Justin Bieber is STILL Popular, and Teen Girls are STILL Stupid

I did a post a couple years back called “Modern Teenage Girls = Dumb.” In this post, I talked about how, if you look at teenage pop culture, and how ridiculously stupid it is.  The role models for teenagers now are the tepid, pathetic, asexual imps.  Unless, of course, they are girls, but even then, the girls in these pieces of pop culture who are interested in love don’t have a CLUE what real love is.  To them, love is the Full House, pathetic and super-awesome all the time attraction.  Love is simple, easy, and has no problems.  As is the case with the music of Justin Bieber.

Justin Bieber represents everything that is wrong with our culture.  This pathetic, asexual little girl (he isn’t not a man.  He has no balls) need to be forgotten by our culture.  But he isn’t being forgotten.  No, instead, while his popularity is nowhere near what it used to be, he is still a large figure in the public consciousness, and teen pop culture.

My favorite YouTube vlogger just did a video about this, and he pointed out something that I hadn’t thought of, but is very true, if you think about it.  Teen pop culture takes in what is dark, Gothic and cool, and turns it into something pathetic, whiny, bitchy, and ball-less.  Anyone remember when Vampires were something to be afraid of?  They made these great movies about how dark and sinister this creature was.  It haunts the night, stalking humans like a farmer, checking its chickens to see which would be the best food for the night.  They were something that was from your deepest nightmares, because it was neither animal nor man.  Neither zombie nor human.  It existed between worlds, forever in darkness.  That’s pretty fucking bad-ass.  Then, a Mormon author named Stephanie Meyer came along and said, “I bet I can make my own version of that, and it will be better!”  Actually, fuck that.  She saw a way to market, and she took it.  She saw a way to market her Mormon antiquated values, and she jumped on the bandwagon.  That’s the real truth.  And her publisher did SO many favors for her in marketing that crap.  But now, the teen pop culture has taken in vampires, where once they were something to be afraid of, now they are sparkly, and gay, and stupid.  They are a giant waste of time.

Anyone remember the werewolf?  They were another creature of the darkness, that existed in a place that was somewhere we didn’t want to be.  They also stalked the night, hunting us down like cattle.  We could mount no defense against them.  We were helpless before them.  The aforementioned author got a hold of them, and now, something else that represented fear and terror is about teenage unreal and unrealistic love.

In the 90′s, there was this strange new trend of taking Shakespearean and other great pieces of classic film and turning them into teen popcorn flicks.  Anyone remember the film “Cruel Intentions?”  Yeah, that little cinematic travesty (that guys only watch for the chicks making out) was part of this.  Or there were all the teenage versions of Shakespeare’s plays, like Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet, or O (an adaptation of Othello.  Why the fuck did they not include the whole title?!), or The 10 Things I Hate About You.  All of these were pieces of shit.  But teen culture ate it up.  Just like now, where Justin Bieber has replaced Kurt Cobain as the teen heart-throb.  This is what modern pop culture does.  It digest what’s cool, and it regurgitates what sucks.

It annoys me to no end how the modern view of being a teenager is that one is supposed to be stupid, and ignorant, and embrace partying and making an ass out of yourself, instead of intelligence and cognitive thought, and trying to make yourself a better person.  I was the leader of the outcasts in high school, and my outcast brethren were people who liked to read, and be smart, and do cool stuff.  They didn’t want to party and get involved in high school drama like the rest of them.  They didn’t want to embrace the socially corrosive culture.  And while there were a lot of us, the fact is that we were not the in-group.  We were the outcasts, in a culture that was just as dumb.  But it’s getting dumber.

And when people say that my problem is that I’m jealous of Justin Bieber, like TJ, I say, “fuck yeah, I am!”  I wish that I could be as good as that idiot at getting people to give me their money.  I wish I had a couple of mansions that my throngs of dumbass fans (in this instance, I have his.  I’m not insulting you, my regular readers. ) got me because they convinced their parents to buy my crap.  That’s all Justin Bieber has done!  He’s convinced the dumb to buy his garbage.  Teen girls are becoming the living dead.  If they were told that they had to rip apart a bunch of puppies in order to kiss Justin Bieber’s hand, I guarantee you that they would dig in without a moment’s hesitation.  That’s who this idiot’s fans are.  And I wish I had that kind of support.  I don’t.  I am a relative nobody, on a blog on WordPress, talking to my audience about what I think matters.  Everyone who hates this kid is jealous of his ability to have absolutely no talent, but make metric tons of cash.  To have President Obama want to hang with him, and get a medal from the Canadian Prime Minister.  Fuck yeah, I’m jealous of an idiot who has no talent, creativity, or even musical savvy, living a life of absolute luxury!  Who wouldn’t be?!

And this is what gets on my nerves – these are the people we surround ourselves with.  Parents don’t like this kid.  Nobody likes him.  Then why do we still buy his shit?!  Well, that’s obvious – because these girls want to believe that at any moment, they could turn a corner, and this pathetic little worm is going to be there, ready to tell them that he loves them.  I got news for you, girls – he doesn’t give a shit about you!  This trained monkey is doing what his handlers want so that he can make money!  All he cares about is the money!  He will never, ever care about you, what you think, how you feel, or anything connected to that!  And the fact that our culture isn’t crucifying this socially corrosive bullshit pisses me off!

Fuck this crap!

Until next time, a quote,

“Say it with me – Justin Bieber doesn’t give a shit about me.  He only cares about my parents’ money.”  -TJ Kincaid, 5 Reasons Justin Bieber Still Sucks 

Peace out,

Maverick

The Boy Scouts and the Catholic Church Get Away with Sex Crimes?

There is a bitter and tragic reality that is being brought forward more and more in this country.  The reality that behind the veils of a good, wholesome and supposedly more organization, there is organized corruption, along with vile and disgusting people who are getting away with sex crimes.  What makes this worse is that these crimes are against children.  Young children who are putting their trust in these people.  They think that these adults are there to look after them.  To protect them from the ugliness of the world.  They are trusting these people more than any others, and what is happening to them?  They are being violated in ways that are beyond sick.

First, there is the Catholic church.  This is an organization that simply astounds me in how it gets away with what it does and never, ever feel any major repercussion.  The crimes of the Catholic church and the Vatican are well known.  You don’t need me to tell you about it.  Among those like me, it is well-known that the Vatican openly protects these pedophile priests and deacons who have molested thousands of children.  They keep files on every single incident that happens, stating that the files cannot come out until ten years after the person becomes an adult.  As if to stick its nose up at the rest of us because we can’t do anything to them anymore.  They pay off the families who are the victims of this molestation, and threaten anyone who wants to talk with excommunication from the church.  They are corrupt thugs who use their power over people and government to keep the law from ever touching them in any significant way.

