Hey Mr. Tangerine Man...

He of the orange countenance, the sultan of insults who can’t stand criticism, is reacting predictably to the threat of impeachment by going fully apeshit. We think we’ve seen the worst but nearly every day there’s some new low.

Big Dickhead Energy

Big Dickhead Energy is where you dominate everybody by being the biggest sociopathic asshole and maybe even mentally ill. Think of Donald Trump.

Pesky Blighters

Those pesky blighters in the Trump administration just won’t take legality for an answer. The “rule of law” is not only something they don’t respect it’s to be deliberately and arbitrarily eroded. Chaos and disorder are encouraged for their own sake or as an enhancement in their quest for unchecked power which is inconsistent and incompatible, of course, with any kind of legal constraint. In Trumpworld legality is for losers.

Captains Contagious

Where do we draw the line on innocence? Trump’s dupes buy the lie. Are the gullible guilty? We have to judge behaviors so the question is existential and academic. We have to judge output and results. We judge what people do and Trump and Republicans before him have destroyed people’s lives and caused many deaths. Yes, they are responsible. They are guilty. We will figure out punishments in the penalty phase.

The fear they foster is contagious but this pathogen is self-administered. The exposure is voluntary, by association. It is a choice.

Matt Gaetz, Gladiator

Pathetic, pudgy, ass-licking white boy Matt Gaetz sees himself as a gladiator, according to reports. I support self-invention and a certain amount of romance in life—the right and opportunity to have a personal myth to sand down some edges and inflate a few vain attributes into accomplishments and apparent merit but this is too much.

Gaetz is the water-boy’s water-boy, licking the ass-lickers’s butts while awaiting a shot at Trump’s own anus—a mascot amusing a master who is himself a charlatan. Gaetz is a Sancho to Trump’s Quixote but without irony or common sense, and another Republican beset with grandiosity. All the while his grinning head is submerged in the federal trough.

The Annotated Malice: A Collection of the Tweets of Donald Trump, President of the United States and Vile Defamer...

Someone will have the terrible task of collating and publishing the collected spate and drivel contained in the tweets of Donald Trump. He is the president and was in some way elected, a horrible truth to speak. These tweets will have to be annotated to place the incredible outpouring of insults, innuendo, invention and invective in some context.

This will be a testament to someone degraded beyond the imagination of most of us. He is a violent, angry person. He is ignorant, impulsive and implausible. He is reactive and abusive. He is greedy and conniving. He is treacherous, unjust and repugnant. A lot of shit will have to be owned before it is all done. He’s an asshole, an idiot and a tweeting machine.

The Kraut Who Came in from the Cold

Why pick on Peter Thiel? No reason. He’s only one of the many rich assholes asserting their uninalienable right not to have to answer to anybody. But, he did put an entire, profitable media organization out of business. That is intimidation in action.

Intimidation is now accepted, Republican governmental policy in use against citizens for personal gain. Trump and company are on a roll. Kellyanne Conway, who has family roots in the Mafia, called a journalist to apply some muscle. She thinks she’s a feminist.

So she says but I think it’s all nonsense.

They will do anything to win. Trump is asserting dictatorial, “constitutional” immunity, a terminal contradiction, that he isn’t legally responsible for anything he does. We are living in the age of assholes. They have come in from the cold and are openly claiming authority. A small group of infinitely greedy people already control everything.

Still, they want more.

Peter Thiel is just such an asshole. He wanted revenge and he got it, sending a huge message to a beleaguered and essential industry to always hold back and watch your step. Look to the rear now and then. The Kraut or one of his kind might be after you. 

Under-the-Bus Throwing

Versions of this idiom are used a lot lately. Trump’s allies and underlings try to protect their vainglorious boss and he tries to protect himself. Among the new conservatives, because character and integrity are non-starters, it is a sport and Ayn Rand is their honorary cheerleader and babe.

But “under-the-bus throwing” doesn’t roll off the tongue as one would like. Let’s just call it “treason” since it’s the elevation of self above everything anyway, including one’s country, and Trump is a fitting master, a hideous ethical black hole and charlatan. The country is there to serve him.

Under the bus it goes, if it suits. Remember, a Randian hero would rather blow something up than have it not be an appropriate testament to their greatness. Under the bus we all go.

