Trump the Goadee

Trump, styled another decider, is of course a prop. Bush but worse. Trump surrounded himself with troll punks. He's channeling their rubbish. He's being played and we're being played by the worst assholes imaginable who goad him into horrible shit and undertake it as his agents. Capos, they're called. Goons, really. Donald's the don. It's an emergency and a catastrophe. It must be stopped.  

Bankruptcy for Billionaires

Not bankrupting billionaires, of course, who are sacred, holy and chosen by God, but bankrupting the country for billionaires. So they can have more. Only their lives count. Does this make them happy? 

No. We are a social species. That kind of wealth is isolating. Further accumulation is a compulsion. They can't stop. What would they do, give it away? That would be human. Out of the question.

Rituals of Annihilation

I stick with clips of the cultural carnage, with subtitles hoping it won't haunt me later. It isn't working. The Trump shit is ritual. Kash says what? It penetrates your brain, gets burned into the circuits and becomes embedded, the way they want to embed authority, privilege and racism everywhere.

This stuff is damaging. In a better situation it could be left to pros, priests or PhDs, maybe, who would interpret it for us. Counsel us, perhaps, so that we could react appropriately or protect ourselves. But I think we've been co-opted, adding energy to the madness. Sometimes I think we should roll over.

Let the world see what they stand for with no one else to blame, not that they wouldn't try and the acolytes would buy it anyway by the nature of ritual. They're wired for it. What I'm experiencing isn't healthy and I don't know what to do. The madness is overwhelming, a form of human sacrifice. 

A Soul Walks into a Bar

The bar is full of souls but they're stuck  in bodies. 'Stuck' isn't fair. They're just there. Bodies are neutral. Cool in their way, though a pain at times.

Souls can communicate independently of bodies. It happens. This soul sees the other souls in their bodies and the suffering and joy and their capacities. 

Their potentials. 

Are there evil souls? The soul reflects. No, but there are injured souls. Souls that are irreparably hurt. Some are in the bar, self-medicating, as they say. 

https://youtu.be/0iAzYofuItM?is=5yjTvWGDTww5ApEU

Republican Hive Mind

Republicans have a hive mind. Save the colony. Save the queen. The queen is the propagator. Trump is the queen. Trump is a queen who propagates hate.

Cistemic Abuse

They started it. The schoolyard standard isn't invalid. Attackers should answer for their aggression. They draw lines. They create division. They sow discord and implant fear. 

Not that they know they're doing it. What does it look like if nobody fires the first shot? I would like to find out. Somebody has to break the cycle. We're in the middle of an attack. 

Helmets on. Flak jackets for now. We await the opportunity. To give peace a chance. 

Mitch ex machina

Mitch is back. The treasonous piece of garbage is back. Someone somewhere must be pleased. 

Be Evil

On examination and analysis of the Trump administration I've discovered the element that unifies and describes their endeavors to be doing evil. Given a choice they'll take the greater of two evils. They go out of their way to do evil. They think it up. They enjoy doing evil. It pleasures them to do evil. They're in the business of doing evil and they make money at it. Associates are fired for not doing enough evil or being incompetent or inefficient at it. Maybe they have secret awards and honors for doing evil, or informal street cred and respect for those that excel at it, like Miller and Vought. 

Institutions for the Feeble-Minded

In the Republican spirit of eschewing euphemism and embracing the competitive and violent nature of life I suggest we prepare to incarcerate their entire movement and asses in the prisons they've thoughtfully provided and are using for immigrants. Famously they act from the gut. They've unwittingly created the prisons for themselves in an unintended self-own. I think we should trust them and honor their insight since they know themselves better than anyone, if in a way involving compulsive compartmentalization and denial. We need to respect what they're telling us about themselves and exhibiting in proof of it every day. 

I Don't Believe In God

But I believe in the Church. Where does that leave me? Can I be a Catholic? 

Projecting Animals and the Fall of Man: Influencers at the Apocalypse

People project their humanity everywhere and into everything. What happens when they project their inhumanity? Or, worse yet, when the projecting agent is so inhumane it reverberates around in the system at the expense of the humanity? Then that agent in an act of folly is delegated supreme power. 

By people who take life itself for granted and hate it. Via projection, they hate all of creation.

