Mean Gene

When circumstances favor sociopaths you have a real problem. Consider Republican attitudes about taxation. You always cut taxes. You cut taxes when the economy is down. You cut taxes when the economy is up. You always cut taxes.

If this isn’t the definition of ideology, as opposed to adaptation and thinking, it is something close. Add to that, these are not just bad ideas they are self-servingly bad ideas and you have sociopathy. Add to that the cruelty. Gratuitous cruelty.

Their fixed ideas are cruel. Similarly to taxation Republicans are always at war. They must always have enemies. The more the merrier, it seems. The fall of communism was therefore a problem. You see it in their insanity about Islam.

Islam is no threat to us. Nobody is a threat to us. Except ourselves. Democrats aren’t mean. That’s why there is no Fox News or Rush Limbaugh on the left. Democrats don’t need enemies. That’s a disadvantage in fighting Republicans.

Democrats don't have the mean gene. All of the assholes are congregating in the Republican Party. And assholes can be hard to beat. They are delusional assholes, fighting a vulnerable system from the inside. It gives them a huge advantage.

Am I Alight?

Once again, before I die, I'd like to own a vehicle where, when I smell smoke, I don't first wonder if it's me that's on fire.

Did you ever stop to think...

That the entire world might be destroyed because some rich American asshole, maybe named Koch, didn’t want ANYBODY telling him what to do?

He Cares Enough To Cover His Ass

John Roberts must know, or suspect, that his name will be forever attached to the court remembered for reducing the federal judiciary to a haven for political hacks and partisan extremists. His court might be remembered for enabling the destruction of America.

Some earlier Republican Court appointees came around, to the dismay of their party, and voted as true custodians of the law. The Federalist Society, yet another Republican group set on undermining majority rule, put an end that. I hold little hope for Roberts.

There are few likely signs of integrity. Roberts has acted to cover his, and his party’s, ass.

Once Upon a Time in the White House

Reading about Stephen Miller’s schemes as they hatch and are implemented or exposed I hear a harmonica. Why, you might wonder. A movie, Once Upon a Time in the West.

Watch it. And, ask yourself how you might react, as a once needlessly persecuted child, to what Miller has done. Revenge fantasies have their place because justice has its place.

Beware the harmonica, Stephen, you repulsive, sadistic piece of shit:

https://youtu.be/qwb3P0fuM1c

Where’s My Supply Side?

Where’s my rising tide? In 2020 we’ll be celebrating 40 years of Republican lies. It’s been a hell of a run and marks a generational shift. Marketing principles came to apply.

No longer did the product matter. Essentially, the product ceased to exist. The hype was all that mattered. Nobody likes to admit they’ve been suckered. Our time has come.

Grievance Manifesto

Donald Trump's manifesto of grievances against Nancy Pelosi and impeachment offers no new insights into his angry, infantile soul but only more evidence for its crying disintegration under pressure and the willingness of those around him to abandon all standards in his defense. In other words, we know he was incapable of writing or thinking it, only that he must always get his way and that he feels genuinely persecuted because he thinks he’s the only person in existence. Really.

For Donald Trump’s reality is that of an infant. He is either being fed and coddled on demand or he is not. One of those situations is acceptable and the other results in a display of wailing. The manifesto was wailing processed by degraded minds of greater sophistication hence the conclusion that his army of ass-wipes and diaper changers was hard at work. But, remember how the output of George Bush’s anus could not be contained and how he ultimately shit the whole world.

What Good Is A Soul If You Can’t Sell It?

There are those who believe God gave us a soul as a stake in life to be sold in a pinch or as opportunity has it...

https://youtu.be/3jaQYNTs01w

But, man, why do people sell them so cheaply?

Hallmark to Trump

I can tell you how you get from a Hallmark show to Trump. I have done the research so you won’t have to, watching as much of When Calls the Heart on Netflix as I could stand. Such a mess of stereotypes and cliches, revealing an unbelievably simple world-view, you have never seen.

And what is Trumpism but a mess of stereotypes and cliches — prejudices — embedded in jingoism in an administration looking more like a hellish Carnival Cruise than a ship of state, with hidden peon masses belowdecks supporting the fantasy lives of the wealthy? It’s all unreality. It’s all lies. 

