Summer of Hate

We had a summer of love, years ago. I predict 2026 we will have a summer of hate, courtesy of Donald Trump and Republicans.

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. 

Down on Him

Little Donnie Trump's birthday bash is having problems with entertainment. All the better acts are pulling out realizing what a partisan satanic hell-fest it will be. They'll get down to a core group of degenerate acts, I expect, then go in-house. They're in a war, a culture war, so allowances have to be made. 

I don't think it will be so bad the cabinet and some others will have to do dance numbers in drag the way the Brits used to do lacking the USO and Bob Hope, I guess, but you know they would do it. I think it will come down to Trump. Trump will perform. What true MAGA can ever get enough of him? 

So he will sing. What else is new? He's a fucking entertainer. 

I'll allow him to have help. Make it a duet with a female singer. Only fair. The song will be important. It must convey the right message, the essence of Little Donnie since this is, after all, HIS FUCKING BIRTHDAY and don't you forget it. The song I have chosen is 'Down on Me' à la Janis Joplin. 

We all know Donnie is the most persecuted and maligned person ever. Who, once in the presence of his stupendous and historic greatness, can not want to bow down in homage? BUT IT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME. Can you imagine? Some deluded souls fail to kiss his butt the moment it is offered for adoration.

It is noted Donnie wants his ass kissed every hour of every day, birthday or not, with ass-vigils kept at night and so on. At the same time he is established as the greatest person ever to live, the culmination of creation AND evolution, to cover the bases, and the only person in the world that matters. 

His persecution complex is justified. So we're looking at a 2-3 hour rendition of 'Down on Me' with improv and audience participation and multiple entendres and shit. The Republicans in Washington are down on Donald in another way entirely, also noted. Now, we've seen how Trump rambles on.

The audience always loves it! 

So none of this will be a problem. And, this being LITTLE DONNIE'S BIRTHDAY, anyone trying to leave or looking bored or whatever will be shot or put in that UFC thing and beaten to a pulp by some ICE goons. Because IT IS HIS FUCKING BIRTHDAY. And don't you dare fucking forget it. 

Don't Be a Statistic

Too late. We don't have a choice anymore.  

The Shit Show

The Shit Show, the reality program in which Donald Trump plays president, is in its second season. The ratings are huge but two-thirds of the viewers are hostages. You couldn't pay them to watch it. They had to be compelled. 

Days of Future Pissed

We pissed away the future. That's an accomplishment. We pissed away the inheritance of others before they had a crack at it. No wonder the youth of the country are disgusted. 

Message in a Butthole

With so many Republicans spending time up Trump's ass I wonder if they're leaving secret messages there. Cries for help. Hell, maybe reflections and travel notes. It's worth taking a look. You do it I'm busy. 

A Fecal History of the Trump Years

The hypothesis here is that Donald Trump is arrested prior to being toilet trained. His entire life is going around shitting on everything. He doesn't know he's doing it. When you're born as rich as Donald, people clean up after you. Lawyers, banks, businessmen. And, of course, daddy Fred Trump. 

Treatment Resistant Oppression

I've run it through a model and gotten a diagnosis for America. Treatment Resistant Oppression. In spite of a system designed to prevent class exploitation and internecine struggle we've fallen into it. Or inadvertently created and encouraged it. Okay, we're fucking Puritans and it had to be this way.

Trump Liquidates and Loots US

It was his destiny. 

Don't Worry About Me, I'll Be Alright

And when I say that I mean I might not be alright. 

The SBC and Me

My formative encounter with this, the SBC and its corruption and racist proclivities and foray into politics, was in a famously Klan county in North Carolina that was also heavily Scots and Scots-Irish. It was by then a commonplace that southerners were still fighting the Civil War. I came away concluding that, even before that, they were just fighting. Period.

But the Reformation foremost and before the Civil War. Their outlook was bigoted and belligerent. They need antagonism. They had a straw Catholic that thought it could buy its way into heaven with good works. And indulgences. Characteristically they overcorrected, and since they were fatalists and considered wealth a sign of an upright character being wealthy and not engaging in good works suggested a higher state of holiness. This was mostly after desegregation and was intensified by the dissolution of the USSR when they lost a focus for their hate.

Must have hate! So they turned on Democrats which captured hating on black people. It became a religious crusade played out through politics. And, it's unbelievably arbitrarily authoritarian. They retreated into the worst elements of their tradition. The authoritarianism captures the sexual weirdness and abuse because it's about power and privilege. Nobody tells a white man what to do except God, and that's not institutionally regulated but between that person and God. 

