Vlad Enablers

We'll never know where we might be without Bush's military adventurism and Trump's soft spot for autocrats. Explain it to me, and the rest of the world while we're at it, why Putin shouldn't think he can behave the way we do? We might believe we're exceptional. Why should anyone else think that when we behave like lawless idiots and spoiled, privileged amateur world leaders and dilettantes?

My Favorite Autocrat

Who's the Right's favorite dictator? Firstly we must consider if this means the Trump camp, or the lunatic business wing probably best represented by Tucker Carlson, or the religious nutballs whose leadership is more decentralized and diffuse. The last group breaks along Catholic and Orthodox versus insane evangelical lines. Evangelicals want the world to end in fire and fury, God's version of 'shock and awe' in Bushian terms. There's a cornucopia of crazies on the right these days. 

Among the MAGAs Kim Jong Un is the favorite because he's so entrenched and his family stands to rule North Korea forever. Did you notice how Trump's degraded followers fancy a multigenerational dynasty? So, there. Un it is. Putin wins among the corporate elite by familiarity. Though Carlson plays the religious card as well we know he's only using the troglodytes. For whom he has immeasurable contempt. Bankers and all love kleptocrats as much as they hate competition.

They want to print money. Nothing is better than having control over an ostensibly representative government. The favor of the religious elements is spread about. Help me out if I've miss an autocracy or two. They see aspects of what they love in Iran, Afghanistan, Hungary, Poland, Turkey and even Italy. The thrill they feel at the possibility of another Calvin-in-Geneva situation is almost sexual. My God, the repression. The sublimation. The projection. The cruelty and bigotry. A return to torture. Again we see how Bush was a harbinger of so much that was to come. 

Millions of lives destroyed and all in God's name. Too good to be true! I mean, these are hopeful times for power hungry madmen and their followers. So much to applaud and the possibility of nuclear annihilation increasing as we speak, just as God wanted it and ordained. 

How To Stop the War

Somebody shoot Putin in the head. And the rest of the world, especially America, should notice how high the costs are of unaccountable, irresponsible leadership. Presumably, it wouldn't take a bullet to stop Ayatollah Trump. But, in any case, his revenge tour must be stopped. In whatever way it takes.  

Fuck Florida

Let Florida clean up its own hurricane mess, as the price they pay for electing garbage like Ron DeSantis.

Trump Sabotages Pipeline

Think of how nice it is to not have Trump in power with so much crazy stuff going on in the world. He's capable of anything. Especially now that he's under the pig farmer's spell.  

Asshole Juice

Asshole juice is rising among Republicans. I don't mean stuff's leaking out of their anuses. Who knows, though, since buttholes are one of their many fixations. But that, with an election upcoming, they're going nuts with accusations and attacks. 

Cheapshots by the dozens. 

Once upon a Time in the Midwest

This is a story about how farmers became a crop. And it's instructive because the trend has continued. Farmers are famously individually powerless in the marketplace, being close to an example of 'perfect' competition. Historically they've banded together or been backed by the government since food is essential and agricultural markets are inherently unstable without some structural support.  

And farming is essential unlike whatever it is, let's say, that hedge funds do. Enter Republicans, who hate 'the little guy.' With typical arrogance and self-serving political motivations agriculture secretary Earl Butz reinvented modern farming under Richard Nixon. An 'oil shock' had threatened to send food prices up which Nixon didn't want for political reasons. Butz argued for agricultural consolidation. 

'Get big of get out' was his motto. He believed in big farms. Farmers weren't relevant in the equation. Electoral prospects were. And transferring profits up to the corporate level which Republicans akways do. Consumers are another, parallel, case, individually powerless but with massive influence in the aggregate. The competition for their allegiance, their purchasing power, is normally intense. 

But not when all choice is removed in a system that favors consolidation. Another arrogant Republican, Robert Bork, actually FOR monopolies, writing a book on it. Cheaper shit for everyone! But  the point wasn't cheaper shit it was disempowering consumers and higher profits. Businesses hate competition. Any rational business wants to print money. So they invest in influence. They kill competition.

