Active Shitter Alert

An active shitter alert has been released for the White House. Trump is shitting on everything. It's completely out of control. 

Dog Eat DOGE

The dog has eaten Trump's DOGE. I require more of an explanation. Some accounting. Bring it on, big boy. The government is ours, not yours, after all, you fucking idiot. 

Feeling the Vibes

Bear with me. I think it's possible some Republicans have implants that deprive them of free will. That make them drones and automatons, unable to act independently. It appears that way. I think Mike Johnson, for example, might have a vibrator up his ass that rewards him for doing Trump's will.

That look on his face ...

Is that an outrageous suggestion? Hell, they reelected someone who trashed everything he's ever touched and can't run anything. Maybe a crime family. He caused some goons to storm and sack our Capitol and watched the results on TV for over three hours doing nothing to stop it. He enjoyed it.

I'm not arguing an anal stimulation hypothesis isn't nuts. Rather, that it is. Rectal stimulation as a means of control is no less ridiculous than a raping, killing, robbing, drooling, idiot felon president inspiring slavish devotion. If that's normal, I'm within parameters. The new parameters of degradation.  

Another two likely candidates for anal stimulation are Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell. Lindsey is obvious. McConnell less so but he came through for Trump when it counted. He's a shithead but with gravitas and and a sense of self-importance. Pride, of a kind, if that doesn't bend your mind.

He's a pro and old hand at ass activity. He would take it up the rear whenever a big money guy walked through the door. These are southern white men. The 'Rape of the South.' Remember that shit? They weren't raped. They were rapists who got called out and lost. Hence their anal fixations, I suspect. 

Hypotheses can be tested. Guess what. Full body searches without due process and reasonable suspicion have been made possible by these punks. De rigueur. Drop trou and bend over, boys. Spread those cheeks. They're accustomed to being on the other end of this, with Trump. Anal gazing. Whatever.

All that massively bad shit they're doing to potential deportees, which now includes about everybody, is another Trump innovation and security measure. Who knows what they do. I don't want to think about it, but I'm not the one who made this happen. And an anal exam never hurt anyone. Or shouldn't.

Dog Eat Dog

Then there's another play I have in the works, DOG EAT DOG. That's the name of a PAC, man. Who knows where the money came from -- the Koch cloud financing program, probably -- but their lawyers are the best out there. The SWBs (Southern White Boys, a chorus dressed in drag) are thrilled. Gonna sue. Ain't nothing in the Constitution says you can't fight dogs. That's in the articles, in the brief, that exact language. Powerful stuff. Convincing on the face for those that knows, the Real Americans. 

And it goes to the Supreme Court -- of the US -- and they're hung, four to four. Clarence is on medical leave. But, lo, he's lowered, magisterially, slowly, down in his chair, from above, center stage, his crotch bandaged. Clarence will decide. He will even speak. And he does. Dog fighting is legal, he decrees. 

As the patriotic music wells up, Clarence orates: Dog fighting is the most American sport and the real national pastime, a game that embodies the genuine ethos of America, the Randian competition that makes us great. Do or die -- in the ditch. Makers and takers. The strong and the weak. Supermen and scum. And the dogs? They're valuable assets, Clarence argues, and therefore very well treated.

Like to see you make this into a Capra movie. The chorus provides sound-effects (lots of growls), and is rife with assorted subplots. Butch in the chorus is gay, it turns out. And the others are all having anal sex with someone, mostly their wives. 

Clarence, by the way, if you were concerned, has had plastic surgery. To shorten his dick. A mechanical phallus is employed. Okay, I like them. Saw one used in a presentation of Aristophanes' THE CLOUDS, at UD (Dayton), back in the day. Great production. And we think "the cloud" is new. The Greeks discovered it all. Eureka!

Who Did It?

There's no mystery about Trump. He's a piece of shit, a criminal, and he did it all.  

Republicans Are Coming for Everything

Republicans are coming for things you didn't know you had or didn't think you could lose. They're going to take it all. 

Trump Terrorizes the World

Donald Trump, with a shocking level of continuing support from Republicans in the United States, is terrorizing everyone he can. Be grateful if you're not a target. His appetite for destruction is apparently insatiable.

