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. 

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.