How Do They Sleep at Night?

You wonder how they sleep at night. Do they see what they've caused? The Republican Supreme Court justices were immediately proved wrong on voting rights, affirmative action and abortion. We don't need these as they've been known, they said. But Red states, mostly southern, went on the attack.

They limiting voting, passed extreme legislation against abortion and turned universities into culture wars and places where bigots will feel safe and maybe empowered. But, being extremists and ideologues, the justices didn't care. They're above the suffering they cause. That shit is for the little people. 

What a Fucking Weasel

Mike Johnson is trying to defend his sabotage the government's efforts to do anything about the 'border crisis' as though it isn't entirely politics. Politics in which he's licking Trump's anus yet again. 

All the Colors of the Shithole

Republicans are taking America into a dark place. There are no colors there. Only black and white. 

Send Trump into Space

I think we should send Trump into space. Put him on top of a rocket. Place him in orbit. Or promise him the moon or Mars. Let him put his name on something. Plant his flag. And leave him there. 

The Wrong Stuff

Democrats had a plan to conquer space and put a man on the moon. Republicans a plan to take over the country and put a moron in charge. Astronauts were chosen on ability. They were rigorously screened, tested, trained and vetted. They had to be among the best to be considered. 

Republicans selected for the worst, for so long it became a culture. Saboteurs, hostage-takers and fuckups. Maybe they were competent at sabotage. Or experienced in inheritance, like Bush and Trump. They had to be among the worst to be considered. They had to have the wrong stuff. 

Evangelical Pastor Finally Cops to Everything

An evangelical pastor in Colorado who ran a crypto scam has said God told him to do it. God even told him specifics about how to spend the proceeds. And, the pastor still thinks he might pull the money out of his ass somehow, owing to divine intervention in the way of a miracle. 

I found this story heartening. Finally, one of these astounding idiot con men is conveying the truth, that it's all a huge crock of shit cooked up for their personal benefit, and that they will keep right on bullshitting as long as they think there are suckers out there who might believe it. 

And there are always suckers, so these are lies with legs. 

Right to Twerk State

I foresee a day when Republicans will outlaw twerking, on grounds of obscenity. Now, I don't like twerking or even the word but I don't like yoga pants on women either. To say nothing of men. Nobody is making me look at anything and I like the way Mormon women dress so I'm probably pretty fucked up. Though I like to think I'm hardwired into the 1920s and 30s via my parents. I mean, I love Gershwin and old movies.

If that makes it better. 

But I don't want to live in a non-twerking state and mine might go there. The broader point is that Republicans are never satisfied. Democrats have been trounced and Republicans believe they're threatened and vulnerable. Vulnerable to what? Having their sensibilities not reinforced and coddled in every possible situation? Which is just nuts but they don't care. My state has been taken over by certified conservative assholes.

A lot of what they do can't be explained except as triumphalism. Putting it in the face of the libs. Again and more broadly, though, it has to be seen in relation to how they treated blacks. Democrats are the new blacks. Open season on us. And this means it will never end. Democrats must be made null and void. Our rights demolished. Our lives limited. Our values vanquished. And they will not stop until they achieve it.

I'll have to move to a right-to-twerk state, from a right-to-work one. Which sounds weird, and not at all consistent with what I consider to be my values, but it might be the best I can do. 

Governing from the Gut and Downstream Implications

I'm trying to come up with an example, existing or historical, of the kind of government 'Burkean' conservatives -- people like Andrew Sullivan and P.J. O' Rourke, RIP -- want. And I can't think of anything. Something they might cite as a sustainable conservative regime. On my, liberal end I would say Scandinavia. Do I hear cheers? 

But on their end, what? The early Third Reich or Franco's Spain? Downton Abbey, Animal House, Don Quixote or Orwell? Maybe Brideshead Reconstituted for Andrew, endless unconsummated homosexual yen. I want to be ready, if I encounter them again. Authority is a must. They must have order. Order for us and anarchy for them.

