Alabama!

I hate Alabama. I hate their football team, I hate their Governor, I hate their legislature, I hate everything about them.

Well except Doug Jones, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Harper Lee, the cities. Huntsville, Joe Louis, rocket research, ok ok I dont hate Alabama. Its a fine state with a minority of decent folk willing to move forward. But man that Jesus shit rules.

See above billboard in Tuscaloosa. Virtually everything on that board is a blatant lie or half truth. Alabama may have 17 national what I assume are football titles, but you still have far less titles than the "pointy headed intellectuals' up north in Princeton and Harvard so take that. They're not only smarter than you, they played better football than you.

That billboard is a joke. Who are you trying to appeal to? The dumbest of the dumb? Congrats, you've done it!

Years ago in rural Nebraska as we would travel along the highways to small town USA, there was a homemade billboard in the front yard of a small farmhouse that had a picture of Herbie Husker (one of the worst mascots in America) and the hand painted statement updated monthly that said "Over 16,000 future Husker fans have been aborted". The sign was a signal that the entire car would begin deriding it. It made me want to find a different route. Then one day it was gone. Oh not because the people living there had a sudden change of heart. No, it disappeared because the University of Nebraska threatened to sue their ass for trademark infringement. Yeah, they actually trademarked that horrid creature.The threat from the University must have worked. That stupid sign came down.

Maybe the University of Alabama should do the same.

Madness!

I am pissed. I shouldn't write when I'm angry cuz I tend to type fuck a lot.

Take a deep breath and here we go.

Yesterday a white nationalist shitheel drove 9 hours from Dallas to El Paso, Texas to kill innocent Americans of Latino heritage. Publishing a manifesto online a mere hour before he did this dastardly deed, he pretty much parroted what his Dear Leader, Donald Trump, says at his rallies on a bi weekly basis. I dont remember this assholes name, but I do remember Trumps name and THIS is on him.

For years now, Donald Osama Bin Laden Trump has been pushing this white nationalist shit to dumb white people desperate to blame somebody for their lousy lot in life. Like Trump himself, who lacks the courage to punch up, these rally attenders punch down. Its blacks and gays and Hispanics and Islam and women and everybody except themselves to blame that they arent succeeding. They dont even recognize that the reason for their "economic anxiety" stands before them. Though Trump tells them what they want to hear, they dont see behind the scenes where Trumps masters and handlers like Moscow Mitch and Kevin McCarthy and Leningrad Lindsey continue to work against all peoples interests other than their donors who make them rich.
But alas, stupidity is the American way now as anybody smarter than you is elitist and condescending.

This blood is on Trumps hands, oh theres no doubt any longer. From his openly wanting innocent black youth executed to his idiotic Apprentice show where he wanted to pit light skinned blacks against blondes, to his Mexicans are rapists and killers, to his Muslim ban, to his very fine people statement to his laughing at a shooting migrants scream, to his hate filled send her back rallies, this man is a fucking danger to the entire goddamned world. Yet Democrats, in their ridiculous unrealistic attempt to get Trump voters to vote for them, refuse to deal with this man. Meanwhile, mass shootings by white nationalist men now occur every fucking week and sometimes twice. Goddamit Nancy, deal with this miscreant NOW!

In the meantime, the stories out of El Paso continue to break hearts. From the Hispanic woman shielding her baby being slaughtered by this white gangster, to the young black man carrying children in his arms away from danger, to the fact that this white mass murderer was taken alive without a scratch. Is it perhaps that white nationalists believe law enforcement is on their side? Ya know like the white guys at the bar dropping N bombs out loud when they think youre on their side simply because you are white?

The politicians, the Trump enablers, coming out of the woodwork. The thoughts and prayers. The bullshit concern. The meaningless words meant to cover their ass in the future. These Republican jackoffs are shameless. Future Ex-Senator John Cornyn (please run Beto) continued to leave a tweet in which he warns white Texas that for every 1 new white resident in Texas there were 9 Hispanic new residents. This kind of not so subtle racism runs deep among these Republican degenerates. They know the code words. They know how to speak to racists without being racist. This has been common since the day Ronald Reagan began his 1980 campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi where Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner were murdered by white nationalist cops just 15 years prior.

