I'm on Fire

There's nothing like fire. Maybe water. They're so cool. Wonderful when harnessed or we'll-used, but so incredibly indifferent. Fire is scarier. I'd rather drown than burn. We had a flood, reportedly, Noah and all. Now we're burning. By choice. Combustion, which we chose. Some passively but others, like evangelical Christians, want everything to burn. They think they'll be saved. 

Sucked up to heaven in glory. We'll all burn. Keep that in mind with the political discord. They want the world to end. In fire. And they want us to burn because they think it's just. We're not believers. The kindling is stacked all around and lesser fires are everywhere. But keep in mind they want this. To set the world on fire. And they're incredibly driven and running everything. 

Maestro Donald Conducts Overthrow Orchestra

Stewart Rhodes is going to jail. All this does is illustrate for me how it's a crime in America to be black or poor. Equal justice is a joke. Rhodes was Tex Watson to Trump's Manson. And that's before we note that trying to overthrow the government is now a franchise or sport. Maybe a sports franchise. A board or video game with real people and deaths.

They will get less time than a lot of low-level drug dealers, be called heroes and compared to Jesus and the Apostles and have admirers and groupies and cadres and cliques. From jail. We know those women who have a thing for inmates. There are women who have a thing for priests. A sexual fetish. 'Priest-fuckers' a Jesuit I once knew called them. 

I allow for fucked-up people. I know there will be crazies, sociopaths, and a percentage of every kind of mental abnormality. 'Abnormality,' I say, wondering what normal is anymore, when nutcases are running everything. Speaking of Jesuits, I recall a book by one that said there are higher and lower things in people. The higher must rule the lower.

Similarly for a society. Higher and lower elements. Where would you say we are with that? With a Republican Party that seems to function to find the biggest piece of shit they can and then slam him into office? Which they can do because they've gamed the system. Up to the Supreme Court which they own. They bought it. Like everything else. 

Justice is a joke in America. The Republican model for America is a family. A crime family. Dad is a drunken, cruel, authoritarian monster who can't be stopped. Country needs to head to the crisis center. We're being ravaged. Our political system is flexible for a reason, to allow us to do what we must to stop this kind of shit. We lack the determination. 

Throwing Mucus

The holidays are upon us again. Pandora is playing Christmas music on the system. The lights and ornaments are out and will soon be up. But the spirit eludes me. There is much hate in the land. A new fascist movement has arisen, internationally but as always America is the driving factor. 

Just as it was in the 1930s when American laissez-faire capitalists trashed the world economy and gave us WWII and the Holocaust. Their partners today, southern racists, were of course active then and influenced Hitler. Who knows to what degree but the racists and plunderers are back, wrecking everything.

They are giddy with the joy of destruction.

And, this holiday season, I want to extend to them a huge 'fuck you.' Fuck you and your children. Fuck you until you die, may it be soon. I will not offer the olive branch of cooperation. I will not offer excuses and rationalizations. Go to hell. Stick a tree-topper ornament up your ass and spin on it.

DeSantisland: A Hate Alternative to Disney

Just wondering if Ron DeSantis would put forth another message of hate and exclusion in celebration of Thanksgiving. He laid it on after the election, in particular attacking the 'woke mob' which doesn't exist. But since when did non-existence bother Republicans? They've been making shit up forever. It's what the party is for. And they want all their opposition to non-exist. To get out of the way.

Let their rights be fucked forever. 

DeSantis won by a lot. Makes you wonder what the fuck is going on in Florida. They've always had their share of rednecks. Rednecks are losers who resent everybody and own a lot of guns. Apart from that, I don't know. I suppose Florida has a lot of old people who don't give a fuck about the future. Maybe we should have voting restrictions on old people because they aren't invested in the future.

And they might have dementia so they vote for lunatics like DeSantis and Trump. Trump supporters should be excluded from voting since they support sedition and that's illegal. There must be a glitch in the system or they would all be in jail. A big glitch, because a constitutional framework can't include the means of its own destruction. Or maybe it can and all the rational people should spin off. 

Republicans want the government to be a corporation and corporations do this shit all the time. They morph all over the place. Opportunistically. Improvisationally. Floridians and Texans make out that yankees want to move there because they've trashed their cities with liberal values. But it's the weather. And the end of the relevance of the resources and know-how that built those cities up. 

