Killer

Hey, Darren Criss..............tick tick tick....

First Finn. Then Puck. Then Lea Michele's career. Now Santana. 

The grim reaper is picking every single Glee cast member off one-by-one. And not so discriminately. 

I'd say the other cast members need not worry, since it would take Death a while to even locate them, as they're probably no longer registered with SAG, but it's not like the other four were actively doing much of anything except heroin, child porn and shitting on other cast members (and only semi-literally). 

I mean, if I were Ryan Murphy, I'd be scripting a new American Horror Story where the cast of an ensemble were getting picked off, and while they knew it was a risk, it was worth it for a fleeting shot at fame. 

Of course, we shouldn't put it past Mr. Murphy to have dreamed this up years ago, and it's the only reason he brought Glee to life in the first place. 

Should he actually be off'ing those folks, you gotta figure Gwyenth Paltrow is somewhere on that list.  ....so......finger's crossed!

Song by: Seal

Back to School Again

So BLOTUS doesn't care for the CDC guidelines for sending kids back to school.  BFD.

Except that it IS a BFD. 

I'm not quite sure how his insistence on sending kids back to schools where there is little chance of social distancing and you know masks will be a joke to this administration {yet Ivanka wears one. do we think she's mocked by her father and husband?}. But apparently, BLOTUS is pushing for schools to open so it don't hurt his re-election. 

The thing is, it won't. Exactly. 

Schools open in August or September. Before the full impact of the Covid surge will hit, the election will be over. Should he be re-elected, death or death, he'll still be in office. 

So there's that. 

But the CDC are such weak motherfuckers. I get it's a government organization and your jobs depend on agreeing with this administration, but what price is your soul, pride and integrity? 

Michelle Pence said, after BLOTUS threatened to withhold funds from schools who did not open, the CDC would issue new guidance on reopening schools next week.

Browbeaten, the CDC (and this administration) is happy to play with your children's lives - along with the teachers - and all with which they come in contact. 

That's just fucked up on so many levels. 

I hope parents are ok with this - as they're the one who will be affected when they get sick, or the grandparents.  But again, it'll be too late. 

Song by: the Four Tops

Mask

Masks. 

They're here to stay. At least for the foreseeable future. 

Like so many other states, Ohio is getting a rebound effect from opening up. Bet it too soon or too fast has been up for debate. 

But even day 1 of reopening saw bars jam packed, no social distancing and no masks. 

I suppose it's a good thing Ohio doesn't have any beaches of note - or we'd be Florida. 

But let's be clear, this is a rebound, not wave 2. We're not even out of the first wave. And we won't be for a while. 

Ohio has 88 counties. Seven of them, currently, are under mandatory masks at all times. Our county included. 

Honestly, I wear mine a.lot but not all the time.  When we walk Shep we are generally near no one and if we see them coming we get far out of the way. 

But over the holiday, I saw SO many (ok 4) parties with dozen of youths (20 somethings) playing beer pong, in bathing suits (on front lawns and driveways - - ewww) crammed together with not one mask amongst them. 

And this is why it is now mandatory. 

Numbers are up. The hospital in which I work has move Covid cases in the ICUs than we did at our {alleged} peak back in May And the majority of them are in their 20s.  So, that elderly thing no longer applies. 

The thought is we will now all be masked until at least end of year. More likely end of next flu season. 

You see - as this continues (and it will), it will run right into flu season, making the symptoms hard to distinguish between Covid and flu. So, the masks will stay in place. 

I guess I have some more shopping to do. I mean, if I have to wear them, they should be a fashion statement, no? 

Or don't wear them and die. See if I care. 

Song by: Drowning Pool

Crazy

Like we already don't have a fucking loon in the White House, now we need a second one - and in a row? 

It seems BLOTUS' only black friend - cuz you know it ain't Omarosa or Ben Carson - is "planning to run against him" in the 2020 election. Yes, that's Kanye Kardashian. 

The quotes are mine, like if Dr. Evil was doing air-quotes around things that are not actually true but using them for emphasis. 

I don't know of if he's certifiable or not. I'm assuming like BLOTUS' tax records, we'll never get a look at Kanye's MMPI results. 

I mean, you know West is all talk anyway. It's not like he's walking away from him GAP contract! Or putting that in a blind trust. I mean, he doesn't really have to, since that orange turd at Black Lives Matter Blvd is all about conflict of interest with his own businesses. 

