A Note on Perspective

With yet another Trumpist, Thomas Homan, doing his full-blown Nazi caveman routine in front of the House of Representatives we have to ask ourselves what is going on. Are there really as many flaming Hitlerian sociopaths in our country as it appears?

I say no, but there are many more than we ever suspected and they are wading out of their mires upon recognizing the great white hope of Trump, a reeking shitpile of inhumanity and depraved heap of garbage and uncompromising criminal and scoundrel.

This is the perspective to which we must adhere, that it is bad but not as bad as it seems, replacing despondency and despair with disappointment. We are not who we thought we were but not as bad as the concentration of evil under Trump would have it.

An Important Announcement

I have long reviled evangelical Christians for their support of Donald Trump and their overall treachery, cruelty and stupidity. I am adding to that list conservative Catholics. They did not vote for Donald Trump to the same disgraceful degree but they are making up for it by combining ass-kissing and being in positions of high influence.

Bill Barr and Corey Lewandowski have prompted this change, though every Supreme Court justice considered conservative is tied to Catholic education and tradition. Those are the traditions of defending authority at all costs and being able to rationalize anything. Fox News and the Trump administration are seething with these idolators.

They bow down before the golden calf of Trumpism. Evangelicals are mostly too stupid to do the heavy lifting for their movement.

They are leaving it to Catholics.

Parasite Playground

Courtesy of Republicans Washington is now a seething shithole of parasites and vermin. Apart from the museums, that is. The museums are nice.

PO(TU)S at Play

There’s nothing Donald Trump loves more than dragging everyone around him into the same shithole he has long occupied. The entire country is his shithole sandbox now.

What Would Dickhead Do?

Christians today have a more accessible and observable model than Jesus to regulate their behaviors. They can emulate Donald Trump and consider what that moron would do. I feel sure that, given a choice of making a million dollars or making a million dollars while destroying somebody Donald would choose to destroy somebody.

Why? WHO THE FUCK CARES. It doesn't matter. Apparently, he enjoys belittling people and ruining their lives. It makes him feel good. It makes him feel like a big man—like a king, to which status he father used to exhort him. Nothing is more kingly than to be cruel, arbitrary and randomly vindictive with other people and pay no price.

This is the guy evangelical Christians support, chose to elect and enjoy observing in action. By this we know them for what they really are, satanists and an abomination to God.

The Redneck Ascendancy

Yet another scam is in the works. Hillbilly Elegy, soon to be a major motion picture, depicts a (presumably waning) society “in crisis” but hillbilly values have won. America is ignorant, violent and obsessively addicted. America is self-destructive and teeming with guns. America is now an honor culture.

Don’t be fooled. 

The evangelical voting bloc has produced an anti-intellectual, redneck ascendancy and Trump, an anti-intellectualist’s dream, is their president. Bring on the stupidity. Bring on the violence. Bring on the inarticulate anger and resentment. America is going down. We need an elegy for America.

America is full of violent, gun-toting morons and bigots.

Asshole Going Down

Our asshole, dimwit, piece-of-shit President is going down. When Fox News the Wall Street Journal break a story so bad even the Senate will have to go along Don-boy is toast. This is not so good.

The worst elements in the treasonous hierarchy of government-destroying institutions, from the conservative “think-tanks” on through, have had their way with our moron executive from the beginning.

We are left with destruction and—what next?—a Pence presidency? And, watch now as fuckwad-halfwit will try negotiate his way out of it. He might agree to resign with Pence’s promise of a pardon.

He has, after all, gone bankrupt before.

Everything is a shambles and the people behind it will say the system worked as they creep away with their winnings. We’re looking at a version of the 2008 recession. Thanks again, Republicans.

The destroyers will walk away not only unscathed but enriched. Thousands of people should go to jail. They should have to build new prisons and the executive branch should be placed in receivership.

We will not have dodged anything.

I would like to see, however, those Republicans drinking out of toilets like the immigrant kids they have incarcerated. Better yet, I want those prisons to be privately owned by people who contribute to Democrats.

Tune In

Watch Republicans, after years of lying about their patriotism and devotion to America and the Constitution, eat shit and bow down before Trump.

There is no war. There is no emergency, crisis or threat and, yet, Republicans refuse to obey the law but submit instead to their illegal leader.

I take it back. There is a crisis. The crisis is them. The crisis is Trump. We are turning into a dictatorship. And you can watch it on TV.

The Mother of All Lies

I’m not sure the history of our times will ever be written. It might be the end times or some descent into an Orwellian nightmare in which history doesn’t exist anymore. Anyway, if it does get written in some rational, intelligible, honest and even-handed way I wonder if the Second Amendment battle will be seen as a turning point.

If they could bully their way into enforcing an obvious lie in that case why not carry on from there? They wanted to have their guns and so fuck the truth. They wanted to have a war in Iraq and so fuck the truth. They want to cut taxes—ALWAYS—and so fuck the truth, that it is the worst economic and social policy ever.

Fuck the truth. Can anybody really believe that “rising tide” and “supply side” aren’t just incredible, self-serving lies at this point? So, it’s not about guns or economics anymore, it’s about ensuring that there is NEVER any accountability because they can’t have that. Do you see what I’m saying? The lies have value now AS LIES.

