Let Them Drink Bleach

Please, how much longer are we going to put up with this moron?

Gun-Nut Neighbor Harassment

I’m being messed with and harassed by a rich, gun-nut neighbor for expressing my views on this issue. Like Bush and Trump he’s a loser son of wealthy parents but more of a bunion and a lump, having had a life of indolence and ease and, of course, he’s showing the usual traits of bullying and aggression in trying to prove he’s up to some family standard he can’t possibly meet because he has low capabilities and character.

Trump Conundrum

It walks. It talks. It eats and (presumably) shits and plays golf. But it isn’t human. It’s some kind of animal but, since it’s ostensibly human, and powerful, it’s actually lower than an animal. It consumes resources ravenously, exerts its will recklessly and denies any and all responsibility for anything. It’s Donald Trump, the thing elected by Americans to the most powerful post in the world.

Don’t Point That Thing at Me

Were we always so fucking crazy? The “law and order” crowd has gone rogue. Ideology before life itself, I guess. I think I saw something like that lately about a certain reich represented on some show I streamed ...

Depravity Loves Company

I'm not sure that misery does. Depravity wants to hide. Depravity wants the loss of individualism in tribal thinking. That's how they shed feelings of responsibility. That's how they lose their consciences, by drowning them in class consciousness and tribal allegiance.

Turd Immunity

I credit Trump with turd immunity. When you’re already a piece of shit how much lower can you go?

The Ducking Stool of Life

To show ho much we’ve evolved I want to point out that the new American ethos is to view life as a ducking stool where we assume immanent justice — that people get what they deserve. And, better yet, you can bait God into revealing His preferences and judgments to you if they aren’t already clear or even make them for Him if you are “saved” since you are effectively a representative of God anyway. So, evangelicals are obsessed with everyone’s morality but their own.

They had some travesty of a religious experience in a revival tent or under the tutelage of Jimmy Swaggart or some other charlatan. Thus they are guaranteed salvation and get to vote for Trump and support every kind of inhumanity and it doesn’t matter. Nothing matters. They’re hanging out waiting for Jesus to pluck them out of the hellhole and cesspit of life. Meanwhile, they do everything they can to keep creation is as shitty as possible. It reassures them they are right. 

Mitch the Bitch

Mitch “the Bitch” McConnell has screwed his way to the top in multiple ways. He hikes his skirt and takes it up the ass from every power-broker and corporate lackey that walks through the door. Then, he uses the leverage thereby gained to screw average citizens. This is Mitch’s version of double penetration. Screw and be screwed.

He inhabits a land of assholes. Nothing new in that. It’s been their playbook for decades, a politics of anal fixations and conservative whores, truly degraded and lesser men, the Koch-suckers who run our world. They steal our money and then use it against us. They fear the law, accountability and justice. They fear the retribution they deserve.

But I also think they want it in a weird way.

What Trump Wants to Know

What Trump and the Republicans want to know is how soon they can get back to screwing the American people good and proper.

The Lowdown Citizens Brigade

A source has told me that in private many Republicans actually own their evil and think it’s all funny and hilarious the way they keep winning and controlling everything just by being assholes. They’re like a lot of demented frat boys, Tom DeLay without likening themselves to Jesus, or those dudes at Enron who were giddy and weird when they were making a bunch of money creating blackouts and screwing up people’s lives in California.

In some ways this is reassuring. They know they are assholes. I guess that constitutes a kind of accountability. Now, we only have to carry that awareness over into the society at-large and instill in the remaining decent citizens the kind of outrage and indignation these Republican scumbags deserve, culminating in anger and arrests. I’m not pushing for firing squads though that would be fair considering how many folks they’ve gotten killed.

Some waterboarding would be fine to get to the depths of their depravity and uncover the extent of their corruption which we know is vast. Corruption is not an unfortunate and regrettable byproduct of their freewheeling philosophy of government with countervailing good things balancing it out it’s a deliberate manifestation of their ideology, which is to screw the common people out of everything by deceit and then force if necessary.

Thinking it through writing this down I’m leaning back to firing squads. But, that will be up to the combined will of the loyal citizens who remain and still support the integrity of our laws and society against the Republican onslaught. Let their will prevail. Again — and I’m letting my imagination loose here — Guantanamo Bay and imprisonment there comes to mind with all its attendant cruelty and humiliations since they are actually traitors.

