Edit (around a year later): boy, this was (slightly) funny a year ago, when I thought this Golden Toilet President was a big mistake (keep reading) that was going to be rectified quickly .. I thought: this is what the electoral college is for!
Welp, evidently not ...
anyway, with that brief and meaningless disclaimer, I'm going to republish this "joke" of a post – Xmas gift ideas for the New Fuehrer, who doesn't read and possibly can't read – and leave the deep dives into the state of our democracy for some other time, or somebody else, so I can use this blog again the way god (=me) intended, for primarily my own amusement.
Here it is below, as initially posted:
Xmas gift ideas for Lord Dampnut:
Mein Kampf (his copy worn, no doubt)
Everyone Poops
Breitbart Headlines of the Year
Fifty Shades of White
OED (bookmarked to "drain" and "swamp" pages)
Big Book of Smut, Vol. 2
Guinness Book of World Records
Collected Crusader Front Pages
Lolita
Thirty American Billionaires
Thirty More American Billionaires: Debutantes of 2016
How to Encrust Your Toilet in Swarovski Crystals on a Budget
Starter Book on Male Supremacist Policy
When Despots Come to Dinner: Tales From an Unconventional White House
Voice Mail Manual, Chapter 3: How to Let a Call Go to Voicemail
Secret Swastikas in Everyday Items! A Craft Book
Bigger Hands in 30 Days
Playboy Centerfolds Collection: The Father / Daughter Issue
Social Media Etiquette Guide For Seniors
Who Moved My Cheese?
Tweet or Nuke? A Real Man's Guide to Decision Making in Government
Men Are From Mars, Women Are Just the Equivalent of Adam's Rib
Dapper Tailoring for the New Alt-Right Metrosexual
"Stop By if You're in the Area!" And Other So-called Gaffes From History's Greatest World Leaders
The Art of the Deal (oversize print version)
Pat the Bunny
Gilderoy Lockhart's Guide to Household Pests
Slow Down Says Who? The Golf Pro's Guide to Sex After Seventy
Diplomacy for Dummies
Gerrymandering Workbook for the Modern GOP
Big Words Made Simpler: Eighth Grade Level Context & Comprehension
The Stranger
12.05.2016
7.02.2016
block everybody.
Hello boys and girls. Primarily girls. Women. Today I'm going to introduce a little concept called "block everybody." Take notes. This is a self defense class.
First I have to explain a concept I like to call “removing
the misogyny pin.” Imagine some men are like hand grenades. (no, not all men.
But it doesn’t matter, unless you become especially adept at determining which
ones, which actually trust me, will probably happen as you face abuse, which
will happen to you because you’re a woman and you’re online.) These men will
act like they like and respect women and consider us equals – you will know who
they are because they will TELL YOU SO – and they will act like this for an
indefinite amount of time, until you say the
wrong thing. (There is no wrong
thing, by the way. There is nothing you should fear saying to a man. I should
have put “the wrong thing” in quotes, but I didn’t want to trivialize it.) The wrong
thing will pull the pin out of the grenade.
Sometimes a different woman will come along after the explosion and kowtow, capitulate, sublimate their own needs, nurture, apologize, or exhibit any number of appropriately feminine behaviors and the guy will stuff the pin back in and say something like “see? it’s because you’re a bitch” to you, then be nice again to the non-aggressive woman.
Sometimes a different woman will come along after the explosion and kowtow, capitulate, sublimate their own needs, nurture, apologize, or exhibit any number of appropriately feminine behaviors and the guy will stuff the pin back in and say something like “see? it’s because you’re a bitch” to you, then be nice again to the non-aggressive woman.
I want to make it clear that I am not suggesting it takes an
act of aggression to remove the pin. It does not. All it takes is an act of refusing to be less than. This is how
you should always be. Say as much. Take up as much space. Be as heard. Land
your words with as much finality. Be as competent. When I say there can be, by contrast, a
non-aggressive woman, I mean a less assertive woman. (Less assertive than the
hand grenade, not less assertive than you. But, also, you.) This woman hasn’t
exactly done anything wrong either, and has been used as a pawn.
