Let’s remember our fascist history.

In 1919 the Fascist part of Italy formed the  Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale, which translates to the “Voluntary Militia for National Security.”

They were more commonly known as the Camicie Nere, or “Blackshirts,” because of the color of their uniforms.

In 1923, they became the volunteer militia of Il Duce, Benito Mussolini.

They were thugs and enforcers who helped maintain Mussolini’s rule with the help of “the bludgeon and castor oil*.”

*Castor oil forms Ricinoleic acid in the bowel and irritates the digestive track causing it to spasm.  The Blackshirts would force victims to drink large volumes of castor oil, causing horrible, painful diarrhea, possibly resulting in death from dehydration.

United States Congressman from Minnesota, and Deputy Chair of the Democratic National Committee Tweeted this.

https://twitter.com/keithellison/status/948657342308147202

Once more as a screen capture in case he deletes it.

Yes, you read that right.  A sitting US Congressman seemed to endorse Antifa as a threat to President Donald Trump.

Antifa, who commonly take part in the Black Bloc to riot against conservative speakers and got involved in street fight in Charlottesville.

I’m not sure if Congressman Keith Ellison could have been any clearer that he believes that the role of Antifa is the Democrats’ Camicie Nere.

I’ve watched this video a dozen times and every time it gives me the giggles.

I've been waiting for this….Paul Sorvino on Harvey Weinstein harassing and blacklisting his daughter Mira Sorvino….

"He ought to hope he goes to jail…cause if not, he has to meet me and I will kill the motherfu**er" https://t.co/q6PWec3jxD pic.twitter.com/kkov60WdBx

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) January 3, 2018

Mira Sorvino was blacklisted by Harvey Weinstein for resisting his sexual predation.

God damn, I want Paul Sorvino to send the night surgeon to take Weinstein apart, bit by bit.

Trump Tweeted this:

North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 3, 2018

The media then shit their pants in horror.

Did I miss a day of history class when we were all nuked back in the 80’s?  I thought the idea of Mutually Assured Destruction kept the Soviets from attacking us for, like, 40 years.

Maybe Trump reminding Kim that this president has some lead in his pencil is more of a deterrent than Obama’s bending at the knee foreign policy.

At least that’s what I learned in my military history classes in college.

I think I am coming around on Trump in some ways.   I think he is petulant at times when it is inappropriate but there are times when I want him to let it off the hook. 

I’d love for him to go to the UN assembly and say:

“Do not expect me to act like Obama. As president, I have three things that he didn’t, a hot wife, a hard cock, and a Secretary of Defense who’s not afraid to kill some motherfuckers. You’ve been warned.”

It is now the law in Oregon that you can pump your own gas, because its legislature decided that it’s no longer  1951.

The thing is, it only applies to counties of less than 40,000 people, so about half the state.  I’ve lived in western South Dakota and rural Indiana, which still had a city population of about 60,000 and a county population of 80,000.  I can’t imagine how empty a county of 40,000 must be.

It seems that having gas stations be unable to serve people because the town didn’t have enough people to keep the gas station open had something to do with this.

Truth be told, I used to live in New Jersey and I hated having my gas pumped by someone else.   I felt very uncomfortable about it.   It was like having a men’s room attendant unzip my fly and hold my dick while I pee.

Sure, people from New Jersey said they pay less for gas, but that’s not because the attendant makes it cheaper, but that Pennsylvania and New York have higher gas taxes and jack the price up by comparison.

So, back to Oregon…

The law, of course, doesn’t apply to the major population centers of the state.

Apparently some people in Oregon didn’t know this and voiced an opinion on Facebook about the change in the law.

Oregon is wedged in between California and Washington.  To the south is a state were a substantiation percentage of the population is confused about which bathrooms to use, and to the north is… Evergreen State College (’nuff said).

So when Facebook posts claim that people in Oregon do not know how to pump their own gas, don’t want to learn how to do so, and are afraid of smelling like gas… my parody detector just shuts down.

My prejudices, being what they are, I assume that is the rural Oregonians who know how to pump their own gas and will be alright.

For the rest of the Beaver State population, if you are confused and scared by the idea of refueling their own cars, here is some advice.

If you don’t know how to fill your tank, don’t worry.  Just spray the gasoline all over the car, it will eventually soak in.

If you are afraid of smelling like gas after doing that.  Just treat gas fumes like a nasty fart, just light a match.  I promise you, you won’t smell any gas after that.

It’s the first day back at work after the holidays.  Of course the break room is filled with the candy and left overs nobody wants sitting at home.  Someone brought in Jelly Belly brand candy canes.

One person was reading the wrapper trying to figure out the flavor and said “what do they mean produced with genetic engineering?”

(It’s true, it says so on the wrapper)

Not missing a beat I replied “well candy canes naturally are red and white and peppermint flavored, with genetic engineering they can grow them in a wide variety of colors and flavors.”

I hope I don’t get called to HR for that.

Piers “Muskets” Morgan must have had some major surgery over the Holidays.  It seems like he bad his head removed from his ass as well as an addadicktome, because today he Tweeted this.

Shameful lack of support from our politicians & media for the courageous Iranian protestors.
If Iran’s leader was Donald Trump the stinking hypocrites would be screaming from the rooftops that he be overthrown.
Britain needs to work out who our real enemies are – fast.

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) January 1, 2018

That is both impressively smart and on solid moral ground.

The fact is the silence by Women’s Rights groups and other Social Justice leftists in the West has been deafening.

https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/948229503276417025

The fact is that the Women’s March and like minded groups CAN’T support the women in Iran.

The know deep in their shriveled, blackened hearts that the women taking off their headscarves to protest an oppressive regime  are infinitely braver then they.

