THE ELECTION ...

I AM SO AFRAID TRUMP IS GOING TO WIN AGAIN. Almost EVERYONE I know is voting for him. Some don't like him, but they're voting for him anyway. I don't get it. If Trump were a democrat, I wouldn't vote for him. My soul would not allow me to. My husband says that people vote with their pocket books. I get it. BUT STILL. I cannot support a man who has no character. No empathy. No brains. No compassion. Basically, an empty vessel of nothing.

I AM SO SCARED.  I know the polls are favoring Joe Biden, but it's close.  TOO CLOSE.  And with Trump having no scruples at all, he will do his best to sow dissention and confusion, distrust and anger and with that, violence.  I have never prayed with regard to politics before.  But I have PRAYED so hard that Trump does not win re-election.  

My husband and I are on the cusp of retirement.  We've planned pretty well.  But our future will greatly depend on Social Security and healthcare.  To be honest, my life has never really changed whether there was a democrat or a republican in office.  It's the character of Trump I can no longer tolerate.  He has made us a laughing stock.  The rest of the leaders in the world, minus the dictators, think he's an asshole.  

If he wins another four years I will be very sad.  When he won in 2016 I was depressed for months.  A malaise that I could not shake.  That has never happened to me before.  Bush wasn't the smartest guy in the room.  Reagan had Alzheimer's for the last four years of his presidency.  Clinton was a serial cheater and couldn't keep his dick in his pants.  And then we had Obama.  A real gent.  Good family man.  Decent.  I love him so much that I actually have dreams that Michelle and Barack are my friends. 

People don't realize that Trump is not the mogul he wants the world to think he is.  He basically runs a family company.  His two sons and his daughter work for him and then he had Michael Cohen and a few others.  It wasn't like he was running a gigantic corporation with thousands of employees.  That is why EVERYONE in New York was like WTF?! when he won.

If he wins another four years America will never be the same.  And if he doesn't win it will take YEARS for us to get back to some kind of normal where the insanity of his lies and propaganda can be forgotten.  The lies that FOX news tells and allow is unconscionable.  I saw Don, Jr. the other night stating that the Covid virus is over.  There's hardly any more cases when in fact, the virus is spiking BIGLY.  SMH.  

GOD HELP US if he wins.  

Another one bites the dust ...

Show me your friends and I'll tell you who you are.  

FRIEND OF THE DONALD:

Jerry Falwell, Jr.

Yet another Christian brother who likes to get his freak on by watching his wife get hosed by another dude.  Let's come together in prayer shall we and forgive our brother of this sin because we are all sinners and fall short of the glory of God ... BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH.  

Damn these perverts sure are good at forgiving themselves aren't they?

POLICE BRUTALITY

Grab a cup of coffee because this is going to be a long one.

I grew up in the 1970's in the hood.  It wasn't really "the hood" to me, it was just my community, but on my block there were quite a few gang bangers and when you grow up with these kids from kindergarten on you don't see them as gang-bangers.  At least I didn't.  They were my neighbors and friends and kids I played with in the street.  We went to school together and when we reached junior high they went off on a different track, but they always remained my friends and neighbors.  

In my city, just east of east L.A., the sheriffs were our local law enforcement and they ruled our city.  The Pico sheriffs were infamous throughout town for being especially brutal.  They were bad and violent cops.  They terrorized the gang neighborhoods and would literally come blasting through someone's front door billy clubs swinging.  I witnessed police brutality ALL the time.  Our local sheriffs were basically gang-bangers with badges and guns.  

One night in 1974 after a football game I went to a house party with my little gaggle of friends.  We were just a bunch of high school kids hanging out listening to music.  There were adults there and so everyone was just chilling and talking and listening to music.   I'm sitting in the living room talking to my friends when literally the front door burst open and a whole slew of sheriffs wearing their helmets came bursting in swinging their billy clubs and literally started banging heads.  I know that most people will find this hard to believe, but I swear to you it's true.  I was trying to figure out what the hell was happening and then it became more and more chaotic.  The parents were sitting in the kitchen and immediately got up to see what all the ruckus was about and when they tried to talk to these cops to find out why they were in their house they hit both the mother and the father with their clubs.  It was TERRIBLE.  Kids were screaming and running everywhere.  I managed to make my way out the back door and ran to the front of the house where my friend was already in the car and we took off.  Once the police showed up at any party in Pico this was the way they usually behaved.  A freaking riot would ensue.  

