The Hip Hop Anthropologist

Coronavirus has increased 647 percent since last week. Repugs responded with a half a trillion dollar payday for wealthy corporations. And chump now wants to reopen the markets ... What else can possibly go wrong in this classical comedy of errors?... if chump goes through with this disastrous shift (for the federal workforce although federal employees still have to follow state law) to reopen the government, it would be tantamount to a dereliction of duty - i.e., criminal ne glect - prosecutable as a crime against humanity, period. Barr should be advising against such a calamity. If he doesn't, chump, Barr and the rest of chump's complicit stooges should all be unceremoniously arrested, and hauled to court, like the Nazi war criminals during the 13 Nuremberg trials (if a single person dies when he goes through with this attempt to bolster his waning re-election campaign).

We've been making this argument since 2016. Chump the brain dead comic carnival barker isn't the disease, he's just the symptom ... Chump knew and exploited this dark underbelly of the body politic daring anyone to say anything while he double deals, cheats, lies, bullied, blusters and bumbles his way across the world stage. The current crop of elected officials cannot say anything because they have personally benefited from the corruption. And since chump has been in office, the systems that used to at least perpetuate the image of working have broken down altogether with racist, indolent bureaucrats outright refusing to do their jobs ... And I agree with another poster, if the country really knew how corrupt the government is, it would spur a mass uprising ...

Donald John Trump has brutally ripped the façade of democracy off the body politic for the entire world to see. America has become a failed state; a banana republic, that no longer enjoys a moral imperative; one we once took for granted. It abandons its allies while embracing its enemies; imprisons minorities it wishes to control while discriminating against those it cannot. Elected officials buy their way into office while well-heeled criminals buy their way out of prison. And corporations are “similarly situated…” The final nail in the remains of our representative democracy was banged into the coffin by the total capitulation of the Senate. It cynically voted in unqualified judges to lifetime appointments on Article III courts; and, refused to vote bipartisan legislation by the lower house into law; or, hold 45 accountable for his treachery. We no longer live in a free, open, and fair society -- if ever we did. And we can thank 45 and his henchmen for savagely disabusing us of th...