Anyone Want to Buy Republican Bones
They Make Good Chandeliers
I couldn’t decide whether to blog about bones, how 91 percent of Iowans back trump or how an 88-year-old U.S. Senator who once, in no uncertain terms, blamed trump for the Jan. 6 rebellion and now backs the man with the bad, orange hair.
So then I realized it’s all related, you know how they say, we’re all connected.
But first, I met a clerk at the local Bottle King who wore an interesting chain around her neck and I asked about it and she told me it contained ashes of the bones of her late mother.
And that brings me to Jon Pichaya Ferry, a New Yorker who sells bones, and can get you just about anything you want, maybe you want a spine, or a tibia or a skull, just ask, if you have the dough. So I thought about why people want human bones and the only thing I can imagine is that they use the bones for educational purposes or maybe they make necklaces from the bones. In which case, you would wonder just whose bones are hanging from your neck, maybe they are from your late, great grandmother Nancy or from Wesley Brown, your high school math teacher who died when an air conditioner fell from a second story window right smack on Wesley’s head. It’s possible that the tibia you’ve crafted into a lamp for your living room came from the grandson of the 10th president, John Tyler, who was a proponent of slavery and is generally considered one of the worst presidents ever, that is if you’re against slavery. And you know that lovely chandelier that lights up your Aunt Sylvia’s living room, well maybe it was made from the bones she bought from John Ferry AKA “The Bone Guy.” And maybe you just want a skull under your glass coffee table as a conversation piece for your next barbecue when everyone can tell bone stories.
According to a story in today’s Washington Post, Ferry is a 21-year-old bone salesman with nearly 500,000 TikTok followers and 22 million likes on his website, JonsBones. Ferry can get you a bone for as low as $20, an individual rib costs $18 and if you want a skull where the bones are spaced out and look to be suspended in midair, it will cost you nearly $6,000.
Ferry won’t divulge the source or the identity of the bones and he says the names of buyers also are kept private. He buys them at garage sales or from people who just happened to have bones in their basements just collecting dust, however, if I knew anyone who sold bones at a garage sale or kept them in their basement, I would unfriend them immediately.
The Post reports that human bone trade has spanned centuries “and was built largely through the theft of remains from Native Americans, enslaved people and oppressed group from other nations.” Many of the bones came from China and India and an estimated 60,000 skeletons and skulls were shipped from India in one year, until India banned the exportation of human remains in 1985. That is really freaky.
Federal law now requires that the remains of Native Americans be returned to tribes or descendants who request them and a few states restrict the sale and ownership of human remains, but most permit the practice.
And this leads to the latest poll which shows that 91 percent of Iowans support trump, and many attended Saturday’s trump rally at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, including Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, Iowa Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Ashley Hinson, and other mainstream Republican officials.
The Des Moines Register poll showed trump doing better than ever in Iowa. One 81-year-old Republican, Jerry Steward, said Trump doesn’t act like a typical politician.
“The situation we have now is very bad, and he will be able to correct that situation quicker than anybody else,” Steward said.
And Kevin Tobey, a 58-year-old Des Moines resident and poll respondent, said he is “a big Trump fan” because Trump did what he promised to do while in office, particularly around growing the economy.
Here’s a real surprise: The poll show Trump does “especially well” among people who have not been vaccinated and do not intend to be vaccinated, not really a surprise.
And Karen Moon, 32, of Indianola, said trump has at times “sounded like a blubbering idiot,” and “uneducated” as he showed when he asked if it was a good thing “for people to inject bleach into their bodies to get rid of the coronavirus.” Nevertheless, Moon, who sounds like she came from the moon, said she likes trump because “he was all about the American people” and that she would “definitely” vote for trump for president in 2024. Unless I missed it, nobody mentioned the Jan. 6 insurrection by trumpers, white supremacists and other nasties nor did they mention that trump bungled the COVID-19 response nor was they even a tiny mention of trump’s ongoing lie that he was robbed of reelection through fraudulent ballots. Well these are minor matter in Iowa.
So there is a direct link between dead bones and Iowans who sound like they are brain dead and I wouldn’t be surprised if most of the Bone Guys’ stuff comes from the Hawkeye State . And then there was U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, who offered the latest and most brutal example of hypocrisy and who seems not brain dead but that he has sold his soul and all of his bones and bodily parts to the devil, AKA Gen. Bone Spurs.
Grassley was among those members of Congress whose lives were in true peril when they were escorted to a secure location after a trumper mob had invaded and was pillaging the capitol on Jan. 6. Grassley voted to certify the 2020 election, above the crazy rants of trump who had rallied the rabble around the “Stop the Steal” absurdity.
In February, after Trump skirted through his second impeachment trial for allegedly inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection, Grassley said that “President Trump continued to argue that the election had been stolen even though the courts didn’t back up his claims,” and that trump had “belittled and harassed elected officials across the country to get his way.” Grassley said further that Trump “encouraged his own, loyal vice president, Mike Pence, to take extraordinary and unconstitutional actions during the Electoral College count.”
“There’s no doubt in my mind that President Trump’s language was extreme, aggressive, and irresponsible,” and that trump must share I the responsibility “for their destructive actions that day.”
Sounds pretty good until you watch the octogenarian beam at the latest trump rally as bone spurs strongly endorsed Grassley for reelection.
“If I didn’t accept the endorsement of a person that’s got 91 percent of the Republican voters in Iowa, I wouldn’t be too smart,” said the senator, who by accepting the endorsement was tacitly reversing himself about trump’s responsibility for the rebellion and for his lies about voter fraud.
“First of all, [Biden] didn’t get elected, OK?” trump told Saturday’s crowd, who responded with, “Trump won! Trump won!”
Anybody want to buy some bones from a dead Republican Party?
By the way, I got my COVID-19 booster shot yesterday and there were no side effects, if you don’t count that my arms fell off, but just kidding, it all went swimmingly, it’s all good and I recommend everyone get the booster when they can.