I happened to live on a street with gang bangers as I previously stated.  Almost every weekend the Pico Sheriff's would show up, testosterone blazing and looking for some action.  They would bust into one of those houses and start beating the shit out of everyone.  It was like a regular thing.  During one of these melees  Maria, the mom, had been beaten in the head with a flashlight and had to have a ton of stitches and one of the younger kids was literally picked up and thrown against the wall and knocked out.  So while your neighbors are being brutalized by the cops what do you do?  Call the cops?  NO.  You did nothing.  This happened ALL THE TIME.    

Years later after I had graduated from high school, I started dating one of those cops.  I was young, maybe 19 or 20, and he was much older and very handsome and he liked me.  I had literally zero experience in the dating world so this was a big deal to me.  This older guy was into me.  It was intoxicating and I was pretty enthralled with him.  Needless to say, the guys in the neighborhood were not happy about this.  

It didn't take long for me to find out what a sadistic prick he was.  Since he worked nights he would sometimes take me on ride-alongs.  It was kind of cool cruising around town in the squad car and going on various calls.  But I have to say that most of the time it was pretty boring just driving around all night.  There were different gang neighborhoods that I of course knew of and one night he decided to cruise into one of them.  He was driving down an alley and the next thing I know he's flooring it and we are flying down this alley when he comes to a screeching stop and tells me to stay in the car.  He runs down the alley and I lose sight of him.  When he comes back he has this kid with him who was completely bloody and pretty messed up.  He'd beaten this little 14 year old for smoking pot in the alley.  I could not believe what I was witnessing.  I became very quiet.  This really bothered me.  I thought what he'd done was unjustified and didn't warrant a beating like that.  But Mr. Cop felt completely justified which I found appalling.  

I remained quiet until he finally asked me if what he'd done had bothered me.  I told him that it did.  That kid was only getting high, not raping someone.  He did not deserve to have is head bashed in with a flashlight.  Mr. Cop tried to convince me of what it was like in the streets, how bad these guys were, blah blah blah, but I kept what I'd witnessed in my heart.  I knew what he did was wrong.  Unwarranted.  And it bothered me deeply.

Yet, I continued to see him.  

It was only a matter of time before I became tired of his lies.  He would lie about everything.  He once told me this really elaborate story about his time in Vietnam and I have to say that at the time I was enthralled.  You see he was so much older than me and I found him so experienced and interesting.  I looked at him as a man.  He had a life full of experiences which I found fascinating.  Well, as it turned out, he never went to Vietnam.  I found this out one afternoon while I was hanging out at his apartment with all of his cop buddies and they were trading stories of their experiences in Vietnam when one of his friends asked him where he was in Nam and Mr. Cop said he didn't go to Vietnam.  I remember looking at him eyes wide and full of shock!  I was so taken aback by his blatant lie and yet I didn't have the courage to call him out and embarrass him in front of all his cop friends for the fucking elaborate story he'd told me just days before.  He obviously had some deep and serious insecurities.  

He LOVED being a cop.  He had a roommate who was also a cop.  This guy was a tall white dude with curly blonde hair.  I didn't like him.  He came off as a racist pig to me which was ironic because his girlfriend was Mexican and attended the local high school.  Yeah.  He was 33 she was 16.  He was a smarmy bastard and was very well known by all the homies in Pico.  So was Mr. Cop.  These two got into a whole lot of trouble together.  They did many unlawful things which I witnessed.  Smoking pot and dating underage girls from the local high school.  Mr. Cop taught a criminology class and was literally banging all the chicks. Today?  They'd both be in prison.  

I'd had enough.  I could not be with anyone who could lie and cheat so easily.  

Eventually their crimes caught up with them.  White boy basically disappeared and was never heard from again.  Mr. Cop and his buddy ended up going on trial for falsifying evidence and lying about an arrest.  This was really big news that I read about every day in the L.A. Times.  Verdict?  Mr. Cop and his friend were thrown off the force in shame.  He's lucky he didn't serve any time.  

Years later I would run into him.  He was reduced to working the door at nightclubs.  He was the guy you handed your I.D. to.  I never spoke to him, I never looked at him.  I'd just handed him my I.D. and made my way into the club.  He eventually became engaged to my ex-best friend.  Yeah, he was banging her too while he was dating me.  Long story short, she dated this loser for 10 years until he finally married her.  They would break up and get back together and break up and get back together. One of those kind of relationships.   And seriously ... who dates someone for TEN YEARS? 

