Relocation

I have long thought that the national seat of government needs to be moved. Washington is indefensible. It could be obliterated in a bunch of different ways and we wouldn’t even know who hit us. Add Trump to that equation.

He has not only not drained the swamp he is locking us into permanent swampdom. And who would want to live in a house he has inhabited? To sit on a toilet he has used? Oh, fucking yuck. I wouldn’t bring in a cleaning crew but a priest. 

The whole city feels fouled and polluted. This is a chance, however, to start over. We should pass a lot of anti-lobbying and anti-corruption legislation, then move the capital immediately to somewhere deep in the middle of the country.

Public service should again be something people do from a commitment to something other than greed and a lust for power. That would be easier if our elected officials were living in a desert or fucking wasteland miles from everything.

A Speculative Post

This will be a more speculative post, in comparison with the hardened facts of Republican incompetence and degeneracy about which I usually write. I think Republicans are cashing out on the American dream. At some level, they believe that America is going ENRON. They are taking us there.

Look at the startling consistency with which Trump’s cabinet appointments and others of his officials behave as though there is no tomorrow, milking and bilking their way through their jobs, not giving a rat’s rectum about how obviously criminal and crooked they are. I think they’re cashing out.

They’re cashing out before the crash. The lesson of the last fiasco they created, in 2008, was that there would be no accountability. In fact, the only people they care about, the really rich, came out ahead. Average Americans got shafted. They are still being shafted. This is what Republicans do.

And it applies in non-financial matters, all the way up the line. The system is being rigged to GUARANTEE there will be no accounting no matter what they do, by packing the courts with thieves, ideologues, hacks and extremists. They are locking everything down for the big, explosive end.

It will probably be more of an implosion, now that I think about it. No matter. And I don’t think there’s anything we can do about it.

Everything Risible Must Converge

Republican insanity is approaching unity. Natural systems trend toward diversity.

Authoritarian systems, not.

The white boys want a monoculture—the most unstable thing in the world.

A monoculture of them.

American Amateur

I would love it if Trump were a real monster but he’s a frothing amateur—as feckless at that as everything else. He’s too much a goon to be a good villain. The forces behind him are scary, though, and Trump can still do inconceivable harm.

Rapt, Slapped and Trampled

Since evangelicals want the world to implode they should get it first and worst. They are legislatively bombing themselves back in time. Let them do it, I say. I can see them in their huts and hovels, Fox News blaring paeans to Trump and Trump to peons.

I interpret it as volunteering: To be trampled first by the four horseman, their arms spread skyward. To be slapped up-side the head by Satan, displaying their war wounds to Jesus riding in on a cloud. To have utterly shit lives until the end-times arrive.

No Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security. No health insurance, disability or anything else. States Rights! Yes, let them have what they want. But don’t force it on us. It’s time we abandon the hope and goal of a humane society. Part of us might as well suck.

It’s what they seem to want. Let them have it. Let the rest of us, in more decent, rational places, take care of our own. I know, it isn’t fair to the innocents caught in Alabama and elsewhere, states run by troglodytes and assholes. But it’s the best we can do.

Let Us Remember

Let us remember what our country used to be. We had something resembling representative government. We had ideals, however often we failed at them. We had people who worked for a living and were fairly rewarded. Those who benefited the most generally contributed more and were held to account, at least in principle.

All of it is gone.

The country is run by thieves. We don’t even aspire to live well. We aspire to have and consume more, and make out at the expense of others. With malice towards all, charity for none. Don’t bother with the cemetery. You can mourn right from home. Our entire society is ashes, an immoral enterprise run by and for crooks.

Put flowers on graves if you want. Nothing can atone for the dishonor of Trump.

They Have Answers

More guns. It's always the answer. Less taxes on the rich. It's always the answer. More defense spending. It's always the answer. Less spending on social services.

Yes, it's always the answer. I envy Republicans. They know all the answers before the questions are even asked.

My Heavenly Reward

I want it now.

