A Total Moral Eclipse, With Nukes

Look up at the sky and you'll see Trump's ass blotting out the sun. It will pass but what will be left? 

He Has A Grift

It's not that it all isn't a lie in the first place. Everything is a lie, in the sense that it's all an invention. It's a question of the quality of the lie. 

We've chosen bad lies. The lies of sick and paranoid people. Thieves and crooks. Is this what Trump represents or what life represents. 

Life. apparently. We carry too much baggage. Sooner or later the baggage wins. The baggage won with Trump. He's our evolutionary baggage. 

The World is Fiat

An abstract God can be as much a projection as an anthropomorphic one. Maybe more so, or an evolution of the conception of a god that kept up with increases in the human power to affect and control the environment. So the struggle played out over responsibiiity. 

If some god isn't acting on you to cause certain outsized behaviors then I guess we are responsible. Darn, that means we can't attack the world with abandon. Time to grow up. This gets embodied in the mythos as creativity in the sense of making something out of nothing. 

Fiat. Let there be whatever. Better tools. More crops. Armaments out the ass. Religion. This is the thing, the world is what we make it. Why fuck it up? Psychological baggage, apparently, which is what's so discouraging about Trump. We appear to fuck up no matter what.

Trump Licks Musk Butt

Now, this is interesting. And unforeseen. The guy with the greatest-ever record of getting people to lick his anus in about ten different ways is licking some ass himself, Musk butt. 

We're Off the Hook

I know the feeling. This is not us. Trump is not us. Musk is not us. No, it isn't us. It isn't America, in fact. It's the Confederacy. 

Elon Revealed

I remember when I realized people didn't give a shit how you got there once you won. This was always the puritanical cruelty at the heart of capitalist, consumerist America and the product or source of its fatalism. Notice the bandwagon effect building behind Trump and suddenly and simultaneously how racial justice is being abandoned. 

There's no reason for this, besides that bandwagon effect, but John Roberts must be thrilled beyond belief because it has been his specific project within the larger re-racification of America while claiming to do the exact opposite. That you can't fix racism with race consciousness (i. e. racism) has always been his core and defining belief. 

Which is as obviously wrong as it is abstractly right. 

The problem being a narrow, analytical focus removed from the circumstances and reality of the case. Try feeding your family on math. Directly. Something offends him, Roberts apparently, so you wish it away. The reality of course is that race consciousness is obviously the only way you can fix structural, systemic racial injustice. 

So Roberts reasoned himself into inconsistency and a conundrum because he's a purist and arrogant egotist. A perfectionist. Musk has a like outlook and drive, being a more profound kind of racist and supremacist, asserting himself as a race of one. That's to say, he's an inconceivable egotist and grifter. Like Donald Trump. The points converge. 

I don't sense racial animus in Trump or Musk. Their egotism and wealth renders it unnecessary. A person's worth is determined by their usefulness to them. People have no intrinsic worth, so no rights. Their 'rights' therefore change within the circumstances. Their rights re determined by circumstances. Or by whim, in other words. 

Because circumstances are determined by heroic characters like Trump and Musk whose existence and will is the only reality. They are gods, God, or a godhead, which of these it doesn't matter, since all power originates with and emanates from them. This is fundamentally infantile. The infantile god of perfect self-centeredness and need. 

There infinity meets up with annihilation. Creativity with destruction. Nothingness with infinite being and extent. All distinctions end there. Time and space are nothing. Will is everything. And what is will? To say rights or justice don't exist there misses the point. Existence doesn't exist there. There's no such framework of meaning. 

To say meaning doesn't exist has meaning. You get the point. Self refutation. Death. Trump and Musk embody a death wish. Musk is enamored of space. William Shatner was right in his observation, when he blasted off, that space is death. Nothingness. Musk is the emperor of Emerald City, over the rainbow -- unreality. Musk is death. 

They Do Care About Our Feelings

They want to hurt them.

These Were the Days

I feel like I live in the present and the future at the same time, because the future seems badly determined, predictable and unavoidable. Suffering awaits us. I understand better now why people sometimes roll the dice when things aren't that bad. 

Or anesthetize themselves in one of the usual ways. Because they feel the future is not good. That they're almost certainly fucked and the suspense is worse than anything. Worse than getting fucked now but while doing something. Anything. 

Loaves and Fishes

 I'm waiting for a loaves and fishes moment with Trump. He's a miracle worker, you know. 

Now They're Really Cooking With Gas

Republicans are really cooking with gas. It's more fossil fuelly. Burning shit. An actual open flame in your house. Combustion and stuff. They love it. And they're accusing Democrats of wanting to take away their gas. Which is true but not in the way they think. 

Two Hard Truths

Think of this as counseling. What are the hard truths Democrats have been failing to fully own and act on?  There are two, in each case because we don't want to think ill of people or be mean. So the problems are familial and more complex and not something we can readily walk away from, like dating an addict, for example, and being unable to pull the plug on the relationship. 

Which is hard but relatively uncomplicated. 

And if you wonder what's hard about that you haven't been there. But walking away is not as complicated as, let's say, being married to a drunken, abusive spouse when there are kids. The kid thing cuts both ways. There are innocent parties involved who can't reasonably control their own circumstances, so more motivation and a greater responsibility but more logistical difficulty.

We have family members who are nuts and abusing us and the kids. It's the South. We have never been one country. The slave states have held us hostage from the start. All the provisions that make our country ungovernable now and enable us to be held hostage by a minority trace to them. They were that original minority. And they fixed it so the Yankees could never overpower them.

Unless they were defeated in a war. A fucking war. Sit with that. And then they still didn't give up. And they still haven't given up. In fact they have won. Look at everything Republicans stand for. It's the South. He died but the Republican Party is still the party of Lee Atwater. Scorched earth. Because it worked. All the lies and nastiness won elections.  Do I need to argue this point?

I don't think so. Not after Trump. Trump is all about nullification. Nullification means lawlessness, and the benefits of a reasonably orderly society without the responsibilities. That's the South. Freeloaders. Take Texas, a state with its head totally up its ass because they pumped their wealth out of the ground. To feed their egos they then lied. That they were the real men. Right. 

Like the morons who started the Civil War, they leave out, and got the balls of all the southern white boys handed to them by the Yankees. This is what it's about. They lead the world in false pride. Maybe not now because of the Taliban but you get the point. It's an honor culture, the most dishonorable thing ever. The Fugitive Slave Law sums up the South -- nullification until the Yankees do it. 

The law must not be equitably enforced, with Trump as my witness. 

I said there were two things. And, given the severity of the first, what does it tell you that I tremble at the second? Democratic white women, the abortion absolutists, have no political sense, and they control the messaging of the Democrats. Then white women vote for Republicans. Not the same white women, obviously. But still they insist on talking about 'women' as though it's a voting bloc. 

It isn't. Look at Trump. White women voted for him a third time after Roe was toast. The LGBT association is an outgrowth of women's rights, I think. So white women gave us the political disaster of 'woke' and the rest. Not that we shouldn't have stood for these things but you don't make them the unrelenting content of your messaging, ceding 'freedom' to the enslavers.

The white women I've observed politically were fine with chivalry when it meant white men giving into them when they were full of shit, maybe the biggest 'yes, honey' in history. I've seen it in my very blue community, white men effectively told they needed to shut up because, well, they're men. Which is racist. I say to white women please shut the fuck up. Go to the back on troop.

Democratic white women, weirdly, became Puritans.

Self-righteous, strident, utopian, accusatory moral bean counters. When have we last heard women in general and as a movement saying, basically, we still have some problems but we're some the luckiest people in history? I haven't heard it. All they talk about is what's wrong and what they want. And they're surprised people got sick enough of the complaining to vote for Trump? 

Case closed, I think, and it's too late now. We have the most horrific leadership imaginable, the exact shit that got us WWII and the Holocaust, horrific racism and rogue, laissez-faire capitalism. And Democrats are still not getting it. I give up. The damage is done. This therapy is after the breakup. The abusers have moved own, victorious in their complete lack of accountability. Nobody won. 

The Torch Is Being Passed

Having only a billion dollars is beginning to seem quaint among the Republican ultra-elite. Do they vaporize at some point into pure essence because a mortal body can no longer contain such stupendous excellence? Something must happen, a kind of phase change. Consider Musk.

His wealth is simply exploding. They're eating the world. If a billion dollars is incomprehensible, which it is, where is Musk? How does his frame contain him? Something will have to give, I believe, and not necessarily on his end. Maybe it's the world that will vaporize as they suck it in. 

Musk and his kind, I mean. And poor Ramaswamy, with only a billion or so, how does he keep from being incorporated into Musk by proximity, a little moon to Elon's gaseous Jupiter? How is Vivek not distorted and elongated, so to speak, by the force and gravity of Musk's greatness?

And now the torch is being passed to them, in Kennedy's phrase, and little did we know it could be used to burn everything down. Because we're all waste and cosmic detritus in the Muskian scheme. Worthless beings needlessly sucking up resources or inhabiting bogus, place-keeping jobs.

Jobs that were invented to justify paying us when we're essentially superfluous. We can disappear, apparently, by absorption, distribution or dissolution and not leave a trace, a curious thing for conscious beings. I wonder what that feels like. But Musk and his kind are not mere mortals. 

We were part of a science experiment. A perverse God's lab rats from an evangelical perspective. Musk and the ultra-rich were discovered to be superior. The elect, by virtue of genetics or whatever, or chosen by God. In any case, Musk has been found with scientific certainty to be a super-rat. 

You see. people have no inherent value. No Lives Matter! But what if it had been a different experiment, selecting for different traits. Musk might have lost. Tough shit, Musk and Vivek are saying. It is what it is. Look at how perfectly arbitrary Vivek's firing fantasy is. That shows it's godly.

And they are gods. Arbitrariness is their prerogative. That's way the universe works. 

Winners and losers. But what if the lesser lab mice band together and assert themselves? That might keep a Musk up at night. So they must be destroyed, disempowered or killed and disposed of. That's what this is about, not that Musk knows it. He still has a brain stem and survival instincts.

