Just say no

Implausible as it may sound, I actually learned something from Mushroom Cock’s infernally silly birthday parade:

This picture comes from the Graun’s photo coverage of the event and the “No Kings” mass protests in opposition to his general existence, and, well, it caught my attention. The caption reads “Soldiers dressed in revolutionary war uniforms march in the parade” and OH how thrilled they all look to be there… but note that some of them are, quite frankly, black. Were there black soldiers in the revolutionary war? Cos there was still something called slavery back then, you may have heard of it, so I wouldn’t have thought there would’ve been many if any… lo, however, for a quick bit of research into a question I’d never previously thought to ask almost immediately informed me there were in fact something like 9000 African-American soldiers in the American army, and twice as many on the British side cos the latter promised them freedom (wonder if they would’ve delivered on that had they won). So there you go, this bullshit actually wound up being educational! Who’d have thought? I don’t really feel like writing much more about the last couple of days; the hideous business in Minnesota before it kicked off was a sufficiently grim prelude that I can’t really bring myself to say anything else. Here’s the Guardian again talking about the protests, which were evidently much better attended than Drumpf’s parade; somewhere Sean Spicer is just glad he no longer has to spin this shit to make Mushroom Cock look good…