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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, persistent wound to our sense of justice, of right and wrong, our faith in our fellow humans. It involves a crippling 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 that comes from their loss of faith in human goodness. 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 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, Doc. 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 MI.

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

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.

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.

A vile turd by any other name

Below is an irrefutable op-ed by Anthony Conwright, about the renaming of the Slaveholder Rebellion of 1861 to The War Between the States and finally The Civil War. This metamorphosis happened over the course of decades as the result of political lobbying by Confederate sympathizers.  Conwright draws the straight line to Trump doing the same thing at warp speed with his January 6th Day of Love when peaceful, victim patriots went to the Capitol where they were met by violent libtard cuck traitor cops… Those who refuse to learn the lessons of the past, as they say, are continually fucked the same way.

We are living, as the curse goes, in interesting fucking times.

If you can’t open the op-ed by clicking the image above, use this “gift” link.

US Army definition of fascism from 1945

This full description of fascism was provided to US Army personnel in the European theater toward the end of World War Two, when  democracy had finally, and at tremendous cost, was about to defeat fascism and reach a cautious stand-off with communism that would turn into the Cold War.  This is from the great Heather Cox Richardson:

The political ideology called fascism grew out of World War I, when former socialist Benito Mussolini rejected the equality that defined democracy and came to believe that a few leaders must take a nation toward progress by directing the actions of the rest. These men must organize the people as they had been organized during wartime, ruthlessly suppressing all opposition and directing the economy so that businessmen and politicians worked together. And, logically, that select group of leaders would elevate a single man, who would become an all-powerful dictator. To weld their followers into an efficient machine, they demonized opponents into an “other” that their followers could hate.

This theory drove the Axis powers during World War II, and in 1945, the United States War Department explained to U.S. Army personnel in the European theater of World War II what fascism was. The government focused less on the ideology of fascism than on its practical outcome.

Fascism, the pamphlet Army Talks explained, “is government by the few and for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political, social, and cultural life of the state.” “The people run democratic governments, but fascist governments run the people.”

“The basic principles of democracy stand in the way of their desires; hence—democracy must go! Anyone who is not a member of their inner gang has to do what he’s told. They permit no civil liberties, no equality before the law.” “Fascism treats women as mere breeders. ‘Children, kitchen, and the church,’ was the Nazi slogan for women,” the pamphlet said.

Fascists “make their own rules and change them when they choose…. They maintain themselves in power by use of force combined with propaganda based on primitive ideas of ‘blood’ and ‘race,’ by skillful manipulation of fear and hate, and by false promise of security. The propaganda glorifies war and insists it is smart and ‘realistic’ to be pitiless and violent.” source

And here’s how it’s done in a modern corporate society:

The sickening smiles at the end, between the journalist who asked a tough question and the tough guy who repeatedly danced away from answering it, are all about access. If you want someone like Jordan on your network, you have to smile and thank him at the end for stonewalling and essentially lying to your audience. Note that none of these guys are ever familiar with anything a journalist asks them about.

Then there is this tough guy presidential hopeful Nazi wannabe, bullying a retired public servant who gave the best available advice about preventing the spread of Covid, as his president lied about and weaponized the pandemic, killing hundreds of thousands Americans (including Herman Caine, who contracted the disease at a Trump rally), while countries that followed the practices Fauci advocated prevented countless deaths.

And finally, the State Department’s loyal lapdog to the Leader, presidential aspirant Little Marco, Viceroy of Venezuela, scourge of Cuba. He announces that the US wants to abolish the The International Criminal Court, take it down brick by brick because it weaponizes “statute” and “so-called international law”. The ICC was set up after decades of advocacy by idealists and humanists to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. It was created in response to the atrocities of the Nazis and the Japanese, and others, including the Soviet Union, during World War Two, and, horrifically, through the present day.

The US has never been bound by the ICC, Reagan explicitly repudiated its jurisdiction over the US when the ICC tried to hold him accountable for his illegal mining of Nicaragua’s harbor to aid the far-right Contras — who he also illegally gave millions to through the sales of munitions to Iran (Iran-Contra “scandal” — see Bill Barr, Act I) something explicitly barred by American law.