....and speaking of: Kanye got $2-5 million dollars from the Covid bail out. Well, his company did. But he is his company, no?  The man is worth $1.3 BILLION dollars.  Two million is weekly interest on that. 

Kim Kardashian is worth {allegedly} $900 million.  I mean,  she's worth nothing, but she might have that much dough in she mattress where she got fucked on tape.  It's unclear if she got for bailout on Whore futures, but she can't do ALL her porn by Zoom, can she?  Or can she? 

But yes, the combined $2.1 billion dollar family needed a government bail out while YOU got $1,200........if that. 

Oh, I got off track with Yeeze's (am I typing that correctly?) all talk shit. He says he's running for president, but hasn't actually done anything about it. Like filing. And most of the states have already closed the change for filing as an independent. So, this is just promotion for his new album? New shoes? New vag rejuvenation gel that his mother-in-law is spearheading? 

To add to the nutso shit:  Elon Musk (that loon) is - at least via Twitter - supporting West's run.....so there's that!

....and B.T.Dubs, just want this country needs, TWO first "ladies" - in a row - who have done porn. I think it's the "in a row" that bothers me more than the porn.  

I think. 

 

Song by: Gnarls Barkley

My Music Monday

Due to 12 of 12, I only have three My Music Monday entries this month - so.....you're welcome!

On a whim, I'm doing 'covers'.  I mean, I only need three of them, how tough can it be. 

.....famous last words, right? 

I'll try to make them fun........or funny. 

I'm starting off with Nickel Creek doing a cover of Britney Spears' "Toxic". 

I'll let that sink in for a second. 

Ok. Have you rebounded yet? 

There is a weird thing of gay men not that much younger than I who are into Britney's music. I don't get it. At all. I get her stuff is now been out for pushing 25 years, but.......c'mon. At best, it's studio contrived. She has almost nothing to do with any of it, but I digress. Kind of.  

It is such light weight stuff and auto-tuned to hell, literally anyone could sing it and with enough studio manipulation sound exactly the same way. That isn't talent. Not on her part. 

I admittedly know "Toxic" because we watched Pitch Perfect 3, where they cover it. I had to look up who did it originally. I had to do it for most of that movie's musical choices. It wasn't a proud moment for me on any level. 

I think the funniest part of the cover is, the lead vocal is taken by Chris Thile, whereas you'd assume it would be by Sara Watkins. So it takes on a new level of absurdity. Oddly enough, they kind of make it work.  

Alexander Hamilton

If you've read me for any time, you might have recalled my trepidation about anything Hamilton related. 

I like Lin Manuel Miranda enough as a person - not that I know him. But I encourage you to watch the YouTube videos of him and Jonathan Groff share a dressing room during the run of the play. 

Something in my pea brain (yes, I know it was walnut sized two days ago, but...atrophy) I've usually steered clear of the most popular things. I didn't see Star Wars until Empire Strikes Back was to be released.  I've never seen E.T. or Grease. I don't own Frampton Comes Alive or Jagged Little Pill and the likes. If everyone else had to have it, I usually didn't. Ditto with Hamilton. I applauded Laurie Anderson's comments about it in a post from four years ago. 

BTW - I had nothing to back up my feelings. I had never heard a song or anything. My back goes up at musicals. Maybe doubly so at a phrase like  'hip hop musical'.  Still I steered away. 

We had an opportunity to see the touring production when we were in San Francisco last November. We thought we'd wait a day, and that was the day it was dark. Oops. And then we left town. 

But I was taken by the Hamilton cast zoom on John Krasinski's Some Good News and you know, with our YouTube TV or something we get a year free of Disney +.   Time is running on that, as we didn't care (or don't think we care) to see the Manadlorian. Yes, another thing EVERYONE says we should watch, so my natural reaction is 'no'. Ditto with Tiger King.  And "friends" on FB were literally counting down the hours before they could view the stage-to-screen movie version of the play. 

Anyhooo.......we took in Hamilton, as I have every intention of making it 18 "movies" this year, coronavirus be damned. 

I'll give it this. It was a filmed version of the play. Not an adaptation, or an extravagant set movie with the music, which I kind of envisioned it would be once opted for theaters. This more minimalist version seemed a better idea to me. 