If Republicans, via their evangelical voting bloc, are determined to hurry along the Second Coming of Christ, I want guarantees. I have lived a good life.

At least I've tried.

I want insurance. I want to collect on it now. Why? I'm not sure who they're working for. I think they're working for the other guy. Republicans have mortgaged our future, according to them even in the afterlife. 

Face Value

Ayn Rand might have made a good lawyer. Well-practiced, the law avoids responsibility by not saying anything. Incoherence is your friend. Ambiguity is good. What is to be done, in Rand’s incoherent world, with all the non-heroes?  What is to be done without the pastures where her protagonists frolic and romp their way to riches? Who provides the field?

Sometimes, face-value is all you need. Observe that adolescent boys are those most drawn to Ayn—those who are not providers but takers and suckers living on the daddy-dole, trying to assert themselves against the evidence of their undeniable dependency. They deny it anyway. Ayn’s followers aspire to live in adolescence forever. They don’t hate the nanny state.

They want a nanny so secure it is invisible. Observe the guys they cough up as presidential candidates, the office most associated with Randian heroism. Donald Trump. George Bush. Mitt Romney. Even John McCain got into college on a legacy, collected government checks all his life and married a wealthy woman. Look at those who openly espouse Rand’s ideals.

Rand Paul and Paul Ryan came from privileged families. Ryan collected government checks all his life and married a wealthy woman. Mitch McConnell collected government checks all his life and married a wealthy woman. This is what they stand for, free shit for them. Our role is to provide the free shit. Hence the denial. Hence the combativeness. Hence all the lies.

Blow Your Brains Out with Trump

So, I called the National Suicide Prevention Hotline and told them that my nation was trying to commit suicide. They said they didn't mean "national" in that way but that it sounded like a very serious situation. They wished me all the best.

Boomer Burial

The Baby Boomers are so greedy they begrudge the world its existence when they are gone. It offends their sense of dramatic propriety. When their story ends everyone's story ends.

Everything’s Coming Up Roses

In my state we put our government up for sale. How entrepreneurial. We have pioneered other worthy causes, like bathroom purity, and sent Jesse Helms to Washington to show up the smarties, and to hike up his skirt and take it up the ass from corporations. Mitch McConnell carries on in this—skirt up, ass in the air, corporate lackeys waiting in line.

Art Pope, North Carolina’s most prominent conservative, inherited a business from his daddy (a familiar story), hawking cheap shit. He hawks another kind of shit now, bullshit, and persists in the traditions of his white brethren, obsessed with dominance and submission — who is taking it up the ass. This relates to racism.

The white boys felt outgunned on the mojo front by the black guys. That’s why they LOVE their munitions. They buy their mojo at gun shows.

Characteristically, denial produces a worse reckoning. Southern white men decamped to the Republican Party, which already had its own insurmountable Oedipal problems because of inherited wealth. Now those problems converge, the insecurity of inherited money and the impossibility of proving oneself thereby, and racial dominance or submission.

In the South cooperation and fair play weren't options. Violence and exploitation were endemic. The mojo issue would have been transient if the white boys had let up on the persecution. Being downtrodden breeds resiliency. Every American immigrant ethnic group went through this, to an extent—an earlier period of struggle and resulting toughening.

The white boys of the South locked this in forever by continuing to oppress the black guys. I mean, just look at the pasty "supremacist" types they send to Washington—Mitch, Lindsey “Cracker” Graham, Trey Gowdy, Jeff Sessions, Tom Cotton. Do these guys seem superior to you? No. That’s why they have to resort to privilege, getting shit for free.

Pope inherited a whole business. He owned the Roses discount stores, in my area. Now he devotes himself to taking it up the ass for Trump. You see, this is the problem. Once you live in that primal arena you are already screwed. Even the guy at the top lives in fear, feeling the need to dominate everyone and strive forever for more power.

Exploitation and victimization are both the cause and the result. It feeds on itself. No cooperation and no enfranchisement means no security, only fear. We all live in the South now. They have funny ways about them.