Trump hates the ICC because, theoretically, or even just symbolically, it could still move to hold him accountable for various war crimes, including the ongoing killing of over 200 fishermen at sea (accused, without evidence, of drug dealing — not a capital offense except in Duterte’s Philippines something he’s facing trial for at the ICC) and the reckless, pitiless murder of 165, mostly girls, at a girls’ school in Iran, not to mention war crime attacks on civilian infrastructure.

Getting rid of the International Criminal Court is the dream of every war criminal and mass murderer. If you think these people aren’t Nazis, think again.

Sorry, WordPress won’t allow me to embed this short video highlighting this last point.  Here’s the link:

https://youtube.com/shorts/BVuCJn993PI?is=0zavOcsim3I9XeJB

Hang Fauci, Smith, Schiff, Comey, James, O’Donnell, Talarico, Mamdani…

While Trump’s personal criminal lawyer Todd Blanche bobs and weaves, assuring senators with practiced lawyerly weasel words that he is no longer Trump’s personal criminal lawyer… “uh, excuse me, senator, I have to take this call from Mr. Trump…” MAGA is spraying its high-powered firehouse of cyclosporiasis full force.  

Put that fucking liar and self-aggrandizing fraud Anthony Fauci on the stand, let him plead the Fifth over and over so we can’t get him for perjury as we let the country see how clearly guilty he is of being a lying, self-aggrandizing fraud.  Look what he wrote in his personal diary!   Like we couldn’t get our hands on it!    Fauci had testified to Congress literally hundreds of times during his long term as head of the infectious disease unit at NIH.   His opening remarks went into detail about why this session he was subpoenaed to attend, years after his retirement, was different.  

This time it was purely political, a distracting partisan hate-fest as Trump implodes, to give FOX and the MAGAsphere endless talking points about what a lying, weaponizing dickhead Fauci was while he was nonchalantly killing a million Americans by ignoring Trump’s wise advice about not testing for Covid in order for the numbers not to keep going up and up. 

To watch Josh “Fistpump/flee in terror” Hawley aggressively interrogate Fauci over what color his tie was, what color the carpet was, whether Fauci had a dick, was to see a Nazi go after a Jew in a German courtroom from the mid-thirties until the day Hitler blew his own brains out in a bunker.  It brought to mind debate champ Lyin’ Ted Cruz’s Jew-baiting of mild-mannered nebbish AG Merrick Garland when he confronted Garland over the Nazi salute (directed at Jewish members of school boards) being protected First Amendment expression.  Check out Rand! Paul bullying Fauci’s lawyer.

Not to be outdone by his senate colleagues Hawley and Paul, pugnacious, unpinnable college wrestling champ and law school graduate Jim Jordan made a criminal referral to Blanche accusing Jack Smith of perjury on an extremely weak theory. Let us not forget that Jordan defied a subpoena from his Congressional colleagues and awkwardly dodged questions live on FOX about his conversations with Trump as his Day of Love riot was going on at the Capitol. MAGA knows better than to take oaths.

Jordan (who never actually became a lawyer) made a perfectly-timed fanciful criminal referral for Jack Smith while Todd was on the ropes for his unflinching service to every corrupt Trump whim, his refusal to answer questions honestly, his participation in, and defense of, Trump’s fraudulent Trump v. IRS “settlements”, his  refusal to put in writing what he stated under oath, his grudging, insulting,  pro forma meeting with Epstein survivors, his incoherent, contemptuous two page court filing response to Katie Phang’s lawsuit against him for the release of Epstein files and redaction logs (both required under the EFTA), and all the rest.  Jordan wrote his beautifully timed, if idiotic, criminal referral asking Blanche to investigate and prosecute Jack Smith for not answering a question Jordan and his colleagues never asked him.  In other words: perjury by a man, a scumbag, actually, who simply hated and persecuted Trump for no reason!  That will play well on FOX, OANN, Newsmax, Der Stürmer, et al.

