Lost Cause Comes of Age

The Lost Cause myth didn't go away it morphed into MAGA. Once that lie ruled the south. Now it rules the country.

Fat Elvis Phase

We're nearing the end of Trump's Fat Elvis Phase, to be followed by death and deification. Maybe Trump will die on the toilet, a fitting end, and the King will meet the King.

No disrespect to Elvis. He mainlined black music in America, a force for good if it was sad it was needed. Elvis in the afterlife is still a thing, sightings, apparitions and shit.

Trump is something else. He must be reviled in memoriam and his evil works undone. A monstrous monument, an arch, is coming. Trump is trying to stick us with him. 

Velvet Trumps will capture the tastelessness. All else must go, his presidencies declared illegitimate. Everything undone that can be, and Trump not revered but reviled.  

Fat Elvis Phase

We're nearing the end of Trump's Fat Elvis Phase, to be followed by death and deification. Maybe Trump will die on the toilet, a fitting end, and the King will meet the King.

No disrespect to Elvis. He mainlined black music in America, a force for good if it was sad it was needed. Elvis in the afterlife is still a thing, sightings, apparitions and shit.

Trump is something else. He must be reviled in memoriam and his evil works undone. A monstrous monument, an arch, is coming. Trump is trying to stick us with him. 

Pope James Bond?

There's a slaughter going on. Control freaks and aspirants to global conquest, Republicans are applying business principles such as vertical integration and supply chain optimization to this slaughter. Beyond that they're cynics and ideologues who are fighting to win at any cost by overwhelming their enemies, their fellow citizens, with their eyes on a Bond-villain's success.

World Domination.

They want absolute and permanent victory, with omnipotence. I think the Pope sees it for the moral monstrosity it is. He's not taking sides. Pure evil is not a side in a dialectical process ending in refinement and reconciliation. It exists outside of that because it exists outside of humanity. I can see how people postulated demonic possession. This sure looks and feels like it.

It's All Relatives

The New Testament proclaims that humans are one family, a call for an end to tribalism. Republicans are Old Testament and tribal. Kill your enemies. 

They were, anyway. They're going barbarian. Kill anyone you want. Destroy everything. Rape, pillage and murder. They will never come around on this. 

Innocence is Incriminating

Innocence is an unnatural state among Republicans, modeling on the 'total depravity' of Calvinism which is some sick shit. Nothing corporeal is innocent to them. Corruption is therefore reassuring. 

Real life. Anything less is unstable. Trust goes out the window. The governmental ideal is brutality of the Confederacy. Which is back. Ideals are for suckers, snowflakes and the 'woke' intelligentsia.

Never mind that woke doesn't exist, not like the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Three Percenters or even QAnon. Republicans are really fucked up about babies, bathrooms and some other things.

The more human the more it bothers them. Reminders that their beautiful, pure, immortal soul is carried around in a sack-of-shit body that degrades from day one makes them nuts. They have baggage. 

Innocence must be eliminated as a favor, service and good deed. As an initiation into the realities of life. Life is shit, an awful state in comparison with the spectacular purity of your immortal soul. 

All That Glitters Is Shit: A Syllogism

Glitter gets us nowhere. Glitter got us to Trump. Trump is nowhere. 

Lilies of the Field

Normal is gone. Rule of law, gone. Standards, gone. Social cohesion, gone. Giving a shit, gone or a liability. Republicans turned having a conscience into a ticket to disenfranchisement. 

I don't mean only voting. The franchise of humanity. They're invalidating our right to exist. Having a conscience becomes debilitating, as they intend it. Reducing expectations is the answer. 

Reduced to zero, not for giving up but for clarity. We have to build back from zero. Thinking otherwise isn't reality, it's delusion. Disorienting. They have their delusions. Break through them. 

They made their delusions the operating system of the society, by design. We can't participate in that, as a practical matter or as a directive. We must be as the lilies of the field, true to ourselves. 

Then we build back, but not within the context of a doomsday cult. Apart from anything it’s a way to save out sanity. Without it we are useless. I am useless, holding on, hoping to do better.

You Don't Build a Movement on That

Demolition. You don't build a movement on that. It's not a building thing. You hire contractors. Source it out. They come. They destroy. They leave. 

A Work of Great Stupidity and Malevolence

Trump isn't an evil genius or talented at anything. He's a loser and filled with hate. He despises life and himself. America had a class of haters and losers who latched onto Trump as their champion. 

End of story.

Influence Paddling

Republicans believe in violence, as an article of faith, like with Jesus for what that's worth. Not because violence is effective but because they think it's inevitable. They are preemptive people. 

I suppose they meant to spank Iran to exert influence. Conquest was not in the cards but Trump is a moron so, whatever. Any idiot would know Iran is not Venezuela. These are precocious idiots. 

People I know who know say Iran was getting the bang without the buck sitting short of having nukes.

Trump changed the calculus. I don't believe in spanking kids, though I've wanted to rough up a few. Spanking adults, humiliating punishment to induce submission, is Trump's personal shit.

Have at it, big boy, among your groveling government lackeys. What kind of fucking dunce believes it passes as foreign policy? The message is for everyone that can to get nukes.

That's where Trump has taken us. 

We're Number One

Rednecks are in the running for the worst people in the history of humanity. I think they win factoring in the good fortune of being born in America. What did they do with the good fortune? They cultivated a sorry-ass culture then rose up to destroy the country. 

Trump's admin runs on racism. They turn to racism to bolster the base because rednecks are racist pieces of shit and they always go for it. So when rednecks get jingoistic, rah-rah, we're number one, we can reassure them they are ... the worst fucking people ever. 

I Don't Want to be a Rock and Roll Star

Listen to what I say. Republicans think they've won. We are not competing. I am not competing. We don't see the world the way they do. Incidentally, our way is good for everyone and is sustainable. Their way is bad for everyone, even them, and isn't sustainable. Get it through your heads, you sick fucks. 

No, they can't.  That's part of the disease. We have to wrest control. It will be better for everyone. Republicans are meant to be wards of the state. Otherwise they destroy it. We will see to them, take care of them and treat them better than they will ever treat us. You see, we live in different worlds. 

Measles Deserves Respect

Republicans are the party of privilege, getting something for nothing. Anti-vax is another way to freeload. Only if enough other people choose vaccination can it work. 

Assuming they don't want to get measles. But they might because God made measles. Vaccines might be the devil's work. The devil is everywhere. Except for in them. 

Justice for Once

People condemn themselves by their behaviors. Everything flows from that. Discord, shame and social censure, condemnation, scorn and shunning, incarceration, exile and expatriation, whatever the hell. The entire Republican Party has condemned itself. 

Republicans have condemned themselves. We acknowledge that. Crimes have occurred. Punishment must follow. They must suffer consequences. And the truth come out. Justice for once must prevail. They've forgotten what it looks like. It's up to us to remind them. 

The End of the Fair

Civilization appears to have been a fair, in retrospect. Rides, competitions, amusements, performances and stalls where goods are sold. Not a party but better than nothing, maybe enabled by an age or period or era of unusually good weather. A 10,000 year bash is a good run. No complaints on my end. 

But the ICE age cometh, heralding the end of everything. 

I Guess We're Having Fun Now

Republicans are destroying absolutely everything they can get their hands on. I guess we're having fun now. We'll have to take their word for it. 

More Original

Originalism, I thought, was a constitutional philosophy without content, a smoke screen for doing whatever you want. A smoke screen or justification but transparently a ploy, adaptable ad infinitum. 

It has more going on than I divined, providing a rationale for devolution, for deconstructing the 'administrative state’ or whatever. It’s a form of relativism and can be used to chip away at the law.

Some laws are more original. Republicans hate the laws enacted to guarantee individual, constitutional rights across races and for women. More so races. So they're deconstructing the constitution. 

Eliminating what they don't like. 

That's an extension. Theocrats believe the constitution is Christian or only as valid as it is. Natural law, God's law, is more foundational. That turns out to be the law of the jungle. Arbitrary. Predatory. 

Exploitation, rape, plunder and murder. The 'law of the jungle' might be superseded by nonexistence. Originally the world didn't exist, having been created. Surely nonexistence is original enough. 

Wait, doesn't nonexistence imply materiality, in comparison with existence? They might be against that, wanting to get back to pure soul. Pure spirit. Don't count them out. They are fanatics. 

We observe they want to destroy everything and there is no end. Originalism might be a real philosophy. Or, just an instinct for or love of destruction. Annihilation, the path to purity as they see it. 

How Much for that Country in the Window?

Here's an idea. The U,S.A. is getting the private-equity, leveraged-buyout treatment so let's push for liquidation. If American billionaires can buy it, run it ass-deep in debt, raid the pension funds, sell off the assets and so on someone else can buy it as well.

The billionaires might bite. Because, pretty soon, the thing is going to fall apart. Also, the process has been illegal as shit so they might want to cash out against the possibility of a change of administration that ends with them all in jail and the seizing of the loot.  

Understanding

I worked hard on these issues, especially the word studies, but it's been a while. The Logos, I believe, is intelligibility. Without Christ the world will be unintelligible to you, to the point Christ is identified as intelligibility. That's an example, but my takeaway was that modern people must both drill down on meaning and let go of the need to place boundaries on words (and everything) and to strive for certainty. Or, strive at all because it implies a need or lack that's not there. We're born whole but flawed.

Literalism is an enemy, for similar reasons, presupposing something that's not true. Thematically and structurally I think the parables are the most important element in the Bible and that the Seed and the Sower is the most important of those. It says, shit happens, get over it. On multiple levels, like so much in the Bible, because we are seeds ourselves and we have seeds within us. The oak can't be implied from the acorn. What we can become can't be implied from the seeds within us but what's required is there.

The Garden of Eden story, I believe, is about taking things for granted, notably life, and losing perspective. Not accepting life on the terms to which it is given to us, as one part of creation and not as souls in isolation, and as a gift and with creation as a miracle we live within, for example. The apocalyptic elements, similarly, are about conveying the urgency of achieving the transformation because our lives are always ending. Not an urgency in time but existential urgency. Again, not taking stuff for granted.

