Republicans hate America: Mister Fascism goes to Washington D.C.

Besides jerking a hard dick
Boebert won't help Americans

As I was typing this;  Trump and his cadre of fascist flunkies began a Press Conference wherein they laid out their plan to usher in Fascism into the United States.  Traitor Trump rambled on with his fact-free verbal diarrhea blaming everything on Woke and the Radical Left or President Biden.  Just mounds of shitty gibberish.  But, what's clear by word and by deed is Fascism has come to the United States of America.

I was typing this:  Homelessness and the number of unhoused people shunted to the streets is a national disgrace for a Country which bills itself as the Greatest in the History of Mankind.  But, Donold Traitor Child Rapist Trump can always insert himself into any situation and make it worse.  Hence, Trump plans to round-up the homeless in DC and put them...  somewhere...

Where do you think that's going to be?  Don't elide the final step.  Don't allow yourself to be willfully ignorant of what Republicans plan to do and, let's be clear, are fucking doing right now.  Republicans are putting people into Concentration Camps.

Yes, yes, yes...  I know your Trump humping Uncle is going to laugh at you and chuckle, 'Hur dur dur!  TDS!!! TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME!!!'   

If the Capitol is dirty, the whole country is dirty...

This isn't just about Trump.  Doug Burgum, Pete Hegseth, Pam Bondi, and several other Republican low-life fascist goons gave speeches extolling their plan to round-up, rough-up, and relocate innocent people.  Fundamentally, Republicans hate America.  For the last 50 years Republicans have built a monumental self-deluding propaganda machine and now they are reaping what they have sown.  Republicans are a fully fascist organization which yearns to round-up and execute people.  There are many groups of people for whom they have a blistering white hot hatred and desire to eliminate.

Understand this is a test-run;  similar to the deployment of National Guard and U.S. Marines to Los Angeles, this will gauge reaction.  And as we saw with the reaction to "Alligator Alcatraz", the modern day Dachau (i.e. the first and originally a prisoner and political gulag), white people will celebrate the brutal mistreatment of the homeless in DC as well as the black youth Trump and Drunken Jeanine Pirro specifically called out for police brutality.  Trump also denigrated Chicago, declared he would simply end the Cash Bail Law by Imperial Fiat, attacked Governor J.B. Pritzker and hinted at his plan to enact the military occupation in Chicago, New York City, Oakland, and Baltimore .  You can expect Troops in every large Democratic city by the election next year because occupying and brutalizing and cowing large cities into obedience is the final step into Trump and the Republicans winning elections in 2026. 

Fascism is here.  Be brave if you can but don't delude yourself that it isn't happening...

Additional:

Don't expect the Police (Municipal, County, or State) to come to your aid if you're targeted by this Regime.  Most Police Officers and Deputies have been champing at the bit to emulate their daddies and grand-pappies and just beat the shit out of people.  And those Police who don't want too will go along out of Fear of the Thin Blue Line or the loss of their promised pension and retirement.  And of course the NRA, Oathbreakers, Alex Jones, or Texass Governor Greg Abbot who endlessly warned about Federal Government Tyranny were simply lying because they whole-heartedly support this and much more draconian actions from Trump et al.

ICE Agents caught "TestiLying"

         If you don't know the term "testilying" you might be more familiar with the word perjury.  Well, it's not just a problem with members of the Thin Blue Line, Federal Law Enforcement under Trump just like under all Republican administrations just flat out lies;

US immigration officers made false and misleading statements in their reports about several Los Angeles protesters they arrested during the massive demonstrations that rocked the city in June, according to federal law enforcement files obtained by the Guardian.

The officers’ testimony was cited in at least five cases filed by the US Department of Justice amid the unrest. The justice department has charged at least 26 people with “assaulting” and “impeding” federal officers and other crimes during the protests over immigration raids. Prosecutors, however, have since been forced to dismiss at least eight of those felonies, many of them which relied on officers’ inaccurate reports, court records show.

The justice department has also dismissed at least three felony assault cases it brought against Angelenos accused of interfering with arrests during recent immigration raids, the documents show.

Apparently, the lies from Department of Homeland Security and ICE are so ubiquitous, so outrageous that Grand Juries are refusing to return indictments.

So, this isn't a new phenomenon.  There is a whole cottage industry which has grown up around Police Departments to specifically train officers on how to massage their reports and how to couch their testimony as to obfuscate and distort the incident and interaction with the Police in a way which makes the, usually indefensible, defensible.

You're probably aware of the euphemistic language Police Officers use in their reports, I assisted him to the ground instead of I threw him down, the suspect made furtive movements around his waistband to mean I shot the unarmed person because I thought he had a gun.

Now... don't expect Faux News or Rightwing propagandists or those staunch 2A and State's Rights advocates to call out the Federal Government because this... is... what... they... have... always... fucking... wanted...  The awesome power of the State turned against their Enemies.  All those accusations, as they say, were admissions of what Conservatives would immediately do with federal law enforcement power.

When Republicans decried Two-Tiered Justice what they meant was they believe in it, Republicans absolutely believe in the Unequal Application of Law&Order and Due Process.  The Law is meant to protect them and bind you...

