A Good Goombah

Mafioso, by reputation, are rational businessmen. Trump isn't that. He's so fucking needy everything is about him getting his strokes. Being a good goombah is tough in Trumpworld. You can be loyal and demean yourself and make it your only goal to please him and still get discarded or punished. 

Possibly for nothing, I'm saying, since part of Trump's failure is not knowing a good goombah when he sees one. He's out of touch with reality, impulsive as shit and a fuckup. Mostly the ultra-rich aren't seen crashing through life like Trump. Okay, maybe Elon. It's bad business. But Trump's a sick fuck.

Vance appears to be a good goombah. I'm sure it's why he was chosen. But when the whim of one wretched, unstable piece of shit is the law and standard anything can happen. 

Mostly Famous

Republicans are out for notoriety. Their 15 minutes or more. They don't care how they get it. The quickest route is acting out. And they don't give a shit how many people get hurt. 

The Parent Rap

J. D. Vance has some weird stuff going on regarding families That marriage and family are duties. And there's major baggage surrounding procreation. Why can't these people behave? Nothing was wrong here. But things that should be loving and spontaneous and free, one hopes, get burdened with guilt. 

Weighed down with necessity. Typically, they're tainting something possibly joyous, intimate and personal with odd societal demands. Like rebuilding a reich. They want a reich. Healthy and pure and freer from bad elements. Along the lines of Hungary. They want us emulating Hungary. Reducing us to that. 

They talk openly about it. I can't believe this is happening.

The Daily Planet

This will be the last issue of the Daily Planet. The planet is shutting down. We don't mean the periodical, we mean human civilization and the environment that sustained it. Shutting down because a relative handful of inconceivably rich people had to have more. 

Apparently they must always have more. The paper is secondary but we will miss it too. We're sad as shit about the whole thing but it seems we were no different from some mindless bug growing exponentially in its medium in a petri dish until they fucking died. 

I wonder if a massive minority of those organisms had a blast while their fellows starved or disgustedly watched them ravaging the place. Strange to think we were no different. And I wonder if some being has been watching us from above as we did the petri dish. 

Wondering what the fuck we were thinking. No Superman to save us now. Those who think they are super or aspire to be are the ones wrecking everything. I guess our assumptions about human nature were faulty. And all of the beauty made-up and an illusion. 

Not to discredit it. We should have appreciated it more. Appreciated everything more. Somebody said that once, that only the invented part made sense or meant anything, or words to that effect. He must have been right. At least he was on to something. 

All About Eve

I should probably stop because I'm not practicing but I still try to explain Catholicism sometimes, especially to southerners since many of them didn't grow up around Catholics. Catholicism is as strange to them as it was to me encountering early televangelists and being dumbfounded by how anyone could buy that shit and how in supposedly conservative churches women could show up looking like prostitutes.

Probably shouldn't have said that but, whatever. Anyway, I can tell how weirdly Catholicism appears to some folks because they can't hide it. And they jump immediately to the sex scandal, an admitted disgrace, so I should probably not even try but let's take celibacy. A practice or tradition and not biblical, granted. Of course it creeps them out. Whereas thoughts of a pastor having sex creeps me out. No win there. 

It's all plenty weird. I appeal to a larger perspective. 

I say there's a Catholic outlook about the richness of life that doesn't underplay sex. The idea is not against sex it's against self-centeredness and overweening individualism. Against taking things for granted. Focus, and the story of Eve. Eve was living in paradise and she got obsessed with the one thing she was told she couldn't have. Say it was sex. Say it was the power to create life. Say it was anything. 

Get a grip, Eve. So, the Catholic perspective, I tell people, is that we're living in a miracle. We should wake up every day in wonder and amazement. In awe. I want to say in gratitude but, no. I think it's one step removed from the more primal experience of astonishment at the strangeness and absurdity everyone must or should feel at emerging into consciousness. Existentially and on a daily basis. 

Sacrificing sex for some good ... not that big a deal.

The compensations have to be there. And they are, in the kind of Catholicism that's a form of art. In ritual and music and beauty. We are intended to live fully human lives, lives of immersion in our humanity -- not to deny our ties to God. We reach God through our created nature. The whole package. Emotions and intellect. Sadly, balance is out of fashion. Humans are on a huge power trip, wanting what is God's. 