If influence is available for sale they're buying. Under Republicans everything is for sale. Now consider Haley Barbour, who invented modern lobbying--the market for influence--as much as anyone. Consumers have lost their power and become a crop, milked for profits like cattle until they die. Fertilized and harvested like crops, powerless over their destiny, servants of corporations and slaves of capitalists.

A Modest Proposal

I'm concerned about the vulnerability of Washington to nuclear attack. Someone could set off a device in a truck or float it up the Potomac. We wouldn't even know who did it. The place is indefensible. President Biden should declare an emergency or martial law, especially given the problems Putin is having, and immediately move all the branches of government and essential bureaucracy into a remote area.

Representatives and the Supreme Court justices will have to live in tents, temporarily, until new infrastructure is built, but it's a small sacrifice to keep the country safe. And the military is well-practiced in setting up such facilities, notably in deserts, wastelands and rough country. Meanwhile, this will be an extraordinary opportunity to pass legislation outlawing lobbying and the buying of political influence.

No doubt our representatives will wail and cry the over the loss of their opulent dinners and high living. But that's not what they're there for, they should be reminded. Additionally some heroic Democrat could then divert the Potomac through the city after some rains to cleanse it of the stench of corruption. Wash it clean. We'll be left with Washington as a city of museums, monuments and educational centers.

A place where Americans can learn about our democracy and appreciate the extraordinary good fortune we have had. Especially since by then the survival of our republic will be ensured, unlike now when corruption rules everything. I don't see how Republicans can object to any of this. They say they're the party, above all else, of national security. Unless, of course, they've been lying about that too. 

Trump Signals Allegiance to Pig Farmer

In a recent speech Donald Trump has signaled adherence to the online QAnon Philippine pig farmer cult. QAnon casts the once and future president in the role of savior which apparenty appeals to him. Consider that, as far as protecting Americans from another Trump reign, and clipping his wings in the meantime, the Twitter ban has done more for us than Congress ever did. That's how helpless we are.

RINOplasticity

Remember, authoritarians normally purge their own ranks first, not that disloyalty is an issue or matters because it's about making clear the risks to those who are left once the cleansing is over. And it might be a Year of the Long Knives, instead of a Night, but you don't want to be on the receiving end of the kind of hurt they dish out. 

No way. Part of that is for it to be arbitrary. That way the fear never loses its hard edge. So Trump, the cunning piece of shit, is throwing 'RINO' around as though it means something. It does and it doesn't, since it's Trump's will or whim at any certain instant, and we know how consistent that is. That's why it's called authoritarianism.

DeSantis Squanders Tax Dollars

Ron DeDantis has squandered the money of Florida taxpayers by flying around immigrants in private/chartered planes. Rail with cattle cars would have been much cheaper. Or, tractor trailers like those used to move livestock and chickens. Ron's political progenitors figured this out so there's no excuse. Speaking of which, if Ron really hates these immigrants, many of whom are fleeing instability caused by us, a much as it seems he can dig huge pits and shoot them so they fall in or gas and burn them. 

Look to your roots, Ron. In the hate movements of the past. No need to reinvent it. And no wonder DeSantis wants to whitewash history. He has a friend in forgetting.

Disaster Comparedness

Let's compare Republican and Democratic ideas of disasters. Republicans think Obamacare is a disaster, though it has largely succeeded in spite of being compromised and sabotaged by Republicans. Noted humanitarian Marco Rubio, for example, who thinks he should be president, slipped something into a bill that defunded the 'risk corridor' and caused all kinds of problems for Obamacare.  

Heaven forbid we take care of people. Democrats, speaking for myself, think George Bush was a disaster, for lying us into wars which he then botched beyond belief because the only constituencies that matter to him, big money and evangelical nutcases, wanted to make a killing and witness the Second Coming, respectively, Bush exploded a whole region of the world, the Cradle of Civilization.  

