Vance, Patel and Leavitt Use School Shooting to Reinforce Republican Talking Points

Of course they would lie and use the shooting to reinforce Republican talking points. Other countries have far lower rates of shootings though rates of mental illness and disturbance are relatively the same. The shooting was not terrorism or anti-Catholic. And Kash Patel is an idiot, an asshole and a Trump toadie who is participating in terrorism himself. But with Republicans it's partisanship politics and lies all the time. They didn't come to govern they came to destroy. 

Plato's Plutopia

I wonder if Plato foresaw the possibility of a government, one highly effective at destroying itself, stumbling into an inverted version of his ideal in an act of revolutionary reinvention. I'm not sure it was Plato's ideal but it was probably thought of as efficient in its attempt at specialization and putting the right people in appropriate hierarchical roles and having it work. 

Republicans have achieved efficient destruction, but destruction is easy so let's not be too much in awe and understand that an evolved and expansive machine devoted to plunder can still be stopped by the right wrench in the right place at the right moment and before it's too late -- before they've decentralized like a franchise from hell and the terror organization they are. 

Like Al Qaeda. They're destroying the government on behalf of the Confederacy and rich fuckers. We need some of that infrastructure and capacity intact when we get it back. They know this and are working hard to fuck it up irreparably. We had better get our act together and stop it. We need there to be something left to save. I think it's still possible but not by much. 

The Last Big Thing

AI is the last big thing, the technology that heralds the end of humanity and civilization. I'm not sure it was even good while it lasted. We were always in Eden and always choosing the apple. Enough of us, anyway. For those that didn't it could be good. The stories that convey the urgency of salvation aren't temporal, nor are they about an afterlife. Heaven and hell are here and now, and we chose to take the miracle of life for granted, sought power, lost our humility and fucked it all up. 

Bring Me the Head of Abrego Garcia

Stephen Miller, a member of the Trump crime family, has mixed up Kilmar Abrego Garcia with the title character, Alfredo Garcia, in a Sam Peckinpah movie. THAT Garcia is a criminal, gang member and thug. Consider that Abrego Garcia is not, as far as we know, a gang member. Nor is he in the 'Epstein Files' or under suspicion of being in them which is a more serious matter so attention should be directed there and at the release of those in a complete, unredacted version to a bipartisan committee or other responsible and secure entity before anything else and after which relevant material might be published and further investigations and prosecutions undertaken.

The Death of Trump

Trump might die, and sooner rather than later according to some people who say his swollen ankles and other signs point to a man in serious health trouble. I think people can live a surprisingly long time in terrible shape. We should still address the unbridled joy and ecstasy that would attend the death of Donald. It might be like overfeeding a starving person and inadvertently killing them. 

Trump is such an unimaginably awful and destructive piece of shit the rebound effects from being freed from him might be more than people can handle. Can you imagine, never having to endure again the utterly vile stuff that pours out of him day and night? And the damage he does. My God, the damage. But then we would face the headless monster of MAGA. And JD Vance... 

Mundane Matters

When you associate with Jesus every day and are expecting the end times it's hard to focus on mundane things like the millions of people you're getting killed. You delegated that. And what does it matter when those poor souls are only getting to see Jesus before you (or not) so you're kind of doing them a favor. Evangelical Christians are distracted, blinded by the light of Jesus's presence. They have a known personal relationship with Jesus, of that they are certain. But they can never be sure about you. 

Trump Thugs Are Coming to Your Town

But, be reassured. Trump wants the Nobel Peace Prize and, we have recently learned, to get into heaven. How bad can it be? 

Exit Stage Right

Wow, the Trump admin just got its clock cleaned in Alaska. Trump can't admit he got owned and made a fool. And there are those around him who can't either. How far into the privy council do we have to go to find someone who says fuck, this is ridiculous? And how far to get to someone who gives as shit? 

Miller and Vought are projectiles. Susie Wiles has to wipe the drool from Trump all the time. It's her job, she does it constantly and she knows Donnie has spit himself again but she's not there for anything else. A professional Civil Service is supposed to be there to look out for the country's broader interests. 