Perspective is the point -- wide angle lens, soft focus. In a state of awe and wonderment things fall into place. Humility comes naturally. Respect come naturally. Empathy and compassion come naturally. And the pure, innocent, non-compulsive enjoyment of the good things of life comes naturally. Denying any of these isn't too big a deal, as matter of discipline or in maintaining a perspective. We should all fast. 

You first. And God bless. 

Semper Lie

Assume everything Republicans say is a lie. Sometimes it isn't but then it usually still supports the greater cause of obfuscation and deception. All will be clearer if you do this. Republicans try to destroy the truth. Any truth is inimical to them and a threat. They are attacking the very existence of intelligibility, because it implies accountability. And they don't want to be accountable for anything. 

The Death of Decency

Republicans are excited. They sense the end. Utter domination. The final victory. The enemy, a faction of their fellow citizens they deem unworthy, and a probable majority, is weak and possibly failing. 

Republicans are moving in for the kill. And they are killers. This will be the end of decency in America. The death of decency as an institutional matter. And the total victory of injustice, racism and hate. 

Nativist Sons

What is it with these sons of wealthy fathers -- Koch, Trump, Bush, and others of their awful kind. Always trying to prove something. And never succeeding which we know because they keep trying, taking their shit out on innocent bystanders. Bystanders to their family dramas. 

Poor spectators. Guiltless onlookers. These privileged sons of the powerful must be beset by feelings of worthlessness. I wish they would get the fuck over it. But they've all gone nativist. 

See No Evil

It's different when I do it. Say, 'this is evil.' Democrats don't want to say something is evil. Not quickly enough. Republicans are dying to do it. To say someone is evil. Too quick.

Democrats don't want to see evil. Republicans see evil everywhere. Republicans do it as a matter of identity and tribal allegiance. They are judging the person or people. 

Their being, in a way, or essence or existence.

Democrats are judging behaviors. Behaviors change. If the behavior changes the judgment changes. Not guilty. But you can't be not guilty of being black or gay, for example. 

They come at it from a racist outlook. And it fucks it all up. 

Donald Trump: Patriot and Altruist

I avoid seeing anything of the Republican convention but I think I heard a little of Vance's speech this morning on the radio. I believe Vance was portraying Herr Donald as a patriot and altruist who gave up a wildly successful business career to serve his country. 

And if you believe that I've got a Yale law degree I'll sell you cheap. Donald was the fucked-up son of an asshole developer. Daddy's daddy owned a hotel cum brothel. Vance's momma was a crack whore so you see the affinity. But even Trump portrayed himself as a dick. 

Think back. He postured himself as a ruthless, pragmatic businessman who'd be ruthless and pragmatic on our American behalf if elected. As though the country wasn't already run by ruthless asshole businessmen. His innovation was in admitting it so openly. 

But, altruist.

Even Trump's grand-daddy was a draft dodger. But it's not about reality. It's about the magic-dust of forgetfulness, which is presumably being spread through the ventilation and ductwork at the convention. This is of course about the Lost Cause.

The romanticizing of the hideousness and inhumanity of the Old South and slavery. The Big Lie filled the same brain space and fed the same emotional need for escape. Escaping the guilt and shame. And compensating, by portraying yourselves as better. 

Not just okay but cleansed. So they're 'saved' and we aren't. They're the patriots. They're the creators and we're the takers. They're real Americans and we aren't. Ah, forgetfulness. And lies. It's all about lies. And, at this point, a complete inversion of reality. 

Don't Make Me Laugh

Remember when Republicans could claim fiscal responsibility with credibility? That they were deficit hawks, for example? They were hawks alright. Predators that will fly in and steal your livelihood. 

What they stood for was us paying their bills. Has a nice ring, doesn't it? Free shit! For the haves. Average citizens subsidizing the rich. Modern serfdom. And they're still at it. They gamble. They lose, you pay.

And if they win they keep it all. They take it all. And then some. They've pillaged our savings and mortgaged our future. Our kids' future. Because they must always have more. Now and forever. Amen. 