Coupled with Traitor Trump's desire to have President Obama arrested to distract from Donold's multiple instances of raping children along with his best buddy Jeffrey Epstein and his plan to use the military to round-up homeless people are stick them in concentration camps, we are rapidly approaching an inflection point where Republicans will outright order many Americans executed.

Trump orders the US Government to round-up homeless people and get rid of them

        Traitor trump released another of his vomit inducing executive orders; this one aimed removing homeless people from American cities. Everyone should have known this was coming,  Trump talked openly about removing unhoused and homeless people in LA into vague camps outside the city.

Even with the expanded funding and aggressive recruiting, ICE is currently to occupied with rounding-up grandmothers and innocent people for internment into the Concentration Camps in Florida.  And local Police Departments aren't going to be able to accomplish this along with all their other day-to-day duties.

So, Trump is going to order the United States Military to accomplish this task.  A Standing Army has always been a threat to peace and liberty.  However, the deployment to Los Angeles of National Guardsmen and active-duty U.S. Marines was the 'Proof of Concept' Republicans needed to act upon Trump's Executive Order.

Let's be clear about couple of things about Trump's bullshit order;  There is no chance anything good will come of this,  Trump (and Republicans) don't want to set up a Federal assistance program to help the Unhoused.  There will not be any vast array of the social services homeless people need;  no counseling, no addiction therapy, no treatment for the mentally ill, no medications or god-forbid vaccines, no quality food program, no protection from rapacious predators.  Fucking Republicans just slashed Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.  Do you think they would ever give food, medicine and housing to "bums"?  This is designed to appeal to mean and nasty white people who look down on and are angered by the sight of homeless people.

Homelessness has always been seen as a moral failing (laziness, drug use) by the unhoused and essentially been treated as a problem of aesthetics.  City layouts and architecture was designed to discourage unhoused people from staying and the encourage the flow of bodies.  Think about all those park benches you've seen which have humps or bars in the middle to stop anyone from laying down.  Or the concrete ledges on streets angled, inclined or with impediments to accomplish the same effect.

Listen to Faux News broadcasts dehumanizing and belittling homeless people or Traitor trump's vicious slander of the homeless.

Trump himself has always had a Brutalist aesthetic towards Cities;  he wants them gleaming and sterile, devoid of humanity, just stark edifices of steel, glass, and concrete spotless and static.  Like the Nazi wonder city models he grew up idolizing before he embarked on his career as a Real Estate Tyrant using eminent domain to kick little old ladies out of their homes so he can build his gaudy Casinos.

Now, Trump has the awesome power of the entire Government at his command and willing and complaint partners in the entire Republican Party, the 6 Supreme Injustices, and a servile Corporate Media who adores him.

Much of this has been accomplished by the Two-Santa Theory as elaborated by Them Hartmann, wherein Republicans spend outrageously thus raising the Debt, while also cutting taxes on the Rich.  When Democrats regain the White House or Congress and propose a liberal agenda, Drunken Tom Boehner declares "We're Broke!" And Democrats are then called upon by the Corporate Media to be responsible and reach across the aisle and cut spending and reduce the debt.

But also by steadily lowering taxes on Corporations and the Ultra-Wealthy, Republicans have pushed the financial burden onto Middle America and the Working Class.  Trump raised my taxes during his vile first term.  This is all by design as people have felt the tax crunch they've responded with two-income households, longer working years, the so-called gig economy, get-rich quick schemes, and other methods to attempt to stay above water as Republicans try to drown them.  

This coincides with the Republicans grand plan, from Ronnie Raygun through the current vicious BBB of eliminating the merger US social safety.

Most Americans, are a bad 6 months from being homeless themselves.  Couple this with the emotional burden helping people takes to help people and you have the perfect Republican receipe for a Coarsened United States which doesn't want money to go towards the homeless at all.  But, Republicans have been teaching Americans they can not rely on help from the Government and anyway Joe Biden or Barack Obama gave all your government money to Trans athletes or 'Mexicans' from Guatemala to replace you anyway.

Most white peoples response to homelessness is either revulsion or good intended but incorrect attempts at assistance.  In both cases they invariably call 911 and expect the Police to handle the situation.  I would like to believe most Americans, who have been taught for decades now that Police are "the helpers" are calling 911 because the believe and expect Police to have a huge cache of assistance they can provide and not because they demand the Police remove the homeless from their sight.

But, this is a Nation which has tried to elect Donold Traitor Trump to the Presidency 3 times.  And now the Executive Branch has released another one of his highly propagandized Executive Orders which has been tailor-made to push the Fear & Anger buttons in the rightwing brain.

The coarsening of America has been a Republican project going on decades.  While most of the worst aspects of the Right's Agenda have come about in the last 50 years when Republicans decided after Nixon's resignation they would never put the welfare of the Nation ahead of their Party, the Reactionary framework is a counter-revolution to the New Deal and has only intensified in response to each successive Democratic Administration.

Roughly, Republicans want Americans to know they have no friend in Government (large and small) and the Federal Government specifically will never help them.  Look at the response of Homeland Security and FEMA under Kristi Noem, absolutely abandoned Texans in need, didn't bother to pick up phone cams, and declared their response the Greatest in American History.