And, that enabled them to support corrupt, spoiled states like Florida and Texas that never treated workers like anything but serfs. And black people and minorities like anything but slaves, inputs, raw materials and expendable stuff. They were expendable. Oh, for the days with darkies singing in the fields and giving up their women for massa's satisfaction. DeSantis wants to take us back to that.

As artificial as Disneyland but with a lot of bite. A theme park of hate.

Guess Who's Cumming All Over Your Dinner

It's Donald Trump, again. The great defiler is officially back. 

Cyber Stickup Deals

Buy this shit or we'll kill this dog . . . er . . . economy.

The Accidental Tsarists

I'm pondering, do Republicans know what they're doing or is it all brain-stem stuff? Animal drives. If they want a monarchy, why don't they say so? With talk of a reign of Trumps, one after another, this would be a real dynasty, not like the Kennedy and Bush jobs. More pomp. More circumstance. Lots of serfs scrounging around. And then, maybe, a revolution. 

Where Beagles Dare

Having put it off forever I finally read a first-hand account of the unbelievable shit-show of the Trump White House and I'm still trying to comprehend it. Clearly, for Trump it was a takeover. A leveraged buyout. The executive branch, and the country, for that matter, were his to do with as he pleased. It was up to others to rein him in if they could and, good luck, because he never met a law he didn't think he could break with impunity. He had never been a competent businessman, after all, only a snake oil salesman, a bungler, a rogue, a charlatan and a fraud. 

So Trump's end of it I can kind of understand. I defer to the wisdom of Animal House. The loaning of the Cadillac. The owner is told, when the inevitable happens, what did you expect? You give something nice to people who have no respect for anything and it will get trashed. Ergo, it's your fault. The part I can't understand is the ass-kissers, crotch-sniffers and anus-lickers. Almost all, for example, of the Republican elected officials in Washington. Among the vampires I'm sure it was higher. Among the lobbyists, arms-dealers, pollution-peddlers and so on, I mean. 

Washington is full of them. Even after WWII it was like a sleepy college town, with the federal government as the college. Eisenhower certainly saw the potential of the parasites and warned us. Beware the parasites. We did not heed him. Early on, it was bipartisan. But Republicans eventual bought the franchise on corruption. As an investment. And it paid off. As an investment. Oaths be damned. Legality and democracy and responsible government have nothing to do with it. They are in it for the money and the power. That explains the crotch snffers and anus lickers. 

So far, so good. I have progressed in my understanding. At an abstract level. Empathetically I'm still nowhere. I can't get there. Somehow I stumbled on Berchtesgaden. Hitler's hangout. So I researched it a bit and then I got it. How it must feel. The incredible high of the power. The seamlessness of it, since the feeling is with you constantly. Mark Meadows and the rest of them might have to eat shit to Trump but, what a small price to pay to be so close to inconceivable power. Weirdly, I don't think Trump feels powerful. Just isolated and scared. But he's a sick fuck. 

So the beagles flock to Berchtesgaden. I mean, Mar-a-Lago. Where they lick and sniff and try to follow a scent to a pot of gold and loll in the sun. I don't mean to impugn beagles. I love dogs. But, you get the point. Dogs are supposed to be dogs. Republicans are not. 

Just Asking

Entirely in the abstract, now that Trump is no longer president, I ask if someone with the opportunity would have been morally and ethically justified in employing the 'Magnussen solution' by blowiing his brains out? When he was president?

I mean, given what we now know? I pose this as a hypothetical, obviously, since he's no longer president. But it's worth thinking about. I stress, as Tucker Carlson so often has, that I'm only raising the point and not suggesting anybody do anything. 

Everything is art.

Everything is art. What we usually call 'art' is the good stuff. Or the stuff that tries to be good. Or the stuff that conforms to some category, like painting. But everything is art. Because life is entirely creative. 

Individual Wealth and Waste

I'm convinced that individual wealth must be curbed. It results in social distortions. On the other hand, I believe in a differentiated, diverse and even hierarchical society. I come not to abolish wealth but to diminish it. 

What Passes for Class . . .

among Republicans can be viewed in a clip of a 'Let's Go Brandon' chant at an LIV tournament with Trump, Tucker and Marjorie Taylor Greene enjoying the moment. 

Hackathon

Both Bush and Trump got hundreds of thousands of people killed, had adminstrations that ran on corruption and ill-will and, incidentally, they got into power in stolen elections and had negative mandates but did whatever they wanted anyway. Never mind. 