Amen, because it's with religious sanction. Prosperity for them. Austerity for us. Divinely approved. God wants them to be predators. Made them carnivores. And us prey. Don't make me laugh. It's all lies.

Don't make me laugh. 

Turn Up, Tune Out, Drop In

Make yourself available. Ignore the noise. Show up, stay on message, stay involved and vote. Though I wouldn't blame you for doing it stoned. 

Tread on Them

The Republican convention is about unity through hate. 'Don't Tread on Me,' they say. 'Tread on Them' is the actual platform. 

Satanic Celebration and Black Mass

The Republican nominating convention is a massive celebration of evil, the first I've see of this movement having gone so far beyond normalization -- the full Nuremberg, devil worship and a spectacle of drunkenness on the power of hatred. 

Pure moral inversion. There is no normal anymore. Everything is upside down. Hate has become the arbiter of virtue.

Burning Down the House

Imbedded in a lot of destructive behavior is a desire for renewal. This is entirely Christian. Regeneration by burning it all down. Adolescents also do it. In an attempt to grow up. 

Blow stuff up. It's supposed to be an interior thing. The 'dying unto yourself' kind of language. But fucked up people who can't deal with their guilt and shame externalize it. 

They will burn down your house. And every other house. Cities. Countries. The world. Because they've got it wrong. So it doesn't work. And since it doesn't work it's compulsive. 

That's where we are now. Evangelical Christians are taking over in America. Some of the most guilt-ridden, screwed-up people in history. And they might be unstoppable. 

Trump Picks Peon

Look at Vance as a peon and it makes sense. Bergum isn't a peon. Rubio, well, I don't know what he is. Peons can be ass-kickers but only on behalf of their liege or lord and Rubio is kind of a worm.

So, you see how we got to Vance. He's loyal but degraded in the right way. He's like the guy who sees to the needs of a knight, a Sancho Panza to Trump's Quixote. And God help us all. Squire Vance it is. 

Do You Lack Drive?

I do. I'm there with you. We should talk. But, to preface the thing, and given the way a lot of people with drive are behaving these days, I'm feeling better about it all the time. 

Now We Know

The Supreme Court's immunity (for Trump) verdict seems to have given Aileen Cannon the confidence to own her boot-licking, anus-sniffing fealty, say 'fuck-it' about appearances and embrace her inner hack. I'm sure there's more of this to come from hoards of Republican judges, operatives, lawyers and organizations. 

While America Slept

The battle that's shaping up, which the head of Heritage, Kevin Roberts, says might be bloodless if liberals behave, has nothing to do with liberals -- 'the radical left,' as Kevin calls them. The fight is internal to some wackos who call themselves conservatives. Apocalyptic evangelicals on one side. 

Authoritarian Catholics on the other. Both decry declining standards and permissiveness but, guess what, those social problems are worse in red states or trace back to 'conservative' policies. The problems are not due to social deregulation and an assault on standards. Who deregulated that shit? No one, really. 

The problems resulted from despair and deprivation put on average people in the richest country ever by asshole Republicans who, when it came down to it, stood for nothing but cutting taxes on the rich and allowing corporations to plunder at will. That's it. That's all. Though there's an interesting aspect.

Those rich people. 

Where do they fit in? Nowhere. Not among the combatants. The great manipulators are elsewhere. Money speaks for them, powerfully if imperfectly. Do they care about abortion and D.E.I. and that shit? Maybe a little. But not for reasons other than money and power. Money and power are it for them. 

I've heard populist murmurs from both evangelicals and reactionary Catholics. That could get interesting -- if their dupes begin to turn on the rich. But for now it's scapegoating. Of lefties. Who have nothing to do with all the stuff they hate. They created their own problems, like their racist forebears.

Like the southerners who couldn't bring themselves to let up on black people, the fucking racist asshole morons, and put the country through hell and got exactly what they didn't want, compensatory damages. Forced racial intimacy. Black guys with big dicks scoring on their pretty little daughters. 

Trust me on that one, if you don't see it. I live in a college town in the south. But that's the kind of sick animus and fear we're looking at. Coming from sick fucking people who will take us all down. Ultimately because they can't handle their own imperfection. Their shittiness and carnal desires and mortality. 

