Rainer Shea Is What's Wrong With The Left

Shea is the sort of puritanical Marxist I've been dealing with since long before he was born, the type whose only "accomplishment" is keeping the Left divided and powerless through incessant gatekeeping.  Many of those people were actually corporate shills sent to do just that, and given a couple of Shea's current positions, I have to wonder where all he's getting his cornpone.

First, he seems to think opposing Russia and China is just imperialism.  Please.  I knew more about both when he was still swimming around in his daddy's nutsack than he'll ever know, and I've kept up, so I'm not putting up with this bullshit.  Russia is a religio-fascist state Hells-bent on recovering Eastern Europe.  China is a pseudo-socialist hellscape that destroys its environment and ruthlessly exploits its workers so it can present the proper face to naive, Western damnfools.  Is there imperialism involved?  Of course.  Does that mean they shouldn't be opposed?  Give me a fucking break.

Second, he's suddenly cutting a lot of slack to a lot of right wingers who in no way support the Left.  He thinks libertarians opposing corporate government somehow makes them allies.  That is a bullshit tsunami.  They don't oppose corporate government; they oppose functioning government.  With very few exceptions, they're Ayn Rand Fascists with fully digested copies of Atlas Shrugged inhabiting their guts like tapeworms and visions of being John Galt dancing in their heads.  He also thinks the populist shift to isolationism is somehow anti-imperialist.  No, just no.  Isolationism and imperialism are facially strange bedfellows that have historically gotten on quite well together.  The populists are just using Israel's genocide of the Palestinians (And yes, we need to stop supporting Israel and start helping the Palestinians in ways that matter.  And no, opposing Israel is not anti-Semitic.  Israel is not Judaism.  Israel is not the prophesied Jewish state.  Unless the Messiah came back recently and took over, and I just missed the memo.) as a cover for their inherent anti-Semitism and America First policies, neither of which are or should be a part of Leftist policy.

The Left has long been plagued with the shallow and callow, people too immature to understand success is built from coalitions, coalitions of people who disagree on many things, who may not even like each other, but who are willing to tolerate each other to accomplish something.  Shea may one day grow up enough to understand this.  I'm not holding my breath.

Fascist Show Of Force

Chauvin was convicted today, and 30 seconds later there was a pile of cop cars cruising the streets here in Salt Lake City.  Why?  Because fear is these fucks' main weapon.  They NEED you to be afraid, and they want to remind you that, no matter what that jury did, you'd better STAY afraid.  DON'T GIVE IN!

When Fascism Comes to Murica...

...it will be brought by white, suburban, "thoughts-and-prayers" liberals.  Like Mayor Maggothaul.  More on that fucktard below (Keep reading.  It's a doozy and worth your time.)

Thanks to Herroner, we now have an overnight curfew through next Monday.  Because of the "riot."  GODDAMNIT PEOPLE, THERE WAS NO FUCKING RIOT!  A cop car got burned, and another car got trashed.  Boo fucking hoo.  One of the cardinal rules of riots is, "Fuck the rules."  But here were hundreds of people waiting for the traffic lights to change before they crossed the street.  OH, THE HUMANITY!  A number of cops claim they "felt threatened."  BULLSHIT, you motherfucking thugs!  You're more heavily armed and armored than the average Marine in Kandahar.  Threatened?  Fuck that.  That was a Sunday School picnic next to the real thing, you wienie, lying sacks of shit.  I was sucked into worse when I was 9.  I was actively involved in worse when I was 11.  And you big, brave heroes were afraid?  Suck it.  You weren't afraid when almost as big a crowd, armed to the teeth with semi-auto weapons, surrounded City Hall because their favorite bar was closed and they couldn't get a haircut.  But oh wait, those inbred Trumptards were political allies of yours, weren't they?  And memo to Maggothaul: Remind me again what curfew you imposed then?  Oh that's right, there wasn't one.  But there weren't any cops telling you to get your kneepads out and start servicing them that time, were there?  You are such a piece of...work.

You apologists out there are going, "Well yeah, but the anti-lockdown demonstrators weren't causing any damage."  First, morons, these were suburban whites who have a voice in what happens.  They like to whine about being ignored, but they aren't.  Second, the lockdown did not put them at risk for their lives, it just inconvenienced their lifestyles.  They aren't being murdered in their homes or on routine traffic stops.  Finally, if you and your gang are walking around packing Armalites and threatening violence up to and including civil war, THAT is damage.  You're damaging everyone else's security just because you're an overgrown brat throwing a temper tantrum.  Just like your Fearless Leader Der Drumpfenfuehrer.

