Cops murder, everyone gets a curfew.

Boy, didn’t realize I’ve been gone from here for so long. With the abortion that’s been the year 2020, time has flown, misery was (and is) at an all-time high, and priorities got askew in the process.

So much has happened this year that it’s been flat out traumatic to sit down and type out my reactions to even a fraction of what’s gone down. The scope of events left me overwhelmed as to what to focus on at any given time. Besides, had I sat down to write, the post would have been old news before I even clicked the “Publish” button.

But I’m on time with this because, to quote Popeye: “That’s all I can stands. I can’t stands no more.” I’m fucking PISSED, and now seems as nice a time as any to vent.

First were the spate of school shootings across the country that never seemed to end. And how did that trend end, you ask? When the United States went into lockdown in March. April was the first month since 2002 the country didn’t have a school shooting – and that’s because the schools were fucking closed.

Seems like another world when this got passed around on social media immediately after a school shooting.

https://www.sandyhookpromise.org/press-releases/april-2020-is-first-month-without-school-shootings-in-decades/

And Republicans continue collecting their paychecks from the NRA with no regrets.

Then there were the everyday mass shootings where the body count would depend on the caliber of weapon and how wide open the place was (meaning less places to hide).

These days, the entertainment portion of the rather sad “news” programs nationwide covers the cold-blooded murders of majority unarmed black people that happens with what seems like every other day, along with the spate of acquittals of these losers in police uniforms who are apparently afraid of their own fucking shadows. And we can put in the Fraternal Order of Police’s radio silence about every one of these murders.

Last night, October 28th, from 9 P.M. until 6 A.M. this morning, Philadelphia had to endure a curfew because two incompetent small dick boys in the Philadelphia Police Department were incapable of subduing a mentally troubled dude armed with – get ready for it – a knife.

Now, for the record, I don’t believe looting and stealing stuff will solve anything (although it’s always satisfying to see any Walmart trashed). At the same time, the sorry excuse that’s the American media have yet to address the stealing and looting done by multi-billionaires every fucking day in this country. Those thugs, those criminals, those scum, are treated with kid gloves by their lapdog media.

Not a word was said nor any investigations done about their puppet, dictator Trump, handing these “fine” folks a half-TRILLION dollars just because he could.  That’s half a trillion dollars taken from us – the people who actually worked for it.

And this after their golden tax break which guaranteed these losers pay very little to even no taxes for the foreseeable future.

Media reaction?

Maybe, just maybe, people wouldn’t be inspired to loot and jam up traffic with protests if the losers in blue would learn to control their anger and their itchy trigger fingers. And because these cops are social misfits, the whole city had to suffer. Really?

And I’m not counting the plants from the white power trash groups who are paid by Peter Thiel and other anarchist billionaire Republican scum to cause anarchy in Democratic cities in order to blame Black Lives Matter (BLM) or Antifa (who, for the record, are the good guys/gals here).

I have both known and known of a few people who became police officers who had no business being in a uniform, much less armed with a gun (some of them even had criminal records!). 

Many times, being a cop is the last resort at a job for the terminally stupid. Many of them are control freaks, social misfits, or both.  Many of them can’t form a sentence let alone know how to diffuse tough situations on the street.

You can count on the one half of one hand how many cops genuinely care about maintaining law and order. Many times, it’s that type who are the ones killed in the line of duty.

Yeah, we all know about the shit cops go through on the street, or at least heard of their trials and tribulations. I say, “Boo fucking hoo.” Nobody forced them into the job. If they can’t handle the stress, find another job. It’s that simple.

And they’re not “heroes.” To quote the late, great George Carlin: “I’ll choose my own heroes, thank you very much.”

While I can’t fully sympathize with what the darker skinned among us go through because I’m pasty white, I see the horrific inequality in the judicial system. And it’s an inequality based on class more than race, but race sure does play a big part.

I can understand cops shooting at someone pointing a gun at and/or firing at them, but is it necessary to shoot a mentally troubled man armed with a knife 14 fucking times? (And they knew the man was troubled as the cops had reportedly been to his house three times previously on Monday alone.)

You mean to tell me none of the cops on the scene Monday afternoon in West Philadelphia could subdue this dude, maybe even grab him from behind?

Or, if the cops felt they had to shoot in order to get the situation under control, couldn’t they have shot him in the knees once just to bring him down? There is no justification whatsoever for shooting anyone 14 times outside of a gun fight to rival the O.K. Corral … or unless you’re a chickenshit afraid of your own shadow.

Given all this, you notice how cops can never, even just once, shoot any of these white power terrorists when they ram their cars through crowds of BLM protestors? Mass shooters/murderers, over 95% of whom were white guys, were taken into custody alive and well. And if they were shot down, it was only because they shot at cops.