So I say pray for a real populist on one or other side of that mess to succeed. One who will go after the rich, which a true populist would have to do. Trump made such noises. Evangelicals are apocalyptic individualists and incoherent. Nobody tells them what to do. Or that they're not 'saved.'

The Catholics are institutionalists. Radical authoritarian institutionalists. Fascists, that is. And incoherent. Sane, sustainable social structures and policies result from balance and compromise. The people making out on this mess are the rich. We might have to kill them. They're already killing us.

Kill them just enough to get their attention. Not that I believe in this but to minimize the damage. Because they will stop at nothing. Their greed and lust for power know no bounds. They did the classic thing and played the little people off against one another. They were unbelievably successful.

Meantime we're spectators in our own destruction, with Democrats several layers into irrelevance dating to the implementation of the Southern Strategy and the rise of bad faith, notably under Gingrich. So Democrats been hostages for decades, as have we all. But the schismatics must schism. 

Always. Their lives aren't livable without conflict. Modern Republicans were an unstable coalition dating to the sixties. Now the voters to whom the Republican elite sold their souls for votes have risen up and are fragmenting. I say again, this could get interesting. The rich might finally have fucked this up. 

Well, That's Clearer Now.

That was a reminder. 

For anyone who thought John Roberts might have come around, maybe fearing he'd be remembered as the guy who oversaw the destruction of America by judicial fiat, the jury is in. Roberts was playing a longer game. And aiming breathtakingly bigger, as was speculated about when he 'saved Obamacare.' 

Roberts is a committed reconstructionist. He intends to remake America, returning it to something it never was. But there's this conservative image in amber of simpler times. An abstraction of unreality faithlessly rendered in fantasy. He thinks he has special access to the ideals and perfections of governance. 

The messiness of reality is what he can't handle. Everything is a theoretical construct. You can't cure racism with racism, or whatever ridiculous justification it was that led him to throw out affirmative action, for example. In a purer world he might be right. In the 'real world' he's tragically wrong. 

So with voting. So with abortion. Their eyes were watching godliness. And people -- sorry -- are not usually godly. I think it drives people like Roberts nuts. The awful imperfection. Which it's why we must love God through loving our neighbors and all of creation. Loving an abstraction is easy. I suppose.

Loving the imperfection is harder. Loving reality is harder. But only at first. 

Then it becomes easier, because it enables the same love and forgiveness and tolerance of oneself. And that diminishes the anger. The hatred. It's called Christianity. And what it doesn't look like is Bill Barr and Herr Trump rushing through as many executions as possible before the opportunity was lost. 

Which they did, the sick fucks. For the sheer persecutory pleasure of it. And Roberts is right there with them. He's got bigger fish frying than worrying about human suffering, since he's on the side of God and has God's sanction and some kind of delegation and franchise. Or maybe he's wrong. 

And he just loves the power rush of the crazy shit he's doing. The same kind of rush someone might feel -- hypothetically, mind you -- if they blew his fucking head off. Those Republicans have hell of a death tally. Iraq. Afghanistan. Trump and COVID. Funny, Bill Barr doesn't crave justice on that front. 

Good thing for them, including those wonderful justices now who've chosen politics over principle, and so are implicated in all those deaths. But Trump must be saved from the perfidious Democrats. Save away, ye fuckwads, but lose the righteousness. It doesn't sit well with all the blood and gore.

Death Within Reach

The Death Alliance has realized other and continuing victories under Lord Trump. Decency lets down its guard, finding life and love and beauty compelling. Evil never sleeps. Paranoid imaginings won't allow it. 

Let's Start at the End

Circular reasoning is sneaky. Describe it to someone. It sounds patently wrong and bad. And easy to detect. But it isn't. There are many forms. Much of it assumes information not in evidence. Which is like starting at the end. You want to cut taxes on the rich.

No matter what. You find justifications. You want to deregulate. You find justifications. You want people who disagree with you to go away. Things move in that direction. The line between wanting people to disappear and killing them is less clear than we think. 

But it becomes clear in the end. When the bodies are piling up. And by then it's too late.

What is Real

Fake news. AI didn't come up with it Trump did. Or one of his minions but no matter because he owns them. Let's posit there is reality. And there is lies and bullshit and made-up stuff. At some point you have to judge intentions. Will. And you have to judge systems. 