One of the schmucks who torched the cop car has been charged .  Federally.  They went that way because the federal criminal justice system is criminal.  He's facing a mandatory five years and up to 20.  Because his arson "interfered with interstate commerce."  Again, bullshit.  This isn't about enforcing the law.  This is about intimidating.  This is about terrorizing.  And OBTW, fuck the Feddies for going along with this.  ATF are whores.  DAs are whores.  SEC, FTC, FBI, CBP, etc., etc., etc.  They don't give a SHIT about that guy.  They want an example.  They want to beat all the rest of us into line.  So watch out, guy with "Black Lives Matter" painted on your car.  You're on a road, you're "interfering with interstate commerce."  And the sign on the I-215 crossing saying "Black Lives Matter"?  Definitely "interfering with interstate commerce."  You see where this is going?  They want to CRUSH your ability to speak out.

Now on to Mayor Maggothaul.  My intel network has given me some intel.  I have been unable to determine whether it's gold dust or chicken feed, but I'm going to throw it out there at least as a heads up.  We knew in the mayor's race that Escamilla was the progressive candidate and Maggothaul was the DNC/DLC corporate whore.  I have learned that certain shit may have gone down in that race.  Namely that DNC/DLC corporate operatives engaged in a covert get-out-the-vote campaign with East Bench Rethuglican whites that basically said, "You'd better get out and vote because you don't want a brown West Sider as mayor, do you?"  Now, there is no way to verify that anyone received such a  pitch because no one will admit they received such a pitch, much less acted on it, so that is pretty much a dead end.  But such behavior is consistent with the thoroughly assholish behavior I saw from the DNC/DLC tools as Hilbots in 2016 and Anybody-But-Bernie-Bots in 2020.  "Erin is white/cute/white/pliant/white" (not necessarily in that order).  So while it would not surprise me if this happened, for obvious reasons, I can not tell you with certainty it happened.  But I can tell you that, even if they didn't, they wanted to, and that sentiment is what they're acting on now.

But hey, law and order, right?  Earlier this week some fascist asshat was pontificating down at the former protest site about how we need "law and order".  Let me tell you about the history of "law and order" in this country.  Farmers in western Massachusetts want more of a say in the government?  We need "law and order".  Natives want to keep their land?  We need "law and order".  Abolitionists want to end slavery?  We need "law and order".  Miners and railway workers want decent working conditions?  We need "law and order".  Women want to vote?  We need "law and order".  Veterans want their benefits?  We need "law and order".  Blacks want to vote?  We need "law and order".  People want to stop the draft and the invasion of Southeast Asia?  We need "law and order".  Hispanic farm workers try to organize?  We need "law and order".  Anyone advocating "law and order" is in fact advocating mob rule supporting the powers that be and needs his head turned into a canoe.

Maggothaul needs gone.  Even if this racist crap from the election isn't the case, she needs gone.  She, along with her DNC/DLC enablers, need removed.  Otherwise, we are headed for full on fascism.  And don't believe the narrative trying to demonize the protesters.  They aren't the problem, and it's pretty damned obvious exactly who actually is.  And fuck you if you insist on believing otherwise.

The Desert of the Real World

As I've been pounding home for some time (See here, here, here, and here.), we are under siege.  So I have to say we haven't really learned anything in the last couple of days, but we sure have had our noses rubbed in it.  In case you can't see it, let me lay a few things out.

