Brutes on the Ground

I guess Republicans deserve some credit for openly being thugs. No more hiding their inner Nazis. The fight is on but I think the pink hat people are unprepared.  

Asshole Ascendency Asserts Itself Again

Mitch McConnell doesn't give a fuck anymore. He's old. He's rich. He's an asshole, He's a traitor. He used to hide his treasonous intent away but treason is normal now. It has gone mainstream. 

No call to rest on one's partisan laurels, though, when you're as big a dick as Mitch. Mitch is plugging away for every bit of advantage in the middle of a pandemic no matter who gets hurt. 

To say nothing of the coup. Let it be remembered.  

Morons Make Wrong Decision Once More

What is right and wrong anymore? The White House is now sitting on half of the available doses of vaccine because, they say, they need it for the follow-up shot as though the manufacturers aren't still making it as fast as possible. 

I smell a rat. When hasn't Trump treated the nation's resources as though they aren't his to do with as he pleases? And what does he please? To feel like a big man. To feel powerful, effective and in charge. Trump wants to husband his power. 

Again, it's all about him. Trump is an unbelievably evil man.

Drain the Trump

Time to think about purging the evil of Trumpism from our government and society, But, how? 

The Age of Treason

Americans can't wait for time to pass judgment on the decades-long history of Republican treachery that has culminated in Trump, because it's ongoing and so destructive. Just this week Pat Toomey, Republican traitor of Pennylvania, sabotaged a relief bill in a horrible winter of pandemic to advance partisan aims. How many times have we seen this? Blackmail and sabotage playing off the genuine and justified concerns of Democrats for the lives of average citizens.  

Obamacare alone has inspired 10 years of insane opposition and dirty tricks, to a bill passed fair-and-square that benefits millions of Americans and has caused none of the larger-scale economic problems Republicans predicted. Of course they were lying. We were supposed to wait for "trickle-down" to kick in, I suppose, no matter how many people died along the way. They are still trying to kill it in the middle of the pandemic they turned into a monster with their wilful incompetence. 

It's time for some accounting and accountability. Mitch McConnell could die any day (but not from COVID since he's protected). I won't have him remembered as anything other than the loyal citizen he is -- loyal to the Confederacy. He hates America. He hates the version, anyway, that is a representative democracy that tries to take care of its citizens and live up to its promises. He wants the America of slavery. He has succeeded. Americans work longer and harder for less. 

And the rich, like McConnell, by marriage, only get richer.

Famous Anus

I'm not sure what I think about it but Republicans are owning their inner assholes to an unprecedented degree. They think nothing of openly engaging in treasonous behavior. Famous anus Bill Barr is moving on, though. I had a fantasy that he might immediately lead Trump away from Biden's inauguration in chains, irritated that his groveling before Trump, which was complete, still wasn't enough . . . 

A Dastard's Guide to Government Service

Become a Republican. The rest will come easy.

Wolf Shepherd

What does it mean when the shepherd is a wolf? Trump is the wolf-shepherd for his deluded flock. I think this means he is the devil. 

A Bridge Too Funky

Overthrowing an election was a bridge too funky even for Republicans, not that treasonous behavior hasn't become second nature for many of them. 

The Philosophical Idealism of Donald Trump

Donald Trump's existence is defined by (esse est percipi) attention. Philosophically,

. . . the “opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a world all sensible objects have an existence natural or real, distinct from being perceived” is inconsistent, “a manifest contradiction." If one construes ‘sensible objects’ as ideas of sense, and ideas are objects of knowledge, then having a real existence distinct from being perceived would require that an object be known (as an idea) and unknown (as a thing distinct from being perceived), which is inconsistent. He explains the source of the error on the basis of the doctrine of abstract ideas, a discussion which parallels the discussion in Introduction §10. (Internet Encyclpedia of Philosophy, on George Berkeley)

What is not perceived does not exist. The less something is perceived the less real it is, like kids in cages. Not only is existence contingent on perception, it is contingent on the ultimate mind, God, whose all-encompassing mindfulness determines and accounts for everything that exists. And, God is immaterial and the most existent thing there is, that on which we are modeled, at a high degree of removal. Our existence depends on perception, Trump's does not. We are shadows. Trump is the sun.

We can see that Trump, in this case, deems himself to be, or has mistaken himself for, God. His attention and acceptance is to determine the rights of every being, that is, the scope and limitations of their existence. People may be eliminated at his whim since the exist only at or by his permission, solicitude and pleasure. You can see that Trump's behaviors become immediately intelligible in this context, as does the devotion he inspires, as that on which the existence of everything else depends.

Therefore, when he declares elections to be invalid they are invalid, the "reality" notwithstanding, since it must be the mistaken perception of lesser beings. Houses, mountains and rivers are hallucinations if he declares them to be. He may slaughter people at will, or take actions that lead to their annihilation, because they depend on him for their existence anyway. He is not "worthy of" or in need of attention because he doesn't "need" anything, being complete unto himself, so any idea to the contrary is mistaken. Attention accrues and is due to him naturally because he is the source of all being. 

To the extent there is resistence to this it is a denial of reality and, additionally, apostasy and the work of the devil. All hail, Trump! Donald is not only our leader but the second coming of Christ. The only qualification is that, accepting this framework, if Donald is not in fact God he must be the Antichrist.