Moral Injury

The concept of moral injury arose in the military. It was used to describe the horror and hopelessness felt by soldiers who had followed immoral, even if not strictly illegal, orders. It was a loss of faith — in themselves, their ability to know right from wrong, their ability to trust their leaders and their fellow humans to act with moral decency.

The concept is useful to describe the communal injury we all (well, about 67% of us) are having inflicted on us continually as billionaires seek to control all of our life decisions in the service of maximizing their already unnecessarily exponential profits. Here’s our billionaire president, addressing leaders of the other 192 member nations at the UN yesterday:

In his speech today, President Donald J. Trump, reading haltingly off a teleprompter, said: “I have a big decision to make. Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before, maybe one of the greatest in the Middle East or even the world? Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again? Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations?” source

Threatening to commit a crime against humanity is a crime against humanity, under international law. Except in the Bizarro World these supremely determined moral injury inflicting psychopaths inhabit.

Example of a direct description of moral injury:

A moral injury is a deep, painful wound to our sense of justice, of right and wrong, our faith in our fellow humans. It involves a loss of faith in our own judgement and sanity and that of our leaders and those who purport to protect us. Victims of moral injury frequently feel suicidal from the hopelessness of their sense of loss. We are, all of us, in this overwrought moment in history, deliberately subjected to moral injury at all times in our 24/7 age of instant influence, concentration of power and assertion of anti-consensual, corporate control as the party in power tries to “own” everybody else.

Our elected government asserts its right to kill foreign nationals in fishing boats far from our shores, on mere suspicion of drug running, and execute the wounded survivors of the boat strikes with drones; explode girls in their classrooms in Minab, mistakenly targeted by AI for a US Tomahawk missile strike, kill more girls in a follow-up strike and claim their own leaders killed the girls with US missiles; to shoot, point blank, in the back, in the face, American citizens who pose no threat to masked federal agents and claim the murdered citizens were terrorists; to keep “illegals” guilty of no crime in concentration camp conditions, cramped, without decent food and water, medical care or sanitation, brutalized by guards; we get to annihilate Iran if the leader wants to; sadly the list continues for longer than I can sit here tapping at the keyboard (without vomiting).

All of these things, done in our names, inflict a moral injury on a large sector of the population.   This injury is compounded by the feeling of helplessness imposed by the constant aggressive assertion of the right of the privileged elite to act upon the rest of us without our consent. 

If you can shoot a woman in the face, point blank, and as her dying body slumps on the gas pedal and the car veers off to crash into a tree, call her “fucking bitch” at the end of the video you made of the entire murder — and your government immediately claims that the murdered woman was a domestic terrorist attempting to kill an agent righteously performing his duty, who shot her three times in self-defense while 100% immune from prosecution anyway, try to imagine something worse that one person can do to another, that a government can do to its citizens.  If that kind of cold-blooded murder by a government worker is “perfectly justified”– then, literally, any atrocity you can think of is fine.

This is always the tactic of fascists. The state has a monopoly on the use of deadly force. If you can ensure the state is fascist, a rigid hierarchy controlled by an all-powerful, unscrupulous, unaccountable elite marshalling the citizens for spectacle and war only, the game for absolute control of everyone is won.

As for our moral injuries, we are told to be quiet and not whine about them. Our supremely intrusive non-consensual government, committing its many heinous crimes openly, brazenly justifying them, calling murdered victims the perpetrators, dead perpetrators righteous martyrs, millions in compensation paid to their families, is bascially telling us to take our moral injuries somewhere quiet and go fuck them.

The academic approach to defining moral injury  (which is explains why so many hate academia):

Moral injury (MI) is characterised by persistent psychological distress following events that violate moral beliefs. There has been a lot of interest in moral injury particularly over recent years given our increasing knowledge that MI is linked with adverse mental health outcomes including PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), depression, and suicidality. Whilst we know that potentially morally injurious events (PMIEs) can cause moral injury, there is no agreed definition of what a PMIE is. Often discussions on this topic suggest that PMIEs should be ‘high stakes’ events although there is no agreed threshold as to what events are high stakes and what events are not. source

With all respect — fuck you, Dogg. You will perhaps gain insight into the parameters of legitimate PMIEs, and the predictive track of their MI-derived adverse mental health outcomes, once you lose funding for your essential research into the exact nature of moral injury.

The rest of us know a moral injury by experiencing the pain of it, even if we don’t know what to call it.