And they have a massive following.  These enablers of pedophilia are getting away with this, and they still have a massive following.  I mean, how else do they continue funding their opulent palaces that spit in the face of everything their savior preached about embracing poverty and being humble?  These people are totally okay with the fact that the Pope, their head person, is openly part of a system that is protecting child molesters and rapists.  Yes, there are incidents where these priests have gone that far, yet they still have millions upon millions of supporters.

But, in a recent article by the LA Times, another group has come to light that is responsible for the molestation of thousands of young boys.  Exclusively boys.  The Boy Scouts.  That’s right, an organization that is supposed to stand up for duty and country and honor has a very elaborate system that is protecting Scout Leaders who are responsible for molesting young boys.  After a review of over a thousand secret files, the LA Times has found out about the intricate network of corruption that is keeping these people from feeling the law.

You see, it breaks down like this – when an incident of molestation is reported, the Scouts put the person who did the crime on a secret blacklist.  The blacklist is called the “perversion files.”  These files are kept from seeing the light of day, reportedly, in the interest of protecting those involved.  This was supposed to protect people.  But, as the story shows, this blacklist was repeatedly gotten around by these sexual predators, and some of them went on to continue molesting young boys for over two decades.  Meanwhile, when the hammer of the law should have been felt, instead, the Boy Scouts kept this all under wraps, choosing to cloak themselves in ignorance.  What a bunch of fucking heroes, aren’t they?

In some cases, these predators weren’t even stopped after it was first reported that they molested one of the scouts.  The larger organization behind the Boy Scouts of America chose to wait for other instances to surface before doing anything.

The tales of these instances are heart-breaking.  One boy wrote about his experience, saying he was “going to quit the troop and tell my daddy.”  But, just like the Catholic church, these people are hardly feeling the hammer come down on them.  But maybe now, with the release of these files, there is some hope of justice for the boys who were violated by these people who they put their trust in.

There are a lot of days when people tell me that my hatred of this species is uncalled for.  That people are generally good, and do good things.  But then I read stuff like this.  Thousands cases of molestation have come up in the Boy Scouts since 1970, and the knowledge that this corrupt organization was helping keep this under wraps.

Many people will say that the kids should have come forward.  Those who say stupid shit like that don’t get what it’s like.  A boy is supposed to be tough.  When most boys are a kid, and they get hurt and cry, their dad tells them to “suck it up.”  The shame and humiliation in this are powerful weapons.  It is awful, and it is the exact same thing that the Catholic church does.  Both organizations are helping sexual predators get away with sexual crimes.  That is who these people are.

I have a friend.  She and I have gotten quite distant lately.  She told me of an instance when she was a lot younger.  She was a figure skater (and she still is damn good at it, even though she can’t skate professionally anymore), and was also a skater as a kid.  One of her coaches molested her.  She didn’t tell anybody.  Hearing stories like that, and then hearing about these people, it reminds me that not only is my hatred of humanity justified, it is outright true.

People are monsters.  We are disgusting animals, who can occasionally rise above the status of pure evil.  And that is only the best of us.  I am with TJ on this one.  Humanity is overrated.  And anybody, ANYBODY, who can defend either the Catholic church or the Boy Scouts of America in this should feel ashamed of themselves!  This is revolting, and this is what America has to put up with.

Until next time, a quote,

“And I’m not unsympathetic to those who cling to hope.  I too have seen extraordinary acts of kindness and love from this species.  Many people try to do good.  Both on a large and a small scale.  But here’s the problem – to create something, it takes cooperation, understanding, compassion, drive.  To destroy something, all it takes is one little action.”  -TJ Kincaid, HUMANITY IS OVERRATED 

Peace out,

Maverick

RE: THE AMANDA TODD SQUAD

I saw a video by my favorite YouTube vlogger, The Amazing Atheist.  He talked about the Amanda Todd tragedy, and his take was actually rather poignant.  He got me to think, and I have some responses to questions he asked in the video.

He pointed out that while Amanda Todd’s death is tragic, she isn’t the only one.  Kids all over this country are killing themselves after being bullied, and they don’t get the national stage that she has.  And people die all over the world from hunger every day.  Where are their voices?  Well, before we get to that, let’s answer TJ’s questions.

1. What makes Amanda Todd more important than Joel, Kenneth, Rachel and all of the other kids who have been pressured into of taking their own lives because of being bullied?  And if she’s not more important — Then why are you focusing on her to the exclusion of all the other victims of bullying?

Well, to be honest, she isn’t more important.  I freely admit that Amanda Todd is just one of the many victims.  But to the second question, I am not focusing on her to the exclusion of all other victims.  I am with Mr. Repzion on this.  We need to use her as an example for how this can and is happening to all sorts of other kids right now.  I am definitely trying to figure out how to deal with this on a larger scale.  Amanda Todd, to me, isn’t so much a martyr, as much as a reminder.  She is a reminder that this kind of thing happens all the time, and it goes unchecked, until the shallow society does as many have done with Amanda, and raise her on a pedestal and ignore everything else.

2. Why do you only care about bullying victims after they’ve killed themselves?

Again, I don’t.  This happens all the time, and I hate that.  I have seen it all the time where I grew up.  Back in my hometown, a good 80% of the girls in my school were vicious snakes, and the rest were their victims.  I always stood against that.  Being a titan of a man, I was able to bring those who were outcast into my fold, and give them a place and a home.  But there are many more who I couldn’t help back then, and who I realistically can’t help now.  If we are going to use Amanda Todd’s death for anything, it should be to remind people of that.

3. Why isn’t anyone talking about what REALLY needs to be done about bullying?

That’s a good question.  TJ brings up a lot of good points.  The American education system is broken.  That can’t be argued against.  I have railed against the broken education system in this country time and time again.  TJ’s solutions were pretty simple.  1. We need smaller classroom sizes.  Kids are being crammed into these rooms because the government won’t put any real money in education, because clearly, going overseas and killing people is much more important.  2. We need more teachers, and better pay to incentivise teachers to stay.  The average turnover rate of teachers is five years.  After five years, most teachers give up on the profession because the pay is miniscule, and the work is mind-numbing.  No teacher works an 8 hour day.  They work a 10, 12, 14 hour day.  If they didn’t, there would be no homework graded, no tests corrected, no tutoring, no coaching, no extra-curricular activities of any kind.  A teacher has to work their ass off, and they are chipping away at their student loans with pay that is downright pathetic.  It is shameful that we pay trained gorilla millions of dollars to throw a football, but we can’t pay the people in charge of the future generations a decent wage.  3. Children shouldn’t be left unsupervised on social networking sites before they can handle what comes with that.  4. We need to teach kids about how to fight against bullying.

TJ makes an especially good point there.  You think bullying stops the moment you get out of school?  Fuck no!  There are a metric ton of adult bullies who use their power over other people to make their lives miserable.  Kids should be taught to rely on nobody.  Remember that video where these boys were picking on a fat kid, and the fat kid got up and beat the shit out of them?  I remember that went viral.  Good on the kid who beat them.  We should teach kids to be strong, and not to take shit from anybody.  It will serve them well in the real world, away from school.  5. Exploration into the root causes of bullying.  Yeah, that makes sense.  I am with TJ.  Anybody who is against bullying should be for that.