But anyway, sometimes it's just you. And even without a "less aggressive woman" (peacemaker, likely) to contrast you to, who you are and what you've said and done are being distorted. You're being gaslighted. What do you do? Logic your way out? Defend what you said? Get smaller? Put on some armor and ignore it? Dive under a desk? Hell no. Vanish this cat. And then keep on keeping on. Get him out of your way, and continue to be you. Ready to see it in action?
But anyway, sometimes it's just you. And even without a "less aggressive woman" (peacemaker, likely) to contrast you to, who you are and what you've said and done are being distorted. You're being gaslighted. What do you do? Logic your way out? Defend what you said? Get smaller? Put on some armor and ignore it? Dive under a desk? Hell no. Vanish this cat. And then keep on keeping on. Get him out of your way, and continue to be you. Ready to see it in action?
Let me give you an example.
So how do you think I responded to this guy? I had something to say, of course, because I
don’t just sit there and take it up the rear when I’m talking about women
taking it up the rear all the time for no reason. But no matter .. here’s what I did that
mattered. Take notes.
I blocked the sonofabitch.
Cool?
When a dude tries to shut you up, shut the motherfucker
up. It'll get easier. Practice. One day you will visit your blocked list, out
of curiosity, and it will be full of dudes.
They are not casualties. Who cares? No guy you want to be friends with will end up on this list. Just the guys who hate women and trolled you online. They sucker punched you, and you
handcuffed them. Don’t pass go, Don’t
get the dude’s statement, don’t try to figure out where he’s coming from. Don't check with anyone to see if you said something that - no. Just make it stop, stat. Nobody is going to
do it for you. It will learn to feel
nice. No stress, no shot of sick adrenaline, no feeling like you’ve been
insulted, demeaned, abused, just “block.” Done. It will become muscle memory.
It will be so easy.
Block those motherfuckers. Block everybody.
2.28.2016
Trümpland über alles
Wondering – now it appears it might not be such a joke after all – what a president Trümp would look like?
Just a taste, but in headlines, this is what just his campaign for the GOP nomination is looking like (a lot of these articles are from this week):
Former KKK grand wizard David Duke says voting against Trump is treason to your heritage
Here's a thoughtful question:
Is Donald Trump a fascist?
What does the GOP think of all this? Are they as alarmed as those on the left? (Does it matter?) Tough to say.
Establishment GOP now shifting to Trump
Just a taste, but in headlines, this is what just his campaign for the GOP nomination is looking like (a lot of these articles are from this week):
Former KKK grand wizard David Duke says voting against Trump is treason to your heritage
Here's a thoughtful question:
(opinions differ ... )
(although the article does say "Trump's xenophobic rhetoric, his demagoguery, and his populist appeals to citizens' economic anxieties certainly borrow from the fascist playbook.")
What does the GOP think of all this? Are they as alarmed as those on the left? (Does it matter?) Tough to say.
Of course, everyone talks smack about their rivals, but this alarm bell ringing Kasich ad isn't especially out of line.
Well, maybe Kasich is kind of reasonable? Maybe voters will wise up and he will get the nomination, and if the GOP takes the White House, it won't be totally awful? Not likely, but regardless, a reality check:
Kasich defunds Planned Parenthood in Ohio
Alright, well whatever ... this is all just drama. News networks have sold out and it's all about ratings. It's all about ad sales. It's all clickbait. And probably no one is taking the KKK seriously. We are waaaay past that (except for police killing black men). Right?
Wrong.
Well, maybe Kasich is kind of reasonable? Maybe voters will wise up and he will get the nomination, and if the GOP takes the White House, it won't be totally awful? Not likely, but regardless, a reality check:
Kasich defunds Planned Parenthood in Ohio
Alright, well whatever ... this is all just drama. News networks have sold out and it's all about ratings. It's all about ad sales. It's all clickbait. And probably no one is taking the KKK seriously. We are waaaay past that (except for police killing black men). Right?