In the end, everybody loses. This is their plan for America.

https://youtu.be/i9SxlO7tQLc

Be Prepared for an Emergency

Have your MAGA hat on. Make disparaging comments about taxes and regulation among your acquaintances. Let them know where you stand. Insinuate there are hordes of unscrupulous people dying to get on the dole. It suggests you are not one of them.

Be white and Protestant. We know from New Orleans and Puerto Rico that it’s bad to be black or Catholic in a natural disaster or emergency. God help you if you are both. Remember, stay calm as the storm approaches. Afterwards, mutter prayerful, fatalistic nonsense.

Stay white. Stay Protestant. Be a white girl if possible. They will do anything to save your ass if you are a white girl. Follow these rules and inconceivable amounts of free stuff will come your way when disaster strikes. If you are black or brown it’s best to just flee.

Look at what happened in New Orleans. Look at what happened to Puerto Rico.

Hope Forlorn, Conclusions Foregone

What have we left? Not much. Cheap seats at the “end of days.” That will be an extension of Sarah Sanders and her press briefings, where the truth is what some slut makes up to protect the rights of some people to fight dogs or whatever, because nothing in the Constitution says you can’t fight dogs. Therefore, all of that was left to the States and they have interesting hobbies in Arkansas.

Now, us, in the land of forlorn hope and foregone conclusions. Behold the brain power behind the imperative to cut taxes. You always cut taxes, whatever the circumstances. It’s a fixed idea. But, guess what. It got tried. See “Kansas, meltdown.” But it still flies among Republicans. It still flies in the “think tanks” where their donors pay their shills to line their pockets even more.

This is a sickass society. I want out.

The Road to Smurfdom

Competition and privilege--more of one means less of the other. But Republicans seem to support both. How is this? Because the great sucking noise—the land of takers—is all coming from their side. The rest is a ruse. They hate competition.

Takers just want to take more. I begin with a premise. Takers must HAVE something.

Calling people with nothing "takers" doesn't work. They might ASPIRE to taking. Watch Republicans, the great takers, and learn. Therefore, we see that the entire Republican line is just a self-serving, made-up lot of bullshit, to such an extent they have questionable claims on existence and are themselves probably fabricated.

What evidence do we have that Steve Mnuchin, Trump, or any of these other wealthy children have ever done a day's work? To the contrary, Trump obviously doesn’t know what work is. He mistakes getting out of bed and watching TV for work. He thinks showing up is work and doesn’t even do that most of the time. 

Find me someone who can verify that Mnuchin or any of these clowns have ever had a productive day in their lives. They are role-playing, stuck in adolescence and expecting to be paid for the equivalent of messing around. They must stay on the offensive to mask the scam and avoid exposure. Add to that natural resources.

So much of America’s wealth is based on the (irresponsible) exploitation of natural resources. Every American has a claim on that but the Mnuchins of the world simply say it’s all theirs. They MUST protect Trump because if people realize what a hopeless, heedless, incompetent piece of shit he is it might begin to go further.

People might see into their protected playground of privilege, that lotus land of monetary surplus, and wonder why they’re paying the bills for this nonsense.

I wonder.

Tender is the Right

Anyone else notice how these strident, belching, strutting, belligerent righty cowboys are really princesses in pea-land? Remember and recall how they cultivate and deploy selectively weak stomachs.

They get millions of people killed, wreck societies worldwide, wrench babies from their mothers and so on. But the instant you say anything against them they are appalled... aghast... indignant.

Somebody talked MEAN to them. They go nucular (I can't spell it), as one of them used to say—and at the first whiff and hint of criticism. (Be it resolved: if you can't pronounce it you don't get the football).

Oh, they are so fragile. So faint of heart. Parachute them into their thriving success and exemplary democratic state in Iraq, I say. Tax their inheritances. Take away GOLF. That will blow the lid off.

They are such babies. Such primadonnas. Their plans for one-world kleptocracy carry on, however. Greek gods are back, as petty and vain as ever, and stalking an earthly stage. They meddle in mortal affairs.