Trump fired them all because fuck the country. Trump is supposed to be there for the same reason but he can't comprehend it -- non compos on that count. Bessent is a class warrior. Who knows about him. He's there for the money and to preclude an uprising of the plebs. Ditto Lutnick and probably Witkoff.

I'm just asking. Because I don't see anybody in a position of influence and who isn't hopelessly compromised and conflicted and who gives a  a shit enough to try to do something. All the damage control mechanisms have failed. They have made a job of it. Our country has ceased to exist. 

It's Time to Get Out

Out of what? Out of where? I don't know, but's I think it's time to get out.  

Posse Kardashiensis

Posse Comitatus is a right of non-interference, initially a concession to southern states to impede the use of federal force against them wanting to establish an apartheid substate. I think it would have happened anyway, they were so determined, but now the South has risen up and taken over in Washington and they want to use federal force against state authority. 

Of course. But there's more to it. Everything is personal with Trump, so we have non-interference based on him, the rights of celebrity, to do whatever they want. Fucking period. Trump's erosion of norms is massively destructive to the rule of law, and he's being used by people who want that, but with Trump it's narcissistic individualism, pure infantile egotism. 

The Expurgated Epstein Files

Tell me how we're going to know the Epstein Files, if we ever see them, haven't been doctored to protect the guilty. Trump is never going to show us anything that's incriminating to him. 

Triumph of the Shills

We should have known that when America went fascist even its villains would be pathetic and losers among that class of losers. They would be fucking bureaucrat bourgeoisie fascists. 

This Is It, Folks

People picture themselves in a battle as though it's a competition and it's scripted and you're doing something that at least makes you feel like you have some agency when, in reality, most of those who get killed never knew what hit them. A fighter-plane 'dog-fight' comes to mind with the drama and a mano-a-mano scene and a victory on one side but evidently most of those who get shot down don't even see their attacker. 

They get jumped. In any case, the point I want to make is that Democrats are expecting a drama and a battle and certain script and they've gotten jumped. They have no idea what's going on. Republicans have overwhelmed them and they're in denial. The news out of the White House is that Trump isn't running anything. He's being stage-managed by Miller and Vought and a few others and it's worse than we can imagine. 

Trump is riding a wave and he's delusional and his handlers are having him do stuff no one in their right mind would do on the assumption they'd be remembered for it and he does it all. The man's a total fuckup and an imbecile. Everything is in slow motion as we experience it but it's a democratic kill-shot. It's a coup. A takeover. Conquest, and we're being ravaged and pillaged. Our institutions are being burned to the ground. 

Fatuous Libertarian Disease

I had an ongoing thing with an undergraduate philosophy professor about pragmatism. Dewian pragmatism. I couldn't tell if he believed in it but he had done his dissertation on Dewey so there we were. I thought the philosophy's main selling point was that it was hard to refute -- a good philosophy for a troll. The professor was a nice guy and I had no idea about Dewey, so, no aspersions. 

But I thought pragmatism was tautological so I smelled a rat. The way to make something irrefutable is not to say anything. Hence my feelings about libertarianism. I smell a scam. Freedom is good! Okay, have your lawyer draw up something and I'll sign it. I'll stipulate, freedom is good. And then I note that most of the 'libertarians' I know are from privilege and I have questions.

Whose freedom? Because I think they mean theirs, to the exclusion and diminishment of mine. And in my observations, let's say, of the self-styled libertarianism I find where I decide to look for it in the wild, in the policies and actions of the Trump administration, they mean their freedom, at the deliberate expense of mine. They're even compromising my freedom at no seeming benefit to themselves.

Unless you count disempowering me as a benefit, as they apparently do, and then meanness might come into it or an irrational, compulsive aggression driven by fear. Hence again and I come to originalism, Supreme Court version, another scam. I see it's irrefutable and able to be redefined and reinterpreted on the fly to suit their desires. And I observe they're doing whatever the fuck they want. 

Hence one last time and I come to people calling themselves 'Christians' and 'patriots' and I call bullshit. It's not like saying you're a Methodist or a citizen, they're putting themselves above us which is, I think, evidence against the thing they're asserting. Prideful, at least. That wraps up my investigation for now but stay tuned for more horrible right-wing crap. I'm sure we're not done with it.

