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FRANK ON FRIDAY – The BLM States of America
As this is written, it’s Bastille Day, commemorating the 1789 storming of Paris’ Bastille Fortress by French revolutionaries. In America, our second revolution is under way, at the hands of Black Lives Matter Marxists. In 1789, the defenders of the Bastille surrendered, but the revolutionaries killed many of them, and the mob violence continued. Sound familiar? Today, although big city mayors, police departments, business leaders, all elected Democrats and, of course the media, have surrendered to the mob, the violence continues unabated. The BLM Marxists vow to transform America. Into what? They’re not telling. Somebody told Joe Biden to say the same thing last week, so he did. So far, BLM has made great strides toward transforming America from a nation of laws into an every-man-for-himself slaughterhouse. Every big city, where BLM has bullied feckless officials into painting “Black Lives Matter” on the streets, has been beset by unprecedented violence. Shootings dramatically increased. In Chicago, every weekend, scores are shot and dozens are killed. Almost every victim is black, and a shocking number of them are children, who just happened to be in the line of fire. Their black lives clearly don’t matter to Black Lives Matter, as CNN’s Don Lemon recently confirmed, telling Terry Crews, BLM is just against rare police brutality, not continual black-on-black carnage. Glad he straightened that out. Anyhow, the BLM Marxists are now in charge. I heard an imbecile athlete say, “It’s about time,” as there’s “racial discrimination like never before.” Never having to read a book makes things so much simpler. I’m currently reading Dewey Defeats Truman, by A.J. Baime. It’s about the 1948 election. It recounts southern Democrats lynching people of color, and black voter suppression, which included shooting a man who dared to vote in a Georgia primary. That was systemic racism. It no longer exists. If only the truth mattered to the revolutionaries. It doesn’t. The ignorant among us, who think BLM is just protesting police brutality, are in for a rude awakening. Though they only talk about civil rights, BLM has a list of Marxist goals. Should BLM take over America, what would it be like? Would social justice reign from sea to shining sea? Not likely. You see, civil rights is about a lot more than simply what happens during an encounter with the police. That’s a part of it, but just a small part. To educate the unwashed who are resistant to reading books or constitutions, there’s a thing called the Bill of Rights. Ratified in 1791, it includes the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Now, I know those of you who support BLM might wish to reject a document that was created by the evil slave owners who founded our country, and whose statues you’re busy destroying, but there are some things in the Bill of Rights that you just might want to keep, because it contains all of our civil rights. BLM are Marxists, and Marxists don’t preserve or extend civil rights, they destroy them. Just ask anyone in Hong Kong. So if you support a takeover by BLM, you should understand what you’re buying. You want the right to assemble and protest as you see fit, and to speak your mind as you see fit? Marxists don’t permit that. What about practicing your religion? Forget that. Over the weekend, many churches were burned, vandalized and desecrated. Marxists don’t permit religion. So, no 1st Amendment. You live in a dangerous neighborhood, and want to have a gun to protect your family? Marxists don’t permit that. No 2nd Amendment. Not comfortable with armed men breaking your door down to ransack your house? Marxists don’t recognize the 4th Amendment. If you’re arrested, you want a right to remain silent and protection from police coercion? Sorry. Marxists don’t have a 5th Amendment. You want a fair trial, at which you’re presumed innocent? Afraid not. Marxist countries don’t worry about such things, so no 6th Amendment. Then there’s the capitalism thing. You looking for the right to work at the job you want, to advance, and make more money? Sorry. You’ll just have to give up those things in return for guaranteed social justice. You’ll go to the school that tell you to attend, work where they tell you to work, earn what they say you can earn, and you better not complain. (See above). You’ll be just like the happy workers in the Soviet Union, who used to say, “We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us.” Transform America, right? But at least you’ll be free from the police, the people Joe Biden just compared to armed invaders coming into your neighborhood. No more cops. “Hello, what is your 911 emergency?” What’s that? The Crips, the Bloods, or the Latin Kings are firing machine guns at your house? “No problem. We’ll send a social worker right over. Peek out the window. If they’re wearing black and gold, we’ll send a Spanish speaking social worker. If anyone gets killed, just put an orange cone next to the body, we’ll send the truck when we can. Thanks for calling the BLM States of America.” I wonder if they’ll call it that. I mean it can’t be “the United States,” because we’ll no longer be united. See, there’s another thing they don’t teach anymore. The federal government didn’t create the States, the States created the federal government. And when they did so, things like public safety, the, you should pardon the expression, police powers, were retained by the States. I suppose BLM will cancel the 10th Amendment too, but some States won’t readily surrender, so after the revolution, there will be an inevitable civil war. I’m not hoping for it, you understand, but there it is. So no United States of BLM. “America” is shaky too. Can’t have a Marxist worker’s paradise named for a white European oppressor. Amerigo was Vespucci’s first name. BLM seems to like Colin Kaepernick. How about, the BLM States of Colinica? Colinica the Beautiful?
