Friday, June 29, 2018

It Takes A Village To Spank A Child


House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi announced today that the Democrats in both the House and Senate are submitting legislation to separate all minors within and on the borders of United States from their parents in order to more equitably distribute resources among them. 

“Now that President Trump has finally realized that backtracking on securing our borders is the only strategy acceptable to the American people every child of caring parents in South and Central American will be en trek to our southern border claiming spankings and denial of television,” said ex-Speaker Pelosi. 

“The physicians attending the children housed in our aluminum foil factories report severe deficiencies of pizza, sugar, corn syrup and Skittles. There has been some concern that many of these children have been getting by almost exclusively on vegetables, whole grains and dairy products and are developing symptoms of reverse diabetes, a condition that often deteriorates into good health.”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer added “Removing American children from their parents is just the first step in creating a more just and equitable society. Children under eighteen should be in school and will now live there as well. Parents may contribute to funds designed to supplement the facilities of all of a district’s schools. Contact with the results of their previous sexual activity will only foster the prejudice for the children who most resemble them and has always been the main barrier to equal opportunity.”

Former Arkansas First Lady Hilary Clinton took a different track on the controversy. “It is true that our Constitution protects the rights of property owners over fundamental human rights like freedom and cable TV and we addressed part of that imbalance in the Thirteenth Amendment which abolished slavery. But no one has sought to emancipate the world’s most universally oppressed minions: minors.”

“Since the Constitution only recognizes those of eighteen years and more as complete human beings almost a third of humanity and our population are disenfranchised until they have been broken by a relentless exposure to reality which no age group in America or elsewhere handles well.”

President Reject Clinton along with a number of Republican Senators purposes that those under so called “legal” age stop being coddled by families and government and instead be protected by legislation meant to end discrimination against children from holding most jobs and political offices. 

“We can start with federal agencies abolishing minimal age requirements and the military could draft those boys and girls who have graduated kindergarten but have yet to establish a viable career path.”

Former President Obama pointed out that he experienced  infinitely more limitations and humiliations when he was an infant than he did as an African American man. “Not only were family members and friends stuffing food I didn’t choose into my face but anyone with cold hands in the room could just whip my diaper off and wipe whatever god gave me without my consent.”

Pelosi added “I’m a grandmother and I’m telling you that families are cells, soviets to be exact. Families are not democracies. They’re at best benevolent Communist dictatorships and at worst fascist totalitarian dystopias beyond anything imagined in George Orwell and Margret Atwood’s nightmares.”

Some conservative columnists and think tanks have counter proposed rotating all children through chains of volunteer married couples who may have already structured their lives to provide for offspring. Each chain would consist of a representative sampling of the different religions, races, sexual preferences, party affiliations and economic levels of their region. Then every four to five years the children would be bussed to another region of the country or to one of the border holding pens.

“I don’t think there is anything better we could do for our country and for our future than ending the birth lottery and offering universal, equitable, free market national foster care like they’ve been doing so successfully on Mars and Jupiter for millenniums,” said soon to retire Senator John McCain.  

Obama
We can not allow children to be continuously oppressed by the expectations and ambitions their progenitors burden them with. It is a conceit of biology that has otherwise reasonable and responsible citizens degenerating into parenthood.

Don Arrup
Satire1

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Barberswamp 1


(The White House barbershop. Vladimir Putin is in his white barber’s tunic sharpening his razor on a strap when his assistant Jerkhov enters with a gallon container of honey gold pomade.)

Jerkhov
Will this be enough, Fearless Leader?

Putin
He’s been in Florida.

Jerkhov
I’ll get another gallon.

Putin
Probably all that’s left of his follicles.

Jerkhov
Obama’s coming in at three but Bush senior had to cancel. I can’t figure why he still schedules here in his condition.

Putin
Can’t pass up a free haircut.

Jerkhov
DT’s in the hall.

Trump (Entering)
No, no, no. No security in the barbershop. Vlad, Jerk, how are my favorite Italians? 

Putin
La Dolce Vita.

Jerkhov
Il tuo tortellini.

Trump
A little off the top. A little off the chin. Roto-Rooter the orifices. Got any big tits to do my nails?

Putin
We’re not lawyers. 

Trump
How about that nympho manicurist Bill likes?

Putin
C cup if you call that big. 

Trump
Stormy spoiled me but I’m only looking at the top of her head.