Death of a Salesperson

Trump is a salesman. Selling nothing. A person who sells you nothing for something is a crook and a conman. And maybe he's finally about to get found out. 

Karma Conscientiousness

Maybe karma is conscientious in the end, and Trump is about to get his.  

No Food, No Healthcare

Republicans are fighting like hell to ensure more Americans suffer and die. 

China Wins Trade War

But Trump got to yank them around a lot and grandstand it which is all he cares about so I guess that's a win for him and it's all he cares about.

Who Knows Where the Time Went

I don't know, but it feels like it's irreversibly gone now. 

Jesus Christ, Supersized

Republicans turned Jesus into a meme and a marketing gimmick. For the wealthy. For warfare. Against feeding children. Against caring for the poor. The fuckers have rebranded Jesus. 

Capitulation to Force

Trump doesn't care about outcomes but means. That's how you go bankrupt every time, in Trump's case because all he cares about is feeling like a big man. So everyone must bow down to him. What happens after that, apart from more bowing down, he doesn't care. 

Fortified Bubble

 What's a bubble if it never pops? An economy, I guess ...

Kill Dad, Marry Mom

Republicans are so Oedipal. The government is the nurturing mother and inexhaustible source of sustenance. They deny the attraction but can't stay away, wanting never to grow up. Daddy must be supplanted but no big deal. Daddy will be dealt with by subterfuge and the usual tools of little people. But then what? They will fall because they are false daddies, irresponsible, incompetent and useless.

De Facto Dictatorship

The United Stars is de facto a dictatorship. 

Stupid, Evil People

Listen to Vought talk. Listen to Miller talk. These aren't just evil people, they're stupid, evil people. 

The Deep State is Real

And it's always been conservative. How do we know this? Because, when some of the justification for the ruthless, behind-the-scenes antics went away, or lessened at least, with the end of the Soviet Union the 'deep state' turned on Democrats. So we know, but the bad stuff had a conservative cast to it all around -- violent, stupid and needlessly alienating. McCarthy was the deep state. Dulles was the deep state, and Rumsfeld and Cheney. 

These were arrogant, lawless characters. We finally got caught out, publicly, in Vietnam but it didn't stop. Republicans played fast and loose with people's lives, international stability, and the law and nuclear holocaust, with the complicity of cowardly Democrats, and most were cowardly. Republicans held them hostage over defense. Cheney and Rumsfeld were particularly important in this. Republican ideology, for what little it was worth, went out the window. 

Deficits? Pshaw. This paranoid deep state has done plenty of horrible stuff, most suspiciously when business interests were near at hand. Any excuse would do, however. Republicans are doing it now. Trump blowing up boats. Kennedy might have been about to back away from this shit when he got killed. Johnson, I don't know, but he had unsuspected depths of idealism, if only because he wanted not to be remembered as a bad character. 

Nixon was classic. How many Americans got killed while yet another arrogant, lawless Republican played politics while people died? So never say Trump is anything new. We've been doing this shit forever. Trump is just open about it. And more stupid about because he is stupid. More carelessly destructive because he's a fucking louse. He's dong to America what he did to his business empire, running it right into the ground. We've always had these assholes.

A lot of good, responsible citizens would have resisted the evil, irresponsible stuff if we'd known. We had opportunities but let them pass. We were good Germans to a degree but our baggage has caught up with us. We were good Germans but not in a full-blown Nazi regime by a long shot. That has changed. Trump has changed it. Republicans have changed it. But don't think we were so pure before because we weren't. We had our shit just like everybody. 

Madman Loose

Trump gotta go ...

If Kristi Noem Were a Dog ...

she would shoot herself. 

They're Killing the Hostages

After decades of holding the American electorate hostage and only killing some of them offhandedly and indirectly, not to say there weren't quite a few, Republicans are really going after them in response to the defunding and shutdown of the government they caused. No, that's not right unless you think the distinction between manslaughter and murder matters to the victim. 

Because of course the killing was darn aggressive even before the shutdown they created and engineered when you consider the bill it was supposedly about, for example, which is a death bill. Death to the country, death to its citizens, and death to anyone else they feel like killing. Kill! Kill! Kill! Watch some ICE videos if you doubt what lurks in the souls of Republicans. 

