Merry Christmas America; Republicans hate you and want you to die

    Republicans scuttled the Government funding bill yesterday night,

By a vote of 174-235, the House of Representatives rejected the Trump-backed package, hastily assembled by Republican leaders after the president-elect and his billionaire ally and increasingly close political partner Elon Musk scuttled a prior bipartisan deal.

Part of this Republican failure included Mike Johnson cutting out federal funding for a pediatric cancer research program because Republicans hate America and don't care if children die, and really enjoy when children do die.  If you're not a millionaire you have no influence in a Republican government and if you're not a billionaire you have no control of a Republican government. 

For his part, Trump wants the Debt Ceiling (a mechanism Republicans have used since President Obama to water-down and diminish Democratic policies completely abolished) because he and the thieves he's surrounded himself with want to loot the treasury and the Federal Reserve; at a cartoonish level which would make any James Bond villain blush.

You = Net Worth north of $1,000,000,000

Remember one of the really successful campaign tricks Trump/Vance et al pulled was telling (mainly white men and women) the Republicans are the party for You; while Kamala Harris is for They/Them.  In reality, Republicans are a party of rich assholes who have used Fear & Hatred to get people to vote against their "economic interests".  Decades of rightwing propaganda and lies about the Government being "the problem" have set us up for this moment when Republicans who are experts at undermining a functional government can not do anything when in power other than step on their own dicks.

I kind of take that back;  Republicans in power of the Federal Government aren't incompetent they are malicious.  For instance; restricting and controlling women's access to medical care, or raising taxes on working class Americans to give massive taxes breaks to their billionaire owners.  Republicans have been running on the platform of Government is against people (especially white people) and government fails, recall how Trump and Vance and El Presidente Elon Musk told wild and vicious lies, smears, and slanders about Hurricane response in North Carolina, with vile claims of those poor white peoples' aid going to illegal immigrants and trans persons.

Now, understand when Government fails or seemingly fails, Republicans win.  When Republicans run on a platform of Government is a failure and then when they win office those elected Republicans sabotage and undermine their committee or department it's a win-win.

So, it should be no surprise Republicans have shut down the Government.  Now, Elon Musk and Just Despicable Vance aren't going to take credit for their dirty handiwork and they know they have a sympathetic ear in Corporate Media along with Musk's firehose of lies and shit on X, so they've blamed the Democrats.

Thankfully, the Democrats haven't swooped in to save the Republicans from their own actions, unfortunately a lot of Americans are going to be hurt.  But... well Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and every other Democratic official warned you that Republicans were going to do damage and hurt a lot of people and white people said, 'FUCK YEAH!  LET'S GO!'

I hope Hakeem Jeffries and the rest of the Democratic leadership can stop themselves from helping Republicans because 1) We never get credit, 2) Corporate Media then can point to the vile Republican agenda as being "bipartisan", and 3) most importantly everything MAGA has planned is evil and will harm millions of people.

Republicans hate you, they hate America, they hate anyone who isn't rich or an ideological terrorist helping to advance the Conservatives agenda of subjugation, oppression, adulation of the rich, and white supremacy. 

The President Musk Shutdown: Decommissioning the United States Government

    Yesterday, we saw the raw exercise of power by President-Elect Elon Musk, who spent the day Tweeting out threats to every Republican in the House to not pass a Continuing Resolution to fund the Federal Government.  

“This is a shit sandwich,” said Rep. Anna Paulina Lunatic, Fascist- Florida, said Wednesday. “I don’t know how else to say that. We’re being forced into this position.”

The Continuing Resolution funding bills were a historical nothing, a minor artifact until Republicans in the House under President Obama weaponized it to undermine his agenda and gain concessions.  Now, it's been fully actualized to scuttle the Government.  Trump being caught flat-footed, as his brain continues to turn into syphilitic jelly, jumped on board with the Musk Republican efforts to shut down the government before Christmas.

A Trump transition team official said the president-elect's opposition to the CR was part of "practicing what he preaches."

“There is no way, I mean none, that he would support DOGE and also a 1500-page CR," the official said, referring to the Department of Government Efficiency Trump has asked billionaire Elon Musk and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to run.

Who's supporting whom here?  Who's in charge here?The Democratic response, especially by Hakeem Jeffries and still President Biden should be fine and not do anything to help Squeaker Mike Johnson out of this Republican morass.  Always remember shutting down the government has zero effect on elected Republicans, they are going to get paid, they continue to accuse all time and benefits "owed" to them.  Their flights and travel plans won't be affected.  Shutting down the Government is always a win for Republicans because they have positioned themselves as the Party of the Government doesn't work and the Government isn't looking out for you, so when Republicans sabotage the Government they can crow about being right about Government failures.

Republicans have hated the power and scope of the Federal Government for years, now they are poised to return it to the two functions they deem Constitutional; having a large standing army to forcibly open foreign markets up to American Trade and fielding a massive security and surveillance state here at home to quell domestic dissent.  Quelling domestic dissent can be everything from violently rounding up homeless people, ensuring woman have no authority over their own bodies, crushing labor unions, to beating and killing minorities and malcontents.

Everything else is prima facia Unconstitutional to them which is why all over X you can read massive support for the idea of shutting down the Government for the next month until Trump Vance and Musk stroll into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave to bust out the Nation.  And that is the real goal of Elon Musk, he wants to undermine large swaths of the Federal Government so he can buy them up at close-out rates.  By destroying the concept of a functioning Federal Government, there are going to be large power vacuums created under the DOGE/MAGA Regime and into those vacuums will rush large powerful Corporations;

Look at some of the big opportunities awaiting Elon Musk and the Billionaires across the Globe to buy up the United States on pennies on the dollar (or more actually bits on the Bitcoin); 

• Privatize the United States Postal Service, this is of course in the face of actual text of the Article 1, Section 8 in the Constitution which empowers Congress to establish a Post Office and post roads.  Of course, the Sinister Supremacist Six under John Roberts can merely interpret it to mean privatize the USPS when the time comes.
• Establish the Bitcoin and Crypto Reserve is nothing less than a nefarious plot to set up the conditions to bust out and bankrupt the entire Federal Reserve and Department of Treasury when the crypto bubble bursts.
• Turn over the Department of Defense to a drunken rapist thief who could never rise above the rank of O-3 because of gross incompetence and being a dishonorable cur whose loyalty to the Constitution isn't even skin deep as evidenced by his array of White Power tattoos.  While also turning over the entire US Intelligence apparatus to a woman who is a known and adjudicated Russian asset.

