Sour Milk

Now that the Trump administration's been found guilty of discriminating against minorities and L.G.B.T.Q. people, Trump 2.0's mask is finally off, too: we ARE dealing with a racist, and a sexist, and his cadre of like-minded people. 

According to "Judge Young, a Reagan appointee w/40 years of experience,...the Trump administration’s rationale,...appeared to be rooted in prejudice,...The Reagan-appointed Judge "said that throughout his career he had “never seen government racial discrimination like this,” and that he felt duty bound to state his conclusion about the government’s intent. "I would be blind not to call it out," he said.

So would anyone else.

 

The End Is Coming (But Still Should Be Told To Stop Touching Itself In Public)

Do you ever get the impression they should've just let Trump have his second term in 2020? 

   

  The Strange Tale Of A Prog Rock Hippie Cult With Ties To Texas 

   

  The Terrorist: How a devout Christian kid became a radicalized mass murderer 

   

  Chynna Phillips admits her religion has caused serious rifts in her friendships as she lays bare 'torture' of being 'rejected' because of her Christianity - weeks after revealing her faith had 'ruptured' marriage to Billy Baldwin 

   

  A Jewish passenger is suing JetBlue claiming religious discrimination after he was thrown off a plane following his refusal to sit next to a woman 

   

  Kanye West doubled down on antisemitic lyrics. Now he’s headlining a major LA festival

Aaron Rodgers 'shared deranged conspiracy theories about the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting not being real in private conversations with journalists'... claiming the children 'never existed' and were 'all actors'

Gwyneth Paltrow's next step in wellness journey: finding calm 

   

  Not joining cult group my greatest achievement in school

Children, Blood, And Broken Bones

Israel's bombardment of Gaza has left 'no safe zones' anywhere for fleeing Palestinians 

   

MATT TAIBBI ON THE SUPER-RICH: "There's this quasi-religious thing that's going on, that I don't fully understand, that I heard reference to a few times. There's a kind of mysticism involved,...I heard some of this shit. They're just weird, y'know?" 

   

 ‘Macho’ IDF chiefs ignored female surveillance soldiers who warned of Hamas attack 

   

 Man charged over death at slapping therapy workshop

Chiropractor caused a Vertebral Artery Dissection from a completely unnecessary neck adjustment

A Case Report of Spinopelvic Dissociation After Chiropractic Adjustment

It's Sunday: Give It A Rest

To say the Anti-Abortion Movement Won the Legal Battle, but It’s Losing the War is such a self-destructive way to frame this issue, since there never was anything but a legal battle to begin with. It's framed this way to make people angry, and - as usual - they take the bait every time. Roe V. Wade lost because it was bad law - NOT because anybody hated women or was banning abortion. To say otherwise is simply a lie.

Isn't it AMAZING how "We've Been Misreading a Major Law of Physics For The Past 300 Years," but - once you mention black reparations - then, we're told, "we've" not been together to do anything? There's just an immediate disconnect from history - and each other.

Alan Moore has been donating all his Watchmen money to Black Lives Matter, so he must not read this blog, because TMR hasn't received a dime. Uncool, Alan Moore, uncool. Black Blogs Matter.

The Most Interesting Element of the Hunter Biden Indictment, besides the bank records, suspicious activity reports, 22 shell companies set up in the names of various family members, and an email from Hunter saying he was angry about sharing his income with his father? The most interesting element is how the Democrats are still saying they see no evidence of a crime. That is one observant party.

Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner has been removed from Rock Hall leadership after controversial comments about blacks and women. He said we're not articulate. I could give him a well-worded reply.

Trump fumbles when asked if a man ‘can become a woman’ which - if you know the guy - should surprise no one. 

  

Principals Made and Shared Meme of a Student’s Exposed Breast

And Death by homeopathy is what got TMR into the subjects that animate the blog, today. 

It is NOT not recommended.

 

Two Sides Of The Same Religious Coin

Dear Abby: My preacher boyfriend keeps saying I’m going to hell

‘Dangerously Rebellious’ Texas Nuns Ban Bishop From Monastery for ‘Spiritual Safety’

The Truth About US Cults and Cultism In The World? The Rest Of Y'all Ain't There, Yet (You've Just Scratched The Surface) But, You're Getting Warmer

When The Macho Response began, after the phenomena of cultism started destroying my wife and life, the constant refrain I heard - from every corner of the globe - was "there are no cults". 

                     

Nobody says that anymore.

 

"With these stories, Tarantino is pointing out that the narrative of moral Progress is not the whole truth. Slavery is over and all the Nazis are dead, but evil persists, giving the lie to Progress."

Evil, undermining progress, in the form of sexually-frustrated yoga women in Whole Foods. How pathetic.

No, nobody says "there are no cults", today. Not after the NewAge hit the world full-force, with QAnon, all these quacks and anti-vaccine cults, the fantacist “Cult Mom” killing her kids to run away with a guy spouting nonsense, the documentaries, movies, and TV shows (which I predicted, here, around 2011) and, now, NXIVM’s own “Vanguard”, Keith Raniere, a homegrown cult leader, I assumed (after watching him get away with it since 2007), would be creating his horny harem of silly Stepford wives for the rest of his life, just got 120 years.

Like so many others affected by cultism, it's far too late for this new, post-pandemic, flush of enlightenment to change my life for the better, but, whenever the world realizes Oprah is it’s most powerful woman, for no other reason than she wasn’t a (black) “man” and so, could lead other gullible women to guys like this asshole - all to try and escape reality - boy howdy.

