How long?

How long? How long can you expect people to be abused by lawless police and court system designed to railroad the poor into jails and prisons? How long can you watch the Jeff Bezos of the world profit from our misery?

Violence employed by the police, the FBI and other security agencies have devolved into occupying forces to protect the ultra wealthy and their exclusive interests exposes the fiction that we live under the rule of law and the treason of ruling elites.

Stokley Charmichael said, "In order for non-violence to work your opponent must have a conscience."

As we have seen in the riots our open enemy is bereft of any sort of conscience. If they can use rubber bullets, freezing water and allow White Terrorists armed with assault rifles run thru DAPL. All of it given the go ahead by the state. State violence is inevitably met with counter-violence.

I own a small mini-lop bunny who is snuggly and cute and funny but if you push him too far he will growl and lunge at you. What do you think a human will do if pushed too damn far?

Tyranny, like Trump is calling for, replaces reform. Sectarian violence here in the U.S. is very real. We see it on the news everyday.

So again I ask. How long do you expect someone to watch their children go hungry? How much longer do they think we will remain idle and watch our loved ones suffer or die from lack of medical care? How long can you expect people to be abused by

We are essentially serfs ruled by obscenely wealthy, omnipotent masters who have looted the treasury, pay little to no taxes and have perverted the judiciary system, the media and congress and the senate in order to strip our liberties away which gives them the freedom to commit financial fraud and theft.

My preference is non-violence but as I have grown older I have seen the poison that is violence. I also know that when everything around you conspires to crush you, the only way left, ONLY WAY LEFT to affirm yourself is to destroy , not only the structures and institutions around you but often yourself.

The riots are not only about another Black man murdered by cops it is a frantic fight to get back power over our own lives.

I have no answers. I've been awake since four, I just pray for everyone. I was insoired by Chris Hedges from Common Dreams to write this down. If you don't know who that is then make yourself familiar with him please.

Words of wisdom from a member of Indian Country's intellegensia

Was having a discussion with one of Indian Country's most astute and intelligent voices and he graciously told me I could share his words. The video isn't his. When I asked him to tell me what he thinks of these riots.

Brother/Genius James Giago Davis:

I hope they become larger, better organized, and networked. This is what happened in France in 1789. There is no cure for what ails our country. We cannot use this system to correct the flaws in this system. Which is why, beyond your local election, voting is pointless. It just validates a corrupt process of limited choice controlled by a rich and powerful elite. Throughout history, these types of riots are the spark that ignites into a groundswell of populist determination to bring down the corrupt prevailing order. Don't think this one will do that but like Occupy Wall Street it is a harbinger for the upheaval that can end plutocratic rule in our country. This YouTube video explains what the plutocrats have created.

Rebellion is better organized, Davi. But once the unrest hits the streets, there is always looting, always buildings burning, so the best we can hope for is that the organization will be comprehensive enough to limit it. Also, people must be aware of agent provocateurs, because the police in Minneapolis immediately had them at the protests to make the protestors look bad.

The prevailing order has gone to a lot of trouble to ratchet this society hard right, and they do not appreciate the proletariat forcing it back into the realm of social justice. In our society, proles are not communist foot soldiers, they are wage slave working stiffs. One good thing these riots have done is jar the proles out of their COVID 19 fear stupor, artfully imposed and masterfully exaggerated to keep us afraid and galvanized away from networking in our own interest around causes and ideas that directly threaten the existing social order of wanton privilege.

This YouTube video explains plutocrats in our nation, It's not from James but it fits. Look it up, I'm having an issue posting the link. It's titled: America's Stunted Political Spectrum

If you protest

WHAT TO DO AT A PROTEST.

Both tear gas and OC can straight up melt contacts onto the eyes if care cannot be reached in time, so if you head to a demo that has the potential of bringing LEO to the scene, do yourself and the medics around you a solid by doing the following...