Hitler would be so proud

Trump’s grandfather dodged military service in Germany, while making some money in the US, and was deported from Germany on his return to the Fatherland. Trump’s father pretended to be Swedish during World War Two, while also avoiding military service, this time in the US (he was a birthright citizen, both of his parents German immigrants) — with a doctor’s report that he had bone spurs.  Donald also got a series of military deferments during the Vietnam War for bone spurs that somehow didn’t interfere with, in his telling, being a highly valued major league baseball prospect.

The family is of German origin, and Trump and his father shared many of the values of the Third Reich: racism, belief in a genetic hierarchy that made them naturally superior, a world composed of über and üntermenschen, militaristic defense of blood and soil, killing of all enemies, the necessity for ruthless cruelty in the face of the curse of that Jewish invention (according to no less an authority than Mr. Hitler himself) — conscience, and the rest of the Nazi’s compelling ideology.

I read the news just now, on Yom Kippur of all days (more on that later) that Trump (through his handlers at the Heritage Foundation and their autocratic ilk) is planning to announce sanctions to defund the International Criminal Court, the body created after the atrocities of World War Two, the killing of tens of millions of civilians, to allow the civilized nations to enforce laws against war criminals who commit crimes against humanity. He plans to do this at this week’s gathering of UN leaders under the theme “Restoring Trust, Managing Transformation: A United Nations that Delivers for All.”

Needless to say, Trump isn’t buying that commie bullshit. Mr. Hitler’s, and Japan’s, effective, punishing, iron law of humanity war strategies have been very unfairly portrayed by the lying media, biased, woke historians, America hating museums, surviving eye witnesses and so-called academia, according to apologists like Trump. They lie as easily as they breathe, these so called victims…

Read all about it. Mr. Hitler is smiling down there in the smoking section of that hot place where he’s spending eternity, according to the religion he was born into.

Meanwhile, media silence on this deranged “truth” from the 47th president, vomited out a week ago, during business hours, for a change.

Don’t forget that the Crooked Joe Biden FBI, posing as Trump’s FBI while Trump was still president, incited a fake riot at the Capitol to make Trump look bad and help the guy who just stole the election from Trump become another illegitimate Dumocrat prezzzident…

Here’s Todd, who was there at Butler, he claims, when the president miraculously survived a murder attempt, by less than 1/2 an inch, waiting his turn to resume his many services to the demanding, but delicious, candidate who was almost killed by Biden and his FBI director, who had been appointed by Trump, but was a vicious traitor ready to murder his benefactor, like all the betraying RINOs who conspired with Democrats, Muslims, “Illegals”, Communists, Blacks, Women, the Woke, Dead Voters, etc. in the steal of the 2020 election. Makes perfect sense, right Mr. H?

You’re making your idol so proud, sir. (tears streaming down my face as I type those words)

No reason NOT to trust them not to commit crimes

Just because Trump’s backers spent $50,000,000 on an ad campaign, between the time he lost in 2020 by seven million votes, (and an electoral college margin identical to his MANDATE in 2016) to convince his 39% diehard supporters that the election was stolen, brought dozens of failed, evidence-free lawsuits, twisted state election officials’ arms, submitted slates of fake electors, had a detailed plan for Congress to overturn the election results, lateraled the strategic ball to an uncooperative, Constitution obeying Mike Pence, staged a violent assault on the Capitol and all the rest, doesn’t mean that they will do any of these things again. Of course not.

Maya Angelou: when somebody tells you who they are, believe them.

We know who these criminals are. We know who pardoned the worst of the worst. We know he sells pardons, CBS even gave us a price list on their recant 60 Minutes episode — though pointing out that it was perfectly fine, legal, kosher. We know Trump wants his new postmaster general to ignore the Supreme Court and secretly refuse to deliver mail from selected zip codes, as the predecessor postmaster, Trump megadonor and arrogant piece of shit Louis DeJoy, surely did in 2020 and 2024. My hair was on fire before the 2024 election, knowing exactly how DeJoy could put his ass on the scale to benefit his unpopular, incompetent, vicious candidate. I sent mail to friends in other states and tracked how long it took to be delivered, sometimes it was weeks. I followed Jon Ossoff’s visit to the Atlanta regional distribution center, after DeJoy ordered all high speed mail sorting machines dismantled in majority Democratic cities. I tried every way I could think of to get somebody to cover the story, get someone in government to explain why Trump’s postmaster was still on the job and three Biden appointees to the Postal Board of Governors were in limbo. I got no response, not even from Ossoff, who had seen how DeJoy could turn a dial in a given regional center to move on time delivery from 90% to 40% at will. The hideous details of my futile attempt are here.

