Once Upon Many Mattresses

I have a dream. I have a number of them but one is than Donald be made a dame. Consider that he clearly thinks he's royalty, he seems to need accolades more than anyone ever, and that he lacks the upper lip (stiff) to be made a Lord. I say we go for dame.

This is part of an attempt to appease Trump and short-circuit his destructive tendencies. Another is to put him on a path for sainthood but clearly that's a longer shot since we have an idiot, liberal, and obviously woke and Democratic pope in there at present.

And, think of what a good fit dame-hood is! Trump's princess tendencies are manifest. He's a princess in pea-world. And, just as obviously, a man of many mattresses, in different ways. I mean, Trump is so sensitive he detects peas before they're even there!

He anticipates them. Then he tries to neutralize them as any proper dame would, in defense of his holy self (and the realm). I think the hair, kind of a bouffant, is highly dame-worthy. He struts around like royalty, loves gold-colored everything and tries to improve the world. 

Just by being in it, though the world sometimes doesn't appreciate the privilege. How fortunate it is to have Herr Trump in it! He has German and Scots heritage like so many royals. He's combative as shit, a sure sign of his insistence on maintaining high standards. 

Dame Donald, we salute you! 

Maledictorians

Think of how many high schools there are in America. What if each had an award for the student who most embodied a mix of degeneracy and drive. 

Two things impress me. These would be seriously fucked-up people and there would be a lot of them. Here we have the Republican Party, their repository. 

Bigness causes trouble. Things that are out of scale. A billion of what? Incomprehensible. I point this out because I can't believe how many assholes there are. 

But it's entirely natural. Assholes will always be with us. Why the fuck, however, would you put them in charge of everything? That's not natural. 

Ask your Republican friends. I mean, if you have any that aren't assholes. The assholes will be defensive. They might try to hit you. They are that reactive. 

Merry Old America

Republicans are romanticizing an American that never existed. Merry Old America. Like with the English and their vanity about what decent people they are. But they're murdering racists, rapists and thieves. Myths come in handy for killers. The cloak hides the dagger. Demonizing is the other side of it. They must have demons. Democrats are their demons. 

Another lie. They're so very afraid of an uprising. Because they deserve it. 

Because they're crooks and murderers. Maybe we should go IRA on them. We can have an army. A secret army like the Irish. Blow shit up. That will get their attention. Trump wanted the American military as his personal police force. Why? Because he needed it. The rich plutocrats need it. To protect them from us. When we realize how fucked we are. 

And that they are the ones that fucked us. 

Lair-a-Lago

Trump rolled them into one. He's living in his lair. He's open about it, as with most of his crimes. Very Roy Cohn. Trump's home is part of a club. So he can have more people suck up to him. Trump is a criminal enterprise. It's as though Tony Soprano moved the Bada Bing! into his house. 

Say what you will about Trump. He has his integrity. If 'integrity' means he's always a piece of shit, never having a hint of a conscience or decency. His family is subsumed to his sick drives. The country nearly has. All hail Trump! He's a Roman emperor, defined by privilege and corruption.

Reassuring Stories for Supremacists

I want to blow my horn for seeing through the sham of J. D. Vance the minute I read his book. I saw it was Reader's Digest fodder in quality and content. Basically a big lie which I called it in my review--a bullshit story for people who want to wallpaper over injustice. 

That looks relatively innocent in retrospect. Vance has joined the Republicans who specialize in creating injustice. They love injustice and corruption. No hiding it now, which is a more recent development. They celebrate it, Trump's significant contribution to our nation.

They're wallpapering with injustice now. Hungarian dictator as decorator and so on. 

Trump made the hate open. He made the hate cool. Hate as a fashion. But it will lose its bite after a while. Fashions change. Open hate was outré when Trump arrived. Soon enough it will be boring. Will we return to decency and kindness or go all Kristallnacht? 

It looks like Kristallnacht. But it's playing out right now. Especially with the raid on Trump's lair. The minions are going nuts. Talk of violence. And Vance and lovers of corruption are okay with it. Not a peep against it. They're getting too fat off the fraud.

Government is a matter of marketing. Branding. Lies of false hope. And lies of resentment and revenge. Buy into this! And people get despair. They blame the Democrats. So it's more vicious than the usual scam. This is a scam with teeth. Death is there.

And Vance is fine with that.

The Wrath of Ron

Why is Ron DeSantis so angry? He's just pissed. Congenitally pissed. Primordially pissed. Pissedness rooted in superiority and innate grievance. He endures so much.

Our, Democratic, stupidity. We, asserting our rights. To vote and stuff. 

Trump is an asshole by compulsion. An loser asshole. DeSantis is an asshole by choice and conviction. And he has no end of conviction and determination. Like the Nazis.

Every Minute

My rights are being violated every minute of every day. Because I have to worry about the conservative takeover. The realization of the illegal libertarian dream state of the Kochs and the illegal theocratic dream state of the evangelicals. Not that they're distinct anymore. They've mated and procreated. 

And the monster baby is stalking us all. 

American Horror Show Continues

The great American horror show continues as decent, responsible citizens further and yet again realize there is no bottom. A huge percentage of Republicans would voter for Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Jack-the-Ripper, Charles Manson, the Zodiak Killer, Jeffrey Dahmer or Chucky if they called themselves conservative and Trump told them to do so. 

They are edging on calling for the killing of Democrats. 

If Democrats weren't so feckless and incompetent they would have called for their deaths already, but, why bother when it isn't necessary. Success in elections is a mixed bag for Democrats. It fuels Republican hatred to an unbelievable degree and allows Republicans to more plausibly blame Democrats for all the problems they themselves have caused.

The fate of the country will be determined in the next two elections. It isn't  looking good.

Sanctum Sanctorum

Is nothing sacred? We locate the ark of the covenant. We get our hands on it. We open the lid. Trump emerges. Millennia of western civilization and it all comes down to Trump. 

Secret Agent Men (and Women)

What's the point of constitutional 'originalism' and biblical literalism? To pretend the decisions make themselves. To pretend to be entirely submitting to authority or following the rules.

In other words, it's abdicating authority. Avoiding responsibility. Skirting culpability. And shedding risk. Shedding risk by lying. The point is not to follow the rules. And to do so with impunity. 

They are claiming the agency is not theirs. They are only following orders. They are applying rules or administering justice. They are the agents of God. They were chosen. And we were not. 

Supply and Remand

Criminality can't be considered apart from its context. Is the criminal a sole proprietor? Of a large or small enterprise? Or is it a syndicate. Is it organized. Is it specialized or diversified. 

Then the push for pretrial incarceration can be weighted properly according to the threat posed. I'm talking of Trump, of course. The threat is incalculable. He must be put in jail. 

Pocket-Picking Minute

Notice how the libertarian economy works. You have your pocket picked by huge companies constantly with no alternatives and little competition. They're printing money, the goal of any rational business. Massive profits and no risk. That's the libertarian economy of servitude. 

National Lampoon's Trump Admin II: Real People Die!

Revel in the humor! I mean, if seeing people's lives destroyed fictionally is funny isn't it funnier if they actually die? Elect Trump again. Let's find out once and for all. We promise more death than last time. A high bar. But the Trumpies think they're up to it.  

Assumptions No Longer Work

Democracies must make assumptions about people's behavior, that the mean is somewhere on the side of reasonableness, maturity and decency. What if it proves to be wrong?  

The Horror With a Thousand Faces

Similes simply fail us. We don't have the capacity to comprehend the multifariousness of Republican evil. They are all alike but each different. Alike in their nefariousness. Individual in the application of the principles of domination and destruction. They are unbelievably determined to win. 

I'm scared, and incredibly frustrated with Democrats for not fighting back more effectively. But I know it was probably impossible to stop the forces of evil. Because they are within. Like a virus they must be fought and purged. You get sick and suffer in the process. And you might not survive. 

Too THOT to Handle

As worthless, unintelligible and vacuous as the average conservative verbiage is the unconscious messages imbedded in there are extraordinarily revealing and very high quality. Cries from the cave and a peek into the evolutionary history of humankind, it is. Garrett Zeigler's thot rant, for example, is perfectly revelatory. The other rule is reflexivity. What they say or accuse others of is true of them. 

This is a mechanism. As such it's absolutely accurate because it's unconscious. No need to worry about what 'conservatives' are up to. They're telling us all the time. They are up to what they say we're doing. Maybe it is time to worry, now come to think of it, because they're accusing us of horrible things and saying we deserve to die. That we're traitors and scum and heathen and traitors--oh, already said that one.

But it's a biggie. With Trump, of course, a digestive tract attached to a brain stem, it's particularly true. There are no higher functions. It's one huge Freudian fucking stream of self-ownership and projective nonsense. And that means we're in huge trouble because they're saying 'liberals' deserve to die. Which means they deserve to die. Which means they have an apocalyptic fantasy. And we're in the way.

Hoes and Thots

Garrett Ziegler, Trump toady and unrepentant supporter of insurrection and government overthrow, now an honorable stance among Republicans, has my sympathy. I agree with him. These are hoes and thots, the women betraying Trump by telling what they saw. 

They are hoes and thots because they didn't turn on Trump sooner.

I'm not sure they've turned on him now. They'll probably vote for him again if he runs. At least one mentioned the wonderful policies enacted under Trump though all I remember is wealthy crooks giving themselves tax cuts and a lot of botched administration. 

I guess that's policy. 

But think of the hoes ands thots of Fox who only told tales once it fit their ambition. Meantime they were jacking off Roger Ailes. Trump's hoes and thots are low-character careerists as well. Symbolic suckers of dick. I want to point something out to Garrett.

He's a hoe and thot.

He might assure us he's only a symbolic sucker of dick. I'll take his word  it, but 'hoes and thots' is redundant. Clean it up, Garrett. This is a terrible display of the misuse of language. And I'm sure you'll have another crack at an influential political job.

Your rant won't disqualify you from anything, you know. Isn't that's the point? You're banking on the insight that the lower you go among Republicans the higher you rise, like Trump, an even bigger piece of shit than George Bush. Oh, where will they turn now? 

Trump's destructive capabilities will be hard to match. We wait to see. 

No Bottom

There is no bottom to how low Republicans will go. We know that now. W knew it already. But he still has a lot of support. What do we do? 

Tucker Is on Top of it All

Tucker Carlson always has his ear to the ground. There are always liberals to be owned. And, it takes a lot of work to keep irrational resentments alive. They don't sustain themselves. The other day it occurred to Tucker the insolence of John Lennon's song, The Ballad of John and Yoko. Lennon is clearly comparing himself to Christ. 

Now, Tucker isn't religious but he knows this is an affront. Beatles records must be burned, again. Into the fire, Tucker is suggesting his followers huff the smoke from the fires to further own the libs and dispel their environmental propaganda. As though burning plastic can do anyone any harm. Fuck the EPA. He's said to burn CDs as well.

Passion of The Trump and Stations of the Trump Cross

Undoubtedly, true believers could use a way to pray to/for fearless leader whose persecution resembles that of Jesus, or Charles Manson, more every day. 'Trump is impeached a second time!' What loyal follower cannot remember this and have it resonate with Christ? The infidels don't know what they do. God has given us his son again in our time of need, to suffer for our sins and redeem us.

This is Trump's time on the cross. God's plans are always shadowy, so we don't know how closely Trump's agony will track like Jesus's, and if he will die and rise again or what, but we may pray stations of the cross, Trump-style, nonetheless, and add or adjust them as the persecution plays out. We know Trump is more than a saint, in any case. He is the Son of God, come again to save us from our enemies.

The trickery of the devil, practiced by perfidious Democrats, strengthens our resolve and is further evidence of Trump's divine nature and mission, not that it was needed. The corrupt world always rejects true divinity. You can't fool us. We are Christ's people and we were waiting all along for a second coming. The Catholic Church is selling churches all over. We will acquire some of these. 

Later, a cathedral. In these we will pray to/for Trump, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. Our master and savior is under attack. And our enemies are everywhere. Our hearts are wholly with him, whose presence on earth is a sign of God's love, though we know he has a few rough edges. These, the rough spots, are only to try the unbelievers. They must be challenged to accept him on faith alone.

And that's what it takes to believe Trump is anything other than the piece of garbage he appears to be. It's entirely a matter of faith. 

Fractious Asshole Starter Kit

Go to 'Christian' schools. There you will learn of your superiority.

Bond with others of like mind. Your moral blindness will be strong.

Seek to change the world. This is a corollary of your superiority. 

Understand entitlement. Understand exclusivity and exceptionalism. 

Narrowly, because you are chosen. Others are lower than you.

They don't deserve consideration. Screw them over as you will. 

Go now to love and serve your lord, Donald Trump. 

Or another Republican sadist and asshole, as opportunity presents. 

Now you are part of a movement. Never look back. 

Hang Him or Shoot Him?

The only question that should be left to consider about Trump is whether to hang him or shoot him. It's up to the courts to decide. 

I favor the firing squad. Potentially, it is more dignified to the recipient. And, another question. How many of the rest of them deserve it as well?  

Freeloader Smackdown

They call themselves libertarians but they are freeloaders. They ignore or deny how much they depend on cooperation and support, like frat boys and arrested pubescents. They think they know everything. They resent constraints but they live on subsidies, sucking off other people, like most of the red states. They are the takers. Fuck them, and the Koch they rode in on, but outvote them as well . . . 

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Emotional Support Assault Weapons

Republicans are pushing for the possibility of assault weapons being classified as emotional support necessities, on the advice of a doctor, like certain pets. Ronnie Jackson has asked to set the criteria. So certified, elect citizens would be exempt from the few remaining restrictions on where you can openly carry loaded and lethal firearms. Many Republicans say they do not feel safe without such a weapon always at-hand so they can stroke and cuddle it as needed to feel secure. 

When they feel actively threatened, reasonably or not, they can loose a few volleys and stifle a personal affront, or simply to relax and decompress, so to speak, since the act of blasting away is itself uniquely soothing and calming to them. Those who use gun ranges know about this. Air travel is especially stressful so they must also be able to shoot off their weapons in the cabins, they assert. Others can elect not to fly with they if they wish, but the airlines must be accommodating. 

Anything else would be an infringement on their rights and personal freedoms. This law will be passed as soon as Republicans regain congressional majorities, surely over the objections of the radical idiot Democrats who hate America and want to destroy it. God bless all who support them in this effort. 

Great Chain of Wankerdom

I'm interested in the Irish-Catholic goons and bullies at Fox News and all over in 'conservative' circles because I see virulent American bigotry as a Scots-Irish thing. Those Irish and Scots groups are natural enemies. The Scots-Irish regarded the Irish like black slaves--as a perverse, incompetent, emotional, submissive, superstitious, irrational, filthy race of men. 

Now, perverse, incompetent, emotional, submissive, superstitious, irrational, filthy and so on describes these Irish-Catholic authoritarians really well. Are they in collusion with their oppressors? Here we encounter the great chain of wankerdom, where the assumption of dominance and submission as a social construct turns those who subscribe to this thinking into John Boltons.

Bolton is famous for being an asshole. For being an asshole's asshole. 

He has a reputation as a dick in a place, Washington, D. C., where being a dick is assumed and tolerated more so than in most places. Bolton is said to 'kiss up and kick down,' a reflection of extreme ambition combined with low character. I believe that the dominance or submission model turns people into pieces of garbage, vile bullies and dirtbags.

Into digestive tracts like Trump, eating and shitting their way through life with varying layers of drive and intelligence superimposed on that. These Irish-Catholic guys are primarily losers. Their ancestors were reduced to potato munching shells of men by the English and with some of them it stuck. Most abused dogs appreciate a little love more.

Not so with others.

A minority are irreversibly harmed and will bite at anything. So it is with these Irish-Catholic thugs. Their only drive is to win. And they will abase themselves to any degree to win. In this, of course, Trump is the absolute purest example. Winning is a constant obsession because he's a loser as a matter of character. Circumstantial losers can pull out of it. Not someone like Trump. 

And the Irish-Catholic goons. If they were dogs they would be put down. But they're  people so they have to be in some way constrained. Because they only way they know how to live is by injuring other people. 

Patriot Celebrates Fourth With Massacre

What could be more American? 

Republicans Announce Plan to Stop Killings

Echoing the herd immunity hypothesis Republicans are arguing the mass killings they've enabled will limit themselves. The motivating factor in the shootings is notoriety, Republican leaders said. And, with so many mass shootings the motivation would soon fail to attract new shooters because it had become boring and no one would remember their names. 

Saint Francis the Sissy

I wonder what saint or saints the conservative Supreme Court justices venerate. Is there a patron saint for pricks and planet rapers? Do they light candles for intercession for oil companies? Is there a saint to bless assault weapons?

One that sponsors mass shootings and protects shooters, I mean, together with the body armor? We know the justices must despise Saint Francis, who was obviously woke, a snowflake and a pussy. Come to think of it, so was Jesus. 

The à la Carte Constitution

Let's just say you want to make things up and get your way. From a marketing perspective it's a hard sell. Your vision involves screwing most people. Rebrand! 

Now, the authority you claim must be such that you don't have to answer questions. Because there are no answers. What are you going to say? That you want all the power?

That you will destroy everything and everyone to get your way? No. That won't work. So you claim primordial authority. You're not some slob. You're a prophet.

The ancient, revered texts can only be construed through you. You hope people don't catch on before you have it locked in. They will want to kill you if they catch on.

They will want to kill you. Because it's a scam. It's a lie. 

And it's how America works. Rich fucks and religious zealots who believe they were chosen. Cynics. Fatalists. Authoritarians. They don't care how many people die. 

They must get their way.

Reactionary Court of Political Hacks Owns Libs

And it's the definition of, "not your job."

Weather on Not

The Supreme Court has put itself in charge of the weather. Control freaks, I think such people are called. Heaven forbid Congress or anyone should address climate change. Maybe we can shoot at the clouds since we have plenty of guns. But it's about climate and not the weather. And the Supreme Court has put itself in charge of that with facetious arguments favoring, who else, big business and the already obscenely rich people who, apparently, need to control energy policy. With only the interests of 'the people' at heart, I'm sure.

Confirmation Bias

What is it about these authoritarian Catholics on the Supreme Court? Don't they see who they're allied with? Southern Baptists, who aren't only racist trash their outlook is especially at odds with Catholicism. The hatred of life, creation and everything.

Did those Catholic justices become warriors at confirmation? Crusaders and apologists? I was confirmed. It didn't mean shit to me. But Catholicism meant a lot. I understood it differently, though, as a religion of love. As a religion that loved creation. 

Real Catholics would never presume to know the mind of God, to feel certain of their role or to believe they are saved. Real Catholics, if they deem the circumstances require action, would act with humility. Restraint. They know they might be wrong. 

And they would never engage in triumphalism. They would never take pleasure in any provisional victory and, because everything is provisional, they would inhabit a place of humility, self-scrutiny and circumspection. They would be Democrats.

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!