Canadian Wildfires and Heat Dome Cause Republicans to Get Religion on Climate Change

Of course that didn't happen. But the only thing preventing it is the sociopathic scumballs themselves. They could get up tomorrow and fight for every sensible thing and justice and decency everywhere.

But they won't. They'll wake up and fight for evil and inhumanity because they're hardened, committed, self-serving, lying worthless crooks. And that's just the way they are. And they are far from done.

Covfefe is My Copilot

Oh, for the days when we could still hope that Republicans weren't totally nuts and that we weren't fucked. The innocent days of covfefe, which morphed into so much impeachment-worthy behavior. A COVID response that got hundreds of thousands killed, the actual sacking of our Capitol by Trumpist goons and thugs, and the qualitative easing of every standard of behavior. 

It still goes on. 

And, the cause of all this is not only not in jail he's being protected by the Secret Service at our expense and making money off the whole atrocity. I believe in owning one's shit. But just being American comes with too much baggage to handle now. I need a break. Forgetfulness, and anything to get away from the piece of shit controlling our destiny and his disgraceful enablers. 

My recent stolen election count stands at 2000 and 2016. No doubt about the Republican mandate in those instances. It was negative. Decent people would have acknowledged it and governed appropriately. They declared victory and did whatever they wanted, the first guy even using the tragedy of 9/11 to put through disastrous partisan stuff. Including tax cuts on the rich, of course.

And wars the oil people and evangelicals had been salivating over. The second guy blew away every frame of reference. And not abstract shit in my book. What's a social contract among plunderers? A nuisance. Equal protection? How quaint! Tax cuts on the rich ensued, of course, the holy grail, raison d'être and categorical imperative for conservatives. People must be screwed. 

And here we are. Approaching another election cycle with a criminal degenerate leading the Republicans and openly promising all kinds of illegality. They absolutely love it. Burn the house down! With Democrats in it. Because they're traitors and deserve to die and the 'house' is the federal government which they pathologically hate. Because they are the Confederacy or rich capitalists. 

What century are we in? 

Bonfire of the Humanities

As we become the Confederacy again self destruction ensues. If white southerners had let up on black people everything would have been fine. It would have been great as blacks were allowed to enjoy life and make all the contributions they could. Which were enormous even with the oppression.

But, no. The idiots started a war that got them crushed. 

And black people were used for more than their labor. They were used to carry the burden of the darkness of puritanical denial. Calvinist denial, and its correlative projection of all of the humanity they can't own in their longing for perfection and utopia. They unloaded their shit on black people.

Then tried to make a bonfire out of them. A human sacrifice. We're there again, with the impurity they so dread (which is only human fallibility, imperfection, mortality and weakness) denied and unloaded onto Democrats, the new blacks. The new Jews. The new 'others.' The new whatever. 

Open season on us. The bonfires are burning again.

Over nothing. Human inadequacy. Pleasure and innocence. Fun. But denial makes the darkness huge. They hate innocence, thinking it a fraud. Unless you're dead. Which they crave. The blissful loss of consciousness. But nobody I know has reported back from there. The other side. Not to me. 

The enjoyment of life is an ongoing insult to their convictions. That it's shit, and a pit of temptation, sin and perversion, as the wonderful creator made it. I think it's the one thing we know we have. For sure. Creation. Life. We should live it and live in it. Immersively, joyously, as best we can.

And as long as we can. Time to get on with it. 

Fox's Friends

McCarthy's Republican House, if not the whole corresponding congressional faction down to the latest serf hired out of Patrick Henry or Hillsdale College, has become an arm of Fox News. A disinformation metaverse. A forest of lies and wildfire of fabricated allegations and ridiculous accusations.

They feed the beast. Democrats whine on endlessly about how it's all lies. Of course it is but that standard is gone now, so Republicans enjoy it tremendously. The reality of truth is so shot to pieces every indignant finger pointed at a flagrant falsehood contributes to reinforcing the fact of Republican domination. 

They have won. And it's the most disgusting shitshow of depravity the world has ever seen. Because there are no excuses. America's good fortune came with responsibilities. We were awash in resources. Life might have been hard at times but, certainly eventually, we had it easy. And the pigs rose up to rule.

Roll With It

Let's not forget how Republicans roll. Laissez-faire economics means boom-and-bust. They create financial crises. 

Then, they move in. The pressure is always on to disempower the government, thereby circumventing the will of the people.

But the really crazy shit they want to do is only possible in a crisis. Cripple or repeal Social Security? Not usually doable.

In a crisis, though, they will argue it's necessary, that we can't afford it anymore. Of course tax cuts we can always afford. 

After the '08 financial debacle they caused the big players who enabled it mostly walked away richer, after engineering their own bailout. 

How do you say, 'conflict of interest?' And right-wing extremism shot up. All is going according to plan. Create fear. 

Exploit fear. Seize or consolidate power. Fuck over the 'little people' so they can't rise up and kill your asses, which you deserve. 