Now we have a mass murder in a Dayton club that nobody knows anything about other than the masked guy in body armor with an assault weapon was a white guy and 11 people are dead. Incel? White nationalist? Who knows at this point?

Look Im as sick of this shit as everybody else. You can point out that we need thoughts and prayers and condemnation and talk about video games like we always do when it comes to white killers. White killers are always influenced by video games, while every other killer who is not white is part of some sort of international conspiracy against America. No motherfuckers! This is all a national conspiracy led by white losers intent on keeping their white privilege intact at all costs. Stop the excuse making on Fox News and by Republicans scared of offending their white nationalist base.

Fuck these people. Ban assault weapons. Background checks. Impeach this motherfucker before he gets more people killed.

This is serious, folks. Stop this madness now.

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood And Another Movie!

I cannot stand Quentin Tarantino. I love Quentin Tarantino. There's my dilemma. Ive seen most of his movies, both hated and loved them, yet still have this love/hate problem. Lets all agree they are ALL over the top, feature horrific violence. and drop too damn many N bombs.

Once Upon A Time in Hollywood is not any of those. Its a perfectly understandable story. Using real life people in fictional situations (this is NOT history folks) the movie moves like a Western in its storytelling and back story to explain what is going on.

Leonardo DiCaprio stars as soon to be washed up 1960s actor Rick Dalton. Dangling to his career by his fingertips, Dalton plods along in Hollywood guest starring on TV Westerns and detective shows. Accompanied virtually everywhere by his stunt double, Cliff Booth, played by Brad Pitt, Dalton struggles to remain viable. With tons of 1960's TV and commercial references, it is right in the wheelhouse of people my age. I cant count the number of times I broke into a smile over some dumb ad I remembered or a TV theme playing in the background.

Dalton lives in they Hollywood Hills right next door to Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie). Uh oh. We know whats coming. When Booth keeps running into a young hippie girl hitchhiking, flirting with that Brad Pitt grin, we all know what lies ahead. Eventually circumstances are right enough for Booth to give the chick a ride. To the Spahn movie ranch. The tension of that few minutes of screen time makes this movie worth it. Booth doesnt give a shit, he's afraid of nobody, and he explores the ranch on his own terms despite meeting Tex Watson, Susan Atkins, Squeaky Fromme, Leslie Van Houton, Patricia Krenwinkel and finally George Spahn. Nope, no Manson, he is seen in one scene for a few seconds and thats it. Which to me is brilliant.

Look the movie takes a typical Tarantino rewriting history turn towards the end but as absurd as I thought Inglorius Basterds was, this turn actually makes sense. And like it or not, this isnt Leo's movie, its Brad Pitts movie. Pitt is the best second banana Ive seen in maybe forever. His character is dominating. As they used to say back in the day, he's a mans man. A total bullshit free force of nature on the edge of igniting at any moment. But when he ignites, its as calm as a gentle rain. Pitt should be remembered at Oscar time.

The film has cameos galore that may mean nothing to anyone younger than 55.. Damian Lewis could do a Steve McQueen biopic based on his one scene. Dakota Fanning is frightening as Squeaky Fromme. Bruce Dern even makes the most of his one scene as George Spahn.Margot Robbie as a naive like Sharon Tate is great.

Quentin Tarantino , much like David Lynch did in The Straight Story, can make a perfectly watchable film without any misgivings. I loved it.

Now Hobbs and Shaw. Because they were pounding on my roof all day and driving Max and I and the dog nuts, we also went to the latest Fast and Furious chapter. Ive never seen a Fast and Furious movie in my life, being above all that and all. Until now when Im not. Thanks roofers.

Hey it is what it is. The Rock and Jason Statham mug their way through this movie about saving the world from a killer virus. Lots of idiotic violence, lots of insults, lots of I hate you and you hate me moments. But ya know what? It works.

