We Have Known This

Further outcry ensues at the description of Donald Trump's carrying on around the sacking of our capitol. But we have known forever what a piece of shit he is. And we've known he's a fucking criminal. Don't ever think otherwise. 

All that's at stake is his support among the trash populating every cranny of the Republican establishment, the ass-kissers and boot-lickers of Trump's posse and entourage. But they're all pieces of shit and criminals and we've known it. 

A Dyeing Breed

Trump and Giuliani are of a dying species. Battered guys in bloated, failing bodies relying on pills and stuff. Medications, dyes and elixirs. Probably Viagra. Ugh. Ugh, ugh and double-ugh.

Maybe not. Who needs a hard-on when you can muscle people around to feel like a man. Trump was always a bully. Rudy, maybe no. But they're both destructive goons now. Menaces.

You've heard it said somebody is somebody's conscience. These guys are conscience killers in a doom loop. They've done an amazing amount of illegal stuff, so maybe we can stop them.

If the will is there. 

Custer's Latest Stand

Ask the Indians. It probably won't get taught in the schools anymore once DeSantis is done but when the white men want something they take it. No law or standard of decency will deter them. Don't get the fuck in their way.  

They've run out of easy pickings to plunder so they are turning on their own. The more rapacious element is winning. They are willing to go lower and do anything to win. At least they'll be killing other rapacious white people. 

I guess that's an improvement.

But, typically, they go after the weakest and most innocent elements. Older people and children. They say it's justified and they were attacked. It's a lie, like with the Indians. They, Republicans, are the attackers. There's an inevitability about it. 

The beast of fear, hatred and blind animal violence is still there. It never went away. Biden won an election fairly and it doesn't matter. He beat a violent lawless asshole who had a painting of Andrew Jackson in the office.

Another rapacious, violent, murdering white asshole who displaced Indian tribes after they played the game and won in the courts. In the Supreme Court. Jackson, being an asshole, refused to enforce the law. He did what he wanted. 

They will always do what they want. They might lose a battle, like with Biden, but it means nothing. In the end they will get their way. By lawlessness and brute force. It's always been that way but maybe it's more open now. 

Roberts Court Shits All Over Themselves

But, like Trump who made it all possible, they have people. Someone else cleans it up. They shit all over us, too. We'll have to live with the consequences of that or clean it up ourselves.

Pre-Conception

Ruling ex cathedra and clad in the cloaks of originalism, or constitutional literalism, the Catholic branch of the Supreme Court of the United States has issued pro-death (to the post-born) and anti-death (to the pre-born) rulings nearly simultaneously, clearing up questions of guilt that have long troubled the Church--I mean, country--to the effect that the pre-born are assumed to be innocent and the already- or post-born guilty because of original sin and general nastiness. But what about pre-conception? 

Isn't that the holiest state, being totally incorporeal and free of the imperfections of creation? This difficult question is still to be addressed. And it should, in a further ruling detailing how God, or his Heirs and Assigns, must know, before implantation in the womb at the time of fertilization, the suspect's salvation status. This is according to the dictates of John Calvin and the Swiss watchmakers he admired and imitated in constructing his ethics of temporal perfection. Imperfection is anathema! 

Pre-conception is therefore the final standard and point of comparison. The Supreme Court has thus adopted preconception in their role of issuing moral rulings and opinions that must be assumed to be from God and therefore infallible, as a point of their investiture when faculties of divine judgment were instilled in them as seeds in the womb and fertilized by God as is evident in the kind and loving visage of Clarence Thomas, the conscience of the Court. As for guns, they love them. 

The male Supreme Court members are understandably sensitive about their fertilization since they are men and God is surely a man. Therefore they are coming down hard on homosexuality and gunning up the country to prove their masculinity. Creation is just such a horrible thing anyway. Why would God foster such imperfection? Are they themselves not imperfect? Only in their mortal bodies, let it be known. Otherwise they are exceptional, and guaranteed their salvation by God Himself. 

They are in that as pure as the preconceived, to which state they will return with gladdened hearts and slates completely cleared of sins, as God would have it since He is obviously on their side. Preconception applies not only to humans, in the form of their immortal souls, they would have you know, but also to what are commonly known as conceptions. Ideas and abstractions. These, such as justice, go back to God or they are meaningless, so, let's face it, God's rules trump constitutionalism by a mile.