4. Hundreds of thousands of people die every day from causes far worse than bullying.  Where are their stories?

Yeah, that’s a good point.  It is worth pointing out that America love a victim.  An American victim who they can latch onto and make into a poster-boy/girl for their cause.  And the reality is far more ugly than any of us can hope to believe.  My retort, though, would be that one has to pick their battles.  If my time being informed and seeing the world go to shit has taught me anything, it’s that you can’t take on the world.  One can only charge at windmills for so long before they are broken against it.  Now, this issue itself might be too big, but for those like me, who actually do want to do some good, this is far less of a windmill to climb than some of the others.  At least, that’s what I  think.

TJ pointed out at the end that if the story of Amanda Todd turns things around, he will admit that he is wrong in having contempt for those who have made this girl into a martyr.  I would like it noted that I have contempt for them as well, despite how passionate my post about her was.  This girl is a victim, and a tragic reminder of how our system has, and is failing.  But, like TJ, I don’t think that that will happen.  The news cycle will move on.  Amanda Todd will be forgotten,  Or, as he pointed out, we will pass some pathetic law, probably in her name, that doesn’t even try and solve the root cause of bullying.  It merely looks at the symptoms, and thinks that if we patch it up, that’s enough.  Because that is how America does.  America does what they think is just enough, and won’t cost a lot of money, because non-existent God-forbid that we actually work and make things better.  No, that would be just too much of a pain in the ass.  Instead, we will do the bare minimum, and that’s it.  Because America is the land of the lazy, and the home of the cost-effective.

Accomplishing real progress just isn’t in the fiscal plan for the year.

Until next time, a quote,

“And if you don’t like what I had to say in this video, then I urge you to prove me wrong.  Not with words.  Not with name-calling.  It makes no sense to bully me in the name of anti-bullying.  Prove it to me with your actions.  Show me that I don’t know what the fuck I’m talking about by showing me how really and truly dedicated you are to this issue.”  -TJ Kincaid, THE AMANDA TODD SQUAD

Peace out,

Maverick

Daniel Tosh, Rape Jokes, and Tumblr Feminists

Well, I thought that I would get into the middle of the internet drama again.  What can I say, I’m wired and I’m bored.  Daniel Tosh was recently performing at a comedy club in LA, The Laugh Factory.  He asked the audience what he should talk about.  Somebody shouted “Rape!”  It was then that a woman who is also a Tumblr feminist was in the club and decided to make a HUGE issue out of this.

The Tumblr feminists are a fascinating group of people.  To anybody who has a chance to see them, they are awesome.  Here’s a link to the Tumblr feminist who was at the club where Tosh was performing and decided to heckle him on-stage.  See, in her mind, when somebody even thinks about making a joke about rape, this must immediately be attacked and Tosh must be vilified in the worst way possible.  I’m not going to do this as a hit-for-hit style post, because I’m not in the mood for that, but I will give a little snippet, and you can read the rest if you like.  It is very telling of the kind of person this writer is.

I should probably add that having to basically flee while Tosh was enthusing about how hilarious it would be if I was gang-raped in that small, claustrophic room was pretty viscerally terrifying and threatening all the same, even if the actual scenario was unlikely to take place. The suggestion of it is violent enough and was meant to put me in my place.

Yeah, I wanna have a drink with this person and get into her head.  It must be a fascinating place.  To have this mindset, even when she didn’t get her facts right, is very interesting.  First, Tosh didn’t say that people should rape her.  When she heckled him on-stage, breaking the comedy club social contract, which stipulates that you don’t have to be there if you don’t want to be, and you can leave at anytime, so you don’t heckle the person on stage performing.  It’s just not done.

So, she disrupted the comedy club social contract, and when Tosh, the comedian who is kind of boring, sends it back at her, she goes on to Tumblr and reaches out to the Tumblr feminists, a group of radicals who don’t have a clue about what actual feminism is.

Let’s talk about them.  These people are a gold-mine of hilarity if you are ever bored.  These people have the basic belief that all men are evil.  For real, if you’ve got a dick, they hate you.  Or if you’ve got a dick, but you don’t feel like shit for having that dick, and feel like you are a monster who is oppressing women all the time, they hate you.  These women, and sometimes men, are some of the most self-involved people that I have ever come across.  They are wallowing in a deep pit of self-pity, self-martyrdom, and self-indulgent beliefs of their own superiority, with the rest of us being just a bunch of losers.

And these people are very ugly about their beliefs.  Anyone who challenges them is lambasted by their entire community.  But here’s the kicker – they aren’t above attacking one of their own!  Laci Green, a YouTube vlogger who I had had a lot of respect for until a while back, when I found out that she is one of them, has become the target of their rage.  She posted in a video and said the word “tranny.”  The Tumblr feminist community latched on to this and turned on her so fast that it probably made her head spin.  She had made an apology that to normal people would have sounded reasonable and acceptable.  But to these people, since they view anything that isn’t in their incredibly narrow way of thinking as wrong, decided that they were going to put up pictures of her apartment, and make death threats against her.  Laci Green, one of these self-pitying people, has become one of their targets.  What does that say about a community when it takes almost nothing to make them turn on one of their own?

But this thing with Tosh has galvanized them into action.  They are starting petitions to get his show removed from Comedy Central.  They are having this huge actions against Tosh, and why?  Because one of their own lied about what he said on stage, even after she was so rude as to break the comedy club social contract and not one of them fact-checked her.  This apparently is news.

What is with these women, anyway?  They seem to believe that they are the victims of some horrible social atrocity.  What, that they were born a woman?  These are women, in the Western World, between the ages of 15 and 25, bitching about how abused they are, and how awful their lives are, and how awful being a woman is.  How much do you wanna bet that not a single one of these women has been to Saudi Arabia, or Pakistan?  How much do you wanna bet that not one of these women has been to Haiti, or Uganda?  These women fascinate me in how they can talk about how oppressed women are, yet they have never seen real oppression.  No woman in America who talks about how oppressed American woman are has ever seen real oppression, because if they had, they would know better.  There are real gender issues in this country, but to call it “oppression” is beyond a reasonable stretch.  It’s an outright lie.

And let’s talk about rape jokes.  The Tumblr feminist community seems to believe that these are the worst kind of jokes, and pure evil, and that rape is the worst thing of all time.  Tell me – in what way are rape jokes somehow worse than other kinds of jokes about harsh stuff, like child molestation, or war, or murder?  We make jokes to take the harsh stuff and make it digestable, so that we can look at things from another way.  The point of humor is to make the difficult understandable.  We mock it, and the human condition.  I have been to many women’s shelters, and let me tell you, I have seen a lot of rape victims, and sometimes, the best thing that can be done for them is not to mock them, but to make a joke, because it makes the harsh easier, along with the heart-breaking.  I don’t think that women are the doormats that Tumblr feminists do.  Real rape is horrible and tragic, but to correlate a rape joke with supporting rape is just ridiculous!  Nobody with a soul supports rape, but we can all support humor, because it is what binds us together.

