Overnight Sensation

Courtney Love says Taylor Swift is ‘not interesting’ or ‘important’

Coachella food prices SHOCK: $64 for two burritos and a green juice

Study debunks claims of 'health halo' surrounding plant-based burgers and sausages 

   

  'Alien mummies' press conference descends into chaos as Peruvian officials try to seize new 'pregnant specimen' with three fingers and toes 

   

  The impact of institutional betrayal on those who “commit the truth." 

   

 THE MAYOR'S 'CRYSTAL ENERGY' IS STILL WORKING: 

NYC influencer reveals why he's leaving after 20 years: Taxes get you nothing, it's dangerous every day 

   

  Texas doctor found guilty of poisoning patients by putting dangerous drugs in IV bags

Facebook censors Auschwitz Museum photograph and flags images of death camp victims for 'promoting adult nudity and sexual activity' 

   

  Uber driver, 61, shot dead by Ohio man, 81, who was being targeted by scammers was a church-going mother

Harrison Ford recalls the time Jimmy Buffett inspired him to get his ear pierced

German WWII Nazis And Today's Modern NewAge Nazis (Are Equally Annoying)

There's a memorial to WWII-era Nazis just outside Philadelphia because, in America, that's okay. Some Americans just have a hard time with coming to terms with it, and - even worse - coming to terms with admitting it.

And Dylan Mulvaney was guest of honor at a Kathy Griffin house party, because that's the reaction any country wants to see, after almost everyone rises up as one and demands to be left alone.

Finally, one lucky Bride is Demanding A Refund After Catching Her Wedding Photographer Hooking Up With The Groom. TMR wouldn't be surprised if this, too, also happened at Kathy Griffin's house.

 

On Cynicism & Gullibility In America, Part II

TMR has always been on top of the NewAge movement, and the fraud that's emerged from it. At this point, it feels like that is the true business of the world: deceiving one another. How is it only now  - 18 years after this blog began - that someone else admits we see cults "a lot nowadays: in the arts; politics, obviously; even in banks, for God’s sake. People rush to reinforce warped thought systems,..."? And, if they haven't been saying that, previously, what have they been saying, and why?

 

Holding up Dr. King's dream, to negate the fullness of the American dream that Dr. King wanted for black people’s lives, is a fraud. And, it’s a known fraud, as surely as homeopathic concoctions sit on pharmacy shelves. As surely as Hunter Biden was selling more than the mere “illusion of access”. As surely as Bill Clinton raped three women. Like the NewAge movement says, “It’s all connected.”. And it's obvious as Hell.

   

So a nation of suckers is rising, on the left and right, and expects blacks to get in-line. I know, it can be shocking to hear of anyone who doesn't buy into the bullshit everyone else has been celebrating, but TMR has always been about that. In 2000, I recorded a song about how I didn't want to go along with the tech industry, but today they're still trying to make me love Steve Jobs, after the music industry I loved has been warped in a way that, today, music consumes hardly a fraction of our lives, and has even less influence on our lives, than anyone ever imagined for America - formally the worlds leading purveyor of the world's culture.

At some point, conservatives must not merely stop, but roll back what’s been started, to preserve what we have. That first requires being willing to honestly look at what’s been done. The Democrats haven't proven they're willing to do it. Especially since Donald Trump has been on the scene. But, really, since Harvey Milk was killed. Look at that photo, above, and tell me Kamala is not either too cynical or too gullible to hold power. 

Their demand is we either live and die as liars and fools, as they do - willingly - to feel safe. But I don’t think that's gonna happen. Why? 

   

Americans don't trade freedom for safety: not everyone fell for Nazi fascism's okey-doke the first time, and blacks won't, for the NewAge flavor, either, whether the Kool-Aid''s ladled-out by the GOP, or Oprah Winfrey. This is NOT the People's Temple.

As I've told you all long before.

 

On Cynicism & Gullibility In America, Part I

 

Because I think so highly of Victor Davis Hanson's radical review, the Second World Wars are probably as good a place to start this, as any. Plus, it was our battle against fascism, with its inherit racism and antisemitism, that revealed the hypocritical position America’s in, now. 

   

Black soldiers came back from the war, knowing America didn't really mean anything it fought for, igniting the Civil Rights movement. This brings us to the era of Martin Luther King, Jr.. 

   

Whites tend to focus on King’s 1963 “I Have A Dream” speech, dissecting it from the man, the rest of what he said and stood for, or the hardening attitudes, held at the time, that prompted King to have to make the speech. By the time he was killed, in 1968, polling amongst whites had him in the low 30s. Hardly a devoted following.