What I won't give it is great sound. I thought parts, especially at the beginning were muted and muddied. I mean, I also have old-man ears, so those can not be discounted, but when certain performers were on later, there was no issue. 

The opening number was still by far the best. Groff did much better than expected with his three numbers (one with a huge spit scene - intended or not). And Renée Elise Goldsberry and Leslie Odom Jr were far and away the better performers of the play - especially Odom. Daveed Diggs is ok, at best, as Lafayette but shines as Jefferson. The guy who played George Washington was good too. It seemed like there were LOTS of extraneous dancers, taking away from just about everything else on stage (though they work well, albeit briefly, in "Hurricane"). 

Yes, you can say there was hip hop and rap-lite numbers, but make no mistake, there were the trite Broadway ones too. They were the ones like about anything else that goes through that modern day B'way song mill of totally sung the same way forgettable songs. 

Overall, Hamilton was ok. I don't get why everyone is tripping over themselves to praise it, except to sound hipper than they actually are and the whole fear of missing out mentality. 

Anderson wasn't wrong when she said, "it's not that different".  And it isn't. 

 

2020 Movie Count / Goal: 08 of 18

Song by: the cast of Hamilton 

Cool Water

Not the most robust pet post, but it's not bad. Pets are always welcome. 

This does nothing to quell my concern that Shep has no friends at daycare. 

Neighborhood kitty (still no known name) stops by daily. (S)he seems bored by it all. 

Aunt Meredity bought Shep squeaky tennis balls. Shep is not a ball guy (in every sense of the word). 

But he's interested. He has followed one and picked it up and. carried it but hasn't figured out yet how to make it squeak on his own. This is gonna be a process. 

Lady of the House. 

NOTHING makes me happier than Shep drinking water on our outdoor adventures. 

Song by: Fleetwood Mac

Live and Let Die

50,000 new cases in a day. 

10,000 in Florida alone. 

Twenty somethings having Covid parties.  

It's like Russian Roulette with a cash payout....instead of a bullet through your head. Invite a bunch of friends, one who has the coronavirus. If you're the next to contract it, you get money.....you know, instead of a bullet through your head. It's just through your lungs, so to speak. 

Seriously. I'm not even making this shit up. 

I would say there are people who are dumber than those who voted for BLOTUS, but in a Venn diagram, the two together, more or less, is just a circle. 

Maybe this says more about me than them, but I don't feel bad for not feeling bad for them. I no longer willfully don't care if they get sick. I'm actually hoping they do. 

Does it make me a horrible person?  Possibly. But it's all relative, no?  See four paragraphs above. 

I might be horrible, yet I'm the horrible one wearing a mask not frequenting bars, restaurants, gyms or places to shop that doesn't have groceries. 

Where some in the GOP were ok to off Granny to save the economy, I'm ok with these folks offing their parents, grandparents, kids and spouses (and themselves) to eventually end the virus. 

In my walnut sized brain (I know - how I DO boast!) there has to be a line in the sand where so many people parish, those slightly less dumb folks who are still alive, sit, tap a finger against their lip and go, "hmmmmm..........maybe if we did.............". 

But we are a ways away from that. The good takeaway is: the areas being hit the hardest are the reddest states - save California. 

Good riddance. 

Song by: Paul McCartney & Wings

Liar

I've been reticent to write about politics. I go through periods where I stay away, and it makes me less anxious. 

Yet, BLOTUS and history needs to be documented - and I'm like the 2020 Encyclopaedia Brittanica.*

This whole paid bounty on U.S. troops and that motherfucker actually saying he wasn't briefed? So, on the off off off off off chance that this was true {cough cough cough}, what does that say about his Secretary of State, his National Security Agency, the CIA and Department of Defense? 

So, BLOTUS should fire every single head of those areas, no? 

I'd say 'the buck stops here', but BLOTUS does not subscribe to that thought. His is more, "everyone else is to blame but me". 

Occam's razor is: he's lying.  

Shock. 

So, I believe it is 22 dead soldiers?  Is that correct? 

Let's see, if my Math 104 class taught be anything (both times!) 22 soldiers - 4 in Benghazi = 18. 

So yes, 18 more dead than on Hillary Clinton's SoS watch. I have yet to hear one republican (or democrat actually........though I stopped reading stories on this days ago) call for one, let alone 33, hearings on this matter. 

Curious.   Not unexpected.  Just curious. 

