There's nothing else to say. This country is fucked up perhaps beyond repair.
19 dead 7-10 year old children and two dead hero teachers who spent their too short lives teaching these children with no appreciation from any politician intent on keeping this gun humping going.
And NOTHING will be fucking done about it.
FUCK THE NRA! FUCK THE GOP !
Yesterday an 18 year old kid named Payton Grendon drove hours to Buffalo, stopped outside a grocery store, picked up his AR 15 complete with the N bomb scribbled on the barrel and began live streaming on Twitch, stepped out of his vehicle and began shooting anything that moved. Since this degenerate had googled a zip code with a majority black population he picked this grocery store to exercise his 2nd amendment right. Soon there were 10 dead people and 3 wounded people. PEOPLE goddamit! People who didnt choose to be who they were, but apparently targeted by a fuckin racist who DID choose who he is. He murdered an ex cop who was working security after this man put a couple of bullets into this murderous scumbag's body armor. And since he's white, he was taken into custody alive. Because of course he was.
God Im sick of this shit. If its not some young hateful prick driving across Texas to an El Paso Wal Mart to slaughter perceived Hispanic threats to white rule, its some despicable redneck walking into a Pittsburgh synagogue and exterminating worshiping Jewish folks , or some religious fanatic walking into a gay nightclub and slaying dozens of gay people just having fun, or some incel loser walking into a black church and shooting innocents because their skin color is different, its some crazy fucker walking into a church he perceived too liberal and killing even more worshipers. What do these brain dead zombies all have in common besides the easy access to guns? A fixation with right wing propaganda from the likes of Fox News and other lesser media warning them of the "Great Replacement Theory" . Tucker Carlson, the guy Fox says not to take literally cuz nobody with a room temp IQ believes his bullshit, pushes this nightly on his White Power Hour. Oh yeah, the Libs are all out to bring in people of color from the outside world and vote you white christians out of office, take yer jerbs, rape your daughters, buy up all the mayonnaise and outlaw square dancing or some such shit.
Unfortunately, LOTS of less than room temp IQ's live among us. They watch Tucker and Laura and Sean and become obsessed with social media types who take advantage of their ignorance and turn them into soldiers in the upcoming "race war". Like most of these manipulative assholes, the "soldiers" take the fall while the leaders tell the FBI whatever they want to save their own ass.
I'm not calling for this to stop because its a pointless endeavor. Its never gonna stop. There's too many guns and too many morons out there who are just gone mentally. See latest Trump rally. These people are irredeemable. Perhaps anyone on social media with a 180 page "manifesto" might be investigated as a possible mass murderer? I know conservatives 2nd favorite amendment is the first amendment that allows their bullshit to be spread freely. Then when some dummy picks up a gun and exercises conservative's favorite amendment, the 2nd, well theres nothing to be done. Its the price of living in a free society which they can't wait to turn into a fascist society.
I can't even imagine how blacks and browns and gays and Jewish folk and women feel being the consistent target of white male losers. I can't even try. I am none of those.
All I can be is an ally.
PS: Fox News is already expressing sympathy not for the victims but for the 18 year old white kid because he may be mentally ill or doesn't have a fully formed brain, ya know like your average Fox viewer.
Max's Mom and I couldn't be prouder.
Thanks for reading.
From left:
Charles W Herbster, Trump ass licker and alleged young girl groper.
He is endorsed by Trump, which only endears him to really dumb people. He ran his last ads featuring Trump at a rally in a red hat looking like a lumbering sasquatch while Herbster is a short little man in a giant cowboy hat. Herbsters ads also featured him looking for the dead wife vote. His wife died in 2017 and he really wants you to know that. That was pre-groping I assume. What freedom a dead wife brings guys like him.
Brett Lindstrom, nice guy misogynist and general asswipe
Lindstrom was positive throughout the campaign. He attacked nobody. He featured his cute kids and still alive wife and really said nothing. He surged in the polls. Then came the attack ads from the other two. They attacked him endlessly about being an alleged lib, I assume because he comes across as the kind of guy who'd help you do your taxes for free. Or he'd go with you to the Mexican restaurant without blurting out a racial slur the whole time he was eating a cheeseburger and fries. His poll numbers began to decline. Then Lindstrom went all pro lifey in his last ads. NO ABORTIONS EVER! EVER!!! I hope the dumbo Democrats who switched parties to vote for this Trojan Horse feel stupid.
