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Picaro

Picaro's Journal
Picaro's Journal
April 20, 2020

I want to know who funded this crap

Who paid for that fake flag with the orange fuckstick’s face on it?

Looks pretty expensive.

This is serious astroturfing here.

Media needs to stop acting like this is a large number of people and that this was a spontaneous set of protests.

April 18, 2020

Extreme minority

While the Trump liberation tweets are truly alarming and break completely new ground in terms of Executive malfeasance please note the tininess of these radical fascist nihilist "crowds".

Seems like this much ado about nothing.

If these fools did cross over into armed insurrection there are so few of them that any rebellion would be over almost instantly.

Trump's only hope now is to short circuit the election. He knows he can't win. Not enough of the crazies.

He has committed a very clear impeachable offense which is clearly covered under the Constitution. If the election happens he loses.

He's panicked and thrashing.

But he's occupying the presidency and his actions and words are going to be used to inflame the crazies and give him an excuse to impose martial law.

Things are going to get very weird, very fast.

April 13, 2020

That's a great kid!

April 3, 2020

Prescient

This catastrophe belongs to Trump. He is buying it with the thousands of dead his dismantling of the global pandemic infrastructure made possible.

April 3, 2020

No way he wrote this

This was authored by Stephen Miller I’d bet. But I’m sure the pus bag loved it and gleefully signed his name to it.

April 1, 2020

This is the norm there

Colombia is as close to a pure oligarchy as you can find anywhere. If you get sick and have money the medical care is excellent. If you don’t have money well...

I lived there almost 50 years ago and this was normal then. There was 0 safety net. Orphans roaming the streets whose parents had made the oldest leave the family when the newest child was born. Homeless and skilled in theft and begging.

Utterly dirty because there was nowhere to bathe. The older ones taking care of the younger ones—forming into feral family units. Some of those boys and girls ultimately joining FARC and, after I left, became the cartels.

Colombia is why I’m an unreserved liberal social democrat. This is what the world that Grover Norquist and Newt and the Koch brothers want to create. If you are born into the right family life is very, very good indeed. If you are one of the campesinos the best you can do is serve your masters and hope that they are kind and just—but have no expectations at all.

And if you are below the campesinos then you exist in one of the vast shanty towns and live and breed like cattle without running water or electricity and human waste mixed with animal waste runs down the unpaved paths in torrents when it rains.

Colombia can be so beautiful and so awful. In the time of pandemic there will be little mercy to spare for the peasants.

March 30, 2020

Can I be the first to say...

Heckuva job Trumpie!

March 27, 2020

He must have meant Gallipoli

Where Churchill forced 10’s of thousands of British soldiers into a Turkish meat grinder. When it was over they still had not taken the peninsula and 73,485 were dead.

Trump will be able to beat that body count handily before this is over.

Steve Bannon is an idiot who is trying to regain his relevance.

March 20, 2020

This is very significant

I was incensed by Bloomberg’s candidacy. I didn’t want to see Bloomberg buying the presidency. I also saw his past policies while mayor of NYC as tending towards patriarchal tyranny—the stern parent who knows what’s best for the benighted citizenry.

But I’m all for this. I was hopeful when he said that regardless of how his presidential campaign came out he was going to use his substantial resources to do anything he could do to beat Trump. I’ve got to admit that the man has put his money where his mouth is.

Yay, Michael!!!!!

March 6, 2020

Thanks for posting

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