Trump @ 80


Honestly, I wanted to say something about Mushroom Cock’s 80th birthday “celebration” but I don’t know what cos the whole thing was grotesque in so many ways. I genuinely don’t know what. I’ll let some people who say things for a living do it instead. They know how to describe the hideous spectacle and I find it hard to disagree with the things said.

You expected anything else?

A Muslim Texan sought to find his place in the party at the state GOP convention. He left in tears.

To some extent, Mohamed Hussein knew he was preparing to enter the lion’s den.
But he made the decision to attend the Republican Party of Texas Convention to confirm for himself that he had a place in the GOP, even as members of the party have railed for months about the urgency of ending Sharia Law and the so-called “Islamification” of Texas.
What he found was a party that didn’t want him. He arrived with hope but left in tears after being told explicitly that he should leave the country.
Hussein was among four Muslims who arrived at the convention in earnest — not as protesters, but as delegates or attendees — to participate in the annual meeting of the state’s most hardlined Republicans as they vote on the party’s priorities and hear from GOP leaders. Two prevailing themes from the Houston gathering were party unity and combatting Sharia Law, a movement that veered into outright Islamophobia by members of the convention.
“When they say Sharia-free, that means Muslim-free, no practices of Islam,” Hussein said in an interview with The Texas Tribune. “No one is calling for the state to implement Sharia laws.”
Hussein said he was in disbelief that he was told to convert or leave — for the first time in his life — at a Republican convention with the tagline, “Unity drives victory.”

WHY? I’m sorry, my brothers in Muhammad, but… what else did you THINK would happen? You expected a political party that is openly hostile to Muslims to just… accept you or something? To treat you like a human being, never mind an American? The article only gets worse after that, and I have no sympathy for ANY of these people. I mean, the Republican party is in many respects a hate group, and you folks are one of its primary targets:

In an interview Sunday, Scarborough said he had some regrets about his interaction with Mohamed Hussein, even though he thought he only attended his panel because he viewed the pastor as an enemy of CAIR.
“I’m not an enemy that fights like they fight,” Scarborough said. “I’m gonna fight on my knees, and I will fight in an effort to win Mohamed to Christ.”
When Hussein broke down crying, Scarborough said he realized he had pushed Hussein too hard. After insisting that Hussein should give up Sharia or leave the country, “the pastoral side of me reached out to him in genuine care,” he said, and he offered to pray with Hussein.
Scarborough said he has asked God and Hussein for forgiveness for not setting a good example of Judeo-Christian morality. He prayed that Mohamed would convert to Christianity.

And even if he does, they will still hate Mohamed for not being enough like them. I’m pleased that, per the article, Mohamed is having second thoughts about the Republicans, but I’m kind of appalled this needed to happen for him to realise what cunts they are, and that their visible public actions and statements weren’t enough. I mean, if I can see it from the other side of the world, why couldn’t he see it close up?

Can we have our record back, mister?


Sixty years since the Fabs’ “butcher” album cover debacle. I wonder just how many of those reviewers did actually obey the request to return their misbegotten original copies, or did they all just think to themselves “fuck that, I’ve got a collector’s item here”… original first state butcher covers will set you back thousands now, with a still-shrinkwrapped original stereo copy having gone for $125,000 ten years ago. Just a few weeks later they’d be pissing off Imelda Marcos and Christians in the southern US, and then releasing their best album to date. What a period mid-1966 was.

Grey Room #2

Episode 2 is up now! I can barely believe it myself!

    1. Dieter Meier – Cry for Fame (1978)
    2. Public Enemy – Who Stole the Soul? (1990)
    3. TSOL – Word Is (1982)
    4. You Am I – Adam’s Ribs (1993)
    5. Gene Clark – From a Silver Phial (1974)
    6. Simple Minds – Premonition (1979)
    7. Yat-Kha – Coming Buddha (2003)
    8. Thompson Twins – Could Be Her Could Be You (1980)
    9. Gang of Four – Guns and Butter (1979)
    10. Tim Buckley – Once I Was (1967)
    11. John Grant – You Don’t Have To (2013)
    12. Husker Du – Terms of Psychic Warfare (1985)
    13. Karma County – Her Mind Went Into the Fire (1998)
    14. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Y Control (2003)
    15. David Bowie – Holy Holy (1972 version)
    16. Artesians – Trick Bag (1964)

Everyone’s got punk roots, apparently

Yeah, even Dieter Meier from Yello was a punk once. I only just discovered this tonight from a show I was listening to on Mixcloud; I knew he’d already had an interesting history before he joined Yello, but I never knew he did music before joining Carlos and Boris, and I obviously never knew it sounded like this, and I’m even more astonished to discover a music video of it was made at the time. Goddamn right it’ll be on the podcast soon.

Meanwhile on Shitter

Reassuringly normal as ever. I don’t know who the first guy is, so I don’t know why an “African” would want to behead him in the first place, but if an “African” did that to Edolf I suspect millions of people would want to give the guy a gold fucking medal rather than go on a pogrom of the sort witnessed in Belfast recently and which Edolf is fully in favour of:

“Bunnesses”? Fuck, these cunts have less idea how to use their own languages than the immigrants they hate so much. But it’s Yaxley-Lennon posting it, so why expect anything better…