"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross."
-- Sinclair Lewis
Monday, November 16, 2020
Midnight Meme Of The Day!
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by Noah
That's right, Donnie Psycho! And no Nobel Prize for you either! You don't even get a hamberder named after you at Burger King. Instead I suggest a nicely engraved tombstone with an epitaph of my choosing. Something like this:
He came. He saw. He failed, and failed, and failed.
Grand Wizard in Hell.
Donald Trump Buried Here. Wash hands after urinating.
Tonight's meme presents a simple synopsis of the argument that Donnie The Death Machine's lawyers are currently making before the "Supreme" Court in yet another effort to deep six Obamacare, and, it's one of the main reasons why Moscow Mitch's fellow psychopaths in the $enate rushed through the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett. They especially didn't want to wait until the pandemic ends. What fun would that be to a bunch of psychopaths that live to spread as much human misery as they possibly can? After all, even Moscow Mitch proudly calls himself "The Grim Reaper."
Hey Republicans! You want election fraud? I got your election fraud right here. It's personified by your boy Postmaster Generalisimo Louis Dejoy! It's also personified by various republican state legislators who rushed to put state laws and logistics in place that were designed to make ballots from selected neighborhoods arrive late or not at all. Fake drop boxes for ballots, removal of mail boxes from select neighborhoods, destroying sorting machines, cutting postal employee hours, shuttering post offices leading up to the election... It's all yours! You thought it up. You did it. How many American's voter rights did you negate with all of this. Fuck you, republicans! Man, you'd look great stuffed alive into a mailbox and left in a scrap metal facility right now!
And dare I mention your endless racist voter suppression tactics? You have the gall to mention your sicko conspiracies of election fraud and voter fraud only because you weren't fixed with a crowbar years ago.
Addendum:
By the way, looking at Dejoy, above: What is it about soon to be Ex-President Trump that he surrounds himself with so many creepy looking people, the kind of people that would make you pull your kids inside if you saw them walking down your street? Think about it. There's Dejoy. There's Rudy Nosferatu. There's Stephen Miller. There's the broom-riding Kellyanne Conway. There's Hideous Eric and Methed-out Junior. There's the whole Huckabee family. Pence? Pompeo? Barr? McConnell? It fits that these people put kids in cages. These are the kind of people that look like they stuff children into basement crawl spaces. I wouldn't leave a child alone with any of them for a second.
There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration.
-Trump Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, one week after his boss lost his bid for reelection.
The Republican Party from it's psychotic Dear Leader, to RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (quoted above) to Moscow Mitch on down has closed ranks in support of Trump staying in power and ignoring the election of President-Elect Biden. It's an attempt to stage a coup. The number of Washington Republicans who are not on board with this can be counted on one hand. There is no other way to rationally comprehend their actions which get more dangerous to our national security and what's left of our democracy every day. This weekend, they plan to have what they are calling a Million Maga March on Washington as they hope for an assemblage of ISIS-style gun-toting pick-up trucks and SUVs. All the MAGA RedHat-wearing Repug freaks are promising to be there: Info Wars, Oath Keepers, Groypers, Proud Boys, QAnon, American Nazis, and American white supremacy group known to humankind. In short, it'll be akin to a second RNC convention.
As I began writing this last Saturday afternoon, the election had just been called. It was impressive that millions of people, not just in this country but the world, cheered from their windows and poured out into the streets when it was announced that Donnie Psycho got fired. Yeah, Donnie, add that to your extensive list of life failures, asshole!
Yes, there were extremely large groups of people celebrating in streets and parks all over the United States. They were doing it with such a sense of relief and enthusiasm that it reminded you of other countries where an oppressive fascist junta had somehow met its demise. All that was missing was the junta's leader hanging from a lamp post by his thumbs ala Mussolini. Fortunately, at least, the Orange Menace To Society has not (so far) been able to fully install the dream of a Fourth Reich that he shares with the goons I mentioned above. Despite the Democratic Party's shortcomings, we do live to fight another day but only if we choose that path. Big if. Meanwhile, my favorite coverage was of the crowds outside of Trump Tower here in NYC. There are, however, other groups, and they won't be just disappearing. Had Trump won, they would be looking like joyous Middle Easterners shooting their AK-47s off into the air with bullets to fall they know not where. Stay tuned, maybe we'll see some of that tomorrow or sometime else in the near future.
Donnie Psycho's newest campaign slogan, tweeted several times in all caps, is "I WON THIS ELECTION BY A LOT." It's hard to look at Donnie's tweets and not imagine them as being written in crayon by a 9-year-old but they have a purpose, a very subversive anti-American purpose. Also, coming from the White House, our White House, on Saturday afternoon was a statement from his campaign that told his fans and militia goons that the election fight is not over and they "Stay at the ready in case they are needed." It was "Stand back and stand by" all over again. Don, Jr., who directed pre-election Trump Caravans, including the one that ran a Biden-Harris bus off the road in Texas, has been duplicating his father's incitements to violence and mayhem, indulging himself in a whirlwind fit of projection and a complete lack of self-awareness by calling for "total war" and "cleaning up this mess." Here's the full quote:
The best thing for America is for @realDonaldTrump to go to total war over this election to expose all of the fraud, cheating, dead/no longer in state voters, that has been going on for far too long. It's time to clean up this mess & stop looking like a banana republic!
