JEFFREY EPSTEIN ...

What is it that makes powerful men pervs?  Or maybe I should ask, what is it about pervs that allows them to become rich and powerful and hide their dirty deeds for so long?  The disgust I feel towards this asshole above is beyond words, but the appalling behavior of Labor Secretary Alex Acosta who literally gave this monster a pass is beyond words.  

Many years ago I wrote a piece on this very subject -- men who are sexual predators and who are able to continue their crimes for years and YEARS rarely, if ever, getting the prison time they deserve because they have powerful friends.  What usually happens is that years will pass and people forget … so to refresh your memory of just a few of these assholes I'll repost because this shit has got to stop.  

WOMEN NEED TO RUN THE WORLD DAMMIT!!!! 

Case in point ... DOMINIQUE STRAUSS-KAHN (the dickwad above) raped a hotel made in France.  He never did a second in jail.  According to the hotel maid, she said Strauss-Kahn jumped out of the bathroom stark naked and demanded oral sex and then proceeded to sexually assault her.  (FYI … A woman would never, EVER jump out of a hotel bathroom stark naked and demand a man perform oral sex on her). Powerful men of the world need to take a step back, take a deep breath, and own the fact that they are IDIOTS (a stupid person with the mental age of a three year old who just discovered his pee-pee).

DOUCHE AWARD NO. 1 GOES TO DOMINIQUE STRAUSS-KAHN. Front-runner for the Presidency of France and A RAPIST.

DOUCHE AWARD NO. 2 GOES TO THE GOVERNATOR.

Arnold to Maid: "I know, why don't you and I make the nasty and I won't wear a rubber or use any kind of protection whatsoever because I am the Sperminator and my seed does what I tell it to do and we can do it right here in my house and nobody will ever find out because I have billions and billions of dollars that will buy the silence of my minions while I fuck around on my wife of 25 years and destroy the mental/spiritual and emotional health of my four children ... HAHAHAHAHAHAHA."

Arnold, I have this funny little saying that I wish I could kill people for being assholes ... but only for ten minutes. In your case I'd make an exception. Instead of ten minutes ...you just STAY DEAD. OK?

DOUCHE AWARD NO. 3 GOES TO ANTHONY WEINER.

Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY), who took a picture of his wiener, but isn't sure if it was HIS WEINER or someone else's weiner because someone HACKED his phone and he can't say "with certitude" whether the weiner is his or not. But it doesn't look like his weiner because if the weiner is his, .... IT'S VERY SIMPLE MR. WEINER!!!! A SIMPLE YES OR NO will suffice. WE'LL EVEN TAKE A "NO COMMENT" ... (and just so you know ... if I took a picture of my weiner ... I'd remember. But that's just me). You see, most "regular" people don't do things like take pictures of their wieners and text them to someone ... by mistake. Only highly, intelligent and important people like you all, do crap like that. This is mainly because most "regular" people have this thing called a CONSCIOUS ... and a healthy dose of FEAR about getting caught doing disgusting things such as ... taking a picture of their weiner and then sending it into cyberspace ... you know, stuff like that. Asshole.

DOUCHE AWARD NO. 4 GOES TO JOHN EDWARDS (remember him?) ….

John Edwards indicted on charges that he accepted $925,000 (that's almost $1 million bucks) from two supporters to hide is pregnant baby mama during his 2008 campaign for the presidency while his wife of 30 years was dying of cancer. He pled "not guilty" and insisted that he "broke no laws". I don't even have words for this one except to say he is so fucken lucky that I don't run the world.

He insists that he will "forever regret his decisions and the harm he's ...

EHHHHH SHADDUP!!!

DOUCHE AWARD NO. 4 GOES TO BILL CLINTON.  (Also a friend of the rapist above, as well as Donald Trump) … these types tend to run in packs.   

"I did not have sex with that woman ..." Liar, liar PANTS ON FUCKEN FIRE!!!!

DOUCHE AWARD NO. 5 GOES TO NEWT GINGRICH.  

That great American Newt Gingrich and his third wife Calista, who he married in the Catholic church after he asked his second wife for a divorce while having an affair with wife no. 3 but now he's a good Catholic and so sorry about all the fucked up things he did not wife no. 1 and wife no. 2 ...

AND WE VOTE FOR THESE ASSHOLES.   

SCOTT PELLEY AND THE HOSTILE WORKPLACE

SO, Scott Pelley said on CNN's Reliable Sources news magazine that he was fired from his job because he "wouldn't stop complaining to management" about a "hostile work environment" in the news division.  I know how he feels.