Voilà, abuse. Sexual abuse, and mistreatment of every kind. As a matter of principle. 

Rednecks Reject Massie

Kentucky rednecks have rejected Massie. What does it mean? Meaning isn't a recognized currency in Kentucky. Forget it. It's a dark fucking place.

The Dowry of Anne Frank

If it can't be monetized it doesn't exist. Stories aren't community property anymore. Shit's been privatized.

Bubba Trump Ballroom

Bubba Trump Ballroom having funding problems. Bubba Trump having his own problems. Ballroom must be built! Or Donald make boom. I know, Donald already make boom. But he make more.

The Frog of War

Tell me Donald Trump isn't the most astonishing piece of shit you've ever seen. And so, what do we do? We put him in a position where he can hurt people. Lots of people. Kill people.

And what does he do? Hurt people. Kill people. And now he's started a war. Find me a bigger piece of shit than Donald. I dare you. Donald is as low as you can go. Basically a Groyper. 

Making him a frog of war. Trump plays to the worst elements. He wants their support. But he's too much of a coward to own it. Which makes him the worst of the worst of the worst. 

Pax Trumpicana Looks a Lot Like Hell

Trump's promised age of peace and is a mass of violence, war, misery and slaughter. He's staging a cage fight at the White House in celebration of his birthday. Everywhere you look he's created suffering.

Is Trump Ahab or the White Whale?

Moby Dick is the American story. Trump has to fit in somewhere. He's both. Trump is Ahab and the whale, his own obsession. He'll spear himself one day. And they'll both die, Trump and the darkness within himself he can't own or allow to live. 

The Conscience of a Conservative

I remember reading a book by a Jesuit, a philosopher I think, who said, basically, there are higher and lower elements in both individuals and societies and the higher elements must run the show. Note this acknowledges the existence, as a given, of the lower elements. 

Even in a society. That’s defining some members of the society as lower elements. I’m fine with that. In that respect I’m probably conservative. BUT I THINK IT’S CIRCUMSTANTIAL. Not existential. As an ethical matter we all have the same rights. I think this for several reasons.

The critical one is that people are incomprehensible in isolation. We exist as a group, as a species and as an aggregation. Not intelligibly as individuals. Individualism is subjective, obviously. Experiential, and valid as that. But try reproducing individually. Without another person. 

Without cooperation. It’s just about possible these days.

Musk might try. But it’s not a recipe for anything human. Incidentally, I’d argue that Musk is not human. He’s fundamentally sick. But that’s another story. Liberals, or progressives, or whatever I am, believe that, as a matter of accountability and intelligibility, we are all equal. 

Conservatives believe they’re existentially superior, that they have rights you don't have. American conservatives are typically social darwinists or religious exclusionists. Both are fatalists. Social darwinists believe they are superior as determined by competition. They won. 

That they outcompeted everyone else so they’re better. Take that. Religious fundamentalists believe they were arbitrarily chosen by God by predestination, so take that and fuck you to hell to those that weren’t. Election is arbitrary in that it’s above our ability to understand it. 

I point out that this is against the express terms of our constitution, as it concerns one’s citizenship and legal rights and as a political matter. As it concerns us as a polis. Secondly this is expressly and definitely unchristian, for some people to say they’re saved and you’re not. 

Conservatives, the social darwinist faction, don’t have consciences. They have drives. Aristocratic drives define conservatives. Privilege. I don’t deny they might be superior in some respects, I deny that makes them the boss of me. And exempt from the laws of the commonwealth.

I don’t exist at their pleasure. This group of supremacists is of course a minority. But with the intent to rule and turn the rest of us into serfs. So they lie, at an industrial scale, and try to exert leverage. They try to turn the tables by claiming we need them, not that they need us.

It’s all a fucking lie. They can think whatever they want, but stop lying about it. And if you’re in a democracy or claim to be a Christian play by the rules. Instead, for example, of trying to overthrow our government and reduce our religious traditions to blasphemous bullshit. 

ED and FOP

Two career tracks are available in Trump's administration at this time, the Epstein Diversion track and the Friends of Pedophiles track. The latter is higher in prestige and might require a donation to the Donald Defense Fund to get on but yields greater access to Herr Donald and possible financial rewards. 

Remember the diversion part. For all the fantastic mess being created by Trump never forget it's about Epstein. The ED track is loaded with lackeys and younger associates many just out of college, typically Patrick Henry or Hillsdale, and they are the foot soldiers. Cannon fodder, if it comes down to it. 

