All you kiddies remember to lay off the needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon. ~Abbie HoffmanYesterday, a Miami police officer was photographed wearing a Trump mask in a polling place.
Do you even America, bro?
Not to mention, who'd you blow to keep your job all this time if that's the level of attention you pay to the regs?
Fucking seriously, electioneering within a certain radius of a polling place, and voter intimidation, have been illegal forever.
Every polling place I've ever been in has signs to that effect posted, also per Federal law.
To their credit, the Miami P.D. jumped on this situation as soon as they heard about it, which was pretty quickly considering the asshole got caught by the local Democratic Party chairman and was almost instantly Twitter-famous. Generally speaking, when it comes to any profession that carries arms, two rules consistently apply in such a way that no Judge Advocate, no Union or any other damn thing will get you out of the consequences of breaking. #1 Don't throw shit uphill, and #2 Don't do anything that attracts mass negative attention to yourself and your team and especially don't make your superiors look bad. Also, dude violated two very specific Department regulations, no political attire while in uniform and no foul language while on duty. Have fun at your next job working loss control at Walmart, asshole.
Seriously, if I'd done what this motherfucker did as an Airman, I'd have been lucky to walk away with an administrative separation or a Bad Conduct Discharge, either of which would have come via Article 15 nonjudicial punishment after Article 32 proceedings declined to send the case on to courts martial.
What this guy did was commit two Federal felonies and get caught on camera doing it. A member of the military doing that and being that stupid about it would almost certainly be arrested, charged, tried, found guilty, likely incarcerated and at the conclusion of their time as a guest of the US Disciplinary Barracks-Leavenworth or Naval Consolidated Brig, Miramar they'd be dishonorably discharged.
These laws and regulations exist for a reason.
Things like the franchise, nonpartisan institutions and the rule of law are what separates us from barbarians and petty tyrants and don't you forget it.
That so many Republicans from the voters on up have forgotten this is unforgivable.
That so many Americans would rather be petty corporate goons or Russian-backed satraps or the white equivalent of drug-addled illiterate Pashtun goat-fuckers than people living in a democratic first-world society who exercise the rights and responsibilities of citizenship tells me maybe we should send a lot more people over there for awhile, and let them see how they like it.
The actual damned problem with that logic is, there's one hell of a lot of people who should theoretically know better who think they'd go to a place like Afghanistan and be the petty warlord reclining on his throne, puffing away on an enormous Hookah while Kalashnikov-armed thugs bring him the day's haul from the peasants in the poppy fields, smoke some hashish or maybe some opium, get stoned and sit around watching pirated copies of American movies..
Nobody, and I mean nobody thinks they're going to go to a place like that and be the Catamite lashed to the back of the truck until the headman of the local Lashkar wants his dick sucked. Or, ya know, go there and just plain end up dead. And that's the problem, isn't it?
Way back in 2015 I started to note fairly early that there were far too many privileged white people, especially on both far ends of the spectrum who were willfully ignorant of the ways things could go wrong, who always assume they'll be Okay, and who didn't and still don't give a shit about other people.
And worse, there's those, many of them far less privileged, who simply want the chaos and destruction because they think they'll profit by it somehow, or at least be entertained in some way.
Which brings me to yet another issue.
Trump keeps bringing up this idea of Joe Biden "Taking away God."
First of all, that tells me that Donald Trump doesn't believe in an infinite God who created an infinite universe and who is all-knowing and all-powerful. If God can be "taken away" by Man, then He is not God.
I'm increasingly convinced that for Trump and a lot of his followers, religion is nothing more than some kind of magic show woo woo bullshit entertainment and none of these people really believe in anything at all.
Let me say that again, it's all bullshit, for a majority of these people all it ever was, was bullshit. It seems like anybody and everybody who cares in the least these days has voted, is voting or is planning on voting for the Democrats.
Including me, I'm a former Republican.
Voted for the Contract With America and the Gingrich Revolution, I did.
Hell, I volunteered on a GOTV effort for George W. Bush's campaign in 2000.
Goddamn, do I feel stupid.
That it's come down to this is a bitter goddamn pill for someone who spent more than half his political life so far as a Republican. The high-minded principles of Ronald Reagan or either Bush, the sweeping vision that at least went with the paranoia and shitty behavior of Richard Nixon, and the relative moderation of somebody like Gerald Ford all have no place in today's Republican party. Yet Kim Jong Un, the Taliban, and Vladimir Putin just might. The party of Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan, of "With Malice Toward None, With Charity For All" and "Mr. Gorbachev, Open This Gate! Mr. Gorbachev, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!" has become the party of dictators and kings, and sounded suspiciously Soviet while doing that. The party that united America in the face of terror on 9/11 has become the party of the fucking Taliban.
I feel like half my life was a lie, in the service of another lie, for an ideology of lies. If these fools don't think I'm angry enough about it to go out and fight somebody over that they're goddamned wrong.
And, as I write this, Twitter is aflame with trending topics related to Rudy Giuliani getting caught in a compromising position in front of a young actress that was playing the role of a reporter interviewing him in the new
Borat movie.
Rudy, who once boasted about how glad he was that Sacha Baron Cohen never "got" him.
Trouble with that kind of track record is you only have to screw up once and it's over. That just happened.
And this guy was "America's Mayor" on 9/11 and had a real shot at being elected President in 2008, but he fell apart in the primary and that was that.
He's going to go down in history as Donald Trump's free lawyer and Impeachment causer.
Well, Donnie, you get what you pay for.
If you'd ever been a real businessman you'd know that.
I'm tired of these goddamned fools and their play-pretend paste up "righteousness" and shitty judgmentalism toward everybody else. I'm tired of the same silly bullshit day in and day out like America has turned into a never-ending episode of "Jackass."
If this is their idea of "Immanentizing The Eschaton" count me the fuck out.
Vote these motherfuckers out. All of them.
You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. ~Abbie Hoffman
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