We are the mortals. They are the gods—so far above us, beyond criticism. Or shame.

Evangelical Trump Milieu

Compare Trump to any other president—or even any normal, competent human with a heart—and he stacks up as a stupid, immoral scumbag and scoundrel. However, the presidential comparison is unfair. He was never executive material.

Trump’s has a proper milieu, the evangelical preachers who rip off their congregations, prying money from the hands of poor retirees and other prey, living in splendor and then brazenly carrying on when found morally bankrupt and corrupt.

Compare him to Jim Bakker, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Oral Roberts, Jimmy Swaggart, or any of these worthless, cynical, hypocritical, self-serving, redneck wretches and he looks normal. People looked to Trump for help and got screwed.

See, it is all totally predictable. Trump is the televangelist president. He’s exactly what they want. Be fair. Compare Trump to the suckass charlatans and creeps among whom he belongs. The preachers are Trump’s peeps. There’s only one difference.

The preachers use God to glorify themselves. Trump skips the God part.

The Right to Lie

Modern American conservatism becomes clearer in its shape and character every day, notable for variable standards and a lack of responsibility and accountability—for them. The entire conservative intellectual and ethical edifice is built on lies. It is a sham.

Everything they say must be assumed to be a lie. If there are fragments of truth they are there only to serve greater falsehoods. Sound reasoning might be employed but only to rationalize and hide their nefarious ends. These are power and personal enrichment.

Talk ensues about what constitutes “high crimes” or treason. Much of it sophistry. The perpetrators have grown up skirting or trying to skirt wrongdoing by the technical definition while altering those laws and standards to suit them, revealing criminal intent.

The scope of the complicity is vast. Americans don’t like to think about the Bush years now, an especially criminal phase. They elected, twice, a government that ran on corruption and lies. It has been going on for decades but the criminal INTENT is more recent.

Intent is what counts. The current intent of Republicans is criminal and treasonous. I don’t give a shit about their justifications and rationalizations. It is all lies.

New Unification Transcendental Society

The signs are everywhere. Republicans desire a monarchical, “unitary” executive branch. Trump wants to go to the moon. The Washington Times, a Unification (or whatever they call it now) Church rag, supports Trump. Populism is in the air. Authoritarianism waxes and flourishes. Trump is treated as a savior and agent of fate with some vague, divine mandate, not as a public servant or administrator.

The “Moonies” have taken over in Washington. I will not call Republicanism a cult, but, obedience and blind allegiance to irrational, doctrinal authority are now normal. Press briefings are exercises in faith—displays of religious conviction in the destiny of Trump. Agencies and bureaucratic entities roll over, one after another, and refuse to do their jobs, acting as extensions of the authority of Trump.

Trump expects and demands compliance with his whims. Resisters are punished and driven out. This is not a legal government but a faith organization requiring total, unquestioning submission. Marriages are probably being arranged in secret since normal people won’t date Republicans. Plans are not made to ensure fair elections but succession. Complete control is near at hand. Everyone’s going to the moon.

Running on Envy

Republicans are running on envy. They get more and they want more. They have no absolute sense of their own good fortune. So, they have no sense of right or wrong. They are reduced to animal drives.

Georgia Goes Taliban

The thing to understand about the right-wing obsession with Muslims and Sharia Law and all that nonsense is that these are their FELLOW fanatics and tribalists. Recall where this strain of lunacy originated in America, in the South, where a terrorist organization enforced religiously backed and justified apartheid for about a century. This is a tribal war.

Georgia has passed a bill criminalizing abortion. It’s not about abortion. It’s about control.

Trump is Why We Have Jails

Why do we have jails? To protect innocent, law-abiding citizens from the peril of predation by rogues, renegades, nutjobs and anti-social misfits. Jails were invented for Trump.

The Straw Man and the Strongman

Strongmen require straw-men. They invent enemies. Trump has hordes.