Former U.S. attorney and deputy assistant attorney general Harry Litman fully demolishes law school graduate Jim Jordan’s incoherent criminal referral here.  This is what Republicans, running interference for the most corrupt president in world history, are saying about Jack Smith, who, unlike the rest of them, testified candidly under oath for hours. I turn this over to Harry:

Moreover, Trump and Judiciary Committee Republicans have undertaken a vicious defamatory campaign against Smith, part of the overall elaborate effort to whitewash Trump’s crimes. Trump called Smith a “deranged lunatic,” a “deranged animal,” a “criminal” who should be “thrown out of the country.” Grassley called his investigation “a runaway train that had no brakes” and declared in an official Senate Judiciary Committee press release that Smith and his “merry band of DOJ partisans weaponized the justice system” and that “it’s no surprise Smith didn’t play by the rules.” Kennedy, speaking to reporters outside the Blanche confirmation hearing, said: “I think he hates Republicans. He exercises power emotionally and immaturely. And I think he ought to have his head in a bag.” Cruz called the prosecutions “the worst political lawfare this country has ever seen.”

A defense against spurious false statement charges would serve as a public relitigation of Smith’s prosecutions and the mountains of evidence they were built on. It would remind the country—and re-establish for the historical record—who played their hand straight and who palmed the cards.

The hearing contained false and misleading statements, but they weren’t Jack Smith’s. In every public appearance, Smith has been scrupulous and by-the-book, which only makes sense since he knows the administration has him in its crosshairs.

The misconduct and false witness are on the other side: Trump, still lying about his crimes; Blanche, still straddling the untenable position of representing DOJ and his former client; Senate Republicans, still hiding under Trump’s coattails and hypocritically assailing Smith; and Jordan, in the self-appointed role of Torquemada, arrogantly leveling nonsensical charges against the one man in this farcical episode who actually followed the law.

Trump loves “acting” officials, and they love you, sir!

Evidence? We don’t need no stinkin’ evidence

Trump sued the BBC for $10,000,000,000 in monetary harm because he claims the BBC aired a clip of his speech on January 6, 2021 that maliciously and knowingly defamed him. Trump claims the British Broadcasting Corporation viciously, knowingly and deceptively edited his more than hour long January 6, 2021 Ellipse speech to make it sound like he urged an angry, armed crowd, without a parade permit, to walk down to the Capitol and make sure Mike Pence did the right (if not strictly legal) thing, and to fight (peacefully, peacefully!) like hell or they wouldn’t have a country anymore (the savage dark-skinned eaters of pet cats and dogs would get it, and put them all to the sword, presumably). It seems the BBC has no incentive to fold to Trump’s incoherent defamation demands in the TEN BILLION dollar lawsuit against them, like CBS, ABC and other spineless US broadcast corporations.

Now BBC, as the party sued, is entitled to discovery from MAGA man to prove his monetary damages as he tries to prevail on his claim that their version of his speech was inaccurate and deliberately false and harmful to his reputation and his finances (defamatory). The court gave the BBC, who has already turned over thousands of pages of evidence to Trump’s lawyers (Trump turned over about 700 pages, fair is fair) the greenlight to get Trump’s relevant business records (evidence of $10,000,000,000 in monetary harm) and depose people who were in his Day of Love War Room, the Oval Office and on the phone with him, in the days leading up to, and including, January 6th.  Trump’s lawyers tried to withdraw the monetary damages part a few days ago, to protect his problematic financial records from becoming part of the court file, but the federal magistrate blocked that attempt.   Be careful what you wish for, boss.

This childish and vindictive fellow has a thing about not needing to produce evidence of anything. The 2020 Donald Trump for President reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee, prior to the election Trump lost, brought over a hundred lawsuits to try to limit mail-in voting, drop boxes and other forms of early and absentee voting — during the pandemic, mind you. They lost almost all of these cases, for lack of evidence of voter fraud, proof of vote dilution, systematic Black cheating, Libtard cuck cheating, Feminazi cheating, Illegal ALIEN cheating, communist skullduggery, etc.

Remember, Trump claimed, without evidence, of course, that he’d been robbed of the popular vote win in his 2016 Electoral College victory by massive voter fraud, dead Mexicans voting for Hillary by the millions, as I recall him saying. A regular zombie apocalypse. He announced the appointment if Mike Pence and a MAGA schmuck from Kansas named Kobach to head a voter fraud commission. Their rigorous investigation ended in no finding of fraud and they closed up shop without bringing charges against anybody.