Some wise asses go experimental on this. They want to play footsie with the apocalypse and tempt fate to see if they get their leg bitten off or are consumed. Let 's say we're living that. What's the benefit of trying to figure it out so you have followers or can wrtte a book about it and make some money? 

When there isn't going to be a fucking thing left. Is it just me or would you act and try to stop it? 

Harp at Heart

I wonder how Natalie Harp follows Trump around in such intimacy while he does so much vile stuff. He's incredibly evil. We might just say sick. Smilingly, she apparently and by all reports participates in Trump's torrents of lies and hate and goes along like some soulless zombie. 

The proximity is what gets me. 

The lack of remove. She's shoveling corpses into the ovens with the moral sense of a rock and with an inanimate impersonality, dead in a way. Yet she dresses up and smiles that dissociative smile and goes about it every day. With 9/11 I recalled this and where she came from. 

Where they all come from, the whole movement. 

https://youtu.be/kMkBgA9_oQ4?is=ubl9GfqMQ-BNCNV7

Prime Piece of Shit

Ken Paxton is a prime piece of shit. Grade A and select. Aged and fortified. Republicans love him more for it. Paxton is wonderfully, fantastically awe-inspiringly corrupt and awful. So, my God, they love him. 

Cellulose Heroes

We need some heroes. With meat on the bone. We get nothing. Mush and pulp. 

Rescue Me

I can foresee a day when Americans will pray for another country to invade us. To save us from Republicans. To save us from the racist monsters of the Confederacy. 

Ignore the Man in the Diaper

If Trump was ever the point he isn't anymore. Ignore the man in the diaper. He's a stooge, a stand-in and a tool. Other forces are at work. 

Living in the CSA

The Republican Party is waging war against the United States on behalf of the Confederacy. And they're winning. They'd rather see the place burned to the ground than fail. 

I'm a Believer

I don't believe in God. But I believe in fish fries. Can I still be a Catholic? 

Hello End Times

The United States were. The United States was. The United States isn't. 

Be Relieved of the Burden of Your Humanity

Some say the rich but I say evangelicals are responsible for America's fall. We were a democracy. The rich always wanted more. Somebody had to give it to them. 

Impatient to see Jesus, evanglicals were disgusted with their humanity. So they're shedding it ahead of time. They're so disgusted they insist we join them. 

They don't see their spirit or soul is tied to their incarnate form, at least for now. Jesus didn't became human for nothing. Evangelicals lost it all, soul and humanity. 

Too Many People with Too Much

Too many people with not enough. The middle is going away. 

I Believe in Me

Trump has an idiot's advantage, his epic insecurity walled off from the bogus confidence and faux bravado so there's no hope of integration. The divided mind of Trump deploys bluster, jingoism and pathetic self-promotion, incessantly barfing it out not as a tool, separately from himself. He lives there, as his own captive. And it's a fucking horrible place. Why would a society consent to be ruled by this madman, co-opted out of their minds? 

https://youtu.be/bLEXE3oT3KA?is=jo-LLWyRmQOQ0mUO

Dark Side of the Moon

Is it possible Republicans are using Trump's ass for shade? From what I can tell they seldom leave its environs, ready for a big smooch. Maybe that's their answer to global warming. 

In Times of Trouble

Somebody, please help. 

Civil Rights versus Civil War

I think I'll take Civil Rights. 

Why the Fuck Not

Why not have a president who promises to throw some of their money he's been squandering and putting a match to back at them if enough of them vote Republican? I mean, why the fuck not? 

Crib Your Enthusiasm

Democrats are demoralized. They need to get over it. 

Derision Quest

Is there anyone Republicans don't belittle? They degrade us, degrade themselves and create circumstances that lock it in, a society that makes it as hard as possible to live a decent, moral life. What the fuck is wrong with these people? 

The Bad, the More Bad and the Inconceivably Bad

We don't need a script for that movie. Republicans already wrote it. 

A Loaf of Bread. A Jug of Wine. A Private Jet.

Their needs are simple. Once you have enough money everything is simple. You can buy anything. Nobody else counts, You've evolved into another species. You were meant to rule. 

Don't People Have a Choice?

Aren't people choosing to live like this but why the fuck would they? Or are they like a school of fish or a flock of geese that took a bad turn somewhere? What they're doing makes sense individually. It's what they've always done. 

It becomes clear something is going wrong at a larger level yet it goes on. Clear to whom? As far as I know it can't happen to a flock of geese or a school of fish. But it can clearly happen among people. Did the air or water change.