With Republicans taking control of the House though more chicanery enabled by a Supreme Court dominated by hacks, there will be plenty investigating going on. Of things the caliber of Hunter Biden's laptop, Hillary's emails and other imaginary scandals. 

Prince of Whales

Who comes to mind? 

You're Only as Fucked as You Feel

Republicans are extremely committed to their corruption. All-in, as they say. For the war criminals of the Bush years it makes sense. They could have gone to jail. They should have gone to jail. Probably too late now. It's not too late for the Trump crowd. The corruption in the Trump administration was laughable. In a dark, morbid kind of way since they, too, got hundreds of thousands of people killed. Americans, in this instance. Not that Americans didn't get needlessly killed in the Bush years.

The Trump boys did it with incompetence, ignorance, arrogance and vanity. Recall Trump's wanting a show of 'gratitude' before releasing supplies to suffering people, supplies that were not his and belonged to the public. What a lowlife highlight. And recall his considering whether those who were being ravaged were Democrats, who were disproportionately affected earlier on, or Republicans who were affected more later by being stupid enough to listen to Trump. A superlative asshole move. 

I'd say it's up there with Bush using 9/11 to put through a bunch of stupid partisan shit, like cutting taxes on the rich while burning through enough money to rebuild the country's entire infrastructure in the process of destroying an entire region of the world, accomplishing nothing and creating over 30 million refugees. Bush also crashed the world economy just like Republican laissez-faire capitalists did in the 1920s thereby empowering Hitler. So he caused the autocratic upsurge we see today. 

But Republicans are in denial. They're passing laws against truth. In Florida and Texas, for example, so white children will never learn what their daddies and granddaddies and on back did in the culture wars. They kicked some ass. And we see how powerful that denial is because we can't do anything that makes sense. Only make rich people richer. Period. Forever. End of story. That's what corruption is for. And the American economy. Rape the world, if you must. But the rich got to have more.

Florida Fuckups Dominate Race

Rick Scott and Donald Trump sabotaged their own party out of egotism and arrogance, resulting in an election favoring Democrats more than almost anyone expected. Having their heads so far up their asses they took risks offering little hope of reward but it scared people into voting for Democrats. 

We are accustomed to this from Donald, who got hundreds of thousands of innocent Americans killed with his incompetence. But Scott couldn't keep his mouth shut and followed Newt Gingrich down the hole of nearly admitting openly how he intended to screw his fellow citizens. Close enough, anyway.

Even if they couldn't articulate it American voters understood he was after them, out to take away every bit of security they have. Simply because he's an asshole. From a party of assholes. And a state ruled by assholes, the Free State of DeSantis, where they've taken the Gator identification too far.

My Net Worth

My net worth as a voter is supposed to be the same as Sheldon Adelson or Charles Koch, may they rot in Hell and die a horrible death, respectively. It is not. How many fifths of a man am I, then, I ask. We need a new denominator in that one, to capture the proportional difference in dollar reserves. And that, my friends, is American democracy. 

Congratulations

I want to congratulate J. D. Vance. He sold his soul and got something for it. So many others didn't get shit. Having mortgaged his humanity for votes we'll see how it goes for Mr. Vance. Will he hang in with Trump? Trump was standing right there, as he would have to be, when his own ego blew up in his face. Huge shit-splattering going on. Will Vance get splattered? Will he distance himself? 

We will see. But soul-selling is notoriously risky. Vance, anyway, has proven his own book to be bullshit. Rednecks are running rampant. Hillbilly culture isn't dead it spread. Gone mainstream. Whole country is an ungovernable feud--I wanna be a Hatfield!--and celebration of ignorance. Guns are every-fucking-where. People shoot one another for sport. It's the redneck way. And America. 

All Worn Out

One would think--I would think--that being an asshole takes lots of energy. Lots of drive. Lots of time and resources. Hate is not normal to be in all the time. That's not a natural state. It's exhausting. Exhibit A is 'conservative' media, a disinformation metaverse, and all the money and effort and ornery it takes to maintain the hate. All the stoking and stroking. These are business people. 

They want bang. Returns. So they fooled us into funding our own demise. 

When you get down to it they've found ways to make it pay, even. Kochists not only aren't regulated they cut their own taxes which they richly deserve to pay. The point is, the further you get from reality the more resources it takes. It's a rule in ecology. A monoculture, like a weed-free lawn, is the most unnatural thing imaginable. So it takes massive energy subsidies to make and maintain. 