Announcing the formation of this voter fraud commission was one of those reptilian Trump propaganda moves, like when he told state election officials to just say there had been fraud and he and his friends in Congress would do the rest. Or when he told Zelensky to just announce an investigation into Hunter Biden on American TV, no investigation necessary. Or when he had a guy who dipped his hand into the reflecting pool indicted for a felony. Or when he subpoenaed New York Times reporters to a grand jury — subpoenas that were withdrawn by Todd Blanche’s DOJ when a judge gave him the choice of withdrawing them or having them quashed.

The reason Pence and Kobach didn’t find those millions of dead Mexicans who voted for Hillary in 2020 is clear enough. Here’s the far-right, Project 2025 Heritage Foundation’s authoritative Voter Fraud Database. Take a look. Explore the data, as the good folks at the Heritage Foundation invite you to.

You will see literally hundreds of cases of voter fraud documented over the last forty years or so — out of maybe a billion votes cast. The incidence of fraud is something like 0.0001%, which looks as bad as it is. There’s no widespread fucking voter fraud. Truth has never been an obstacle to psychopaths.

These lawless sociopaths believe judges Trump appointed are Trump judges and should rule like Aileen Cannon, the unleashed Colombian-born Kraken in her cozy Florida federal court. To their credit, many of the federally judges Trump appointed are not corrupt. I followed one of the 2020 Trump/RNC voter suppression lawsuits in Western Pennsylvania and was very impressed by 43 year-old Federalist Society member, Trump appointee J. Nicholas Ranjan, who wrote one of the most thorough dismantlings of a baselees lawsuit I ever read (tediously detailed highlights here).

When Judge Ranjan granted the motion from every sued county election board in Pennsylvania and ordered Trump/RNC to produce evidence of their claims, Trump/RNC told him they didn’t need evidence to prove their case.  Then they produced boxes of screenshots from public opinion shaping entertainment outfits FOX, Breitbart, OANN, Newsmax, Der Stürmer, Völkischer Beobachter [1], etc. 

Pugnacious dickhead, Trump-booster and supremely qualified chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Jim Jordan, a wiry college wrestler who could not be pinned, a law school graduate who did not pass the bar exam, an adult witness to sexual predation of college wrestlers who maintained Omerta to protect his boss (allegedly), sent fellow Trump lover Todd “I am, was, his criminal lawyer” Blanche a criminal referral urging him to investigate, indict and prosecute Jack Smith for perjury. The charge is based on a very attenuated legal theory, and, MAGA-style, with no credible evidence of a crime (Smith’s alleged perjury was in not answering a question he was not asked), in clear reprisal for Smith’s unpardonable public crimes against the Leader, a man unfairly subjected to countless witch hunts.  

Smith, in Jordan’s learned legal opinion, committed perjury when he lyingly answered a question posed by a MAGA interrogator about phone evidence he’d legally obtained as part of his investigation into the January 6th plot Jordan was a key player in. Recall Jordan’s twitchy tap dance when asked live on FOX if he talked to the president before or during the riot at the Capitol, recall his stuttering evasiveness. Jordan also disobeyed a Congressional subpoena and refused to testify before the January 6th Committee.   Senator Josh Hawley, neither as stupid or as uneducated as Jordan, and an actual lawyer, jumped on Jordan’s idiot theory, with the alacrity he showed scooting away from the rioters he’d fist pumped on his way into the Capitol an hour or two earlier, calling Smith a “serial perjurer”, presumably for his answers to questions asked, and not asked, about phone logs obtained showing calls to and from Trump as he attempted to overturn the 2020 election results.  

Evidence? The phones, including call records and hundreds of real time texts, of Secret Service agents and others at DHS intimately involved with Trump on January 6, 2021, were wiped clean under the watchful eye of corrupt Department of Homeland Security inspector general Joseph Cuffari. That mother violator, who waited six months (the time after which it would be impossible to retrieve any of this crucial evidence) to inform Congress that there were no texts or phone records from those around Trump as he fomented his insurrection, is still in his job, through multiple scandals and four years of Biden, one of the few IGs who survived Trump’s immediate Project 2025 purge of all agency watchdogs. Because when you have someone good, and loyal, who will bury evidence to help you out, you don’t fire someone like that.

