I'm a Normative Guy

I'm a normative guy. I love standards. I relate to objectives. To oughts. But I'm not utopian. At all. I'm just doing my best. 

Persecution and Privilege

Conservatives believe in privilege, that they're special and better so we should support them. Something for nothing. So they think they're persecuted if they're not treated like they're special. 

I think some people have skills, like artists and scientists, that should be supported. Conservatives think they're being persecuted if they're not supported because they're better in their being.

Conservatism is inherently racist and prejudicial. Evangelicals and social Darwinists among the rich converge on this. They are somehow the elect. We are the rabble. They can kill us if they want. 

Home Sweet Bunker

The evangelical age is here. They are schismatics and self-defeating, insane individualists. Each person is their own church. Recognizing any authority other than their personal conscience is heretical and anathema. No one tells them what to do.

They blow a fuse and become cultists. If they have spoken the magic words, accepting Jesus as their lord and savior, nothing matters. They can be murderers and rapists, God meant it to be so. Suffering is good. It's God's way. We were meant to suffer.

They're like the Amish opting out of insurance, but they won't build your barn back if it burns down. They'll enjoy seeing it burn. Burn it down for you. Arbitrary shit is reassuring. Suffering is purifying. It brings you closer to God. Or kills you and that's good too. 

You face God that way, in your heathen folly. Every man for himself! Women stay home and tend the bunker. They are spiritual preppers, longing for the end times. The family is gunned up. Stay away. They'll shoot your ass. Life is meant to be shit.

The Nutshell Bible

The Bible story works at the level of our individual lives, birth to death, Eden to annihilation. And human society, similarly, maybe birth to death. And it works at the level of an internal, individual transformation.

 Death to birth. Eden is innocence. Then growth and decay. Spiritual growth and bodily decay. 

Don't Touch That Dial!

The Trump show is on and the shit has hit the fan. 

Somebody to Hate

Republicans have to have someone to hate. A lot of people, really. They have a persecution complex.

He's Been Here Before

What just happened, in the midterms, is not new to Trump. We're the bankers and Little Donnie has gone bust. Again. It's not about the risk tolerance of bankers and investors or us or even Little Donnie. It's about the shedding of risk and about subsidies. Big business and finance got stoned on risk.

They can because they shed the risk onto us. It wasn't a scam. It is normal, to a point. We and our financial system absorb some of the risk to encourage investment, entrepreneurship and innovation. Moderately, and IN RETURN FOR BUSINESSES ACCEPTING REGULATION AND CONSTRAINT. 

Antitrust. And including fucking taxation, on businesses and individuals. 

Big business and finance chipped away at the constraints. They're gambling with our money. If they win they keep it. Lose and we pay. Trump might be egregious but he's in the middle of this. Mostly because he started rich as shit and was unusually incompetent. The midterm wipeout is a Trump bankruptcy.

Trump is in his element because he implicated us. We're on the hook. He implicated the world. Trump is not a rational businessman. He's a fucking idiot, but born for our times, which reward blind aggression and generational wealth. There's a strong undercurrent of fatalism. The rich got what they deserved. 

And so, according to their thinking, do we. We deserve to be screwed. 

The Birth of Bullshit: Salvation on the Half Shell

The usual cast is trying to save conservatism. Trying to save themselves. That's all they care about. Under the noise and endless talk of principles conservatism is a superiority cult, now promoted in an affluent culture by the smoke and mirrors of modern marketing. A torrent and deluge of lies.

They think the rest of us should support and subsidize them, because they're better. We should encourage and enable them to realize their innate gifts. It will trickle down, they say. They're the luxury brand. The bespoke boys. The people of the sinecure, the endowment and the nepo gig.

Free shit! Conservatism is the belief that some people are inherently and arbitrarily better than others. I don't entirely reject this, in the way of the liberal arts. However, such a movement draws in the dregs, a flood of flunkies. The compensatory crowd, who need to feel superior because they're not. 

Anyone come to mind? Like the whole fucking Republican Party? Like fucking Trump? Competition is what they don’t want. They drone on about it, maybe believing the bullshit. That they are Tarzans, parachuted in among the savages. There must be a Jane, for sure. Boys got to have a babe.

We’ve been here before. When the struggle for survival was a thing it was more understandable, if not useful. But not now. Aristocracies are an anachronism. They are destructive. Supremecists mine a deep vein of fear, to convince us we need them. Bit they’ve needed us. The tech boys think, no. 

Not any longer. They think robotics will replace us. A fucking I. Maybe, to a degree. Where do they go from there, that the proceeds of productivity should be spread around? Since when. Aristocrats want it all. They sell the hate scam. The great replacement isn’t about a minority. It’s about technology. 