*if you were corrective lenses, wear glasses instead of contacts... If you don't need either, bring a pair of shop goggles with you that can attach securely around your head

*bring water with you, and put at least some of it in a bottle w/a one directional nozzle that can be attached to your belt or your bag with a carabiner

*keep a fanny pack with any emergency meds you may need in it...bring along some aspirin and allergy meds, including an epi pen if you have access, and naloxone if you can get it

*tie some bandanas to your pack and stud the straps with large safety pins... In a pinch, clean bandanas can be used as tourniquets or slings for folks with arm, shoulder or clavicle damage. Safety pins can help you to make slings out of someone's own shirt on the fly.

*if you can get them, have a pair of gloves made for handling hot metals... We often see images of people tossing back tear gas canisters, but the consequence of that is twofold: tear gas canisters can cause 3rd degree burns if handled improperly, and said burns can trigger arrest when you go to seek higher care at area ERs. Either don't touch them at all, or get the proper gear to do whatever you feel is right in that moment.

Be safe.

Tips from my experience:

Detroit National Lawyers Guild: 313-925-2626

MEMORIZE THIS.

Ink can become blurry.

If you see legal observers at an event, these are the people you want to report misconduct to.

Don’t show up drunk. Don’t get high before. Be alert and vigilant. “When it’s sink or swim, you gotta think to win” - Ice Cube

If you have to bring your phone, put it in airplane mode and utilize a VOIP.

How do you think they traced how the virus was spreading from the protests in Lansing? Cellular data. LE can intercept this data with a stingray. Yes it’s illegal, they don’t care. Protect yourself.

Know that there is risk in this work, and we must protect ourselves and each other.

Respect the boundaries of your comrades.

Before taking drastic action, review how you would explain your actions to a judge or a jury of peers.

Communicate with your comrades. Do a RIVAL:

Roles

Identity

Vulnerabilities

Arrestability

Loose ends

In terms of arrest or worse, have a plan for how your family / next of kin / people who depend on you are to be notified. This is serious stuff, have your ducks in a row. Making hasty decisions that could affect more than yourself is reckless. Be smart.

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Rioting in Milwaukee

     Another dead Black man at the hands of a cop. In the last 72 hours we have seen Amy Cooper threaten a man with calling the cops because he asked her to leash the dog she was abusing. 4 cops get fired but NOT arrested for murder. It was murder no argument.

Wypipo need to chill with all this faux outrage about the riots. (More to come) This country was founded by people who looted and burned down what was already there.

This Target was supporting Minnesota PD and wouldn’t sell milk to tear-gassed protestors. So forgive me for not feeling bad for a billion dollar company that pays poverty wages with no benefits while it's CEO gets millions in bonuses besides his paycheck.

According to bizcheck.com

"Target Corp. CEO Brian Cornell's pay more than doubled from 2017 to 2018. Target Corp. CEO Brian Cornell saw his overall compensation more than double in fiscal 2018 to $17.2 million, compared to $8.4 million the year prior, according to a proxy statement filed Monday"

What spiritual is to me

What spiritual means to me. As you know I am like the least follower of anything The Sons of Abraham have to say. I'm also not superstitious so that leaves some Native teachings aside. Sorry I just don't think whistling calls out "evil" but I do smudge and have been known to lay tobacco if asked.

Being spiritual means respecting boundaries (yours and mine)

It means not being taken advantage of

It means allowing yourself to angry.

Injustice makes me angry. Police killings of Brown and Black family make me angry. Missing Native Women infuriate me especially because they are not investigated.

Rape makes me angry.

Talking big shit to me will get you a reply. You might not like the reply, you might even try to use White feminist language against me. You'll still get a reply and I will still pray for my people and family.

Green Party?

Seriously think about it. We need oh so badly in this nation a viable third party. President aside, down ballot seriously think about the Green Party.

TRUMP:

"So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!" (Mar 9, 2020)

THE NEXT DAY

"Best unemployment numbers in the history of our Country. Best employment number EVER, almost 160 million people working right now. Vote Republican, unless you want to see these numbers obliterated!" (Mar 10, 2020)

DID YOU KNOW HE IS AN ANTI-VAXER?