He got hundreds of thousands of people killed and displaced over 30 million. I stand by my assessment. Mass murder and incalculable human suffering are disasters. Obamacare is not. 

In the Shit

Donald Trump is more scared than ever that his criminal days are numbered. He's more frantic and enmeshed in his delusions--old classics such as grandeur and, recently, the Philippine pig farmer drops, droppings or dung spread about under the QAnon brand. This pig shit postulates an upcoming 'storm' in which heroic Herr Donald declares martial law and stages a mass hanging of Democrats and maybe a Republican or two like Mitch McConnell who are deemed not to have been accommodating to Trump's demands to lick his anus which were so successful among Republican representatives.

Now, what is it with Republican fixations on anuses and shit? This is very primal and it has it roots in the American South where, if you think back, the northern victory in the Civil War and especially Sherman's March to the Sea were termed a form of rape. It's crucial to understand this is not about the old southern fear of big-dicked black men having sex with white women who had alway craved them 'some of that' but the homosexual rape of southern white men such as McConnell and Lindsey Graham. The word is Graham might not mind but that's another story. A light bulb should be going off.

The Republican obsession with homosexuality? Bathroom activities? They can't not graphically envision these private, constitutionally protected activities because of secret desires and fears. Remember, southern white men routinely raped black women. The black men, who were strikingly physically superior to the Boss Hogg characters of the Old South, were kept in check by violence and threats of violence where they were brutalized and bullied, to say the least. These are the origins of the incredible festering fear. And the need for total control and domination, especially of minorities and women. 

And now, through their persistent, behind the scenes, illegal activities to undermine the American state, we are all living in the land of nullification, the old southern dream of a lunch buffet of laws from which you pick and choose. This right does not apply to Yankees, since they didn't have slaves and don't need it, as we saw with southerners crying and wailing like babies when northerners tried not to enforce the (actually unjust) Fugitive Slave Act. Republicans get to improvise and do whatever they want, like the Confederate traitors. The 'rule of law' is meaningless. Unjust power is everything. 

The Barre Seid Institute

I don't understand, if he was proud of his intended legacy, why someone didn't name the new institute created entirely with a single massive bequest by Barre Seid after him. While they were at it, why not have the institute's name reflect its purposes? Something like, 'The Barre Seid Memorial Institute for Fucking Over His Fellow Citizens and Promoting Hate, Lies, Division and Minority Rule.'

I know, it's a little wordy. But at least it honors the organization's source of funding and the role it will play in further disenfranchising the majority of American citizens who don't want what 'conservatives' are offering and so are therefore being deprived of the right to have a say in their governance by a dangerous cabal of fanatical Republicans determined to have their way no matter what. 

Why Me?

Something I love about Trump is, since he's so infantile, he exposes the soul of conservatism, a philosophy of human variability that rejects pluralism, adaptation, and the idea of the existential value of human life. In the normal curve of populations they were born in the tail of excellence, they think, and already so fully evolved, so what good is change and what do we do with all these inferior people? 

They spent their lives trying to figure it out and expect us to support them while they do it because they are, well, so superior. The inferiors are also useful as cannon fodder, in addition to keeping food on the  table, which conveniently counteracts their propensity to reproduce recklessly.

The prolific and interminable wars started by righties, I mean.  

Trump, who slithered into existence very rich and whose only talent in life is belittling other people and defiling and desecrating everything he touches, is also a Social Darwinist but he's so incurious he doesnt't engage in their usual round table discussions dedicated to figuring out, why me? Why was I born so superior? There's an unanswerable question. And a roadmap to a life of circular reasoning. 

They beg the question, in the old sense, by assuming something not in evidence, that they are in fact better. Again, hail Trump!, because he assumes and asserts his superiority in clear proportion to his lack of it, so it's all about compensation for insecurity, feelings of worthlessness, and the disappointments of dealing with an imperfect world. Trump's 'why me?' arises from his sense of persecution. 

Of injustice.