The Republican Party response after the New Deal was to declare every Governmental function "Communism" or "Socialism" and to attack while out of office and to undermine it from within when in office.  Republicans believe their are only two legitimate uses of the Federal Government;  to quash domestic dissent at home with a robust Law Enforcement Apparatus and to use the vast Military-Industrial-Complex abroad to threaten and open up foreign markets for exploitation.  Everything else is "Unconstitutional". 

So, the coarsening of America continues.  Trump is going to order the homeless rounded up and put into refugee camps.  And the things that will happen will be a vicious evil stain on this Nation.

WDCB and Republicans defunding of the Arts

        I know everyone is aghast at Traitor trump and the House Republicans demand the Kennedy Opera Center be renamed The First Lady Melania I Don't Care I'm a Child Rapist, Do U Trump Opera House.

Rapist Donold has always felt slighted he was looked down upon by the New York and American elite as a gauche nouveau riche clown and getting those people back now that he has power is one of his prime motivators.

But, it's always been a category error to believe Trump is any different than the Republican Party in his goals and ideas.  Trump often acts as a bog-standard Reactionary troglodyte in wanting to smash culture, especially counter-culture, intelligentsia and the Arts.

Republicans hate the Arts for the same reason they hate Universities and Cities; the Arts are full of people who are creative, interesting, cosmopolitan, and unimpressed with Republicans lies and agitprop and unswayed by the NeoFascist society Republicans are creating.

So, like expertise; learning, culture, the Arts must go!

WDCB, broadcasting out of the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois is a Jazz (and late night Blues) station which has been going strong for over 40 years, 

Forty years ago, a small radio station in west suburbia began broadcasting a motley mix of classical music, news and educational programs for a limited number of hours each day.

Today, WDCB-FM 90.9 stands as the leading jazz station in the Chicago area, having unflinchingly championed the music while bigger outlets — most notably, WBEZ-FM 91.5 — have abandoned it.

Well, their Federal Grant was just sliced by the BBB.

WDCB is losing a little less than $130,000 dollars in Federal Funding, just 8% of their overall budget and a fraction of what some of the other stations in Illinois and Missouri are losing.  

My partner and I donate to WDCB because we listen almost every morning and leave the station on for our dogs to listen to whenever we're out of the house.  Never forget Republicans hate the Arts;  they don't produce anything of artistic merit, they don't pay artists for their work (Trump and his family of thieves always misappropriates musicians work for his Rallies but, using Artists work without their permission is a Republican tradition) and look at how the on-line fascist right is embracing AI produced schlock as the preferred aesthetic for the Modern Fash.

In a statement, WDCB assured its' listeners they were prepared for this moment,

The good news at WDCB is that our operations are stable and we are in a solid financial position. I want to personally assure you that thanks to our careful spending and generous support from our listeners, WDCB is well prepared for this moment. We’re here! We’re solid! And we’re not going anywhere! But it will be a challenge, and we’ll be asking for your continued help to ensure our future stability.

Trump and Epstein raped the same little girls and very shortly Republicans will say, "So... Fucking... What?"

This trash is irredeemable and must be destroyed

It was always going to be this way.

Traitor Trump is going through ridiculous lengths to defeat the release of the Epstein/Trump Child Rape Files.  And his and the Republican Party's more and more convoluted antics confirm whatever is in those files is so reprehensible and so over-the-top evil that Trump fears even his hold on the MAGA Cult might be threatened.

Traitor Trump shouldn't worry though because rightwingers were always going to excuse his rape of women and children.  

Always.

I believed it would be some combination of; these Epstein Files are faked (which we've seemingly seen confirmed by rightwing reaction to the Wall Street Journal story on Trump's fan letter to Jeffrey Epstein) and 'Well we must excuse a Great Man because a great man will have great appetites.'  But, chief amongst all the excuses MAGA was going to adopt with reference to Trump raping multiple little children as well as women was going to be a giant I don't care... 

Ignorance was always going to be the United States’ downfall.  Republicans have combined and cultivated an active ignorance with violent stupidity amongst their voting base.  

All that matter is OwnTheLibs All the time

The Peoples' House?
Or
The Pedophile's House?

Republicans also cultivated the #QAnon and Elite child pedophile cabal conspiracies in order to slander all Democrats because the Democratic Party tends to defend LGBTQ persons.  But, now the beast they bred is outside of their control.  And the Epstein Files are the Holy Grail.  

But, therein lies the rub... Donald Trump was the best friend, co-conspirator, and long time offender with Jeffrey Epstein.  So, it appears when Pam Bondi got a hold of the Trump/Epstein Files and set a team of 1000 FBI agents to scrub the reams of documents and other evidence of references to Traitor Trump it turned out to be a Sisyphean task and thus impossible.  So in response;

• Trump has declared Jeffrey Epstein a "Democrat Hoax" - (of course, it's always elided over that Bill Barr visited Epstein and most certainly ordered him killed for Trump)
• Pam Bondi and Kash Patel declared there to be No Epstein Client List
• Traitor tump directed Tulsi Gabbard to find a black person to blame for his Child Raping
• Traitor trump has reached out to his co-pimp and co-rapist Ghislaine Maxwell to tell her if she blames everything on Bill Clinton he'll give her a Presidential Pardon
• And Republicans have decided to shut down the House of Representatives for the next 6 weeks to protect Trump

I can not imagine what is in these Files but, Traitor trump knows there is something so damning and so irrefutable he can not let it out.  But, fret not the Corporate Media, especially The Fucking New York Times, after speaking with Steve Bannon, is reassuring MAGA that actually Trump is winning on the "Epstein issue"and actually Trump and MAGA is stronger having gone through the Epstein crucible.

