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According to The Hill, “The founder of the Hawaii chapter of the far-right white nationalist group the Proud Boys and another person who rioted at the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection were sentenced to four years in prison on Friday for their involvement in the attack. Nicholas Ochs, a 36-year-old from Honolulu who founded the Hawaii chapter, and Nicholas DeCarlo, a 32-year-old from Fort Worth, Texas, each pleaded guilty in September to obstruction of an official proceeding. They were sentenced on Friday to 48 months in prison, followed by 36 months of supervised release, according to a Justice Department (DOJ) release.”

I was so baffled by this family picture that I needed to double-check who the Proud Boys were. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, “The Proud Boys’ actions belie their disavowals of bigotry: Rank-and-file Proud Boys and leaders regularly spout white nationalist memes and maintain affiliations with known extremists. They are known for anti-Muslim and misogynistic rhetoric. Proud Boys have appeared alongside other hate groups at extremist gatherings such as the ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Former Proud Boys member Jason Kessler helped organize that event, which brought together a broad coalition of extremists including Neo-Nazis, antisemites and militias. Kessler was expelled from the group after the violence and near-universal condemnation of Charlottesville rallygoers.”

Yup, they are exactly who I thought they were. So, I renew my objection to the family picture. What the actual fucking hell is going on here? As usual, all these people think their racist, misogynistic, homophobic, and bigoted beliefs don’t apply to them. This is how racists can be in interracial marriages. This is how a trans woman can be part of the Oath Keepers. It’s always the other person, for those are the ones they hate, but that hate can never be reflected back on them. I’m tired of calling this hypocrisy or some sort of unresolved issue of cognitive dissonance. And I don’t care about some deep-seated psychological notion of self-hate. It’s all bunk. I’m tired of trying to justify these people’s actions or calling them out. It’s time we started doing something about it, and sending these people to jail for a few years is not the remedy. The left needs to be harsher and more determined. Where is our counter to the alt-right? And don’t say Antifa. That’s not actually an organization; it’s a collection of aggregators. It is time we start to organize in force. Welcome to stupid America!

Every one appointed by a RepubliKKKlan president. This is the short answer. The cat has been let out of the bag, so my call for open rebellion against SCOTUS has also been unleashed! We had already known that the six uber-conservative justices — Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett — were plants of evangelical theocrats. And the testimony of the Reverend Robert Schenck sealed the deal.

According to Reuters, “An evangelical minister told a U.S congressional panel on Thursday that he ran a campaign to covertly influence the U.S. Supreme Court that ‘pushed the boundaries of Christian ethics’ and allowed him to learn about a landmark 2014 ruling in advance. The Reverend Robert Schenck appeared before the Democratic-led House Judiciary Committee after telling the New York Times that he learned about the Burwell v. Hobby Lobby ruling weeks before its public announcement from a conservative ally who dined with her husband at the home of Justice Samuel Alito and his wife. ‘Our overarching goals were to gain insights into the conservative justices’ thinking and to shore up their resolve to render solid, unapologetic opinions, particularly against abortion,’ he testified under subpoena. Schenck, who has since disavowed many of his anti-abortion and socially conservative stances, said he learned about the Hobby Lobby ruling after one of those ‘stealth missionaries’ dined with Alito. The justice has denied leaking the decision.”

Of course! Just fucking, of course! Indeed, whatever happened to that investigation into the leaked Dobbs decision? Where did it go, especially after every RepubliKKKlan accused the liberal justices of leaking it? Clearly, the investigation correctly led to the pro-theocracy justices, so Roberts shut it down, for we have heard nothing for months. No progress. No conclusions. Nothing! Can’t have the Court unearthing their own misdeeds to erode America’s trust further. But Schenck did! There is no way America should tolerate this SCOTUS and every opinion it has published since Scalia died. And on that note, more conservative justices need to die while Biden is president and Democrats have a 51-seat majority. I don’t care how Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, or Barrett dies — cardiac event or by assassination. But one thing is clear; they must be killed, for they will never be removed by any other means. These six have already shown that they are corrupt, evil, hateful, and intent on destroying America. So the question becomes this: What are you willing to do to save our country from these six rogue, uncountable justices who seek to impose a Christian theocratic government upon us? Mark my words, fucktards. The time has come to even the playing field. I said RBG’s death would lead to catastrophe, and it is upon us. The only way to fix it is to start taking out these justices. There is a reason SCOTUS has historically low approval ratings. One could say that God is signaling us to do something. Welcome to stupid America!

