The Concupiscence of a Conservative

Sexual desire and greed can't be disentangled in the dark underworld of the Republican psyche. Their lust is amorphous and ill-defined, carnal in origin but foraging afield for reassurance because of insecurity, marked by triumphalism, swag and swagger, a hopeless and vain compulsion to find, assert and demonstrate their potency. 

Trump shows the way, a marrier of women hugely weaker than him, in wealth and other ways, and ideally with an immigrant's limited command of English so they can't understand the subtler clues indicating he's an idiot, an old trick. He lords it over anyone, compulsively and recklessly, knowing deep-down what undeserving garbage he is.

Cuck Fighting

Newt Gingrich is a prime example. A passionless pussy and wimp, he must try to prove his manhood by deceit and manipulation. Nothing is ever enough because the mojo deficit is so severe. 

Now the cucks are fighting among themselves. Watch Mitch McConnell, a southern, deep-fried piece of shit and repugnant loser who should be behind a counter at a KFC. He married his money.

Mitch is being challenged and ridiculed by another cuck, our boy Trump, a true champion of the class. Take that, Mitch, and make mine extra-crispy. Crap, he's in the back kowtowing to Kochs.

Aha, and Donald is dominating Mitch's wife daily.  It's so incredibly primal and pathetic. The cuck wars continue. And Donald has the nukes while Mitch is among the chickens, a loser even there.

Children's Crusade: a Republican Dance With Death

Morally, the American Religious Right are children who think they have been called by God to symbolically recapture the the Holy Land and reinstate His rule. 

This was tried before in the Middle Ages and it didn't go well, I'll tell them. The Pied Piper of Brooklyn, their mesmerizing head, is leading them into destruction.

The 7 Habits of Trump, a Highly Ineffective Person

1. Be indescribably self-centered. It helps to be born independently rich.

2. Treat other people as objects and things to be used and discarded. 

3. Think win-lose. Constantly brag, tout yourself and blow your own horn. 

4. Belittle other people at every opportunity in order to feel more important. 

5. Be imperious, divisive, inconsistent and mean. It enhances your power.

6. Rely on others to bail you out while barking about your self-sufficiency.

7. Remember above everything else that no one matters as much as you. 

"Some Day My Prince Will Come..."

Moving on now from calamitous healthcare reform to calamitious tax reform we will witness the Republicans frolicking in an area in which they have demonstrated expertise, bankrupting the government. Why must they? Because only the government, as designed, with a balance of powers, can protect us from the final corporatization of our democracy into rule by the rich. 

The gavel will come down on Washington at last--the sale final. However powerful they may seem McConnell and Ryan are lackeys. Observe them closely. They are submissive and most comfy kowtowing to Kochs. They will be discarded eventually and live out their lives in reptilian indolence, a perfection of sangfroid--actual cold-bloodedness--protected forever from the warm-blooded masses.

Meanwhile they will try to destroy Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security as soon as the government is sufficiently insolvent, saying we can't afford it. This has always been their goal, to screw poorer people and the Middle Class out of existence. There will be huge tax cuts for the wealthy. Trickle Down and Rising Tide talk await us. And, if you still believe those tired lies--sing it!

"Someday my prince will come..." We will need all the saving we can get, as a powerless class of modern serfs and screwees hoping for miracles, saviors or means of escape, but why give away our freedom in the first place? Evidently we are undeserving of it, careless and spoiled. Shame on us for taking for granted this amazing gift for which few of us have ever sacrificed anything.

Mediocrity

I have been trying my hand at Medium and it's demoralizing reading most of the writing there, though it's democratic as hell. Extremes really do seem to meet, I find myself thinking, because the authoritarians and the solipsists end up in the same place, unable to assert humane, sustainable social values, thereby endangering the structures enabling free speech in the first place.

The spiritual solipsists represent a radically Protestant approach, schismatism down to the point that each person becomes their own, irrefutable, one true church. The radical Catholics, by adherence or adoption, are flaming authoritarians and therefore hacks, putting reason at the service of their secular, idolatrous gods (ad Maiorem something Gloriam) by analogy to their religious instincts. 