In spite of his massive cortex. And that unconscious shit is still in play, compelling him to try to annihilate the masses of lesser beings. Meaning us. So he wants to stop wasting resources on us if we aren't making him money somewhat directly. As for indirectly, he doesn't go there. 

The net result is the same. Everything for him. Nothing for us. And the implications of that are coming to us all. They can't wait, they're so impatient to wield all that wonderful power. Because it feels good. It comes down to that, all of it. It's what the rich want. To run everything. Forever.

I Saw Mommy Shtupping Santa Claus

Not much of a Christmas present for me. I don't care what they give me now. I bet I'll be screwed up for life by this. They better endow a fund for some counseling. At least they were having a good time. Not exactly thinking about me, were they. But Merry Christmas to y'all, anyway. 

Completely Backwards

Republicans want to turn the economy totally loose which results in inconceivable inequity and suffering. And then they want to regulate the hell out of our private lives and disallow behaviors that don't hurt anybody and even make society more accepting and humane. It's completely backwards. 

Kidnapped!

Brothers, I believe that I was kidnapped by Reaganites. They seemed to think they were doing me a favor, that I was some savage in need of culture, economic opportunity, religious and moral guidance and maybe a bath. You would think I was an obvious aborigine -- hairy, illiterate and unrefined. 

Damn, I was an American! An American citizen going back generations. You couldn't make this shit up. And they seemed to think they were Americans, but of a type unfamiliar to me. They would have been thought primeval by the Founding Fathers, I mean. These Reaganites were the savages.

Though they dressed okay. Better than I did, really, like fucking Mormons, or whatever they're calling themselves now as if that isn't its own kind of woke. Anyway, they were kind of naive and paternal but you didn't want to cross them, especially on economic issues. They were nuts about that.

Some kind of aborigines themselves, of a free market variety, just insane about it. You couldn't talk to them on the topic. They engaged in obvious magical thinking, going on all the time about self-regulation and an 'invisible hand' as though the invisible part shouldn't have clued them in. But, no. 

They were too far gone. Total cultists. I tell you this, friends, so that you can be on the lookout, though it seems they might have taken over the country and supplanted lawful authority. To judge from the stuff that's on the radio, anyway, the most unbelievable lies. And ditto on some news channel. 

To which they are addicted. It's on all the damn time. It will drive you nuts, though they do have some babes on there, some with oddly unchristian names and attitudes to match. The shit will drive you out of your mind and threaten your sanity and equilibrium, it's so heavy on the fear. They’re scared as shit.

Over an invasion, completely ... made ... up. 

Mexicans, Mexicans, Mexicans. And there's Mexicans everywhere already in the trades and living openly and as though the Reaganites never eat and enjoy a burrito. They love them and know the whole takeout vocabulary down to stuff I've never eaten. Watch out for them, brethren. They're out of their minds. 

And, please, come and get me out of here. 

Highly White Goober Contests Election

North Carolina used to be thought of as a progressive southern state. Progressive by southern standards. But then the white boys rose up like the Taliban and took control, thereafter earning national attention for the stupid, backward, bigoted spin they put on North Carolina politics, ending in their running obviously low character extremists for office and even the massive buffoon Mark Robinson for governor.

It shouldn't be a surprise, however, that the state that sent Mark Meadows and Madison Cawthorn to Congress continues to shit itself in state elections, most recently when highly white boy and salted goober Jefferson Griffin contested his loss to Allison Riggs. Republicans have shown a competitive drive in North Carolina combined with spirited self-righteousness and a childishly obvious willingness to cheat.

The usual southern combination of moral certitude, ignorance and nastiness, in other words. They've been especially pioneering in disenfranchising Democrats, sometimes in clever, underhanded ways but more recently by brute force, revealing themselves as electoral thugs and lawless aggressors. So it is with Jeffy. He probably thinks God is on his side, again like the Taliban, so whatever he does it is righteous.

Murder in Mesopotamia

This is going to be the shortest mystery ever. Bush did it. 

But it raises questions of a new kind of mystery, where it's solved at the start because the evidence is so overwhelming. The mystery is how to bring the perp to justice. Maybe it began with the O. J. trial. Such a glut of evidence, the trial got muddled. The defense did what you do when you're guilty as shit.

You attack the system. When the dream team got done a new standard was in place, in that courtroom at least -- perfection. These are the Democrats, subject to perfection. Republicans attacked the system and a standard of purity was applied to Democrats. Republicans are Simpson. Guilty as shit Simpson. 

Bush left a criminal wreckage behind him we'll never be able to catalog, and it's ongoing. Incalculable harm. But, Hillary's emails! Hunter Biden's anything! And Afghanistan, where Trump initiated a pullout and Joe Biden is now somehow responsible. Trump, the habitual, compulsive, murderous criminal. 

Who's about to be in charge again, of an already hopelessly corrupt and biased system. The mystery is how the fuck do we hold them accountable. Nobody has figured it out. The thing is too rigged. Remember Bush's surveillance state, targeting national threats. Like Democrats, according to Herr Donald. 

Welcome to the new America. 

This Is (Not) Who We Are

Oh, yes it is. It is and it isn't. America was never one country. The South and the pro-southern lands settled in the west, and then the rest of us. We thought, ultimately, that what we thought of as American values we just that, and enjoyed some level of national acceptance. 

Wrong! The South, and especially the evangelical Christians residing there, saw things differently. As long as they were left alone to practice their apartheid we could maintain the illusion of a national consensus, at least on the critical things. Desegregation ended that for good.

And the South rose again. The stench of racism and hate is everywhere. This was us, and it wasn't. Through the Southern Strategy, as it's called, the South has taken over the country, at first being used by the old Republican elite. But now they've demanded their due. 

Which was everything we see that makes the country unrecognizable to us. 

The Neoplatonic Trump

To put Trump in a philosophical context. he is either the source of being, pure and unsullied, or he has mystical access to the realms of perfection and is a magus, seer and shaman. As such his word is law. HE IS NOT TO BE DOUBTED OR CHALLENGED. This, above all, is the rule.

Any such challenge is anathema, heresy, sacrilege and blasphemy. All power originates with and emanates from Trump. He exists outside of space and time and is immortal. His body, understand, may pass and decay or ascend, it doesn't matter. His spirit is timeless, divine and incorruptible. 

Whereas you are shit. 

You can't know Trump apart from mystical persuasion or insight. WHICH IS NOT SUBJECT TO RATIONAL QUESTIONING OR ANALYSIS. So shut the fuck up and behave. Your life depends on Trump, the source of all meaning and being. Don't be fooled by appearances. You must believe.

Truth and Consequences

Apparently, telling the truth in America might get you the firing squad. Why was Alexander Vindman chosen by Musk, before turkey-feasting with Trump, and not, let's say, Cassidy Hutchinson? We see here what Trump meant that he would take care of women, not that they have rights.

No, of course not. Rights are conferred by Lord Trump and they last as long as they last. He meant he would spare them in his infinite, if somewhat capricious and unpredictable, mercy. And Trump is nothing if not merciful. Shouldn't everyone who testified against him be shot? Of course. 

And, basically, all Democrats. What forbearance! Trump is nothing if not the master of self-restraint. How does he contain himself when all around him are so worthless, imbecilic and inferior? How does he muster the mood control? Excellence of character, we know by observation. 

But the righteous wrath of Trump is not to be tried or messed with, nor his kindness and tolerance taken for granted. Walk in fear. Americans, of the retribution and judgment of Trump. Be grateful for every day of his restraint, because he is your master. And don't you fucking forget it. 

The Washington Witch Trials (Temporarily Housed at Mar-a-Lago)

I always recommend listening to Republicans. For literalists the messages are weirdly encoded but they're there. Trump's 'witch hunt' was as much a thing as Clarence's 'high tech lynching' which didn't occur. But Clarence was a lyncher and the Trump crowd are puritans going after 'woke' and 'cancel culture' as though these exist, just like witchcraft. They imagine them. 

But they're real. In their minds. They're more real for having the advantage of being imagined, and so not subjected to reality checks. Musk and Ramaswamy are already, a couple of months away from installation, fantasizing about witches they will burn in a carnival of sadism -- innocent government employees. Musk now by name. He's naming them on Xitter. 

If this isn't a sue-able offense it should be. No wonder they are against legal recourse for injuries. Injurers would be -- as power-crazed sadists and egomaniacal monstrosities. But they're almost ensconced and will need to be dealt with. After some carnage, I fear, but it would be nice to keep it under half-a-million, to use Trump's toll as the new benchmark of accountability.

What's a few hundred thousand lives among friends, after all. 

Twisted Mister

One thing is becoming clear, that Trump was so bad in his first term memory couldn't do him justice. But the reminders are beginning, and those feelings coming back -- the disgust, the horror, the fear. 

Ridin' the Range

America's COVID cowboy is back. Donald Trump, hero of the epidemic, was above all a real man. A decider. Real men just do shit. They act. Like in the Apprentice. They react, like asking about who voted for you in determining whether to turn loose the government's resources to ravaged cities.

That's a real man, the complete and self-contained center of his world. And Trump is set to ride again, another cattle drive, of the brainless beasts that elected him. And the innocents who lost, as well, because they can't opt out. Trump's power must be wielded to be real. To him, the fucking moron.

Coronation Balls

When Trump is crowned I bet it will be his balls. They'll crown his balls. I'll leave the technical and logistical details to the experts but, worst case, I expect it will be a bejeweled dick ring.

Or some scrotum thing. I'm not up on this stuff. His head, after all, is vacant. Not much up there. And the hair? More dame material than duke. Dame Donald has a certain ring, but later on that. 

We have an investiture to deal with. I'll talk to the royals. 

My contacts among them. Meanwhile we're left with a dick as a symbol of American majesty. It doesn't work for me but I didn't vote for him. And that hood ornament of a hairdo. What do we do ...

I have a cold and I smashed my finger ...

and I want somebody to care.

The Other America

I buy a lot of stuff on eBay. I love eBay. Partly because it's often recycling -- buying used things -- but also it's personal. Ultimately often a transaction between two individuals, especially if I have a choice.

People bust their asses to please you. This is the other America, the real, real America. I bet I'm buying from a lot of Republicans, because they've been screwed worse by the people they elect than we have. 