Always, someone else pays the bills. Cleans up the mess. So they can merely BE. P.J.'s soulmate Doug Kenney scriptwrote Animal House and Caddyshack, I think. I recall O'Rourke commenting on a reveal he had traveling abroad about what made America great. What made us work. The 'rule of law,' he said. I assumed he meant for lesser beings. 

He can't have meant for his boys Bush and Trump.

Lesser beings like us. They, in their superiority, don't need governance. Just to be free. All they need is a rich daddy, or government, as a surrogate, to pay the bills. Growing up is getting a cushy job. On Wall Street, once. You show up and bandy clichés and the money pours in. Or, in the White House. The same, there. Clichés. Money cannon.

Show up, start a few wars, launch a few missiles and/or cut taxes on (yourself) the rich, watch the money flowing around in awe and retire to the country. Bush and Trump are models. Too rich to fail. Above accountability. But not us. We're the accountable ones. So, governing from the gut, as they do, as they famously believe in, means this. 

That, we're downstream from a load of shit. 

Which they expect we will clean up. Because they're better than us. The crux of conservatism is superiority. A sense of arbitrary worth and deservedness. See the link with Calvinism? It's there in the arrogance of P.J. and Andrew.  But how to defend it? They talk shit. Obfuscate. Lie. Rationalize. And they ally with the lowest elements.

Those too stupid to succeed. In order to fuck the middle. Conservatism means, above all, exploitation and polarization. Screwing the middle guy. The little guy too but who gives a fuck about them. Cannon fodder. Always were, always will be. Vietnam. Iraq. Afghanistan. If they're stupid enough you send them off to get killed. To defend your oil. 

Which some idiot (God, presumably) buried under some fucking heathen. And that, friends, is what conservatives stand for. If you can call that standing for anything.

How Are We Fucked?

Let me count the ways. No, it doesn't matter and it hurts too much. Better to let it all play out. Then pick up the pieces. 

The Umpire Strikes Back

People as fucked up as Republicans tell you what they are and it usually means nothing. It usually means the opposite. So, they say they will 'call balls and strikes' and you might think they might be fair. Or try to be fair. Or preserve the pretense. 

No way. We're beyond that. And they have bigger ambitions than merely cheating. They long for the simpler days of white boys shagging balls with ice tea awaiting in the shade of some nice old oak trees. And fair maidens to serve them. 

Minstrelry, maybe, for their amusement. They want to go so far back into privilege and exclusion you don't have to cheat. Hence they'll tackle the 'administrative state,' to adopt another corrupted term with its baggage. The bureaucracy.

A viable government, we may say. They want to kill it, along with congressional intent and constitutional intelligibility. Fuck 'originalism.' Fuck precedent. Fuck everything, because they're so close to the goal now. The goal of authoritarianism. 

Yours, Mine and Theirs

The Great Taking goes on. The rich have to have more. They must always have more. I wonder if it stops if we kill them? The lives of our children aren't too much to ask. So there's no end. Until we stop them. 

Cache Us If You Can

Data is winning. When people are farmed for profits their humanity means nothing. Americans made themselves into cattle for corporate interests. The dynamic is different but in the end it's the same. The bottom line decides everything. 

Shitstain Visible from Space

A huge brown stain is spreading across Iowa as the ignorant voters there battle horrible weather to vote for Trump. With the recent snows the stain is visible from space. They just shit all over themselves and they're too stupid to know it. 

Most of the country is a big MAGA skid mark. Certainly the rural areas. Normally there's not enough contrast to see. But with the recent snows it stands out. The American people are so fucking sick. Better anyway if it's visible. 

Don't Eat Brown Snow

Iowa just shit all over itself. All over everything. In the snow. So it shows up really well. They turned out for Trump, himself a turd. Trump demands everyone eat shit. 

Kiss his ass. 

Iowa answered. They debased themselves. So, stay away from brown snow. You don't know where it's been. You don't know what's on it. In Iowa they shit all over themselves. 

Take Him to the River

Greg Abbott claims to be a Christian. Of some persuasion. He must have been baptized. But it clearly didn't take. There's a gap in his qualifications.

Let's baptize him. Take him to the river. To the Rio Grande. Wheel him in. Into the river. According to Republican principles we must then leave him there. 

Once you're born and baptized the responsibility is over. Society doesn't owe you shit. Quite the opposite. Society must not help you out. No. No. No. 

That interferes with natural Darwinian mechanisms. And we like Darwin now. So we leave Abbott in the river. Getting himself out will build character. 

And maybe he'll see Jesus, one way or another. All good. Best of luck, Greg. God bless you. Thoughts and prayers. Maybe some Mexicans will pull you out.

On their way over. Wouldn't that be cool. 

The Trump Mysteries

Who precitated the attempted hijacking of the presidency and subversion of the government? No mystery there. Who's lied about everything his whole life to gain unfair advantages in business? Again, no mystery. Who failed so badly at his administrative duties during a pandemic probably half a million people died unnecessarily? No mystery at all. This isn't going to work. There's no mystery whatsoever about Trump. 

Name That Asshole

I had a thought about an American History parlor game that would be entertaining and educational, titled 'Name That Asshole.' For example, "who, after stealing a presidential election and being sworn in with a negative mandate, used a national tragedy to cut taxes on the rich and try to enact a laundry list of partisan policies?" That was an easy one. Presidents are so highly publicized. Okay. Onwards and downwards.

"What representative, after Obamacare was passed fairly, sabotaged it by defunding the risk corridor?" Or, "who was most responsible for what provision that made it unnecessarily hard for the Post Office to stay solvent and why would they do that?" Or, "what tag team couple, only one of which was an elected official, was most closely associated with deregulatory policies that caused the '08 economic calamity?"

Space Honkey

What is it about certain rich white boys and space? Especially a certain Musk?  

National Lampoon's Bluto for President

Animal House is back. The boys are older and Republicans, as fans of anarchy and as fans of having daddy paying the bills while the progeny party away like degenerates. 

They're running Bluto for president, never thinking he can win and what will happen if he does. And not caring. Maybe it's a joke or a prank. Or they want a little mayhem. 

For its entertainment value. That's entertaining as shit, having Bluto/Trump in charge of a nuclear arsenal, isn't it? What could go wrong? I think it's all about entertainment. 

And maybe having a diversion while they drink themselves stupid and chase pussy. But remember the Cadillac. Which they trashed. Funny, huh? When you're not paying. 

Their defense? 

How could you be stupid enough to trust them with anything you give a shit about? So we're there. How could we be stupid enough to trust them with anything? Good question. 

Climb Mount Suckass

I wonder if Republicans have a rallying cry we don't know about or a code term for the attack they expect to finally take over the country. Then we'll have exclusion, polarization, isolationism, massive wealth disparities and other things the people responsible for this attribute to Christ and the will of God.

Since they are His agents on earth. If you tell them not and resist them all bets are off. They might shoot your ass, praise Jesus. Anyway, probably the code term will have a Trump resonance. He's their guy. Some 'Christian' leaders are retreating on Trump but in the pews he's their man. And they intend to win. 

Murder on Mars

Musk wants to go to Mars. To get away, presumably, from all the inferior earthlings. Inferior to him, that would be, by Muskian reckoning. Some other privileged private equity types, hedge fund honchos and Social Darwinists will undoubtedly follow, intent on breeding a master race from scratch.

But a world needs underlings to work. These they'll have, paid and powerless, and probably sterilized. You can see the point, it being where we're heading anyway, oligarchically, but faster. I say there will be enmity among the supermen. There always is because they are huge alphas. Obsessed with their mojo.

Like Musk. Which mojo they try to buy.

So there will be murder on Mars, or Planet Musk, in the absence of legal authority. On the model of Henry VIII, I bet. Maybe wives rolling in and out as with Henry, or sister wives as modeled by some Mormons, since the need and drive for reproduction will be great and perhaps competitive. 

I still foresee murder. And a hell of a good story. On a planet probably doomed to be renamed X, or who knows what the fuck. Anything but Planet Trump. Wait. If Donald could be marooned there I'd be open to it. Anything to be rid of him. Give him a fucking planet. Let him fight it out with Musk.

I'm so sick of these rich assholes.

Keep it Stupid. Simple!

Republicans keep dishing up stupidity. The 'base' loves it. It has to get stupider and more ridiculous to stay interesting. And more so than competing sources. So it spirals downward into the vortex of doom.

That is, we do. We all do. 

New American History

I intend to write and promote a New American History particularly for use in Florida high schools with a focus on the undercarriage of the society and system, not how it was styled, promoted and propagandized. Therefore it will be a bit of a black view, since blacks were mostly and effectively an enforced underclass the whole time. The usual divisions into eras or administrations will be discarded because these are a reflection of how participants and their descendants chose to view themselves.

The new eras or epochs will be:

1. America Under Slavery

2. America Under Apartheid

3. Desegregation and the Second Civil War

4. The Confederate Age

This applies only partially in the North, I know, but since the South has finally won the battle for control of the country it captures a trajectory. So my history will complement the honest analyses out there and correct the kind of rubbish and bullshit being enforced in the classroom in states (like Florida) where the new, reborn Confederacy is ascendant, controlling and assertive. In places where they are formally and deliberately teaching lies, in other words, and systematically indoctrinating children. 

The 'Confederate Age' is in its infancy and the date of the victory of the South in the war to enshrine injustice and bigotry as the 'American Way' uncertain but the subject must be raised. The discussions generated will be more instructional and informative because of this uncertainty. This is history in the making at a time when democratic institutions are crumbling and besieged. For the first time the whole country is being obviously remade under another regime and the 'rule of law' challenged.

Dancing with the Fame Whores

Surely, there's a show in there somewhere. I'm suggesting one along the lines of any good reality franchise. This one set in Washington, our capital, the sound bite center of the universe. But it's all about renown. Infamy meets celebrity. Infamy sells. Bad shit is more compelling than good shit. 

It's simply more potent. More memorable. So we have Washington the train wreck. And they're dancing on top of the wreckage. Some better than others but they all dance. We might as well make it a game. The insurrection was such but they sucked at it, the redneck morons. The pols are pros as fame whores.

Suborning Penury

Democrats fucked it up. They underestimated Republican craziness and depravity, for 30 years during which time it was obvious. That Republicans were out of their minds, and vicious, and would stop at nothing to disenfranchise Democrats.

In the broadest sense. Initially, to nullify them politically. But when you're crazy nothing is enough. Now we're looking at the ultimate nullification, life itself. So they should shut the fuck up about 'woke' and cancel culture.They invented it. They perfected it.

And when Democrats futilely fight back with a fraction of the intensity, to no effect, Republicans go ape-shit.  Because they're crazy. Mostly not cynical but nuts. They say open season on Democrats. I think we're at the relative impoverishment phase. 

Make money equal to votes. Slay them with cash. And then ... more tax cuts for the rich and more risk for the poor and everyone else. Over and again. People are dying because of powerlessness. As Republicans want it. To put us all down in the gutter. 

We are poor. We have a lot of shit but we're poor. Because we have no security. And they're still coming after us because fear for them is a given. A state of being. So they'll always find someone to attack. And it's us now. Once it was the commies.

But all of that hatred and fear got transferred to us. Because ... nothing.

So Help Me Bob

Was Bob Dole the last Republican presidential candidate who wasn't a rich fucker or privileged dick? I think so, but it's been a while since they coughed up anything but worthless, rich, unaccountable, low-character hucksters, liars, losers and, now, treasonous reactionaries who want only to establish a Shangri-La for the rich.

A Removable Feast

Average Americans didn't lose their quality of life by natural processes. It was taken away from them by a coalition of extremely rich people and the working people they baited with racist innuendo into voting themselves into impoverishment and powerlessness.

They deliberately ceded their power to the rich in order to maintain a relative state of privilege. Even that they won't get, the morons. They sold themselves down the river, into ensalvement, when all they wanted was to be loyal ass-kissers. But there's a surplus. 

Of ass-kissers. Apparently, this is what money and good fortune does to people. Turns them into morally bankrupt toadies and henchmen. Or people that want to be toadies and henchmen. Those are the lucky ones. The new mafia goons. At least they have a seat.

In the barns and outbuildings where the rich people feast. But most of them won't even get that. Only the most degraded get that. So there's a competition in degradation. And winners are absolute scum. Scum congressmen and a legion of lackeys.

Bitcoin Bonanza

Kenneth Chesebro used to be a Democrat. Before he became a demagogue. Or, a supporter of demagoguery, anyway, but there he is.

There it is.

This change apparently coincided with a minor bitcoin bonanza. He invested. He won the lottery, in a smallish way. Apparently it went to his head.

The next thing you know he's supporting Repucblicans and, ultimately, suborning the overthrow of the government and backing dictatorship. 

A totally normal trajectory for Republicans. 

Human Sacrifice

We're no different. Civilization? What about the Holocaust and nukes? Now, that was human sacrifice. Not an occasional virgin chucked into a volcano, but senseless mass slaughter.

Were the gods appeased? I guess not. Because they're back at it. 

She's in the Führerbunker Now

Demented mafia Trump slut Kellyanne Conway is proving to be one of those. A lost soul. With the Trump ship sinking it plays out -- who will stay with him until the end.

And at what cost? Some have jumped ship. 

Kellyanne's recent cheapshot/insult/deranged nonsense accusation had me thinking of her daughters. Who are not nuts and probably Democrats. Kellyanne didn't.

She didn't think how her slanderous mouth might affect her family, her relations with her daughters and her co-parenting. Führer before family. Führer before everything.

Before life itself. She's in the führerbunker now. Kellyanne is so wrong. Where you don't want to be, in the hole with Adolf, preparing for the last immolation.

I Can't Believe It's Not Bullshit!

Republicans are so buried in their bullshit even when some of them, like the Lincoln Project people, speak the truth in a particular instance I wonder if it doesn't serve the greater interests of bullshit. The bullshit hegemony they've established -- that is, their amazing, multi-generational reich of lies. 

We saw with Trump the lies have a life of their own. Liz Cheney now has hero status in some circles and that horrible imperialist wench is selling a shitload of her book (and presumably piling up cash) though she's eyeball deep in lies. Americans all are, courtesy of the wonderful Republican Party.

And I don't believe any of the nonsense that any of these people are really reformed. 

Comrade Trump Banned from Ballot

Comrade Trump has been banned from the ballot in Colorado because he's a traitor. If the Supreme Court doesn't screw it up. But they're also traitors. And all of the Republicans in Congress. What are we to make of it when the system has been overrun by people who want to destroy the system that allowed them the privilege of such power? I say that this can't be what the founders and originators of the thing foresaw as a possibility. But surely they couldn't have foreseen such scum would ever be empowered in a democracy. Oh, well. I guess we all did the best we could but it's over now.

Forever Is a Day

There's no down side to living every day to the fullest. In quiet ways, ideally, that don't involve a lot of consumption and such. Because that's part of the problem. 

Republicans are numbering our days. Who knows how many we have left. They want to destroy everything. End-times shit. Fire and flood. They think Jesus will come. 

The Time of His Life

Trump is having the time of his life. You think he gives a shit about the prosecutions? He loves it. All the attention. He wants the whole world to be centered on him. And he still won't be satisfied. It will never be enough. Nothing will ever be enough.

The Ring of Truth

What with AI and miniaturization I wonder if we can make a ring linked to a polygraph that we could have members of Congress wear. These would be networked and so capable of detecting systemic fraud, corruption, scams and sham. 