Fun fact: The reason why these white boys with the microscopic dicks plow their cars into crowds is because they’re still pissed at that scene in “The Blues Brothers” where Nazis got plowed after Jake Blues [John Belushi] said, “And I hate Illinois Nazis.”

“The Blues Brothers” (1980)

I’ve gotten to the point where I’m convinced white power trash have infiltrated every level of government. After all, that is part of their credo: Infiltrate law enforcement and defend each other when you get there. (My sister was married to one of those losers – and the FBI paid him to be a prison informant. That’s why dude got away with his laundry list of crimes.)

Here’s a better idea for PA Gov. Wolf: He should deploy The National Guard outside of every police station in this city because it’s the cops who need to control themselves.

How many times does this have to happen before someone, somewhere gets the message and does something radical like address these string of tragedies with real action?  There is never any time for symbolic bullshit.

Bottom line: More and more people are tired of this happening time and time and time again, and the fucking police get away with cold blooded murder every single time.

I don’t want to hear about the heat of the moment. There are too many cases of these cop murders nationwide that there still hasn’t been any training as to what cops can do in these situations outside of shoot if they’re black or Arab.

This meme was spot on – and still relevant, unfortunately.

This screwed up period of time is the end result of 40 years of Republicans running this country into the ground. Now is our moment of reckoning.

It’s going to get real interesting on Tuesday when this orange pedophile loses, but still declares himself the winner, and how much you all want to bet the networks go along with the program? (So much for a “liberal media”.)

And if this election goes to the Supreme Court, like it did 20 years ago in Bush v. Gore (that’s why Dubya will always be Gov. Bush to me), guess who wins, and it won’t be the next president, Joe Biden.

Kooky Amy was installed in record time – despite not answering a single question during that sham hearing two weeks ago – with the understanding that she will help install Dump for another 4 years, the will of the people be damned if it comes to it.

And I’m afraid, for all their talk, Americans will cower in a corner and cry when Trump declares himself the winner of yet another election he lost. I hope I’m wrong about that, but I don’t think so.

The preceding is 100% inconsistent with my upbringing in an Irish Catholic (formerly British Protestant), working-class, so-called “blue collar” neighborhood.

I grew up within walking distance of the Aramingo Avenue commercial corridor that was trashed just the other night. The neighborhood is a shit hole, always has been and always will be (which is not a reflection on everyone who lived or lives there, but that’s the general vibe of the place).

These people had to work for what little they had, and, yet, they had Republican mentalities for the most part. But even though they worked (that is when they weren’t on welfare or on disability for some invented malady which required them to be home for half the year or living off the money from their string of frivolous lawsuits), they were a bunch of racist, sexist, xenophobic losers – you know, Trump’s core audience – his cult.

They would whine about blacks or Hispanics getting welfare AFTER they tried applying for it themselves. Or they would be on welfare and howl about how blacks and Hispanics got “more” than they did, and how the welfare case workers would do more for them so they could get more benefits.

Oh, and these are the same lovely folks who will move the second a dark-skinned person moves anywhere near them.

Your typical piece of MAGA trash barely aspires to accomplish anything more than to wake up to a joint, pills, and booze, and then to pass out to any combination of such.  Saddest of all is that many of them have the nerve to reproduce multiple times, guaranteeing poor Mother Earth another cycle of ignorant assholes.

These rubes really believe in the trickle-down myth of Reaganomics: If they work hard and be good little boys and girls, they, too, will be rich someday. Multi-billionaires shouldn’t have to pay taxes on money they inherited for the most part.  Their jobs will pay enough to make ends meet because they’re the “job creators.”

Meanwhile, MAGA trash continue scratching those lottery tickets, babbling on about how this is their lucky day. All the while they’re working cashier jobs and other low-paying nothing jobs high schoolers can do.

And a quick note about Reaganomics: The only thing trickling down to these idiots is diarrhea. Too bad they never got the memo that, “It’s called The American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.” (Thank you again, George Carlin).

I must confess that I really can’t see myself living beyond Nov. 3rd if this piece of shit steals another election. I know I’m not alone, but I’m fucking exhausted.

I’m fatigued by Trump’s mafia street soldier tactics, a country that’s apparently full of people who like to be treated like trash, people in power who all belong in prison without parole doing hard labor, illiteracy and ignorance are celebrated (think the Kartrashian/Jenner skank car, Kayne West, who, like his hero Dump, needs a permanent psychiatric intervention).

Deal with it!

I’m nauseated at the conspiracy theorists, history revisionists, home schooled idiots, and science deniers, along with the corporate media who give them unlimited media time to prove they all belong in padded cells, heavily sedated. (Fun fact: The rest of the world treats these goofs accordingly – they laugh them all out of the room after humiliating them.)

