This is not a game
Twitter exchange of the week: "Radical Left Governor @JayInslee and the Mayor of Seattle are being taunted and played at a level that our great Country has never seen before. Take back your city NOW. If you don't do it, I will. This is not a game. These ugly Anarchists must be stopped IMMEDIATELY. MOVE FAST."
Mayor Jenny Durkan: "Make us all safe. Go back to your bunker."
No one who employs Steve Mnuchin and Kellyanne Conway ever gets to call anyone else "ugly." But I digress. Four city blocks? Seattle would have laughed at these vegan hippies in 1919. And Seattle will piss Trump off even more if the Seahawks sign Colin Kaepernick.
A fourteen-point lag in the polls can focus the mind wonderfully, and someone decided it best not to make the blacks feel "slighted." Accordingly Trump will take his knee off Juneteenth and postpone the Tulsa hate rally until the following night. What more could those people want? Harriet Tubman on the twenty? Might still be possible...
Symbolism fans will be tickled to hear that the decaying complex of buildings known as Trump Plaza in Atlantic City has finally been scheduled for demolition. It's taken this long because specialists had to clean out the asbestos first. Surprisingly, no Mercer or Koch has offered to preserve it so future generations can see that once it was actually possible to bankrupt a casino.
Two books will "drop" this week, a John Bolton tell-all that hints of Trump shaking down more countries than Ukraine and a Mary Jordan thriller about Melania-as-gold digger. You don't suppose the Jordan book is timed to distract attention from the gangster foreign policy stuff, do you, me neither. (BTW, looks like the First Escort held onto her Slovenian passport. Smart.)
Every time we think we're starting to climb out of the endless cycle of violence, they pull us back in. Rayshard Brooks was sleeping in his car at a Wendy's in Atlanta when police rolled up and did a field sobriety test, which they say he failed. Brooks clearly did not want to be arrested -- yes, of course there's video -- so one officer tried to tase him. He grabbed the taser and ran away; he may have fired it but to me it seemed he was too far away to hit the police. Then he was shot and killed. The Atlanta police chief has already resigned. "Groundhog Day" is how Rep. Gwen Moore of Wisconsin described it, every day the same damn thing.
Speaking of the repetitious, Americans continue to exercise their Second Amendment rights as if nothing else had happened. A man who was denied admission to a San Antonio bar came back with his rifle and shot eight people. The end of lockdown has provided ample targets once again.
The antiracist protesters have turned their wrath on Columbus, beheading statues and demanding their removal. Columbus was by his own account a kidnapper of indigenous Caribbeans for enslavement and rape and a mass murderer, and Italian Americans can certainly choose from a pantheon of more attractive figures to commemorate. I recommend Vito Marcantonio, the now-forgotten progressive Congressman who represented East Harlem for seven terms from the American Labor Party.
Funny story -- it seems Poland accidentally invaded and annexed a small part of the Czech Republic last month, while everyone was stressed out about the covid pandemic. It's all been sorted now and there is no chance of another European war. Probably.
Mayor Jenny Durkan: "Make us all safe. Go back to your bunker."
No one who employs Steve Mnuchin and Kellyanne Conway ever gets to call anyone else "ugly." But I digress. Four city blocks? Seattle would have laughed at these vegan hippies in 1919. And Seattle will piss Trump off even more if the Seahawks sign Colin Kaepernick.
A fourteen-point lag in the polls can focus the mind wonderfully, and someone decided it best not to make the blacks feel "slighted." Accordingly Trump will take his knee off Juneteenth and postpone the Tulsa hate rally until the following night. What more could those people want? Harriet Tubman on the twenty? Might still be possible...
Symbolism fans will be tickled to hear that the decaying complex of buildings known as Trump Plaza in Atlantic City has finally been scheduled for demolition. It's taken this long because specialists had to clean out the asbestos first. Surprisingly, no Mercer or Koch has offered to preserve it so future generations can see that once it was actually possible to bankrupt a casino.
Two books will "drop" this week, a John Bolton tell-all that hints of Trump shaking down more countries than Ukraine and a Mary Jordan thriller about Melania-as-gold digger. You don't suppose the Jordan book is timed to distract attention from the gangster foreign policy stuff, do you, me neither. (BTW, looks like the First Escort held onto her Slovenian passport. Smart.)
Every time we think we're starting to climb out of the endless cycle of violence, they pull us back in. Rayshard Brooks was sleeping in his car at a Wendy's in Atlanta when police rolled up and did a field sobriety test, which they say he failed. Brooks clearly did not want to be arrested -- yes, of course there's video -- so one officer tried to tase him. He grabbed the taser and ran away; he may have fired it but to me it seemed he was too far away to hit the police. Then he was shot and killed. The Atlanta police chief has already resigned. "Groundhog Day" is how Rep. Gwen Moore of Wisconsin described it, every day the same damn thing.
Speaking of the repetitious, Americans continue to exercise their Second Amendment rights as if nothing else had happened. A man who was denied admission to a San Antonio bar came back with his rifle and shot eight people. The end of lockdown has provided ample targets once again.
The antiracist protesters have turned their wrath on Columbus, beheading statues and demanding their removal. Columbus was by his own account a kidnapper of indigenous Caribbeans for enslavement and rape and a mass murderer, and Italian Americans can certainly choose from a pantheon of more attractive figures to commemorate. I recommend Vito Marcantonio, the now-forgotten progressive Congressman who represented East Harlem for seven terms from the American Labor Party.
Funny story -- it seems Poland accidentally invaded and annexed a small part of the Czech Republic last month, while everyone was stressed out about the covid pandemic. It's all been sorted now and there is no chance of another European war. Probably.
posted by Buttermilk Sky at 6:44 PM
1 Comments:
Who said Donald Trump is going down? In fact, he is failing upward with spectacular velocity. The casino you mentioned is small potatoes. Having bankrupted several multi-million dollar casinos in Atlantic City, not to mention the Trump Shuttle and various other projects. he is now busily bankrupting the United States of America — and in my opinion, doing a first-rate job of it.
As for Melania being exposed as a gold digger — nothing the least bit new there. She longed ago exposed herself. She was once asked in an interview if she married Trump for his money. She replied with another question, but it was certainly full of straightforward implications. She replied to the reporter, "Do you think Donald would have married me if I weren't beautiful?"
Hey, a transaction is a transaction. At least Donald got to sleep with her a minimum of one time. And Melania has the child to prove it.
Yours very crankily,
The New York Crank
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