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26 Aug

Posted at 19:21h in Uncategorized

Image credit: Master Steve Rapport.

This week saw mass shooting number 145 in just the first three months and a bit of this year. This one in Kentucky. The shooting took place in a bank, the shooter’s workplace. This idiot killed five of his colleagues. Fortunately, he was killed by the police, but not before he shot a policeman in the head.

The shooter used an AR15, a ridiculous gun to be used on our streets. But even more ridiculous, the state of Kentucky has a law that requires this gun to be turned back to the police, who will then have to auction it off, so that this military grade idiotic weapon goes back into circulation!

Of course the politicians, both nationally and local, were quick to offer what they called “Thoughts and Prayers”. They were not talking about doing anything about guns, they were saying “we are thinking of you, we have sympathy for the victims and their family and friends”. That must be such a comfort for them! Quick, somebody please give me a large bucket to puke in!!!

Of course we hear a few politicians say “we have to do something”. But they never do. The NRA is too powerful and they are too slimy to even risk not being re-elected by a few idiot constituents

Shootings in schools, in supermarkets, in churches, at workplaces, at parades, in theaters. It is absolutely disgraceful that none of these politicians think it’s worth doing something about guns on our streets.

What do they think that their prayers will fix? Remember the demonstrations during the Vietnam War where one of the slogans was “God is dead or God is deaf”? For God to be allowing this kind of massacre is absolutely unthinkable, so your prayers are falling on his deaf ears. But you know this. You just don’t care.

If God exists, and somehow has not gone deaf, he (or she) will want you to fix this shit. So don’t give us your phony prayers thinking that will fix everything. It won’t.

It is up to good people to fix this, and those of you that don’t do anything about this, but have the ability and the power to do it, you are not good people

SHAME ON THE POLITICIANS ONLY OFFERING THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS!

26 Aug

Posted at 19:21h in Uncategorized

Image by DonkeyHotey.

Lets have a TEDtalk; about Ted Cruz, that is.

Imagine you were told your wife was ugly. What would your reaction be towards the person who said it? Imagine you’re told. That your father was possibly involved in the murder of JFK. How would you react to the person who said this?

Initially Ted Cruz had the reaction you would expect. He was angry. He said the former game show host was not fit to be president and was a hypocrite, and called him all kind of horrible, but well deserved, nasty names.

But then the former game show host won the presidency, and all of a sudden Ted forgot all about the insults, and overnight became one of the most fervent disciples of the new president.

Why did he do that? Fear! Cowardly fear of becoming irrelevant in the senate because he didn’t support the MAGA guy. Ted showed he was suffering from the same disease that affects Lindsey Graham, called DSS, or dissolving spine syndrome. All of a sudden he became one of the biggest supporters of the game show host. He bent over and let the president do what he wanted to do.

We all remember what happened when a large part of the state of Texas lost electricity. We saw Ted running through the airport on the way to the gates to catch a plane to Mexico. The reason he had to run was that his spine was about to give up completely.

At a time when his constituents needed him most he did not have the will (or the spine) to stay and do what he was elected to do and help these people. Instead, he decided to flee and have a nice long weekend with the family on a sunny beach, while the people of his district were fighting to get food, heat and water.

SHAME on you Ted. You are a nasty, cowardly and spineless excuse for a human being. Don’t just take our word for this. Below are a few quotes from people on both sides of the political spectrum about how they view you. We looked long and hard to find complementary quotes but not surprisingly were unable to do so.

1. “If you killed him on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you,” (Lindsey Graham)

2. “I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.” (John Boehner)

3. “I hate Ted and I think I’ll take cyanide if he ever got the nomination.” (Peter King)

4. “I would rather have anybody else be the president of the United States. Anyone. I would rather pick somebody from the phone book.” (Craig Mazin, former roommate at Princeton University;now a Hollywood screenwriter)

5. “He’s a nasty guy. Nobody likes him. Nobody in Congress likes him. Nobody likes him anywhere once they get to know him.”
(The former gameshow host)

6. “Just look at Ted’s face: it’s got career scum politician, aka liar, written all over it.” (Ann Coulter)

7. “You know, it’s always the wacko birds that get the media megaphone,” (John McCain)

8. “Ted is an army of one, alienating anybody who is in his path. He advocates losing strategies purely to further his own career at the expense of the party.” (John Feehery, former Republican congressional aide)

9. Ted Cruz, go fuck yourself. (John Boehner in his audio book “On The House”)

10. “I mean, think about what a yutz this guy is! I don’t care what your political view is: If a guy said that my wife was ugly and my father killed Kennedy, there is no way in the world you could have me come out and say, ‘I’ll defend you in front of the supreme court.” (George Clooney)

23 Aug

Posted at 19:21h in Uncategorized

DeSantis

What does that spell?