Jim Pillen, fumble recoverer and general privilged prick just like his mentor, Pete Ricketts
Pillen never wavered. Yeah I hate Mexicans and I wont apologize for it ads. Im all Goddy and love Jesus and will throw women who even fucking think about abortion in jail. He brought the grandkids and wife into the ads and tried to seem nice by making pig jokes (since hes a pig farmer and all lol). Alle he came across was like a guy who reads the Bible, condemns you for yawning in church, and has some sort of leather dungeon someplace in Columbus. But hey, he once fell on a fumble 44 years ago. Nebraskans love that kind of shit.
I have no idea who will win. Since the Republicans dominate this state thanks to 99% GOP registration in the dying towns and small cities with clever names like North Platte, Columbus and Scottsbluff. The primary is basically the general election since Nebraska Democrats are fairly inept and never win. I mean come on now, Pete Ricketts, a real prick, won twice here.
That's our state. A real mess. Soon to be messier I'm sure. The Good Life, if you're white, male and privileged.
PS--The guy for throwing all the "illegals" in jail and then out of the country, the guy who is afraid of the "radical transgender agenda", the guy who is man of "God" yet needs to stop the non existent CRT and ignore the wrongs of American history, the guy who was in the right place at the right time and fell on a fumble in a goddamned football game 44 years ago, the guy backed by a rich punk named Ricketts, a guy who is in general nothing more than a phony "Christian" bigot won the GOP nomination.
But hey at least Trumps fellow handsy motherfucker lost though right?
I am not consoled.
The Good Life. Yeah right.
The ads are getting worse and worse. Lets go talk about ads for each
Carol Blood has no ads because she's basically unopposed for the Nebraska Democratic primary (yeah theres a lot more of us than you think). She will win easily. Then the fireworks start in calling her out for the abortion filibuster that killed Nebraska Taliban forces from imposing a Louisiana type trigger law in the state legislature.
Charles W Herbster (Rich Guy-Mo). He brought the Orange jackass to an auto racetrack last week to pimp for him. I am not really sure Trump even knows who he is but he is told Chuck financed some of the coup attempt in January 2021. Herbsters ads are all Trump all the time. Trump calling him a good man. What else would a fellow sexual harasser say? Herbster also runs ads in which he gazes into the camera and denies sticking his hand up Julie Slama's (Ricketts Puppet-Ne) without actually denying it. Herbster also runs attack ads against Slama accusing her of lying to protect her Puppet masters preferred candidate, Jim Pillen. Its ugly.
Speaking of ugly there's Jim Pillen (Bigot-Ne). Pillen runs ads portraying himself as a man of God, yet still a christian bigot who doesnt much care for the brown folks or the "radical transgender agenda" whatever the fuck that is. Pillen also is in cahoots with Governor Pete Ricketts (Rich Guy-Ne) who started a PAC called Conservative Nebraska because he just buys whatever or whomever he wants . This PAC has run attack ads against Herbster this last week calling out Chuck for being a "teenage girls beauty pageant judge" all over the world . Then the ad states something about what happened at these pageants? YOU decide. For crissakes that is low even for a racist pig farmer and a racist egg head. Even more reason Trump likes Chuck. Pillen also runs ads featuring his wife (who marries these fuckin guys?) and saying Jim Pillen is THE most pro-lifey pro-lifey guy ever! God help Nebraska if oine of his followers like this win.
Brett Lindstrom stayed positive. He's a tax cutter. He's actually cut taxes because hes in the Lege. He brought Omaha mayor Jean Stothert out of her cave to say he's finally a candidate Omaha can trust. Yee ouch Pete Ricketts. Omaha is a million person metro area that largely gets ignored because theres too many of us libs here. Lindstrom is openly courting people and not cows.
Because of Lindstroms surge in the poll the dark money ads (Ricketts again) have come in calling him the dreaded L word and claiming he raised taxes, despite the tax cut Nebraska R's have been bragging about for months. But say "Liberal Lindstrom" enough times in 30 seconds it may get though to lame brains and the cows out west.
Theresa Thibodeaux (who?-Ne)has begun to run ads now touting how pro lifey she is too. Is that all Nebraska Republicans think about? Non voting fetuses? Look for a bill in the Lege calling for voting rights by proxy for all fetuses. She has no chance of getting even 10% in that Taliban Primary.