1. We have yet another fraudulent autopsy.  Apparently the cops were in no way to blame for George Floyd's death.  At least that's what yet another cop-sucking fraud...er, excuse me..."coroner" says.  Now we'll see our "justice" system in all its glory.  The DA filed criminal charges.  True, they were slap-on-the-wrist level charges designed to placate the masses, not punish the offenders, but now we'll see what the DA actually intended.  If he actually intended to press those charges, and this wasn't just a sugar-off that was going to get slid out the back door from the start, he'll grab that body yesterday and get an independent examination.  Is anyone out there holding their breath?
2. We now have a curfew in Salt Lake City.  Because of the riot.  And I call big-league bullshit.  There was no riot.  I know, I was down there.  I was maintaining significant social distance, but I had a decent view.  I know riots because I've been around a few, and that was no riot.  Two cars burned and a few idiots roughed up is not a riot.  Rioters do not wait for crosswalk signals to change.  This curfew is just an excuse to oppress political activity.  Contrary to what Herroner Erin Mendenhall says, the people of SLC have nothing to be embarrassed about.  She, on the other hand, has plenty to be embarrassed about, and it isn't the phony "riot".  It's about allowing Guvnuh Available to chivvy her into turning SLC into an overt police state.  Is she embarrassed about that?  Are you kidding?  Mendenhall is exactly what we've known she was ever since the party hacks made sure she'd win out over Luz Escamilla:  a DNC whorebucket.  She is another sign the Democratic Party will never deliver anything resembling a progressive agenda.  She's another brick in the wall.
3. Speaking of the protests, we know there are a bunch of reich-wing counterprotesters showing up.  We also know the cops are planting "under cover" officers in the protests ("Nice cop shoes, asshole.  And I like that body armor I can see through your shirt.").  And we know the reich-wing groups are planting their own operatives to stir shit.  Now here are a few riddles for you.  How much of the violence was provoked if not outright committed by the plants?  That's exactly what the reich-wing operatives would be planted for.  As for the cops, well they wouldn't do anything like that, would they?  I mean the FBI hasn't been doing exactly that since J. Smeghead Pooper first took the reins, has it?  And do you think that question will actually get looked at?  Or will it just be swept under the rug as part of the narrative of demonizing the Left pushed by our oh-so-liberal media?
4. And so we have once again reached THAT point in our political cycle.  The various minorities in this country are in no way surprised by what is happening; this is just another day in paradise.  They aren't just pissed off that the cops murdered George Floyd; they're pissed off that this keeps happening and nothing ever changes.  What's different now is that us white people are being targeted.  Which is what has happened every time we have joined the fight against oppression.  The Ueberklass loves "white activists" who support them (You think armed, white thugs getting away with everything is new?  Check the Hard Hat Riots, the pro-Nixon construction worker counterprotests organized by Peter J. Brennan, whom Nixon richly rewarded for this effort by making him Secretary of Labor [and when will workers ever figure out they aren't doing themselves any favors by backing the power].  Check corporate use of the National Guard and private Pinkerton armies.  Hell, what do you think the KKK has always been?), but will crush whites who cross the aisle.  Whiskey and Shay's Rebellions.  Abolition and John Brown.  Draft Riots and Pullman Strikes.  Ludlow and Matewan.  Women's Suffrage and Bonus Army.  Civil Rights and Vietnam.  The response has always been the same, and it's coming again.

The last big targeting of white activists was 1967-72.  Ever hear of Kent State, kiddies?  Of course you have (Side note: How many of you noticed 4 May was the 50th Anniversary?  Yeah, I thought so.  It's all being erased from the collective memory.).  Now here are a few things you probably haven't heard about.  Nixon and his minions had been actively demonizing antiwar protesters for two years, calling them "bums" and "pawns of foreign communists" (Years later John Ehrlichman admitted the "War on Drugs" was created to demonize and criminalize civil rights and antiwar activists.), and they kept right on doing it afterward.  The FBI had illegal infil operations going on against the SDS, the Panthers, and just about everyone else who wasn't a card-carrying member of the US Chamber of Commerce.  And right after Kent State, Nixon's White House started a disinformation campaign that there were ballistic tests that showed the bullets that killed the students hadn't come from National Guard rifles (this was a big, fucking lie disseminated through the usual channels, i.e. John Birch Society, Phyllis Schlafly's network, etc.).  And perhaps worst of all was that Kent State wasn't even an isolated incident.  Yeah, you read that right.  Four days after Kent State, 8 May 1970, the New Mexico National Guard bayonetted 11 people in a protest at the University of New Mexico, but they all lived so it's all good.  On 14 May 1970 police opened fire on students at Jackson State University and killed two of them, along with wounding another dozen, but hey it was Jackson State, so those were all "colored folk" so it doesn't really matter, right?

It's coming again, people.  The cops don't even need the National Guard; they've been thoroughly militarized courtesy the "War on Drugs" and the "War on Terror".  Heavily armed private armies are a thing again.  The Ueberklass owns every institution from the federal government down through your local school, bank, and what's left of the newspaper.  Welcome to 1877.  It took us 60 years to half-way/half-ass sort things out that time.  We don't have that kind of luxury now.

Be Careful Out There

And I'm not talking about avoiding SARS-CoV-2.  I made the mistake of going downtown today without a tie and a briefcase.  Tieless and with a backpack.  And I got shaken down by two of the county's finest brownshirts.  Fortunately I was able to prove fairly readily that I actually have a home I live in and such things, so they gave up their thoroughly illegal harassment and let me go on my way.  But FFS, I'm an older white male and reasonably clean.  I can guess what these cheesedicks are doing to people without those advantages.