Who talks a big game about freedom, but then tells the people of his state what they can and cannot read?

Who talks a big game about freedom, but then tries to limit voting rights for certain groups of people?

Who talks a big game about freedom, but then dictates what children can and can not learn in school?

Who talks a big game about freedom, but then restricts the human rights of LGBTQ+ people in his state?

Who talks a big game about freedom, but then restricts women’s rights over their own bodies?

Who? He is accurately described below.

Dictator. He will ruin the country.
Extremist race baiting fascist.
Shameless homophobe.
Anti immigrant hypocrite.
Napoleon complex sufferer.
Tirant and traitor to democracy.
Immaculate deception.
Slippery snake oil salesman.

Shame on all those voting for him.

15 Aug

Posted at 19:21h in Uncategorized

Photo by Marcia Fudge

There is a word that snuck into our language a few years ago, especially in the political language. That word is Woke. It is defined as alert to, and concerned about, injustice and discrimination. Now, that is of course not a bad thing. It’s good. Everybody should be concerned about injustice and discrimination, but people like Ron DiSantis, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz and others on the extreme, mostly Republican, right have taken it into a racist, homophobic, and bigoted direction.

DiSantis has gone as far as banning books in schools, even banning an AP course that teaches our American history, and introducing a “don’t say gay” bill. All under the guise of calling it a war on Woke.

Books by black authors? Banned. It would make the kids uncomfortable to learn about America’s shameful history of slavery and segregation. Learning that would be woke. Better to have the kids grow up and become racist themselves not having learned from history.

Books by gay authors? Banned. Those books are woke. It would make our straight and white kids uncomfortable to learn that many people are born gay. They love people of their own sex. It is not a learned behavior. Better to have our kids grow up not understanding this, so that they can start shooting up gay clubs when they are older.

Books by transgender authors? Banned. Can you imagine our kids learning about transgender people? Learning that sometimes people are born in a body of the wrong sex? That is way too woke. Better not to teach our kids about that, so they can grow up hating people that are different from them.

Are you Muslim, or Jewish, agnostic or atheist? Then, according to the War on Woke idiots, you are respectively a terrorist, an untrustworthy agent of the “Deep State”, or a hedonistic monster.

Either way they want you out of their world. DiSantis and his merry band of racist, homophobic and bigoted morons are calling their revolting views “common decency”. Hiding behind what they call their Christian values. What an insult to all Christians of the world! They want to go back to “the good old days”. The days where white people ruled. The days where black people were just cheap labor. The days where gay and transgender people were just freaks. If this guy were actually to realize his dream of becoming president we are all screwed.

We could be going back to being a country where gay bashing is acceptable. Where being black, or Muslim, or Jewish, makes one less than human. That is what the right would call victory over woke.

Shame on DiSantis and his racist, homophobic and bigoted disciples!

06 Aug

Posted at 19:21h in Uncategorized

Photo by Gage Skidmore

No, that is not a typo in this header. We are talking here about the star of the Fox News. I just don’t know what to call this guy! I don’t object to calling decent people by their first name, but this guy does not fall under the classification “decent”, so I will leave it up to the reader what letter theywant to replace that asterisk with.

Why do I have so much trouble speaking (or writing) *UCKER’s name? It’s easy to explain:
First, *UCKER’s hobbyhorse that he calls “Replacement Theory”. He seems to say that immigrants eventually will become mostly democratic voters and as a result ‘people like him’ will be outvoted (replaced).

Well, if it means that racist, xenophobic, homophobic white supremacists like *UCKER and his equally shortsighted, bigoted redneck followers will be replaced with decent multicultural, compassionate, hard-working people, then I am okay with that!

*UCKER calls himself a patriot, but then espouses the governmental system of Hungary, which is ruled by a dictator with a strong antipathy towards democracy. *UCKER knows that controversial statements and provocative stances like that will garner him a large, gullible audience, and thus advertiser money; and that is the kind of power and influence that every little man with a Napoleon Syndrome craves.

In May 2022 *UCKER alleged there is a connection between the Uvalde school shooting, the Buffalo supermarket shooting, and the previously in place COVID shut downs. See here, it must all be the Democrats’ fault. Nothing to do with a lack of gun controls. After all, the NRA tells him that, so it must be true.

Shame on you *UCKER, for being an un-American promoter of conspiracies and for being blatantly racist.