   

Blacks tend to take a more nuanced position, because the man wasn't finished with his work when he was murdered. But whites don't seem to want to focus on anything but that speech, for instance, ignoring, dismissing, or being outright hostile to King’s call for reparations. 

   

This is an American betrayal, to blacks, who believed in the entirety of King’s dream - and the claim that white’s did, too. The question for blacks then became “What do we do with this?”

Betrayals tend to make people go crazy. If the rules don't apply to some, they don't apply to others. We're seeing how the rules haven’t applied, now, with Hunter Biden. And the fact, his father threw more blacks in prison than any other politician, really makes the point sting.

(To Be Continued)

 

Not Really (Just The Opposite)

Supertramp's Self-Pitying Soundtrack Is Still Relevant (In A World Of '70s Cultism)

 

"I guess I'll always have to be/living in a fantasy/it's you for you and me for me/from now on" or How Science Lost the Public’s Trust: From climate to Covid, politics and hubris have disconnected scientific institutions from the philosophy and method that ought to guide them, rendering life a joke, for anyone respecting education and logic.

 

Damn the NewAge, and all who've advanced it.

 

Good For Nikki Haley (She's Finally Lost My Respect)

One of the female politicians, who has the goods to hold power, just revealed how badly she wants it - and it's NOT a good look.

 

They Say "Cult" How They Used To Say "God" (To Say They Don't Understand)

Reuters is "reporting" Dozens of former Bush officials leave Republican Party, calling it 'Trump cult', which helps no one - least of all the former Bush officials - who are not cult experts, or even well-versed in the topic. Actual cult experts (who any journalist could've consulted for this article) say: 

"Politicizing the word “cult” and using it to label Trump supporters serves no useful or constructive purpose. It dismissively demonizes a majority of the Republican party and other voters that support Donald Trump without recognizing their preexisting personal sentiments. This inaccurate labeling also denigrates the suffering of real cult victims."

So this Reuters headline should've actually read: 

 Dozens of former Bush officials leave Republican Party - hurting their own party's future political prospects - and everybody's just rolling over cult victims, willy-nilly, without a care. As long as they get Trump.

 

From The Lowest Unemployment Blacks Had Ever Seen Right Back To "Normal"

Black Man Who Lost His Job Thanks to Biden's Executive Order Spree Has a Message for Him

 

How To Know When You're Fully "WOKE" (And Not Just Waiting For The Alarm)

Took 'em long enough. Now wait until they really look at Oprah.

 

My Country Has Spent My Entire Life Glorifying Another Religious Grifter And Rapist While Steadily Making Life Difficult For Anyone Who's Telling The Truth

Martin Luther King, Jr. had a good run. He was one of the luckiest low-life religious hustlers out there, in that the times offered him opportunity, and he took them - and took them too far: 

"The most damaging memos describe King witnessing a rape in a hotel room. Instead of stopping it, handwritten notes in the file say he encouraged the attacker,...King may have fathered a daughter with a girlfriend who is still alive in Los Angeles. The memos also detail the closeness of his relationship with Dorothy Cotton, a longtime associate of King’s...It appears that the two were romantically involved....Sen. Georgia Davis Powers recounted her intimate relationship with King in her book “I Shared the Dream.” 

...King and 11 others participated in “an orgy” on Jan. 6, 1964....[Baltimore Pastor Logan Kearse] sexually assaulted one of his parishioners...King laughed. Worse, instead of trying to stop the incident, King offered advice to the perpetrator, encouraging the abuse."

And - let's not forget - King's wife, Coretta, died outside a quack doctor's office. But, how can we forget that - or use it as a cautionary tale to protect others - when it's hardly ever mentioned, lost amongst the rush for Oprah, or Gwyneth, or some other NewAge airhead, to sell YOU some quackery, today?

Oh, United States of America, did you always have to be just another lie waiting to happen? And did you have to always call those lies a "dream"?

 

The Literal Translation For "Democrat" Is "Disgusting Pieces Of Shit And Vomit"

The Democrat Party always plays dirty, conjuring horrifying imagery - of others.

They repeatedly cross the line, feigning innocence they ever did anything wrong.

No lie is ever too big, and their "low" has no bottom.

 

Ali's Name Was "Coward" When It Mattered

Ever since I discovered Muhammad Ali betrayed Malcolm X - the man who gave him his identity - so Elijah Muhammad could impregnate little girls, Ali's displays of pride don't impress anymore. He's just another cultist, who lorded his power over - not only an innocent man - but, probably, the best black man America's ever produced. And he did it just because he could. 

I no longer see anything, in Muhammad Ali, to be proud of.