I also recently lost my job due to a hostile work environment where I was bullied and harassed by a narcissistic, vindictive office administrator and guess what?  After going through the proper channels, after confiding in a manager who encouraged me and told me that this manager's behavior was very disturbing, and after doing exactly what the employee handbook said to do, my office administrator wrote me up on a very punitive PIP (Performance Improvement Plan) which was four pages long and contained twenty-two bullet points.  It was clearly in retaliation for the harassment claim and was written in such a way that would make me either quit or if that did not happen, I knew would be fired.  

After going on a medical stress leave I was terminated, which is illegal, but apparently, not when you are a drone.  I have never EVER done anything like this before in forty years of working, but I literally had no choice.  It was either wait for the heart attack which was surely coming due to all the anxiety and stress I was under, or go on medical stress leave.  I chose the latter.  

There were other reasons for the stress leave.  Not only was I truly under stress, but my husband was waiting for the call to donate a kidney to our daughter.  It was all too much.  I couldn' sleep, I was worried ALL THE TIME and most importantly, I could not lose my job.  My husband was going to need me to take family leave in order to care for him.  Just so many things were coming at me at once.  Every day in the office was another day in Hell.  Anxiety and fear were the only emotions I had and it was exhausting.  This virus woman was on my ass every day.  I can't go into detail because it would take days and days to recount every incident of harassment and I don't have the will to relive it all over again.  Suffice it to say, it was HELL.

And I wasn't the only drone she was harassing.  Since I have been gone over six secretaries have also quit.  Her management skills became such an issue that she was actually removed from supervising the secretarial staff!  So it's not like the powers that be were unaware of problems with her management style.  Once they took her off the secretarial staff her new duties were to make sure there were enough napkins and forks in the kitchen (LOL), and her little minion, a gal whose previous experience was managing a Kinko's, is now the new office manager.  THIS is beyond stupid.  Managing a Kinko's is not the type of experience one needs to manage the secretarial staff in a BIG LAW FIRM.  PERIOD.  

So here's my real beef ... AT WILL EMPLOYMENT.  WRONG.  WRONG.  WRONG!  When you are hired you sign an arbitration agreement which means that you have just signed away your rights.  You will have no way of knowing that in a few months or a few years, for whatever reason your office administrator will begin harassing you and making your life a living hell.  Then you realize that all the speeches about "we do not tolerate harassment" is a bunch of bullshit.  THEY DO ALLOW HARASSMENT, THEY DO ALLOW BULLYING, AND THEY DO FIRE AT WILL, FOR ANY REASON, AT ANY TIME.  And when you seek legal recourse to right this wrong, you will soon learn that that arbitration agreement you signed ex number of years ago is the reason you will never EVER get your case in front of a judge or a jury.  You have no recourse, no protections, no rights.  You are a drone.  Period.  End of story.  Work.  Shut-up.  NEVER complain even when you are witness to unlawful behavior because your job is AT WILL, which they will remind you of ad nauseum.

Here a few tell-tale signs of an abusive administrator.  And my advice to you when you see these behaviors is to just start looking for another job immediately.  You'll save yourself time and heartache.  

When the office administrator gossips about employees to other employees, you might have a problem. 

When the office administrator threatens, humiliates and undermines her staff, you might have a problem.  

When the office administrator is hated by EVERYONE in the office, you definitely have a problem.

And last but not least, when you're bleeding staff, you can be sure you definitely DO have a problem.

But it's corporate America and they run the world.  

The difference between myself and Scott Pelley is that:

(a)     He has a lot more money than I do;

(b)     He has a lot more contacts than I do; and

(c)     He has access to air time to talk about his grievances.

I don't have any of that.  I get to interview, test and look for another job at 62.  My husband, who is 65, cannot retire now because if he does I will not have medical insurance.  But I know you could care less about me or whether I have insurance or not.  

The thing about terminating an innocent person because YOU want to show THEM who has the power is that you do not see the wreckage you leave behind.  No idea.  That makes it easy to fire someone.  You never see them again and YOU WON.  Yay.  Good for you.  

But please know Spider Lady from Hell that EVERYONE in your office hates you, they are onto you, and you will be losing even more staff.  I know this because the drones that were left behind confide in me.  There is a whole coalition of people who hate you and want only for you to die.  Either that or they wish for a chronic and perpetual bout of explosive diarrhea.  

So dear readers, though it is quite embarrassing for me to tell you that I have lost my job you must believe me ... IT WASN'T ME.  IT WAS THE MANAGER.

I think I'll send this to her.

And this one as well.

Because the workplace has become such a battlefield with bad management and narcissistic bosses there is actually a large library of books like those above on this topic and is proof that management and horrible bosses need to re-evaluate their strategies.  A good boss will always bring out the best in an employee.  A bad boss will not.