"Healthy young child goes to doctor, gets pumped with massive shot of many vaccines, doesn't feel good and changes - AUTISM. Many such cases!" 9:35 AM · Mar 28, 2014

STOKING RACIST FIRES AGAINST CHINESE:

"CoNcast (@NBCNews ) and Fake News @CNN are going out of their way to say GREAT things about China. They are Chinese puppets who want to do business there. They use USA airwaves to help China. The Enemy of the People!" 1 May 2020

I could do this all day. I think most of us can agree that Trump must go but Joe "Nothing will fundamentally change" Biden is NOT the guy who can do it. He can't debate that's for damn sure, his team has antiquated ideas on how to run an election (They still can;t figure out how to broadcast on the internet). The DNC is responsible for his winning. I'll vote but it won't be for either racist rapist Trump or Biden. Think about the Green Party seriously

Heavenly Pow Wow

    

Morning meditation 6:38. Got me thinking of the state of the world and what is to come. I think we need to carry some plain crystals and some dark stones, I'll ask wife what stone later. We also need to ask "Are you OK?" and frickin' MEAN IT. Social Distance but put up a sign, ask from your front door, the closed in porch. Mail carriers, food delivers, folks like that. I'm melancholy. Been dreaming of dad and Tiffany. We went to a pow wow and had fried bread and NDN Tacos from Delong's family booth. Spoke greeting to the sister they were busy,

We were watching mens traditional and Tiffany said she wanted to dance shawl or jingle. My heart broke when I said I would get some elder's to help I know just the two to help bring her back to the circle after a long time, Auntie Bea and the amazing  Daisy then it hit me that Tiff and Dad walked on. The pow wow disappeared and I looked up and saw the alarm. Now I'm kinda got a nervous/anxious/depressed/sad feeling. I miss my old man, When I get to heaven he and I will be telling jokes for WEEKS I have so many to share with him.......well this took a shit turn GOOD MORNING ALL!!!

Willing to be hated

       Political season, is there ever a break?, always ends up with me losing friends. Politically I am on the left but I am not one of those that think there are no good people on the right, there are people on both sides that have the exact same concerns about their lives and sadly most vote based on one source of information. How else do my elderly in-laws support an inept person like Biden, “Nothing will fundamentally change” as he says, over someone who offered medicare for all unless Rachale Maddow rad baited them into thinking Russia was attacking us and placed Trump in power ignoring everything that Trump has done politics wise that is against what Russia wants? Bernie went there on his honeymoon! SO what I went to Tennessee on mine what does that say about me? Am I now a Southerner with the love for the confederate flag and hate for “darkies”?
     People want freedom, they want wholesome lives for their children, they want safety they want good jobs and good pay. EVERYONE that is not a billionaire POS wants that, I used to think no one is 100 percent anything and I do believe that to the extent that I know for a fact that you cannot be a billionaire without having hurt a lot of people in the process. Oh you make grand gestures and you become a philanthropist but that is also because you don’t have to pay taxes. Are they 100% evil? Of course not, Trump is like 99% evil but he has pardoned some wrong doers, That’s a good thing. Running his racist mouth about Latino’s is bad, taking action in the potentially untapped business zones in poor areas is good. He’s a true 1%!
     Biden has not one single solution in sight, he promised to veto Medicare 4 All, he offers nothing but making fun of the village idiot. Meanwhile the village idiot is pillaging the economy and he has his supporters so confused they are storming the capital with guns and no masks in the midst of pandemic demanding they open fuckin Dave and Busters.
     This is what happens when you deal in absolutes and do not do your due diligence and think for yourself. You either go MSNBC or you go to FOX nothing is in between and if you say, “Tucker Carlson made a good point” you get blasted for sticking up for a right wing bigot. He is a bigot, no doubt but that doesn’t preclude him from making informed decisions and good points. I’m far from a fan of his, he’s a silver spoon hack like Anderson “CIA ANDY” Cooper.
     You have to be willing to be hated to stand n the side of right. Right now Tara Reede is the wrong side to be on and it happens to be that I believe her, and I have lost friends as the result of that. Here is what makes me different. I am more than willing to be hated but I am not such a big spiritual guy, I am spiritual enough for me as of this moment, that I won’t get right down with you if you come for me, Get caustic, sarcastic, illogical and willfully ignorant then come for me I will get as raw as an orangutans ass with you. I curse, I name call (I’m better at it than you) and I will do my absolute best to de-pants you verbally and intellectually so that you get something to either ruin your day or give you pause and something to think about. Ask Roland Martin how fast I blocked his bougie 10% phony neo-liberal bitch ass. (See?) Do I find that unbalanced? No, and I don’t eat granola either.