Here’s the ultimate truth that one can surmise about this group – they are bullies.  A woman punches a man because he says something she doesn’t like.  Violence being used to stop somebody from saying things that a group doesn’t like.  That is what thugs do.  They will attack people for saying what they don’t like, and threaten one of their own for saying something that they don’t like.  They also want to get rid of the Freedom of Speech when it offends them, trying to legislate their tastes and their ideas, to the detriment of a fundamental freedom that we all are supposed to have.  These people should offend real feminists who are fighting for women’s rights, and real equality activists like myself, who want equal rights for everybody.

Being a thug is never okay, it doesn’t matter what gender you are.

Until next time, a quote,

“Look, I know that not all feminists are a part of this.  This is a very specific set basically tyrannical fascist people, who want to censor everybody who says something that they don’t agree with.”  -TJ Kincaid, Tumblr Feminists 

Peace out,

Maverick

Texas: the Stupidest State in the Union

Yeah, again, I wish that I was making this up.  I wish that I had the imaginative skills to be able to make a satire of this.  It has come to the point where Texas has become its own satire.  This state is so stupid that it truly does amaze me.  Yet, as stupid as they are, they now what to make themselves stupider.  No shit, that’s exactly what Texas is trying to do.  They have written down, in the Republican Agenda, a new statement which absolutely astonishes me.  I had to have a few moments with this document.  In fact, let’s have some bits from it all over, so you can see where I am coming from in being amazed that Texas wants to make itself stupider.

Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.

Wow.  Take a minute.  For real, take a minute, look at this bit from the article I linked to above.  Now, let it sink into your subconscious.  Texas, the state in the Union with some of the worst SAT scores, along with worst education, wants to abandon teaching that focuses on critical thinking.  That is…amazing, stupendous, unbelievably awe-inspiring.  I don’t think that I have seen something this incredibly stupid in my entire life.

An entire state of this country is openly admitting that they want to make our kids stupid and compliant to authority.  The levels of marvel that this strikes is unfounded.  I literally feel like I am watching a sitcom right now.  Texas, you are the dumbass dad from a bad sitcom, trying to make your kids obey you, and trying to make them stupid.  I love how they aren’t even hiding how evil they are anymore.  But guess what, it doesn’t end there.  These people, and their stupidity, goes all over the place.  Here’s another tidbit.

Supporting Motherhood ― We strongly support women who choose to devote their lives to their families and raising their children. We recognize their sacrifice and deplore the liberal assault on the family.

There’s been a running gag among liberals like me that Republicans want women pregnant and in the kitchen, barefoot.  Well, now it’s not a running joke.  The Texas Republicans have actually come out and admitted it!  I love this document!  This is the most awesome politically incorrect publication of a government plan that I have ever seen, and it gives me joy.  Not for the women of Texas whose rights could potentially be undermined while the government there tries to tell them that they should have kids and not pursue careers of their own.  No, I feel joy for the rest of America, who gets to have a laugh at how fucking stupid these people are!  If you are an intelligent person, and you live in Texas, run away.  Leave.  You have no places there.

But wait, it gets even better.  Here’s another morsel from the document.

Homosexuality ― We affirm that the practice of homosexuality tears at the fabric of society and contributes to the breakdown of the family unit. Homosexual behavior is contrary to the fundamental, unchanging truths that have been ordained by God, recognized by our country’s founders, and shared by the majority of Texans.
Homosexuality must not be presented as an acceptable “alternative” lifestyle, in public policy, nor should “family” be redefined to include homosexual “couples.” We believe there should be no granting of special legal entitlements or creation of special status for homosexual behavior, regardless of state of origin. Additionally, we oppose any criminal or civil penalties against those who oppose homosexuality out of faith, conviction or belief in traditional values.

This is incredible.  Does decency mean nothing to the Texas Republicans now?  I am glad that I can rest in the knowledge that not a single Republican from Texas will write on here that I am taking this out of context.  They want their evil opinions know throughout America.  They want the rest of us to know how horrible they are.

First, how is homosexuality destroying families?  If just one person could explain that to me, that would be great.  Oh, wait, they can’t, because it isn’t destroying the family unit.  It is just a group of people who want to lead their own lives and be left alone.  Apparently, that is too much to ask from the Texas Republicans.

Second, thank you for saying outright that there should be no legal repercussions for harassing and bullying LGBT youth and probably adults.  Hate laws, I guess you want to get rid of them.  Thank you for openly admitting that you want to spread hate throughout America.  Thank you for openly declaring that you hate gay people.  Not in as many words, but you have left absolutely no doubt.

Pornography ― We encourage the enforcement of laws regarding all forms of pornography, because pornography is detrimental to the fabric of society.

I guess all that jerking off really hurts Texas.  Like they think that if guys jerk off, they won’t want sex anymore.  News flash, Texas, guys who are jerking off would LOVE real sex.  Why do you think that porn has an audience?

Classroom Discipline –We recommend that local school boards and classroom teachers be given more authority to deal with disciplinary problems. Corporal punishment is effective and legal in Texas.

Hey parents, want the teacher to have permission to beat your kid?

Juvenile Daytime Curfew – We strongly oppose Juvenile Daytime Curfews. Additionally, we oppose any official entity from detaining, questioning and/or disciplining our children without the consent of a child’s parent.

There’s nothing I can say about this.  It doesn’t get any stupider.

I would love to comment on all the parts of this document that are stupid, but honestly, there’s just no point.  Check it out for yourself.  It is proof like no other that Texas is the stupidest state in the Union.  It literally doesn’t get any dumber than that.

Texas, you are evil.  You are led by evil people who are hate-mongering bigots, and obviously hate all of you.  Enjoy your stupidity.

Until next time, a quote,

“I will just end by saying this – fuck Republicans, fuck Texas, and double-fuck Texas Republicans.”  -TJ Kincaid, WTF TEXAS?! 

Peace out,

Maverick

North Carolina and Ye Olde America

Have you ever thought to yourself – I bet having a time machine would be so cool! (Something I admit to doing all the time) Well, you don’t have to wonder what having a time machine would be like.  You can go to places all over America and see what life was like before the modern comforts such as indoor plumbing, equal rights and the basic treatment like human beings.

North Carolina has officially become the 31st state to have a constitutional ban on gay marriage.  This Amendment, Amendement 1, has made it clear that marriage is between “one man and one woman.”  There was a lovely tidbit from Tami Fitzgerald, the head of Vote for Marriage in North Carolina had this to say -

Marriage is between one man and one woman…you don’t rewrite the nature of God’s design based on the demands of a group of adults.