The other funny - yes, funny - is BLOTUS' "white power" video. No, that part wasn't funny. Not unexpected. The "story" that no one could get ahold of the fucking president of the united states (yes, lower case was a choice!) for THREE hours because he was playing golf to take down said video is HILARIOUS. 

First off, that man hasn't been off his phone for three hours in a row for his entire presidency. Secondly - you. knew. where. he. was.  He travels with a team, any of which you could get ahold. So this time Occam's razor isn't quite as clear, but it comes down to two options: 

1. It took them three hours to get him to take down the video. 

2. No one was actually looking for him or trying to contact him. 

I'm going with a hybrid of the two. 

FYI: 123 days till the election. 

*no fact checking performed. Just like GOP press and sound bytes. 

Song by: Dwight Yoakam

July, July !

Yeah - this seems about right. 

Song by: the Decemberists

Not That Funny

What do you call a comedy where you don't laugh even once? 

Well if it were a tv show, it would have Whitney Cummings in it, but if it's a movie, chances are it has Will Ferrell as the "star". 

Netflix released the 2+ hour Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga and it was a dud.....and from the preview, I knew it would be. Yet, this non-traditional movie thing has clearly limited options. 

When I first saw the preview, my initial reaction was: "oh, poor Rachel McAdams". 

I mean, she was great in the Time Traveler's Wife and Spotlight.  And like the movie or not, she killed Regina George in Mean Girls.  She's better than this. I mean, even Squeaky Fromme is better than this.  She fares better than Farrell in this movie, but so does any background extra...........and Squeaky Fromme. 

One of the many problems is: it's all been done before. 

You could call this Pitch Perfect meets King Ralph meets Blades of Glory meets Purple Rain.  There might be spoilers here.........so look away if you must. 

Underdog singing group (Pitch Perfect) lucks into performing in Eurovision when all other Icelandic contestants die in freak accident (oh yes, this takes place in Iceland!) (King Ralph), gets in Eurovision with disastrous results (Blades of Glory) only to find it's heart and use a song written by another band member to win the crowd, if not the contest (Purple Rain).

One of the other problems: not one laugh. Not even a smile or a smirk. In two hours.  Maybe a raised eyebrow at Matthew Crowley Dan Stevens playing a gay / not gay Russian singer. 

Ferrell has no one but himself to blame, of course. He co-wrote, produced and starred in it. Like almost every character he's ever played, he is a clueless rube striving for some unobtainable goal. I guess it kind of worked once in Anchorman.......so he just ran with it. In. Every. Single. Movie. He. Has. Done. Since. 

And in Ferrell fashion, has to take his shirt off in it at as well. I think he thinks that will garner laughs like when he was on SNL.  It does not. 

Like SNL, when there is a bad sketch and seems to go on forever?  Well now they made it longer and into a movie. 

Poor 710 gave up about 25 minutes in and just read the rest of the time. But it still counts as seeing a movie. 

2020 Movie Count / Goal: 07 of 18

Song by: Fleetwood Mac

My Music Monday

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Record of the Month

I figured I'd do a monthly 'what I'm listening to' kind of thing. This could be viewed as a lame placeholder kind of post. And probably it is. But it's my blog! So there!

The Watkins Family Hour has a new disk out, Brother Sister. It's succinct - as this time around it is just basically Sara and Sean Watkins, two-thirds of Nickel Creek. 

Last time out, under this moniker, they had other notables join them, such as Fiona Apple and Benmont Tench. The group play together a lot in Los Angeles at a club, but this time, it's just the brother and sister. 

As Nickel Creek and both Watkins are steeped in bluegrass. You didn't quite get that as much with their last disk, but this time........you got it.  Kind of.  There are drums, which you don't usually get with pure bluegrass. 

They start strong with the opener, "the Cure". Their voice blend well, as you might imagine having starting Nickel Creek as young teens and now into their 30s.  Sean's voice is clear, but don't have a lot of bass to it.  He does much better on "Just Another Reason".  They're full on honky-tonk-ish with the closer, "Keep it Clean". It's fun, but doesn't really do much for me. 

You only get two instrumentals - "Snow Tunnel" and "Bella and Ivan", but they work so well. 

The only cover might be Warren Zevon's "Accidentally Like a Martyr".  I think it's done well. Not quite as strong as Zevon's version, but a really good take. 

If you're looking for Nickel Creek redux, you'll want to look elsewhere. 