Words have a semantic field or range of meaning. Words must be free and not corralled by us because it distorts meaning, a problem moderns have by the influence of the Enlightenment.

But even there we see that what they really discovered was indeterminacy, uncertainty and relativity. So I am, not a relativist, really, in the common sense, but a communitarian and contextualist because people are unintelligible in isolation. It's not that nothing exists outside of creation, we don't known that, be that we exist within it, as whole beings, but with elements that possibly transcend it. The 'truth' is always seen in a context of humility and humor which are expressions or an acknowledgement of human limitation. 

Trump's Monster Phase

Trump is going biblical. Not as a man of faith, of course. As a stupid, evil man. 

Florence versus the Machine

I haven't been there but friends back from Florence say it's been ruined for them, by some kind of growth or development. I believe it. Nothing resists the American plunder model. Or it takes some serious regulation and real effort, wherever there’s money to be made. 

Many unspoiled places exist, by remoteness or protection, and plenty in Italy. Let's all go there now, somewhere that hasn’t been ruined by profiteers. Or, if we get America back from the oligarchs, regulate the shit out of it. That’s an idea. Civility. Power to the people! 

Family Feudal

Republicans don't know or care where they're taking us as long as it has certain features, mostly a class of super-citizens whose ownership of of liquid and illiquid assets is so vast they control the society in cooperation with a smallish caste of others similarly rich. Robots will handle the equivalent of factory jobs on average. Functionaries, like estate managers, run the factories and other concerns, the status of those below devolving into that of servants or serfs. I'm not kidding. 

It's looking more like feudalism. They don't care. I suspect MAGA senses this in the lower parts of their brains that predominate and is okay with it, representing security in comparison with the horror of thinking independently and having their beliefs challenged or questioned and worrying instead only about harvests and who might steal their sheep. They're incomprehensible fatalists. There will be floods, fires and plagues. All cool. That's real life to them and God's purview.

Damn.

I think I lost my composure at 15 and am just getting it back at 70. Damn.  

Bootlicking Good

Republicans succeed by submission. By kissing ass. Then they celebrate by kissing ass. They probably kiss ass when we aren't looking and in ways we don't know about. You would think it's all they do. 

Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down to Me

Albanians made more of a fuss about Kushner building some shit than Americans are about Trump and his Republicans destroying everything. On balance Americans aren't feeling enough pain. Too many of them have been up so long they can't imagine how bad it can get. Many think they're down now but they have no idea. Give Trump some time. He's capable of destroying anything. 

Scumbags of the Confederacy

Mike Johnson comes to mind first, an absolute worm. Mitch McConnell, another worm. A killer worm, who took it up the ass from any corporation wanting a break and screwed average citizens at every opportunity. Candidates pour in. Tom Cotton. That fucking football coach. 

John Kennedy. Sessions, before retirement. The Tea Party and the Freedom (Treason) Caucus, full of southern scumbags, racist Confederate groups in spirit and effect, undermining the federal government seeking revenge for the Civil War and desegregation. America didn't fail.

The government got conquered, by the Confederacy. 

Moby Dickhead

Moby Dick is a story of compulsion, an entirely unfree state. Ahab fights against his fate in stalking and attacking the whale, not understanding he's free and doesn't need to be doing this shit.

Trump is more destructive and compulsive. He's fighting himself and his fate, not understanding he's free and doesn't need to be doing this shit. We're collateral damage, hostage to that fatalism. 

Out for Themselves

American businesspeople who drank the laissez-faire, libertarian brew aren't far removed from the mafia. They would say, everyone knows the risks. You lose your ass, tough luck. It's on you. 

In the mafia you can lose your life. Average citizens are enabling and insuring all this shit as we saw in the aftermath of the '08 downturn and before. Even the mafia by providing a society full of prey. 

Some of it is inevitable. But America maximized it, with an atomized society that rewarded predation and hyper-individualism that encouraged sociopathy. Everybody loses. What a cool system. 

The Coming Eschaton

A reminder and perspective for those immersed in the fog of the culture wars, the super-rich secured power by buying evangelical votes with promises evangelicals would get want they wanted. They wanted the U.S.A. reborn as a Confederate, racist dystopia, and to see Jesus. Evangelicals came to collect.  

Masked thugs patrol the streets and arrest brown people with needless violence, spreading fear and sending a message of hate and intimidation. Voting rights, never fully realized, are being eradicated. 

Racist dystopia? Check.

The way to see Jesus definitively and with conviction is to die. Evangelicals despise creation, all that temptation and imperfection. They long for the end-times. Evangelicals want to see the world go up in flames. Millions die? No problem. Part of God's plan. The world engulfed in war? Exciting. Cool. Provocative. The Middle East mired in strife with Jews involved? Extra cool, because it's prophecy. 

Evangelicals get to see Jesus? 

Not check yet. They're working on it. 

Pirates and Pissants

Republicans aren't even good villains. They're pirates and pissants. They bully and grovel at the same time. Plenty destructive, though. They've got the plundering down. 

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stupid, Resentful and Mean

Republicans conform to Lakoff's strict father model of the family and extend it to society. The tyrannical, abusive version of the strict father model. I can imagine the strict father model working out if it's applied fairly and with kindness. The abusive father model will not work out well. Abuse doesn't make people stronger it makes them stupid and mean. 

I Want People to Think Well of Me

Apparently it isn't enough. 

Self-Loathing Opportunists

I don't know how to take in Stephen Miller, how to process him. He's Trump's racism czar. How do you digest that? The category shouldn't exist. The position shouldn't exist. The man shouldn't exist.

He is an insult to humanity. The tension, that illegitimacy, makes him a monster, a pretender to humanity, begging for non-existence. Stay with me. A death wish isn't as strange as it seems. Or strange at all. 

He loathes himself. He has to. Should society grant him his wish, his baiting us and begging us to annihilate him? Functionally, yes. He shouldn't exist. He should be jailed. For life.

What kind of a society creates such a person, with such self-loathing and such a capacity for harm? And then places he in a position where he can injure and destroy the lives of millions of people. 

Fucking insane. We put these people in these positions, some unacceptably large percentage if not a majority of us. Who were they? The super-rich allied with white, mostly evangelical southerners. 

The rich are always with us. They, some of them, always want more. Evangelicals gave it to them for promises of a new age of racist tyranny, promises now fulfilled. Initially against the wishes of the rich. 

This is not about blame, it's about understanding and facing the responsibility of all of us. It's about seeing clearly the racism and tyranny Miller and Vought represent. Which we now see. 

The core of this is racism. The rich are swept along if not fully allied in it, biding their time and above all looking for opportunities to make money, as fucking always. We had worked this out. 

Controls were embedded in the system, a system both the rich and the racists hated because it constrained them, less so the rich until recently. Notably the racism was constrained by the Voting Rights Act. 

That was our government. So they felt compelled to destroy it. The lesson is we hadn't done enough to constrain the rich and the racists. So that's what we need to do if we have the chance again. 

Time Waits for No Trump

I want so badly for Trump to go away. I have for so long. Nothing personal but the harm is immense. The harm is the problem. So much and for so long and it seems he will never go away. But he will. Then it will be hard to believe. 

Ask Me No Questions and I'll Lie to You Anyway

Republicans aren't lying to us interactively and as a behavior they're out there constructing a whole parallel world of lies, lying as a state of being. Existential lying. You become the lie. Beyond that the lie has to consume everything around. They demand we live within the lie as well, because they're so fucking insecure and can't handle anything that contradicts their wonderful lies. 

Living in the U.S.A.

Trump and his enablers are destroying things so fast I think it can't go on and that there will be a collapse or an enforced reckoning. Then I think how long individuals, including Trump, remain alive and active in a badly compromised state and I'm not encouraged. They are parasites, vampires and sociopaths. It could go on for a long time no matter how they screw everything up. Killing a host as powerful as the U.S.A. could be tedious, agonizing and explosive all at once.

Morning Is Broken

Normally I wake up with a small sense of rebirth and a little bit of innocence. Trump and the Republicans broke it. I think about what they're doing and get mad. I know it's what they want and that it plays into their hands. It does me no good and I can't help it. 

Hedonic Destruction

Republicans aren't getting tired of rape and pillage the way one would expect. No satiety, so I suppose we're looking at hedonic destruction that might have started in a desire for retribution but morphed into pure enjoyment.

Not that there isn't someone in the background capable of organized thinking and intent, the super-rich. They are on-board with watching our society be destroyed. They decided they can weather it. They will rule over the ruins. 

Maybe the worst of all possible worlds is being made. Donald isn't a don, if you buy the mafia metaphor, he's a goon, and the government is populated with enforcers and thugs. A goonocracy, I guess, with goonocrats at the top. 

The super-rich are not goons. They might have converted to end-times fantasism, in there with their evangelical allies. Not wanting to see Jesus or believing He is coming, they are volunteering to stand in. For Jesus. 

I say they're all Satan. 

Fuckwad Needs Your Support

Fuckwad is nothing without backing. Glorious fuckwad. Fearless fuckwad. President fuckwad. 

How Do They Screw Us?

Let's count the ways. No, they're not itemizable anymore. Or it doesn't make sense to try. We work at cross-purposes with the entity that's there to make accountability possible. 

And possible for us to have decent lives, our government. Which isn't ours anymore. What to do? Get it back. How? I don't know. I have ideas, but the government is against us.

Which probably requires expertise. Combined with force, perhaps. Meanwhile, at a personal level, how does one arise every day and go on in the midst of this mess? I don't know. 

Chariots of Fiber

After taking forever to get past DSL to copper broadband I have fiber. Getting there was messy, the copper going in at the expense of a rich inheritor-of-money neighbor and the subs cut everything they could bringing it in including a high voltage buried electric line but I got hooked up for nothing. 

Then I paid through the nose. Two other wealthy or relatively wealthy entities near me got fiber by throwing money at it, $30K in one instance, over (reputedly, believably) $100K in the other. A company I never heard of began trenching in no end of conduit in my subdivision a couple of years ago. 

They then disappeared. I figured it was Biden money that ran out but no idea. Lately other crews, under another corporate name, showed up finishing the conduit down the public road and I got fiber. Still a drop wire to the house but I got it. I have no cell service at home so this connectivity is important. 