Sorry, but I don't think we can go on like this. I see dissolution in our future. The challenge we face is ourselves, a challenge from within. We are destroying ourselves needlessly. Incidentally, we are making it impossible for future generations to do anything but try to recover from our mess. I can imagine only one way out if it, charismatic leadership, and I don't see it out there.

A nun walks into a bar...

I identify more often lately with Stanley, Dudley Moore's character in Bedazzled. All I ever wanted was to have a decent life, like Stanley. Someone, however, is messing me around: "Trust me, all you have to do is cut taxes on the rich, cut taxes on the rich..."

Zoroastrianism: Real Answers in Confused Times

I believe that evangelical Christians support Trump because they think he brings us closer to the apocalypse but I draw the line and refuse to go along with planetary destruction. I can see how they associate Donald with the end-times and it fits with the denial of global warming and permanent war and military budgets that could feed every hungry person in the world, no problem. Therefore, I am turning my allegiance and affiliation to Ahura Mazda. 

Zoroastrians believe that the destruction of nature is a BAD thing. I happen to agree. Zoroastrians believe in good and evil but reject the association of evil with the physical world. I like the physical world. Though, I suppose I am prejudiced. It's all I have ever known. If evangelical Christians have a pitch for the excellence and humanitarian superiority of the obliteration of everything I am willing to listen. Meanwhile, I'm going with Zoroaster.

Dark Night of the American Seoul

Donald Trump's UN speech reveals just how careless he and his supporters are of the lives of other people--in this instance, millions of South Koreans. They don't factor into his calculations a bit. When Trump says he's looking out for America, just as every country looks out for itself, he's sending a message: get lost and screw you.

His hairness is going rogue. He's Sarah Palin with man-tits. The rest of the world can fend for themselves. At home, this is also true of anyone Trump chooses to neglect, condemn or attack. We are all at the whim of this sociopathic regime. 

Fast Times at Republican HIgh

The arrested Republican white boys, struggling as always to achieve escape velocity from their sociopathic adolescence, are carrying on with the persecution reflex and undermining democracy and majority rule whenever they can. A lot of of is pure cruelty. 

A cascade of lies washes over us. A torrent of antagonism engulfs us. What are antiheros without recourse or reference to morality? They are evil. The context of intelligibility (the LOGOS, for those with Christian sensibilities) itself is under threat and in retreat. 

Who says the good side has to win? No doubt the renegades identify at some level with Clint Eastwood's characters, bending the rules and rough around the edges but ultimately upholding a higher law: individualism, autonomy, responsibility and order.

In other words, they are conceited and delusional. Ask yourselves--do they stand for order or chaos; and for accountability or not? They stand for chaos. They say they are Christians but they are working for the other guy. I still say Trump has horns under the hair.

Who Needs Statues

Who needs statues when you can legislate manslaughter. Another ill-wind has blown in from the South, the Graham-Cassidy Death Bill. Yet again, an attempt is made to end the lives of poorer Americans prematurely by withholding healthcare. This modest proposal has all the laundering expertise behind it of the cunning devils of Fox News. 

The techniques of distancing and deniability have been perfected. No one will be able to say Lindsey, "Cracker" Graham and his Louisiana side-kick actually killed anybody but they will have it this way. They sow the seeds of deprivation. The surplus population will inevitably diminish, in misery. Cracker and his colleagues all go to church. 

What do they pray for? May Jesus ride in on a cloud sooner rather than later and end it all. They only want to do their share in setting the stage for the apocalypse.

Dinner Conversation at the Bezos Home

"Honey, I bought Whole Foods."

Military School

When I was a kid the boys who got sent to military school either had fathers who were militarists or they were scarily screwed-up, out of control and likely to annihilate themselves or someone else. Donald Trump's father was not a militarist.

People wind up creating the world they believe in...

and the strength of their conviction is proportional to its insanity and insecurity, in compensation. So, the craziest, most pessimistic and fraught people can end up running everything. Evangelical Christians are our version of this. They believe in the apocalypse, that the end-times has an ejection feature and that they alone get to use it.

Let the Destruction (of Trumpism) Begin!

