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It's a generational thing. We Boomers have not quite mastered all the buttons and apps on our devices, and sometimes we'll delete a thing we wrote, or send sexxxy pictures to the wrong person, or get caught sharing a private conversation about n**** and f**** Asians with the whole world. That's what happened to Scott Bethmann and his wife, and the PC nazis have forced him to resign from the Naval Academy Alumni Board of Trustees for being a racist piece of s***. As Ivanka said, there's just so much "viewpoint discrimination," along with the regular kind.
Covid-19 is still with us, despite the media being distracted by other things. You can tell because thousands of people are demonstrating with masks on. It is a really bad thing in Brazil, where a carbon copy of Trump is president with predictable results. Lie, dismiss, blame others, lie, fiddle the numbers, mock the experts, boast, lie -- the whole right-wing playbook. But covid continues to sicken and kill Americans, too, and part of the problem is still, six months in, a shortage of testing equipment. It got worse Friday when Trump toured the Puritan Medical Supply Company in Guilford, Maine. In the photo, he and the company officials (I assume) are wearing street clothes. Some of them are masked, but of course not President BunkerBitch. In the background are actual workers swathed in protective equipment who seem to be saying to themselves, "I do not fucking believe this. Did he just pick up a swab with his bare, warty hand?" That swab, and thousands of others made Friday, have been destroyed. Which is better than selling them to someplace like Brazil, I guess, but is definitely not helpful.
History buffs will recall that the American revolution announced itself in New York City when patriots pulled down the statue of King George III. Revolutions are tough on marble. Governor Ralph Northam promised that the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond, much larger than King George's, will soon come down. Yesterday proactive Virginians pulled down the statue of Williams Carter Wickham, another Confederate general who has adorned a Richmond park since 1891. Because Black Lives Matter is a global movement, protesters in Bristol, England, also demolished a statue of a 17th century slave-trader named Edward Colston. How did this guy rate a statue? He trafficked over 100,000 humans between Africa and the Caribbean in less than twenty years. In Brussels, demonstrators climbed atop a statue of King Leopold II and erected the flag of the Democratic Republic of Congo. While it was the Belgian Congo, Leopold's cruelty shocked even his contemporaries (1865-1909).
Is there systemic racism in American policing? Absolutely not, says Acting (of course) Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf. Although he's willing to allow that we can do more to placate black Americans who "feel slighted." I feel slighted if I hold a door for someone who doesn't say "Thank you." That's a long way from being unable to breathe. Or being approached by police with guns drawn because you, like Terrell Paci, were sitting in your car outside the firehouse where you work. Thanks, Chad, give my regards to Karen.
In case anybody cares, George W. Bush and his secretary of state Colin Powell have announced their support for Joe Biden.
Covid-19 is still with us, despite the media being distracted by other things. You can tell because thousands of people are demonstrating with masks on. It is a really bad thing in Brazil, where a carbon copy of Trump is president with predictable results. Lie, dismiss, blame others, lie, fiddle the numbers, mock the experts, boast, lie -- the whole right-wing playbook. But covid continues to sicken and kill Americans, too, and part of the problem is still, six months in, a shortage of testing equipment. It got worse Friday when Trump toured the Puritan Medical Supply Company in Guilford, Maine. In the photo, he and the company officials (I assume) are wearing street clothes. Some of them are masked, but of course not President BunkerBitch. In the background are actual workers swathed in protective equipment who seem to be saying to themselves, "I do not fucking believe this. Did he just pick up a swab with his bare, warty hand?" That swab, and thousands of others made Friday, have been destroyed. Which is better than selling them to someplace like Brazil, I guess, but is definitely not helpful.
History buffs will recall that the American revolution announced itself in New York City when patriots pulled down the statue of King George III. Revolutions are tough on marble. Governor Ralph Northam promised that the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond, much larger than King George's, will soon come down. Yesterday proactive Virginians pulled down the statue of Williams Carter Wickham, another Confederate general who has adorned a Richmond park since 1891. Because Black Lives Matter is a global movement, protesters in Bristol, England, also demolished a statue of a 17th century slave-trader named Edward Colston. How did this guy rate a statue? He trafficked over 100,000 humans between Africa and the Caribbean in less than twenty years. In Brussels, demonstrators climbed atop a statue of King Leopold II and erected the flag of the Democratic Republic of Congo. While it was the Belgian Congo, Leopold's cruelty shocked even his contemporaries (1865-1909).
Is there systemic racism in American policing? Absolutely not, says Acting (of course) Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf. Although he's willing to allow that we can do more to placate black Americans who "feel slighted." I feel slighted if I hold a door for someone who doesn't say "Thank you." That's a long way from being unable to breathe. Or being approached by police with guns drawn because you, like Terrell Paci, were sitting in your car outside the firehouse where you work. Thanks, Chad, give my regards to Karen.
In case anybody cares, George W. Bush and his secretary of state Colin Powell have announced their support for Joe Biden.
posted by Buttermilk Sky at 2:49 PM
1 Comments:
"It's a generational thing."
Well, not exactly. It's as old as the live microphone. Back in nineteen forty-something "Uncle Don" Carney, who read the funny papers every Sunday morning to his rapt juvenile audience (including four-year-old me) got thrown off the air and out of his job when he thought he had concluded his broadcast and then said, rather jovially, probably to his engineer, something like "that should take care of the little bastards for another week."
Ah, those innocent days! One slightly profane reference to children and Uncle Don was toast. Today you have to make repeated racial slurs, and about more than one race, for at least a half hour before somebody decides you need to be shown the door.
Yours crankily,
The New York Crank
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