How can they be so mean? So mean they don't instantly bow down and worship him and give him everything he wants? Any complexity Trump exhibits is in the multifariousness of his arrestedness. He's simultaneously a child, an adolescent, and everything in between, but nothing approaching adulthood. He's a gullet. A digestive tract, bellowing and shitting his way through life, the ultimate taker. 

Reign of Toads

It's still a shock to me. And, I think, to most Americans, how many of our fellow citizens were closeted criminals. Trump brought them out of the woodwork. We assumed there were shared values and a core commitment to the rules and a modicum of tolerance and good-will. But, no.

It was an illusion. Culpability becomes an issue. I'm against the 'insanity' defense because it muddies the waters and raises unanswerable questions. Someone who commits a crime should be found guilty. Then, competency, compassion and suitable consequences can come up in the sentencing. 

If there were compulsions or delusions in play it makes a difference. We are there now. We are there with an entire political movement openly engaging in illegal acts. Where to draw the line? If some Trump toady commits crimes for Herr Donald, by order or inference, how guilty is he? 

The Manson Family is the model. Which, it is to say, it's a judgement call. Various factors must be weighed and balanced. The 'scales of justice' analogy is apt, but it's harder with the Trump movement. Layers, and so many of the actors are insulated. Evil Stephen Miller had his own lesser crime cult. 

A professional racist and hate czar, he was responsible for terrible acts of cruelty, but couldn't have done it without Trump. It would be hard to hold him accountable, which counts. Trump must be held accountable. He and his close associates who committed obvious criminal acts must be jailed. 

The rest is a judgment call. Miller wasn't a drone. Many of Trump's underlings were. He was a separate locus of evil authorized and empowered by Lord Sauron, aka Trump. But most of the Trump movement consists of toadies. They'll do opposite things on different days if Herr Donald orders it. 

Fealty is everything. In that sense they are less guilty than Miller but practical aspects of the prosecution will win out. So, the toadies get busted and Miller goes free. Sorry, it's probably the best we can do. I know it's not right. It's irritating as hell. But Miller can be found guilty in the 'court of public opinion.'

Spat on in restaurants and such. 

He can be made the pariah he should be and scorned. If we come to our senses. Or if, I should say, the people who have any sense and care, who still constitute a (slimmer than we thought) majority, regain the power and restablish the rule of law, a term I don't even like but it's all we have. 

Deliberately Failed States

Let's say you're a person who only cares about himself. To an unbelievable degree. It's not that you want other people to die, necessarily, but they're just not real to you. There's no proportionality or balance. So, for example, it's more important that you get your way in every little detail of your life all the time and feel powerful and important than that other people have enough food to eat and aren't starving. 

Now. let's say, having extraordinary drive and maybe a bit of an inheritance from a driven daddy, you get rich as shit. You truly have more money than you can make sense out of. What entity is there remaining that is threat to your desires? The government. Only the government can possibly constrain you or require you ever comply with anything, notwithstanding you have the usual psycho adolescent egotist yacht, island, and planetary conquest fantasies. And by that I mean even other planets.

Your egotism is so infantile, boundless and regressive it results in a neediness that is never assuaged. You can never get 'there' because there is no there there. There is no sense of self independently of the neediness--the bottomless imperative to feel a certain way, important and significant, at every possible moment. What you hate the idea of, more that anything, is someone telling you what to do.

Nobody tells you what to do. Back to the state. The government. It has no legitimate function, in your mind, other than to serve your interests, which, politically, is not a particularly good selling point. But you have enough money and determination it doesn't matter. Even elected officials can be bought, it turns out, so you buy some. A dystopia ensues. A perversion of government. All based on (your) lies. 

Yes, it's all justified and rationalized. They want freedom. But they don't specify of what kind. They want smaller, efficient government based on business principles, a conveniently anodyne and vague objective. These are sorts of indirect lies. Because you're lying partly to yourself. But you win. You 'principles' become the norm because you pay for that to happen. And the freedom looks like slavery. 

It looks like slavery to average citizens because locking in your power requires diminishing theirs. Or so you think. But somewhere, deep inside, in your guts, you're frightened. Something in there knows security is impossible in isolation. Security is only possible through cooperation. We're looking at a deliberately failed state now, a perversion by any standard. It serves the long-term interests of no one. 

Welcome to the libertarian perversion of a free state, in which we're all slaves. 

Bad Moon

The issue of Trump's White House portrait will inevitably come up. I'm fine with it as long as it shows him ass-side up with his pants down. He should be represented, to Democrats, as mooning them for fun and to Republicans as expecting them to kiss his ass which they all did with such ease and alacrity.

No Surrender

Republicans will never surrender. They will have to be apprehended or expelled. 

Finally, "Mine"

Finally, coming from Trump, we have as concise a statement of the Republican ethos as we can get. "Mine." Whatever it is, if they want it they will claim it. Globalization? We knew American workers would get hurt, but also that there would be overall benefits. 

Where did the benefits go? 

Workers should have gotten Scandinavian levels of social benefits. But, "mine." So declared the financiers and corporate flunkies. And it all went to them. All and then some. They even plunder the future. They are the "takers." It's been the biggest scam in history.

The Anti-Trump Paradox

Anti-Trumpism normalizes Trumpism by trying to handle it within a system which it negates, invalidates and undermines by its authoritarian ideology and criminal behavior. Trumpists are not customary combatants but non-state, international actors like terrorists. Therefore, the systems don't work.

The 'rule of law' is useless against them. They are its antimatter. Luckily, we have suitable infrastructure and means in place, thanks to Republicans, to handle such an existential national threat. Facilities at  Guantanamo and elsewhere, and approved methods such as 'extraordinary rendition' and torture.

All legally vetted, approved and tested by Republicans. They are a massively bigger threat than al-Qaeda ever was. We see immediately the appropriateness and necessity of the detention, isolation and quarantine of MAGA Republicans and Trump himself, the worst threat the country has ever faced.

Hands Up!

Just wondering, what's the mouth version of 'hands up!' since it's Donald Trump's fucking mouth we have to deactivate? As long as the mouth is loose we are not safe. 

As the World Burns

Republicans, it's time to move on. Trump is coming unglued. I never believed you could find a bigger piece of shit than Bush but you did. Congratulations. 

Clearly, you'll never beat Trump in terms of character. I think it's impossible to go lower. You will have to turn your sights on destructive potential. Good news there.

You've got sterling candidates. Don't feel disappointed. These are still candidates of exceptionally low character. But Trump was a prodigy of worthlessness. 

You used him well. The shit-show might not be as great but the new guys are out for blood. Democratic blood. It's what you always wanted, since desegregation. 

To resetablish the dystopia of the antebellum South. You're almost there. Impressive work. I'm sure Jesus is looking on with interest since it's being done in his name.

Republican Scumbag Dies

Rick Reed, degenerate Republican operative who created the 'Swift Boat' campaign against John Kerry, and not only the campaign but the content, since it was all lies, has thankfully died. I hope he suffered. When Republicans attach 'truth' to something it's a guaranteed lie. 

Buckling is Better: We Are Ukraine

When you are attacked by fascist lunatics who are much more powerful tha you at some point it's best to stand down. One way or another they will beat you. They're crazy, and will do anything to win.

Once Under a Mattress

Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, infamous home of hotheads, bullies, cowards and degenerates, is cowering under his mattress and employing Trumpian tactics to try to hide his anus-licking obeisance. He tried to help Trump steal an election. It's illegal. What do you do when you're legally screwed? You throw a lot of sand into the machinery. South Carolina has lots of sand. And no morals at all. 

Be Careful What You Wish For

I love this new idea of the President's authority to declassify things without following precedent, common sense or considerations about national security at all. I want to see a torrent of the material declassified and released showing what a fantastically corrupt and incompetent president Donald was. Since personal concerns and partisan political shots are now on the table let's let it all out, the mass of evidence showing what an impressive shit show the Trump administration was from start to finish and how Republican leaders kissed his ass and did his will against the interests of the country. 