So, onward and upward, and wish me luck.

Here we go again ....

KAVANAUGH AND FORD

 

I remember Anita Hill’s public crucifixion.  How men sat and judged, humiliated, belittled, and eviscerated her as witness after witness (men) dragged her character through the mud.  It was a public shaming equal to a lashing.  It was wrong and unjust what they did to her.  BUT they confirmed Clarence Thomas … the Justice who NEVER speaks.  And Hill’s life was left in shambles. 

A few days ago I read an excerpt of Sally Field’s new memoir.  Sally Field, a brilliant, two-time Oscar winner who describes how Burt Reynolds (RIP), demeaned her, made her feel less than, was jealous of her success to the point that she hid the parts of herself that made her who she was in order to save his ego.  It happens all the time.  Women hiding their light under a bushel so that her man can look good.

I read Jane Fonda’s memoir years ago.  Also a brilliant actress.  Jane’s mother committed suicide when she was a little girl by slitting her own throat.  Think about that.  When you’re a little girl and your mother, despite the fact that she gave you life, takes her own life.  What that says to a little girl who needs her mommie is that not even YOU are ENOUGH to keep me here.  I’d rather die.  That shit goes deep.  Jane Fonda did not get the love she deserved.  When she married Roger Vadim she allowed a woman into their bed …. to keep him.  It was what he wanted.  He never asked her what she wanted.  He never asked her if a threesome would make her feel cheap or unloved, or disrespected.

Women are such amazing creatures.  We can take emotional pain.  We can take physical pain.  We run households and corporations usually at a cost much greater to our emotional health than any man.  We are nurturers.  Lovers.  Teachers.  We carry burdens silently.  We cry when no one is around so that no one will be bothered by our pain.  We have faced indignities, sexual harassment, dismissal.  Next time you’re having a conversation with a group of people, stop and pay attention to how many of the men will actually listen to a woman when she has an opinion about something important like politics. 

I remember as a child watching my mother always eat last.  I always felt sorry for her because of that.  She had to do everything and serve everyone before she could sit down and eat.  At family gatherings the women waited on the men, and then after they were served and the children were served, they ate.  And then they cleaned up.  Washing and drying dishes, putting everything away, cleaning the kitchen, wiping the counters and sweeping the floor while the men and the children were relaxing and watching T.V.  I think it was then that I decided I didn’t want to be a “wife.”  I didn’t want to have to do everything.  And believe me, I paid the price for choosing a different path. 

I am no one famous.  However, I was very independent, especially for being raised in a Catholic, Latin home in the 1970’s.  I moved out of the house when I was 22.  At 30 I bought a condo in the late 1980’s.  I worked in the legal field, made my own money and supported myself.  I traveled and had a great life.  When a man came into my life, he would eventually leave me because in their words they felt “they had nothing to offer me.”  How sad that they never realized that love, friendship, and caring mean more than money. 

If you are talented, or smart, you are punished.  If you are financially independent, you are punished.  If you don’t back down, you are punished.  And if you call out someone who has tried to rape you, you are ruined. 

 

Many years ago, I was dating someone I really liked.  I was still living at home at the time.  He would come by for no reason to bring me flowers.  He took me out on really nice dates.  He bought me gifts.  I was thrilled because as much as I was into him, it seemed that he was really into me too!  Until one night.  He took me to a family party.  He introduced me to his parents and his extended family.  We were having a great time.  Later that night, when he took me home, I remember we went with several of his friends in their car.  I think we were sitting in the back seat.  It was after midnight when we drove to a house that was dark.  No one was home.  He got me out of the car and said he had to show me something.  We left his friends in the car.  I asked him “who lives here?”  He just continued guiding me to the front door.  Because he was always surprising me, I did not think anything bad was going to happen.  He got me into the house, led me to a bedroom and sat me on the bed.  I was confused.  I asked him what are we doing here?  Before you say it, yes.  I know.  I was extremely naïve, but I liked him.  I trusted him.  I HAD NO IDEA he was going to rape me.  I told him I didn’t want to.  He didn’t listen.  He kept pulling at my skirt.  He was on top of me.  He was so strong.  I said NO, … and the next thing I knew he was inside me.  HOW could I ever tell anyone that this was non-consensual?  I went with him.  Into an empty, dark house.  Willingly. 

