New NoFundMe Campaign: No Weep for Wallsuckas

23 Aug

Dear Friend,

This must have been devastating news for you.  Individuals claiming to be friends of the President used their alleged position to falsely proclaim, We Build the Wall.  I know how important that wall is to you.  Our mission is not over.  We will build that wall.  We only need four more years and it is done!

And selling donors’ data!  Brian Kolfage, Andrew Badolato and  Timothy Shea will go down in infamy.  Steve Bannon, perhaps too soon to tell.  Who knows, he pleaded not guilty in Federal court on Thursday.  He gave us Breitbart!  Let’s give him the benefit of the doubt.  And if you think being arrested on the yacht of a Chinese billionaire causes concern, know that the owner of such luxury is an exiled Chinese billionaire.  An important difference.  Guo Wengui made his money in real estate and securities.  For that alone he could only be a friend of Trump and Bannon.  Forget the reports that suggest Guo may not have been what he claims, an activist against the Chinese government, he is here now living life on a yacht.  Glory be!  God forgives all sinners!

The important work has just begun.  Many of these donors to We Build the Wall truly believe in the Make America Great Again vision.  They know separating children from parents at the border is the right thing to do.  They know preventing Muslim immigrants from entering the country is the right thing to do.  We must honor their efforts to uphold this vision.

Therefore, I ask that you donate to a mercy fund reimbursing them for the incredible loss that Kolfage & Co inflicted upon them.  Will they have an income under the Democratic-inflicted false pandemic?  Under executive order, President Trump promises a $300 weekly unemployment benefits extension through the Lost Wages Assistance program.  It could even be $400 weekly if states contribute 25 percent additionally (we have suggestions to counter claims of being cash strapped).  And forget the House of Representatives’ sponsored Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act, or HEROES Act.  These poor fleeced idealists need relief but $600 weekly?  Besides, the act is yet another attempt by Democrats to program the minds of the American population and put a pedophile in every household.

Our brave wall donors face other risks.  They could lose their home.  The eviction moratorium expired at the end of July.  Yes, the evil HEROES Act included an extension of an eviction moratorium.  But, as Guo would probably affirm, landlords must make a living too.  Forget the jump in eviction case filings in places like Duval County, Florida.  The burden is upon the tenant, as it should be.  So think about our wall donors.  Would you want to see them homeless?!

We cannot see these bravehearts jobless and homeless.  We need them for the good fight ahead.  As gun-rights advocate Lauren Boebart admonishes us, America is “getting stronger and better.”  And all because of Q!  We need these people secure in their lives so that they can renew four more years of Greatness at the ballot box!

So give generously here to ensure that the lives of the bravest people on earth are restored.

Kris Goback, Lawyer and Controlling Interest in No Weep for Wallsuckas.  Note: there are no disclosures necessary here: we know we are on a mission!

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Dilanian, Ken, Andrew Blankstein, Tom Winter and Katy Tur. “Who is Guo Wengui, the Chinese billionaire who owns the boat Steve Bannon was arrested on? Multiple people familiar with the matter told NBC News there is a separate federal inquiry involving a company linked to both men, GTV Media Group.,” NBC News, August 20, 2020; https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/who-chinese-mogul-who-owns-boat-steve-bannon-was-busted-n1237511

Figliuzzi, Frank. “Republican QAnon candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene’s win highlights coming 2020 crisis: Will the GOP ignore the dangerous conspiracy theorists that even now are being retweeted approvingly [sic] Trump? Or will it take this threat to democracy seriously?,” NBC News, August 10, 2020; https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/republican-qanon-candidate-marjorie-taylor-greene-s-win-highlights-coming-ncna1236845

Jones, David. “Eviction filings jump by hundreds in Duval County after weakening of statewide moratorium: More than 200 eviction cases were filed in Duval County in the first week of August alone.,” First Coast News, August 10, 2020; https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/local/eviction-filings-jump-by-hundreds-in-duval-county-after-weakening-of-statewide-moratorium/77-4bfa20a6-780e-4061-801d-a86e51ee032d

Lapin, Tamar.”Alleged ‘We Build the Wall’ scammer also planned to sell donor data: report,” New York Post, August 20, 2020; https://nypost.com/2020/08/20/founder-of-we-build-the-wall-also-planned-to-sell-donor-information/