Then, they move on. Leaving the wreckage for us to clean up. It will happen again.  We are on track. This is what they do. 

Republicans Cry Fowl

Republicans are claiming to be 'birds of a feather' that can 'flock together' as a constitutional right based on their beliefs. Accusations that those beliefs are racist or prejudicial makes an illegitimate judgment because no one can see into their souls, only God. Furthermore, any correlation with racial or other identities that adhere to matters of belief is incidental and cultural and nobody's business. 

This, of course, is the old freedom of association argument laundered and dressed up differently to be marketed as a justification for a new age of the exclusion of others from full participation in public life and their formal and informal disenfranchisement. Yet again, Republicans are arguing it's their constitutionally ensured right to think what they want, say what they want and so on. 

They say they can and should be able to decide for themselves what similarly self-determined groups of their fellow citizens they choose to associate with based on beliefs, habits or whims. If they have a religious belief in racial superiority nobody can say it isn't secondary to their insistence on personal standards and cultural correlations. Are Germans, Italians and the English not different? 

Of course, this doesn't take into account the rights of anyone but them and the interference with those prerogatives implied in their scheme. Everyone else can get fucked, and if they're stupid enough to buy into this scam it's their problem. Because it's not about individual freedom within an unbiased system. It's about power and privilege. They want the system on their side. To our detriment and exclusion.

The Great Charade

Oh, goodie, we're going to have another degraded reality show mess centered on Donald Trump but meanwhile the race is on to see who will be the first trillionaire and the rational betting is more about how far we'll go in seeing our democracy destroyed and how soon, not about whether it will happen. Because it's already happened to a shocking extent.

Trump's indictment is a sideshow. If something doesn't threaten the hegemony of big money it's a sideshow and nothing is threatening the hegemony of big money. Big money is getting bigger and bigger and our government is more and more owned by corporate interests. Trump's indictment is a charade. The little people are at one another's throats like never before.

In other words, the really rich people with all the power are getting everything they want. Don't celebrate Trump's indictment. We haven't even stopped going backwards. 

Haze From Turd Fires Consumes Country

An amazing haze from a Republican turd fire has covered the eastern U.S. with fecal smoke and ash. On Capitol Hill Republican representatives variously denied they were the source or, in the case of Lindsey 'Cracker' Graham, defended it as the result of the glorious bonfire of the bloated bureaucracy that has supported him his whole life while muttering other stuff about the deep state and emails and a laptop. 

Birth of Conservative Icon

Sunny White is set to join Kyle Rittenhouse, Ashley Babbit and George Zimmerman as a conservative hero and icon. She will no doubt be persecuted by the woke mob and progressives for exercising her constitutional right to kill or cause harm by predisposition, which she did beautifully by running over a young indigenous woman with her car. 

My Brush with Consequence

I always wanted to be inconspicuous. To belong. I think it was an ADD thing. I feared if I were put in charge of something I'd crash it while I was distracted. Or that if I were observed much I would be found out as a fraud. Up to a point I had no end of discipline and structure in school and I think I flourished, more or less, or in comparison with how I did later. 

Later, when the discipline and structure were removed, I crashed and burned. A single car accident, like running off the road, but I probably hurt some feelings and disappointed some people on the way. Here I chronicle that crash. And the compromised person that came out of it, crippled by shame, beset by doubt, and insecure. Insecurity's other side is arrogance. 

Can be. Compensatory arrogance. I did see and understand things other people didn't or couldn't. I don't know how. It didn't make me feel good or special or smart it made me miserable. I felt alone. Confused, isolated and indignant. How could they not see it? Wasn't it obvious? 

You can imagine how I've reacted to recent trends. Trump, the celebration and affirmation of everything awful. Everything shit. Too painful. Lose, lose, lose, lose, lose. Not a win in sight. Which is why, no doubt, the assholes are obsessed with winning. Real winners keep their heads down enjoy it and work to preserve it. For Americans not to feel like winners is just delusional. 

This is not a chronicle of facts or events but of feelings. No timeline. Who needs it? I got fucked up and I stayed fucked up, even with the awareness of it. I'm aware of it now and it does me no good. Shame is a bitch. It feeds on itself. You're screwed up so you do screwed up things and feel bad about it and I never got past it. Shit happens. And a whole life can play out like this. 

Texas Asshole Incensed Over Missed Opportunity to Destroy World

Chip (is that his 'Christian' name?) Roy, a notorious traitor and asshole from Texas, is extremely upset about the debt deal. Another opportunity to destroy the country has been lost. How many more times will the Confederacy see the final victory slip through its fingers?

Nothing if Not a Worm

Please don't credit Kevin McCarthy with anything. He's slithered himself into a safe space. What was good for the country had nothing to do with it. Principles or ideals had nothing to do with it. Decency had nothing to do with it, only crude ambition. I regret calling him a worm. Worms deserve better.