Get that through your heads. Things are going to be run by God now. And they are his agents as certified by worldly favor and the tautological imperative, which is that everything that happens must have happened by the will of God and therefore have been inevitable, except for the bad shit which is due to the Devil but luckily the Devil only has truck with Democrats, as Republicans know by the powers of preconception. One can only hope all those guns are used agains Democrats. As God surely intended. 

But, remember this. Just as people are better preconceived, so are opinions. The Supreme Court makes no apology for this, as they are beginning to admit. Get over it.

Fascist State Takes Shape

Under a slew of unconstitutional Supreme Court rulings America's budding authoritarian government is taking shape. The rulings themselves, however awful, mean-spirited and destructive of individual liberty and bodily autonomy, represent a larger problem of a lack of good-will. If this sounds like it justifies the 'snowflake' accusation, wanting everyone to be nice and not hurt your feelings, think again because it's the foundation of everything. 

Everyone is supposed to be equal before the law. 

American 'conservatives' don't believe in this. Once they go there, death camps follow. Whoa, you might say, that's a big leap from the one to the other. But it's not. Dehumanization lies on a scale. America's prisons are concentration camps for black men, just as shooting black people is not held to be illegal unless it really looks bad and might force Republicans to own their lies. Even that standard and ruse is falling. Consider the slander of BLM.

Open racism is okay in 'conservative' circles as it has never been before. By 'before' I mean since civil rights legislation. Republicans have always wanted to go back to some form of authoritarian government. This is rooted in the religious beliefs of Calvinism which insist on arbitrary salvation. If some people are born 'saved' and and others damned why not entire races and ethnographic entities? Exceptionalism and Calvinism go together. 

Pray you're on the chosen side of the line. If not, you have no rights at all. Not even to life.

Republicans on the Road to Dumb-ass-cusses

Waiting for Republicans to have an awakening? A moment where they get a clue they're pieces of shit? Don't hold you breath. 

Ants Will Inherit the Earth

Ants and Republicans. For them the collective is everything. 

Let's Mess With Texas

Texas Republicans think they're playing a game. Let's see if we can get away with this. Mom and Dad might get pissed but they won't do anything. If we get busted our rich parents will bail us out or maybe we'll get the big goodie, a presidential pardon. A get-out-jail-free card for treason. 

You can see why they're intent on winning elections and controlling the courts. They're criminals. 

Like all criminals they crave impunity. What's not to like about impunity? But they are adolescents at heart, I would claim, and testing authority and they really want a slap on the wrist so they can safely return to the frat house. But they're not adolescents. So I recommend a sock in the face.

Let's expel Texas from the Union. Throw their asses out. Treat them like a foreign country. Embargo, attack and destroy them. After all, it doesn't seem to register with them that they're destroying other people's lives. Getting people killed and all. Let's see how they like it. They might not care.

They're so fucking crazy. But it's time to find out. I'm reacting, of course, to the latest wish list of insanity from the Texas Republican Party, a boatload of evil, reactionary, illegal nonsense. Republicans never quell this stuff. Why not? They're afraid of these people. The movement they created.

They know how crazy they are. How violent and determined. How many guns they have and how they long for jihad. So they want to keep the hate on us. Grand mufti, imam and vizier Tucker Carlson issued a fatwa. Fatwas are being issued all over. Open season on Democrats. Lynch a liberal.  

That's the new Republican Party. 

What's Up, Crook?

What makes Republicans tick? Fear. Not that they only promulgate fear. They understand their base. They understand them well enough to be afraid of them. So they continue to direct all the hate at Democrats. 

Because, more than anything, they want to make sure the hatred they've created and nurtured doesn't come back at them. And they know they deserve it. So they are very afraid. They created the monster.

They understand how evil it is. We should pay attention. And be afraid enough ourselves to understand the threat. It could get us all killed. Or ruin our lives forever. We have Republicans to thank for that. 

Serfing the Internet

Guess what. 

