Musk Denies Oxen Connection

While admitting that he was difficult, aggressive, and smelly when rutting Elon Musk has denied any connection with the arctic beasts. He prefers warmer climes, he said, trying to take the wind out of the sails of those saying there were physical and behavioral similarities. Musk was willing to own that he was hardy and adaptable, though, and that he thought he was most sexy when exerting himself, in the business world as both a creator of new entities and plunderer or purchaser of existing ones. 

This is Illustrative

There's so much of it going on the obvious gets lost. Musk buys Twitter. More and more money is spent on elections that are more unrepresentative and biased. Rich people tell the middle class they're fine or admit they're not and blame it on Democrats as though the middle class doesn't know something's wrong. The blame part, however, they fall for even though it's unbelievably obvious they've been screwed by being sold out to rich people. 

Sold out by Republicans. 

Rich people sold and bought things they didn't own, notably our government, which is called 'leverage' by them but by us it's called theft. Because they socialized the risk. They passed it onto us. Again, this was obvious long ago. That's where the indifference and disinformation come in. Firstly, and this was meant to be my original point, the degree to which they don't give a shit about us is infinite. Secondly and relatedly, they are absolutely drunk on power.

Oh, how good it feels to be inconceivably rich. They live in another world. 

A parallel universe. Scarily, this world is not real and it's exerting control over ours, the real real. So the disconnect is incomprehensible. Not colloquially it is actually incomprehensible. This works in their favor. They use it. They make out that they are like us. Nobody likes being taxed, for example. You're not supposed to like being taxed but you're supposed to like living in a just society with healthcare and parks and roads and museums and other good stuff. 

But they make out that taxing them is either counterproductive or unjust. Which are lies. Self-serving lies. I knew a guy who had about $20M which he subsequently lost. Meanwhile he had a lot of fun. Bought 500 acres of gorgeous, unspoiled property, for one thing. Not out in the boonies but ten minutes from a booming college town. The gravity of it was startling. I mean, he was like a huge planet or sun and we were like tiny asteroids or space debris. 

No mass. So the illustrative thing is Musk. And Trump. One in the private sphere and the other careening around in the public arena like a drunken sailor. It's just indifference. Pure indifference. The thing about how these people relate to the government and their interest in it is that the government enables their wealth but they no longer need it or so they think and it's the only thing big enough to constrain them so they want to disempower or control it. 

A combination of those would be fine. Thus we have the conservative death star which feels it's acting passively or in such a normal way -- just trying to sustain itself -- that it can't be faulted but it's getting people killed like crazy and destroying lives and is reflexively indignant and reactive when someone points it out. Oh, how could they? This only shows how insanely insensitive they are to anyone's needs but their own. But the contraption is carnivorous.

And the meat they're eating might be you. 

The Asshole's Apprentice

What is the source of anus-licking subservience? Take Mark Meadows. How does someone get to be so degraded? To want to reside among Trumpian ass cheeks?

This is not a lack. Not a failure or early stage in a person's evolution. This is an assertion. An end point and state in the development of someone with certain assumptions.

Assumptions that life is shit. That creation is shit. That there is no justice or accountability in the world. That that would be an insult to God because God is a dick. 

The Calvinist God is an asshole. The Calvinist God condemns and scorns what He has made. Thereby condemning, or at least impugning and sullying, Himself. 

Cool god they've got.

Recall, the Calvinist God is a Swiss creation. After they got done with watches. A watchmaker's god, impatient with and disappointed in creation. For its imperfection.

For its corporeality, errancy and messiness, The Calvinist God loves death. Because death is perfect. There's not a flaw in non-existence. Meadows is apprenticed to this. 

In love with excrement. Because his world is already shit. 

The Plunderer's Imperative

After all these years of sick fucks running rampant average people still don't get it. Plundering is more than a prerogative. It's an imperative. 

There's no point where they will be satisfied and feel secure and stop trying to screw us. Or, let's say, we wouldn't be aware of it. We would be dead. 

They will screw people who are already screwed. They will screw people who aren't born yet. Hell, they'll screw people posthumously. 

By rewriting history. So and so wasn't a hero who saved the world from tyranny he was woke. He was a sentimentalist who didn't understand plundering. 

