Trump supporter, you suck

     Trump's response to the devatstation in Texas is as shallow as Bush's response to the devastation left by Katrina. It's a non-response really. FEMA is a joke, it is underfunded because it does not produce money, not like the Iraq war does. 
     I don't like that schools teach Creationism according to the sons of Abraham in public schools paid for by tax dollars while veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan war are killing themselves at a rate that surpasses any other veteran of a war.
     I lump you, Trump voter/supporter, with the KKK, Neo-Nazi's, Fascists, skinheads, White supremacists and good old fashioned inbred hillbilly yokels who vote against their best interest because they are too damn lazy to do any research to see if their appointed leaders and Fox news are lying to them. Limbaugh listeners, Hannity lovers and people who think that Bill O'Rielly got a raw deal, all together as what is going to prove to be the downfall of this nation once and for all. 
     I refuse to try to see things your way anymore. I refuse to see if there is common ground among us as you march down the street carrying torches and chanting Nazi slogans. I refuse to listen to anything you have to say about economics while Trump and his family raid the American treasury making him and his ilk more money. 
     You call yourself a Christian yet you support a guy who has the outright support of the KKK and you fool yourself into thinking that there is a 'Alt-Left" that is equal to the "Alt-Right" because you are sick and must say that "both sides" are at fault for the things going on in this nation. 
     You are a racist, a misogynist and a xenophobe and it sickens me to no end. You have no real morals, you're a coward with no heart. You voted Trump because the Black guy did a good job of cleaning up after the last Republican idiot damn near destroyed the nation. As far as being on the spectrum of scumbags who hold ideas that are abhorrent to human freedom and progress you bet your candy ass you are on all of the spectrum's of shitty people. 
     Being polite to people like you doesn't work. I can love you, but I love with determiniation and strength. I don't pretend to love you with a lame effiminaite softness. I love with the strength of my ancestors who allow me to look at what you and your president are doing and speak truth to that power. You might say you want "lower taxes and smaller government" which historically the republicans have NEVER delivered to you, but what you wanted was White men in charge. 53% of White women voted Trump. Why? Security, he spoke tough and they liked it. 
     
I tried to be polite but now I just don't give a damn because let's be honest we don't live in polite America anymore. We live in grab ‘em by the pussy America now. So thank you for that. Being polite was exhausting.

And don’t come at me with how you just didn’t like Hillary. This was bigger than Hillary. The whole free world knows it so don’t pretend like you don’t. This wasn’t your standard, “I want lower taxes and smaller government” Republican. We had Germans warning us that this guy was scary and still people cried emails or Benghazi or “that voice.” And the truth is there’s been mountains of evidence proving that none of this was a big deal; some of the finest minds in the world have drawn you charts and graphs pointing to why no crimes were committed and you were either too dumb or too willfully ignorant to care. And if you really cared about crimes, you might care about any of the 3 pending against your candidate. Take your pick. I’d start with the rape of the 13 year old girl, but again if you voted for Trump, you probably don’t care much what happens to women. Doesn’t matter anyway. She got so many death threats from your “political peers” she dropped the charges anyway. But ask me again why more victims don’t come forward.

And speaking of smaller government and lower taxes, enjoy not getting mine. If Trump actually does what he says, you and your petty backward states and your small angry towns can pay for your own schools to not educate your children. I live in California, the largest economy in the United States and number 6 in the world. We’ll be fine. Have fun affording all those children your health insurance won't pay for your birth control to prevent. I’m just kidding. You won’t have health insurance. Won’t that just be great (again?!)

And while I’m done being polite, if you voted 3rd party, un-friend me. I don’t care how much we enjoy each other on every other level. I don’t care how much you want to make your 3rd party a viable option. Fuck you. You basically told women and the LGBTQ community and people of color to take a back seat to your need to have another option. Well done. Now, we’re not only in the back seat, we’re actually being dragged behind the car. But how’s that third party coming? What are you doing about it today, November 10th, by the way? Are you volunteering for your third party so you can get more of their candidates into state and local elections? Looking into how to help make them viable for the mid-term elections? I look forward to who you present to save us in 2020, if there’s anything left to save.

Also, while I am at it, if you are one of those people telling me this week how Bernie could have defeated Trump, un-friend me. But kudos to you for living in a world where you think being Jewish wouldn’t have mattered to Trump supporters. I wish I could buy property there. Tell me, what are the schools like that far up your own ass?