There was enough self deprecation, winks and nods and genuine suspense I cannot state I wasnt entertained. Idris Elba was the villain. Another villain much like Killmonger in Black Panther, he's a bad guy with a somewhat noble purpose. But he's bad and must be stopped. And of course he is eventually stopped. Sorry for that spoiler.

Like I said, I have never seen a Fast and Furious movie so when Helen Mirren shows up I almost exclaimed what the hell is SHE doing in this? I still have no idea, I assume she was in one before and had I seen that one I would have exclaimed what the hell is SHE doing in this?

Debates!

I havent watched one second of any of these "debates". Its August 2019 for chrissakes. Yet the pundits who have 24/7 of "news" to tell you all about cant get enough of this meaningless bullshit. If its not the vapid Chuck Todd or the non stop yakking of Chris Matthews or the non stop negativity of Fox News (and of course Trump "wins" every debate) then its social media with the bots and the fan boys and fan girls pumping up their chosen one by bashing Biden, the obvious frontrunner 6 months before anybody even votes.

Biden is on defense. He's taking the blows and hoping he lasts 12 rounds and wins by default. Thats a dangerous strategy because of course when you play not to lose, you lose. But of course, with the possible exception of 2020's Jill Stein, Tulsi Gabbard, anyone would be a better leader than the Bigot in Chief. No scratch that, even she would be better than the Fascist in Chief.

The only excuse to even stage this nonsense is ratings. We are a TV generated society ., This is how we now have a former reality show host as POTUS. Many people, 62 million to be exact, are so star struck, bigoted, dumb, greedy, or villainous to have taken a dummy whose catch phrase was you're fired and installed him into this position. But thats reality, real reality not fake reality, and that is this nation is getting lazier, dumber and more willing to protect what they have, play defense in other words,and vote for this neanderthal. The warning to white people is to look at Biden and note what happens when you simply try and hold the lead. You lose.

You're losing, white people. You're losing too, Joe.

Moon Landing!

50 years ago. It was a Sunday. I was going to summer camp the next day, unless I made the Little League All Star team. The practice was hard, the tryout was hard. I knew I was on the bubble of making it or being an alternate. My Dad was watching. When the practice ended and we all sat on the ground and the coaches conferred, I had a feeling. Everytime I see Master Chef and they confer with 3 people standing there dreading life I flash back. Yeah it was me who got cut, rather became an alternate. My Dad took off. I felt shitty. I rode my bike back up the hill fighting tears towards home. I felt like I'd let my Dad down. I walked in the door and the first thing Dad said to me was "Its tough isnt it?" Yeah Dad. He then told me it was ok. I felt better, a lot better.

That night, I packed up my stuff to go to summer camp. Fuck that alternate shit. What were the chances another kid would not play in the State Tournament? Zero.

Then I went downstairs where Dad. Mom and my brother were gathered. The Moon Landing was on. Shit, really? The Moon Landing paled in comparison to my obvious blatant screw job I'd just endured. Right?

Then it came on TV. Wow! What baseball team? What summer camp?

The Moon Landing in 1969 was such an event as Neil Armstrong said for mankind. I remember Cronkite (my Dad never watched anybody but Uncle Walter and later Dan Rather) taking off his glasses and exclaiming a joy and pride in his nation. So similar a gesture as it was in 1963 when he took off his glasses to fight back tears.

It is one of the childhood memories of being with my family and witnessing history I cherish. Later I became a cynical teenager who felt every dollar spent on this program took food out of the mouths of starving babies. But that night in 1969 was precious to me.

I hope we go back under a different leader and a new generation can gather around their phones or whatevers and experience it again. Ah hell, they wouldnt be impressed at all. They do more amazing shit everyday on video games. But they should be thankful, Their video games came about in part because of that night in 1969.

Game Over.

Send Her Back!!

It was infuriating. I have felt a lot of things in my life when it comes to politics but THIS, this was as disgraceful a moment as I have ever seen. Its embarrassing that we as a country have sunk this low. I cant even describe the combination of emotions that came over me when I first saw the clip. To see a arena full of white people chanting to Send Her Back while their cult leader thrust out his jaw, took it all in, and then continued to attack Rep Omar made me realize what Nuremberg must have been like. Holy shit. What in the fuck is wrong with us?