Who didn't understand the plunderer's imperative. That it's screw or be screwed. That screwing is the will of God and the way of man.

Requiem for an Asshole

Could this be it for Trump?  

V=1/Q

This equation is for (V) the political viability of Republican candidates in relation to (Q) a measure of character and integrity. We are reminded of this by Kevin McCarthy's eagerness to reinstall a hate regime when Republicans regain control of the House. He's issuing threats, he's so overcome with animosity.  

Fate Tempted Me

I never went looking for trouble. I'm unambitious and averse to risk. I wanted a quiet life, security and a low level of environmental impact. I'm a person you want in your scheme because I'm scalable. 

If there were more like me a society would be better. No credit to me here. I fully admit I was an accident of nature and nurture, no reflection on anybody. But the non-scalable people came after me. 

The driven, destructive sorts. The assholes. People with issues and complexes. Mostly authority issues. They think somebody has to be on top. Therefore somebody has to be on the bottom. Me. Us. 

Anybody but them. Everybody but them. 

Basically, screwed. So, they want to be on top. They want to be screwers, not screwees. Making me a screwee. They came after me. Not I them. They came after those who want fairness and cooperation.

Those who want moderation and decency. I feel forced to defend myself. Against the assholes who would ruin things for the rest of us. I suppose we should organize. Whatever we're doing it isn't enough.

Because the assholes are winning. 

A Cologne for Conservatives

It's . . . Sedition. 

A base of egotism, resentment and fear with hints of smoking ruins and torched dreams. Then, a bright finish, and undertones of sweat, smeared feces and man-must will make this fragrance a win with the ladies. If not they won't be surprised when you move in on them anyway, like the cad you are. 

They'll have smelt it coming. Sedition. For the man who thinks he's sexy in spite of an ass-load of evidence otherwise. Because he doesn't give a fuck.

Will Herschel Still Be Welcome at Mar-a-Lago?

And how many mirrors are there at Mar-a-Lago? In relation to flattering portraits of Trump? 

Herschel is a loser but he was a prop. He was sure a winner once. And he has huge insult value. He's kind of a walking insult, something Trump loves. I say Herschel stays. 

What do you think? 

Why the Lies?

Why do Republicans lie? They want stuff most people don't want. In the long run, world domination. Like so many before them. At least in Bond movies, Bond. James Bond. 

So they've created a suspicious array of potions and elixirs that do nothing except make them rich. I take that back, they hurt people. Republicans sell lies. And shit. What else can they do? 

There's deceit and there's force. Compulsion. That's where we are now, at a turning point, The lies are failing. Too obvious to be sustained. So they're transitioning to force.

This is going to be interesting. We've seen in happen in before. There it seems swift, to be read about. Almost instantaneous. But it wasn't. So we're not seeing it clearly..

 A four-decade or more creep of corruption. And we had better wake up. 

All Juiced Up

Drink Trumpicana, the juice that gives Donald the energy to Make America Great Again! 

Eyes at all Costs

Arrogance and insularity are catching up with Zuckerberg. Meta itself is going to go meta, in the 'gone' sense of beyond. 

A Little White Music

White people are fortunate. On balance. As much as they aren't they have no one to blame but themselves. So they blame everyone else. This is called 'unloading.' It's the music of the white imperium. 

We Are So Surprised

Uncle Donald was just being himself. Tasteless, desperate and indefensible. A huge surprise, say some supporters. We didn't know he was such a rogue. 

Oh, right. 

The latest trading card ploy is just so laughably pathetic and bad. But many, many of his grunts will lap it up as they will whatever rubbish he puts out. 

Jump into the Fire

Who in the world, with any qualifications, will want to take over a Muskian trashed Twitter? On the other hand, there's not much left to lose and any normal leader will look good after Musk and probably not be blamed if Twitter implodes. So, it might be a cool gig. 

A Taste of Honkey

The world has had a taste of honkey. Endless wars, destruction, inequality and despair. Whatever anyone else has to offer it's time to try it. I'm not optimistic. The white world's impulses have infected and distorted everything. 

The Assault on Intelligibility

'Conservatives' need to believe that some people are born better than others. They're somehow inherently better. They mean them. This, of course, is bullshit. Self-serving bullshit. 