The truth is that for those of us on this side, there is no “when all this is over,” things are just getting started. We think yesterday was bad? We don’t know what bad is yet. This isn’t something you get over. This is something you endure. We are going to face attacks on every right we fought the last 60 years to gain. The deck is so stacked against us we may not win. The best we can hope for is gridlock. And that’s just nationally. Internationally, who the fuck knows what’s going to happen with this lunatic. And the scarier thought is that the only thing worse than him is the guy that’s one angry tweet away from the Presidency, Mike Pence, advocate for gay conversion therapy and mandatory funerals for fetuses.

So now’s the time you may want to see things from my side. Because if we’re all “going to have to be friends after this” imagine me having to be polite and respect your vote to take away these rights and freedoms of mine and my friends while we fight desperately to hold onto them. Because that is what you did.

And that all says nothing of what you just said about us as women. I haven’t gotten to that yet because I may scream when I do and if I start I may not stop. So let me just say, you told every woman that being sexually harassed does not matter. Being sexually assaulted does not matter. Working hard does not matter. You took the most qualified candidate we’ve had in decades – a woman - belittled her for every single mistake and misstep she’s ever made while you took the most unqualified candidate we’ve ever had – a man – and ignored every mistake he ever made. But you’re not sexist. No let me tell you: Yes. You. Are. And if you’re a woman, Girl, you got issues. And I say that as someone who crawled out of the bitter, self-hating womb of one of these women. I know that most of these women are damaged and that I should find the compassion for them but I am not there yet because I am so sick of damaged people damaging the rest of us.

And isn’t this somewhat an abusive relationship at this point? If you have friends or family like this, cut them off. I'm giving you permission. They didn’t give two shits about your rights or happiness on Tuesday. You don’t have to pretend like it’s all cool and pass them a plate of turkey two weeks from now. It’s like we’re uall abused partners saying to each other, “But you don’t know what he’s like when he’s not racist.” Being racist isn’t the same as liking Dire Straits. It’s not like you just don’t like the same music. Being racist is always racist. And voting for Trump makes you a racist. Protect yourselves, Friends. Because those assholes always do.

Real Warriors Love. (And bring it when necessary)

     When the word warrior is mentioned Americans are prone to think of weaponry, fatigues, explosions and the flag. When warrior is mentioned in the same sentence as a Native American the image that flashes is long hair, bare chested, light mocha colored man on a horse with a bow and arrow.

     Both images are woefully inadequate in reality. Women are warriors, children are warriors, people who have never held a automatic weapon are warriors. The guy who gets up everyday and goes to a job where he busts his kiester for 8 plus hours a day for a low wage and do it day in and day out to provide for his family. A warrior is a water protector who gets blasted in the face with mace by men who are paid with their taxes and turns around and shows up the next day. The warrior is the one who's job it is to feed homeless children and provide a safe place for them in neighborhoods that police do not go to. Warriors do warrior 'ish because they love people and they love because they know that the highest purpose is to serve. 

     We are here to serve, we are not here to be served. 

     This is America, like it or not we are getting more and more Brown and it's not because its summer time. See that young man's face above? He is not a warrior. He is terrified. He is scared that when America goes majority Brown we will treat them like they have treated us. I would tell him that it won't happen because we are not built that way but he wouldn't listen to me because I am Brown. 

     Warriors know that love is the strongest force in the universe. Some believe that is all that God is made of. Warriors know that love of self leads to love of kind and love of kind leads to respect of all life. All life. If it has wings we love it, if it has paws we love it, if it has hooves we love it, if it has skin color unlike our own we love it. Why? Because it is the strongest force in the universe. Now don't get it twisted. I am not a hippie, I am not a pacifist. I'm not Christian and I don't turn my cheek. I stand with The Creator of all natural things and I am positive of the outcome. Love will win. I can get violent but that is such a small part of being a warrior that it is not even in my mind when I go to a protest or make a speech or write a blog. {:)}I carry a message that regardless if you think of me as as much human as you are that love is the strongest force in the universe and it is what motivates a warrior. 