The humanity of systems. Because you won't be able to tell the rest of it apart. Distinguish one thing from another. Individually authenticity with be indistinguishable from rubbish. Rubbish wins in that scenario. Then rubbish will be all that's left. Because it's cheaper. 

At which time the system will be perfectly diabolical and inhumane. 

Famous Supporter of BIg Oil Pushes Prayer During Deadly Heat Wave

Governor Jeff Landry of Louisiana has signed a bill to put the Ten Commandments in the schools during a deadly heat wave, presumably following on and attempting to capitalize on the wonderful and successful Republican campaign to fight gun violence with 'thoughts and prayers.' He noted that the idea was never to reduce mass killings, since that's the price we pay for our freedom, but to send victims off with the grace, blessings and thanks of the country, knowing that getting killed like that is a ticket to heaven and a pleasing sacrifice to God our creator because God made mass killers as well and this shit just happens. God's ways are inscrutable, said Landry, though only an idiot would doubt the importance of the Ten Commandmants and it was good politics too.  

Facehook

Imagine yourself as a bass. But a smart one. And Mark Zuckerberg is trolling above you with some tempting bait. Resist it. Think about the hook in your cheek. It isn't worth it. He'll reel your ass in. 

Hungarian Goulash

I follow a certain American arch-conservative who moved to Hungary to he among his peeps. So sorry Franco no more. He's published books. More coming. Supposedly he's a Christian. He says he is. 

His identity is built on it. He's a son of a Cyclops. So, good lineage. And he's full of hate. Hate and faith can't occupy the same space, as I understand it. So it's on him. He had a choice. And he chose hate.  

Like There's No Tomorrow

Fooled you. You thought it was just a saying, simile or turn of phrase. But they mean it. They are planning for no tomorrow. For us, anyway. No tomorrow means Jesus comes. They go to heaven and you go to hell. Die, fuckers! All questions answered. 

All dilemmas solved. All your trials vaporized. Poof. Because you are vaporized. They are going to burn it all the fuck down. Hello, Gaza. So we can have the one world government of Jesus. So they think. But I think they're working for the other guy.

Diet Crack

People are not getting it. About how impossible our way of living is. And how radically we have to change. Especially with respect to oil. We need to get radical. Total rehab. And we're addicts. Electric cars are a joke. Diet crack. We need a complete break with the old ways of living. 

First Church of Christ, Rapist and Murderer

The god of the Calvinists is an asshole. An entity that enjoys watching his creation flounder about and creates other entities, people, in his image and then condemns them for being as he created them. So being an asshole is godly. Including rape and murder. 

Which the SBC and its churches therefore support. I simply bear witness. Christ was surely a rapist and murderer, as it's the prerogative of power to do whatever you want with no accountability. Which is the model for Trump and why they support him.

Koch v. Woke

I actually follow some of the right wing sites, supposedly some of the better stuff, and they're all upset about 'woke' and generally scared out of their panties over it. I smell a political ploy. So I went in search of woke and couldn't find it so my suspicion is, yet again, the right is making it up. Woke is basically a puritanical fad, fashion or trend on the left in reaction to a massive, organized and incredibly well funded movement on the right that has successfully undermined and subverted our government and is attacking democracy itself while making a run on establishing minority rule. Which are related. 

Conservatives should normally function like the Senate, acting as a  check on rash populist undertakings and ill-conceived legislative impulses. Cons should act as a responsible minority restraining force because they stand more to lose, being rich, and because their core belief -- that some people, they, are simply arbitrarily born better than others, us. Fairly presented it's a tough sell, that the common people should just accept this and defer to them and serve them as bultlers and factory workers and shut up about it. And sometimes some weird shit happens like in England, where an underclass buys into this. 

They sign off on the idea they're inherently inferior and deserve lesser status and are destined by God or Darwinian forces to support an upper class of wastrels like Boris Johnson and to let them rule and defer to them generally because, well, you tell me. The ol' U.S.A. did that with Bush and look where it got us. I think all the trouble in Europe is due to Bush. Because Bush created all these refugees who are inciting the immigration overreaction and he trashed the world economy.  The English are racist and incredibly degraded, overall. So, not the model to follow. And the hysteria about woke is bullshit. 