Strange Sensibilities

Their boy, George W, Bush, got over a million people killed and exploded the world with his lies and incompetence. There has been no official assessment, accounting and legislative action against him. Republicans in the House, however, want to censure Adam Schiff.

They take a cue from their temperamental leader and his monstrous mess of an administration just steeped in and seething with illegality.

Schiff dared to criticize Little Donny Trump. They are princesses in a world of peas and Trump is the final snowflake—fragile and floating to his doom while protesting how he is so special and unique, a pouty prima donna raised to think of himself as a king.

Enablers and Abettors Scrambling Around...

As one would expect in an administration kept afloat by falsity Donald Trump’s enablers are having trouble getting their lies right. The lies are all made up anyway, by their nature, and only have reference to escaping responsibility and protecting the head craftsman of doom, Herr Donald himself.

Squirmy Mick Mulvaney had a time of it yesterday. And Mike Pence made sure to extol his glorious leader while trying to control the turd-fest Trump unleashed among the Turks. Asswipes abound among the Trumpists, some more servile than others in panting their appreciation for their master. 

A Head Between the Cheeks

I wonder if, in private, Republicans talk about the flavor of Donald Trump’s anus like it is wine, “tannic, earthy, and robust with hints of licorice, berries and talc,” or whatever. Bob Barr’s jowls must be overly occupied there, feasting away between the cheeks.

Trump Crosses a Line

Donald Trump usually follows “conservative” advice when he acts because he has no brain. Largely these people and organizations are ecstatic because he’s been implementing their awful, self-serving, destructive policies consistently. They get the crazy shit they have always wanted with some degree of insulation and separation from accountability.

But Donald doesn’t understand the military angle, that our forces are there not to protect America from actual threats but to further business interests. And Donald must be monitored at all times or he will improvise and do something incredibly stupid. So, he caves in to Turkey’s autocratic leader on a phone call. He was probably winging it.

But NOW some and certain “conservatives” are upset and criticizing him. Are there humanitarian issues? Yes. Are there foreign policy issues? Yes. Are there all kinds of issues? Of course. There always are, but they only get weighed when the larger issues of America’s corporate interests are at stake because that’s all they really care about.

Where were they when Donald did all the other stupid shit? As long as it aided corporations and rich people they were entirely on board.

Scorched Earth/Hearth

Republicans have been so utterly victorious for the past 40 or so years the Democrats can’t even see it. The pain would be too great. The change in perspective too vast. The shame and humiliation too much to handle.

There is a way around it—to understand how Republicans did it—because they weren’t brilliant or anything of the sort. They went crazy, going “scorched-earth” against their fellow citizens and taking them hostage.

Stockholm Syndrome thereafter defines the Democrats, or a similar kind of disorder. They were stunned into incompetence.

Winning is easy for cheaters. Winning is easy when you abuse your insider status and betray your country. Republicans are seasoned traitors and Democrats are still too shocked and uncomprehending to do anything about it.

“Scum” and “Animals” Now Approved Presidential Language

I have long called Republicans “scum” thinking it was an accurate and irreplaceable descriptor but wondering if it wasn’t unacceptably strong and vivid language. The President’s use of the term has reassured me of its propriety, allowing that he himself used it unjustly in spouting off, as is his habit, but we are accustomed to that by now.

“Animals” is one I hadn’t employed. But, hearing it used by the President, I instantly recognized how it applies to Herr Donald and his family of thugs and crooks. I would never have brought it out myself but it is obviously okay and I think it suits the Trumps well, in their bottomless greed and degraded, selfish, aggressive, cruel and primal behaviors.

A Note on Perspective

With yet another Trumpist, Thomas Homan, doing his full-blown Nazi caveman routine in front of the House of Representatives we have to ask ourselves what is going on. Are there really as many flaming Hitlerian sociopaths in our country as it appears?

I say no, but there are many more than we ever suspected and they are wading out of their mires upon recognizing the great white hope of Trump, a reeking shitpile of inhumanity and depraved heap of garbage and uncompromising criminal and scoundrel.

This is the perspective to which we must adhere, that it is bad but not as bad as it seems, replacing despondency and despair with disappointment. We are not who we thought we were but not as bad as the concentration of evil under Trump would have it.

