The president-elect meeting with his nominee for Director of National Intelligence, one of the country’s main contacts with Vladimir Putin, a cunning, mega-wealthy war criminal currently playing the next president like a vintage accordion.
And by the way, what the fuck is wrong with white people and Latinos?
This new “Biden outrage” just in from the folks who brought you “anarchist jurisdictions” who would not receive emergency federal funds during Covid, the last time they held the Executive branch. Of course the bipartisan, willing to cooperate with those who hate him, Biden is the one who, eh, weaponized the government against his enemies… The incoherent but jubilant fascist revenge tour is now officially underway, with lovable Ron DeSanctimonious leading the way, as real leaders do.
The obvious difference in this story is that the rogue FEMA asshole who did this was immediately fired by FEMA, under Biden. In the Trump or DeSanctimonious administrations, this malignantly partisan assclown would be promoted to acting director of FEMA, pronto.
Black women are not to blame for any of what’s about to come, though they will be hit the hardest by it, along with Black and Latino men. And then, of course, attention will be paid to bigmouthed libtard cucks, homosexuals, liberal mass media, trans people, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, labor unionists, humanists, the disabled, intellectuals, liberals, economic justice advocates, Peace Corps volunteers, environmentalists, Gypsies, the depressed, nature lovers, sensitive, unmanly boys, cross-fit tomgirls, raped teenagers, NATO supporters, battered women, OBGYN doctors and nurses, Human Rights activists, historians, social workers, sociologists, democracy fetishists, anti-fascists, socialists, anti-nuclear activists, Voting Rights advocates, non-corporate scientists, Democrats, non-violent protesters, Ukrainians, Gazans, etc.
Hard as it is to swallow this much shit at one time, we need to start rousing ourselves for the fight against what is about to come.
The corporatization of society, with a narrow focus on the stock market’s sacred bottom line, means both parties are run by corporate/billionaire interests and the vast majority of us can fuck off and kill each other. Although both parties do very well for the rich and powerful, neither corporate party is really looking out for the tens of millions of powerless, basically screwed citizens of the United States. Hence 70,000,000 votes for MAGA, at least Trump acknowledges screwed people’s right to be mad as hell about being treated like shit.
A little history/context, then.
89 year-old Charles Koch, son of abusive Hitler admiring John Birch Society founding member Fred Koch, has been hard at work with his billionaire cronies brilliantly engineering this nightmare moment for fifty years. His dad would be so proud of Charlie’s accomplishments.
Thanks to the efforts of Koch’s network of think tanks and far right fraternal organizations (with a tip of the cap to Rupert Murdoch), corporations are people, minorities and individual humans not so much. Unlimited dark money in politics is now protected free speech. Billionaires can give uncounted billions to PACs to elect their chosen candidates to public office. What could go wrong?
Well-regulated militia: regulating guns unconstitutional! Partisan gerrymandering is fine and perfectly legal, unless overtly racist speeches are made by legislators in full Klan regalia while they draw the districts, and there is video tape of it and fifty or more Republican witnesses present. Voting Rights schmoting rights, majoritarian tyranny must be stopped, enough with the vicious accusations of white nationalist racism already.
Quid pro quos are fine, as long as the quid gratuity comes after the quo. Medieval witch burning theologians are fine to cite as irrefutable authorities in a Supreme Court decision to force raped girls to give birth. Women only have full bodily autonomy if they are wealthy or the wives of right wing extremist Supreme Court justices.
President may now commit crimes in office if he uses the Dershowitz/Nixon/Nuremberg defense: he honestly feels he is battling inhuman monsters in his official capacity. If he orders a murder, or a dozen, he can preemptively pardon the murderers, no questions asked.
This checklist would have been Hitler’s wet dream. No need to burn down the German Reichstag and seize emergency powers to be a dictator on day one if you had a series of unappealable legal rulings like that to work with.
I think Rebecca Solnit nails why fervent belief in a lying, predatory, raping, revenge crazed, born wealthy, transactional, bigoted, criminal, slightly demented con artist, fiercely held by tens of millions of Americans, has been able to go mainstream enough to put the man and his best people back in power:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/07/us-progressive-election-trump-maga
Elon Musk, union-busting beneficiary of billions in US government contracts (and holder of high security clearance/buddy of Putin’s) hired vans full of door-knockers to spread the word about Trump/Vance. These poor devils had to sign NDAs so none can discuss the harsh quotas they had to fill if they wanted to be paid and have their motel bill handled by the world’s richest humanoid. In other news, his fake million dollar a day lottery is admittedly not a lottery, winners are carefully vetted and pre-selected. On the other hand, giving an old woman on line to vote in Georgia a cup of water is a state crime.
Just one more election day dingleberry. Who will be in charge of advising dictator on day one Trump about medical matters? The insane son of Robert Kennedy, decapitator of dead animals and vaccine skeptic who will make polio great again. There’s a good hat for MAGA — Make Polio Great Again.
