Hey Mr. Tangerine Man...

He of the orange countenance, the sultan of insults who can’t stand criticism, is reacting predictably to the threat of impeachment by going fully apeshit. We think we’ve seen the worst but nearly every day there’s some new low.

Big Dickhead Energy

Big Dickhead Energy is where you dominate everybody by being the biggest sociopathic asshole and maybe even mentally ill. Think of Donald Trump.

Pesky Blighters

Those pesky blighters in the Trump administration just won’t take legality for an answer. The “rule of law” is not only something they don’t respect it’s to be deliberately and arbitrarily eroded. Chaos and disorder are encouraged for their own sake or as an enhancement in their quest for unchecked power which is inconsistent and incompatible, of course, with any kind of legal constraint. In Trumpworld legality is for losers.

Captains Contagious

Where do we draw the line on innocence? Trump’s dupes buy the lie. Are the gullible guilty? We have to judge behaviors so the question is existential and academic. We have to judge output and results. We judge what people do and Trump and Republicans before him have destroyed people’s lives and caused many deaths. Yes, they are responsible. They are guilty. We will figure out punishments in the penalty phase.

The fear they foster is contagious but this pathogen is self-administered. The exposure is voluntary, by association. It is a choice.

Matt Gaetz, Gladiator

Pathetic, pudgy, ass-licking white boy Matt Gaetz sees himself as a gladiator, according to reports. I support self-invention and a certain amount of romance in life—the right and opportunity to have a personal myth to sand down some edges and inflate a few vain attributes into accomplishments and apparent merit but this is too much.

Gaetz is the water-boy’s water-boy, licking the ass-lickers’s butts while awaiting a shot at Trump’s own anus—a mascot amusing a master who is himself a charlatan. Gaetz is a Sancho to Trump’s Quixote but without irony or common sense, and another Republican beset with grandiosity. All the while his grinning head is submerged in the federal trough.

The Annotated Malice: A Collection of the Tweets of Donald Trump, President of the United States and Vile Defamer...

Someone will have the terrible task of collating and publishing the collected spate and drivel contained in the tweets of Donald Trump. He is the president and was in some way elected, a horrible truth to speak. These tweets will have to be annotated to place the incredible outpouring of insults, innuendo, invention and invective in some context.

This will be a testament to someone degraded beyond the imagination of most of us. He is a violent, angry person. He is ignorant, impulsive and implausible. He is reactive and abusive. He is greedy and conniving. He is treacherous, unjust and repugnant. A lot of shit will have to be owned before it is all done. He’s an asshole, an idiot and a tweeting machine.

The Kraut Who Came in from the Cold

Why pick on Peter Thiel? No reason. He’s only one of the many rich assholes asserting their uninalienable right not to have to answer to anybody. But, he did put an entire, profitable media organization out of business. That is intimidation in action.

Intimidation is now accepted, Republican governmental policy in use against citizens for personal gain. Trump and company are on a roll. Kellyanne Conway, who has family roots in the Mafia, called a journalist to apply some muscle. She thinks she’s a feminist.

So she says but I think it’s all nonsense.

They will do anything to win. Trump is asserting dictatorial, “constitutional” immunity, a terminal contradiction, that he isn’t legally responsible for anything he does. We are living in the age of assholes. They have come in from the cold and are openly claiming authority. A small group of infinitely greedy people already control everything.

Still, they want more.

Peter Thiel is just such an asshole. He wanted revenge and he got it, sending a huge message to a beleaguered and essential industry to always hold back and watch your step. Look to the rear now and then. The Kraut or one of his kind might be after you. 

Under-the-Bus Throwing

Versions of this idiom are used a lot lately. Trump’s allies and underlings try to protect their vainglorious boss and he tries to protect himself. Among the new conservatives, because character and integrity are non-starters, it is a sport and Ayn Rand is their honorary cheerleader and babe.