An Important Announcement

I have long reviled evangelical Christians for their support of Donald Trump and their overall treachery, cruelty and stupidity. I am adding to that list conservative Catholics. They did not vote for Donald Trump to the same disgraceful degree but they are making up for it by combining ass-kissing and being in positions of high influence.

Bill Barr and Corey Lewandowski have prompted this change, though every Supreme Court justice considered conservative is tied to Catholic education and tradition. Those are the traditions of defending authority at all costs and being able to rationalize anything. Fox News and the Trump administration are seething with these idolators.

They bow down before the golden calf of Trumpism. Evangelicals are mostly too stupid to do the heavy lifting for their movement.

They are leaving it to Catholics.

Parasite Playground

Courtesy of Republicans Washington is now a seething shithole of parasites and vermin. Apart from the museums, that is. The museums are nice.

PO(TU)S at Play

There’s nothing Donald Trump loves more than dragging everyone around him into the same shithole he has long occupied. The entire country is his shithole sandbox now.

What Would Dickhead Do?

Christians today have a more accessible and observable model than Jesus to regulate their behaviors. They can emulate Donald Trump and consider what that moron would do. I feel sure that, given a choice of making a million dollars or making a million dollars while destroying somebody Donald would choose to destroy somebody.

Why? WHO THE FUCK CARES. It doesn't matter. Apparently, he enjoys belittling people and ruining their lives. It makes him feel good. It makes him feel like a big man—like a king, to which status he father used to exhort him. Nothing is more kingly than to be cruel, arbitrary and randomly vindictive with other people and pay no price.

This is the guy evangelical Christians support, chose to elect and enjoy observing in action. By this we know them for what they really are, satanists and an abomination to God.

The Redneck Ascendancy

Yet another scam is in the works. Hillbilly Elegy, soon to be a major motion picture, depicts a (presumably waning) society “in crisis” but hillbilly values have won. America is ignorant, violent and obsessively addicted. America is self-destructive and teeming with guns. America is now an honor culture.

Don’t be fooled. 

The evangelical voting bloc has produced an anti-intellectual, redneck ascendancy and Trump, an anti-intellectualist’s dream, is their president. Bring on the stupidity. Bring on the violence. Bring on the inarticulate anger and resentment. America is going down. We need an elegy for America.

America is full of violent, gun-toting morons and bigots.

Asshole Going Down

Our asshole, dimwit, piece-of-shit President is going down. When Fox News the Wall Street Journal break a story so bad even the Senate will have to go along Don-boy is toast. This is not so good.

The worst elements in the treasonous hierarchy of government-destroying institutions, from the conservative “think-tanks” on through, have had their way with our moron executive from the beginning.

We are left with destruction and—what next?—a Pence presidency? And, watch now as fuckwad-halfwit will try negotiate his way out of it. He might agree to resign with Pence’s promise of a pardon.

He has, after all, gone bankrupt before.

Everything is a shambles and the people behind it will say the system worked as they creep away with their winnings. We’re looking at a version of the 2008 recession. Thanks again, Republicans.

The destroyers will walk away not only unscathed but enriched. Thousands of people should go to jail. They should have to build new prisons and the executive branch should be placed in receivership.

We will not have dodged anything.

I would like to see, however, those Republicans drinking out of toilets like the immigrant kids they have incarcerated. Better yet, I want those prisons to be privately owned by people who contribute to Democrats.

Tune In

Watch Republicans, after years of lying about their patriotism and devotion to America and the Constitution, eat shit and bow down before Trump.

There is no war. There is no emergency, crisis or threat and, yet, Republicans refuse to obey the law but submit instead to their illegal leader.

I take it back. There is a crisis. The crisis is them. The crisis is Trump. We are turning into a dictatorship. And you can watch it on TV.

The Mother of All Lies

I’m not sure the history of our times will ever be written. It might be the end times or some descent into an Orwellian nightmare in which history doesn’t exist anymore. Anyway, if it does get written in some rational, intelligible, honest and even-handed way I wonder if the Second Amendment battle will be seen as a turning point.

If they could bully their way into enforcing an obvious lie in that case why not carry on from there? They wanted to have their guns and so fuck the truth. They wanted to have a war in Iraq and so fuck the truth. They want to cut taxes—ALWAYS—and so fuck the truth, that it is the worst economic and social policy ever.

Fuck the truth. Can anybody really believe that “rising tide” and “supply side” aren’t just incredible, self-serving lies at this point? So, it’s not about guns or economics anymore, it’s about ensuring that there is NEVER any accountability because they can’t have that. Do you see what I’m saying? The lies have value now AS LIES.

They have value independently of the content. The promulgators of this have to erode the truth to protect themselves. The Left has their lies as well as well but it is nothing like this. Theirs are more like exaggerations. Theirs are pitiful and pathetic. The Left’s lies don’t even empower them. They still try to empower everybody. 

How quaint. How passé. How ridiculous. And what a shame it’s why the country was created in the first place, to include and empower its citizens.

Elvis in the Afterlife

I am hoping for a sign evangelicals can respect, something to tell them Donald Trump might not be the best guy to run the country. I am hoping for Elvis.

Apparitions of Elvis might get through to evangelicals. Let us pray to Elvis. We are talking about the sweaty, sequin-suited version, the one out of Vegas.

Elvis, are you there, boy?

The a Great Decider Decides

To call the decision making process in the current White House “tangled” assumes an underlying coherence and intelligibility where there is none, unless referring to the windings of Donald Trump’s intestines. Here we have another Republican president who relies on his gut, the output of which looks a lot like what one would expect.

Let’s revisit the last guy who let his instincts rule his brain, the great decider himself, author of the Iraq war, bankrupter of economies and a man still oblivious to the idea he has ever done anything wrong. This is where privilege will get you:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-feb-09-na-transcript9-story.html

I Predict

Republicans are setting the stage for the next sadistic onslaught. They will act when they can justify it, if only to themselves, with a crisis or event, probably created by them or even imagined. They thirst for blood.

Was It All a Dream?

Were we ever the people we thought we were—responsible, decent, hard-working, fair, open-minded, caring and generous? We sure aren’t now, led by a crooked, lying tycoon and scrambling around grasping for more resources as it becomes evident the great game of consumption is coming to an end.

Was it all a dream? Were we ever decent people?

Pride and Innocence

It’s weird, but when life is most brutal there is a kind of innocence. This is because there is no culpability among animals. Animals are just being animals.

Cruel people betray their humanity. They become animals again—nothing but animals. In that world everything is meaninglessness and compulsion.

There is innocence there but everything is unintelligible. That is because they are sick.  The people, I mean. I like animals.

Anyone Who Supports Trump Is a Piece of Shit

Someone who voted for Trump might only have been stupid or deluded. There was no telling how he would behave. But, now we know. Trump is garbage. Trump is a piece of shit beyond all others.

No more excuses. Anyone who still supports Trump is a piece of shit. They share in his treasonous shithood. We know now what he stands for, cruelty and the destruction of everything.

Trump’s Johnson

Britain is an older, more deeply rooted culture and the Tories have refused to eat shit as readily as their American counterparts. Nevertheless, they have a Trump problem because Boris doesn’t care about anyone but himself.

He has already won, by duping, swindling, deceiving and blustering his way into his job and, as with Tony Blair, who followed another American moron into the abyss, Boris will walk away. He wins now no matter what happens.

Things He Said Today

The only act Trump has two follow is his own, maintaining standards of cruelty and ignorance for his followers who crave it, and remaining the center of attention through outrage oneupmanship. He leapfrogs himself, nearly daily—his only real talents are in denigration and persecution.

Sarah Sanders Fits In

Sarah Sanders has immediately found a lucrative home among the horrible shills at Fox News, one of many participants in the Republican platinum parachute program in which thuggery and loyalty are rewarded with admittance to a society of permanent, private-sector parasitism. Among Republicans public and private money are seamlessly fused in a system of graft, exploitation, and markets in influence.

Megan Kelly showed how coddled they are at Fox—no talent necessary, only a track record of slavish devotion to Republican dogma. She tanked on arrival at NBC, not that they are great shakes, but Kelly is a pure hack and self-interested, sycophantic warrior maiden, another sucker off the state and spin-disciple of Roger Ailes, laundering racism and treason for public consumption at the behest of Kochs and their kind.

Trump Denies Denying What Never Happened Anyway

And it's just another day in the life of a superpower...

The Good (Fake) News

Try to comprehend that the entire world might be destroyed by American, evangelical Christians and rednecks. Their lies are that powerful. They happen to constitute a critical voting bloc in the most powerful country ever,

And, they happen to be in love with lies to the point they will die for them. This is not as strange as it sounds, Think of all the cults that have held their adherents in such thrall. Evangelicals were inculcated from birth with the lie of the “Lost Cause.” 

That is the lie that the good side lost in the Civil War. The Confederacy claimed not that they were treasonous, racist thugs, which they were, but superior beings and the chosen tribe of constitutional government and God. 

In other words, it was one, huge lie. The Gospel always was a story—a kind of lie—but it was a beautiful, humane story of love and inclusion. American rednecks have twisted it into a horror show. The “Good News” was fake news. 

Evangelicals aren’t in love with a specific lie anymore they are in love with lying. The loss of the central lie of their own righteousness is death to them. They have surrounded it with a defensive perimeter of other lies.

To the rest of us it looks awfully offensive. Trump and the “Fake News” fit right into the same slot in their heads. There must never be accountability and the truth just be avoided to the point of death. These are lies with legs. 

Bad Moon on the Rise

I’m sorry to keep commenting on the ass-kissing festival of the Republicans in Washington and all over the country. It’s just so stunning and hard to avoid. Trump offers his bare ass unprejudicially to everyone.

Republicans queue up to revere and kiss the hallowed object. Catholics, especially, seem prone to this idolatry, abomination and sacrilege. I can make sense of the evangelicals and their support.

They benefit as the reascendant Confederacy, America’s original traitors. Among Catholics it’s a pure love of submission and the suspension of disbelief normally reserved for their religious practice and the theater.

What a sad spectacle of human degradation and debasement. Notice that Trump appointed Callista Gingrich, an ignorant whore and wench, as ambassadress to the Vatican after white Catholics voted for him.

This is a classic Trump tactic, rewarding loyalty with an insult—a test and demand for further shit-eating and implication. Catholics complied. Such true soldiers and cannon fodder are vested with opportunities in servitude.

Barr and Kavanaugh, for example, were exalted as reliably lying henchmen and hacks. They were already compromised by Bush’s crimes.

Catholics proudly serve Trump in many important positions, defending his falsehoods as they would the paradoxical, irrational and anachronistic tenets of their church—as though the lies are revelations.

Trump is a revelation, all right—of the perseverance of pure, primal evil in the postmodern world, an emanation of Satan in a digital age.

Murder on the Trump Express

There’s no mystery about what Trump is doing. It’s illegal from beginning to end. From top to bottom. Others are implicated. It might not be a conspiracy but it’s a cabal. Trump’s attempts to try to ram through and weirdly fund his border wall are one example. What a piece of shit he is.

In Trump’s corner and defense we have such treasonous filth as Barr and Kavanaugh, who gleefully investigated things as weighty as the “distinguishing characteristic” of Bill Clinton’s dick. They had NO problems with George Bush’s fruitful genocide, into which he lied and led the country,

They have their priorities straight. Neither of their presidents had a positive mandate, but, given an inch, took a murderous mile, reveling in created conflicts and tortures pronounced necessary for national security. I call it sadism but Trump has trumped Bush in applying it to children.

That is what pride, competition and accomplishment look like among Republicans now. Investigations are overdue. Not much sleuthing needs to be done. It is all well documented but it must be formalized and then prosecuted. At present they are themselves dispensers of justice. My ass.

Worship Me. Idolize Me. Bow Down Before Me

Sorry. Just working out the bugs on a speech for Trump for his second term. If he wins again he really will think he is the chosen one.

The Gathering Shitstorm

Well, it has become plain now that the American Republican Party, supposedly representing the country’s elements of dignity, tradition, decorum, fine dining, the rule of law, and the preservation of its citizenry and its rights and accomplishments, has degenerated into filth and shame, firstly by putting party before country, and then by putting the egotism and whims of its singular leader above the welfare of their society and of the entire world. Donald Trump has made it evident that he will do anything to get re-elected. He will do inconsistent, illegal, destructive and malicious things. He will screw anybody and everybody. He would, if he could, trade victory in the next election for a deferred economic collapse occurring the next day if it lasted forever.