After it happened I remember walking with him back to the car where all his friends were waiting, KNOWING, what had just happened.  I felt deep shame and embarrassment as they snickered to themselves.  The guy, who was constantly showering me with gifts and flowers didn’t contact me for several months.  He just slithered off and disappeared until one day he showed up at my doorstep.  My mother, who ADORED this guy, let him in.  I sat with him in my kitchen and told him exactly what I thought about what he had done to me.  He was shocked and angry that I was calling him out.  I remember his words as he left “well, I guess I’ll take my leave.”  Like he was some sort of English Lord or something.  And that was it.

It happened over 35 years ago.  I remember everything.  What he said, what he did, who was there.  If he were going to be appointed to the Supreme Court, I would do the same thing as Dr. Ford.  And I would want anonymity.  Because I know, that even today in 2018, I would be blamed.  For not coming forward sooner.  For never saying anything.  And I don't think I could bear the questioning or the scrutiny.  What he did to me was unforgiveable.  He took something from me.  No, he didn’t beat me.  No, he didn’t drag me into an alley.  But he took something from me just the same …. and it was a crime. 

 

Who is America?

I don't know if any of you have watched this program yet.  It's on Showtime and Sacha Baron Cohen literally makes complete and total assholes out of very notable GOP politicians and others.  But more than that, without much prompting he is somehow able to get these people to exhibit the most outlandish, disgusting and crazy behavior you've ever seen. 

Cohen basically plays different characters.  One is an Israeli soldier who "teaches" how to combat terrorism.  Another character is a Finnish comedian (see above) who is interviewing Joe Arpaio, who was pardoned by Trump  for criminal contempt of court.  Arpaio had been convicted of racial profiling in detaining individuals suspected of being in the U.S. illegally.  Racist pig.

Arpaio is basically a sadist who houses his inmates in tent city in Phoenix, AZ.  If you have never been to Phoenix in the summer the temperature gets as high as 120 degrees.  It is truly inhumane punishment.  They are housed in facilities infested with cockroaches, fed worm infested food and made to wear pink underwear.  (If you're interested, I read a fascinating book written by Sean Attwood about his stay in Arpaio's jail) it is very well written and an amazing read. 

So last night Joe Arpaio was the guest. 


And I caution you, while watching it I felt very uncomfortable, but when Arpaio actually agreed to give Trump a blow job (yes, you read that correctly) I couldn't help but yell out OHMYGOOOOOD!!!!  I couldn't believe what I'd just heard. 


The following is taken from Vulture ...


Arpaio later reported to Breitbart (who else) that he was contacted sometime last fall by two producers who wanted to feature him in a Showtime show about 20 of the most popular people in America. He agreed to participate, went to Los Angeles in October 2017, and was taken to a “warehouse-like facility” for the interview, which he was told would air live to 2 million people. Unlike Ted Koppel, Arpaio admitted to Breitbart that he “signed some kind of contract before filming, which I have done numerous times, did not read all the info.” Arpaio was particularly uncomfortable with Cohen’s character using words like “blow job” and “golden shower”:

Arpaio recalled Cohen using “highly inappropriate” phraseology that he says made him “very uncomfortable.”


“He came up with certain words which were hard for me to hear,” Arpaio said, including “blowjob” and “talking about people working for” a “hand job.”


So I started getting a little pissed,” he said. Cohen also mentioned “golden shower,” Arpaio stated. Arpaio’s typed notes to document some of those words [sic].


“I felt uncomfortable with some of the words they were using but I had to live through it. I am not the type of guy who gets up and walks out,” he said. “I never walked out in thousands of interviews. I just take it.”


“I was kind of shocked,” Arpaio continued. “But I figured this is Finland and this is a famous comedian.”

Despite his anger in the Vulture piece, none of his supposed outrage was displayed in the "interview."  He was more than willing to go along and never once displayed any hesitation about whether the interview was legitimate or not.  I mean he literally argued with a toy donut about guns.


Do yourself a favor and go to You Tube.  YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE IT.  


 

 

STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES ....

Sarah Palin Slams ‘Evil, Sick’ Sacha Baron Cohen After Being Duped Into Interview

The former Fox News pundit and vice presidential candidate said the “Borat” creator’s team also made her miss her flight home.

Palin wrote, “I join a long list of American public personalities who have fallen victim to the evil, exploitive, sick ‘humor’ of the British ‘comedian’ Sacha Baron Cohen, enabled and sponsored by CBS/Showtime.  Well Sarah, perhaps if you weren't such a publicity whore you would not be so easily duped. 

I know you really want to remain relevant Sarah, but you haven't been relevant since I don't know when.  Maybe after Bristol Mop had her third child out of wedlock?? 

