Trump can’t be judged relative to other presidents. He comes up an unprecedented goon and an incompetent ass. Trump must be judged in comparison with evangelical preachers like Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart, obvious charlatans and con-men who praise God only to build up themselves.
Their followers want to thumb their noses at the “elites” and anyone who upholds standards. Nobody is going to tell them what to do.
How could anyone have been naive and ignorant enough to support Jim Bakker? Now we have Trump, who is as driven to build himself up and have gold-plated everything as Bakker ever was. Trump, too, has a trophy wife caked in makeup. View him as a kind of preacher and he makes perfect sense.
Thursday, February 27, 2020
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Make America Grate Again
It appears there is no point of satiation for Republicans throwing sand into the electoral and governmental machinery. They want to destroy the whole thing.
Monday, February 24, 2020
The Anti-Catholic Climatologists
With the advent of Trump it's easier for people to see how the Civil War never ended and that the South kept on fighting for privilege and bigotry. What's less obvious is that they are also still fighting the Reformation.
For example, if no priest (expert) is going to intervene in your salvation neither is any expert (climatologist) going to tell you what to think about their area of study. You know better no matter what an ignorant oaf you are.
The problems with authority that now plague us are, in other words, to a great extent, more trouble caused by evangelicals. They'll hold stupid opinions just to try to prove they can't be pushed around and told what to think or do.
Add to them the Koch crowd. They also don’t want anyone telling them what to do. Then you have the insane culture of today. The only common efforts respected and validated are in antisocial areas — warfare and business.
Add to them the Koch crowd. They also don’t want anyone telling them what to do. Then you have the insane culture of today. The only common efforts respected and validated are in antisocial areas — warfare and business.
Trump and the Power of the Void
What is it about consciousness that pains people? It would be easier to ask: where are the rewards? Consciousness is a pain in the ass. The lure of Trump is the lure of drugs and addiction, the loss of self in irresponsibility and the happy forgetfulness of farming out your conscience, ethics and convictions to a moron.
Sunday, February 23, 2020
The Conservative Dilemma and the Wanker Dominion
The dilemma of American conservatives is that they live in a democracy. I’ve pinned down a couple of “libertarians” and they admitted that, if things were run properly, American citizens who didn’t have the money would be turned away from emergency rooms, to die on the side of the road and be picked up by sanitation workers if it came to that. They know the voting public doesn’t want this so they lie. And lie and lie and lie.
They lie and, meanwhile, they try to lock in minority rule so if the people they’ve duped into voting for them ever wake up it will be too late. We are probably there now, the defining moment. They have their authoritarian, lying king who is asserting that no “rule of law’ exists and Republicans are backing him on this right on up to their “think tanks” and supposedly respectable publications like the National Review.
Really they are shit-eaters. There’s a big Scots-Irish, deterministic, Calvinist cast to this. They are fatalists and schismatics to the point of nihilism and solipsism. Every person is their own church, in effect, reaching God in a kind of autistic union, breaking out of their isolation from “the spirit” by a buildup of tension culminating in a lightning bolt-like union with God after which they are turned into Tom DeLay or someone like him.
True exemplars of the Christian principles of humility, generosity, kindness and inclusion, notwithstanding they think you should die on the side of the road if you are poor because God willed it — by definition or it wouldn’t have happened. The Scots-Irish love to laud themselves, mostly for their combativeness and violence, but they are a servile, bigoted race which made them, once, perfect henchmen in the slave economy.
Now they seek to recreate it, again through blind allegiance to the an authoritarian rule of hereditary wealth and privilege — the Wanker Dominion of Donald Trump for which they have degraded themselves and to which they are subservient. So much for human dignity:
https://youtu.be/f1CB-D1TtXc
They lie and, meanwhile, they try to lock in minority rule so if the people they’ve duped into voting for them ever wake up it will be too late. We are probably there now, the defining moment. They have their authoritarian, lying king who is asserting that no “rule of law’ exists and Republicans are backing him on this right on up to their “think tanks” and supposedly respectable publications like the National Review.
Really they are shit-eaters. There’s a big Scots-Irish, deterministic, Calvinist cast to this. They are fatalists and schismatics to the point of nihilism and solipsism. Every person is their own church, in effect, reaching God in a kind of autistic union, breaking out of their isolation from “the spirit” by a buildup of tension culminating in a lightning bolt-like union with God after which they are turned into Tom DeLay or someone like him.
True exemplars of the Christian principles of humility, generosity, kindness and inclusion, notwithstanding they think you should die on the side of the road if you are poor because God willed it — by definition or it wouldn’t have happened. The Scots-Irish love to laud themselves, mostly for their combativeness and violence, but they are a servile, bigoted race which made them, once, perfect henchmen in the slave economy.