The Corpse Flower of Conservatism

Conservatism occasionally blooms and the horrific stench attracts the carrion flies that are its pollinators. Flies like Stephen Miller, Russ Vought, JD Vance, Pam Bondi, Hegseth, Kash Patel and others are drawn irresistibly to the smell of shit. It's all to do with procreation, spreading the conservative disease.

There is No Redoubt

We're in the last battle. Will the Yankees or the Confederacy rule? 

Always, in the past, the South has had its redoubt. They lived in their slave states, trying to take over the country from there and making a few good runs, but it never worked and they returned to their plantations. Or, an apartheid substate after getting their asses plastered in the Civil War. 

But they never gave up. Now, after desegregation, there is no redoubt, no racist haven to which to return. So the country must be remade into a racist refuge, an evangelical theme park and a white safe space. We're going to be one country at last, it appears on the terms of the Confederacy.

Inbreds Out and About

In today's news Arkansas inbreds Tom Cotton and Mike Huckabee made their mark, Cotton by ordering up an investigation of Jack Smith and Huckabee by being the jackass he is on a Mideast trip and by carrying on being a shithead once he got back with the renewed attention his negative contribution to saving starving children had earned him. 

Watching Evangelicals Eat Ass

They think they're eating God's ass, a strange concept. 

Sixpence None the Wiser

We see evangelicals using and ripping off God. Does it matter? They think not because they're on God's side. On the ground the act is justified. Mere tactics. Incidental stuff. The severity of the sin is nothing to the benefit. God isn't hurt by it. And are they not chosen, saved and redeemed? 

Ripping off their fellow citizens, those sinners, is nothing. Dominion applies over them. But what does God require? And everything matters in the context of creation. LIKE ripping off your fellow citizens to the point of wrecking their lives and getting them killed. And lying like there's no tomorrow. Evangelicals might believe there's no tomorrow, by the way, but rather the Second Coming. 

Everything matters to people, among people and in a human context. Evangelicals are hawking and pawning their souls. But aren't they the pre-saved, let alone in the position of God, free to judge the salvation of others? God's standards are explicit enough, and sixpence matters among people. 

Maybe not much but it matters. And God's standards matter, so ripping off God is more than meaningful, it's desecration and heresy, not because God wants for anything but because of what God requires, not a 'personal relationship' with Jesus but as seen in how we love one another. There's lots I don't know about lots of things, but I doubt God likes being played for a sucker.

Do Not Eat

I'm grasping but wondered if we stamped or tattooed 'Do Not Eat' in big letters on Trump's ass if his cabinet and functionaries and the Republicans in Congress and on the Supreme Court might stop paying homage to Trump by eating his ass. It can't be healthy. And it's clearly bad for the country. 

I would like some help on the graphics and the layout of the words in relation to Trump's ass-crack though I was thinking about huge letters straddling the crack. Or maybe have 'DO' straddling the crack and 'NOT' and 'EAT' below on either side since real estate probably isn't a problem. 

We're not talking about a toned ass here. Then there's the issue of implementation. We'll need an insider. I wonder if Melania can be turned. All she must care about is money. I can't believe anybody ever loved Trump, he's such a pig. Or we could clandestinely equip a toilet to blast ink on his ass. 

Again, I'd be happy for help with this. Worst case we could project a huge image of Trump's ass with the message on some venue where it's impossible to ignore, though we're dealing with addiction, ass addiction, and the prognosis I understand is poor because the degradation is so great.

Mental Fundamentalists

Fundamentalists are going mental. Trump has them tied in knots. They're literalists and Trump isn't literally literate so it's gone into the realm of faith. 

They're trying to faith-heal the country, praying over it and shit but changing the laws as well to shove their inarticulate values down our throats. 

Inarticulate because they're authoritarians. An authority, like Trump or God, can change its mind. They think Trump is transcendent, if you can believe it. 

What Did He Not Know and When Did He Not Know It

Donald Trump seems to not know a lot about Jeffrey Epstein. And not know a lot about his connection to Jeffrey Epstein. I want to know when he did not know. I expect it was pretty recently. 

Cultist Tulsi Gabbard Mines Alternative Facts to Pass Competitors in Presidential Upsucking Extravaganza

The headline says it all.

