Bonehead Prepares for Battle

Republicans, those of you who are young and healthy enough, enlist now in time to follow your glorious leader into battle. Do us all a favor and get yourselves killed.

My Mistake

I first started reading about earth issues in the 1970s. Clearly, I thought, the trajectory of fossil fuel-use and environmental degradation and abuse was unsustainable and suicidal. I came from practical people—engineers, farmers and technicians. I thought we would deal with these issues in a rational, productive, responsible way.

I thought societal suicide and annihilation were BAD. I still think it’s bad. But, that didn’t keep us from embracing it. I was wrong. My mistake. I thought we were better and smarter than that.

Psycho Analysis

Trump is nuts. He’s delusional and unstable. Thanks, Republicans, for ruining our country. You seem to be unstoppable. I’m going to stand back from it all. Please contact me when you are done with the destruction.

Manufacturing Discontent

Republicans, together with the vermin and cretins at a Fox News, have created an entire narrative of unjustified, delusional grievance, but that is crossing the line into actuality and becoming reality, where there is now plenty of grievance to go around, and many aggrieved. They do this by fucking up our government and society, in more ways than can be comprehended.

They do it deliberately, if not conspiratorially. They sabotage everything. Witnessing the rush to right-wing populism I am more convinced that the fear and economic hardship caused by the ‘08 economic meltdown is a primary cause. Of course, Republicans created  that by deregulating everything they could for decades and selling out our government..

Trump’s Satanic Witness

To be clear, I don’t think Donald Trump is Satan. Satan is not a worm. Satan is a force for evil. Trump is a worm. Or, maybe a slug. But, he is sure eating up everything.

Shazam That

Anybody use Shazam to ID songs? I want a Shazam to ID lies. Everyone would have to turn their phones off, though, and not use it around Republicans. It’s too much too process.

This We Knew

John Bolton, given the chance, would always start a war.

War for the Course

Trump’s efforts to bait Iran into a conflict are bearing fruit. The “administration” held back on its plans for a strike designed to minimize casualties. Similarly, I hope the government in Tehran will show restraint and only bomb and destroy relatively uninhabited, open spaces—like Trump’s golf courses.

This seems fair and prudent to me since Donald has not only refused to separate his private and business affairs from his (purported) public role he has cultivated their enmeshment, probably trying to position himself for enhanced profits when he is out of office. Also, Trump doesn’t represent the people.

He lacks support and is illegitimate in many ways, having lost the popular vote and then refusing even to try to do his job. Everything is personal with him. Iran’s response should be as well, and his golf courses reduced to smoking ruins. I hate to see anybody get hurt but they should then bomb his hotels.

They can notify the targets ahead of time. Also, there must be a clever way to make Trump Tower uninhabitable. Or, Mar-a-Lago. In this way the American people might benefit from being attacked, by getting Donald’s attention. Nothing else has worked. Nothing else will work. Donald is pretty dense.

The Clown

Following on the success of The Crown on Netflix we are owed a similar production on America's own royal family, the Trumps, titled The Clown since it will focus on Donald. The hand of destiny will be seen in Trump’s family’s rise, and the importance of inheritance. Whatever got him where he is it sure wasn’t character, brains or talent. This will be fully investigated and properly portrayed.

The Canons of Dort

Who is this Dort? I don’t know but we must judge Dort from the fruit of the Dort tree, which now includes such disparate characters as Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, Jeff Sessions, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Sanders and Steven Mnuchin. Let us judge. They are united by a love of injustice.

Dort defines life as something taking place in a realm of arbitrary authority and superiority. Life is therefore unintelligible. Some people are BORN better than others. Nothing else matters, so their behaviors are irrelevant. They can be the biggest piece of shit ever and it doesn’t matter.

In fact, injustice is reassuring to Dorters—an indication of the hand of God in human affairs. Striving for justice is just another futile effort and example of human folly. Injustice, therefore, is akin to holiness or at least a sign thereof. Justice is for the next world. To seek it here is heresy.

They all believe in an invisible hand ordering the affairs of men—either God’s or that of the capital markets. Oh, those must be the same thing. They have their capitalist God. This is Calvinism for you.

Go in peace...

to love and serve Satan, Sarah Sanders.

Die Like a Dog

I want to die like my dog. He did as well as he could as long as he could, never felt sorry for himself and appreciated every bit of kindness right up to the end.

Trump Tramp Chump Steamer

You don't book Trump for anything. He'll take on whatever cargo suits him at the moment. Hell, he'll throw it overboard once it's laded, screwing whoever hired him, seizing an opportunity to screw someone else.

And, this is the man we hired as president. Is there anyone worse? Never worry. If there is Republicans will find him. We’re Trump chumps. He only deals with chumps. Anyone else might make him responsible.

The Secret History of Semaphore

Communication is the transfer of meaning. In a pinch codes have been used, when normal verbosity was impossible. But what happens when the point is to obscure, and there is no impediment to communication but, rather, the floodgates are open?