People are supposed to be possessed of individual will and judgment. You wouldn't know it the way they behave. 

Tourism and the Apocalyptic Mindset

Evangelicals experience life as a tourist trip, like on a bus, with individual and shared aspects. The trip ends and you go home to Jesus. You have no responsibility to the destination. Fuck that. It's not your problem. 

Asshole Convergence and Epiphany

Republicans have it covered. Assholes are drawn to the party like flies to shit. If you're not an asshole they make you one. Assholes seem to appear out of nowhere. From everywhere. There's so many of them. We should make it a commandment, 'Don't be an Asshole.' Maybe a subheading under 'Love your Neighbor.' 

None of that means anything to them. 

Axes of Evil

Internationally, it's hatchet-man. Home-front, hatchet-man. Trump is a one-trick guy. Attack! He's a coward and a thug. His emissaries are enforcers. He has capos for diplomats. He's a bully. He loves violence. Send in the goons. 

Medium of Exchange

Scott Bessent is determining the nation's monetary policy be seance, my sources report. From the spirit world. Shades of Nancy Reagan. So it makes sense that it doesn't make sense, if you find that reassuring. 

April 27, 2020

I have something interesting going on. My gun-nut neighbor has apparently gifted me an NRA membership as a form of harassment, knowing my opinion that average citizens should not be able to own assault weapons. I’m afraid I’m going to get a whole barrage of hateful propaganda and pleas for money in the mail and more as my info gets shared around among the reactionary right-sites.

It affirms, of course, our suspicions that those claiming certain constitutional prerogatives and respect for the law are lying — they are not, as they say, interested only in self-defense and atomizing small game but they are the aggressors and have no respect for the rules and the rights of others. This guy routinely walked his dogs through my place without asking me. No big deal, if you knew me.

He installed a gate on a common driveway without getting permission from the person with whom it is shared and who owns an adjoining lot, a bigger deal but not my battle. There are other infractions but I think you get the point. It is Trump on a small scale, a presumptuous, angry guy indulging his cowardly impulses, probably encouraged by the surge in intimidation going on around us but I don’t know.

He’s rich, by the way. He’s a diluted descendant of one of America’s most prominent families. I have a very limited interest in the gun issue and wouldn’t try to outlaw anything because it’s a losing battle. I’ve followed it some because a historian I admire has written (convincingly) about it but the whole country would go Waco if we tried to take away their guns. Trust me on that. They are insane about it.

I would try to reduce the violence by taking better care of everybody, against the grain of McConnell and the Republican establishment who are, of course, in the middle of the same stream of income as the NRA. I suspect the lie about the “right to bear” begat many others as an example of how determination and intimidation can work. For those who care, Garry Wills put the screws to the gun issue.

Addendum: The latest is that the neighbor has been throwing trash on my property which is pretty pathetic. He even threw an Amazon envelope over the fence with his name on it. Some kind of kitchenware, it indicated. Oh, well.

I actually don’t know how we are going to survive these people. Remember, my friends, our rights don’t extend to having an opinion on gun issue if you disagree with them …

August 27, 2020

Donald Trump’s Four Fiefdoms defined: Trump’s four fiefdoms are the branches of the government with the addition of the press. By mastering all of these he achieves complete and unaccountable control. The mastery is nearing completion pending the next election.

Contrast this with Franklin Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms, empowering everyone. These extended the rights in the modern world to include those things necessary to start out even and succeed in some way — not merely to exist at the mercy or whim of some autocrat.

October 16, 2020

I just had an incidence of agreement with a Bible-believing Trump supporter. She’s the daughter of a neighbor whose dog I’m tending while they’re away.

She thinks Trump is allied with and presently leading forces that represent the end of life on the planet as we know it. I agree. We had our warm and fuzzy moment.

Then I realized she thinks it’s a great idea and is giddy with anticipation. She also acknowledged the polarization and hate. Obama started it all, she said.

January 31, 2022

Well, with Trump’s latest hate-mongering barrage it appears the quarter to third of Americans who support him no matter what can be classed as Manson Family members, at least in spirit.

Helter Skelter is back.

Good Morning, Suckfest

Every morning I get up and face another day of American evil and insanity. I have no idea what to do. 

How Many Asses Can You Have Your Head Up at Once?