But some hysteria about Koch would make sense.

What a Piece of Shit I Was

I'm going through an intense spell of remembering what a piece of shit I was. In adolescence and puberty. Ages 11 - 17, I would say. Maybe I was honing my game in the earlier years of that window. But the amount of stupid, shameful, degrading, disgraceful stuff I packed into those years ... where did I find the time? And I was still incredibly messed up after that but in an introverted way. Not acting out so much.

Oh We Are So Fucked

I know. Old news. But we're more fucked now. I'm just hitting the refresh. 

Leader of the Pack

The latest is more of the same. Republicans of every stripe sucking Trump's dick. Trump getting his dick sucked. Ted Cruz or whoever, who defines himself as a heroic defender of standards and a soldier for Christ, kowtowing to Trump. Guess Who's Cumming All Over Your Dinner? It's Herr Donald, the great defiler, and his pack. 

Onward Christian Soldiers

Evangelicals have always hated creation. They despise life. And now they're moving in for the kill. With global aspirations. They want to destroy everything. 

The Blitz

I read that, in the blitz, people stopped feeling afraid in the presence of all that power, and only felt awe. I feel awe now witnessing Republicans descend into the depths of irrationality and hatred. It's like they're possessed. By the spirits of destruction. And it doesn't help that it's me that they hate. Because I'm a Democrat. 

Right to Harry

The gun nuts aren't about self defense. Of course it was a lie. They're on the attack now. Intimidation is the new way. Instead of democracy. To get your way by bullying. 

Meta Culpa

Meta is the place to start. The rational place to start. Because huge, monopolistic corporations are a problem. And social media is a problem. So let's take that fucker down. And go from there. 

Fight My Liar

A few years ago I had a gun nut harassing me. He was a neighbor and I made the mistake of telling him I didn't think the Second Amendment had anything to do with private ownership. And that it was insane for average citizens to own assault weapons. I qualified it by saying it was impossible to de-gun the country but that it was bullshit about private ownership and that the whole thing was rooted in racism, which is one of the main lines of thinking on the issue. He of course took it badly because it's an opinion we are not allowed to have, as though the 'Constitution' isn't much more explicit on speech than on guns, thereby backing up my opinion that the constitutional 'right to carry' is a scam.

But we're way further down the road now. In a whole society so buried in a mass of lies it will never get dug out. But I still fight the battle in my own useless, backwater way. My neighbor, who was rich as shit, I think, moved away to be near a race track so he could drive cars around recklessly for the rest of his life. So I no longer have him throwing trash on my property and tearing down my 'bird friendly habitat' sign and buying me subscriptions to Gun Nut Magazine. But I ran into an old thread on a website where people post local stuff where he misrepresented what transpired between us. Amazingly.

With the election looming we see the beast of the Republican lie machine rearing up and it's unbelievable. A total fucking monster. Sometimes I think it all started with guns. They learned they could brazen it out and force it through and stuff the Supreme Court with hacks and, basically, beat up on us and the 'constitution' and all and get away with it so they keep going. Lie after lie after lie. We can't have a society like this. Built on lies. I don't mean 'can't' in some abstract way. It can't continue to exist. It might already be dead and riding on inertia. We'll see, but I Fight My Liar because it's my little thing. 

Whereas they will carry on with the Right to Lie movement. 

Trump COVID

Trump and COVID have melded in my mind into an amorphous mess. A single disaster. I'm going to honor this. Let them be forever associated in their deadliness and misery. 

The Southern Baptist System

Southern Baptists and other evangelical groups have evolved a system where you can do incredible harm and not feel responsible. At all. Call it compartmentalization. Call it rationalization or dissociation. But it is evil as shit. And they are evil. Because they sold their souls for moral certainty. 

Filling the Void

The American vampire state is still trying to fill the void in its soul with stuff. Bad enough, that it's not only impossible but harmful, since it can't work. But, worse than that, it's harming the rest of the world. And, more so now, vulnerable populations within America. Time to pull the plug on the vampire état.

