Beyond Snark at This Point; Trumpistas Ed.

Yesterday, Independence Day, NPR began tweeting the Declaration of Independence.

Trump supporters began losing their shit.

Голос Его Хозяина

President Donald Trump will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday at the G20 summit, the White House has confirmed.

Pretty handy that Trump can report in to his owner without having to go through a cutout.

"Gays for Trump" Rally

The organization Gays for Trump organized a Make America Great Again Free Speech Rally. It took place on the National Mall near the White House on Saturday, July 1.

One speaker and fourteen attendees.

The main speaker at the Gays For Trump rally gives his address: pic.twitter.com/m4QFnwK1e7

— Michael Patrick Key (@MichaelKeyWB) July 1, 2017

Pretty fucking sad, that.

Snark Would Be Superfluous

GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, MI -- A Grand Blanc-area garage was reduced to a pile of ashes this evening after a homeowner attempted to use fireworks to remove a bees' nest from the building, fire officials said. ..."The homeowner was doing something with a smoke bomb trying to get a bees nest out of the garage," said Grand Blanc Fire Chief, Bob Burdette.

I'm guessing that there will soon be a label on fireworks that reads, in part, "Not To Be Used For Pest Control."

Meanwhile, in Florida:

A Jacksonville man accidentally shot himself in the penis early Friday morning when he sat on a gun in the driver's seat of his car, police said.

Seems that ol' Dickless has prior felony conviction, so after he gets treated, he may face charges for being a felon-in-possession.

On the other hand, the authorities might conclude that he was punished enough, as it is. Five to ten years in stir, being laughed at every day, could be seen as adding insult to injury.

Republicans Now Love "Big Brother"

Trump wants the data to identify every voter in the nation: Name, address, SSNs, date of birth, everything.

The vice chairman of President Trump’s commission on election integrity sent a letter to all 50 states Wednesday requesting information on their voter rolls.

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is seeking several pieces of information about voters, including their names, birthdays, the last four digits of their Social Security numbers and their voting history dating back to 2006.

You can bet your paycheck that if a Democratic administration had done this, every Republican now breathing would have lost their damned minds.

At last count, 41 states are telling Trump to fuck off.

One of them is not Missouri's Republican Secretary of State, Spawn of Ashcroft, whose eagerness to cooperate with this bullshit is contrasted by the state's refusal to adopt the Real ID standards for state-issued identification cards and how pissed they were about turning over information about people who have gun permits.

Republican resistance to the intrusion of the Federal government seems to be contingent on who is making the ask.

The Fourth

241 years ago, the Second Continental Congress came to grips with the facts on the ground..

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

Shorter Chris Christie: "I'm Better Than You and Don't You Fucking Forget It!"

Secaucus Fats gets an entire state part to himself (and his family) because he's closed all the state parks.

Gov. Chris Christie joined his family at a state-owned retreat in Island Beach State Park on Saturday night, less than 24 hours after ordering the closure of all state parks and beaches because of the budget impasse in Trenton.

The governor addressed members of the Legislature about the stalemate on Saturday and then left the capital for the park, a spokesman confirmed Sunday morning. The governor later said he took a State Police helicopter to the park and back to Trenton again on Sunday, and said he plans to do the same Sunday evening.

And sez he, fuck you to the press. When you get right down to it, Christie's dickish move was downright Trumpian.

Anyway, if they only opened the park to people who support Christie, it probably would have been just as empty.

Child-Slaves on Mars?

If you truly do believe that stupid shit, then do the world a favor: The next time that there is a heavy rainstorm, go stand outside, look up, and open your mouth.

(I once thought that anyone so dumb probably couldn't work a computer. I was proven wrong before the Web came into existence. And don't forget that Trump listens to that guy.)

And if you really do believe that there are child-slaves on Mars, please, find some other doorway on the Internet to darken.

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UPDATE: Maybe Chris Christie can go look for them.

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Anniversary Caturday

Chip came home with me a year ago today.

Other than his desire to go outside, he is a perfect cat. As long as you don't get in his way come time for his canned food.

The Mass Lynching of 100 Years Ago

It's often called the East St. Louis Riot, but let's be clear on this: It was a mass lynching. It was a pogrom.

White mobs killed every black person they could find: Men, women, children, it made no difference. to have a dark skin in East St. Luis 100 years ago marked one for a brutal death.

The cops did nothing, other than to disarm black people. The National Guard joined in on the rioting.

President Wilson, who was probably one of the most virulent racists in the White House during the last century, made no real efforts to use the power of the Federal government to bring about any justice after the fact. About the only prominent politician who spoke up to denounce the rioters was Theodore Roosevelt.

The authorities engaged in victim-blaming and almost half of those prosecuted after the fact were black.