They're probably scrounging around more to make ends meet.

And they bust their asses to do you right, presumably because there's accountability. Otherwise they live in a world of lies, concocted by their political leaders for personal gain. Out of greed and power lust.

It was all lies -- invented problems. imaginary grievances, scapegoating and animosity. There are always challenges but ours were not bad. We could have easily been fine, but that didn't suit the money people. 

So they played the 'little people' off against one another, a classic ploy. And now we're at war with one another. Over nothing. Invented shit. But he rich are raking it in -- wallowing in it. They have won. 

Some tiny fraction of the electorate. And the rest of us have lost.

That Dog Bites

Ramaswamy, Musk, Trump -- these are dogs that bite. The hand that feeds them, our hand. The society that enabled their wealth. Collectively, created their wealth. 

Those privileged punks.

And what do we get in return. Insults. We're told we deserve nothing. No healthcare. No security. No jobs. No respect. Now they plan celebratory firings. A human sacrifice.

And punitary deportations, for the hell of it. It's time for the hand to bite back. They despise the people who enabled their wealth. We remind them of their dependency. 

Taking One (Up the Ass) for the Team

Trump's minions are all lined up to take it up the ass. It's a carnival of degradation. 

Do Not Reply: This Is Notice Your Constitutional Rights Have Been Cancelled

Your Constitutional rights have been revoked and cancelled. Sorry about that. But, really, I mean to say, tough shit. Because it was done by Trump, and the point is to tell you to fuck off, eat shit, and die.

The Bootlickers Ball

Will there be a big celcbration, coronation balls and the like, at Trump's second installment or are they too eager to dig in on the deportations? We will see. 

The big ticket will be the Bootlickers Ball if there are such fetes. In Trumpworld the higher up you go the more you have to grovel. And grovel they will. 

Bubble Babies

Trump Admin II is appearing as a haven for bubble babies -- spoiled nepo grifters, speculators, private equity plunderers and assorted arrivistes. 

Having ridden the wave of easy money they want to lock in their status. And better to rule in hell than serve in heaven. Hell in this scenario is for us. 

Trump: SVU

Donald Trump's Special Victimization Unit is taking shape. Musk and Ramaswamy are planning layoffs. Medicaid and SNAP are under fire. Holman and Miller are salivating over deportation plans. 

And this is only the beginning. They arent even installed yet and the anxiety is setting in. Their lust for suffering is in the air. And Trump's vengeance is clearly going be the soul of his administration. 

Hunt and Peck Is Coming

Freedom is just another word ...  Hunt and peck is coming for all of us, as a way of life. As a way of making a living, anyway. We're moving from table scraps to chicken feed, as part of the 'shareholder' economy because Republicans have willed it. 

In it, if you don't have shares you don't exist. And, since Republicans think the free market is the model for everything, they put our government up for sale -- the thing in which we're all supposed to have shares. A stake. Not any more. Not voting shares, anyway.

We can still vote, but it doesn't mean anything. Citizens United saw to that. Since election results are binary tipping the scales amounts to voicelessness. Disenfranchisement. As for the economy, now for civic rights. The vestiges of enfranchisement persist. 

We'll be tolerated and maintained because we make the capitalists money, indirectly. They divert it from the normal flows, adding nothing but taking ever more. What happens when we don't pay? Good question. Profit maximizations dictates we be gone. 

We are expendable. Expensable. A write-off. But that would look bad. Hunt and peck, however, will afford cover. We'll be living on chicken feed. 

Many Moons Ago

Trump has been showing us his ass forever. We're mighty familiar with the sight. And once was too much. More is expected, as the opportunity has arisen.

The perp is unevolved. He hasn't grown up, ever or at all. He's gotten worse. We didn't think it possible, but here we are. There's a bad moon on the rise. 

The Vicar of Wokefield

I want to say to you, my children, and as your pastor, that you have served a master and look where it got you, You served the master of woke and look where you are. You've lost and suffered harm and it isn't over. That isn't to say the master meant you harm. 

 

The master was weak, deceptive, and might have been looking out for his interests or been deluded. The master was a Puritan. A utopian and blind to his own failings and weaknesses. None of us are without sin. And self-righteousness doesn't win many friends. 

Nor accusations. I know you don't think of yourselves in this way. It sounds more like the opposition, doesn't it? And maybe you were only fighting back, using the tools that had been used against you, for years and successfully. But theirs is not your audience. 

Which is our strength. It's unwise to betray it, even in the frustration of our powerlessness. We must be better but also realistic. There are dark days ahead and we are imprisoned. We must reform. Look to ourselves. Others can look out for their own reformation.

It's not our responsibility. 

Our first responsibility is to us. Ourselves. To witness to the truth. To do so we mustn't lose sight of it, in the bustle of politics and the chaos of battle. Our souls are at stake. In our investment or interest in the salvation of others our own lives are our witness. 

Dancing With the War Criminals

Sometimes it's the littler things, like Tom DeLay going on Dancing With the Stars and George Bush painting portraits of young men whose lives he destroyed, that get to you. Normalization has been going on all along. It really kicked in when our baggage began busting out of the closets and floating up from the storm drains. Shit that wasn't meant to be seen forcing us to look at it. See me ...

The usual methods of denial and compartmentalization weren't enough. Rationalizations were still of some use. And normalization complements rationalization. You see it but you don't, finding a way to accept it or detoxify it. You become numb to it. It feels okay. The proper responses of outrage and indignation are kept down. Distraction also helps, so shit can be normalized in a distracting way.

Outrages get relocated into the realm of entertainment where loser Uncle Heinrich competes with Captain Kangaroo and Mister Green Jeans. Uncle Adolf with Mister Rogers. And, because they're nuts, they win. The edgier shit wins. It's a scary day in the neighborhood with Democrats beating off in the bushes so be careful. Democrats sacrifice babies, you know, in the basement of the pizza place. 

Suddenly Uncle Heinrich isn't a loser anymore he's running concentration camps for Democrats. People are ostracized. Innocence is quarantined so the corruption isn't corrupted. So that lies aren't assaulted by the truth. Diseases are cunning. Read about rabies. Try to get your head around it. While you were distracted the world flipped upside down, and nobody signed off on it. It just happened.

Incrementally. And we're left with Tom DeLay, who should be universally loathed and liked like vomit, still living on in good circumstances. Unpunished. And there are legions of these people, who are incredibly invested in ensuring accountability never comes knocking at the door. And the legions are growing. Hordes of Trumpers. Genghis and Attila hordes. They were already among us. 

The Traveling Dingleberries

Donald Trump's band is taking shape. Every member a piece of shit. 

Counting Crowbars

I've been arguing, pretty much, that resistence is futile. Not to be discouraging, which it is, but out of realism. Practicality. Our adversaries understood leverage. How many crowbars equal a nuke? 

And they've got nukes. Political nukes. In addition to the guy with the football soon to be following Trump around again. Though, enough crowbars and you've got a nuke. But it's a lot of crowbars. 

Real Men Don't Wear MAGA

The hats and shit. Because it's a sign of submission. And other bad stuff I don't want to get into. Because it's too fucking depressing right now. 

In This Society I Don't Want to Be a Winner

The complicity is bad enough already, and it's too painful to be a loser. The homeless aren't complicit. But the complicity runs through the system. Even most of the losers are complicit, I should say. If you can buy food or anything you're complicit. So I'll try to limit that. The buying. 

And I'm glad I'm not a winner. My God it would be nice if there were a God. One that judged. It's the only way I can see there will ever be a reckoning, and the big winners get their due, which I would like to see. Some justice. Just a little. But I wouldn't see it. Still, it would be good. 

What Do Lackeys Lack?

Protection. The Lackeys think they've bought protection with their souls and they haven't. Because the kinds of people in the market for souls aren't known for their integrity. And it's pretty much a rule that those who sell their souls always get nothing in the end. 

They only get to sit in the glow of the real power. Giving them any actual power might backfire, like the mafia. Because it is the mafia. But the Republicans' goons don't see it. Or, they don't care because they're desperate. Because Republicans made them desperate. 

That's the great chain of being, Republican style. Also known as hell. 

Lindsey Graham Gets His Head Stuck Up Trump's Ass

I've been thinking about the New York Times and how they might get a grip on things seeing how the Onion has been better at it for some time. I'll admit the Onion has an advantage because the material requires a satirical approach. 

Hence the headline above, which conveys more about Lindsey than traditional reporting and his position in relation to Trump and the state of Lindsey's soul and his eating habits. It's truer. And interesting. I mean, does Trump's rectum reek cheeseburger? 

Inquiring minds, you know. And, were the jaws of life required to get his head out? Did the EMTs work it on the spot or did they require transport? Was Trump able to walk with Lindsey up his ass? A witness has said he was incredibly imbedded.

So the idea is for the Times to buy the Onion and have an 'Onion Day' every week, maybe Wednesday. Nothing but satire, to balance things out. There's lots and lots of material but little thematic variation. How many ways are there to kiss ass?

So there will have to be articles with a strong human interest angle to keep it real. 'How Ass-kissing Killed My Marriage' 'What To Do About Chapped Ass' 'Does Ass-kissing Constitute an In-kind Transaction' And 'How To Conquer Ass Breath' 

These will be a foil to the Times's usual coverage, which was widely deemed to favor the sociopathic candidate because it was more or less impossible to convey the truth of it/him without scatological reference or appearing biased. Which they were. 

In effect, in favor of the sociopath. Oh, well. Last time the death toll stayed below a million. Excess COVID deaths. Not too bad. Sometimes being responsible requires that you take sides. And they didn't. Not enough. Well, fuck them forever. 

And let's try a little satire. 

Thinking You're Right

Thinking you're right or your opinions have more weight because of group affiliation or association is racist. Sound like anybody we know? 

White women? White women have insisted on control of the messaging of Democrats. Not just abortion but in identity politics generally. 

Because they're racist. And the damage has been done. White women voted for Trump a third time. They voted twice for Bush. And not for Biden. 

It's time to shut the fuck up. girls. Just don't bother showing up anymore. The game is over. We have the worst government imaginable. 