Trump advisor and former campaign guru Steve Bannon called for Dr. Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray to be beheaded. This is no joke. It's an effort to whip up violence as a political tool like what they have in real countries, not just the one that Don, Jr. fantasizes about.
The email blasts from the Trump camp came fast and furious in the wake of the election being called for Biden. They had come at an absurd pace leading up to the election, filled with a tone of increasing anxiety. Trump knew he was probably going to lose and it was time to grift as much money as he possibly could but now it was panic time. The headers screamed "I've had enough!" and "Madness. Sheer Madness." They begged you to feel the same. The emails demanded JUSTICE. They told the readers it was time to FIGHT. "Fight like your freedoms, your livelihood, our future depend on it." It was "our future" not yours. Very telling. The emails were filled with lines about "widespread fraud" and "the radical left" "stealing this election." "Trump won. Trump won!" they screamed. "Fraud!" "Fraud!" "Fraud! One after another. It was pathetic. Not 10 minutes went by without another one. You could read them all and see exactly what Trump was screaming in the oval office, minus the cursing, sputtering, and peeing his pants, of course. A favorite of mine came from He Who Attracts Flies. It came fully 24 hours after the election was called. It was headed "The left doesn't want our President to win." No shit Sherlock. You're too late by the way. The email told me "Democrats would rather destroy OUR nation than have four more years of our Presiden't incredible leadership." Ladies and gentlemen, the incredible ironic avant-comedy stylings of Mike Pence.
Rudy Giuliani, who ludicrously claimed that over 21,000 dead people voted for Biden in Pennsylvania alone, has, of course, added to the incitement by going on his FOX "News" soapbox and telling their nutjob audience that there is definitely "election fraud" and that "people were seen carrying bundles of ballots into counting centers." Well, Rudy, you see, it's like this, if you don't take the ballots to the places where they are counted, they don't get counted. Is that really so hard for Republican brains to understand? Apparently, it is.
On Monday morning, the first email I received was from RNC Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel and it was scary in that it symbolized the fact that the Republican Party had closed ranks behind Donald Trump and thrown its full support behind him. In the email, she was joining in, begging for donations to keep up "the fight against the Democrats' attacks on a fair election." She added that "Millions of voters across the Country turned out for President Trump..." Well, yes they did Ronna, but you see, millions more turned out and voted against your dear leader and did so in the right places. That's how it works, baby. Do the effing math. You can do the effing math, can't you? Or were you homeschooled by some fellow freakshow contestant?
On Sunday night it had been Vice President Fly Nest whining "Our democracy and freedom is at risk like never before" in his emails as he begged for more moola 34 hours after the election was called for Joe Biden. Words like "URGENT," "STRONGEST," and "DEFENDING," all in caps, were golden shower-sprinked throughout the email. SAD. Ted Cruz is so ubiquitous through all this that I can only conclude that he sees himself as the heir apparent once Donnie Psycho finally does the world a favor and croaks. There are endless "Election Defense Fund" emails, complete with 1000X Match" headers, soiling my inbox, too, of course. These grifters are not just trying to line their pockets and pay off some personal debts including tax evasion debts as fast as they can, playing the suckers yet again, they are also using their suckers as a source of income, PAC money, and funding for future Trump and Trump family campaigns. Meanwhile, the wording of their emails is clearly designed to incite people. They are dog whistles. They are also examples of Donald Trump acting like a junkie on the subway or the street corner panhandling to raise money not for a meal but a drug fix. That's what republicans are now. These emails come at a rate of about 8 an hour with headers that make Beavis and Butthead look like Rhodes Scholars by comparison. People who contribute are "PATRIOTS," of course, since, in their sick Republican minds only Republicans can possibly be patriots. Fuck these people with a Trump flag on a ten foot pole!
On Monday afternoon, Trump spokescretin Kayleigh McAninny broadcast from the White House press room and went so gungho in her charging President-Elect Biden and the Democratic Party of "welcoming fraud" and "welcoming illegal voting" that even a FOX loon named Neil Cavuto cut her broadcast off the air, pointing out that she, like her boss, has still not offered one iota of evidence or proof. That will only cause rank and file Republicans to start sending death threats to Cavuto in their mass insanity. Trump has probably already made multiple calls to the Murdochs and demanded Cavuto be fired for "lack of loyalty" just like he has fired so many of his "best people" for the same thing and replaced them with even worse and more dangerous hacks like we see him doing throughout his administration and now even the Pentagon.
What has now happened at the Pentagon is a matter of grave national security concern, in addition to being what Trump's master, Vlad Putin wants. Trump has put conspiracy theorists in place who have long been associated with the Devin Nunes school of covering up Trump's ties to Russia. They will now be privy to classified information that they can not only choose to destroy, bury or selectively release and twist for their own purposes, they will be able to sell it to the highest bidders among our adversaries. It will be treason for money, not just politics. Conspiracy theorists in charge of our military; what could go wrong?
