I have a dear blogger friend who says the following (I hope he doesn’t mind that I borrowed his words).
It’s kind of ‘imitation is the greatest form of flattery’.
“At this point it’s not about Drumpf.
I feel betrayed as an American by the House GOP. We expect both parties to protect and defend our Constitution. The GOP’s dereliction of duty is unforgivable.
If we manage to survive as a constitutional democracy, I want them to be punished for this.
Donald Trump is our next president, which means Keith’s not going anywhere. Catch every episode of his new GQ show, The Resistance, and then come join the fight.
Trae Crowder, the Liberal Redneck, wants to thank Obama – literally – for what he accomplished during his presidency
Look, he ain’t perfect. But I’m fully confident that history will favor him, particular as compared to the sentient tire fires that have bookended his presidency.
Goddamn, going from Bush to Obama to Trump is like having leukemia, it goes into remission, and then you get back in the gym, and slowly but surely, over years and years, you build your strength back up, you’re putting weight on, and you’re getting healthy again and everything, and then right when everything’s going good, you know, and you can almost – almost – see your abs, you get hit by a fucking truck made out of turds.
Trae Crowder is an American comedian and co-writer of The Liberal Redneck Manifesto: Draggin’ Dixie Outta the Dark.
After business school, Crowder worked for the Department of Energy for six years.
In 2010, Crowder got his start as a stand up comedian following an open mic night at Side Splitters comedy club in Knoxville, Tennessee. It was after this that he evolved his main character, described as: The Liberal Redneck. His trademark comedic monologues have garnered both controversy and cumulative views now in the millions on YouTube. After his Liberal Redneck videos went viral, he appeared on a number of television and radio shows.
In June 2016, Crowder began a stint as the official “Hillbilly-in-Chief” for the New York Daily News where he posts his politically-oriented videos for the newspaper’s YouTube channel.
On November 11, 2016, Crowder was a guest on the HBO series, Real Time with Bill Maher, where he discussed his book and gave his “redneck” take on the 2016 presidential election, held three days earlier. On January 1, 2017, Crowder publicly announced through his Twitter account, “My wife’s packin our butter tubs for our move to LA. I’ll be workin on my @FOXTV sitcom Skeew!”
He is currently on the WellRED Comedy Tour with fellow comedians and writing partners Drew Morgan and Corey Ryan Forrester.
~Wikipedia~
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I hit the porch one last time (THIS porch; I ain’t quittin, just movin’) to pour one out (into my mouth) for the best president to ever shit between two Jordans.
Donald Trump is our next president, which means Keith’s not going anywhere. Catch every episode of his new GQ show, The Resistance, and then come join the fight.
~These Celebrities Just Made An Anti-Trump Video For The Ages~
In this amusing but alarming musical number, famed songstress Rachel Bloom joins a star-studded crew to pen a parody of “We Are The World” as a last-ditch attempt to remind American voters of just what exactly is at stake in this election, pleading with the American people to please, please not vote for Donald Trump.
Joined by such star-studded names like Zach Reino, Jack Dolgen, Moby, Mayim Bialik, Adam Scott, Adam Pally, Melissa Rauch, Jane Lynch, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Bloom has a simple statement for everyone:
“Holy Sh*t, Get Out And Vote.”
“I can’t believe I’ve had to stoop so low. But an orange talking STD has driven me to this recording studio!
And now Moby is on the drums while Elizabeth Banks plays bass.
So we can try to convince the USA not to shoot itself in the face.”
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At this point in the game, if you haven’t accepted that Donald Trump is a serial sexual predator who has made his entire business career off the backs of others and his entire political career off of appalling and un-American ethnonationalism who would destroy our economy and leave the world at the mercy of the predatory ambitions of dictators like Vladimir Putin, this song isn’t going to convince you.
But it’s a fun little diversion that still hits home just how critical the result of this election is going to be.
Rachel Bloom (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) joins forces with Moby and Elizabeth Banks along with a choir of your favorite stars who have resorted to song because HOLY SH*T, You’ve Got To Vote!
Hillary Clinton Explodes Onto Screen for First DNC Appearance
The second night of the Democratic National Convention ended with a bang, not a whimper, thanks to newly-inducted Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Hours after clinching the nomination for her party’s presidential candidacy – making her the first woman to be named as the Democrat leader in a presidential election – Clinton made a surprise satellite appearance at the DNC in Philadelphia on Tuesday night, July 26.
She had to call the officer who just murdered her boyfriend “Sir“.
She had to comply with every order made by every officer who showed up to the scene of her loved ones death with “Yes Sir“.