The internet has evolved from its innocence. Users are farmed now. Users are cattle. They will be sold off or killed off when revenues no longer justify the investment. Or the gates will just be opened, sustenance withdrawn and the poor things left to fend for themselves. That's us. Wait and see. 

When the laissez-faire crowd can get away with it Social Security and Medicare are toast. The rich want more for themselves. They always want more. And we're suckers if we let them get away with it. We let them get away with it. We're suckers. Suckers, serfs and losers. And completely powerless. 

Musk Buys College, Eyes Town While in Manic Phase

Elon Musk has bought Elon University, in North Carolina, because he 'liked it' and announced he has also bought up some of the town and intends to buy up more. He was heard to mutter it was all 'funny-money anyway' and that it felt cool and he hoped the town wasn't infested with bots like Twitter. 

It seemed to be okay, he said he thought, but that he would raise hell and start selling off stuff and canceling deals if a bot infestation were discovered. He was also overheard quietly uttering things about Trump and eminent domain and martial law. Entrepreneurs and geniuses, he said, had certain rights.

These are not to be fucked with by anyone or all kinds of bad shit will ensue, according to Musk. He has his destiny, he seems to be saying, or some kind of divine sanction or is himself a kind of god. So, stand down if you're tempted to challenge him. And this applies to the collective will of everyone.

I mean the government. He means the government. Leave him alone, notwithstanding the amazing enabling the government does to allow people like him an easy ride to astonishing riches. That's all fine. Musk is deserving and better than the rest of us. A superior being. And don't you fucking forget it.

If people's lives get destroyed or they get hurt because of his impulses it's a shame but a small price to pay to have such excellence and unalloyed brilliance at large in the land. He admitted he had no idea why he bought the school and that he had no idea what he would do with it but he said he meant well. 

He thought he meant well but it was hard to tell when he was in a manic phase. Presumably, he wouldn't inadvertently trash the place but if he did it would need to be balanced against all the good he has done just by existing in a state of such fantastic creativity, to say nothing of Tesla and the rockets and shit.

A manifesto would follow, he said, or a bunch of tweets if he couldn't muster the coherence for a manifesto, outlining his plans for doing whatever the fuck he wants and speculating about how it might play out for himself and the world and a bunch of students. But, understand there is no stopping him.

New American Hero

Irrepressible Trump toady and inveterate anus-licker Mike Pence is now an American hero. Because he didn't overthrow an election. That's a great standard.

It reminds me of George Bush. He started a fire in the Middle East. He threw gas on the fire. He tended the fire. He was then praised when he stopped throwing gas on it.

Republicans have strange ideas of heroism. 

Confederate Slime Caught Casing Capitol

Another Baptist degenerate has been caught lying his ass off. Oh, wait, it's not lying if you're working for Jesus. It's faith. It's belief. It's submission to the will of God. 

And God wants nothing more than to see innocent people screwed. That way, they can have their come-to-Jesus moment. Either by dying, or by resorting to prayer because they're so desperate.

Barry Loudermilk of Georgia is on the side of the angels in this, let it be known. He wants to 'repeal and replace' Obamacare and 'reform' Social Security and Medicare. 

I'll translate that for you. He wants to destroy them. And, when he's not doing that, he's working to overthrow the government. In Jesus's name, of course.

The Typing Pool

I think racism is treating or judging anyone according to anything other than standards of behavior. Racism is a kind of kindism. And a violation of individualism.

A violation of our limited autonomy over which we have rights against interference. 

We don't have access to essences. Not in a way that allows us to judge, and the judgments we make are provisional. They have to be because other people are not ours.

Even we are not ours. Our judgments are social. Interpersonal. We judge to protect one another from harm. We don't have the right to harm one another.

In fact, we have a responsibility to minimize harm. People are interdependent. We are one body in a sense. A corporation. Racism is an assault on that. 

An infringement. Individual racism is bad enough. Racist gangs are the worst. They are typing pools. Persecutory alliances and a misuse of identification. 

Weekly Sack of Shit

I have had a request to retire the trophy. A plea that one sack of shit, an early awardee, blew the curve and the rest are hangers-on and imitators. Herr Gingrich is proposed. I dispute that he rendered all subsequent honorees unworthy. That they degrade the award.