They think they can replace us, with technology. Then they can let us die. It sounds nuts. Completely insane. It is nuts. But some of them believe it, a new kind of inhumanity in a new techno-aristocracy. Pay attention. They don’t care who dies. At all. The death knell of civilization has a nice ring to them. 

Racism Czar to Become Chief of Staff

Stephen Miller, pro-racism czar, supreme bigot and Trump's plenipotentiary, liaison and ambassador to hell, will become chief of staff. Hate is hard work, he reportedly said, but he expressed that he was young, had found his mission in life early, and was now a practiced, lawless murderer. He felt up to the job. 

He loves being a bigot, he reflected. The chance to destroy so many lives gave him pleasure. He never dreamed he could rise so fast with his niche skill. He was filled with gratitude for what Trump offered him, the opportunity, with seeming impunity, to rain horror on innocent, decent, hardworking people. 

Janitorial Party

Democrats are misreading it. They're the janitorial party. No glorious victory. They've been hired to clean up a Republican mess. Again. The frat party was trending like the society. More corruption. More addiction. More profligacy and compulsion. More utter uselessness among the participants.

The subsidies they required were immense. They produced nothing. Destroyed everything. There's barf and shit everywhere. The janitorial brigade has to wade into it. Someone must. Trump's goons’ assault on the Capitol wasn't just a rampage. It announced the final looting had begun. 

Can Democrats put their congressional colleagues in prison? No, but they should. Can they shut down Heritage and Fox? No, not yet. We don't have the presidency. We don't have the Supreme Court. Democrats never accepted how far gone we were. Maybe it hurts their hearts too much. 

Maybe because they're too implicated. I feel for them. 

I always defended them. But their fecklessness is astonishing. We didn't win, Republicans lost. Since Gingrich, that odious swine, Republicans have striven for irreversible change. Revolution. Overthrow of the government and a reinvention of the society as a hideous conservative wasteland. 

We're there. They stated their intention to render Democrats irrelevant. So we clean up their messes. The trend is backwards, into the conservative, aristocratic, oligarchic pit of hell. New representatives should be screaming in the faces of their Republican colleagues every fucking day. 

Murderers! Traitors! The system isn't designed for it. It wasn't meant to withstand an assault from hoards of invaders with the rights of citizens. But we have that. I don't know what to do. I don't know what's possible but I want to see anger. Indignation. Screaming. While we’re cleaning up.

Get a Fucking Clue

Democrats, look at what it took for you to win. Republicans burning everything to the ground. Get a fucking clue. You were called in to clean up their fucking mess again. 

You Can't Count on Me

Democrats, those in the game in Washington, are showing they have no idea what just happened. You didn't win. Americans voted to call the loan. Because the house is on fire. Probably not salvageable but the land is worth something. 

A familiar feeling to Trump. Creditors at the door. Fuck, can this dumbass get (us) out of this? Trump, and Republicans, want more credit. More rope, the better to hang us with. Americans didn't invest with incompetent businessmen. 

They invested with crooks and scammers. America, MLM. Trump was hired as head scammer. He happened to be a sociopath, a murderer and a rapist. Notice how he's acting. Picture him with a bank, trying to con his way into more credit.

He’s looking for an advantageous way out, working with Democrats. Losses are realized. Who will bear them? Us, it's always been. Another element -- evangelicals and 'disaster capitalists' want more destruction. To burn it all down. 

You can't work with them. Punishing the crooks is probably not possible, without a Democratic president, but cutting deals with traitors, terrorists and murderers is bad. It’s complicity. It's what they want, and an opportunity to escape. 

Babbling Crook

Trump runs on and on like a stream. He's a babbling crook. 

The Golden Ass (Apologies to Apuleius)

The novelization of Trump's life will surely be picaresque. I don't know how else you could portray it. He is a waif and a naïf, in his own way. An innocent, like Candide, but an unbelievably destructive one. 

That's one way innocence can play out, another side of cluelessness. Privilege and poverty have in common disconnectedness. Trump's life is episodic, a series of misadventures, from which he learns nothing. 

He only experiences. It's a quest for self-discovery, his own humanness, which fails. It turns out he's not human at all. He's an ass, in spite of being a Republican. He's a golden ass, for what that's worth. 

Friends, Romans, Republicans

I come not to bury Trump, but to praise him. He was an honorable man. He never did an honest or honorable thing in his life but, no doubt, he was an honorable man. He destroyed everything he touched and left others to suffer for it, but he must have been an honorable man. He was a braggart, but it's no dishonor when one's boasts are true. He raped and pillaged, but what's the dishonor in that, in his circles? 

