Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights.

Today is the No Kings But Yaaas Queen! march. It’s Obama Appreciation Day. It’s also the army’s 250th birthday parade which the orange null set, who thinks he’s a tough guy, has co-opted. 
Yesterday a group of military veterans were busted for protesting against today’s bullshit, dictator wankfest as well as Apricot Assface sending the marines and national guard into LA (an ultra expensive, taxpayer funded, reality show performance from the dickless White House wonder). The vets felt the money would have been better spent on housing, health care, and food. Yup.

By the by, amongst those arrested was an 80 year old vet using a rollator. The man’s wrists were ziptied behind his back as he was led off to a squad car. One of the cops pulled the his rollator along behind him. Fer fuck’s sake! Had that been me, I’d have been on the fucking ground. I need the damn wheelie walker to stay upright. What clueless, callous motherfuckers!

If at 6:30 PM, D.C. experiences a major thunderstorm with torrential, flooding rains, I MIGHT just reconsider my agnosticism/atheism, especially if death dealing bolts of lightening hit a few dozen execrable examples of humanity.

The very wise Jim Wright of Stonekettle Station has this advice for today:

No Kings

I'm not going to tell you how to protest, but I remind you the cops are just looking for an excuse to smash your face into the concrete. They've said so, especially here in Florida. 

If you light shit on fire, well, then that's the clip the media will play over and over and ignore everything else. 

The Goons and Agitators are just spoiling for a fight, maybe don't give them one.

One way or the other, you're going to deliver a message today. Make sure it's the one you want to send.

It's hot. It's dangerous. Be safe, stay hydrated, look out for those beside you.

I only mention it but, on this day, June 14, in 1940, the first mass transport (728) of Polish political prisoners arrived at Auschwitz from a prison in Tarnów, Poland. I’m figuring the first concentration camps on US land will be in Texas, followed by Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, and the Florida panhandle.

What’s Dicktater Donnie’s birthday costing us, the taxpaying citizens of the now Disunited States of Shitholia? $45 million. I’ll bet the 14 million people who used to have Medicaid are thrilled to bits that the tangerine toddler got his fondest tyrannical dreams fulfilled though.

I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail.
~ Muhammad Ali

This government was founded on protest.
~ Thurgood Marshall

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
~ Elie Wiesel

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.
~ Bob Marley