Putin
We must have the nuclear codes before we can put the apron on you.

Trump
Got them right here on my cell. Hope I didn’t Tweet them again.

Jerkhov
This second code isn’t responding.

Trump
Don’t worry about it. We’re in the process of changing the codes. Something about a security breech.

Putin
Impossible!

Jerkhov
Propaganda!

Trump
Fake bureaucratic crap. Try this list I keep in my wallet. 

Jerkhov
This is working out.

Putin
How long do you want the sideburns and where are you sending the Seventh Fleet?

Trump
Same as last time and the China Sea near North Korea.

Jerkhov
That’s no good.

Trump
Hey, we’re going to talk eventually but you get a better ear in Un town when you have world’s largest flotilla bumping the shores. 

Putin
Where are the sailors going to get laid?

Trump
It’s Korea. You can’t swing a dead diplomat without hitting a Korean massage pallor.

Jerkhov
But King Commie Un might interpret the penetration of the United States Navy into Korean vaginatory as an act of aggression. 

Trump
Since when is penetration aggression?

Putin
Since you went to military school.

Trump
I was always on top at New York Academy.

Putin
Don’t stumble or the only thing longer than the fall you’ll take is the line that will form behind you when you land.

Jerkhov
Don’t stumble.

Putin
It’s practically summer. Like us to lighten up on the pomade and what’s your next move in Syria?

Trump
That’s a very serious question. I don’t expect you to make my hair bullet proof but it should be able to withstand a rock or a teapot. And I’ll threaten the Russians with a new Cold War and then do the same nothing Obama did. Speaking of which...

(Enter Obama in a light blue golf shirt and loud plaid pants.)

Obama
Donny T! Back from Florida I see. 

Trump
Which I won by 11 points. 

Obama
We must read different newspapers. Vlad. Jerk.

Putin
Bar rack.

Jerkhov
Big O.

Obama
And you guys were talking some Syria us shit.

Trump
Things have changed a lot in that part of town.

Obama
I’ll say. Jerk, is that manicurist Bill likes available?

(Jerkhov indicates Trump has dibs)

Putin
You were making a mistake interfering with Russia’s ally.

Obama
If I was a betting man three years ago I would have put all my money on ISIS to take the region. This year they probably won’t even make the playoffs.

Putin
Turkey will be the wild card. 

Trump
The Kurds.

Obama
They aren’t going away.

Putin
Anyone think it could be Mother Russia who comes out on top?

Trump
They might get out alive.

Jerkhov
You don’t think the Russians can achieve their goal?

Obama
After you’re in the Middle East for a few years you realize getting out alive is your only goal.

(Enter Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller dressed in maintenance grey sweeping up. The others boo, spit and throw things at him.) 

Obama
He looks familiar. Did I know him?

Trump
Bobby Mule. Used to be part of the handgun and sunglasses set.

Obama
Security?

Trump
Snitch. Wants to stick his head up your ass to see what’s for dinner. 

Obama
Probably one of my appointments. 

Jerkhov
You missed a spot, under the shampoo chair, you worthless mule.

Trump
Mule’s been around. Around and around. Sweeping up after the rest of us who get things done.

Obama
Hey Don.

Trump
Yes, Mr. Never Was Born Here.

Obama
What do think would have happened if you could have gotten rid of the Affordable Care Act on the first vote?

Trump
The party base would be happy and McConnell and the leadership would have shit their pants. 

Obama
Beware of what you wish for.

Jerkhov
Like the presidency?

(Trump and Obama and Putin laugh until they hear Mueller chuckle)

Trump
I don’t like that guy.

Obama
He’s a Republican.

Trump
How can you tell?

Obama
He has a job.

Trump
What if he’s a spy?

Obama 
Then he has two jobs and is probably Hispanic. 

Trump
Hey, Mule. Come over here. 

Mule 
Yes, Mr. President.

Trump
Empty out your pockets. Let’s see what you got. Yeah, right there on the third chair.

Obama
You play marbles?

Mule
I lost my marbles. I just have this one Black Eyed Susan.

Trump
The all seeing eye.

Putin
The empty socket.

Obama
Glass balls. Vlad, how is it that you can cut black hair and white boy hair?

Putin
I cut your mother’s hair. Every president gets the same haircut from Val.