We need to vote early, win the midterms by margins too big for the MAGA election officials to fuck with. We need to stay focused on the goal of overcoming these Nazi fucks, many of whom have been home on vacation until after the election so no vote can be held in the House of Representatives. MAGA Mike “Christian/Constitutional Scholar/Closeted Kewpie Doll” Johnson, taking no chances on any votes that could embarrass his party, and there are many upcoming votes that would. The wheels are falling off the MAGA shit-wagon, and even some of the buzzards are starting to fall off.

Below is a sampling of past and present crimes being committed by our criminally insane Leader and his administration. May it fuel your determination to vote these psychopaths out of power.

We can all be disgusted that Hakim Jefferies met with Trump’s unofficial Board of Peace diplomatic minister with a multi-billion dollar Saudi/UAE portfolio. It is sickening. We have to vote for every Democrat on the ballot, even the corporate ones, and let the new Democrats — and our voices — get them into line once Trump is on the defensive in Congress, where a criminal president belongs, no matter what affable, corporatist balls and strikes umpire and supreme partisan John Roberts may feel about this individual criminally insane representative of his class and “racial” interests. Fuck those putos, but vote for even the shittiest Democrats, since that is our only path to moving forward as a democracy. Once MAGA is voted out of power, we can straighten the rest of this out.

Seven NY Times Takeaways from Trump-a-Palooza

Conspicuously, the NY Times did not find space to mention that the president asked everyone at his “convention” to raise their right arms and take an oath to cheat at the polls because, according to his “abuser is actually the victim” ideology, the Democrats are trying to rig the election. You can read the Grey Lady’s seven takeaways here.

You won’t find the biggest takeaway reported on. What is wrong with “legacy media”? It is corporate, and being a corporate “person” means never having to admit you’re wrong, or that anything that could possibly benefit you is wrong. Nothing wrong with this, apparently (at least he wasn’t wearing a tan suit, or being demented, like Biden at the debate!)

Please raise your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can’t even breathe. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I’ll do it any way — I don’t care if I’m registered or not, I’m going to try to cheat like hell like they do. There’s never been bigger cheaters. They don’t care. I am going to go out and I’m going to get my friends, my family. And we are going to vote on Nov. 3, or we are going to vote before that.

Because I can’t stop banging my head against the wall sometimes, I wrote to the article’s authors just now:

I read your article and was dismayed that one of the takeaways was not the president asking the crowd to raise their right hands and take an oath to commit voter fraud.

How is this not mentioned?

Please raise your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can’t even breathe. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I’ll do it any way — I don’t care if I’m registered or not, I’m going to try to cheat like hell like they do. There’s never been bigger cheaters. They don’t care. I am going to go out and I’m going to get my friends, my family. And we are going to vote on Nov. 3, or we are going to vote before that.

The Times does some valuable reporting, particularly the investigative pieces.  I don’t understand the timidity of tone in addressing serious, serious issues raised by having an incompetent, erratic, destructive, divisive, vindictive, increasingly demented, president with complete control of the federal government and one of our two political parties.   One who has also done, or is trying to do, everything on the far-right Heritage Foundation’s anti-democratic Project 2025 checklist.  Your takeaways suggest some kind of normalcy.

To borrow a phrase as deeply cynical (in the context of its use) as “arbeit macht frei” (though actually true) “democracy dies in darkness.”

Any explanation for the omission of the takeaway above would be greatly appreciated,

I’m likelier to get an email from Mr. Trump himself than from either of the two New York Times reporters, I’m pretty sure.

To suggest the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, a bullet from an assault rifle miraculously missing the anointed presidential candidate’s brain by a fraction of an inch, ripping his ear and killing a man behind him, was staged? Ugliness! Ungraciousness!!! Disgusting lack of decency! Treason! Nobody in either party or the media dared to suggest the obvious at the time — even after no medical records were released, after the instant killing (and expedited cremation) of the shooter seconds after the shots were fired, even with no scar on the victim’s ear (further proof of God’s grace toward his chosen favorite, no doubt). A year after Trump miraculously survived a deadly assassination attempt that killed a bystander, a retired police detective posted this, which seems so obvious it should have been pointed out the day after the shooting. Here’s Snopes with the whole story — you be the judge.

World economy between a rock and a hard place, and a new oath to the Leader

Saudi Arabia, medieval Sharia Law monarchy, home of almost every 9/11 hijacker and almost certainly the biggest beneficiary of the late night Sept. 10, 2001 stock sales that netted some still anonymous parties many, many billions, was shipping through the Red Sea. A proxy for Iran just closed that shit down. Here’s the map. World economic crash, here we come!