How horrible, with racist cops,
It’s time you shared the pain,
All hail our Marxist majesties
And BLM’s our name
Colinica! Colinica!
Marx shed His grace on thee
Now we’re in charge, we’re livin’ large
Bow down on bended knee
Can’t wait to hear that before the ballgame. But I think BLM needs to change it’s logo. Painting “Black Lives Matter” on the street takes too long. Here are two proposals –
Since the media refuses to tell the truth, its job falls to us. If you don’t want to live in the country described above, you must make your friends and neighbors understand what is at stake.
FRANK ON FRIDAY – Cancel the Truth
The communist revolutionaries have extended their demands for the cancellation of American history to include July 4th, as a holiday celebrating white supremacy. That’s an absurd lie, bordering on the insane. It could be summarily dismissed, but for one appalling factor – the media reports it as serious news, giving aid and comfort to the communists. Why the media is abetting a communist overthrow of our government is puzzling. They’re very liberal, sure. They hate and want to remove Donald Trump from office at all costs, sure. But has the media assessed the inevitable costs it would pay should the revolutionaries succeed? I mean, the media exists only because of the First Amendment, and communist regimes are not known for their tolerance of free speech. One would expect the media creeps to understand this reality. There are two possibilities. They either naively expect a new Democratic Socialist, a/k/a/ Communist, government to allow them to do business as usual (not likely), or the whole thing is a plot by the Bernie Sanders wing of the Democrat Party, calculated to destroy Trump. I’m going with door number two. Which is not to say there aren’t real communists behind the recent riots. There are. However the media is perpetuating the lie that the protests (riots) are motivated by a desire for “racial justice.” They aren’t. This started in Minnesota. Four separate communist groups were in the streets in Minneapolis. The Democrat Socialists of America. They say, “Racist police violence is not incidental to the capitalist system, it is necessary to maintain its operation.” The Workers World Party said, “Against police violence and capitalism, to rebel is justified.” The Revolutionary Communist Party is a bunch of Maoists, who say, “you need to join with a movement for an actual revolution, to prepare for a time when it will be possible to lead millions to bring this system down. The Party for Socialism and Liberation venerates Fidel Castro, and says its, “goal is to lead a revolution paving the way towards socialism, under which a ‘new government of working people’ would be formed.” Clearly, the groups behind the mayhem in Minneapolis aren’t looking for justice, they want to destroy capitalism. The filthy white terrorists marching in the streets are disciples of Comrade Bernie the Red. That’s not surprising, and it explains why money donated to Black Lives Matter is shuttled to the DNC. The notion that the media pukes really want to end capitalism is more problematic. George Stephanopolous makes $15 million a year. Anderson Cooper $12 million. Rachel Madow $7 million. Even Fredo Cuomo makes $2.5 million. I don’t think they want to end capitalism. So they must be participants in a plot to destroy the President. The revolution ends the day after they elect Joe Biden. People keep comparing today’s strife with the social unrest in 1968. There’s a big difference. In 1968, although the news media was left of center, and firmly opposed to the war in Vietnam, they recognized a duty to report the truth. Walter Cronkite would never report a scene of looting and burning buildings as “a peaceful protest.” Huntley and Brinkley wouldn’t dignify demands to defund the police as serious proposals. And even the New York Times wouldn’t have excused looting and arson as an acceptable form of civil disobedience. Fredo Cuomo did exactly that, “Where does it say protests have to be peaceful?” In every law on the books, numb nuts! Today, the media has cancelled the truth, along with all of American history, save the fact that slavery once existed. Today’s media is a poor substitute for what used to be called the Fourth Estate. It’s more like a Fifth Column. They use two methods. Denial and distortion. They either don’t report the truth, or they distort what they do report. The press hated Ronald Reagan, but when he made a statement, the media reported what he actually said. Not anymore. Good news on the economy? Trump achieves prison reform, or restores funding to historically black colleges? No reports. President Trump made an inspiring speech last week at Mt. Rushmore. The media said Trump shouldn’t have gone because local Indians say they own the mountain. Nobody complained about Indians when these folks went there.
