Archive for November, 2021

Violins, Please. They Are Disappointed.

November 30, 2021 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

QFatigue.

A QAnon user named Donny Warren is suffering from massive disappointed that so many QAnon predictions aren’t coming true. And by “so many” I mean all.

Donny decided that his best option would be to write an open letter to the proper authorities complaining that they don’t seem to be doing their level best to make Q’s predictions come true. Besides Donald Trump, Donny has some others that he feels are not upholding the Q forecasts.

Warren’s letter was also addressed to President Xi Jinping of China, President Vladimir Putin of Russia, General Michael Flynn, John F. Kennedy Jr. “if he is still alive” or “whoever is pulling the strings.”

Truth be known, Ms. Gloria Jane Stanhope, P.T.A. president of Warren J. Harding Elementary School in New Elm, Texas, is pulling all the strings but she keeps a low profile because she also runs a Bingo Parlor on the side and does not want to attract the attention of the local constabulary.

Anyway, Donny got involved back in January with a QAnon prediction called “Red October.” It’s a now debunked claim that members of a “global cabal of elite, cannibalistic pedophiles and their enablers around the world would be apprehended in mass arrests.” You may have noticed that it didn’t happen.

Donny has a sick wife and kids so all his anxiety over cannibalistic pedophiles ain’t helping the situation none at all. Plus, he says his wife and kids think he’s crazy for believing QAnon.  That’s gotta hurt.

No word on the people camped out in Dallas waiting for JFK, Jr. Now, that there is embarrassment with a capital Q.

 

First Ya Say You Do And Then You Don’t. Then You Say You Will And Then You Say You Won’t … UPDATED!

November 30, 2021 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

Ella Fitzgerald made the lyrics famous and South Carolina Republican Congresswoman (Cringe Alert!) Nancy Mace took it to stage and screen.

[Mace] was caught over the weekend telling Fox News viewers that it’s not that important to get vaccinated against COVID-19 but then telling CNN viewers that she supports the COVID-19 vaccines.

Not like a year apart but on the same damn day. No kidding. That girl can twirl!

Remember when Republicans thought flip-flopping was a bad thing? I do, and I got myself a real bad memory.

UPDATE:  She’s working on a trifecta, Honey.  Take a look at the Twitter hair pulling between Mace and Majorie Taylor Greene.  It’s junior high school all over again.

 

The best and the worst

November 29, 2021 By: Nick Carraway Category: Uncategorized

The Ahmaud Arbery case clearly shows how good our justice system could be. That’s until you actually pay attention to everything that went into that case. You had someone from law enforcement (though retired) taking the law and throwing it down on its ear.

You had a prosecutor using judgment so outrageous that they ended up being charged with a crime. You had someone filming the whole incident in what could be described as either the height of foolishness, act of real foresight, or strategy gone wrong. You had the trial itself that was anything but smooth. We obviously have high-minded ways of describing this collision of misshapen events, but the kids probably have pegged it best. They call it a “shit show.”

Yet, after all of that malarkey, justice was somehow served. The guilty parties were actually found guilty. While that explanation seems so far out of whack to Arbery’s friends and family, it is far better than the alternative up in Wisconsin. It hardly qualifies as the best of times, but in comparison I guess it will have to do.

In the background somewhere off camera is the debate over critical race theory. On the one hand, one can easily say that justice was served, so why the need to discuss race? Except we can’t avoid looking at how it was served. We can’t avoid looking at why it was served. We can’t avoid the feeling that it would very likely have not been served at all save a little stupid luck along the way. If the footage of the murder had not been captured on camera and sent to the right people it would have never been served.

Sometimes these things are captured for posterity sake and justice still isn’t served. More often than not it isn’t. When we were young, our elders taught us that character is made up of the things we do when no one is watching. Maybe we take the extra cookie or slack off at work when the supervisor is out. That’s small potatoes. If we pervert justice because we can, then do we really need a high-minded academic theory to tell us we’ve done it? Is it really that difficult to imagine it happening more often?

Most people are smart enough to take only one extra cookie from the cookie jar. They don’t raid the whole thing because that would be too obvious. Justice isn’t grotesquely biased on most occasions. That would be too obvious. We eat around at the corners until the advantage is clear. We do it so that we have plausible deniability. So yes, justice was served. It was only served because the whole world was watching. Still, there are times when even that is not enough.

Because They Are 12 Year Olds

November 28, 2021 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, Jr., are dancin’ around, snorting, and giggling because they think the World Health Organization either doesn’t know the Greek alphabet or that the WTO is playing footsie with China.

The WHO has been naming coronavirus variants after Greek letters of the alphabet, believing this would “be easier and more practical to be discussed by non-scientific audiences.”

Using that system, the following variant should have been called Nu and, after that, Xi.

Well, they were afraid that Nu would get confused with New and it’s not a new virus.  Xi is a common last name in China, including the name of their leader and hasn’t Trump calling it the Shina (Trump’s weird version of pronouncing China) virus been enough?

He’s creepy.

 

The Crude Crew

November 26, 2021 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

Matt Gaetz has a podcast and Marjorie Taylor Greene was his guest last week and I think we should all be grateful that such an event didn’t tear a hole in the space/time continuum.

On this show – which I have not and will not listen to – Greene outlined her demands of Kevin McCarthy if he wants to get her vote for Speaker.

“First she wants Rep. Adam Kinzinger get (R-IL), who is retiring, and Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) to be kicked out of the GOP Conference and effectively booted from their committee posts. Next, she wants the other 11 Republicans who voted for impeachment stripped of their leadership positions on committees.”

Now, you see, here’s what’s odd about that. You’d think if she had like even one demand she’d ask for the name of a decent hairdresser. I mean, I hate to be cruel, but her head is as fried on the outside as it is on the inside.

She then whines that McCarthy says they can’t do that because it would take too many Republicans off of committees.  “They did it to me,” she sneers.  Honey, self awareness does not appear anywhere on her psychological chart. Also, she alone is not too many – it just seems that way because she never shuts up.

 

“You’re Gonna Have a Fucking War” – We Were Closer Than We Feared…

November 26, 2021 By: El Jefe Category: 2020 Election, The Big Lie, Trump

Several books, published and soon to be published, have reported how Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, fought a full time battle after Trump lost the election to keep him from using the military to attack Americans and even start a war with Iran to stay in power.  Even thought Milley hasn’t publicly confirmed this story, enough journalists have, including Susan Glasser of The New Yorker who independently confirmed what others have reported.  This story gave me chills down my spine.

Despite his supporters’ delusions and continued support of Trump’s Big Lie, the rest of us have to make sure that he never comes near the White House again.