crime after allegedly stomping on a sign at a gas station in Panguitch — population 1,712. (We aren't making this up.) The sign read “Back the Blue,” referring, of course, to law enforcement. Ever since Black Lives Matter, others want to matter, too — Blue Lives Matter, White Lives Matter, Red Necks Matter... Anyway, you might add Garfield County to the “don't go zone” if you aren't white and conservative — a  MAGA hat wouldn't hurt. According to Tribune ace Jordan Miller, the arresting officer's statement said: The woman “crumpled the sign up in a destructive manner and threw it into a trash can all while smirking in an intimidating manner towards me.” There is this little matter of the First Amendment. Stomping on a sign falls under freedom of expression, as does burning Old Glory. Still, the woman faces up to one year in the slammer — Bill of Rights be damned — and Panguitch is a much safer place.

GOP HAS GONE NEO-FASCIST — BUT DON'T TELL UTAHNS

One-time Republican strategist Susan Del Percio shuns the term, “Trumpism,” because the M.O. of the present-day Republican Party goes much deeper. “Neo-fascism, that's what the grassroots of the Republican Party is right now,” she said. Well, neo-fascism can't be so bad — Trump once said, “Well, Hitler did a lot of good things, too.” But don't tell Utah Republicans they are neo-fascists. They could get even more confused. Lately they've been convinced their kids could be indoctrinated by Marxists, vis-à-vis  critical race theory. And, of course, they think Trump won the election, despite 60 court rulings that say otherwise. The question for people like Del Percio is how to get the GOP back from QAnon Zombies, the Jan. 6 mob and evangelicals who think Trump is the Savior (seriously). The Swiss and Danes found that fighting Neo-Nazis on their own terms was fruitless, but providing a positive vision of the future without them was like throwing water on the Wicked Witch of the West. The staff here at Smart Bomb had a brainstorm: why not create a hologram of a brown Jesus washing the feet of Nancy Pelosi. It's far fetched, we know, but bringing the GOP back from Zombieland will take more than cutting off their heads with chainsaws.

Post script — OK, sun-worshipers that's a wrap for another week here in paradise, where we keep track of Mike Lee's drivel so you don't have to. Critical race theory will “weaponize diversity,” Mikey ranted last week as he launched a fund-raiser to ensure that kids will not learn this is a racist country. The senator, who grew up in an all-white neighborhood, went to a white college (BYU) and white law school (at BYU) knows a lot about diversity because every evening black and brown people come to clean his office. Lee rode into the Senate on the Tea Party wave of 2010, adding to his street cred on civil rights. Fun Fact: Mikey clerked for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito — who is a bit to the right of Sarah Palin — when he sat on the U.S. Court of Appeals. So why all the hoo-ha about critical race theory? Columnist Leonard Pitts says this: “It is this year’s War on Christmas. It’s Sharia law, gay wedding cake and new Black Panthers... so white people feel resentful, frightened and besieged — and vote accordingly.” But fear not, the GOP has never used racism as a political strategy, except for Nixon's “southern strategy,” Reagan's “Welfare moms driving Cadillacs,” Bush Sr.'s Willy Horton and Trump's Mexican rapists. Racist Country? Nah.

Well, Wilson, it's hot and smokey and the band is going to need a lot of beer to survive. So, lets raise a mug of grog to Mike Lee and maybe you and the guys can play a little something Sen. White Bread might appreciate:

We skipped the light fandango turned cartwheels 'cross the floor I was feeling kinda seasick but the crowd called out for more The room was humming harder as the ceiling flew away When we called out for another drink the waiter brought a tray And so it was that later as the miller told his tale that her face, at first just ghostly, turned a whiter shade of pale

(Whiter Shade of Pale — Procol Harum)

[ifutureboss]

I find it funny how ADOS is supposedly a lineage and not a political party yet it started for black American reparations and immigration reform. You can’t run this movement like a political group then get mad when people say it’s about politics.

And ADOS isn’t a lineage, the Ados that Yvette Carnell and Antonio Morre has made up is a white surpremacist led movement that has mirror identical politics of it’s predecessor FAIR that was started by the late John Tanton. There is no option of ADOS on any government forms nor is it even widely known my majority of black Americans.