And you voted for it. 

Despoil! Plunder! Despoil!

Looking for a theme for Trump Presidency II. I think I think I found it. It's plunder. Possibly also murder and mayhem but those would occur secondarily or to satisfy evangelical bloodlust. But among those in the immediate orbit it's going to be about money. The taking of money. And then they'll run. 

They know this can't go on. That the music will stop. And they want to get everything they can before then. It's a huge point of pride. To come out on top. John Paulson is a horrible person. Apparently a piece of shit. But he did that thing. Anticipated the 2008 downturn and made a huge killing. 

They revere that more than it's possible to express. I want to get some entertainment out of it anyway. Plunderdome, is what I have in mind. Run by Donald's friends in the MMA business. And the man himself was a reality show. Hell, he still is. I'm only asking for a little return for the masses in an arena shoe. 

Like in the good old days. Christians v. lions and shit. 

Animal Spirits

Animal spirits are at play. You can feel them and Trump isn't even back in the White House yet. Birds. Maybe birds. Vultures waiting to feast on the corpse of America. 

The Scent of Musk

Already the scent of musk, originally derived from secretions of a deer gland so named because it resembled a scrotum, is hanging about Trump Admin II. The current Musk is mostly synthetic, having originated from artifacts of field-grazing among South African hyper-capitalists. Nonetheless it is real, and the scent essential if not as pungent as sometimes thought. 

An essential in Trump-world, where its primal associations are coveted. The whiff of darkies working and dying in the mines. The aroma of sweat, an air of despair, and overhanging all the electrifying energy of knowing one white guy is making obscene profits -- the ultimate adrenaline jolt and aphrodisiac -- from all that suffering. Those lashing galley slaves would be envious. 

Power. It's all about power. The raw feel of it. The primal experience of it, with the special edge of its reliance on human suffering. On death. Man, it's so primal. Such a rush. You must feel it, imagine it, to understand the lure of Trump-world. And the role of Musk, owner of the biggest money-dick in the world, plays into it. In its intoxicating effects. The scent of Musk. 

The closer the proximity to power the more it smells of Musk. 

Not To Be Alarmist ...

But we have to look at what's happening here. MAGA is going to have complete control of the government. They believe, and have convinced their supporters, that Democrats have forfeited their rights of citizenship. Open season on us. The military is heavily infected with MAGA. And the last civilians in the world you want have military grade weapons have them. 

There is hatred in the air, MAGA is claiming a mandate they don't have, and these are the good times. To the extent they aren't it's the fault of Republicans. What happens if we have a downturn, depression, another pandemic or a some bad, climate related problems. People begin to suffer. There's civil unrest and anger at the 'elites,' who are perceived to be Democrats.

Because the idiots have been hopelessly indoctrinated by right wing media, though Republican money men are really controlling everything behind the scenes. Unlike the moronic loser Trump they don't seek attention. But Trump is in control. If Democrats who didn't vote for him were threatened by marauding bands of rednecks and militia what do you think would happen? 

The gun-toters presumably voted for Trump. We know the answer. Previously the question was always did they vote for me. But there were constraints. People around Trump who worked to curb his worst impulses. That will not be the case again. The government will be effectively MAGAfied. The military probably not but in a tough spot. Trump will indulge his impulses. 

Those around him will comply. It's what they're there for. Do we understand the horror of this? I think many people do. Others, more vaguely so, but they are still scared. This alone is a violation of their rights, and they've probably been living with it for some time. But it's way worse now. I hear people can't sleep, they're so sick with worry. And nothing has even happened yet.

I don't blame them. It's an entirely reasonable fear. I'm not saying I think any of this will happen. But that it's remotely possible is bad enough. And there's one aspect I'm sure of. Trump will use the government against his 'enemies.' He'll feel justified. They used it against him. Or so he thinks. 'Trumped up charges' might have different associations after this. We'll see.

But he's gonna do it. The weaponization. And no one will stop him. Get a lawyer. People say he's a malignant narcissist. I see an infant. Maybe it's infantile narcissism. Just as a baby needs to feel the center of his mother's life Trump needs to feel he's the center -- of the world. Or he throws a fit. I don't actually sense much animus in him. Racism, sexism or whatever. 

Anybody who will kiss his ass is welcome. But if you're not attractive don't stand near and stay out of the pics. Unfortunately, however, Trump has no conscience. At all. He could get millions of people killed and not care. They were probably all his enemies. Lots of them out there. Of this I feel certain -- he will use the government against the people. It's plenty bad enough. 

Never Trust a Redneck

Americans are finding out what some of us who live there have known for a long time, that southern white people might be the worst people in the history of humanity. So much was given to them, so little was expected in return, and now they're trying to destroy everything. 

The MAGA Pain Trust

Republicans have always had a pain trust. For years I thought it it was exemplified by Paul Ryan who, from his kegger days in college, had wanted to screw his fellow citizens, those who were deemed to fall below his idol Ayn Rand's idea of heroic humanity. Never mind that Ryan sucked off the state his whole life and married well. He still sucks. Like Mitch McConnell, come to think.

Real men shamelessly play the system. Their contempt must be reserved for those who don't do it well, who aren't cynical and greedy enough, to reach the private jet level maybe, but MAGA is about to take care of that. With huge firings. I'm not sure the working people who voted for Trump were paying attention. The billionaires were, but that's another story. Trump is coming after the Civil Service. 

With the kind of indifference to human suffering only MAGA can muster. And the working class morons who voted for Trump can't see it, that he couldn't care less about working people. He's used them now, possibly for the last time, so we'll see. Maybe Vance will try to spare them because he'll still need their votes, but they're cannon fodder to Trump. Cannon fodder in the culture wars. 

Which are mutating around and it will be interesting to see where they end up. Authoritarianism is a given. They all want that. Beyond it though there are divisions. Evangelicals at the nutcase end, and at the end of the nutcase end evangelicals who want to blow up the world to see Jesus and think Trump is destiny. But none of the factions really give a shit about working people. 

Pragmatic conservatives got their free trade. They're rolling in dough. They don't need the workers. The old money never gave a shit so ditto. We're primed for a bloodbath of the underclass. And Trump is bringing in some heavies. Like Stephen Miller who like to see suffering. Homan. Little Marco Rubio. Stefanik. And there will be others, characterized by a belief in creative destruction. 

Disaster capitalism. Because they don't get destroyed. They're making out like the fucking bandits they are. Total fucking crooks. All okay in MAGA world. Okay and good. Man as created by God. Base, purposeful and degraded. Discipline lifts them up. The same thing that lifts them up at home, dictatorial power, makes them good at business, also, they think. So it all works out.

Nor really. I only works out for them. Notice, in their version of it, there is no risk. To them. It's all a lie and a scam. The only motivation is to win. To beat us up. To put us down. Which they have. And they're loving it. 

Every Man an Oligarch

It was the promise of the Trump campaign. Every man would rule in his house again. Remasculation. From the guys who gelded them in the first place. The people who sent their jobs to China and fucked their wages. Wow, they got scammed. Out of their manhood. Way to go, boys. 

Never Never Enough Land

That would be the U. S. A. Nothing is ever enough. 

A Marcia Clark Moment?

Evidently Marcia Clark thought the black women on the O. J. jury might identify, as women, with Nicole Brown Simpson. I wondered at the time if Marcia knew any black women but even if not her inability to understand this made me wonder, what the hell is she doing as an attorney? 

The same thing, it seems, as white women in America. Misjudging their audience. Failing to read the room. Having their heads up their asses. Jesus fell a third time, and the white women of America voted for for Trump for a third time. Then got crucified. Which you can only do once.

The white women carry on. Nevertheless, they persist. White women, with their heads up their asses, still talking identity politics. And a whole lot of suffering will be the result. Thanks again, white women. 

Racism and Self-Righteousness Cloaked as Empathy

It has to be said. White women are a political disaster. There is no sisterhood. No voting bloc. And their morality is compromised by believing they're right because they're women. 

That white men should shut up and go soak their heads. White women thinking they're right or better by group affiliation is racist. As a kind of kindism. Call it genderism. I don't give a fuck. 

But white women voted for Trump a third time. So they should shut the fuck up. And release their hold on the Democratic Party. Get over their entitlement and assumptions of superiority.

What they try to pass off as empathy looks like a lot of bullshit to me. An excuse to claim the moral high ground. Before going out and voting for Trump again. So shut the fuck up.

Trump Arrested for Treason

Biden has Trump coming to the White House. I hope he'll do his duty and have Trump arrested for treason. If nothing else, I'd like for Trump to see a scaffold erected on the lawn when he comes.

Conservative Victimization

Conservatives' feelings of victimization are real. Authoritarians feel victimized when they're deprived of the authoritarian hierarchical structures without which they are lost. They react strongly to invented problems like 'woke' and 'cancel culture' because these intrude on their brand. Intrusions by people who have actually been victimized -- by conservative constructs that permit and encourage exploitation. Conservatives see competition as natural and inevitable and competing has consequences.

So those people on whom conservatives go off are only fighting back. There are winners and losers to conservatives and those who don't see this are idiots and sentimentalists. Note the insulting tone, relating to the competitive outlook. Take no prisoners! All of that nastiness began with conservatives.

Conservatives invented cancellation. As authoritarians it's part of their identity. I don't belittle it -- that they feel victimized. But they're operating out of a framework that assumes victimization and strict hierarchical organization with limited opportunity to change your status or situation. So, for example, they aren't only comfortable with inherited wealth they want to see its effects enhanced. Death to the 'death tax!' Marketing this takes balls. Or blindness. 

But it's their idea of social justice. No kidding. Similarly, progressives don't underatand this, at all, especially in affluent cultures. They are as dumbfounded by people who seem to want to limit their own freedoms as conservatives are by people who don't need to have a place in a hierarchy to feel safe. And security is a huge concern for conservatives because their authoritarianism is universal and not culturally determined. It's innate. There are people out there who want to dominate you. 

To conquer you. To enslave you and tell you what to do, so they just shit their pants over nonexistent threats. Like Sharia Law, as though that was a viable thing. It would be laughable if shit like this and similar absurdities didn't get traction. But they do because of conservative media. Which is an echo chamber and, though the observation is trite, its status as a cliche works against keeping in mind 'echo' means amplification. A positive-feedback doom-loop ending in insanity. 

