MAGA is destroying the United States; Gradually, and then suddenly

It's not a Lie,
If MAGA believes it

White people love when Republicans lie to them.  The amount of young white fascists who get raging hard boners listening to Karoline Leavitt tell lie after lie and spew racist claptrap during her press conferences is grotesque.

What Liberals and Leftists don't understand is reality doesn't matter anymore, and so-called objective facts are completely irrelevant. 

 MAGA is a wholly subjective political "philosophy" in which outright lies, complete reversal of policy positions, and disingenuous arguments made in bad faith are the dominant method of winning. 

The oft-repeatedly line that you are entitled to your own opinions but, not your own facts is so much rubbish.

I think a lot of Americans are not ready or not willing to accept a very difficult truth;  White People are not only okay with the US Government being dismantled they actively want it to happen.

However, we got here and everyone in the country has their own special little theory, this moment in time is one of Disunion and Dissolution.  The Social Contract has been utterly obliterated and Republicans are going to are, right now, undoing decades of progress and work.

This week Trump ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to open up reservoirs resulting in farmland being flooded in California and claimed it as a great success.

Republicans erased whole swathes of data and research housed on the CDC website. 

Trump removed all mention of the Climate Crisis from the US Department of Agriculture website.

Reuters reported "Aides of Elon Musk" locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

What does that sentence mean?  It means a Billionaire Oligarch pulled down the barriers between him and running a large swath of the Government.  It means a Coup in all but name was conducted.  It means the guardrails of government are gone. 

It means the End has come.

White people don't know or don't care about any of this.  To them this is all a great big lark.  A chance to make Memes which Own the Libs.  A chance to text that nephew and tell him to cry harder.  A chance to laugh at the pain and worry expressed by an LGBTQ person or an immigrant family or liberal co-worker they've always hated.

There's a knee-jerk reaction, especially amongst the useless and counter-productive Left to Blame the Democrats.  I think some people want performative nonsense to fight back.  But, White people told the Democrats at all levels to Fuck off and choose this monstrosity and nascent tyrannical authoritarianism so right now the Dems can't stop anything the Republicans are set upon doing.  Unless the blame the Democrats left want actual physical violence room the Representatives?

 Fortunately, it seems the anonymous and heavily slandered career federal employee is the bulwark standing against the Treasonous Trump Regime.

(Editor’s note: EPA staff have been instructed to speak to the media only through approved channels. On Wednesday, HCN approached dozens of federal workers outside the agency’s main office. A handful agreed to share their experiences from the past week under the condition of anonymity.)

“A lot of people are upset and confused,” said one employee of the Office of Air and Radiation with decades of experience working at the EPA.

The staffer said that he has worked under several presidential administration transitions during his career. He called the first days of the Trump administration’s second term “unprecedented,” due to the speed with which the president has penned new executive orders seemingly without internal scrutiny. Several of the orders have been criticized as unconstitutional or illegal. New administration or no, “I’m in it for the long game,” said the scientist who works on human-product analysis. 

Another staffer who works in pesticides regulations was asked whether he would accept the buyout. “They’ll have to drag me out before I go,” he responded.

So... what's going to happen?  Well, it's clear white people have been conditioned to hate the Federal Government and are happy to see Trump and Musk and the MAGA brigade tear it all down.  I'm certain they will continue to tell themselves any ancillary harm to people they know or problems caused by these moves is unintentional and once Beloved Leader Trump is made aware he will fix it and if the Government program is really necessary (unlike the $50,000,000 worth of condoms Joe Biden sent to Gaza) surely Musk will make sure it's funded. 

But, be prepared because these moves by Trump are not going to stop and when the collapse comes it will happen, as so often it has been observed, gradually, and then suddenly.

Trump & Musk killed a bunch of peopleDefunding the NIH

And they are going to kill a bunch more

This Regime will result in one of two outcomes; either White peoples Burn It All Down fever breaks or the Nation does.

Young white fascists are having a fucking ball, they are laughing their asses off.  They know RFK Jr is lying during his confirmation hearing and it's absolutely hilarious to them.  He's owning Bernie Sanders.  he' Owning the Libs!  That RFK Jr is a "Democrat" is just icing on the bad faith cake RFK Jr is serving up to Sanders and the Dems.

They think it's a fucking laugh riot that Rapey Drunk Pete Hegseth is blaming "midgets" and Blacks and women for the Trump DC Midair Disaster.  It's a laugh riot!

 

This is the fucking theater they've wanted for years.  These current Young Fascist Trump supporters were raised in the pot of 50 years of rightwing lies and Corporate Media perfidy unlike their fathers and grandfathers who had to subsist on code words and dog whistles, Trump for the past 10 years has fed them the raw bloody racist red meat they crave.  This is the entire point missed by Leftists who rail against the Democratic Party to pass policies they think are in the economic interests of the working classes.  White people of all ages and all classes do not want an equitable Nation and Healthcare for All.  They.  Do.  Not.  Want.  It.  They are angry and want to Bash the Left and hurt lots of people and Trump and the MAGA wave which took over the entire Republican Party gives them just that.

The prime thing which aids Republicans in their attempt to undermine and destroy 20th Century America and replace it with a simulacrum of a Democratic Republic is the fact that MAGA adherents don't know anything as they live in a perpetual state of aggressive ignorance and violent stupidity reacting like amoebas to the stimulus of rightwing liars.

This, of course, encompasses everything.  MAGA don't try to, don't want to, and don't care to learn anything therefore they believe everything some grifter tells them; whether that's Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, Moms for Liberty, Christopher Rufo, Charlie Kirk, or whomever.  MAGA is forever primed to believe things which aren't true and once they believe untrue things it can never be dislodged.

