'Helter Skelter': When Ringo Starr Screamed "I've Got MS-13 On My Fingers!"

 

In my last post, I marveled that Trump wasn't drunk or high, and, last night, John Oliver did the same – see above. Watching Trump, a former Democrat, in that clip, also reminded me of so many previous conversations I've had with members of the party, over, say, the 2012 Mayan predictions of the apocalypse, whether or not Jenny McCarthy was a trusted source for information about vaccines; whether or not homeopathic concoctions are "medicine," or whether or not AI is "god-like," or even whether or not the people who insisted on these things ever defended those positions.

Those conversations, which - like Terry Moran - I never wanted to have, all went exactly like Trump's. And I present Oprah Winfrey's invitation, and appearance, at every Democratic Party Convention, as evidence those insane debates were just as real, instructive, and destructive, as the one just seen on ABC News. The Democrats want to forget about them, or wish we would, because that's how we got to this place: Americans, being as looney - and as intolerable in their lunacy - as Donald Trump.

 

BTW - if you want to know the difference between Trump's two administrations - as you can see above, after his first election win, Rachel Maddow assured viewers we're "not in Hell." But, here, at the start of his second administration, John Oliver just assured Terry Moran he not only made the trip "Downtown" but even got a personal tour.

Which should answer The Atlantic's question "Is This the Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Culture?" pretty decisively. I mean, Trump was a "celebrity" before he was a "politician," so we're straddling the fence now, or combining the two, but - whatever you call it - Taylor Swift's Palestinian Genocide Tour definitely greased the wheels for America, finally, scraping the bottom of the cultural barrel. Somebody make a casserole. We've arrived. 

 

Declaring His Own Work "Good" Was Probably God's First Big Sign Of Narcissism

THOU SHALL NOT KILL - UNLESS YOU HAVE A PLAN:

  Gantz Issues Ultimatum to Netanyahu: Put Post-War Gaza Plan in Place By June 8, Or Else

 

MR. FULL OF SHIT STILL LECTURES AMERICA EVERY FRIDAY ON TV:

  Everyone Loves Bill Burr Telling Bill Maher He Is Full of Sh*t

NO ONE SHOULD BE SURPRISED BY THIS ARTICLE - THEY TALK ABOUT GHOSTS:

  Having trouble making friends in the Bay Area? This ‘cult’ wants to help

THESE FOOLS LOVE STORIES ABOUT ANGELS AND DIGGING UP GOLD PLATES:

  Utah has more people who adhere to a specific religion than any other state

SINCE WHEN ARE FOOTBALL PLAYERS KNOWN TO BE SMART?

  Nikki Glaser Reacts to Tom Brady’s Regret Over Roast Jokes Upsetting His Kids: ‘It’s Impossible to Me He Didn’t Consider What Could’ve Happened’

SHEESH - EVEN NETANYAHU HAS UNTIL JUNE TO BIRTH A PLAN:

  Husband Sets August Deadline For His Postpartum Wife To Lose 50 Pounds

KEITH RICHARDS IS SOMEWHERE LAUGHING HIS ASS OFF:

  NYC law student addicted to cheese went to nearly $6K-per-week rehab

KILL 'EM ALL - AND LET GOD SORT 'EM OUT:

  Despite state bans, abortions nationwide are up, driven by telehealth

JUST NEEDED A REASON TO WRITE "LASER BEAM PENIS":

  The celebrity sex therapist praised by one of the world's leading feminists who had sex with clients - and is now accused of abusing one with his 'laser beam penis that burns up trauma'

SOMEBODY REALLY LIKES KIDS:

  Four minors found working at poultry plant run by same firm found responsible for teen's death 

    

 GOD OWNS A SQUARE MILE IN AMERICA - SATAN CLEARLY GOT EVERYTHING ELSE:

  Christian enclave known as 'God's Square Mile' who banned people from using public beaches due to belief could be stopped after they 'made people buy badges with the CROSS on them'

WHY DOES THIS MAKE "DEFUND THE POLICE" SOUND SENSIBLE?