Trump Show, Season Two: More Murder and Mayhem!

The killing in season one was nearly passive, as Donnie got his footing in his important new job. He's president! But as a murder show it sucked. An epidemic didn't make good drama, though Donnie is estimated to have gotten over 400,000 people killed, a pretty good number, watching old farts with comorbidities die in a massive mess of hoses and tubes with a ventilator and shit, well, what a drag! 

The highlight was the idiot anti-vaxxers that passed, out of devotion to Donnie. Those morons believed they were actors like Donnie, I guess, and that they wouldn't really die. SAD! But that's the thing about the Trump Show, people really die. It's a snuff show. Season Two has been better. They're blowing shit up. Beating people in the streets of American towns and cities. Tormenting citizens in all kinds of ways. 

It's a much better show this time. Herr Hegseth, Trump's man of war, saw some poor souls clinging to a boat and said 'kill them!' What a man. Donald himself, it's said, loves nothing more than to see the films of the strikes. He started a war, he likes it so much. But they fought back! My God, the nerve. They messed up the plot. The whole thing is stalled now. But if there's one thing Donald's good at it's stirring shit up. 

So, stay tuned. That's the whole point, isn't it? 

Finding Out Is the Fun Part

At least if you're a Republican. Because they're the ones that fool around. We're the ones that find out. 

His Word Is His Bond (Markets)

I wonder if anyone is telling our compulsive idiot leader where he is heading. Maybe he thinks his will can shape anything, or that he can squirm out of any kind of massive failure and bankruptcy, where we know he has had practice, but he's also been the author of his own catastrophes before and gone into kiss-up mode. He seemed to be there with Xi and he took plutocrats with him to run interference. 

It all reeks of weakness. Donald has had to grovel before but he does it differently, looking down his nose at you while he's at it. I'm not a psychologist but I think I understand compensatory posturing, which rests on a kind of thermodynamics of the psyche, an inborn accountability that's in effect of you're not a psychopath and maybe even then. It suggests Donald knows he's a worthless piece of shit. 

By the laws of conservation or karma. 

He creates desperate circumstances for himself because, confoundingly, it's stabilizing to him. He's such a wreck inside externalizing it gives him an opportunity to fight that battle. Laws and customs, down to the level of etiquette, are supposed to enable societies to function with such people because they are inevitable. You keep them in line and try to channel their shit or jail them if they're bad enough. 

Trump should probably have been jailed but with the right kind of pushback earlier who knows. Money can insulate someone from almost anything and it did with Trump. Why, this leads me to ask, would a society empower such a piece of garbage? Averages should apply and keep it from happening. There has to be a mass psychological injury. Like, let's say, a Civil War. Americans are figuring this out.

Too late. The damage has been done with more to come. Yes, they want to destroy the county. Look at the electoral results just in. Trump is still getting his way in places. I think we need to understand it to react appropriately for once if we have the chance to run things again. They're fighting a war. Against us. People are shocked at these deep-south states attacking voting rights. I'm not shocked. 

Talk about bond markets and interest rates is fine but it's in the realm of expertise and they're pulling us out of there. What does expertise mean if it applies to destruction? And we're heading there. Nobody cares about it when the real suffering begins and Americans have forgotten what that's like. So we're playing brinkmanship with seriously bad shit. Maybe biggest case of FOMO ever is in store. 

I say this out of respect for the bond markets. Not as sexy as stocks but I believe they're the thing you really don't want to screw up. And little Donnie's baggage could take us there.

Where Have All the Fuckheads Gone?

All Republicans now. Republicans have cornered the market on fuckheads. Or they're working on it. When will they ever learn?  

Golf and Grovel

Air Force One has lugged Trump to China like the huge baby he is. He sucks his thumb and grovels before Xi. He's so depleted America he can't do anything. And Taiwan is on the table.

China wins. The USA and Russia destroy themselves. The smell of bankruptcy is in the air. This time little Donnie has bankrupted the whole country. While enriching himself. For now. 

Escape from Trumpatraz

We're all Trump's prisoners. Even his supporters, because they're his dupes. How do we escape from Trumpatraz?

Future Proof

Republicans are ensuring our country has no future. We're future-proof. Also known as being fucked. They're redefining future-proofing like everything else. Like truth. Like freedom. Like justice. 

They rely on a fundamentalist, evangelical base to stay in power. Evangelicals want to see the end times so it works out. Together with 'disaster capitalism' and 'creative destruction' our future is assured.

We don't have one.