Then theres Breland Ridenour. In a tubful of Republican nuts, he's the peanuts nobody wants. If you see a sign in a yard you can rest assure the residents of that house love Sharia law, christian style. He's a waste of time.
The ads are constant. I mean you will see a full 5 minutes of these ads every 30 minutes during old people TV (yes thats me) like the local news, CBS prime time and Wheel of Fortune. I'm surprised Tom Selleck isnt pimping for Pillen during Sunday dinner on Blue Bloods.
Two more days until a nutjob takes the Republican primary. Kooks like Pillen and Herbster could split the vote and let the "nice guy" who really is just as kooky Lindstrom in through the back door (sorry Pillen).
Democrats have switched parties (who wants THAT on their record ffs) to vote for Lindstrom in a misguided attempt to keep bigots like Pillen or insurrectionists like Herbster from winning. Its the Democrats typical stupid move. They want a voice. In the Republican primary? Why not just vote for Carol Blood? Ya know, YOUR party candidate?
Nebraska, The Good Life. Good as in white , male, christian, straight and Republican. The rest of you get lost.
Then came January of 1973 and Roe V Wade was decided and abortion was no longer something done in back alleys, butcher shops, strip malls or for rich women, a flight to Puerto Rico. The school went nuts. Math Teachers railed against the ruling. Anti abortion literature sat on teachers desks. Religion class was almost exclusively about it. Other teachers started debates. I was virtually alone is supporting abortion rights. A couple of younger teachers came to my defense as I was scourged by future Federalist freaks.
I may have been in the minority there but I knew I was in the real majority outside of Catholic propaganda factories. College came and I found my peeps.
A lot of years have passed since then. I've worked with a lot of women over the years. I prefer their company to be honest. And now at damn near retirement age, I am not sure I know any women who haven't been either sexually assaulted or had abortions. Their stories are told to me because they know my nature. I'm not telling anybody and I don't judge. I can keep a secret and know how to listen. And never did I really think toothpaste could be put back in the tube until last night.
A bogus Supreme Court full of illegitimate people appointed by men who got fewer votes than their opponents. What other country on earth would allow this? Well authoritarians and thumb breakers would make it happen but not here. Oh wait.
I used to think that women would never let this happen. They would vote in droves to keep out the old white men and their gender traitor collaborators out of office. Didnt happen. Well at least white women didnt let it happen. They still voted for that Orange Fuckweasel by 56-44. I guess racism is one helluva drug.
While most of us normal folk are outraged or concerned about the fact Roe V Wade will soon be overturned, Fox News and its white male panels were diverting attention from its mostly elderly weak minded audience by raging about the leak and the left. The left did this, throw em in jail blah blah blah while not discussing the issue itself. The rest of the country ignored the legal geeks and their fainting couch concern about precedent. Fuck that. The court isnt sacred, it hasn't been ever. Its a band of political hacks concerned with preserving white supremacy while throwing a bone now and then to the minorities. Now with the recent granting of rights to the LGBTQ community and crawling out from under the rock resurgence of bigots and con men, the Supreme Court is after all of you. A religious fanatic like Samuel Alito comes right out and says it.
Women first, then the gays, then the interracial marriages, then the criminal rights, then birth control and who knows how far back this band of beer enthusiasts, handmaidens, corporate fascists and professional Catholics will take us. Hell they might think that whole Brown V Board was a little bit too much progress for the nation. Chrissakes they may think Plessy V Ferguson was too shocking for train riders.
This can be stopped. By fucking voting in November.
If this political party of patriarchal cowards gets power, its over. There will be nationwide bans proposed on abortion, gay marriage, gay sex, integration, interracial marriage, and sanity.
If you think that evil fuck McConnell would hesitate for one second to nuke the filibuster you're out of your mind. Yeah Biden would veto, but if the Republicans win also in 2024, its really over.
Hail Not Freedonia. Hail Gilead! Hail Republistan! Hail JesusLand!
Its dire. It scares the shit out of me.
Since we last talked this race has gone even more bonkers. Sexual harassment, a girl named Collete, a pig farmer making pig jokes, another choosing Yosemite Sam as a running mate. Its insane here. Well not Southern insane, but for here in the "nice" part of the country very off the wall.
