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.