  Terrified Chicago mom rings 911 during home invasion - only for dispatcher 'to tell her to phone politician instead and ask for more police funding'

WHILE YOU CAN BARELY PAY YOUR RENT: 

This Accused Murderer Has Superfans Bankrolling Her Defense

USUALLY ORANGE - EXCEPT FOR SOME WHITE AROUND THE EYES: 

What would President Trump 2.0 look like?

EVERYBODY AROUND HARRY IS A CON ARTIST - JUST LIKE HIS MOTHER: 

How a Nigerian king who Harry hailed as one of his 'new in-laws' is a conman twice deported from America, with a lengthy criminal record and a distinctly murky past…

IT'S NOT A SEASON BUT A WAY OF LIFE: 

Welcome to Silly Season in Washington

SHOULD THAT BE A-O-KKK? 

Candidate with KKK ties can stay in Missouri governor race, judge rules

DIDDY'S EYES ARE TOO CLOSE TOGETHER - DOOMSDAY MAY BE HERE ALREADY: 

New search to find missing mum and daughter who were part of a doomsday cult 

   

 LIFE'S AN ADVENTURE FOR EVERYBODY: 

Gender Doctor: Genital Surgery is an 'Adventure for Young People'

AFTER DISCOVERING YOUR APPENDIX IS A TIME BOMB: 

25 of the Creepiest Science Facts 

   

 SIXTEEN TRACKS BUT ONLY FOUR KEEPERS - FROM A CATALOGUE THAT SHOULD BE ALMOST COMICALLY DIFFICULT TO SCREW UP - TWO OUT OF FIVE STARS: 

Talking Heads tribute album Everyone’s Getting Involved is well-produced karaoke

Slipping Into Darkness (Blinded By The Light)

NIGHTMARE: 

The dark side of Diddy’s American Dream 

   

 WELCOME TO THE NEWAGE: 

Apocalypse goes mainstream - The end of the world is becoming normal conversation

 

 WHEN THERE'S NO ONE RATIONAL TO STOP THEM: 

Inside the Christian TV show rallying Trump superfans with apocalyptic warnings 

   

 THEY'RE CALLED 'RUINS' FOR A REASON: 

The ruins that could prove the Bible was TRUE

CITIDALS TO SILLINESS: 

The fake diagnoses of so-called alternative medicine – PART 4

NOT SO WELL: 

Actor John Krasinski's brother Paul is is a tech CEO-turned wellness guru suing two exes and six other women for defamation after blasting him as a 'sexual predator' and 'master manipulator'

You Know You've Lost The Will To Live When Losing Your Keys Hits You Harder

 

 FAMILY VIEWING:

The Cults, Crimes, Creeps & Curse Of The WB (Buffy, Charmed, Smallville & More)

PRINCE OF DARKNESS - COUNSELOR:

The devil-worshiping 'Ministers of Satan' who now have an 'unprecedented opportunity' to be school chaplains... because of a Republican law 

   

TOO LATE MUSIC REVIEW:

 "Tomato In The Rain" by Kaiser Chiefs: What Talking Heads might've sounded like, if - instead of Afica - Brian Eno had been inspired by Paul McCartney's solo work.

GOODBYE, CHILDREN:

Isaac Hayes’ Son Believes That Chef Didn’t Quit ‘South Park’ — Scientology Forced Him Out

IT'S OVER:

How ‘apocalypse’ became a secular as well as religious idea

ADULTERY PLUS:

Cheating Site Ashley Madison Is Overflowing With Sextortionists

OCEAN MAN:

On Viagra Maker's Plea, Court Bars Use of 'Vigoura' Name By Homeopathy Firm

DEADLY:

Taylor Swift song from new album provides the perfect beat for performing CPR

David Petraeus: White Racist's Apocalyptic Thinking Is Driving Them Even Further Into Madness Over ISIS

 Whites replay the same narrative with everything, and everyone, they encounter 

 The general didn't mention The Drudge Report as a cause, though he easily could have, along with whites being killer cowards:

“[ISIS] has nowhere near the roots, the numbers and the structure that al Qaeda in Iraq and the associated Sunni insurgents had when we launched the surge.” 

