Tuesday, March 09, 2021

Time to clear out the drawers

Karens of color have been sighted in San Francisco.  Uber driver Subhakar Khadka, who is from Nepal, picked up three women in his personal car, which is how Uber works.  They took umbrage at his request that they mask up, yelled racist slurs, coughed on him, grabbed his phone and finally pepper-sprayed him after getting out.  There is video, and it's ugly.  You don't have to be white to act like an asshole. 

It helps, however.  The shooting death of Breonna Taylor in her bed has moved the Kentucky legislature to action.  They are in the process of passing a bill to criminalize "unreasonable noise" or causing "annoyance or alarm" by shouting at police.  Making physical contact is not necessary -- all the cop has to do is claim you hurt his feelings by calling him a fat cracker.  It's not clear if this would cover editorial cartoons or pointing and laughing.  

Kenneth R. Hubert of Marionville, Missouri, describes himself as a "right-wing nut-job," but so far all he has done is threaten violence by email and phone.  Recipients have included Rep. Steve Cohen, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, President Obama and a federal judge in Montana.  He does the whole medley:  racism, anti-Semitism and homophobia, as well as abuse for the Council on American-Islamic Relations.  Judge David P. Rush thinks he should sit in jail until his trial in May, the First Amendment be damned.

Speaking of multi-tasking idiocy, Marjorie Taylor Greene was a contestant at CPAC ("Our motto:  Leave no cretin behind") and had this to say about foreign policy:  "We believe our hard-earned tax dollars should just go for America.  Not for, what?  China, Russia, the Middle East, Guam, whatever, wherever."  Yes, Guam, where America's day begins.  Did they applaud, or just cheer?  Louie Gohmert will have to take up crystal meth if he wants to remain head of the Real Dumb Caucus.

He attacked and hurt a human and he's been sent away for further training.  Major the White House dog, of course.  Who did you think I meant, Piers Morgan?

A meteorite landed on a driveway in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire.  Please recalibrate and try again.

John Schnatter was the CEO of Papa John's Pizza until he was heard on a conference call using the "N" word like a Mark Fuhrman impersonator.  He says he has struggled for nearly two years to remove that word from his vocabulary.  (He said it to OANN, which undermines his claim not to be a racist.)  If it's still a battle after twenty months, maybe his problem is racism plus Tourette's.

Got another one!  Here's Republican state legislator Joseph Chaplik pointing out that nobody wore a mask in the 1980s during the AIDS epidemic, so why should we gotta now, huh?  Ladies and gentlemen, the next governor of Arizona.


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