You know, I have been hearing about this for years.  I have been hearing about this whole “God’s design” argument.  It comes up in many ways.  All of the ways that I have heard it, however, are stupid.  Really fucking stupid.  The idea is that the reason that God exists is because (in Christians’ minds) everything on Earth is so wonderfully perfect, and could only have been designed by God.

Let’s take a look at that, because the fact is that there are a metric ton of things in this world which are not “intelligently designed.”  And if God created all things, he has to take credit for this.  What are some of these things, you ask?  Well, here is a nice list to help you get a grasp on the situation.

• The human appendix.  It does nothing for you, and often gets infected and has to be removed.  If it isn’t removed in time, it explodes. You get septic in a matter of hours, and die.  Guaranteed death.
• Wisdom teeth, which also serve us no purpose are are almost always removed.
• You eat through the same pipe that you breath through.  All eating requires you to hold your breath.
• Over 99.9% of all lifeforms that have ever lived on this planet are extinct.
• 14% of the world’s population is starving.
• All birth defects
• All illness
• The fact that an entire universe was “created,” full of galaxies, each with billions of stars, and we are on a tiny little planet out in the middle of a nowhere galaxy as the one planet capable of supporting life that we have found in our solar system, or anywhere else.  We have found planets that perhaps could support life, but we are not sure.
• 95% of the known universe is made up of Dark Matter (which we have no idea what it is).

Do all of those things sound perfectly designed to you?  No, but if you are going to make the claim that everything in this universe was designed by God, then you have to account for that.  You have to account that this guy was able to fuck up.  Not one of these things are intelligently designed.  Well, maybe except cancer.  Cancer is an almost perfect cell.  It is immortal and nearly invincible.  Killing cancer is getting easier, but it is still a resourceful son of a bitch.  The fact is that arguing that the universe is perfectly designed is ridiculous.

Of course, even if we did accept that premise, that all things in the universe are perfectly designed, that wouldn’t prove the existence of the Christian God.  Not even a little.  If anything, it only says that there is a deist god whose properties are up in the air.  Disproving that is impossible.  Proving the Christian God isn’t real is easy.

But back to North Carolina, let’s tackle the most obvious problem – they are amending the state’s constitution based on biblical reasoning.  I guess that whole 1st Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America that says that your desert fairytales have no place in our government doesn’t mean much to the elected officials of North Carolina, who voted this in at 61%.

However, let’s put all the religious crap aside.  Let’s look at this purely from a bureaucratic standpoint.  The problems with this Amendment are huge.  One of the biggest is that the language of this Amendment is incredibly vague.  It not only can go after gay marriage, but also domestic partnerships and civil unions.  And it goes further.  Among the problems associated with it are – children born to unmarried parents could be inelligible for health insurance, couples that are living together but not married may not have domestic violence protections and many others.

When you have Bank of America saying that this is a bad thing because if it takes away from domestic partnerships, it can severely hurt North Carolina’s economy, you should take that seriously.  Their economy isn’t doing well, and taking away potential business will inevitably do more harm than good.

Of course, like what happened with here in Anchorage, voter fraud was a huge problem, with many of the North Carolina voters not even having Amendment 1 on their ballots.  More proof that the entire system is rigged.  But if the people will not go out and stand up against this, and demand as a unified body that something be done, with the threat of civil disobedience, this knowledge means nothing.

Now, some people are just shrugging this off, saying that this Amendment will go away in time, as there are changes in the culture driven by new generations.  But to say that is to ignore the reality – that they may be wrong.  Social progress isn’t a guarantee.  History has show this.  This needs to be taken seriously.  Of course, like most things in America, it isn’t.

But, once-again, let us say plainly that the greatest problem with this Amendment is that people are saying it needed to pass, not for any really intelligent reason, but because Gawd wants it that way.  That is not how America’s government should work.  Gawd has no place here.  Never has, never will.  And as you have seen, you don’t need a time machine to go back to Ye Olde America.

Until next time, a quote,

“Oh, man.  You guys are still doing this argument?!”  -TJ Kincaid, ATHEISM is a HOAX? 

Peace out,

Maverick

Today’s Sexist Bigot Award Recipient – Dominic Dieter!

Well, what else can you say?  What can you possibly remark to a person this sick?  First off, let’s give a little back-story to why exactly we are saying that this man is today’s sexist bigot.  You see, there is a shock-jock DJ in Cleveland, Ohio, who was written where a man was asking about his gay daughter.  Why the dad wrote this guy is a complete and utter mystery (and worth looking into, because he is at least partially responsible for what was happened, and what could inevitably happen).  Anyway, he wrote the shock-jock, Dominic Dieter and told him that he came upon his teenage daughter kissing another girl.  He asked Dominic what he should do.  Here was part of Dominic’s response -

You should get one of your friends to screw your daughter straight.

How many levels of wrong is this?  How horrible a statement is this?  Well, let’s take this apart in layers.  First, this man is a bigot.  There is absolutely no arguing that.  He is a bigot, and his hatred of gays and lesbians is laid out before our eyes.   But honestly, that isn’t the part really hits me about this.  The part that really gets under my skin is the fact of what this man told this father, this girl’s father, to do.

He is advocating that this man should, as her father, have himself and a friend rape his daughter.  What is wrong with this guy?!  Seriously, what part of horrible, dog-shit piece of lacking humanity compelled this monster to say something so horrible?  Does he have no shame?  Well, clearly he doesn’t, because he put this lovely nugget of bigotry out for all to hear.

The next issue that needs to be addressed is that there is no denying, this is hate-speech.  Now, I will admit that I have problems with the hate-speech laws.  It is so easy to look at something and call it hate-speech.  But in this instance, it can’t be called anything else.  This man is saying that somebody, or this girl’s father and her friend, should rape her.  That is advocating violence against another person, and I am calling a spade a spade.  Sick fuck…

Next, this is blatant sexism.  Screw her straight?  Yeah, I bet he wouldn’t say that to a guy.  Hell, given what this man’s moral values (or lack thereof) is guiding him to say, I bet with a guy, he would advocate killing them.  So yeah, he thinks that just some forced sex with cure her.  If that isn’t sexism, I don’t know what is.

So what should happen to this guy?  The first thing – I DO NOT want an apology.  America’s pathetic need for people to apologize is just worthless.  He isn’t going to mean it, so why do we want him to say it?  No, he shouldn’t apologize, because there is no point.  It’s just as worthless as when you were a little kid, and your parents told you to say sorry to the kid you hit in the face.  You aren’t sorry to that kid.  You don’t mean it for two seconds.  But parents, just like the American public, want to believe that it means something.  It doesn’t.

No, instead, this hateful bigot should be fired, and get to find out what real work is, not just working your jaws and saying hateful shit.  Maybe, after that, he can have a real respect for how hard life is.  But honestly, getting fired is just so nice.  Because the truth is that this man is ethically responsible for what he says.  We all make our own choices, but this man is an advocate, and let’s face it, the audience that he plays to is probably about as smart as a banjo.  A stupid and suggestable audience, you have to take some responsibility for what you say.