Also a lot of ADOS supporters talk about their link to John being fake, why? Because you don’t like the truth? We have links and sources that says otherwise but every time it’s been pointed out ADOS bombards the threads with insults and hate without any proof . I’ve never seen proof to this day to negate these allegations. You can’t say there are no connections to white surpremacist when your faves are wearing maga hats and posing with known white surpremacist.

A lot of ADOS mirror the anti immigration garbage that FAIR is known for, even saying that they have a point in parts of their beliefs. ADOS circles are known for harassing immigrants and seeing them lower then themselves. All of a sudden the whole world is against ADOS and the only way to fix it is to wipe out Hispanic, African and West Indian cultures away from certain areas so that they can live better (never mind that companies are complicit in not hiring black Americans and that these same companies exploit their immigrants employees, it’s specifically the immigrants fault !🙄)

If you think that any of this theoretic is familiar that’s because it is nothing new. It’s the same drivel that has gotten a lot of white Americans to move to the radicalized far-right. The “they are taking our jobs ,their stealing our opportunities, they are uprooting us, they are against us ,their going to change everything and make us like them , they are the reasons we can’t get what we want”, is the same old fear tactics/ propaganda that white nationalist use to make and maintain a white-ethnostate. Instead of facing companies that discriminate against black Americans they yell at other people of color working for cents, as if black Americans will be thankful that those exploitive low wages jobs opened up for them.

Also ADOS habit of barely attacking the right or white immigration. They majority it usually Latino’s that they harass. Your doing John’s work.

Another thing that I have seen is ADOS trying to portray that they are neutral and they will vote for any party that supports reparations. Y’all don’t even have a bill much less a Representative from the ADOS movement. Carnell and Antonio are just screaming into the void to make it seem like they are doing something. Actually a lot of ADOS are piggy backing on HR40 the same ones they keep trying to change it and disagree with its contents. They are making y’all think y’all bigoted ass’s are changing something when really time has stopped for your activism. To really try to change a bill that has nothing to do with your movement but act like your helping it while not doing anything to improve its passing is hilarious.

[khelinski]

Covfefe - 2020 edition

Me: Haha. I just created a new covfefe piece!

Person. (Of all time, your Favorite President). Woman. (Weak, grab 'em by the pussy). Man. (Putin, treated unfairy). Camera. (Covfefe). TV. (Fake news).

The world whispers in my ear: You are so ten years ago in Trump time.

-Declares war against TicToc because CHI-NA and TicToc users embarrassingly trolled him.

-Declares war against mail-in voting ballots (despite him NEVER visiting a voting booth since 2004, after embarrassing himself in an Access Hollywood video (again)).

-Continues to golf while people are dying/being thrown in unmarked vehicles, and kids are STILL being held in cages near the border.

-Oh, and he proposed for the election to be postponed...which shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that actually paid attention when he 'joked' that he should be President for life.

Me: Come on, orange man. I can't keep up with you and your wannabe dictatorship.  

The world: 'America, fuck yeah' mentality had it coming. But it is starting to freak us out. Could you, like, stop.

Me: We are trying.

Random whiny white Trump supporter: THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!! THANK GOD YOU ARE MY PRESIDENT!!! TRUMP 2020!

President Trump on Fox News: Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

Random whiny white Trump supporter: He is so smart!

Me: Fuck me!

The world: Fuck me.

K.H.; 8/3/2020.

***

Riddle me this - why is it easier for some to believe that Hillary Clinton ran a sex ring operation at a pizza parlor and Tom Hanks is involved in an international pedophile operation (all debunked) than it is to believe that Donald J. Trump is sleazy (his tweets/interviews/the drivel that comes out of his mouth is obvious enough)?

I once wrote a short story about the world being sucked into a black hole in 2012. I am starting to think it actually happened.

K.H.; 7/30/2020.

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Dear Governor Ron DeSantis (or do you prefer DeathSantis?),

I am posting this video as a reminder of who you were. Were. Not are. Or are you still the buffoon that is in this video? It’s obvious why you put out a video like this during the campaign. It’s obvious which base you were aligning yourself with. And it’s been obvious that your cocky attitude toward Covid-19 (and Fox News/the current President prematurely praising you months ago) put you in the position you are in now: fucked.