 

It's Normal

Come on - whites have done waaay better than nine before

TMR is not dismayed by the horror of life under white supremacy. Not now. Can't be, since it's been made abundantly clear (in a multitude of ways) it's the nation's default. Enforced with vigor. It's the "American Dream" of intransience, and all-out resistance, to reconsidering this as anything to be grateful for:

"We are not post-civil rights. We are not post race. We are not better than we were. We do not inhabit a world in which stray instances of violence might recall a distant and shameful history. This shame is a flood that has never abated."

This white Western world is a land of liars, and we blacks are contoured by their collective betrayal,...

Lynching? Shoot, Lindsey Graham Is Hanging Himself

"This is who we are," he says. But what, exactly, is that Southern "heritage" we hear so much about - and they're so proud of? Well, they sided with the British - against the United States - they broke with the nation to keep blacks in slavery, and they also fired the first shot in the Civil War. Which means - unequivocally - they're proud of being our nation's ultimate traitors.

We won't feel bad about "owning" them in turn,...

So It's Not Just Me: Women And Gays Get Called Out, Finally, For Exploiting The Black Civil Rights Movement

I knew I couldn't be the only one watching - or bothered - by our "allies" regular betrayal,...

Emptying The Ocean With A Paper Cup: That's The Job

“The problems may have been there, but they were new to me. A lot of this just destroyed me. We want our people back. We want everybody to come back and be a part of it. We would like to change. We want to improve, to be able to help what other people feel is the problem, because we didn’t see it.”

- Mike Brandon, 45, a Ferguson contractor whose suffered as protests stretched on over the months

"In the city of 21,000, there are literally 16,000 with outstanding warrants out for their arrests. That means that three out of every four Ferguson residents is a wanted fugitive. There’s something very wrong with that,..."

All supported by American law, and it's judicial system, we might add: every bit of it perfectly legal, as the plunder of blacks has always been in this "land of the free."

Knowing our fellow citizens will kill us, before securing our rights, is a discomforting feeling. That they think their murderous framing is good, and normal, is unnerving. That they'd rather fight over it, merely because they can, says all any black history student needs to know about the "content" of white America's "character" - a much discussed topic - after 400 years. Their willing betrayal is true, and still as based in their own ignorance as ever, reason be damned. No one can reason with the violently insane:

What’s hard is reforming the whole country, the whole culture, the whole world. What’s hard is looking at the systems that cause racism in your own workplace, your own community, in yourself. Because that’s a fight that doesn’t end with a “return to normalcy,” which usually just means people learning not to let their racism get caught on video. That’s a fight that requires we acknowledge that none of us in our lifetimes have ever seen “normal,” that we shouldn’t settle for a version of “normal” that’s anything less than “the normalcy that recognizes the dignity and worth of all of God’s children.” 

I worry that the ebb and flow of social change isn’t determined by the resistance of the reactionaries–that revolution doesn’t slow, stall or even reverse because the Right finds new reservoirs of strength. It happens because the revolutionaries get fatigued. We want to declare an easy victory, get some racists fired and go home. Progressives had a huge rowdy party the night we fired the GOP from the White House in 2008 and then, seemingly, spent the next four years in bed. 

What’s happening in Ferguson is great. It’s not over. The outcry on college campuses against SAE because of the Oklahoma University video is great. It’s not over. 

Getting racists fired is always satisfying. It’s never enough.

So you yell loud, you yell often, and you never change focus:

Reparations now. Reparations tomorrow. Reparations forever,...

Big Plan #1: No Matter What, Do Not Lose Your Temper

It's pretty clear by now that, no matter what atrocity's been committed against you, if you get angry, someone's got license to add to it. You know how Tupac said, "I ain't mad at cha"? You've got to be like that: they killed your mother? "I ain't mad at cha". They cheated your father? "I ain't mad at cha". Re-writing your history? "I ain't mad at cha". Whatever. 

Don't feel anything. Learn to let it all go. The rapes, the murders, the theft and injustice - each and every daily slight. Educate yourself - and quickly - on the best ways to "move on." Aspire to forgive AND forget,...all the lies and betrayals that may haunt your sleep. 

Watch actors on everyone's favorite soaps. (They, too, never end.) Sincerely sport a smile, and others will smile, too. Talk football. You can. 

Anger never helped anyone. Because nothing's ever going to change. There's only one go-round, and whether it's spent burning the place down or standing perfectly still, you know you're only helping, so don't. This was never your life, but theirs. That should be obvious. Though yeah, that, too, was kept mostly to themselves.

It's not sexy and, when you're upset, neither are you.

Just breathe, and expect nothing more,...