He was revered by the rabble and reviled by the best men, out of envy, I assume, because they weren't as honorable as he. His tweets were all honorable and none defamatory, by definition because he owned the platform, as is fitting. His status conferred honor, if not his behaviors, but it's all kind of a muddle. He was a man of action. Honorable men are men of action. Let us praise famous men, Trump above all. 

Americans Repudiate Trump

The Supreme Court is still dominated by insane ideologues. The Bitter Pill Bill is still in place. Republicans are still insane culture warriors and experienced obstructionists. 

Republicans have been working for decades to subvert the government and turn the country irreversibly into a Christian Nationalist theme park and a safe space for billionaire sociopaths. 

Things are unbelievably institutionally and structurally screwed up. Republicans don't see Democrats as partners or legitimate citizens or maybe humans. Democrats have won some elections.

They better understand the revolutionary aspects of the situation. Republicans are fighting a war against a constitutionally legitimate America. It's probably führerbunker time for Herr Donald. 

But he was always a tool. The American people and his generals failed him, no doubt. I'm not sure we've even won a reprieve. Democrats never got their heads out of their asses on this. 

We are still on the way down.

Socialism versus Sociopathy

Democrats want to make the country a little more like Scandinavia. Republicans want to turn the country into Hitler's unrealized reich. They are murderers and sociopaths. Go vote. Take your pick. 

Trump Is Shitting His Pants

He was already doing that, but you know what I mean. 

A Bridge Too Fur

Someone needs to pull the plug on Tuberville and his furry shit. He's an embarrassment. But don't count on the white people of Alabama. 

Birth of a Nation

The Republican house band is called Birth of a Nation. We've all heard the music. Watch the movie. We are there, becoming one nation for the first time. Not the United States. That didn't work. We were never united. As they will crazies keep fighting when there's nothing to fight about. Because they're nuts.  

They've made us into the Confederacy, a racist shithole. The Democratic band is called Intolerance. You've heard it too. They say behave. Good morals. Reality, but not as compelling. Some generations are called to preservation. BORING. Real men want more. To make a mark. So they do it by destruction.

Give Them What They Want

Arrested Republicans are just trying to grow up. They want us to stop them. They're seeking reassurance the system can handle whatever they dish out. Maybe short of them and everybody getting killed but they aren't grown up enough for that possibility to be real to them. 

If we leave it up to natural constraints, in some circles known as 'God,' we're all going to die. Most of us, anyway, and masive destruction, via overshoot. While exceeding the carrying capacity of the earth we're depleting that capacity. It's already happening. We have to stop them.

They're really jut trying to grow up. It's up to us.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v31/n03/adam-phillips/in-praise-of-difficult-children

A Room With a Pew

Evangelicals want religion in everything. And everywhere. Their religion. World as church. 

PO(TU)S

 Once in a while we should step back and stand in awe at the unbelievable piece of shit we have in Trump. He's a piece of work. Analyzing him is useless. Trying to make sense of him is useless. He makes no sense. Take him in. Then take him down. Get him the fuck out of there. 

The Scarlet Pimple

Trump looks like a huge pimple or cyst ready to blow. We should help it along.

Trust Never Sleeps

Trust is always an issue. Either it's there or it’s not. Consciously or not. Trust is the foundation of everything. Civilization. Trump and his goons are attacking it. They want utter destruction. So they can rule in hell. The hell they’re creating on earth. 

From Coattails to Caboose

If Trump ever had coattails he has a caboose now, whatever that structure is sticking out back his ass presumably to contain it when he shits himself. He's shit himself, the Republican Party, the country and he's aiming beyond all that. The world is Trump's sewer 

The Republican Party must be eradicated. Trash Trump's and we might be able to beat into submission. 

New Eden

I'm just wondering what the amazing crop of sociopaths America has raised up is going to do when there's no socio to path, no functional commonwealth left to parasitize and to come together to destroy. 

They're held together by hate. They see themselves as outsiders and the opposition, the richest people and their flunkies. They're the most privileged insiders. Will they be happy when everything is in ruins? 

What will they do? Their whole movement is defined by hate. But they have a vision. A horrible dystopia. A tiny ruling caste with unlimited power and those who serve them. Everyone else can get lost and die. 

American Opium Eaters

Americans are self-medicating. It's an evangelical existential crisis. They give up on their humanity joining the death cult of Trump. Evangelicals hate life and creation It's corrupt, impermanent, imperfect and loaded with temptation. It’s dirty. Life is transitional, an unfortunate stop on the road to salvation and communion with God. They want to be done with life. Forever.