Now they seek to recreate it, again through blind allegiance to the an authoritarian rule of hereditary wealth and privilege — the Wanker Dominion of Donald Trump for which they have degraded themselves and to which they are subservient. So much for human dignity:
https://youtu.be/f1CB-D1TtXc
Monday, February 17, 2020
Oh, Lord ...
Professional racist Stephen Miller might actually procreate. What a horrifying thought.
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
FUCK YOU
I know someone who couldn’t be a nicer, more responsible, kind and hardworking person and she is getting into trouble over medical costs. She isn’t even 50 and doesn’t drink or smoke. This is nothing but bad luck.
To every Republican who has been voting us into this dystopia and to every single person who voted for Trump, and very especially to those who intend to vote for him again after we have witnessed what a sick, cruel and worthless piece of shit he is, I want to say a hearty and heartfelt FUCK YOU. I hope you all die before you can vote for him again.
To every Republican who has been voting us into this dystopia and to every single person who voted for Trump, and very especially to those who intend to vote for him again after we have witnessed what a sick, cruel and worthless piece of shit he is, I want to say a hearty and heartfelt FUCK YOU. I hope you all die before you can vote for him again.
Sunday, February 9, 2020
All Asshole Government
The age of assholes has arrived. What I mean is that, in America, not to be an asshole is not to have a voice — to have no say in government. It is a government of, by and for assholes. Non-assholes have been completely disenfranchised and see nothing in their government that is reflective of them — not in the efficacious parts of it. Their part has no say and is powerless.
Friday, February 7, 2020
Senate Shits Itself
The U. S. Senate — or, the Republican proportion — just shit all over itself, smeared it around and played in it, unloading a shit-bomb on the Supreme Court as well by having John Roberts witness and implicitly approve of their treachery.
From “e pluribus unum” to “Fuck Off”
The Republican takeover of America defies description and analysis. Its awfulness is experiential and confounding. Maybe someone can capture it in art. Other means are inadequate.
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
The Tsars Are Back
Tsar Trump lives in opulence and gilt. Everything about him reassures him of his superiority, untouchable nature and removal from the unwashed masses of humanity for which he reportedly and reputedly has some responsibility, but he only lessens their lot.
I have another kind of removal in mind for our feckless, obtuse, spoiled, cruel and posturing president. The more removed the better. From his position. From society. From his crookedly obtained wealth. From everything from which he can possibly be removed.
I have another kind of removal in mind for our feckless, obtuse, spoiled, cruel and posturing president. The more removed the better. From his position. From society. From his crookedly obtained wealth. From everything from which he can possibly be removed.
Sunday, February 2, 2020
15 Minutes of Shame
Every real Republican wants their fifteen minutes of shame before the crazy bus crashes. Watch as they scurry and slither ...
Warped Drive
Trump’s administration is turning out to be worse than anyone could have imagined. Republicans around him realized he would choose or could be manipulated into choosing, from the options presented to him, the one most destructive and insulting to his perceived enemies.
Trump therefore became a vehicle for the darkest desires of some already evil people. He’s an opportunity for them to do things they wouldn’t have otherwise dared, and they were already wrecking the world with their arrogance, greed and stupidity. Now it’s happening faster.
Trump therefore became a vehicle for the darkest desires of some already evil people. He’s an opportunity for them to do things they wouldn’t have otherwise dared, and they were already wrecking the world with their arrogance, greed and stupidity. Now it’s happening faster.
Saturday, February 1, 2020
All of My Boy Friends Were Boneheads
Not only am I wondering and aghast at the number and intensity of the assholes our society is producing I’m confronting the truth that a very high percentage of them are from my background. Were there always so many dicks in our societal closets or are they the product of more recent circumstances and trends? I think both, that there was untapped asshole potential and that there are more because circumstances tapped that potential.
Notice, anyway, how many of the supremely degraded individuals and sadists are Catholics. They are not only Catholics but from my hyper-competitive kind of Catholic background where winning was everything, presumably because it was existentially unimportant and limited to areas this side of salvation, but they’ve blown entirely through that distinction and allowed it to overrun their hope of eternal life and heavenly bliss. They sold their souls.
Witness: Bill Barr. Witness: Brett Kavanaugh and EVERY OTHER Supreme Court justice who votes consistently conservatively. They all have a degree of Catholic background though some have abandoned it over the cause of multiple marriages. Newt, always backwardsly progressive, became Catholic AFTER multiple marriages, culminating in his latest temptress receiving a Vatican appointment. She’s ambassadress, qualifying by adultery.