After this experience, I stayed away from cops.  Didn't trust them.  Didn't like them.  And I knew enough of them to be able to say that they pretty much were all the same.  Deplorable, arrogant and shameless.

Fast forward to 2011 and my new job at the Los Angeles Police Protective League.  I'd been unemployed for two years after the 2008 crash and these folks wanted to hire me.  I took the job even though it paid me nothing and had no 401K.  I was desperate.

Working for the police was very difficult for me.  It was one of the most disheartening experiences of my life.  I was not a fan of police, but after working there for a year and a half, I DESPISED them.  For these men you're either with them or not.  You're either a criminal or a decent citizen.  There is no in-between with this people.  It's black or white, NO GREY EVER.  They make excuses for their brutality and they sexually harass ALL THE TIME.  One director had been brought up on sexual harassment charges multiple times and NOTHING ever happened to him.  He was still there working as a director for the League.  They had no moral compass and many were openly racist.  I had to sign a nondisclosure agreement in order to work there.  A few months in, I knew why.  There was so much unethical behavior going on there it was mind-boggling.  Back stabbing, gossiping and ruining reputations of state and local politicians (who are also equally morally corrupt).  I could write a book on what I witnessed there and again, no one would probably believe me.  What I can say is that this police union will go to the mat for their cops.  It doesn't matter what they are accused of.  I have never witnessed such a powerful group defend and make excuses for crimes committed by their police.  It was quite an experience.  I know there are plenty of people who would call me a liar, or worse, but I can tell you that what I witnessed happened.  One officer had a picture of Obama as a monkey on his office door.  I found that beyond appalling but I was in THEIR world and I KNEW I had to keep my opinion to myself.  HORRIBLE.  

So, that's my two cents.  It's true.  It happened.  So when I see Trump's commercials trying to scare people into believing that when they call the cops in the future if Biden wins the presidency and the cops won't be able to answer your call because of lack of funds I just laugh.  In my neighborhood when you'd call  the cops they NEVER came.  EVER.  

Manafort ...

Paul Manafort released from prison, granted home confinement due to corona-virus fears

SO ... Who is surprised by this?  I knew he'd get out.  And Flynn will NEVER see a day in prison.  And Trump will never be prosecuted for ALL of his crimes.  NEVER.  I wish he would, but he probably won't.  The rich, the elite ... they never pay for their crimes and misdeeds.  The little people pay.  You don't want to pay your taxes?  GO TO JAIL.  You don't want to pay your traffic tickets?  GO TO JAIL.  It just is what it is.  Why get angry?  It serves nothing.  It only gives you gray hairs and wrinkles.

I have felt anger and indignation until I can't feel anymore.  I'm done.  Let them all run wild, get out of jail, commit crimes to their heart's content and get away with it.  Let them laugh all the way to the bank ... I don't give a shit anymore.  I have more important things in my own personal life to worry about.

That's all.  Just had to get it out there.  

Thank you.

Headlines ...

BERNIE MADOFF SAYS HE’S DYING AND SEEKS 

EARLY PRISON RELEASE

Madoff has terminal kidney failure with a life expectancy of 18 months.

“Madoff does not dispute the severity of his crimes nor does he seek to minimize the suffering of his victims,” his lawyer wrote in the filing.  “Madoff humbly asks this Court for a modicum of compassion.”

Let’s say I am the Court:  “UM … Mr. Madoff, you didn’t have any compassion for all the innocent people that you stole from and left penniless.  So NO.  I now have no compassion for you.  DIE IN PRISON where you belong you slime bag.  Your suffering is just.  Deal with it like a man.  I only hope I can one day see Trump and Mitch McConnell in your shoes.

NEXT ...

The First Puta places the Medal of Freedom around the neck of Rush Limbaugh.  

Perhaps Rush Limbaugh now has lung cancer because God is punishing him for all the shitty, racist, misogynistic trash he spouted from his little satellite bubble for the last 25 years.

Yeah.  I said it.  

NEXT ...

Mitt Romney ...