Wrong.
(there are many articles on this incident from more "legitimate" news sources, but this is in my opinion the most apt headline)
3 stabbed at KKK gathering in CA, including one with flagpole
Southern Poverty Law Center intelligence report: amid year of lethal violence, extremist groups expanded ranks in 2015
^ this is a whole series of articles, among them:
The year in hate and extremism
How did we get here???
This is SO DUMB, IT CANNOT POSSIBLY BE REALLY HAPPENING. TELL ME THIS IS NOT HAPPENING.
By now you are probably anxious to read something intelligent about this grim situation, so try this:
Matt Taibbi for Rolling Stone: How America made Trump unstoppable
"A thousand ridiculous accidents needed to happen in the unlikeliest of sequences for it to be possible, but absent a dramatic turn of events – an early primary catastrophe, Mike Bloomberg ego-crashing the race, etc. – this boorish, monosyllabic TV tyrant with the attention span of an Xbox-playing 11-year-old really is set to lay waste to the most impenetrable oligarchy the Western world ever devised.
It turns out we let our electoral process devolve into something so fake and dysfunctional that any half-bright con man with the stones to try it could walk right through the front door and tear it to shreds on the first go."
Go ahead and scream.
I'll leave you with this:
Donald Trump will always be a short fingered vulgarian
Southern Poverty Law Center intelligence report: amid year of lethal violence, extremist groups expanded ranks in 2015
^ this is a whole series of articles, among them:
The year in hate and extremism
How did we get here???
This is SO DUMB, IT CANNOT POSSIBLY BE REALLY HAPPENING. TELL ME THIS IS NOT HAPPENING.
By now you are probably anxious to read something intelligent about this grim situation, so try this:
Matt Taibbi for Rolling Stone: How America made Trump unstoppable
"A thousand ridiculous accidents needed to happen in the unlikeliest of sequences for it to be possible, but absent a dramatic turn of events – an early primary catastrophe, Mike Bloomberg ego-crashing the race, etc. – this boorish, monosyllabic TV tyrant with the attention span of an Xbox-playing 11-year-old really is set to lay waste to the most impenetrable oligarchy the Western world ever devised.
It turns out we let our electoral process devolve into something so fake and dysfunctional that any half-bright con man with the stones to try it could walk right through the front door and tear it to shreds on the first go."
Go ahead and scream.
I'll leave you with this:
Donald Trump will always be a short fingered vulgarian
2.24.2016
America's Next Top Diplomat
Before reading this blog post, I humbly ask that you watch the video of Donald Trümp's Nevada caucus victory speech. Keep a barf bag nearby, or pretend it's an SNL skit. Whatever gets you through it, but unlike republican caucus goers, remember not to vote (or raise your hand, or walk out the door with your unsubmitted voter registration .. or whatever it is people do at those things).
Here is the video.
Made it? Ok. Kind of reminds me of a victory version of this:
If we can fast forward to a day in the future, when Trümp has had his fill of xenophobic followers cheering for him in arenas and has retired from politics (fingers crossed we see that day, and soon), maybe when our country has indeed become a better place (not the type of "great" place that keeps immigrants out with a wall), this is pretty fucking funny. This is great satire. It's all air: there's no shape to this speech, no indication that he's ever read a newspaper or that he's qualified to run a bingo match, let alone a whole country. Someone gave this man a microphone and he said "Vote for me! Trümp! And we'll have a great country - we'll win! Thanks voters! We're winning! Thanks immigrants; I hate you! And you voted for me anyway. Yay! Win! Win! Win!" and everyone cheered! They listened. They were captivated. His income is higher than most countries.
The Donald (not a person; a corporation, thus the ability to paralyze voters with his speech) has said that it's just interviewers who ask him questions about policy - voters don't care. He is absolutely right. No one is looking to him for substance. They are just looking for a charismatic dad to tell them it's ok they hate Muslims - so does everyone else at the Trump rally! Maybe everybody everywhere! What a relief. So tiring, walking on eggshells about it. Yay! Winning!