Because when it comes to winning or losing, in the court of public opinion, what the fuck does evidence have to do with it anyway, am I right?

[1] The “fighting paper of the National Socialist movement of Greater Germany“, or “Kampfblatt der nationalsozialistischen Bewegung Großdeutschlands” as it called itself, had its origin as the Münchener Beobachter, or “Munich Observer”, an antisemitic semi-weekly scandal-oriented paper which in 1918 was acquired by the Thule Society with financial backing by Käthe Bierbaumer and, in August 1919, was renamed Völkischer Beobachter (see Völkisch and Völkisch movement).

America finally has our homegrown Hitler

JD Vance said it a few years ago, before Trump won the Electoral College to become president, that Trump could be “America’s Hitler”. Vance also compared Trump to heroin; Trump personally injects his poison into the veins of millions of hopeless, suffering Americans who become addicted to his rage and hatred. Now the unlikable sucking vacuum of Vice President Vance is poised for those very jobs, without a shred of the showman’s talent of our inimitable American Hitler, and with no sense of irony whatsoever. Oh, well.

We have a network of lucrative, privatized concentration camps owned by mega-MAGA donors — that we taxpayers pay for — and daily quotas for immigrant detentions (now totaling nearly 40,000 nationwide — cah-ching!) set by our own raging powerful Jewish Nazi, Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, a perpetually seething racist nobody elected (or would elect). I don’t understand fucking Jewish Nazis any more than I understand Blacks who embrace the vicious worldview of the Ku Klux Klan. Maybe Uncle Clarence can explain that to me, in one of his learned dissents…

Speaking of Nazi fucks, ICE, Trump/Miller’s well-funded, masked gestapo, has murdered several more people recently, two by shooting into their cars in the last week. This criminal outfit uses the same lie after every murder, “they weaponized their car to try to kill us” to justify shooting into moving cars to kill drivers or passengers.

The story is bullshit every time, as we all saw in the video of Renee Good’s murder by Jonathan Ross of ICE, whose own phone video ends with him calling the woman he shot in the face a “fucking bitch”. Of course, ICE prevented a doctor from attending to the dying Ms. Good, who they then publicly defamed as a “terrorist”. There was no car involved when ICE agents pinned Alex Pretti to the ground and shot him in the back repeatedly, but in that case, because they removed a legally possessed gun from his belt, they were, according to MAGA, morally entitled to kill him (just like the cops had every right to shoot Kyle Rittenhouse in the head after he killed people, and what about J6 Day of Love’s poor, martyred Ashli Babbitt WHO DID NOTHING WRONG and a Black guy shot her dead!?? — a bit of MAGA irony for ya…).

If American citizens can be murdered, on video, without any consequence by masked “federal law enforcement”, what hope does a Mexican man like Lorenzo Salgado Araujo (father of three American college graduate sons, shot to death in Houston) and Colombian citizen Joan Sebastian Guerrero (murdered in Maine with his three year-old daughter in the car) [1] have against the unleashed state sanctioned deadly violence of the US federal government?

This legalized government murder (the two men above were both identified by ICE post mortem as not the men they were looking for) and the countless deaths in detention (a number we’ll never know), is right out of the the Third Reich’s early mass murder playbook. You can only set up the death camps once the population accepts the government’s right to kill anyone they deem “other” or in any way undesireable. Stephen Miller and Marco Rubio delivered a speech the other day about hunting down “terrorist”enemies on the “left” in the US and worldwide, presumably all anti-fascists, the kind of people who protest outside of ICE concentration camps, presumably, or post mean things like this on the internet.

This legalized government murder (the two men above were both identified by ICE post mortem as not the men they were looking for) and the countless deaths in detention (a number we’ll never know), is right out of the the Third Reich’s early mass murder playbook. You can only set up the death camps once the population accepts the government’s right to kill anyone they deem “other” or in any way undesireable. Stephen Miller and Marco Rubio delivered a speech the other day about hunting down “terrorist”enemies on the “left” in the US and worldwide, presumably all anti-fascists, the kind of people who attend No Kings rally or protest outside of ICE concentration camps, presumably, or those who post mean things like this on the internet comparing Trump’s saintly Christian government to Hitler’s.