Stairway to Heaven

End of June. End of Pride Month - the Pride Month that never was. Virtual Pride. 

So, Sophie and Shep have two dads. They were raised fine without a mom. Both are well adjusted. Kind of. Sometimes. Usually. 

Today is very Shep heavy. Sophie has been laying low, keeping cool. 

Dad #2 on his own for after work walk. 

We stop. We rest. We take in the world - and hopefully some water. 

But Dad #1 has the best office mate. 

Office relationships do work. 

Always social distancing. 

Florida: take note!

I wish Shep was a little brighter in this pic, but the clouds are perfect. 

Love the dark undersides of them. 

Shep greeting me while I open the back for groceries. 

He's always SO happy to see either one of us. 

Sophie got stairs for her birthday. 

She's aging so, 710 bought her stairs. It took her about 1.5 weeks before she used them. 

Now she's up and down ALL the time. 

Someone last week asked about our history of getting Sophie. You can read about it here and here (with pictures) 

Shep may have two gay dads, but at daycare, he is a lady's man. 

But he's secure enough in his masculinity to pose with a Pride rock that someone left in a park. 

Song by: Dolly Parton

Dust in the Wind

A killer dust storm from the Sahara comes to the U.S. 

THAT is what 2020 was missing. 

I'll be honest - I'm phoning it in today. Not literally. It's not voice-to-blog, but it's not much more than that either. 

Yes, if you haven't heard, a dust kick-up in Africa has already darkened the skies of the Caribbean and headed to the shores of the United States. 

Honestly, at this point, I don't even care anymore. 

And while I know the election is almost five months away, and I'm holding out little hope for a positive outcome. November 3rd and the subsequent court battle (yes, you know it's true!) will be soul draining,  but I got a little lift today with seeing this. 

That'll carry me until the skies turn black with dust. 

Song by: Kansas

Hit Me With You Best Shot

This should be a well-formed, fully fleshed out post. 

It is not. 

On this last weekend's hike / picnic, we noticed a van pull up next to where I parked. I didn't notice the things on the outside of the van, just that that man opened the panel doors, which were mirrored inside and he groomed himself.  

After hour hike through the woods and creek, we exited the trails and came upon the same van, just parked down the road. 

Let's take a look.............shall we? 

I mean, you hear about the anti-vaxxers and conspiracy folks, but.......I don't know that I've ever come across one (that's what she said!).  It was strange......and sad. 

I forgot to take a pic of the room of his truck, which was covered in barbed wire. 

On the plus side, since I don't have Covid, no one is tracking me

.....I think.......

Song by: Pat Benatar

So Fresh, So Clean

I know businesses are opening back up, and for the most part, I'm not participating in any of that. 

Save one. 

Monday, I went to the dentist. 

It wan't an emergency, just a regularly scheduled cleaning and bite wings. 

As much as I loathe the dentist and Covid wold have been a legitimate cancel reason, I know me. Miss once, which turns into twice, which turns into forever. 

And I never did get that periodontist to reschedule my post-surgery visit. I felt someone had to look at the graft and see if it's taking. 

They delayed my visit by 15 minutes, so I'd be the only patient there and things would be clean. I got a nifty pair of glasses. 

I wasn't quite as worried about said dentist, as they aways wear masks, gloves and face shields on their regular work days. 

But they hyrdo-scrape (or whatever it is called) was a non-part of the visit. You know, water particles hitting your mouth and then flying everywhere. That was a non-starter, for everyone. 

That also meant the archaic method of cleaning teeth - the scrape, pick, poke and prod. I'm not a fan of the water method either, but this one was painful. Literally. 

For like the third visit in a row, I got the 'you need to floss' speech. I had to stop the hygeniest and say: "I floss every single day", which is not a lie. 

Then she asked how long it had been since my last cleaning.  "ummm....6 months.....like clockwork". 

She seemed to think my tartar build up was especially bad, so............yay?  I'm going with it being Covid Stress Related Tartar.  It'll be a thing with the ICD-11s, I just know it. 

There was lot of blood. There was soreness. There still is. 

We will see how it goes again in six months. 

Song by: Outkast

Dance the Night Away

Hopefully you can see the pic next to this writing. 

I have zero idea who the guy who lives in downtown Cleveland is, but if I weren't married, I might ring his buzzer. 

....and that may, or may not, be a euphemism. 