Additional:

Another criminally undercovered component of this criminal conspiracy by the complicit Corporate Media is the Republican effort to stymie and cover-up the money laundering by Jeffrey Epstein.  Republican Senators are continuing to use their political power to defeat Democratic Senator Ron Wyden's subpoenas and investigation into the billions of dollars Epstein's accounts moved around the world.

Treasury’s Epstein file details 4,725 wire transfers adding up to nearly $1.1 billion flowing in and out of just ONE of Epstein’s bank accounts.  Hundreds of millions more flowed through other accounts -- that’s even more to investigate.  The file shows Epstein used multiple Russian banks, which are now under sanctions, to process payments related to sex trafficking. 

Drunk Van Orden demands Governor Tony Evers and Congressman Mark Pocan stop him before he kills again.

Derrick Van Orden is a sloppy mean drunk. He's one of those alcoholics that gets few drinks into his big belly and becomes angry, red-faced, and lashes out at everyone.

After Drunken Van Orden voted for the murderous BBB on July 4th he frantically begged Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers to sign the Wisconsin State budget for the next 3 fiscal years in order that the BBB didn't destroy the rural hospitals Van Orden just defunded; 

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of signing the proposed state budget into law without delay. As you are aware, timely enactment is especially critical this year due to the proposed increase in the state provider tax, which must be effectuated before the anticipated signing of the One, Big, Beautiful Bill on or around July 4, 2025, Delaying the state budget enactment risks losing vital opportunities for the state’s healthcare system and the Wisconsinites who rely on it. Healthcare and rural healthcare, in particular, is vital to us in Wisconsin. ” Rep. Van Orden stated in the letter.

It used to be Republicans would take credit for things they voted against as when disgraced closeted Illinois Republican Aaron Schock took credit for President Obama's American Reinvestment Act, after voting against the ARA, and then having President Obama's name removed from all the signs of all the projects funded by the ARA to keep Republican constituents in his district and elsewhere ignorant of who passes laws to help them.

Drunk Tweetin'
Drunk Congressman

In many respects, Drunk Van Orden is continuing this classic Republican tradition but, another way he is emulating all the asshole Republicans past and present is to use the You're Mentally Ill get Help hur-dur-dur insult.

Drunken Van Orden continued his liquor-fueled tirade on camera against Wisconsin Congressman Mark Pocan because this is what Republicans do now. 

Drunk Van Orden was an erstwhile Officer in the United States Navy yet he attended the Jan 6th Insurrection though he's always claimed not to have entered the Capitol building (I'm certain he feels sheepish now since the Jan6th Coup is a badge of honor amongst the Right).  He's a disgrace to the Naval Services but, more importantly he's emblematic of the modern Republican; a mean-spirited troll who not only doesn't care to have any decorum or manners but is actively rewarded by his voters for being a trollish asshole even as he votes to kill them.

Wisconsin 3rd:
90.0% white and sparsely populated
Voted to kill themselves

Drunk Van Orden's 3rd district is the south western half of Wisconsin;  while it does include Eau Claire and La Crosse, it's the really rural Driftless region with rivers and farmland, he won in 2024 with 212,000 votes to Rebecca Cooke's 200,000.  His voters and the residents on Wisconsin rely on the widely spaced out Aspirus hospitals receiving Medicaid money yet, they've continually voted for the ilk like Van Orden who cut Medicaid.   

President Biden vowed to help all Americans, and passed the Infrastructure bill specifically to bring things like broadband to underserved rural rightwing communities, those people turned around and told President Biden fuck you we want fascism and voted for traitor trump, and a Republican House and Senate.

This is not a messaging problem for the Democrats.  It is partially a Media problem, especially since the Media has made their job to lie for Republicans and lie about Democrats.  But, white people are so propagandized as to be wholly unable to differentiate reality from fiction.  I don't know how to overcome Republican perfidy and the self-radicalization whites actively seek out by democratic means, when White People continually vote to immolate themselves.

Fundamentally, Republicans hate America: ICE and Republicans piss on America both literally and figuratively

        A group of armed, masked men show up at your school, demanding entry and claiming to be ICE.  Do you let them in?  Well, if you don't ICE might just openly piss in your school parking lot in broad daylight.

More than 20 years ago, one of my early FTO told me don't piss in school parking lots when you're on patrol because there will be cameras...  Until the identity of these masked men is revealed my contention remains they are not sworn Law Enforcement and Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, et al hit upon the idea of not having sworn Officers in order to avoid Constitutional Protections.  To wit Head Like a Thumb Tom Homan spoke on Fox & Friends declaring ICE to be able to break the 4th Amendment as they saw fit;

"Look, people need to understand, ICE officers and Border Patrol don’t need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them."

