uh oh. shipwreck, baby

Okay, this shitwich – pic­tured above in front of George ges­tur­ing – needs to catch a beating.

 

If ya want em, Cuffs has got a few back in. Get down there be­fore some oth­er chuck­le­head snaps em up first. Kicksville has some too.

Or or­der one on­line, cause FLOMM is ‘in­ter­na­tion­al.’ Though we are here to make Sacra­men­to famous.

What is this? This.

 

“Over the course of our nation’s his­to­ry, we have faced in­flec­tion points – times when we had to de­cide who we are as a coun­try and what we stand for. Now is such a time. Be­yond pol­i­cy dis­agree­ments and par­ti­san games­man­ship, there is some­thing much more fun­da­men­tal hang­ing in the bal­ance. Will we re­main faith­ful to our country’s core values?

“Our found­ing doc­u­ments set forth the val­ues that make us who we are, or at least who we as­pire to be. I say as­pire to be be­cause we haven’t al­ways lived up to our found­ing ideals – even at the time of our found­ing. When the De­c­la­ra­tion of In­de­pen­dence pro­claimed that all men are cre­at­ed equal, hun­dreds of thou­sands of African Amer­i­cans were be­ing en­slaved by their fel­low Americans.

“Not so long ago, all across the Jim Crow South, our country’s de­f­i­n­i­tion was de­filed by lynch­ings, the sys­tem­at­ic dis­en­fran­chise­ment of African-Amer­i­can vot­ers, and the burn­ing of free­dom rid­ers’ bus­es. And still to­day, we have yet to re­al­ize ful­ly our nation’s promise of equal justice.

“But while we have too of­ten fall­en short, we have re­mained ded­i­cat­ed to our defin­ing prin­ci­ples in our re­solve to form a more per­fect union. These prin­ci­ples have re­mained if not ful­ly who we are, at least who we seek to be.

“De­spite our dif­fer­ences, we as Amer­i­cans have long held a shared vi­sion of what our coun­try means and what val­ues we ex­pect our lead­ers to em­brace. To­day, our con­tin­ued com­mit­ment to these uni­fy­ing prin­ci­ples is need­ed more than ever.

“What are the val­ues that unite us? You don’t have to look much fur­ther than the Pre­am­ble to our Con­sti­tu­tion, just 52 words, to find them:
‘We the peo­ple of the Unit­ed States’ (we are a de­mo­c­ra­t­ic re­pub­lic, not a dic­ta­tor­ship) ‘in or­der to form a more per­fect union’ (we are a work in progress ded­i­cat­ed to a no­ble pur­suit) ‘es­tab­lish jus­tice’ (we re­vere jus­tice as the cor­ner­stone of our democ­ra­cy) ‘in­sure do­mes­tic tran­quil­i­ty’ (we prize uni­ty and peace, not di­vi­sive­ness and dis­cord), ‘pro­vide for the com­mon de­fense’ (we should nev­er give any for­eign ad­ver­sary rea­son to ques­tion our sol­i­dar­i­ty) ‘pro­mote the gen­er­al wel­fare’ (we care about one an­oth­er; com­pas­sion and de­cen­cy mat­ter) ‘and se­cure the bless­ings of lib­er­ty to our­selves and our pos­ter­i­ty’ (we have a re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to pro­tect not just our own gen­er­a­tion, but fu­ture ones as well).

“Our fore­fa­thers packed a lot into that sin­gle sen­tence. Our Bill of Rights is sim­i­lar­ly suc­cinct in guar­an­tee­ing in­di­vid­ual lib­er­ties – rights that we have come to take for grant­ed but with­out vig­i­lance can erode and slip away, such as free­dom of speech (our right to protest and be heard); free­dom of re­li­gion (the es­sen­tial sep­a­ra­tion be­tween how one wor­ships and the pow­er of the state); and free­dom of the press (a de­mo­c­ra­t­ic in­sti­tu­tion es­sen­tial to in­form­ing the pub­lic and hold­ing our lead­ers accountable).

“Our shared val­ues in­clude an­oth­er es­sen­tial prin­ci­ple, and that’s the rule of law – the promise that the law ap­plies equal­ly to every­one, that no per­son is above it, and that all are en­ti­tled to its pro­tec­tion. This con­cept of equal pro­tec­tion rec­og­nizes that our country’s strength comes from hon­or­ing, not weaponiz­ing, the di­ver­si­ty that springs from be­ing a na­tion of Na­tive Amer­i­cans and im­mi­grants of dif­fer­ent races, re­li­gions and nationalities.

