Isn't It Amazing?

We, the richest nation on the face of the earth, have homeless people, including veterans, living in cardboard boxes, or pushing shopping carts filled with their earthly belongings from one place to another. 

We have children who go hungry every day.

We have people who die of curable diseases because they can't afford health care. 

Or go bankrupt trying to pay for what health care they have.

We have aging infrastructure all across the nation.

We have lead and other dangerous chemicals in our air and water 

We have generations of children stuck in substandard schools, understaffed, without the basic essentials that all schools need to function.

We have people who should be in mental institutions roaming our city streets. (To be fair, some are in Congress, too)

We have easy access to guns, including military style hardware, for practically anyone.

We have school shootings on such a regular basis that they hardly attract attention, let alone shock, anymore. 

And we are constantly told that there is not enough money to solve these problems.

But somehow there is always enough money to start another war.

Always. 

Billions, trillions even, spent on killing.

Again and again and again. 

An Insult To His Father's Memory

Robert Kennedy was a great man. He worked tirelessly for both economic, and racial, equality. Perhaps most importantly, he could see the disaster that was Vietnam long before most of Washington

John Kennedy was a great man. Every major Civil Rights bill of the early 60's was begun while he was President. He, unlike J.Edgar Hoover, did not demonize Martin Luther King Jr. or Malcom X. He reached out to the Russians to try and create some workable peace, ignoring all the saber rattling coming from the right. He also reached out to Castro, hoping to build a viable relationship with Cuba. He had plans to get us out of Vietnam by 1965--see NSAM 263 -which, of course, was thrown out by LBJ, almost immediately following that day in Dallas.

Edward Kennedy was a great Senator. Born into wealth and privilege, and haunted by the deaths of his brothers, he worked tirelessly for working class people.

Did they all have flaws? Of course they did. Did they all love this country and want the best for its people? There is no doubt they did. 

It must be difficult to be part of a family, indeed the namesake of one of them, that is held in high esteem and that set high standards. And is cursed with such tragedy.

Which brings us to RFK Jr. 

To be fair, the generations that immediately follow greatness are more often than not, not great.

But Jesus Fucking Christ, Junior! 

Lil Bobby shits on the memory of his father and his uncles every goddamn day. 

And his pigheaded stupidity about vaccines, nutrition, and health care in general will get many people killed and many more deathly ill. 

(By the way, that brain worm he says he had died of malnutrition.) 

The Trump Doctrine Redux

Anything shiny, anything of value, is MINE. You will give it to me willingly, or I will take it by force.

Gold is very beautiful. I like Gold. By the time I'm done the White House and my beautiful Trump Ballroom will sparkle with Gold. Nothing but Gold. I like Gold.

I can kill anybody I want.  

Anything I do is, by definition, legal. Just ask my Supreme Court.

The only foreign countries to be trusted are the countries run by my friends: Russia, Israel, China,  Saudi Arabia, Hungary, and maybe, depending on my mood, North Korea. All other countries are suspect--especially the so-called liberal democracies.

If I say someone is a socialist communist, then by God they are a socialist communist. I do not need to know what those words mean to use them. I am a stable genius. I have passed many cognitive tests. 

No one is worthy to question me. I am a stable genius. I have passed many cognitive tests. 

I know more about everything than anyone else on earth. 

I don't know anything about Jeffrey Epstein. Except this whole thing is a Democrat Hoax.

I am not a pedophile. You are a pedophile. Probably.

Venezuela has our oil. It is ours. How it got under their land is a question for geologists. I am not a geologist. Though I know more about this than any geologist.

Canada should be part of the US. Just look at a goddamn map. It is obvious.

Greenland should be part of the US. It is obvious. 

People with darker skin are not to be trusted. They are hiding something. This is obvious.

I am a great golfer, who has won many Trump Golf Club championships.  

Most of what is wrong in this country, and in the world, is Sleepy Joe Biden's fault. 

No. ALL of what is wrong is Sleepy Joe Biden's fault. 

He let 25, 35, 45, 100 million drug dealing rapist murderers into our country. Why? You'd have to ask him. 

I am in much better shape than Barack Obama. How many Trump Golf Club championships has he won, huh? ZERO, that's how many.

If I say something is a HOAX, then it is a HOAX. Russia, Covid, Epstein, Global Warming, January 6th, 2021--Hoax's every one.

I am the best President ever. Everyone loves me. 

I am a stable genius. I have passed many cognitive tests. 

The Root Of The Problem

I hope I don't offend anyone.

But this country was first settled by the dregs of Europe.

Boatloads of fuck-ups, who'd failed in their homelands, came here for a "fresh start".

Religious kooks, criminals, plain ol' idiots--just a stunning collection of losers.

It's a big country, plenty of room for all of those fuck-ups. 

Go West, Young Fuck-Up! 

And when you spend hundreds of years with the dregs intermarrying, well, then you have super concentrated dregs. 