But it's fucking important for everybody. People can't have normal lives without connectivity. Kids can't be schooled properly. Republicans fight rabidly against it. You can always get Starlink at twice prices that are already too high. But Republicans want exclusion. And this is a southern white thing. 

Take It from a Democrat

Democrats were factionalists within their party, starting in the 70s, I believe, figuring out what they stood for in changing times. They supported a lack of factionalism for the country. Inclusion. Fair play. Limits to corporate power, private wealth and privilege. 

Republicans were the other way around. They became a unified fighting machine as a party but wanted factionalism for the country. Division, polarization and, ultimately, a class war. Republicans won. We're a mess. The U.S.A. is now a factional country. 

And China is a unified fighting machine. They mean to win. And they will. 

Democrats and the Meritocracy

Democrats might be as wedded to the meritocracy as Republicans are to religion. Religion is more relatable and inclusive, so Democrats are on the prodigy program. They remain unrelatable and wait for another Clinton or Obama to show up. 

They wonder why they lose voters who, on paper, should be voting for them. Maybe they should get their heads out of their asses. Principles are one thing, and they're good. But they don't win you elections. Empathy at that abstract level is good. 

Policies that don't fuck people and might help them, I mean. But you have to get elected to do anything. That Democrats suck at. They don't learn. They say Trump is a catastrophe. Look at who's at the microphone, though. Then they wonder why they lose. 

The 'rank and file' feels it more and more. The few leaders who do and express the anger and indignation the situation demands are resisted by the establishment. Republicans, awash in billionaire cash, appear less  establishment than Democrats. WHAT THE FUCK?

I'd love to beat some Republican ass in the elections. But there's some Democratic ass I wouldn't mind practicing on. Establishment Democrats need to fucking get out of the way. Corporate Democrats had their chance for decades. And look at where we are.

Transcendental Time

I was fine being immersed in time but now I want to get the fuck away. 

Bullet Points

Life isn't a presentation, and bounded by ambition.  

Night and Day

You aren't the one, Donald. You never were and never will be. Get the fuck lost, you loser.

A Question for Republicans

Republicans, how many people are you allowed to get killed before it counts? I mean in the Trump manifestation. Bush's toll is still going up but I'll not include that. Musk is on your tab. Shall we say a million? 

Make-believe

Republicans achieved escape velocity into unreality. They look on from such heights human beings are ants. Republicans think they're gods but they're devils. They belong with the rest of us. They're making shit up. Republicans are living a delusion. In which they're persecuted. So they attack. 

Medicrud for All

I'm confused. Are Democrats for 'Medicare for All' with actual, unbridled Medicare for everybody or some watered down shit. I don't trust them. Fault me for that. I dare you. 

Trump Triumphalism

Their revolution succeeds. So far. Republicans are reveling. The U.S.A. is reinvented. As what? As the Confederacy. As a racist, totalitarian state.

Trump, drunk on power. Absolutely smashed. Staggering. They all are, furiously yanking levers. Seeing people jump. Seeing people die. What a high! 

What a rush. Glorious victory. The forces of evil ascend, the same as always, always differently. Patterns emerge. Overreach. They're overextended.

A crash is coming. Helmets on! We will rebuild. But right now we're in the shit. 

Trump is Trans

Building on Trump's sophisticated understanding of 'trans' that it includes anything with 'trans' in it I declare Trump is 'trans' since he's transactional. 

Twenty-Mule-Team Moron

The societal suicidal impulse is increasing. Maybe more like murder. Trump always heeded the call of the ditch, his destiny and compulsion. Annihilation. His egotism demands company. He will take the country with him. He'll take the world, perhaps. Anything that he can. A galaxy if he can swing it. 

Trump will leave a legacy of devastation, as big as possible. Pack up his toys, go home to daddy. Daddy dead. Posthumously, daddy gave him a country to fuck with. Diabolical daddy. Trump doesn't choose the ditch. He's a sick fuck, he can't help it. Who empowers such a man? Maniacs. Crazies. Cultists.

Evangelical Christians, mostly. They allied with the rich. The rich are always with us. They will take whatever they can. Who would give it to them? Idiots and lunatics with grudges. White, southern, racist losers who want revenge. And to see the end-times, as an afterthought. Jesus and all. And all.

Meaning complete, disaster-movie devastation. Death, the ditch nobody gets out of. Nobody pulls you out, unless you believe in the resurrection. It's not enough they believe that for themselves. They are idealists and fanatics. Death for everyone! See you at the resurrection. If you buy into that. I don't.

Get in Touch

Mainstream Democrats are not cutting it. People are pissed and scared. The leadership offers explanations and analysis. The electorate wants to feel the outrage. They want to see indignation. I’ve got it to spare if they want it. Get in touch. With me, with the electorate, with fucking reality. 

On This Payday in History

Trump did what? What ripoff, shakedown and scam? It goes on every day. I think Trump became the biggest crook in history. Nobody compares. Great crooks typically worked at it and assumed risks. Trump shot his mouth off, became president and got granted immunity by political hacks on the Supreme Court. He's a crook by decree. A crook by executive order. 

Grifter-boy has gone scaredy-cat. People who steal that much fear retribution. They fear justice. They fear somebody taking their shit that they stole. One good thing. Trump enables us to see that America's super-rich are all crooks. They get so wealthy by stealing. Some rode the wave. Maybe they're not personally responsible. Still, that's our money they're sitting on. 

But I'm a Cheerleader

Karoline Leavitt thought she was special, exempt from the rules of Trump. Rah, Rah, she said. Sis Boom Bah. No matter what Trump did it was go team. He shit all over everything it was go team. He shit the world, go team. 

Some are more team than others. The Trump distractibility index is high. If it isn't right in front of him it doesn't exist. Object permanence is an issue. People are objects. An army of ego-strokers attends Trump. How to stand out?

Kneel down? It's been done. Every variation, manner and position, and with accoutrements. Pompoms, you name it. Probably things best not thought about. Our boy is so needy. Nobody gonna fill that void. Bye-bye, Karoline. 

They Are War

We've note that Republicans start wars, as a matter of witness. We have seen, we report. They engage in violence in other ways, the violence of deprivation, for example. Circumstances have nothing to do with it. They exaggerate or invent threats. They are violent people. They are war. 

The Unforgivable

Democrats, I believe, are on the leading edge of a reckoning. The old guard needs to get out of the way. Let me rephrase. Get the fuck out of the way. If you don't want to be remembered poorly leave entirely or support the hell out of Mamdani and those like him. Don't resist. Resist and you will be remembered as assholes, wimps and dicks. Dicks and limp dicks at the same time, if that's possible. 

The context is this, that we can't go back to normal. Normal is gone. Normal is done. The revolution has happened. I think irreversibly until we have an economic crash or a contagion or unprecedented fires and floods or whatever. Of course there might be a mix. What Republicans have done is unforgivable. For once we can't let them walk. And what are we coughing up? Newsom, no. Just no. 

Buttigieg better, but not for president. We need a warrior. We don't have one. Some Democrat might find his inner asskicker, you never know. It will have to be in response to some level of catastrophe, though, for the ground to be ready. Maybe someone will come out of nowhere. The U.S. has ceased to exist as a nation that fulfills its constitutional responsibilities to itself enough to confer legitimacy. 

We're starting from there. From scratch, in a way. We need to get that through our heads

Does Trump shit in the woods?

No. He shits in his pants.  

Real Butt Flavor

Republicans are particular about some things. Take ass. No artificial ass for them. They want original, unadulterated, gourmet Trump anus. Nothing else will do. 

Barren Trump

Trump is the Wasteland Man.  

What to Do If You Smell Gas

If you're around Trump, DO NOTHING. Do not laugh, cringe or smirk. Do not call 911, unless it's for you and what Trump will do to you if you are caught gasping, snickering or appearing offended. The dignity of Trump must not be impinged. He is magnificent. Nothing must be spoken against him, no allusion made to possible faults, or amusement had at assumed indications of confusion or alleged gaffs and improprieties. Whatever he does is great by definition, not omitting offensive smells. Your life might depend on this. 

The Package

I get a kick out of babies and how they are carried around like a sack of potatoes. Trump is nothing if not a huge baby, not to defame babies or impugn their innocence. Apparently Trump loves flying among all the ways his self-importance is ceaselessly massaged so it's great for once his mode of transport or delivery reflected the actual man in his unholy, malignant, me-before-everyone-else narcissism and neediness. 

An inert Trump-in-a-box is wheeled and toted around, capturing the blob in his glorious passivity and dependency. King Fuck-up pretends to be so powerful. Apologies again for associating Trump with babies. I love babies. They deserve better. And the world and humanity deserve better than Trump.

I Love Lucifer

Why don't Republicans just admit it, that they're all satanists? I think it would make them feel good. They're relishing doing all the evil. Think how fantastically powerful and mighty they would feel if they owned it. They could revel in the devilry. 

Bored Games

Republicans were afflicted with ennui. Starved for stimulation, maybe, sensing an end to their carbon blowout, the massive drunkenness of resource subsidies. They stood athwart history and yelled stop. 

That exploitation must go on. The rich must have more, even after fracking. They would find oil somewhere. Elsewhere. Anywhere. TRUMP! Trump will do it. It takes an asshole. And he has. 

Grand theft petroleum.

Fires and floods, fuck that. Or, bring it on. They have bunkers. The Putin Plan, perhaps. Oligarchy and apocalypse. Surplus of people. Thanks, robotics. Thanks, AI. They are expendable. We are expendable.

America Wants

America wants you tired, it wants you poor, it wants you huddled in masses yearning to breathe free.

Scalability

I ask myself if a person, a kind of person, is scalable. If they were everyone would the result be livable. If everyone were like them would it work. I don't know how useful this is, clearly the scalability standard can't be the only standard, but I think it counts for something. 

Cut Trump a Break

Look at it from Trump's perspective. He got more Americans killed by botching the COVID response than had died in all of America's wars since WWII, by a a lot. Maybe as many as were killed in WWII. 

Just by being a moron and an idiot. Those lost in his stupid Iran war aren't that many by comparison. Republicans reelected him. Getting people killed isn't a problem for them. Why should it be for him? 

The problem isn't Trump. Republicans created this. They could stop it tomorrow.

I Must Be Something Special

Rich techno-geeks get confronted with the conundrum and mystery of their obvious and undeniable superiority as established by their wealth and then, with the kinds of brains the have, analyze how they got there down to the first principle of their indisputable competitive excellence. 

They won. They are winners. But did they get the girl? Hmm. Once you're rich enough you can buy anything. You can buy the girl, but the girl is tainted with insecurity, having been bought. The thing can go several ways from there, probably none of them good but you never know. 

Look for compensation, a sure sign of insecurity. Compensation is trying to get even, to get out of a hole and insecurity is a hole. You suspect you're shit. You decide you're better than everyone else. Being better or worse isn't the problem, comparing yourself is the problem. Don't do it!

You aren't anytime else. There's an obvious limiting-case on the compensation scale, not to be named, but his need for reassurance to the point of adulation and worship is breathtaking, pathetic, and it would produce pity if he weren't fantastically vindictive, a crude form of compensation.

Back to the girl, Cheryl Tiegs was deemed an appropriate geek mate when I first began to observe this. Coming from the other end as a source of insecurity is idealism. The geek brain, gifted at abstraction, reverts to the perfect, platonic ideal of  'girl' or anything else, contributing to insecurity.

Comparison, again. 

We each have our own lives. Don't compare. Live your life, appropriately immersed in the wonder and miracle of creation which some people, again unnamed, appear to want to destroy because it's imperfect, extrapolating from their own imperfection with which they are naggingly familiar. 

No Room for Anyone Else

Republicans are insisting in the most forceful way, as eliminationists, that there's no room for anyone unlike them and they mean business. Call it overshoot, as I think it is. They feel the need to establish their absolute dominance and smash all resistance to the ground. Then, maybe, they'll lighten up and stop killing people for no reason but everything is on the table. 

This is Calvinist and imperial. Calvinist strip the meaning out of life give you back just enough to make it bearable, if you're lucky. Imperialists take all the money and resources by the assumption of arbitrary authority since they, too, are the elect in their own and favored by God. Then they give enough back to you to keep you alive, if you're lucky, in testament to their beneficence. 

Way to Go, Democrats

Democrats, different factions, fight for control of their party. Republicans fight for control of the country. Democrats can't decide what they stand for. Republicans are burning everything down. 

Way to go, Democrats. 

As the World Burns

Republicans are fighting Democrats, Democrats are fighting Democrats. Guess who wins. This has been going on for decades. Democrats struggle for perfection, to get it right, a purity project. Republicans are running the county and burning it to the ground. But Democrats will not change. 

Democrats became our puritans. How weird is that. 

No Recognized Grievance Group Left Behind

If you aren't a protected class you don't exist to Democrats. But it worked out. Democrats have been so defeated the whole party has a grievance, being disenfranchised. They've become a grievance group.

Congratulations, you officially count. To yourself. Now what? 

Democrats Didn't Even Try

While Republicans fought to control the country white women fought to control of Democrats. They won, controlling the character and messaging of the party. Democrats are the party of trans rights and abortion. Republicans run Nazis and psychopaths and win. 

Way to go, Democrats. White women have a stranglehold on Democrats, Republicans a stranglehold on the country, and the country is coming unglued. Maybe the world and civilization, Just a thought, Democrats, but maybe should try beating Republicans. 

Too late now. 

The Day the World Shit a Brick

I think we're shitting a brick but I'm not sure. It's weird not to know but living in a world which the United States held together in some respects and watching it fall apart is stunning. Day after day we think we're maxed out and at our wit's end and then it gets worse.

Crack Addicts

Republicans, even the rich ones, can't get their faces out of Trump's ass. We're a really fucked up country. 

Institutionalizing Injustice

The point of the Trump revolution is a handoff. The corruption is different, not the real intent but a related thing. Handing off the bigotry, repression and authoritarian cravings to the government is the goal. The government, instead of guaranteeing a measure of justice, institutionalizes injustice.

Racism is really personally toxic, absolutely corrosive to the human soul. When your psyche can't do without it you hire enforcers. Professionals, basically, the bigot's bureaucracy. You've got the tools of repression and exploitation working for you and you're insulated from that, so you feel fine. 

Church, country club, a little philanthropy, you do all that. No organization is equipped or positioned to enforce brutality and privilege like the government. The government-hating insanity was nonsense. It was injustice they were after. So now they're throwing resources at the government. 

And they're using it against us. That was always the idea. That was the point. 

Our Darkest Hour

Our darkest hour is here, or we're within its margins, and the resistance is rubbish. Democrats are overwhelmed by the spectacle, never having owned their shit before, and far too stupefied to do it now. 

All That Jizz

I want to know what asshole is doing it, goading Trump into an insult or outrage. Some adolescents or arrested individuals must impel it, proposing dick things to do and following up on execution.

Trump comes up with some of it. You can tell. He's tooling around in the limo or being tooled, sees some treasure and needs to fuck with it -- deface it or desecrate it. Own it, in some way, being Trump.

Stamp it with the brand. Maybe he thought up the arch. But a team must be in on so much horror, jizzing and shitting civilization into a sty. All that jizz. Ejaculating on everything, in Jesus' holy name.

This takes a team. Trump wants to live in memory. Hostages, we pay billions, with perks, emoluments and overhead, to destroy our own country. I want names. Photos. Names, for now. Accountability later. 

We Hold These Truths to Be Expedient

All men are created equal. After that, shit happens. They have the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. On a good day. But what is happiness? Nobody knows. Choice - freedom - invariably makes some persons followers, cogs in the machine of life. Others are managers or masters. Who's to say. 

Over all is ownership. A person is nothing, uninvested in life, without property. Those with property have a larger stake, naturally, and greater incentive to see the society succeed. Noblesse oblige kicks in, one would hope. Average citizens will be cared for. But it's up to the owners. Their prerogative is absolute.

The rabble can't be running things. Look at where that got us. They chose enslavement. 

The Great Mojo Fiasco of 2026

Trump's mojo is in tatters. He's been running from a reckoning forever. Bullies pick on people who can’t fight back trying to prove their worth to themselves, as it's mirrored back to them. They seek validation in adulation and domination. They use other people. They contribute nothing. Trump's life is spent avoiding knowing his vast inadequacy, the rich boy's dilemma. But it's happening.

The world watches. Trump, meet Herr Donald, courtesy of Iran. Courtesy of a reflecting pool. Courtesy of a botched anniversary bash. Courtesy of measles, explosive diarrhea and such accomplishments. Courtesy of masked thugs reviled on the streets. Enemies emboldened, allies embarrassed. The African death count won’t go away. We will remember. On and on, most of it impending. 

The worst is coming. ICE funding goes through the roof. After the election, by design, Trump will unleash Terror in America, his signature domestic program of reform through violent intimidation. Deficits are coming like never before, huge bankruptcy, Trump's talent and special skill. He's got his war now, on credit. Republicans are leaders and leaders start wars. Way to go, Donald. 

You fucking dumbass. With a 'B.'

Adaptive Abuse

Head of abuse and chief insult officer Donald Trump leads a movement that's learning just how long you can go on screwing the hell out of people before they revolt. With MAGA it appears forever. And they're learning how to abuse people with maximum impact. MAGA has been enlisted in the project, so the idiots think they're winning. It's the Civil War all over again. 

King of Farts

A person can only shit so much, by physical limitation, however many Big Macs one consumes, special sauce and all. I suspect Trump, in addition to shitting on everything, is farting a lot as a force multiplier, perhaps with a silencer. This supposition rests on the reactions of people around him. The looks. 

We can't rule out moral compunction. There might be deeply buried, vestigial consciences still existing in Trump's orbit. Eradicating someone's humanity, clearly Trump's only talent and gift, is difficult. I detect strugglingly suppressed and emerging grimaces and indications of disgust in those around Trump. 

The theory is subject to verification. Volunteers? 

Beyond the Paywall

Where your government resides ...

The Trump Trajectory

This is the Trump trajectory. He fucks everything up beyond belief, gets scared as shit and attacks. Huge losses. Who will bear them? To a greater degree than ever, because of his position, anybody but Trump. 

High Plains Grifter

Trump rides into town. He's an outsider, rough around the edges, but he'll straighten everything out. He'll eliminate all the decency with corruption. Wasn't that what you wanted? 

Trump Bites

Trump was never domesticated. Dogs that bite are trained out of it or put down. Trump needed to be trained or kenneled. He's feral. Too late now. 

No One Is Safe

In the intimidation game, go big and go arbitrary. Attack someone prominent. Attack someone random, ideally innocuous. The message is, no one is safe.

Republicans on the Attack

Fucking people up isn't enough. You have to be seen fucking people up, as exaggeratedly as possible. Be a misanthropist they name something after. An airport? The Rand Paul Memorial Burial Mound, maybe. He'll steal an Indian one.

Perhaps occupy it, eventually. Why wait?

Be epochal. Momentous. Apparently Homeric, to be timely. Good has been done. Behaving is bathetic. Building is boring. Rationality isn't creative. It's all been done. Devastation is cool. The world is built out. Blow it up. Be the blitz.

Make a name for yourself. Blow it all up. 

Live Raid

Republican plundering emergency status notification. Looting is reaching a crisis level. Take cover. 

Nice Work but You Can't Get It

I want one of those Republican jobs. You get paid like crazy but you don't do shit. Or, you do do shit. They shit on everything and get paid for it. You have to pledge allegiance to Trump. I'm not going to do that. 

Don't Fence Me In

The freedom crowd wants to corral everything. They have boundary issues. Not that they don't have them, but the foundations are weak. 'Build the wall.' Their freedom is fragile so they demand certainty. 

No ambiguity. Everything is defined, fixed, immutable.

Existential certainty, in the limiting case. They are saved. They are going to heaven. They are patriots. Their worldview is right. See, it's the only one out there. They banned all the others. 

Wiped them out. What do we actually know? 

One real certainly, diversity is stability. They want a weed-free lawn of white men, the most unstable thing imaginable, requiring enormous energy subsidies to create and maintain. Hence the oil.

Apart from fencing everything they want oil. Which means excursions, to go get it. Plunder. They're actively doing this. Boundaries for me, not for thee. Also they want to corral meaning. 

To define reality, which they're scared of.

They're scared of the reality of themselves and their own weakness, mortality and imperfection. They can't see they're afraid of themselves, which they can't escape, so they go after everyone else. 

 

With bombs strapped to their asses. They are the apocalypse.

The forces of compulsion, the opposite of freedom.

Trump Baggage Bombs Iran

Trump is unloading his baggage on Iran ending up with more. I told him it wouldn't work. Call it the baggage paradox. Try to unload it and you end up with more. 

Trump doesn't understand. Psychological baggage piles up when you don't deal with it yourself. Trump is sitting on a mountain of it now.

Try This

Assume everything Republicans say is a lie and that everything they claimed to stand for going back decades was a lie. Voilà, the whole mess magically makes sense. All of it was always a fucking lie. 

The Hidden Truth: Outsider Identification on the Right

Conservatives FEEL themselves to be outsiders storming the gates of the deep state and attacking the inefficiencies Democrats created with their abuse of the public trust. They're wasting your money all over, Republicans say. 

Which I dispute in comparison with the unparalleled profligacy of Trump's administration. The reality underlying the outsider identification of Republicans is they never accepted the legal framework of the country to start.

Fair enough. Change it constitutionally.

The hidden truth is they never accepted the state's validity but were working for factional and partisan interests, firstly for the rights of rich people and fuck everyone else. They are monarchists. Kleptocrats. Oligarchs. Flirty Fascists.

And other things. But they aren't patriotic. 

I don't judge them, they judged themselves. Where do they get off saying rich people are treated unfairly? It's a scam. A scam masking the intention to overthrow the state and reinvent the country as a rich man's playground. 

They ARE outsiders, because they are culture-war combatants. 

January 6 wasn't a one-off. It was war against the state.

Which the Republican Party endorsed and officially signed up for. 

Making them enemies of the country they pretend to support. 

Game of Thrones

Trump's latest executive order 'Protecting the American Mind' corrects history and protects all citizens from the horrors of the truth. Why dwell on that shit? Trump is the shepherd and we are the sheep. Let him lead. Americans must not feel bad or suffer shame and anxiety, let alone over woke ideology and DEI and bad weather and the devastating knowledge that fossils fuels will run out one day and the rich people will have to kill millions of us to live the way they want and deserve. 

Also, Trump won every election and is incapable of losing. When he ascends into heaven he will win there and be further privileged and recognized by Jesus and God as the most holy and best person ever created and a fellow God. He will sit at the right hand in a golden throne at least as nice as Jesus's or God's he never quite understood that triune shit. Everything is gold. Surely Trump's throne will be nicer and bigger. I mean, who is this Jesus and who is he to hold a candle to Trump?

He got hung on a fucking cross. Trump, the great glory-basker, likes people who didn't die on a cross. Twelve apostles? What kind of a posse is that? Trump was president of the most powerful country ever. Heaven is kind of vacant, apart from those thrones. Have they not seen the White House? What splendor! Getting back to the thrones, Trump's must be bigger or he will bomb Iran. And why more than one? Since when? There will be one throne in heaven and Trump will be on it. 

This is a digression from 'history' but an important and natural one. We must think ahead to a time after the Ascension, when Trump goes to see Lindsey who was, he wants it noted, his underling. Everyone was his underling. Did they see his jets? Huge! And not one but two! Can heaven really contain Trump's magnificence? We must consider it so we can prepare for the Ascension. Roman emperors became Gods. The Supreme Court has declared precedent, I'm told, in anticipation. 

The throne thing. There will be one and Donald on it. He will make a deal. Eradicate Sharia Law, whatever makes God happy. Are there tariffs in heaven? These questions will be addressed for a smooth transition. Honestly, it's a takeover or buyout. In a pinch Trump will resort to blackmail. Blow up the earth with all those little people God supposedly loves if God doesn't accede. What is it about little people and that shit? They are nothing. Things will be different when Trump is God. 

Under What Circumstances?

Under what circumstances does Trump's destruction of the country make sense? It makes sense if it's the culmination of a Republican movement that was already in place. It makes sense if the two parts of the Republican coalition, rich, laissez-faire capitalists and disaffected, mostly evangelical white southerners, both want it. It makes sense by having happened. 

Both those groups want to see the country destroyed in some way. Evangelicals wanted crazily restrictive social changes. Outlaw abortion. Racist everything dressed for deniability. Rampant privatization. Their hopes and expectations changed as their grievances were validated over the years. They were fed vague promises that their revanchist dreams would be fulfilled. 

Rich, laissez-faire capitalists had been using them for their votes and stoking their anger but not giving them the crazy shit. They began to take it. Then the big change. The rich began to warm to the apocalyptic crowd. Not the crowd, really. They didn't want rednecks, Proud Boys and bikers showing up at their houses for cocktails, but there was 'disaster capitalism.'

'Creative destruction' was floating around in their realm of opportunistic, money-making ideas. And they want more money. 

They warmed up to catastrophism on the heels of the Great Recession they created and came out of not only unscathed but generally enriched. Enter Trump, an amazing criminal who had to have complete separation from any context of accountability. The average super-rich person might have wanted that, nobody telling them what to do or even making them pay taxes.

Way beyond it, they ended up part of a criminal enterprise to subvert the legal authority and power of the U.S. government. Maybe passively. Average, highly affluent people I'm talking about here. We now have a unified political movement that has seized control of everything solely for purposes of destruction. They had been selectively changing laws in their favor. 

It became impossible to hold them accountable even when they did, sometimes flagrantly, violate the law. Instances come to mind. Democrats fought back with pool noodles. They have tried, and I'll grant it's hard to fight sociopaths, but when you keep getting beat and the system is failing and people are dying at some point you have to question your tactics. But, no. 

Identity politics, the same old shit. Which I support as necessary to a degree as a matter of policy, but if you keep losing leading with it as a political thing YOU FUCKING STOP. Win the election, enact the policies. Where are we now? We are fucked. We have lost to an unbelievable degree. And we had better get our heads out of our asses. The other side is playing to win at any cost.

They want the government functionally obliterated. To go to heaven or to stay out of jail. Some for both. 

America's Fart Health

America's fart health has been deemed excellent after a checkup involving a general assessment of frequency, potency and gross emissions. Also employed was an EAG, and Electrical Ass-o-Gram, to see if the internal, fart-producing components were in good shape. All was well and splendid.

The testing was initiated by reports of extraordinary activity. America was found to be in a fantastic state of anal gaseous generation. Those on the receiving end, the millions and millions of people being farted at and shit upon, were not happy at this news, that America was simply doing what came naturally.

Americans, it was seen, have become the biggest pigs in world history. 

And they have committed themselves to that path no matter what. Venezuelan oil is an example. You want it, you take it, because America is special and the rules don't apply to you. Iran has proved a tougher nut. Americans were high on their own farts when it came to that. And Iran is farting back. 

I love how you hate me.

Democrats are hating on Republicans, a natural outcome of abuse that further empowers the abusers. Republicans welcome it. It means their tactics are working. Not that condemnation doesn't have its place, as a unifying force providing focus among the abused and as defining the nature of the resistance.

But it must translate into understanding and then action. Hate can't be helped faced with such injustice. Let's make it into a positive force. Let's make it count. 

Trump's Reversed New Testament: Tribalism Returns

So, the Old Testament was tribal but it made the king subject to the law. It established the supremacy of the law, which came from God. The New Testament extended it to all of humanity, initiating Christianity as a religion that was about behaviors, adherence to laws and standards and not belonging or tribal membership, universally and among all of humanity.

Universality was a natural and needed development and evolution, implied by the character of the law as natural law. Republicans reverted to tribalism, asserting that behaviors didn't matter, that laws were illegitimate constraints on human freedom, and fuck you. Now they're demanding and asserting universal tribalism, as perverse and self-contradictory as it sounds. 

Not content with being tribal assholes, they want worldwide tribalist assholedom, decency must be eradicated everywhere, being an insult to their worldview. No law, no standards, life is shit. 

Into this steps Donald Trump who is recognized as the King of the Losers and someone with the magical touch. Everything he touches turns to shit, a gilt turd still being a turd. Democrats think an awakening is possible on the right. It really isn't, as a matter of principle. They want everything to be shit. They will have to be swimming in shit for a change of heart to occur. 

Maybe not even then, by which time it is too late anyway. This is the new compact with God being proposed. We'll see what God has to say, assuming God exists. Meanwhile it's life in the sty. 

He's a Soul Man

Donald Trump doesn't have a living soul, an adjunct of which is having a conscience, but he's a soul man. Freed from the constraints of being normal and giving a shit about anything, Trump taps into the animal nature that remains, all that there is of him, to appeal to the animal nature in everyone.

The animal aspect can be dis-integrated from intelligence and decency, Trump's call of the wild.

Don't answer it. Whatever we are, and I don't claim to know, we are more or less than animals if only in our power. More, if we accept the responsibilities of our station. We are worse and less than animals if we fail and refuse, a rogue and unworthy component of creation, inhabiting the land of MAGA.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Sharia Law

Sarah Sanders' ridiculous, idiotic worry about the nonexistent threat of the implementation of Sharia Law in America shows us her own degraded, inbred Arkansas agenda, the imposition of Christian Nationalism or religious law in place of the secular legal system. She sees Sharia Law as the competition.  

Both represent the desire for fascist, autocratic, tyrannical religious government. 

This means the destruction of the United States, a secular nation that enables and encourages religious freedom. The morons are pulling it off because destruction is easy. Okay, they're good at it. Tearing everything down is their only talent and all they're capable of. They are the original Nazis. 

The Nazis took their inspiration from southern conservatives. They got their racism from them. And the brutal, inhumane, exploitative laissez-faire economic doctrines of American conservatives trashed the world economy and put the Nazis in power. They're the ticket if you want your life to be shit.

For this purpose they hired Donald Trump, a piece of shit that puts the world to shame. 

Shame Is a Bitch

MAGA is getting rid of its massive reservoir of dishonor by destroying the context that contains it. The shame of their racism, their corruption, the Civil War, segregation, desegregation, fucking country music and NASCAR and the entire pathetic, shit culture of whining, self-pity, false bravado, sin and decay.

They are such fantastically fucked-up and unworthy degenerates the one way out is to destroy all decency and standards, burning everything to the ground. They'll get us all killed to unload their disgrace. 

Making a Run at Unconstrained Evil

For the record, Trump and his gang are going for the full unconstrained evil thing. Those are the stakes. Impunity. Immunity. They can do whatever the fuck they want to anybody. They'll not only do it to make a point they'll go beyond that. Overreach, to establish their dominance, as with the ICE shit. They are not fucking around, but they're a mess so there should be opportunities to stop them. And Democrats are totally unprepared. 

Fuck Y'all

The Republican movement in two words, 'fuck y'all.' Southern white people never signed on to the American state thing, formally. They went along on their own terms. Slavery, then apartheid. 

Desegregation was the last insult. The war was on, again. This time they won. Dishonorably, as always, because the cause is racism and injustice. States' rights is up for argument, as far as I'm concerned. 

I don't care. Democrats who think what they say means anything or that they stand for anything but some brutal, insane fundamentalist shit are wrong. They want to destroy you. 'Fuck you' is all of it. 

The World Is Burning

The world is burning and Republicans are thrilled. Their plan is working. Their desires fulfilled. They came to destroy, so everything is going great. They are celebrating and cheering it on. 

Straight from the Pit of Hell to Your House

That's the thing, people don't expect a vampire to show up in their Sound of Music movie and chomp on the necks of the kids, so they can't take it in when it happens. But it has. America's rich are parasites and vampires. Trump and company are sucking the blood out of everything. 

America Declares Moral Bankruptcy

Every day the Trump insanity goes on America is declaring its moral bankruptcy to the world. They've reacted and are waiting to see if we pull out of it. They haven't foreclosed yet but they will. 

Crime and Punishment

Insider trading is Trump's latest favorite activity. His administration runs on corruption. Then they punish us. Our existence is a threat to them. Standards are a threat to them, so they must be eradicated and fear instilled everywhere. No one can be left who dares challenge them. 

Mad King Donald

We've got a king, Mad King Donald. And his reign of terror. Democrats gave us 'all we have to fear is fear.' Mad King Donald and his spineless supporters give us 'all we have is fear.' 

Democrats, remember where we came from. A fair shake for everyone. Fight for it. We were great then. Good, in any case. Republicans want to destroy it, America's heart and decency. 

Homie That Trashed Spain Suddenly a Fan

Trump, the homie that's been trashing Spain and most recently threatened to cut off all trade, suddenly found his inner fan while wishing Franco were back and they were a dictatorship. Then he could play ball in his preferred way, mano a mano with a fellow autocrat. He wants a dictatorship for everyone. No other form of government makes sense to him. 

Trump Dishonors Dead Soldiers

Donald Trump is dishonoring dead soldiers by claiming he's retaliating on their behalf, of some such shit. Let's get it straight. Trump never does anything for anyone but himself. The whole war is his. The fucked up economy is his. The ICE murders are his. The hundreds of thousands of deaths caused by what he did to USAID is his. Explosive diarrhea is his. Measles is his. The desecration and destruction of our national monuments is his. Attacking renewable energy is his. Creating a Supreme Court supermajority of political hacks is his. And that isn't all that's his, the miserable, psycho piece of garbage.

Headline USA: Trump Mistakes Personal Shit for Reality

Trump, never one to step outside himself, mistakes his personal shit for reality. He attacks Iran for nothing, because of his feelings of inadequacy and the grandiosity arising in denial and compensation, and relatedly his terrific need to belittle everyone sometimes with aggression and violence. 

And because it's his whim, which absolutely fucking sacrosanct. This is no way to run anything. The predictable result is a catastrophic mess which drives him further into fantasy so he screws up more and on and on. He's spiraling into massive personal failure and taking the country with him. 

 

Trump's personal shit is now reality.

Real Freedom Is Never Having to Admit You're Out of Your Minds

Republicans have a niche market, where the crazies live. When they say free they mean me, meaning them. Someone else pays the bills, someone else cleans house, and someone else feeds them, clothes them and wipes their filthy asses. 

No wonder Trump is their idol. Trump says you never have to grow up, that you can live like pigs and the world will still be there to exploit and enjoy, fuck the future and everyone else. Freedom to them is the opportunity to live irresponsibly. 

https://www.salon.com/2014/03/02/baby_boomer_humors_big_lie_ghostbusters_and_caddyshack_really_liberated_reagan_and_wall_street/

The Eternal Frame

A few titles from the Rich Person's Book Club I unearthed ...

1. How to Profit from the Death of DEI

2. Annihilating the Middle Class: the Money in Misery

3. Who Needs Workers We Got Bots

4. The Apocalypse as a Business Opportunity

5. Jesus is on Our Side: Social Darwinism for Believers

6. Memoirs of a Maker

7. Building a Bunker: Guide for the Compleat Idiot

8. The Imitation of the Antichrist

9. Making Money off Musk: Never Mind the Murder

10. Raising a Rich Kid to Win: A Motivational Guide 

11. The Whole Earth Epilogue

FedEx is a Fucking Mess

Rational regulation gives us companies that work. Profitable, responsible, good jobs, long-term success. Laissez-faire gives us plunder. Short-term profits and companies that are shit. 

FedEx is a southern company. An entrepreneurial company. FedEx runs on the plantation model. Screw the workers. Screw the customers, as much as possible. Take the money and run. 

Brigade de Trump

Trump is fortifying Washington. He won't leave. He's building his führerbunker. The Donnie Doctrine emerges from the ashes. Attack everybody. Steal everything. Make them come for you. 

He's going to fight it out. Little Donnie is going down with the ship. He'll take all of us and everything he can with him. Only that will give him the denouement he deserves, a big-ass final episode. 

Turd Weight

Trump is being flown all over at incredible expense. He recently flew two jumbo jets to Europe because, I guess, it takes that to encompass his magnificence. Whereas, I think he's about 250 lbs of shit, an eighth of a ton. Then it occurred to me there's no succinct, concise way of expressing a unit of Trump.

He is kind of a thing, just a big whatever, and between a pound and a ton I don't think there's anything. Maybe a kilo, but still a lot of space without a denomination so I propose, in honor of Trump, that 250 lbs be termed a 'turd weight' and became an official unit of measure. I've kept his name off not to offend. 

My Liberal Awakening

I was about 12. My father worked at Logistics Command at WPAFB. There was a cassette tape circulating there, of all places, he brought home that criticized our involvement in Vietnam, based on cultural knowledge. I don't remember specifics, but it argued we had no idea what the fuck we were doing. Dad had concluded, I believe, that Dayton might be the Siberia of the Air Force. Step on the wrong toes in Washington and there you go. The base, in any case, was impressive.

He said they got some brilliant people. He wondered what they were doing there. I thought there might be a hierarchy of Siberias. Anyway, I was an instinctively conservative kid but I wasn't stupid. The info in the cassette made me mad. And made me a lifelong liberal though I was a preservationist, interested in the old ways and cultural continuity. So, a weird mix. I would have identified as a Democrat because of Kennedy. I stayed a Latin Mass sort of preservationist but never bought the broad brush. 

Not after the cassette. I wanted to look deeper. I mistrusted positions backed by enthusiasm and emotional appeal. I hated unloading, putting your baggage on someone else and lighting them on fire. It infuriates me. I don't know where that came from. Again, I was 12. My rust-belt city was beginning to fail. The Catholic Church threw out Gregorian Chant for the most insipid guitar music ever. I remember arguing in grade school the National Guardsmen at Kent State needed to be considered, that they couldn't be that different from the students. Something went horribly wrong.

I felt incredibly alone. Maybe every kid does, I don't know, in their individual way. I disliked Nixon. More confusion. I couldn't understand how he got elected, but when he got caught I said we needed to own our role in it. We elected the fucker. Who did we think it reflected on? He won, a real landslide. A super-humongous, incredible, never-before-seen or to-be-repeated landslide by a certain standard. But, no, we needed to feel better about ourselves by making a bonfire out of Nixon. 

So I'm dying these days. Unloading is the new America. Bonfires worldwide. We were always vain, in an innocent, rah-rah, everybody-look-how-great-we-are way. Now it's horrible. Worst unloading I've ever seen. Calvinist, witch-hunt shit. Life-hating shit. Kill the messenger, his entire family, and blow his country to bits shit. Did somebody hurt our feelings? Awwww. We hurt our own feelings. We sensed an end to an imagined, idealized America and threw a tantrum not wanting to grow up. 

We're stuck in a frat house phase. Another thing, I evolved an attitude about the south. Confusion, bordering on bigotry. To my Catholic sensibilities something was off. I didn't like how southerners, like Lyndon Johnson, presented. I saw the preachers on TV, when that started, and thought, this is religion? As ever enthusiasm put me off. Unloading, self-righteousness and a lack of balance concerned me. And, in this puritanical context, their women went to church looking like prostitutes. 

Confusing! I ended up in the south. My assessment has been solidified. I understand now why the women dress that way and the makeup. I read books, by southern women. It's an expression of white male power. Of privilege. They don't work in the fields! You want to be as obviously, pretentiously far from that as possible. I wonder why. Somebody was happily working there on their behalf, we're told, and being treated very well. That's unloading at a structural level. Ask black people.

The whole country is the Confederacy. Read about the Confederacy. Notice the fixation on ownership. Property. Listen to black people. They're the experts. And stand in awe of the injustice. If it's a byproduct of something larger, like authoritarianism, or religious fundamentalism, or a hatred of creation that encompasses everything, the bigotry being a product of that because women and minorities are archetypally perceived as being closer to nature, then fine. But the interface, for us, is injustice. Horrific injustice, and it's the leading edge of the thing. 

Our conservatives aren’t conservatives. The country is innately liberal. Democrats are conservatives. Republicans are insane.

Semper Lie

The Trump Corps motto. 

Real Men Don't Wear Trad

Trad is for losers. Insecure men want submission. Real men don't wear trad. 

Intellectual Ferment

Conservatism rots brains, not that conservatives can't be clever. That's different. Fermentation might enhance that.

Trumpists Are Not Reflective

They're not philosophically inclined. Or they're vampires

I, Bacterium

Americans are about to show that in the most favorable circumstances imaginable, an Eden of natural beauty and fantastic resources, people will exhibit the brains of bacteria, competing for resources to the point of collapse. 

Beyond Blanche DuBois

The truth is trite. Two plus two equals four. Not fun. Two plus two equals sixteen is interesting. Two plus two equals Blanche DuBois is more interesting. It's creative. If there's a wild woods beyond Blanche DuBois Republicans are there. 

Casino Fatale

The casino economy has unusual stakes. You can lose your life. James Bond doesn't win, the good guys die, and you can't choose not to play. They roll the dice for you. Cue the music. 

Everything Goes to Shit

You can too. 

The ICE Chronicles

My father was a chemical engineer and then an industrial engineer. He taught management from the engineering end. He talked about businesses building a capability. What do we call it when the capability is destruction? The Nazis figured it out experimentally. Then they built camps. They built ovens. 

Still a capability. Republicans are building a capability. They've skipped some steps. Consolidated it. Intent is critical. And the willingness to use violence. Those are in place. The rest is evolutionary. Shit happening, like ICE murders and incarcerations, are a prelude to doing whatever the fuck they want.

To anybody. 

Republicans Were the Beneficiaries of Political Correctness

Republicans were the beneficiaries of political correctness. They'd been working for decades to overthrow the government. Democrats were too polite to call them on it.

Meanwhile they accused Democrats of everything, almost none of it true. The stuff was true of them. They defused accountability against them with attacks on Democrats.

Cunning fuckers. Democrats made them look brilliant. Destruction is easy. Preservation is hard. Building is harder. They didn't come to save or build. They came to destroy. 

Conservative War on America

It’s terrifying. More so because it's mostly unconscious, resisting repentance and reform. Racism is so personally toxic it got institutionalized so ‘good’ people could practice it, the Bible and Constitution suffering reinterpretation in parallel. The bigots rejected both but used them for cover. A couple of generations down the road the inheritors of the tradition are so buried in lies they have no clue, like the point Zwick made to you but with the urgency of denial because the racist material they’d embraced is radioactive. 

Mad Men stepped in, the marketing revolution replacing everything productive with, essentially, lies. Republicans rejoiced. They wouldn’t have to live in the leafy shadows of Newport and Greenwich anymore as a political matter and southern voters could be had for the beads and trinkets of racist innuendo. The woke people saw this. The politics were terrible but the perception correct, that the social conservatives were coming after everything, down to the universities, the last real institutional bastion of the left. 

Hollywood was about money, always to a degree, though some fought its influence. It wasn’t their fault where the money took them. There are good lies, called art, that they had sold in the past. Anyway, the Confederacy had been conditioned and primed to succumb to lies, a torrent or trickle, and we got both, frontal assaults and subtle manipulations, the frontal assaults predominating lately. Democrats are still on their heels, or asses, knocked so off balance they can’t see what happened, forget mounting an effective defense.

Even now, when the enemy has won and the country will have to be recaptured, Democrats can’t see clearly what has happened. I feel for them but the stupor of suburbanity mostly has them in its grip. Republicans are street fighters. Democrats studied how to run a country, as Lakoff points out, or watched West Wing longingly as it aged into irrelevance. Republicans studied how to win since they had no intention of running the country anywhere but into the ground. They can’t ‘get out of their story.’ They’re enslaved to it.

War of the Worlds

Trump's regime is in a war of death against life, including the destruction of their own humanity which they hate. We're a part of nature so they want to kill that too. It's a war of the worlds. 

Death envying life, an existential battle, not against individuals but individuation. A drive to absorb or annihilate all they can encompass, since life is meaningless, unintelligible and shit.

Make America Ass Explode

We aren't halfway through Trump's term, it seems like forever. The world feels immensely older. Trump promised a rebirth. It's a slaughter. Now America is shitting its brains out, courtesy of Trump. 

Run, Trump, Run!

I had a thought. Maybe people had been telling Trump for years to run because he was about to get his ass handed to him in another failed venture and Trump, in his obtuseness and unsurpassed vanity, thought they meant he should run for president. It was always a mistake! 

Will Success Spoil the USA?

It already did. We scammed ourselves. 

Love Is All Around

That's why we can't see it, sometimes. We're swimming in it. It glues life together. The glue can be taken for granted, however. Eve's failing, in my opinion, in the archetypal tale. 

Eve lost perspective. Girl, get a grip. You're in the Garden of Eden, and you get obsessed with the one thing you're told you can't have! Maybe most sin is taking things for granted. 

A interesting idea. Anyway, we can focus on the good, cultivate and encourage it. But because of Eve, or whatever, we must guard against the bad. We're living in the ruins of Eden. 

Still a beautiful place. Maybe more beautiful in its imperfection. 

Rugged Institutionalization

Rugged individualism was always a canard, innocent in its place. Vanity is everywhere, in a manner or degree. At the extremes it achieves escape velocity into unreality with the most dependent, subsidized and supported class claiming supreme independence, branding themselves 'makers,' and riding off into a mirage and hallucinated sunset of productivity and personal achievement. 

We Are the Barbarians

We always were. America has some great people. Responsible, intelligent, ethically gifted citizens, the best of us, appeared representative. They never were, but when they led the country it worked. 

The barbarian elements, concentrated in the south, were bonded by a shared bigotry and a revivalist, irrationalist, charismatic religion that legitimized  authoritarianism, apartheid and brutality. 

Fantastically Degraded White Man Lindsey Graham Is Dead

Leaves no children but grotesque legacy. 

Trump the Chicken

Little Donnie Trump is the most protected man on earth and he's scared to death. Call him a chicken. 

Can Trump Win the Nobel Peace Prize by Dying?

Finally, Saddam Trump might deserve his Nobel Peace Prize. By dying. Republicans, the FATH* party, will try to carry on killing. They love killing. But there will be a huge lapse in the power of hate in the world when Trump dies. That deserves to be recognized. Hail Trump! Thank you for dying. The best thing, the only decent thing, you ever did, ridding us of you. The world is finally united, in relief.

* Fuck America To Hell

Have They Tried Burping Him?

Has anyone tried burping Trump? He's old, he's ornery, he's overweight. We have to try it. I might be mixing his emotional age in with things, since in aspects he's stuck in infancy and babies need burping or they can get cranky. Trump is cranky all the time. The reasoning is solid.  

Who, for Christ's sake, would elect such a person? That was an aside.

It's hard to imagine how this wretch became president. Anyway, he looks gaseous as hell. That's evidence. Somebody try it. Be vigorous. Smack him on the back. Strange to think such a thing might mean life or death for millions. Might already have, Trump's dyspepsia and bloating. 

He hovers and moves like the Hindenburg. Burp the shit out of him. 

Rage Against the Machinators

I don't give a shit about the machines and their capabilities. Well I do, in a positive way when they're used to do good. But fuck the people who use them for ill. And they seem to be everywhere. 

Trump Tells America to Eat Shit

MAGA says thank you, we love it, we deserve it and bless you, Sir.

The Casino Is Bankrupt. Long Live the Casino!

The problem isn't Trump, if it ever was. He's fucked it up royally, again. The American casino is bankrupt. There's no daddy to bail him out. Run, Trump, run. 

He's his own banker, courtesy of crypto. We're at that stage when Trump goes bust and weasels his way out. He grabs the money, as much as he can, and runs. 

Queens Quixote

Donald Trump, Quixote from Queens, is actually attacking windmills. Real ones and imagined. The windmills are fighting back. And they're winning.

Every Day Is Massacre Day in America

Happy Massacre Day.

Only People With Guns Shoot People

Tell gun nuts guns are the problem and they will shoot at you. They say people are the problem. They proved both. Guns are the constraint. 

Gun nuts are also the problem. Only people with guns shoot people. Let them choose. Regulate guns or regulate gun nuts. Either is fine with me. 

Individual Lives Are a Roll of the Dice

You only find meaning in the aggregate. 

America Lost Its Mind So You Don't Have To

The world is learning from us. Electing your Id to run your country is not a good move. You can thank us later if we're still around.

Asshole Course of Action

Anyone else think the predominant and possibly only filter active in Trump selects for maximum asshole effects subject to ego gratification? The boy LOVES to fuck people around. Great man to make president, a professional troll and certified dick. 

State of Abnormality

Democrats have got to go big if they have the chance. Nothing piecemeal. Declare Trump's entire stint as president, both terms, illegitimate. He impeached himself, if with a bunch of abettors. Blow the whole fucking thing up. The Republican Party is the Confederacy. Traitors. The South has risen again. The stench of death is everywhere. 

I've Got to Be Me

No you don't. That can mean a failure of socialization. Maybe better to say you can only discover who you are in context. In community. 

Whoopee We're All Gonna Die!

I'm suggesting this as an alternative to 'In God We Trust' for monuments and coinage. Not as pithy, maybe, but I think it captures something of the evangelical spirit and American ethos. 

Moron Day

Maybe if we celebrated morons, gave them their due, they wouldn't try to rise up, take over, and get us all killed. Just a thought. 

War of the Worlds

Donald Trump is at war with the world, in revenge for being born. He's that damaged. He has allies, firstly an extreme, life-hating bunch of feral Calvinists that hate creation. Pentecostals. Somewhat unbelievably they are joined by a group of tech tycoons who have become catastrophists. 

They think societal collapse will play out well for them, never mind the carnage. They don't care. The tech tycoons are like brains suspended in a medium as was portrayed in a Star Trek episode. Alienation unites these factions in a war of the worlds. Life against Death. Love against Hate. 

Existence against non-existence, when it's modeled out, but not all of them will own it. The Calvinists might. They really hate everything. The corruption and imperfection of creation as they experience it makes them all mad, both pissed and crazy, so in both those senses of the word. 

Not to be discouraging but this is it. We didn't choose it but we are thrust into a battle of good against evil. The world of life against the world of death. Intelligibility against chaos. Cooperation against convulsion. We are called on to resist in an epic and battle that looks like bathos from the inside.

Third-rate characters like Trump. Even our villains suck but they kill you anyway. Satan is driving a clown car, but it's still fatal as hell. They will destroy everything and kill us by the billions and never look back. Big numbers are nothing to them or they like them. Psychopaths think big. 

Waiting for Answer

Evangelicals: we want collapse because Jesus comes.

Billionaires: we want a catastrophe because more for us. 

America: (waiting for answer)

Trump Universe

I can usually understand what Trump is trying to say, it’s just elliptical as shit. Lots of bits left out, but the guy is in his own world and not very smart, only driven to win and self-centered to such an extreme it probably would take a psychic or savant to comprehend it and they might not come back intact.

In the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy there's a thing called the total perspective vortex that destroys you by enabling you to glimpse how REALLY insignificant you are for a split-second. Trump is the opposite, a total lack-of-perspective vortex. Inside there the universe is Trump. And Trump is the universe. 

Donald Trump, Debutante

Trump scammed himself. Unable to maintain his identity, weakly linked to reality on his best days, he has fallen for his own lies and is buying his own bullshit. Believing is madness, buying-in a catastrophe. We know from the study of the southern belle. Bellehood. 

It's a role. You play a role. You play the game. Don't step inside it, for fuck's sake, but no one can accuse Trump of any sense. I defer to authority, Shirley Abbott, in Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South. The point of a belle is to become a lady. God help you if you fail. 

Trump failed. Trump wanted to be prom queen. He got elected. He gloried in it. Things began to go wrong. Wrong by his standard, magical compliance with his every wish, Trump being infantilized beyond recovery. He felt disrespected. Heads must roll. 

The stage of retribution arrives. Vengeance. Think of the movie Carrie. And the correspondents dinner, where Obama made fun of Trump. Everyone gets it at those things, but Donald is different. Très fragile. Trump fumed. He was livid. He brings it on himself. 

Nobody makes fun of Trump! What a fucking idiot. We all must pay. So this is our country now. Watch the revenge scenes from Carrie on your own. Choose your version, it all burns down. This is Trump's story and the story of the south. The south wanted its dream. 

They needed to live the lie. Failure was unthinkable. Failure was growing up, the end of a vile system, voluntarily or otherwise. Otherwise it was. Still, they never gave up. The presentation of purity and innocence masked astonishing debasement and corruption. 

The USA now, with the monster, Trump, our embodiment and bastion of purity.  He carries the torch. The scepter. He wears the sash, Miss USA, Miss World, Miss Galaxy, Miss Cosmos, whatever he claims. The magic wand of lies and corruption makes it real.

But it's not real. It's nothing but lies. 

Leaning Tower of Trump

Trump is falling over. Get out of the way.  

Trump, the Musical

I envision a remake of The Music Man telling the story of Trump, a trickster, fraudster and hustler who concludes he is every outrageous, self-inflating lie he tells about himself. He falls for himself, or the idea and invention of himself because there's nothing there. Language fails us but I think we can portray it, as a matter of art. Love, for example, can't exist within the gravitational pull of Trump's egotism. 

I know, hard to get your head around. Trump is alone in the universe. 

Trump's self-centeredness -- again, language fails but work with me -- creates a draft, vortex or suction of such ridiculous force it swallows people instantly into the black hole of Trump's nothingness. We can't imagine it without reference to something or without meaning attached to it but we have to get past that. Meaning doesn't exist in proximity to Trump. How the fuck do we portray that? 

With negative space. We can infer the shape and substance of Trump from his effects, and the area of devastation around him. 

The things we value, love, family, our health, connection with nature, security, beauty, vanish into the void encountering Trump's influence. Their lack defines Trump. Vampire elements are in play, but vampires are intelligible. Reason, ethics, right and wrong -- vaporize on contact with Trump. Trump is a void. The currency among people is meaning, in my opinion. It's not the currency with Trump. 

Trump is an invitation to abandon your humanity and assimilate with him in the void. As I say, impossible to confront directly. I try to imagine Trump's aloneness. Truly, he is alone in the universe. Nothing means anything. Everything is terrifying and incomprehensible. Or, he doesn't know what intelligibility is. He's never experienced it. The fear is unfathomable, existential and all-consuming. 

He is so incredibly fucking alone. Now, to give you an example of a song, there might be a version of this some maiden sings to Trump before her humanity is destroyed, and then Trump singing a version 'Till There Was Me' after annihilating the maiden, which Trump sings to himself.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=zmt9d6zr0bs&si=I7JlSnhKQPMS65u-

Goldwater Girl Has a Gun

Democrats can't get their heads out of their asses. They humored the crazies too long. No, the Second Amendment isn't about the private ownership of firearms. It just isn't. Unprejudiced sources agree, nine of ten, at least. Hillary, stop saying you have a gun. Or a license, or whatever. You're not pulling it off. And I'm tired as shit of it, Democrats playing to the nutcases. 

That helps them stay nutcases. And that's only one issue. The list is long, maybe most impressively on defense. The military. Guess who Republicans are attacking now? Anybody they want, including American citizens. And we didn't take a stand, so people don't know what the fuck we're for. Maybe Bernie. But the Democrats wouldn't have him, or get clear on anything.

The Devil Wears Nada

The devil operates in stealth mode. We personify Satan but Satan infests his victims and co-opts them. Turns them into agents and drones. The devil wears nada. The devil isn't incarnate. The devil is a force. He'll be in the people around you. Having said that, I think Trump is hiding horns under the hair. 

A Confederate Fourth

They can't hide it. For one thing it's a compulsion. They say it's patriotic, unifying, bipartisan and blah-blah. Is that a joke? It's one cheapshot after another, and an exercise in tyranny. What is it, really? The consummation of the privatization of the government. Of the country. Conquest.

Republicans are the Confederacy. They own the country. Private equity firms buy companies, strip them of assets, saddle them with debt and say go and good luck. Leave your pensions. They skipped the good luck part. They are throwing a gargantuan party with our money, an orgy of corruption. 

And not only for the 4th. It's going on all the time. The country isn't ours. It's theirs. They own it. Bought it. Beat it. They own us. We wonder who 'they' are and analyze it down but screw that. The richest 1%? The richest tenth of that? Koch's cronies and Musk's minions? Name your torturers.

It's them, the NPCs, the mindless agents of doom Musk was after. He didn't find them. We found them. Smashing our doors down, hard to miss. It doesn't matter. What is a cheapshot? Kicking at people who can't fight back.  Sound familiar? We are the brown people. All of us. They are ICE.

No one nation under God. Never was. How will it be characterized, decades away? Think on that. We're inside of an explosion. This is what it looks like, from the inside.

An epic failure and enormous shitshow, but it doesn't matter. The coup, putsch, takeover, conquest, sacking, demolition, usurpation, whatever, but I wonder how it will be remembered anyway, Trump's mind-blowing graft and grift? The ICE surges? Everyone knows more is coming. 

A long summer awaits us. At the same time, it's over. It's done. Our country is gone. Law, values, integrity, traditions, up in flames. We handed inconceivable power to people whose corruption, venality, dishonesty and cruelty defy description. Or they seized power. It doesn't matter. 

Trump staged our funeral. An orgiastic episode, ann end to a looting in barbarian fashion. Rape, pillage, murder, repeat. Plunder on tape loop. Plunder to exhaustion, of resources or plunderers. 

We can't go back. Forward, folks. We are the generation that failed. Say it's the boomers, if it makes you feel better. It doesn't matter. The torch has been dropped. The country is dead. Those that carry what it was in their hearts will have to unseat the false heirs and traitors. 

And start over. It wasn't rational by any standard. They're settling a grudge, punishment for the Civil War and desegregation. So they will leave nothing. Salt the fields of democracy. Make it impossible to build on the ruins, if they can. Where there was integrity, cowardice and dishonor. 

Resurrect something, people. Acknowledge what has been lost, like a generational link that is broken when an abusive, addicted wastrel wrests control of the family estate and trashes it. We are the sons of liberty. They are the destroyers. Witness in Washington our utter disgrace. 

Decency is lost, in the aftermath of conquest. A celebration of a glorious victory. A party for a bunch of pigs, marauders and destroyers. The worst frat party ever. It's not us. It's the Confederacy. They've won, for now. Let's own it, what's happened, for once. And move on. 

The Force Is With Us

Why don't they just call him Lord Vader. Darth would do. Republicans are under a spell. In a cult. Part of a robot army. Call in the exorcist.

Almost Hell

 We're heading for Hell. Not there yet. The suspense is killing me. 

The Bell Tolls for Us

This had to happen. If we didn't know it before we know it now, that America has an undercurrent of evil going back to slavery, racism and a creed of greed, a religion of money and power that grew in parallel with Pentecostal Christianity. We never dealt with it. Those forces have risen up and are running the show. Calling it evil is not exaggerating. It is evil. They are evil. We, the opposition, hesitate to say it but we can because we are not tribalists and an identity cult. Which means we criticize behaviors. 

They can became un-evil. Someone can't became un-black or un-brown. That's the identity cult. We are being forced to own our evil. That's good. Canada is a model. Scandinavia is a model. Hell, the rest of the traditionally western, European countries are models in comparison with us. We made it easy. Trump is evil but he's sick. He's a compulsive. Non-compos by a normal standard. Lord Vader, Darth Donald, still a tool. We need to deal with the Death Star. The fatalities are rolling in. The bell is tolling for us. 

The Umpire Strikes Back

John Roberts has overthrown America's democracy. That battle has been lost. But the dream lives on. The forces of evil will be beaten in the end. 

Conservative Industrial Complex

Conservatism can't be separated from money. It isn't an ideology it's a business. It isn't a political philosophy it's a scam. It doesn't have an economic model it has justifications for exploitation.

Conservatism is the result of aristocratic desire. The desire to be at the top. The desire to stay at the top. The desire to have everything ordered your way to be revered and taken care of. To feel special. 

Conservatism is all lies. Conservatives want generational wealth and arbitrary authority that survives them. Authority that's structural and that they can pass on to their heirs. Hierarchy and inheritance.