Punishment on detection would be immediate. I figure little razors inside the rings that would cut into the fingers, ultimately severing them if possible. Some people would soon run out of digits. I say we then go from digits to dicks.

It would be tested on Trump since he can't help himself, so development would be fast and the device quickly perfected. Donald will lose his dick but men have lost more for their country. This would be nothing but good in the end.

People will see we mean business. We would have a necklace in reserve in case there's another riot and insurrection. I mean, as Trump said, you know what they used to do to traitors. Trump seems to think he could kill petty criminals. 

So it's all good. 

America is for Assholes

America is now a playground for assholes. A protected place where Bushes and Trumps and such can play and be safe. But it's not pretend. It's not a video game or a cartoon. Bush and Trump got millions killed. 

And all of them back to Nixon. There are no consequences. As I said, it's a playground. Their parents bought them a country to play around with. With people. Among the toys are weapons, on up to nukes. 

A great country this is, that would put Trump in charge of weapons that can destroy the world. But, all in good fun, because there are no consequences. No time out. No discipline or penalties. That's America.

Youthanasia

Do Kochs worry about their kids? Of course not. Their kids live in another world. An unimaginable world. A world centered on them. Kochs and such are so rich they can compete with the government, And win. 

The govenment is supposed to look our for everybody. The rich look out for themselves. So the rich set out to control the government. In a democracy that means destroy the govenment. And they did.

It has come to pass. Though not to completion. They're working on that. Controlling an entity with some autonomy is one thing. Taking it over completely, another. They are close. Your kids don't count.

Young people were always cannon fodder. Now they're cannon fodder in the culture wars, for which you don't need to sign up or get drafted. Just get born. They are farmed like livestock. For profit. 

And then what? 

We will find out. Americs's future has been mortgaged. The kids know it and feel helpless. Watching a vanishingly small group of rich fuckers destroy everything. Because they want more. Complete control.

The rape of nature goes on. Only that is saving the livestock. We are so rich we can afford to keep less profitable entities around. The rich bought up nursing homes, among everything else, 

They're making money on us until we die. It will all change. Especially for the young. For the old it's too late. The rich will have to keep the young powerless. Never owning a home. Less access to education. 

The rich must be slobbering themselves. They're so close now. Complete control. A Constitutinal Convention, their ultimate dream, is still possible. But they must control young people.

Why do you think they're after universities? Those are the last thing they don't control. We're very close. The libertarian dystopia the rich have always wanted, an unimaginably brutal place, is almost here. 

But We're the Good Guys

Exceptionalism is racism. Giving yourself a pass. Because you're special and the rules don't apply to you. 

Assorted Authoritarian Scum

Exceptions don't prove anything. Averages prove stuff. Where's the mean? This side of insane? Evangelicals we can generalize about, because they've generalized themselves. Sold their souls, achieving unanimity. Through utter submission. And not to God. Assuming God didn't create us as a race of slaves, degraded aggregations of arbitrary and uncontrollable impulses.  

Rich fuckers have mostly done the same. Shown us their hand. They don't give a fuck about anyone else and they're infinitely fucking greedy. 

But beyond that we have assorted authoritarian scum. Jumpers onto bandwagons. Lots of them drank the dope in the Reagan years. They went identity. They wanted to feel good about themselves, above all, and their greedy or sociopathic little ambitions and they got sucked in. Paul Ryan got sucked in. He built a life and living on wanting to screw his fellow citizens. On being an asshole.

It's a career choice. A way to make a living. No kidding. Stephen Miller? What's his résumé? Professional racist? In America you can get paid to be an asshole. 

Dictators Without Borders

Now, this is a more natural and stable thing, an international alliance of dictators. Based on the unstated agreement that somebody has to run shit and it might as well be me, since I'm willing to play dirtier than anyone else. It's therefore inevitable. Resistance is futile. You want to be on my good side because I am the law. And I will crush you if you resist me. 

They are the law. There are evil forces abroad. Say your prayers, people. 