Or piss outside in the schoolyard!  ICE Agents will ignore the plain language of the 4th Amendment, as well as, ignoring repeated SCTOUS decisions concerning Terry Stops and simply pick out brown people for arrest.   Homan went on to declare this will be based on physical appearance, occupation, and location.  Most news stories about Homan's unconstitutional comments omit the reference to Home Depot. And why does Homan mention Home Depot because hispanic laborers do construction and landscaping (as well as a lot of Eastern European immigrants but, ICE isn't grabbing them now are they?) which is work which young white men and Republicans won't, can't, and don't do.  

This is all because White People have been stewing in Reactionary agitprop for decades and Republicans decided 2020 was the greatest disaster to every befall white people (the only people every discriminated against) and they will have their Revenge in this Life or the Next.

ICE is going to be an enormous problem for the United States going forward.  By expanding it fifty-fold with this new Bullshit Reactionary Budget, Trump and the Republicans are going to create an internal Paramilitary Army.  And I believe on purpose.  Because, any attempts by Democrats to curtail ICE (or god-forbid disband ICE) is going to be met with the implicit and probably explicit threat of creating a Freikorps of even angrier armed violent white men who will need very little encouragement from Faux News, Ben Shapiro, and Alex Jones to overthrow any Democratic President or Congress.

Besides the historical parallels of the Roman Empire's Praetorian Guard or the Post-WW1 disaffected German military;  this partially what happened in Iraq, when the Coalition Provisional Authority first official order for the de-Ba'athification of the Nation was disbanding the Army and firing all senior Iraqi officials.  This immediately created a force of disgruntled and now impoverished men with at least some military training and access to mines, bombs, and other weapons.  Hence, the Insurgency began which accounted for the majority of the deaths and injuries of U.S. service members.  

Going forward, the United States will simply slide more towards an un-democratic Nation until as I said the white peoples fascist fever breaks or the Nation does.

Additional:

The Law Protects Us
And Binds You...

2020 was the finally breaking point for white people.  In response, Republicans and white people said FUCK AMERICA GIVE US FASCISM!,

In August 2024, 

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman signed a law banning wearing face coverings in public at a news conference Wednesday morning. Nassau County covers part of Long Island, just east of New York City.  Blakeman said, "This is not an abridgment of anybody’s rights. Nobody has a constitutional right to hide their identity in public."

One year later...

 

Nassau County Executive Blakeman signs order supporting use of masks by law enforcement

There have been a lot of succinct definitions of Fascism but one of the most pertinent is the Unequal Application of Laws...

Republicans worship Moloch and sacrifice children: Noem and Trump purposefully drowned Children in Texas to Own the Libs

        Fundamentally, the Republican Party hates the United States of America and the American citizenry .  Consequently, with such hatred for Americans their fury at immigrants is genocidal.

Magamorphic Kristi Noem's FEMA:
 No handouts
No hand-ups
Just hand jobs

But, as more details emerge about the criminally negligent and deliberate willful indifference the Trump administration has shown towards the response to the Texas flood disaster it illustrates yet again how Trump and the MAGA movement is far more interested in Optics than actual results.

Kristi Noem, who is more interested in her outfits and her latest injection of face-filler, personally stopped FEMA response for days to Texas.

Noem didn’t authorize FEMA’s deployment of Urban Search and Rescue teams until Monday, more than 72 hours after the flooding began, multiple sources told CNN.

Traitor Trump took a press conference where he lashed out a reporter for asking why the Federal Republican response was so slow and cost people their lives.  

Flanked by his Jeffrey Epstein co-criminal Melanoma Trump, bedecked in her most chic disaster safari wear, and a ghoulishly smiling Greg Abbott, Trump responded, "Only an evil person would ask a question like that."  Traitor also used one of his go to tells when he doesn't know something by claiming, "Nobody has any idea how and why a thing like this could happen."

As always with Republicans all they care about is the immediate, the now.  If they can win the messaging war, if they can lie, defame, obfuscate, and bullshit their way through for another two weeks at most, well then the next Republican created catastrophe will be upon us and the Corporate Media won't talk about their previous crimes and scandals and their reactionary MAGA morons won't care.  So, Republicans will tell whatever lies they need to at a press conference.  They will look at the matter very strongly;  knowing they will get press coverage of them saying they will do this or that or everything is great and wow what a job without pushback and without fear of consequences.

As always Republicans know their MAGA moron base and their compliant Corporate Media allies will equate words with deeds and Republican empty promises with action.

Republican officials and residents in Kerr County, Texas continually declined Federal monies for more advanced early warning systems and other flood prevention infrastructure because it came from the "Biden Crime Family"...  The residents of Kerr County, Texas voted overwhelmingly for Trump and for Republicans despite them continually shitting on them.  I don't know how to democratically overcome a voter base which votes for their own immolation.  But, until we do Republicans will continue to sacrifice children to their Moloch.

Like a Good Neighbor, State Farm and the Coming Collapse of the Insurance Industry, is There!

        As a result of the increasing climate change catastrophe Illinois-based insurance company State Farm is raising rates...  on Illinois Homeowners. From the Chicago Tribune reporting, 

State Farm is raising homeowners insurance rates in Illinois by a whopping 27.2% beginning Aug. 15, according to a filing with the state last month. The rate hike, one of the largest in the state’s history, will affect nearly 1.5 million policyholders. New policyholders will pay the higher rates as of July 15.

In its filing, Bloomington-based State Farm said the rate increase is driven by catastrophic losses related to extreme weather events in Illinois.

In February, Northbrook-based Allstate raised homeowners insurance rates by 14.3% for nearly 248,000 Illinois customers, as the broader insurance industry struggles to keep up with the increasing frequency of extreme weather events across the country.

State Farm, for example, has received nearly 13,000 claims and paid out more than $4.2 billion to California homeowners who suffered losses during the devastating wildfires that raged across the Los Angeles area in January, according to an update posted this week on its website.

In 2024, Allstate raised homeowners insurance rates in Illinois by 12.7%, while State Farm implemented a 12.3% increase.

Homeowners insurance rates have been spiking across the country, increasing 40.4% over the past six years, according to LendingTree’s “State of Home Insurance” report for 2025, published in June. Illinois had the seventh highest increase among states, rising 59.5% between 2019 and 2024. 

    My first reaction is once again Democratically run states are being taxed to pay for the profligate and irresponsible political and economic policies of Republicans as well as their dogmatic ideological insistence Climate Change isn't Real.  Fortunately, this also appears to be the understanding of my excellent Governor J.B. Pritzker as well,

“These increases are predicated on catastrophe loss numbers that are entirely inconsistent with the Illinois Department of Insurance’s own analysis – indicating that State Farm is shifting out-of-state costs onto the homeowners in our state,” Pritzker said. “Hard-working Illinoisans should not be paying more to protect beach houses in Florida.”

    The thing is while the Republicans and their paid propagandists keep lying about climate change in order to maintain political power, in the real world of farming, the United States Navy, and the Insurance Industry it is known to be real, it's happening now, and it's going to be already disastrous, both financially and more importantly fatally as the Texas floods just demonstrated.

    But, Republicans are certain to continue to deny climate change and continue to govern their states as though the effects are not happening; thus, A House divided can not stand and all that... 

    Of course, the Republicans in office pushing their bullshit murderous climate change denialist policies feel absolutely confident they will never face the consequences and with their mindless drones having been totally conditioned even when the collapse comes, this is assuredly true and most likely Faux News and white people will blame Democrats, Trans people, and immigrants just as they've been programmed to do.

    In Florida, the Homeowner's Insurance Market is teetering on the brink of total failure, due mainly to Republican mismanagement of the state so when the next big hurricane hits resulting in billions of flood and wind damage, Republicans are going to do what they always do; steal money from Democratic states to pay off the debts they incurred in their states due to their profligate and perfidious criminal negligence and malfeasance.  Traitor trump will assuredly bail out Florida after taking his 20% commission and proclaiming himself the Greatest President Ever, just like he's about do in Texas.

ICE Barbie K. Noem, Trump's FEMA, and Texas Republicans abandon children to drown

        One of the key lies, the Republicans ran upon in the 2024 elections was that President Biden (and Vice President Kamala Harris more specifically) and FEMA abandoned rural white people in North Carolina after Hurricane Helene.  As always, Corporate Media aided their Republican allies by turning the issue into a both sides issue by "reporting" Republican lies as equally valid as the truth on the ground and letting voters decide.

So, now in the wake of the Guadalupe River floods in Kerr County, Texas, while children drown Kristi Noem is asking her Only Fans to pick her portrait for the South Dakota Capitol.  

A cursed Killer Triptych of Bloody Kristi

“Which one do you like for the official Governor’s portrait to hang in the South Dakota State Capitol?” Noem asked her nearly 500,000 Instagram followers in a Monday post.

Vamping for her close-up while children drown is not unexpected from a brutal dog-shooting ICE Barbie whose more interested in botox and filler for her face and her outfits.  It appears to be even worse as Noem made sure calls for help went unanswered at FEMA while she was getting ready for her next photo-shot.  Noem personally fired the call takers during the unfolding disaster.

Meanwhile, the erstwhile head of FEMA and Vigo the Carpathian imitator David Richardson is completely absent and hasn't even been seen in a week.  But, then Republicans are Hollow Men;  they preen and pose for the camera, they give their Media allies some Strong Quote, and then vanish when it actually comes to action.

Of course, other Republicans cover for their political partners, 

“President Trump, Secretary Noem, and FEMA have been exceptional partners throughout the flood response,” a spokesperson for Texas Governor Greg Abbott told Politico.

While rightwing propagandists searched about for the nearest black man to blame everything upon, as Trump Political Chief Charlie Kirk did when he blamed the botched, negligent, and criminal Republican Flood Response on the Austin Fire Chief Joel Baker and declared "DEI kills, and the Texas tragedy is just the latest example."

Of course, the truth is local Texas Republicans cut funding for warning systems in the region, 

In the week after the tragic July 4 flooding in Kerr County, several officials have blamed taxpayer pressure as the reason flood warning sirens were never installed along the Guadalupe River.

“The public reeled at the cost,” Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly told reporters one day after the rain pushed Guadalupe River levels more than 32 feet, resulting in nearly 100 deaths in the county, as of Thursday.

and 

Since January, the Trump administration has cut more than 200 employees from FEMA and more than 1,000 employees from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, which houses NWS. 