Are you sure you're a doctor?

     Dr. Oz is one of the idiots, like Dr. Drew type idiot, who was released on America by Oprah the dumb ass. He was on Fox news (SURPRISE!) and said the following:

“First, we need our mojo back,” Oz told Sean Hannity on the Fox News channel. “Let’s start with things that are really critical to the nation where we think we might be able to open without getting into a lot of trouble. Schools are a very appetizing opportunity.”

    Then he went further:  "Schools are a very appetizing opportunity. I just saw a nice piece in The Lancet arguing the opening of schools may only cost us 2 to 3%, in terms of total mortality. Any, you know, any life is a life lost, but ... that might be a trade off some folks would consider." Are YOU willing to take the chance with your kids life as a "Trade off"? He's wicked for even thinking let alone speaking to millions of viewers. No wonder Fox news viewers are some of the stupidest people on Earth.

     Who's childs life is expendable because these multi millionaire fucks want to get the economy, that Trump tanked, up and running regardless of the risk of spreading Covid-19. Corporate demons, I mean leaders, do not care about the working class at all. We are expected to eat the shit sandwich they feed us. Dr. Oz is an evil man. He can back track his comments and say he 'misspoke' but they seem pretty clear to me. Open the schools and all the businesses again so we can make Republican and Corporate Democrats (Like Biden) more rich. 

     Then there is my least favorite person to ever be on television. Dr. Phil. I should write "Dr." because ol boy lost his liscense to practice psychology in 2006 and does not have a liscence in any other state.


1) He is not a medical doctor. He has a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of North Texas. 
 2) BUT, he is no longer licensed to practice in any state. 
 3) Why? Well...
In1988, the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists determined that he had hired a former patient, without "proper separation between termination of therapy and the initiation of employment." (A MAJOR no no)
4. The patient also made claims of inappropriate contact initiated by Dr. Phil. This was kind of dropped from the case, but it's, you know, -interesting to note.- 
5) He was brought up on ethics charges for having an inappropriate non-physical relationship with a patient in 1989...
6) and in 2008 for practicing psychology without a professional license or certification 
7) and also for violating doctor-patient confidentiality regarding Britney Spears.(Fucking PIG!)
8) He surrendered his Texas license in 2006, and has never held a license to practice psychology in any other state since.
9) Despite not being a medical doctor, he started selling weight loss shakes in 2003. The name of the shakes was "Shape It Up, Woo, Woo!"
10) Because it's illegal to practice psychology without a license (sorry, Lucy from Peanuts) his TV guests have to sign paperwork saying they are only receiving "advice."
11) In other words: He's an entertainer. Maybe even a skilled one! But he's not a doctor. He's not even a licensed psychologist anymore. He's DEFINITELY not an epidemiologist. 12) In conclusion, Lucy from Peanuts is probably a better authority on viruses right now.

