Flies to Shit

We should have seen it coming but almost every previously seemingly dignified “conservative” has fled to the reeking shitpile of the Trump administration and is feasting on the festering dung. That made me wonder, realizing I didn’t know, what flies actually do with shit. Do they ingest it, only use it for purposes of reproduction, or is the relationship more complicated and “symbiotic”?

Shit symbiosis, seems to be the answer, though the laws of conservation suggest ingestion is the primary drive. Flies can’t masticate, it turns out, only kind of lick or slurp, which I have noted before is the main conservative mode of interaction with Trump’s ass, the licentious locus, and though I had thought this only obeisance and idolatry it appears to provide sustenance. Flies are all oral and anal.

I’m sorry this is so graphic but recall the vast amount of carrion created out of human lives by the last Republican administration. We must go there. Like Bush before him, Trump is a shitting machine. We ALL are, to an extent, truth be told, but this is why human societies have evolved conventions about sanitation—in the service of self-preservation. Vile entities like Trump and Bush never make it.

They are arrested before the level of toilet use, their wealthy families having been able to afford to diaper them via endowments and to empty and dispose of the vast output of their anuses in perpetuity, the same wealth enabling levels of capital ingestion capable of creating torrents of societal feces and dreck. We live in an environment now rife with their rectal refuse, tasteful stuff to Republicans.

Anything that will bring them closer to wealth and capital, however predigested. Evidently it is in their genes or something and they find the stench irresistible and the shit sustaining. I offer no further explanation, only these observations of what is obvious to those with eyes to see, ears to hear and, unfortunately, defenseless nostrils with which to inhale the rank and indescribable stink of doom and decay.

Beyond the Valley of the Dickheads

I watch and read and I am stunned by the number of assholes there are in America. We are an asshole nation. We are bullies, creeps and cowards. If it were in any way self-correcting that would have kicked in long ago.

The correction will have to be a big one. The assholes will have to destroy everything to such an extent we will somehow be reborn. But I see no way to stop the assholes. They are as determined as they are crazy.

Huge Boomer Daddy Problems

I’m not surprised at all that huge daddy issues attach to the sons of “greatest generation” fathers, these fixations becoming undeniably evident with the election of Bill Clinton, the first boomer president. Clinton succeeded and DEFEATED a greatest generation homie—son of an eminent family, WWII vet and a guy who was shot down in battle.

Clinton drove those with daddy problems, now amassing on the political right, crazy with resentment. He was seen as a usurper—an unworthy, false and illegitimate inheritor of the mantle of national daddy and supreme leader. Righties imprinted on this resentment. Their presidential candidates ever since have been lesser and unworthy sons of prominent men.

Unconsciously, Clinton was perceived as “sleeping with” the mother—the federal government—revealingly labeled “nanny” by Republicans. Only Republicans get to suckle there, as they do so voraciously, because the federal government is the mother keeping them from having to grow up and out of a permanent state of dependency. Democrats are actual grownups, the father figures who must be destroyed in a fit of Freudian envy. 

Witness the current cycle of Democrats having to clean up Republican messes, changing their diapers after they shit themselves, George W. Bush being an outstanding example.

Mitt Romney might have passed as less than completely incompetent but he’s shown low character in failing to resist the Republican descent into an abyss of degradation and, of course, he made his money in the honored Republican ways, inheritance and exploitation—harvesting the productive resources of deserving working people, as enabled by the buying of influence in Washington.

McCain, too, suffered by comparison with his male progenitors on back, who fought in glorious wars unlike the inglorious mess of Vietnam. McCain succumbed to the pathology, betraying his country in his own way, hiring the scumball, Tucker Eskew, for example, who had slimed him in South Carolina years earlier, to tutor his massively inappropriate running mate, Sarah Palin, in the arts of sleaze.

George W. Bush. Where do we begin? Did privilege help inculcate such worthlessness or was he born that way? In his eyes there were hints of embryonic, organic brain damage and dysfunction. It is NOT NORMAL to engender the kinds of destruction he did without compunction. I argue for inculcation over a layer of innate inadequacy, a combination of nature and (possibly alcoholic) nurture.