Thus, DEI and CRT are to blame for everything.  Everything.

Whatever disasters are going to befall this Nation int he next 4 years white Young Fascists know everyone else will have it worse than them and will delight in every disingenuous press conference and every trolling memo placing the blame on Trans women and Kamala Harris and whomever the Republicans identify as the enemy du jour. 

Trump's Plane Crash Disaster is merely the beginning

    Traitor Trump predictably blamed DEI and President's Biden and Obama for the D.C. plane crash which happened as a direct result of his "gutting" of the FAA and Elon Musk hounding the Director of the FAA and demanding he resign.  I don't know why anyone would expect anything less and even when Traitor Trump was pushed on how he could possibly claim it was "Diversity" when he also said the investigation is going on, he said "Because I have common sense."  No one needed to be a prognosticator to know Republicans would blame DEI, it's entirely fitting with their standard operating procedure for decades to blame the blacks.  And Racist Trump blaming disabled Americans for this is also not a shocker after his decades long mocking of people with disabilities.

"FAA employees with disabilities did not cause last night’s tragic plane crash.  The investigation into the crash is still ongoing. It is extremely inappropriate for the President to use this tragedy to push an anti-diversity hiring agenda. Doing so makes all Americans less safe,” the ADA said in a statement.

“Despicable. As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying. We put safety first, drove down close calls, grew Air Traffic Control, and had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch,” Pete Buttigieg wrote on X.

Pete Buttigieg is absolutely correct but, right now MAGA will blame DEI and the Democrats for all of the coming Trump crafted disasters.  And they are coming.  In all corners of the Nation and all facets of daily life;  Trump, Musk, and Billionaire policy choices are going to result in a breakdown of American society.

White people have been primed by years of ceaseless rightwing propaganda and now they are deep in a cycle of self-deception believing every new Republican lie and seeking out everything they can to reinforce the lies they've heard and want to believe.  Christopher Rufo said DEI and CRT are why white peoples lives are miserable and they will never stop believing it.

There's no way out for them and probably no way for Democrats or the Left to break in and break the cycle.  What's going to happen is the crisis in the United States are going to worsen.  They are going to increase.  Gradually, and then suddenly, as Hemingway once wrote.  Republicans, Faux News, and MAGA propagandists will continually try try deflect and blame President Biden and "Wokeness" but, as crops fail, as the Tariffs invoke Trade Wars, as Elon destroys NASA, as FEMA vanishes, as vicious stories of inhumanity emerge from the Gitmo Concentration Camp, there is going to come a breaking point.

I don't think White People's slavish devotion to Trump will be what breaks; instead its going be the Nation.

Destroying the US Government: Tonight's plane crash is just the beginning

Trump FA with the FAA and We FO

    How fast will Pete Hegseth's absence of leadership break the US military and how quickly will the Nation collapse?  Instead of addressing the mid-air crisis involving an Army Blackhawk helicopter and an American Airlines flight Drunk Rapist Hegseth went on to Jesse Watters Faux show to declare "Diversity is not our strength."  And who knows where the fat fvcking traitor is right now?  Sleeping in Mar-a-Lago after another day golfing and issuing orders to set up Guantanamo Bay as a 30,000 concentration camp?

Oh and just 5 fucking days ago Traitor Trump ordered FAA cuts, along with every other Department in the Republican anti-DEI, anti-CRT, anti-Woke, anti-American agenda,  just before the rope-a-dope Fire every Federal Employee and Freeze every Federal appropriations bill in these last 2 days and his bonkers claim he sent the US Military into California to turn on the water.

Harris and Walz and so many others warned Americans and in response the Corporate Media said, ‘Nah… Dems be Lying!’  White People wanted Fascism and they are going to get it, because Mussolini didn't make the Trains run on time, that was merely a bit of Italian Propaganda, and Trump isn't making America great he's busting the Nation out and he and bunch of Billionaires are stealing everything in sight.  Get used to Trump saying, as he did when Covid overwhelmed America because Trump threw away President Obama's pandemic playbook, "No.  I don't take any responsibility at all."  So, expect Charlie Kirk or Ben Shapiro to whatever rightwing asshole propagandist you care to pay attention to to spend the next few days blaming DEI and blaming Biden and blaming whatever.

Republicans hate America.  Their response will be what they always do immediately launch a propaganda campaign against the American people. They’ll gaslight and smear Democrats as “politicizing” a tragedy just as they ruthlessly undermine every part of the United States.

Trump and Republicans and their Billionaire backers don't give a FLYING FUCK about aviation safety.  Elon Musk was mad the FAA criticized his shoddy SpaceX safety standards and fined him for blatant gross violations so he demanded the FAA chief resign.  MAGA ethos is "move fast and break stuff" as rightwing assholes seek to remake America and reshape it into a White Supremacist Fascist Fundamentalist Nation.  

Firing every Federal Worker: May the Fork be with You

You’re Fired! Let that Sink in Part 2

    Trump's demand email with the ridiculous title of "Fork in the Road" for Federal workers to return to work immediately or be forced out smacks of some plot device he swiped from Defending Your Life (1991) or Office Space (1999). It’s also obviously Trump is employing his “You’re Fired!” Catchphrase.

It apparently was crafted by mincemeat brained Ketamine addict Elon Musk in keeping with his using old-timey puns to show how funny he is but, also illustrates again Billionaires have no need of a Federal government with functions other than to quell domestic dissent and to open foreign Nations up for exploitation.

