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Attack of the low-rent rich people.

Covid-19 brings out new levels of fascist trashiness from the 1%. Attention world: my country is a fuckshow, in case you hadn’t noticed.  My country ’tis of fuckshow, Sweet land of fuuuuckkkshow, Dumb dumb dumb duuuuh-mmmb. Pew-pew! (I ad-libbed that last line, got to thinking about the current state of the country and my creative […]

Bros: America’s new Jews, part V. (Or Part II, P.C.)

White America: “We need to risk death returning to work to help rich white men keep more money out of Jewish hands.” Earlier posts in this series: Bros: America’s new Jews. Part II. Part III. Part IV.  Here’s a quick thought experiment:  Imagine that a virus hits the country, bringing it to a standstill. In the […]

Scabs crossing the picket lines, then offering to work for free.

White America will risk their lives to help rich whites profiteer from a pandemic. You know, I should give my definition for the phrase “White America” before going further. Why not? Since I am a white male as well, who am I talking about when I use this phrase? Simple: any person who hears the […]

When we go smart, they go dumb.

Willful ignorance is all white America has left. The 1% took everything else. This post expands on When things get tense, whites get dense., Don’t get mad at them, they’re just being white., and Can’t outsmart ’em? Outdumb ’em! I post this as the U.S. nears 90000 coronavirus deaths. While people die, obtuse white people […]

Bros: America’s new Jews, Part IV…or I guess it’s Part I, P.C. (Post-Coronavirus).

America liked to call whites “frugal” while it labeled Jews as “cheap.” Then a pandemic hit. And white cheapness mutated. Earlier posts: Part I, Part II, Part III.  Last July, I wrote the first “Bros: America’s new Jews” post after noticing a pattern: as white Americans grow more anti-Semitic, they also behave like the worst […]

The 1% like ’em young, dumb, and full of shit.

Bros want brown people back at work so Wall Street can extract more wealth and send the money offshore. The following is bound to happen any day now. I predict it.  Somewhere in America, a caucasian male who believes in trickle-down economics and American Exceptionalism will have an epiphany. After the intense insight pops into […]

Don’t get mad at them. They’re just being white.

American caucasians loooooooove their willful ignorance. They’ll trade their financial futures for it. It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. — James Baldwin You gotta hand it to America’s rich folks.  They can play white America. Like a fiddle.  The 1% plan to […]

I hope that coronavirus helps America redefine the term “white trash.”

While minimum-wage workers keep the country running, the 1% keep conniving to get free stuff from the government. This moment in time, this place called America—hoo boy, history is gonna to rip it a new one.  By then, courts will have made their rulings in all of the lawsuits that will be filed against Fox […]

Saying those quiet parts out loud.

The Right wants to talk openly about fascist ideas like poor people dying for the stock market and normalizing neo-Nazism. Let’s talk openly about white privilege and the oligarchs’ fragile insecurities instead. The first time I saw the phrase “saying the quiet parts out loud,” I tripped.  Not physically, mind you. But I had to […]

My fellow Americans: we can’t let Corporate America fyrefestival our nation’s response to coronavirus.

Yes, I just used a proper name as a verb in that headline. These are weird times.   Part One of “America, the Fyre Festival.”   fyrefestival / fahyuh r fes-tuh-vuh l / • verb: 1 To conjure up a quasi-legal, get-rich-quick scheme that takes advantage of one’s own systemic privilege, fragile ego, and any connections based on […]