And there's stability in diversity. Anything else is unstable as hell.

Same with the white hegemony. The white boy hegemony. Every blade of grass a white man. Women haven't been empowered the way we like to think. Mostly bought off, which I suppose is more benign than force though the religious wing sold their souls for certainty. We are the weeds. Democrats and minorities. 'They must be eliminated.' Very Vader-esque. But he's Luke's father. 

We too are in a genealogy of waste and destruction. Of harming nature which is suicidal and self-hating. We're implicated. Not as bad by a long shot as the Kochists but that's how they get away with it. They throw us bones. And we're so rich the bones are nice and meaty and fatty and great. We need a break. I don't mean a rest I mean we need to step back. The way we're living is crazy. 

Responsible people are creating a surplus that's stolen and used against them. Nuts.

A Disturbance in the Farce

The diapered dirigible of Trump's political charade is in trouble, leaking gas and needing a thorough ass-wipe and rebranding. Tie it to a mast for a while, Herr Donald. A mast at Mar-a-Lago. The neighbors will love it. Or we might be looking at a Hindenburg. Oh, the humanity! 

Mo' Ron

DeSantis is the real thing. His entire identity is tied up in hate. Hating his fellow citizens. What Democrats are DeSantis is not. As a point. We used to feel that way about Nazis. We understood ourselves as what they weren't. Now being a Nazi is fine among Republicans. Being a racist is fine. Being part of an identity movement is fine. Wishing your fellow citizens ill is good. Getting people killed is fine. 

So DeSantis and the Republican Party are an unbelievable fit. This guy is spitting out hate with his wife and children right there. And Republicans are SO worried about improper influences on children. DeSantis is a Nazi. When he says 'woke' we're talking about people. When he says 'mob' we're talking about nothing. The 'woke mob' doesn't exist.  But mobs exist among Republicans. 

They're replete with mobs.

Proud Boys. Militias. Capitol attackers. One-Percenters. The morons in Charlottesville that Trump loved. All the people who show up, often with guns, in groups to intimidate other people. Boogaloos. Oath Keepers. It's hard to keep up but the fascisti, being cowards, love to go out in groups and scare people. DeSantis went to Yale. He's more a Heydrich or Goebbels. Educated. Nicely turned out. Not illiterate.

Well spoken if hate is your thing. When he talks about the woke mob to begin with there is no mob. That's a lie. He's inventing threats to stoke fear and create hate. And, the 'woke' are doing nothing wrong, apart from not even being a group. They have rights like everybody. But not in Florida. According to Ron. Which should be illegal if it isn't but Republicans never cared, going back to segregation days.

The good old days. When America had apartheid. They like criminality. Selectively. 

The right kinds of criminals. Criminals who are on their side. Or who are rich as shit. After 9/11 Bush should have called for an end to anonymous international banking, tying it to money laundering and terrorism. Which is true. But tax cheats and arms profiteers and shady conglomerates are his peeps. Republicans love power. They'll do anything for power. And DeSantis is now their go-to thug. 

The Weekly Sack of Shit Returns

I gave up on my Weekly Sack of Shit series because it couldn't capture Republicanism. It was like heralding crushing one termite. Not only was it hopeless it felt counterproductive because it aided the illusion that something had been accomplished when nothing had. 

On the other hand, crushing that termite felt good. Thus this week I found myself wanting to crush the termite Ron DeSantis. I suspect he's a termite queen. A breeder. A propagator. And fertile, just the thing if you want hate rot. Because he's all about one thing, the hate. 

In that spirit I bestow upon Ron the award, for all the good it will do. I never dreamt Republicans could come up with a bigger piece of shit than Bush. I couldn't imagine it, a failure on my part. And they came up with Trump who we know blew the curve. Now we have DeSantis.

A normal person can't imagine the evil he represents. So he carries on eating our house down by breeding hate. He doesn't lower himself to the actual munching, it being beneath him. He has followers for that. But when you lean up against a structural member it might crumble. 

Voting, e. g. Without it the house falls. And it's the work of DeSantis or someone like him. 

McCarthy Hate Continues in Expected Victory

Kevin McCarthy, as immensely powerful as he is a piece of shit, won't let go of the hate. In his latest comment on the expected Republican takeover of the house he had to mention Pelosi, in a meme slur at this point, since gracious behavior in the new Republican Party is a sign of degeneracy. The total moral inversion this represents only continues to worsen. The bottom hasn't yet been found. 