The President suggested that we ought to teach kids the truth about American history, to encourage them to take pride in their country, and he suggested that we should respect and support law enforcement. Shocking. He spoke of the accomplishments of the men honored on Mt. Rushmore. But for Fox News, not much of the speech was televised. Denial. Then came distortion. The speech was described as “dark and divisive.” Nonsense. The Washington Post reported that Trump sought to preserve Confederate symbols and white domination by denouncing the “racial justice movement.” They’re talking about Black Lives Matter, which strives not for racial justice, but for a Marxist dictatorship. Where to begin? First, even The Washington Post must know there are no Confederates on Mt. Rushmore. Moreover, President Trump never once mentioned any Confederates. Democrat Senator Tammy Duckworth, who trades on her army service, went one better (or worse). She claimed the President “spent all his time talking about dead traitors.” Who did she mean? Were George Washington or Thomas Jefferson the traitors? Maybe she meant Abraham Lincoln, or arch-progressive Theodore Roosevelt. Senator Duckworth is confused. She no doubt supports Black Lives Matter. BLM leaders admit they’re attempting to overthrow the U.S. government. Trying to overthrow your government is the very definition of treason. Apparently, Senate Democrats want to help them do it. So who’s the traitor? Not even the Father of our Country is safe. Duckworth says we need to talk about whether George Washington monuments must go. We do need to talk. We need to take anyone who wants to get rid of George Washington aside and tell him, “Go away you crazy bastard!” But the media protects Senator Duckworth’s lies. Here’s the truth. BLM doesn’t want to end police brutality, it wants to end capitalism. If they had their way, Mt. Rushmore would look like this –
Not on my watch. All of us need to stand up, support the President and tell the revolutionaries to shove off. I had another word in mind, but I wrote “shove.” Mustn’t frighten the snowflakes, lest they claim harassment. I won’t stand idly by while they turn Mt. Rushmore into a Marxist Matterhorn. If we need to transform Mt. Rushmore, I’d suggest this –
I’m just kidding, but the revolutionaries are deadly serious.
FRANK ON FRIDAY – R.I.P. Aunt Jemima
As this is written, Black Lives Matter continues its reign of terror on every aspect of American culture. Like the good little Marxist comrades they are, BLM, and their fellow travelers, the loony Leftists, the ignorant adolescents, the sniveling politicians, and the petrified, pandering proprietors of the business world, are submitting to the ravings of the mob. The corporate managers have been so cowed by the mob, that they’re rushing to confess their guilt, even though they weren’t accused. “Here, let us give you millions of dollars.” For what? Did they run out of bricks? “And don’t just take our money, we confess to selling racist products, and we will atone.” I’ll bet you didn’t know that products could be racist. It turns out they can be. Aunt Jemima was the first to go. As far as I know, there was no BLM decree denouncing Aunt Jemima, but Quaker Oats knew it was just a matter of time, so they fired her, and pledged to change their racist product. Now, Aunt Jemima has changed over the years. Her first depiction was a bit too much Hattie McDaniel, but today’s Aunt Jemima looks a lot more like Viola Davis.
No matter. She’s gone. Uncle Ben’s Rice was not far behind. The Mars Company, which owns the Uncle Ben brand, announced it would remove the likeness of an African-American man from its product, so as not to perpetuate a racial stereotype. Forgive me, but I don’t get it. Uncle Ben just looks like a dignified African-American gentleman to me. He’s got a bow tie. Could be a Muslim.