These days, I can pick a rather animated argument with the walls, and that is NO way to live! I really thought my 40s were going to be the best time of my life. They’ve turned into a fucking nightmare. (And I can’t see myself making it to 50 – and I don’t want to at this rate.)

So, to sum things up: Fuck Donald Trump and the entire Republican Party, especially Moscow Mitch. I hope they all lose “bigly” on Tuesday and take a nice, long walk off a short cliff.

To the working-class assholes who support Trump: Invest in a lobotomy today.

I, for one, am not the least bit interested in “educating” anyone about the evils of Trump and his regime. And I REFUSE to be civil to any Trump supporter, or the assholes who still insist “well, both parties are the same” after all that cocksucker Trump has done to this country for the past four years.

If you don’t like it, lump it!

Always remember: There is no hope for the hopeless.

#BidenHarris2020 – to save the world! And I will only accept the results if Biden wins!

#PoliceReform – as of yesterday.

Trump and the Republicans = a pack of ghouls

It takes a time such as a pandemic to get people to show their true colors. It may take a while, but they’ll come through eventually.

With that written, I would like to take this opportunity to quote the late, great George Carlin and say, “Fuck Dr. Phil!” I’d like to put another overrated phony in there, too, Dr. Mehmet Oz.

According to Dr. Oz, sacrificing 2-3% of this country’s population is “appetizing” so the economy can get its “mojo” back.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/dr-oz-slammed-for-suggesting-it-may-only-cost-us-2-to-3-of-american-lives-to-reopen-schools-2020-04-16

Two quick thoughts:

1. What economy? Trump tanked it, like he’s done with every last thing he has ever touched in his pathetic life.
2. Why doesn’t the “good” doctor sacrifice his fucking family first? That sounds even more “appetizing” to me.

And do I have this right here? Fox Propaganda, the official cable channel of the Republican Party, asked a psychologist to give his opinion about reopening the economy due to a pandemic because they didn’t like what the medical doctor (Dr. Anthony Fauci) had to say?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/04/17/dr-phil-fauci-coronavirus/

At this point in my life, I can honestly state I’ve seen, heard, and read it all.

Anyone with a modicum of common sense knows Donny Trump has put this pandemic behind him – that’s why he keeps referring to it in the past tense during his famous press briefings – because he cannot do the job that his owner in Moscow appointed him to.

He has proven beyond doubt to the entire world he is an incompetent buffoon who isn’t suited for the adult thing much less for the highest political office in this country.

Perhaps one of the reasons for the rush to reopen the economy (besides enriching his billionaire criminal buddies, who have more than enough of money to spend in several lifetimes) is because another round of payments to criminal Deutsche Bank is coming up real soon, and those folks do NOT let payments slide more than once, screw the circumstances.

It’s obvious Donny boy lives paycheck to paycheck, so he really needs to reopen Mar-A-Lago so he can have some cash on hand.

And I’d be willing to bet anything he struck yet another quid pro quo with Putin: Hand over the rest of our PPE and ventilators to tenth world Russia and Putin fixes another election for him.

Meanwhile, fake president orange fat ass (his title here forever more) has convinced himself the pandemic is over, “the curve has flattened,” the worst is in the past. What the fuck ever.

Meanwhile, the reality is that infections keep rising along with the death toll nationwide, red states are the new “hot spots,” and the infections are being detected with nowhere near the tests each state needs.

Imagine if there were adults in D.C. right now, complete with a Pandemic Response Team, and there were more tests to go around. The numbers would be much higher, but at least the chance of further mass infection would be lessened as people would know they had the virus and could self-quarantine, hopefully avoiding the need for hospitalization.

And all of this because that 72 year-old incompetent pedophile, that textbook piece of shit, didn’t want to believe there was a pandemic coming because he’s too fucking stupid to understand science, or, at least, to respect the findings of people who are scientifically literate. He couldn’t have cared less what the World Health Organization told him way back in January about what we now call COVID-19.

Donny boy huffed and he puffed, and he refused test kits from the WHO because he was still pouting over being impeached. So, he continued his tantrum by refusing the test kits, he didn’t prepare the country by ordering businesses to increase production of PPE and ordering ventilators, and the piece of shit gave away tons of PPE to … China, Thailand, and (surprise – NOT!) Russia.

Donald Trump does not give one fuck about this country. He is guilty of treason and should be tried as an enemy of the United States in a military court. I do NOT write these words lightly.

Any mother fucker who accepts the help of a hostile foreign country and their online spy agency in order to “win” an election and then kowtows to that country simply because they own you body and soul is guilty of treason and should be dealt with accordingly.