Oh sure, there were/are exceptions. 

Not everyone was a dreg. 

And, wonder of wonders, occasionally two dregs will produce someone worthwhile.

Occasionally. But the smart money bets otherwise.

More often, though, dregs just keep making more dregs.

Generations of them. Millions of them. Entire states full to the brim with them.

This explains MAGA. This explains Trump.

This explains how we got to here. 

How Many Times Do You Have To Get Knocked Down Before You Realize Who's Hitting You?

One of the great mysteries of our time is the large number of people who always, always, vote for people who will end up hurting them in some serious way.

The MAGAts are finding out that they were merely a means to an end, and the end is not going to be good for them.

Of course, they're just the latest "real Americans" to get fucked over by Republicans--and yet blame it on the Democrats, or the Blacks, or the gays, or the women, or...

Who began the full scale destruction of the middle class? Ronald Reagan.

Who shut down U.S. factories and then moved all the jobs to the Third World? The plutocrat owners of the corporations, 99% of whom vote Republican. 

Who wants to take away ALL of whatever remains of our tattered social safety net? Republicans. 

Take away food stamps, take away health care, take away consumer protection, take away ANYTHING that might benefit working class people? You guessed it. Republicans. 

Who wants to give Wall Street  the Social Security trust fund to "play"with? Gosh, could it possibly be the Republicans.

Who wants to give big business free rein to poison our air and water, to literally kill the planet, all in the guise of "deregulation"?  Republicans.

Who hates unions with a passion, even though a strong union presence raises ALL wages, union and otherwise? Republicans.

Who wants us all to just roll the dice on preventable illnesses, vaccines be damned? Republicans. 

All of these are facts. 

But, come the next election,  millions of "real Americans" will ignore all facts and vote their "beliefs". 

And they believe in their guns, their God, and their various hatreds.

And the only consolation for the rest of us, the "unreal Americans", is that they will continue to suffer and die for their votes.

But, of course, they will blame all of their suffering, all of their problems, on, repeat after me, the Democrats, the Blacks, the gays, the women, "them". 

 

He Likes Hurting People

He likes hurting people.

It really excites him.

Makes his little mushroom almost hard. 

Makes him think he's young again. 

He especially likes hurting people of color and women. 

But really, anyone who he perceives as weaker is fair game.

Immigrants, students, LBGQT, any minority really.

This is a guy who made a career out of fucking over his subcontractors, after all.

Oh, and his siblings, too. 

All of the best qualities of humanity are missing from him.

ALL OF THEM 

In fact, he is probably the single most damaged human in the history of this nation. 

Now, if you can stand to take a good, close look at his parents--and not vomit--much of his behavior can be explained. Nature and nurture working hand in hand.

On the other hand, a lot of people have shitty parents and they don't turn out like Trump. 

Of course, his most fervent supporters, many of whom are in various ways almost as damaged as he is, will NEVER leave him. 

But you wouldn't think that the captains of industry, bankers, lawyers, all very wealthy in their own right, would  bow down so willingly to a 300 pound orange frosted turd in a wrinkled blue suit. This only proves that they are essentially cowards who care much more for their fortunes than for their country. 

And, here's the best part, as he slips deeper and deeper into dementia, which is quite obviously what is happening, 

HE WILL ONLY GET WORSE.

Soon, very soon, we will have a very angry vegetable in his trashy gold oval office, lashing out at everything and everyone.

Fun times. 

Such Good Christians

I haven't been to church in awhile, so I don't remember in which book of the Bible Jesus said "Fuck all of these losers. Poor people disgust me. Take all you can from them and give it to the rich. They'll know what to do with it better than these loathsome beggars. Amen."

But it must be in there somewhere, because that is obviously the sentiment that all of these super Christian (just ask them) Republicans are operating under.

Actually, you don't have to ask them, because they'll gladly, and usually loudly, tell you upfront "I'm a Christian" or "Because I'm a Christian" or "My Christian faith compels me to..." 

Compels you to what, exactly? Take away healthcare? Take away a woman's right to control her own body? Take away after school and before school programs? Take away food stamps? Take away diversity and intellectual freedom in our colleges? Take away clean air and clean water? Take away voting rights? Take away vaccines? Take away opportunity for all? Take away a few more parts of what this country used to be? Support, willingly and blindly, a rapist, tax cheat, business fraud, thoroughly incompetent, pathologically lying, demented traitor?

And, after all of that, they'll happily cram into the pews come Sunday, and nod along as the priest/minister/pastor/head snakehandler prattles on and on about what it means to be a "good" Christian.

Then, come Monday, washed clean of all of their sins, they will happily go back to fucking people over. 

Rinse and repeat. 

While you are pondering the breathtaking HYPOCRISY of these "people", always remember that, whatever they profess to be, the true creed of the modern Republican Party is this:

THE POOR CAN NEVER BE MADE TO SUFFER ENOUGH 

Amen.