     I do not perpetuate violence and actually know it to be futile but self defense is not violence, self defense is a tool that a warrior uses when all other tools have been tried. When you see me at a protest know that it is because I am compelled by spirit and love to move that way. To confront hate with love is hard. It is very very hard and at 47 years of age I am still learning to do it right. When I saw those men marching with torches and chanting Nazi slogans I was not angry. I was incredibly sad. Sad because I know that talking to them will not change them, they are so afraid and rhetoric filled that listening is a skill they have lost. Meeting them in large numbers with love and compassion will confuse them and hopefully give them that precious second to stop and pause and look around and reconsider their behavior. 

     We outnumber them. Not Brown people "we" I am talking about the WE that knows that the universe is run on numbers and love. The WE that as Americans are attempting to move this nation to live up to it's promises of a nation of equals and justice. Trump and the conservatives are cowards and they are scared and their base, the men and women who carry torches and chant Nazi slogans, are cowards also. Like children they can learn one of two ways. The way of the peaceful warrior or the way of the warrior who has tried their best and is left with not other choice but to protect what they love. 

     I love my family and I love my people and I love my simplistic understanding of The Creator of all natural things. Feel free to be a White nationalist but also be prepared to be met with love, compassion and power. NOT force, but POWER. Next blog I will try to explain the difference.

     By the way, I stole the Real Warriors Love from my kola Tony Goulet author of GOD HELP ME TIE MY SHOES and THE FOUR. I stole it and he can't do a damn thing about it because I'm bigger than him and he lives in Texas.

Sleepless in Jackson

 4:15 a.m. and I honestly can not sleep. Images of them White men, so angry, shaking torches and chanting Nazi slogans periodically run thru my mind. I try to distract myself by watching Rick & Morty, reading a book, writing a little but nothing stops those images.
     When that bitch Trump won I knew that America was in for some ugly times ahead. His family, all of them his tramp wife included, are going to rip this country off and in the meantime they are going to wreak havoc on the citizens of this country. We spent the last part of Obama's term watching the racism of this nation come to a boiling point. The shooting of unarmed Black men, the police killings of Native Americans, the Standing Rock protest, the infamous "wall" and deportation and tearing apart of South American families. All things that are supposedly "UN-American" but in reality are as American as the Confederate flag.
     Trump rally's were cathartic for the degenerates and deplorable of the right. He would rally them all to a fever pitch by using coded language, threats, kicking people out of the building, talking openly about his disdain for women, the military power of America and the perceived differences between those on the right and those on the left. Just to show how stupid Republicans and conservatives, they think elitist pigs like Trump and the Bush family can relate to the unwashed inbred toothless masses that make up the right. The talking heads you see in the conservative media, which is all media, are the cream of the crop for the right. They melt like butter in the hot sun when faced off with a liberal with a spine and a brain, not your Alan Holmes type. I don't care who says what, God was NOT present at those gatherings but the devils had front row seats.
     The incidents of White folks, men and women, going off on people of color in supermarkets and malls were and are going viral and getting more and more popular. The hatred and venom spewed by these shitbricks is old old language. We, Brown and Black folks, have heard this for years. I was called a spick by both kids and adults when I was little. I grew up in the 70's and 80's and the tension of the civil rights movement was still in the air and the complaint that Latino's and Blacks and Indians were "complaining" and "troublemakers" was heard so often it may as well have been a chant. All of that has come back and it has come back with a renewed vigor. Social Media has shrunk the world, which is a double edged sword, and people have forgotten how to talk to one another. People can say whatever they want online, things they would never dare say in public, but that boundary is disappearing quickly. We saw that when we saw Nazi salutes and chants of "Blood and Soil" and "Jews don't own us" and "White Lives Matter". These are Trump's base and he knows it. He tried to blame both sides but show me where those on the left have gathered with such violence, with guns, sticks, shields and the flags of traitors to America who lost the civil war. Show me the Alex Jones of the left who fuel the fire talking about how the White man is under attack without giving real examples. Just because someone says, "happy holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" doesn't mean Sharia law is in effect.
     Those of us who pray need to direct our prayers to each other. The time to pray for our enemies, and like it or not that is what they are, is long long gone. Fascists wants us gone, Removed. Dead. They don't think we are as human as them and therefore do not deserve what they have or want. These people are not people that you can sit and have a beer with and hope to convince them that we are all connected. They are beyond that. We need to pray for one another and our safety, our courage, our love and our children. There are enough of us who are liberal, not the snowflake social justice warriors who demand we use "non-binary" definitions and identity politics, but who know that our connection is a reality and WE are the ones who can and must, there is no time for anything but MUST, gather together and take control of the future of our country. We have to somehow send a message that racism and hatred has to die once and for all and even more than that we need to get Trump, Pence, Bannon and every Republican out of any position of power in this country and put in their place people who value a personal relationship with The Creator that is no one else's business, and a love and a real tangible compassion for each other, We only want the best for each other. THAT should be the real American way,

Blood and SOIL!