There are going to be more and more areas of the Nation up for sale, as Trump has promised any foreign scalawag or spy a chance to own a piece of America for the starting price of a cool billion!

Musk and the assorted cadre of thieves and co-conspirators Trump has assembled are Accelerationists who see the United States as an old Naval Vessel, by sowing discord and creating chaos they are going to be able to buy it up cheap.  The United States and her Government is going to be decommissioned and sold off for scrap and any pieces which resist being bought are going to be used as target practice by the Musk Fan Bois and bots infesting his wretched X.

60 years ago Ronnie Raygun cut a record to help Barry Goldwater's Presidential candidacy, in it he warned of having a social safety net and a Medicare for All plan was Communism.  In it he also warned that one day Americans would wake up having given up their "birthright" and find themselves to no longer be free...

Well...  that day is now a month away...

The CryptCon: High Hopes for Hawk Tuah! Oops there goes another MemeCoin Scam!

All problems just a toy balloon
They'll be bursted soon
They're just bound to go pop

Oops, there goes another problem, kerplop
Oops, there goes another problem, kerplop

Oops, there goes another problem, kerplop   

 I've figured out what Crypto trading reminds me of: the debauched gambling halls of lay-about European nobility in the 16-18 centuries.  Nothing of value was gained in these gambling halls (although the invention of the Sandwich might be a minor quibble).  With a massive influx of wealth flooding Europe as it began to exert dominance over the Globe, there was a large amount of money with nothing to do so the rampant gambling also turned into rampant bubbles and schemes; the most infamous being the South Sea Bubble, the Mississippi Bubble, and the well-known Tulip Mania.

As Charles Mackay wrote in the Extraordinary Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841), 

During the progress of this famous bubble, England presented a singular spectacle.  The public mind was in a state of unwholesome fermentation.  Men were no longer satisfied with the slow but sure profits of cautious industry.  The hope of boundless wealth for the morrow made them heels and extravagant for to-day.

Nobody blamed the credulity and avarice of the people - the degrading lust of gain, which had swallowed up every nobler quality in the national character, or the infatuation which had made the multitude run their heads with such frantic eagerness into the net held out for them by scheming projectors. (Ibid. 75) 

So, as the Crypto market explodes with the addition of thousands of "coins" everyday.  Even ardent Crypto enthusiasts recognize 99% of these "coins" are utter crap and designed to steal your worthless fiat currency.  Yet, if someone falls for a crapcoin the crypto bros usually respond with, 'Tough luck.  It happened to me when I got into the crypto market.  You should do better research.'  

And remember if you question the validity of Crypto be ready to be set upon with attacks, 'HA HA HA!  Your money is rocks!  My money is the unhackable BLOCKCHAIN!'

Now, certainly many people have made money buying and selling these coins without overt fraud.  Just doing micro-transactions buying and selling over and over and over and over.  But, again this sort of trading was tightly regulated and subject to a fee for decades after Republicans crashed the Economy in 1929.  But, the Crypto Market and those who trade in it aren't looking to buy some legacy stock and hold onto it for decades realizing slow but steady gains but, looking to cash in on a get rich scheme whilst calling these worthless tokens "God's Candle"...

So, the 15 minutes of fame Hawk Tuah girl, launched a crypto coin "$HAWK" and within hours it lost 95% of it's "value",

Haliey Welch, who is the woman known as the "Hawk tuah girl," launched her own memecoin on Solana, with the cryptocurrency reportedly crashing soon into its unveiling. 

The post included a 3-second video of Welch excitedly yelling about the launch.  "Hawk is live!!!" Welch, a 22-year-old social media influencer, wrote on X Wednesday evening.

 According to Solana, Welch's token then skyrocketed to $500 million -- before it plummeted to less than $60 million in just 20 minutes.  Shortly after the launch, Welch took to social media again, saying her team "tried to stop snipers as best we could through high fee's [sic] in the start of launch." She added that her team hadn't sold one token.

Ahead of the launch, Welch told Fortune the memecoin was "not just a cash grab," adding that while she previously thought cryptocurrency was “just a scam” and an “easy way for you to lose money," she has since changed her opinion.

Critics went on to accuse her of planning a cryptocurrency fraud. 

The cries and recriminations of Fraud and various allegations of a Pump & Dump or "Rug Pull" by Welch and a small cadre of accounts who apparently drained all the value and bankrupted "investors" have resounded across Social Media these past few days.  

But, it's staggeringly amazing to me the Crypto Community has immediately called for investigations and "legal action" by Government and Regulatory Bodies on their purposefully Unregulated, Untied to Government Scam Coins.  The whole purpose of every crypto was to uncouple it from Government to have a truly free monetary system unburdened by inflationary fiat currency and the over-bearing hand of government.

Although, this is no different than Libertarians demanding a Government Military exist to keep their Slaves in Line but, not put the odious boot of Law & Order on their neck as the scheme and swindle and attempt to create the Randian Utopian.

