Bobservations

I’ve often said that Carlos has no knowledge whatsoever of Pop Culture. Every single blond singer that appears on a TV screen is, to him, Madonna … pronounced Ma-dough-na. I know, it’s cute, right?

This week I was watching a show called The Genetic Detective, who solves decades old cold cases through DNA and, well, genetic detection. This week the story was about a young girl raped and murdered in Fort Wayne, Indiana, whose killer was never captured. The show aired some original footage of news people reporting the story, and as a female reporter appeared onscreen Carlos said:

“Barbara!”

I knew where this was headed but I said:

“Streisand?”

“No, the other one.”

“Bush?”

“No. The other one!”

“Eden?”

“NO!!!”

“Who then?”

“The one from The View?”

“Barbara Walters?”“Yes! That one!”

“You think Barbara Walters, who was co-anchor of ABC News in the 1970s left that job to become a local news reporter in Fort Wayne?”

“Well, she could have. It looks like her.”

“Because it’s a woman with brown hair? She doesn’t even have the Baba Wawa lisp.”

“The what?”

And this conversation is still ongoing.

Tuxedo is done with the ‘use of force’ bull shit when the job can be done just as easily without it.

I said it looked like an art installation, and now it is; the African American History and Culture Museum, the American History Museum and the Anacostia Museum have formed a coalition with staff, activists and members of the community to curate the posters and signs and art that was hung on _____’s fence around the White House following George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin last month.

It’ll make a powerful statement … again.

According to the Racist-In-Thief, the virus is just about done—tell that to the 1,000 people dying each day—and so he’s gonna have more rallies—look for COVID-19 numbers to spike among the MAGAts, though I won’t care.

But, for a person who believes the virus is nothing, he seems eager to make his followers sign an NDA that if they develop this HoaxVirus™ they cannot hold him accountable.

Let that sink in: he says the virus doesn’t exist, but if you catch it at one of his Hate Rallies, it’s not his fault. He doesn’t care if you get sick, just as long as you show up to stroke his tiny orange mushroom-shaped ego.

Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer who murdered George Floyd is still eligible for his $1 million-plus retirement pension, even if he’s found guilty on charges of murdering Floyd. 

How do you feel about defunding the police now, because we’re about to pay a murderer a million bucks?

Howsabout reforming the police by starting a new rule that if you murder someone you forfeit your pension. That’s a start.

Sal Bonaccorso, the mayor Clark Township, a mostly white New Jersey township, is apologizing for his racist comments about an anti-discrimination protest organized by residents of a neighboring community; he said:

"I am pro-black for all the good black people that I know in my life."

Obviously, that didn't sit well with the crowd, and several people booed, so Bonaccorso added:

"Hey folks, listen, I can't say I'm for anybody if I don't know you. I'm for people. Good people, law-abiding, hard-working, good family, good friends, people with good intentions. If you're black great, if you're white, great. If you're Hispanic, great.”

But if you’re not great, he doesn’t have a problem with a police officer kneeling on your neck for 8 minutes and 48 seconds.

Mississippi, land of my birth, WTF?

A bipartisan group of Mississippi state lawmakers want to remove the emblem of the Confederate battle flag from the state flag and appear to have support from at least one powerful Republican lawmaker, Speaker of the Mississippi House Philip Gunn.

In Mississippi. Things can change.

I suggest this flag ...

The _____ Administration finalized a regulation that removes Obama-era transgender nondiscrimination protections in healthcare.

On the fourth anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting and in the middle of LGBT Pride month.

That’s what he thinks of the LGBTQ+ community.

I’ve been watching Barkskins on NatGeo. It’s based on the novel by Pulitzer-winner Annie Proulx—Brokeback Mountain—and tells the story of the first settlement in the New World, called New France.

No Brokeback-style love story, but it does star one Christian Cooke as Rene Sel, a barkskin, who helps clear land for people to build up. Swarthy bearded smooth Old World New World muscular manly hot …. Where was I?

Oh, yeah, Christian Cooke. Yum. He can clear my forest any day. I know, I have no idea what that means either.