And to all those Federal employees and researchers and program directors put under fear and duress by Trump's childish antics, tawdry Click-the-box ⌧ if you like Me and MAGA, Republicans don't give a shit.

Of course, if you or any Democratic Representative point this out, rightwingers take to the internet to bully and harass.  To deny anything bad is happening.  To claim Trump's only going after Fraud, Waste, and Abuse and if your job is so important or vital it'll be safe.  They'll blame Joe Biden and the Democrats for the bloated DEI/Woke jobs as the eternal Republican campaign of gas-lighting and lying never stops.  Now, instead of covering this as a termination letter email, Corporate Media has massaged it into a "buyout" as it's the media's job to lie for Republicans.

It also includes a ham-fisted Orwellian section titled Enhanced standards of conduct: 

The federal workforce should be comprised of employees who are reliable, loyal, trustworthy, and who strive for excellence in their daily work. Employees will be subject to enhanced standards of suitability and conduct as we move forward.

You're either a loyal member the MAGA Party or you are subject to termination.  My guess is that Charlie Kirk has a Turning Point staffer ready to be placed into these Government jobs.  The goal has been to replace every bureaucrat with a MAGA Loyalist whose duty and oath are not to the Constitution but to Trump himself and the broader anti-American MAGA movement.

Filing every job with MAGA Party members will be a great way to ensure the Federal Government remains in their hands, especially as they push illegal and unconstitutional actions using Federal Law Enforcement and as evidence of crimes grow, and then as all draconic, tyrannical, criminal fascist regimes do, Republicans will turn to rounding-up and eliminating those who oppose them.

Destroying the US Government

I DID THAT!

    I went to the Veteran Evaluation Services (VES) page to check on my upcoming appointment.  Thanks to President Biden who championed the PACT Act (bitterly resisted by Republicans in the Senate) I became available for possible benefits due to my exposure during deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq.  Anyway the VES page had a strange error message and re-logging in took me to a blank homepage with links that did not lead me anywhere.

Well, Trump just shut down appropriations across the entire United States government.  Everything.  All manner of agencies and all manner of programs.  White people have wanted the US government destroyed for years and it looks like under Traitor Trump they are going to get it good and hard.

Yesterday, January 27, 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued Memorandum 25-13, entitled “Temporary Pause of Agency Grant, Loan, and Other Financial Assistance Programs.” The far-reaching memo states:

[T]o the extent permissible under applicable law, Federal agencies must temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance, and other relevant agency activities that may be implicated by the executive orders [recently issued by the President], including, but not limited to, financial assistance for foreign aid, nongovernmental organizations, DEI, woke gender ideology, and the green new deal.

It further states the purpose of this pause is to facilitate review of all awards for potential impacts of the recent Executive Orders.

Republicans have flirted with shutting down and doing away with multiple parts of the Federal Government for a long, long time.  Rapist Trump has made his entire career doing illegal shit and daring anyone to try and stop him.

Fascism is a Lark

To most uninformed White People this is a huge lark, a giant Yes! He's stopping all THOSE PEOPLE from getting my hard-earned money moment.  Their moment to bask in the reflected glory of Trump and his Billionaires, compliant Congress, and Supremacist Court taking a hacksaw to the Gordian knot of the US Federal Government.

And I am absolutely certain those MAGA acolytes and devotees will simply smile and clap expecting their benefits and their medicare and their federal dollars to be turned back on any moment now by their fat fvcking fascist Overlord.  And Trump's cabinet of grotesqueries may in fact be able to restart programs to the tyrannical Republican States while fucking over Democratic led States. 

I'm tired of hearing from anyone how Harris ran a bad campaign or the Gaza situation cost the Democrats the election, or any such nonsense from the accelerationist Left or the savvy centrist pundits;  Every single time Harris, or Tim Walz, or Pete Buttigeig, or Gavin Newsom, or whatever Democratic operative, candidate, or sitting politician said the Republicans are going to steal your Social Security, they are going to swindle the American people out of our Nation, they are going to destroy the country, the Corporate Media pushed back and told everyone, 'Naaaah. Democrats are lying.'  When Harris pointed out Trump and Vance were lying about Haitians eating cats or the draconic inhumane and illegal actions MAGA was going to take to hurt Immigrants legal or otherwise, the Corporate Media said, 'Bothsides make assertions who knows what's true?' And when Harris said on the debate stage Project 2025 and the abolition of Freedom, Liberty, Self-Determination are precisely what Trump will do in Office, the Corporate Media threw a multi-week fit and screamed over and over and over and over, 'TRUMP HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH PROJECT 2025! NOTHING! NOTHING! NOTHING!!! DEMOCRATS ARE BIG LIARS!!!'

And so here we are, with CNN's blaring headline 

Trump administration denies it is pausing all federal grants after sweeping memo to government agencies

So, here we are with a bunch of terminally on-line assholes, who spent the last year undermining Joe Biden and then undermining Kamala Harris, demanding the Democrats do something (and ignoring the things they are doing while the Democratic Party has literally zero control of zero branches of the Federal Government) while the Corporate Media continues to assure White People that everything is fine.

Trump's Deportation StormTroopers coming soon to an Illinois school near you on their Nationwide Tour

     There are a large number of Police Officers who are going to be put on the spot to determine if they actually believe in Law&Order or if they are willing to accept a Fascist takeover.  I don't like our odds. 

Fortunately, guidance from Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul to all Law Enforcement in the state helps protect people from the Unlawful search and seizure orders coming from the Trump White House. 

The TRUST Act prevents law enforcement officials across the state from arresting and detaining people based solely on their immigration status. 