But the worst part, worse than all of that, is the fact that this man goes to show you just what is so wrong with this country and the poeple in it who are spreading hatred all over the place like a virus.  This is why the suicide rate among LGBT teenagers is so high.  This kind of bigotry is directly responsible for the pain and violence against these people, because, as I said, this man’s audience doesn’t have 20 brain cells to rub together.  And the bigotry spreads far and wide.  These people are making the world worse for everybody, but who cares?

Well, the fact is, not much of anybody.  The most tragic fact of all is that while Dan Savage and people like him will say that it gets better, it really doesn’t.  LGBT youth, I beseech you, get tougher.  Grow a thicker skin to this.  The thicker, the better.  These people are everywhere, and their hatred is part of our society.

Your parents are lying to you, saying it gets better.  I don’t have to lie to you like that.  I believe that you are stronger than your parents and society does, needing to force-feed you shit like that.  I believe that you are not the doormat society believes you to be.  It doesn’t get better, you get tougher.

And you can get tougher, and fight back against people like this.  You can educate the future youth to not take this bullying.  Fight back, and fight back hard.  Don’t lay down and take it.  Of course, picking and choosing one’s battles is the sign or real wisdom, but since you are young, you can get a reputation now of being somebody who will not lay down and take bigotry from assholes like Dieter.  You can stand tall and say that this man is nothing more than an empty shell of a man.  A thug who thinks that he is attractive, and tough, while he is safely behind a microphone.

Dieter, you are a piece of shit.  Everybody who likes what you had to say is just as much a piece of shit.  I have a feeling that you are a Christian, too, and I thought I would make a point that the faith that guides your bigotry can die, along with you.  Seriously, while I will never advocate violence against another person, if you got hit by a bus, the world wouldn’t miss you.  Douchebag.

Until next time, a quote,

“It doesn’t get better.  What the fuck are we talking about?  Why do we have to feed this lie to ourselves?  Why do we have to say it gets better when we know, god-damn well, that, no, it really doesn’t get better?!  We just get more callused to it.”  -TJ Kincaid, It Gets Better 

Peace out,

Maverick

If Jesus Came to Your House…You’d be Really Bored

Well, this is kind of old news, but I thought that I would do a post about a song that I heard about a long time ago.  The name of the song is “If Jesus Came to Your House.”  It was and still is really popular to people who are into that kind of stuff.  I listened to the song, and it is unintentionally hilarious.  I am in a good mood, so I thought I would do something relatively upbeat.  Hope you enjoy!  Here is the video I saw the song in, and we will do this hit for hit.

If Jesus came to your house, I wonder what you’d do.

A guy in a white robe, a scraggly beard and long hair and preaches that he is the Messiah comes to my home, what would I do?  I would roll my eyes and remark that another drunk hobo is sniffing around my property.  I may call the cops, but since everybody is all about how peace and love Jesus is, I would probably just give him booze and send him on his way.

Oh, I know you’d give your nicest room to such an honored guest.

Uh, no, I probably wouldn’t.  He wouldn’t be an honored guest in my home.  He would be some guy in my home.  I probably wouldn’t even invite him in.  Since his dad is an egomaniacal judgmental genocidal maniac, I really want nothing to do with the guy.  Inviting him in would definitely bring trouble, which I don’t need.

And all the food you serve to him would be the very best.

Well, assuming that he has broken into my home, why do I have to feed him?  Isn’t Jesus really God? (A lovely paradox, especially considering that the Christian religion is supposedly monotheistic) Why do I have to feed the guy?  He can’t just clap his hands and make a feast?

And you would keep assuring him you’re glad to have him there.  That serving him in your home is joy beyond compare.

Actually, I probably wouldn’t.  I mean, if he is a judgmental dick, I would probably get very annoyed with his presence after a while.  I mean, he is a preachy guy who always thinks that he’s right.  Wouldn’t you get annoyed by that after a while?  I know I would.  There is only so much preaching that one can take.

But, when you saw him coming, would you meet him at the door,with arms outstretched in welcome to your heavenly visitor?  Or, would you have to change your clothes before you let him in?

It’s Jesus.  You need to wear your Sunday best for this guy?  If memory serves, he traveled with guys, just guys, and told them to take nothing but the clothes on their back.  I have a good feeling they all smelled pretty bad after a while, and their clothes weren’t in the best of shape.   So yeah, I don’t think I would change my clothes.  And no, I wouldn’t meet him at the door.  He could come in and chill out.  I’d introduce him to indoor plumbing.

Or hide some magazines and put the bible where they’ve been?

Okay, who just has their porn sitting out where people can see it?  I’m assuming that they are talking about that.  Of course, since Christianity has never been a big fan of science, I bet Discover or National Geographic would piss him off too.  In that case, no, I would still keep them out.  The idea of pissing off the Messiah sounds kind of fun.

Would you turn the radio off and hope he hadn’t heard?

Heard what?  What is Jesus’ taste?  What if he likes Chris Botti or my taste in music?  What if he is into Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga?  What if he actually enjoys Black Sabbath?  Or maybe he is a big fan of the Black Eyed Peas.  I don’t think that there is a bible verse talking about what kind of music that Jesus is into.  So yeah, you might as well leave whatever you’ve got on.  Though with me, I generally turn off what I am listening to when guests come over, unless it is soft and pleasant.  Rude to play something unless you are doing that with your guests.

And wish you hadn’t uttered that last loud hasty word?

What word?  What, did you just say “Fuck!”  or “God-dammit!”  What word does Jesus not like?  Is he one of the Knights of Nee?  Does the word “what” just act like kryptonite to the guy.  I really am curious what word just gets underneath this guy’s skin.

And would you hide your worldly music and put some hymn-books out?

O-kay, here we go.  Apparently, Jesus only likes hymns.  Well, isn’t he boring.  In that case, no, I wouldn’t.  I would culture that tasteless bastard.  Hymns are boring.  He needs to learn real music.  I guess being all-knowing didn’t teach him that.

Would you let Jesus walk right in, or would you rush him out?

Well, if he dropped by unannounced, I would probably be kind of annoyed actually.  The same with most anybody, save a few people.  I like to have some heads-up before people drop by.  It’s only polite.  I guess Jesus also has no tact along with being a judgmental douche.

And I wonder, if the Savior spend a day or two with you, would you go on doing the things you always do?

Pretty much.  I would go to class, keep up on the news, blog, watch movies or videos, play games, chat with friends.  I lead a kind of boring life.  Jesus would not have much fun with me.

Would you go on saying the things you always say?

Uh, no.  Right now, I say that Jesus isn’t a real character, since his story has been plagiarized from a dozen religions that were floating around the Mediterranean since hundreds of years before his story.  So, I would stop saying that, and instead say that Jesus is kind of a dick and judges my life in a very harsh way.