Crypto is an entirely determinental creation; it isn't a good store of value, it's wild fluctuations make it wholly unusable for any kind of financial planning except for speculation and gambling, (Bitcoin surged to US$103,900, fell to US$90,400 overnight, and then recovered to US$97,898) it's cost too manufacture is massive even if it's defenders deny this, and despite what it's rabid defenders proclaim Bitcoin's price is unnaturally inflated by it's use of scammers to swindle old people out of their life savings as this keeps it in an artificial state of high trading, so when this latest bubble bursts it's going to wipe out the wealth of millions of people.

Hunter* should not have been Pardoned

There is no such thing as degrees of difference
Everything is the same but,
It's only wrong when a Democrat does it...

    That's Duncan Hunter the disgrace to the United States Marine Corps and Congressman convicted or numerous felonies during his tenure in the House of Representatives.  Oh?  What's that?  You don't remember Duncan Hunter or what he was convicted of and then pardoned by Donald Trump?  You didn't hear non-stop coverage of how Duncan Hunter who after serving the Marine Corps as an Officer with his commission purchased by his corrupt Congressman father, then got to slide into his father's Congressional seat and since his Presidential Pardon has been getting paid off by companies with long-standing influence with him and his father?  Well, I guess it's not News nor is it interesting when a Republican breaks the law and disgraces the United States Naval Service.

Oh but perhaps we can talk about Trump's pardons of Charles Kushner?  Dinesh Dsouza?  Paul Manafort?  Roger Stone?  Steve Bannon?  Matt Gaetz and Major Traitor Green asking for blanket pardons in the wake of the January 6th Insurrection?  Pardoning the Blackwater War Criminals?  Hardly a peep by the Corporate Media and none of the outrage that's happening because of Hunter Biden.  No, it's always an uneven amount of coverage, brazen false equivalence, and besides which what is more important to the Corporate Media is to justify their pre-compliance to Fascism and their plans to minimize Trump's upcoming Crimes Against Humanity by BothSidesing everything.

Funny.  Or actually it's tragic how the Fascist Compliant Corporate Media simply decided it will ignore Trump's misdeeds and work tirelessly to validate his Upcoming Terror Regime.

We are living in a time of Rage and Hatred, especially White Rage.  The Corporate Media has decided to play into that Rage.  They are not going to stop Trump or MAGA, they've shown themselves to be willing accomplices.  

The now two day Corporate Media attack on President Biden continues to demonstrate how unequal their sense of outrage is, how bad their sane-washing of Trump and MAGA goons has been, and presages just how bad they are going to be when Trump simply ignores all constraints.

As to Hunter Biden, I am very glad the Republican Witch Hunt did not cause him to relapse and overdose, which I pointed out long ago was the whole fucking point of his Persecution at the hands of Republican criminals in this blatant miscarriage of justice.  But, their non-stop vile bad faith efforts did succeed in hurting President Joe Biden and likely were a contributing factor to his physical decline and his decision to drop out of the race in July.

I'm not going to fear monger about what Trump and the collection of grotesqueries are going to do with the FBI and Department of Justice when they take over in 50 days.  We warned you, President Biden warned you, and Vice President Harris warned you and the American people said Fuck Yeah, bring on the Pogroms!  

I'm glad Hunter Biden was pardoned.  I hope Joe Biden has more Executive Actions in his pocket for the next 7 weeks.

MAGA is planning War Crimes and Ethnic Cleansing but, don't panic before it happens

"Don't wait for it to happen. Don't even want it to happen. Just watch what does happen." - Sean Connery, The Untouchables (1987)

    Look.  Stop freaking out over everything DonOld Trump says he's going to do.  The time to do something about Trump’s vile verbal diarrhea was on November 5th.  That fucking time is past.  

Democrats told you what to expect and Voters told Democrats to fuck off.  We warned you about these plans and white people in every battleground state said, This!  This is what we want!

And fuck off with blaming President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, or even Barack Obama;  they spent the last year plus warning you what Trump wanted and what Trump said he was going to do and Americans voted for it.  Vice President Harris made the right move in conceding.  President Biden did the proper thing meeting with Traitor Trump and talking of a helpful peaceful transition.  What would you like?  Biden closing the White House to him or some other performative denial of Trump's legitimacy?  Trump won.

Don't even start with any denial of Trump's victory.  Sure it's not overwhelming or a mandate but, it's a win and a decisive one.  Look how Republicans still even today claim Democrats refuse to concede losses, they cite HRC in 2016 and Stacey Abrams in Georgia in 2018 to prove election denialism is a BothSides situation and Democrats are hypocrites.  

Being a party dedicated to truth and justice and rules and institutions means We can not be part of the group that helps to undermine those rules and institutions.  However...

Don't be the loyal opposition.  Don't extend them the courtesies of comity.  Don't give them symbolic victories.  Don't reach across the aisle in bipartisanship.  Don't help them keep the trains running on time. Make them own every single vote and bill and all the fallout.  And definitely don't let them claim BothSides Do It!  

Republicans can claim without evidence; the Election was Rigged!  I won!  And I won by a lot!  Even after losing case after case.  We can not.  What we can do right now is gather your strength, identify what you can do and be ready to do it when or if the time comes. 

So, Stephen Miller's plan to recruit and deploy "Red-State" Armies in recalcitrant Blue State cities to facilitate the rounding-up of migrants is actually designed to trigger you in many ways.  First, it gets you emotionally upset but, more importantly he and the Trump cabal are hoping We overreact and begin "resisting" before they come in thus giving them the Casus Belli to in fact come in.

Don't misunderstand.  This is not a call to conform, collaborate, or submit.  We, the People have to Fight.  But, we have the fight intelligently.  

Right now be prepared to witness and document, because Trump and his hive of scum and villainy are not going to want their crimes reported on and the pliant Corporate Media sure doesn't want to report on or broadcast Trump and MAGA's crimes against humanity and this plan for ethnic cleansing.  The Corporate Media is just here to chuckle and dutifully stenograph the Trump Show and the funny collection of scamps in his Cabinet of Grotesqueries.