What lurks there is murderous cruelty. The shutdown is part of a shakedown but, again, nothing new there it's just become more obvious and undeniable. Undeniable unless you're a dehumanized MAGA scoundrel with less analytical capacity than the family pet which has the sense to like to be fed and cared for and not be tortured and killed. Those pets don't know Jesus, I guess. 

Which explains their perplexing humanity. When your dog is more human than you are you would think that would be a wake-up call but dogs can definitively be shot with impunity as we know from the escapades of a certain very high-level government official involved in a lot of unnecessary cruelty apparently as a message or for the sheer sadistic enjoyment of it.

So, hooray for death, I guess, but I would have chosen a different path. I used to worry about my old Beatles' albums in the event of a Vance presidency but I'll worry more now about incarceration, sickness and death. I don't know what Republicans want. I don't understand them. Maybe I'll get a dog to stay connected with humanity. I haven't had the heart to since my last one died. 

Lies, Injustice and the Autocratic Way

It's Super-Trump and the turd-fire presidency ...

We Thought We Were in the Fast Phase

We thought we were already in the fast phase of societal collapse. We weren't. Maybe Chicago is the 'all at once' experience that follows whatever proceeded it and with no guarantee it's full-fledged fast. It might get faster still. Trump's goons have come for all of us. 

Dreher Degenerates

Rod Dreher has degenerated into a racist piece of garbage, another generation of Klansman in his family ... 

Our Shameless SCOTUS

I wonder what they are thinking. What kind of a dungeon of denial you have to put yourself in to go on when the world is watching, and falling apart under your influence, and you were so obviously wrong. 

This Can't Go On

Conservatives and Liberals agree, this can't go on. 

Wokey, Wokey ...

Conservatives are publishing whole books on 'woke' which is not a thing and doesn't exist. Edicts and executive orders are emerging on 'antifa' which is kind of a thing but doesn't exist administratively. The Heritage Foundation exists. The Federalist Society exists. 

Similarly the purported liberal domination of public life and the media is a lie. Liberals, as in Democrats, want to regulate stuff, and not just guns. Where's the regulation? But, guess what, all of a sudden it's coming from conservatives, and at the national level.

So much for states' rights. One would think conservatives can't function without enemies. And that the collapse of the Soviet Union caused them problems because the commies weren't enough of a threat anymore to meet their need for a focus for their hate.

Enter 'woke.' Enter demonizing Democrats. Enter demeaning, denigrating and dehumanizing liberals. This has nothing to do with reality. This is about their need to hate. Hate defines their lives. It gives their lives meaning. And it enables them to fight to win at any cost. 

Charlie Kirk, my God, supposedly a guy who just likes to go around debating people, had a yearly budget of tens of millions of dollars and a was worth more than ten million. It was a job. Woke budget? None. Antifa? Zero. Whatever, but they aren't controlling anything. 

Hideous Slinky

I feel like I've been slimed, Ghostbusters style, and I can't get the shit off me. 

Shitland

Or Assholia. The United States of Assholia. That's us, a country run by psychopaths and dicks.

The Greatest Shitshow on Earth

So we've got a sadistic circus we're being forced to watch that actually kills people and it's saying it can shoot us out of a cannon or feed us to the lions whenever it wants. Trump doesn't own it. Puppet man was hired because of his resume, a tremendous record of destruction. This idiot got a gaming license -- a license to print money -- in New Jersey and he managed to blow that up. We're all Atlantic City now. 

Burn Everything Down for No Reason

I grew up in a household that valued creating something out of nothing. Through cooperation, for example. My father taught management and it excited him to eliminate inefficiencies, often by flowchart analysis or getting managers to communicate more with owners, workers and other managers.

Why the hell not? That seems so easy and obvious. But the destroyers have arrived, proponents of lose-lose. Resentment rules. Also I'd say I was raised not to take things for granted. In a profound way, maybe because my parents were core Depression people. The destroyers take everything for granted.

A Fundamental Difference

Identity movement people, let's say Republicans, criticize others, let's say Democrats, for their allegiances, immutable accidents of birth and arbitrary associations. Democrats criticize them back for their behaviors. Even our criticisms are different. 

Democrats say Republicans are racist because they are, to the degree they are an identity movement and it's not about behaviors. So Republicans want to destroy or eliminate you when you fault them. It's a huge deal. They go annihilationist.  

They want to you gone. Democrats want you to behave. When we call Republicans Nazis, fascists and totalitarians, which they are, they can stop that and we'll welcome them among those who believe in rational, representative governance. 

Which is our legitimate tradition. They call themselves patriots when they're traitors. Christians when they're heretics. Decent human beings who uphold standards, values and traditions. They are none of those. It's a scam and a power grab. 

You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Healthcare

The fatalism and self-pity of the country music crowd will apply to the losses they're about to suffer at the hands of Republicans. They'll suck it up, not to say Democrats can't win some of them over, but they'll fish and hunt and carry on. Mostly they are responsible citizens -- except when they vote.

The same sick individualism that makes them think getting shit upon is normal means they'll vote for fuckheads forever. Don't tell them they're fatalistic and self-pitying. They don't know what fatalism is but it'll sound bad to them and 'pity' won't ring right in any context so they'll attack and beat you up. 

I, Bacterium

I didn't choose to be a bacterium, I tried to live a good life. And individual bacteria are innocent. But my colony has gone nuts. The medium was the message -- the growing medium, I mean. I guess it was our niche on the earth. We were told we could choose our fate, handle the responsibility. 

Or we were called to do that, I should say, given the opportunity, as we were, and able to use our capabilities to advantage. To be sensible and humane. We didn't listen. I'm exhausted. We're worn out, and we did it to ourselves. Needlessly, I choose to believe, with what limited choice I still have.

I think we had a choice. Exponential growth is a bitch. We chose compulsion. So we're no different to bacteria, hurtling toward annihilation. But we're aware. Some of us. We see the insanity of it and it's enough to make you mad. This wasn't meant to happen to beings who could foresee it. 

Support Your Local Tariff

Trump's tariffs are taking a bite out of consumers, as we knew they would. Further pain and suffering await. Trump is going to destroy everything. He's a fuckup and a compulsive criminal. Those supporting him and those lined up to succeed him are worse. Vance is honing his savior persona, which can be used to justify anything. Because, like all of them, he doesn't give a shit about anyone. Except himself. Extreme individualism and the drive to win have destroyed us. 

Make Your Bed. Don't Beat Off. All Will Be Well.

Jordan Peterson's formula for saving young men doesn't seem to be working. I think because it's within the Calvinist model of life. Calvinism strips all the meaning out of life and gives you back just enough to stand it or maybe a little less. If so, sorry about that but it was God's will. 

Or, tough shit. Calvinists are His holy representatives and apply the same model to money, not to go soft on the needy. They exploit the shit out of people then mete back just enough to keep you alive, if you're lucky, and expect gratitude. That's empire and authoritarianism for you.

God Loves Hungry Kids More

Evangelicals, through the divine agency of Donald Trump, just took food out of the mouths of kids and gave the savings to rich people so they can be richer. This is so those kids can receive the outpouring of love they deserve from God because God loves hungry kids more in their suffering and need. 

If God had wanted them to have food they would have had it. The government has no business messing with the will of God in the matter. This has nothing to do with the Civil War, slavery, desegregation and hating the federal government for kicking their asses, by the way, evangelicals want you to know. 

Trump Steals Lunch Money

With SNAP cuts going into effect evangelicals are celebrating. Those undeserving little shits won't be wasting our money anymore as is the will of God  and the savings will stoke the economy supply-side style in the hands of billionaires where it always does the most good. WASTE, FRAUD AND ABUSE uprooted again! Let's hear it for the new evangelical age ...

Paulson Shorts Accountability

John Paulson succumbed to Epstein's temptations, it seems. Maybe he sought it out. Either way, if it happened, and I suspect it did, it's bad. Accountability is going down. 

David Brooks is a Bigot

David Brooks is a bigot. Racists are supremacists. Brooks is a Brooks supremacist. A race of one and a Brooks bigot. He thinks he's better not as a white guy or whatever but as David Brooks. He's a social Darwinist and an authoritarian. And he's too proud or prejudiced to own it but wonder after the debacle of the Bush years which he supported and now Trump who he reviles but it's too late ...