Would life continue as it does from day to day?  And would your family conversations keep up its usual pace?

Clearly you’ve never met my family.  Conversation has never been a big part of our lives.  It’s just how we are.

And would you find it hard each meal to say a table grace?

Why would I need to do that?  Why would anybody?  I mean, if you are a person who buys into the whole “Jesus is God” schtick, then wouldn’t you need to simply look over at him and say, “Hey Jesus, thanks!”  Problem solved.

Would you sing the songs you always sing, and read the books you read?

Since most of my music taste is old-school music, either jazz and classical, or old-school love songs, probably.  I have a feeling that if Jesus is this love-character that the Christians make him out to be, I have a feeling that he wouldn’t have a problem with that.  Oh wait, he only likes hymns.  In that case, yeah, I would still sing and read.  I want to piss Jesus off.

And let him know on which the things your mind and spirit feeds.

Wow, I love how much this song makes you realize that hanging with Jesus was suck.  But yeah, I would let him know where my mind feeds – politics, a good story, sex, and good food.  I think he would like all but one of those things.

And would you take Jesus everywhere you planned to go?  Or maybe would you change your plans for just a day or so?

Nah, he could hang out with me.  He could go to my classes, help me with homework, chill with me while I watch porn, watch me play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 because I don’t have another controller, and the watch more porn.

Would you be glad to have him meet your very closest friends?  Or hope that they would stay away until his visit ends?

Oh, I would love to have him meet my closest friends.  They would ask for really random stuff and see if he would give it to us.  Then they would screw with him and get him drunk and find out what the Messiah would do while plastered.  That sounds entertaining.  I would give him the really good booze, like this number I had at a place which was like a chocolate and banana milkshake.  So delicious!  So intoxicating!  I think Jesus would make a fun drunk.

And would you be glad to have him stay forever on and on?  Or would you sigh with great relief when at last he was gone?

Okay, I wouldn’t want much of anybody to stay with me forever.  People like my friend Emily, who I can always talk to and it never gets boring, she would be fun, along with some others, but yeah, I don’t want much of anybody staying with me forever.  So yeah, I would be glad when he left, if he was a dick guest.  Not to mention, this song kind of proves that Jesus is kind of a free-loader.  What a fail.

Oh it might be fun to know the things you’d do, if Jesus came in person to spend some time with you.

Yeah, you know, of all the deity figures, I would much rather hang out with a lot of others.  Like Zeus.  He would be fun.  And he gets all the hot girls, so I would be his wingman! (I put it out there that I am not that shallow) Or maybe the Volcano god, and I could try and find a virgin and sacrifice her to it.  Or maybe Death.  He would be fun to hang out with.  I mean, what does his job entail?  There are plenty of religious figures that would be infinitely more fun to hang out with than Jesus.  Hell, hanging out with Satan sounds fun.  At least he would give you a good time!  Jesus would just come over and judge your life.  Satan would be fun!  Of course, since none of these figures are real, it doesn’t matter anyway.

Well, that is the song, and I hope you got as much amusement from it as I did.

Until next time, a quote,

“It’s a sheep-dog song!  It barks and the sheep get back in line!”  -TJ Kincaid, Jesus Came To Your House

Peace out,

Maverick

“Hot Problems” and the Death of our Culture

It never ceases to amaze me what our culture will stomach these days.  There was a video made by a social commentator, The Distressed Watcher, about what he called, “Stupid Brilliant.”  In this video, he outlines what he believes is a new trend in society.  I agree with part of it.  Shows like The Jersey Shore and any of the Real Life Housewives shows are a new breed of entertainment.  They are shows that don’t succeed in spite of their haters, but because of them.  I doubt that much of anybody watches that crap and gets genuine enjoyment.  People watch these things because we get a catharsis from how absolutely stupid the people in them are.

We are able to think we are so much smarter than these people, because they deliberately are the worst of what humanity has to offer.  They are socially and culturally corrosive, but we don’t care.  I am starting to lump most of what I see anymore on television in that category.  Shit like Toddlers and Tiaras, or that show about the quitter governor of my state, Sarah Palin, they are all shows that we can watch and make fun of how absolutely awful it is.  But I saw something today that made me wish that I could just kill this culture and start from scratch.  I thought that I was a misanthrope before this, but now I can most definitely say that I am on now.

There was a song made by the same people who made the absolutely awful but kind of amusing song “Friday,” by Rebecca Black, and as stupid and terrible as that song was, this one is worse.  This song is so absolutely awful that it defies comprehension.  The name of the song is “Hot Problems.”  I wish I was joking, but I’m not.  And this song is done by two girls who think that they are hot, singing about how it isn’t easy being hot all the time.  Let’s have a small sample of some of the lyrics, and we’ll show you want I’m talking about.

Look at me and tell me the truth.  What do you do when people don’t know what we go through?

What do I do, sweetie?  I don’t give a flying fuck.  I could care less what people think when they don’t know what you go through.  I can’t stop laughing.  These two girls aren’t even singing.  This song is so monotone that it sounds like they are two robots with slut-voices.  Oh yeah, I went there.  Slut-voices.  And once you see what other wonderful lyrics are in this song (and we are going chronologically.  No jumping around here), you won’t be doubting me.

They see my blonde hair, blue eyes and class,

Okay, the last thing, on this Earth, that you have is class.

But they don’t know that I’ve got a really big heart.

Wow, clever joke there.  We thought she was going to say ”ass,” but she didn’t!  Bravo, ladies, you really threw me for a loop there!  Didn’t see that coming.

Don’t get me wrong, I know that I’m hot, but textbook perfection really takes a lot.

Another thing that you don’t have, other singer.  You aren’t even all that hot.  Neither of these girls are.  They are 100% vanilla.  There is nothing surprising about them, nothing that really catches you.  No guy I know would have given these girls a second look back when they were young enough for this to be age-appropriate.  Just like Rebecca Black, they are WAY too young to call themselves hot without sounding slutty, and it’s kind of sick that a media company had to have known that, but went down this road anyway.  There are 100 different kinds of wrong in this song, but let’s keep going.

Hot girls we have problems too!  We’re just like you, except we’re hot!  The world needs to open their eyes, we’re not perfect and sometimes we lie.

Yeah, if life has shown anything, it’s that being an attractive white girl is so hard.  Girls who actually would be considered hot, don’t you just hate how hard life is?  And I bet you lie.  Like when your dad asked you where you went, and you had to lie to him about the fact that some disgusting company executive was taking advantage of your body to sell a song.  Although, knowing the people in this country, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if your parents were in on this.  Or that time you lied when you were blowing a guy at a party.  I’m sorry if this sounds sexist, but honestly, this song couldn’t be more sexist on its own!  It really is trying to make these girls sound slutty, but not admit to it.  This is such socially corrosive ass!  And to prove this contention, listen to this next lyric!