I've already had interactions with people who rushed to tell me they believed certain people were here, in the US, "illegally".  After telling them flatly "I don't care", I pondered why individuals of displaced and mistreated ethnicity would be so eager to turn the power of Government onto others.

So, there was an initial report yesterday that ICE Agents showed up at Hamline Elementary School in Back of the Yards, and being turned away, but, further reporting determined the two Officials were Secret Service Agents apparently seeking to speak to an 11 year old about a Tik-Tok video threat against Trump.  Now, first off get the fuck outta here with this being some metaphysical threat requiring SS Agents go into the school to apprehend this fucking child.  It's already obvious they know who the child in question is and could easily figure out their   

Secondly, perhaps you recall the video posted from Jeremy Kauffman, the operator of the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire Twitter page, where he repeatedly called for Vice President Harris to be assassinated.  Two FBI agents showed up to interview him and he negged and insulted them openly and defiantly without fear of being taken into custody let alone being shot.  At the end of the encounter the two Agents obviously exasperated simply walk away and he's an adult.  So spare me any claims that some Chicago-land 11 year old is a serious threat of getting anywhere near the fat fuck at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

The only time Officers should be doing enforcement action in a school is when there's an active threat or a person in custody.  Interviews with children don't need to involve going into classrooms to grab a child with a bunch of other innocent children present.  But, remember Federal Law Enforcement is going to act very differently under an Authoritarian Republican than under a Democratic administration.

What the Chicago Tribune article highlights is the fear permeating the Latin/Hispanic communities in and around Chicago, as well as the micro and macro economic impact.  But, this is all a Lark to white people who voted for Trump.

Many Officers may be queasy at the thought of ICE Stormtroopers kicking in doors and rounding up hispanic or latin persons on no pretext other than their brown skin but, actually doing something in resistance is not part of their make-up.  To be fair, many Officer are just plain lazy and don't want to do anything, while others are scared about losing their job/pensions. But, unfortunately, some are actual Nazis who ecstatically shit their pants when Elon Musk gave back-to-back Nazi Salutes.

I've wondered if Trump, Tom Homan, Stephen Miller are going to use the slice-the-salami tactics to avoid backlash or if flush with power they are simply going to whole hog and send Red Army troops into big cities to simply grab up everyone they can.

The tentative ICE raids in this frigid January seem to be a prelude for mass arrests come spring.  Fascist Republicans, Unconstitutional Sheriffs, and companies in business to incarcerate people certainly seem to believe Trump and MAGA will be building massive concentration camp complexes. 

A spokesperson for GEO Group, one of those private companies, told NPR in a statement they are investing $70 million toward more housing, transportation and monitoring capabilities.

Some state officials are eager to help. Texas officials promised Trump 1,400 acres to use as a detention camp, about the size of a thousand football fields. Arizona Republican Sen. John Kavanagh plans to introduce a bill to offer ICE two empty state prisons, leased for a dollar a year each.

"We were using both of them until recently. It's just that we ran out of prisoners. So we closed them," Kavanagh said. "It's kind of like opening up the old country house in the spring."

But Jonathan Thompson, executive director of the National Sheriffs' Association, said there is "significant willingness" among the nation's more than 3,000 sheriffs to help, offering bed space or participating in the federal 287(g) program, which gives local law enforcement authority to perform certain immigration duties.

Sheriff Brian Kozak in Laramie County, Wyo., says his jail has more than 200 empty beds he plans to offer to ICE.

"If they're going to be detained and held somewhere, our jail offers pretty good resources to help people in their transition," said Kozak, who also plans to join the 287(g) program.

Kozak said his jail already has an agreement with the U.S. Marshals Service to hold people for $120 a day, and imagines the reimbursement from ICE would be similar. Most of his empty bed space is already accounted for in the jail's budget.

"Anyone that we hold above and beyond that is then just extra revenue that we have, that we normally would not have."

Extra Revenue. I don't think we are going to have too wonder for very long.  Despite the good stance by Illinois elected Governor and Attorney General, there are enough fascists in waiting who will enjoy being unleashed.  They've been Standing Back and Standing By for over 4 years.  Paper impediments like the the 4th and 14th Amendment aren't going to stop them when they get the Marching Orders from Trump.

MAGA Stormtroopers are absolutely going to raid schools and kidnap children without warrants and without any care for due process, rights, or the Constitution.

Additional:

Meanwhile, the MAGA response is going exactly as I predicted.  I said Trump admin people would claim the arrests were the Worst of the Worst, and the (white) people who say never trust the Government would swallow the statements about who was arrested without question,

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said, "The Trump Administration arrested 538 illegal immigrant criminals including a suspected terrorist, four members of the Tren de Aragua gang, and several illegals convicted of sex crimes against minors." 

Any Americans caught up in the the Raids have only themselves to blame...

Trump fires Inspectors General; The Law is nothing more than a Club for the Rich and Powerful and Trump owns the Club

    Last night Trump fired 17 Inspectors General, as the New York Times and Washington Post, in their fawning coverage of their Beloved Dictator DonOld labelled Trump's bold move as an ousting that maybe appeared to violate the Law.  However, I am assured by multiple reputable sources that this is against the law.

Donald Trump fired 17 independent watchdogs at multiple US government agencies on Friday, a person with knowledge of the matter said, eliminating a critical oversight component and clearing the way for the president to replace them with loyalists.

The inspectors general at agencies including the departments of state, defense and transportation were notified by emails from the White House personnel director that they had been terminated immediately, the source said on condition of anonymity.

