This is America

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.”

Cheap shots (Wednesday, so Gin!):

Is Trump dead? Where’s Waldo?

Actually, I suspect he wants to pop out of a tank like a stripper out of a cake, and is building up the surprise.

We’re not a country that accepts only “a step up”. We’re better than this you fucking sweat-stain. Or at least we sure used to be.

“No, my lunch will eat you!” So long Arte.

Because Trump supporters must be shown as people he’d be more likely to want to fuck.

And then there were… what… 24?

It would appear that they are backing down from their previous position of backing down.

Look if Rosa Parks had $250,000, she wouldn’t have been taking the damn bus. So just shaddap!

Fucking Alabama, man.

The new favorite of Wall Street is… Elizabeth Warren?

Make the Better Decision:

THE BETTER DECISION

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.75 oz Cappelletti
.5 oz lemon juice
.5 oz simple syrup

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Happy 4^th of July my friends. And because I love you, The Allman Betts Band. The magic truly starts about 3 minutes in: