Waiting for Answer

Evangelicals: we want the world to end because Jesus comes.

Billionaires: we want the world to end because more for us. 

America: (waiting for answer)

Trump Universe

I can usually understand what Trump is trying to say, it’s just elliptical as shit. Lots of bits left out, but the guy is in his own world and not very smart, only driven to win and self-centered to such an extreme it probably would take a psychic or savant to comprehend it and they might not come back intact.

In the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy there's a thing called the total perspective vortex that destroys you by enabling you to glimpse how REALLY insignificant you are for a split-second. Trump is the opposite, a total lack-of-perspective vortex. Inside there the universe is Trump. And Trump is the universe. 

Donald Trump, Debutant

Trump scammed himself. Unable to maintain his identity, weakly linked to reality on his best days, he has fallen for his own lies and is buying his own bullshit. Believing is madness, buying-in a catastrophe. We know from the study of the southern belle. Bellehood. 

It's a role. You play a role. You play the game. Don't step inside it, for fuck's sake, but no one can accuse Trump of any sense. I defer to authority, Shirley Abbott, in Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South. The point of a belle is to become a lady. God help you if you fail. 

Trump failed. Trump wanted to be prom queen. He got elected. He gloried in it. Things began to go wrong. Wrong by his standard, magical compliance with his every wish, Trump being infantilized beyond recovery. He felt disrespected. Heads must roll. 

The stage of retribution arrives. Vengeance. Think of the movie Carrie. And the correspondents dinner, where Obama made fun of Trump. Everyone gets it at those things, but Donald is different. Très fragile. Trump fumed. He was livid. He brings it on himself. 

Nobody makes fun of Trump! What a fucking idiot. We all must pay. So this is our country now. Watch the revenge scenes from Carrie on your own. Choose your version, it all burns down. This is Trump's story and the story of the south. The south wanted its dream. 

They needed to live the lie. Failure was unthinkable. Failure was growing up, the end of a vile system, voluntarily or otherwise. Otherwise it was. Still, they never gave up. The presentation of purity and innocence masked astonishing debasement and corruption. 

The USA now, with the monster, Trump, our embodiment and bastion of purity.  He carries the torch. The scepter. He wears the sash, Miss USA, Miss World, Miss Galaxy, Miss Cosmos, whatever he claims. The magic wand of lies and corruption makes it real.

But it's not real. It's nothing but lies. 

Leaning Tower of Trump

Trump is falling over. Get out of the way.  

Trump, the Musical

I envision a remake of The Music Man telling the story of Trump, a trickster, fraudster and hustler who concludes he is every outrageous, self-inflating lie he tells about himself. He falls for himself, or the idea and invention of himself because there's nothing there. Language fails us but I think we can portray it, as a matter of art. Love, for example, can't exist within the gravitational pull of Trump's egotism. 

I know, hard to get your head around. Trump is alone in the universe. 

Trump's self-centeredness -- again, language fails but work with me -- creates a draft, vortex or suction of such ridiculous force it swallows people instantly into the black hole of Trump's nothingness. We can't imagine it without reference to something or without meaning attached to it but we have to get past that. Meaning doesn't exist in proximity to Trump. How the fuck do we portray that? 

With negative space. We can infer the shape and substance of Trump from his effects, and the area of devastation around him. 

The things we value, love, family, our health, connection with nature, security, beauty, vanish into the void encountering Trump's influence. Their lack defines Trump. Vampire elements are in play, but vampires are intelligible. Reason, ethics, right and wrong -- vaporize on contact with Trump. Trump is a void. The currency among people is meaning, in my opinion. It's not the currency with Trump. 

Trump is an invitation to abandon your humanity and assimilate with him in the void. As I say, impossible to confront directly. I try to imagine Trump's aloneness. Truly, he is alone in the universe. Nothing means anything. Everything is terrifying and incomprehensible. Or, he doesn't know what intelligibility is. He's never experienced it. The fear is unfathomable, existential and all-consuming. 

He is so incredibly fucking alone. Now, to give you an example of a song, there might be a version of this some maiden sings to Trump before her humanity is destroyed, and then Trump singing a version 'Till There Was Me' after annihilating the maiden, which Trump sings to himself.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=zmt9d6zr0bs&si=I7JlSnhKQPMS65u-

Goldwater Girl Has a Gun

Democrats can't get their heads out of their asses. They humored the crazies too long. No, the Second Amendment isn't about the private ownership of firearms. It just isn't. Unprejudiced sources agree, nine of ten, at least. Hillary, stop saying you have a gun. Or a license, or whatever. You're not pulling it off. And I'm tired as shit of it, Democrats playing to the nutcases. 

That helps them stay nutcases. And that's only one issue. The list is long, maybe most impressively on defense. The military. Guess who Republicans are attacking now? Anybody they want, including American citizens. And we didn't take a stand, so people don't know what the fuck we're for. Maybe Bernie. But the Democrats wouldn't have him, or get clear on anything.

The Devil Wears Nada

The devil operates in stealth mode. We personify Satan but Satan infests his victims and co-opts them. Turns them into agents and drones. The devil wears nada. The devil isn't incarnate. The devil is a force. He'll be in the people around you. Having said that, I think Trump is hiding horns under the hair. 

A Confederate Fourth

They can't hide it. For one thing it's a compulsion. They say it's patriotic, unifying, bipartisan and blah-blah. Is that a joke? It's one cheapshot after another, and an exercise in tyranny. What is it, really? The consummation of the privatization of the government. Of the country. Conquest.

Republicans are the Confederacy. They own the country. Private equity firms buy companies, strip them of assets, saddle them with debt and say go and good luck. Leave your pensions. They skipped the good luck part. They are throwing a gargantuan party with our money, an orgy of corruption. 

And not only for the 4th. It's going on all the time. The country isn't ours. It's theirs. They own it. Bought it. Beat it. They own us. We wonder who 'they' are and analyze it down but screw that. The richest 1%? The richest tenth of that? Koch's cronies and Musk's minions? Name your torturers.

It's them, the NPCs, the mindless agents of doom Musk was after. He didn't find them. We found them. Smashing our doors down, hard to miss. It doesn't matter. What is a cheapshot? Kicking at people who can't fight back.  Sound familiar? We are the brown people. All of us. They are ICE.

No one nation under God. Never was. How will it be characterized, decades away? Think on that. We're inside of an explosion. This is what it looks like, from the inside.

An epic failure and enormous shitshow, but it doesn't matter. The coup, putsch, takeover, conquest, sacking, demolition, usurpation, whatever, but I wonder how it will be remembered anyway, Trump's mind-blowing graft and grift? The ICE surges? Everyone knows more is coming. 

A long summer awaits us. At the same time, it's over. It's done. Our country is gone. Law, values, integrity, traditions, up in flames. We handed inconceivable power to people whose corruption, venality, dishonesty and cruelty defy description. Or they seized power. It doesn't matter. 

Trump staged our funeral. An orgiastic episode, ann end to a looting in barbarian fashion. Rape, pillage, murder, repeat. Plunder on tape loop. Plunder to exhaustion, of resources or plunderers. 

We can't go back. Forward, folks. We are the generation that failed. Say it's the boomers, if it makes you feel better. It doesn't matter. The torch has been dropped. The country is dead. Those that carry what it was in their hearts will have to unseat the false heirs and traitors. 

And start over. It wasn't rational by any standard. They're settling a grudge, punishment for the Civil War and desegregation. So they will leave nothing. Salt the fields of democracy. Make it impossible to build on the ruins, if they can. Where there was integrity, cowardice and dishonor. 

Resurrect something, people. Acknowledge what has been lost, like a generational link that is broken when an abusive, addicted wastrel wrests control of the family estate and trashes it. We are the sons of liberty. They are the destroyers. Witness in Washington our utter disgrace. 