Pete Ricketts, the current Governor and rich ne'er do well kid of the Ricketts crime family, has thrown his weight and money behind the pig farmer who fell on a fumble in a Husker game 40 some years ago. Ricketts will spend as much of Daddy Ricketts as he has to to get his way. He's done it in the past and we have all suffered for it over the last 8 years. Yes the fine citizens of this state elected this dick head twice. From buying candidates to do his evil in the state legislature to buying illegal drugs so he can preside over killing a guy to spending millions to overturning a law eliminating the death penalty to spending even more to block medical marijuana petitions from getting on the ballot to slow rolling ballot initiatives passed by the voters to expand Medicaid and allow gambling the guy has just proven to be a fucking prick on top of a lousy Governor. He recently refused to apply for federal aid to help renters behind on their rent due to a Covid pandemic he insists he ended in July of 2021. Congrats Nebraska on being the ONLY state to say no to federal money to help actual people. Ricketts is not a responsible watchdog for your money, he's just a prime certified asshole.
The pig farmer, Jim Pillen , went all full blown bigot in his ads. Proclaiming himself a man of God and a hellacious pro life whack job, he would then swear he would not only jail illegals (they LOVE that word) but send em all back to wherever they came from. With Ricketts' help, he also began attacking his perceived opponent, a handsy insurrectionist named Charles W Herbster, as a resident of Missouri (true), a man who wants to tax everything you buy (half true), and a childless gillionaire with no principles (true). He also has one very special endorsement that'll turn your stomach.
Then theres the aforementioned Herbster. This guy was born here and that's about it. He has more money than brains like most of them, he's a widower, and wears a cowboy hat to make him seem taller (doesn't work). Bored with money, he is just another Ricketts longing for power, which pisses Ricketts off cuz HE is the oligarch carpetbagger of Nebraska, not Herbster! Herbster has one endorsement from a fellow insurrectionist named Trump and now we know why. Herbster likes to grab pussy. A state senator, a Ricketts puppet named Julie Slama (Puppet-Ne) claimed that Herbster reached under her dress at a Republican grab ass fundraiser. Then came 7 other women saying the same damn thing. Sound suspicious? Well of course it does cuz Slama is as empty a soul as they come, but there is strength in numbers. And even a dancing marionette like Slama doesnt deserve to be grabbed by an old degenerate. Thus, the Trump endorsement and rally today. Two grabby motherfuckers on stage in front of a crowd of kooks. What could go wrong?'
Brett Lindstrom. The third guy in the race. Ignored for months as a 15% at best dude, Lindstrom switched from ads propping up the Big Lie to trying some Republican style humor in his ads. In other words not funny bu nonetheless effective. Using his cute daughter, Collette., Lindstrom became positive. Hey there, Im a good guy with cute kids. still a right wing nut, but look I like my family. Collette would express her concern about the negative ads and look into the camera and say vote for my Dad. Even I couldn't help but like that little girl despite the fact she has a 50/50 chance of becoming another Ginni Thomas. And what happened? Lindstrom surged in the polls into the lead. Nebraska Nice works.
Thus here came the attack ads against Lindstrom. He's a "liberal" (not true) he's endorsed only by Democrats (one) and Trump haters ( ok sure) and he's a guy who raised taxes (not true) and will raise even more taxes if he gets into office and paints the Governors mansion red and hoists up the hammer and sickle over the Capitol in Lincoln. These ads are from dark money (Ricketts) groups and utterly dishonest but what the hell, Ricketts and Trump are falling behind.
Thus the latest, a week and a half from the primary, Trumps here, Ricketts is spending Daddys money to trash a guy who dared take his guy on, and Lindstrom continues to surge cuz he's a "nice guy".
Oh yeah theres a fourth Republican candidate who may draw in a few votes. Her name is Theresa Thibodeaux, a former Ricketts puppet state senator who lost her election making Pete all sad. She originally ran as a running mate with Herbie the Grope Bug but dropped out for some reason (hmm) to run on her own. Seemed to be reasonable sort and going nowhere, she suddenly picked a running mate, a Yosemite Sam lookalike,Trent Loos , a radio talk show host from out in Kearney who is a typical right wing conspiracy freak. The Big Lie, the China virus, all the greatest hits from this cowboy hat wearing mustachioed cartoon character. She has as much chance of winning that primary as Wile E Coyote has a catching the Road Runner.
There we have it, Nebraska, lurching backwards as always to the good old days of Charlie Starkweather. When men were men and women just rode along.
Go Big Red!