You just lost your big party that was going to reside in Jacksonville in August.

All major theme parks cancelled their fall events this year.

Oh, and the realitycheck of it all – Covid-19 numbers are up. So is the death rate. Not so fun fact: death rates affect your voters, regardless if it’s your base or not. Just sayin’.

Now is the time to stop being a Donald Trump twin and actually start to lead. Listen to health experts, for one.

I know at this point, might be too late to roll back the reopening phases. But it’s never too late to mandate masks. I know, I know. The whitey-righty-tighty’s are just going to love that. They will throw tantrums, spit, swear, maybe even whip out a knife or gun because they feel their freedoms are being infringed. Afterall, this is the same America (with the same kind, considerate, empathetic group of people) that were hoarding toilet paper in their stockpile just five months ago. [America, the brave - America, the proud.] They are not exactly a bunch that will be inspired by this new way of life. But, I don’t know, if you, perhaps, possibly, maybe, lead by example – your loyal subjects, ahem, voters, will get behind you.  

But – if DeathSantis has a nice ring to your legacy…continue talking out of your ass and ignoring the problem. That was what the current President was doing for a while. The realitycheck was too much for him to ignore.

K.H.; 7/24/2020.

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I do have a perfect drinking game for his ‘televised rallies,’ ahem, ‘Covid-19 briefings'…

Take two shots of disinfectant every time he says ‘tremendous,’ ‘we’re doing a great job,’ ‘we’re doing a beautiful job,’ ‘best in the world.’ Take three shots of orange koolaid laced with cheap tequila every time he says ‘CHI-NAA,’ ‘dem-a-crate,’ and ‘fake news.’ Take forty-five shots of Russian Vodka every time he praises Vladimir Putin. And take half a jar of covfefe water every time he pouts or leans as if he is constipated.

K.H.; 7/24/2020.

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I have no opinion about school's opening up now (or in the fall). I am not a teacher. And I don't have kids (at this point, I am thankful - sorry, not sorry).

But between the Trump wannabe running Florida that proclaims that if Walmart/restaurants are open, schools should be too (and like Trump, ignoring the Covid-19 numbers) & leaving out the fact that Walmart/restaurants have adjusted their operations/hours/or even closed up if Covid-19 affects their/guests well-being; and the politicians (on either side of the fence) that don't shed tears anytime a mass school shooting occurs, but demands schools to be open right this millisecond during an world-wide outbreak - that is a grim reality one has to serious think about, friends.

I would leave it to the health experts to argue whether it's too soon or wait a bit.

Donald Trump is 1/100% right about one thing. School is important. You don't want to become President someday and be unable to speak or spell coherently.

Kids around the world - don't be like the current President of the United Shates. Eat your vegetables. Don't pay someone to do your homework. Also, don't pay hookers to keep their mouth shut. Also, don't participate in locker room talk if you are being recorded (or not being recorded - just don't do it). Also, don't be a racist. Also, don't bring up history when you haven't learned anything from history. In other words, be better for our future than what is currently the standard of 'a stable genius.'

K.H.; 7/10/2020.

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The year is 2021. After Joe Biden wins the 2020 election, and Donald Trump's reluctance to leave the White House – only leaving when he was told by Sean Hannity that he needs to leave, because, you know, that’s the law, and Donald Trump only listens to Sean Hannity for Presidential advice – Sleepy Grandpa Joe is sworn in.

Just before he finishes being sworn in, Kayne West shows up, interrupts the inauguration, and says:

“Yo Joe, I’m really happy for you, I’ll let you finish, but Trump was one of the best Presidents of all time. One of the best Presidents of all time! My tacky red #MAGA hat makes me feel like Superman. And you all need to praise God – for I am the savior of saviors, the most original artist of all times and I am going to call myself P-Diddy-Tupuc-The Artist, formally known as Prince Kayne West.”

Everyone looks shocked, except Donald Trump, who has a creepy smile on his face. It’s the same facial expression he gives anytime he is around his daughter.

The end (of times).