Not to worry, we have a strategic and very stable genius, Putin’s confidant, and the most honest man ever to hold a nation hostage, in charge of everything. In our names. He’ll be fine. And God bless these United Shayyysh.

If you missed it, it’s worth checking out the Führer-oath that Trump had his followers repeat at his recent Trumpapalooza.  Note that nobody saw him sleeping at that historic event, though he was dozy at the 9/11 ceremony he attended at the Pentagon.  Check this mad shit out:

Please raise your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can’t even breathe. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I’ll do it any way — I don’t care if I’m registered or not, I’m going to try to cheat like hell like they do. There’s never been bigger cheaters. They don’t care. I am going to go out and I’m going to get my friends, my family. And we are going to vote on Nov. 3, or we are going to vote before that.

Get your vomit bucket ready, patriots

Quick flashback to the Day of Love, January 6. 2021

And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.

Our exciting adventures and boldest endeavors have not yet begun. My fellow Americans, for our movement, for our children, and for our beloved country.

Nazi megalomaniacs will be Nazi megalomaniacs…

And God bless the United Shayssh

This is why the GOP has to rig this election to have any hope of remaining in power

If you can’t win an election based on the popularity of your policies, and you must maintain power because of the many crimes your administration has committed, including many war crimes and massive public corruption, there are many ways to make sure people who dislike the job you’re doing don’t vote you out of the majority. Most of the ways are illegal , but, as Trump told his angry crowd on the Patriotic Day of Peace and Love, January 6, 2021 (note his bashing of tech billionaires, now his fondest ass lickers), [1]

The Republicans have to get tougher. You’re not going to have a Republican Party if you don’t get tougher. They want to play so straight. They want to play so, sir, yes, the United States. The Constitution doesn’t allow me to send them back to the States. Well, I say, yes it does, because the Constitution says you have to protect our country and you have to protect our Constitution, and you can’t vote on fraud. And fraud breaks up everything, doesn’t it?

“When you catch somebody in a fraud, you’re allowed to go by very different rules.“

So you invent fraud that allows you to go by very different rules. You have Putin’s agents call in 2,000 Election Day urban polling place bomb threats instead of the mere 200 they phoned in to Democratic majority districts, in 2024. You post armed masked Klansmen and wife-beaters at all majority Black and Hispanic polling places, to protect The Homeland (die Heimat- in the original German) from communist election fraud.

You conspire with your Postmaster to illegally enforce your selective ban on mail-in voting, to suppress enemy votes. With a partisan, complicit, Supreme Court majority ready to help out on an emergency basis 90% of the time, you create chaos over invasive new federal regulations for mail-in voting. The 6-3 Federalist Society majority can be counted on to make emergency shadow docket decisions that delay or expedite, as required, help sow confusion, make random, senseless rulings effectively allowing Trump to act illegally and making sure their fellow travelers can funnel unlimited dark money to their candidates, and ensure broadcasters provide the lowest possible rates for their attack ads (like Friday afternoon’s order).

You, the federal government, continue to illegally seek voter rolls from the states, who are in charge of all elections in their borders, so Trump’s people know exactly who to disenfranchise, whose legally cast ballots not to count, no matter how many courts rule against you on this illegal request. The Supreme Court Six will help out in a pinch to do whatever is needed. Your 0-23 record in these voter roll release demand cases, in the 23 states who have fought back so far, is no impediment to the unappealable Supreme Court, who now routinely rules for Trump without even hearing arguments on the merits, or being encumbered by their own precedents, before issuing an anonymous, per curiam, thumbs up for their favorite grifting dotard.

You plant violent criminals in peaceful crowds and have them cause riots that require the National Guard, ICE, CBP, The Bureau of Prisons, the National Parks Service, the Secret Service and other federal officers to put down. Deputize the KKK. In a pinch, you stage a dramatic, 9/11 style mass-death terror event two days before Election Day, burn down Congress, kill a number of elected officials, declare a state of national emergency, the Insurrection Act.

Blame communists, transexuals, environmentalists, Muslims, Immigrants, Haitians, Syrians, college students, woke communist professors, Palestinians, anti-Semites, Jews, Black Lives Matter, experts, scientists, DEI, CRT, Trump Derangement Syndrome, Dumocrat freedom-hating terrorists, The Southern Poverty Law Center, the fake news, gays, naturalized citizens, vaccine supporters, RINOs etc. It really doesn’t matter who you blame, as long as you can put boots on the ground to enforce the election results you desperately need.

There is also AI, the main weapon of Trump’s former enemies in the tech sector. Now that Trump has all these psychopaths lining up to kiss his “ring” AI, which appears to be uncontrollable and accelerating rapidly in its ability to destroy, is in the service of MAGA. As is nationwide surveillance, Palantir, every advanced data mining and data undermining tool of the fascist billionaire vanguard.

