Dog park, Bernie and Roger Stone
By: W. Island
Tags: Politics, News

5 Things That Will Piss You Off This Week

Another BBQ Becky

After a while, these things shouldn’t piss me off. I mean I’m over BBQ Becky and Swimming Pool Patty. But the woman at the dog park who called the police on a Black man because his dog was humping her dog is a new low surpassing the previous record of calling the police on a student sleeping in the dorm room. I don’t have a dog so I’m not sure how this whole dog park thing works but I do know that calling the police on the owner of a dog for doing what dogs do is peak Becky. At least the police didn’t draw their guns on the poor dogs. Progress.

2. Bernie Sanders is a Democrat again.

Bernie launched his campaign in Brooklyn yesterday vying to be the nominee of the Democrat party. Bernie will run as a Democrat and when he loses go right back to being an independent again. It pisses me off that Bernie will use Democrat resources to run in the Democrat party all while blasting the Democrats. His rally was 95% White male…in Brooklyn; just think about how hard that must have been. He even had a White Reggae band along with headliners like Nina Turner and Shawn King.

I get Bernie has the right to run. But his campaign is already running on dismissing “identity politics” except the identity of the white working class and it already pisses me off. In an interview when ask about reparations, Bernie said he doesn’t think just writing a check will fix this problem. Wait what? We can debate whether or not reparations is feasible but for Bernie to dismiss this issue and claim it can’t be solved by writing a check when he has no problem writing checks for free college, free healthcare, free {insert all of his pet projects here} is ridiculous.

3. Racists posters in West Virginia

While the GOP is still crying over Rep. Meadows not actually being accused of racism for doing a real racist thing, a poster connecting Rep. Ilhan Omar to 9/11, sponsored by the state Republican Party, was displayed in the West Virginia Capitol Rotunda on Friday. Republicans allowed the poster to remain and not a single republican in the West Virginia House of Delegates condemned the poster. There have already been credible death threats against this freshman congresswoman and republicans have made it so much worst by linking her to 9/11. Not only have the local representatives been quiet, the national republicans have gone mute too.

4. CPAC crowd chants “lock her up”

Another year, another embarrassing CPAC. Clearly, these guys are running out of material because they keep shouting lock her up. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that a bunch of old, racist, nut jobs who cling to their guns and bibles also cling to old campaign slogans. Somebody hurry up and get these guys some new writers.

5. Roger Stone is the real Teflon Don

Look, I know that justice in this country is unequal and not blind but it still amazes me how much people (and I mean White people) can get away with before going to prison. Roger Stone was ordered not to talk to the media about his case. So he talked to the media about his case. The judge ordered him back to court and the media ran the headlines that Stone was going to jail for violating the court order. Black folks were like, Nah, he ain’t going anywhere. And of course he didn’t.

So what does Stone do, he violates the court order again. Now the headlines are claiming this time Stone is really in trouble, and black folks are still saying, Nah, he ain’t going anywhere. Roger Stone probably sits around with other rich guys betting on what he can get away with and the winner gets $1 like in Trading Places because they are so rich they don’t need any more money. This game will continue until Stone or the judge passes away.

The blind, equal system of justice really doesn’t apply to rich, white folks. There are very few things that will get them sent to prison and even then it’s never the appropriate sentence for the crime (see serial rapist Jeffrey Epstein as Exhibit A).