Shithead Wins in Ohio

Unrepentant degenerate J. D. Vance has won in Ohio, cementing that state's status as a redneck hellhole. There are also many reactionary Catholics in Ohio so Vance, a convert, is appropriate there too. I read his book which was garbage. My Amazon review shows I saw through Vance's scam early. 

I'm proud of that. 

He's the cream, he thinks, who rose to the top but he's a turd that floats, a floating turd, too dumb to see that his Mamaw was bigoted scum. I saw it, when he didn't. Mamaw's line on Vance's sister's husband was 'he's a saint' which is, of course, her version of the old slur about the 'cult of the saints.'

A slur against Catholics. So Vance is a cultist. 

Several times over, taking it up the ass from Trump and Thiel, from the latter maybe literally. We don't know what went on in private. As Tucker likes to say I'm only asking the question. Other questions arise. How degraded will he be in action. Jordanesque, like another Ohioan? High bar, there.

Or low, depending on how you look at it. 

Pure Evil

Democrats don't want to say it but Republicans are evil. Republicans are saying it about Democrats but that's what evil does. It doesn't care. Their indecency is on display. We thought we'd escaped from the old stories. We could study them, cross-culturally and such, and see them recreated in modern versions. Like Star Wars. But they didn't pertain anymore. In escaping from want, to the extent we had, we thought we'd escaped from the demons within us. At least some of them. Were we ever wrong. 

It wasn't about want. Cruelty isn't about deprivation it's about fear. Maybe love deprivation, but, that's another matter. Technical sophistication has nothing to do with ignorance. Or real intelligence. They're on different tracks. A geeky 'genius' can be evil as hell. Maybe more likely because of his detachment and insecurity. You know the type. Tell me you don't have someone in mind. Anyway, as is often the case it happened slowly then in a rush. A tipping point or critical mass was reached. 

And it was a simple story. An old story. Selling one's soul. Republicans sold their souls for power. It's been written about. We watched it happen. Through the Southern Strategy. Play on race and get votes. Reagan did it and then treated Falwell like the useless, sick yokel he was. Bush was a turning point. A hopeless degenerate and congenital fuckup. Now he paints and collects his federal retirement check. Remember, he was an employee. It was hard to see through all the bullets, oil and arrogance.

They all played the race game. The racism game. 

And they won. So the devil is here to collect on that debt. As always the innocent and powerless will suffer. Are suffering. Have suffered. Republicans have the power but their souls are gone. It leaves a big hole. The souls are destroyed. Fragmented and obscured. Don't bother looking. But look at them. Just at them. The winners, still struggling for more because nothing is enough. Not when your soul is gone. How are they different from Darth Vader?  Where are our Luke, Leia, Han and Chewbacca?

I want to be Chewbacca. I kinda look the part. But that's another story. 

Pelosi Preview

The attack on Paul Pelosi is but a preview. As though we hadn't seen enough. Still, it's stunning. But get used to it. And, if it had been worse, if Pelosi had been maimed or killed, it would be no different. Sure, more cover-your-ass mutterings from Mitch or another piece of shit but they would be loving it since Democrats have been asking for it and deserve to be disempowered by any means. And retribution for past sins is fine. It's open season on Democrats. And Republican identification comes with a hunting license.

A Simple Desultory DeSantis

This guy is not an opportunist. Maybe to a small degree. He's a determined autocrat. An arrogant asshole. A born killer and absolutely committed to his mission, to disempower Democrats and establish a single-party state. Just like autocrats everywhere.  

He seems more organized and logical than he is. The consistency is in his drive and determination. In that sense it's a cohesive thing. Like an animal hunting. He's focused. Focused by his feelings of superiority and contempt for other beings. For everyone.

In that respect he's like Trump. He despises almost everyone. Those who dispute with him and the lowlies who serve him. He respects only power. Unrestrained power. Which he wants. Probably as president. Then he will ruthlessly crush anyone he wants.

But he's not inspired or inspirational. Rather, he's a drudge. An enforcer. In spite of his obvious ambition he seems to be working for someone else. I think he's working for the Force. Not that one but Darwin's. He thinks people shouldn't interfere with nature.

With its wonderful heirarchies and brutality. God made the world a mean, vicious, competitive, nasty and indifferent place full of suffering. It's an insult to God to try to make it nice. So DeSantis is fighting to make the world nasty and brutal and unjust.