As if cops weren't already bad enough, they're using the virus to get worse.  And as always it's because they "feel threatened."  By what?  No one is restricting their movement.  No one is threatening their nice salaries, health benefits, and pensions.  And it isn't like they aren't equipped with better PPEs than most healthcare workers, let alone the poor cashier at you grocery store.  No, they're just engaging in one of the favorite cop pastimes,  whining to make everyone feel sorry for them and let them get away with even more murder.

Am I going to report it?  Are you shitting me?  Those two asswipes would just make up a lie about it, because lying is what cops do, and I don't need that trouble.  Just remember that the only people cops "protect and serve" are the Ueberklass and themselves.

Remember, Remember...

...the Fifth of November.  Yes, I know what Guy Fawkes was all about.  I think that was a deliberate irony Alan Moore put in V for Vendetta.  Nevertheless, anyone with two brain cells to rub together must agree with V that there is "something very wrong with this country."  And I do not think words will fix it.

And If You Wonder Why Everyone is Misinformed...

...it could because shit like this is what poses for in-depth coverage in Murican spews media.  Trump has done much to boost the economy?  No Ross, Trump has done much to boost YOUR economy, which is why you people put him in office, isn't it.  You don't want to admit we're already in a housing bubble?  Well I guess I can understand that since you still have properties you're trying to unload, and you don't want your marks to find out it's all a scam and the merry-go-round is about to break down yet again.  But this is all a bit much coming from a guy who has been at the hub of the bubble AND the growth in unaffordable housing (Hudson Yards gentrification, anyone?).  Fuck you, Stephen Ross.  And fuck you Andy Serwer for giving him just another PR platform.  And double fuck you Calder McHugh for promoting this flack flatulence.

Speaking of Shootings...

...we just had one in Parkland, FL, Rethuglican Territory.  And what was the reaction?  Just as I predicted:  The teachers should have been armed!  The students should have been armed!  And other bullshit by the feedlot-full.  The Rethuglicans (and the dimmest of the Dems) are just rabid dogs, and there's only one solution for a rabid dog.

What Then Must We Do?

Call me "T", as my message predates V.  As for "U", well you're U, aren't you?  So, you're wondering what to do now that Der Drumpfenfuehrer and his white trash, Christ-licker stormtroopers are running wild for the greater glory of the 0.01%.  Gather round, kiddies, and let Ol' T impart some wisdom.  What do I know?  Trust me, this isn't my first rodeo.


First, purge your brains of two bits of bullshit that have been standard operating procedure for our pathetic Left for far too long.  1) We aren't going to win, or even survive, by joining hands around the campfire and singing "Kumbayah."  Hell, that didn't even stop the DLC/DNC and the Clintstones, and they're all limp dicks.  It sure isn't going to stop any genuine fascists such as we're dealing with now.  There will be blood, and you'd better prepare for it.  2) Dump all the left wing street theater.  I mean flush it down a commercial toilet and use the TARDIS to send it into a different timeline.  Petitions accomplish NOTHING beyond putting the signers on a right wing hit list.  Demonstrations accomplish NOTHING beyond getting you into a face recognition database.  Occupations accomplish NOTHING but providing new, soft targets for our thoroughly militarized, thug police.  These tactics by themselves have never accomplished a fucking thing.  Leave them to the morons who can't be taught.


Second, organize right.  This is guerrilla warfare; you need to play small ball here.  Form a local cell, a group of like-minded friends who can assemble quickly and below the radar.  Give it a bad ass name.  The days of fluffy-bunny shite like "Peace and Love Fellowship" are over.  You need something like "Eastern Washington Antifascist Brigade".  Or "Franklin County Fist-Fuck the Fascists Faction".

Third, use your organization.  Just because you're playing small doesn't mean you have to be isolated or that you can't support larger movements.  BUT: 1) Don't hook up with another group without rock solid references (i.e. "Don't bring me nobody nobody knows.").  It's tough enough to control your friends (Think Peter Pettigrew in Harry Potter.); strangers are impossible, and they're probably either Ueberklass-funded astroturf shills or thug cop plants trying to infiltrate you.  2) Have your ORGANIZATION support a movement, not individuals.  Any legit outfit (such as Planned Parenthood) loves being endorsed by individuals, but it loves endorsements by organizations even more (OK, have a softer, alternative name to your bad ass name for such endorsements.).  This also gives the members cover.  That's what organizations are really for.