Your Shit is Being Shipped!

We aren't getting it. The consumer society has to end. How many tractor trailer loads of stuff going into landfills does an average American account for in a lifetime? This is insane. Tell me it isn't crazy. 

Tell me it doesn't assume an end-times. So it all makes sense. The party of 'drill, baby, drill' is controlled by people who believe in the apocalypse, who welcome the apocalypse and are trying to bring it about. 

Now does it make sense? 

If you want to see the world crash and burn who better than Donald Trump? And the new morbidly rich? Because they really don't give a fuck. They are the last ones you want running things. Welcome to hell.

Society for Destructive Anachronism

I think it's safe to rebrand the GOP at this point since they're unrecognizable as a lawfully functioning entity let alone as one deserving of respect, authority and control. They shouldn't be entrusted with anything. No power at all. 

I want to suggest we call them the SDA, or the Society for Destructive Anachronism. Interestingly, their meetups might resemble those of the Society for Creative Anachronism, where they whale away on one another with swords and shit. 

System Failure

Mitch McConnell hasn't had a brain freeze lately -- as far as we know -- but I want to talk about his soul. Or lack of one. Consider just how our system failed and McConnell stands out. Much was anticipated. Much, but not Mitch. The possible malfeasance and tyranny of a majority. The possible tyranny of a minority, presumably a less plausible thing and more easily protected against. 

But here we are.

There's no way to protect against a ruling caste led by pieces of shit like McConnell. All McConnell had to do was his duty. Impeach the traitor Trump. It was put to him and it would not have been hard. McConnell is the link that failed. The guy who wouldn't do his job. This is the Senate's function, to be a stabilizing force and protection against volatility, overreactions and outliers.

Alabama MItch is a traitor. too. He represents a foreign power, the Confederacy. He is doing his job, destroying the United States in retribution for the Civil War, Reconstruction and desegregation. See where Trump has ended up. At retribution. His only talent is cunning. Because he's a conman. A crook. A liar, a thief and a supreme piece of shit. More that anything an opportunist.

He read his base. They want to destroy. They are here to destroy. The opportunity is here. To kill off the country, so it can be reinvented and run by rogues like Trump on behalf of rednecks, racists and assorted authoritarian scum. Mitch was once a moderate. But then he realized how stupid Kentuckians were. And that he could get rich and screw them and they would still vote for him. 

The rest mad they say, is history.

Buffaloed

A couple of people I know have commented on similarities between the Palestinians and Native Americans, saying they've been watching the Ken Burns series on Buffalo. I haven't seen it. A more powerful group wants your land. They want you gone. 

Which seems to happen, no matter what. You cooperate you lose. You fight you lose. But if you fight them you get killed as Native Americans did when they struck back. Like buffalo. The shoot you down. They shoot you down en masse. And it's your fault. 

I think we've got some Manifest Destiny going on in the Middle East. And the Palestinians know it.

Huckster Holidays Radio

I wonder what 'conservatives' and evangelicals listen to for Christmas. They seem to need such a steady diet of hate. Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate. They never tire of it. If I hear a television on in a house in the middle of the day I always suspect Fox. Such a diet requires some inventiveness, to keep it fresh. They have a whole ecosystem of this shit. How much mileage can you get out of 'woke' and 'cancel culture' and the 'war on Christmas' other such fabrications? A lot, it turns out. 

More than the truth, it turns out. The truth is boring. Conspiracy theories are exciting. So, under the fixations mentioned above we have variations on the themes. All the little people think woke is coming for them. And woke came out of nowhere. Not really. It's a lie. A deliberate and calculated invention. Created and maintained by persons with agendas. Stuff they want. Money and power are always, among some of them. But listen to Trump. He's cunning, if sick and stupid. 

He's about retribution now. Trump is promising punishment. They want to hurt us. Remind yourself, it's all invented. It all came out of nowhere. Trump is huckster holidays radio, promoting hate in the season of love. Among Christians, mostly. The most venomous piece of shit ever is a huge hit among people who call themselves Christians. But that is to be determined. By God, if I remember my catechism. God and no one else. Except Trump, I guess. Providing justifications to hate. 