So this is a culture of fear. Irrational fear, allowing that there are genuine threats. Guess what those are. Other authoritarians, to begin with. Add it up and you have a cultural self-destruct. Addiction to unreality. An unreality of imagined threats and hidden forces that are after you. This last farce of an election was a genuine tragedy. A win for a delusional view of the world that could get us all killed. I repeat, there are real, irreducible threats out there. But those taking us down are internal. 

Reality might suck sometimes, and I take a break from it when I can, but habitual unreality is worse. The road to every kind of awful problem. Delusions have more animus behind them because of their roots in fear. Reality is always under revision. Because of change. Conservatives resist change -- the point of 'conservatism' -- so, again, the roots in unreality are deep. Delusions can live in an immutable place. Beacause it's a fiction. A fantasy. And a sick one, in this case. 

The progressive view doesn't disallow conservatives' social structures. It encourages them, believing in freedom and diversity as a default, up to the point it impinges on the freedoms of others. Conservatives don't recognize this qualification. If they can limit your freedom and enhance theirs in the deal they win and you lose. Again, competition. In the extreme they'll limit your freedom to no apparent benefit as a show of dominance. To them, maybe, a benefit. Remember the fear. 

They want to live in an environment that's not diverse because it's not reassuring enough to them otherwise because they're so fucking afraid. Allowing conservatives to control a society is a disaster. The assumption after WWII was that, what with nukes and the Holocaust, we had learned a lesson. Apparently not. Because delusions are immune to lessons. Conservatives are after our schools partly for this. They favor indoctrination, They are driven to control everything. 

Because they need reassurance they can never get. Their problems are inside of them. 

If We Want to Save Our Country

There's only one way. Shutting down the entire hate-spewing right-wing media ecosystem. That's it. No other way, and I have no idea how it might be accomplished but, really, it's us or them. We got to try. 

And then there's the think tanks. They too seem to have been influenced br right wing media and made more extreme. In any case they've become more extreme and must be dealt with as well because they're anti-Democratic. 

The Redneck Imperium Is Here

The Redneck Imperium is here, a triumph of ignorance, violence and despair. For anyone who wondered just how stupid, selfish, reckless and irrational Americans were we have our answer. America was never one country. The South was always a racist substate. But the Confederacy has taken over. The rest, the decent part, is the substate now. 

Wheel of Misfortune

I'm thinking about a new game show for the Trump Era, Wheel of Misfortune. In it, obviously, you try to avoid bad consequences instead of trying to win something good. I'll approach the recently announced and soon to be created Office of Arbitrary Cruelty as soon as it opens, possibly speaking with its chief and resident sadist Stephen Miller. He's sure to approve.

The Revolution Was Just Televised

Call it what you want. But I think the perpetrators and conspirators would opt for revolution. They've termed it that, I think, at times. Revolution can be construed and reconstrued on the fly -- the kind of thing lawyers love. Deniability

I didn't mean that, I meant this ... I didn't mean throwing out the Constitution, though we tried to do that. I didn't mean subverting the rule of law, though we did accomplish that. I didn't mean disenfranchising voters -- we're still perfecting that. 

They meant a revolution from within, they would have us think, that left essential institutions intact. How is it, then, that it doesn't look that way. Familiar. Equal protection? Gone. Voting rights? Compromised. Balance of powers? Unbalanced. 

Enough with the suspense. The revolution was just televised. A primal time in prime time. The Capitol riot was a prelude. An appetizer. In the end we had a coup. An overthrow. A putsch, sans the beer. A putsch of putzes. But it worked.

The United States is no more. Welcome to the Confederacy. 

I Wonder What the King is Doing Tonight

And we know who the king is now. Is he SAD!? Is he MAD!? Rest assured, Trump is not reassured. Nothing is ever enough. Will his 'victory' assuage him? Quell his anger? Lesson his desire for retribution? Satisfy his insatiable ego? 

Well, no. Trump is as here-and-now as a baby. There's no ego, in the sense of a sense of self. No there there. Only the void. A black hole of a human. A vortex, sinkhole and chasm. A mouth connected to an ass. A digestive tract. 

And he has legions to feed him and a posse of ass-wipes. He's had it before. It didn't matter then and it won't matter now. Nothing will ever be enough. His sickness is incomprehensible. His neediness immeasurable and vast.

Great job, America. 

Induction: Electromagnetic Trump

Trump is a salesman. Not selling something you need. In fact it's bad for you. He's selling something he needs. Adulation. To be the center of attention. 

Why do people buy this shit? He's selling debt. His own deficit. His vacuity. He's getting people to invest in a bankruptcy. It works because he's so needy. 

People get inducted. 

Trump is so abundantly needy people get sucked into giving him what he wants because he wants it so badly. Their resistance isn't as strong as his need. 

He taps into the desire to lose consciousness. To lose your soul. To abandon the burden of being human. Fuck it. The same impulse as with drugs or drink. 

And apparently he's addictive. 

America Elects Certified Piece of Shit

Pieces of shit everywhere rejoiced and celebrated. Pieces of shit are a disadvantaged group, one said, and need protection. Another said she finally felt seen. They should be included in D. E. I. initiatives, a third said, only to be reminded 'we're against that.' Pieces of shit were joined by incels, ignoramuses, militia maniacs, unrepentant Confederates and traitors at a table. 

I want to shoot me some Democrats and woke, a redneck said. I'll grab some pussy, said an incel, thinking Trump would pardon him as a pussy-grabbing co-believer if he got into trouble, not realizing that pussy-grabbing was for a privileged class within the movement. A multi-level-marketing crypto-scammer entrepreneur said it was good to know he was among friends.

And that others sympathetic to corruption and malfeasance would be in the highest positions in the country soon. A good time was had by them all, because Trump had won. A rumor was circulating that Elon Musk was handing out jobs. Another that he was going on a firing spree, just to warm up. Stephen Miller was asking for 'warm bodies' to deport, again for practice. 

They would be paid. 

Steve Bannon was throwing an Armageddon bash, the word went around, and it said 'nobody gets out alive' at the door which they hoped was a joke but, word was, there was real fire and brimstone inside and a strange stench in the air. Lawyers were trying to stir up a rigged election buzz, feeling forlorn over a lack of bogus cases to pursue since the victory was uncontested.

A diabolical feeling of delight was perceptible everywhere. 

We Are Unambiguously Evil

The jury of voters is in. America is unambiguously evil. We are a vampire state. 

The Four Pillars of Republicanism

1. Blackmail

2. Sabotage

3. Hostage-taking

4. Vandalism

The Essential Trump

Trump is pretty unfiltered. I'll give him that. HIs supporters must see him as genuine. A person of genuine incredibly low character. A certified piece of shit.

Which they love. Because he represents authority. And authority is arbitrary. 

He is their character candidate. For racists everything is about essences. Innate qualities. Nothing is about behaviors. Behaving well is bad because it's submissive.

Real men don't submit to anybody. So the best thing is to be successful and a piece of garbage. You must have been chosen, because you sure as shit don't deserve it. 

Being good and successful is questionable. Suspect.

A sign of a sellout. They aren't overlooking Trump's character. They love his character. In the same way fundamentalist Christians get off on natural disasters.

They're in their biblical element. Trump is a natural disaster. A step closer to armageddon. The end times. And I agree with them there. Trump is a disaster.

If you want to see the apocalypse Trump is your man. 

A Kentucky Redneck in King Donald's Court

Everything you need to know about JD Vance is in his book. If you know where to look. And where he has ended up tells us the rest. He's a Trumpist. 

He's ended up chief anus-licker and aide select to Donald Trump, as low as you can go. Degraded beyond belief. Notice in his book how stupid he is.

His hideous redneck grandmother is romanticized beyond recognition. Presumably out of desperation because his mother was a horrible crack slut. 

I feel bad for Vance about this. A fucking horror show. But read between the lines. Mamaw, his moral compass, is a piece of shit. Recall about Vance's sister's husband. 

Mamaw said he was a saint.

Vance was too stupid to catch it but I knew immediately the sister had married a Catholic. Being an old-fashioned bigot Mamaw couldn't let it go. 

'Saint' is a slur. Relating to the 'cult of the saints' thing. Vance alludes to a guy 'with a scraggly beard' in a class with him at Ohio State and it's utter contempt.

Why? There is no why.

Because Vance is a redneck. It's an honor culture. You have to be a combative imbecile to be in good standing. Fighting over nothing is a way of life. Think feuds.

You have to have enemies and you never let it go.

They have got to do this stupid shit. The rebels didn't get all nasty and degraded after the Civil War because they got their asses kicked. They were already nasty and degraded. 

It's a way of life. They started the Civil War because they were nasty and degraded. They lost because they were nasty and degraded. They established an apartheid state.

Because they're nasty and degraded.

They're fighting us over the insult of desegregation to this day. That's how we got Trump. All because they're nasty and degraded. It's a fucking honor culture. 

Like the Taliban. 

Honor cultures are the most dishonorable thing ever. Whole societies or subcultures run by patriarchal assholes. The only thing they excel at is misery. 

They will get us all fucking killed. Vance will get us all fucking killed. Because he's a redneck. Jim Webb, a Democrat, wrote 'Born Fighting' about these folks. 

The Scots-Irish. He might have added they're born with their heads up their asses. They don't know how not to fight. They fight over nothing. Like Vance.

Who will get us all killed, if he can, because he's nasty and degraded. The people you love and the people you hate -- it's all arbitrary. Accidents of birth.

But you've got to carry on in that. Behaviors mean nothing. Tribal allegiance is everything. You serve your master as God intended. King Trump, in this case. 

Or maybe he's only a laird. No matter. Vance was a born ass-kisser who's found his ass. And he's digging in. Big time. Herr Donald is loving it. 

An Environmental Message from Donald Trump

The idiot Democrats don't understand nature at all. They drone on about eco this and eco that but they live like pigs while romanticizing and sentimentalizing nature. Fine with me because it's enabled me to kick their asses all over the place and my supporters, the hunting and fishing crowd, are closer to nature than the Democrats will ever be and live less wasteful lives because Republicans knew they would vote for us even though we screwed them every which way.

