Bad Moon on the Rise

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Murder on the Trump Express

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

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

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

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

Worship Me. Idolize Me. Bow Down Before Me

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

The Gathering Shitstorm

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

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

An Affidavit

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

The guy was insanely competitive.

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

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

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

My old friend was envious about my parents.

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

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

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

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

Secretary of Deference

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

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

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

Uneasy Ride

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

Democracy Dies in the Light of Day

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

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

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

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

Our government is overcome by criminals.

Bear Witness

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

Trump Killed Jeffrey Epstein

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

Humane Torture

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

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

Treason Museum

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

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

Welcome to the Brave New World Created by Republicans

Guess what.

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

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

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

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

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

Moscow on the Potomac

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

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

What Becomes of the Broken?

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

Bogus Family

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

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

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

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.