Witness: Fox News, the soul of which is Catholic, as attested by the ranks of scurrilous Irishmen and such manning every other post there. Kellyanne Conway is a perfect thug-ette. In any case, I look back on a childhood I once considered normal with horror. I recall the bullying and brutality. I recall the willingness and drive to win, by cheating if necessary, if not by a preference for its grander humiliating capacities. I recall going to mass and praying to kick ass.
A guy from those days whose family were the self-appointed bullies and tormentors of my family called me recently from our high school reunion—I’m convinced, to try to gloat—after 40 YEARS of no contact. He seems to think he has won. He was an amazing asshole in high school and insanely competitive. My family had been taken down by sickness, mental-illness and, ultimately, death. Still, every time I saw them back then, by chance encounter, it was criticism, slights and cruelty.
Trump helps us to understand, that there is no “victory” for them but only the primal pleasure of vindictiveness and acts of cruelty. My sister, a brilliant girl loosed from a home with no meanness in it or even hardness, was destroyed by the viciousness of one of the family’s daughters. As late as my brother’s wedding, years after I had seen any of them, a younger sister recounted an episode humiliating to me and touted her brother.
What the fuck? Can some people not comprehend that others don’t play their game? Again, Trump comes to the rescue. Through the impenetrable irrationality, small-mindedness and compulsion of his vindictiveness we can see the truth, about the fragility of his underlying psyche, while acknowledging, of the necessity of survival, his incredible powers of destruction. He could wipe out the whole world and not give a shit. That is inconceivably sick.
Notice, anyway, how many of the supremely degraded individuals and sadists are Catholics. They are not only Catholics but from my hyper-competitive kind of Catholic background where winning was everything, presumably because it was existentially unimportant and limited to areas this side of salvation, but they’ve blown entirely through that distinction and allowed it to overrun their hope of eternal life and heavenly bliss. They sold their souls.
Witness: Bill Barr. Witness: Brett Kavanaugh and EVERY OTHER Supreme Court justice who votes consistently conservatively. They all have a degree of Catholic background though some have abandoned it over the cause of multiple marriages. Newt, always backwardsly progressive, became Catholic AFTER multiple marriages, culminating in his latest temptress receiving a Vatican appointment. She’s ambassadress, qualifying by adultery.
Witness: Fox News, the soul of which is Catholic, as attested by the ranks of scurrilous Irishmen and such manning every other post there. Kellyanne Conway is a perfect thug-ette. In any case, I look back on a childhood I once considered normal with horror. I recall the bullying and brutality. I recall the willingness and drive to win, by cheating if necessary, if not by a preference for its grander humiliating capacities. I recall going to mass and praying to kick ass.
A guy from those days whose family were the self-appointed bullies and tormentors of my family called me recently from our high school reunion—I’m convinced, to try to gloat—after 40 YEARS of no contact. He seems to think he has won. He was an amazing asshole in high school and insanely competitive. My family had been taken down by sickness, mental-illness and, ultimately, death. Still, every time I saw them back then, by chance encounter, it was criticism, slights and cruelty.
Trump helps us to understand, that there is no “victory” for them but only the primal pleasure of vindictiveness and acts of cruelty. My sister, a brilliant girl loosed from a home with no meanness in it or even hardness, was destroyed by the viciousness of one of the family’s daughters. As late as my brother’s wedding, years after I had seen any of them, a younger sister recounted an episode humiliating to me and touted her brother.
What the fuck? Can some people not comprehend that others don’t play their game? Again, Trump comes to the rescue. Through the impenetrable irrationality, small-mindedness and compulsion of his vindictiveness we can see the truth, about the fragility of his underlying psyche, while acknowledging, of the necessity of survival, his incredible powers of destruction. He could wipe out the whole world and not give a shit. That is inconceivably sick.
But Is It Art?
It’s obvious enough now that Donald Trump’s Art of the Deal was a lie and that any deal-making skills he possessed were trumped, so to speak, by his more fundamental, innate, basic and highly developed talents in scamming and self-promotion.
A question remains, though. Is there an art to those—to insults, innuendo, takedowns and lies? Or, rather, is it too much a matter of the brain-stem to qualify as art?
A question remains, though. Is there an art to those—to insults, innuendo, takedowns and lies? Or, rather, is it too much a matter of the brain-stem to qualify as art?
Death to America!
We knew it was coming, but Republicans are again seeking to see more Americans needlessly suffer and die. After incredible fiscal profligacy Donald Trump has discovered his budgetary conscience and applied it to Medicare and Medicaid.
More importantly, though, rich people are flourishing as never before, simply swimming in obscene wealth, and the only thing trickling down is Republican contempt for decency and the lives of average citizens. Hooray! Death to America!
More importantly, though, rich people are flourishing as never before, simply swimming in obscene wealth, and the only thing trickling down is Republican contempt for decency and the lives of average citizens. Hooray! Death to America!
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