A competition in scuzz is an odd thing but I felt it had to be done. Odd measures for odd times. I'll consider the motion. No one better than Gingrich would protect the integrity of the institutions and traditions of shithood sacks. But there's also scope to the competition.

Range and purview. 

Pernicious long-term effects, at which Gingrich excelled, are only one aspect. Punch is another. Whereas Gingrich as a festering shit malaise morphed and mutated, surviving his retreat from elected officialdom, others without his fetid endurance fielded remarkable destructive capacities.

As I say, though, I will consider it. The numbers of shit-sacks have burgeoned. They had a deep bench, and the second-stringers make up for in quantity what they so don't have otherwise. And they swing so wildly one blow can mean a knockout. Democracy in a coma. 

Also, I'm a one-man shop. The award is a labor of love, or loathing as the case may be, and a hobby. Gingrichism was a movement and easier to track. The wrecking crew once was a crew and consolidated. It's almost impossible now to keep up. There are freelancers everywhere. 

Taking Your Balls Off the Eye

We're being watched. No news, you might say, to those aware of how social media and other internet phenomena work. The big eye is upon us. And we refuse, or neglect, to assert our will against it. 

We'd rather not think about it. Anti-government prejudice doesn't help. Only the government--our government--can save us from the eye. What about the NSA, you might say. I have no answer to that. 

Throwing in the Towel . . .

. . . on responsible, representative government. We're bored. What fun! Let's trash everything and see what happens!

The Divine Orifice

For those Supreme Court Catholics I'm trying to figure out to whom they pray. Where is their devotion? The altar of Trump, like many of their ilk? And, then, at which orifice, the sacred words or the divine turds, which, having failed at bathroom training, Trump rains upon the world as he sputters along muttering insults as well. An amazing spectacle it is. 

Impulse Power

I think it's official. The United States is not only open for business and up for sale but there is no level of corruption or criminality that is a problem. More studious observers have known about this already. Previously a show of respect for standards and the pretense of resisting corruption and conflicts of interest were the norm.

The new norm is Jared Kushner, an incompetent rich kid in the great playground of life. Playgrounds are fenced off, remember. This is the change we have been warned about, where generational wealth will control everything and the world will be ruled by the whims and impulses of playboys, degenerates and clueless children.

Kushner's new homie is a Saudi prince who had a guy killed who pissed him off. No matter. Everything is cool. The national interest, meaning the personal benefit of Kushner and Mnuchin, was protected. There's a tribal war going on between their clans, Arabs and Jews, but money trumps everything when you come right down to it.

Take Me to the Riviera

I need to get away. Republican assholes are gearing up for another, maybe final, assault on our democracy. I don't want to witness it. There are too many of them. Even if we win we don't really win. We only forestall disaster because their determination and perseverance are exceptional. The assholes will have their way. 

The Hillsdale Truth and Record

This is the (satirical/spoof) official reportage and record of the Hillsdale College of Hillsdale, Michigan where we revere the truth above all else and the sayings and insults of Chairman Donald which we carry around in little books in our pockets. Such is our commitment that we explore minutiae of transgression like the appropriateness of pussy-grabbing on the Sabbath. Is this holy, we ask, in the right context and at the right time or less than holy so that should it be avoided on the Sabbath? 

We tell you this so you know how sincere we are. We are not splitting hairs but chopping wood and doing the hard work of trying to lead moral, Christian lives while emulating our inspiration and role model, Chairman Donald, whose accomplishments we respect beyond all measure what with all the money and righteous appointments to the Supreme Court such as fellow pussy-grabber traveler Bret Kavanaugh and then submissive cultist Amy Coney Barrett. What models of rectitude! 

Not the kind of rectitude Bret and Chairman Donald must have exhibited as part of their pussy-grabbing efforts, meaning they must have had a hard-on. Ha! We got you there, didn't we. That goes to show we have a sense of humor. We are far from up-tight. We intend to change the world and you can't do that if you can't relate to people and have a little fun. And nothing is more fun than making money, by the way, which we embrace as a part of our mission. What's wrong with money? 

In the hands of true Christians and followers of Chairman Donald it can only be holy and true. We mean to have influence in the establishment of a blessed, theocratic state, eventually to embrace the world, and that costs money. It's not our fault if some of you don't understand that you belong to Jesus and not yourselves but this is a common misconception that we can and will fix, not to put too fine a point on it. This is why any government not run on God's principles is illegitimate and invalid.

Don't worry about it. Think of Chick-fil-A. Everything will be like that, very tidy, but we'll be able to keep the gays in the closet again where they belong. 

'By the people and for the people.' Pshaw! It is 'by God and for God' or it is heretical and an insult to the Creator. Goodbye for now, but we will be back with more important news in the Truth and Record. And remember that God loves you if not as much as us and Chairman Donald and all his children since we are already saved and you might not be. Though, we will bring you around one way or another. God bless!

Ticket to Riot

What kind of a riot isn't somewhat spontaneous? You don't get a ticket to riot. You show up. You start raising hell. Whatever happens from there it is what it is. 

But somebody is issuing tickets to riot. So, the rioters are part of a larger plan. A plan of governmental overthrow engineered by Republicans and their oligarchic masters. 

Winner Fake All

Our winners are all fakes. Winning in a false system of rewards is always false itself. 

The Golden Ass

Trump deserves a picaresque novel about his wanderings, musings, efforts, and explorations of boundaries. He's just a boy with a dream and a huge inheritance finding his way in the world. So what if some people get killed or have their lives destroyed. It's all a part of the natural process of Trump trying to grow up. 

I Went to Waterboarding School

As an observer at a distance, mind you, but it's clearly the way to get at the truth of the Trump election debacle, to see if proponents of the stolen election theory believe their own bullshit.

And He Was

I want you to picture the Talking Heads song And She Was adapted for Trump. In it he rises above the world on gasbag principles of flotation. He cruises like a blimp or dirigible, scanning the lesser beings below him and emanating shits and farts which the lower beings must endure and clean up. The shit is raining down. He eventually crashes, to cries of 'oh, the humanity.'

Bringing Home the Bacon

Right-wing reactionaries have positioned themselves to impose their will on the rest of us. They are doing so now, having always known what they intended and would do but they keep up a shallow pretense of respecting the law. But they're there, on the Supreme Court for example, to bring home the bacon. It's facon, though, because they're just making stuff up. They know what they will do. Only the justifications and rationalizations are up for grabs. 

Lindsey, Thank You, Sir

Lindsey Graham has done it. And it had to be a Republican or it wouldn't have worked. No Democrat could get away with it. Lindsey suggested someone be assassinated. Vladimir Putin, if you want to know. 

But I have had such a long list. 

And Lindsey is on it. A list of people who should be assassinated. Who deserve to be assassinated. Who earned it. All Republicans. And, by any reasonable standard, they're much more worthy than Vlad. 

By any normal legal or ethical standard a bunch of Republicans deserve to be shot. 

Whig or Tory?

All Republican candidates for office should be required to declare if they are Whig or Tory. We know, from their fealty to candidate Trump, they are monarchists of one sort. But are they in favor of absolute or constitutional monarchy? The people have a right to know. 

The Devious Anna Delvey

Anna Delvey exposed how hollow the meritocracy is. And, how alike it is to revivalism. The 'chosen' choose themselves. They then market the idea it was innate qualities that enabled their conversion. It was God's will. It was necessary, inevitable and natural they should be on top. 

They are the winners. 

In other words, it's tautological. It has no meaning, a blind assertion of faith. Fatalism. The moral of the story: character matters. But not to them. Anna showed how little they have. Claim to have money and everything will come to you. There's a shortage of character among the meritocrats. 

But no shortage of money.

Whale Bait

Donald Trump won't stop. America needs a guarantee he can't be in a position again where he can get a lot of people killed. Because he'll do it if it suits him. He doesn't care.

How do we bait Herr Donald to get him in enough trouble to rule out another run at world power? He's resistant to most things, having plied the criminal trades for decades. 

I don't know. His whole thing is to ensure the rules don't apply to him. Flattery and servility most suit him. He needs admirers and wants them completely degraded. 

We probably have to work through that. 