I think we're in real danger here, both of taking Trümp far too seriously and of not taking him seriously enough. (As a candidate / as a threat to international diplomacy.) We give him substantially more air time than any other candidate. This is our fault - we're legitimizing him, his fans, his wealth, his fame, by giving him almost as much press as the Kardashians.
I did just say that. I said it.
But what's a more apt comparison? Does Kim K even speak? I've got no idea .. her lips could be glued together. But it's impossible not to know her. What does she do? No clue. Fame is now earned for nothing - why not the presidency? He won't play White House unsupervised.. the Kochs write all our legislation at this point, our petulant senate won't show up to work unless they get to oppose the black man on everything; they've made a mockery out of government. So rises a mockery of a candidate. He's a caricature that breathes. He is yelling from a podium, with hamster hair, "My words mean nothing! You'll all just vote for me anyway!" And the crowd swells with relief! No one is going to ask them to understand politics. They don't even mind being called dumb. It's like a tailgate party.
Are we really doing this? Guys, this is real life, not reality TV. Or have they merged? can't keep track of who owns what.
Who could take this guy seriously? But we must. Laugh at home, put your brain in before entering a voting booth. He should not be where he is. This is far from ok.
People are sounding warnings here and there, but no one's really listening. Well, nobody but the Germans.
Here is the video.
Made it? Ok. Kind of reminds me of a victory version of this:
If we can fast forward to a day in the future, when Trümp has had his fill of xenophobic followers cheering for him in arenas and has retired from politics (fingers crossed we see that day, and soon), maybe when our country has indeed become a better place (not the type of "great" place that keeps immigrants out with a wall), this is pretty fucking funny. This is great satire. It's all air: there's no shape to this speech, no indication that he's ever read a newspaper or that he's qualified to run a bingo match, let alone a whole country. Someone gave this man a microphone and he said "Vote for me! Trümp! And we'll have a great country - we'll win! Thanks voters! We're winning! Thanks immigrants; I hate you! And you voted for me anyway. Yay! Win! Win! Win!" and everyone cheered! They listened. They were captivated. His income is higher than most countries.
The Donald (not a person; a corporation, thus the ability to paralyze voters with his speech) has said that it's just interviewers who ask him questions about policy - voters don't care. He is absolutely right. No one is looking to him for substance. They are just looking for a charismatic dad to tell them it's ok they hate Muslims - so does everyone else at the Trump rally! Maybe everybody everywhere! What a relief. So tiring, walking on eggshells about it. Yay! Winning!
I think we're in real danger here, both of taking Trümp far too seriously and of not taking him seriously enough. (As a candidate / as a threat to international diplomacy.) We give him substantially more air time than any other candidate. This is our fault - we're legitimizing him, his fans, his wealth, his fame, by giving him almost as much press as the Kardashians.
I did just say that. I said it.
But what's a more apt comparison? Does Kim K even speak? I've got no idea .. her lips could be glued together. But it's impossible not to know her. What does she do? No clue. Fame is now earned for nothing - why not the presidency? He won't play White House unsupervised.. the Kochs write all our legislation at this point, our petulant senate won't show up to work unless they get to oppose the black man on everything; they've made a mockery out of government. So rises a mockery of a candidate. He's a caricature that breathes. He is yelling from a podium, with hamster hair, "My words mean nothing! You'll all just vote for me anyway!" And the crowd swells with relief! No one is going to ask them to understand politics. They don't even mind being called dumb. It's like a tailgate party.
Are we really doing this? Guys, this is real life, not reality TV. Or have they merged? can't keep track of who owns what.
Who could take this guy seriously? But we must. Laugh at home, put your brain in before entering a voting booth. He should not be where he is. This is far from ok.
People are sounding warnings here and there, but no one's really listening. Well, nobody but the Germans.
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