I Am a Contextualist

Because I don't think anything is intelligible out of context. 

The Diabolical Awards

I've become aware there are clandestine awards in the White House for excellence in lying. I think they're weekly but they might be monthly or bi- but not that kind of bi- since they're against that kind on paper and in principle but who knows what they do when we're not looking. My understanding is that Kayleigh McEnany -- no, sorry, that's the old one -- Karoline Leavitt is disqualified from competing because it's formally her job to lie so that would be unfair. Anyway they're called the Diabolical Awards.

And the winner the 'diabolos' for that period. I assume diabolos because 'devil' was a little too direct. The details are unknown to me but we can assume they have some fun with it the way secret societies usually do, festivities and adornments and regalia and maybe a little fun-poking and food and noshes and maybe steaks and shit -- I mean these are Republicans. I picture Stephen Miller as permanent emcee so he's likely disqualified as well apart from everybody being scared as shit of him. Jeez, he's a creep. 

I assume they work it out with handicaps or whatever for the rest whose jobs involve varying degrees of necessary falsification. Of course Trump is disqualified because he's absolutely the greatest at everything he does and would win every time as at golf if he were allowed to be considered, 'compete' not being the applicable term because Trump does everything at such an insanely high level and so effortlessly and without even paying attention, just as with his innumerable business deals and successes. 

This award is like the 'salesman of the month' thing you see with some goober on a plaque at a car dealership but one would hope with more taste and gravitas in some form. The taste thing is a bit fluid now though they still turn out in suits and dresses as an informal uniform but it's hard to dodge the issue of Trump's appalling taste. Republicans make up for any possible propriety gaps with sheer compliance which makes the awards interesting because of the interplay of utter submission and inventiveness. 

I'll report more on this later if my source doesn't get discovered and eliminated, I hope with some specifics about awardees and how they get roasted as part of the proceedings and what they do if the reigning diabolos falls out of favor with Trump over an unintended slight. NOBODY deliberately crosses Herr Donald these days. Keep in mind all those subtle and not-so- messages intended as intimidation apply in-house as well and they're all scared as shit all the time which is thought to enhance creativity. 

A Seat at the Table

Republicans, it turns out, have a different idea of having a seat at the table. For them it doesn't mean belonging or having a voice and being acknowledged, it means a seat at a gambling table. They want a lottery -- winners and losers. That's bad enough, because it's arbitrary and inhumane, but the way they have it planned they're the house. They win no matter what.

Why Fascists Love Fossil Fuels

Because you can blow shit up with them.

Staggeringly Evil Bill Passes Senate ...

with some Republicans still screaming 'not evil enough!' 

Bessent Owns Class War

Scott Bessent, in an offhand moment and aside, owncd the Class War, pointing out that Democrats didn't stick it to the rich when they could. 'Yeah. you had your chance and blew it,' he was saying. But we didn't have our chance in a fair fight because this was a guerilla effort on their part and subversion. 

And Bessent wasn't working for the government, for us, when we missed our chance so it's different. You could say it was his job previously to look out for himself, according to Republican doctrine and their ultimate good of greed, but it isn't his job to look out for himself now. It's illegal. It's abuse.

If we have our chance again he needs to pay. He's exploiting a position of trust for personal gain. Their world divides into purely selfish people and suckers. One day the suckers will have to assert themselves because the rich want it all, down to your existence. They've made an end to era of rights. 

Bedraggled

So I'm thinking about a new version of the Faust story, à la 'Bedazzled' but without a denouement, titled 'Bedraggled.' Republicans have me wondering what's it's like to sell your soul and it was worth so little, because the market is flooded, that there's no real drama and then it just drags on fucking forever. And you crave anything -- glorious victory and world domination or some cesspool of sex and money and gluttony and having servants fawn your ass OR even total failure and a great car crash kind of ending with you as the car or at least in it but with the drama you're due and entitled to because you thought it was an act of consequence to sell your soul and it turns out it was nothing. You were totally inconsequential. I mean, look around you. The market is flooded! What did you expect? You sold your soul and got nothing but a massive heap of ennui. Congratulations, you idiot, and let it be a lesson, to someone, since it's too late for you now, you loser. 