Quinn, Melissa. “Steve Bannon pleads not guilty in scheme to defraud donors to campaign pledging to build border wall,” CBS News, August 21, 2020; https://www.cbsnews.com/news/steve-bannon-arrested-fraud-charges-border-wall-scheme-brian-kolfage-we-build-the-wall/

Segers, Grace. “What’s in the House Democrats’ $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill?,” CBS News, May 15, 2020; https://www.cbsnews.com/news/heroes-act-coronavirus-relief-package-3-trillion-bill-house-democrats-vote-today-2020-05-15/

Ziv, Shahar. “Confirmed: Extra $400 Unemployment Benefit Extension Slashed To $300; State Match Optional,” Forbes, August 13, 2020; https://www.forbes.com/sites/shaharziv/2020/08/13/confirmed-extra-400-unemployment-benefit-extension-next-stimulus-package-slashed-to-300/#7d24a7f45f51

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Leap in Progress: From Plague to Pandemic

23 Jul

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Hayes Valley Art Works

22 Jul

The boat in these photographs was built from scrap material scavenged around San Francisco.  After submitting a proposal and drawing to Hayes Valley Art Works and receiving an approval, I engaged program participants in helping build this object.  Details such as the metal propeller and badminton oars were made from objects found by my helpers.

It serves as a seat and writing desk and planter box.  It is not yet complete.  A vine is meant to cover the structure including the sail.  Unfortunately, rats have been eating at the roots of the vines I have put in place.  Currently creeping fig is in place and I am hoping that it will survive long enough to begin climbing.

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A COVID Conversation

21 Jul

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Based on an idea by Patrick Marks.

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Bud

14 Jul

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“It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away…”

10 Jul

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Treetops

25 Jun

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Photograph by Lisa DeCrais

For the Love of Humanity

19 Jun

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On June 15th the Trump campaign announced that over 1 million tickets were sold for a rally in an arena seating 19,200.  Fortunately, they will get 22,000 inside the arena and make room for everyone else outside the arena.  Tulsa Health Department Director Dr. Bruce Dart “wishes” that the rally would be pushed back because of the surge in cases of COVID-19 locally.  No way, Bruce.  This is exactly the right time.  Couldn’t be better.

Parking For Hells Angels Only

18 Jun

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I grew up watching bikers on television.  Motorcycles were popular where I grew up in Southern California.  And then Altamont happened and I realized the romantic notion of freedom on a bike on the highways was all a sham.

The lore about the motorcycle and freedom must be vast.  I found a snippet of that lore:

“Fear despair, spoken by other legends
The apocalyptic hell riders
Screaming the song of evil
Flying against the lands
Under a full moon spells
Making to ring the bells
The bells of judgment day
They are the riders of…”

Proprietary space in San Francisco.

Riders From Hell [Special Hells Angel Version] from Hell & Heaven by GOD The Barbarian Horde. This “slightly different version of the song Riders Of Hell & Heaven” includes the sound effects of Harley Davidson motors according to the Digital Track Download Streaming page found at: https://godthehorde.bandcamp.com/track/riders-from-hell-special-hells-angels-version
Music: Eugen ‘Gelu’ Lăpușneanu & Constantin ‘Costel Castor’ Lăpușneanu. Lyrics: Constantin ‘Costel Castor’ Lăpușneanu.

 

Let the Games Begin

15 Jun

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I now think of Trump’s upcoming rally and subsequent events as blood sport on two levels.  The June 20th event is scheduled to take place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a site specifically chosen by the Trump campaign for its racial past.  One of the most horrific racial attacks by white vigilantes against African Americans occurred in the city’s black district of Greenwood on May 31 and June 1, 1921.  The rampaging massacre of black citizens by white citizens and the burning of most of the Greenwood district stands out as particularly relevant to today’s unrest across the nation.  Trump’s response to protest, as we saw on June 1st at Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C., where peaceful protestors were attacked by Park Police and other forces, under the direction of Attorney General William Barr, using chemical gas, rubber pellets or bullets and flash-bang shells, along with healthy doses of baton wielding and pushing, was to “dominate,” as he proclaimed at a podium minutes before.  The day before this intentional attack by law enforcement against peaceful protest Trump tweeted an exhortation to use the National Guard against all protest.  There is a long echo of the tragic events in Greenwood where units of the Oklahoma National Guard were called in to arrest all African Americans.  The burning of Greenwood property was assisted by agents of the government.