Every officer who barked orders, who put her in cuffs rather than console her. Who put her and her beautiful black child in the rear of a squad car, to mourn Philando Castile as he spent his last moments alone, in agony, dying in his car.
She had to do that because she understood innately. As all people of color who have grown up in America, that your chances of survival increase if you show deference to those who oppress you.
She called that murderer “Sir“. Because her very existence relied on compliance with her oppression above all else.
The same compliance killed Philando Castile. He gave every reason he could for his continued existence. But officers in America do not need a single one to be your judge, jury and executioner.
That’s the difference between state sanctioned violence and violence between civilians for those of you that still seek to deflect from the issue.
For those that seek to justify state sanctioned violence on black bodies. I pity the parts of your brokenness that keep you from loving your brothers and sisters as you should. That enable the systematic oppression that kills men, women and children.
Last night I was readying myself for sleep when I saw the Philando Castile video. Live. As it was occurring. And I wept. I was haunted by that video all night for so many reasons. But that “Sir” cut in so many ways that I struggle to give voice to them all.
My heart is unbelievably heavy as I go through today. For so many people who feel the same way know that I love you. That I’d rather reflect on that love of you then the anger at those who oppress us.
I love your resolve in the face of oppression.
I love your strength as you push through your weariness.
I love your blackness and brownness.
Please take care of yourselves. Sometimes that act of self love is the most revolutionary thing you can do.
Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, was standing in the parking lot selling CDs as he had for years when two white cops arrived on Tuesday night, July 6.
By Wednesday morning he was dead and protesters were in the city’s streets.
Calls erupted from Congress and the NAACP for an independent investigation into the shooting, which the Justice Department announced within hours.
~ALTON STERLING~
POWERFUL STATEMENT
By Ricardo Neftali Arroyo
I watched the Alton Sterling execution video.
I wish I hadn’t.
Not because I didn’t want to bear witness. The way Emmett Till’s mother wanted an open casket, “so all the world can see what they did to my boy.”
I’ve borne witness before.
I saw the final moments of Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland, Laquan McDonald, Samuel DuBoise, and so many others. I’ve felt my heart break as Black men, women and children are gunned down for existing.
Not because it was triggering.
Police brutality is always triggering.
Triggering in that I too have seen the other end of a police officers gun, I too have felt the violation of being searched, of “fitting the description“, of being well aware that your body, at that moment is not your own, that even in the heat of my greatest discomfort my well being depended on having that officer feel as comfortable as I could.
Comfortable in my violation. Comfortable in my pain. Comfortable with my existence. All while knowing that even though I must give as many reasons for my continued existence as possible.This officer wouldn’t need to provide any to be my executioner. I am not alone in having that experience. That experience, like police brutality, is not isolated. Not even in the direct example of my life.
Not because I was already sick and tired thousands of deaths ago.
As a public defender in our criminal injustice system sick and tired is a state of existence. When on the best of days I can achieve a result for a person that resembles justice. But far more often I am simply fighting, as hard as I can, against the worst of several unjust outcomes so that I can minimize the level of injustice they must endure.
You learn, as a person of color in America, at a very early age, how to push on through the weariness of injustice.
No.
I wish I hadn’t seen that video because I have grown uncomfortable with the fetishization of black death and more importantly of its desensitization. Of those who do not lift a finger in the interest of racial justice. Or against police brutality. But are content to gawk at the trauma and injustice without engaging in the struggle against it. Those that only contribute by bearing witness.
I am uncomfortable with those who have grown comfortable with the idea that we must present our dead in order to be believed. In order for there to be action. How many more must we lay before you in order for you to do more than passively engage? If not us then who? If not now then when?
I’ll leave you with this.
“If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time; but if you are here because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”
The Donald may be the trump card that Republicans don’t know what to do with even with the frumpy grumpy’s ratings skyrocketing, there are telltale signs that the guy might not bode so well for the future of the USA.
As the Time magazine’s “blooper video” spells it out all too clearly, a 27-year-old bald eagle, portentously named “Uncle Sam”, categorically “attacked” the presidential hopeful in August this year, during a photo-shoot for the magazine’s cover-story on the “Person of the Year runner-up”!
Donald was seen dodging and grimacing as the eagle, which he had to hold in his hand for the shoot, lunged at him, messing up his perfectly done flaxen mop, and sending the magazine crew into a tizzy-cum-laughter riot.
All that Trump could manage to salvage the situation was: “What you will do for a cover – this bird is seriously dangerous but beautiful!”
It Is What It Is 