Roger, Dodger

Draft dodger and career criminal Trump, who thinks public servants, including the military, are losers who couldn't cut it in the private sector, has suddenly become a fan since the military is one big-ass toy. So this is about Trump's mojo, which he is missing and trying to find. And nothing says mojo like blowing shit up so Trump is identifying with certain airmen and trying to use them when he's flown everything he's been in charge of right into the ground. Right, Donald, keep looking for your manhood. That activity is causing you to fly a country into the ground, with extensive collateral damage, and you'll be remembered as the worst president in history, you unbelievable fucking idiot. 

Conquest and Plunder

Now that Donald Trump has flushed $45M or whatever of taxpayer money down the toilet on the worst parade ever you would think his supporters would get a clue but of course not. They were already in a cult called the Confederacy. They were already in a cult called evangelical Christianity. Thump, always an active but lazy piece of shit, doesn't know what work is. He doesn't know what life is.

But he knows his audience, who are in the colosseum of conservative media enjoying the bloodshed and Trump is going to give them more. And there's an edge on it because they could end up fighting for their own lives, plucked from the stands into the arena. It's happening en masse as the budget bill of abominations works its way through Congress, impoverishing people into utter helplessness. 

The bill is nothing if not bold. Where is the money going? Don't ask. Where else, but to the already rich. A startling provision will initiate the greatest real estate grab in American history, the selling off of a huge chunk of the national trust of protected lands. Absolute plunder. You think your middle class neighbor will get a cottage out of this? No, and neither will you. But you might lose your health care. 

Eventually, if not right away. Because they want it all. This is conquest. And plunder. 

Cannon Law

I've been a hostage. I know how it feels. Trump is it. The Republicans are it -- thugs, society-rapers, hostage-takers, bullies, defamers and murderers. Soul murderers. Destroyers of innocence. Haters of civilization and decency. 

Modern civilization needed to be wound down. It's unsustainable. But not through national suicide, violence and catastrophe-baiting. Not by seeking apocalypse. Not by playing brinkmanship with a genocidal end to everything. 

We need a humane revolution. A new pact with nature and a reconciliation. A redo on dominion. A rebirth of true reason rooted in the realities and limitations of creation, not the cannon law of Trump and his his mafia goons.

Trump Runs Amok

Little Donnie Trump, scared as shit as always, is lashing out in every direction after being manipulated into a corner by the evildoers he assembled around him to shield him from the realization of what an incompetent and worthless piece of shit he is. He just can't win. 

Having an unbelievable opportunity to become a beloved and brilliant president after having cut through the constraints of a calcified political system instead he finds himself, yet again, in the shit up to his eyeballs because he's such a moron and hopeless incompetent. 

Paradise Looted

Paradise wasn't lost it was looted.

Ambition

I'm so sick of ambition. Sometimes I read something I think is good and look up the author and they've been all over the place, trying to stay ahead off the curve. And I feel like I've been had, a little.

Tiny Dick Concerts

While trying to put NPR out of business the White House has announced a new line of concerts to be held in the Oval Office and called the Tiny Dick Concert Series. It's designed to complement the big, patriotic wing-dings to be held at the Kennedy Center which Trump took over as though it was an invasion. 

Behind the scenes the concerts were suggested and are being planned by the Mojo Preservation Initiative that was formed to counter Trump's insecurities, massage his ego, and reassure him of the potency he never seems to have actually had. Trump had to go begging to daddy repeatedly after he fucked up everything and then continued to blow it through numerous bankruptcies and other humiliating episodes. 

After his father died little Donnie inherited incredible amounts of money but was only able to survive by turning to show business, his real estate work being a failure. As we know, Donnie is a massive congenital clown and fuckup. The concerts are designed to smooth over the disastrous early months of his presidency and generate good will as he crashes around, per usual, and smashes up everything like the fool he is.

Bogus Individualism

Individualism is always bogus. The people who seem most independent get there by being socialized in some way. Maybe in a good way, maybe in a bad way. Sustainably or destructively. 

Good socialization knows it's socialized. It's not in denial. Bad socialization is in denial, by thinking it's been victorious in a darwinian process so fuck you and the social contract you rode in on. 

