Month: January 2017

by William Skink

How many of you will celebrate the deep state coup against Trump? Will it matter which method the deep state uses to depose of Trump?

When Chuck Wall-Street-Whore Schumer threatened Trump, did the implication of his statement give you hope?

New Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday that President-elect Donald Trump is “being really dumb” by taking on the intelligence community and its assessments on Russia’s cyber activities.

“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” Schumer told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.

“So even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he’s being really dumb to do this.”

It’s dumb because the consequences of crossing the intelligence community’s deep state roots are firmly established. See JFK. And Schumer is correct that there are many different methods on hand to take care of a president who steps out of line.

With inauguration day fast approaching–and with the long and sordid history of the CIA’s involvement in overthrowing governments across the globe–Trump should be weary of the forces aligned against him.

Protest actions planned throughout next week will be interesting to watch. Even more interesting is this curious move to remove the DC National Guard Chief:

The Army general who heads the D.C. National Guard and has an integral part in overseeing the inauguration said Friday that he will be removed from command effective at 12:01 p.m. Jan. 20, just as Donald Trump is sworn in as president.

Maj. Gen. Errol R. Schwartz’s departure will come in the middle of the presidential ceremony — classified as a national special security event — and while thousands of his troops are deployed to help protect the nation’s capital during an inauguration he has spent months helping to plan.

“The timing is extremely unusual,” Schwartz said in an interview Friday morning, confirming a memo announcing his ouster that was obtained by The Washington Post. During the inauguration, Schwartz will command not only members of the D.C. Guard but also 5,000 unarmed troops dispatched from across the country to help. He also will oversee military air support protecting Washington during the inauguration.

“My troops will be on the street,” said Schwartz, who turned 65 in October. “I’ll see them off, but I won’t be able to welcome them back to the armory.” He said he would “never plan to leave a mission in the middle of a battle.”

So, if it happens, how many of you will celebrate the ouster of Donald Trump? Will you support the deep state as it cracks down on any reaction to an American coup? Will you go along with martial law? A national curfew? Preemptive detention? Shutting down alternative media?

What are you willing to accept in order to get rid of Trump? We may soon find out.

by William Skink

Take a break from Democrat politicians taxing your little farms and protecting the profits of pharmaceutical companies with this video welcoming you to Montana. Enjoy!

by William Skink

The title of this post is inaccurate. Mark Tokarski isn’t an apologist for pedophile priests because you can’t be an apologist for something you don’t think actually happened.

How does one arrive at such a mind-bending conclusion? By making thoughtful claims, like this:

Last night I picked up the iPad to read Miles Mathis’s latest paper concerning the movie Spotlight. I too have had the insight that if the mainstream press is behind exposure of a scandal, then something is rotten, and it is not Catholic priests. After all, we do not have real journalism in this country. Instead we have lightweights, actors, poseurs and outright fakes. Real research is done by blogs like this and so many others, and by people like Mathis.

The “article” this claim of fakery leans heavily on is an odd mix of jew-genealogy and a curious parsing of what actually constitutes pedophilia. Here is an example:

OK, I found enough data to make you very suspicious of this story. But what was it all about? Why fake a major story about pedophilia in the Catholic Church? Strap yourself down, because I still have a lot of things to hit, and many of them may not have occurred to you. Some may be difficult for us both. We will start with pedophilia itself. It is a word thrown around a lot, but what does it really mean? It means (sexual) love of children. Legally, a child is a person who has not gone through puberty, so we are talking about persons under 12-14, say. It varies, because not everyone goes through puberty at the same age. I mention this, because there is some confusion, and that confusion has been promoted on purpose.

What neither Tokarski, nor his go-to decoder ring, Miles Mathis, acknowledge is the fact there are thousands and thousands of real victims abused by predator priests who were systematically protected by the church.

Before I left my job at the shelter I had a brief conversation with a client who was expecting a small settlement from legal proceedings regarding abuse he experienced as a child by a priest. And during a vacation I took in Costa Rica, my wife and I nearly stayed at a hostel we later learned was being run by Catholic priest kicked out of the states. We were told this by the proprietor of the Bed and Breakfast we stayed at after leaving the hostel because my wife got a bad feeling about the place and didn’t want to stay there.

I am one person with two anecdotal stories. I don’t say that to prove anything other than backing up my audacious assertion that widespread sexual abuse happened, was systematically covered up, then eventually exposed.

Are there agendas behind how the sexual abuse scandals (plural) were exposed? Are intelligence agencies involved? It’s quite possible, but to simply dismiss the scandal as “fake” is utter bullshit and incredibly offensive to survivors.

Mark Tokarski makes a lot of bullshit claims about people, mostly celebrities, but still people. These claims are backed up by the kind of evidence that convicted witches in Salem (also a hoax, according to Master Mathis). I’m beginning to wonder if there isn’t perhaps more to his years of antagonizing the MT blogosphere.

And I’m also beginning to wonder about Steve Tokarski:

It’s talked about in the church parking lot, after meetings and over coffee following Mass, but the pedophilia crisis has not yet been a topic in the pulpit of St. Pius X Catholic Church in Billings.

This will soon change, said the Rev. Steve Tokarski. “The heartache and dismay and sadness” caused by the crisis will not be healed through avoidance, he said.

“At some point I’m going to need to address it. People are disheartened, discouraged, scandalized. I think I have a responsibility to speak publicly in a weekend homily.”

Tokarski is not yet sure what he will say. He’s still trying to make sense of it himself. Nothing in his three decades of priesthood compares with the shadow cast by the scandal, he said.

“In the course of 34 years, it’s like going from the age of innocence to where we are now,” Tokarski said.

by William Skink

The most slickly sold political product in American history performed his final advertisement tonight. I guess lots of people still think his words are credible. They clearly haven’t been paying attention for the last 8 years.

Obama protected Wall Street.

Obama expanded wars.

Obama deported more illegal immigrants than Bush.

Obama prosecuted more whistleblowers than any other president.

Obama’s economic “recovery” went largely to the top 1 percent.

And Obama presided over the implosion of the Democratic party.

The executive office being handed over to Trump is more dangerous than ever because for 8 years Democratic supporters have been asleep at the wheel. Now they are waking up to the potential abuses of the Trump regime.

This is the scenario critics of Obama were worried about, but you ignored the warnings and ridiculed the messengers.

We tried, but you’re misplaced faith in the presidency was unshakeable.

And now we have Trump.

Good luck with that.

by William Skink

“Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.”

When Meryl Streep made the above comment last night at the Golden Globe Awards, the unnamed target was Donald Trump. While I agree with the sentiment of the statement, I don’t agree with its narrow application.

Streep was an ardent supporter of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, giving this speech at the Democratic National Convention. That support, imho, transforms Streep’s words from righteous indignation to hypocritical bullshit.

Allow me a broader application of Meryl Streep’s comment:

Disrespecting the sovereignty of other nations invites the disrespect of our own. See the CIA, post WWII.

The violence of neoliberal policies incites more violence. See Obama’s drone program.

And when the powerful use their position to bully others, not everyone loses. Weapons manufacturers, security agencies and military budgets do just fine.

Meryl Streep, in her commentary last night, seemed really disturbed by Trump’s mockery of a disabled journalist. Fair enough. What I can’t seem to shake, though, is the sociopathic inclination behind this candid performance: