The Deep State is Real

And it's always been conservative. How do we know this? Because, when some of the justification for the ruthless, behind-the-scenes antics went away, or lessened at least, with the end of the Soviet Union the 'deep state' turned on Democrats. So we know, but the bad stuff had a conservative cast to it all around -- violent, stupid and needlessly alienating. McCarthy was the deep state. Dulles was the deep state, and Rumsfeld and Cheney. 

These were arrogant, lawless characters. We finally got caught out, publicly, in Vietnam but it didn't stop. Republicans played fast and loose with people's lives, international stability, and the law and nuclear holocaust, with the complicity of cowardly Democrats, and most were cowardly. Republicans held them hostage over defense. Cheney and Rumsfeld were particularly important in this. Republican ideology, for what little it was worth, went out the window. 

Deficits? Pshaw. This paranoid deep state has done plenty of horrible stuff, most suspiciously when business interests were near at hand. Any excuse would do, however. Republicans are doing it now. Trump blowing up boats. Kennedy might have been about to back away from this shit when he got killed. Johnson, I don't know, but he had unsuspected depths of idealism, if only because he wanted not to be remembered as a bad character. 

Nixon was classic. How many Americans got killed while yet another arrogant, lawless Republican played politics while people died? So never say Trump is anything new. We've been doing this shit forever. Trump is just open about it. And more stupid about because he is stupid. More carelessly destructive because he's a fucking louse. He's dong to America what he did to his business empire, running it right into the ground. We've always had these assholes.

A lot of good, responsible citizens would have resisted the evil, irresponsible stuff if we'd known. We had opportunities but we let them pass. We were always good Germans to a degree but our baggage has caught up with us. We were good Germans but not in a full-blown Nazi regime by a long shot. That has changed. Trump has changed it. Republicans have changed it. But don't think we were so pure before because we weren't. We had our shit just like everybody. 

Madman on the Loose

Trump gotta go ...

If Kristi Noem Were a Dog ...

she would shoot herself. 

They're Killing the Hostages

After decades of holding the American electorate hostage and only killing some of them offhandedly and indirectly, not to say there weren't quite a few, Republicans are really going after them in response to the defunding and shutdown of the government they caused. No, that's not right unless you think the distinction between manslaughter and murder matters to the victim. 

Because of course the killing was darn aggressive even before the shutdown they created and engineered when you consider the bill it was supposedly about, for example, which is a death bill. Death to the country, death to its citizens, and death to anyone else they feel like killing. Kill! Kill! Kill! Watch some ICE videos if you doubt what lurks in the souls of Republicans. 

What lurks there is murderous cruelty. The shutdown is part of a shakedown but, again, nothing new there it's just become more obvious and undeniable. Undeniable unless you're a dehumanized MAGA scoundrel with less analytical capacity than the family pet which has the sense to like to be fed and cared for and not be tortured and killed. Those pets don't know Jesus, I guess. 

Which explains their perplexing humanity. When your dog is more human than you are you would think that would be a wake-up call but dogs can definitively be shot with impunity as we know from the escapades of a certain very high-level government official involved in a lot of unnecessary cruelty apparently as a message or for the sheer sadistic enjoyment of it.

So, hooray for death, I guess, but I would have chosen a different path. I used to worry about my old Beatles' albums in the event of a Vance presidency but I'll worry more now about incarceration, sickness and death. I don't know what Republicans want. I don't understand them. Maybe I'll get a dog to stay connected with humanity. I haven't had the heart to since my last one died. 

Lies, Injustice and the Autocratic Way

It's Super-Trump and the turd-fire presidency ...

We Thought We Were in the Fast Phase

We thought we were already in the fast phase of societal collapse. We weren't. Maybe Chicago is the 'all at once' experience that follows whatever proceeded it and with no guarantee it's full-fledged fast. It might get faster still. Trump's goons have come for all of us. 

Dreher Degenerates

Rod Dreher has degenerated into a racist piece of garbage, another generation of Klansman in his family ... 

Our Shameless SCOTUS

I wonder what they are thinking. What kind of a dungeon of denial you have to put yourself in to go on when the world is watching, and falling apart under your influence, and you were so obviously wrong.