 But, I've pointed out history and reality is immaterial, the well-oiled Republican Outrage Wurtlizter found a black man too blame, Faux News and other outlets quickly moved onto their Superman outrage and got their ire back up to defend ICE Gestapho tactics.  White people are more than ready to sacrifice some white people for the power Trump has given them to be their worst selves.  

Additional:

Also never forget Republicans routinely vote against Federal disaster aid packages to Democratic States even as the cry alligator tears about aid to their states.

The New Superman is too Political

        This is too political, is the cry of white people who have been trained by Faux News and rightwing propaganda to see everything through the lens of Fascist politics.

Pure Nazi Propaganda 

For decades rightwing propagandists have spent every hour of every day hammering into their audiences' head that proper apolitical viewpoints are inherently fascist, ipso facto the default setting of humanity and Homo politicus is a Nazi Edgelord, most likely named "MechaHitler".

Anything which deviates from this, is ergo unnatural politics or pushing the race card or woke DEI or whatever the newest attack du jour.  This is the entire agitprop message of Chaya Raichik (Libs of TikTok) and Christopher Rufo, Chief Editor of The Fucking New York Times, and of course going back 20 years, what Laura Inazigraham meant with her Shut Up and Sing attacks on The (Dixie) Chicks and racist Shut Up and Dribble attacks on LeBron James.  

Now, this is nothing new, as the roots of this current iteration of Trumpublican Fascism draws deeply from the original 1930's version, as illustrated by Racist Ron Paul's appeal to Fascism in 2018, and is merely the continuation of the Reactionary political swing of the American (and European) Right to the successes of 19th century Liberalism and the Progressive Era of the early 20th century.

But, that's immaterial to the rightwing propagandists whose job it is to stoke Fear & Anger and spike their rabid followers cortisol and adrenaline every day and for Republicans who understand the American voter doesn't remember anything so the only battle worth fighting isn't the long-term bending of the moral arc of the Universe it's the daily pig-fucking, mud-slinging, shit-talking Republicans so excellent at.  Win today and understand the joy of being a conservative is having no memory.

So, as Republicans coalesce upon the Superman is too political line of attack it's because they have no fear their audience will know Superman was created by two immigrants of East European Jewish families, a direct result of rising of anti-Jewish fervor in Europe, of that time period.  Instead, their drones will take to Social Media to decry Superman and James Gunn and whomever the right wants to target today. 

Of course, Republicans every so often circle back and remind their rightwing drones of specific grievances;  as when they dredge up Hunter Biden's Laptop, or excitedly announce the reinvestigation of the cocaine a Trump official planted at the in a cubby at the entrance to the White House, or how eventhough there officially is no Epstein Client List, Hillary Clinton's Ninjas most definitely assassinated Jeffrey Epstein when she held no office, and Epstein was held in a Federal Prison under Traitor Trump and had just been visited by Attorney General William Barr.

Republicans drowned Government in a bathtub so that they could drown children in Texas

     I don't want to hear any complaints about "politicizing a tragedy",  the Republican control of Government is directly responsible for the unfolding tragedy and deaths due to the Guadalupe River flood.

"I'd just [ask] everybody like, pause, take a breath for the recriminations and the Monday morning quarterbacking," Chip Roy on Saturday. "Let's focus on finding those who can be found, then we can always assess what we need to do later, going forward." 

Chip Roy can go fuck himself.  Republicans control Texas and have for years.  There only plans for Government are too cut it.  To reduce government functions.  To eliminate government.  To drown it in a bathtub.  Well, this is the natural by-product of Republican control of government.  Dead people.

The number of statewide deaths fatalities blamed on July Fourth flooding has risen to at least 81 tonight. 

In Kerr County, 40 adults and 28 children are confirmed dead, in Travis County the number is six, for Burnet County it's three, and for Tom Green and Williamson counties the figure is one each. 

There are still multiple people missing in Kerr County, and it's still possible the number of deaths could continue to rise rise tomorrow.

Texas Governor Abbott ran away rolled away from blame by saying "There's no expectation of a water wall of almost 30ft high."

Other Texas assholes rushed in as quickly as the flood waters to wash themselves free of blame,

"We had no reason to believe that this was gonna be any, anything like what's happened here. None whatsoever," Judge Rob Kelly the top elected official of Kerr County said.

Who could have expected flash floods in Texas?  But, then Kelly accidentally put out the real reason Texas Republicans killed their constituents;

Judge Kelly said there is no county-administered warning system in the area because such systems are expensive.

Republicans have adopted the mantra that Government doesn't work and then when they are in office they work to ensure it doesn't.  Republicans like Mike Johnson, and going back 50 years have adopted the stance that Government doesn't and shouldn't help people.  That's why Squeaker Johnson and others have said well it's time for thoughts and prayers;  Republican thoughts are empty and their prayers hollow.  Kristi Noem, Ted Cruz, and numerous other Republicans are currently on a media blitz denying their culpability, blaming having to deal with antiquated systems, and claiming credit for making FEMA Great Again.  That's the Trump 3 step;

• Take credit for everything, especially things you did not do
• Deny blame for everything, most importantly things you did do
• Declare Greatness

This works because the Corporate Media is a willing accomplice.  Despite massive Republican cuts in funding the National Weather Service put out warnings, it's just in Texas nobody in government and nobody in tv or radio repeated these warnings.  So if you didn't have wifi and a phone/computer you didn't get notified.  Those little girl campers at Camp Mystic were there without access to phones and I don't know if the camp counselors brought a short wave radio or any other types of communication devices.