K.H.; 7/5/2020.

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I am surprised (but not really) that the whole 'Killary/...but her emails' crowd are not in a complete and utter outrage over Russia's bounty on our soldiers. Covfefe-itis - out of sight, out of mind? 

K.H.; 6/29/2020.

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I have no opinion about Splash Mountain, much like I have no opinion about Confederate flags/statues, or grocery store items being rephased.

But, I am still raw with emotion in regards to The Great Movie Ride. Just sayin'.

Seriously, I don't have much of an opinion of the matter. Though I am currently residing in central Florida, I grew up in the north - in which, from my recollection, won the civil war. I never understood the appeal/romanticizing of a flag that represented America's low-point in history. Then again, I never understood why there is still a group of people that quotes the bible in the same breath they will shout, 'Jews will not replace us.'

We, as humans, evolve (contrary to some that proclaim evolution does not exist), we keep learning. What we thought was acceptable yesterday is not acceptable today. And what is acceptable today, will not be acceptable tomorrow. That is not liberal-speak, that is fact. Just study history (also, contrary to belief - history is not being erased, for books still exist). And books (literature) of yesteryear often has a foreword or afterword, with added context/intent to explain the times in which the book was written in.

K.H.; 6/25/2020.

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*breathes in, breathes out*

Covid-19isnotahoax,it'sstillhereandkillin'lives.Don'ttakeadvicefromamanthatcan'tspellhamburgerandthinkswindmillscausescancer.

*breathes in, breathes out*

Blacklivesdomatter.Ifalllivesdidmatterassomeproclaim,whataboutthosekidsthatarestillincagesneartheborder?

*breathes in, breathes out*

PresidentTrump'sracism,arrogance,andthin orangeskinisveryclear.Justreadandlistentohisrecentinterviews,tweets.

*breathes in, breathes out*

Lifeistrulyprecious.Dothethingsyoulove.

*breathes in, breathes out*

Forthosethatneedit,*hugs*

Thatisall.

K.H.; 6/18/2020.

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A man in a white robe, sandals, and long hair walks down 16th Street. This man is dark skin, Middle Eastern, a Jew, and believes in ‘love your enemy, love your neighbor.’ The whites would see him as a threat, just by the look of him – and demand for him to be locked up, taken away, shipped out of the country. The President would label him a terrorist in a Tweet. And yet – he is the symbol of everyone that misinterprets his teachings.

Scholars would debate he even existed. Whether he existed or not, the Son of God’s complete persona has been cherry-picked to fit a person’s agenda (political or otherwise – even though, according to religious people – faith can’t be politicized, even though, it is since the dawn of religion). The hypocrisy of faith being good grows generation to generation as people rationalize evil ‘in the name of God.’ The sad, long history of genocide, rape, misogyny, racism, pedophilia is often associated with a religious fanatic, twisting words of so-called ‘faith’ into propaganda. This is nothing new. And yet, it keeps happening.

Now, imagine if you will - Jesus magically appears (poof) – as the prophecy proclaims. He doesn’t descend from the sky, but instead, walks down 16th street or Main Street or any street in this country. He is dark skin, Middle Eastern, a Jew, and believes in ‘love your enemy, love your neighbor.’ Given the prejudice that already exists in regards to skin color – do you really think the country that loves to throw ‘God and America’ on the same Made in China baseball hat, would be open arms to Jesus? They might be open to bare arms, but I don’t think they would be welcoming.

I don’t mean to offend anyone - yet, I am utterly confused why, after all this time (and years and decades and centuries), the conservative side of the fence prides itself having faith and Jesus on their side, when the very things they are against (or for) are anti-Jesus.

Of course, that is the perception of an Atheist (me). If I am completely off-base here, fine - ignore and scroll along.

But, once again - Jesus = a Middle Eastern man, who happens to be a Jew, dark skin, and believes in ‘love your enemy, love your neighbor’ walks down the street at the same time a handful of protestors are being tear-gassed so the President of the United States can lean (not stand) next to a church and have pictures flash at him as he is awkwardly holding a bible…W.W.J.D.?

K.H.; 6/6/2020.