But, they have to move first.  They have to break Posse Commitatus, they have to be shown doing unlawful midnight raids and violations of Due Process, and warrantless arrests first, then we can raise objections and declare Trump's actions unconstitutional.

This won't work to stop him.  Faux News will justify each and every step, every violation, every crime along the way.  False equivalence, whataboutism, and Obama/Biden did worse will be used.  Additionally, exactly zero Republicans will break with Trump no matter what he and his cabal do.

But, I will reiterate Tom Homan's declaration he's going to kick out all Hispanics even those here "legally" isn't actually the plan;  the plan is three-fold.  First, Democratic Governors are already signaling their intent to be nodes of resistance.  This is the moral, humane, and legal way to resist but, First it's entirely what MAGA wants because Stephen Miller is going to spend his entire new career as special assistant to Trump going on Faux News decrying Big Liberal cities and Democratic states as dens of rapist and murdering illegals.  And, by gosh, if only those Democrats hadn't coddled those rapist illegals raping and killing your white women Trump would have made America great.  Second, they are going to conduct limited operations, far from urban centers and with limited scope and claim those expelled are the worst of the worst (no matter who they are). Third, and this is perhaps the most dire and most speculative I think MAGA wants there to be unrest/protests which they can use to unleash Police Departments and Sheriffs and more importantly roving gangs of Rightwing Paramilitary Terrorists.

Standing by since Sept 2020
Waiting for Trump’s orders

I think MAGA lamented not cracking down even more forcefully during the 2020 George Floyd riots (although you will note every Republican and conservative on social media claims Black Live Matter and Antifa did trillions in damage, murdered dozens of Police Officers, and not a single protestor was arrested.  This is of course despite the fact municipal Police (especially in places like Philadelphia) were responsible for most of the violence and there was no such thing as organized Antifa riots, even according to William Barr's Department of Justice and the FBI itself.

So, get yourself ready because this probably is going to be very bad.  But, don't jump the gun.  Don't give them the slenderest reed to lay the entire blame on Us.  And when things get as bad as we think they might, you'll know what to do.

The Trump Show presents: The Cabinet of Grotesqueries

I've come to see ya, tell ya the deals off... You sloughed up on your end of things, I didn't end up with what I wanted! I didn't end up with nothing!

You got what you were supposed to get Bluesman! Ain't nothing ever as good as we want it to be! But, that ain't no reason to break a deal... - MAGA made a deal at the Crossroads (1986)

 The Corporate Media got exactly what it wanted, and now, it's going to make sure the American people get it, good and hard, as H. L. Mencken would say.

You shouldn't be surprised that 10 days after the 2024 election, Trump and Republicans are already claiming credit for the economy and believes his administration should have all credit dating back to November 5th.  This is, nothing new, for Traitor Trump because he's been claiming credit for all manner of things, for a decade now, for which he didn't do and sometimes things he tried to undo.

What you've got to understand is Republicans are not interested in truth or objective reality, their entire philosophical outlook is Subjectivity.  Republicans have been trending this way for decades every since Ronnie Raygun uttered the infamous line about facts being stupid things.  But, under their Beloved Leader DonOld, reality itself is wholly subjective and malleable to the whims of the Beloved Leader.

And Republicans and their Corporate Media allies are going to spend the next 4 years making sure Reality is subject to Trump's whim.  It's quite something to see the End of the United States and it's starting with this collection of lunatics and losers whom Trump is going to surround himself in his cabinet.

The Corporate Media is quite clear they will sane-wash and make even the most repugnant piece of garbage Republican palatable to the American public. No... Matter... What...

Dog killing Kristi Noem to head Homeland Security.

Tulsi Gabbard, a Russian asset as the Director of National Intelligence.

A steroid abusing, animal mutilating anti-vaxx, anti-science failson as the Health and Human Services

A drunk-driving, child raping traitor as Attorney General, who bragged while on the floor of the Peoples' House of taking Viagra and Red Bull in order to fuck teenagers.

A pair of Nazis Stephen Miller and Tom Homan, are planning on concentrating migrants, the homeless, mental ill people into Camps, in order to process them more efficiently.

And speaking of Efficient Fascists there's a separate pair in charge of making Government Efficient... 

You want this, don't you...

Balloon Juice has a deeper drive into the details about each of these psychopaths Trump has ordered be installed into his Cabinet, each worse than the last.  And let's be clear no Republicans Senator is going to vote against these "nominations".  In fact, Breathy baby voice Katie Britt has proposed that Lara Trump, best known for making crappy covers of songs without the artists permission, to replace Marco Rubio as Senator in Florida.

And Trump knows to throw a flurry of blows to keep the Corporate Media off balance and chuckling at the latest Trump shenanigans instead of pointing out repeatedly day-after-day how despicable each one of these people are, it's just stenography of the Trump Show.  While for MAGA, it's all about Owning the Libs and absolute loyalty to DonOld.

A man cited by his fellow Officer and Superiors as a verifiable risk to National Security as the  Secretary of Defense.  Oh and by the way, while you might know Matt Gaetz was being investigated for trafficking a 17 year old across state lines and plying her with booze and drugs before paying her offvia Venmo, you probably were unaware that Pete Hegseth settled a sexual assault charge by paying off his accuser.

Wow!  Repoting on these people before the Election would certainly have seemed to be in the Publics interest!  But, nah the Corporate Media was too busy complaining Kamala Harris wasn't doing interviews with them and her hundreds of pages of policy initiatives weren't providing enough detail and oh did you hear the latest racist sexist garbage Trump said about you Madame Vice President?!?  Plus, the Corporate Media had to spend the end of the run-up to the election castigating President Joe Biden for daring to call this collection of criminals and lunatics "garbage" proving once again that the Worst Offense in America is to correctly call Republicans what they are...