It doesn’t matter. Goodbye Uncle Ben. Maybe Mars can make a deal with Bubba Wallace. Uncle Bubba’s Converted Rice. Well, maybe not “converted.” Sounds too religious. And the Mars Company better watch out. They make M&M’s, and in all the M&M’s commercials, the yellow M&M, and not the brown M&M, does all the talking. What message does that send, huh? Anyhow, the hits just kept coming. The Cream of Wheat guy was the next to go.
He was just a chef who happened to be black, but the brand’s owner, Conagra, saw the communist handwriting on the wall, so 86 the Cream of Wheat chef. Then, not content with only one mea culpa, Conagra also gave the heave-ho to another commercial icon, Mrs. Butterworth.
Now, I never knew this, and I bet you didn’t either, but it seems that Mrs. Butterworth depicts a woman of color, and that the shape of the bottle “perpetuates the Mamie culture.” Shocking! Conagra apparently knew all the time, but they weren’t motivated to confess till the revolutionaries started torching buildings. How noble. Once again, forgive me, but I never thought that a syrup bottle had a race. Lots of Mrs. Butterworth commercials are available online. When Mrs. B spoke, she didn’t sound like Butterfly McQueen. But no more Mrs. Butterworth. Maybe it will be Mrs. B, or better yet Cardi B. Maybe we’re on to something. Just update it. Mrs. Kardashian’s Original Syrup. Then they can raise the price. It’ll take a lot of syrup to fill that ass. Maybe different names for different sizes. “We’re expecting a big crowd, give me a Mrs. Lizzo’s Original.” Then again, what’s this “Mrs.” business? Isn’t that insensitive to the LGBTQ crowd? It must be gender neutral. Butter is bad for you, and there’s no butter in it anyway. So how about Mrs., Mr., Ms., Miss, X’s Original Butterless Green, Organic, Sustainable, Non-GMO, Gluten Free Syrup. That really rolls off the tongue. And the craven food mavens are just getting started.
That’s right. Both Chiquita Banana and Eskimo Pies are history. It seems Chiquita’s depiction, patterned after 40’s film star Carmen Miranda, is offensive to banana pickers, because Chiquita looks good, and they work under grueling conditions. This is a typical progressive solution. Don’t improve the working conditions of the pickers, make Chiquita ashamed of her success. Bravo. Eskimo Pies, it seems, insults indigenous peoples from the arctic regions of North America. They don’t even depict the trademark anymore.
No matter. Just the name “Eskimo” is bad enough, so Mush! No more Eskimo Pies. I certainly don’t want to miss out on the destruction and defamation of every symbol and enjoyment from our past, so I scoured the markets to identify other “troublesome” products. Mr. Clean clearly insults the folically challenged. Then there’s Lorelei’s Surf Wax
A hula girl? Really? That’s got to be racist or at least sexist. Sunmaid’s California Raisins. 
I think not. American Tourister luggage?
Gorilla? Out!
Crows candy?
Don’t even think about it.
Borden’s Elsie the Cow. 
Cows, milk, lactation, women, the La Leche League, aha! Anti-Hispanic. Out!
Hungry Man dinners are sexist. Friendly’s Watermelon Roll? That’s just a racist dog whistle. Fruity Pebbles? Guess why they’re out? Keebler’s Club Crackers? It’s probably a restricted club, and Keebler demeans little people. What about Peeps? “Where are my Peeps?” No, that’s just cultural appropriation. Quaker Oatmeal? Too white and too religious. It’s got to go. Cocoa Puffs’ mascot, Sonny the Cuckoo Bird, insults the mentally ill community. The Morton Salt girl should be updated.
How about – 
Much better. Not all black spokesmen have to go. The Kia Motors spokesman, Morpheus, played by Lawrence Fishburne presumably is still acceptable.
Such is life in America in the 21st Century. The mania has even infected the real estate market. Realtors will no longer call the large bedroom, “the Master Bedroom.” It’s too Gone With The Wind. I shit you not. From now on it’s “the owner’s suite.” But just one second. That’s no good either. NBA players support Black Lives Matter, and the NBA doesn’t allow the people who own teams to be called “owners.” They’re now “governors” by NBA decree. So it will have to be, “the governor’s suite.” That was a close one. They’ve canceled The Paw Patrol because one of the dogs was a cop.