Do not be fooled fucktards! Do not trust the conservative justices on SCOTUS, for they are wolves in sheep’s clothing. They are the scorpion riding on the back of the frog, and all these legal eagles seeming to breathe a sigh of relief after the oral arguments are — as usual — oblivious, just as they were about the future of Roe. As with Roe, they believed SCOTUS would — ultimately — dare not upend 50 years of precedent. Of course, they were wrong and supremely naive. This case is no different, except that this is just the beginning of a multi-year-long process, not the end. You know, the same process that eventually brought down women’s bodily rights. I have read several legal commentaries on this seemingly dodged bullet to the death of democracy.

I will use The Atlantic as an example. In an article, the author writes, “The real intellectual energy of the argument focused on just how the Court might sketch a narrower vision of the independent state legislature theory that could provide some level of increased freedom for legislatures without fully unleashing state lawmakers to do their worst. Conservative Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh, along with Chief Justice John Roberts, seemed notably interested in this approach. This is a welcome sign for Court-watchers concerned about a unified conservative bloc backing the North Carolina legislators’ approach. It would mean avoiding the total election chaos forecasted by scholars apprehensive about the more extreme variations of the theory. It would also, importantly, provide no support for rogue state legislatures seeking to justify an effort to overturn the results of the 2024 election — the nightmare scenario that has worried many commentators on Moore.”

This is precisely the “it could be worse” logic that enures legal watchers, politicians, and the average dumb-man to the least bad outcome that eventually leads to the worst consequences a decade later. Make no mistake, morons! As the three “centrist” justices try to figure out a “weak” form of the independent state legislature theory, the three theocratic justices are laying the groundwork for its maximalist interpretation and implementation. Whatever the Moore decision — and it will implement some form of the theory, mark my words — it will only take a few years for another case to challenge the restrictiveness of the theory. The next case will be to Moore what Casey was to Roe. Fast forward ten years to the still-to-be-named case that will be what Dobbs was to Roe. Do you see where I’m going with this? This SCOTUS has the time and fortitude to systematically and incrementally destroy America’s democracy. Do not be sanguine about what the “middle” justices appear to be signaling in their oral arguments, for if they give but one degree of legitimacy to the independent state legislature theory, then within a decade, the law will have traveled 180 degrees to destroy the notion of one man, one vote and checks and balances. Mark my words! Welcome to stupid America!

Kyrsten Sinema turns Independent, of course! Of course! Of course! Of course! What else is new? She claims that she will “caucus” with Democrats, so — I guess — Democrats will maintain a working 51-seat majority. What choice does she have? Caucus with RepubliKKKlans only to serve with a party that does not — technically — have majority control? Of course not! Needless to say, she is now even more of an unreliable vote for Democrats. At least Manchin is consistent; you know where he stands. This cunt keeps lurching to the right, so I don’t trust anything she says until she casts a vote.

All of this is just another reminder that Democrats have never had the majority in the Senate, and I think people and other Democrats keep overlooking this fact. They keep running around patting themselves on their backs, claiming Democrats have the mandate to lead, yet in two states — Maine and Vermont — they can’t put up Democrats and win. No! Instead, they can only succeed when Independents run and then caucus with Democrats. While it is a working majority, it is not a true majority. RepubliKKKlans never have this problem! They actually put up tried and true RepubliKKKlans who win! Not Democrats! But whatever! Democrats will never have genuine control until they start playing the hardball necessary to win total control instead of relying on third-party politicians to push them over the finish line. In short, Democrats are still the minority party who act like they are not, yet fail to do what is required to make them apex predators — winners! Welcome to stupid America!