There’s no reason to complicate this Trumps band of loons and liars were picked solely for their dogmatic loyalty and his absolute certainty they will do what he wants, everything else they do is just the fallout for the American people will have to suffer.  Vivek Ramaswarmy has already declared his intent to call for cuts to Veteran's Healthcare and Social Security Disability Insurance, as well as several other Federal Government programs.  Just think those savings can be neatly deposited via Bitcoin to Trump and Elon Musk's wallet.

But, don't expect any of the upcoming crimes against humanity or destruction of natural resources or end of federal government services to change the MAGA minds; they've given themselves body and soul to their creature they've declared is an amalgam of George Washington and Jesus Christ.

There’s no “Buyer’s Remorse” for Trump voters

 Stop.  Just stop. Hope is good but, false hope is a killer.  There are several news threads claiming Trump lovers are now having second thoughts and wondering if the MAGA Project 2025 will hurt them instead of just hurting all the "Bad people".

The joy of being a conservative is living in the now.  When, or if, any of the Trump garbage start to suffer in a year or two they will simply not ascribe it to Trump or the Republicans.  Faux News and ceaseless rightwing propaganda will ensure the blame goes to the Demmycrats!  The Fvcking New York Times and Washington Post will dutifully echo statements of blame from Republicans on Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, while the erstwhile Left will chime in with Genocide Joe or whatever bullshit du jour places them squarely on the side of Fascists.  Zero blame will go to Trump and Zero blame will go to the Republicans who are valiantly trying to clean up Democrat Messes!!!

I'm still not going to snidely declare GOOD at the misery Trump and his assembled Cabinet of Grotesqueries will inflict but, I'm not going to undertake the Herculean effort of trying to save Republicans from the consequence of their MAGA actions. 

I hope Democrats also focus their worry on saving and protecting their own as opposed to undertaking the thankless task of helping all Americans when Republicans turn around and shiv them and the American people.

The next few years are going to be Republicans, yet again, taking credit for things they did not do, passing blame for all the things they are doing, and declaring everything under Traitor Trump the Greatest It Ever Was...

So, unplug from the day-to-day indignities and outrages;  pet a dog, rake some leaves, eat a pie, lift some weights.  The white trash of America have decided to cosign us to the flames of Fascism; Gather your strength while you can, now, and prepare to expend it when the true atrocities and crimes begin.  Be Brave if you can but, be prepared.

Shall Not Be Infringed 14: Illinois Semi-Automatic Ban overturned because Indiana Jones shot a guy with a revolver

    You can take those faded Highland Park Strong stickers off your home and car now, because a scant 2 years after Trump loving QANON Super Fan Bobby Crimo killed 7 people and wounded 50 more, using an AR-15 bought for him by his MAGA father, in order to stick it to those Gun Grabber Libs, a MAGA Judge nominated by Donald Trump in 2020 decided Guns are Above The Law, as the 2016 election continues to reverberate in murderous ways...

U.S. District Judge Stephen P. McGlynn, of the Southern District of Illinois, issued a permanent injunction he said applies universally, not just to the lawsuit’s plaintiffs. He decided, however, that the injunction would not take effect for 30 days. 

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul responded speedily, filing a notice of appeal Friday evening. 

The Protect Illinois Communities Act, signed into law in January 2023 by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker, took effect Jan. 1. It bans AR-15 rifles and similar guns, large-capacity magazines and an assortment of attachments

The opinion drew heavily from recent landmark Supreme Court rulings expanding on the definition of the Second Amendment’s guarantees.

Erich Pratt, senior vice president of the Gun Owners of America, which represented one of the plaintiffs in the case, said of Pritzker and Illinois lawmakers, “We warned them to fall in line, but they chose to do the opposite."

David & Goliath and Raiders of the Lost Ark render this law
UNCONSTITUTIONAL

SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED!!!  It would seem sophistry and bad faith sentence diagraming of the 250 year 2nd Amendment will be America's epitaph.  Once again the disingenuous reading of the Second Amendment by the Sinister Six on the Supremacist Court means no gun regulations! LOL!  Can we finally put away the notion that 90% of Americans support stronger background checks and tougher gun regulations?  Please?  Because, clearly, Americans do not support this as evidenced by the fact Americans voted overwhelmingly to send back pro gun lobby Senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz and put a Tim Sheehy, who shot himself in the arm lied about outrageously, into the Senate?

And can Progressives finally admit their core assumption that Americans will overwhelmingly support Democrats if they pass legislation that helps the working class is the key to election victory, since Joe Biden did this throughout his tenure and voters punished hm and us, not only in the Presidential election but, in numerous House and Senate races?

The American voting body does not vote for Politicians who support their claimed policy preferences.  And young men and women of the so-called Fight For Our Lives Parkland Generation made a dramatic swing towards Trump in this election.

The Gun Owners of America and other proponents of Unrestricted Gun Violence everywhere are more than willing to sacrifice a Chicago Police Officer, or 7 people in Highland Park, because they've successfully conditioned their followers to Myth of the Good Guy.  They "warned us to fall in line" and since we didn't Judge McGlynn used the unassailable Indiana Jones shot a Guy with a sword thus proving Americans have the right to whatever weaponry they desire. 

Always remember Guns don't kill people, Republicans with guns and Republican politicians kill people. 

Warnings & Resistance

"President Trump won a landslide victory Tuesday because Americans embrace his common sense policy to implement mass deportation for illegal migrants,” Brian Hughes, Senior Trump Advisor. 

If no one knows there are concentration camps
Did the mass deportation actually happen?

I and thousands of others warned you what he and the Project 2025 cabal will do if elected and in response white men went Great!!! Concentration camps go Brrrrrr!

I’m have some theories about this Mass Deportation propaganda I'll write here but, after this I'm not really going to do predicting and warning about Trump and MAGA's domestic terror campaign anymore but just react to the Cabinet of Grotesqueries as they happen.