The dismissals appeared to violate federal law, which requires the president to give both houses of Congress reasons for the dismissals 30 days in advance.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Trump's entire career has been to do illegal things and dare anyone to stop him.  At this point, anyone unwilling to address this matter of a Lawless Authoritarian Dictator in the White House is fine with it or frightened of what is coming.

For decades, Lawyers have duped the American people about what The Law is; with such rousing Hollywood tales as Judgement at Nuremberg and Raymond Burr's Perry Mason, Americans have been led to believe such homilies as No One is Above the Law and the Wheels of Justice turn slowly but grind very fine.  This has been nothing but an elite con game. 

First off, there is no such thing as Natural Law, codes of laws throughout time are a wholly human made invention subject to the whims and vicissitudes of those who have access to it.  And worse, Lawyers and high level Government Officials, have for years scolded Americans into believing The Law was some holy esoteric cosmological constant floating in Platonic perfection in aether only to be approached by those trained in the special arts (themselves) intoning the proper phrases in just the right order and tone.

Instead The Law is just a giant club for those who went to the right schools and relies entirely upon who ya know not what you know.  Trump as a boorish cad was excluded from that Club so he bought it.  Now, The Law is whatever Trump and MAGA say it is.

Americans are going to get a big fucking lesson under Traitor Trump, whose known for decades what a paper tiger the Law is and has danced circles around those, like Merrick Fucking Garland, who as a deeply invested institutionalist thought the rules, norms and laws were binding, when in fact they are not.

So, all those terminally on-line Liberals who put stock in the Mueller Report, or fart sniffing assholes over at EmptyWheel who chided everyone for years to trust the process and you had to get the small fish to get the big fish and if you're going to go after the King you best not miss where either deluding themselves as to the majesty of "THE LAW" or watching as Merrick Garland spent years catching a lot of little fish only to have the Big Fish come in and release them with a stroke of the pen.

The Law isn't going to save us.  The question is for how long will Trump, MAGA, Stephen Miller, and the whole cadre of criminal co-conspirators restrain them? 

I don't think it will be very long.

In his official capacity, Trump shits giant dumps on Veterans

    In one of his least remarkable actions, Trump issued a hiring and vendor freeze for the Department of Veterans Affairs.  Republicans hate Veterans.

While the Veteran community is no longer the rightwing monolith it was in the post-vietnam and Ronnie Raygun 1980's.  It's still disappointing the current generations didn't learn how little Republicans think of them with their phony GWoT.

Trump especially doesn't give a rat's hind tit about Veterans except to use them as props.  While I don't need any guidance it should be instructive how Trump's actions and those of his immediate inner circle demonstrate how routinely MAGA shits all over Veterans and active duty service members.

We never got a full unreacted accounting of the bullshit Trump and his staffers pulled at Arlington National Cemetery.  Now we never will. 

Senate Republicans blocked and celebrated stopping burn pit legislation.  Republicans demonized LGBTQ people for decades while President Biden and his Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin undertook the task of removing bad conduct and dishonorable discharges given to service members for the crime of being "homosexual".  Republicans, in response, put up a drunk rapist TV Host whose own unit warned higher ups he was a security risk as the SecDef.

Top: Started - Bottom: Going

Under President Biden, I was contacted by VA reps without me putting in a request and told me time in and tours in Afghanistan and Iraq now afforded me access to VA healthcare.  My interactions with the staff at the Hines VA Hospital, in suburban Chicagoland have been courteous and amenable.

And now that's all gone because white people expect to be taken care of and bite the hands of Democratic administrations because they've spent decades believing rightwing and Corporate Media lies about Republicans supporting the Troops because Trump stood on the graves of men and women braver and more moral than him smiling a ruckus grin.

Well, some fuckwad MAGA acolytes are finding out Trump doesn't give a shit about them but, I don't expect any change of heart or mind, Republicans have given themselves body & soul to Trump and any single one of them who might suffer isn't due to Trump but, the evil deep state.

MAGA is a Murder-Suicide Cult, and Billionaires have no need of a Federal Government

    As everyone reacts in horror to Trump's planned Executive Orders and the complainant Congress which is in lockstep with undoing Civil Rights, the NIH, and many other aspects of the Federal Government; you will understand these actions much more readily if you realize Billionaires do not require these functions or believe these things should exist.  Billionaires like Trump, Musk, Bezos, Sam Altman, and other rich weirdos don't need Civil Rights, don't need a CDC, don't need cancer research, don't need NASA, don't need Social Security, don't need Medicare for all, they don't need a Federal Government to do any of this;  All Billionaires need is a robust domestic law enforcement apparatus to maintain control and keep Us in line and a strong military to threaten other Nations and open up markets for exploitation.  

Everything else is so much chaff and so much stolen money which could be going to them.  Once you look at every evil action undertaken by Trump/MAGA as : Do Billionaires need this? Yes/No.  then you'll understand.

    Now, this has spawned many tragic funny bon mots like, 'Leopard's eating face party' or FAFO as Republicans continue to fuck over their voters, especially white men, for decades.  But, what the moribund American Left has never understood in the eternal quest to blame Democrats for Republican perfidy is adopting very progressive legislation to help the white working class has never and will never result in whites voting for Democrats or further left candidates; the White Working Class has been stepped and stewed in rightwing agitprop for 50 fucking years.  For three generations all they've ever known is a Republican loving media and rightwing framing of every issue.  And now they aren't being duped by Republican lies, they've absorbed and adopted them.

MAGA is a wholly subjective political philosophy wherein the old truism, You are entitled to your own opinions but, not your own facts, no longer holds sway.