One last thing: That stimulus check? It’s not coming. There was a “glitch” in the system now, huh? What’s the next excuse from mafia fixer Mnuchin going to be?

The money is gone, folks. It went to where it was supposed to go: multi billion dollar corporations. Us peons are on our own.

Translation: We’ve been had … yet again.

Always remember: Republicans believe fetuses are sacred, but you and/or your family dying of COVID-19 is just collateral damage in the bigger scheme of things. They want to feel good about pumping up an economy that their god Trump obliterated.

So, let these turds reopen this sick, sad joke of an economy and lift physical distancing requirements and let’s see what happens.

I’m no scientist, but I’ll take a shot in the dark here and go on the record to predict that people are going to go ape shit and be on top of each other more than ever and THAT’S when the party is going to get started.

Because a virus is a virus and the more people it has to feed off of, the more it can spread, and the longer it can live. Viruses keep people on their toes by mutating, too.

I repeat: The party hasn’t even begun, folks. Get ready because you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

The Republican Party are ghouls. They are walking, talking turds. There is no other way to put that.

HOW do they like what they see in the mirror?

Quarantine Week Two

I don’t know what would have made anyone think Donald Trump could morph into a human being at a time like this or any member of the Republican Party for that matter.  I am sick and I am tired of this fucking lunatic with his immature rants, his childish behavior, and his reckless attitude towards anyone and anything that doesn’t serve his personal interests or line his pockets.

From before Day One, I have refused to entertain a split second of his ramblings, and I listen to him even less these days.  Trump has not a blessed thing to impart that is of the least bit value to me, and his tweet a few days ago about people wanting to go back to work and how he wants the country back up and running around Easter was the most reckless thing this dude has tweeted to date – and that’s saying a lot.

Hey, Donny: What you want and what you get are two very different things, asshole.

To be brutally honest, I didn’t have a high opinion of this country before this pandemic and ensuing quarantine, and the public’s general attitude towards it has managed to make my opinion of this country become even more cynical.

What is wrong with people that they can’t listen to the advice of medical professionals and stay the fuck home and entertain themselves?  https://6abc.com/health/many-in-philadelphia-ignoring-stay-at-home-order/6058124/  Is it that hard?  Adults actually have to have other adults tell them how to occupy their time while in quarantine?

Hey, you can:

• read a book
• learn how to cook
• learn the English language (something too many Americans need to do – big time!)
• take up a hobby (i.e., sewing, knitting, or crocheting)
• write something
• draw something
• play board games
• listen to albums in their entirety, no matter the format (vinyl, compact disc, streaming)
• watch a good movie (people spend $$$ on services such as Netflix, Hulu, etc., now is the time to use them)
• DEEP CLEAN YOUR HOUSE OR APARTMENT (this is something nobody should have to be told, but…)
• do home repairs
• do yard work
• bug your landlord/landlady to repair whatever it is that needs to be repaired around the place. They have all the time in the world now to get things done.
• declutter
• straighten out your drawers and closets
• mop, sweep, oil, vacuum
• learn how to ration your food and other items to avoid panic buying

And that’s all just for starters.

Worst of all, it’s just beyond sad that adults need to be told to wash their hands, sneeze into their elbows, and STAY HOME WHEN YOU’RE SICK.

That last thing is something that has bugged me for many years.  Putting aside the fact that too many employers, especially in the private sector, just do not give adequate vacation or sick time to their employees, Americans keep going to work sick, other people’s health be damned.

There has been more than one day of work I have lost thanks to ignoramuses who decided to fight their sinus colds at their desks – sneezing, coughing, and breathing and exhaling into the same air that I was.  And, naturally, if I complained about this to a supervisor, they would look at me as if I were the one with the problem.

What bothers me the most about Dump’s let’s get everything back to “normal” tweet is that it proves beyond doubt that people mean nothing to that monster.  So long as multinational corporations continue making money –  that they all pay zero taxes on, thanks to him and his Republican mafia goon squad – thousands of people dying from some virus is nothing but collateral damage to that piece of shit.

Besides, Donald Trump mentioning religion?  Anyone with a working brain knows his only gods are himself and money … and Putin.

And with each press conference that goes on at The White House, with everyone standing shoulder to shoulder (so much for “social distancing”), it proves more and more that Donald Trump canNOT do this job that he was installed in by the good graces of Vladimir Putin.  And I believe even Trump himself realizes this now more than ever, but he’ll never admit it because he’s a lunatic toddler.

And the saddest part of all with this pandemic?  The coronavirus party hasn’t even gotten started.  The worst is yet to come.

THEY (FINALLY) IMPEACHED THE RED BABOON!!!