Fun fact: 

 I'm more scared to walk America's streets (especially where there's a cop present) than America's facing ISIS,...

 

Great Salon Photo: The Slime That Drive Whites Crazy

Not a respectable mind between them

Don't care too much about the article, but that composite photo  - of white's apocalyptically-conservative media inciters - got a "Ho, ho, ho!" when I saw it:

There they are.

And it captures them beautifully,... 

 

American Conservatives Have A Killer Instinct 4 Politics

Whites brought slaves to America so their Overseers can reach us whenever they want


"It’s racism, not 'principled conservatism': The South, civil rights, GOP myths — and the roots of Ferguson

True GOP believers insist their small government beliefs have nothing to do with race. They're deluding themselves "

Yesterday, TMR watched as the same white American conservatives, who've long-claimed they're nothing like their barbaric racist ancestors, started to weary of the injustice in Missouri and moved to openly making sorta-proud noises about their ability to kill blacks (and the poor) for sport. 

White culture's thought process - to others - is as unique as it's standard of beauty

And, they didn't just brag about having the hardware, but more importantly (because it goes right to understanding who "the American People," indeed, are, today) they put TMR on notice they've still got the necessary software as well:

"What sort of idiot starts talking trash about an "uprising" when the group is 12% of the population? What does he want -- for there to be so many dead black people that they get used as fertilizer?"

White masculinity, in real life, doesn't look (or intimidate) like it does in movies,...so riot gear

Like a lot of sick and screwy ideas over history, turning blacks to "fertilizer" came to this white guy so easily, it's hard not to believe our government intentionally allowed Nazis into this hemisphere to breed. Unfortunately, like white's role in slavery, why anyone would want to disbelieve it, is a mystery: 

This country is full of mean, ornery, white people with guns. And, unlike the urban blacks who can't seem to hit the broad side of building, the rural & suburban honkies practice shooting."

"Port," "Starboard," "Aft" - who gives a shit? Stay home.

Mass murder's been white culture's "bright idea" (and natural inclination) since before Christopher Columbus ran-through a Native American child to "show" his sword to the others (who, he later wrote, "would make fine servants,..."). One look at history and you know, instantly, it's what they do. So why bicker with it?

"Governments scolded by the United States over their human rights records have seized on racial unrest and a police crackdown in the Missouri town of Ferguson to wag their fingers back in disapproval."

Since servants rarely like slavery, their master's concerns eventually go up in smoke

TMR thinks conservative whites are once again "publicly developing their social skills" because they're slowly starting to figure out blacks will never fit into their "happy" mediated Brady Bunch version of reality, which - without the ritual spilling of black's blood - couldn't even (partially) exist:

"And then he looked at me and he said, 'Mom, how long will this happen to me?' And I said, 'For the rest of your life.'"

"Sorry, er, my hands are tied."

TMR finds it highly entertaining, how - over the centuries - conservative whites have developed no inclination to stand on the side of the oppressed, but can immediately conjure visions of white Americans engaged in a genocide - turning people to fertilizer as the Nazis did - as though their bloodlust is but a film trailer, screaming, "Coming Soon!" 

"Be forewarned that the video shows a man being shot repeatedly and killed. Due to its disturbing nature some readers may prefer to skip watching it entirely."


After decades of Nazi films, teaching the ethics of political right and wrong, they still don't envision themselves heroically saving anyone. But the rivers of blood that would be freed - never the people - as they stand idly by and watch us suffer for them? Not-a-problem for the white imagination at work.

"Good" is when whites get their way and "Bad" is when they don't

"Police officer who shot Michael Brown suffered fractured eye socket, friend says "

Conservative whites elevate their ideology (and themselves for accepting it) so high, in their own minds, they're the only ones who don't see how low they fall. They're Hitler in the bunker, eternally.

Apocalyptic - and that's been true for as long as this nation's existed:

We look at whites, we look at history, we look at whites again

"The wealthy father of a Texas teen whose 'affluenza' defense helped him avoid prison after a deadly drunk driving accident [killed four people] has been arrested for allegedly pretending to be a police officer, the Dallas News reported."

Fortunately, TMR (now) is, that's been waaay too fucking long,...