Date with Destiny

Many years ago the American South, as The Confederacy, lost a brutal war and set their hearts on vengeance. Their revenge is nearly complete. The reign of the Confederacy is upon us. They have finally won the Civil War.

Halt and Catch Hell

Trump keeps moving and attacking. Can you blame him? If he stops his life of crime might catch up.

Gated Authority

Reasonable people might be waking up. It happens in odd ways. Sarah Sanders can be more of a revelation than Trump—how she simply stands up in front of the world and lies her ass off without any evident compunction. Her whole life and identity center on faith, morality and Jesus.

Trump is such an outlier and an established pig. Sanders, however, comes as a bolt, a jarring indication that we are not and probably never were the people we thought we were. But Sanders didn’t spring from the head of her father, a fully-formed Huckabee, in the lying armor of unreason. 

She evolved into it. There was a series of simple decisions, largely cultural and made for her. Escape would have been difficult, especially in her family. They are stewards of self-righteous insanity and resentment. The decisions appear like gates—prejudicial, narrowed, and not reflecting reality.

There is no scope. Everything is reduced and binary. Is Sarah a good person? Yes, she thinks, but not because she behaves. She is special, chosen by Christ. Try to buck that identification in her world. She chooses to be “saved” as not a matter of behavior but of identification—the big choice.

That was the fundamentalist gate, presented to her, dominating all the others.

Her morality is then not a matter of individualism and accountability. It is tribal. Immorality and moral obtuseness are inculcated. She adopts all the beliefs of her tribe, which were similarly refined over DECADES of racial hatred, cultural insecurity and feelings of being disrespected and abused. Sarah’s clan was disrespected by having to treat black people as human beings.

My God, the nerve of those Yankees.

This is how you get to treason. They have absolutely NO self-awareness. That door is locked. Sarah never made a choice to be a hideous, racist, lying piece of shit who screws her fellow citizens, illegally, at every opportunity. She made simple choices sequentially and adopted prevailing attitudes among people who have no idea how rooted it all is in racism and bogus religious doctrines relating to that.

They absorb anti-tax insanity, for example, at the breast.

It isn’t even questioned but will be rationalized and defended to the death because of its roots in fear. This is the thing about tribalism. EVERYTHING becomes existential. Since being saved is not a matter of behavior, but of faith, behaviors don’t matter. Any attack is an attack an one’s immutable BEING and status among the elect. This is why extreme Calvinism is so implacably evil.

Sarah and her circle really are exactly like the Taliban in that respect.

They are right and righteous no matter what they do. And since YOU are (existentially) WRONG you may be persecuted and even killed with impunity if you disagree with them. This is why evangelicals overreact so insanely to the nonexistent Muslim threat, because they accept their terms of an exclusive franchise on religious truth. They are out of their fucking minds.

All of these people who criticize the straw-man of modernism are intolerant of tolerance. They must have certainty. They must live in an environment that only reflects their values. In other words, they are cowards and spiritual weaklings. The force of decency is weak in them. The evil is strong.

The Eve of Destruction

The greatest sin might be taking things for granted—losing perspective and demeaning God’s gifts to us. All other sins originate there.

Eve did it. Adam signed off on it. We face eviction from our Garden of Eden. We have earned it. It is the eve of our destruction.

Garbage In, Garbage Out

I’m sure the Republican grandees planning our demise from behind the scenes thought it would be hard to find a wastrel greater than George Bush. Bush nearly accomplished the irreversible meltdown they desire. Then, rich people and the alliance of thugs supporting them can pick up the pieces, consolidating their power permanently.

But, yet again, a  relatively responsible Democratic president managed to pull us back from the brink. Now we see that the efforts of the right-wing wrecking crew have a life of their own. Monsters are wandering the moors, having escaped from conservative labs. They have lost control of their creations. The drones are flying themselves.

Step back from it.

If someone had said “find the biggest, most worthless piece of shit in the land and make him your leader” you couldn’t have done better than Trump. Republican operatives in the mainstream didn’t support him but they find now that he is even more malleable and devoid of conscience than Bush. Their “think tanks” have stepped up.

