Nuke Them Now Chuck!

 I thought when Joe Biden took the oath of office on that meteor sized Bible I could let out a sigh of relief and I did. But I didnt know that it would be soon after I realized that like Japanese soldiers who after World War II refused to admit defeat, the clan of the Cult45 would remain. After the former Traitor in Chief left, and it was the perfect opportunity for a certain political party to cut the body loose, that certain party couldnt let go. Instead, like an anchor they refuse to lose, this party continues to allow a refugee tell it what to do. The fear of a certain group of violent cultists remains.

The party that remains loyal to a criminal enterprise stays intact. Threatening its members with the courage to do whats right, put country over party and willing to wisely move on, with repercussions is really cowardly. But because of the fear of violent insurrectionists not in prison and the death threats from same, these Republican cowards bow to the will of a loser living in Florida. Its sad. Its scary. And it must be dealt with. Nuke them Chuck Schumer NOW

The fact 45 Republicans in the Senate expressed support for a man who started a violent riot, put out a hit on every single one of them , and would have killed them all been given the chance, is pathetic. Where is these peoples self esteem? While they continue to prop up a liar and a traitor, the country slides back into shithole status , a status I never thought I'd see again. Again, Nuke Them Now Chuck.

Unity? Unity? A party of turncoats, a party still bootlicking a con artist, a party that lost all 3 branches of government, demands "unity? Who wants to unify with Nazis? Who wants to unify with the likes of Loren Boebert or Tommy Tuberville? I'd rather unify with a rabid racoon. The GOP lost. They were crushed because of an Orange Ox they still bow to. Yet they want to unify? Sure they do. Nuke Them Now Chuck!

The impeachment trial is coming up. The Republican suck ups will defend the criminal with all their might. They will go to the mat for this loser, just as they did after he started the insurrection that almost got them killed. Its amazing to think what goes thru their heads. Imagine being afraid of middle aged goateed white men whose only political beliefs are racist and devotion to one man? JFC Republicans grow a pair. Nuke Them Now Chuck.

Meanwhile imagine a political party that allows a kook who believes 9/11 was an inside job, Parkland was a false flag, the Las Vegas shooting was a plot to kill T***p voters, a Jewish Space Laser Ray started California wild fires, that Nancy Pelosi should be shot, that the Slime in Chief won the election in a landslide and that her own mentally ill words are a "smear", to tell them what to do. Thats what they are doing. Allowing this blonde whacko to run the show. Remember Al Franken got run out of the Senate for a joke picture taken years earlier, yet this crazy Georgia Leech remains in power, perhaps on the Education Committee .

The swearing in was supposed to be a chance to decompress. How naïve.

Nuke them NOW Chuck!

Jack!

This is becoming a death blog. I'm sick of it honestly. 

Our sweet terrier mix, Jack, had to be sent to the rainbow bridge today due to chronic conditions that finally had progressed too far to bring him back again. Jack, a wildman in his prime, had slowed considerably in the last year or so. He had become blind, he had diabetes, he had anemia, but he had love and it kept him going.

Jack was truly a dog with many lives, a will to live, a fighter, a dog who loved everyone once he could smell your hand. 

Jack ran down the stairs as I lay at the bottom with an Alex Smith like broken leg and jumped in my lap to lick my face and say it was going to be ok. From that moment on whenever I went down those stairs, Jack would wait at the top of the stairs until I got back up the stairs safely. He was a good boy.

Jack was indestructible, or so I thought. He ran into busy streets, he chased bicyclists, he ran off a deck and fell 20 feet chasing a squirrel resulting in a hurt leg, he walked off the same deck when he was going blind and I thought for sure he'd finally managed to kill himself but when I looked down to see a dead dog, I saw a dog peeing like what what'd I do? He got into a fight with some creature who scratched his eye practically out. Jack was defying death at every moment.

But today death won. We are devastated at his sudden decline. Just last nite he was begging for food, eating his treats, jumping into his favorite chair, going outside to pee every 10 minutes and being Jack. But this morning he lost control of his hind legs, he gasped for breath, he couldnt sleep, he moaned in pain and we knew it was time. Jack was 13 and a half years old when he left us. I will miss him forever.