And how many heads can fit up Trump's ass at once? In place of science it appears Republicans are striving to provide the answers to these questions of concern for the America people. The welfare of millions might depend on the result. 

I'll Never Fall in Love Again

With a country. With ideals. With decency. With kindness and hope. It hurts too much when it all crashes down. But I hear there's a place ...  

Lost Cause Comes of Age

The Lost Cause myth didn't go away it morphed into MAGA. Once that lie ruled the south. Now it rules the country.

Fat Elvis Phase

We're nearing the end of Trump's Fat Elvis Phase, to be followed by death and deification. Maybe Trump will die on the toilet, a fitting end, and the King will meet the King.

No disrespect to Elvis. He mainlined black music in America, a force for good if it was sad it was needed. Elvis in the afterlife is still a thing, sightings, apparitions and shit.

Trump is something else. He must be reviled in memoriam and his evil works undone. A monstrous monument, an arch, is coming. Trump is trying to stick us with him. 

Velvet Trumps will capture the tastelessness. All else must go, his presidencies declared illegitimate. Everything undone that can be, and Trump not revered but reviled.  

Fat Elvis Phase

We're nearing the end of Trump's Fat Elvis Phase, to be followed by death and deification. Maybe Trump will die on the toilet, a fitting end, and the King will meet the King.

No disrespect to Elvis. He mainlined black music in America, a force for good if it was sad it was needed. Elvis in the afterlife is still a thing, sightings, apparitions and shit.

Trump is something else. He must be reviled in memoriam and his evil works undone. A monstrous monument, an arch, is coming. Trump is trying to stick us with him. 

Pope James Bond?

There's a slaughter going on. Control freaks and aspirants to global conquest, Republicans are applying business principles such as vertical integration and supply chain optimization to this slaughter. Beyond that they're cynics and ideologues who are fighting to win at any cost by overwhelming their enemies, their fellow citizens, with their eyes on a Bond-villain's success.

World Domination.

They want absolute and permanent victory, with omnipotence. I think the Pope sees it for the moral monstrosity it is. He's not taking sides. Pure evil is not a side in a dialectical process ending in refinement and reconciliation. It exists outside of that because it exists outside of humanity. I can see how people postulated demonic possession. This sure looks and feels like it.

It's All Relatives

The New Testament proclaims that humans are one family, a call for an end to tribalism. Republicans are Old Testament and tribal. Kill your enemies. 

They were, anyway. They're going barbarian. Kill anyone you want. Destroy everything. Rape, pillage and murder. They will never come around on this. 

Innocence is Incriminating

Innocence is an unnatural state among Republicans, modeling on the 'total depravity' of Calvinism which is some sick shit. Nothing corporeal is innocent to them. Corruption is therefore reassuring. 

Real life. Anything less is unstable. Trust goes out the window. The governmental ideal is brutality of the Confederacy. Which is back. Ideals are for suckers, snowflakes and the 'woke' intelligentsia.

Never mind that woke doesn't exist, not like the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Three Percenters or even QAnon. Republicans are really fucked up about babies, bathrooms and some other things.

The more human the more it bothers them. Reminders that their beautiful, pure, immortal soul is carried around in a sack-of-shit body that degrades from day one makes them nuts. They have baggage. 

Innocence must be eliminated as a favor, service and good deed. As an initiation into the realities of life. Life is shit, an awful state in comparison with the spectacular purity of your immortal soul. 

All That Glitters Is Shit: A Syllogism

Glitter gets us nowhere. Glitter got us to Trump. Trump is nowhere. 

Lilies of the Field

Normal is gone. Rule of law, gone. Standards, gone. Social cohesion, gone. Giving a shit, gone or a liability. Republicans turned having a conscience into a ticket to disenfranchisement. 

I don't mean only voting. The franchise of humanity. They're invalidating our right to exist. Having a conscience becomes debilitating, as they intend it. Reducing expectations is the answer. 

Reduced to zero, not for giving up but for clarity. We have to build back from zero. Thinking otherwise isn't reality, it's delusion. Disorienting. They have their delusions. Break through them. 

They made their delusions the operating system of the society, by design. We can't participate in that, as a practical matter or as a directive. We must be as the lilies of the field, true to ourselves. 

Then we build back, but not within the context of a doomsday cult. Apart from anything it’s a way to save out sanity. Without it we are useless. I am useless, holding on, hoping to do better.