Fourth, work as an organization.  Do projects together.  Arm yourselves together (I told you there would be blood.  And get armed as quickly as possible.  The Second Amendment only applies to Trump supporters.  The last gun control in this country that stuck was 50 years ago when Gov. Ronnie Ray-gunz [Yes, you read that right.] and the NRA [Yes, you read that right too.] joined forces to block the Black Panthers in Oakland from arming themselves.).  Train with those weapons together.  Take self-defense courses together.  Go on picnics together (With weapons.  Open carry, they'll think you're "good guy" Trump supporters and leave you alone.).  Get used to operating as a team.  Individuals get squashed.

Fifth, learn history.  Learn about guerrilla operations, successful and unsuccessful, and dissect them.  Do the same with political movements.  Don't try and reinvent the wheel.  People have already done this.  Use your local library while it's still there.

Sixth, get some mad skillz.  Unlike sociopaths like Yours Truly, you probably haven't spent your lives learning sniper skills, knife-fighting, improvised weaponry, bare-handed killing, explosives, gunsmithing, lockpicking, and farming.  Time to learn, kiddies.  There's a world of information on Teh Interwebz, you just have to remember that most of it is a barrel of bollocks.  For example, as popular and as much fun as The Anarchist's Cookbook is, the explosives section will get you killed.

Seventh, and finally, apply.  Turn the key and put the rubber on the road.  Don't be the Judean People's Front in Life of Brian, constantly resolving and never doing.  There are people out there who need protection.  There are people out there who've already been attacked and need support and information on getting a lawyer who can go after those fuckers ( With any luck it's some fat, redneck sheriff they can go in dry on until his entire descending colon prolapses.).  We need to raise the barricades, and unless we want this to be Les Mis redux, we need to be ready.  The last line of defense is U.

Ferguson

Gotta get down to it.  Cops are cutting us down.

And not a damned thing is being done about it.  I listened to that shitbag prosecutor announce the grand jury result last night, and all I could hear was another pile of privilege and power sprinkling sugar on a turd and telling us it was a brownie.  He let that murdering thug cop, ostensibly the defendant in the case, give a narrative account of his version of the incident, including how the victim was supposedly pummeling him, and offered no contrary evidence, such as the hospital pictures showing that Officer Thug had no injuries and hadn't been hit with anything more substantial than a feather.  Yet another stacked deck protecting the 1%'s enforcers.

Now the protests have started.  The cops went straight for the tear gas, but the protesters were ready and ran the cops out of town.  Now one of two things will happen.  Either the forces of injustice will sit back and wait for the protesters to burn themselves out, or they'll send in the troops.  If the former, the protesters have to be ready to escalate this and move it to richer targets, i.e. banks, office towers, gated communities.  Take the war to them.  If the latter, they'd better be ready to gun up because the National Guard will come in with armor and heavy fire with authorization to turn Ferguson into a free-fire zone.  The protesters need to be ready to give them Mogadishu.  Either way, either we go to war or this blows away, and nothing is gained.

BTW, all you Norsefire rednecks with your heads in your Fox, if you think cops are just doing this to "uppity niggers", think again.  If you don't get on your knees and get get your nose up the 1%'s ass when ordered, they'll leave you in a ditch no matter your color.

This is the Day

This is the day historians will look back on and say, "The United States ended here."  This is the day the Rethuglicans took control of both houses of Congress, and so, with the Fascist Five in control of the SCOTUS and Barack Handjob Obama in the White House, the 1% gained formal control of the government.  This is the day when trying to survive as an ordinary person in this country became of necessity a criminal activity and the only way for democracy to return required blood in the streets.  This is the day when the rest of the world decided we were too stupid and too dangerous to put up with and started taking steps to neutralize with extreme prejudice, such as removing the lynch pin of the survival of our economy, the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency, and using every tool available to infiltrate and destroy our nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons stockpiles so we could no longer retaliate.  This is the day our stupidity grew too great for our resources to overcome.  This is the day the United States starts spinning in.

Oh, Canada

They say that a good lawyer knows the law, but a great lawyer knows the judge.  If so, US Women's Soccer must be a great team, because the ref just jobbed Canada out of the finals.  The Girls from the Great White played the extra time like dead women walking.  They knew the fix was in and the refs would give it to the Yanks one way or another.  Come on Japan, drill these bitches another one.