He was Jacko, Jack Man, Jackie Poo, Jackson Von Jackson, my main man. He was a great dog,

He was a great friend. A good boy. All that any dog strives to be. 

Larry KIng!

 A long long time ago in another life I was in radio. I asked questions, I spun tunes, I took calls and to me it was a dead end so I left. It also paid nothing. But radio was big in the 1980s, still. Talk radio was just coming into its own on a national level. I got a job on the graveyard shift and was basically alone doing  paperwork and trying to stay awake.

Then I discovered late night talk radio. There were the crazy people who saw UFOs and alien invasions and drew an audience of insomniacs in desperate need of medication and sleep. Then there was Larry King on the old Mutual Broadcasting System. I was hooked. Larry had the ability to make interesting things I had no curiosity about. Economics, spy novels, science all became fascinating to me. Why? Because Larry King asked questions most people wouldn't ask because they were afraid they'd sound dumb. Larry would ask an economics question as if he'd never heard of supply and demand. Larry would ask a novelist a question about what their favorite board game was. Larry would ask a scientist if they had ever blown up their basement. He would ask an athlete if he had ever been bad at any sport. Larry was Larry and I loved the guy. Sure, he was bombastic, he would tell the same stories over and over if he needed a few minutes of sleep and he was often rude to callers.

More than once I called in to talk with Larry. I was usually half in the bag and asked Larry some dumb question which he would answer and hang up. But once, clean and sober, I called Larry to talk about the 1984 election expressing my concern about re electing a senile old man. Larry and I spoke for maybe 2 minutes but it felt like a lifetime. He spoke with me like he cared what I thought and listened before responding that he agreed with me and was also concerned. I felt on top of the world.

Larry King is gone now thanks to Covid. Larry hung on forever because he was curious and still had shit to ask people. Yeah he was an easy interview for many celebrities. Softball after softball. Larry wasnt going to go all Morton Downey Jr on anyone, he was going to be your best buddy. When he moved to CNN it became much more mundane than when he was on in the middle of the night on radio. He was restrained and ready to mingle. But we still watched him. 

I have few heroes in any business. Larry was one. I STILL got a thrill when I'd see him behind home plate at Dodger games on his phone. He was annoyed by that. That anyone would care why he was on his phone. Probably talking to his pool boy about what about chlorine fascinates him.

I will miss you Larry. The Great Beyond, Hello!

Hank Aaron!

The true Home Run King died today at age 86. Henry Aaron hit 755 home runs in his remarkable career and had the record in the bag until a cheat came along and broke his record. I don't give a damn how manty homers the cheat  hit, Aaron is the king in my world.

I wont lie and say I loved Hank Aaron when I was a kid. He was a Brave. I was a Willie Mays fan. He was a Giant. But as Aaron closed in on Babe Ruth's 714 home run record I rooted for him. I was a teen and completely unaware of the racism the man endured as he closed in on the Babe. The death threats, the pressure, the fright he must have felt every time he stepped up to the plate didnt deter him. He mashed along, never hitting more than 47 homers in a single season, and passed Ruth on an April night in 1974 hitting number 715 and making Al Downing famous. Hank hit 40 more homers in his career to end up with the 755 number. The record that was never to be broken mostly because players don't play every inning of every game anymore. 

Then came the Cheaters. The Cheaters jammed drugs and hormones into their bodies like a damn turkey and started smashing home runs like singles. And MLB let it happen to appease attention span challenged fans looking for fireworks every night.

One Cheater eventually passed Hank on a night in San Francisco with a cartoonishly large head and an even more cartoonishly evilness. As decent and humble as Hank Aaron was, the Cheat was equally indecent and a prick. The bad guy won that night. Im a Giants fan, but those years of the Cheat were especially difficult. Rooting for that Fathead was impossible. He was destroying my game that I feel in love with because of guys like Hank Aaron. Aaron was 6 feet and 180 lbs and hit 755. The Cheat was 6-1 and weighed whatever the freakishly large head and body weighed after the injections .