All of these stratagems, and more, are on the table for Trump in the midterms. January 6th was just a dress rehearsal. If only he’d let the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers ferry that weapons arsenal across the water from Virginia to arm the love army at the Capitol and had had the courage not to call in the National Guard… I’m sure many of his people who smashed their way into the Capitol still feel cheated that they didn’t get to hang Mike Pence, especially after what they suffered at the hands of Biden’s weaponized DOJ for merely breaking into a joint session of Congress to prevent Biden’s certification.

The Heritage Foundation, founded to limit mass participation in democracy and foster autocracy as the surest way for the best and most important citizens to rule everybody else, while moving all wealth upwards to themselves, laid out a detailed blueprint of what they would immediately do if their candidate got back into power. President Project 2025, not known for keeping his word, or being faithful to any person or principle, has followed that blueprint faithfully– as he kept his 2016 promises to The Federalist Society, the wealthiest Americans and Evangelical Christian leaders.

The effect on most of us, not among the best and most deserving, has been pretty bad so far, deadly for some, precarious for millions. The rich have become richer, which nobody can deny — or explain the necessity for. 1/4 of our record $40,000,000,000,000 national debt was stacked on by business genius and serial bankrupt Donald Trump, working tirelessly for his masters — and, of course, for himself.

The Nazis could not have come to power in Germany without widespread economic desperation, worldwide misery, terror and violence. When people lose their homes, their livelihood, healthcare, their right to vote, their neighbors to masked men in unmarked vans and assault weapons, who take them to private concentration camps whose stock prices are going through the roof and people have to choose between food and gasoline, while your leaders lie and openly ignore the needs of the everyone but themselves, you have the basic foundation for civil unrest. Wealthy political appointees ostentatiously use private government jets as American farmers are literally losing their farms because of Trump’s billionaires only policies and his childish, vindictive tariffs. What you really need, if you are an aspiring fascist movement, is a devastating worldwide Depression like the 1929 one that brought us Mr. Hitler and his crew.

Trump is doing everything in his power, and beyond it, to crash the world economy (see, for example, Strait of Hormuz, trade war with Canada, weasel-dicked support for Putin and other war criminals), as he concerns himself exclusively with insider trading, lucrative quid pro quos with eager billionaires seeking government contracts, fleecing his most loyal supporters (he made over a billion on his cryptocurrency, up front, his suckers lost almost five billion on their investment) and building massive, gilded monuments to his flailing ego. He sends government lawyers to court every day to argue that he gets to violate all laws, ignore any rulings he doesn’t like and build golden tributes to himself, no matter what the law might say about building permits, unauthorized demolitions, states being in charge of elections, etc. He doesn’t care how any of it looks.

And Trump says so out loud, that’s his genius, the reason millions still admire his honest, open, unrepentant lies — he looks into the camera and honestly announces that he doesn’t care about the American public, he claims to care only about preventing the terrorist state of Iran from getting nuclear weapons. His followers are infected by what psychiatrist, and expert on violent psychopaths, Bandy Lee calls Trump Contagion. His psychopathy has been embraced by his most ardent followers.

His endless self-serving lies have given his base’s worst instincts permission to express themselves, freed lynch mobs to lynch again, and his angry, frightened, violence-prone supporters love him unconditionally for the exhilaration expressing their hatred provides them, whether or not they can see the nooses he has ready for them (ask any non-billionaire American farmer).

Project 2025’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” which shifted hundreds of billions to the billionaires and their corporate alter egos, is set to take full effect right after the 2026 midterms. Expect things to immediately get much worse for the average American once all the delayed budget cuts kick in.

To call ICE and CBP detention centers privatized concentration camps is not an exaggeration. With the backing of Trump’s administration (including an FBI documented $50,000 bribe to “border czar”Tom Homan, right before the 2024 election), and the assistance of armed, violence-prone, fully immunized masked federal agents, the owners of these lucrative hellholes have fought allowing members of Congress to conduct inspections. The death toll in our American concentration camps is unknown, though conditions are known to be horrible. We can assume the death toll is rising as detentions increase. These deaths don’t count the more than 200 South American fishermen pulverized on the high seas by toxic masculinity poster boy, and pirate, Pete Hegseth, killer of 160 girls in an Iranian school mistakenly targeted by AI. Hegseth is almost certainly getting regularly shitfaced again.