 I’ve got the look, I’ve got the butt.  But those things don’t make a (holds hand up in shush noise)…

And the girl is doing duck-face. What a freakin' cherry on top...

Yeah, it’s trying real hard to sell the image that she isn’t a slut.  Don’t you all feel that way?  Let me say that I think women should be so unbelievably offended by this song.  It is just another part of the cultural acceptance that young girls are getting that being pretty is all that matters, and partying is all you should aspire to do.  I don’t think of women that poorly, but this song does.

Boys call me ‘stuck-up,’ girls call me ‘conceited.’  On behalf of all hot girls, those comments aren’t needed.

Yeah, on behalf of everyone hearing this song, those comments are EXACTLY what is needed, because that is what you are.  And anybody who shares this viewpoint is too.  Of course, you aren’t hot, and even if you were, we don’t hate you because of that.  We hate you because of the absolutely horrible way you are.

Just cause I’m pretty, I have to be dumb.  I don’t care about wits I just wanna have fun!

Watch her hands in the video that I linked above.  Watch what motion they are doing.  I don’t know if the people who made this video did that on purpose or not, but either way, it’s very, very appropriate.

People start rumors, and say things about me.  Funny thing is, I didn’t go to that party.

I bet you didn’t, sweetheart.  I bet you didn’t.

Hot girls we have problems too!  We’re just like you, except we’re hot!  The world needs to open their eyes, and realize that we’re not perfect and sometimes we…

And that’s as far as I’m going into this song.  What absolute awfulness.  But this is what our culture finds acceptable.  Over 2,000,000 people have listened to this crap, and while it was almost across-the-board belief about how ass this song is, there are still people who actually enjoy it.  There are still people who think that this crap is not just crap, but actually worth something.  On behalf of all decent people, let me just say – IT’S NOT!  This is the worst kind of garbage that our culture produces!  But because it has an audience, and people actually think that this kind of crap is worth something.  It’s not.  It’s…you know what, I’ve railed on this stupidity long enough.  You come to your own conclusion.

Until next time, a quote,

“I can’t comment on this any longer!  I’d rather fucking just take a phillip’s-head and pry off my fingernails, one by one, and then, douse them in acid and eat them like cereal.  I would rather do that than listen to the remainder of this fucking song.”  -TJ Kincaid, NOT SO HOT! 

Peace out,

Maverick

A Cop Strangles LGBT Protestor. There had better be some outrage

Well, once again, we come to a point that nobody wants to talk about.  It feels like every time I bring this up, I just piss people off.  But lucky for me, I don’t care.  This is an online forum, and I am putting something out into the world.  There was a rally in Boston.  It was a rally of the rather diluded Tea Party.  Not the really cool one that changed history.  This one is filled with people claiming to be “fiscal conservatives,” even while there is a person in the audience who is screaming -

“we won’t be silenced by faggots!”

Yeah, very fiscal.  They even invited Scott Lively to speak there.  He’s one of the guys who helped Uganda in its efforts to create a law that says that homosexuality is a crime punishable by death.  I’m not even kidding.  It is a law that if you are gay in Uganda, you will be killed.  Lively wishes that America would have such a law.  He also wrote a book called “The Pink Swastika,” which advocates that the Nazis were started by gay people.  Apparently all the killings of homosexuals by the Nazis just totally slipped beneath his radar.  History, what is that?!

As you can imagine, it became as all Tea Party events do – just another way to bash Obama and the gays and whoever else they don’t like.  Not two brain cells were rubbed together.  But there was another protest going on right next to it.  It was by LGBT activists.  They protested this bigot (Lively) speaking, and this absolutely abhorred rhetoric that was happening.  But then, something interesting happened – to cops came and descended on the crowd.

Not the Tea Party crowd, of course.  No, that would be just as wrong, but would never happen, since the Tea Party is firmly on the side of the establishment.  No, they decided to attack the LGBT protestors.  And at this bearing of police brutality, we get this lovely shot -

This was in defense of the law, right?

What you are seeing above is a police officer strangling a protestor.   this man is holding a purple…fuzzy thing, and doing nothing.  He is just there, being a protestor, and he is getting strangled by a cop.  For no good reason, not being violent, this man was getting strangled.  I’m just gonna say this plainly – there had better be some outrage here.  But who is it going to come from?

Surely not the cops.  No, the police have been taking care of their own for about as long as there have been cops.  The cops who were brutalize protestors in New York like Anthony Bologna get off with a slap on the wrist.  I haven’t heard of ANY punishment for the guy who maced all the students at UC Davis who were sitting on the ground.  The fact is that the police are firmly on the side that says that their side is right.  It doesn’t matter what they do, it was the other person’s fault, or totally explainable.

Of course, when this cop realized that he was being photographed and he was being shown for being a thug, what is his response?

Yeah, this pretty much answers the question above.

He tries to take the person’s camera, and hide the truth.  He didn’t want the reality of this situation to get out onto the internet.  I’m glad to see that he failed, but that’s not the point.  The point is that this cop, who cannot defend the claim that he is a thug, wanted to suppress the truth.  But why did he care?  He’s not going to get in any trouble.  Of course he won’t.  He’ll get a slap on the wrist, and at most have to make a public apology.  Or maybe they will throw him under a bus because he doesn’t look very high on the police food chain like Bologna was.

And it won’t be the conservatives who try and defend it.  As The Amazing Atheist pointed out, the conservatives will jump on the fact that this guy was wearing a bandana.

“He’s wearing a bandana, he must be a criminal!”

The same way that Trayvon Martin was responsible for what happened to him because he was wearing a hoodie.  It’s easier to do that than to accept the truth – that the police stand in solidarity with the fascist asshole who give them orders.  The same fascists who used police brutality in New York, the same who used it in Oakland, the same who used it at UC Davis.  These people are not on your side.

Remember when you were a little kid, and your mom or dad used to tell you, “the police officer is your friend!”  Well, guess what, they are wrong.  Dead wrong.  The cops are not your friends.  The cops are weapons of the system, and as you can see, the system is advocating for less protest, less debate, less conversation.  No, they want people to do what they tell them, and if you do decide to have a protest, if you do decide that you want to challenge them, you are immediately and brutally put in your place.  That is how these people work.

So where will the outrage come from?  Well, it has to come from us.  It is time that the people start demanding some accountability instead of blindly believing that the cops are the good guys.  The fact is that the cops are not the good guys.  They are nothing more than thugs who as using their power over the rest of us, and we are saying nothing.

There needs to be some justice.  If justice is something that can actually be gotten these days, that is…

Until next time, a quote,

“Of course the cop, knowing that he fucked-up, tries to steal the fucking camera…but it’s clear, once again, that the cops have taken the side of the fascist assholes because they are themselves fascist assholes.”  -TJ Kincaid, The TEA PARTY Returns!

Peace out,

Maverick