American Carnage

Trump needed American carnage so he found it. He invented it. Nothing was wrong only the usual problems any society has and tries to deal with though ours were worse. Still not that bad but worse.

Worse because of Republicans. The problems were largely created by Republicans. They were made worse by Republicans. And they were lied about where they didn't exist and made up by Republicans. 

Republicans use carnage to justify their violent impulses and authoritarianism. Republicans love crime. They are criminals who want to win. They distract you from their theft and direct attention elsewhere. 

Onto the petty stuff, so they can steal you blind while you're looking at some smash and grab at a convenience store, probably perpetrated by someone whose life was destroyed by Republicans. 

No good job because of Republicans. No healthcare because of Republicans. No security because of Republicans. Our problems were created or worsened by Republicans. Then they used them to take over. 

Interview with an Umpire

Interviewer: Many people, including legal scholars, have accused you of overseeing the obliteration of the rule of law in America in favor of a totalitarian, authoritarian state. How do you respond to that?

John Roberts: I don't give a shit.

I: Could you expand on that?

JR: I had to pretend I cared about the law and the Constitution and endure years of humoring liberals and legal academics but I despise them, especially liberals, and think they're idiots and unworthy of having any say in how we're governed. I have enormous contempt for average citizens. I think they're sheep. Wouldn't you say I've been proven right? 

I: I'm asking the questions here. Do you not care at all about the law? 

JR: Fuck you. Don't ever talk to me like that again or you'll wake up in the worst jail ever and be waterboarded for the hell of it. That's legal now, if you didn't notice. I don't have to answer to you or to anybody. Why do you think I wanted this job? I helped steal the 2000 election for a moron but he could be managed to advantage by the real power. Reagan was another prop and tool for those same forces. Nixon was a loose cannon by our standards and went soft on the commies and you saw what happened to him. We kept Obama from accomplishing anything. He had to hang his hat on a fucking healthcare bill. Mitch McConnell, who actually thinks he has some power, was useful in curtailing Obama but he's not an insider. I mean, look at the guy. And Trump? My God, what a piece of shit. 

I: More, please ...

JR: Look at what we did to Clinton. He governed like a moderate Republican but we still had to teach him and the liberal establishment a lesson. Do you think it was legal the way we pursued him, fueled by Mellon money and boundless determination? How do you get from Whitewater to Monica Lewinsky? Not legally, I'll tell you that. We made it open-season on Clinton. That's not legal. Now it's open season on anybody we disagree with so I say again, mind your manners. We know where you live. You have a family, don't you? 

I: I don't appreciate that. 

JR: You're not supposed to. Get a clue. This is pure authoritarianism. This is what it looks like. You have no rights at all. Nobody ever did, really. It was always a ruse that served the interests of the wealthy. We were playing the game as it best suited us and for the long run. But everything has changed. When we needed cheap labor we got it. Unlimited cheap energy, we got it. Unions were a joke. Sure, we couldn't treat workers like slaves anymore and have them die in droves from black lung or whatever but we still made out like bandits. Trump thinks he's a deal-maker. What a joke. We perfected it ages ago. Start out at twice what you want and fall back by 20% or so and say the other side, representing the rabble, drove a hard bargain and walk away with an unimaginable win. It was pure exploitation. Do you think it makes sense to burn through the world's irreplaceable oil reserves like there's no tomorrow? 

I: Aren't you a Christian of at least a Catholic? Don't you care about anything? 

JR: My God, you're dense. Religion was part of the thing. Part of the scam. It helped us, enormously, to keep the 'common people' in check and happy and grateful to have the bones we threw them. Opiate and all. Do you think we're close-minded or ideological? We have no ideology, at all. We use whatever works. Pure power lust, because we deserve it. That's what it's about. And it's all changed now, because of technology. We don't need to humor anybody anymore. That's why I can talk to you like this, because I have all the power and you have none. You live at my tolerance and pleasure. Don't forget it. We will mostly let average people live -- we're not totally without scruples -- but they better behave. We have unimaginable power. Surveillance tech. Killing whoever we want like in a video game. Send in a little drone and blow your house up. With your whole family in it. It's fantastic. 