Nature is fucking brutal. Take me. I've never loved anyone in my entire life and never been loved that I know of though I probably wouldn't have recognized it anyway. My marriages were as transactional as everything else. And marrying foreigners, ESL babes except for that one stupid American bitch, is a cool trick because they never got the subtleties of the language well enough or could read the cultural stuff well enough to realize what a loser piece of shit I was.  

You think I don't know that? You think I care? It's not even the money. It's the feeling of power and the ability and opportunity to kick the shit out of people and be arbitrary as fuck about everything. Winners know the effectiveness of keeping everyone off balance. Keep them guessing. And while they're trying to figure out what the fuck it meant I've made another score somewhere. Not pussy so much these days but other stuff. There are all kinds of highs in life.

The genuine ones have to do with power and winning. Democrats romanticize everything. Kumbaya this and that. Fuck all that. We're animals like any other. And we're invasive exotics. We spread all over the world destroying all before us. Romanticize that, you idiot Democrats. We're not only not superior to other species we're worse. We're shit. I know this and the people who resist me don't. Work with me and I'll cut you in a little. For as long as I feel like it. 

And you should be grateful for that. We're no better than bacteria or whatever vile microbe. And it means nothing if millions of us die horrible deaths. This is nature, you fucking idiots. That is natural. Everything else is some made-up nonsense and an illusion. The difference with me is I know it. I don't give a shit about you. I don't give a shit about anybody. This is why I resonate. People who get me understand life and death. That there's no fucking difference. 

Practice Makes Imperfect

Which is as true of lying as it is of hate. You have to be taught. You have to learn. Practice. And Republicans have an infrastructure to teach you, including hate radio and Murdoch's media. 

Lie Like a Dog

JD Vance has learned to lie like a pro. And attack like a dog. Not most dogs. I love dogs. But a dog Trump might have. The Roy Cohn of dogs. So Trump does have a dog. A trained attack dog. JD Vance. 

The Carnage in Their Heads

Trump's campaign is ending on cries of carnage. That there's carnage out there, that we need to be afraid, and that only he can fix it.

But where's the carnage? I don't see it. Lots of Hitlerian echoes, too, at MSG. Where's the world economic meltdown, that empowered Hitler? 

Where's the massive hit to national welfare and prestige comparable to the German loss in WWI? We have some stagnation, that's all.

The 2008 downturn, created by Republicans, was bad. The Great Depression, caused by laissez-faire Republicans, put Hitler in power.

American southern racists informed his genocidal designs, the other half of the coalition running America. Big money and big hate. 

But where's the carnage? Losers have long memories, the American South for the Civil War. And big money always wants more. 

They are the carnage. The rebels have carnage in their heads. They were crushed. The rich -- class warriors -- want to win. 

The federal government is their Yankees. The rich want to destroy it because it's the only thing that can resist their lust for power. 

There's no carnage. Only the carnage in their heads, and their desire for carnage. And Trump is the king of the losers. So that makes sense. 

But they made it all up. 

The Inversion Is Upon Us

And I mean upon us. On our backs. The 'military industrial complex' has won. The government, over which we have at least some control, is owned by profit seeking entities. The institutions don't serve the people anymore. People serve the institutions. And those institutions regard the people as a threat. And will until the electorate is fully disempowered. We're almost there. 

Miller's Meteoric Rise

Stephen Miller traces a familiar path on the right where promising sociopaths take off like rockets, going back to a nasty group of College Republicans who first took over their national organization then aimed for the stars. They didn't have to struggle. Their lack of decency wasn't a problem -- it was welcomed in the party of presumption and contempt. And by rise I mean right to Reagan, on top of the world. 

Nothing stopped this low character crowd. They drew in money. They delivered votes. They rode the wave of corruption to lobby land, where the money flows like water. Rove, Atwater, Norquist, Ralph Reed, Abramoff and others, unified by their ambition, militancy, mean-spiritedness, hatred of the rules and fair play, loathing of Democrats and love of playing dirty. Above all they were pieces of shit. 

Truly horrible people. But they were useful. Only that mattered in the new Republican Party. The WASPs weren't gone, but overrun by the hooligans. Gingrichers. The upstarts captured the nation. Because money mattered more than anything. The guardrails were gone. Traditional ways of doing things disappeared. Respect was the lost. For everything. The old guard joined in. Propriety went out the window. 

Trump's Madison Square Garden rally was a culmination of this. With Miller channeling Josef Goebbels perfectly. And the crowd loved it. As they were stripped of their power and reason. By a weasley little piece of garbage. 

Riders on the Shitstorm

JD Vance took to lying like a duck to water after a rough start. He's better at it than Trump. More coherence. A product of on-the-job training, I suppose. Vance takes the false witness thing to a whole different level. The commandment had to do with an instance of lying, or maybe a little spree.

With Vance lying is existential. He incorporated it into his being. Lying isn't something he does but what he is. He's living the lie. Now, 'witness' as I understand it is to see something, not to relate it, in its most essential and primitive meaning. Testifying or relating comes in later. I think Vance has experienced a transformation. The inverse of what the Bible had in mind. He deliberately killed off his soul, under the influence of Trump. Hence the majestic falsity. I thought Trump was satanic but not Satan. 

He's too disorganized. Not Vance. He isn't failing in his witness he's testifying in his defense of Trump as an affront to God. He's not pulling a fast one. He's challenging God. God's authority.  

Chris Christie said Trump didn't have his shit together enough to collude with the Russkies. What Christie left out was that Trump certainly wanted to -- crime enough. I think Vance might be Satan, not a person of petty ambition. Not of opportunism. Possessed, at least. Vance's religious circle has been embracing pious irrationalism, praise Jesus, including exorcism and an intense and somewhat disconcerting preoccupation with the possibility and evidence of pure evil. Virgins getting hurled into volcanoes and stuff. 

See 'Rod Dreher' on this. So, anyway, Vance isn't so much providing false testimony, per se, he's trying to invert reality, the devil's work big time. The Logos -- Christ, in my understanding -- is what Vance is challenging. The Logos is intelligibility. The idea is, without Christ life is unintelligible. Life has no meaning. And with Vance life is unintelligible. Listen to his recent shit on YouTube. The boy's a warrior, I'll say that for him. His mind is squirming like a toad, so to say. He's the killer on the road. 

With a killer's certainty. Now, being a believer in forgiveness and the other kind of transformation I have exorcism in mind for Vance and not the volcano. Especially assuming he's not a virgin though he is showing a compulsion and fixation with such matters especially on the vaginal end. So -- benefit of the doubt -- let's suppose that he has a dick and isn't just one. I think it will be apparent in the exorcism if he is in fact Satan and not only a disciple. We might be in the end times, according to some of Vance's allies.

The final battle. 

Good, evil, total Star Wars stuff. And I think Vance is very definitely on the dark side, because of the lies. Remember, he isn't slipping up here. He's trying to dethrone reality. And in the service of Donald Trump, an obviously ungodly entity. They're all concerned with the morality of other people, always a bad sign. And purity. They want purity, which I personally think is more in the purview of God. But they want to purify us at their hands, which is messing with an individual's responsibility for their own soul. 

Their own salvation. Vance and his peeps should look to their souls, and leave me to mine. Each to his own. I'll say this ... I fear JD Vance. He's a man of hate. He has a persecution complex, coming out of Yale Law, presumably a beneficiary of the same affirmative action for rednecks and would be overthrowers of governments program as Stewart Rhodes who's in  jail where he belongs. Whereas Vance is running around lying his ass off in an unbelievable display of ass-licking subservience to Donald Trump. 

Lord Trump, whose ambitions he intends to overtake. Trump's ambitions are as parochial as they come, his own enrichment and aggrandizement. Vance wants to change the world. To reinvent it in his conservative, supposedly Christian vision. There's nothing Christian about it. He's a warrior, trying to take over and take what's not his, like Satan. Or maybe he is Satan. His ambitions and egotism are that grand and his moral blindness that immeasurable and encompassing. Our lives are nothing to him. 

Immiseration for the Masses

There' a Republican slogan for you. One with some truth to it. 

Midnight in America

Can we see the line from Reagan to Trump? Many people can. Reagan's promised morning has played out. It was morning for millionaires. The rich now live in eternal light. Average citizens in darkness.

It's always morning somewhere, as they say. Billionaires have bought time. They've bought the clock. They have more of life, because they wanted it. They've bought everything. They've bought us.

Whether we were selling or not because they bought the system. We came with it. Well, fuck.

Reagan was a racist. They're all racists. Racism means privilege. Undeservedness. Getting what you haven't merited. Republicanism. More importantly, racism is not getting what you do deserve.

What you are owed. Your rights. Racism is based on anything other than treating people according to standards of behavior. Because it's the only reasonable standard. We can't judge essences. 

Character. Not unless on the basis of behaviors. So claims to salvation status, as with evangelicals, are racist. A scam. They're better because they said the magic words in a revival tent. To some crook. 

LIke Jimmy Swaggart. Not to Jesus. If it had been Jesus they would have been filled with love. They're filled with hate. Rich people think they're chosen as well. By fate. By Darwinian mechanisms. 

So we're all eternally fucked in relation to these superior people. Self-declared superior people. It must be nice. Meanwhile their latest savior is spreading hate like no one before him. And he might win.

Either way, it's midnight in America. If we stood for anything we wouldn't be within a mile of this shit. 

The Real Reagan

I remember going to D.C. in the Reagan years and seeing a guy out with a life-size cardboard figure of Reagan with which you could be photographed. I passed. 

But I remember thinking this was the real Reagan. A prop, a cutout and a facade. A stand-in and stooge. A Hollywood set with an elaborate front and nothing behind.

I'm going to go with this.  

The Courage of the Convicted

Trump inherited so much money he could have sat on his ass. And been richer than he is, as has been shown. But he ends up in dire straits. As a matter of compulsion. And as he is today.

And it's not an addiction to risk. Maybe secondarily. He's bringing the world around him into compliance with his internal reality. Of being so incredibly tiny and worthless and vulnerable and unlovable. 