Wee Tucker

Wee Tucker Carlson has been pronounced dead by soul authorities. This means the bodily form showing up for work at Fox to create more corpses, of the undead variety or otherwise, is a zombie. Immediately the question arises, if someone were to shoot Tucker in the head, would this be murder? I say obviously not, since he is already dead in the ways that make someone human.

Let me be clear. I am only asking the question. This is entirely hypothetical and a matter of conjecture. But I think it follows, as it would as well for Donald Trump, notably. Among some parties this is called the Magnussen Solution when a patriotic, pro-civilization and anti-crime figure removes a deadly menace from circulation. Is this not a good thing? Entirely hypothetically, I mean?

https://youtu.be/QynpNTdv1Ng

I am only asking the question. But if someone, day in and out, is getting lots of people killed (and getting rewarded while doing it) because they have hacked the system and pose a threat to everyone and they are already certified soul-dead by mental health and religious authorities is it not only permissible but a moral imperative to remove them from the population? Hypothetically? 

Putin Invades Ukraine in Triumph for Trump

Amazing. But this too, it appears, is all about Donald and the mythical stolen election.

Draft Dodger Expresses Admiration for Invasion

Draft-dodger, career criminal and incompetent buffoon Donald Trump is expressing admiration for Vladimir Putin's 'genius' move of spontaneously invading Ukraine, apparently thinking it is like a corporate takeover and ignoring that people are getting killed. But he was raised by his psycho father to be a killer so I guess it makes sense. 

Russians and Republicans Advance

Just as they did after 9/11 Republicans are using a deadly tragedy to advance their party's interests. There's no connection between international terrorism and tax cuts for the rich but that didn't stop them. The difference is they aren't in power now so they're using their friend and Trump homie Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine to try to undermine Biden's presidency in another sterling show of character.

The Starr Report Retort

There they go again. Donald Trump whinging on about witches. Witch hunts, I guess. But he doesn't know what a real witch hunt looks like. Bill Clinton knows. 

I throw the Starr (witch hunt) investigation in their faces, created out of thin air by private, Mellon, money and unconnected to anything but a desire to get Clinton.

To kill Bill.  

Scheming Former President Advances Personal Interests

Donald Trump, whose only legislative achievement as president was a huge tax cut for the rich, is supporting oligarchy abroad as well by backing Vladimir Putin, whose side he has taken against the interests of average Russian citizens. 

Inventing Inventing Anna

Listen to the black people on this one. I don't know shit about Shonda Rhimes--I don't watch network TV--but the way this show shakes out it's a mighty black take. Anna might have been a lying sack of shit and a conwoman but black people know the whole country and its economic system are built on lies. 

Whatever else she is or isn't, by rich-ass white standards Anna is an amateur. America is the biggest con and scam and Ponzi scheme and whatever else you want to throw in the world has ever seen. It's imbedded in the system. It is the system. White people play at one casino and everyone else at another one.

Especially the rich. We play at the loser casino. They play at the can't-lose. 

Behold Bush and Trump, lottery winners out of the gate. Incorrigibly worthless, useless, unintelligent and clueless people. Highly destructive in fact. Electing them president is a galactic self-own. Inventing Anna has a corrective black attitude. The black people portrayed in it are the ones to listen to. 

Granting, I only watched it because of Julia Garner. She is riveting. Her Anna isn't only inscrutable she spreads bullshit around like . . . well, like American 'conservatives' or financial whizzes or Republicans. By the time they get done you doubt what's in front of your eyes and with good reason. 

Nothing makes any fucking sense. Money rains down here. But not there. Not only do I not deny there are gifted, workaholic and highly intelligent people making oodles in competitive environments, in NYC, for example, I know it's true. But many have the skills of poker players and contribute nothing. 

They contribute nothing. They inhabit a system that has evolved, prejudicially, for their (inconceivably outsized) remuneration and nothing else. Nothing else. Fucking nothing. The top layer of American society is a country club. We pay the bills and tend the greens and screen shit out of the pool.

Inventing Anna is about intelligibility. And America is unintelligible. That explains a lot. That explains everything. Why nothing can be explained. Because NONE OF IT MAKES ANY FUCKING SENSE. And trying to make sense out of it will make you crazy. 