The election of Donald Trump was an unacceptable occurrence and it can't be an accident. He's too inappropriate to be random, as though his name was pulled from a hat, but must be the product of a system run amok, so sick that it has deliberately chosen the character of its demise to end the suspense. 

Never mind that the destruction of the culture was far from a fait accompli and that the breadth, depth and duration of Donald's dynastic misadventures have yet to be defined. It is plenty bad enough. We must start with the determination to see this crushed and work from there, to means and method.

I have plenty of ideas.

Yes, Master

The application of reason in Republican circles always seems to end in recommendations of cruelty. It makes me wonder what master they serve. Their premises, to me, are suspect.

Cowardly Trump Kowtow​s to Extremists

Trump is doing away with DACA, under the influence of racist weasel Jeff Sessions and the scumbag Attorney General of Texas and who knows who else--heartless slimeballs, all.

Fear Aggression

Preemption is most often the result of fear, an attack on an unlikely enemy as a way of coping with one's expectations, projections and suspicions. It's easily recognizable in dogs but now among Republicans. Trump is a cowering inferno of aggression, for this reason.

Responsible Parent/Addictive Parent

It has become clearer now how Republicans have been playing off Democrats like an alcoholic spouse and relying on them to hold the family together while they continue on their 50 year spending bender. They divert money from anything contributing to the family's well-being and shunt it compulsively into things that line their pockets and keep them in positions of power. 

The Power of Hate

Watch as Republicans tiptoe around the monster they've created and so often baited with hate. That attack dog, the core of crazy voters they depend on, is constantly hungry. The bullies are quaking in their boots. Paul Ryan passed a healthcare bill nobody wanted.

Only a dead-man-walking, McCain, could save us from the thing, dripping in blood, as the pack barked and snarled at the door. They are loose now, beyond the control of their trainers, looking for their accustomed red-meat and responding unpredictably to Trump.

Trump is their man. He tries to direct them to the targets he chooses, too stupid to be afraid and too degraded and disconnected to care--consequences of privilege. He assumes his safety with a shield of ignorance and relies on the powers of resentment and hate.

Trump Awkwardly Tries to Show Empathy

Deep down, Donald Trump thinks the people who got flooded in Texas are losers.

There Was No Flood in Texas

There was no flood in Texas. Don't you believe it. I want to see its birth certificate. Few things are more certain in life than the expertise of Texans in prying subsidies away from the federal government. Texans kept robber-baron practices alive, for reasons of Christian principle, longer than anyone else, which is to say it is still going on.

Texas is the preeminent spoiled child of American politics and sees the federal government as a reservoir of the mother's milk of disposable cash and political favoritism. The problem is: they tout fiscal conservatism, restraint, and shrinking government only because they want more for themselves, and it's increasingly hard to hide the lies.

So, they invent a flood, replete with a Hollywood treatment. Don't be fooled, citizens. There was no flood. It was all invented to suck more money from the federal government. FreebieWorks, a Koch-founded, "grass-roots" organization dedicated to eliminating legal impediments to the accumulation of wealth, is reportedly on the fence. 

It's a lot of federal spending but their interns are slobbering all over themselves at the sums being considered for relief and rebuilding knowing how the Kochs and their allies are positioned to make a mint, guaranteeing the interns will never have to work a real job. This is similar to the Great Recession and the Iraq War, in that regard.

 

As surely as every aging Texas oil baron will marry a bimbo, this is a scam.

Broken Bad

I think it's sinking in that a lot of the people who voted for Trump didn't do so unknowingly but because he's unqualified and a maniac. They wanted to blow things up not shake things up. We're about to find out how resilient our system really is.

Republicans Prepare to Persecute Children

Reports are that some grain of humanity in Donald Trump has kept him from repealing DACA, which allows the innocent children of illegal immigrants to go to school and have normal lives and not be chucked over the border like a stick of wood. In a typical Republican triumph of ideology and inhumanity, however, it will probably be repealed. 

Loathsome Ann Coulter and the Breitbart brownshirts and bullies are insisting the president pull the trigger on the little ones. Even Trump was a child once. Somehow that seems not to be true for the hardliners. As always, the assumption is that they will never be treated as they want to treat others--that they are exempt from the cruelty.