Only he matters to himself. The rest of us are nothing. Republicans, accustomed to representing themselves as the country’s saviors and defenders, have collapsed at his feet mumbling, stammering and blubbering, and watching for opportunities for benefit and self-promotion. How is this not the inevitable extension and progression of the program begun in 1968? Republicans realized they could capture the southern vote—George Wallace’s vote—by playing to race between the lines. They had only to go low. And then lower and lower and lower, ending in their degradation and open pandering to bigots and avowed racists, engendering hatred everywhere. To think of the sacrifices expended to create, build and maintain our country and it comes to this.

An Affidavit

Out of the blue a guy I hadn’t see in more than 40 years called me from our high school reunion. We were friends as kids but he became a bad bully and I switched schools and so on. We hadn’t been friendly, I would say, since we were 16. Anyway, it was hard to tell but the call seemed to be to gloat. He seems to think he has won.

The guy was insanely competitive.

I hated to lose but didn’t get anything out of winning but a mild sense of relief. I’m not sure I even hated losing all that much but adolescent boys, including and especially this guy, would make it unbearable. Winning was everything to (him) them. I beat him at most things, as I remember, and I was, trivially, smart and a bit of a hero in Little League.

He admitted to being envious in the phone call. He had tried twice, both evenings of the reunion, and seemed determined to get me on the phone. I had REALLY stopped "competing" when I was 15. I had huge problems at home and at school and was just trying to survive. I remember being reduced to tears by my "friend" once and he didn’t let up.

I would sign an affidavit now if I could and a stipulation that HE HAS WON. I don’t care. But, I know it wouldn't make a difference. Think of Trump and the Republicans. The point is the cruelty. The point is the experience of actively beating up on people. There is no state or stable situation of victory and domination that will appease them.

My old friend was envious about my parents.

That’s what he said on the phone. They were wonderful people but it didn’t save us from fate. It didn’t save us from the bad luck of sickness and death. This compulsion to win, though, is immune to everything. It’s immune to empathy, understanding, and the possibility and viability of other values, such as compassion and decency.

You can be utterly helpless (I was) and suffering and they will still only want to kick your ass. My ass was already kicked. It didn’t matter. Reality never intrudes on that imperative to dominate and destroy their selected opponents who are conveniently defenseless. Weakness brings out the worst in them. Women and children first.

Not that I perceive women as weak. But, they do. And, their compulsion creates their reality, a fantasy and a delusion in which they can win. It is a setup. They pick on those who are already down or gang-up on you. Egotism runs everything. Most importantly, remember that they will never be satisfied. There is no end-state in security.

They crave the primal, visceral experience of lording it over other people and it is an implacable, irrational need, rooted in their own weakness and fear. Study up on Trump. There is no better example. Anyway, I say, nevertheless, to my old friend, you have won. Send me an affidavit. I will sign it.

Secretary of Deference

I am bothered by the inconsistent, irregular, unprofessional, disorganized and altogether inadequately managed ass-kissing going on in the White House. Granted, Trump is a moving target but I believe it can still be handled better under a new, cabinet level post, the SECRETARY OF DEFERENCE.

This is an important position. All the other members of the cabinet must answer to this secretary since deference applies to everyone and is more important that any other quality of decision making in an authoritarian regime. Lindsay “Cracker” Graham would be an excellent inaugural choice.

He’s a born ass-kisser if I have ever encountered one.

Uneasy Ride

Little did we know, at the time, but Easy Rider was prescient as hell. Captain America, representing America, was killed by rednecks. Now, America has been destroyed by evangelical Christians. That is, rednecks.

Democracy Dies in the Light of Day

I never once saw Donald Trump’s reality TV show. I never followed his exploits around New York though I beheld his tasteless tower at times. I had no idea he was such an evil, self-centered, stupid and morally stunted person.

However, I was aware of the destructive impulses of the Gingrich-influenced Republicans—that they came to annihilate America and oversee its reinvention as a state that runs on greed and cruelty, serving only the very wealthy.

And, so, I am somewhat unsurprised at where Trump is heading, toward the re-creation of America along the loathsome lines of Ayn Rand’s grotesque fantasies of heroically unbounded egotism, but I am very surprised at how fast.