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Once upon a time, there was no racism at all. I CAN’T BREATHE. Everyone got along with each other. I CAN’T BREATHE. There was no indifference, intolerance, and prejudices against anyone. I CAN’T BREATHE. People saw people as people. I CAN’T BREATHE. A person’s individuality was his or her self-worth, and everyone was worthy of being worthy. I CAN’T BREATHE. There were conflicting opinions about various topics, but were debated openly through philosophical discussions. I CAN’T BREATHE. Police existed to give that occasional speeding ticket, and to keep law & order in case those philosophical discussions turn hostile. I CAN’T BREATHE. I am not a racist. I CAN’T BREATHE. But. I CAN'T BREATHE. All lives matter. I CAN’T BREATHE. If only they protested peacefully. I CAN’T BREATHE. They are thugs. I CAN’T BREATHE. And I am perfect. I CAN’T BREATHE. #MAGA loves black people. I CAN’T BREATHE. The shooting starts when the looting starts. I CAN’T BREATHE. Blue lives matter. I CAN’T BREATHE. My life (only) matters. I CAN’T BREATHE. Racism doesn't exist. I CAN'T BREATHE.

"I. CAN’T. BREATHE." - George Floyd, 46.

5/31/2020.; K.H.

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Rebuttal Myself, gaslight, and #maga!

“My fellow Americans…it seems the fake news and lamestream media, excluding Fox News, which is neither fake or lame – is running a story that I, President Donald Trump, the best President there ever was and will ever be, told Americans to inject themselves with disinfectant. I never said that. I hardly knew the guy that said that. The person that said that was a day less stable and less of a genius. That person is smarter now. I, afterall, surround myself with the best people. And I consider myself the best. I know it. And you know it too. We are doing great things, amazing things, tremendous things. Numbers are up, numbers are down, highest polls in the history of polls. And the ratings - better than Obama's! I could be golfing or holding rallies or doing great trade deals with other countries that don’t screw us. I could be with my friend, Rocket Man, who is very sick right now. You fake people aren’t running stories about that. Instead, every evening, I come in here and talk to you fake people. You are fake. You are hacks. You are scum. Your reporting is mediocre. Everyday, you run a story about how President Donald Trump is doing a bad job. And I, out of everyone, know President Donald Trump is doing a good job. I talk to him everyday. I never said the things I said, and don’t mean the things I mean. You people should be ashamed of yourself – running such fake stories about the President. I mean, if another person was President like me, and did exactly what a President like me would do, I wouldn’t be running fake stories about myself. This is an unprecedented time. The Invisible Enemy of the people is with us. Not you fake people, although, you are still Enemy of the People. No – the Covfefe Virus is still with us. I called it the Chinese Virus for a while, because, that is where it came from. We are working on repercussions right now. Something severe, but not too severe. We still do trade deals with them. They’ve been screwing us for years, but they still make my 100% American Made in China Make America Great Again appeal, which is 50% off by the way, Covfefe virus discount. Now, I will take questions. But before you fake people ask your terrible questions – remember that you are scum, fake, and have no morals at all. Also remember to lower your voice, stay calm, don’t shout, don’t whisper either, don’t be fakey fake fake, and thank your President for all the hard work your hard working President does.” – The Calmer in Chief

K.H.; 4/24/2020.

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LIBERATE THOSE KIDS IN CAGES NEAR THE BORDER. LIBERATE YOUR TAX RETURNS. LIBERATE TRUTH (and save your freedom of the press - it's being under siege by you)*

*(sorry, not sorry).

K.H.; 4/17/2020.

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Phase One – Assemble and get down with the sickness.

Phase Two – Age of Apocalypse.

Phase Three – Infinity [Number of cases] War & Endgame.

Phase Four – Spin offs and delays of life.

Phase Five - ….

Phase Six – Mutants.

K.H.; 4/16/2020.

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'Cocoon 3: Covfefe and No Malarkey, Pass that Geritol!'

Plot: A 78 year old man dropped out of a brawl at the back of a hole-in-the-wall bar to win the heart of lucky Lady Liberty, leaving a 77 year old and a 73 year old in it to corrupt her, ahem, win her.

K.H.; 4/8/2020.