I'm a Loser, Baby, so I'm Going to Kill You

It's something different to assume the power of life and death. There are even restraints on assuming it over yourself. Society is saying, in outlawing suicide, that it has a stake in the individual. A responsibility. So it's an antisocial act. Potentially society's failure. 

Enter the Republicans. They've created a class of losers they can exploit. Created them so they can exploit them to gain power. Culminating in Trump, the king of the losers. So this movement assumes the right to run everything and eliminate those who resist them. 

The power of life and death. This is the inverse of knowing we have a stake in one another. It's unloading your shit on people and making a bonfire out of them because it makes you feel good. They are Nazis. Because they are losers. A loser nation under Trump.

To Heil and Back

America is going full-blown Nazi. And there's no coming back from that. Only forward, into the abyss. Self-destruction, once you've fucked everyone else. Then you rebuild. If you can. But past experience might not apply. America has become such a black hole of greed the world might never be the same. Way to go, you fucking pigs. 

Sick Santa

Steve Bannon is a Republican Santa. He doesn't mark the solstice and bring gifts and hope. Bannon brings destruction. He believes in a cyclical view of history, and that we're due for cataclysmic change and a rebirth, never mind that this would mean millions of deaths. He doesn't care. He wants to usher it in. Like any good Nazi he sees right through the deaths. Because he doesn't give a shit, the sick fuck. 

Almost Infamous

Trump was a born pariah. It is his destiny. He's dying to be a pariah. All his life a guy like Trump has to have wanted to be put in his place. To encounter a strength in the world that stands up to his money. A strength that doesn't give a shit about his wealth and can't be bought. This is his psychology. 

But this is America, where money buys anything.

I guess being whipped in public would turn him on. He would love it. Look at what he did with the presidency. The way he won the office he could have played one party off against the other, done unbelievable stuff and been the most loved president ever. But he's wallowing in shit again.

Because it's what he wants.

In an incredibly sick way this is a choice. Both a choice and a compulsion. A warped choice at some brain-stem or digestive tract level.  Let's give the fucker what he wants. To be scourged and beaten and humiliated like Jesus on the way to Calvary and crucifixion. Look at his madness for risk. 

He wants to be crushed. At some depth, in his sickness, he's dying to be stopped. Or be stopped by dying. For God's sake, let's pull the plug on this piece of shit before he gets more people killed. Free Trump! And the only way to free Trump is to destroy him. Completely. Finally. Give the boy what he wants.

How Trump Changed Everything

America can never have been the country it thought it was or claimed to be. Not and elect Trump. And considering electing him again. He's too big a piece of shit. Trump exposes the sham. America never owned its shit. Now it's too late. Our shit has caught up with us.

Who Are the Suckers Now?

We're all inhabitingTrump's Atlantic City now. Where you go to lose -- always, on average -- in service to the post-financialization American Casino Empire. And to buy a little hope. Roll the dice on your life.

Remember Trump's claims about all the money he pulled out of Atlantic City, where he fucked up unbelievably because it was all about him and his ego and needing to be a big man and the best.

What a fucking idiot. But this is his model for America. And the model among his rich supporters. Pillage and get out. Run away from the ruins. We are being looted. And Americans are voting for this.

Exiles on Main Street

Conservatives endlessly present themselves as outsiders, and as being disrespected and powerless. So, not responsible. Yet they control everything. The battle they feel themselves to be in is internal to them. Their movement. They lack discipline, authority, consistency and rigorous thinking. They think they're rigorous as hell but that's another lie. They're rigorously wrong because their thinking is constrained by their prejudices. What unites them is fear. The suspicion or belief that something is horribly wrong. 

They need to look at themselves. The thing they're worst at and refuse to do. 

Affordable Adult

As we all know the issue in America is money. Great healthcare, if you can afford it. Excellent everything, for the rich. Fuck everyone else. 

But for children? 

The same, sadly. Because the rich must always have more. I'm proposing an Affordable Adult Program, modeled on England's Appropriate Adult. 

Which is a legal thing. A kind of guardianship. Apparently America can't afford to take care of its kids. This will be intended to fill the gap. 

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bum

Some people support Trump because they think America is a massive evil and Trump is the man to destroy it. This argument, unlike almost any other for supporting him, makes sense. He's capable of destroying anything.