When you tell true believers they can’t have their fantasy life they get pissed. Put them all on a cruise ship to somewhere, I say, after evacuating the underlings. Send them anywhere, but get them the fuck away from me. Let them fight it out among themselves who has to serve the drinks.

William Barr Eats His Soul

Bill Barr has formally eaten his own soul the way someone might ingest an incriminating scrap of paper. Now you see it, now you don’t. Not only has he rendered evidence useless he’s declared his own subservience to the dark lords of intimidation and unreason in the most potent way possible, by using the tactics of the perversion and distortion of reality.

That is, he has reduced the rules of the game to ashes. A smaller inversion has taken place—only because he is but one cog in an evil machine, not because his own inversion isn’t complete. He is the man charged and taxed ABOVE ALL OTHERS to uphold and administer justice. He has not only refused he has asserted, in his way, that justice DOESN'T EXIST.

These applications of intimidation and dominating force are assertions of thuggery and Machiavellian intent.

Barr has made HIS will, in subservience to Donald Trump and other evil forces, the law of our land. The masquerade is ending as the pretense of order and intelligibility falls away. Those forces of darkness are revealing their hand in open defiance not only of specific rights within a structure and system but of the existence of any enforceable rights at all.

Tidings of Anguish and Despair

This Christmas the Republican Party brings you Donald Trump, an onslaught of insults and cruelty, and other assorted goodies from the deepest recesses of the human subconscious. Enjoy.

Closely Held Concern

America is supposed to be a publicly held property but billionaires are taking it private.

Baby Boomer Belongings

A buyer’s market is beginning for baby boomer belongings. Let that apply to consumerism and the fascist politics of Trump. I hope younger generations will devalue that stuff to what it is, worthless detritus and toxic waste.

The American Presidency Hamster Cage

Trump. Bush.

About McCain and Romney we will never know, but the American presidency and government in Republican hands are hamster cages for pets of the uber-rich. Victorious politicians are constrained from responsible action or otherwise coddled into compliance. The real ”deep state” is entirely in Republican hands, a vertically integrated operation designed to thwart, pervert, undermine and overthrow our democracy. American grit, determination and ingenuity are applied to subversion.

Trump even looks like a hamster and, more obviously than Bush but it’s clearer in Bush’s actions now in retrospect, all he can do is run around in an totally circumscribed way. He, too, would be punished if he strayed but he has been a good boy, probably surprising his masters and managers. He has relied on that infrastructure of doom, the Federalist Society and Heritage and Cato and all the rest down to obscure media enterprises executing disinformation and indoctrination protocols.  

The “Justice” Department—this is a big deal—is in the hands of a hamster though he looks like a sick one. Perhaps he was poisoned before he was appointed. They can’t and won’t act outside their incredibly defined roles as wholly-owned subsidiaries of the billionaires and tycoons. The Supreme Court and Justice Department have fallen. Congress is compromised. These are dark days.

The Epstein-Barr Connection

I’m assuming here that Bill Barr didn’t grow up rooting for Mr. Potter and the Flying Monkeys. Furthermore, that he isn’t a secret admirer of the Third Reich and its tactics. We must then go searching for explanations for his shameless and illegal authoritarianism.

He’s either morally incompetent—he doesn’t actually realize what he’s doing—or he thinks or hopes his side will be so victorious there will never be any accountability. In either case he’s a damaged soul and a look at his history reveals a connection with Jeffrey Epstein.

Barr’s father was headmaster at a school at which Epstein taught and, I believe, responsible for his hiring and thus later stratospheric ascent into wealth and degradation. Think of the effect such an association might have had on Bill, who now defends a scumbag. 

Barr defends a scumbag of Epsteinian proportions as though it is to-the-death or as though Trump is his father. Now, if Trump is a father figure to Barr by choice he must be fucked up beyond imagining. I hypothesize that Bill’s dad was implicated in Epstein’s depravity.

Anyway, it’s worth looking into, possibly explaining Barr’s descent into madness or moral turpitude.

Republican authoritarianism and consistent attempts at intimidation, as well represented by Barr, are clearly contagious and going viral. These might be similarly understood as a mass and generational example of Bill’s own horrifically desperate daddy problems.