BUCKNACKT'S SORDID TAWDRY BLOG We should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive & well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate, bier or wein in hand, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WHOO-HOO, WHAT A RIDE!!!!!!"
I’m not referring to the systemic collapse of our Republic or the slow suffocation of Democracy here, though these are certainly not unlikely outcomes at this point.
This is far deeper than the seats of power or a congressional alignment, more than the structural implosion of this nation.
The greatest, most grievous failure of America in this moment isn’t legislative but moral.
The soul of this place is dying in screams and silences.
The brown-skinned screams rise from our collective home:
The anguished cries of a young mother being violently torn from her children in the carpool line.
The guttural howl of a farm worker choking on tear gas as his face is driven into the earth he had been faithfully tending.
The desperate, terrified wails of a baby left orphaned in a grocery store parking lot as his shellshocked abuela is tossed into an unmarked van.
The frantic pleas of a father of four dragged from his worksite by lawless masked mercenaries.
The weary moans of devoted fathers, loving husbands, and beloved uncles shackled in a stifling Florida death camp.
The unheeded shrieks of neighbors watching a pillar of the community kidnapped from his lonchera.
This horrific noise is the soundtrack of waking nightmares; the raw-throated echoing of the vilest of history repeating. They are sounds that shake decent human beings to their core.
But those screams are only half of this tragedy.
Equally devastating is the white-skinned silence; the contagious moral laryngitis breaking out in people of profound privilege who avert their eyes and cover their ears.
It is the breathtaking quiet of human beings who have retreated into the cloistered places of temporary comfort and imagined safety; those who quickly scroll away from the videos because they do not want to hear the screams, because that would leave them culpable for their inaction and their stilled voices.
White America, we need to lean into the screams of brown-skinned people, to invite them inside, to let them break our hearts and boil our blood, until the fury within us rises and erupts in a fierce and sustained roar that violently disrupts the inhumanity that will not stop unless we make it stop.
Friends, what exactly are you waiting for?
How much suffering do you need to see?
What terrible sounds will finally awaken your voices?
What line still needs to be crossed for you to declare it unacceptable?
What good is it if we claim morality or conscience, if these result in us saying nothing while our neighbors are brutalized?
How real is our professed faith if it yields no measurable opposition to the greatest violations of human life?
How much is your patriotism worth if the disregard for the elemental liberties of this nation leaves you speechless?
Your silence won’t save you, anyway; it will only postpone your suffering as you abdicate the elemental parts of your humanity during the interim. That is a coward’s path and one I refuse to take.
The only way we can endure as a nation is if we all find the courage to speak with clarity, if we allow ourselves to be heard here and now.
The cost of using your voice is nothing compared to the price of your silence.
Let your life say something before it’s too late.
NO doubt this is an expression of anti-semitism from the proud boys, who thinks they are going to be rounded up and deported en masse to pres bukkake in El Salvador or to South Sudan by fellow fascist fotze kristi nome and her ice and hsi thugs? Your scotus says you can do it NOT MY pres drumpf / trump. From HuffPost via Buzzfeed and Yahoo News.....
After the bombings, the vitriol was high.
One post on the Proud Boys Telegram appeared to compare Trump on the campaign trail versus Trump as president. An image of Trump on the campaign stump uses his official portrait. But as president, the Proud Boys used an image of Trump that appears to compare him to someone who is developmentally disabled.
Insulting and degrading people — mostly women, immigrants and members of the LGBTQ+ community — is central to the group’s foundational belief system. (The group’s credo proclaims that “western” men created the modern world and they “refuse” to apologize for it.)
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday.
The United States bombed underground uranium enrichment plants in Iran over the weekend, raising the specter of the U.S. plunging into yet another war in the Middle East. And President Donald Trump’s far-right fanboys have three words for the man they have long proclaimed is the only leader fit to run the country.
“Fuck this shit,” a message from the Proud Boys Telegram account said Saturday.
The missive appeared above a screengrab of the president’s boasting on Truth Social after the U.S. bombing of Fordow, Natanza and Esfahan concluded and American planes had exited Iranian airspace.
Only a week ago, the Proud Boys, perhaps known best for their assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, signaled that if Trump got the U.S. involved in a conflict between Israel and Iran, he would lose their support. Going to “war for Israel” wasn’t what Proud Boys signed up for when they voted for Trump last November, they said.
After the bombings, the vitriol was high.
One post on the Proud Boys Telegram appeared to compare Trump on the campaign trail versus Trump as president. An image of Trump on the campaign stump uses his official portrait. But as president, the Proud Boys used an image of Trump that appears to compare him to someone who is developmentally disabled.
Insulting and degrading people — mostly women, immigrants and members of the LGBTQ+ community — is central to the group’s foundational belief system. (The group’s credo proclaims that “western” men created the modern world and they “refuse” to apologize for it.)
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday.
After Trump became president again in January, one of his first acts was to pardon rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. The pardons were sweeping and indiscriminate, including everyone from misdemeanor offenders to individuals who committed felony assault against police.
Proud Boys leader Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, who was charged and convicted for his role in plotting the Jan. 6 attack after a monthslong trial, received his pardon in January. Tarrio was on track to serve 22 years in prison, the longest sentence handed down to any Jan. 6 defendant. With his newfound freedom, he was effusive with Trump while simultaneously vowing revenge against the officials who had prosecuted him.
Until last weekend, things seemed downright paradisiacal between the far-right group and Trump: In May, Tarrio met Trump briefly at Mar-a-Lago while both of them were dining at the Florida club. Tarrio had been invited by a club member, The New York Times reported, and as Trump passed by Tarrio, who was dining with his mother, they were introduced. Trump reportedly told Tarrio he believed the far right leader and other Jan. 6 defendants had been horribly mistreated.