After the detestable display in North Carolina I fully expected, as I have so many times before, for Republicans to FINALLY say enough is enough. But as usual I was wrong. Instead we got Republican after Republican standing with the Klansman in Chief. Backing him up. Attacking the "Squad". The 4 uppity women of color, or as as most of the polite people at the rally would say, colored women, who dare express their beliefs out loud cannot be tolerated. It was cowardice once again at the highest level. Even those that did have the balls to express some sort of concern backed off soon after Trump claimed he didnt like the chant (which he absolutely did) and went back to attacking Omar as some sort of terrorist suicide bomber.

Look I am not old enough to remember much about the 1960's civil rights fight. I came of age late in the 60's when this sort of behavior was looked down upon. Archie Bunker was a dumbbell to be laughed at. Archie's ignorance was so out there, it was funny. Well today, in the Age of Trump, its not looked down upon. In fact, being stupid is normal. Racism is simply non existent to these idiots. Whites whitesplain what is racist and what is not to people of color. Whites whitesplain what is tolerance is intolerance. Of Them. Of their sincerely held religious beliefs that Jesus was a blonde white man who would have been a registered Republican, would have disdained gays, told women to stay in their place, hated taxes, been a social Darwinist, in other words, an asshole.

So here we are. Back where I thought we'd left. Love it or Leave It motherfuckers! As long as I am in charge of course.

This nightmare cannot end fast enough.

Monster!

He is a fucking monster. Face it. He's the one human being on the Earth I didnt think existed. A human being without an ounce of redeeming value. Donald Trump is beyond hope. The only thing those of us who understand this can do is wait. Wait for either the Democrats to grow a spine and impeach this motherfucker or wait to work our asses off to send this maniac to the sidelines where he can be arrested and thrown in jail where he belongs. There is no indication that Nancy Pelosi is going to do a goddamned thing about this traitorous prick. She for some reason thinks somebody might get angry at her and then she wouldnt be able to go to the parties any longer. The press refuses to do its job. Oh my, some mouth breathing Trumper might get mad and call us Fake News. And finally, Americans are too fucking lazy to do anything because they think if they just do nothing everything will work out.

So this is the way it is. The Racist in Chief has picked his side. He will now count on his racist base and the scared independents who think if they get rid of him the economy will tank. Not to mention the whites who are not inherently racist, but enjoy their white privilege and really dont want that threatened. Trump is counting on whites to bring him home again. And with voter suppression and Russian interference and who knows what else, it may work. Only decent Americans getting out to vote and putting this disgusting administration into the trash heap of history will get this done. The fucking Democratic leadership lacks the guts to do what needs to be done, so its up to us.

The man is a racist, a rapist, a traitor, a cheat, a deadbeat and a vile demonic devil. He has embraced it knowing there is a rabid base of American fascists willing to hurt themselves to get back at the browns, the blacks, the broads, the gays, the libs they so disdain due to the propaganda network they watch . This network speaks to them on their simple minded level selling them gold and reverse mortgages and telling them none of their failures are their fault. Millionaires preach to them about economics telling them whats best for them. Funny how that works. Millionaires embolden themselves by getting the peasants to do their work for them. It really is amzing.

We have to do this ourselves. Trump doesnt give a flying fuck if he offends you. He counts on it. Seeing you angry makes his day. Owning the libs so entertains his fascist fans its really quite remarkable. We fall for it.

I have no intention of stopping fighting to throw this monster out of office. I have no intention of ever not being offended by the very existence of this villainous evil doer. I just have to work harder to defeat this indecent snake. And I will.

Its just the crying about being offended has to stop. Fuck this guy and fuck his fans. Fight fire with fire . He's never going to shut his tiny mouth and he's never going to stop saying horrible things. Stop expecting him to apologize.

This is not a civil time. The Republican indifference and outright support of this small minded lunkhead's words says it all. They are willing to do whatever it takes to win. We need to understand this. These Republicans are beyond hope. The sides are picked.

Its a war. It really is.