Once you disenfranchise (literally) and immiserate millions of working class Americans, you can rule unimpeded by so-called democracy and do whatever you like to these hateful losers. Why not put a couple of million of them into GEO and Core Civic detention facilities, concentration camps, actually, if only to teach the rest a nice, tart lesson? Cah-ching! One dirty hand washes the other. Blame the poor for being helpless, feckless, shiftless, greedy, thieving, endlessly grasping. If they complain, or try to organize, it’s class warfare! The only class entitled to defend itself in war is the victorious class, the best of the best…

To ensure that wars, so good for business, investment, and economic devastation here and abroad continue unimpeded, and our allies shift as needed to justify hundreds of billions more for “the Department of War” we send completely unqualified idiots to negotiate peace in various forever wars. What is the arrogant, mediocre real estate grifter Jared Kushner’s credential to be a peace envoy? He got to do what Trump only fantasized about, have sex with Ivanka.

Plus, his criminal father, who committed felonies and was pardoned by Trump, the US ambassador to France, is a real estate billionaire. You only need to hear Jared Kushner speak for a moment to get a sense of the depth of his skill and experience. We did the unthinkable, says the billionaire imbecile. including weaponizing a worldwide plague with a war against mask mandates (masks are for the American Gestapo only!) to unnecessarily kill a half a million Americans in the name of reactionary MAGA and dividing our country to the brink of civil war.  Plus Jared got literally billions from Muhammad bin Bonesaw, the Palestinians are irrational and impossible to negotiate with (nice beachfront real estate, though) and libtards are all just deranged, enraged, jealous cucks who want our federal stuff when it belongs to the federal! Here’s the boy genius in his own words.

[1] My favorite stream of consciousness digression during Trump’s mad incitement speech on J6:

And I had Brian Kemp, who weighs 130 pounds. He said he played offensive line in football. I’m trying to figure that out. I’m still trying to figure that out. He said that the other night, “I was an offensive lineman.” I’m saying: “Really? That must have been a very small team.” But I look at that and I look at what’s happened and he turned out to be a disaster. This stuff happens.

Amazingly, Trump’s corrupt IG at DHS seems to have allowed the release of this whistleblower complaint

The same Trump loyalist, Joseph Caffari, who oversaw, and covered up, the innocent, totally inadvertent deletion of all Secret Service and DHS texts and tweets as the U.S. Capitol was being sacked on January 6, 2021, appears to have allowed the release of a whistleblower complaint regarding the random, rushed hirings of unqualified, unvetted, violent goons for Trump’s licensed to kill Gestapo, ICE. You can read all about it in the New York Times. Click on the image below.

Biden made a tremendous mistake not firing Caffari, for cause. Trump, on the other hand, following the plan laid out by the determined fascists at the Heritage Foundation who authored Project 2025, immediately, summarily, fired 18 federal agency watch dogs, Inspectors General like Caffari. Removing these ethics supervisors allowed Trump, acting through one of his most unstable, and generous, campaign donors, Elon Musk, to slash and destroy dozens of agencies, for “waste, fraud and abuse” (the domain of IGs), laws and ethics be damned. The same goes for Trump’s new postmaster, appointed by his new Postal Board of Governors, after swing vote Kirsten Synema kept Biden’s three nominees locked up in committee until Trump was back in power.

Here’s the USPS Whistelblower complaint, reported on by Amy Goodman at Democracy Now!

You can see here that 16 of the last 18 USPS governors were appointed by Republican presidents, members of the same party that crippled the Postal Service by passing a midnight lame duck law that USPS must prefund all retirement benefits 75 years into the future.

We are concerned, those of us who follow current events, that a criminally insane man famous for vindictiveness and frivolous litigation, using the courts to vex and cow anyone who has a claim against him, and now perversely using the DOJ to persecute his enemies, who is now exhibiting sleepiness and impulsiveness characteristic of dementia, is running our democracy, and the world, into worldwide economic misery and possibly World War Three (en route to global fascism, the corporatist dream).

Trump is only the savage figurehead for the elitist psychopaths who kicked in hundreds of millions, tax deductible, to put him back in power. Trump being Trump is good for their bottom line, as long as he does what’s best for billionaires like himself and his sons, Uday and Koosay, and his son-in-law, self-made billionaire mediocrity Jared “Son of A Convicted Felon Billionaire” Kushner. In respect to Jared’s father Charles, he is the US ambassador to France under Trump.

It’s not necessary for these insatiably greedy psychopath assholes to get together in a room and figure out what is best for them, in order to hatch an effective conspiracy. Their interests — being as obscenely rich as possible by any means necessary — align perfectly. Trump will always serve them, as long as the individual billionaires line up to lick his crusty ring. Google immediately changed its maps to show that the majority Canadian Lake Ontario is now called, by Trump’s infantile decree, Lake America. If you have fuck you money, and still line up to lick a dotard’s unwashed posterior, what does that say about your integrity and mental health?