Trump continues to pump violent rhetoric into a national situation where earnest protest addresses an already violent policing system, the protest spurred by the murder of African American George Floyd by white police officer Derek Chauvin on May 25th.  And this will be Trump’s law-and-order platform until the November election.  Unless he can conjur a miracle drug to combat COVID-19 that does not involve bleaching the lungs, law and order is the only card he can use to promote his re-election as he has failed at everything else.

But there are other ways and other victims from which Trump expects to draw blood.  The people who attend the Tulsa rally will agree to a waiver from harm in order to purchase a ticket to the event.  It reads as follows:

“By clicking register below, you are acknowledging that an inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any public place where people are present. By attending the Rally, you and any guests voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19 and agree not to hold Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.; BOK Center; ASM Global; or any of their affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents, contractors, or volunteers liable for any illness or injury.”

Never mind that daily increases in COVID-19 infections have reached a higher level in recent days for Oklahoma and Tulsa county.  Oklahoma Senator James Lankford dismisses the potential danger of this indoor event causing new infections because those insignificant new infections will be a “little bit of a bump.” (see Amanda Holpuch article cited below)  Trump, who eschews masks, will lead by example.  I will be curious to learn if any event participant practices social distancing or mask wearing.  With that in mind, Trump anoints his followers in blood (there is a recent line of medical inquiry into COVID-19 being a blood vessel disease; see citation below).  This rally and all subsequent campaign events are intended to signal that the country has returned to normal.  Thus, his attendees sacrifice themselves to his campaign so that he can claim that he has beaten the virus through the work of his administration.

Associated Press. “Trump seeks rapid return to normal, including Tulsa rally – whose attendees must sign a health release,” MarketWatch, June 12, 2020; https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-seeks-rapid-return-to-normal-including-tulsa-rally-whose-attendees-must-sign-a-health-release-2020-06-12

Amanda Holpuch, “Republicans insist Trump Tulsa rally won’t spread coronavirus – despite local concern: Attendees at Saturday campaign rally will have to sign waiver; Tulsa health director expresses concern over indoor event,” The Guardian, June 14, 2020; https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/14/republicans-trump-tulsa-rally-coronavirus-lankford-kudlow

Carol D. Leonnig. “Park Police spokesman acknowledges chemical agents used on Lafayette Square protestors are similar to tear gas,” The Washington Post, June 5, 2020; https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/park-police-spokesman-acknowledges-chemical-agents-used-on-lafayette-square-protesters-are-similar-to-tear-gas/2020/06/05/971a8d78-a75a-11ea-b473-04905b1af82b_story.html

Make America Great Again! Rally – Tulsa, OK, Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.; https://events.donaldjtrump.com/events/tulsa-oklahoma-rally-june-20?utm_content=main_menu&utm_medium=web&utm_source=djt_web

Amanda Marcotte. “Trump thinks white-supremacist trolling is his path to re-election,” AlterNet, June 12, 2020; https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/trump-thinks-white-supremacist-trolling-is-his-path-to-re-election/

1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa Historical Society and Museum; https://www.tulsahistory.org/exhibit/1921-tulsa-race-massacre/

Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey and Rebecca Tan. “Inside the push to tear-gas protestors ahead of a Trump photo op,” The Washington Post, June 1, 2020; https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-push-to-tear-gas-protesters-ahead-of-a-trump-photo-op/2020/06/01/4b0f7b50-a46c-11ea-bb20-ebf0921f3bbd_story.html

Dana G. Smith. “Coronavirus May Be a Blood Vessel Disease, Which Explains Everything: Many of the infection’s bizarre symptoms have one thing in common,” Medium, May 28, 2020; https://elemental.medium.com/coronavirus-may-be-a-blood-vessel-disease-which-explains-everything-2c4032481ab2

Andrew Solender, “Trump Campaign Tells Tulsa Rally Attendees They ‘Assume All Risks’ Of  Coronavirus Exposure,” Forbes, June 11, 2020; https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2020/06/11/trump-campaign-tells-tulsa-rally-attendees-they-assume-all-risks-of-coronavirus-exposure/#3d15ace85295

Li Zhou, ” ‘The protesters had to deescalate the police’: Demonstrators are the ones defusing violence at protests. Protesters describe the excessive force they’ve seen police use in cities across the country.” Vox, June 12, 2020; https://www.vox.com/2020/6/12/21279619/protesters-police-violence-philadelphia-los-angeles-washington-dc