Don Arrup
Satire1

Friday, June 1, 2018

May Roundup


Roseanne Barr was arrested by the border patrol today while she was accompanying fifteen hundred brotherhood monkeys attempting to cross into the United States from Canada. The comedienne and recent Tweety Bird casualty said she was starting a village in the Dakotas to build an audience for her next attempt to revive her Conner family sitcom in 2036.

In the presence of her lawyer, Roseanne admitted that her plan was a little far fetched but that religious minorities and simians of color do breed well in captivity. She blamed her sleep aid Ambien for the logistics. 

“No pill helps you sleep,” said Barr. “Ambien just puts you in Canada for the night.”

New York mayor Bill something along with the NYC Chamber of Commerce, Disney, the New York Times, New York Newsday and the league of Broadway Producers have agreed to move Times Square to San Juan, Puerto Rico to save on electric bills. Though economists are predicting a fall off in sales and attendance of roughly 99% tourism is expected to increase in the next decade as the island crawls back into the mid twentieth century. 

“It’s about time we stop pretending New York City and Puerto Rico are two different places,” said some tall DeBlasio guy. “Haven’t you people seen Hamilton?”

Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko emerged from the grave yesterday to explain to his fellow journalist that his death was all part of a sting operation. Unfortunately, the widely publicized resurrection led to a tidal wave of fake murder victims returning to the limelight. 

Former President John Kennedy who just celebrated his one hundred and first birthday on Wednesday wheeled out of The Old Presidents Never Die Nursing Home in Gettysburg, PA. Kennedy said he actually survived the two head shots but needed fifty years to grow his hair back. He regrets telling Jackie to marry some Eurotrashaire if she still wanted to party. 

Former Teamsters Mob Boss Jimmy Hoffa (105) married aviator Amelia Earhart (131) thirty years ago when he came across her on a deserted island in the middle of the city of Los Angeles. They’ve lived relatively quiet lives avoiding social media and flatulent neighbors. 

President Trump’s tariffs on goods manufactured in New Jersey begins tonight. Tomatoes, corn and straw hats will be slapped with a 25% tariff to protect pizzerias and aging Cuban Americans in New York City and Connecticut. 

Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller is being sued by The People’s Republic of China for completely ignoring their interference in the 2016 elections. “It’ll go down as the greatest injustice of the new millennium,” said China’s president Xi Jing Ping Pong. “The last elections were fueled by rice and fireworks.”

Samantha Bee Goode of Full Frontal apologized yesterday for referring to the First Daughter as a  “feckless c#nt.” The comedienne explained, “That’s just how we Canadians refer to all rich American princesses.”

Don Arrup
Satire1

Monday, May 28, 2018

In Memorium

Satire1 again suspends its wit this post in honor of those individuals and their families whose sacrifice makes this blog and others like it possible.

Don Arrup
Satire1

Friday, May 11, 2018

Sonny


When the House Committee on Agriculture exposed the current Secretary of Agriculture George Erwin “Sonny” Perdue yesterday as a former veterinarian and animal ventriloquist the White House scrambled to replace the cabinet position before the fake news hounds smelled another appointment boner. Extensive documentation including admissions, tuition payments, transcripts and license prove that Sonny, a former governor of Georgia, once made a living performing nonconsensual acts on innocent pets and livestock.

“You can call it insemination or just plain old fashioned rape for all I care,” said Representative Ted Yoho (R-FL). “Few animals have cell phones or even the digits to participate in this digital age but if they could talk how many Rovers, Buffies and Elsies would #MeToo this Sonny Boy?”

“A lot of these horse doctors are going around referring to themselves as “vets” who never even served a day in the military,” said Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-OH). “At least Governor Perdue served as a captain in the Air Force which is almost like being in the military.”

“I’d rather entrust my horse and chickens health to someone who was in uniform than one of these latex gloved Lotharios,” said Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE). 

Animal husbandry goes back to the Papyrus of Kahun in Ancient Egypt but so many animal “husbands” have taken their title too literally since.  It wasn’t until 1762 that zoophiles used the cover of science and medicine to create the Veterinary School of Lyon. Claude Bourgelat, a notorious “horse lover” in decadent pre Revolution France, reasoned that farmers, soldiers and transporters would happily share their “booty” if the animals were returned well fed and groomed. By the early nineteenth century veterinary schools and hospitals (bestiality brothels) were established in London, Boston, New York and Philadelphia claiming to treat infertility and cattle maladies. 