Clearly, these details can be worked out at a later date but we must muster the will to destroy them. It’s them or us and our traditions will live on with us whereas with them they will be destroyed. The choice is clear.

A Sad Turtle Story

Having pulled up to a “T” intersection the other day to make a left-hand turn I saw a turtle on the asphalt with its head half smashed but its hind legs still slowly trying to propel it forward and it made me think of Trump. If the upper part of his head were crushed I’m sure his mouth would still somehow be sputtering insults, boasts and threats.

Trump’s Revenge

Trump is hanging New York City out because it’s Democratic and diverse. He was never accepted there by the people that mattered, any more than any other coarse, ill-educated, transparently self-serving and gauche gatecrasher. But, the cave man president is having his satisfaction and revenge.

It might not matter if they had voted for him. Donald feels more powerful at this time by withholding aid and letting people suffer and die. I will give money to anyone who, at any time, tries the put this motherfucker in jail together with Kushner, Ivanka and the other ill-mannered and brainless brats.

Trump is a traitor. And you know what they used to do to them. Back in the day they would just beat the shit out of such people to teach them to submit to the rules of their societies and reduce predation. It’s not too late for someone to administer as ass-pounding to Trump but I doubt it would work.

He’s too far gone, the Bernie Madoff of American politics, always moving on because there’s no way to go back. Jail is the ticket. Remove him from the population for its protection. Maybe he’ll get a little learning in prison.

Brain Space

One must understand, when someone is working from such a primitive brain space as Donald Trump and most Republicans the real communication occurs at the symbolic level. Thus, “border wall” must be construed more broadly as barriers-to-entry, a favored tactic of inept heirs and heiresses from time forever back. The idea is to end the game and/or change the rules and lock in an advantage while you have it.

Additionally, the laws of inversion often apply, that they reveal themselves inadvertently in the accusations they direct at others. Observation is the key to understanding. And Enron is a key example. The cartoonish corruption would be laughable if lives weren’t destroyed. George Bush had closer ties to Enron than any other business in the world. Enron was only a failure because they got caught. It’s a business model.

The Huns have come over the hill. Don’t look for them they are already here. They came at night and in secret and are already among us. The laws of our civilization are subverted. Constitutional protections are destroyed. The foxes have moved permanently into the henhouse and we prepare them meals. Don’t listen for sirens or scan the news for photos of invaders. The invasion has happened. Our world is upside-down.

The Dukes of Hazard

We’re finding out what all-asshole, ignorant government can get you. Step back and try to appreciate the outrageousness of Trump trying to extort flattery and fealty from governors in order to get help in a national emergency. A national emergency that is actively costing lives. Again, I will say, such people belong in prison. The prevailing terminology can’t capture it. Only art probably can.

Maybe that’s why they try to defund it but who knows, their blanket defunding for anything life-enriching is so inclusive. There are many abominations, the transfer of risk among them. Moral hazard is not supposed to be a positive function of the financial regulations of a government, the transferring of risk form those who can benefit from ignoring it and therefore will, to unimplicated citizens, according to the rules of the rednecks of greed.

Save the Ideology!

Republicans are chucking all the incoherent facets of their ideology into the lifeboats as fast as they can. That, above all else, must survive the coronavirus assault.

Mourning Becomes Elections

Call me suspicious. I think Donald Trump and Mike Pence are going to let a whole lot of New Yorkers die because they’re Democratic and diverse. Republicans have been disenfranchising Democrats for decades and you can’t get any more disenfranchised than dead.

Touchdown Jesus Comes to Washington

If it wasn’t already clear Bill Barr’s rallying cry for fascist, authoritarian government in his Notre Dame speech has made it so, that there’s something wrong in South Bend and in a lot of other places but especially in Washington where bullying Catholics of a conservative bent have undue influence. I view them as a priesthood, sheltering under federal skirts as they might once have the Church’s and with many of the same perquisites, like an easy and opulent life among the folds of those dresses.

Rich folds they are. All the talk about small, stripped-down, efficient, lean-and-mean government was always a sham. If not where is it? Republicans have controlled it all for 40 years, at least, disallowing Democrats their swing at governance even when they win fair and square. There is no “fair and square” among Republicans, only a desire to win at all costs, kinda like the worshippers of Touchdown Jesus, I would say. The feeding trough in Washington is obscene.