Life is for Lying

Life is for living, Anna Delvey or whoever she was says somewhere in the middle of this huge program about her, but her life was for lying. And other people were mostly nothing to her. Means to ends. 

I remember seeing clips of Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump being questioned as part of some investigation in small rooms and wondered how anybody could not see what pieces of shit they were. 

Moneyed pieces of shit. And that's what matters, as people are pointing out about Delvey or whatever her name is. She complains about men failing up. But, if she were regarded fairly, as a man would be? 

We'd say she was a piece of shit. And she said she wasn't respected because she was young. But she was plenty old enough to understand what she was doing. No juvenile detention for her. Grown-ass jail.

What a piece of garbage.

Death to Those Who Disrespect Trump

We can see it clearly now. In the next Trump administration disrespect will be punished with death. Donald as much as said so in commenting on Hillary Clinton and her (made up) supposed attempts to hack Trump's campaign. A hack would have been, apart from inconsequential, little more than a minor slight in the (criminal) world of Trump. 

Maybe he's pissed because they didn't go nuts to try to defeat him, assuming he would sink himself, and THAT was the slight. The attack was so meager. It was so half-hearted. It was so lame and pathetic, especially considering it didn't happen. Nothing is more lame than that. In any case, next time around there will be no mercy. Even if the crime was made up. 

Royal Ass-Powderer Seeks Redemption (and Employment)

Mike Pence is looking for a job. He claims to be redeemed but there's a new lord in town, one Pence already abandoned the passé Christ for, and Pence has hurt His feelings. Trump will not be trifled with. Jesus can put up with whatever He wants. But not Trump. 

There's a Trucker Born Every Minute

Trump suckers are some of the worst. What's really terrible is sucker truckers. They'll block your roads and bridges for no reason. The Canadian truckers were respectful and restrained by American standards. The American ones will be armed with assault weapons and wear body armor. And there are more of every kind of idiot in America.

Trump Pronouns Must Be Capitalized!

In a new missive from Mar-a-Lago Trump has announced that all Pronouns referring to Him must be Capitalized. Those who do not accede will be punished by Death when He repairs to His rightful place as Lord and Master of the Universe. 

All are advised to err on the side of Caution in Capitalization because the Penalty is so severe and Herr Donald notoriously Fickle, Impatient and Unforgiving. I'm Capitalizing all modifiers, epithets and adjectives I apply to Trump trying not to get killed. 

And, throwing in some other stuff for effect. It is hard. One mistake and firing squad it is. Probably best not to write anything. No word yet on whether it applies to Ivanka and what's-his-ass Her incompetent husband. Remember, one mistake! 

Herr Donald will not be trifled with. Only he will reign supreme! Oh, no . . .

Don't Fear the Reefer

I haven't craved a weed high in a long time but the stupendous insanity of Trumpist America makes me wonder if it might not help . . .

Shadows of Meaning

A post-truth world is a bad enough thing. A world without meaning is madness.  

Enigma Variations

Think about how nice it can be not to have a conscience. No looking back or regrets. So, no guilt. No concerns about integrity or consistency. Instant forgetting. Making stuff up. Alternative facts.

If you understand that you understand Republicanism and how terrifying it is. 

The Workingman's Undead

I can see how working people support Republicans based on what they say they believe in. I can't see how they can continue to support them when it's all so obviously a lie. 

Republicans are really good at lying, though. They are vampires, secretive and cunning and deadly, and the zombie doctrines they create are incredibly hard to kill. 

A Posteriori

Republicans have a new standard of truth. Not from the horse's mouth but from Trump's ass. 

The Branch Floridians

Scanning the scene I used to see something recognizably political but now I see a cult. A good, old-fashioned, American apocalyptic cult. In this case not one predicting and expecting the end times and judgment day but a movement to bring it about. They accept a need for improvisation. Trump or DeSantis? Who cares as long as they get to see Jesus. Are they saved or damned?

Even on this all-important question it doesn't matter. They are that fatalistic. Because, whatever happens, it is God's will by definition, de facto and a priori. They are happy to play whatever role as long as the world ends. That means Jesus returns as he said he would and they are impatient to see him. Whatever the terms. They despise creation that much. They hate it. They think the flesh is a mess.