Complicating Secretary Perdue’s original choice of profession are the multitude of allegations of discrimination to go along with the abuse. “There’s a reason why I’ve never been able to wear pants,” said Donald Duck. “Irritable Bowel Syndrome and I’ve got a prostate gland the size of a grapefruit. Mickey told me to see his guy Doc Sunny so I went to his office only to find out that he only does star-toons not cartoons.”

“I tried setting up a joint conference with my M.D. and Doctor Perdue to deal with my lycanthropy (Werewolfism),” said Lawrence Talbot. “He agreed but never contacted my internist and just tied me down before the moon came out. Things got pretty hairy after that.”

Sonny was elected to the state senate as a veterinarian Democrat throughout the 90’s but as Jimmy Cater’s fame dimmed and the Donkey’s millennium passed Sonny crossed the aisle to become Georgia’s first Republican governor since Gone With The Wind. With only the usual amount of conflict of interest maneuvers for a southern politician Sonny and his wife Mary were among the nation’s leading advocates for foster children and helped raise many along with their four offspring. 

In consideration of Sonny and his wife’s tireless advocacy for needy children, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has forgone the usual Justice Department investigation and offered Sonny a simple trial by firing squad to take place Friday morning. Open free to the public. Location to be texted to waiting list one hour before the bang.

“How long will our country tolerate rape, in the guise of medical treatment, of the animals God has entrusted to our care?” asked Darren Soto (D-FL). “Probably as long as we tolerate the rape of the planet God entrusted to us and pretend that we don’t treat many of our citizens like beasts.”

Don Arrup
Satire1

Sunday, April 22, 2018

Freak Out


As the island of Puerto Rico experiences its second black out in six months the Fake Media led by The New York Lies, Washington Poop and White Street Journal have been attributing the disaster to a “freak” accident. National television liescasts from CBS (Corporate Bull Shit) to out-Foxed News repeated the accusation until human curiosities and assorted carnies across the country began to feel guilty.

So while our half brothers and sisters on the island protectorate suffer and blame the grotesquely unique for their plight, Satire1 went sixty blocks north to the capital of Puerto Rico in Washington Heights, Manhattan to find out exactly who was to blame.

Three Legged Hombre
“I wasn’t anywhere near the island and have never been there. I’ve been in carnivals for four decades and I’ve never heard of PR as part of the circuit.”

Pinhead Jose
“What? Are people trying to blame us for everything that screws up again? What is this, the Middle Ages?”

Bearded Bianca 
“I started to use my toaster when the microwave was still on but our building was back on line before my telenovela came on.”

Francisco Fartisteo
“Hey, I’ve already apologized for the BP Gulf spill and Hurricane Maria. I’m Hispanic and I’m a freak but this last thing was not me.”

Mono Muchacha (Monkey Girl) Maria
“I sent mi madre a big air conditioner through Amazon and if that blew the island out you got to split the blame between me and Jeff Bezos who’s more geek than freak. It would have to be called a freak-geek accident.”

Lobster Hands Lorenzo
“When God made Adam and Eve they must have been babies raised by baboons and tigers. Or perhaps lovingly by cranes and snakes. Somebody got pussy. Sky purple as a black eye. Water and wind whip up and raise cane. Not sugar cane. Hurry cane. Before electricity it used to blow out the coconuts.”

Gigante Gabriela
“Maria was the ultimate blow job. Winds up to fifteen year olds an hour. Soaking rain followed by dry showers. And heat. And thirst. Slowly isolation crept to your doorstep. Without electricity nights were nude. Stars long absent proved prodigal and returned with palms out. Children dreamed of animals instead of digital phantoms. Women and men were subjugated by their own flesh in hours so dark even Eve would be lost in them. Then FEMA came with water bottles and box lunches.”

Macho Miniatura
“I’m a man and I’m to blame because women are unhappy. I’m middle aged and the state of the country and the world is my fault. I’m Hispanic and I compete with Blacks for housing, jobs and women. But most of all I am a freak- the only real minority. Every other so called minority is just in the wrong location. Freak means you’re alone everywhere. That’s why we always get the blame.”

Don Arrup
Satire1

Thursday, April 12, 2018

Give Me An A


As the West Virginia Senate held out against the public school teachers demands for a five percent raise, schools across the state had been closed for almost two weeks and public opinion was turning against the educators. It was looking like fourth down and long for the third lowest paid teachers in the country when the National Football League Baltimore Ravens Cheerleading Squad stormed the steps of the Capitol Building rallying the exhausted educators and turning the cameras and the nation’s attention back on.