It's such obvious bullshit they have to widen the scope of their defense of it. Attack intelligibility itself. Life isn't unjust as an aspect or attribute it's totally fucking meaningless.

Conservativism? Does this sound conservative to you? Yet again, we find that in action it's a scam. There's some humane thinking under their banner. But the movement attracts nutcases.

Nutcases with huge primordial drives they have because they're a mess inside. A mass of discord and, usaually, enormous authority and daddy problems. They're Oedipal as hell. 

Negative Fucks

Can you give negative fucks? My answer is yes, that there's something beyond unenlightened self interest. Animals don't want to die, I don't think, but some humans do. They can't handle consciousness. 

They can't handle the awareness of their mortality and limitations. So they want to destroy everything. Really they're trying to anesthetize themselves. Not feel anything. Which takes practice.

Because it's the most unnatural thing imaginable. They train themselves in sociopathy, opportunistically. They practice on us but they really want to die themselves. I say we cut out the middlemen.

Give them what they want before they get us all killed. Prisons protect normal people from those who compulsively prey on others. And there are other means. But, don't empower them.

Don't abet them, for God's sake.

The Real Insurrection

A Republican House is impending. 'Insurrection' will then be redefined, by them, as Democrats asserting their right to vote and have a say in government. Because Democrats are traitors and have no rights. This is the official Republican position. 

A New Financial Future

Kevin McCarthy has announced a new, twenty-first century effort to stabilize the world financial system. It will be the best hope since the perfidious Democrats sank the gold standard as part of their plan to destroy America. Democrats hate America, Kevin made sure to remind us. 

Anyway, everything will be based on Trump Trading Cards, with the full faith and credit of Herr Donald, thereby privatizing the money supply and credit markets and eliminating the destabilizing element of political winds, partisan rancor and the incompetence of supposed experts. 

Politicians can never be trusted, Kevin said. Trump will become the world's first trillionaire. But that's incidental. 

Somebody had to do it. Who better to empower? He doesn't need the money, just as when he was president. And look how that worked out. No one else straddles the public and private spheres like Donald, the first billionaire president, now an ex-officio, at-large goodwill ambassador.

Everybody, after all, loves his sense of humor and wonderful friendliness and inclusive nature. Who else understood that only by embracing racists and deploring justice initiatives can you rebalance the world's chakras and attain peace while ensuring inconceivable wealth disparities?

His brilliance is still underestimated, McCarthy asserted in forgiving and patient tones. He had determined Trump to have twice the intellect of Einstein and more innate goodness than any certified llama. He doesn't mean the animal, of course, though Trump is kind of smelly and shaggy.

Financial genius, Ayn Rand acolyte and expert in austerity Paul Ryan will be dragged out of retirement to implement the plan (and to craft another bill to cut taxes on the rich). McCarthy ended his announcement with a chant and by lighting votive candles from the Mar-a-Lago gift shop.

Trump Trading Cards

Big news out of Mar-a-Lago. No, Trump hasn't talked his homie Vlad out ot killing people, though I wonder if Putin would have invaded Ukraine if Donald hadn't made fascism fashionable again.

We're talking Trump trading cards, with heroic depictions of Herr Donald. Will there be stats on the back? An asshole slugging percentage or unearned insult average? Whatever the figures, be skeptical.

Don-boy has been known to inflate, deflate, and fabricate, You wonder who his advisors are, most recently. And what it takes to get them to walk out the door in disgust. Meanwhile, Kevin McCarthy.

Kev will be putting (traitors) insurrection supporters in charge of important committees. He doesn't have much choice. They're all lunatics and he has to throw bones to the worst of them.

His hold is so tenuous. Fantastically degraded actors like Jim Jordan. The redneck imperium is here. What a coalition. Rich sociopaths and people who are ruled by a pig farmer out of the Philippines.

They are running the most powerful country in the history of the world. As for the cards, if you're thinking about investing, remember that everything about Trump is fungible. So the Trump scam continues,

Literal Democracy

That's all I want. How hard is this? 

They Started It

Republicans have returned us to playground-level functionality. Tit-for-tat and all that. Kids are little animals. Republicans are animals. So it makes sense. 

But it pisses me off when the equivalency, both-sides-are-to-blame thing arises. Because, according to the appropriate, applicable standard, Republicans are to blame for everything. 

