January 6 2021 Plus Five

January 6, 2021 Donald Trump on the Mall exhorted a large crowd of supporters protesting the previous year's 'Stolen election' to march on the Capitol, where the Congress certefying the vote for Joe Biden as the 46th President of the USA.

"If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore." Trump declared from the podium of the STOP THE STEAL crowd of several tens of thousands disgruntled white males and some females. Their MAGA messiah had been denied a second term. It didn't matter that he lost by millions of votes as well as in the Election College. They were enraged by firebrands like Alex Jones, who claimed that the White House asked him to lead the march to the Capitol according to Wikipedia. In the weeks before 1/6 the leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers had preached to their minions that the only way to save America was to storm the Capitol Building. Trump had ordered the newly appointed Secretary of Defense to protect the MAGA crowd and no troops were on hand for the attempted coup d'etat.

Around noon 45 appeared to the crowd."

'Something's wrong here. Something's really wrong. It can't have happened.' And we fight. We fight like Hell and if you don't fight like Hell, you're not going to have a country anymore". We are going to the Capitol and we're going to try and give us the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country". You'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong. We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated."

Next came the attack. The violent rioters overwhelmed the Capitol police. They had no back-up from the National Guard thanks to supporters within the military. The videos of 1/6 are . The attack failed to stop the certification of the election results. The riot cost five lives; a female rioter one was shot by the Capitol Police, another died of a drug overdose, and three died of natural causes, including a police officer who died of a stroke a day after being assaulted by rioters and collapsing at the Capitol.Many people were injured, including 174 police officers. Four officers who responded to the attack died by suicide within seven months. Damage caused by attackers exceeded $2.7 million. All this from Wikipedia.

The new White House went after the guilty. Hundreds were sentenced to prison and Trump narrowly avoided prosecution for his part in the uprising. he Senate voted 57–43 in favor of conviction. A conviction mneeded three more votes. In 2016 Trump annoounced to a crowd in Iowa, "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?."

Damn, right, and five years later the traitor hs complete control of the government. High on cocaine and adderal he doesn't sleep. All night he has AI tweeting his mad proclaimations and the other branches of the government had been enfeebled by what now can be called a dictatorship. It is a time to be safe and the only way to be safe is resist and the best way is stop paying your taxes. Start today. Enough not doing nothing.

The Xmas Drunk

Last holiday season I had a great part-time job to office parties as the Christmas Drunk ay several office parties and family gatherings in Manhattan. $500 an appearance in a business suit and all I could drink. Bad behavior was a must. Insulting the boss was a showstopper. Punching out the hated brother-in-law was most requested extra. $100/punch. Insulting a wife's obesity was a secret request of many husbands. I refused this boon. Punching a jerk was one thing. Hurting a fat woman's feelings was bad taste.

It was a good deal and the only downside was that I had to be drunker than anyone else at the party, so the family members and guests and co-workers could say the next morning, "At least I wasn't as drunk as the Christmas drunk."

Big Dave from the diamond exchange served as my back-up in case a situation spun out of hand, but I knew the limits and Big Dave never had to save my ass.

None of my clients knew my real name. Most guests asked at the end of a successful performance. "Who was that drunk guy?"

"The Xmas Drunk," the host answered with pride and my popularity increased as the holiday shopping days shrunk to single digits. I couldn't handle the demand. I boosted my rate to $200/hour. No one complained about my performance and by December 21st I was at the top of my game.

At a Hedge Fund soiree atop a skyscraper I ambushed the ruling CEO in the bathroom. I pointed a gun at him. Actually my weapon was a finger in my suit pocket. The capitalist fool was drunk enough to not question me.

Either that of very guilty.

I accused this inhebriated czar of finance of impoverishing the world. He swore that he was simply doing his job and pleaded for mercy.

"I'll write you a check for a million, if you let me go."

"Money means nothing to the Christmas Drunk." I grabbed his tie and dragged him into the main office, where his fellow execs ridiculed his surrender to a besotted revolutionary. I bowed to their applause and Big Dave escorted me out of the office.

"I was just getting started."

"That CEO's secretary was calling 911."

"Fuck him.

And I superglued shut the doors of the office and I heard they didn't get out until 3am.