What happens when the “bandwidth” is unlimited? Multiple streams are possible and simple, intelligible content is devalued. Signs, indicators and codes are then used in parallel with—on top of—the verbiage. Watch Fox News. It’s all over the place on there.

Wooly Bully

Our hairy antagonist is at it again. Trump is attacking—typically after smaller, less powerful entities. Apex predators don’t attack one another, after all, at least not in an environment of limitless prey. In America the prey lines itself up, volunteering themselves as food. Why doesn’t the entire world do that, Trump wonders. He’s not even hungry, just showing off.

Where Are They Now?

In my latest installment of “Where Are They Now?” I wonder what happened to P.J. O’Rourke, erstwhile budding Reaganite and Bushie, on the issues of pressing concern to plunderers everywhere, whence comes the next meal, meaning how they will pay for a third or fourth vacation house or find the means to try to stay in them all simultaneously WHILE trying to achieve the wanking orgasm of Republicanism in an explosive, virtual-reality orgy of selfishness. Sorry about my style.

I got influenced by O’Rourke who is usually as clever as he is smug, self-indulgent, hyper-critical and misguided. He writes funnily about his adolescence as though he has escaped it but we recognize the conservative dream of living forever on the daddy-dole while deflecting attention from one’s own dependency by accusing the daddy-providers themselves of it, a clever bit of distraction and leap-frogging, lying one-upmanship popular in the 60s. Darn, the style thing again.

That shit is contagious. Anyway, also contagious is the financial depravity, it turns out, now epidemic, practiced by P. J. and his friends among the “libertarian” right OR left, who desire to be left alone in their lairs once they are properly funded by theft, graft, blackmail and other forms of easy money. P. J., write us some more on the rule of law, man, and your boy Trump, and don’t try to lie your way out of it, as though he isn’t George Bush with the parental supervision lacking.

Call in some supervision or do it yourself:

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/13/books/pass-the-salt.html

If you are curious about the strident righties’ search for the forever-tit of freedom look at the latest on the NRA. The board there has rivaled Trump’s cabinet in its penchant for organizational milking.

Kowtow Conservatives

Republicans have figured it out. They insist on controlling everything. They DO control everything, favoring the means of blackmail, deceit and coercion, when needed.

Then they deny responsibility for anything. Their control is perfect. Responsibility is none. The only precondition for membership in their club is to have no conscience at all.

Or, to stay out of the way. Watch them drop to their knees, each at a time, from the Buckley crowd on down, and kowtow to Trump. This is American conservatism.

My Catholic Upbringing

I look back now on my Catholic upbringing in horror. My grade school was dismantled by groovy nuns who believed that teaching at all was too authoritarian, so they jettisoned that. Similarly with my high school but they had something else going, a psychopathology about winning at sports.

Then I had a classical education at a Jesuit university, learning the tricks of that trade, which I have seen deployed at the Supreme Court and elsewhere, where Catholics display their skills at rationalizing anything, ad maiorem trumpi gloriam. They combine this with competitive zeal.

Fox News is a very Catholic organization, at its soul, and we see the hallmarks. They are focused on winning at all costs and can rationalize absolutely anything, including mass killings. These misanthropic Catholic morons allied themselves with evangelical Christians, selling their souls.

Evangelicals have an understanding of existence that is utterly antithetical to Catholicism, not to mention life on the planet itself. Hooray for Catholicism. After their dismal record resisting fascism at the birth of the Third Reich they are doing it all over again, now under the sway of Trump.

What dumbasses. But they are winning—I’ll say that for them. Now what? All they care about is winning and nothing about the wreckage they leave behind. Bill Barr is the latest product of Catholic schools to disgrace himself completely, with the Kavanaugh hearings still ringing in our ears.

Clearly, Catholics are the first place to turn to find meatheads for your war machine, should you have one. They will fight like hell for an unworthy cause.

Hello, My Name Is Satan

What did we think was going to happen? That the Prince of Darkness would walk up and identify himself? “Hi, my name is Satan. Care to sell your soul?” It doesn’t work that way. Satan is cunning. Satan fills the minds of his followers with self-righteousness and determination—with arrogance and vengeful thoughts.

Vengeance for what? Vengeance for imagined slights and insults, or injuries and insecurities brought on by oneself and then blamed on others. Republicans represented a privileged minority and they only wanted to win. An opportunity arose, a racist voting bloc. All they had to do was appeal to that.

All they had to do was play the race card. People are so surprised now, as every pretense of decency and integrity falls away. The lies are so ridiculously obvious. Everything is thinly veiled. The greed is right out in the open, and the corruption celebrated and fantastic. This is what evil actually looks like.

This is what evil looks like not when it knocks on your door because it doesn’t happen that way. It enters elsewhere. This is what evil looks like when it is already in your house and among you because it lied and deceived its way there. This evil is already completely woven into our society. Welcome to hell.