22 Jul

Posted at 19:21h in Uncategorized

Gun control is a tough subject in our country. As much as we would like to, we are not (yet) going to discuss the meaning of the 2nd amendment in our posts on this subject. That is because the “right to carry arms” has been settled for now, whether we agree or not. It has been baked into the American psyche that one has the right to defend oneself, but most Americans agree that something will have to change. All those mass shootings are totally unacceptable and disgusting to the vast majority of us.

There are intense public discussions going on about background checks, about the availability of those military grade guns that can fire hundreds of rounds per minute, and about large capacity magazines.

So, let us look a little deeper into the reasons for this “American carnage” (we know this is not what the former reality show host meant when he used that phrase, but we really are talking about carnage). At the time of writing this, mid March 2023, we are already at well over 110 mass shootings this year.

Some mentally disturbed person was just able to legally buy seven guns, including 2 AR 15s, and went on to kill 3 young kids and 3 staff members at a private Christian school. It is revolting and disgusting, except of course to the fascists, the racists, the Trumpers and the other crazies. If that is you, please seek some help.

In 2022 there were about 393 million privately owned firearms in the US, according to an estimate by the Switzerland-based Small Arms Survey. In other words, 120 guns for every 100 Americans. Frigging ridiculous!

Why do we need that many guns? We are being told we all need a gun to protect ourselves. Therein lies the evil genius of the gun manufacturers and the NRA.

First, they sell guns unrestricted to everyone and their grandmother. Next, they tell us we all need a gun to protect ourselves from all those people with guns! Think about the ridiculousness of that.

Then there are the politicians, local and national, who take money from gun manufacturers and the NRA, and refuse any discussion about what is nowadays called common sense gun control. Their slogan is that the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. What a complete and utter bullshit!

That is a great example of what we will call circular marketing. First sell a gun to “the bad guy”, then tell others that they need guns to protect themselves from that “bad guy”.  The best word to describe this practice is CORRUPT. Corrupt gun manufacturers, the corrupt NRA, and the corrupt politicians who value campaign contributions over life, and who so many of you morons keep voting for.

Corrupt. The kind of blatant corruption that many Americans associate with third world countries. It’s right here in the USA.

Shame on all of you who continue to support those idiots.

We will go deeper into the subject of gun control in the next post. We will talk about the ridiculousness of the hunting argument. Hunting is fine, but do you need an AR15 for it? Are you that bad a shot?

21 Jul

Posted at 19:21h in Uncategorized

After the killing of Tyre Nichols some crazy punters on various news channels seem to be suggesting that if his death results in reforms at the Memphis police department, his death should not be in vain. This comes from folks like Senator Tim Scott, NAACP Memphis President Van Turner, and a number of others.

Are they freaking kidding us? Do they mean to tell us that it might take Tyre’s death to reform policing? Do they want to tell the parents of this poor young man that his death serves a purpose?

Where do CNN, MSNBC and other news broadcasts find these so-called experts spouting this crap? Would they be saying the same thing if it were their own child or grandchild?

I expect idiotic statements from FOX. They are such a joke, so committed to their racist agenda and obscuring the truth, that they cannot be considered a news network. An example is Fox News host Jesse Watters, who said he didn’t see any “death blows” in the damning body-cam footage of the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, but seeing these idiot commentators and officials on the other channels repeatedly spouting their obscene remarks, hour after hour, on CNN, MSNBC, and major news broadcasts, shows that these companies are no longer committed to their original mission of reporting the news. They are instead much more interested in ratings and sensationalist spouting of opinions.

By saying over and over again that the death of Tyre Nichols may “not be in vain” they are no different than Fox. They are just spouting obscene opinions. I guess the concept of a news network no longer exists in this country. CNN, Cable News Network, should be renamed to Cable Opinions Network…. CON!!

Shame on all of them

20 Jul

Posted at 19:21h in Conservative, GOP, Republican, Uncategorized

Photo by DonkeyHotey

Lindsey has the honor of being first up, for lying, and selling your soul for personal benefit. Let’s start with a bit of Lindsey’s recent history.

On the very day that the former host of The Apprentice announced his candidacy for the 2016 election we were all shocked by his racist statements. During the 2016 campaign the other candidates in the race, including Lyndsey, rightly condemned many of his lies and racist statements. They were all very outspoken about it. For instance, during an interview (Sep 29, 2020) Lindsey said: “Trump is a race baiting, xenophobic religious bigot. Biden is as good a man as God ever created.”