I believe that Catholics were the original American outsiders and, like the Catholic converts that famously overcompensate, they became exaggeratedly American, many of them out-wasping the WASPs. They cracked it partly through athletics. I read David Halberstam’s book on Michael Jordan only to figure out why he wrote it. I thought the subject matter beneath him, not to slight Jordan in any way. Halberstam had done Vietnam. Risked his ass like all of them. Why write on Jordan?

It’s been a long time but I think one point was Jordan was a breakthrough black guy. Black guys were feared. They were associated with drugs and crime. Jordan was too talented, handsome, likable and everything — the whole package. Miraculously he was all of this and unthreatening, too. Catholics — especially Irish Catholics — broke through in a similar way. There were many other things going on, Protestants and Catholics working side by side, for example, and learning to respect and accept one another, but sports was big and especially Notre Dame football.

Lots of people know and have commented on the Catholic obsession with their sports teams and winning. Win at all costs, some might say. I remember the weird ritual of praying at mass before games to kick ass and how injuring or humiliating an opponent was cool, a point of pride, at my all-male Catholic high school, the one that produced Gerry Faust, by the way. If you don’t remember see if you can find videos of him losing his shit on the sidelines when he coached at Notre Dame and try to find the Jesus in that. Better yet, the Mary, to whom he is very devoted.

Anyway, that whole ethic is not only entrenched in Washington but conservative, authoritarian Catholic ass-kickers also play an outsized role at Fox News, that bastion of decency, Christian kindness and humility as embodied in their boy, Donald Trump, a win-at-all-costs model of the Catholic precepts of benign governance and righteous paragon of responsible living. Gerry Faust, kinda like — let’s go aboriginal and win, fuck-all. This is a Faust story, it turns out.

Many, many souls have been sold. And the debt is now being collected, by you-know-who. Touchdown!

Trump the Virus

Extreme circumstances offer opportunities for insight. We see now, in Trump’s inability to face the virus, problems of mirroring. Trump sees himself in the virus — an incredibly destructive and parasitic contagion. He recoils in denial and then attacks.

Think of the dilemma when a person spends a lifetime fleeing from and in denial of their nature, when the inescapable demon is the realization of one’s own worthlessness. That worthlessness compels Trump to belittle and degrade everyone around him.

Trump’s Cartoon Presidency

Donald Trump has transcended his presidency. It might look like an implosion but he has escaped the reality of his circumstances.

He’s transcended accountability. He’s transcended reason, cooperation and the rest of humanity in solipsistic union with himself.

I think this is what “idiocy” came to mean, private to the point of imbecility and exaggerated attributes of incompetence.

The thing about reality TV is its unreality and it’s the thing about Trump. He’s faux everything, pretending to be president.

And, pretending to be human.

The Error of HIS Ways

Fundamentalist Christians are obsessed with homosexuality. They worry about it day and night. They blow a fuse over it. No matter how often we think it is settled and that gay people can get on with their lives without worrying about being disparaged and persecuted someone like Mike Pence comes along. Evangelicals have hatred in their hearts. For immigrants. For Muslims. For Democrats.

But their special hatred is for homosexuality. I suppose it’s because of their fatalism and determinism. Homosexuals can’t just happen, in their outlook. Gays can’t be a given or a fact of life. They have to be explained as a deliberate creation of God. You can see that fundamentalists don’t respect God, from this. Since they regularly communicate and commune with God I guess they lost respect.

They think God made a mistake with gay people but God can’t make mistakes. So, there’s a kind of train wreck in their heads, as there should be because they are flaming hypocrites and scoundrels. They, not gays, are the scum of the earth. They think they are the chosen people and better than everyone else, taking God’s mercy, towards them, for granted. I hope there IS a judgment day.

If so they are in for a big surprise.

Trump Confronts Epidemic With Bullshit and Platitudes

Well, what did you expect?

A Diagnosis is Confirmed

Trump’s “moron” diagnosis has been confirmed. It isn’t an act, shtick or a ploy intended to disarm his “enemies” (average American citizens, also known as his employers). He is now seen, in the face of the coronavirus crisis, to be not only ignorant but stupid.