‘BOUT FUCKING TIME!

Now let’s all enjoy every single Republican putting the final nail in their party’s coffin as they do everything they can to exonerate this piece of shit and his accomplices.

Merry Christmas, assholes!  May your 2020 be the worst year ever for all of you.

The Trails and Tribulations of the Entitled (Part 1)

The massive, historic, and already infamous college entrance cheating scandal that hit on Tuesday, March 12^th that included the arrests of famous and award winning actresses Felicity Huffman (of Desperate Housewives fame) and Lori Loughlin (of Full House fame) hit a lot of people like an avalanche mostly because so many people were turned down by so-called “elite” colleges and universities for one reason or another – and they were fully qualified to attend those places.

Meanwhile, some (not all) children of rich and famous people whose money can grant them access to influential people get pushed into these places for … just being the children of rich and famous people whose money can buy them pretty much whatever they want.

And this is far from a surprise to those of us who have been paying attention to the news for most of our lives. Rich people have been buying their kids places in universities worldwide for ages – namely those overrated, overhyped, and overpriced Ivy League party schools.

Modern-day examples include the likes of Donald Trump, George W. Bush, and Jared Kushner – none of whom had the academic competency to handle the much hyped Ivy League schools they attended.

It was hurtful throughout the years to read about Dubya being given so-called “gentlemen C’s” – meaning he was passed basically for showing up to class and for being H. W.’s son. Donny boy Trump never got a degree. To this day, no one can produce attendance records from the Wharton school of the University of Pennsylvania for the turd.

And it’s well-known Kushner’s family bought his place in Harvard with a generous $2.5 million “donation.” https://www.theroot.com/remember-that-time-when-jared-kushner-s-dad-donated-2-1833241931 He also got a top-level government security clearance he never earned, either, simply because he is married to another entitled, spoiled brat, Ivanka Trump – herself the beneficiary of a legacy placement at UPenn (known in Philly as the bottom of the Ivy Leagues). Tiffany Trump was the recipient of the same entitlement.

Like Lori Loughlin’s daughter, Olivia Giunnuli, I, too, wanted to go to a four-year joint to do some partying. But, unlike Olivia, I would never have that chance.

I was crushed when I missed out on moving to a dorm. I wouldn’t get to decorate it, wouldn’t get to experience what it was like living with a roommate, wouldn’t get to go to parties, wouldn’t pull all-nighters studying for midterms and finals in my dorm room, study halls, or the library, and that I wouldn’t get to go to school sports events, among other things. It would have been so nice to not have to figure public transportation into getting to class and, instead, just wake up, shower, and walk to class.

And, again, unlike Olivia, I wouldn’t get a big, fat endorsement from a major corporation to decorate my dorm room and then publicize it (my college days were pre-social media).

Of course, my first priority would have been studying, but I so wanted to live in a dorm and have that experience to reminisce about, but that wasn’t in the proverbial cards for me. To this day, I feel as though I missed out on a HUGE chunk of my life – and I did.

In the end, all I could afford to go to was a community college – and even that was a financial hardship. I had to borrow every single penny to go there, and it took me forever and a day to get a two-year degree, much to my embarrassment.

Even now, in my early-40s, I am still trying to get my bachelor’s degree. It’s not because I don’t have the academic competency to get it, it’s because I can’t afford it. I’m already in the student loan hole more than I would like to be and there has been bureaucratic red tape that has gotten in my way as well – red tape that always magically vaporizes when it comes to rich peoples’ kids … if it even appears at all for them.

And, for the record, it is NOT every child of a celebrity, or a famous person in their own right, who goes to college who doesn’t deserve to go or who had special dispensation in getting there. Actress Jodie Foster went to Yale and she deserved to go to college because the woman is a brain top to bottom. Brooke Shields suspended her acting career to attend Princeton in the 1980s and it seemed to me she, nor anyone else, had to buy her way in there.

It’s times like these when I admire former President Bill Clinton even more than I already do. That man worked his ass off from the literal bottom on up to get to where he is today – and he became a Rhodes Scholar in the process – something no one is handed. Not bad for a guy from a broken family in trashy Arkansas, huh?

Yeah, parents always want the best for their children and some of those parents will go the extra mile – crossing the line into the criminal – for their kids. Like Lori Loughlin, they will think nothing of forking over a lot of bribe money to get their unqualified, lazy, stupid, do-nothing kids into so-called prestigious schools or score big-name product endorsements that could make them a “social media influence” to be reckoned with.

Olivia Giannulli turned out to be your stereotypical spoiled brat who never had to work for a fucking thing in her life, yet, here she is with a million followers on Instagram, a few hundred thousand followers on YouTube and for … why again?