It says, even if you have ten thousand million dollars, a hundred thousand million dollars, a million million, it’s still worthwhile to service an insane, demented man with the power to reward your services with even more money. Speaking of billionaires, here’s an actual photo of Donald with the mastermind he speaks to for at least an hour every week.

Trump gave Argentina’s dictatorial regime $40,000,000,000 in US taxpayer money for expenses related to staying in power. In Brazil and South Korea, would-be dictators who did exactly what Trump did to stay in office after he was voted out in 2020 are serving long prison sentences. That’s why Trump is punishing both of those countries. You reward friends and punish enemies, even a dozy dotard knows that.

Testing the First Amendment, 1, 2, 3

I’ve noticed recently that certain short youTube videos cannot be embedded here on WordPress. Video shorts pointedly critical of the fascist oligarchs who had the best and the brightest psychopath disrupters draft the unconstitutional, autocratic agenda for President Project 2025 cannot be embedded.  Most otherYouTube shorts can. 

Let’s test the one where the woman points out that Trump said certain museums are anti-American by mounting exhibits showing “how bad slavery was”. Trump illegally impounded and and withheld a billion dollars in funding for the Smithsonian. 

The capital’s premier museum system apparently has exhibits up that show slavery was quite bad, which is verboten in a hierarchical, carceral society these racists want run strictly as a white Protestant country for wealthy white men.  Let’s see if I can post this little video essaying laying it out for you:

Wow.  Nice of WordPress/youTube to allow me to embed this bit of critical thinking about the dictator’s penchant for erasing history and replacing it with transactional mythology. 

Here’s another one:

The New York Times is always delicate, sometimes squeamishly so.  We have all seen multiple witness videos that showed armed ICE or CBP agents repeatedly shooting a protester they had prone on the street. They shot bullets into his back, until he was dead.  These videos “appear” to contradict Mr. Hitler’s and Mr. Göring’s account of the shooting, which was 100% justified to protect the Homeland from a hateful terrorist killed, in self-defense, by righteous law enforcement, who eliminated a dangerous terrorist intent on killing us all in our beds.

Alex Pretti was not remotely a terrorist. He worked as an intensive care nurse at the VA and was exercising his First Amendment right to protest an aggressive military occupation of his city conducted under false pretenses by what turned out to be actual Executive Branch Death Squads.   He was also, according to every conservative and NRA member, exercising his sacred, inalienable, unrestrictable, Antonin Scalia-created Second Amendment right to carry a licensed firearm.  He did not hold the gun in his hand, brandish it or otherwise resort to it in any way during the scuffle with violent, masked thugs dispatched by an enraged, criminal president and his vampire Czar of deportations, Mr. Miller.  The pistol was removed from the back of Pretti’s belt after he was shoved to the ground, restrained and right before he was executed.  He was murdered by American law enforcement on a street in Minneapolis, not far from where a group of police killed. George Floyd. 

During that murder several Minneapolis policemen, including the man convicted of murder, Derek Chauvin, knelt on the unarmed Black man who begged for his life, and was suffocated instead.   A jury found the videotaped murder of George Floyd to be murder.   The murder of Pretti, also clearly murder, is claimed to be immune from prosecution because… Trump, The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, Antonin Scalia, John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Ginni Thomas, Samuel Alito and his shrewish wife, Boof Kavanaugh, etc. 

Equally horrific, the cold blooded execution of Renée Good, by a frustrated ICE agent named Jonathan Ross, whose delicate feelings were hurt by the snarky snideness of Good’s girlfriend a minute before he murdered Renée Good. He circled the car, filming himself as he went, went to the driver’s side window and shot Renée Good three times at close range, once in the face, and as her dying body drove the car into a nearby tree called her a fucking bitch before switching off his phone’s video camera. No charges can be brought against this fine American patriot, though the DOJ immediately began an investigation into whether Good and her smart ass girlfriend were terrorists.

Terrorists.   As Trump said about slavery, the thing that commie, America-hating museums show was bad, terrorism is bad.  Especially when it is committed by unaccountable states run by enraged madmen who relish the murder of their enemies.