According to America’s president, ICE agents are well within their rights to shoot to kill anyone who doesn’t immediately stop their cars when cut off by an unmarked ICE van, put their hands up when heavily armed, masked men demand it, and allow themselves to be handcuffed, hooded, sent to a private concentration camp and shipped off to some dangerous “shithole country” whose language they don’t speak. Here’s a “Truth” directly from Trump’s ass, from the other day:

But at 6:45 this morning, Trump insisted—incorrectly—that the people ICE is rounding up are “Criminals, and we have to get them out. In order to do this, we must be strong, tough, and smart, and we CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.’s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP! Once we do, we are playing right into the criminal’s hands. The Radical Left Dumocrats would like to see this done, but it won’t happen on my watch. I.C.E., be judicious, fair and smart, and go back and do your very important job. Keep those Crime Stat Records coming! Remember, you are loved and respected in America.” source

We’ll be at a local vigil to remember and honor the two innocent men slaughtered in the street by Trump/Miller’s epic fury outfit, ICE. And to say their names, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Joan Sebastian Guerrero. What is wrong with people who accept the cold-blooded, brutal murder of innocents, and the lifelong trauma to their children, families and friends? Tom Homan, Markwayne Mullin, what the fuck happened to you to turn you into the unredeemed, murder-justifying, bootlicking asshole lackies you are today?

Todd Blanche, who piously claims to follow the law and the facts without fear or favor (as long as Trump tells him what the law and the facts are, what the fear is and what the favor is) will no doubt launch a full investigation into these ICE murders, as soon as he’s done meeting with a few of the adult women he doxed, including by publishing their nude photos as teenagers, in an innocent mistake made while being totally transparent about the heavily redacted, largely unreleased, nothing-to-see here, now totally released, Epstein files. It’s a ceremonial meeting with a small contingent of the Epstein survivors or have his nomination die in committee. One has to wonder what turned Mr. Blanche into a soul-dead psychopath. Or every Republican in the Senate and House, for that matter.

[1] from the NY Times:

Mary Hayes, who also lives nearby, said she looked outside at about 7:30 a.m., after seeing social media posts about the shooting. She saw a white car with the driver’s side window blown out, she said, and bullet holes in the windshield.

There was also a woman on her knees, screaming, Ms. Hayes said, alongside a young girl with a pink backpack who was being comforted by another child.

“I heard agony,” Ms. Hayes said. “I heard a howl that came from your soul, that your whole life had just changed and it was never going to be the same.” source

Epstein, Trump, Blanche, Roy Cohn

Trump criminal attorney, former and present, Todd Blanche, stood at a podium when he was elevated to Acting Attorney General and addressed Trump directly, telling him that whatever Trump decides his service to Trump and his agenda will be, Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General or no government role at all, “I’d say ‘thank you very much, I love you, sir”.

Blanche is neither an honest person nor a remotely ethical one. He should be repeatedly asked one question during his upcoming confirmation hearings. This excellent yes or no question was raised by Andrew Weissmann, former Department of Justice official . “Yes or no question. Is Donald Trump’s name in the millions of pages of Epstein files you have not released?”

I can hear Blanche, glancing over at the clock he needs to run out, stone faced, doing what they all do. “Senator… sen-a-tor… I have already answered that question and yet you persist in re-asking it over and over… Senator, do not try to reclaim your time, I am an officer of the court, senator, and the Acting Attorney General of The United States of America and you will treat me with the respect I am entitled to under the law. I serve the Constitution, as well as my client, Mr. Trump, the greatest American to ever occupy the Oval Office. Don’t interrupt me, senator…”

Blanche has already demonstrated his unfitness for the job over and over again. He has defied the law Donald Trump signed regarding full release of the unredacted Epstein files, on orders from his boss and sole client, Donald J. Trump. Blanche has the temperament of an angry, self-righteous lackey. He has disgraced the DOJ in ways even Bill Barr would not stoop to, though Barr was a lying abomination in the role of America’s top law enforcement officer.