Look at how hard rightwingers at every level from Elise Stefanik, to USA Today MAGA reporters, to ADL spokesman, to every conservative on Twitter is defending Elon Musk and his back-to-back Nazi salutes.  The white working class wants Fascism.  They want Trump's vile, mindless, mean and deadly Executive Orders.  Whites want the America built up laboriously during the 20th century torn down and replaced with an Oligarchy.  Whites assume that with Billionaire backers running things they will be in the  protected Villein class and won't have to worry about the Tsar sending the Cossacks to slaughter them.

Look, at how this decades long psyop campaign against whites to get them to vote for policies which aid Billionaires even at the financial cost and ruin to themselves and has resulted in them willingly dying for Trump, MAGA, and the Oligarchs (which they did during the Covid crisis) and to which they've responded with tying themselves ever more closer to Billionaires and the interest of the obscenely wealthy.

And the Left doesn't know how to react to this other than to continue to blame the Democrats.  But, and this is most frightening aspect, MAGA and Billionaires are not a Suicide Cult; they are a Murder-Suicide Cult.  The MAGA initiatives to outlaw fluoride, vaccines, stop funding NIH, eliminate FEMA, withdraw from the WHO and Paris Climate Accords, and any number of things on the Project 2025 planning guide won't simply result in their deaths; MAGA is going to take Us down with them.  Most likely, by direct murder and concentration camps first and then the shared destruction of the United States and the Planet afterwards.

So, don't kid yourself and think it will simply be like it always has been in your life.  Rightwing paramilitary death squads are in the offing and the utter obliteration of the United States of America is their goal because a United States Federal Government might impede Billionaires control of this land and the world and they've decided to not allow that to happen.

Elon's deliberate Nazi salutes and Trumps paper terrorism

Don't believe your Eyes

  Are more than anything a signal. A blaring Call to Arms.  The Proud Boys heard it.  The Crypto Nazis on X heard it.  Only the Corporate Media and the Republican Party did not hear it.  Here's what MAGA Elise Stefanik had to say in defense of South African Apartheid Nazi Elon Musk;

“No, Elon Musk did not do those salutes. I was not at the rally, but I can tell you I’ve been at many rallies with Elon Musk, who loves to cheer when President Trump says we need to send our U.S. space program to Mars. Elon Musk is a visionary. I’m looking forward to his work in DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, and I look forward to seeing how we can be more efficient and effective. But that is simply not the case, and to say so is– the American people are smart. They see through it. They support Elon Musk."

He did not do those salutes...  Fortunately,  Senator Chris Murphy wasn't just going to accept Stefanik's lies and pointed out how across Musk's X American Nazis saw his salutes.  But, the Republicans have known for a long time they can simply lie with zero repercussions from the Media and their supporters not only expect it but, yearn to be lied to.  Hence Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL released a statement claiming Musk didn't throw Nazi Salutes calling it instead an "awkward gesture"

And understand that's the first part of this lie as it ignores the fact Musk did it twice back-to-back, while on-line Republicans put any number of disingenuous side-by-side still images of President Obama or HRC waving and claiming it's the same thing as Musk's vile video at a Presidential inauguration flashing Nazi bonafides.

But, while it's been "funny" to claim Elon Musk is the real President Trump has been busy blasting the Nation with his Executive Orders in a early blitz to overwhelm and cow attempts to fight back against Republican's vile agenda of oppression, intolerance, and despoliation of the Nation.  It's the same Paper Terrorism tactic Trump and his many disreputable lawyers use to overawe and intimidate anyone who sued him.

While some of Trump's EOs are prima facia unlawful and illegal, the time when We, the People could rest assured that the Constitution, the concept of a Nation of Laws, would hold the line and stop the rapacious Republicans is long past.  Trump pardoned all the rightwing domestic terrorists who successfully stopped the peaceful transfer of power on Jan6th and all of those traitors and criminals are looking for revenge.  Of course, Trump isn't the first Republican to reward his criminal thugs.  In May of 2024, Texas asshole Greg Abbott pardoned Daniel Perry who had planned and broadcast his intention to kill protestors in 2020 and, in fact, did so.  Trump will, most likely, keep them in his back pocket as a subtle threat but, it would be a foolish mistake to believe the Rightwing Domestic Terrorists who have committed violence in the past will not do so again... and soon...

Former La Habra Police Department Chief Alan Hostetter, a prominent COVID-19 restrictions critic and activist, was released Tuesday from federal prison along with hundreds of other defendants convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol following President Donald Trump’s pardons.

Hostetter, who has ties to San Clemente and last resided in Poolville, Texas, was released between midnight and 12:30 a.m. and picked up from the federal prison in Oakdale, Louisiana, his attorney Karren Kenney said.  According to Kenney, Hostetter said it was not the last time the public would hear from him and that he added, “We are just getting started.”

Hostetter was convicted in July 2023 in a non-jury bench trial before U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth, who ruled he was guilty of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of an official proceeding, entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon and disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon, according to court records.

America has a long history of coddling and encouraging white people to commit violence with the tacit and oft times explicit understanding they will not be punished by the Government; Trump has just demonstrated this.  MAGA has promised you violence and that's what we're going to get.  Be prepared

$TRUMP : The Founding Fathers never imagined crime and bribery via CryptoCurrency therefore it's Legal

Raises Concerns is a classic framing by the 
FTFNYT to minimize Republican Perfidy

If you thought Trump’s scheme to steal every single dollar in the United States was confined to his silly NFT pictures or his shoddy Fauxlex watches or by continuing to force the Secret Service to stay at his shitty Hotels, then you underestimated his criminality by several orders of magnitude.  DonOld and Melanoma started CryptoCoins, the preferred way large scale criminal operations prefer to launder enormous amounts of cash.