The next morning I received a complaint from the banker who had hired me.

"What do you expect from the Christmas Drunk? Emily Post manners. Fuck off." None of them knew my real name and I threw away my burner. I had a wicked hang-over. I probably should have apologized, but he had paid me in cash. Everyone did, because there's only one person worst than the Christmas Drunk and that the guy seeking revenge by stiffing me, so I'm a strictly cash enterprise dedicated to being naughty and not nice and nothing says assnightmarehole better than the Christmas drunk.

No Santa 2011

America has been on a streak of bad luck ever since GW Bush was elected president in 2000.

The economy has boomed for the rich at the expense of the working classes.

No one buys jewelry.

No one buys perfume.

No one wants to be a Cheap Charlie, but this year has not been a good one no matter what the media pundits say, because they don't have to tell their children, "Sorry, Virginia, there is no more Santa Claus."

The media is needed for the masses to believe all is well and everyone wants to trust them this time of year, but our wallets and bank accounts tell the truth and parents will be sorely tested this December.

No money means no Santa Claus and children crying, "Where are the reindeers?"

"They have been laid off due to the dire economic conditions."

"Same as the Detroit autoworkers?"

"Good boy." The parents will be glad that the home schooling is improving their children's intellect since the public schools have been shut due to no funds.

Sounds ominous?

Maybe it is.

But my sons and daughters still want a Christmas.

Who am I to tell them that there is no Santa, when they know Santa is me.

Labor Day Weekend 2021

Written Sep 3, 2021

Labor Day Weekend traditionally marks the end of summer in the USA. Millions of Americans flocked to the shore, lakes, mountains, parks, and backyards for a last gasp of enjoyment before going back to work. Few realize that the holiday was established by President Grover Cleveland as a peace offering after his ordering in troops and federal marshals to break up the 1894 Pullman Strike outside Chicago.

The American Railway Union had struck and boycotted the Pullman Coach Company throughout the summer. Executives had cut workers' wages, but refused to lower prices at the company stores or rents in their company towns. Nearly 200,000 railroad workers walked out across the country effectively shutting down transportation from coast to coast.

President Cleveland called in 12,000 federal troops to protect corporate property and escort scabs or strike-breakers across the picket lines. In the ensuing violence thirty strikers were killed and many others wounded. Public opinion favored the action and ARU leader Eugene Debs was imprisoned for six months. Further investigation faulted George Pullman with inciting the unrest.

Immediately after the end of the strike Cleveland designated first weekend in September as Labor Day rather than International Workers Day in May due to its association communists, anarchists, and socialists.

Today I asked twenty people in Fort Greene, "Why do we have Labor Day?"

Most said to celebrate the end of summer, a few replied that they didn't know, and two answered to honor the working man without any mention of the struggle to win an 8-hour day, a minimum wage, health care, social security, and many other commonly accepted entitlements for the working classes.

The Republicans, the Proud Boys, the anti-vaxxers and Bible Tumpers are too ignorant to know exactly the benefits, which were won by those strikers and the GOP has refused to enact any legislation to overhaul the national infrastructure, preferring for the country to crumple into dust rather than hired hundreds of thousands of Americans for good-paying jobs.

An annual expenditure $100 billion will transform America into a nation of workers.

Do not give them up without a fight.

The police are workers working for the bosses.

They are not our friends when in uniform, except when they remember that they are union members too.

Workers of the world unite.

The Coast of Maine - Cape Porpoise - 2021

No matter what things don't change fast on Cape Porpoise___

Maine Coast - MARCH 2021

CAPE PORPOISE MAINE MARCH 2021

Deep Fried Brood X Cicadas

Hordes of Brood X cicadas havve lain dormant underground since 2004 and are predicted to emerge from their seven year slumber in the next few weeks across fifteen states in the Northeast. Billions if not trillions of the larvae are now burrowing up from the earth. Upon emerging the larvae will shed their skins to become adults.

The Brood X swarm will give birth to the Brood Y generation of 2038, then die off leaving the memory of the male songs to the residents of Delaware, Illinois, Georgia, Indiana, New York, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Michigan as well as in Washington, D.C.

Insects are a delicacy in Thailand. No one in America eats them, but maybe I'll deep-fry some this Spring. The go good with beer.