what the fuck is this?

the media fails its first test of Donny’s second presidency

the worthless scribblers of the corporate-controlled press are a big reason we’re in this unholy mess. they had one job — to accurately report on the two candidates running for president in 2024 — and they whiffed it. what they did instead was sanewash the shit out of Donny Convict’s blithering. as a result, a bunch of bamboozled low-information nitwits — who had no fucking clue what they were actually voting for — pulled the lever for fascism.

based on their coverage of the events around Donny Convict’s first day in office, it looks like the media is going to keep right on failing us.

Donny’s second presidency was barely a few hours old when the world’s richest pantload went full fascist during his speech at a post-inaugural rally.

now, if you thought you were watching a right-wing oligarch give a clear sieg heil — the Nazi salute — our media would like you to stop believing your lying eyes. because what you saw, according to these gaslighting shitweasels, was a “controversial gesture” that “sparked debate.”

let’s be clear: the “debate” is between people who saw what they saw, and social media trolls who want to deny what they saw.

maybe we should check the historical record and compare what Elon did with that old madcap, Ady the Hit. let’s see if we can draw any conclusions.

who can tell? gee, what a fucking conundrum. I’m as confused as you are. I guess we’ll never know.

the Anti-Defamation League can go fuck itself all the way around the block, because they’re supposed to be front-and-center when it comes to denouncing this shit. here is the ADL’s mission statement:

ADL is the leading anti-hate organization in the world. Founded in 1913, its timeless mission is to stop the defamation of the Jewish people.

gee, it sounds like the ADL would be first in line to call a sieg heil a sieg heil, right?

wrong.

This is a delicate moment. It’s a new day and yet so many are on edge. Our politics are inflamed, and social media only adds to the anxiety.

It seems that @elonmusk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people are on edge.

In this moment, all sides should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath. This is a new beginning. Let’s hope for healing and work toward unity in the months and years ahead.

why is “the leading anti-hate organization in the world” giving the benefit of the doubt to a the guy who turned twitter into a Nazi bar? what the fuck happened to you, ADL?

remember that thing Maya Angelou said? “when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” Elon’s been showing us who he is for a while now.

the AfD is Germany’s farthest-right political party — and now, having bought himself a co-presidency in America, Elon’s meddling in German politics.

The AfD has been frozen out of mainstream German politics, in part, because its leaders have downplayed Nazi atrocities.

that’s who Elon is. he’s past the benefit of the doubt stage.

maybe we should ask some genuine neo-Nazis what they thought of Elon’s sieg heil — oops, I mean controversial gesture.

oh look, they fucking loved it.

Thomas Sewell, an Australia-based neo-Nazi, whose Telegram avatar is a picture of himself throwing a Roman salute, posted the video of Musk calling it a “Donald Trump White Power moment.”

The Proud Boys Ohio chapter posted to a clip of the Musk video to its Telegram channel with the text, “Hail Trump!”

A chapter of the white nationalist group White Lives Matter posted a note of appreciation on Telegram, along with a picture of a banner drop the group had previously executed at a freeway overpass reading: “Elon Musk Stop White Genocide.” The Telegram caption read, “Thanks for (sometimes) hearing us, Elon. The White Flame will rise again.”

actual Nazis know what they saw — but sure, let’s all get bogged down in some useless distraction about if a Nazi salute is actually a Nazi salute.

this is who is running America now, and the media can’t bring themselves to admit it. thank you, scribblers of the press, you’re really covering yourselves in glory.

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yesterday morning, Joe Biden pardoned Mark Milley, Anthony Fauci, members of Capitol Police, the January 6th Committee members, and members of his own family. he granted those pardons in order to prevent innocent people from being persecuted by Donny Convict’s Archangels of Retribution, Kash Patel and Pam Bondi.

yesterday evening, Donny pardoned over fifteen hundred January 6th insurrectionists. he granted those pardons because fuck you, that’s why.

here’s how The New York Times spun that shit.

what in the holy name of Both-Sides Jesus is this? in any sane world, there would be no debate over the meaning of January 6th. there is no he-said-she-said to reality. there is only what happened.

this is what we have to look forward to for the next however long. Donny’s going to pull some fascist bullshit, and the worthless scribblers are going to try to elevate it into some gaslit discussion over meaning and purpose.

let me save you the trouble, media. Donny is motivated by power, greed, revenge, and the overwhelming need to be the center of attention at all times — and everything he does can be filtered through that. there is no higher meaning or purpose — and you’re insulting our intelligence by trying to pretend that there is.

you’re collaborators.

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after all that, we could use some comic relief. check out Donny being welcomed to the White House by Joe and Jill Biden.

the dilapidated old dotard can’t even button his own clothes any more. there’s no way he lasts four years.

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oh wait, here’s one more thing:

Robert Ellingsworth has won the entire internet with this quip about Melania’s inaugural getup.

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here’s your daily reminder that I can be found on Blue Sky at this link.

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this is going to be my closing message for the foreseeable future:

practice self-care. do what you need to do to keep sane. if that means you need to disengage with my daily posts for a while, I get it. this community of ours will still be here when you return.

to all the people who have signed on in the days since the election, welcome aboard. settle in as we all try to deal with the shitfuckery that’s ahead of us.

we are all in this together, and we are all here for each other.