the Wine Stasi

By now, you've all heard the tale of Permit Patty, the San Francisco woman who called the cops on an 8 year-old girl for selling bottled water in front of her home; calling the cops on black kids doing normal kid stuff seems to be a big trend among the pasty these days. It's also interesting to note that Patty is also a Hillary Girl; it figures that she's a Demanding To Talk To The Manager kinda gal.

Talk about the banality of tyranny; the American Stasi has turned out to be a bunch of middle-aged white women with mobile phones.

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Keeping Families Together

WASHINGTON — President Trump caved to enormous political pressure on Wednesday and signed an executive order meant to end the separation of families at the border by detaining parents and children together for an indefinite period.

–New York Times, 06.20.18

So, Mr. T has decided not to separate immigrant children from their parents in the detention camps at the border, but to keep immigrant families together -- in detention camps.

In the Democratic Party, this is known as a landmark victory.

And, needless to say, the Democrats are setting a new record for jumping on an issue and co-opting it for votes, beating their previous personal best set by the March For Our Lives.

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Phantom Pain

I'm honestly lost for anything ironic or pithy to add to this, so I'm just going to leave this here:

"Maher Harara, 48, from the Shujaiya neighborhood east of Gaza City, told Human Rights Watch that 'he saw a woman’s finger shot off as she was making a victory sign' as she stood about 40 meters from the fences."

-- "Impose Sanctions on Netanyahu for Gaza War Crimes, says HRW",
Electronic Intifada, 06.14.18

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Introducing: Democratic Donuts!

If you've been involved as long as I have with the Dirtbag Left -- or, as us old folks call it, the Left -- you're intimately familiar with the infamous Donut Incident at the DNC Galactic HQ on Capitol Hill:

...The grievances converge around a recent trip to deliver petitions to the party’s headquarters in Washington, where Turner and other progressives were greeted by barricades, security guards, and an offering of donuts and water, which she saw as an empty gesture indicative of an institution that isn't "smart enough, humble enough, to say, 'let’s take a step back and really listen to the people'."

– Nina Turner, quoted on BuzzFeed, 08.09.17

Where's Melania?

So... Flint, Michigan still doesn't have clean water, at least half of Puerto Rico still doesn't have electricity months after the hurricane, the Israeli army is shooting first responders at the protests in Gaza, we're still funding Saudi atrocities in Yemen, and what are the US media yelling about...?

I can't even, man.

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