Because they started it. 

Trolling Error

What kind of person chooses to be a troll? A frustrated loser. A resentful wannabe. What do they want to be? Anything but a loser. But since they lack character and talent all they do is destroy. 

They can't raise anybody up. Not even themselves where they presumably have some control. So they tear everything down. But they won't feel better, standing among the rubble and the ruins. 

Which is why they must be stopped. 

Polling Error

When the polls are wrong about elections we find out. We don't with popularity polls, approval ratings and opinion stuff. Biden keeps registering as unpopular but he isn't trying to win favor. He doesn't play to the cheap seats. Or the hoodlums, like Trump. 

He's trying to undo a lot of Republican damage, the fate of Democrats since the Nixon years. I think people secretly love and respect Biden or love and respect the job he's doing. In any case, his government is pretty rational and free of psychodrama. 

And he's been productive considering that Republican cooperation in wanting a responsible government is zero. They want the government destroyed and replaced by business interests. Which is only possible with the support of fundamentalist religious fanatics. 

That would be a real dystopia. I assume we don't want that but there's no way to poll it. Do you want to fuck your government up the ass and ruin the country? Are you a demented traitor and cospiratorial fantasist? Sometimes I think polling should be illegal. 

The Madman of Mar-a-Lago

Any argument about Trump's supporters loving him in spite of his flaws should have ended. But now, with the madman of Mar-a-Lago no longer able to pack the Supreme Court with hacks and 'deconstruct' the deep state, choose your delusion, it's evident enough they love him because he's a deranged piece of shit and a wrecking ball. Think if how inconceivable it is that the lunatics who shot out a chunk of the electrical grid in North Carolina would be Biden supporters. 

A Putin-seque response is appropriate for the perpetrators. Life at hard labor in Nome or the closest thing we have to Siberia. Or, they could be shot for treason. I'd be fine with that. It's hard to argue it wasn't sedition and a premeditated act of insurgency. What's insurgent at Mar-a-Lago is a newly strong commitment to overthrow. Herr Donald has put a contract on our government. Of the Vinny kind, as the car guys used to say. Our country, ye olde unum e pluribus. 

 It would no longer be our country if he had it his way. It would be his.

The Mosh Pit

Musk has turned Twitter into a mosh pit. What that means I don't know. Good place to mosh now anyway. But where does that get you? And I like punk. But I'm not sure granting head-banging a ton of influence is particularly wise.

Sick Fuck

I thought Trump was in trouble when he came out with 'Ron DeSanctimonious,' It didn't sound like him. Maybe he has insult writers and someone else came up with it. Trump has an ear for an insult. It might be his only talent -- hard to tell when a guy is born that rich in America, because people will suck up to you, do business with you and marry you because you're rich. You never know if they're sincere. In Trump's case, he didn't care. Because he's not a normal person. He's a sick fuck. 

Mr. America

Okay, let's judge Trump like they do in one of the pageants he used to run.

Talent. Poise. Swimsuit. Overall appearance, including hair and in a gown. And he would have to be interviewed and give a little talk, maybe about how he wants to make the world better by overturning the last election and using the federal government to destroy the lives of those who resist him. 

'Let Trump Be Trump'

How's that working out for you, Republicans? They had their Night of the Long Knives, in painful slow motion. A loyalty purge. 

Then, a Reichstag moment. But in politics, as in business, Trump turns out to be massively incompetent. Thank God. More of a Mussolini.

But a führer is waiting in the wings. A number of them. Competing factions. The money is on DeSantis. His Nazi cred is high.

Meltdown at Mar-a-Lago

It's high noon. 

And Trump is shooting it out with himself. On Truth Social bullets boomerang. But Trump, reactive as ever, keeps firing. He's outwardly calling for a coup. Maybe not a coup, technically, since it's not modeled relative to the law, or its lack, or politics.

The model is business.

Call it an attempted hostile takeover. By a fantastically rich capital fund that believes in leverage--massive debt--to mitigate risk and maximize possible returns. It sounds like voodoo because it is. Risk has to go somewhere. Guess where. Surprise! Onto us.  .

All the risk is on us. Rewards to them. 

Republicans have this shit figured out. They've tested and perfected it in the private sector. But they want to own everything. Only the government, reflecting the collective will, might stop them. So they mean to stop it. And they have. They have this down.

The Plunderer's Guide to the Galaxy

Call me suspicious, but I don't trust these tycoons and their interest in outer space. Rapacious urges may be at work, insatiable drives and a longing for opportunities to have a shot at unspoiled territory. Virgin realms. Isn't this the lesson of America, how great it is to have a natural resources free-for-all? 

Free shit for everybody! 

Not for everybody, as it happens. Wealth has a way of accumulating at the top. And those people of ensuring it stays there. Even after they're dead. Maybe they feel awe and wonder looking up at the night sky. I don't know. But I bet Bezos and the rest feel a kind of lust. They wonder what's there to be had. 

By them. They want to make it theirs. 

Herschel Walker for President

Why are we messing around with this? The point of running Walker for the Senate is as an insult. A show of contempt. For liberals, the government, the country, the idea of America, and for life in general. Let's get it the fuck over with and have him run for president in 2024. If Republicans insist on having us in the ditch I'd rather jump. The only choice we have left might be whether to be pushed and dragged or to go voluntarily, they're so determined. 

Dreck the Halls

Conservative media is offering hate for the holidays. Hate the woke. Hate the gays. Hate the trans. Hate Biden and Pelosi. Hate antifa and the other made-up threats. Save the rich and screw the poor. Women, children and the elderly first. Not for the lifeboats. Sink them. Throw them overboard. Fuck them over and deprive them of security. And Merry Christmas from conservative media.

Burl Ives makes me violently angry.

Mostly, singing Christmas music. I can't help it. But he's dead. Maybe that makes it better. And he was great in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. 

Separately Unequal

Wealth inequality--which. is to say, inequality--is hard to reverse without trashing the economy and hurting everyone but it must be tried. Better to take the hit and rebuild than a slow decline. 

Quantum Trump

Everything is uncertain about Trump. Location, mass, movement. He's relative. Or, I should say, Trump is uncertain. A slippery character and shape shifter. You can never know where he is. Because there's nothing there. He's not a thing he's a fragment. He's missing parts. The ones that make you human. 

Muskian Shithole

Twitter is a Muskian shithole. It didn't take long. I've never been on it but I think it's a shame. 

Let's Make a Deal

I've had enough of Trump. He's running for president again to avoid prosecution and possibly jail. There's another way out. Cut him a deal.

He forfeits all his assets. We leave him $100M cash. He leaves the country. Hungary, Saudi Arabia and North Korea will be happy to have him.

Maybe Scotland. Scots love nothing better than battle and kissing rich ass. An odd people, the Scots. Wealthy Scots kiss their own ass, but that's another story.

Trump agrees to shut the fuck up.

That, or Rikers. He goes in with the general population. Okay, maybe Butner. Tell me why not, if  'the law' means anything. The kids go too, by the way.

The grandkids can return one day but they better behave. We'll be watching. 

I Invent a Religion

I follow a number of 'conservative' sites to keep my game up, a couple of which are Catholic. The misunderstandings there are rife so I'm inventing a new religion, a takeoff on Catholicism, which is right on many things. This will be a Catholicism that embraces the distinction between immanence and transcendence radically and in a new way. Meaning, no afterlife. No resurrection. No heaven or hell. 

And, no god. But, all God. (I foresee droves of converts.)

Transcendence is beyond space and time. We have no admittance there. It's a matter of faith. Immanence puts us in a place of necessary discipline and structure (that or chaos, the anti-logos) where we can glimpse the truths of transcendence and have them guide us, sometimes realizing the transformation. True spiritual traditions have to come to terms with this divide and dichotomy. They do so in varying ways.

Such as using stories (parables) or metaphors. 

For example, any talk of the eschaton is not about an event in time. It's about an event over time, our eschaton. Every day we live is one less day we have. This is not a parable, I know. I cite it because it's a huge mistake to take it literally. Put it in space-time. The point is to convey urgency in a situation that couldn't be better designed for complacency, apathy and ennui. Life. The point is that life is a gift. 

However mixed.

One not to be taken for granted. We live in an ongoing emergency, that of our mortality, which is hard to grasp. But the key is to grasp it well enough to live with love and joy while we can, as best we can, if not celebrating our mortality through radical acceptance, having a death-bed perspective all the time or as much as possible. The utility of end times talk is to convey that our lives are always ending. 