[alchemistmaycry]

r/conservative going "Hans, are we the baddies" is deeply hilarious because you know the thread will get buried and they'll go back to the usual MAGA drivel.

Reddit conservatives being shocked about the GOP being against birth control is certainly something to witness.

They said this all along.

[ramrodd]

Marco Rubio is the Poster Boy du jour for the Stupid Watergate

COMMENTARY:

The way to tell if a Republican was recruited by Newt Gingrich is that they are often very pretty, in a Barbie Doll kind of way, number one, like Marco Rubio and, two, in the final analysis, they were either dumber than dog shit before they were recruited and selected on than basis and/or, the process of becoming a Tea Party crypto-Nazi useful idiot, have become dumber than dog shit because they buy into the politics of Steve Bannon or they are really smart, like George Conway, but have found it expedient to pretend they are dumber than dog shit in order to make a lot of money.

Lindsey Graham falls into this category.

What about people like John McCain?  

I think, after the Keating 5, he was woke, in a #Blacklivesmatter kind of way. He didn't really understand how Supply-side economics works, but he has the typical Harvard religious faith in the theological righteousness of Capitalism, as opposed to the godless commie cocksuckers who embrace the economics of the Anti-Christ, Marxism. It was easy for him to connect the dots between the faces of the North Korean patriots who tortured him and Marxism. I feel his pain, but it's a connection he needed to undo, in “The Undoing Project” kind of way that Michael Lewis talks about. It's the business I am in, human high performance. Human peak performance is really outside my focus. I know how to coach for it, but its a bit too retail: my stuff is geared for a wholesale/community aspirational population. People who work their KSA's and burning desire to the point where they need coaching in peak performance began to focus on high performance as a state of being at the level of performance technology I offer. It's Ranger School stuff geared for small unit leadership in a purposeful community.

McCain is considered a RINO by the people in the MAGA hats. That's what those hats mean: you've bought into the Trump Program lock, stock and barrel and if you aren't letting asshole crypto-Nazis like Tucker Carlson, Rush Limbaugh and Steve Bannon or asshole femi-Nazis like Kellyanne Conway, Laura Ingraham or Betsy Devos pull you around by your dick, then you are a RINO.

That the category McCain falls into in contrast to the House Freedom Caucus and asshole crypto-Nazi thugs like Jim Jordan and Stephen King and Newt Gingrich and Roger Stone. McCain wasn't afraid of anybody. Period. That's the thing that drew Lindsey Graham into his orbit: in a culture that operates like a Super Max captive audience, Tootsy Roll Graham sought out the baddest dog in the yard, because McCain had been there and done that. His problem was, he didn't know how to fix it.

I do. The final product is the Green New Deal, but there is a whole lot of undoing needs to be done by the American voter, regardless of ideological inclination before we can get to the Green New Deal in the 117 Congress. The 116th Congress is the Undoing Project and AOC is the way forward.

Here's the thing about Marco Rubio that demonstrates his core dumber-than-dogshit skill set required to work for Newt Gingrich, Steve Bannon and Mick Mulvaney. First of all, Mario is pretty in a Ricky Ricardo latin lover kind of way and he can be relied on to come out and promote the party line in some fairly predictable way. The party line is now turning against China because President Xi  isn't going to do a trade deal with Trump until he, Duck Ass Don, keeps his promise to Chairman Kim to get a GI haircut like Elvis as a personal performance surety to implement Lady Trump's Task Force Δ to her perfect satisfaction as a precondition to doing business. The GI hair cut. An outward sign that he, Trump, was engaged in the Memorandum of Understanding phase of a serious process of the zero-sum contracting you do with Marxists.

And Donald Duck Ass left Hanoi because he isn't about to get a GI haircut just to please his new girl friend: Kim Jung Un is no Delilah but Duck Ass Don is all Samson and intends to keep his super powers. He has a superstitious belief that he is invisible behind his hair and nobody can touch him.