The Great Brain Robbery

Souls disintegrate in the presence of Trump. But brains still function. Memories may be intact. Reason, discernible if divorced from reality. Because these brains are enslaved. Enslaved to Lord Trump. 

Sympathy for the Dictator

Little Donnie Trump has rediscovered his métier in the Middle East and done some bro-bonding there. Among the heads of the NATO countries he looked lost, out-of-place and uncomfortable. 

In tyrannies he comes alive. Little Donnie is a born tyrant and dictator. But not yet a man. 

Die! Fuck You! Die! Fuck You!

The Republican budget is taking shape and it's called Die! Fuck You! And it's message is Die! Fuck You! 

Fire Hazard

Apparently, the most influential persons in the Trump administration, when they're letting their clutch out on their day after god-knows-what-kind of breakfast they devour, crave fucking up some lives. They want to fire some people, especially if those people are helping other people, thereby producing a multiplier fuck-up effect and maximizing the destructive potential of their day, at the end of which they can now go to some exclusively MAGA nutcase watering hole and rub elbows with other sociopaths and tell tales of the lives they've destroyed and speak longingly of the end-times the evangelicals crave when Jesus will scoop them up and take them to heaven where they belong instead of on this shit planet.

DOG'D

Is Elon Musk's Department of Government Depradation using the government to prey on average citizens or is Elon himself preying on the government? The situation is dynamic but it's both. Underlying it is a power grab. 

Planned or compulsive? I don't know, but Elon is reducing the government to a lackey organization for the rich and using it to disempower and plunder average citizens. And he and his droogs are dogged and determined. 

Fade Into Him

Trump absorbs people. They lose their souls. They lose their independence and identity. Trump is the void, not so much pure evil but the loss of the distinction. In Trump there is no good, no evil, only Trump. 

Nothing there and no room for anything else. 

You can't make sense of meaninglessness. Trump is meaninglessness personified, the anti-logos. The anti-Christ. Evangelicals love him because they associate him with prophecy and the Second Coming. 

Right.

Hide Those Beatles Records

Russell Vought and Stain on Humanity, his band, are taking the country by stormtrooper. They're still fighting the Civil War so if you think John Lennon's smart-ass remark is old and forgotten you're wrong. Losers have long memories.

And southern evangelicals are America's losers. They've been wrong about everything. The wrong side every time. It's no different now. Herren Vought and Vance are coming for you. And your Beatles records. You better hide them now. 

Dictators Without Borders

Rich fuckers are trying to initiate a world government of rich fuckers. All the power to them. The capabilities of the surveillance state were already scary. And the new robotic warfare. Add AI to that, whatever the fuck it is, and if it doesn't scare you you're not seeing it right. Musk is obsessed with data for a reason. He's nuts but his vision is pure. A vision of total control by superior beings like himself.

Modest Musk

Elon is way too modest. And blindingly arrogant. He's so blindingly arrogant there's no connection in his head between his actions and their effects. And there never will be. Brace for impact. The worst possible person is in a position to do the most harm. 

Black Like Us

Southern, white American idiots have voted themselves down the river and it's beginning to encompass larger swaths of innocent citizens who will unjustly pay for the stupidity and immorality of the racists. Racists want the plantation owners to protect them from the masses of colored folks, like the old days. 

The morons have united themselves with the minorities, becoming functionally black. They are now black and brown, turning themselves into parts of an expanding, multi-ethnic, increasingly disenfranchised and disempowered underclass of losers. Never underestimate the stupidity and indecency of rednecks. 

Alien Enemies

With perfect consistency Trump and his flunkies reveal what they are and what they're doing in what they lay on others. They label simple immigrants 'alien enemies' to make them subject to imprisonment and deportation. The real alien enemies are Trump and his supporters, because they are the Confederacy.

And we're witnessing conquest, pillage and plunder. They're salting the fields of democracy. They're trashing the infrastructure of freedom. They're dismantling the 'rule of law' and equal protection, to make democracy irrecoverable. Toast. Ashes and dust. And, if we get in the way, us as well. Ashes and dust.

Almost Infamous

Trump has almost reached the end for which he is destined, utter self-immolation. I feel like Paris as the Nazis pulled out. He'll want to burn us down but will he succeed?