You're the king Hank. Just like Roger Maris is the single season king. If MLB had any scruples, those "records" would be re installed. You fucking cheated decent men out of their lifes accomplishments by allowing the Cheats to cheat.

Heres to you Hank!

Dr Fauci's Opus!

 He looked 10 years younger, no 20, as he stood in front of the press after being liberated from Camp Death. Dr Anthony Fauci was positively giddy compared to last summer when he would face palm as the former Death Eater in Chief would ramble on about nonsense he thought up in his syphilis addled mind. Fauci stood next the other breath of fresh air, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, and told the truth about the T---- virus that has murdered 400,000 Americans so far. What a weight off his shoulders (probably about 350 lbs) to be able to actually tackle this disaster the way a scientist wants. No Joe Biden hogging the spotlight, no sucking up Cabinet Members praising the Dear Leader before lying their asses off. Dr, Fauci is in charge and hope is alive.

During World War II, the Germans and the Japanese killed less Americans in 4 years than T---- managed to kill in 10 months. That is remarkable . But that's what happens when you vote a morally and financially bankrupt game show host into a position of power because you think hes fucking funny. And besides he owns those libs with his middle school vocabulary and maturity.

Turns out when Joe Biden opened for business today, he found out that the prior administration had no plan whatsoever to combat this virus and send out the vaccine. None. Zilch.  In fact according to CNN, a botox faced returned sex doll named Jared Kushner had the only plan. Let the blue states residents die and die quickly in order to blame their Democratic Governors and benefit politically. Meanwhile the competence of Democratic Governors foiled their evilness and instead incompetent monsters like South Dakota's Kristi Noem (Grandma Killer-SD) Nebraska's Pete Ricketts (Trust Fund Moron-Ne) and Iowa's Kim Reynolds (Terrible Driver -Ia) presided over record death rates and bumbling vaccine plans. No plans? None. This was what 74 million people voted for? A fat guy with no plan? Yep. 

Bidens job has become even harder due to the prior regimes lust for death and destruction. No fucking plan? How could that be any worse?

My hope is still there. Yesterday was grand. It will always be grand. But the ineptitude, the outright criminality of the previous gang of grifters and sadistic shitheels will not be overcome easily or swiftly. We are in for long road. Fuck unity and healing. The GOP is still there and throwing boulders in the way in order to criticize and fool the incoherent masses who vote for them into thinking Joe Biden is actually Joe Stalin. Its infuriating. 

We dont unite with lying insurrectionist anarchists. We dont heal from an attack on democracy by the base of the GOP. We deal with it no matter how long it takes. 

But first we heal ourselves from the T---- Virus. Thats priority number 1. Considering we are basically just starting after 10 months of  blundering indifference, it could be another long year.

Lets go Joe!

Joe Biden/Kamala Harris!

 Four years ago I sat on this very couch, 5 days out from breaking my leg, and watched an event I could not believe was happening . A clown stood on the inaugural stand and basically threatened America. A dark themed speech of fear and disdain, a speech that put the evil out front of what was to come. Carnage? It ends here and now? Yeah sure buddy, it ended today.

But that worthless traitor is gone, slithering back to Florida on the taxpayers dime after holding one last campaign rally full of lies and alternate reality. Good riddance whatever your name is.

Joe Biden is now President and I have hope again. Kamala Harris is Vice President and all women and especially little girls of color should have hope again.

The lead up to the speeches was excruciating. They couldn't be sworn in quick enough. When Kamala Harris took the oath from Justice Sotomayor it was apparent that for about 15 minutes, that other guy had a black woman Veep. That made me happy. When Joe Biden took the oath, the tears welled up in my eyes. We were free from the buffoonery of the past 4 years. We were free from the international disdain and the world giving us the side eye. 