Master of Destruction

We're getting to the later stages of Trumpian heroic failure, where his desperate attempts at obfuscation and intimidation stop working and his incompetence catches up with him. Again he'll have to declare bankruptcy. In this case, moral bankruptcy. It's his only way out. Other people will have to clean up his messes. And it will go on for years. The messes are huge. Trump is a master of destruction.

Don't Let It Bug You

Trump Republicans think it's fine for them, since they're right and on the side of God, to use the power of the government against its citizens. To shoot them in the legs, maybe. But what's most concerning is the surveillance state. Personal freedom, as we know it, would be at an end. And not only for Democrats. They will want to keep their own troops in line. 

43,000,000

This number was shocking to me, the number of people who would benefit from Biden's school loan forgiveness plan. Another indication of how Republicans have reduced average Americans to servitude. 

The Power of One Asshole

The power of one authoritarian asshole to fuck everything up irreparably for millions of people, including getting them killed, is on display in Ukraine. And America is still flirting with re-electing Trump . . . 

Recreational Use

Trump's infantile 'mine' assertion of ownership of classified documents made me think of his abuse of his authority over federal stockpiles of medical gear during the initial covid outbreak--very much not 'his' but try to tell him that. This is someone who, having grown up so incredibly disadvantaged, needs to assert himself wherever and whenever possible. 

Anyway, that made me think of the awful possibility of another Trump presidency, a run for which is becoming more likely as the investigation into his crimes increases. So much dirt. And, that made me think of the even worse possibility that he will try to loose some nukes during another term, feeling the world has failed to treat him as well as he deserves.

Which is, of course, impossible because he is infinitely deserving as are all the American billionaires and brigands or they wouldn't have gotten so rich in the first place. I looked it up, the question of restricting the president's total authority over the use of nukes, and it's being considered in response to having the Trumpian man-child in office the first time. 

Immediately they distinguish between first-strike authority and retaliation but in the event of another Trump administration we will have to consider the possibility of recreational use since he's such a clueless, egotistical and arrested piece of shit. He will apply the 'mine' principle to the nuclear arsenal, making it his for a personal whim or private vendetta. 

This is not something to be tolerated . . . 

https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2021-06/features/nuclear-launch-authority-too-big-decision-just-president

Accumulated Grievances, Inc

If you don't think Trump could provoke a nuclear exchange in a second term . . . what can I say? There are two classes of people in Trumpworld. Those he doesn't respect because they have knelt to him and those he hates because they haven't. Everyone is expendable. Only Donald matters.

People who are useful to him, his dupes, count for something. But that's a third of the country now. A surplus. And he's been shown all the goodies to ensure continuity of government in a nuclear exchange. First priority is to save his worthless ass if he's president. Trump must be stopped. 

By any means it takes.

Graft Certificates

As we move further into complete Republican hegemony things are more open. In keeping with that the RNC has announced they are issuing graft certificates to true believers this Christmas. That, in celebration of the complete victory of corruption over decency and to further demoralize the Democrats.

These are not to be construed as booty or bribes but beneficence, they say, and are accepted everywhere except for a few woke businesses of the infidels but who cares about that. Democrats are utterly defeated anyway and only acting out of frustration. Resistance is futile. They know it and we know it. 

Once Upon Many Mattresses

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

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

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

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

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

Dame Donald, we salute you! 

Maledictorians

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

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

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

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

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

Merry Old America

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

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

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

And that they are the ones that fucked us. 

Lair-a-Lago

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

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

Reassuring Stories for Supremacists

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

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

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

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

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

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

And Vance is fine with that.

The Wrath of Ron

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

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

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

Every Minute

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

And the monster baby is stalking us all. 

American Horror Show Continues

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

They are edging on calling for the killing of Democrats. 

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

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

Sanctum Sanctorum

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

Secret Agent Men (and Women)

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

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

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

Supply and Remand

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

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

Pocket-Picking Minute

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

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

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

Assumptions No Longer Work

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

The Horror With a Thousand Faces

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

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

Too THOT to Handle

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

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

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