They have value independently of the content. The promulgators of this have to erode the truth to protect themselves. The Left has their lies as well as well but it is nothing like this. Theirs are more like exaggerations. Theirs are pitiful and pathetic. The Left’s lies don’t even empower them. They still try to empower everybody. 

How quaint. How passé. How ridiculous. And what a shame it’s why the country was created in the first place, to include and empower its citizens.

Elvis in the Afterlife

I am hoping for a sign evangelicals can respect, something to tell them Donald Trump might not be the best guy to run the country. I am hoping for Elvis.

Apparitions of Elvis might get through to evangelicals. Let us pray to Elvis. We are talking about the sweaty, sequin-suited version, the one out of Vegas.

Elvis, are you there, boy?

The a Great Decider Decides

To call the decision making process in the current White House “tangled” assumes an underlying coherence and intelligibility where there is none, unless referring to the windings of Donald Trump’s intestines. Here we have another Republican president who relies on his gut, the output of which looks a lot like what one would expect.

Let’s revisit the last guy who let his instincts rule his brain, the great decider himself, author of the Iraq war, bankrupter of economies and a man still oblivious to the idea he has ever done anything wrong. This is where privilege will get you:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-feb-09-na-transcript9-story.html

I Predict

Republicans are setting the stage for the next sadistic onslaught. They will act when they can justify it, if only to themselves, with a crisis or event, probably created by them or even imagined. They thirst for blood.

Was It All a Dream?

Were we ever the people we thought we were—responsible, decent, hard-working, fair, open-minded, caring and generous? We sure aren’t now, led by a crooked, lying tycoon and scrambling around grasping for more resources as it becomes evident the great game of consumption is coming to an end.

Was it all a dream? Were we ever decent people?

Pride and Innocence

It’s weird, but when life is most brutal there is a kind of innocence. This is because there is no culpability among animals. Animals are just being animals.

Cruel people betray their humanity. They become animals again—nothing but animals. In that world everything is meaninglessness and compulsion.

There is innocence there but everything is unintelligible. That is because they are sick.  The people, I mean. I like animals.

Anyone Who Supports Trump Is a Piece of Shit

Someone who voted for Trump might only have been stupid or deluded. There was no telling how he would behave. But, now we know. Trump is garbage. Trump is a piece of shit beyond all others.

No more excuses. Anyone who still supports Trump is a piece of shit. They share in his treasonous shithood. We know now what he stands for, cruelty and the destruction of everything.

Trump’s Johnson

Britain is an older, more deeply rooted culture and the Tories have refused to eat shit as readily as their American counterparts. Nevertheless, they have a Trump problem because Boris doesn’t care about anyone but himself.

He has already won, by duping, swindling, deceiving and blustering his way into his job and, as with Tony Blair, who followed another American moron into the abyss, Boris will walk away. He wins now no matter what happens.

Things He Said Today

The only act Trump has two follow is his own, maintaining standards of cruelty and ignorance for his followers who crave it, and remaining the center of attention through outrage oneupmanship. He leapfrogs himself, nearly daily—his only real talents are in denigration and persecution.

Sarah Sanders Fits In

Sarah Sanders has immediately found a lucrative home among the horrible shills at Fox News, one of many participants in the Republican platinum parachute program in which thuggery and loyalty are rewarded with admittance to a society of permanent, private-sector parasitism. Among Republicans public and private money are seamlessly fused in a system of graft, exploitation, and markets in influence.

Megan Kelly showed how coddled they are at Fox—no talent necessary, only a track record of slavish devotion to Republican dogma. She tanked on arrival at NBC, not that they are great shakes, but Kelly is a pure hack and self-interested, sycophantic warrior maiden, another sucker off the state and spin-disciple of Roger Ailes, laundering racism and treason for public consumption at the behest of Kochs and their kind.

Trump Denies Denying What Never Happened Anyway

And it's just another day in the life of a superpower...

The Good (Fake) News

Try to comprehend that the entire world might be destroyed by American, evangelical Christians and rednecks. Their lies are that powerful. They happen to constitute a critical voting bloc in the most powerful country ever,

And, they happen to be in love with lies to the point they will die for them. This is not as strange as it sounds, Think of all the cults that have held their adherents in such thrall. Evangelicals were inculcated from birth with the lie of the “Lost Cause.” 

That is the lie that the good side lost in the Civil War. The Confederacy claimed not that they were treasonous, racist thugs, which they were, but superior beings and the chosen tribe of constitutional government and God. 

In other words, it was one, huge lie. The Gospel always was a story—a kind of lie—but it was a beautiful, humane story of love and inclusion. American rednecks have twisted it into a horror show. The “Good News” was fake news. 

Evangelicals aren’t in love with a specific lie anymore they are in love with lying. The loss of the central lie of their own righteousness is death to them. They have surrounded it with a defensive perimeter of other lies.

To the rest of us it looks awfully offensive. Trump and the “Fake News” fit right into the same slot in their heads. There must never be accountability and the truth just be avoided to the point of death. These are lies with legs.