Governor James C. Justice was caught off guard by the spirit squad especially since West Virginia doesn’t have an NFL team to cheer. “Doesn’t matter,” said Dipsey Noodle, head cheerleader and choreographer for the squad. “We go wherever our fans are.”

In the spring of 1954, the recently reincarnated Baltimore Colts formed a marching band along with baton twirlers and dancers that were effectively the original NFL cheerleading squad. This action was taken in response to the landmark Supreme Court decision Brown vs The Board of Education which was handed down that May. Drawing on the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment the decision ended enforced racial segregation of schools and collegiate athletic elitism.

The meteoric rise of college football in the 1920’s threatened America’s more democratic pastime, Baseball. Professional football teams and leagues were formed to represent blue collar towns and cities but they never had the glamor or tradition of the college game. So in the fall of 54, with the United States now threatening their citizenry with universal education the need for violent gladiatorial contests coupled with thigh wide gyrations were needed on both Saturdays and Sundays to get America through its now pedagogical autumns. 

The country’s two largest teachers unions, National Education Association (Ned Ass) and The American Federation of Teachers (Whup Ass), recognizing that cheerleaders were basically doing the same job and working toward the same goal formed a discrete alliance with professional football spirit squads. 

Though the two professions have secretly worked in tandem to educate and pacify the masses for more than fifty years it was not until the West Virginia Teachers Strike that anyone realized the power of the Cheerteacher Alliance. With teachers and cheerleaders across the nation enduring substandard and often dangerous situations in their workplaces, forced to provide their own materials and uniforms and often treated with disrespect by those they serve the “wildfire” that some politicians have declared is sweeping the south and west is unlikely to be put out anytime soon. 

Satire 1 alone has pointed out that the only factor all the states with teachers in rebellion share besides low pay, under funded schools and raids on their pensions is the absence of NFL representation. Though Arizona has the NFL Cardinals it has not been apart of the United States since its absorption into Greater Northern Mexico twenty years ago.

Kentucky and Oklahoma have turned down NFL expansion teams for years for fear of radicalizing their teachers. Both states figure huge in college basketball and football but student cheer squads tend to be more gymnastic than Vegas and have a balance of men and women. Only the heroic Baltimore Ravens squad reflects the collegiate ideal. Presidents Eisenhower (West Point), Reagan (Eureka), FDR (Harvard) and both Bushes (Yale) were cheerleaders. None wore go-go boots.

As the teachers unions press state legislatures for higher pay and benefits rumblings through the hall of academia are mostly over the near serfdom suffered by the all women spirit squads of the NFL. Minimum wage for games, no pay for constant rehearsing, Aunt Asshole rules controlling the cheerleaders behavior on and off the field. One rulebook even instructing shaving techniques and the preferred usage of tampons.

When First Lady Melania Trump heard that the cheerleaders for most teams had to immerse themselves into the tailgates and stands to sell raffle tickets and calendars and take pictures with drunken fans she asked Donald to get legislation passed so that both cheerleaders and teachers could carry guns. Where most teachers cry out “there ain’t no cannon big enough” to protect them from students a number of cheerleaders have expressed interest in Uzis and other manageable machine pistols. 

The super secret mystery chat site of the Cheerteachers movement is said to be Pom-Poms and Pencils featuring debates on federal grants for superior scholastic weaponry and allowances for ammunition. Many cheerleaders and teachers also want the right to act like sluts even when they’re not in schools and stadiums.

“We won’t be satisfied until Debbie does Dallas, Charleston, Louisville and Oklahoma City,” said Our Miss Brooks.  

“Little does the public appreciate what it takes to perform in front of a group, using every tool at your disposal to focus their attention, whip up their enthusiasm, take them step by step, yard by yard as they tackle their assignments, move their projects down the field, through their doubts and fears through distractions and confusions to rally them again and keep them in the game until they reach their goal. Give me an L! Give me an E! Give me an A, R, N, I-N-G!”

“What’s that spell?”

Democracy

Don Arrup
Satire1







Wednesday, March 21, 2018

I Don't Want To Grow Up


Geoffrey the Giraffe, mascot of the late twentieth century retail behemoth Toys R Us, was dragged down a back alley near Wall Street in 2005 by Bain Capital,  KKR and Vornado Realty Trust and stripped of his solvency by a form of financial rape called a leveraged buyout. This form of vampire capitalism rose in the 1980’s where buyout bats buy a controlling portion of a company’s shares with borrowed funds using the company they are acquiring as the collateral and straddling it with the debt. 