Decency is lost, in the aftermath of conquest. A celebration of a glorious victory. A party for a bunch of pigs, marauders and destroyers. The worst frat party ever. It's not us. It's the Confederacy. They've won, for now. Let's own it, what's happened, for once. And move on. 

The Force Is With Us

Why don't they just call him Lord Vader. Darth would do. Republicans are under a spell. In a cult. Part of a robot army. Call in the exorcist.

Almost Hell

 We're heading for Hell. Not there yet. The suspense is killing me. 

The Bell Tolls for Us

This had to happen. If we didn't know it before we know it now, that America has an undercurrent of evil going back to slavery, racism and a creed of greed, a religion of money and power that grew in parallel with Pentecostal Christianity. We never dealt with it. Those forces have risen up and are running the show. Calling it evil is not exaggerating. It is evil. They are evil. We, the opposition, hesitate to say it but we can because we are not tribalists and an identity cult. Which means we criticize behaviors. 

They can became un-evil. Someone can't became un-black or un-brown. That's the identity cult. We are being forced to own our evil. That's good. Canada is a model. Scandinavia is a model. Hell, the rest of the traditionally western, European countries are models in comparison with us. We made it easy. Trump is evil but he's sick. He's a compulsive. Non-compos by a normal standard. Lord Vader, Darth Donald, still a tool. We need to deal with the Death Star. The fatalities are rolling in. The bell is tolling for us. 

The Umpire Strikes Back

John Roberts has overthrown America's democracy. That battle has been lost. But the dream lives on. The forces of evil will be beaten in the end. 

Conservative Industrial Complex

Conservatism can't be separated from money. It isn't an ideology it's a business. It isn't a political philosophy it's a scam. It doesn't have an economic model it has justifications for exploitation.

Conservatism is the result of aristocratic desire. The desire to be at the top. The desire to stay at the top. The desire to have everything ordered your way to be revered and taken care of. To feel special. 

Conservatism is all lies. Conservatives want generational wealth and arbitrary authority that survives them. Authority that's structural and that they can pass on to their heirs. Hierarchy and inheritance. 

The Coddling of the Conservative Mind

Trump has exposed the scam of conservatism. They inhabit the upside-down. Where rugged individualists, the leaders and producers, need to have everyone get out of the way and yield. Though supposedly strong and unstoppable they must be unimpeded in their plunder or everything will fall apart. 

In the upside-down the most powerful people, the super-rich, aren't rewarded enough and must have more. The dominant religious group, Christians and especially conservative Christians, are persecuted. They are disrespected and denied free expression. They must have recognition as the state religion. 

White people are subject to prejudice. They are threatened and everyone else must go. Money and power, which conservatives already have, are their own justification. By divine right or natural law, take your pick. The status quo, which favors conservatives, is sacred. It must not be challenged. 

The law and prisons protect these interests from the rabble. That underclass, most of humanity, are a burden. Sometimes a nuisance. They are tolerated if required for their labor or as soldiers or servants and enforcers, but they are otherwise disposable. Technology is making them useless. 

They had better behave and revere their masters or they will be eliminated. God is on the side of conservatives and probably a conservative Himself. Times have changed, it's hard to say. But power is an expression of divine will, in the way the universe is made. Play your part or you will be removed. 

The News Today, Oh, Boy

The world is burning. America is shit. Trump is getting rich. 

Trump Ruins Nation's Big Birthday

Fantastically spoiled, vindictive narcissist Donald Trump has ruined the nation's big birthday. He did everything wrong but mostly it was partisanship and his huge, pathetic, insatiable ego. No one can imagine him behaving otherwise. It is who he is. 

Go Fourth

Trump's July 4th festival is as it had to be, a celebration of America's demise and the triumph of the Confederacy. Private property defined the Confederacy. Black people can show up to public stuff. 

It was always about exclusion. Trump's turnout, and everything else, heralds the new way. Nothing is ours. It's theirs, the people who own it. The people who own us. Every day it's more literally true. 

The Last Temptation of Trump

In evangelical minds Trump surpasses God because he is manifest. As manifest as they come. God is abstract. Evangelicals claim a 'personal relationship' with Jesus, as though that's in the Bible, but does Jesus have a Qatari 747? Fuck no. Is Jesus a crypto billionaire? I don't think so.

Trump is manifest. He's the most manifest person ever. Un-fucking avoidable. Combine that with the abilities of evangelicals at discernment. They know a Jesus man when they see a Jesus man and Trump is a Jesus man. They know it's accomplished through their acquaintance, the Holy Spirit.

They are confidants since evangelicals have been saved. Evangelicals know Trump will triumph over temptation because he has. In on Oscar Wilde kind of way, we might say, but still. Trump has conquered temptation, by having no conscience. That is his superpower. Which is convenient. 

You can do anything, being beyond sin. It's good to be God.

It follows that Trump is the Second Coming or something. Evangelicals challenge us, prove otherwise. The Trump Deportation Inquisition goes on. He is without sin, by design since he is God or God's hand and herald, an agent of purification who has had salvation bestowed on him. 

Trump is a fisher of men. He kills those that won't bow to him, on authority from God. Your local evangelical church can explain it to you. Or not. ICE is standing by. You didn't think they would stop with immigrants, did you? You weren't listening. You weren't paying attention.

They are not fucking around. God is on their side.

Who are the idolators now? Who is enslaved to superstition?

I knew Catholics were accused of idolatry and superstition by some Protestants. Of being degraded and undignified. Of misunderstanding how God had made us, as reasoning beings, and of what God wanted and expected from us, as reasoning beings and uniquely as an element of creation. 

Who are the idolators now? Who's superstitious and degraded? Who is bowing before a charlatan and a buffoon who clads everything he can get his hands on in gold and has grifted his way through a life of preying on everyone he could, sometimes apparently for sport. Those Protestants. 

People need balance. They need reason and they need a place for story and imagination. The senses must be engaged. Those Protestants were deprived of Christian art. Rich religious experiences that were emotionally and humanly satisfying. So they fell for shit. They fell for Trump. 

And they fell from grace in the bargain. Since it's a bargain they made with the devil. 

The Confluence

Build it and they will come. The virtual prison of Calvinism, believing life and creation are a shit interruption in the existence of your perfect, pure, immortal and immaterial soul, argues for a physical manifestation as a reflection of God's goodness. Hence a Republican incarceration fixation. Hence the love of prisons, brutal and arbitrary detainment since it embodies God's perversion, in sticking you in a body in the first place. 

God's way, in other words, is the path of cruelty. To keep sin in check, I suppose, and to curb fleshly desires. We're incarcerated in creation so why not. Why not jail everybody. And why not drill down, define it and refine it so there's an ecosystem of incarceration. And nothing else, with wonderful hierarchies of pain and persecution. Anybody thinking about what might happen if, by some miracle, rational, decent people get control again? 

Mike Johnson's nightmare. He's pissing his pants over it. Why? They all deserve jail. He knows it. So, back to the question, what do we do when, what, maybe a third of the country ought to be in jail, both for past transgressions and because they will never stop with the criminal intent? They walked away at the end of WWII, many committed Nazis and war criminals. They walked from the Civil War, too many traitors and racist assholes. 

Where did that get us? Same shit all over again. 

What would be justice for perps Miller, Vought and Trump? There would need to be thousands of each of them, punished and tortured forever. Still not enough. This applies to the Republicans in Congress. They created the mess, made themselves convicts. Sentencing is superfluous. They convicted themselves. I don't have an answer. Justice can't be had. Mercy hasn't worked. That's where we are, assuming we have an opportunity to do anything. 

Loss of Composure

I lost my composure for over 50 years. It was a hell of a realization. I don't know where you go from there.

Live Hate

Republican hate is going live, less processed and more immediate, overt and aggressive. We have a true Nazi outbreak on our hands.  

Nobody Is Going to Want Any of Trump's Shit

Reading a little about the artifacts of the Mughal Empire, including such as the Taj Mahal, made me think of course about Trump's physical legacy, in buildings and grounds, and how it will be utter shit. Nobody is going to want it. We will have to tear it all down. 

Poor Conservatives

Near to the core of the conservative scam is their persecution complex. This is connected to the FEELING and belief they are inexplicably, arbitrarily and irreducibly better than everyone else. So they should always get their way and be showered with rose petals while trammeling us.

Nothing in their environment should make them uncomfortable. Evangelicals and rich people both believe in this, in the one instance having been chosen and favored by God and in the other through Social Darwinism, also a kind of godly favor, so we should let them have their way.   

United States Disproves Existence of God

The implosion of the United States is epochal. We're proving, finally, that humanity is hopeless. In the past the excuse that competition for resources and a struggle for survival caused all the conflict and horrible behavior was plausible. Not in the case of the United States. 

The most fortunate country ever is destroying itself out of stupidity and a hatred of life. Not interpersonal or tribal malice but a contempt for existence. One-off, irreproducible circumstances of insane good fortune haven't produced a more kind and just society. It's produced pigs.

So it was never circumstantial. The murderous wars and barbarity were chosen. Societies could have opted for cooperation. And they did at times but it always ultimately got used for competitive advantage and wanton destruction. We know it because America is doing it now. 

Summer of Hate

We had a summer of love, years ago. I predict 2026 we will be the summer of hate, courtesy of Donald Trump and Republicans. Fight against it, people. It won't be enough but do it anyway. Practice love. 

Fertility Cult

I can't imagine anything having to do with JD Vance not being sick. His marriage must be sick as shit. Vance believes in wives as submissives. If Usha is a helpmeet and submissive it's sick as shit. If she isn't what the fuck is she doing with him? 

And she's pregnant. I suspect that's Vance being fertile as a show of something, for the cultists. He's in a cult and fertility is a part of it. This is some sick shit. Usha is a Hindu. It's possible they faint or fall over in the face of evil as peaceful resistance. 

Like a possum, total passivity. Good luck with that. It has never worked but nothing has. Sometimes evil wins. Innocent people die by the millions. The perps mostly go unpunished because there is too many of them. When evil wins it's a contagion. 

A City in a Hole

America isn't a city on a hill and a light unto men but a city in a hole and a blight. 

Magic Carpet Ride

MAGA is stoned on hate. High on persecution. Ripped on resentment and addicted to aggression. Hallucinating threats. Tripping on denial and projection. 

That shit runs on emotional rocket fuel. It's unsustainable as hell. You have to take something, ingest something, to get there and keep ingesting it to stay there. 

The cure is to pull the plug. Shut down Fox News and hate radio. If corporations are virtual citizens they can be incarcerated. Removed from circulation. Isolated from the general population to protect it. 

It should go without saying but if the laws of a country can be construed or interpreted to allow its destruction from within that interpretation has to be wrong. 

Trump Is Algae

Sometimes it's obvious. When evangelical Christians get hysterical over 'Sharia Law' as though that's likely to replace the American legal system it's because they're in direct competition. Evangelicals want a totalitarian theocratic state. 

Similarly with Trump and algae. 

Trump is a mindlessly reproductive entity spreading the brain software virus or bacterium of MAGA. We've seen how it explodes in populations that aren't inoculated with the ability to think critically. So Trump is terrified of algae. 

Trump Destroys Reflecting Pool

When you're as fucked up as Trump messages emerge from the unconscious and have to be deciphered and interpreted. Recall that in the story of Narcissus the mirroring is a reflection, his reflection, in water. And the Washington Monument, an obelisk, is basically a big dick.  

So there's something going on with Trump and his dick. Or, and this is where interpretation comes in, the dick might represent Trump, at possibly different metaphorical levels and with a range to it. We know he's sick, physically ill, but they won't tell us what's going on. Prostate, perhaps? 

In which case treatment might have shrunk his dick which was probably hard for him to see anyway because of bloat. Or it might be the usual thing with Trump, that he's fucked everything up again unbelievably, so that's another insult to his manhood, maybe more devastating. 

The whole world is watching him flail around. After insulting Italy Trump was branded 'coglione' which Wiktonary translates as idiot, fool, dipshit, and dumbfuck, the primitive meaning being 'ball-sack' which I like though there's much material there to be mined. Italian insults are rich. 

Anyway, Trump would be unconsciously destroying the reflecting pool to avoid confronting challenges to his manhood. He's trying not to see his dick so he can maintain some swagger in his mind when in fact he's failing spectacularly. Stay away from the reflecting pool, by the way.

Trump has become unbelievably sensitive about it. You might be arrested. It equates to seeing Trump naked and possibly full-frontal as though anyone wants that. We just want him to go the fuck away. The whole world wants him to go the fuck away, but we'll see who he insults today. 

Trump Meets His Asshole

Trump can out-asshole anybody. Or so we thought, maybe, come down to it. Trump's a pussy asshole, a nepo asshole and derivative. He didn't earn it, but was born into it. Opportunistically. 

How hard was it, with the Trump millions and his cold mom and asshole mentor daddy, to achieve asshole supremacy? Netanyahu is something else, the real asshole deal, as Trump is finding out.

But He's Our Piece of Shit

Trump is destroying the country. He's getting millions killed. This isn't irresponsible governance, we're way beyond that, but deliberate destruction. Republicans are nihilists. They believe in nothing. I would say fuck them to hell but they're already there. And they want the whole world there with them. 

That Sinking, Stinking Feeling

Think of how many times Donald Trump has realized he just really fucked up. God only knows if we include private humiliations. I'm thinking of the public ones. And it's happening again. 

All over the place. Hormuz, meet reflecting pool. Trashed economy, meet racist rampage. Looming epidemic, meet astonishing national debt. Healthcare crash, meet inconceivable inequality.

Little Donnie is going to die one of these days, sooner I hope. His legacy is assured. 

Making Algae Great Again

All Hail Herr Donald! Success after success. Donald is compiling a record of such horror no one will ever be able to match him. 

Trump Spends Billions Blowing Stuff Up and Celebrating Himself While Americans Suffer

That's the headline. The mainstreams can't do it. Billionaires are buying them up anyway. We might be really and truly fucked. Donald and Republicans and the super-rich have destroyed us. 

When "Law-Abiding" Means "Loyal to Trump"

When 'law-abiding' means 'loyal to Trump' the game is fucking over. 

Two out of three?

Rape and Pillage the World

The Trump Doctrine, rape and pillage the world, takes shape before our eyes.  

Disintegration

I've settled on "disintegration" to describe what's happening to the USA.  

Carpe Data

Musk and his crew of nerds and incels stole our data. Isn't that a crime? 

The South Has Won. For Now.

I see an opportunity here, in this cage match shit and the July 4th festivities. A chance for America to own what's going on. To rename and rededicate ourselves to the causes that defined us from the beginning. 

We were never one country. Many concessions were made to get the southern, slave states on board. Our founding documents were idealistic but they allowed the south to have its shithole. To be degenerates. 

So it was a compromise. Then a war was fought to free the slaves because southerners were hotheads, assholes and horrible bigots. The North won because the south was a hellhole of ignorance and spite.

The outcome was as it had to be.

But now southerners are having it their way. The shithole is back. The racism is back. Violence, oligarchic government, inconceivable corruption, guns fucking everywhere, it's all back. Let's make it official.

Get honest about it. Rename or rebrand the country, as the case may be, "The Confederate States of America." I know, THE UNITED STATES OF TRUMP. Then maybe he'll be happy and stop renaming every little thing he comes across. Whatever pleases (him) them. 

It lets me off the hook. This isn't us, I want to say. I can fight, an honest fight, to reclaim the country for decency and constitutional governance. What they stand for against what we stand for. No more lies. And the Confederates can own their shit, for once. 

All the hate and bigotry and racism and violence. Let America and the world see what they are. Because it isn't the United States of America. 

Waiting for Godawful

And we thought ennui was bad. Being tortured by Republicans is way worse. 

CSA!

I want one thing, to change the name of the country to The Confederate States of America. Because it's honest. It's what we are. I would feel so much better. And, if the country ever reverts to its original identity, we throw out everything the illegal and illegitimate Trump regime has done. All of it. 

Because that's honest as well and a reflection of the truth. 

The Greatest Bankruptcy

Donald Trump's life and career are ending in his biggest bankruptcy ever, the entire United States. It will be King Donald's crowning and appropriate achievement in a life of sickness and destruction. All we can do, apparently, is watch in horror because Republicans in Congress will do nothing. The Supreme Court, stacked with partisan hacks, has enabled him. Evangelical voters and others with grudges against the country, Donald's backers in the redneck imperium, support him. Millions suffer and die for nothing. It is Little Donnie's spoiled destiny and the culmination of evangelical Christianity's hatred of creation, revenge for having been born. Which is what they share, self-hatred and destructive drive. 

Trump Tyranny Finds Its Footing

Actually, they've lost their footing, more than ever, but they've always had a problem with balance. They stand on our necks. Which is precarious but it works for them. Because they're tyrants. Their footing is standing on us and they're doing the best they can. 

I Am Convinceable

I have a lot of opinions, many pretty mainstream and some definitely not. Some loosely held, others entrenched. But almost all of my opinions or beliefs are subject to change. That's the way I am. I am convinceable. 

I'm a Republican and I'm Here to Screw You Until You Are Dead (and Even After)

Republicans have nearly broken through into honesty, into telling the American people they don't give a shit about them and will take all their money, give it to the rich, and take away everything they've worked for their entire lives. All of it. In the end they'll put a match to your money and security. 

They're doing that now. 

They have so much the money means nothing to them. They want you not to have it so you can't fight back when you realize you're completely fucked. They want you so screwed you won't be able to do anything. Down to the level of food. Simple healthcare. Down to the level of your votes. 

We'll be stuck with them as our feudal lords. They're doing it already. Citizens will die and be picked up on the streets like a dead deer. A recession or depression? Do nothing for the rabble, the dead wood. An epidemic? Good luck. Look at what they're doing now. How did we think it would happen?

They can't run for election on "Fuck you go somewhere and die." Right. Fundamentalist evangelicals would still vote for it, many of them, because they believe in authority and hierarchy above all and because their god is an arbitrary asshole and life is a pit of sin and we're better off dead.

Speaking of evangelicals, Republicans want us screwed in the afterlife as well. Not that they believe in it, the afterlife, which is why they want the money and power now. Fuck the afterlife, but it's a useful construct to have us pre-screwed. It fires up the "base" and demoralizes us, the opposition. 

It's a Privilege to be Eaten by You

Some of the anti-vaxxers died for their beliefs under Trump I, elements of MAGA so indoctrinated they were prey who thought it was a privilege to have their brains eaten by such magnificent predators as the idiots whose advice they followed. Will they ever snap out of it? No, I'm here to tell you. Not soon enough to do any good. 

If You Have No Standards Whatsoever You Will Feel Better About Yourself

This is the guiding principle of MAGA, to feel good about yourself by forcing a comparison with shit. Donald Trump is the shit.  

As the World Burns

We're living in a Republican soap opera, with exaggerated characters and overblown plots. The old envy the young and begrudge them the opportunity to live, having fucked up their own time striving for position and buying shit trying to be happy. They chose inauthenticity. Now there's no way out, they're waiting around to die and they're taking everything with them they can.