THAT’s gonna be an enlightenment-level of "woke" empowerment, I don't think, the planet's ready to accept. And I don't wanna miss.

GOOP: Empowerment For Dummies

Gwyneth Paltrow

I'm waaay past trying to "read between the lines" on NewAge, but, when I do still read about it, certain stuff does leap out at me:

"The combination of aspirational blogging, female-targeted marketing and the alternative health industry has created something with significant potential to cause harm...while some practices are supported by evidence or are culturally important and date back millennia, some are pure opportunistic snake oil: anti-scientific and crass in exploiting illness for profit...The danger of Goop isn't simply in the broader risks of pseudoscience and misinformation, it's in the exploitation of medicine's sexism to create a new and gendered market for snake oil. The wellness industry isn't pushing for more and better science into women's health — it wants instead to create a secondary pathway for...disproportionately exposing women to the harms of quackery."

Why that doesn't leap out - to women - I can only wonder,...

Racism: It's Everywhere You Look (If You Dare 2 Look)

You've got to have eyes to "see"

Poor white people: if there's a disaster, TMR regains it's footing:

These are messages baked into practically every iteration of popular culture (and politics) in the United States—from "Friends" to "The Sopranos," from Bill Clinton to Barack Obama. They’re baked in because we’re a fundamentally racist and sexist country with persistently racist and sexist attitudes.

Quick, white people - create more of your "comforting" visions:

I need all the "help" I can get,...

If You're Black And Conservatives Like You: Looks Bad

This would look bad, anyway - without Bill's white conservative supporters - but with them? He'll be lucky if he's got any black fans left soon, because - when it comes to their mutual insistence on respectability politics - this episode can prove exactly why most blacks don't have a feel for it: whites are saying a person, or a situation, can be as unethical as can be, but - like Captain Phillips - it'll be "all good" if you put a happy face on the ugly lie. You know:

Like whites have done, pretty much, with all of American history,...

A Place With A Short History Don't Need Long Answers

I'm still thinking about Barbara Bowman's pleas for understanding - in the face of public opposition. 

I don't hear even a hint of appreciation (for a black man sticking up for her) here - only a charge of societal sexism - why?

Only after a man, Hannibal Buress, called Bill Cosby a rapist in a comedy act last month did the public outcry begin in earnest. The original video of Buress’s performance went viral,...

Because what Bowman's obviously left out is this place's racial politics (along with the sexism that was just-as-obviously used) in her This Is America mix: it was, specifically, a black man's criticism of respectability politics (which conservative whites endorsed, hiding behind Cosby, and Charles Barkley) that added weight to Bowman's rape allegations. 

Hannibal Buress put Bill Cosby in the rogues gallery to defend blacks who get beat up for living the country's truths. 

It was comedy, yes, but Bowman got lucky Buress cared - about justice - to stay-on-point and combat real ills for everyone. Even she doesn't care:

...While I am grateful for the new attention to Cosby’s crimes,...

First, no - it's not you, but America, who should be "grateful" - because the media will gladly swap a sex-charged Bill Cosby feeding frenzy over Buress' larger discussion of white supremacy, any day. 

Hannibal Buress' real point (which wasn't Cosby’s sex crimes but the hollowness of his, and white's, political arguments in regards to blacks) is already forgotten, and the real powers that be are more-than-happy to keep it that way.

"Please," they say, "talk about Mr. Cosby as long as you like,..."

I must ask my own questions: Why wasn’t I believed? Why didn’t I get the same reaction of shock and revulsion when I originally reported it? Why was I, a victim of sexual assault, further wronged by victim blaming when I came forward? The women victimized by Bill Cosby have been talking about his crimes for more than a decade. Why didn’t our stories go viral?

Yawn, been there-done that. If murder don't move 'em, mere rape ain't. Think O.J.. Ann Althouse posted this Bob Dylan line today, thinking she's being a Nazi-cute law professor here, maybe:

"In these times of compassion when conformity’s in fashion...."

Welcome to a land whose values are based on slavery, Ms. Bowman. Where assholes are mostly trying to make money. There was no money in "you" - until now - that's your short answer. Don't dare conform to actually giving a shit about people. Standing against giving a shit - that's the ticket. Tre cool. Some Americans practically consider it their natural cultural evolution.

...He can no longer be charged for his crimes against me because the statute of limitations is long past. That is also wrong. There should be no time limits on reporting these crimes, and one of my goals is to call for legislation to that end. Famous and wealthy perpetrators use their power to shame and silence their victims. It often takes years for young women to overcome those feeling and gain the confidence to come forward (by which point physical evidence is long gone). Our legal system shouldn’t silence them a second time.

You nailed it: looked behind the curtain - nothing's there.

Discovered "America" in all it's glory,...

A White Man Is The Only Harrasser When Black Women Make Their Video On The Perils Of Street Catcalling

"Ooooh, you look GOOD, Mami,..."

White Americans are so clueless to racism they actually think we're lying, or playing, or delusional:

”One of our interviewees was approached — totally unsolicited — by a white man who asked her for a kiss.”

White Americans are the ones who are delusional. BTW, the folks who made the first video have apologized for the racial brainfart of editing out all the white guys.

The white feminists - who didn't even notice - should, too,...