Message Received, DNC
Message Received, DNC
There is more room in the big tent party for Ohio's former crook governor than the most promising politician of the Millennial generation.
Big shoutout to the neighborhood children that gifted me the best kitten in the world. I honestly don’t know where I would be right now. Definitely wouldn’t be strapped in for another day of dementia. Yet here I am, on account of the Ohioan-dystopian in which we find ourselves.
Is it my fault? No. Is it your fault? Also now. It’s still something we should discuss.
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE MORE COMFORTABLE WITH AN ANTI-ABORTION UNION-BUSTER THAN THE MOST EXCITING DEMOCRATIC TALENT OF A GENERATION
Next week’s Democratic National Convention will feature a speech from John Kasich, the former governor of Ohio who spent most of his time busting unions and repressing women’s reproductive rights.
Because our collective nation has the political memory of a goldfish who was flushed down the family toilet over 12 hours ago, apparently this diseased freak will get a primetime position to reposition himself as a bipartisan leader who tried to warn the Republicans before they went off the tracks.
That’s only true in so far as it serves Kasich’s narrative. Simply put, the man is a narcissistic asshole whose former top advisor was indicted in a RICO case.
He governed that way from the start — “get on the bus or get ran over” — right until Donald Trump ran over him in the GOP Primary.
I was told by centrist operatives that there was no way Kasich would speak at the convention on account of how much juice labor unions and reproductive rights groups had within “the party.” That was three weeks ago.
Today, Kasich has a speaking spot and Senator Sherrod Brown does not. Perhaps worse yet, the Democratic Convention allotted a whopping 60 seconds to Rep. Alexandria Cortasio-Cortez, the most progressive voice this party has had since I’ve been alive.
What message is the progressive wing supposed to take from this? Because not only does the Democratic National Committee value John Kasich's voice over AOC’s, they’re also allowing Jeffrey Epstein’s pedophile pal Bill Clinton to ramble about whatever the fuck he wants.
Last time that happened, he slandered Kwame Ture at John Lewis’ funeral. What possibly could go wrong?
To me, this is looting. This is nothing more than rich careerists telling the activist wing to suck their dicks before they croak because they know the Boomers can’t protect them forever.
In this regard, Trump was the best thing to happen to them. They can slap us in the face and say, “What are you going to do? Go vote for Trump?”
Well, we will help them beat Trump. And then after that? The knives are coming out. And unfortunately for them, the next socialist presidential candidate won’t be some random white crank with Senate Brain Disease who stumbled out of 1968.
We want to burn their corporate cocktail parties to the ground, and we get stronger every day.
COPS MAD AT GROUP OF CITIZENS WHO ARE BETTER AT CATCHING PEDOPHILES
Back in the day, most people assumed the cops were in charge of catching pedophiles within their community. Then the Catholic Church scandal happened. Then the Boy Scouts scandal happened. Then the QAnon conspiracy phenomenon happened.
Needless to say, Americans are hyperaware of the threat of pedophile. As such, some have organized themselves into cyber militias that are so good at their job they have drawn the ire of local police.
From Mark Oprea of clevescene.com:
The reaction was a welcomed wave of affirmation for Mundy and Carnicom, a pair of self-proclaimed do-nothings from broken homes who saw predator catching as a redemption turn. “I thought I was going to be a bum,” Mundy says. “I was out smoking weed, drinking every night, not taking life seriously. And then I had a family, and things changed.” Joshua had been attending Terra State Community College with aspirations to be an educator and working part-time as a security guard, but DAP provided him the potential status of folk hero. It was a golden opportunity, Joshua says, “to change the legacy of my last name.”
Their only problem, besides the fact that DAP produces little revenue, was that law enforcement wanted them to stop what they were doing. On January 23, Chief Dean Bliss of the Fremont Police Department officially denounced the YouTube-style outing of predators. The Fremont News Messenger hastily dubbed the crew “unlawful vigilantes” — “Painting us as more Punisher than Spiderman,” Mundy jokes. Citing Ohio’s Importuning Statute, Bliss made very clear that, according to state law, the only persons that could legally arrest and prosecute creeps pursuing underaged sex are members of the force—not a duo of iPhone-wielding “vigilantes.” “Believe me, I want these people prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Bliss said, flanked by the Sheriff and County Prosecutor. “However, I want the investigations to be done correctly.”
DAP set up a meeting with Bliss, Captain Ty Conger and Detective Jason Kiddey to ease tensions between the two sparring parties. The authorities gave them honest warnings and obvious reasons to quit: they could get hurt on a catch, or encourage violating pedophiles to skip town. And then, Bliss reminded them, this was just the law—nothing personal. “But that’s why I want to do this,” Joshua said to the officers. “I want those laws to get changed.”
Wow, it turns out that despite all the millions we funnel to cops and their cool big boy toys, they aren’t good at catching murderers or child rapists.
Maybe we could achieve most results for violent crime investigations by demilitarizing the police and investing in people with critical thinking skills. Just a thought.
TRUMP ON NOTICE IN OHIO???
I realize it seems insane to most Americans that Donald Trump could lose Ohio on account of the Buckeyes not playing football this season. But it’s also a thing that could happen.
From Reid J. Epstein and Nick Corasaniti of nytimes.com:
CENTER OF THE WORLD, Ohio — As he stood outside the Dollar General store, loading groceries into his pickup, Dennis Kuchta pondered what it will mean not to have an Ohio State football season this fall.
“The bars here will all take a real hit when there aren’t games on Saturdays,” said the 69-year-old retiree, whose son-in-law played on the offensive line for the Buckeyes. “It’s a huge loss, and I don’t think people realize that yet.”
The Big Ten Conference’s decision to cancel its football season reverberated this week across Ohio, where the Buckeyes’ football program looms larger than that of any of the state’s major league sports franchises. A pillar of autumn Saturdays will be missing, and Mr. Kuchta and others in this football-mad corner of the state were looking for someone to blame.
“Trump just blew it,” Mr. Kuchta said, alluding to President Trump’s mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic. “He just didn’t handle it. He could have shut things down for five or six weeks and figured out what he was doing, but he never had a plan.”
Sure, Trump has a cult of personality. But there are also thousands of Ohioans who will properly judge the situation and realize the incompetence of the Trump Administration is why we’re not playing college football this season.
If that notion is popular, Election Night 2020 will be a landslide that our baby-in-chief won’t be able to repute.
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