Of only being able to get what he needs dishonestly. Or by force. And by lies. And the world he's bringing into compliance with his internal mess is now, well, the world. A country, at least. 

His pathology is swallowing up everything in its path. People in non-delusional bad circumstances can relate to him. No matter if theirs too are exaggerated. Like America's working class. 

So they vote for this piece of shit who represents the party that destroyed their lives and will destroy them further. I didn't say it made sense. It doesn't to mentally and emotionally healthy people. 

Our Brexit

This election is our Brexit, a chance to see just how stupid we are. It's at the behest of a party that calls itself conservative but is really a bunch of selfish assholes who don't care about anyone but themselves. 

Protection Racket

Trump is such an infant. Totally primal. He lives from one minute to the next. Does he feel fed and full? Is he comfy? An infant in a grown-up world, however. 

So his wants are a little different. He must be at the center. Constantly reassured. What's more reassuring than being surrounded by people who will die for you. 

Don't underestimate the power of the Secret Service detail and the perks of the presidency. That he wants to stay out of jail is a thing but abstract for Trump. 

Everything he does is much more primal. If he was capable of planning he wouldn't be so under threat in the first place. He simply needs to feel at the center. 

And that someone around him will die for him. That those around him are consumed with him. Which he didn't get from mommy. Bush wasn't much better. 

He had the 'nobody home' look in the eyes. Like his mother drink when pregnant. These are the leaders Republicans offer up now. As a show of contempt.

Because it's all they have to offer. 

The Joy of Flaming Wreckage and the Appeal of Trumpism

Trumpism goes back to the sacrificial instinct. Virgins and Volcanos. We must appease the gods or they'll smite us. And we have a toasted virgin deficit. 

We haven't kept up. So those that subscribe to this thinking like Steve Bannon and other catastrophists love the idea of an age of transformative carnage.

Wouldn't that be cool. Mass killings or die-offs or what have you and by any means. Flood. Famine. Fire. Mutant rodents. Nuclear holocaust. It's all good.

Musk is Out of His Mind

Musk and Thiel and many similar tech high achievers are on the spectrum or have a talent/problem with abstract brain function. Which correlates with Empathy Deficit Disorder. Which I just made up but it's real anyway. These are the last people in the world you want running a society. 

Free the Radicals

Democrats are accused of being radicals and commies and socialists and traitors and baby killers and satanists and every other thing in the book when they have more in common with Reagan than today's Republicans. Not that Reagan wasn't a piece of garbage. 

A stand-in and puppet for the forces of corporate greed and for the vanity of the rich and the desire to have an easy life and be thought better than everyone else. There has never been a viable far left in America. Barely a left at all. Because we're all leftists already. 

It's our political inheritance. 

Our constitution is a leftist manifesto. So we're all conservatives. Called on to preserve the revolutionary founders' call to democracy, decency, and a government of compromise, conciliation and inclusion. Of fair play and opportunity. The founders were radicals. 

The founders were revolutionaries. We're asked again to find our inner radical. To stand against tyranny and authoritarianism. Who's being taxed and exploited to pay for the follies of a rich, increasingly idle inheritor or monopolist class? Average citizens.

It's time to revolt. America's conservatives aren't conservative. That's a lie. A talking point. Bullshit. Propaganda. They're aspiring tyrants. They must be stopped. Free the radicals! We must free the radicals within us to save our system from destruction. 

It Must Not Mean Anything

Avowed Nazis are turning out and turning up for Trump. Finally, a candidate who represents THEM. A political soul-mate for racists and authoritarians. A Mussolini for America. A Franco for the fatherland. But it must not mean anything. 

Not really mean anything. We're not Nazis. We could never be Nazis. Like in evangelical religion, behaviors don't matter. Salvation status matters. It's all that matters. And good works won't get you there. Only saying the magic words,

'I accept Jesus as my ....' 

Alakazam, you're saved! And saints persevere so it doesn't matter what the fuck you do after that. God forgives all. You're home free. Saved and shit. And home is heaven. 

You're impatient to get there. Because life is shit. In comparison with perfection. Creation is full of imperfection. God's creation. Which is a conundrum. So we won't go there. One tribal cult, one identity movement, is as good as another.

And they all support Trump. He's obviously saved and chosen and was destined because, well, just look at him. He's rich and he never did a decent thing in his life. So it has to be God. God put him there. Not the idolatry and heresy of good works. 

Welcome to the island of lost souls. 

Rednecks versus Decency, Life, Progress, Prosperity and Joy

Rednecks hate life. So it's an enormous annoyance to them if other people find it pleasurable and meaningful. They try to stamp that shit out, including all justice, mercy and decency. Because their perfect god is an asshole that created the world as a hunk of decaying garbage, temptation and sin for some inscrutable reason. Some people are saved, by the way, and others doomed to hell in the only outcome that matters and nothing they do can change it. Life is torture and God made it that way so it should be shit. Everything good is an insult to their god. Hence Trump. They want to destroy everything. And they hired Trump for the job, because he's well qualified. Do you see they sense of it now? 

Trump Praises Arnie's Arsenal

After wowing Catholics at the Al Smith Dinner in New York City with his character, morality and decency Donald Trump carried on to Pennsylvania where he courted locals by praising native son Arnold Palmer's endowment. Evidently he had a big one.

Trailer Mix

Another Trump administration, with Vance in tow, would mean the values of the trailer park element of white southerners in charge. That's Trump's base and most essential voting bloc. The rest of us will be thrust into an especially hideous episode of Jerry Springer. With nukes. Jerry Springer with nukes. Thanks, Republicans, you pieces of shit. 

Give Me that Old Time Religion

or I'll shove it down your throat. 

Evangelicals are such hypocrites. They insist on a highly individual path to Christ. How is that compatible with shoving your beliefs down other people's throats? And they insist that salvation is entirely individual -- that no group membership or identification or sacramental hocus pocus or raft of good works will get you there, but they're obsessed with the morality of others and the society as a whole. What are they afraid of? Their own corruptibility. Their own weakness. Their own unacknowledged sinfulness and perversion.

One Nation Under Trump

Say what you will, about what Trump represents. We're all living in it now. The shithole is here. 

Start the Steal

Republicans fired up their steal machine, determined to win no matter what. It's no Brooks Brothers Riot, though that crowd will be there. This is a redneck feud. Nothing is off limits. Certainly not your family. Certainly not your job or anything else. They think God is on their side. And theirs is a vengeful God. 

Trump's Time on the Cross

This isn't a presidential election. It's a lottery or auction. Competing marketing blitzes. Content doesn't matter. But that's been going on for a while. 

The newer aspect is monopolization. Monopolization means you're printing money. The monopolization of politics means you're printing votes. 

Heads they win, tails we lose. Monopolies are substates. Once these accepted the system that created and sustained them. More or less. 

Now, not so much.

They seek a takeover. Highly leveraged. This is with our money. A corporate coup, disenfranchising us and financed by us. Pure perversion. 

And led by an aged, demented, incompetent, viciously single-minded and self-serving nepo baby who's portrayed as the biggest victim ever. 

Their savior has been nailed to the cross. The resurrection is planned. We have a Passover Plot. But nobody is going to thrust a spear into Trump. 

This thing might work. No matter, anyway. They've found an heir. Better because he's worse than Trump. Vance. More destuctive potential. 

Which is all they care about. All they're good at. The annihilation of the government so corporations can loot and plunder indiscriminately. 

And we are like cattle or crops. To be used and harvested or slaughtered, as our lords would have it. No rights. No recourse. No justice.

Magical Misery Tour

What sick religions do is strip all the meaning out of life and then ration back to you just enough to make it livable. Barely bearable. Because they're about control. And against freedom, individual attainment of salvation, and any form of conscience. 

Life is a miracle. Rightly perceived it's magical and a source of wonder. The only magic conservatives have to offer is turning everything to shit. 

Rescue Me

I'm besieged by rednecks. The whole country is besieged by rednecks. Parts of the world are besieged by rednecks, to the extent they're entangled with America.

Rednecks are stupid, predatory, proud, backward and belligerent. They're unfit for self governance. They need masters to keep them in check. Ideally, multiple masters.

Give them freedom and they'll throw it out and opt for servitude. Serfdom. They turned Christianity into a fatalistic identity cult, in which they aren't free at all. 

Their soul's destiny was set at birth. Once their own serfdom is achieved they demand everyone else serve their same sick lords as a show of submission and fervor.

JD Vance was already rich. But he had to have a master. Sorry, masters. So he has Thiel, Trump, and a perverted, authoritarian, fascist form of Catholicism. 

And he's after all of us. We must all be brought to heel. Adhere to his precepts. Worship his gods. Kowtow to his kings, Trump and the lords of capitalism. Conform and obey. 

Or they will crush you. While being servile. My God these are sick people. Give them something good and they'll trash it. Friendships are supplanted by feuds. 

The way of the redneck is destruction. No wonder they love Trump. 

His Cheating Heart

Wow, Trump doesn't know how not to cheat. Just like, having a choice between making money while destroying someone and making money while not, he would take destroying someone. I don't think he enjoys it in the normal sense, because he's not normal, and there's nothing normal about enjoying destroying someone in any circumstances. 

But it makes his fragile ego feel a little more secure, I guess. I don't know. And, in his world and that of increasing numbers of Republicans the feeling of exercising power is a reward, no matter the consequences. We're all inconsequential in this. They're asserting their right to do wantever they want with impunity no matter how it harms anyone else.

Deprogram or Deport

The germ of truth in Trump's mania for deportation is that somebody deserves it. Trump voters. MAGA maniacs. If they can be deprogrammed and reeducated to be responsible citizens in a democracy -- to stop destroying it -- we'll let them stay. If not they're gone. 

Mark All as Red

Who are the commies here? The people supporting Putin, to begin with. The commies as we've known them have turned out to be fascists. And Republicans have turned out to be fascists. 

Power lust is the commonality. Consolidation of power into the hands of a few. Or of one. A belief in the inevitability and transcendence of the class war is at the essential core of communism. 

And the belief that class warfare results in unsustainable concentrations of capital. Republicans believe in class warfare so they're trying to win. They've achieved the consolidation of capital. 

To a ridiculous degree. They're the commies. Everything else is secondary. Coming up with a system that prevents class warfare from occurring and getting lots of people killed is the point.

What that system is, and how extreme, is not essential. It's up for discussion. Up for testing, perhaps. Trial and error. But Republicans want the class war. And we've got it. And they're winning. 

Because the other side isn't even fighting back. Many on the side of those being abused are implicated and working against their own interests, as dupes or paid stooges. But that might change. 

The Friends of Destruction

I have made it my goal to try to get through to innocent Democrats how inconceivably fucked up southern white people are and especially white evangelical Christians. Hurricane Helene is instructive. They love this stuff. Tragedy, disaster, the hand of God at work. Suffering. Man, they love suffering. And they don't mind much if it's their own. 

Whatever happens it's God's will by definition. Or it wouldn't have happened. So there. This is fatalism and it's tautological as hell. A world without meaning. Shit just happens. And then you die. Since salvation is predordained your behaviors don't matter. Though there are signs. If you know how to see them. Wealth is a sign of God's favor. 

And it's better if you're an asshole. That means you haven't engaged in good works like the doomed Catholics who are all going to hell even if they're on the Supreme Court and voted for great sadistic shit. War makes for strange alliances. And evangelicals are at war, With the world. Because creation is shit and nothing but temptation. 

It was some cruel, incomprehensible joke on the part of God to trap our wonderful, pure souls in this world. The pre-born are actually better. Being born is a big step down. The further you get from independent life with it's nagging responsibilities and sinfulness the better. Death is purity. So evangelicals want to destroy the world.

 

And that will be God's will and intention as well. 

Enhanced Injustice

Evangelicals love injustice. They find natural disasters reassuring. They're actually excellent at helping out  when shit goes south. However, they consider injustice the model for the things we can control as well because it appears to them to be God's way. Their God is a dick.

So they want life to be arbitrary and mean and unpleasant. That's there social model. And it's how you get to Trump, the guy who fucks up everything he touches beyond belief. 

Stranger in a Strange Land

That's called being an American, lately. We're either never who we thought we were or we've been invaded and conquered. Some of the former, maybe, but mostly the latter. The Confederacy has won the Civil War, in the end. American apartheid never left, but the government's back in support of it. A racist dystopia is the choice that's been made. 

Informed and Empowered

American southern systemic racists informed Hitler's racism. America's laissez-faire capitalists caused the Great Depression which put Hitler in power. And that exact coalition has taken over America. 

The Billionaire Boys Club

What are we to make of these men? They aren't normal men by any means. Normal men aren't billionaires. Lord Musk, we should call him. Perhaps, Lord Musk of X. He would like that. 

All of them, we should call them lords. These rich fucks. To remind us they live in another world. That we have nothing in common with them at all. And to show deference. Because they own us now. 

Are American Rednecks the Worst People in the History of the World?

I grew up in a place that had both rednecks and relatively poor, pissed-off black people. The black people we could understand. The rednecks were the worst. Every opportunity was open to them, in the most fortunate historical circumstances ever. And they choose shit. They always choose shit.

And now, through affiliation with the larger group of idiot-voting evangelical southern white people, the whole country has gone redneck. They were the lowest of the low and they've drug us all down. We're awash in guns and needless violence. Country is a feud and we're stirring up shit elsewhere. 

All because of the redneck code of ignorance, belligerence, servility and weirdly overweening pride. They'll never admit they've done anything wrong and they've done everything wrong. They think they're being attacked when nobody gives a shit about them but they're always on the attack. 

Tell me rednecks haven't won. Decency and fairness are done. Democracy -- once assumed to be a thing we all agreed on, no matter which side won -- is being openly attacked. Intimidation is in the air. Threatening entire families is normal if you disagree with them -- totalitarian stuff. Tyranny.

Despotism. Tyranny. Republicans are the American Nazi Party. And they're running everything. 

Nazi versus Normal

Not a hard choice, one would think ...

Cowboy Flunkies

Look at Republican ideals. Powerful, beneficent white men running things and stepping in with a heroic response when something goes wrong or the times demand it. Then look at the losers they have at the top. Mitch McConnell no Marlboro Man. None of them meet the standard, cowering under Trump. 

Indulgence and Discipline

Depending on where I was in some respect I don't understand I would either indulge myself when something went wrong or I would have some discipline. The first comforted me and the latter gave me a feeling of control. Maybe I'd do some of both and of course we all have that choice all the time even when things aren't going wrong.

But it's more obvious when they are. America always chooses indulgence. Maybe because we're rich. I think more because we're irresponsible. We're spoiled. And we've turned the country over to the frat boy crowd. Their response is to throw a party, get drunk and trash shit. We're living in Animal House. And, Bluto for President! 

Oil is our beer. Consuming something. Consuming anything. But 'Drill, Baby, Drill' is our response -- the frat boy, Republican response. It's a compulsion now, the only thing they know how to do. And they're running everything. 

Party Without Principles

Republicans have no vision or intelligible goals. They want to wreck stuff. But, meanwhile, they're happy to suck off of everyone else as its convenient. 

Powerballs

In the extreme the normal dualities the interplay of which create balance both diverge and meet up. It's a paradox. Men are completely without all of the traditionally feminine attributes. Women, similarly, discompnnect from their masculine aspects. So, in a way, they're polarized.

Unnaturally separated from one another. 

But together they inhabit the island of lost souls. And what they've lost is their humanity, in fantasies of dominance and submission. But it all looks exactly the same. Like in a cult. Leaders and followers with lost souls, indistinguishable in their inhumanity. And there's a death wish all around. 

In the absence of balance and humanity everything becomes about power. And it becomes a lottery. Arbitrary as hell. Who gets to have the balls, to be on top, while everything comes unglued. 

Arrest Donald Trump

I've decided it's time to arrest Trump. If they can do it to Diddy they can do it to Donald. Reviewing his history, there's so much criminality there the thing is to simply arrest him. On whatever charges. Then go after him with everything. 

If Biden needs to get involved, with the superpowers and immunity conferred to him by the Supreme Court, that's fine. Declare a national emergency and martial law or whatever. That's what Trump would do. That's what his advisors were recommending over nothing. 

And Trump is trying to overthrow the government and destroy the country. Throw the son of a bitch in jail. Put him in with Diddy. They can talk about their rapes and shit. 

The Life of the Party

There are two possible outcomes to the election. Trump wins the election or Trump tries to steal it. Are we really ready for this?

Actually there's a third possibility. That Republicans make it impossible to know who won. It which case it should default to the Democrat. 

Which they'll disallow. Trump is his Party. Its his. He intends to do that with the country. Somebody is going to have to do something.

Republicans, say after me ...

'I don't give a shit how many people I get killed.'

Elizabeth Warren reminded me (article, not in person) how hard Republicans tried to kill Obamacare and how close they came. We were saved by John McCain, probably not because he's a decent guy but because of some honor thing. Trump is still saying he'll replace it with something wonderful that will apparently come to him in a dream or be concocted on demand by Stephen Miller and Steve Mnuchin or other such idealists and recognized humanitarians. But you can bet your ass corporations will make a shitload of money on it. Getting rid of Obamacare will kill people. And they don't care. 

The Baiting Habits of Republicans

I hate baiting. It's disrespectful and incredibly aggressive. A form of assault. But it gives the practitioner deniability and an opening to unload blame on the victim. No, you're the one. I didn't do anything. Why are you attacking me. 

Unlike any kind of honest disagreement. 

Trump, of course, as in so many other things, blows the curve and makes it easier to see what Republicans have been routinely doing since Reagan and especially since 1994 or so, when the vile Gingrich gang began their attacks. 

Attacks on what? Democrats.

Republicans claimed the high ground, of course, saying they were patriots, the real Americans and, typically, Christians and saved and all that shit. What assholes. Trump belittles and maligns people like no one has ever seen. 

If someone fights back, they're 'nasty.' He's the biggest victim. Downtrodden, disrespected and unfairly treated. Poor little Donny! So sad! Abused in relation to what he deserves, which is a world centered entirely on him. 

That sums it up, what Republicans believe in -- privilege. Getting something for nothing. Lives of blessings arbitrarily bestowed on them. Which is why they have to lie. All the time. Because the whole thing is a scam. 

Girl Hands Trump His Ass (in Debate)

And Trump didn't recognize his own ass. He was, like, "what's this?" But nobody can say he's capable of self-awareness. Maybe someone should have said "sir, it's your ass," or words to that effect. Then he might have learned something. 

Sorry Puppy

On Trump's sudden concern about dogs, since 1) I don't think he's ever owned one and 2) he wouldn't give a shit about it if he did, someone must have offhandedly called him a sorry puppy or something and then he felt threatened by any talk of bad stuff happening to dogs. Because Trump cares only about himself, one of the few certainties about him. That, and that he's an idiot. 

Trump for Resident

I'm renewing my extremely generous offer from 2016 and 2020 to allow Trump to stay in the country but the conditions have changed, in part because some forfeiture of his New York assets is already probably pending in relation to a court imposed fine. In addition Trump and his family continue to do illegal stuff right and left and try to subvert the government so the country is still due restitution and further damages. 

The thing remains doable but if a deal can't be reached he will have to forfeit all of his domestic assets and leave the country. And, if it comes to that, the culpability of his kids will need to be determined separately and individually. Trump's sons and the Kushners are clearly in deep shit while Barron is a novice and apprentice at graft and thievery but he is being initiated into it with a crypto scam, to give you an idea. 

It's a never-ending torrent of illegality and corruption with these people.

Ars Longa Trump Brevis

"Art is long, Trump is short."

Trump the Entertainer

The Great Donaldo had a bad night at the magic show. Normally he pulls something interesting out of his ass but last night at the debate he pretty much lit his farts on fire. 

Nepo Baby Melts Down

It's tantrum time for Trump. 

The Charge of the Right Brigade

Into the valley of death rode MAGA. Determined, but nothing can make up for idiocy at the top. And the guy at the top is as clueless an imperial moron as any normal British lord.