The Electoral College votes have been cast. Biden/Harris have won (for what feels like the 70th time). Let the conspiracy theory halfwits whine. Let the grifters continue to ply their stench-encrusted trade. Let those who would cosplay as seditionists have at it. Real life is coming, and it’s not going to go gently on fools…
Category Archives: Punditry
D20, Night 1
Wow.
THAT IS HOW YOU DO A CONVENTION!
The theme, the speakers, the music, the speeches, PERFECT!! Special shout out to MSNBC for having the least-intrusive presentation (although I imagine C-SPAN performed similarly) – no one tunes into a convention to listen to pompous, overfed media gasbags opine while TALKING OVER THE PARTICIPANTS!
If I could make a suggestion to the powers that be at the DNC, it would be this:
A Message From Sentient America
The events of the last few days in Charleston and the media reactions to them are so depressing, so infuriating, so absolutely WTF mind-boggling, that I am beginning to wonder if our so-called “cold” Civil War II* is a misnomer. It is no surprise, of course, that a certain entertainment channel (in the sense that screaming OOGA BOOGA BOOGA at white people all day long counts as entertainment) could gleefully find a way to simultaneously condemn the shooter for being “evil” AND pirouette away like a Mirror Universe Fred Astaire from the true motivation of that evil. That’s par for the course for them. No, what has made a definitive mark this time is the degree to which ALL of the “mainstream” press has contorted themselves to avoid the truth, something so obvious no one with more than a few functioning brain cells could miss it.
THIS WAS A RACIALLY-MOTIVATED ACT OF DOMESTIC TERRORISM. PERIOD.
So do me and the rest of Sentient America a favor.
Stop running and face the problem.
No more White Shooter Bingo:
No more tear-soaked statements of bewilderment over not knowing what causes this when the shooter CLEARLY EXPLAINED EXACTLY WHY HE DID WHAT HE DID. (Also, doing so with the traitorous, treasonous flag flying over your capitol grounds – seriously, enough already.)
No more blaming mental illness for the shooter’s actions – the mentally ill have enough to deal with in this country without getting dragged into domestic terrorism attacks. Unless you consider ISIS/ISIL/whoever mentally ill too, just STFU about this.
No more pivoting from the victims (if you even acknowledge them at all) to musing about whether the “black community” will “act out” over acts like this. Ever hear of lynchings of black people in response to real (or more often, imagined) crimes? Here’s a hint: THAT was acting out.
NO. MORE.
No more “but but but what about BLACK ON BLACK CRIME? What about Baltimore?” (Let me tell you about Baltimore – any cop that espouses the view that there is only one choice – either to let them do whatever the hell they want without accountability or reproach, without being subject to the laws that they are enforcing/departmental policies OR standing back and not doing their jobs, then they need to be doing something else – ANYTHING ELSE – for a living.)
No more victim blaming. That’s right, victim blaming. If you’re stupid enough to say that a victim should have been in favor of allowing members to carry handguns IN A CHURCH in response to a massacre inside A CHURCH, you should really stop talking.
There are some serious problems here, and if they are not addressed, in the end, NOBODY WINS.
Orwell On The Half Shell
Via @Billmon1, this:
Actually, when you add it to all that has gone down over the last six years, perhaps this better explains it:
Putting The Right On Report
Nothing I could say on the matter of SGT Bergdahl’s return (and the lunacy of the howls of outrage from a right wing that just weeks earlier was praying for his return) would be better than what Chief Wright had to say, so I’ll point you to him:
“Nevertheless, Bergdahl has been condemned by the popular media, by social networks, by pundits and politicians, not because they know more about the situation than you or I do, but solely because they hate the president. If Obama was behind Bergdahl’s release, then Bergdahl is a traitor, Q.E.D. because the president must never, ever, be allowed even the slightest acknowledgement of patriotism.
This condemnation isn’t about Bergdahl, it’s about Obama.“
Please go read the whole thing – it’s as complete a dissection of the dishonest right wing as you’ll ever see.
My Ready Room 