In the name of God.

Dying for a Lie

Putin is getting a lot of his people killed for some very narrow interests. Possibly only his own. George Bush did a much better job of it. 

We Love Lunatics

Lucille Ball was too brash for me, However, I loved The Honeymooners. All in the Family I never watched. Couldn't get interested. Married With Children I never watched. I think I might have liked it. I'm not a fan of network TV, not even Seinfeld, though I know it's a matter of taste.

 

Put me in Guantanamo, make me watch most network TV, and I would tell you anything. Forget waterboarding, but that would work too. Use Baywatch. Sadist? Start with waterboarding. If it would save my family I might hold out for a while. I always hated politics. It seemed like torture to me. 

Most of the time. But when you score you score big. Civil rights. All of FDR. Preventing wars and nuclear holocaust. The good old days. When there was some national cohesion. Or so we thought. It was an illusion. There was always division. With modernity and desegregation it rose up. 

Now division is everything. Hate. And everything is a show. All politics, no policy. As a show it sucks. Republicans choose lunatics as a display of contempt for governance. Not our government, but the idea of cooperation and a common good as a whole. Libertarians do this to you. 

A return to a state of nature. They favor savagery since they're already on top.

Butterflies Are Free to be Terrorists and Murderers

I thought I would try making something up as outrageous as Republicans to see how it feels. I'm not sure yet. I'll let you know once I figure it out. 

The Fugitive Wall Law

Republicans are obsessives. Obamacare was an unextreme law passed fairly. But it helped average people  and, to the extent it didn't, it was because of Republican obstruction and sabotage. Obstruction befrore it was passed and sabotage after. 

It raised taxes a little. On rich people. Did that destroy the economy as Republicans claimed it would? Of course not. On the other side of the equation, when Republicans want something they will do anything to get it. Fuck the law. 

So it is with the border wall which has huge symbolism and emotional, psychic investment. A symbol of division and hate, if it weren't obvious. But this is old news. They've been doing it for decades. It's more flagrant now.

More confrontational and aggressive. Take Doug Ducey. Sure he wants a wall. But it has nothing to do with anything real. It fulfills psychological personal, political needs. So he's gone combative and rogue because it's in vogue. 

Illegal, in other words. Daring the feds to come after him. Back in the day the Fugitive Slave Law showed what liars the racists were. States rights? Not for Yankees. When northerners tried not to enforce the law southerners went nuts.

They were always reactive. So Ducey is lining up shipping containers to make a wall that will not work but it will have bad environmental consequences. He doesn't give a shit. They care only about themselves, the crazy fuckers.

Truth Social Swamp

Truth Social is turning out to be such a handy indicator of conspiracism and criminal intent you have to wonder if it isn't an FBI front. Maybe Trump is the deep state. Or being manipulated as a magnet for all the worst elements and domestic enemies. 

God knows it is working. 

Stare Decisis No Carpe Diem Yo

The Supreme Court deemed voting rights protections no longer necessary. This unleashed a flood of activity proving otherwise. Oops! No matter. Among ideologues the ideas in your head are everything and all that matter, especially when the ideas are shared by people some of whom are enforcers. There was talk of impeaching John Roberts among Republicans when he failed to overturn Obamacare.

Like, the next day. They don't tolerate dissent well. All must be on their terms, democracy being a lot of sentimental and impractical woke nonsense. In that spirit the Court is about to rule against affirmative action, based on the same fantasy. Again, never mind that the whole recent history of the country has been of a struggle to undo civil rights and equal protection. They have access to higher reasoning.

From Catholic schools and traditions. Surely some of them had some Latin. All those mottos and stuff, et tu and all that, to say nothing of the Latin shorthand used among lawyers. Stare Decisis, for example. They've confused that one, though it came up in some or all of their confirmation hearings when they weren't being accused of sexual assault and such, with another that's not a legal term, I don't think.

Carpe Diem. They carpe all over, not wanting to waste time in case a couple of them suddenly croak. Croak away, I say. Alito and Thomas, especially. No redeeming qualities. Speaking of redemption, don't these authoritarian brutes believe in that? Some higher accountability? I don't think so. It's another lie and scam, their supposed piety, up there with rising tide. I hope there's a judgment day.

Are they in for a surprise. Sua culpa, boys. They have a lot to answer for.