McCarthy Wants to Wrassle

Kevin McCarthy doesn't want a 1/6 investigation. No way. He proposed a wrassle. With Jim Jordan on the committee it would have been spectacle. Mud slinging and attention grabbing obstruction--more entertainment for the goons Republicans now rely on to stay in power. 

POS Nonpareil

Trump still won't admit he got his ass kicked. The only reassurance to be had with Trump is that he's old and unhealthy. Maybe he'll just die. I don't say this to be mean. I say it to try to save lives.

The Concupiscence of a Conservative

I think there's hope the info gleaned from the incel movement about the incel movement will give us insights into conservatives and the habits of frustration generally. The frustration of unrecognized genius. The frustrations of having to dwell with lesser beings. The frustrations of watching lesser beings progress in life in ways that you can't. 

Then there are the results. Seething resentment. Revenge fantasies. Delusions of sufficiency. Lots and lots of compensation. Conservatives are all about compensation, trying to make up for the void inside and feelings of insecurity by putting other people down and building yourself up, no matter how you have to degrade yourself to do it.

This, is the fundamental dilemma of conservatism. They have to make themselves lesser to feel better because, at a deeper level, they know their own worth. 

The Wages of Sin . . .

is wealth. Don't kid yourselves.

Breakdown

Something interesting is going on at Fox News. A bit of a shakeout. Usually, they act like there is no tomorrow. Like there will never be a reckoning for their lies. 

Some evidence is there for that. Bill O'Reilly walked away unscathed. Roger Ailes died wealthy and unmolested, a free man. But there's some ass-covering going on now.

Over COVID. What's up? Either they think there might be a reckoning or they think they have the libertarian dream state of exploitation so locked in they're taking it easy. 

Celebrating by sparing a few lives. I suspect it's both but libertarians are cruel masters. They tolerate little dissent. That argues for a reckoning. They think they might be justice.

How they fear justice. A hardly mentionable possibility is that some of them have consciences. There's no evidence for that. I want to see some evidence. 

Weekly Sack of Shit

Competition among Republicans for the Weekly Sack of Shit Award is always contentious. They continue to up their game and we have to leave efforts unrecognized that well deserve mention. This week it was a battle between Kevin McCarthy and Madison Cawthorn. 

The lines were clear. McCarthy deserved consideration because the power of his position results in greater impact--the efficacy index--but Cawthorn grovels better than anybody and seems to go out of his way to do it, making him the clear shit-eating leader. 

Madison's predecessor. Mark Meadows, went down on his knees before John Boehner before disgracing himself as a treasonous Trump hireling, making us wonder if they're still making moonshine in them North Carolina mountains or if they switched to meth. 

Anyway, we're going with McCarthy this week for his Trump obeisance. He set up Nancy Pelosi by nominating two Trump supporters to an investigative committee when they should have been recused out of hand for their records of partiality, implication and ignorance. 

Trump has no legal role in the government anymore. He never did but, when he was in office you could have made the case. This means McCarthy's gambit was more disenfranchising than the average Republican effort at negating the constitutional rights of citizens.

Our Kampf

Republicans seem to be consumed by the struggle to disempower and delegitimize the left and to crush modernity and liberalism into dust. This is a struggle they've invented, based on fear and delusions, since the country was the product of progressive thinking in the first place and designed to stay that way to adapt to changing circumstances and preserve our freedoms.

Who's struggling here? The right's struggle is voluntary, optional and based on lies. For those they've attacked, though, like the failing middle class, the poor and disadvantaged and those without affordable health care, the struggle is real. Of course, as a part of their shtick, they pretend they're under attack. They're the victims. This is nothing but lies. They are the aggressors.

Consolidated Dreams

Republicans don't only favor business consolidation. They consolidate everything. Fewer people with more. They've taken away the dreams of average Americans to pile them into the teeming coffers of the rich. It's no wonder Americans are obsessed with celebrity culture. Celebrities and wealthy people are living their dreams for them. Average persons dream vicariously now. Jeff Bezos visits space and then distributes trinkets to the little people in celebration. Trinkets and the vestiges of their dreams are all they have left. In place of their dreams there are delusions, the false hopes of the dispossessed.

Husks of Humans

I'm suffering from a failure of imagination. I can't imagine the void. I can't imagine a void like Trump. He wins what might be the biggest contest ever, without a lot of political debt, and all he has to do is hire some good people and behave himself and he will be loved. 

Doesn't he want to be loved? There's no love in Trump's world. Only ambition and advantage. Trying to fill the void. It can't be filled. It's a waste of resources. The need is  too great. And since Trump hates himself there's nothing to build on. There's no love in Trumpworld.

A Break in the Weather

Well, the weather is broken. That's a bad sign.

The Beautiful and the Damned

Is it just me or does everyone seem to be too pleased with themselves or not pleased enough?

A Rocky Start

J. D. Vance is off to a rocky start in his Senate run. Cut the boy a break. He hasn't yet learned to lie with the ease and alacrity of an average Republican. 

Are There Tweets in Jail?

I have a compromise in mind. Trump can tweet again if he goes to jail like a good boy.  

Otherwise They Will Get Us All Killed

You wonder how these adolescents, mostly boys, and young adults write all this amazing music. I wonder, anyway. Must have something to do with hormones and a certain openness or innocence. We look back at the 60s radicals now and what do we see? They were right about everything. 

War is bad. Peace is good. Don't trust the government. Don't trust big business. Of the two, favor the government. We have some control over that. None over big business. The Man. Use the government to guarantee some level of justice. Use the government to keep big business in check.

Otherwise they will get us all killed. See, they were right.