Hacks are posted to every job. Incompetence is a virtue. Independence, an anathema. Submission to the Reich is almost complete. The faithful—the true believers—grovel before Trump. These serfs are their heroes—archetypes and models of excellence. Where do they go from Trump? That’s the issue. No greater worthlessness is imaginable.

They must push for the completion and realization of their dream, an overthrow of democracy and end to majority rule. Trump is still a loose cannon. All the grandees can do is feed him garbage and pray everything falls apart completely before Democrats have another shot at repair. Americans wanted entertainment and drama.

They are about to get a face full.

Brigand de Cuisine

What is Trump cooking up? Misery for everyone. And more of it than you can imagine.

I predict it. Just wait and see.

An Insight and a Revelation

Why do prisons exist? Prisons exist to protect people from menaces. Trump is a menace to society. Most Republicans are as well.

They all belong in prison. Their entire life’s work is trying to disenfranchise and harm a segment of the population. Fuck them all.

How to Talk to Republicans

I have been fielding questions from followers about communicating with Republicans in this dark age. Firstly, you must allow them to communicate with you, bridging the gaps of unreason. Focus on their mentality, and the two d’s: dissociation and degradation.

Resist the temptation to cry “that is not responsive” as though you are in court. Republicans have blurred, if not obliterated, the lines between literal and symbolic communication. Take Sarah Sanders. She MIGHT not be LITERALLY humping or sucking Trump’s knob before she waddles off to church to praise Jesus. It doesn’t matter. Sarah has defined the terms by insisting on symbolic communication, in place of coherence and intelligibility, in a venue in which communicating inscrutably is inappropriate, so it is up to us to meet her there.

We have no choice. She controls the venue. We must therefore both understand her and judge her symbolically since she controls the field and defines the terms. Knob-humping comes in at this point, as rendering what is actually going on in (probably) non-literal terms that which cannot be defined and understood literally. In a non-literal world Sarah is not lying, she is expressing the greater, dissociative truth of her superior power in relation to us, as delegated by Trump through his agency and her degradation. That degradation is required of his underlings. Eat shit or get fired.

Anyway, this is literally not Sarah’s job and Trump is SWORN NOT to do what he is doing but that is in the “real” world, as opposed to the myths they inhabit and convey in the only way that they can, symbolically. None of the rules apply in that place, which is maddening to us (but reassuring to them) because the underlying message is so repetitive and has no actual content. It is descriptive of a structural state of affairs. “I am sucking Trump’s dick right now and that cannot be interrupted, so, how dare you...” That is the actual content of every press briefing at the White House.

Get over it. Sarah: “I am humping Trump right now and it is required, 24/7, or I lose my job and the opportunity to help hurry along the end-times and the advent of Jesus riding in on a cloud, never mind, since he was already saved by my daddy, that my inbred brother hung a dog from a tree...” Now, this might blow your mind but it is evidently normal in Arkansas, at least among Huckabees. It was a normal part of Trump’s upbringing, that behavioral standards are meaningless and that he was above being judged. We see it still. Having to answer to anyone is for little people. Similarly, Sanders answers only to God.

I don’t mean to pick on Sanders unreasonably. I’m sure many other instances of this seeming insanity of symbolic communication are occurring to you but Sarah is a good, and possibly limiting-case, example. She is therefore useful in understanding the horrific, degraded message emanating from the entire Republican machine and bureaucracy in Washington these days, from the Supreme Court on down, that they are all sucking Trump’s dick for a living. That’s it, the beginning and end of the message. Effectively, to us, “fuck off, we're in the middle of something here."

As unbelievable as it might seem, this is our reality, and the result of having treasonous, ill-meaning scum as fellow citizens. We can only go forward once we have accepted this, as a precondition of communicating with Republicans. Though, you can see now that the ONLY thing they have to communicate is their degradation, so, if I were you, I wouldn’t bother.