     If you voted for Trump, from the very bottom of my heart.....FUCK YOU. If you know someone who did, please tell them I said, "FUCK YOU SIDEWAYS".
     When Obama got elected people were happy, not everyone, but the majority of America was happy, he beat Grandpa McCain's ass so hard in the votes cast it wasn't funny. It was kinda funny. I laughed. A LOT. I don't understand Republicans, I don't understand conservatives and the "Alt-Right" I understand perfectly and all three of them disgust me to no end. They are all bad for America, they are bad for the citizens of this nation, they do great for the 1% and for corporations. Hell, some republicans believe that corporations should have the same rights as people. Mitt Romney was famously caught saying that corporations were people. He also got his ass beat vote wise by Obama just not as bad as Grandpa McCain. War Hero McCain. Republican McCain. Fuck McCain. I don't give a baboon's red ass that he "saved" Obamacare.
     Let's be honest, when Obama got elected it invigorated a certain section of America that had for the most part been relegated to a small corner of Reddit where they complained about 9/11 being an inside job and how Mexicans were taking jobs and Blacks were coming to screw your pure and clean virginal daughters and turn them out to turn tricks for heroin that they would get hooked on. It also gave rise to the Tea Party. Fake grass-roots group that complained about taxes and worshiped Ayn Rand, they became powerful by calling out other Republicans who were moderate or in the middle or even dared to work with Democrats on any issue. Thankfully they are slowly going away, but alas, nature abhors a vacuum and so they become the "Alt-Right" which is xenophobic, nationalistic, white-power hate fueled group.They gained traction when Trump announced he was running by giving a press conference and saying that Mexicans were coming here raping, murdering and dealing drugs and we need a wall. White folks went crazy! I can honestly say that the one thing, the only thing thus far, that I can appreciate about Trump is that he has allowed Whites to drop that thin veil of civility that they had to have with Brown and Black people for the last 30 years. The woman haters, Gavin McCloud to name one, the liars and bigots and flat out sadists came forward to support Trump. Being of color was dangerous at any Trump rally and he fed the fire with tough talk, and threats. His supporters were angry that for the last 8 years an actual real Black guy with a African name was in the White House and running shit! All of the frustration and anger was finally given an outlet and he was running for president! Due to the duplicity of the Clinton's the guy who could have actually beaten Trump was shimmed out of contention.
     Remember the cops in Dallas who were killed? The rise of Black Lives Matter? This past week Charlottesville riots? ALL of it is directly connected to the cheeto colored twat muppet in the White House and if you voted for him then YOU are a part of it. The torches made for a incredible spectacle made to bring back memories of the KKK marching to your house and lynching whatever man they could get a hold of. This was on purpose. It's nightmare material. They also had banners, they chanted "BLOOD AND SOIL" which was a Nazi slogan often chanted at Hitler rally's. ALL on purpose to show what is happening. Being angry, fearful White men they also carried guns. So when the riot started the cops were caught with their pants down because the rioters were often better armed than they were. I honestly don't think the cops would have done shit to them anyways because truth be told them bubbas would be marching with torches if they were not on duty.
     Where are all those women wearing pussy hats and cheering Madonna when she shared she wants to blow up the White House? Where are the "All Lives Matter" folks? Where are the "moderate" republicans and "compassionate conservatives"? Where are the "I'm not a racist" people? Sure you can tweet about it and post on Facebook but are you ready to hit the streets with me? Can you understand that this shit is just going to keep happening and people are going to die and the fear that I have when I walk around in public with my beautiful White wife? Or even when I am alone?
     It's going to happen more and more and Trump, who was unsurprisingly late in condemning the riots, and his supporters are at fault. What is the action we are going to take? Shit has to change, the world is pretty mean on it's own without this garbage happening. What do you want to do?