I can't tell you how wonderful it is to be able to quit playing this game and pretend we care about anything but ourselves. I'll give you time to digest this. It's been fun. Feel free to contact me again. I can't believe how great it is to not have to pretend anymore and exercise unlimited power without restraint. Go in peace and be thankful I don't feel threatened by you because I could kill your ass but I'm a softy by the standards of my peers.

Vance, Patel and Leavitt Use School Shooting to Reinforce Republican Talking Points

Of course they would lie and use the shooting to reinforce Republican talking points. Other countries have far lower rates of shootings though rates of mental illness and disturbance are relatively the same. The shooting was not terrorism or anti-Catholic. And Kash Patel is an idiot, an asshole and a Trump toadie who is participating in terrorism himself. But with Republicans it's partisanship politics and lies all the time. They didn't come to govern they came to destroy. 

Plato's Plutopia

I wonder if Plato foresaw the possibility of a government, one highly effective at destroying itself, stumbling into an inverted version of his ideal in an act of revolutionary reinvention. I'm not sure what Plato's ideal was but he probably thought of his republic as efficient in its specialization. Plato put appropriate people in appropriate hierarchical roles. 

With philosophers at the administrative top. Being rich didn't seem to be a qualification. For Republicans it's a qualification. The only qualification. In the way of evangelicals, it means you were chosen. One of the elect, voilà and de facto. You are the best and below that everyone is a lackey. A lowly being. There are God's chosen people with masses of serfs and enforcers below. 

Republicans have achieved efficient, organized and specialized destruction, but destruction is easy so let's not be too much in awe and understand an evolved and expansive machine devoted to plunder can still be stopped, by the right wrench in the right place at the right moment and before it's too late -- before they've decentralized like a franchise from hell. 

Like the terror organization they are. An Al Qaeda or Taliban. They're destroying the government on behalf of the Confederacy and rich fuckers. We need some of that infrastructure and capacity intact when we get it back. They know this and are working hard to fuck it up irreparably. We had better get our act together, while there's something left to save. 

I think it's still possible but not by much. 

The Last Big Thing

AI is the last big thing, the technology that heralds the end of humanity and civilization. I'm not sure it was even good while it lasted. We were always in Eden and always choosing the apple. Enough of us, anyway. For those that didn't it could be good. The stories that convey the urgency of salvation aren't temporal, nor are they about an afterlife. Heaven and hell are here and now, and we chose to take the miracle of life for granted, sought power, lost our humility and fucked it all up. 

Bring Me the Head of Abrego Garcia

Stephen Miller, a member of the Trump crime family, has mixed up Kilmar Abrego Garcia with the title character, Alfredo Garcia, in a Sam Peckinpah movie. THAT Garcia is a criminal, gang member and thug. Consider that Abrego Garcia is not, as far as we know, a gang member. Nor is he in the 'Epstein Files' or under suspicion of being in them which is a more serious matter so attention should be directed there and at the release of those in a complete, unredacted version to a bipartisan committee or other responsible and secure entity before anything else and after which relevant material might be published and further investigations and prosecutions undertaken.

The Death of Trump

Trump might die, and sooner rather than later according to some people who say his swollen ankles and other signs point to a man in serious health trouble. I think people can live a surprisingly long time in terrible shape. We should still address the unbridled joy and ecstasy that would attend the death of Donald. It might be like overfeeding a starving person and inadvertently killing them. 

Trump is such an unimaginably awful and destructive piece of shit the rebound effects from being freed from him might be more than people can handle. Can you imagine, never having to endure again the utterly vile stuff that pours out of him day and night? And the damage he does. My God, the damage. But then we would face the headless monster of MAGA. And JD Vance... 

Mundane Matters

When you associate with Jesus every day and are expecting the end times it's hard to focus on mundane things like the millions of people you're getting killed. You delegated that. And what does it matter when those poor souls are only getting to see Jesus before you (or not) so you're kind of doing them a favor. Evangelical Christians are distracted, blinded by the light of Jesus's presence. They have a known personal relationship with Jesus, of that they are certain. But they can never be sure about you. 

Trump Thugs Are Coming to Your Town

But, be reassured. Trump wants the Nobel Peace Prize and, we have recently learned, to get into heaven. How bad can it be?