Legislating from the Beach

The jury is in on our supreme jurists, that they are not fundamentally legal scholars but social and class warriors, which worlds have melded under MAGA. The super-rich will now endure any level of social stuff, like a flight back into the Middle Ages with the ignorance, illiteracy, persecution and superstition, to keep the financial advantages they enjoy afloat. And since part of extremism and being crazy, is a lack of perspective and restraint we are heading off a cliff. 

Complete control of every aspect of American life by nutcases is where we are going. The other goal of such maniacs and Bond villains in addition to world domination -- a reich spanning generations -- is less easily reachable but desired nonetheless because it affords a kind of immortality. Remember the Trump nuts with visions of a series of Trump children, Ivanka first, following Herr Donald into the presidency? Primal shit. Monarchical shit. Tudors and Stuarts and such. 

And killings. Lots of death is in the works. 

Cool kinds of gratuitous death. With this level of wealth and power there is really nowhere to go but down, a recipe for paranoia. Tech goons might envision being lords, and they are in a way and it might get codified and institutionalized under the Roberts Court, but that's precarious with lunatics like Trump running around. The Koch machine has backed Haley, though Trump was probably less of a loose cannon and more manipulable than they expected, first go-round.

We owe it all to the Supreme Court. Ivory Tower types they are not, but Winnebago Republicans, legislating from a context of immeasurable privilege, with the ultimate sinecure. They make the laws, they flout the laws. They aren't even ideologues. All of that, the 'originalist' nonsense, was a smoke screen and a scam and it's being abandoned now. They don't need it anymore. And we are in for it. They are determinedly attacking the last bastions that stand against them.

Such as the home of actual legal scholars and persons with respect for judicial standards -- academia. The Supremes are not rich by Silicon Valley standards. Those people wouldn't be caught dead in a Winnebago. They buy yachts. But our boys (and girl) are happy to serve them, as a bunch of sort-of game wardens, estate managers and lackeys. They are all-in on hierarchy. Big surprise all the ties to Catholicism. In their own way they are working class. Supremely working class.

The Inquisition

Republicans are on the attack. Their witch trials will succeed because it's not about the crime but about the prosecution. Or, persecution. They will only accept the outcome they want. Like terrorists they play the averages. Plant a bunch of bombs. Some will go off.

Their fixations are evident. Universities. Personal vendettas. Universities as power centers they don't control. Personal vendettas to wreck those who resist them and discourage further resistance. An Inquisitor and ardent Trumper is having her day in the sun. 

On conservative media. By badgering and hounding people until she gets what she wants, abusing her congressional power to do so. She badgered them into a corner and made them look bad. She wants is to win. And to be the judge. Because she can, an abuse of power. 

Midnight in the Garden of Evil

All of the goodness has fled. Evil is victorious. 

The Passion of the Trump

Here's how a persecution complex plays out. The perp has some kind of personality problem and thinks people are out to get him. He attacks, thinking it's in self defense. Just like that we're at a critical juncture. Does the person fight back?

And, is the ground fertile for contagion? Is there insecurity in the land? Are there old grudges lying around? Usually individual instances of this, which abound, are absorbed into the system and never seen again. Not that there isn't harm.

There's loads of harm but no contagion. But if there is mass insecurity and groups about with festering grudges and lots of personality problems because the society has a 'soul sickness' it can catch on. We are there now. By intelligent design.

Republicans have made people more insecure and spread fear. Which they then exploit. Conspiracy theories flourish. And they think Trump is a savior, and that he's being persecuted. A wholly inverted, perverted, imaginary world. 

I Heart Hate

Republicans, being Christians and all, are offering hate and division this Christmas. Nothing but, it turns out. Trump is at the reins of his sleigh full of goodies. Insults, innuendo and invective are pouring forth.