Salvation is personal, they think, but for some reason this suicide must be cultural, communal, all-encompassing and en masse. I suppose because suicide is a sin. They murder a lot of people so those people will kill them in defense, like suicide by cop. I find it perverse. And the experience intolerable. I'd like to question them about it but I'm busy trying to prevent this catastrophe. 

I think they want us to kill them, by underlying logic. Suicide by surrogate. Hence their love of guns and violence and their affection for school shootings and other cathartic arts. They want us to rise up and do whatever it takes to free them from the awful burden of life and free will, the free will they kind of deny. Maybe that's how they blow a fuse and end up with a death wish.

Ever the Egalitarian

Donald Trump, ever the egalitarian in his way, is busting out his pedophiles-are-people-too moves. We need a more empathetic approach to child rape, not in service of prevention but for inclusion. 

Shades of Charlottesville.

Genocide and mass murder merit understanding as forces of renewal, it seems from Trump's support and engagement. Trump had Catholic bishops praying over him the other day, surely after conferring.

They had, as a rule, exhibited seasoned acceptance of child rape and aided in its preservation. Amy Acton had all the sympathy she needed, but America must have strong leadership. Rapists provide it.

Vote for Trump and rape and Jesus. 

The Great Desecration

Trump and his supporters are shitting on everything. They want to ensure we can't go back. To decency. To legitimacy. To kindness, compassion, cooperation, and constitutional, representative government.

Woe Is He

Poor Little Donnie Trump is having a bad time. It cannot be his fault! Nothing is ever his fault. Woe is he, anyway. But nothing makes the boy feel better than viciously attacking innocent people. He has help, the  MAGA movement. Ideally they get some people killed. They love the feeling of unconstrained power.  

Never in the History of Humanity

Never before in the history of humanity has a people been given so much, had so little expected, failed so miserably and risen up an destroyed themselves and everything the way modern America has, factoring in the good fortune of their circumstances, a one-off return to Eden in a miraculous new world.

So many of the essential battles of life, for resources and the ability and opportunity to live well, were won. The society said fuck it let's burn it all down. The worst life-hating primal drives, represented by a hideous, racist subculture and faction backed by the richest citizens, asserted themselves. 

Trumpenburg Blimp is Coming to Your State

Will it crash and burn? 

The Desperate Rich

The rich know what they're up to. They seem desperate because they reject the system we live in, the one that made them. They won't feel secure until they destroy that system. They know they're crooks and parasites and that it can't go on. 

Republican Are Replicants

Republicans sacrificed their humanity to Trump. They didn't want the responsibility. They are mind clones. They update themselves from Fox News and conservative media. 

Democrats pretend a system exists that offers a way out. It's a delusion. That system has been infested with mind clones for decades. The mind clones are its masters now. 

Things He Said Today

Donald Trump's Piece of Shit Tour is generating unprecedented amounts of feces aiming to preserve his power and save his ass from accountability. He shit on everything his whole life. This is the final act. 

As Trump's time on earth nears its end he offers a grand finale of shit-spewing. He wants to shit the world.  He's shit his country to death. Republicans celebrate the glory and greatness of Donald and bath in shit. 

Son of Scam

America is buried in Republican lies. Nobody can escape it. Lies permeate everything. The economic system is built on lies. The government is taken over by lies. Our ethos is infected by lies.

Trump brought the lies to the surface. Layers, layers, and layers of lies. Republicans aren't pretending anymore. Maybe this is good. We see what we're up against. It's time to destroy the empire of lies. 

Who Wants to Be a Henchman

What kind of person wants to be a henchman, a Brownshirt or a goon? Someone with no sense of what they are, with no self-esteem. 

They get an identity from somewhere else. A career, a movement, a religion, a guru or a leader. Whatever. Why not Trump? There's a vacancy there. 

Trump being a piece of shit isn't an impediment, it's an asset. A fabricated hero can be better than a real one. And Trump is nothing. 

Entirely fabricated. No humanity. No decency. No integrity. It makes him perfect, for a made-up world. He's an actor. A marketer. A salesman. 

There's nothing fucking there. So he came to embody their hate. 

Conservatives

Conservatives believe they're better than other people by birth or some arbitrary standard. They think they're persecuted if they aren't given special treatment. Other people's rights and political status are conferred by conservatives because conservatives deserve to rule.

Everything is based on the idea they're arbitrarily and infinitely deserving, by being European or Christian or whatever. It's simply a claim. An assertion. So they're against democracy. Republicans are admitting this, that they're not democrats. Hence the disconnect with Ukraine. 

Ukrainians don't want a tyrant. Republicans do. They want lords and henchmen. The rest will be serfs. 