A vote for Trump/Vance/Musk/RFK Jr. is a vote for the BEST PEOPLE, THE BEST PEOPLE, AND DRAINING THE SWAMP AGAIN, IT WAS ALL A WITCH HUNT BY SICK AND DANGEROUS PEOPLE, RAPISTS, DRUG DEALERS, PET EATERS, I NEVER LOST IN 2020, 2024 OR 2028, YOU WILL ALL PAY, WATCH!
It takes diligence, many times, to arrive at the truth about complicated things. It is a process that sometimes involves pain and can result in punishment. Many truths are hard to accept, so we retreat to endless nuance, interpretation, seeing it from another point of view. Certain truths, if you don’t see them in time, will smash your face and leave you wondering how you wound up bloody and chained in a sadist’s basement.
Lies, on the other hand, can be constructed to fit your needs perfectly. Feel threatened but can’t put your finger on what’s going on? How about this: there is a vast conspiracy conducted by elites, who are beloved public figures, very influential, who, behind the scenes, meet to share child sexual slaves and drink their blood? Doesn’t that explain why your spidy senses are tingling? If you fear a certain type, the lie becomes much more potent by slugging those folks into the scenario. It’s Puerto Rican pedophile cannibals, Jewish ones (of course), Muslims, Illegals, etc.
Obvious as it was once I heard Timothy Snyder say it out loud: the thousands of brazen lies we have been told by Trump and his spokes-sphincters over the last nine years have smudged the line between truth and lies. Truth, what is that, really? Aren’t alternative facts really just another spin on your so-called actual facts? Different strokes for different folks. Isn’t truth what you believe in your heart? Doesn’t your heart know what is real, much better than an easily confused brain?
Once the line is sufficiently blurred it is time for the Big Lie. This is a lie so audacious that people simply can’t believe it’s a lie — it’s unthinkable that a Hitlerian scale lie could be told over and over by everyone in a political party. If 25% of Americans actually believed the endless ads Trump ran that his 2020 election victory had been stolen from him, as Ted Cruz insisted on January 5th, 2021, isn’t that a reason to call time-out until the other 75% could be convinced of the same thing?
Here is five minutes of Snyder’s brilliant discussion of this hideous, all too popular, dynamic. Truth can be elusive and involves pain sometimes, lies are direct and easy to swallow, designed to make you feel just and righteous. Which one is your favorite?
Trump style
Trump’s mental state continues to deteriorate, taking with it the former president’s inhibitions. After going on a rant about the people he blamed for troubles with his microphone at a sparsely attended rally in Warren, Michigan, the Republican nominee for president of the United States of America simulated oral sex on stage.
A fascist is a certain type of leader: authoritarian, top of the hierarchy of strict obedience to orders, surrounded by those who take an oath of personal loyalty to him, ruthlessly repressing dissent, threatening and controlling all professions and the mass media, spouting divisive lies, using the force of the state to terrify and punish enemies, and its treasury to reward wealthy friends and patrons.
All of these things Donald Trump has done, or tried to do, during his first term in office. Even now, we don’t know the full extent of his crimes regarding a trove of illegally retained classified military secrets and his ongoing post-presidential negotiations with his handler/blackmailer, renowned war criminal and buddy of Elon Musk, Vladimir Putin.
In attacking his opponent Kamala Harris, in addition to the usual dog whistles to the Klan and Nazi contingent of his base, and millions of ordinary misogynists, Trump routinely calls her a radical left, Marxist, communist, fascist. In the country Trump’s family comes from Marxists and Fascists were fighting deadly battles in the streets less than twenty years before Trumpie was born.
No fascist can be a Marxist and vice versa. Only someone intent on name-calling, inspiring maximum loathing and ignorant of, or careless about, the meaning of the words he uses, would call a communist a fascist. They can both be totalitarians, authoritarians, but calling Harris a communist fascist is like saying she’s a cat dog (both delicious, by the way, people are saying, the weave, am I right? I’m right, aren’t I?).
Personally, I blame advertising for the distraction and credulity of Americans. Our attention spans are shattered at an early age by the constant bombardment of commercial messages, attention grabbing non sequiturs which we often tune out even as they interrupt whatever we were thinking about a second before. Watch any video on YouTube and, precisely as the video tees up the pay-off, the money quote, the volume jumps and some shill is excitedly shouting over loud music. They are shouting about something completely unrelated to what you were interested in, focused on a second earlier, but not a problem. In America these interruptions are simply an inescapable feature of the marketplace of ideas, just as valid as anything else in a society whose only real value is monetary profit. Everyone understands the profit motive, no?