Joe gave the inaugural speech and it was dull to some but inspiring to those of us who actually listened. As seditionists like Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham sat there, proving Republicans have no fucking shame, Biden threw his darts at them. Saying to the cynical twosome, your mobs tried to silence the people and it didn't succeed and goddamnit it will never ever succeed. Biden may as well have turned around and flipped the finger to those two back stabbing snakes. 

Then if Cruz and his minions didnt get that, a young poet named Amanda Gorman twisted the knife to kill the 2 week old insurrection once and for all. You can delay democracy but you cannot defeat it. Young Ms. Gorman is an old soul, the kind of kid wise beyond her years, and she gets it. She gets it far greater than old white Republicans and thuggish middle aged vandals do. They want to destroy, she wants to build. Kudos to the 22 year old who stole the ceremony.

The last 4 years have felt like a thousand. Being my age, we don't have 4 years to endure, we need to live. With this incoming administration, I feel like living again and I have hope it shall happen. Joe Biden is a gift from the heavens. Once they fumigate and exorcise the demons from the halls of Congress and the White House, I look forward to the future. To move forward and not backward.

1776 can fuck the hell off.

Hate!

 I am not a hateful person. Really I'm not. I don't like a lot of people. I'm annoyed by a lot of people, I want nothing to do with a lot of people. But hate? No. Well maybe Rush Limbaugh, the bully boy who amused the hell out of dumbshits by punching down. Him I hated at times and then I forgot about him and couldn't care less what happened to him.

But the last 4 years have taught me a lot. About myself. I have that hate gene in me and I don't like it, you could say I hate it. Donald Trump I absolutely hate. I hate everything about him. There isn't a redeeming piece of DNA in this glob of orange slime. I used to watch his Celebrity Apprentice because he was such a clown, a fool, a parody of himself. His sycophantic daughter and sons approving of his every decision. His insulting of other "celebrities " who quite frankly deserved it was amusing. Penn Jillette called him the worst human being he's ever met and he almost won the damn thing. I had no idea this buffoon would ever achieve any power other than to fake fire a gang of B and C list "celebrities'". 

Denying reality that America was that racist and dumb caused me to dismiss this fathead as a jerk who would never win a presidential nomination of a major political party. What the fuck was going on? When he won the nomination I figured there was no way America was that racist, dumb AND sexist to put this blockhead in power. But they did.

I was still not in hate mode. I didnt hate him. I despised him . He made me ashamed to be a human. But hate? Nah I dont hate anyone.

The cruelty , the bigotry, the lying, the appointment of incompetent TV talking heads to positions of power, the racists who permeated the administration , the egomaniacal bragging of shit that wasnt even true  and the adoration of a band of intelligence challenged ignoramuses was pushing to the edge. But I still didnt hate. I loathed him and his grifter family. His yes men, his bootlickers, his fellow liars, his enablers, his scummy base (sorry I dont want to "understand" them EVER). 

And then the sight of him, his voice, his hair, his Bigfoot style of walking, his effect on people I liked, made me feel things not healthy. I physically became unstable at the sight of him. I wished him gone. Gone from the Earth. I hated him for what he had done to a country it turns out I loved. I've never been a greatest nation on earth guy because I don't feel its necessarily true.  But goddammit its still pretty good and this motherfucker was destroying it from within. Turning a nation my father fought for into the very thing he fought. Fucking Nazis. White supremacist. Fucking Nazis. I'd see pictures of my Dad, I'd hear his voice telling me the Army was the worst 4 years of his life, and this privileged prick from Queens was wrecking it all. I imagined my Dad and felt his presence and for the love of Christ yes I hated Donald Trump for what he'd done to an entire generation of Antifa warriors. 

So I hate Donald Trump. He won in that regard. He brought out a feeling I didn't know existed. For that I'm sure a scummy low life like Trump would be glad about that. He is a destroyer. A vile detestable monster who gets off on not only shitting his diapers but shitting on anyone who gets in his way. What a despicable unhappy Prince of Darkness he really is.

When he's gone I hope I can exorcise that gene form myself forever. To not hear his voice or see his lumbering walk will be glorious. Please tomorrow please. 

I cast thee out unclean spirit. I hope.