“The rule of law de­pends not only on things that are writ­ten down, but also on im­por­tant tra­di­tions and norms, such as apo­lit­i­cal law en­force­ment. That’s why De­mo­c­ra­t­ic and Re­pub­li­can ad­min­is­tra­tions alike, at least since Wa­ter­gate, have hon­ored that the rule of law re­quires a strict sep­a­ra­tion be­tween the Jus­tice De­part­ment and the White House on crim­i­nal cas­es and in­ves­ti­ga­tions. This wall of sep­a­ra­tion is what en­sures the pub­lic can have con­fi­dence that the crim­i­nal process is not be­ing used as a sword to go af­ter one’s po­lit­i­cal en­e­mies or as a shield to pro­tect those in pow­er. It’s what sep­a­rates us from an autocracy.

“And there is some­thing else that sep­a­rates us from an au­toc­ra­cy, and that’s truth. There is such a thing as ob­jec­tive truth. We can de­bate poli­cies and is­sues, and we should. But those de­bates must be based on com­mon facts rather than raw ap­peals to emo­tion and fear through po­lar­iz­ing rhetoric and fabrications.

“Not only is there such a thing as ob­jec­tive truth, fail­ing to tell the truth mat­ters. We can’t con­trol whether our pub­lic ser­vants lie to us. But we can con­trol whether we hold them ac­count­able for those lies or whether, in ei­ther a state of ex­haus­tion or to pro­tect our own po­lit­i­cal ob­jec­tives, we look the oth­er way and nor­mal­ize an in­dif­fer­ence to truth.

“We are not liv­ing in or­di­nary times, and it is not enough for us to ad­mire our nation’s core val­ues from afar. Our country’s his­to­ry is lit­tered with in­di­vid­u­als and fac­tions who have tried to ex­ploit our im­per­fec­tions, but it is more pow­er­ful­ly marked by those whose vig­i­lance to­ward a more per­fect union has prevailed.

“So stand up. Speak out. Our coun­try needs all of us to raise our col­lec­tive voic­es in sup­port of our de­mo­c­ra­t­ic ideals and in­sti­tu­tions. That is what we stand for. That is who we are. And with a shared com­mit­ment to our found­ing prin­ci­ples, that is who we will remain.”
—
Sal­ly Q. Yates, for­mer act­ing at­tor­ney gen­er­al of the Unit­ed States
 

“In­stead of try­ing to think like them, we’ve come to ac­cept that, yes, they re­al­ly do see us an their en­e­my and that means they, in turn, are ours. Our job is not to reach out to them. Our job is to con­vince the rest of the coun­try of the re­al­i­ty be­fore us: Re­pub­li­can vot­ers are no longer fel­low Amer­i­cans ded­i­cat­ed to a bet­ter fu­ture for all our chil­dren. They’re a death cult ded­i­cat­ed to de­stroy­ing every­thing be­cause if they can’t have it all, then no one gets any­thing but a smok­ing ruin. They’ve em­braced Nazis, child mo­les­ters, trea­son, and that’s just for starters. It won’t be long be­fore they cham­pi­on po­lit­i­cal as­sas­si­na­tion and ter­ror­ism when they lose at the bal­lot box. If you think that’s over the top hy­per­bole, two years ago you would have said the same thing about the Pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States giv­ing a slop­py wet kiss to Nazis.”
—
Justin Rosario
 

Every Trumpanzee is trash.

And here’s some­thing for fake Chris­tians to own up to as they con­grat­u­late them­selves to­day on which ver­biage they use:

 

This goes further. 

What a use­less turnip this guy.
He’s a to­ken just like Tomi. They keep her around for the fan­ta­sy and they keep him around for the imag­ined crowd (‘we have a Gay too!’):

 
 

Trump: “I have ab­solute right to do what I want to do with the Jus­tice Department.” 

No, you don’t. You can do what you want with your golf cours­es. But the coun­try and its Jus­tice De­part­ment be­long to the Amer­i­can peo­ple. https://t.co/60DFvIEMjk

— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) De­cem­ber 29, 2017

 

Phil up.

 

Break out y’all.

 

2017: The year Jer­sey Shore cast mem­bers show more knowl­edge about cli­mate change than the Pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States.

Shoot me now.

I think cli­mate change is more com­plex than glob­al warm­ing will make it hot­ter. It has to do with dis­rup­tions of at­mos­pher­ic conditions,ocean pat­terns, jet streams and shit like that

— Vin­ny Guadagni­no (@VINNYGUADAGNINO) De­cem­ber 29, 2017

 

2016 was de­press­ing.
2017 was dis­gust­ing and dis­turb­ing.
2018 will be a fight for our very lives.

En­joy the hol­i­days, but pre­pare. We have a coun­try to fight like hell for.

— Ricky Davi­la (@TheRickyDavila) De­cem­ber 24, 2017

 

That when you’re knocked on your back an’ your life’s a flop
And when you’re down on the bot­tom there’s noth­ing else

 
 

—ja­son malmberg

Flom­mist Ja­son Malm­berg is a sim­ple man who be­lieves in brown liquor and small dogs. He also makes art some­times. Copy­right © 2017 Ja­son Malmberg.

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