But “under-the-bus throwing” doesn’t roll off the tongue as one would like. Let’s just call it “treason” since it’s the elevation of self above everything anyway, including one’s country, and Trump is a fitting master, a hideous ethical black hole and charlatan. The country is there to serve him.

Under the bus it goes, if it suits. Remember, a Randian hero would rather blow something up than have it not be an appropriate testament to their greatness. Under the bus we all go.

Strange Sensibilities

Their boy, George W, Bush, got over a million people killed and exploded the world with his lies and incompetence. There has been no official assessment, accounting and legislative action against him. Republicans in the House, however, want to censure Adam Schiff.

They take a cue from their temperamental leader and his monstrous mess of an administration just steeped in and seething with illegality.

Schiff dared to criticize Little Donny Trump. They are princesses in a world of peas and Trump is the final snowflake—fragile and floating to his doom while protesting how he is so special and unique, a pouty prima donna raised to think of himself as a king.

Enablers and Abettors Scrambling Around...

As one would expect in an administration kept afloat by falsity Donald Trump’s enablers are having trouble getting their lies right. The lies are all made up anyway, by their nature, and only have reference to escaping responsibility and protecting the head craftsman of doom, Herr Donald himself.

Squirmy Mick Mulvaney had a time of it yesterday. And Mike Pence made sure to extol his glorious leader while trying to control the turd-fest Trump unleashed among the Turks. Asswipes abound among the Trumpists, some more servile than others in panting their appreciation for their master. 

A Head Between the Cheeks

I wonder if, in private, Republicans talk about the flavor of Donald Trump’s anus like it is wine, “tannic, earthy, and robust with hints of licorice, berries and talc,” or whatever. Bob Barr’s jowls must be overly occupied there, feasting away between the cheeks.

Trump Crosses a Line

Donald Trump usually follows “conservative” advice when he acts because he has no brain. Largely these people and organizations are ecstatic because he’s been implementing their awful, self-serving, destructive policies consistently. They get the crazy shit they have always wanted with some degree of insulation and separation from accountability.

But Donald doesn’t understand the military angle, that our forces are there not to protect America from actual threats but to further business interests. And Donald must be monitored at all times or he will improvise and do something incredibly stupid. So, he caves in to Turkey’s autocratic leader on a phone call. He was probably winging it.

But NOW some and certain “conservatives” are upset and criticizing him. Are there humanitarian issues? Yes. Are there foreign policy issues? Yes. Are there all kinds of issues? Of course. There always are, but they only get weighed when the larger issues of America’s corporate interests are at stake because that’s all they really care about.

Where were they when Donald did all the other stupid shit? As long as it aided corporations and rich people they were entirely on board.

Scorched Earth/Hearth

Republicans have been so utterly victorious for the past 40 or so years the Democrats can’t even see it. The pain would be too great. The change in perspective too vast. The shame and humiliation too much to handle.

There is a way around it—to understand how Republicans did it—because they weren’t brilliant or anything of the sort. They went crazy, going “scorched-earth” against their fellow citizens and taking them hostage.

Stockholm Syndrome thereafter defines the Democrats, or a similar kind of disorder. They were stunned into incompetence.

Winning is easy for cheaters. Winning is easy when you abuse your insider status and betray your country. Republicans are seasoned traitors and Democrats are still too shocked and uncomprehending to do anything about it.

“Scum” and “Animals” Now Approved Presidential Language

I have long called Republicans “scum” thinking it was an accurate and irreplaceable descriptor but wondering if it wasn’t unacceptably strong and vivid language. The President’s use of the term has reassured me of its propriety, allowing that he himself used it unjustly in spouting off, as is his habit, but we are accustomed to that by now.

“Animals” is one I hadn’t employed. But, hearing it used by the President, I instantly recognized how it applies to Herr Donald and his family of thugs and crooks. I would never have brought it out myself but it is obviously okay and I think it suits the Trumps well, in their bottomless greed and degraded, selfish, aggressive, cruel and primal behaviors.