I will never be so cynical or so hard-hearted to wish or laugh at the misfortunate of others or say oh well you voted for this even for hard-core MAGAts.  But, it will of course happen.

The key for Trump and his criminal cabal will be to ensure the images and new stories of their atrocities don't get out or don't get reported and any that do are "debunked" or dismissed or excused by Joe Rogan, Faux News, Elon Musk's Nazi X Army, and all the lesser rightwing liars.  Or Republicans will simply claim Obama and Biden did the exact same thing and our 4th Estate will nod Sagely, and say, truly this is the day Donald Trump became President...

Never forget, for much of the Right the abject cruelty is the point as illustrated by Jesse Waters, "And then deportation. They are going to lose, the states, on this because that is a federal issue, and there will be massive clashes because you're going to have cameras out there making sure that they capture the images of I.C.E. coming along and taking these people away. They deserve to be taken away. Sometimes you have to do tough stuff, but AOC is going to be there tying herself to migrants. It's going to be hysterical."

Constitution says whatever I want it to say

While the bullies, trolls, and Republicans are all touting their inhuman Mass Deportation policies in the most cruelest, hateful, and hurtful ways, the For-Profit Prison Complex is ramping up it's construction of Concentration Camps and associated infrastructure and investors see a potential gold mine,

Now investors are betting heavily their earnings are set to soar, bidding up shares on Wednesday in the aftermath of Trump’s election. Stock in CoreCivic surged 29% while Geo Group saw an even bigger gain, vaulting 42% in a single session. 

Investors betting on a boom in ICE-related profits have good reason. During the Trump administration, the federal government expanded its immigration detention system by over 50%, a move that “overwhelmingly benefitted private prison companies”, according to findings from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The number of migrants detained reached a peak of 55,000 in 2019.

Following Trump’s election on Tuesday, the new president-elect now has to deliver on a promise to launch the “largest deportation in the history of our country.” Vice President-elect JD Vance suggested his boss should start with 1 million undocumented migrants “and then we can go from there”. 

While Trump and Vance continue their straight Nazi Rhetoric of deporting up to 20,000,000 people, it's important to know MAGA and Republicans were absolutely banking on Democratic Governors and States resisting their efforts.   And voila, Democratic Governors have already fulfilled their part of the bargain by beginning to maneuver to fight against Trump's draconian mass deportation policy.

A cadre of blue-state governors is already preparing a litany of political and legal moves to shield their states’ policies and residents from federal actions under Donald Trump's new administration.

Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday sought to assure Illinois residents that he would fight to preserve the state’s protections on fronts including reproductive health, immigration and LGBTQ+ rights during Donald Trump’s second term in the White House.

“To anyone who intends to come take away the freedom, and opportunity, and dignity of Illinoisans, I would remind you that a happy warrior is still a warrior. You come for my people, you come through me,” Pritzker said Thursday at a news conference in Chicago, where he made his first public appearance since the election.

Let me be absolutely clear, what J.B. Prtizker said and the plans for resistance he and other Governors are saying they will do is 100% the right, moral, ethical and at this point still legal thing to do.  You resist Fascism and Fascist decrees with all your power (however small it may be).  

Don't Obey in Advance because one of the Fascists greatest weapons is getting you to surrender without a fight.  Now, of course Reactionaries don't simply take no for an answer, Stephen Miller and whomever else is going to be spearheading this Final Migrant Solution, is going to use Faux News and Musk's Swastika Platform to decry, denounce, attack, and incite violence against Democratic opponents;  while also claiming the Evil DemocRATS are stopping them from making America great again.  (Recall the enemies of Fascism are both all-powerful and weak wimpy soy boys at the same time.)

Won't someone rid me of these Troublesome Democrats? 

I don't know how detailed or how much actual planning, Trump, Vance and his team of villains are engaged in; the logistics of deploying thousands of ICE and U.S. military personnel to work in conjunction with State, County, and Local Law Enforcement to round-up millions of people isn't something you dash off in a demented Weave, but requires a level of strategic thinking and planning.  Which is why I think Trump, like all Fascists will give a very strong order like, Migrants Out! Kick ASS and leave any actual details to others to figure out. 

Any actual deportations will most likely occur in southern border states and be well out of sight of Americans and go mostly unreported by Trump's compliant Corporate Media and be minuscule in actual number, but Trump will say he's kicked out millions of murders and rapists and any that remain are because of Gavin NewScum or J.B. Prtizker and then threaten to with hold federal assistance or social security payments to retirees and tell Americans to remove those Democratic Governors.

A Dictatorship if you can keep it…

𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔗𝔯𝔦𝔲𝔪𝔭𝔥 𝔬𝔣 𝔇𝔢𝔯 𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔪𝔭

Dictator on Day One…  A very aggressive first 100 days… Deportations en masse 

Just as 18th century political theory crumbled in the face of 20th century Authoritarianism, 20th century institutions, customs and guardrails to protect Democracy are crumbling in the face of 21st century bad faith and Billionaire disinformation.  Here in the United States, the Republicans even well before Trump seized upon this to undercut and weaken faith in Government and thus turned every American from a piece in the America melting pot member (and upholder of the Social Contract) into a highly atomized individual with no faith or reliance in any Institutions.  Trump's Election heralds the end of the Liberal Democracy in the United States.

50 years ago, Nixon was forced to resign as President, and ever since Republicans determined they would always put Party first, above Patriotism, above Country, above The Law, Party above All.  Since then Republicans have worked to undermine faith in Government, faith in science, faith in expertise, and faith in the Institutions of the 20th century Liberal Democratic Republic.  In the last 25 years, the youth in America have witnessed failure after failure; the Electoral College in 2000 (and 2016), Mass School Shootings starting with Columbine and regularly continuing, the Republican Recession of 2007-2008 from the housing bubble, the pitiful Cash for Clunkers for regular Americans whilst Bankers got Billions, 9/11 and then the non-stop rightwing lies about Afghanistan and Iraq, the response to Covid and millions of dollars of PPE loans for free while meager student loan debt relief is stymied over and over.  Nothing but, institutional failure and a seeming inability to help the average American.  And Republicans knew that destroying Government wouldn't be blamed on them, the destroyers, but upon those who believe in the Government.