I'm surprised no major Republicans have come out blaming Biden giving money to illegals and interfering with Texas efforts to put buoys with saw blades into rivers.  It used to be these sorts of massive tragedies were met with calls to fix the system, to address fundamental flaws caused by lack of oversight and regulation, to call upon government to make people take precautions and institute safety.

It used to be said all those OSHA rules and regulations are written in blood.  Republicans have spent the last century fuming at all the Government Waste, Fraud, and Abuse.  What they mean is the rules and regulations which stop Republicans and the Rich from getting money and power from the blood of Americans.  Under the fascist traitor Trump administration we are once again going to pay for Republican perfidy in the blood of dead Americans.

The New York Times attacks Zohran Mamdani because Republicans have long afforded themselves the right to determine your reality

GOP Genital Inspector Corps

When President Obama was running for office, some Republicans adopted a subtle (for them at least) form of Racism by declaring Barack Obama wasn't really "black".  You see for the entire history of the Nation they has been a unspoken assumption that white men are the default American and therefore the arbiters of everything it means to be American.  

This is classic White Supremacy and Patriarchy.

The revival of these norms, prior to Trump but, massively accelerating under his wide umbrella has lead to the Anti-DEI pushback.  This, of course, is the direct result of the Reactionary pushback to the Civil Rights Era, and all of the gains made by various marginalized and abused groups and peoples stemming from the 1960s.

This is why they afforded themselves the mantle of Defender of Women's Sports with the ultimate arbitrator of What is a Women?  It's already happened that men have demanded to see the genitals of young girls in high school athletics and with the aid of the Gross Old Perverts on the Supreme Court, Republicans across the Nation will appoint themselves Witch-Finder Generals to sniff the panties and inspect the privates of little girls everywhere. 

This is why Republicans as explicit Nazis and anti-Semites have taken it upon themselves to declare others Anti-Semite.  Tonight, in Iowa Traitor Trump spit out his verbal diarrhea against Shylock bankers.  You know Trump has never read Merchant of Venice and absorbed that term from the bigoted usage he's heard for decades in New York City but, understand he gets to determine who is and who is not an anti-semite and for years as President Trump has castigated bad jews for not voting for him, has called Chuck Schumer (I know not a favorite amongst the Left right now) a Palestinian, while also gleefully attacking Universities for not cracking down hard enough on protests against the atrocities currently being conducted by the IDF and Israeli Nation.

Republicans specifically and white peoples in general have always believed they get determine the truth of your existence.  You aren’t you you are what they say you are.  Your lived life, your experienced reality aren't valid unless they say it is.  This is the entirety of the anti-DEI pushback.  Stephen Miller, Charlie Kirk, Chris Rufo, Riley Gaines, Nancy Mace, Chaya Raichik these are the arbitrators of your life and the people who tell you what you are and now in this fascist ascendent Republican NeoConfederate Nation what you can and can not do with it.

Chris Rufo has been the subject of several loving and helpful Fucking New York Times puff piece and now The Fucking New York Times has a hit piece out on New York Mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani.  In the article Benjamin Ryan anonymously cites an outright white supremacist and Nazi named Jordan Lasker who provided the background about Zohran Mamdani with his SCOOP: that Mamdani identified as Asian and African American on his application to Columbia. 

According to MAGA Ben Ryan; Gay Jews and Nazis hate Mamdani 

Benjamin Ryan and his white supremacist source Jordan Lasker are trying to provide the thinnest of reasons for Trump to proclaim he is deporting Mamdani and barring that for white and black people in New York to vote against him.  I guess Ryan couldn't be bothered to know anything about why a child of Indian ancestry and parents might be born in the nation of Uganda.  Instead writing "Columbia, like many elite universities, used race-conscious affirmative action admissions at the time."  Key propaganda words hit: Elite!  Race-Conscious! AFFIRMATIVE ACTION!!!

This according to Ryan was to gain "an advantage" never mind the fact Mamdani was actually born in Kampala, Uganda East Africa.  Post-colonial thought and research is definitely DEI to Americans like Ryan and the the British Empire never existed since the joy of being a conservative is having no memory and treating everything as though it happened ex nihilo.  The sleazy criminal Eric Adams has seized upon this story and is offended Mamdani used "The African-American identity as a check-box of convenience."

Well, Fascism is ascendent in the Nation right now.  I don't know what's going to happen with Zohran Mamdani.  Rich people, the Corporate Media, and white people who owe everything to their unearned privilege and white power are seemingly coalescing to defeat him.  It's a dark and evil time.

Update:

Christopher Rufo, the Rights current propaganda celebrity, gave Kudos to his allies at The Fucking New York Times for their scoop on Mamdani.

Understand this if nothing else Republicans have, amongst their other crimes and sins, conferred upon themselves the absolute authority to tell you who you are.