What the fuck did this chick do to rate all that except be born to two famous people? Why certain people are famous for doing nothing is something I’m still waiting on an answer for from the Kardashian cult, but no time for digressions here.

Anyway, in this video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lveMkZc-NRE&feature=youtu.be Olivia begins the college talk at 5:17 and announces she doesn’t care about school in such a nonchalant way that you just want to bitch slap the fucking brat. She was only too happy to make it crystal clear what her priorities were: Game days and partying. She would have to talk to her deans about fitting in studying. Hardy har fucking har.

Meanwhile, you can almost hear a kid who busted their ass to get into the University of Southern California (USC) and who was denied despite their years of hard work crying because this brat’s parents’ $$$ meant more to USC than being academically competent. WTF?!

And, of course, Ms. Entitled backtracked because people wasted no time in calling her out for her brazen entitlement. As far as anyone with a brain is concerned, that was a textbook cop out – a way to whitewash oneself against future taint (hindsight proved it didn’t work).

Such brazen entitlement coming from certain people just cuts like a knife every single time to us poor and working class kids who wanted so desperately to go to college, but couldn’t for one reason or another or who tried and couldn’t finish. It’s also a sucker punch to all of us who had to work for everything we have.

And when we find out that people lie, cheat, and steal to get where they are (like Donald Trump) after a lifetime of being preached to that “crime doesn’t pay” and to do the “right” thing (whatever the fuck that means), the only thing that comes to one’s mind is, “Why did I bother listening to that bullshit?” If only we did what those cruds did, we would have had a whole lot more fun, eh? And, if we were loaded with the family $$$, we would have gotten away with everything time and again.

Many inner-city kids wanted a quality education to move into better circumstances and we had unbelievable odds stacked against us, many times insurmountable. After so long, you just give up and melt into the drama and filth of the ghetto because you realize the game is so fucking rigged. This sting, dubbed “Operation Varsity Blues” by the FBI, prove that … in spades.

My heart is literally crying for the kids who were rejected by all the schools involved in this scandal. You have a dream of where you want to go to school and you spend your youth working your ass off to get there:

• fulfilling the academic requirements
• doing the extra curricular activities when you would have loved nothing better than to stay in bed on those Saturday mornings
• going to all the sports practices and your parents second mortgaging themselves into buying your equipment, many times sacrificing some money to leave work early to go to practices and games
• kissing the asses of people at school who you wouldn’t even glance at in the street under normal circumstances – all just to butter them up to write glowing letters of recommendation on your behalf to admission committees.

After spending prime years of your life breaking yourself to get into your dream college, you’re rejected … and then you come to find out the game was beyond rigged and you didn’t have a remote chance in the first place. I can only imagine the depth of disillusionment felt by every single one of those kids (and I say kids because their parents are my age, maybe a few years younger).

But … one mother decided to fight back and just filed a class action lawsuit to the tune of 500 billion dollars (yup, that’s billion not million) for the reasons I just mentioned above.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2019/03/14/college-bribery-scandal-mom-sues-loughlin-huffman-500-b/3168445002/

According to the lawsuit, her son – who is also her only child – was fully qualified to attend the colleges involved in this scandal and was rejected all the way around. [Note: She didn’t specify what colleges her son applied to in the complaint.] He sported a 4.2 GPA among other things and that wasn’t good enough to the likes of USC and others, but USC had no problem accepting an empty-headed twa* who couldn’t even figure out how to fill out the fucking application. Just wow.

(And serious question here: When did GPAs go over 4.0? What’s considered the perfect GPA these days?)

To be continued …

The National Enquirer – masters of extortion and blackmail, with a little bit of blood on their hands.

Boy, are the media underplaying Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s explosive blog regarding the obvious extortion and blackmail on the part of American Media Inc. (AMI), publisher of the tabloid The National Enquirer, among other rags. And I can write that sans impunity because it’s right there in AMI’s own emails to Bezos’s lawyer.

https://medium.com/@jeffreypbezos/no-thank-you-mr-pecker-146e3922310f

Mr. Bezos’s post managed to answer a question I’ve had for decades regarding how the “fine” folks at The National Enquirer had all this money to fork over for intrusive photos and damaging personal information on people, and more so on people they have beef with for whatever reason.

Even as a kid in the 1980s, I noticed they only targeted certain people time and again. In retrospect, they mostly targeted entertainers who were liberal on the political front.

Since then, I’ve learned about people who had much more going on and the Enquirer chose to either downplay what they were doing or outright kill the story, as the true journalism term goes for pursuing a story and then deciding against publication for one reason or another.