Trump is presumably the end-point and perfection of incompetence and ill will. Many of us thought it was Bush but it is important to understand that they both crave and fear exposure, having never achieved escape velocity in adolescence and still cowering under the skirts of the nanny state, to which they are inevitably drawn. They are unadapted to circumstances, and have adopted the need to measure up on their fathers’ terms.

It’s an impossibility.

Circumstances don’t allow it. The opportunity is gone or never existed. They thrash about in pursuit of an authority that can be challenged and proven resilient and worthy when the appropriate authority is their role. Archetypal parentage is hopelessly and feebly defended by Democrats, not to disparage them, because it's impossible to defend in this fictitious arena. Arrestedness has produced a generation of monsters.

They are compelled to destruction. Only their inner resources can prevent it and those are occupied by evil forces compounded now by a legacy of shame too vast to be owned and acknowledged. We are, to an indeterminate degree, doomed, as only an annihilation of some sort can enable our rebirth. Hold on, friends. We are in for a severe reckoning.

Individual and generational authority issues are feeding on one another. It can only end badly. Batten down the hatches and all of that.

Send Him Back

Trump, in his sworn duty to uphold the Constitution, has cracked yet another door, the possibility of deportation and removal of someone for (supposedly) falsely criticizing American policies, attitudes and practices. Unfortunately, Ilhan Omar is an elected official, having won the popular vote for her seat, unlike Trump, and so she is therefore not eligible for removal, having been constitutionally vested in and legally fulfilling her role.

However, there is an outstanding candidate in Rupert Murdoch, whose unbelievably inaccurate, ill-informed, biased, hate-mongering, polarizing, partisan and reprehensible “news” site has done incalculable harm to his adopted country. In what way is Omar compromised? She makes her life unimaginably more difficult by defending the principles of American democracy as she was taught them and calling out our society for its failings.

Murdoch, on the other hand, is making a fortune treasonously setting Americans against one another with his lies, misrepresentations and such. He sows the seeds of division and discord everywhere, raking in enormous profits in the process. Murdoch is the one to deport.

Unreality Bites

Think reality is bad? Try out delusion. Reality is having to grow up, get a job, act responsibly and both accept and administer authority in the service of something higher, such as the greater, long-term good. In a delusional world none of this matters.

Kavanaugh Catholics

Outsiders got a rare view of the inner world of Catholic high school degeneracy—extreme, sick, submissive competitiveness and thuggery—in the Kavanaugh hearings. This is the cocksucker, tin-soldier strain among conservative Catholics.

Don’t be fooled by appearances of aggression, however obvious, common and extreme these are. It is fundamentally submissive. They are trained in a kind of servitude. They don't feel culpable. You better hope they adhere to true authority.

The violence of this disposition is unthinking and unregulated. It rests in submission to what they perceive as a higher cause and commitment. They don’t acknowledge responsibility, therefore. Now, it is the “higher” authority of Trump.

A Room With a View of Trump’s Ass

That would be, any room or office in Washington. Trump offers his bare ass unprejudicially to everyone. Republicans line up in homage. They kiss the golden calf. I mean, ass. Many remain on their knees and lick away.

Moon to Goon

Fifty years ago we landed a man on the moon. More recently we landed a goon in the White House and his henchmen are everywhere. What’s to celebrate?

Mitch the Bitch

Mitch (the Bitch) McConnell has spent his life taking it up the ass from and for corporations and extreme capitalist forces, pursuing a return to a plantation economy and a life of privilege for the elevated few. He has succeeded. Wealth is inconceivably concentrated again.

Himself, he has received a government check his entire life and married a fantastically wealthy Chinese heiress, realizing the dream of every Republican, money seemingly from nowhere. He might appear assertive to us but he’s actually entirely submissive and degraded.

When Mitch carries on about slavery and reparations it must be understood in this context. The problem is not historical. It is ongoing. McConnell might not look like some burly overseer in the cotton fields but he is one in the new economy of extraction and exploitation.

His authority is derived. His power is delegated. His character degraded. It is systemic and structural. And the slave economy is back.

Cache Me If You Can

Our humanity is increasingly buried under a corporatist crust. We are a substrate and something to be stepped on and used, raw material for "real" people, those who own significant capital and whose existences therefore count.

Eventually, fully mined, we are relegated to landfills as our utility wanes. We are husks, leftovers, tailings and waste. It's a misuse of money to support us. In our subterranean exile our lives are suspended and we can't move forward.

We are memories even to ourselves, the walking dead of capitalism, where productivity defines life below the level of the subdeities of corporatism and the supreme beings, the super-wealthy. We are cached, in a zombie netherworld.

Death Panel Convenes

Republicans never gave up on trying to destroy Obamacare. Now, a panel of judges is meeting to do just that. Tens of thousands of people will die. This is what Republicans stand for, destroying people’s lives.

Red Cape Award

Cue the music:

https://youtu.be/16B5Xm8_IKw

Anyone can offer Donald Trump the slightest challenge and he’ll charge it like a bull. The trick is to do it intelligently and creatively. And, of course, not to get gored. That’s how we maintain standards in America these days, by managing our imbecilic president through distraction. The moron will charge anything.

Cynical or Stupid?

I envision a day of reckoning for Republicans. I suggest a reality show, to separate the cynics from the idiots. The idiots believe the lies. The cynics know they are spouting and supporting nonsense.

Radical Cheek and Mau-Mauing the Flaks

Uppity lefties are disgruntled. The Sarah Sanders era has ended. Journalists might be prone to righteousness and indignation but with Sarah it was justified. All she did was lie.

They got extra cheeky in return. She shut them down and cut them off. She showed them. She didn’t have to communicate at all. Previously, at least they could report the lies.

These weren’t briefings but branding and ass-covering. Plenty of ass to cover in Trumpland, to be sure. Newly labeled as socialists and radicals, journalists attacked the flaks.

Good luck with that. The Trumpists have all the power, you know. It’s all they care about. They aren’t afraid to abuse it. In fact, they love it. What fun it is “owning” the Left.

Fuck governing. Fuck everything. The nihilists are in control. They are a marketing concern. What they are marketing is lies. It is all invented. Their only reality is power.

Imbecile President Turns National Holiday Partisan

America’s imbecilic and incomprehensibly self-centered president, Donald Trump, is turning a national holiday into a celebration of himself and a partisan event. What a piece of shit. It can’t be said often enough. He isn’t even worthy of the normal rights of citizenship. He is a crook who belongs in jail.

Metamorphosis

There was a huge vermin named Donald Trump who awoke one morning to find he had been transformed into a man. Once adjusted he discovered that his instincts and habits played out well in the human world. Donald cared only about himself.

He would do anything to get ahead. He had no conscience but was all appetite and lived in a gilded and lavish environment built on filth. He produced nothing. He consumed everything. Concupiscence, corpulence and sloth characterized his life.

He was widely admired for being such a pig and made president, a role model for the young. This is the end of our story, showing how human evolution reverted and conscious beings CHOSE to return to a lives as animals, insects and vermin.

Bonehead Prepares for Battle

Republicans, those of you who are young and healthy enough, enlist now in time to follow your glorious leader into battle. Do us all a favor and get yourselves killed.

My Mistake

I first started reading about earth issues in the 1970s. Clearly, I thought, the trajectory of fossil fuel-use and environmental degradation and abuse was unsustainable and suicidal. I came from practical people—engineers, farmers and technicians. I thought we would deal with these issues in a rational, productive, responsible way.

I thought societal suicide and annihilation were BAD. I still think it’s bad. But, that didn’t keep us from embracing it. I was wrong. My mistake. I thought we were better and smarter than that.

Psycho Analysis

Trump is nuts. He’s delusional and unstable. Thanks, Republicans, for ruining our country. You seem to be unstoppable. I’m going to stand back from it all. Please contact me when you are done with the destruction.

Manufacturing Discontent

Republicans, together with the vermin and cretins at a Fox News, have created an entire narrative of unjustified, delusional grievance, but that is crossing the line into actuality and becoming reality, where there is now plenty of grievance to go around, and many aggrieved. They do this by fucking up our government and society, in more ways than can be comprehended.

They do it deliberately, if not conspiratorially. They sabotage everything. Witnessing the rush to right-wing populism I am more convinced that the fear and economic hardship caused by the ‘08 economic meltdown is a primary cause. Of course, Republicans created  that by deregulating everything they could for decades and selling out our government..

Trump’s Satanic Witness

To be clear, I don’t think Donald Trump is Satan. Satan is not a worm. Satan is a force for evil. Trump is a worm. Or, maybe a slug. But, he is sure eating up everything.

Shazam That

Anybody use Shazam to ID songs? I want a Shazam to ID lies. Everyone would have to turn their phones off, though, and not use it around Republicans. It’s too much too process.

This We Knew

John Bolton, given the chance, would always start a war.

War for the Course

Trump’s efforts to bait Iran into a conflict are bearing fruit. The “administration” held back on its plans for a strike designed to minimize casualties. Similarly, I hope the government in Tehran will show restraint and only bomb and destroy relatively uninhabited, open spaces—like Trump’s golf courses.

This seems fair and prudent to me since Donald has not only refused to separate his private and business affairs from his (purported) public role he has cultivated their enmeshment, probably trying to position himself for enhanced profits when he is out of office. Also, Trump doesn’t represent the people.

He lacks support and is illegitimate in many ways, having lost the popular vote and then refusing even to try to do his job. Everything is personal with him. Iran’s response should be as well, and his golf courses reduced to smoking ruins. I hate to see anybody get hurt but they should then bomb his hotels.

They can notify the targets ahead of time. Also, there must be a clever way to make Trump Tower uninhabitable. Or, Mar-a-Lago. In this way the American people might benefit from being attacked, by getting Donald’s attention. Nothing else has worked. Nothing else will work. Donald is pretty dense.

The Clown

Following on the success of The Crown on Netflix we are owed a similar production on America's own royal family, the Trumps, titled The Clown since it will focus on Donald. The hand of destiny will be seen in Trump’s family’s rise, and the importance of inheritance. Whatever got him where he is it sure wasn’t character, brains or talent. This will be fully investigated and properly portrayed.

The Canons of Dort

Who is this Dort? I don’t know but we must judge Dort from the fruit of the Dort tree, which now includes such disparate characters as Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, Jeff Sessions, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Sanders and Steven Mnuchin. Let us judge. They are united by a love of injustice.

Dort defines life as something taking place in a realm of arbitrary authority and superiority. Life is therefore unintelligible. Some people are BORN better than others. Nothing else matters, so their behaviors are irrelevant. They can be the biggest piece of shit ever and it doesn’t matter.

In fact, injustice is reassuring to Dorters—an indication of the hand of God in human affairs. Striving for justice is just another futile effort and example of human folly. Injustice, therefore, is akin to holiness or at least a sign thereof. Justice is for the next world. To seek it here is heresy.

They all believe in an invisible hand ordering the affairs of men—either God’s or that of the capital markets. Oh, those must be the same thing. They have their capitalist God. This is Calvinism for you.

Go in peace...

to love and serve Satan, Sarah Sanders.

Die Like a Dog

I want to die like my dog. He did as well as he could as long as he could, never felt sorry for himself and appreciated every bit of kindness right up to the end.

Trump Tramp Chump Steamer

You don't book Trump for anything. He'll take on whatever cargo suits him at the moment. Hell, he'll throw it overboard once it's laded, screwing whoever hired him, seizing an opportunity to screw someone else.

And, this is the man we hired as president. Is there anyone worse? Never worry. If there is Republicans will find him. We’re Trump chumps. He only deals with chumps. Anyone else might make him responsible.

The Secret History of Semaphore

Communication is the transfer of meaning. In a pinch codes have been used, when normal verbosity was impossible. But what happens when the point is to obscure, and there is no impediment to communication but, rather, the floodgates are open?

What happens when the “bandwidth” is unlimited? Multiple streams are possible and simple, intelligible content is devalued. Signs, indicators and codes are then used in parallel with—on top of—the verbiage. Watch Fox News. It’s all over the place on there.

Wooly Bully

Our hairy antagonist is at it again. Trump is attacking—typically after smaller, less powerful entities. Apex predators don’t attack one another, after all, at least not in an environment of limitless prey. In America the prey lines itself up, volunteering themselves as food. Why doesn’t the entire world do that, Trump wonders. He’s not even hungry, just showing off.

Where Are They Now?

In my latest installment of “Where Are They Now?” I wonder what happened to P.J. O’Rourke, erstwhile budding Reaganite and Bushie, on the issues of pressing concern to plunderers everywhere, whence comes the next meal, meaning how they will pay for a third or fourth vacation house or find the means to try to stay in them all simultaneously WHILE trying to achieve the wanking orgasm of Republicanism in an explosive, virtual-reality orgy of selfishness. Sorry about my style.

I got influenced by O’Rourke who is usually as clever as he is smug, self-indulgent, hyper-critical and misguided. He writes funnily about his adolescence as though he has escaped it but we recognize the conservative dream of living forever on the daddy-dole while deflecting attention from one’s own dependency by accusing the daddy-providers themselves of it, a clever bit of distraction and leap-frogging, lying one-upmanship popular in the 60s. Darn, the style thing again.

That shit is contagious. Anyway, also contagious is the financial depravity, it turns out, now epidemic, practiced by P. J. and his friends among the “libertarian” right OR left, who desire to be left alone in their lairs once they are properly funded by theft, graft, blackmail and other forms of easy money. P. J., write us some more on the rule of law, man, and your boy Trump, and don’t try to lie your way out of it, as though he isn’t George Bush with the parental supervision lacking.

Call in some supervision or do it yourself:

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/13/books/pass-the-salt.html

If you are curious about the strident righties’ search for the forever-tit of freedom look at the latest on the NRA. The board there has rivaled Trump’s cabinet in its penchant for organizational milking.

Kowtow Conservatives

Republicans have figured it out. They insist on controlling everything. They DO control everything, favoring the means of blackmail, deceit and coercion, when needed.

Then they deny responsibility for anything. Their control is perfect. Responsibility is none. The only precondition for membership in their club is to have no conscience at all.

Or, to stay out of the way. Watch them drop to their knees, each at a time, from the Buckley crowd on down, and kowtow to Trump. This is American conservatism.

My Catholic Upbringing

I look back now on my Catholic upbringing in horror. My grade school was dismantled by groovy nuns who believed that teaching at all was too authoritarian, so they jettisoned that. Similarly with my high school but they had something else going, a psychopathology about winning at sports.

Then I had a classical education at a Jesuit university, learning the tricks of that trade, which I have seen deployed at the Supreme Court and elsewhere, where Catholics display their skills at rationalizing anything, ad maiorem trumpi gloriam. They combine this with competitive zeal.

Fox News is a very Catholic organization, at its soul, and we see the hallmarks. They are focused on winning at all costs and can rationalize absolutely anything, including mass killings. These misanthropic Catholic morons allied themselves with evangelical Christians, selling their souls.

Evangelicals have an understanding of existence that is utterly antithetical to Catholicism, not to mention life on the planet itself. Hooray for Catholicism. After their dismal record resisting fascism at the birth of the Third Reich they are doing it all over again, now under the sway of Trump.

What dumbasses. But they are winning—I’ll say that for them. Now what? All they care about is winning and nothing about the wreckage they leave behind. Bill Barr is the latest product of Catholic schools to disgrace himself completely, with the Kavanaugh hearings still ringing in our ears.

Clearly, Catholics are the first place to turn to find meatheads for your war machine, should you have one. They will fight like hell for an unworthy cause.