In those days Lindsey tried very hard to present himself as an acceptably “close to moderate” Republican. Granted though, that view of Lindsey was greatly helped by his close friendship with Senator McCain. Lindsey basked in the glow of McCain’s reflected respectability and common decency, but not too long after the passing of senator McCain, when the gameshow host had become The Occupant of the White House, we saw Lindsey, and ever more of his Republican colleagues, contracting a particularly aggressive case of a disease commonly known as Dissolving Spine Syndrome (DSS).

Symptoms of DSS include a severe weakening of the spine, and the inability (or unwillingness) to stand up for formerly professed principles. Slowly but surely, Lindsey buddied up to the “race baiting, xenophobic religious bigot”, and all his formerly seemingly vehement objections to the character of this man disappeared as if they never existed.

It is unclear what caused Lindsey’s DSS. Could it be that DSS simply brought out his real, sleazy, unprincipled, power-hungry self? Could it be that the Republican voters in South Carolina by a large majority support The Occupant, and Lindsey’s job would be at risk at the next election if he did not also become as much of a race baiting, xenophobic religious bigot as his voters must be? Could Lindsey Graham be that shallow, calculated and brazenly mentally corrupt?

Our verdict: Yes, to all of the above! Shame on you Lindsey, you are nothing but a political whore, interested only in your own career, and not at all in the people you swore to represent!

15 Mar

Posted at 19:21h in Uncategorized

Rudy Giuliani was right! That is not something we expected to say ever! But there it is. What was he right about? His infamous statement that “Truth Isn’t Truth.” It took us a while to arrive at the conclusion he was right, and it took us even longer to admit it.

But once we got past our initial reaction that it was a stupid statement to make, we started thinking about it and we realized that there could indeed be two versions of Truth. There is the Objective Truth, and then there is such a thing as a ‘Personal’ Truth.

For instance… The awful Sandy Hook shooting was a real thing. That is the Objective Truth. But then that moron Alec Jones started saying that it was not true at all, that it was all a lie. That everyone involved was an actor. He kept spouting that garbage repeatedly. Over and over again for months. We will come back to that calculating crook in a separate post a bit later.

As Jones kept repeating that idiotic conspiracy theory there were more and more gullible (read stupid and hateful) people who started believing him. With terrible consequences for the victim’s parents and family members. Convinced by the constant drumbeat from Jones it became their Personal Truth. They started threatening those poor parents. Protesting outside their homes, even threatening their lives, making those poor folks’ lives even more miserable, and forcing some to have to move to escape the danger.

This made us realize that Giuliani wasn’t the only one who was right. So was Forest Gump …. Stupid Is As Stupid Does!

Another example of this phenomenon is the “Big Lie” by the former reality show host, and his self-serving acolytes in the Republican Party, that the election was rigged and a fraud.

That was of course NOT an Objective Truth. Many dozens of failed lawsuits and a high profile ‘fraudit’ proved this. But the sheer constant drumbeat of lies from the man himself, and from all those obscenely crooked politicians, eventually convinced many people that it was true.

It became their Personal Truth. Further convinced by the QAnon crowd, and more then a few white supremacist movements like the Proud Boys, they were eventually driven to attempt to overthrow the government on January the 6th . They became so thoroughly convinced that they were even willing to go after one of their own by wanting to hang poor spineless Mike Pence.

Like we said, Stupid Is As Stupid Does!

Then there are the obviously untrue and crazy statements from people like Marjorie Taylor Green who said Jewish space lasers were deliberately setting the fires in California. Even that idiotic crap got followers! And what about *ucker Carlson’s replacement theory? His constant mentioning of that racist BS got hundreds of thousands white suburban folks to believe and fear it.

Stupid Is As Stupid Does.
The result of all this is that we have a very divided country. The mostly racist divisions are so extreme that violence has dramatically increased. School shootings, attacks on Synagogues, on LGBTQ bars, tiki torch marches with slogans like “Jews will not replace us”, shootings in mostly black or Hispanic supermarkets.

This Blog is called Shame Or Blame, so who do we shame or blame for the current state of affairs?

The Shame must be for all those people who have started believing all these lies. They let their inner racist, which they mostly kept suppressed until now, come out. They now believe white supremacy is acceptable.

The Blame for all this goes to those unscrupulous crooks who prey on people’s insecurities. The likes of Alex Jones, FOX News with *ucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Green, Louie Gohmert, Lauren Bobert, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Kevin McCarthy, the former reality TV show host, and many others.

They all know their statements are lies, but they are solely motivated by the pursuit of money and power (voters and followers) regardless of the consequences and cost. Disgusting individuals!