As I got older, I realized none of the personal stuff mattered in the bigger scheme of things. Yes, it helped if a celebrity shared my politics or said something I agreed with on whatever topic, but I got to the point in my life where I avoided rags such as the Enquirer and Star magazine, among others, because of the outrageous bullshit they published (and continue to publish) week after week after week.

I was politically aware from a teenager, but I didn’t notice the political undertones of the Enquirer’s “reporting” [eyeroll] until I saw how they participated in the hack job on Bill Clinton with gusto when he was president.

Although I had quit reading the rag for years, I noticed when Dumbya (a/k/a George W. Bush) was appointed president, the Enquirer didn’t have much, if anything, to “report” on with his scandals and personal shortcomings.

Along with drama queen Mike Walker’s obnoxious columns about his opinions of people that he didn’t know but felt he had the right to judge from his desk and then, later on, his political opinions that no one with a brain gave a shit about, that was all the proof I needed that the Enquirer was just another right-wing rag, a colossal waste of precious trees.

I’ve got WAY better things to do than waste my time with right-wing Republican propaganda. When you’ve heard or read whatever it is they have to say once, you know their groupthink for a lifetime.

For me, though, the question remained exactly how they had a bottomless pit of money to keep paying people for incriminating (“explosive”) information about celebrities. I wasn’t privy to the tabloid business, so I was truly in the dark for the majority of my life.

Mr. Bezos’s blog answered my decades-long question: The scumbags at The National Enquirer procured private photos of people by crook (obviously) and then used that as leverage to get celebrities to do their bidding.

The information they get about public figures is the shit that can ruin not only careers but entire lives. So, to avoid being ruined in every way, people would rather capitulate or just fork over a ton of money to avoid trouble for both the long-term and short-term … or so they think.

So while those poor people were breathing a sigh of relief, the Enquirer in the meantime, used to getting their way time and again, held on to the information for future reference “just in case.” So that person will always have incriminating pictures or embarrassing information on file with those assholes.

You have to wonder why the Enquirer does this shit. Well, just because they can. It all has to do with control and power: They can keep people on a rather short leash, knowing they can ruin them in the literal blink of an eye. It’s playing god – they hold all the cards and the odds are insurmountable.

In the past, some celebrities have had the spine to come out of the woodwork and speak up against the practices of outfits such as The National Enquirer.

I recall shortly after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997, actor Tom Cruise was one of the voices who spoke out against the practices of not only the paparazzi, but also of the tabloids who pay for their intrusive pics that are obtained, many times, by dangerous and, yeah, illegal means.

In true mafia goon fashion, the Enquirer huffed and they puffed and they threatened to blow Cruise’s house down by revealing embarrassing info on him if he didn’t quit with the beat down on the tabloids.

Now, I am NOT in the least bit crazy about Cruise for many reasons, all of which are irrelevant to this piece, but I will say that he’s been in the game long enough that he really doesn’t need to give a flying fuck about the Enquirer’s threats.  In fact, he threatened to turn the tables on the Enquirer and get a pool of other celebrities who were victims of their extortion and blackmail threats and dig out their dirt.

Now, whatever happened with that threat remains unclear, but maybe Cruise and anyone else who has been a victim of these scumbags should pool their resources and “fight fire with fire.”

I would put up a serious bet that the Enquirer’s dirt FAR surpasses that of the people who they blackmail, blackball, and extort on a daily basis. Mr. Bezos’s attachments to his aforementioned blog proved that … in spades.

Just the fact they were so fucking brazen as to put their extortion in writing … and then push the “send” button. God damn!!! It really doesn’t get any dumber than them.

And I’m also in “love” with the cavalier attitude of, “Well, here’s an agreement for you to do things our way or your client’s reputation is toast. I’m leaving the office for the night, but here’s my cell phone to further discuss you doing things our way.”

Seriously???

Perhaps some of the more recent potential victims of AMI’s mafia goon tactics can do what Cruise wanted/threatened to do over 20 years ago.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/02/08/ronan-farrow-says-he-was-also-blackmail-target-after-reporting-national-enquirer-trump/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2dea2f8af1c7

And I really didn’t catch on until much too recently why some celebrities were straight up mother fuckers to the tabloid media.

Barring the people whose attitudes suck in general, I “get it” why some celebrities get emotional and defensive when it comes to tabloid hacks and loser paparazzi – the vast majority of whom couldn’t get a job in real journalism if their lives depended on it.

Stalking people with an expensive camera hanging off your neck? Slow down there, Tex. [Eyeroll.]

And, no doubt, these celebrities are well aware of the fact they’re public figures, but is life that unexciting in loopy California that the only thing to do out there is worry about where people clothes shop or where they go grocery shopping or making shit up about them when you don’t know the facts? (As if their private lives are anyone’s business!)