It’s just a matter of time till they come for McGruff, The Crime Dog. He’s just the plain clothes Paw Patrol. Totally unacceptable.
If all of you find all this as big a crock of bullshit as I do, then let me share with you the wisdom of President Harry S. Truman, who noted of the opposition, “Of course, whatever you do, some son-of-a-bitch won’t like it.” And that’s the point. You’ll never please everybody, and you shouldn’t have to try. The next time some son-of-a-bitch demands that we cancel our culture, let’s take a page from Nancy Reagan, and just say “No.”
FRANK ON FRIDAY – The Army of Ignorance
Hopefully, we’re fast approaching the point where sane Americans have decided enough is enough. In the aftermath of the George Floyd killing, Marxist revolutionaries have declared war on America. For weeks, law enforcement has stood idly by while rioters deface and destroy property. Police officers who do their jobs are fired and arrested. The revolutionaries are winning because our elected officials are paralyzed with fear. Our governments aren’t powerless, they’re just spineless. Antifa and Black Lives Matter are dedicated to the overthrow of our government. They want to cancel the Constitution. Our “leaders” either don’t know that, or consider it a “conspiracy theory.” It isn’t. Patrise Cullors is one of the founders of Black Lives Matter. She told an interviewer that she and other BLM leaders are “trained Marxists.” Marxists advocate the violent overthrow of America, to be replaced by a totalitarian Communist regime. Not convinced? Here are some of the goals of Communists expressed in the book, The Naked Communist, in 1963. See if you detect any links to the goals of BLM: Capture one of the political parties in the U.S.; Get control of the schools; Use student riots to foment public protests; Infiltrate the press; Discredit American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression (like sculptures); Discredit the American Founding Fathers; Discourage the teaching of American history; Discredit and dismantle the FBI (the FBI did that themselves); Transfer the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies; Discredit the family as an institution. BLM is doing all those things right now. They demand we change things named for historical figures. It’s only a mater of time before the students at Washington & Lee University realize the school is named for George and Robert E. There’s no need to change the school’s name though. We can say it’s named after Denzel Washington and Stan Lee. Erect a statue of Spiderman, and we’re good. The revolutionaries have unleashed their Army of Ignorance on statues and cultural monuments all across America. A statue of Thomas Jefferson was toppled in Oregon. In Minnesota, American Indian activists tore down a statue of Christopher Columbus. Their casinos were closed, so they had the time. They beheaded a statue of Columbus in Boston, and drowned a Columbus statue in Richmond. The Ignorance Brigade attacked an Andrew Jackson statue near the White House. Last week, we witnessed the last casualty of the Civil War, when two morons in Portsmouth, Virginia, toppled a Confederate statue onto the head of a third moron on the ground. Darwin was right. In Richmond, they toppled a statue of Jefferson Davis. Virginia Governor Ralph Northam ordered the removal of a monument to Robert E. Lee. I hear he’s replacing it with a statue of himself in blackface, singing Mamie. Opposing Confederate statues is understandable, but it’s gone from the ridiculous to the outright stupid. Ulysses S. Grant defeated Robert E. Lee, but that didn’t save his statue in San Francisco. A statue of Mahatma Gandhi was defaced at the Indian embassy in Washington. Gandhi may have opposed colonialism and race prejudice, but he did refuse to riot. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh wants to remove a statue of Abraham Lincoln and replace it with “one that recognizes equality.” I guess the Great Emancipator didn’t make the cut. Also in Boston, a bronze relief by the great sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens was defaced, even though it celebrated the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, an African-American infantry unit that fought in the Civil War. The people ordering the attacks aren’t ignorant, they know exactly what they’re doing. They haven’t disturbed the statue of Lenin in Seattle. Erasing the past is right out of the Stalinist playbook. Communists have to erase all memory of the past, to prevent people from looking back on “the good old days.” You mustn’t remember the past, because under Communism, you have no future. Something George Orwell wrote in 1984 comes to mind: “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” A chilling reminder how little has changed in 71 years. The trained Marxists pick the targets, and the Army of Ignorance mindlessly obeys. In their defense, as