It's a tough pic to see, even in that size, so for those with less than stellar sight (me!), there is a guy who lives at this apartment building who is a BLOTUS supporter. A 2020 banner hangs semi-firmly against his window. 

He is not the won I want to buzz. 

That would be the guy who lives a floor directly above that dickweed. 

My would be guy has another sign: if you Venmo him $$$, he will tap dance at midnight. 

I mean, what is NOT to love about the entire thing. 

Well, his across the way neighbor snapped the pic, posted it and viral it went. 

As of last Friday, the dude got Venmo'd $25 large!   That's $25,000 !!!!

.......and was sent a pair of tap shoes. 

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And all the money went to the ACLU. 

All of this, is just brilliant. 

Song by: Van Halen

My Music Monday

I'm gonna tell you now, I'm not gonna make today's selection 'easy'. 

Until the other day, I had never heard of Thao & The Get Down Stay Down. Who knew they've been around for the better part of two decades. Nor did I know of their song 'Temple'" from their new album of the same name.  

It was one of those songs, when it came on, it just somehow had something that drew me in.  I just don't know what it was that was the draw.  If I had to guess, I'd say it was the bass-line set against the vocal. 

I won't go as far as to say the vocal style is Ono-ish, but Thao has a timber in that range, but with an understandable voice. 

I'm pretty sure I don't want an entire disk of this music, but I liked it and it expanded my listening style, so I'm all for that too. 

Getting Away With It

I am kind of sick to my stomach yesterday, and probably into today. 

It's a virus that cannot be cured: BLOTUS & CO.  I have another day of my stomach in knots. 

William Barr is the Himmler to BLOTUS' Hitler.

Whomever is now running the Voice of America is the new Göring.

If the Third Reich had a government oversight department, whomever that was would have been any number of 

Yes, I've pushed this theory of the US becoming Nazi Germany since November 2016, and maybe you roll your eyes at me, maybe not. But take a look. We are here. It's no longer coming. 

It. Is. Here. 

For months (or longer), Barr has been undermining the entire DOJ. Meddling in cases and sentencing. And now firing prosecutors. I don't see or hear him doing in this in any cases that do NOT involve BLOTUS. 

The firing of the NY prosecutor who was looking into Rudy G is the latest. But he's looking at letting some Russians who were being looked at via Mueller to take off the hook. Let's not forget the Roger Stone sentencing guidelines, which he tried to manipulate until the prosecutors walked off the job. 

Of course, he has his fingers in FBI shit too, so.......look out there. 

As for the VOA thing. There is some new person in there. Whomever didn't quit at her appointment was fired anyways. So...........now they got the propaganda thing down with state media.  YAY!

And in a span of six weeks, BLOUTS has fired five IGs in Intelligence, Transportation, Defense, Health & Human Services and State.  There are were the guys who, you know, pointed out when their government agencies were doing wrong. Now there is none. 

But let's take it further, shall we: 

You've probably read about the Georgia polling places for their primary?  Nonfunctioning voting machines, mostly in minority areas, people waiting 4-5 hours to vote. And the number of sites were limited too. Sure, they can claim 'coronavirus' concerns, but that doesn't hold water in a state that opened back up first. You can eat and get your hair done, but you can't vote?   Bullshit. 

Kentucky is up next. And it is worse:  Once with 3,700 polling places...........they are going to fewer than 200.  

Read that above paragraph again.   And then again. 

Yes, they do not want you to vote. 

Last week, folks in Kentucky waited over EIGHT HOURS in unemployment lines. Their residents are struggling horribly, and Mitch & Co know it. But he's up for re-election, so...........

Yet I don't think anyone is running against him in the primary, but they're setting the tone for November. 

Now, I'm not 100% sure that a November election will even be had. By that time, the SS will be fully in place.

Oh yes - let's touch on that, shall we? 

The title image. I shit you not, was tried as a symbol for a 2020 BLOTUS ad (the left side of the image). Allegedly concocted by Stephen Miller (oddly, that part isn't a surprise).  Facebook actually banned the ad as promoting hate. 

I mean, WTF? 

So the GOP isn't even trying to hide it. Yes, the GOP. You can say it was BLOTUS and not the party, but anymore they are completely inseparable. But it was a test balloon, no?  It was: what exactly CAN we get away with? 

Guess what: they've already gotten away with it. 

Song by: Electronic