     In conclusion Oprah, Gayle King (the one who brought up the false rape allegations about Kobe Bryant during an interview just a few days after he died. Dr. Oz and "Dr." Phil put these people in positions where their audience approves and believes everything they say. Since Saint Oprah gave them the thumbs up they must be legitimate. People need to do due dilligiance, I do over EVERYTHING I read, and find opposite opinions or more facts to present my case.

Special shout out to Rebecca Makkai (Pulitzer & Nat'l Book Award finalist & winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal for THE GREAT BELIEVERS. Artistic Director at @storystudio.) For helping me find more in on "Dr." Phil.
 

       

Open letter to Trump

I had this forwarded to me and I thought it was hilarious if only for the names the writer calls Trump. It pretty much sums up what I think of him however I don't have the ability, well maybe I do have the ability, to put the words together. I've not tried but here is what was sent to me:

    

From the Drummer of Mötley Crüe, Tommy Lee (Not really)

Dear Fucking Lunatic, 

At your recent press conference - more a word salad that had a stroke and fell down stairs, you were CLEARLY so out of your depth you needed scuba gear. Within minutes of going off air your minions were backpedaling faster than Cirque De Soliel acrobats... In India a week ago, i couldn’t get past the bit about your being the most popular visitor in the history of fucking india — a country of a BILLION human souls that’s only 3000 years old, give or take.!!! Trust me - Gandhi pulled CROWDS.. You pulled a cricket stadium and half WALKED out... 

Do you know how fucking insane you sound, you off-brand butt plug? That's like the geopolitical equivalent of “that stripper really likes me” — only 10,000 times crazier and less self aware.

You are fucking exhausting. Every day is a natural experiment in determining how long 300 million people can resist coring out their own assholes with an ice auger. Every time I hear a snippet of your Queens-tinged banshee larynx farts, I want to scream!

We are fucking tired. As bad as we all thought your presidency would be when Putin got you elected, it’s been inestimably worse.

You called a hostile, nuclear-armed head of state “short and fat.” How the fuck does that help?

You accused a woman — a former friend, no less — of showing up at your resort bleeding from the face and begging to get in. You, you, YOU — the guy who looks like a Christmas haggis inexplicably brought to life by Frosty’s magic hat — yes, you of all people said that.

You attempted — with evident fucking glee — to get 24 million people thrown off their health insurance.

You gave billions away to corporations and the already wealthy while simultaneously telling struggling poor people that you were doing exactly the opposite.

You endorsed a pedophile, praised brutal dictators, and defended LITERAL FUCKING NAZIS!

Ninety-nine percent of everything you say is either false, crazy, incoherent, just plain cruel, or a rancid paella of all four.

Oh, by the way, Puerto Rico is still FUBAR. You got yourself and your family billions in tax breaks for Christmas. What do they get? More paper towels?

Enough, enough, enough, enough! For the love of God and all that is holy, good, and pure, would you please, finally and forever, shut your feculent KFC-hole until you have something valuable — or even marginally civil — to say?

You are a fried dick sandwich with a side of schlongs. If chlamydia and gonorrhea had a son, you’d appoint him HHS secretary. You are a disgraceful, pustulant hot stew full of casuistry, godawful ideas, unintelligible non sequiturs, and malignant rage.

You are the perfect circus orangutan diaper from Plato’s World of Forms.

So fuck you Mr. President. And fuck you forever.

Oh, and Pence, you oleaginous house ferret. Fuck you, too. You'll be as useful as a chocolate teapot against a medical crisis you Bible thumping cock socket.