Tea and Antipathy

Strange, how American conservatives became oafs, boors, primates and primitives at least by association. What ever happened to their dignified, tea-drinking faction?

What Better Day

There is no better day on the horizon. And, quite possibly, no horizon.

Trump’s Problem

Trump, being a raging piece of shit, is processing a medical crisis that could kill millions as a PUBLIC RELATIONS problem for his presidency. Our boy is always looking out for #1.

A Country of Bumpkins

Hicks. Boors. Hillbillies. Hayseeds. What are we Americans if not a bunch of rubes and rednecks, too stupid to recognize our unprecedented good fortune or too ungrateful and unthinking to care. This is how it must all end, in an indescribable eruption and orgy of malign incompetence and the intentional, organized, short-sighted, self-serving vandalism of our institutions and their reduction to rubble.

Stooge Gets Important Job

Trump stooge, lackey, frontman and all-around, outstanding paragon of worthlessness Pence has been put in charge of the nation’s slow response team in dealing with the coronavirus, where his role will be to determine the sins for which God is punishing humanity in this instance.

Homosexuality is a given. Evangelicals like Pence are obsessed with it. I sometimes wonder why, since the Bible says so much more about grace and love than anal sex. In what way is God’s love evidenced in Pence? He spends all his time worrying about the morality of other people.

Maybe Pence uses a different bible that talks about anal sex all the time but the important thing is to understand that sicknesses are not caused by viruses but by God. Presumably, if Pence could purge all the homosexuality and other evils from the world there would be no pandemics, only peace.

You can see that Pence is not just the perfect but the only person for the job. His religious qualifications are tantamount. He must be in very high moral condition, if not in fact perfect and free from sin, or he wouldn’t concern himself constantly with the behaviors of other people.

This Feels Familiar

We’re facing an enormous public health problem with the worst possible people in positions of power, like the coalition of doom we had running the show with 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. Hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths resulted. The cool thing about Katrina was that Bush couldn’t bullshit his way out of his incompetence.

But Bush has sure tried with his Mideast fiasco. Then there’s the recession of ‘08 for which the Republican orthodoxy of tax cuts and deregulation was obviously responsible. Here we go again and Trump is trying to shield himself from blame IN ANTICIPATION of what is to come even though he has formal control and responsibility for everything.

He knows his own history better than anybody. He’s had his efforts blow up in his face before. Then he runs away. Trump loves leaving a mess. It makes him feel powerful. If this doesn’t scare the hell out of you I don’t know what does.

Fuckwad Imperium and Hegemony

Someday people will look back and wonder how we could be so idiotic, to piss away and destroy the greatest good fortune the world has ever seen. Trump will be representative of that, a symbol of stupidity and desperation. What do we have to be desperate about? Only a lack of faith in ourselves.

Be Fair to Trump

Trump can’t be judged relative to other presidents. He comes up an unprecedented goon and an incompetent ass. Trump must be judged in comparison with evangelical preachers like Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart, obvious charlatans and con-men who praise God only to build up themselves.

Their followers want to thumb their noses at the “elites” and anyone who upholds standards. Nobody is going to tell them what to do.

How could anyone have been naive and ignorant enough to support Jim Bakker? Now we have Trump, who is as driven to build himself up and have gold-plated everything as Bakker ever was. Trump, too, has a trophy wife caked in makeup. View him as a kind of preacher and he makes perfect sense.

Make America Grate Again

It appears there is no point of satiation for Republicans throwing sand into the electoral and governmental machinery. They want to destroy the whole thing.

The Anti-Catholic Climatologists

With the advent of Trump it's easier for people to see how the Civil War never ended and that the South kept on fighting for privilege and bigotry. What's less obvious is that they are also still fighting the Reformation.

For example, if no priest (expert) is going to intervene in your salvation neither is any expert (climatologist) going to tell you what to think about their area of study. You know better no matter what an ignorant oaf you are.

The problems with authority that now plague us are, in other words, to a great extent, more trouble caused by evangelicals. They'll hold stupid opinions just to try to prove they can't be pushed around and told what to think or do.

Add to them the Koch crowd. They also don’t want anyone telling them what to do. Then you have the insane culture of today. The only common efforts respected and validated are in antisocial areas — warfare and business.

Trump and the Power of the Void

What is it about consciousness that pains people? It would be easier to ask: where are the rewards? Consciousness is a pain in the ass. The lure of Trump is the lure of drugs and addiction, the loss of self in irresponsibility and the happy forgetfulness of farming out your conscience, ethics and convictions to a moron.

Fear Not the Bot

A bot is no different from the average Trump voter, anyway.

The Conservative Dilemma and the Wanker Dominion

The dilemma of American conservatives is that they live in a democracy. I’ve pinned down a couple of “libertarians” and they admitted that, if things were run properly, American citizens who didn’t have the money would be turned away from emergency rooms, to die on the side of the road and be picked up by sanitation workers if it came to that. They know the voting public doesn’t want this so they lie. And lie and lie and lie.

They lie and, meanwhile, they try to lock in minority rule so if the people they’ve duped into voting for them ever wake up it will be too late. We are probably there now, the defining moment. They have their authoritarian, lying king who is asserting that no “rule of law’ exists and Republicans are backing him on this right on up to their “think tanks” and supposedly respectable publications like the National Review.

Really they are shit-eaters. There’s a big Scots-Irish, deterministic, Calvinist cast to this. They are fatalists and schismatics to the point of nihilism and solipsism. Every person is their own church, in effect, reaching God in a kind of autistic union, breaking out of their isolation from “the spirit” by a buildup of tension culminating in a lightning bolt-like union with God after which they are turned into Tom DeLay or someone like him.

True exemplars of the Christian principles of humility, generosity, kindness and inclusion, notwithstanding they think you should die on the side of the road if you are poor because God willed it —  by definition or it wouldn’t have happened. The Scots-Irish love to laud themselves, mostly for their combativeness and violence, but they are a servile, bigoted race which made them, once, perfect henchmen in the slave economy.

Now they seek to recreate it, again through blind allegiance to the an authoritarian rule of hereditary wealth and privilege — the Wanker Dominion of Donald Trump for which they have degraded themselves and to which they are subservient. So much for human dignity:

https://youtu.be/f1CB-D1TtXc

Oh, Lord ...

Professional racist Stephen Miller might actually procreate. What a horrifying thought.

FUCK YOU

I know someone who couldn’t be a nicer, more responsible, kind and hardworking person and she is getting into trouble over medical costs. She isn’t even 50 and doesn’t drink or smoke. This is nothing but bad luck.

To every Republican who has been voting us into this dystopia and to every single person who voted for Trump, and very especially to those who intend to vote for him again after we have witnessed what a sick, cruel and worthless piece of shit he is, I want to say a hearty and heartfelt FUCK YOU. I hope you all die before you can vote for him again.

All Asshole Government

The age of assholes has arrived. What I mean is that, in America, not to be an asshole is not to have a voice — to have no say in government. It is a government of, by and for assholes. Non-assholes have been completely disenfranchised and see nothing in their government that is reflective of them — not in the efficacious parts of it. Their part has no say and is powerless.

Senate Shits Itself

The U. S. Senate — or, the Republican proportion — just shit all over itself, smeared it around and played in it, unloading a shit-bomb on the Supreme Court as well by having John Roberts witness and implicitly approve of their treachery.

From “e pluribus unum” to “Fuck Off”

The Republican takeover of America defies description and analysis. Its awfulness is experiential and confounding. Maybe someone can capture it in art. Other means are inadequate.

The Tsars Are Back

Tsar Trump lives in opulence and gilt. Everything about him reassures him of his superiority, untouchable nature and removal from the unwashed masses of humanity for which he reportedly and reputedly has some responsibility, but he only lessens their lot.

I have another kind of removal in mind for our feckless, obtuse, spoiled, cruel and posturing president. The more removed the better. From his position. From society. From his crookedly obtained wealth. From everything from which he can possibly be removed.

15 Minutes of Shame

Every real Republican wants their fifteen minutes of shame before the crazy bus crashes. Watch as they scurry and slither ...

Warped Drive

Trump’s administration is turning out to be worse than anyone could have imagined. Republicans around him realized he would choose or could be manipulated into choosing, from the options presented to him, the one most destructive and insulting to his perceived enemies.

Trump therefore became a vehicle for the darkest desires of some already evil people. He’s an opportunity for them to do things they wouldn’t have otherwise dared, and they were already wrecking the world with their arrogance, greed and stupidity. Now it’s happening faster.

All of My Boy Friends Were Boneheads

Not only am I wondering and aghast at the number and intensity of the assholes our society is producing I’m confronting the truth that a very high percentage of them are from my background. Were there always so many dicks in our societal closets or are they the product of more recent circumstances and trends? I think both, that there was untapped asshole potential and that there are more because circumstances tapped that potential.

Notice, anyway, how many of the supremely degraded individuals and sadists are Catholics. They are not only Catholics but from my hyper-competitive kind of Catholic background where winning was everything, presumably because it was existentially unimportant and limited to areas this side of salvation, but they’ve blown entirely through that distinction and allowed it to overrun their hope of eternal life and heavenly bliss. They sold their souls.

Witness: Bill Barr. Witness: Brett Kavanaugh and EVERY OTHER Supreme Court justice who votes consistently conservatively. They all have a degree of Catholic background though some have abandoned it over the cause of multiple marriages. Newt, always backwardsly progressive, became Catholic AFTER multiple marriages, culminating in his latest temptress receiving a Vatican appointment. She’s ambassadress, qualifying by adultery.

Witness: Fox News, the soul of which is Catholic, as attested by the ranks of scurrilous Irishmen and such manning every other post there. Kellyanne Conway is a perfect thug-ette. In any case, I look back on a childhood I once considered normal with horror. I recall the bullying and brutality. I recall the willingness and drive to win, by cheating if necessary, if not by a preference for its grander humiliating capacities. I recall going to mass and praying to kick ass.

A guy from those days whose family were the self-appointed bullies and tormentors of my family called me recently from our high school reunion—I’m convinced, to try to gloat—after 40 YEARS of no contact. He seems to think he has won. He was an amazing asshole in high school and insanely competitive. My family had been taken down by sickness, mental-illness and, ultimately, death. Still, every time I saw them back then, by chance encounter, it was criticism, slights and cruelty.

Trump helps us to understand, that there is no “victory” for them but only the primal pleasure of vindictiveness and acts of cruelty. My sister, a brilliant girl loosed from a home with no meanness in it or even hardness, was destroyed by the viciousness of one of the family’s daughters. As late as my brother’s wedding, years after I had seen any of them, a younger sister recounted an episode humiliating to me and touted her brother.

What the fuck? Can some people not comprehend that others don’t play their game? Again, Trump comes to the rescue. Through the impenetrable irrationality, small-mindedness and compulsion of his vindictiveness we can see the truth, about the fragility of his underlying psyche, while acknowledging, of the necessity of survival, his incredible powers of destruction. He could wipe out the whole world and not give a shit. That is inconceivably sick.

But Is It Art?

It’s obvious enough now that Donald Trump’s Art of the Deal was a lie and that any deal-making skills he possessed were trumped, so to speak, by his more fundamental, innate, basic and highly developed talents in scamming and self-promotion.

A question remains, though. Is there an art to those—to insults, innuendo, takedowns and lies? Or, rather, is it too much a matter of the brain-stem to qualify as art?

Death to America!

We knew it was coming, but Republicans are again seeking to see more Americans needlessly suffer and die. After incredible fiscal profligacy Donald Trump has discovered his budgetary conscience and applied it to Medicare and Medicaid.

More importantly, though, rich people are flourishing as never before, simply swimming in obscene wealth, and the only thing trickling down is Republican contempt for decency and the lives of average citizens. Hooray! Death to America!

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Dickhead

I don’t mean to invoke sympathy but think how essentially and profoundly alone Donald Trump must be. At some level he knows nobody wants to be around him for anything but his own kinds of motives, all of which are selfish and bad.

Captivated by Lies

Why will so many people degrade themselves for Trump? Why will they abandon their integrity to defend him? They have lived too long captivated by lies. They are in cages made of lies and afraid to go out into the light of truth and freedom.

The Boor War

We might be destroyed by misfits and not monsters. Or, monsters might be empowered misfits -- weak, petty, injured people in powerful positions. 

I look at history and I don't see malevolent beings driving all the evil but losers. The lesson then is not to create losers. Don't promote fear and cause grudges.

There's enough unavoidable bad stuff already.

Can a Girl Be a Goon?

Kellyanne Conway argues for “yes”.