And as the fruits of this poisonous cultivation hung low, in walked Donald Trump to pluck them.  Now, he (and my use of he means his cadre of criminal co-conspirators) will use the 50 years of undermining the United States professional bureaucracy and institutional guardrails to utterly destroy them and remake the country into a Fascist Fundamentalist hellhole of white supremacy and rape culture.  Enjoy this inexpensive eggs and cheap gas, they were purchased with the soul of America.

Look at these emerging stories just 3 days after the Election: 

Remember when Michelle Obama suggested 
Americans should exercise and eat healthier and
Republicans called her man and drank Big Gulps?

• Major Traitor Greene jubilantly declared her plans to dismantle the administrative state and free everyone of the convicted January 6th Insurrectionists.
• RFK Jr  proclaims he’ll destroy the FDA, end Fluoridation of Water because the FDA is against Exercise and Sunshine
• Speaker Johnson declares they will end Obamacare in his aggressive first 100 days  
• The Department of Education is going to be eliminated so that education can be privatized and taxpayer money can be funneled into religious schools (Christian fascism only) and Billionaires bank accounts
• The Lawless Supremacist Court will simply issue ruling after ruling undoing major legislation passed in the 20th century (the 2024 Chevron decision ended Federal protection of waterways!)
• Trump and Speaker Johnson are also going to undo the major excellent legislation passed by Joe Biden, the Chips Act, and probably work with the Senate Republicans and Sinister Six Supremes to undo Student Loan forgiveness.
• And if it wasn't obvious Trump's supporters see themselves or wish to be mini-Trump's, bullying and trolling every Lib, the terminally on-line rightwing MAGA perverts who've been screaming "Your Body. My Choice!", are also declaring Har Har Project2025 was the plan all along LOL. 

Every institution is crumbling or already a pile of rubble from these attacks of MAGA, the Modern Fascist Republicans, and rapacious Billionaires. The economy is geared towards those already financially secure and obviously the obscenely wealthy.  And Government Institutions can't respond or are unable to respond.  So, it's unsurprising that the generations born and raised to witness failure after failure after failure hear Trump say I can fix it and decide okay go for it.

So, a Dictatorship is coming...

When we vote, we win! We didn’t vote…

On September 7th, in Wisconsin Trump discussed the possibility of Harris winning the presidency, and went on to say, "It's not her, it's the people that surround her. They're scum. They are scum, and they want to take down our country. They are absolute garbage." -

At this point, Trump is poised to win every so-called battleground state and we are waiting for the last of the ballots to be counted.  Kamala Harris has about 69 million and Trump is sitting at 73.5 million.  Traitor Trump appears to be on pace to receive the same number of votes as he did in 2020, while Harris will end up with 8 million less votes than she and President Biden in 2020.

I don’t understand what happened (yes I do understand that everyone has a theory of what happened but, these are so much crap or at best a partial explanation, since you didn't posit your theory before Election Day).  The DNC in Chicago was success and very energizing.  The early voting and mail-in ballot numbers were encouraging.  Harris drew multiple big-name celebrity endorsements.Her camping raised a billion dollars.  She and Walz toured every battleground state multiple times.  Get Out the Vote efforts were aggressive and supposedly reached millions of voters.

Yet...  I don’t understand why 6-8 million voters didn’t show up for her?  Were these just anti-Trump Republicans who voted in 2020 but decided to sit out this year?  Are these sexist Democratic men who weren’t going to vote for a woman?  The Abandon Harris left got half a million votes and hardly seems to have made an impact in the battleground states.

Worse and more perplexing still, in several states in which Trump won, liberal ballot initiatives passed or in the case of Florida received well over 50% of the vote but failed to meet the threshold for adoption.  And in battleground states Wisconsin and Michigan, Trump won and a Democratic female Senate candidate won.

I got mine. Fuck You! Or 
Tengo el mio. Chinga Te!!!

The three sad and upsetting voting trends are:

• Latino men voted to pull up the ladder for incoming Hispanic immigrants 
• White women entered the voting booth Free, and emerged fettered in MAGA chains
• And young White men empowered themselves to take the pussy whenever they feel like it

It seems that while the Kamala Harris campaign thought reaching out women and highlighting Trump and Vance's straight Nazi rhetoric was a winning platform, Trump's message he hammered home in his senile ramblings were about economics and helping the working class.  I think Bernie Sanders is correct and the Democratic Party leadership needs to jettison it's reliance on billionaires and jettison the semi-Republican platform of bowing to business and capitalism.  A radical realignment of focus onto the "forgotten man" economically without relying on homophobia, hatred, sexism, and oppression is the way forward.  Put Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in charge of the messaging and get rid of Nancy Pelosi and the Bill Clinton Third Way of Business friendly democratic policies.  They aren't winning you anything.  Tell Morning Joe Scarborough to fuck off with blaming the students at Ivy League schools for this loss and embrace a more left position.  You can not possibly do worse than losing every fucking branch of the Federal Government.

Yes, yes, the Corporate Media will hate you but guess... fucking... what... they already hate you and hated Joe Biden and worked overtime to undermine and undercut his Presidency and Kamala Harris campaign and re-install their beloved Leader Trump as I (and many others) fucking said they would.

So, throw the mealy-mouthed pleas to Capitalism aside and embrace a more radical democratic socialist or even Marxist way of doing things because pretty soon the Baby Boomers are going to die off (although their Reactionary politics will be adopted by Gen X) and the Millennial and Zoomers are going to be looking for a Government which says they will help them.  Right now that's Republicans even as their rightwing fascist policies grind them into dust they and the Corporate Media say their policy of oppression, intolerance, and slavish adulation of the rich are actually to help the Working Class.