From Yahoo! News, “GOP Rep. Vicky Hartzler of Missouri broke down crying on the House floor on Thursday as she begged her colleagues to vote against the bipartisan bill aimed at protecting same-sex marriage, the Respect for Marriage Act. ‘I hope and pray that my colleagues will find the courage to join me in opposing this misguided and this dangerous bill,’ Hartzler said through tears. Hartzler spent the first two minutes of her speech bashing the bill, claiming its ‘only purpose is to hand the federal government a legal bludgeoning tool to drive people of faith out of the public square and silence anyone who dissents.’ This is not Hartzler’s first time fighting against the expansion of marriage protections — as the Kansas City Star first noted, prior to her time in Congress, Hartzler vehemently pushed for an amendment to be added to Missouri’s constitution that would define marriage as between a man and a woman.”

I am tired, and I’m over it! I’m tired of the LGBTQ community being the target of hate, so I’m going to start saying what needs to be done! Cull these people from society. The only way to counter this level of hatred is to kill — literally and figuratively. I don’t know if you morons have noticed, but the hate is killing the gays. Violent attacks are rising, and RepubliKKKlans, evil evangelicals, MAGA morons, and QAnon kooks inspire them. Moreover, they are boosted and condoned by people like Hartzler, who literally cry and implore politicians (and people) to do something to protect Christians from “attacks” by the gays! She may be explicitly talking about marriage, but the subtext is much more. The implication is to stop the gays by any means necessary to protect Christians from Satan, which then becomes an interpretation by others to kill LGBTQ members. To that, I say: We need to kill them first! Welcome to stupid America, where the gays have yet to figure out that in America, it is kill or be killed!

I hate RepubliKKKlans with the heat of 1000 white-hot suns. I wish they would all die, without exception! I am particularly piqued this morning by the reaction from RepubliKKKlans to Brittney Griner’s release. Of course, traitor trump is the apex of RepubliKKKlan hypocrisy. As The Independent reports, “Two years after his term in the White House ended without him mentioning his name, Donald Trump is now claiming the Biden administration’s prisoner swap to return wrongfully detained WNBA star Brittney Griner home is a ‘stupid’ and ‘totally one-side transaction’ because it did not include US Marine Corps veteran Paul Whelan. … Despite Mr. Trump’s professed concern for Mr. Whelan, he took no action to free him during his time in the White House when he had the power to do so. … But when it came to Mr. Whelan, Mr. Trump was silent in the weeks and months following his 28 December 2018 arrest, and that silence continued through the final two years of his term as president.”

Naturally, all the other RepubliKKKlans and MAGA morons jump on the bandwagon, claiming Biden failed while completely ignoring traitor trump’s incompetence. It never fucking fails. Never! Yet, RepubliKKKlans keep winning the messaging war because fucking weak, dumbass Democrats let them. Why aren’t the administration and other Democratic spokespeople out in public touting Biden’s success and reminding people that traitor trump left a Marine behind despite his circle-jerk relationship with Putin? If anyone had the greatest access and means to free Whelan while in office, it was traitor trump, but no! He essentially ignored the problem. Yet no one seems to remember that failure, and, worse still, Democrats aren’t reminding people of it. No! Instead, they are allowing RepubliKKKlans to besmirch and deride Biden and Griner without any sense of irony. Whatever. Democrats still are not playing hardball! Welcome to stupid America!

According to The New York Times, “The plan was to storm the German Capitol, arrest lawmakers and execute the chancellor. A prince descended from German nobility would take over as the new head of state, and a former far-right member of Parliament would be put in charge of a national purge. … One of the sites raided on Wednesday was a military barracks. Among those detained around the country were a member of the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, party who had served in the German Parliament; a German prince; and a Russian citizen accused of supporting the group’s plans. Federal prosecutors said that they were investigating a total of 27 other suspects as well. Prosecutors said the group was formed in the past year, influenced by the ideologies of the conspiracy group QAnon and a right-wing German conspiracy group called the Reichsbürger, or Citizens of the Reich, which believes that Germany’s post-World War II Republic is not a sovereign country but a corporation set up by the victorious Allies. … In recent years, and especially since the pandemic, the group gained new energy as its followers and thinking combined with the conspiracy theories of the QAnon movement, in particular seeing a threat from the so called ‘deep state,’ a shadowy cabal of corrupt elites they imagine running the government.”

