So I was sick for a little bit there and if anything the
world has gotten even crazier. I’m not even going to go into the child rapist
who is ensnared with TWO presidents, one from each party, a cabinet member and a
few other notables. I’m not even going to go into the idea that we’re already
wondering if the new Levees in New Orleans will hold up this hurricane season –
or even this week. I’m not even going to go into the deaths taking place in ICE
Concentration Camps, moving us from a 7 to an 8 on the 1-10 scale of comparing
ourselves to Nazi Germany scale. I’m not even going to go into the GOP mailer
that darkened the skin of Colin Kaepernick’s skin tone, just so that you could
be certain that he is a black man.
I’m not even going to go into Trump defying a ruling by his
own Supreme Court on the census, moving from elected official territory to
elected tyrant territory. Update: he instead laid it to rest in the Rose
Garden.
Let’s talk about a meeting taking place today at the White
House. It’s being called a “Social Media Summit”, but you will find no
representatives from Facebook or Twitter or Ello or MeWe or Google or tumblr
there. This is social media produced by and promoted by the most anti-social,
gut-wrenchingly hideous people on the planet, including:
Bill Mitchell – he’s the
radio host that promoted QANon on twitter and the likely creator of the
pizzagate hoax, which led to shots fired outside of a pizza place in Washington
D.C.
Carpe Donktum – he’s a
man who likes to create memes that are offensive to liberals.
Ali Alexander – the
person who tried to claim that Sen. Kamala Harriss isn’t an American
Black.
James O’keefe – Mr. pimp
video himself, a convicted felon.
Failed (and returning)
Senate candidate Roy Moore – a man who loves the 10 Commandments so much that he
breaks 2 of them almost daily/
Charlie Kirk – founder of
Turning Point USA, which often tweets lies as if they were truths, usually as
“quotes” from public officials.
Benny Johnson – a
journalist who has been fired TWICE (by BuzzFeed and the Independent Journal)
for plagiarism.
Ben Garrison –
antisemitic cartoonist (google his cartoon about Jews controlling the Federal
Reserve if you have a strong stomach). Oh wait, we’re Israel friendly now – he
got disinvited.
Heritage Foundation –
basically a think tank sponsored by the heirs to the Coors brewing company,
Richard Mellon Scaife, and the Koch Family Foundations. Another noted member is
Marlboro Cigarettes.
Claremont Institute – A
think tank considered to be the foundation of “Trump-ism”. Mostly invited
because their founder has been complaining about how he shows up as a hateful
troll on Google searches.
Brent Bozell – who once
compared President Obama to “a skinny, ghetto crackhead”.
Senator Marsha Blackburn
– who believes that social media is censoring conservative content and wants a
rating system installed.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (Florida)
– who called John Dean “a prop” in a congressional hearing, tried to expel two
fathers who had lost children at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School from a
hearing, and tweeted about suspected infidelity by Michael Cohen when Cohen
flipped on Trump.
Jim Hoft – The Gateway
Pundit founder, a hoax news site.
Face it, these are ALL fringe players on the internet. Some
are loud and some had marginal influence, but all will have more after today.
This is an entire panel of Sheridan Whitesides and we won’t be rid of them for
quite a while thanks to this.
That last name is concerning. Brad Parscale LEFT THE WHITE
HOUSE so that he could take his current job. He shouldn’t be on White House
grounds at all, let alone at a meeting. You know what this is about? Strategy
for the 2020 election. Making certain that everyone is on the same page. Hatch
Act be damned.
As someone who has seen the real weight of the social media
industry thrown around I can tell you that what the White House has done today
is to invite in the fleas. We’re going to be stuck with scratching them for a
while.
Cheap Shots (Ceflax, to the arm):
Okay, one thing about Jeffrey Epstein. Did he attempt to destroy
all the evidence? Scroll down and look at what happened this past
April.
We have Concentration Camps in this country, mostly for
people who were turned into criminals because the current administration has a
policy of not allowing legal immigration at our southern border – forcing those
who are trying to escape their former lives to break the law. Some of these
people are being shipped to Guantanamo Bay.