@realDonaldTrump Revealed

The real Donald Trump is being revealed. There is the obvious, that he is pure evil, someone who will destroy the lives of others when it doesn’t even benefit him. In this he is simply satanic. He is driven to mastery at all costs, jealous of the status of God.

Add to this his incomprehensible incompetence, stoking the fires of his demonic drives. I assume even Satan would be content with complete mastery—if the entire world were in his thrall—and have the sense not to destroy his own kingdom from compulsion.

Not so with Trump.

Trump is so evil he is outside the myths that give evil meaning. Within that context he is not evil but it is a meaningless context. Trump doesn’t belong in an intelligible context or a context of intelligibility. He is why we have jails. He is a need that can’t be met or filled—evil so extreme it annihilates itself, ending in nothingness.

Rather, he IS annihilation—the void. He is diseased. Trump is an evil beyond the usefulness of language and comprehension—the chaos and meaninglessness of pre-creation. In the world of Trump evil is not defined against God evil is God. Trump IS the abyss—protoplasm and nothingness. He envies souls their existence, not having one himself.

Elect Me

Elect me and send me to Washington, friends, and I will give our president the respect he deserves. I will give the head of the Senate the respect he deserves. I will give presidential appointees and employees, such as Bill Barr, Mick Mulvaney and Stephen Miller, the respect they deserve. Trust me, friends. I will give them exactly what they deserve.

Goon II

George Bush stole an election. He declared glorious victory and then reduced the nation to rubble. He also nearly destroyed the world through a financial crash he, head goon, and his cohort of lesser goons engineered and executed with success. He didn’t, initially, even win the popular vote. The world will never recover from the wars he started.

This is the revered “way” or tao of Republicanism, destruction.

In Goon II: Apocalypse Engendered, there are eerie similarities. The popular vote was lost. Glorious victory was declared. Hoards of lesser goons descended on Washington, initiating self-destruct protocols and sabotaging everything. Immiseration was immediate in some circles. Other effects cannot be rushed. Wrecking a world economy takes time. 

With determination, however, it can be accomplished. Republicans have determination in abundance and reserve. Decency? No. Respect? No. Anything good? No, not really. As with Bush, they are also using real-time rehabilitation to rewrite history as it happens—an important room in their mansion of lies. You have heard of a memory palace.

Republicans have a palace of lies, with memory attributes. “Memories” are manufactured, branded, refurbished and repackaged there, then placed in the field or redeployed. This is the key and fulcrum to everything they do—utter falsity. The head goon in Goon II, Donald Trump, was unable to be disguised--he looks and acts too hopelessly moronic.

George Bush appeared to be an average imbecile. Trump looks like the raging, out-of-control lunatic he is--a slobbering, sputtering, incoherent, bloated buffoon. The masking contagion of lies is therefore now epic and unstoppable. It is a storm and catastrophe. Once it passes we can assess the damage, plan and make repairs or abandon the planet.

Goon II is the final installment. The apocalypse is here. The palace of lies is virtual but its nearest physical approximation is open for visits. It is known inwardly among Republicans, cynically but appropriately, as Dissimulation Hall. Be warned, it is a place of mirrors, distortion and confusion. “White House” is the official designation.

Erin Go Fuck Yourself

Anybody besides me notice how many of the most nasty, submissive, degraded, bootlicking Republicans are Irish Catholics? Let’s tease this out. Massive, societal humiliations persist for generations. Irish Catholic men left their balls strewing the fields of their native land. They were prone to squabbling among themselves and the English turned them into pathetic, potato munching shells of men, prisoners of both their invaders and their women.

Call it matriarchal or not, Ireland’s women glued the place together, the men leaving a vacuum, wandering the Isle trying to find their nuts again. They brought this tradition to America, many escaping from the loop of resentment, submission and vengeful behavior. But, the lowest of them, by descent, men like Hannity, O’Reilly and Mulvaney, still try to compensate for feelings of inadequacy by bullying and demeaning others.