Trump’s brand of worthlessness plays perfectly into the worst aspects of the determined destruction of rational government and decency. We are becoming an abomination and monstrosity out in the open and in view of everyone.

Our government is overcome by criminals.

Bear Witness

Does Trump shit in the woods? No. Trump shits in the White House. And, figuratively, that means that Trump shits on all of us.

Trump Killed Jeffrey Epstein

Obviously, Donald Trump killed Jeffrey Epstein. Who has the power? Who has the most to lose? Who is so stupid and reckless? It has to be Donald Trump.

Humane Torture

ICE and the the Trump administration have announced a new, HUMANE TORTURE push in celebration of which they have staged a well-rationalized roundup of illegal immigrants in Mississippi, a state known for generations and centuries as a bastion of civil rights and progressive concern for minorities.

Republicans have worked out the bugs on the at Guantanamo Bay and are therefore well positioned for its implementation. Reassurances aside, they have a track record on torture that should comfort all and allay any concerns. Worst case, they can call in Dick Cheney and his supporters, taking advantage of their expertise.

Treason Museum

One of my dreams, apart from placing a full page ad in the NYT accusing the Koch boys of treason—a takeoff and simulation of their daddy’s handbill accusing Kennedy (how can they complain?) of such—is of having a Treason Museum in Washington detailing the Republican destruction of the United States of America.

I would love to have it on the Mall but recognize that this is not practicable. I will settle for the house where evangelical congressmen have lived for years in prayerful hope of the creation of a theocratic state in place of our democracy, ultimately embracing the whole world. It would thereby displace this obviously treasonous activity.

Welcome to the Brave New World Created by Republicans

Guess what.

There was nothing inherently illegal going on when that guy walked into a Missouri Walmart looking like a Somali warlord, one of his drug-stoked supporters or an ISIS combatant, but with newer and nicer gear. The legality or illegality of it will depend on his ATTITUDE.

Now, this is clearly just another unforeseen and unintended consequence of the Republican hegemony, their fixed ideas about things and unyielding ideological bent, like causing the 2008 recession with deregulation or destroying the middle class with tax cuts on plutocrats.

We figure out if a person is a “bad actor” when they start shooting. That’s how you tell. Prior to that you withhold judgment. You see what I mean about their half-baked ideas and policies. They never think things through. Let’s say we have armed guards in the schools. And, let’s say some nut has a yearning for a child massacre.

Wouldn’t that person seek a job as a school guard just as a pedophile, possibly even unwittingly, might be driven to find employment among children. Republicans are idiots. Republicans lie all the time. Republicans are cheats. Republicans are cruel and spiteful and demeaning to other people.

They are also driven to control everything. If you don’t like what’s happening don’t blame me. Don’t blame Democrats. Republicans have caused it all.

Moscow on the Potomac

Mitch McConnell is extremely indignant that he has been accused of disloyalty. He has been obviously, forthrightly loyal his whole life. To the Confederacy. Someone, explain to Mitch that loyalty to the racist, classist, abhorrent caliphate of his southern roots is treason.

He, and people like him, is why we have a racist, classist government and monstrosity in Washington and, increasingly, a racist, classist monstrosity in the rest of the country. Congratulations, Mitch, the Confederacy is risen again. The stench is everywhere.

What Becomes of the Broken?

Broken people do bad stuff, that’s what happens. They have strange drives, unconnected to reality. They have issues. Often, they are fearful and have odd impulses and compulsions to dominate other people. They falsely see their personal, internal conflicts manifested around them and try to resolve those conflicts in self-created, delusional dramas. They are drama queens, like Donald Trump.

Bogus Family

The family of man. Think of all the bogus bullshit they told you when you were a kid. Think of all the nonsense about decency and honesty and fair play, that virtue was rewarded and evil, if not punished, wasn't the ticket to a wonderful life, anyway.

What a load of crap. What a heap of horse shit. Evil is rewarded. People are plagued and punished for being good. Donald Trump is president, issuing a torrent of insults. His hirelings victimize everyone they can, the innocent and powerless first and most aggressively.

This is America. This is life in America, where evil and ill-will and greed rule everything. The human family. What a lie. If it’s a family it’s a sickass family—full of persecution, envy, resentment and exploitation. If this is family I’ll take something else any day.