Blacks Don't Come From No Slavic Countries: It's Weird

White guys aren't always currently appearing as credible as they think

Hot Air's Noah Rothman, like a lot of white guys, is feeling frustrated - racially - and knows exactly where to lay the blame for it:

"One of the more reprehensible features of modern political life is how liberal pundits, egged on by administration officials in many cases, have sought to inflame racial tensions in order to achieve some fleeting political end. It is an appalling irony that the country’s first African-American president and those loyal to him have, with only rare exceptions, thought nothing of acting in ways which harm race relations so as to bolster their own political prospects. History will not look kindly on this administration’s record of advancing racial comity."

Minorities have learned from watching closely

Observing what Rothman seems to have conveniently forgotten - "history is written by the victors" and Republicans don't appear poised to attain that mantle soon - his weak tea-railing against "liberal pundits" makes sense (and don't forget "the country’s first African-American president and those loyal to him") though it doesn't go down well. 

Rand Paul has a death grip - on the Right - but his mind tricks leave a lot to be desired

For instance, Democrats haven't been the party repeatedly declaring, in public, they have a racial problem that needs fixing, and then, just as often - and just as openly - declining every serious opportunity to do so. Does Rothman think people don't notice?

Michelle Malkin's work appears to be modeled on exploiting this woman

So, how is it Dems who are "acting in ways which harm race relations," once it's acknowledged there's obviously been opposition on the Right - or an unwillingness - and the Right makes up a good deal of Hot Air's readership?

A picture of blacks "starting trouble" in the modern era

And doesn't the fact that we only have a "first" African-American president in 2014 mean "those loyal to" him were already fighting that same racial problem that existed amongst conservatives before Obama came into office - 238 years after America declared "All Men Are Created Equal"? If so, if it already existed, how can it now be said they've "sought" it?

Michael Jackson looked white, lived on a ranch, and screamed when trapped, too.

Of course, Rothman knows all this, beginning his next paragraph with the words "that is not to say that Republicans do not have empirical problems appealing to minorities, and some of those problems are of their own making." Oh, they be "empirical" alright - and make a farce of Rothman's further claim that blacks are "reflexively opposed" to them - because no Republican "problems of their own making" can be laid at the feet of anyone else.

Mix a little McCain into Marco Rubio, add a dash of Ted Cruz OR Rand Paul - what do you get?

No, contextually, the truly "reprehensible feature" of our politics in The Information Age is how long it's taking America's former exclusive power brokers to mature - racially - because "the country’s first African-American president and those loyal to him" are still being forced to watch (and endure the results of) conservative's every further projection, distortion, and apocalyptic vision of (and from) losing influence. They're taking it out on us. This is one of white culture's "cultural problems":

Whites denied this was happening for a hundred years. so they DO deny things

Their utter (and long-standing) obliviousness to the often-violent predicament they've made - Rothman quotes The Republican National Committee's 2013 racial “autopsy” report - see if you can spot what's wrong:

"If Hispanic Americans perceive that a GOP nominee or candidate does not want them in the United States (i.e., self-deportation), they will not pay attention to our next sentence. It does not matter what we say about education, jobs, or the economy; if Hispanics think we do not want them here, they will close their ears to our policies."

The jury's still out on whether "educated" whites prioritize well

TMR immediately sees two things:

 1) Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) was correct in his assessment of it, as being a hypocritically racist way to try and appear non-racist, and 2) whites still haven't figured blacks could rightfully "close their ears" to them, and did so a long time ago, as well? 

Regularly putting black men in dresses has never helped

Seriously, blacks have been made to feel like the white race "does not want them in the United States" for anything but slavery since 1609, but whites still suggest today - rather than themselves changing behavior - we should leave for Africa if we're not happy. But, at the same time, we now see Republicans openly saying (and actually alarmed in a way they'd never be for black Americans) they recognize Hispanics have the potential to ignore what whites think and say if mistreated. It's no insult to be the source of their frustrations.

"Dumb" and "lazy" have always been a matter of perspective, too, in America

After all this time, it's really a confession, and kinda sad really:

A people, and their party, still not grasping how things change,...