Hello, My Name Is Satan

What did we think was going to happen? That the Prince of Darkness would walk up and identify himself? “Hi, my name is Satan. Care to sell your soul?” It doesn’t work that way. Satan is cunning. Satan fills the minds of his followers with self-righteousness and determination—with arrogance and vengeful thoughts.

Vengeance for what? Vengeance for imagined slights and insults, or injuries and insecurities brought on by oneself and then blamed on others. Republicans represented a privileged minority and they only wanted to win. An opportunity arose, a racist voting bloc. All they had to do was appeal to that.

All they had to do was play the race card. People are so surprised now, as every pretense of decency and integrity falls away. The lies are so ridiculously obvious. Everything is thinly veiled. The greed is right out in the open, and the corruption celebrated and fantastic. This is what evil actually looks like.

This is what evil looks like not when it knocks on your door because it doesn’t happen that way. It enters elsewhere. This is what evil looks like when it is already in your house and among you because it lied and deceived its way there. This evil is already completely woven into our society. Welcome to hell.

Relocation

I have long thought that the national seat of government needs to be moved. Washington is indefensible. It could be obliterated in a bunch of different ways and we wouldn’t even know who hit us. Add Trump to that equation.

He has not only not drained the swamp he is locking us into permanent swampdom. And who would want to live in a house he has inhabited? To sit on a toilet he has used? Oh, fucking yuck. I wouldn’t bring in a cleaning crew but a priest. 

The whole city feels fouled and polluted. This is a chance, however, to start over. We should pass a lot of anti-lobbying and anti-corruption legislation, then move the capital immediately to somewhere deep in the middle of the country.

Public service should again be something people do from a commitment to something other than greed and a lust for power. That would be easier if our elected officials were living in a desert or fucking wasteland miles from everything.

A Speculative Post

This will be a more speculative post, in comparison with the hardened facts of Republican incompetence and degeneracy about which I usually write. I think Republicans are cashing out on the American dream. At some level, they believe that America is going ENRON. They are taking us there.

Look at the startling consistency with which Trump’s cabinet appointments and others of his officials behave as though there is no tomorrow, milking and bilking their way through their jobs, not giving a rat’s rectum about how obviously criminal and crooked they are. I think they’re cashing out.

They’re cashing out before the crash. The lesson of the last fiasco they created, in 2008, was that there would be no accountability. In fact, the only people they care about, the really rich, came out ahead. Average Americans got shafted. They are still being shafted. This is what Republicans do.

And it applies in non-financial matters, all the way up the line. The system is being rigged to GUARANTEE there will be no accounting no matter what they do, by packing the courts with thieves, ideologues, hacks and extremists. They are locking everything down for the big, explosive end.

It will probably be more of an implosion, now that I think about it. No matter. And I don’t think there’s anything we can do about it.

Everything Risible Must Converge

Republican insanity is approaching unity. Natural systems trend toward diversity.

Authoritarian systems, not.

The white boys want a monoculture—the most unstable thing in the world.

A monoculture of them.

American Amateur

I would love it if Trump were a real monster but he’s a frothing amateur—as feckless at that as everything else. He’s too much a goon to be a good villain. The forces behind him are scary, though, and Trump can still do inconceivable harm.

Rapt, Slapped and Trampled

Since evangelicals want the world to implode they should get it first and worst. They are legislatively bombing themselves back in time. Let them do it, I say. I can see them in their huts and hovels, Fox News blaring paeans to Trump and Trump to peons.

I interpret it as volunteering: To be trampled first by the four horseman, their arms spread skyward. To be slapped up-side the head by Satan, displaying their war wounds to Jesus riding in on a cloud. To have utterly shit lives until the end-times arrive.

No Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security. No health insurance, disability or anything else. States Rights! Yes, let them have what they want. But don’t force it on us. It’s time we abandon the hope and goal of a humane society. Part of us might as well suck.

It’s what they seem to want. Let them have it. Let the rest of us, in more decent, rational places, take care of our own. I know, it isn’t fair to the innocents caught in Alabama and elsewhere, states run by troglodytes and assholes. But it’s the best we can do.

Let Us Remember

Let us remember what our country used to be. We had something resembling representative government. We had ideals, however often we failed at them. We had people who worked for a living and were fairly rewarded. Those who benefited the most generally contributed more and were held to account, at least in principle.

All of it is gone.

The country is run by thieves. We don’t even aspire to live well. We aspire to have and consume more, and make out at the expense of others. With malice towards all, charity for none. Don’t bother with the cemetery. You can mourn right from home. Our entire society is ashes, an immoral enterprise run by and for crooks.

Put flowers on graves if you want. Nothing can atone for the dishonor of Trump.

They Have Answers

More guns. It's always the answer. Less taxes on the rich. It's always the answer. More defense spending. It's always the answer. Less spending on social services.

Yes, it's always the answer. I envy Republicans. They know all the answers before the questions are even asked.

My Heavenly Reward

I want it now.

If Republicans, via their evangelical voting bloc, are determined to hurry along the Second Coming of Christ, I want guarantees. I have lived a good life.

At least I've tried.

I want insurance. I want to collect on it now. Why? I'm not sure who they're working for. I think they're working for the other guy. Republicans have mortgaged our future, according to them even in the afterlife. 

Face Value

Ayn Rand might have made a good lawyer. Well-practiced, the law avoids responsibility by not saying anything. Incoherence is your friend. Ambiguity is good. What is to be done, in Rand’s incoherent world, with all the non-heroes?  What is to be done without the pastures where her protagonists frolic and romp their way to riches? Who provides the field?

Sometimes, face-value is all you need. Observe that adolescent boys are those most drawn to Ayn—those who are not providers but takers and suckers living on the daddy-dole, trying to assert themselves against the evidence of their undeniable dependency. They deny it anyway. Ayn’s followers aspire to live in adolescence forever. They don’t hate the nanny state.

They want a nanny so secure it is invisible. Observe the guys they cough up as presidential candidates, the office most associated with Randian heroism. Donald Trump. George Bush. Mitt Romney. Even John McCain got into college on a legacy, collected government checks all his life and married a wealthy woman. Look at those who openly espouse Rand’s ideals.

Rand Paul and Paul Ryan came from privileged families. Ryan collected government checks all his life and married a wealthy woman. Mitch McConnell collected government checks all his life and married a wealthy woman. This is what they stand for, free shit for them. Our role is to provide the free shit. Hence the denial. Hence the combativeness. Hence all the lies.

Blow Your Brains Out with Trump

So, I called the National Suicide Prevention Hotline and told them that my nation was trying to commit suicide. They said they didn't mean "national" in that way but that it sounded like a very serious situation. They wished me all the best.

Boomer Burial

The Baby Boomers are so greedy they begrudge the world its existence when they are gone. It offends their sense of dramatic propriety. When their story ends everyone's story ends.

Everything’s Coming Up Roses

In my state we put our government up for sale. How entrepreneurial. We have pioneered other worthy causes, like bathroom purity, and sent Jesse Helms to Washington to show up the smarties, and to hike up his skirt and take it up the ass from corporations. Mitch McConnell carries on in this—skirt up, ass in the air, corporate lackeys waiting in line.

Art Pope, North Carolina’s most prominent conservative, inherited a business from his daddy (a familiar story), hawking cheap shit. He hawks another kind of shit now, bullshit, and persists in the traditions of his white brethren, obsessed with dominance and submission — who is taking it up the ass. This relates to racism.

The white boys felt outgunned on the mojo front by the black guys. That’s why they LOVE their munitions. They buy their mojo at gun shows.

Characteristically, denial produces a worse reckoning. Southern white men decamped to the Republican Party, which already had its own insurmountable Oedipal problems because of inherited wealth. Now those problems converge, the insecurity of inherited money and the impossibility of proving oneself thereby, and racial dominance or submission.

In the South cooperation and fair play weren't options. Violence and exploitation were endemic. The mojo issue would have been transient if the white boys had let up on the persecution. Being downtrodden breeds resiliency. Every American immigrant ethnic group went through this, to an extent—an earlier period of struggle and resulting toughening.

The white boys of the South locked this in forever by continuing to oppress the black guys. I mean, just look at the pasty "supremacist" types they send to Washington—Mitch, Lindsey “Cracker” Graham, Trey Gowdy, Jeff Sessions, Tom Cotton. Do these guys seem superior to you? No. That’s why they have to resort to privilege, getting shit for free.

Pope inherited a whole business. He owned the Roses discount stores, in my area. Now he devotes himself to taking it up the ass for Trump. You see, this is the problem. Once you live in that primal arena you are already screwed. Even the guy at the top lives in fear, feeling the need to dominate everyone and strive forever for more power.

Exploitation and victimization are both the cause and the result. It feeds on itself. No cooperation and no enfranchisement means no security, only fear. We all live in the South now. They have funny ways about them.

In the end, everybody loses. This is their plan for America.

https://youtu.be/i9SxlO7tQLc

Be Prepared for an Emergency

Have your MAGA hat on. Make disparaging comments about taxes and regulation among your acquaintances. Let them know where you stand. Insinuate there are hordes of unscrupulous people dying to get on the dole. It suggests you are not one of them.

Be white and Protestant. We know from New Orleans and Puerto Rico that it’s bad to be black or Catholic in a natural disaster or emergency. God help you if you are both. Remember, stay calm as the storm approaches. Afterwards, mutter prayerful, fatalistic nonsense.

Stay white. Stay Protestant. Be a white girl if possible. They will do anything to save your ass if you are a white girl. Follow these rules and inconceivable amounts of free stuff will come your way when disaster strikes. If you are black or brown it’s best to just flee.

Look at what happened in New Orleans. Look at what happened to Puerto Rico.

Hope Forlorn, Conclusions Foregone

What have we left? Not much. Cheap seats at the “end of days.” That will be an extension of Sarah Sanders and her press briefings, where the truth is what some slut makes up to protect the rights of some people to fight dogs or whatever, because nothing in the Constitution says you can’t fight dogs. Therefore, all of that was left to the States and they have interesting hobbies in Arkansas.

Now, us, in the land of forlorn hope and foregone conclusions. Behold the brain power behind the imperative to cut taxes. You always cut taxes, whatever the circumstances. It’s a fixed idea. But, guess what. It got tried. See “Kansas, meltdown.” But it still flies among Republicans. It still flies in the “think tanks” where their donors pay their shills to line their pockets even more.

This is a sickass society. I want out.

The Road to Smurfdom

Competition and privilege--more of one means less of the other. But Republicans seem to support both. How is this? Because the great sucking noise—the land of takers—is all coming from their side. The rest is a ruse. They hate competition.

Takers just want to take more. I begin with a premise. Takers must HAVE something.

Calling people with nothing "takers" doesn't work. They might ASPIRE to taking. Watch Republicans, the great takers, and learn. Therefore, we see that the entire Republican line is just a self-serving, made-up lot of bullshit, to such an extent they have questionable claims on existence and are themselves probably fabricated.

What evidence do we have that Steve Mnuchin, Trump, or any of these other wealthy children have ever done a day's work? To the contrary, Trump obviously doesn’t know what work is. He mistakes getting out of bed and watching TV for work. He thinks showing up is work and doesn’t even do that most of the time. 

Find me someone who can verify that Mnuchin or any of these clowns have ever had a productive day in their lives. They are role-playing, stuck in adolescence and expecting to be paid for the equivalent of messing around. They must stay on the offensive to mask the scam and avoid exposure. Add to that natural resources.

So much of America’s wealth is based on the (irresponsible) exploitation of natural resources. Every American has a claim on that but the Mnuchins of the world simply say it’s all theirs. They MUST protect Trump because if people realize what a hopeless, heedless, incompetent piece of shit he is it might begin to go further.

People might see into their protected playground of privilege, that lotus land of monetary surplus, and wonder why they’re paying the bills for this nonsense.

I wonder.