The person who most people call our President (I’m not one of
them) plans to ride a tank through the streets of Washington D.C.
tomorrow.
We live in a country where his supporters have their own hand
signal to signify recognition of each other.
Bill Cosby is given a sentence for his crimes that amounts to
the rest of his life, and it seems he deserved it. But if you’re a white boy
under the age of 20 you get to go home after a few months, or be tried like a
juvenile.
We have a television channel that most people in the country
have access to that is a propaganda machine for said “President”. Radio
too.
We have equalized the tin-pot dictatorship of North Korea,
with only a few footsteps.
We live in a country where the propaganda channel referenced
above is called TRUTH and every other news outlet, no matter how well sourced or
referenced, as FAKE.
We live in a country where all of the experts on the growing
climate crisis who work for the government have been told to move from
Washington D.C. to Wichita, Kansas or be fired by next week.
Nazis are back. It’s my opinion that as we sent thousands
upon thousand of men to their deaths to wipe Nazis off the face of he planet
that no one should “get” to be a Nazi. But Nazis are back.
So are Poll taxes.
We ordered airstrikes on a sovereign nation over intelligence
about two ship bombings that the people actually bombed dispute happened the way
we as a nation claimed. And then the weakling in the White House changed his
mind on a whim. But we cyber-attacked them anyway.
We live in a country where the people screaming the most that
they are being persecuted are persecuting those who don’t follow their
scriptures EXACTLY. I’m talking about Abortion, folks.
We live in a country where the “President” doesn’t know what
“Western Liberalism” is. i.e. the foundation of western
democracy.
We live in a country where the “President” continually
badmouths, blames, and punishes cities and states that didn’t vote for
him.
We live in a country where the “President” and his staff
blatantly break the law daily. Sometimes Hourly. Sometimes every second. Look up
Enoulments, or The Hatch Act. Why Orin Hatch, who wrote that specific law and is
STILL IN THE SENATE hasn’t been up in arms over it I still don’t know. Oh wait,
yes I do. They’re in the same political party.
We live in a country where the people in power lie to us so
often that CNN has hired an expert on lying as a regular
correspondent.
We live in a country where several people have lost their
jobs over POSTURE. Where people have lost their jobs because they didn’t walk
fast enough.
We live in a country where 2 women running for President are
constantly being asked and checked on their “electability”, despite leading
every man in the polls.
We live in a country where one state is actually proving that
American citizens are in fact American citizens, by questioning them about the
food they eat, reptiles that are native to their island, and know
colloquialisms. This state requires Voter ID, so you need to know about a
specific type of frog to get a drivers license. In other words, it’s a test to
see if they can vote.
We live in a country where toddlers are expected to act as
their own lawyer in immigration court.
We live in a country with a cognitive dissonance so great
that the current party in power is cozying up to the very same people they
wanted thrown out as Unamerican only a couple of decades ago.
We live in a country where we blow shit up beautifully and
over-indulge in bad food and alcohol to celebrate the country’s
birthday.
All THIS. Is. America.
“America is not the greatest country in the world…
“(We) sure used to be. We stood up for what was right.
We fought for moral reasons. We passed laws… struck down laws for moral reasons.
We waged wars on Poverty, not poor people. We sacrificed. We cared about our
neighbors, we put our money where our mouths were and we never beat our chest.
We built great big things. We made ungodly technical advances and explored the
universe, cured diseases and we cultivated the world’s greatest artists and the
world’s greatest economy.
“We reached for the stars. Acted like men. We aspired
to intelligence and didn’t belittle it – it didn’t make us feel inferior.
“We didn’t identify ourselves by who we voted for in
the last election and we didn’t… we didn’t scare so easily.
“We were able to be all these things and do all these
things because we were informed. By great men – men who were revered. First step
in solving any problem is recognizing there is one. America is not the greatest
country in the world anymore.”