Slipping through our fingers. This same reasoning applies to everything. Literalism is heresy. In the Bible, or wherever there is truth. The Catholic Church was accused at one time of being stuck in the Middle Ages, a time of illiteracy. Right on. The Church had assumed the complete immersion of the laity in corporeality in an uncontrollable world, providing no abstract understanding to back up the rules. 

Take sin, mortal and venial. 

The Church gave us rules. No end of rules and lists. Which is insulting to people who can understand the abstract difference. That a venial sin is a goof and a mortal sin is denying that life is intelligible, a challenge to the existence of God, or even a direct denial of God's existence. Rules weakened the Church. And the delusion of purity in isolation or quarantine, in this case the purity of the clerisy, was in effect.

So the Church sowed the seeds of its weakness because the polarity is not there. Having a weak laity took down the clerisy which took down the Church, notably in the 1960s when literalism took hold. I miss the Latin which was a real loss but also a symbolic one. The Church had always rejected literalism, which is a structure of containment, and embraced symbolism, which is art, which is infinite if inscrutable.

Inscrutability or paradox is the idea, an expression or acceptance or embrace of human inadequacy and limitation. Maybe a celebration of insufficiency because, well, it's all we've got. It's all I've got. Party down. Back to that uncontrollable world. The big change is there, in control. The strides have been immense. So much so we're sometimes indignant when we can't control things. But then there's death.

We want this to be as convenient as possible. I want mine to be as convenient as possible, determining how it happens since I can't control that it happens. Thank God for morphine. A gift of God. Anyway, I can't fault myself or anyone for this but what have we lost? What have we lost in our resulting arrogance? I think the Brit aristocracy played polo to practice war skills when there was no war, an infrequent thing.

And hunting. I think we need to work to stay familiar with our limitations. As an antidote to arrogance. Humility becomes us. I've glimpsed the transformation and it's all love. The big embrace. And all humility. But nothing describes it. Which is what I'm trying to convey. It's a matter for art. Art, broadly, is uncontainable. Literalism, biblical or constitutional 'originalism' or whatever, are death and anti-art. 

As in the 'Antichrist.' Literalism is utopianism, perfectionism, hypocrisy and death. Death to humanity, kindness and decency. And, usually, actual killing since it makes life meaningless and nothing but a struggle for power and control in an ultimately uncontrollable world. We don't need an afterlife, a reward, to celebrate creation or feel good about life. We don't need a judgment day to behave.

Has it worked so far? I don't think so. We know transcendence because the seeds of it, as the good books rightly say, are within us, but needing some cultivation. We don't need anything else. Some discipline and an openness to inspiration are all. The head and the heart, working together and oriented to the higher things. None of the Bible works in space and time. Heaven is a state on earth. Not a state like that. 

You know what I mean. A condition. Containment is not a condition for love. It's antithetical to love because it seeks power. Containment of people, above all. Individually we're temporal beings. Maybe collectively, since we seem to be choosing to destroy ourselves. Because we're disappointed, presumably, about life. But that's a choice. And a bad one. Choose life. Create the day, as I say to myself.

It's an increment of time I can handle. Beyond that I often don't do well. Many people don't do well in this odd space-time thing we're stuck in because we all need help. And helping one another is why we're here. All we need is love. We want to think we're inherently different from animals. But we're as different as we behave. The good news: we can do it. It's not hard. Which is what's so sad about failing. 

  . . . (ongoing) 

 

Small is Terrible

So called 'conservatives' favor the consolidation of everything into huge combustible fireballs of tenacious gravity and inhuman capability, finally culminating in a single black hole or dark star of destruction. Monopolization, if you like, of everything and at all levels. Trump is representative. 

No light emanates from there. All the energy is inward until perfect entropy and interstellar unity is reached, in the perfection of death.

This is due to fear. At the core of conservatism is existential fear. Primal fear. It's the one irreducible thing, leading them to armaments, mobilization and attack. Preemptive attack. Justified, in their paranoid way, by projection. Of couse it's unconscious. Because they're sick. The sick fucks of the universe.

They will get us all killed, eventually. Meanwhile, maximizing misery will have to do.