Trump is a battering ram for insane “libertarian” billionaires

These billionaires may not like him personally, but kissing up to the vain, shameless autocrat has been fantastic for their bottom line, which is the only thing that truly concerns the hoarders of thousands of millions of dollars. I don’t know that every billionaire is genetically a psychopath [1], but the percentage is surely way above the psychopath’s 2% prevalence in the the general population. The billionaires most devoted to becoming trillionaires, and then quadrillionaires (a million million), are surely psychopaths. Trump is very handy for these best of the best and their desire to have, and to control, everything, which is the same driving impulse that animates Dozy Don’s every waking moment.

I stumbled on this description of the tech billionaire personality/philosophy listening to an interview The Nerd Reich author Gil Duran conducted with author Paulina Borsook. Her book, Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech [2], described exactly what we are up against today with the Silicon Valley elites that are forcing AI down everybody’s throat. Borsook’s book focuses on the unique personality type, and antihuman politics, of the fascistic billionaire tech bros. This description is from her 2000 book:

It bespeaks a lack of human connection and discomfort with a core of what many of us consider it means to be human. It’s an inability to reconcile the demands of being an individual with the demands of participating in society. Which coincides beautifully with a preference for — and glorification of — being the solo commander of one’s computer — in lieu of any economically viable behavior. Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable, fixable and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many political schools of thought do, these techno-libertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.

Almost nobody likes these motherfuckers.

In a new CNBC/Generation Labs survey that polled 1,088 Americans between the ages of 18 and 34, about 45% said AI would have a negative impact on their careers, compared to 10% that said it would help them.

A majority of respondents said they distrusted the leaders of major companies investing in AI—81% said they distrusted Palantir CEO Alex Karp, 79% distrusted Palantir chairman Peter Thiel, 76% distrusted Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, 74% distrusted Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, while around 70% said they distrusted Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

All you need to do is picture the smug faces of Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos, Alex Karp, the stilted way they speak, how they carry themselves, their self-proclaimed priorities and idiosyncratic dreams for the future. Clearly they consider themselves the most important people in the world, by a million miles. Why should they not also control it?

Donald Trump is a crude and brutal means to a crude and brutal end, a few obscenely wealthy people having control over everyone else on earth.   Trump’s first order of business, after his miraculous capture of all seven swing states by virtually identical margins, was to appoint his largest donor, technological wizard and chainsaw wielding racist Elon Musk, aided by a handful of twenty year-old hackers, to a fake commission to cut government fraud, waste and abuse.  Musk gleefully wielded that chainsaw to do untold damage here in the US while condemning millions in poor countries to death from preventable causes when he destroyed USAID.  He denies this vehemently, as those who can never be wrong always do.  He’s right, after all, he was briefly the world’s first trillionaire!  

Keep in mind, this dynamic is nothing new. The only difference now is they have technology to enforce everything they want to do.

Here is Gil Duran’s full interview with Paulina Borsook:

[1]

Here are three videos with James Fallon, the mild-mannered, affable neuroscientist who discovered he was a “prosocial” psychopath at 60, and realized he didn’t care when it was confirmed, proving he was a psychopath.  If you’re pressed for time, the TED talk is the most condensed of the three.   All three are fascinating and cover slightly different aspects.  The Moth story is a relaxed and charming telling of his personal story, the second is the same length but much more detailed, and also excellent — it includes his recent humane accommodations to his condition and a surprising moral realization.

Moth https://youtu.be/fzqn6Z_Iss0?si=2aby-jSOm5YbQmQU

This 7 minute TED talk, with the most science, and the direct connection of the “warrior gene” to violence, was done either before he saw the PET scan of his own brain or before was willing to talk about it:

In the TED talk he explains the biology, genetics, epigenetics and brain changes of psychopathy (a condition not listed in DSM-5, oddly enough).  The PET scans of the brains of psychopaths are always similar, a unique and recognizable configuration.  The recessive gene for psychopathy, MAOA, is on the X chromosome (making psychopathy much more prevalent in males, with only one X) and that in addition to passing on the gene, the mother produces an extreme volume of serotonin while the fetus is in the womb.   This overexposure renders the newborn immune to serotonin’s effects and so unable to really bond, feel empathy or have the capacity for regret (bonus: no hesitation or anxiety).  

This constellation of traits that some are born with explains things I am otherwise at a loss to grasp about our human world.  

[2] from the Yale Journal of Law and Technology:

Abstract: Paulina Borsook, high-tech cultural commentator and author of Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech, discusses Silicon Valley’s paradoxical “technolibertarian” attitude
towards the government and the Big Capital Establishment who made the meteoric rise of the technology industry possible. Borsook, in deconstructing the myth of the freewheeling Silicon Valley technogogue, exposes the fragile
connections between the Randian pretensions of today’s near-religiousegotism and the genuinely libertarian fringe from the salad days of the Internet.