Robert Emmett Murphy, Jr.

Rick Santorum was fired from his cushy pundit job over this statement: "We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here. I mean, yes, we have Native Americans. There isn't much Native American culture in American culture." Now he's claiming to be a victim of "cancel culture:" "What I said was not at all disparaging toward Native Americans. What I was talking about is the founding of the United States of America. Native Americans did not have a role in the founding of our country." Well, this potato-eating Irishman, who grew up in an Bronx neighborhood surrounded by Italians who loved their marinara sauce, celebrating Thanksgiving every year, and walking on dirt that was once the home land of the Algonquins (who fought like hell against Washington and payed the price by being ethnically cleansed), I think maybe you weren't punished by the "woke" but slapped for being asleep.

What is unfolding in the two Jerusalems, Israel in general, the Gaza strip, and to a lesser extent, the West Bank, is horrific. It is the fourth, painfully similar, violence in only twelve years.   Israel has its defenders, and the defense is grounded in the obvious provocation, and war crimes committed, by Hamas. I’m here to tell you that this is in fact Israel’s fault, and until we acknowledge this, there can be no honest discussion.   Hamas, not directly provoked, has fired thousands of missiles into civilian neighborhoods, and Israel shot back. Hamas has killed Israel civilians, but the Israeli counter-offensive has made the Palestinian death-toll ten-fold that of the Israeli, with few Hamas fighters falling as the air-strikes reduce a desperately poor, and insanely over-crowded, piece of land into rumble.   Really, rumble again.   Just like Hamas’s targeting civilians is a war crime, so is Israel’s disproportionate response.   Israel’s d...

  In 2020, as the Democrats gained the White House and Senate, and retained control of the House, the party did lose House seats to the GOP, and all seats lost went to fierce Trump loyalists. Moderate Republicans who demanded Trump modify his stances, or stood against him, were gutted in every election since 2016. Even arch-Conservatives who defied Trump suffered, explaining why text-book Conservative Cheney was replaced formerly moderate, now conspiracy masturbating, Trumpster Stefanik. There was just a review of the 2020 House freshmen, and the five biggest vote-missers among them were all Republicans. So they are the "revolution" but are failing to show up and do their jobs. Fucking Welfare Queens.

  The USA is at a crossroads, and choices need to be made. Who we vote for, who we respect, who our friends are, everything is in flux. A former bartender, now in politics, nailed this moment with the most perfect sentence of our times: 'These are the kinds of people that I threw out of bars all the time' Keep that in mind, and we will stay on the road to that shining city on the hill.

  Ramisyllis multicaudata is a marine worm. Its reproduction process is potentially problematic. It grows extra assholes before it allows its offspring to separate and become individuals, so there comes a point in it’s life where the one worm has hundreds of assholes.   It get’s crazier, because those hundreds of assholes grow rudimentary eyes and brains before the assholes become individuals and mature as such.   Ramisyllis multicaudata is the scientific name. It apparently still lacks a common name. I have a suggestion:   I say we call this worm a “Republican.”

  There is no more GOP. Maybe is official on December 8, 2020, the day that Texas filed a lawsuit to overturn Democracy and a shockingly large number of Republicans in Washington supported it. OK, maybe that wasn't the exact day, maybe it became official on ... January 6, 2021, when a shockingly large number of Republicans in Washington voted to object to the Electoral College vote affirmed Biden's win. That was also the date of the attempted coup, so if the death of the GOP wasn't official then, then maybe it was on ... March 18, 2020, when a shockingly large number of Republicans in Washington successfully stalled a Congressional probe into the above-mentioned attempted coup. But if the party still had any breathe left in its body, then the true death rattle had to be ... Today,  when a shockingly large number of Republicans in Washington voted to remove Liz  Cheney from power because she dared speak truth to power (something we Liberals never wou...

  As we watch the court cases regarding the attempted coup of Jan 6 th , and listen to the “free speech” prattling’s of Conservatives who are appalled that private industry isn’t obligated to up-hold the same First Amendment purism as the government (meaning Donald Trump’s Facebook and Twitter bans), it would be useful to consider what restrictions on your free speech the government actually endorses.   The key case is Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969), a landmark decision that held that inflammatory speech cannot be legitimately criminalized unless that speech is "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action." It is important to remember that Brandenburg was a Liberal decision, radically expanding your protection from finding that your speech was criminalized as compared to the previous standards.   Now, a few quotes from the on-going court cases against the participants in the failed Coup. These quotes all co...