There is so much to unpack in this article and even in this short excerpt. Perhaps the most shameful — yet entirely predictable and falling into the “but of course” category of irony — aspect of this failed coup in Germany is its roots in QAnon, in part. Imagine that! America exports its fucktarded craziness around the world. I expected nothing less! I have long said America’s stupidity breeds; little did I know it crosses borders. Perhaps that is a bit too unfair. Perhaps I should be casting aspersions more generally: Humanity, not just Americans, has a fatal flaw of being stupid, especially in the realm of conspiracy theories. I’m sure I could find some biological, sociological, or psychological theories as to why humans are susceptible to crazy bullshit stories, but I’ll cut right to the chase: It’s a brain defect. What would you think if someone said to you that “Germany’s post-World War II Republic is not a sovereign country but a corporation set up by the victorious Allies.” What the fuck is it with people that see boogymen everywhere? This is not normal. It is not healthy for any society, which is why I believe these people should be eliminated from humanity. I have no words for such incomprehensible stupidity, yet too many accept imbecile thoughts as knowledge. And that brings me to my next point.

The pervasiveness of such beliefs in those rounded up in Germany is astonishing. A lawmaker turned judge, policemen, military personnel, royalty, and various fruitcake conspiracy theorists. This is no different than America, except here in America, we condone all this craziness because Americans are a special kind of fucking stupid.

My last point should serve as a warning to everyone. Conspiracy theorists and violent morons worldwide are getting more organized and diligent. We have been living in a relatively peaceful era where these fucktards, which have always been with us, are getting more popular, and if left unchecked, these far-right, deep-state conspiracy theorists will get the upper hand. It’s happened once before recently: 1930s Germany! Watch out, people. The crazies are starting to take over the asylum.

My initial reaction to the electric substation attack was probably the same as everyone else: Great, another domestic terrorist attack where guns have been used as the means to weaponize electricity and cold weather against who knows what — drag queens, supposedly. I wondered what neo-Nazi Atomwaffen Division terrorists decided to do this. Then I heard North Carolinians being interviewed on the news and their southern drawl immediately reminded me of those being impacted. (Their accent is an assault on my ears!) So, I wondered. I wondered how this county voted in the 2022 election. The results above confirmed my initial suspicions: This is a firmly RepubliKKKlan population who have been left in the dark and cold. This county is so conservative that most people running against the RepubliKKKlan Party dare not run as a Democrat. Instead, they run as “unaffiliated” if there is an opponent at all. Then my compassion went right out the window. I’m not praising the domestic terrorist attack, but now I just don’t care. If RepubliKKKlans and religious nutjobs like to ascribe events to some ridiculous notion of God’s wrath, then I wonder what this God-fearing, RepubliKKKlan-voting county has done to deserve this? Maybe for simply being RepubliKKKlans? Whatever! If RepubliKKKlans die because of this, then so be it. I really don’t care. Fuck RepubliKKKlans, evil evangelicals, MAGA morons, and QAnon kooks. Fuck them all! Welcome to stupid America!

I speak of the 303 Creative case. Allow myself to quote myself from a post I wrote two years ago, “A conservative Court will enshrine the First Amendment as reasoning for open season on discrimination of every kind, especially against the LGBTQ community.  I cannot repeat the disaster this will be for America for the next thirty years! Mark my words, morons!  People have been asleep at the wheel [emphasis in original].” I titled the post “Catastrophic” two years ago when RBG died for a reason, and it seems — quite predictably — my words are coming to pass.

Let’s cut right to the chase, shall we? Slate explains it well, “And that may be another reason why SCOTUS took up 303 Creative: It provides the opportunity to lay down a seemingly modest legal principle that lower courts can expand to its logical limits and beyond. A decision for Smith will unleash increasingly extreme assaults on civil rights law by Donald Trump’s judges. Trump judges are already champing at the bit to legalize broad swathes of discrimination. 303 Creative may hand them a new weapon against civil rights law, much like SCOTUS’ decision in Bruen let them smash all manner of gun restrictions. It might start with a website designer, but the court’s holding will swiftly spread to bakers, florists, photographers, then venue owners, hotels, caterers, hair stylists, jewelers—any business that can claim its good or services would be used to ‘express’ support for same-sex marriage. This principle might eventually extend to discrimination against all gay people, not just those seeking to get married, under the theory that serving them would require ‘expressing’ support for homosexuality.”

Therein lies the true intentions of SCOTUS: To legalize discrimination against the gays. Full stop! No mincing words! This is the loose thread dangling from your favorite sweater waiting to be pulled or snagged that will tear a hole that cannot be fixed. As I have said so many times, SCOTUS can do whatever they want, and I would not be surprised if they use this case to create a ruling that goes beyond the original question just because they can. Let’s be clear about something: This is a case where no party has been injured. This Lorie Smith cunt was never asked to design a same-sex website. There is no gay couple actually demanding her services. This entire case is theoretical. One may be forgiven for asking how and why this “plaintiff” has standing if she has suffered no harm, but never mind that. SCOTUS wanted this case to be able to legalize discrimination against the gays, so they took it since the fake matter was tailor-made just for this reason. So, forget the oral arguments and all that mumbo-jumbo bullshit. It’s all performative, for their minds have already been decided. Get ready, LGBTQ community! The time approaches! The time to fight back has arrived, and I do not mean that figuratively. Soon enough, you will be denied service at a restaurant because the courts have been given the blueprint to defend people who think serving “the gays” is an infringement of one’s free speech. Outwardly it seems to be an absurd argument, but then again, SCOTUS is about to rule on a case with no injured party; absurdity has long been thrown out the window. Welcome to stupid America!

So, I watched a fascinating Hulu documentary, “WeWork: or The Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn.” I had vaguely heard of the company, and I guess they are still in existence, but before watching the exposé, I was pretty much unaware. In fact, I was 9 minutes into the program and still had no f***ing idea what the company’s business model was. It was also telling the producers began with the founder Adam Neumann stumbling to explain what his company does. Finally, about ten minutes in, they started presenting the actual business of WeWork, which I can sum up rather quickly: It is a reseller of already expensive empty office space that WeWork radically transformed into even more costly communal offices, which it then leases to start-up businesses run by 20-something-year-olds. I have a different interpretation: A huckster in his late twenties who spent too much of his youth raving to Offer Nissim on ecstasy wanted to create a business where no one ever had to grow up, and he could spread his new age mumbo jumbo self-actualization B.S. to impressionable Millenials.

Underlying all of this mess was a fanciful mass delusion of 20- and 30-year-olds who thought they could remake the world as if they were the first ones to invent the idea of a commune. If one wants to get an idea of how well collective living and working operates, then all one needs to do is find the nearest American communal society. Oh, that’s right! There isn’t one! And I’m not including religious organizations like the Amish.

Of course, what is even more pathetic is that supposedly sober, trenchant, and sophisticated venture capitalists bought into Neumann’s delusions for years with essentially no oversight. It’s one thing if WeWork purchased the buildings and leased the space, but they didn’t. WeWork, itself, was a leasee of the space. In essence, the business model was to be a mass sublettor of office space. And anyone in business who has needed to sublet their space will tell you that the company rarely sublets the space at a profit. But WeWork claimed they could. Spoiler alert: They couldn’t.

The moral of the story is this: A youngster selling utopia, rainbows, and the cure for the drudgery of work is probably a fraud. Unfortunately, it took billions of dollars of other people’s money to figure that out. But, naturally, Neumann walked away from the company with a golden parachute worth $1.7 billion. There is a sucker born every minute, and some people know how to make it very profitable. Welcome to stupid America!