Catholicism made them all too comfortable with submission. They love authority—the more arbitrary the better. Paradox always held Catholics in thrall, and seeming contradictions can be hard to tell from real ones, the ability to believe a bunch of nonsense and bow and scrape being indicators of faith. Also, competition fueled the Irish in their initial hold on respect among the masses of Americans. Think of football at Notre Dame.

Win at all costs, became the point. They were their own hard act to follow, as blacks and others began to kick their asses, fair and square. So, you begin to cheat. Winning becomes everything. Remember Gerry Faust losing his mind on the sidelines after he was elevated from a high school to his dream job, a new Knute? There is that strain among Irish men, their need to win above everything, because they know how sorry they really are.

Fuck them all, the malevolent scum. This is THEIR Faust story.

They sold their souls for ephemeral victories. Witness their degradation. In my next episode I will feature the feminine side of this equation, Kellyanne Conway, and what it’s like to spend your life massaging the gonads of these tragic losers in a futile effort to have them, existentially, “get it up” and feel worthy and significant. We see in Trump how impossible it is to displace those feelings of insecurity. Trump is in the role of the child.

Kellyanne is a mother snarling protectively and pouring energy into her weakest, arrested, incidentally un-Irish offspring—in this instance a primal archetype of incompetence and shameful, boorish behavior. Oedipal overtones are everywhere, the government representing the mother conservatives scorn but are doomed to marry, conflating the roles of husband and son, wailing away at the thought of being weaned.

Massage away, maiden. An escape from adolescence in one’s seventies is a dicey proposition.

The Vagina Epilogue

White women, God bless them.

They wanted this and they wanted that. They wanted equality on all fronts. We still hear incessantly about what they want, as they are so unfortunate.

When voting they are undeniably equal. They voted for Trump by a big margin. They voted for Bush by a big margin in '04. Trump was a known pussy-grabber, a crook and a scumbag.

Bush was incompetent and a known war criminal. White women want what they want and now the world as we know it is ending in an explosion of stupidity.

I believed them when they said they would make everything better, and more humane, if they were further enfranchised and empowered. My mistake, I guess.

I Walk the Lie

My next project is a history of the modern American conservative movement, I Walk the Lie. The story will be told biographically, highlighting conservative luminaries such as Tom DeLay, Newt Gingrich, Lee Atwater, Mitch McConnell, Sarah Sanders and many others.

It is an embarrassment of depraved riches.

Godspoil

Prepare ye the way of the lord of hate. Satan has risen among us. Don’t blame Satan. It was we who chose him. We chose lies. We chose deceit. We coveted power.

We failed at humility. We chose Trump, the trickster. We have chosen our fate.

Superiority Complex

Republicans are a coalition of people who think they are better than us. Evangelicals were chosen. Wealthy people were chosen in another kind of lottery, but it still works. They come out better.

How is it, then, that our government, controlled by them, looks like a reality show on trailer trash? Notice the importance of injustice among them. Everything is arbitrary. They love injustice.

I Am So Worn Out by This Shit

How can any aware person not succumb to despair when confronted with the Republican assault on decency? I know it’s what they want—to make us feel defeated. But we are defeated.

Where are our heroes? We need a hero now. Someone who will speak and defend the truth. Lord, please give us a leader who is up to the task. I see no other way out. Leadership matters.

NATIONAL EMERGENCY

Fellow Citizens, I herby declare a NATIONAL EMERGENCY. We are in the middle of an emergency. It might not feel like it. You get up and go to work. You shop and eat and shit and drive around in your cars. You care for your friends and families.

But, do not mistake it, we are in the middle of a national emergency. The national emergency is Trump. More importantly, the Republican Party has been revealed for what it is, a coalition of people whose ONLY goal is destruction and exploitation.

Influentially responsible conservatives seem not to exist. They are unwilling to defend their country against an existential threat. Instead, they are plotting how to take advantage of the situation. How to come out ahead. How to remain in power forever.

This is a NATIONAL EMERGENCY.