F**K Biden

how fucked up is it that seemingly every four years, we as a country do a collective sigh and cast a vote for whatever person we’ve deemed least likely to ruin our goddamned lives? 
It’s so fucked up that I simply refuse to do it anymore. I will no longer subscribe to the idea that choosing between two alleged—I say alleged to not get sued, but I believe Tara Reade and all of Trump’s accusers—rapists is democracy. It’s not. You’re trying to tell me the will of the people is Trump versus Biden in the year 2020? IT’S. NOT.
Here’s a cute listicle of the reasons why I won’t be voting for Joe Biden. I don’t have all day and I’m honestly not sure the WYV website can handle an article long enough to delineate everything bad he’s ever done,  so consider this fuckshit which is just the tip of the giant iceberg:

1. The Crime Bill and Subsequent Sucky Criminal Justice Views

The 1994 law co-authored by Joe Biden has been widely criticized as a racist policy which heavily increased the targeting, arrest, prosecution, and incarceration of brown and Black people. Biden doesn’t care though! He still stands by the bill, saying it helped restore crime-ridden American cities. Sounds about white.
If that wasn’t enough, Biden doesn’t want any of those incarcerated people he’s partially responsible for locking up to be able to vote while in prison! Letting all those people have rights might threaten his chances at winning the Democratic primary—and he couldn’t have that. What’s more dangerous than a felon voting? Maybe making a bunch of people leave their houses during a pandemic to vote for you in the Wisconsin primary despite recommendations from relevant public health officials to limit exposure?

Recommended: Electoral Politics Won’t Save Us. Here Is What To Do Instead.

2. Won’t Even Let Us Legally Smoke Weed While He’s Being a Bad President

Let the states decide, he says! That’s gone super well for us in the past. *blinks in slavery*

3. Doesn’t Want to Ban Fracking 

This is bad for the earth but good for Ru Paul’s business endeavors, I guess?

4. He’s Been Credibly Accused of Sexual Assault 

The Allyssa Milanos of the world might only care about rape allegations when they involve Republicans, but EYE believe Tara Reade. I am horrified by the fact that many of the same people who championed the #MeToo movement and highlighted the allegations against Trump are pretending they don’t know what Tara Reade so bravely shared.
Every single time I say I’m a prison abolitionist, people ask me what we’ll do with the rapists. We’ll let them run for president, Karen. And we’ll shame the people who don’t unite behind the Democratic rapist to beat the Republican rapist.

5. Doesn’t Want to Abolish ICE 

Just a reminder that there are about 34,000 people in ICE custody at the moment, and there have been reports of groups of 70 detainees sharing five bars of soap during a global pandemic. But fuck immigrants, am I right?

6. The Way He Brings Up His Friend Barack Whenever He’s Accused of Being Racist 

I feel like the 44th President of the United States being your one Black friend is a weird flex, but ok.

7. Was Against Integration… What Does His Friend Barack Think?!

This man straight up said that de-segregation would cause his kids to grow up in a “racial jungle.” Literally, what does that mean? Not sure how someone could spin this to not be wildly racist and offensive, but I’d love to see Kamala “that little girl was me” Harris try!

Recommended: Liberalism Demands That Victims Vote For More Rape Culture

8. Anita Hill 

We have Clarence Fucking Thomas on the Supreme Court thanks in part to Joe Biden. Are we sensing a theme here?!

9. Not into Universal Healthcare

We are in the middle of a public health crisis unlike anything we have ever seen. At the same time, millions are losing their health insurance because it was tied to their employment status and they were fired or furloughed. You know where that shit doesn’t happen? In countries with universal healthcare. The United States just lets people die of completely preventable things because we have a privatized healthcare system. That’s literally evil and Joe Biden won’t get behind Medicare for All despite knowing all of this.
These were just nine of the reasons I will not vote for Joe Biden for president in November. There are a myriad of other reasons, but I think any one of the ones I mentioned could be considered disqualifying from the party of the so-called left.
I don’t want you to interpret my sheer rage with the Democratic Party as hopelessness, though. The reason I’m an anarchist is because I’m hopeful. I actually believe that we as people have the capacity to care deeply for each other. I think that a new world is possible. Organizers, activists, and scholars have been writing about it and working for it for far longer than I’ve called myself a radical. We can join them in their quest to make this world more equitable, safer, and better for everyone. The best part is that we can do that without having to cast a vote for either racist rapist running for president in 2020.
All power to all the people (except Joe Biden)

Written by Reina Sultan