So you get to vote for a presidential candidate/huckster who lies compulsively, is ignorant about history, incurious about the present and almost everything else, a businessman who started with a small $400,000,000 nest egg from his father and failed in every business venture he started, declaring bankruptcy six times, while touting himself as the greatest business genius of all time, as seen on TV. He knows how the game is played, so he can mock his opponent, call her any name he likes, literally throw shit at her.
Here’s the unfunny punchline: when she is asked whether she agrees with two of his former generals and his former secretary of defense that he is indeed a fascist (it’s virtually impossible to make an informed argument that he’s not) and she says she does, Trump screams bloody murder that she’s name-calling. Every fascist in history has done that, as have many communist dictators, although dogs and cats (equally tasty when prepared well, many people are saying, see that skillful weave I’m doing?) rarely do.
“How dare that nasty, low IQ, brown son of a bitch who doesn’t know if she’s Black or Indian, or Malaysian, or Samoan, or even a human being, call me a name I already call her?”
In his rage the other night he fantasized to replacement theory promoter Tucker Carlson about disloyal war monger Liz Cheney not being so brave if she had a rifle and was looking down the barrels of nine rifles pointed at her head. The New York Times did mention this threat in today’s edition, but carefully, with plenty of respectful nuance (they don’t want to face down the barrel of nine automatic weapons). The Washington Post (spineless puto-owned) presumably also gave a balanced portrait of the candidate’s understandable bad mood as he uttered his arguably well-veiled, deniable threat to Tucker Carlson, a craven lying toady who cackles like a startled school girl. As Tuckems said the other day at the beautiful Madison Square Garden love fest that had not a hint of the 1939 Nazi rally held there (I got the proof for you right here):
A far cry from Tucker’s January 6th tweets about Trump being a demonic force and talking about how much he hates the sore loser Orange Fraud. Tucker has always shown an almost Jeff Bezos-like level of personal integrity (see, for example, his recent infomercial for Vlad Putin in a Russian supermarket).
Ah, fuck those lying, name-calling, thin-skinned, transactionally pearl clutching, fainting couch humping, fascist fucking crybaby putos. Better to see exactly how fucked Mr. Musk will be if Trumpie loses the election and can’t get his goons to overturn the results.
Democracy dies in a greedy rich man’s tightly clenched asshole.
Or, as Dan Rather put it the other day, in describing the uber-billionaire’s cowardly, antidemocratic twitch decision not to publish the Washington Post’s endorsement of Kamala Harris, already written and ready to go (and Bezos’s sickening written attempt to sanitize and justify his weasel dicked self-interest):
| He is scared of Donald Trump. I am not saying he shouldn’t be. Trump has threatened to go after his perceived enemies, and that includes members of the media. But as the owner of one of the most important newspapers in the country, you have to have skin like a rhinoceros. Bezos says there was no quid pro quo involved, but that claim raises suspicion, at the very least. And to many it rings downright hollow. His companies have billions of dollars in federal government contracts and are bidding for billions more. Those contracts generated more than half of his companies’ profits in the last quarter. Trump’s fondness for retribution is legendary, so the possibility of payback, in the form of a canceled contract, is real. Trump and Bezos have never been chummy. Trump has been critical of the Amazon founder, but there seems to have been a thawing of late, with recent overtures by Bezos and his executives. In July, Bezos called Trump after the assassination attempt to tell him how much he liked the fist pump photo. According to the Post, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy called Trump in August to further the relationship. “Trump told Jassy that he was going to win the election and that Amazon should help him because it would be in the company’s best interests.” And the head of Blue Origin, Bezos’s space exploration company, spoke with Trump last Friday — coincidently, the same day the Post announced it would not endorse anyone. “While I do not and will not push my personal interest, I will also not allow this paper to stay on autopilot and fade into irrelevance — overtaken by unresearched podcasts and social media barbs — not without a fight. It’s too important. The stakes are too high,” Bezos wrote. Careful getting off that high horse of yours, Jeff. . . . . . What might be the most upsetting aspect of this cowardice is that it proves Trump’s strong-arm tactics work. Timothy Snyder, a Yale historian and scholar of authoritarianism, has published a list of ways to avoid succumbing to autocracy. Three of five apply here: “Do not obey in advance,” “Defend institutions,” and “Remember professional ethics.” Jeff Bezos has so much money that if he never makes another dime, he would still remain one of the richest men in the world for the rest of his life. So the courageous thing to do would be to stand up to the bully, rather than yield to his threats in advance. That would do more to restore America’s faith in the media than the gutless act of not endorsing Kamala Harris. source |
Dan is a class act. I am not. Fuck fucking Jeff Bezos, one of the most irredeemably greedy men on the planet, and the syphilitic whores he rode in on.
Best Halloween costume ever!
Talk about an American Hitler, his boss has nothing on this moral contortionist Ivy league educated lawyer, billionaire staked venture capitalist, 18 month senator motherfucker. Five minutes of his lie-fueled bullying should do it for you.
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