The timing of this release was brilliant; before he assumes the Office of Presidency and before his issuance of thousands of draconian Executive Orders which will dominate the Corporate Media headlines as they lavish praise on the beloved Dictator DonOld.

Additionally, the Corporate Media which spent thousands of hours breathlessly covering the "Clinton Cash" and James Comer "Biden Crime Family" allegations will not spend more than a day or two on this because now is the time of the sacred peaceful transfer of power which Trump didn't honor in 2020 and the meeting of the out-going President with the incoming which Trump petulantly didn't do in 2021.

But, pointing out the US is rigged to support and advance the Republican Party and destroy liberals isn't even half the battle it's just an understanding of the game of American politics often referred to as "CalvinBall", by those old enough to recall the Calvin & Hobbes comic strips in which the two played a game in which the rules are ever-changing and often change to suit the needs position of one player to gain an immediate advantage.  Republican beliefs are now a wholly subjective field of political philosophy and will change at a moment's notice to support whatever position the Republicans think gives them an advantage today in the battle of propaganda.  Republicans get to have their own facts and those ever amorphous facts get to be Truth as needed and as it suits Republican from moment to moment.

I don't know how much money Trump will have transferred to his family and himself via this $TRUMP "coin" but we are talking around $50,000,000,000.  But, this doesn't matter in any way to his ardent fans and the Republicans don't see this as an impediment to them busting out and slicing up every facet of the Federal Government and United States they can.  And the Corporate Media well they are about to have their hands full justifying and supporting the MAGA rounding up of Transpersons and migrants and the swiftly disappearing of these people while they chuckle chuckle to each other over Trump's latest threat to invade Canada, or Greenland, or Panama, or Ukraine or wherever.

So, don't look away the Trump Show has just begun...

Today, Trump and the Republicans declare Victory over the United States of America. Next, comes the Violence

    This morning I took down the USA flag outside my home, the Republicans have raised the standard of Arch-Traitors over the Nation, the country is no longer governed by the US Constitution but by a cadre of criminals and their co-conspirators.

I am sure you know the story in 1974, Republicans led by Barry Goldwater told Nixon it was over and he had to resign or face an impeachment procedure he was going to lose.  From that point on Republicans vowed never to put the good of the Nation or the America people before the Party ever again.

Today, after 50 years of subverting the Government from within and attacking every norm, guardrail, code, or law which may have inhibited them the Republicans of the Neo-Confederacy declares victory over the United States of America as Traitor Trump reclaims the Presidency.  The evidence we are no longer a Nation of Laws but of the whims of a gaggle of grifters, thieves, white supremacists, and worse is evident by President Biden having to issue a raft of preemptive pardons, in the face of the certain threat Trump would have any who tried to curb his criminality punished.

A lot of what comes next is going to depend on whether or not members of the Government, military forces, and the massive law enforcement apparatus in America will simply follow orders.  I have thin hope they will not.  The fact U.S. Customs & Borders launched a raid in Bakersfield, California last week prior to Trump taking office offers a lot of what is likely to follow.

As we enter Day 1 of Fascist America you know how this is going to go;  Trump will issue some draconic orders attacking the weakest and most maligned people in the Nation.  To wit: Transgender persons are already targeted by Trump's executive order.  Trump and his Department of Homeland Security claimed they were going to send 200 ICE Agents into Chicago to round-up migrants.  I firmly believe Trump and Stephen Miller have dreams of Concentration Camps for migrants (and LGBTQ and homeless persons) but, whatever happens Trump will take all credit, pass blame and responsibility, and declare America Great Again.

Of course, to White People this is all theater, 

"We missed out on the inauguration so I want to at least see the guy if I drove out here," said Thomas Zacher, 23, who travelled from Wisconsin for the rally.  Zacher said he voted for Trump mainly due to the economy, with inflation surging at points in the last four years. He also pointed to Trump's charisma.  "His charisma, his energy," he said. "To be honest if it wasn't for Trump, I think politics is kind of in the back seat of a lot of people's brains."

"We need somebody who hasn't been in the political world and been corrupted by politics for so long," said Kim Matthews, 50, who travelled from Kentucky. "He hasn't been in lifelong politics, he is a businessman," she said.  "And I think the government is a business."

Christina Overby, a 53-year-old office worker, was eager for Trump to get to work.  "He's got to get us back on track," she said."I come from a working-class family, and I really don't want folks coming in here from other countries that are not supposed to be here and taking these opportunities away from people like my family," she said.  Overby called for Trump to "get the military" to deport people.

What I think a lot of NPR listeners and terminally on-line leftists were unwilling or unable to believe going in 2024 and certainly in 2016 is how primed White Men and Women, the Corporate Media and American business world was to ally with and kow-tow to Trump and MAGA Nazism.

But, look at quickly these business jettisoned their "DEI" and inclusivity programs.  Corporate Media, of course, has been stealth fully allied with the Republican Party since at least Ronnie Raygun's Regime, so simply adapting and adopting MAGA principles was not a big leap for them, but the Musk Zuck Bezos Billionaires Media threw off all pretensions of neutrality and the promise of democratizing the internet and news reporting and rushed to embrace every rightwing tenet and promote every piece of rightwing agitprop.