They can’t invite the comparison between the women of Iran who are protesting for the right not to be stoned to death on the suspicion of adultery, or beaten for going in public without a hijab and a male escort and the women of progressive America who protested for the right to have the goverment to subsidies the copays for their birth control and fund abortion through Planned Parenthood.

To see someone like Piers Morgan call out the left for their taciturn support of an oppressive, Islamist regime, it means that they have nothing left to stand on.

Didi Delgado is some sort of author/poet/social activist.

Every notice how many of these social activists are authors and/or poets?  I didn’t realize one could make a living penning racist screeds for HuffPo.  Those who don’t do, teach, those who can’t even find a associate professorship become authors.

She went to Medium to publish her latest activist opinion.

8 New Year’s Resolutions For Radical Resistance: A progressive’s guide to fucking shit up in 2018.

Apparently 2017 was not enough of a Social Justice dumpster fire, Didi Delgado wants 2018 to be even worse.

She starts:

Pssstt… Progressives, Liberals, and would-be allies: I know you’re busy crafting tweets, signing petitions, and sharing anti-Trump memes… but do you wanna know the best way to ring in the new year? By dismantling oppression!

Here are 8 New Year’s resolutions for truly radical resistance.

Let’s go.

So does she recommend doing anything useful?

Of course not.  Let’s look at some highlights.

1: Steal stuff.

Before this gets taken out of context, I want to clarify that by “steal stuff” I mean “take things that don’t belong to you without paying for them.” Especially from rich people, corporations, or government institutions. We’re not going to subvert Capitalism by stealing from marginalized folks, and it doesn’t make sense to rob people who don’t have much to begin with. History has proven that nothing disrupts the State like the forceful redistribution of wealth and property. So make sure this is on your to-do list for 2018!

That’s right, she recommends robbery, burglary, and shop lifting.  If you don’t like Trump, just rip off a company or a rich person.  That’s not something that is going to backfire badly, no, not at all.

3: Give black women and femmes all your money

No surprise here folks. Buy somebody groceries. Pay somebody’s rent. Hire a Black woman in management, especially since Black women keep saving your asses. Add a Black mom to your phone’s family plan. If you’re broke, find some other privilege you’ve got and share that. Got a car? Help provide transportation to a Black family. Got a spare room? Let a Black woman crash. Got 6 hours? Offer to babysit. Got Netflix? Give me your password? Got a rich uncle? “O.J.” him and use the inheritance to bail 1000 Black women out of jail. Just do something! We need to focus on the most marginalized if we ever plan to get free, and that means focusing on Black women and femmes. Period. (If you’re looking for a resource of Black women and femmes who need support, follow the #DoneForDiDi Facebook group.)

Nothing like freeloading, except maybe racist freeloading.  I guess her writing isn’t paying the bills like she thought it would.  She wants your stuff and is going to guilt you into giving it to her because Trump.  If you don’t she’ll just steal if from you, I guess.

4: Commit yourself to hating cops more.

However much you hate the police, double it. Then double it again. Stop praising cops altogether. Stop sharing feel-good cop stories and photos. Stop calling the police on people of color. Stop pretending cops are here to help. They’re not. And when the Revolution comes (you know, the Revolution we pretend to want) it will be the cops and military beating our asses in the streets like they beat Black and Brown folks every day. Fuck the police, and fuck the troops. We’ve been brainwashed since birth to think that’s blasphemy. It’s not. This is about the oppressive institutions comprising our military and law enforcement. This isn’t about individual cops and soldiers — who are often just exploited kids fresh out of high school — but, yeah, fuck them too.

Did she not get the memo that the YUGE increase in Baltimore’s homicide rate is the result of under policing not over policing.  The real world effect of hating cops is no fewer dead black men at the hands of abusive police but a whole shitload more dead black men at the hands of other black men.  Didi Delgado really doesn’t care for actual black people in American cities, only her Social Justice ideologies.  Who’s the racist now?  Oh yeah, me for pointing that out.

5: Riot

We don’t need more petitions; we don’t need more folks calling our representatives. There’s a place for that in the Revolution, but that’s not what’s going to save us. “The whole damn system is guilty as hell,” remember? We need people who are willing to disrupt the system to bring about justice. And we need to do that by ANY means necessary, not just with the tools they permit us to have. Let go of the notion that there are “bad” ways to resist oppression.

We can’t reform this system because the system is working exactly as it was designed. If we truly want to bring about change, we have to look beyond reform and be willing to “not” burn it all down.

Ask Baltimore how well that worked for them.  Trump is still President but black neighborhoods in Baltimore still look like the aftermath of a war.

7: Stop voting

I vote with the same urgency that I fold my laundry. If I have something more important to do — and that includes binge watching She’s Gotta Have It — I’ll put it off indefinitely. “But DiDi! People DIED so you could have the right to vote!” Don’t try and shame me into investing in a popularity contest for old white men.

The concept of voting carries WAY too much weight in our society. We see voting as the height of civic engagement, when in reality it’s the bare minimum. Voting just isn’t as important as we want to believe.

Sour Grapes as a political strategy is a new one.  This is the only one I endorse, only because it will only secure more Republican victories.  Other than that, what is her alternative to voting?  We don’t appoint leaders after riots, the word for that is “Coup.”

If this is what the #Resistance has planned for 2018, than it is going to suck even worse than 2017.  Remember, the reason Don Quixote tilted at windmills is because he is insane (I always interpreted the book as that he had dementia).  From the outside looking in, these bits of advice come across as a terrible way to gain support.

Tell me to give all my money to black women, if I don’t they can steal it from me, then burn down the city I live in and hate the cops who protect me from the rioters?  And you want me to support you?  Um…no.

If you consider that these people are clearly insane and unmoored from reality, you can see why they think this will bring victory.