Home Depot customer ties alleged hate knot but cops say it doesn't qualify

The safe spaces in America are shrinking day by day. You cannot even go into a Home Depot without having to worry that someone will tie a hangman's noose on a clothesline and leave it on the floor to endanger the lives of shoppers.

This happened, believe it or not, in the United States of America, in a state called Delaware. A Home Depot customer, who was perhaps shopping for Crazy Glue or a can of Drano, saw the noose on the floor and complained to management saying, "There's a hangman's noose on the floor! Racism. Racism. A noose is loose on the floor. Do something quick--it's scaring me. I don't feel safe. I'm suing."

The customer was so frightened by the noose, that there needed to be a cleanup in aisle two.

Delaware State Police announced Thursday that the incident did not legally qualify as a hate crime because ropes don't hate by themselves and there was no object seen that was hated, except perhaps for the rolls of Flex Seal, because it says it'll stop leaks like magic, but I still had to call a plumber.

 Sgt. Richard D. Bratz, communications director for the state police, told the outlet that a hate crime involves an act that targets a specific person based on a protected class, such as race or gender. Flex Seal has no race or gender, although it is a "tape of color."

The noose found in the aisle of the home improvement store was just laying there on the floor doing nothing, especially nothing hateful. The customer who tied the noose even came forward saying that they had been in the store shopping for ropes for work to build a canopy that was to be decorated with various "rope knots." The customer tied the knot but left it in the aisle and continued shopping.

Sometime later, two snowflake sisters found the noose and actually began screaming, according to Delaware Online. 

The manager asked another employee to help the women since he was assisting another customer, but ran over when they began screaming his name. The manager told Delaware Online that the women cursed at him when he tried to assist them and blamed Trump for the noose. 

The sisters, both liberals who are afraid to shop alone, ran home to their safe space and posted a photo of the noose online and a video of them playing the autoharp and singing "We Shall Overcome." 

“The person who put it in the aisle did not know that these two people would see it," Bratz said. "It was not directed to anyone.” Especially not those two idiots.

Days later, a store manager reported to police that he had been threatened over the phone by two women and a man. The manager said the people called him a racist and cursed at him, according to Delaware Online.

Bratz said the morons who made the threatening phone calls “absolutely” could be charged with harassment.

The sisters who found the noose previously said they would lead a demonstration outside the store because they are both unemployed and hope to meet two like-minded dolts who they can go with to future demonstrations to vent their invented outrage.

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Trump adviser denounces "Cocaine Mitch"

Lynne Patton a Trump administration adviser is a former drug addict and a member of the "Outrage Police." She has finally found a way to publicly use her former addiction as a hammer by attacking Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as he is raising money for re-election using his "Cocaine Mitch" moniker. Patton says it isn't funny or appropriate.

Look at Mitch McConnell's face. Calling that punim "Cocaine Mitch" is hilarious and appropriate.

“It’s almost like making drugs cool, and they’re not,” Patton claimed in a Friday interview with Bold TV. “Not to sound like Nancy Reagan, but drugs are not cool, just so you know.”

Which is why they glorify celebrities who overdose on drugs. 

Of course drugs aren't cool, and Mitch isn't doing that by allowing that sobriquet to be used in his fund-raising ads. It's because it's a nickname people who know use to joke about him or humanize him. It's a familiarity that can be endearing if you don't take it seriously--like if you didn't have a serious drug problem, in which case, you might.

Patton, an administrator in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, said McConnell’s embrace of the nickname is insensitive to people suffering from drug addiction. Patton has openly discussed her struggle with substance abuse and addiction.

“I think depending on what day it is, whether or not Mitch McConnell is a friend of the president, but as somebody who has personally struggled with cocaine addiction, I don’t think that that is funny or appropriate, I wouldn’t endorse that on any side of the aisle,” Patton said.

McConnell’s, R-Ky., reelection campaign tweeted Thursday that it had its biggest fundraising day after offering to sell “Cocaine Mitch” red T-shirts on his campaign website.

The website urges supporters to “join the ‘Team Mitch Cartel’” by purchasing the $35 shirts, and donating up to $2,800 per election.

Former U.S. Senate candidate Don Blankenship, a West Virginia coal executive, started the “Cocaine Mitch” moniker in a campaign ad. It is a joke and meant to be a joke and if former drug users are upset with the joke, perhaps they haven't fully dealt with their personal issues.

The nickname refers to debunked [as in false] allegations that drugs were found aboard a commercial cargo ship owned by the family of McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao, the secretary of the Transportation Department.

So get over it, please, Lynne Patton. Put away your outrage, take a few deep breaths and relax. Nobody is trying to piss you off or tempt you with cocaine. Not even Cocaine Mitch. We love you, baby.

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