victims of educational malpractice, they don’t know any better. See above, “Get control of the schools.” Teach American history as the history of slavery and oppression, and these clueless bastards will believe anything. But it’s worse. Fear of denunciation has gotten people into the act who know better. The statue of Teddy Roosevelt in front New York’s Museum of Natural History is being removed. Museum president Ellen Futter “explained,” “We have watched as the attention of the world and the country has increasingly turned to statues as powerful and hurtful symbols of systemic racism.” Really? First, there is no systemic racism, and if there was, it wouldn’t be in New York. Then there’s reality. The “woke” masterminds claim to be progressive, yet they’re unaware that Teddy Roosevelt was the first progressive in high office. Like the “woke” folk, Teddy fought against police corruption, opposed child labor, and he hated rich bankers and corporations. Was Teddy racist? Well, in 1901, he took a lot of heat when he hosted Booker T. Washington. Roosevelt was the first President to have an African-American at dinner in the White House who wasn’t serving the meal. It doesn’t matter. Ignorance is stronger than facts. Being able to command an army of mindless zombies makes Black Lives Matter stronger. They can turn their army on all who fail to submit. Just like back in the Soviet Union; or the Mafia, “Announce your support for us. It would be shame if your building burned to the ground.” This rebellion can’t be appeased, it must be put down. A BLM leader announced this week that the next targets are churches that depict Jesus as a white man. It’s one step from there to blowing up the Washington Monument. Someone must lay down the law. The fact that black lives matter is indisputable. The organization known as Black Lives Matter is indefensible. There is no cause, however just, that justifies the defacement and destruction of public or private property. This is a lesson that must be taught. Enforce the law.
FRANK ON FRIDAY – Progressive Team Names
Sports used to be a refuge from everyday life. We could turn away from politics, crime, and other annoying current events, and just watch the game. How did my team do? I’m a Mets fan, so how do you think? Sports was our escape. Not anymore. With the Wuhan virus, sports became intertwined with the health emergency. All sports shut down. The questioning began. Will they play? How will they play? Where will they play? Can we attend? That was bad enough. When the Marxist revolution began, sports went under the Marxist microscope, to be evaluated for doctrinal purity. That’s what this is. The revolutionaries are engaged in their own form of ethnic cleansing. All who are found to be impure, must be destroyed. Sports teams are no exception. And so it came to pass, with millions unemployed, and mayhem in the streets, that the attention of America was drawn to a glaring injustice, the name “Washington Redskins.” Although polls found that Native Americans aren’t upset by the name, our Marxist masters decided it was racist, and demanded it be changed. The Redskins buckled, and are changing the name. No more Redskins. How about RedStars? This could be the logo
The Houston Rockets and Astros are rejected because they remind us of the U.S. Space Program, which celebrates American achievement. That cannot stand. The Houston Cosmonauts, can play in the renamed Cosmodome. And for basketball, the Houston Starbucks. “Tuesday is latte night.” This might sound too close to the Milwaukee Bucks, but “Bucks” has to go. They may have a large deer in their logo, but once again, truth doesn’t count. “Buck” could be taken as a derisive name for an African-American man. I think they used it in Gone With the Wind, so case closed. The Milwaukee Fauns. We’re not done. Texas Rangers are cops, so definitely out. The Texas Defunders. Houston Texans, suggests State citizenship, which threatens federal supremacy. So, Houston Texicans. Two birds, one stone. San Diego Padres and Los Angeles Angels pander to religion, which is anti-Marxist. The San Diego Pederasts and the Los Angeles Atheists will do nicely. The Philadelphia Phillies is tricky. Phillies could just be short for “Philadelphia,” but it could be from the cigars. In 1910, the Bayuk brothers introduced Philadelphia Hand Made Cigars. This was shortened to “Phillies.” Tobacco’s bad for your health, and smoke damages the climate, unless it’s rising from a burning building during riot (protest). So the Philadelphia Protesters. Yankees seems acceptable on its face. The Yankees fought the Confederates. But it’s anti-Hispanic. “Yankee (Yanqui) go home!” So the New York Diversities it is. We’ll have to change some names of championship trophies too. Stanley Cup to Stalin Cup. Lombardi Trophy to Sacco and Vanzetti Trophy. There’s more, but time is short. Now, if we can just get them to stop keeping score.