What Republicans have planned for the Nation and its' peoples, of course, only works if Americans concede or go along willingly.  I don't expect you to bravely stand up to the combined overwhelming might of the Media and Republican Government.  But, always be aware of the Nation you live in, one in which white people yearn to have a whole host of people rounded-up and eliminated.  And one in which The Law, is not the Platonic Shield defending you from the rapacious Republican Party who seek not only to destroy the Nation physically, but to undo and rewrite it's very foundational core tenets and create from the ground-up a White Supremacist Fascist Fundamentalist Nation, built upon the twin pillars of oppression and intolerance, dedicated to the final destruction of the American Dream while replacing it with Nightmare of MAGA.

White Men do not want to Vote for Democrats

    There is so much caterwauling going on in the on-line post-blogging Internet it's making me exasperated.  No Harris didn't lose because of Gaza.  Or Liz Cheney.  Or the Democrats not saving Tok Tok.  All these theories, countless podcasts, articles, accusations, and in-fighting about how or why the Democrats lost again to Trump and MAGA ignores the fucking most obvious problem;

White Men DO NOT want DEMOCRATS!  White Men have been telling DEMOCRATS to FUCK OFF for FORTY-FIVE-FUCKING YEARS!  White Men are not going to vote for a Democrat for President.

Until analysis addresses this unassailable fact and these post-election analysis are just more and more ridiculous attempts at squaring the circle.  All the blather about policies and messaging is so much the biggest nothing in history.  Biden, President Obama, President Bill Clinton tailored much of their economic policy catering to and assuaging the hurt feelings of whites and white peoples response to these Democratic Presidents creating a better economy, more robust job growth, whilst protecting white Union jobs has been to say FUCK YOU!  I'M VOTING TRUMP! 

Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz laid out a good future for America and white men told them FUCK YOU! GIVE US FASCISM!  

Trump and Vance's lies about Haitians about Transgender boogie persons, about Eggs and Hurricane relief going to "illegals" was all smoke to give White Men cover for voting for Fascism.  Because as shit goes south and the Nation crumbles a lot of White Men are going to justify their vile votes for Trump by saying he was better on the "Issues" when policies and issues DO NOT MATTER.  White men are not going to vote for a Democratic President.  Period.

Now, there is some good reporting about higher education, which has seen a precipitous drop in male attendance, is because getting a college degree is coded as Feminine and unworthy of masculine energy.  That study is a female endeavor.  The same heuristic applies to the Democratic Party;  Republicans and their ever-willing allies in the Corporate Media have painted the Democrats as the Queer, Female, and Minority Party.  

But, this is probably inverting cause and effect and reversing the order of events.  And who has been on the forefront of telling White Men, that college is "gay" and they are being swept aside, and anyway they should be pursing Masculine Jobs; Republicans.  Republicans began an agitprop campaign 50 years ago to capture "the working man" (which always means working class whites and have used the ever-evolving propaganda delivery mechanism to reach out and bash these men (and women) over the head 

So, before you produce your trenchant post elections analysis and declare (after there fact) what the Democrats should have done; address the problem of figuring out how you will overcome the White Man (and white woman) problem.  Because Whites see in Trump the last best chance to throw off the chains of equality, the HR department mandated sensitivity training, the terrible burden of treating people who are different with a scintilla of respect.

Ringin' in the New Year American style; with a Mass Casualty Event

     While the Nation and World watch in horror as the cavalcade of criminals and cranks coalesce around Mar-a-Lago true American horror was visited upon America and innocent people yet again.

In New Orleans, a mass murderer drove his car giant pickup truck into a large crowd of people in the French Quarter, at Bourbon Street and Canal Street, apparently exited and began shooting into the crowd.

"When we were in the bar we didn’t hear shooting or crashes because the music was so loud," Whit Davis  from Shreveport, Louisiana, told BBC. People then started running and hiding under tables, he adds, "like it was an active shooter drill". 

Police then held him and a group of people in the bar and when they were allowed to leave, he says they "were walking past dead and injured bodies all over the street".

Right now the details are fragmentary but, according to local officials and the FBI, the incident began at about 0315, the suspect drove around barricades and police vehicles shooting two officers before driving into the crowd.  NOLA Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick stated, "very intentional behaviour" and he was "trying to run over as many people as he possibly could".

At this time reports are 10 people killed and 35 wounded.  We, of course, as a society have been numb and inured to these sort of things.  In a large part because we know it will never happen to us or because we have to believe that in order not to go mad.  

Empty Thoughts & Hollow Prayers will of course be offered by the usual do-nothing suspects who will join in with the real bad actors who will politicize and jump upon this sort of thing to push their racist and fascist ideology.  Recall how Elon and JD Vance blamed muslims and endorsed the AfD (Neo-Nazis) in Germany after a mass casualty attack, which of course, was perpetrated by a far right terrorist.

The largest Rightwing propagandists
are already running with
Migrant Crime (facts be damned)

Defund the Police will be blamed and Trump will declare he will unshackle the Police to stop this American Carnage (yet again) and white people will cheer.  Of course, these things aren't responsible for this anymore than when rightwingers will take to "X" to blame big city Democrats, or blacks (cause New Orleans), or video games or lack of access to pussy (in case the killer is a white boy) and ignore the fundamental causes of these incidents.

So, please take care of yourselves and your families as we approach MAGA's fascist takeover of the entire Federal Government this month.

Update 1:

As befits his lying ass, Traitor Trump issued a statement about New Orleans declaring, ""The crime rate in our country is at a level that nobody has ever seen before."

Homicides in Milwaukee and Chicago are down and the rate across the country has decreased for the 3rd straight year.  The high point of course was under the 1st Trump maladministration.  

Update 2:

We now know for sure it was "terrorism" because the F150 driving killer is named Shamsud Din Jabbar and not Brad Spafford.