Not all leveraged buyouts are hostile takeovers and some restructure and save brands that were falling behind the times as Toy R Us was to Walmart but often these “investors” act more like buzzards paying themselves huge salaries and fees while selling off assets, killing jobs, screwing smaller shareholders and leaving behind an empty shell. What Wolf Bain and its partners originally intended is outside our knowledge but many point to the two small wounds on the giraffe’s neck.

Satire1 takes to the corner of 14th Street and Oblivion in our nation’s capital where Toys R Us began in 1948 as Children’s Bargain Town to harvest the views of those of a tender age and the overcooked.

Gen Xer
“My parents took me to a store once. I can’t remember what kind of store it was. Maybe books but it had a cafe and people were looking at magazines instead of their phones. Creepy.”

Actress Xer
“Donald took me to FAO Schwartz across from the Plaza one Christmas when one of his wives was knocked up. I looked for the giraffe but a clerk told me Geoffrey worked at Times Square.”

Woman with big hat
“I only buy my children sex toys. They teach the kids self esteem and that growing up isn’t the end of the world. Even though it is.”

 Four year old girl with dolly
“Geoffrey and his herd were a stampede on local Mom and Pops from the fifties through the nineties but TRU also supported local small manufactures and were distribution centers for Toys for Tots and other charitable organizations. But have you ever smelled giraffe poop?”

Three year old boy in spacesuit
“Their website wasn’t customer friendly and when the deal with Amazon fell through they were up the Amazon without a paddle.”

Cop on the beat
“Giraffe poop smells like my dog Rocky’s when we feed him tacos.”

National Archives Beatnik
“Internet, cheaper, delivered, click. Or, a little girl stands in front of that gigantic stack of dollies staring blankly through the hard cellophane. Her adoring public. You can just click but you can’t give her the experience of going into the sea of dolls at Toys R Us and coming out with the special one she found herself.”

Ham Sandwich
“More money was spent on pads and phones for eight year olds than for toys last Christmas. The screens own them before they hit double digits.”   

Redskins fan
“I don’t want to grow up.”

Senator Rick Slick of West Dakota
“I don’t want to grow up.”

Mean Teen Queen
“Who grows up?”

Don Arrup
Satire1

Friday, March 16, 2018

Forward Pass or Roy Moore of the Same


Critics of the accusers of His Honor Roy Moore are correct to resist the trial by newspaper, television and Internet of the Republican nominee for special election to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions as one of the Alabama United States Senators. If every man, woman and child in the state and the other forty nine accused Roy of pedophilia he is still innocent until proven guilty. 

The age of consent is as young as fourteen in some states and as old as eighteen in others. Those are four big years. In Alabama first degree statutory rape is when someone sixteen or older has intercourse with someone under the age of twelve.

I’ve read the entire Bible including the Gospels and don’t recall Joseph and Mary discussing their sex lives. If Joseph and Mary didn’t have intercourse they were not married according to Jewish Law and by the standards of most religions and governments. My Roman Catholic upbringing taught us that The Holy Ghost later renamed The Holy Spirit knocked Mary up. Whether carpenter Joe ever put the wood to her after that is not covered. 

I am no fan of Mitch (the bitch) McConnell but reporters really have no business asking him if he believes women he doesn’t know talking about a man he doesn’t know. You might as well ask me if Roy is guilty. And I don’t know. 

I’m not suggesting for a moment that this country (and I would imagine most countries) doesn’t have an ongoing culture that tolerates extensive sexual bullying in almost every manner of social and economic interaction. Even I was harassed a few times by men and women when I was younger. As much as some feminists portray the entertainment business as male dominated the first and second lines of gatekeepers are casting directors who are almost always female. It isn’t testosterone that corrupts. It’s power.  

Though I found it depressing and frustrating I was never lured or groped anywhere and never feared for my safety. And I only experienced it a couple of times in as many decades.  

Satire1 celebrates the courage and solidarity women are showing in voicing their experiences but fears comedians, pundits and the folks on the street we hear assuming the guilt of individuals before their trials. The floodgates are open and it is long overdue but rushing to judgment is not justice and the citizens of Alabama are free to elect who they please.

Don Arrup
Satire1