Yet you blathered on and on in a "pretend interview" about God knows what and now you're mad because someone made a fool of you.  Perhaps you did not do your homework?  Perhaps you are too easily fooled?  After all, if Stuttering John can call the White House and talk directly to el Presidente himself about "policy" .... seems to me a lot of you GOP blow-hards are idiots. 


Sarah went on to say:   

“The disrespect of our U.S. military and middle-class Americans via Cohen’s foreign commentaries under the guise of interview questions was perverse,” she added, before saying she was “purposefully” taken to the wrong airport after the interview and missed her flight home.


UH ... NO Sarah.  Don't even go there.  What pisses you off is that YOU were so easily tricked.  Word to the wise ... go home and make sure all your girls are on birth control.  That would be a good idea because with the possibility of Kavanaugh getting onto the Supreme Court you may be looking at raising even more grandchildren born out of wedlock. 


NEXT ...


Trump to visit the Queen.  GOD WOULD I PAY BIG BUCKS TO BE A FLY ON THE WALL OF THAT MEETING.

HOWEVER, it's not the state visit Trump wanted or that Teresa May promised on her visit to Washington in 2017. There will be no carriage ride with the Queen, an honour bestowed on George W Bush. No visit to Buckingham Palace or even a trip to May’s official 10 Downing Street London residence. And no photo ops in front of the numerous famous landmarks that dominate London.


Trump:  "NO CARRIAGE RIDE?!?!?!"
             "NO VISIT TO BUCKINGHAM PALACE?!?!?"
THEN FORGET IT!

Next, Trump will be meeting with his BFF Vladimir Putin, in PRIVATE, with NO ONE TO TAKE NOTES, ETC.  Is this even kosher? 

THE BORDER AND OTHER THINGS ....

I’ve been mulling over all the insanity at the border. 

Sarah Huckabee Sanders being asked to leave a restaurant because she works for POTUS. 

Melania’s visit to Texas with a nasty message on her jacket (doesn’t she have a publicist?);

And all the other nonsense that is happening in the world we now live in, which literally depresses me no end.

So yeah.  They’re illegal.  I get it.  But they are also seeking ASYLUM.  Traveling through ungodly terrain and risking life and limb and possible death.  WHO would risk that?  Only someone who was desperate.  And only someone who has been desperate can understand these people.  If you’ve never been desperate or afraid, then yes … by all means, hold onto your judgement and recitations about “the law”.  As for myself, I will remain a human being with a caring heart. 

For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ (Matthew 25:25-36).

Please note that the above scripture does not once mention the word "ILLEGAL" (especially important for those of you who take the scriptures literally). 

You can spin the above scripture any way you want.  But if you do, know that you are trifling with the words of Christ himself. 

NEXT .... Sarah Sanders

Now … despite my revulsion for this woman, I have to honestly say that if the restaurant had been mine, I probably would have served the lady.  You know why?  Because I just can’t be that way.  Plain and simple.  However, if Trump entered my restaurant I’d have no problem showing him the door.  In fact, I’d take immense pleasure from doing so. 

There still remains the reality of how one’s actions and words affect one’s treatment.  Karma you know. 

Dear Sarah:

         Come on.  Admit it.  It hurt didn’t it?  You felt humiliated didn’t you?  And maybe you felt your children didn’t deserve to be treated that way because of you?  And maybe once you got home it made you feel pissed off to be judged and treated so ugly for just being who you are and for who you work for. 

         So allow me to give you something to think about.  I know you consider yourself a Christian.  And I was thinking that maybe … just maybe …. God was giving you an opportunity to grow as a spiritual person by allowing you to feel just a little bit of the shame and fear those “illegals” feel.  And this might have been an opportunity that the Lord put before you in order for you to open your heart.  Walk in someone else’s shoes, if you will.  To teach you empathy and compassion in a REAL EXPERIENTIAL way.

Now, take that experience and allow it to open your heart.  Re-examine your conscience in an honest way.  In doing so, you could rise up to another level of spiritual maturity.  But it’s up to you to do so.  Or, you can stay stuck in your dogmatic, dualistic, right/wrong way of thinking and remain the judgmental, heartless, lying bitch you've proven to be to date.  Just a thought.

NEXT .... Melania

So Melania darlink, if you’re going to visit a place of such suffering why in the world would you wear a jacket with that message?  I know you wore it after your visit, but why didn’t you just turn around once you were the plane and flip everyone off?  Because that’s essentially what you did.  Are you too much of lady to extend your middle finger?  You figured the jacket would be subtler?  Did you not think it would not turn into a THING?  Whatever you meant by that jacket, it was wrong to wear it.  And you shouldn’t have gone to the border if your heart wasn’t in it.  We don't need your stinking fake empathy.