Blanche’s open defiance of federal law, his brazen stonewalling of the Epstein Files Transparency Act alone, should disqualify him. So should the shameless services he rendered to Trump in the fake case Trump v. IRS that Trump brought against himself to get billions of taxpayer dollars, to fund an army of armed insurgents to disrupt the midterm elections. In a side deal, the next day, Trump/Blanche granted Trump and his accursed kin all immunity from IRS audits.

Regarding Epstein, how many times will the survivors of Epstein’s abuse have to make themselves heard before the law is enforced and the guilty men of power are held accountable, even if only be named publicly? Ghislaine Maxwell, the only person convicted connections to Epstein’s years of sexual abuse of junior high school girls, after speaking with Mr. Blanche, got a nice change of prison, from a high security one for sex offenders, to a much more pleasant one where she can practice yoga, have catered meals and her own puppy. Blanche has now changed DOJ rules to give himself the unappealable right to move federal prisoners anywhere he wants, with or without cause, reason or explanation. That’s how democracy works, if you’re a fascist working directly for the corrupt leader.

Check out the courage and dignity of these women. Compare it to the absence of courage and dignity in Todd Blanche and his MAGA confederates

And they made this video months earlier, when Epstein’s longtime Girl Friday, Lesley Groff [1], appeared to lie repeatedly to James Comer’s House Committee that hosted her for an informal conversation that was not videotaped or given under oath.

[1] The controversial 2008 non-prosecution agreement Epstein entered into with the Justice Department named Groff as a potential co-conspirator that the U.S. “will not institute any criminal charges against.”

Following Epstein’s 2019 death by suicide [there is no doubt he was suicided, by whom is the question — ed], the Justice Department continued investigating people connected to him, including Groff. A 2019 Justice Department list of Epstein family and associates named Groff as a “co-conspirator.” The list also included Maxwell.

A memo describing the department’s investigation after Epstein’s suicide details Groff’s interactions with Epstein’s survivors, including scheduling appointments, arranging travel and completing payments.

(from the PBS link above)

When Jeanine Pirro arrests and indicts Jonathan Karl for felony hand dipping, you’ll know it’s time to make for the weaponized border

This ABC reporter did exactly what the former American Olympian David Hearn did when he reached into the newly weaponized Lincoln/Washington Memorial reflecting pool. There’s no law against it, obviously. Yet, just days after Jonathan Karl committed this act openly, on camera, broadcast to millions, Hearn was arrested and indicted, essentially accused of vandalism amounting to symbolic anti-state terrorism by a powerful lackey of the Terrorist-in-Chief and the blustering orange bully himself.

There is no case against David Hearn, though he’s being threatened hard by the full force of Trump’s federal government which can bring tremendous pressure to bear on individuals it targets with criminal prosecution. The pool, after its inept $14,000,000 no-bid renovation, has since been drained again. There is no 300 foot gash at the bottom of the empty pool as the Liar-in-Chief has been insisting antifa violently slashed into his perfect pool job (they’re also responsible for the algae, clearly). There are only the tire tracks from that insane idiot’s motorcade which drove over the resurfaced pool bottom shortly before the pool was refilled with water.

Hey, yo, Truth, Justice and the American Way can go fuck themselves, antifa cucks that they are.

Meanwhile, as I tap these words, senators are asking questions of a Nazi nominee for Attorney General (“there is no law against being a Nazi, if the president tells me to be a Nazi, that’s the president’s right and I will tell him ‘I love you, sir, sieg heil!’“) who evades each question with the deadpan nonchalance of a soul dead psychopath.

That nominee is treating a judge’s recent ruling on the fake Slush Fund case, Trump v. IRS — Trump/Blanche was both plaintiff and defendant and the fake “settlements” are void for a variety of reasons — as merely her opinion, until all appeals are exhausted and the Federalist Six get to rule on it, presumably… ah, I can barely edit these sentences.

Of all lifetime federal district court judges, only the pronouncements of MAGA’s own Judge Aileen Cannon must be treated as binding federal law by these Nazi fucks. All others, including Jack Smith, abide by her insane, counter-factual, cover-up, glaring appearance of impropriety rulings because, as a federal judge she is legally entitled to make them, even if she is pulling her “reasoning” directly out of Black Klansman Clarence Thomas’s crusty ass.

USA! USA!!!

“Thank you, sir, I love you, sir!”