What they ain't got--courage!

Baby, the rain must fall

COVIDIOTS in Michigan planned another rally at our capitol building in Lansing today but according to The Detroit News had a minuscule turnout of about 300 (some say this number was exaggerated, and considering The Detroit News is a right wing rag, not surprising).  The reason for the poor turnout?  Seems Michigan today was covered with a steady and quite chilly rain.

So let me get this straight--these folks aren't afraid of dying from the coronavirus, aren't afraid to threaten to assassinate our Governor Gretchen Whitmer, and aren't afraid to shed the blood of their fellow Americans to further their cause...but can't show up for a rally for freedom because it's, uh, raining?  Such a valiant effort to show all the backbone of an earthworm.

I'm sure Donald Trump will be sending their Congressional Medals of Honor any day now.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

If the shoe was on the other foot

I'll be the first to admit that the bozos who have taken over a Federal Wildlife Preserve building in Oregon aren't exactly Patrick Henry and Nathan Hale--hell, they're not even Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum.  Nonetheless, the facts are that the men they have stormed the building in support of have been convicted of arson, done to hide illegal hunting evidence, that the men occupying the building have taken it by force and are carrying dangerous weapons, and that they have threatened to kill anyone who should try to stop them.

Do you think for one moment the kid glove response toward this militia by the government, law enforcement, and republican Presidential candidates would have been the same had the Black Lives Matter movement used the same tactics in response to the Michael Brown murder, the Eric Garner murder, the Tamir Rice murder, or the Freddie Gray murder?

What the response does, though, is thoroughly validate the Black Lives Matter movement--their beliefs that their lives don't matter to far too many Americans are very real indeed.

Peace,
emaycee

Calling their bullshit

Lost in the shuffle this week of Eric Cantor's unprecedented electoral defeat and the implosion of Iraq was the shooting of two police officers (and a bystander) this past weekend in Las Vegas by a pair of "patriots" who have fed at the Tea Party trough and proclaimed the shooting the beginning of a revolution.

Because nothing says revolution quite like shooting a pair of police officers unaware while they're dining on pizza.

I was wondering how the conservative media was going to spin this, but at Fox News, they aren't.  They're just ignoring it.

Because owning up to their mistakes would take moral courage, something conservatives have been sorely lacking for quite some time.

Peace,
emaycee

Cherry Kochs

Right wing media this week has been celebrating one Cliven Bundy, a Nevada rancher who for the past twenty years has been refusing to pay land grazing rights to the Bureau of Land Management.  The BLM took action by confiscating Bundy's cattle, and a bunch of rednecks with guns (gotta love that second amendment--no one's too stupid to own a gun) beat back that mean old federal government.  Note that Mr. Bundy is an old, white male--were he an African-American or Hispanic-American or a woman, these same right wing media channels would be calling him a deadbeat mooching off of their tax dollars.

Needless to say, those bastions of American mediocrity, the Koch brothers, have taken up Mr. Bundy's cause as well through their not so thinly veiled PAC, Americans for Prosperity.

I'd just like to ask the Koch brothers to please pour as much money into this cause as they have into bashing Obamacare.  After their epic fail in criticizing a program that's working better than expected and making life easier for so many Americans, as we enter the fall elections I could think of nothing better than poltical ad after political ad touting republican candidates by extolling a man who doesn't recognize the federal government surrounded by a bunch of nutjobs with guns who were willing to use their womenfolk as human shields.

Because only republicans are happy to vote for the clinically batshit insane.

Peace,
emaycee