Get a fucking hobby already!

And, quite frankly, whoever puts those tabloid hacks at The National Enquirer in the same sentence as journalism needs to go back to school … as in preschool.

Some people left a real newsroom for tabloids due to dollars and cents. After all, tabloids pay much more than many news organizations.

But 98% of those losers in the offices of AMI and all their rags would turn tail and cry if they had to report from a war zone, or if they had to report on a riot, or, best of all, if they had to be in a “tough” neighborhood with someone pointing a gun in their face or threatening to stab them with an AIDS-infested needle.

No, hardly any of them are journalists and couldn’t hack the real thing if their lives depended on it.

Mr. Bezos’s blog brings up a whole slew of fresh questions, the main one of which is AMI and David Pecker (that fucking name!) in violation of their immunity agreement with Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller?  Extortion and blackmail are illegal last time I checked.

And because of the Enquirer’s continued illegal (criminal?) behavior, I doubt it very much Mueller can trust a damned thing that comes from them from here on in. AMI’s actions have proven them a beyond untrustworthy source for truthfulness, like Roger Stone.

Also, what’s up with these super-rich Republican white guys with their tongues up Saudi Arabia’s and Russia’s asses? It’s not as though they need oil. Ahhh, maybe it’s the money they’re after.

Both countries are loaded with tons of ill-gotten gain – Vladimir Putin and his buddies divvying up the treasury after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Saudi Arabian royal family keeping everything for themselves while the majority of Saudi citizens live in abject poverty and under unbelievable oppression that would have made Orwell flinch.

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/13/684961872/young-woman-who-fled-saudi-arabia-arrives-in-canada-as-refugee

Through it all, the social justice warriors at The National Enquirer never once used their resources to help true activists or embarrass the scumbags of planet Earth.

For instance, they remained awful silent on WikiLeaks’ endangering so many peoples’ lives with their recklessness and they never spared a word for horrific human rights violations going on in Saudi Arabia every single day.

Oh, that’s right, David Pecker (that fucking name!) wanted to do business with them. Money over everything when all is said and done. That’s how mafia goons run everything … into the ground.

They never once embarrassed their longtime friend Donald Trump, especially after the “catch and kill” story about the orange asshole fathering a child with one of his many extra-martial side pieces. (And these fucking toads had the nerve to constantly castigate Bill Clinton for his extra-martial affairs?? )

They also have yet to “report” (HA!) on Trump’s numerous claims of sexual assault, harassment, and rape by 17 women (so far) and his lawsuits (plural) about raping underage girls that always seem to magically disappear from court dockets.

Say whatever the fuck you want about Bill Clinton, but at least his side pieces were WELL over the age of 18. He didn’t need to rape anyone.

Come to think of it, given Trump’s rather cozy relationship with The National Enquirer, it wouldn’t surprise me at all if Trump himself “suggested” they dig up dirt on Mr. Bezos.  If true, that would be yet another criminal act under Trump’s already tightening belt.

And, when all is said and done, who gives a flying rat’s ass what The National Enquirer decides to slap on their cover every week or the fantasies they peddle as fact? They are nothing but tabloid hacks, plain and simple. Their actions – blackmail, extortion, lies, protecting their friends while ruining anyone who doesn’t obey them, paying literal mints for intrusive pics they obtained illegally, etc. – have managed to ruin peoples’ lives in every way.

Their willingness to fork over insane amounts of money for “exclusive” pictures of Diana, Princess of Wales in the summer of 1997 culminated in the woman’s death because everyone lost their fucking minds trying to get a big payday for invading the woman’s privacy day in and day out. (And I’m sure the “fine” racists at the Enquirer didn’t like it one bit that she was dating a [gasp!] Muslim. They kept mentioning it over and over again after all.)

Although I rarely accept official explanations of sensational/historical deaths (JFK, Diana, etc.), I do firmly believe that the paparazzi, encouraged by these tabloid scumbags, had a heavy hand in Diana’s death. The National Enquirer has some of her blood on their hands.

Hope they’re happy to this day with what they helped to cause (although I do recall them promptly cleansing themselves of any responsibility immediately after her death. How convenient).

“Thanks” a lot, you cock suckers. You deserve every last thing you get and then some.

When all is said and done, I hope Jeff Bezos’s blog is the beginning of the end of The National Enquirer. He was not only smart and brave in hanging those turds with their own words, but he performed a much needed public service by putting their extortion and blackmail right out there in the open.

The days of people bowing to the mafia goon squad are O-V-E-R, boys.

You wanted to rewrite the rules, well, we are more than happy to oblige. After all, two CAN play that game.

Now, as for why the public continue buying this shit (and believing it!) is a blog for another time.