Insane Is Good

The new ethos of Republicans is that Jesus is coming to take care of everything. So, fuck it. We can and should live like pigs and lunatics, totally irresponsibly, because nothing matters. 

In fact, living like maniacs, screwing our fellow citizens and the environment and all that, is a sign of faith. Because God will set it all straight in His good time which sources indicate is now. 

Nobody has ever thought that before, have they. Republicans and evangelicals can't fucking wait. This time it's going to be different. Jesus really is coming. And blowing shit up and killing people is so much fun. 

Brides of Trumpenstein

The look. Mar-a-Largo face. The submission. They're not independent persons. They're owned by somebody. They're owned by Trump or a movement. They're the brides of Trumpenstein. 

White House as Womb

Little Donnie Trump wants the womb, to crawl back into the womb, complete containment in an environment that's only for him. We have the White House as womb.

Washington as womb. The world as fucking womb. Little Donnie's insecurity is vast. Way to go America, you put the sickest fuck you could find in charge of everything. 

Facial Recognition

The southern belle look expresses white male power and privilege and the belle's submissive status, possibly as property. A person can't work in the fields looking like a belle. No fucking way.

Update the belle aesthetic for the age of plastic surgery. Voilà, Mar-a-Lago face, unmistakably announcing this woman is owned by a man and a movement. There are degrees and variations, same point. 

An inhuman look for an inhuman role. Republicans are nuts about Muslims and Sharia, no threat to the United States, because they see another culture like theirs, in competition. I don't know if that's true. 

I think it is. The face is their hijab. I'm not even saying a woman can't use that for her own, independent purposes. Good luck with it. Some women famously pulled it off but It seems desperate to me. 

A hijab can be taken off. Not the face. That has got to please those insecure white boys and the most insecure person ever, their fearless leader, icon and object of adoration, Little Donnie Trump. 

Trump embodies their insecurity. That drives everything. They aren't real men they're babies. 

Going for Broken

Republicans are deliberately breaking the country. They decided on liquidation. Maybe they think they can make more money that way. Or, it's not about the money, they're already swimming in it, but it's about governmental overthrow, world domination and an enduring reich, common dreams of madmen. 

We're living in a fucking movie and I don't see Sean Connery showing up to save us. Let's play the Bond music anyway. 

https://youtu.be/6D1nK7q2i8I?is=WH1MvaMfpBdmd_Rr

Give War a Chance

Republicans love war. But it's been tried. Will we never learn?  

Privatization

Privatization isn't about efficiency it's about exclusion. Republicans lie their asses off about it of course. They don't want efficiency. They want control. 

Midas Torch

Everything Trump touches goes up in flames.  

Saudis Experience Trump Shitshow for Sure

Credit the cultural disconnect but the Saudis are discovering late in the game they threw in with an unbelievable fucking moron in Trump. They are shrewd people. Maybe they couldn't get a grip on Trump's fantastic stupidity, perhaps assuming the American electorate couldn't contain enough idiots to elect him twice against their own interests and the country function as well as it did. 

Or maybe they knew and thought they could capitalize on Trump's confounding imbecility, that no one would be watching the American store under Trump and they could loot it. Which was true but Trump was simultaneously blowing up the shop. Maybe they didn't foresee Trump would act against the interests of everybody, including himself. That he's a compulsive, a fool and a tool. 

Trump's final self-immolation is tracking to be a doozy. Cultures are never a reflection of what they deserve. They change with a lag. America has been living on borrowed time since and to the degree it chose exploitation and empire over independence. America wasn't functioning as well as it seemed, entering the imperial doom-loop and frantically grasping at resources. 

Herr Donald is the last gasp. America failed to have faith, cut the imperial strings and stand on its feet. America is probably fucked. Sorry, Saudis. As rich as you are it's nothing in the scale of the accelerated suicide of an empire. Evangelical Christians are behind this. They're apocalyptic. One would think Arabs would understand religious fanaticism but these weren't their crazies. 

Law and Order: Colossal Fuckup Unit

The DOJ and the FBI are beyond hope. It will make a hell of a show though when it's over. Think of it. Such extreme characters and incompetence the satire will be over the top. And all connected to the Trump Royal Family. Something like this ...

https://youtu.be/w_DCYMviMsU?is=cdX7tadeoSlLjKTh

Nothing to Offer but Arrogance

Combined with incompetence. A hell of a mix. That's the Republican Party. Built on the assertion that some people are just arbitrarily better than others. Which draws in the dregs. 

Really better people don't have anything to prove. And they know anyone can be better by behaving better. Don't be punitive assholes. It's as simple as that. Republicans should try it.