So, any denuclearization and China Trade deal needs to wait to the 117 Congress, when the Green New Deal kicks in and Duck Ass Don is kicking those things to the curb and shifting his focus on invading Iran, which is the deal he made with Netanyahu at John Bolton's insistence. Bolton's relationship with the assassination of Kaddahfi is a big reason why Chairman Kim accelerated his nuke/ICBM programs during the Obama administration. Obama inherited Robert Kagan's “Liberal Interventionist” neo-con foreign policy and the Clinton State Department continued to implement regime change. Trump's connection to the Kremlin reassured Chairman Kim that he, Trump, wasn't going to implement's Obama's foreign policy, and Chairman Kim wants to do in the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea what Vietnam has done, in terms of modifying their original Soviet Marxism into a Free Market Marxism that works very much like Hong Kong: different from the PRC's Harvard Marxism and naturally entrepreneurial from their French heritage.

And that's why Marco put out this statement. They are scrambling to find anything to recover the leverage they had over Obama and Nancy Pelosi before the Mueller Report emerged in the mix. The hard-core MAGA hat crowd in Congress are a lot like the Nazi submariners after the Happy Times, soldiering on but being sunk, one by one, by their own embrace of dog shit stupidity as a political agenda. And China is now an enemy, especially since Putin has gone long on the Yuan and dumped the eurodollar/green back, the favorite currency to the vast right-wing conspiracy working out of the cesspool of the GOP Deep State. Putin did this to pop the Trump Bubble driving the Bull Market on the NYSE. He doesn't want Trump re-elected unless he keeps his promise to Chairman Kim.

But here is the important stupidity contained in Rubio's commentary: the Belt and Road Initiative and the Green New Deal are the same thing: President Xi wants to import the Green New Deal to upgrade his Harvard Marxism to Democratic Socialism because that actually what Marxism had in mind without realizing America was already the leading edge of the on-going social engineering of the US Constituion that was evolving the Democratic Socialism FDR stumbled into in 1933 and Eisenhower doubled down on with his 1956 Presidential Platform.

A difference between McCain and Eisenhower is that Eisenhower knew his accusations of socialism against Truman were pure right-wing dog whistles he needed to use to get elected while McCain really believed socialism was evil. It's was a difference between USNA and USMA before Ayn Rand spoke at USMA. Things seem to have gone a little sideways at the Point since 1974. But that's a different problem.

President Moon in the Republic of Korea and President Xi in the PRC want to introduce Green New Deal by way of the PRC's Belt and Road Initiative. The one very smart thing Chairman is doing is going everywhere by train. He's not afraid of flying: he's making the point of his design for connection the dots between Seoul and Bejing with mass transportation. America needs to do exactly the same thing: restore the rail-road right-of-ways to a strategic grade sufficient to move armor anywhere between our boarders, a serious Trails-to-Rails/Trails upgrade. It will be good for the tourist business, among other things, to provide extensive public transportation as well as heavy cargo in order to shift about 25% of the throughput load on the interstate system onto rails. The interstate system was never intended to replace the railroads, but to augment their capacities. For various reasons, this has been neglected since the 60's and purposefully ignored since Reagan began to replace the Democratic Socialism he inherited with the Tory Socialism Rubio Marco and John McCain both represented.

Marco earned his place in Newt Gingrich's crypto-Nazi All Stars line up by being able to deliver this sort of drivel without having to think about it. In fact, actually thing about it, and not parroting the party line coming out of the Oval Office, is how you can become identified as as RINO or a progressive socialist terrorist. Bolton and Pompeo are using the sanctions against the Iranian oil to punish President Moon's South Korea for not forcing Chairman Kim to make a deal, but President Moon backs Chairman Kim 100% and the 117th Congress is only 633 days away.

Here is the message the adult leadership in the GOP needs to hear from Adam Schiff: if Duck Ass Don is re-elected, he will be impeached by Labor Day 2021. There is no hurry on this: as an Eisenhower Republican, Bill Weld is the sort of adult leadership the GOP had when I was growing up and I'd vote for him, Otherwise, I like Jay Inslee, because he is already implementing the Green New Deal as governor of Washington.

Marco Rubio is the Poster Boy du jour for the Stupid Watergate .

Personally, it's a toss up as to whether the National Review or Breitbart is the journal of record for the Stupid Watergate. Of course, FOX News is the voice of the Stupid Watergate.