A man who I rarely agreed with but who now has my undying respect.  The FIRST, the ONLY Christian to actually make a vote based on conscience and the values of right and wrong.  The ONLY Republican of conviction.  And you KNOW he's going to take a ton of heat over this but I have nothing but admiration for him because he did the unpopular thing.  He voted to convict a lying, dishonorable and criminal man and he made this decision based on his faith and the oath he took.  Good for you Mitt.  History will remember you admirably for your courage.

As for Bernie and Rush ... Karma's a bitch.  Every dog has it's day.  Time to pay the piper.  It's nice to see that there is justice.  

THE END OF DEMOCRACY AS WE KNOW IT ...

                            Mitch "Fuckface" McConnell 

What the republicans have done in this “trial” is twist and distort the words and meaning of the Constitution in the same way evangelicals twist scripture to right their wrongs.  I do not need republican senators to inform and school me on what is right and wrong.  I already know that.  What Trump did was wrong and most definitely rises to the definition of high crimes and misdemeanors, and if you see it differently, you are wrong.  Period. 

I also know that if this were Obama’s impeachment trial he would already have been nailed to the cross by the gutless GOP.  And if you want to argue and say that you disagree, that you are a fair person and considered the “facts,” you are lying to yourself as well.

The republican senators who have gone along with this sham of a trial, not one of which (well, maybe two), have enough of a backbone to stand by the oath they took when they were given the honor of serving the people are cowards and enablers of a psychotic and delusional fool who sits in the oval office and will do ANYTHING to be in his favor.  It’s beyond disgusting. 

The old adage money is the root of all evil is true.  For this reason I am so grateful that I was not born a rich person.  I'm grateful that I've struggled and had losses.  I'm grateful that I've been layed-off and fired. That I've dealt with abusive bosses and psychotic managers who harassed and made my life miserable.  That I've known the fear and worry for a loved one who is facing a serious illness, and I've known the sorrow of burying a loved one.  And if you're a God fearing person, you are grateful for the God you believe in who always has your back.  Because through each trial of my life I have always, ALWAYS survived.  You don't learn how strong you are when everything goes your way.  I have no desire to be “in” with deplorable, but influential people who can do me favors.  Who could provide me with money and ways to hide it.  Or provide me with influence and ways to skirt the law.  I do not want to live that way.  I like sleeping at night and having peace of mind and not looking over my shoulder for the rest of my life.  And I also get it that they, the liars and the powerful, have no conscience and they have absolutely no problems sleeping at night.  But that’s the difference between me and them.    

I do not mean to sound pious, but I do KNOW one thing for sure … that the people who sit in the halls of justice, power and privilege are, for the most part, a bunch of lying, cheating, greedy bastards who long ago forgot what it was like to be a human being.  A person of character.  A person with scruples.  But it’s okay.  I know that I am a person of character.  I don’t lie or cheat, so I never have to remember the lies I’ve told or the people I’ve cheated or worry about who is going to come after me for what I’ve done to them.  For people like the fool in the White House, he LIVES to seek revenge.  He lives to get over on someone.  He lives to prove he has the biggest dick.

Mitch McConnell, Rudy Giuliani, John Bolton.  They all did Trump's bidding …  Allegiance to Trump!  Remember this day.  This is the day that democracy died.  This is the day that lies became the norm and the truth became null and void.  For those of you who are constantly worried about what to tell your children about abortion or homosexuality, explain this to them.  What does it mean when a president can lie, and cheat, and threaten, and bully people?  What does it mean when a president, the most powerful man in the world can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, to whomever he wants by surrounding himself with a bunch of pussy sycophants who tell him all day long how smart and handsome he is.  Explain that.

You ALL know the truth, even if you can’t admit it to yourself.  The easiest way to test yourself is to ask yourself this:  If Trump were a democrat, would you want to call more witnesses?  Would you want to see documents?  Transcripts of phone calls?  Emails?  Would you?  Be honest. 

But whatever.  He won.  He has the biggest dick in the world.  It’s harder and thicker and longer than any other man on the planet.  The sad thing is no one will ever see it (except those he has raped or paid for sex and the unfortunate women who married him or were stupid enough to fuck him) … so until I see it myself (gag), to me his manly appendage is a teeny, tiny, baby dick. 

Just remember … when the mighty fall, they fall hard.  Bernie Madoff.  Jeffrey Epstein.  Jerry Sandusky.  Trump has a reckoning coming.  And when it arrives it is going to be epic.