MAGA Men: "Your Body. My Choice"

    And now the vicious mockery and gloating begins...

The Trump Trash are not excited at the prospect of fixing the economy or ending wars but at their ability to threaten, intimidate, harass and eventually oppress and control large swathes of the American people but especially women.

They are excited at the prospect of liberal tears and being able to yell Suck it Lib while they stalk and bully you.

The immediate and overwhelming flood of grotesque, sexist, rape fantasy Memes, and hundreds of reports in schools, neighborhoods, and all across social media of MAGA Men trolling women and little girls, and gloating at their ascendency can be summed up with the, YOUR BODY, MY CHOICE!

Terminally on-line Evan Kilgore posts non-stop
rape and murder fantasies on X

Despite the claims that this election victory was based on the economic anxiety of the white working class and legal Latino immigrant men the election of Trump was predicated on an intense hatred of women.

Of course, a large perplexing part of this is Trump (and Vance) won the majority of white women (for a 3rd time) in his stunning 2024 election victory.  I don't think Harris could have done a more earnest and honest outreach to women but, women choose to embrace the men who outright declare the Era of Women's Lib is fucking over.  Crooks and Liars has complied a few of the more overt gross groyper Rape Threats on Musk's Nazi X.

All over the country, in various States, Abortion referendums received broad support.  Apparently post election analysis includes 2.6 million women voted for Abortion access and also Donald Trump.  It's mind-boggling those voters could be so obtuse to not know what's in-store for them under a second Trump administration.  I expect most believe they are special and will be protected by Trump (after all that’s what Nancy Mace said) and any woman who does suffer did it to herself and is ipso facto a slut who deserved it.  And, of course, never forget the White House Press secretary, Mainstream Media, rightwing social media, Joe Rogan will dismiss these incidents they same way they've done with women suffering under draconic Republican anti-abortion policies.

What Trump and Vance have promised women is to remove their liberty under the guise of security.  

Kamala Harris concedes defeat, voters express their desire for a Trump led Era or Terror

Kamala Harris has conceded defeat to Trump and vowed to work fully in a peaceful transfer of power.

Before I get into the requisite post-mortem analysis, I want to give Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim "Coach" Walz a lot of credit for standing up and running a credible campaign in a mere 100 days, after having been handed a shit-sandwich of a nomination.

In a cruel inversion of JFK's famous dictum, after a Democratic Presidential Defeat, a thousand people comes up with a thousand reasons each for why it happened, even though these are never brought forth during the campaign.

Kamala Harris did not lose this election because there wasn't a contested jungle primary to choose a candidate after Joe Biden announced his withdrawal.  And no Kamala Harris did not lose because of the brutal and on-going Israel occupation of Gaza (and the West Bank).  And no, hunting after moderate Republicans, and highlighting Liz Cheney as a supporter did not cost her the election (but, I will say stop inviting those fucking Republicans to Democratic events and administrations from now on damn it).  And whatever other reason you can invent for why Harris supposedly lost is also bullshit when you look at the massive Republican victory in the House and Senate.

What happened is the old Post-WWII order of democratic western liberal society is under extreme pressure and is failing, and its' failure is being noticed by a very large percentage of Americans.

White Women Love Trump

Trump and Vance won this election because they offered the disaffected American people, a new world order, a new populism.  And that resonated with multiple groups across the country.  Trump dominated amongst White and Latino Men and got the same percentage of white woman as during his other campaigns.  Trump is a savvy politician and spoke to these groups.

What Trump and Vance and MAGA are offering is a Reactionary Populism which will address the failing economic power of these groups, in a way the currently aligned US Economy absolutely does not.

Harris, Biden, and a lot of Democratic strategists have been unable to understand why the economy wasn't a strong suit for Biden (and Harris).  All the indicators they pay attention to show it's booming economy and Biden's post-pandemic plans helped alleviate worse economic conditions.  But, the economy is only good for the Billionaires, the wealthy, and the already financially secure, it's shit for everyone else who is struggling and unable to get out of a paycheck to paycheck lifestyle.  Trump and Vance spoke directly to them.  

Certainly, Vance's oft mentioned plan of rounding-up and deporting 20 Million "Illegals" which will thus lead to Real Americans having a chance at a good paying job and affording a nice house is utter racist bullshit but, that's not what the white working class sees.  No, instead they see one candidate addressing their struggles and coming up with innovative strategies (No taxes on tips, no taxes on Overtime, drill baby drill) and the other party which is focused on Hollywood and Show Business celebrity endorsements and caters to the college educated snobs and elitists and the well-to-do Upper Middle Class.

Democrats only represent the
college educated well off
financially
Republicans are the now the 
Party of the Working Man

I think 84 year old Senator Bernie Sanders analysis is absolutely correct,

“It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,” the Vermont independent said in a statement Wednesday. “First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black workers as well. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.”

I think the Democratic Party needs to jettison it's alliance with big money Capital and go in a radically marxist direction of running for office.  There's no much reason not to!  They aren't winning by running with lite softer versions of Republican Capitalist ideas and Republicans already call every Democrat running a radical left lunatic at every opportunity.  It can't get much worse than the 2024 bloodbath we just saw yesterday.

As it stands clinging to the there current election strategy is failure.  20th century liberalism and Institutions based upon the understanding are dying if they aren't dead already.  Republicans Reactionary populism is now the dominant paradigm and Democrats need a response.

Now, we get to see what Trump's insane campaign promises and fascist populism will wrought on the Nation.  Dealing with people at work, all gleeful gloating MAGA supporters, I adopted the stance that while I don't support Trump I nonetheless wish him great luck in helping to heal the Nation and earnestly hope his policy proposals aid in helping hard-working Americans be able to afford and enjoy the American Dream.