Weekly News And Political Links For 3/12/21
Tags: Prince Harry, Masks, Charlie Kirk, Political Satire, Voter Suppression

This week’s political links and other interestin’ stuff start off with…

- An interesting piece from NY Magazine Intelligencer explaining how the GOP hates everything democracy, and very deftly uses the structural deficiencies of our system to exert dominance over the electoral system while representing fewer folks. It’s a bit of a wonky read but definitely worth the time to understand systemic disenfranchisement.

- The featured image for this one is heartbreaking but here’s a story you might have heard about but didn’t see. A group of people in Idaho decided to prove that Potatoes have more evolutionary potential than them. They had a mask burning fiesta…kids included. Evolution is failing us. Here’s a video of the hoe down:

A child says “here fire, you hungry? here’s another mask” A mask burning rally in boise, Idaho pic.twitter.com/MqNnaEKBP0 - Sergio Olmos (@MrOlmos) March 6, 2021

- There’s a lesson to be learned here, don’t f*ck with cats. If reincarnation does exist, every cat I’ve ever met or been around proves that serial killers arrive in their next life with whiskers and names like “fluffy”. Forget Snakes On A Pane, keep Peaches in the cargo area.

- I’m not Catholic, et al so I don’t do the whole Lent dealio, yet I find myself strangely interested in this one. Del Hall from Cincinnati has taken the concept of diet, beer & piety, and wrapped them into one neat package. He’s a visionary who is all about getting drunk and helping others — it’s magic. Just by looking at the before and after pics, I see a new trend in rapid weight loss & charity; theological alcoholism. Drink beer, lose weight & it seems, give your soul a warm fuzzy feeling. There is nothing bad here…at all. Follow Del on Instagram here: @SgtDel

- It takes a deep level of amoral sociopathology (and a set of balls) to tell someone “I hope you starve to death”, and then immediately take credit for the Big Mac the guy across the street gave to them. Let me introduce you to U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker from the great state of Mississippi. This a**hat just publicly his constituents and the American people by voting resoundingly “no” on the Covid Relief Bill, and immediately tweeting:

Independent restaurant operators have won $28.6 billion worth of targeted relief. This funding will ensure small businesses can survive the pandemic by helping to adapt their operations and keep their employees on the payroll. https://t.co/Ob4pRb9Xh4 - Senator Roger Wicker (@SenatorWicker) March 10, 2021

…yet people still vote for them. I’m at a loss.

- Admittedly, I’m not from the south. I don’t understand the mentality. I certainly did stupid pranks in college but maybe it’s a regional thing to steal goats in AL. You can always chalk goat stealing up to shrooms, some killer shatter, tequila, etc., but what baffles me about this is the whole painting a goat? It also seems they take their goats awfully seriously: stealing a goat is a felony. What am I missing about Alabama?

- I could care less about the British Royal family but their latest dip into the news cycle demonstrates the level of dipsh*t racist separation from reality those on the Right dwell in. Right wing a**hat Charlie Kirk, a guy who consistently looks like he was just arrested soliciting sexual acts in a public bathroom, had to jump in to defend the royal family from accusation of racism by their daughter in law by referring to Prince Harry as a beta male. The pictures spell it out.