And, last I saw and heard, we still haven't had any Republican $entors who voted to keep their treasonous clown in office say one peep about "Where's the evidence" to back up Trump's voter fraud conspiracy mongering. It's the same deafening silence from the Repugs in the House of so-called Representatives. They have joined in, full force, with Dear Leader's autocratic behavior. Not surprisingly, $enate Majority Leader Moscow Mitch has joined in the conspiracy mongering right from the floor of the $enate. There is no low he won't sink to but we already knew that. House Repug Leader Kevin McCarthy echoed Trump saying in a classic dog whistle moment that-
President Trump won this election. So everyone who's listening, do not be quiet. We can not allow this to happen before our very eyes.
The quote from Mike Pompeo at the beginning of this post is designed to help convince Trump voters that a Biden presidency would be illegitimate. It is meant to stoke outrage and violent reaction if Joe Biden moves into the White House as President Of The United States. The Trump administration is attacking the democratic constitutional process and the Constitution, the supposed foundation of this country itself, but these traitors to America are willfully ignoring their responsibility to uphold their oath to defend the Constitution. Instead they uphold their loyalty oath to our psychotic President Trump. They are showing all the signs of attempting to establish a Republican Party insurgency to counter a Biden presidency. This is how all dangerous insurgencies began, whether it was Cuba, Syria, or Chile. No doubt, Trump himself, with the support of lieutenants like Ronna Romney Barret, McConnell, McCarthy and the rest of the Republican Party leadership I mentioned, envision themselves as a Trump government in exile. And, yet, this treachery is exactly what nearly 80,000,000 Republicans voted for as they voted for Trump and all of their Republican Party faithful in Congress. They aren't saying anything other than that they support their Dear Leader.
Reconcilliation with Nazis and Nazi-lovers? Tolerance, bipartisanship and reconciliation with traitors? Reaching across the aisle to such people? I think not. Nope. The problem is these people walk among us. Unlike in 1860, they don't all just live below the Mason-Dixon Line. That shouldn't mean that we give these asylum escapees a free pass to destroy the country utterly and completely, though. These people are beyond any kind of intervention. No medication exists that will fix them. The best we can do is shun them. Extreme social distancing is called for. You don't meet a virus halfway and win anything.
I've heard some people call Trump's Militia "Vanilla ISIS" but Trump's Militia is no laughing matter. How long, with all of this incitement going on, before they decide to no longer stand by. We've had these so-called supporters of "Law & Order" blocking traffic including emergency vehicles all over the country. We saw the menacing and chanting at vote counters in Arizona. The leader of the vote counting efforts at a center in Georgia has stated that he fears for the safety of the people doing the counting, particularly one who had to hide out due to death threats after the republican conspiracy machine went after him. In Philadelphia, two goons armed with AR-15s were stopped on their way to a place where votes were being counted. We've had other Trump supporters try to break into a Mid-West polling place while voting counting is going on because they saw that "Someone went in with 'special vote-stealing' equipment. The "someone" turned out to be a member of the press and the imaginary "vote-stealing equipment" was a strange, exotic device called a camera! This is the Republican mind at work, folks. It's even worse that these Trump Brownshirts are being incited and directed straight from the White House.
There should be no appeasement. None. This is a war. None of this Neville Chamberlain bullshit. To reach out your hand to a Republican is to blindly put your hand into a box of rattlesnakes, which is just what too many wimpy, unity-chanting Democrats, including Joe Biden, think they should do. Good luck with that. The Democratic Party needs to adopt "Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on you." as its words to live by.
Oh, and in case you were wondering, with all of the congratulations to President-Elect Biden coming in, there is one particularly conspicuous absence. Care to guess which leader has not sent congratulations? Hint, his first name is Vlad. What a surprise!
Damn! That face! Those eyes! Those teeth! The Aura Of The Crazy! How can anyone even look at Rudy Giuliani and want anything to do with him? Obviously, the answer is that you have to be as crazy as Donald Trump and all those lunatics at FOX "News." I mean, of course, just look at goons like Lou Dobbs, Tiki Torch Carlson, and Sean Insanity. I guess all of us just like to hang out with our own kind. I know that if I was sitting in a park somewhere and some guy with that face, those eyes, those teeth and that disturbing aura sat down next to me and started sweating and spitting saliva all over the place, I'd immediately go find another park!
How and when did Rudy go off the rails? When did the cheese fall off the cracker, Rudy? Does it have something to do with that dent in your head? What if he brought along a friend; some 400 pound guy with yellow plastic hair, an oversized red tie and gooey orange makeup? Then comes Stephen Miller, with or without his fake hair painted on that strange dome of his, or Kellyanne Conway shows up on her broom with Mitch McConnell waving a Russian flag and Russian currency pinned to his lapels, or Pence with his comfort fly? I'd know the circus of freaks was in town for sure. All that would be missing would be "Mother" and Elaine Chao dressed up as bearded ladies.
Tonight's meme of course references Donnie Psycho tweeting to the world last weekend that he was about to hold a press conference not at The Four Seasons but at Four Seasons Landscaping in Virginia. Is that who does his hair? But, perhaps the most interesting thing about the apparent choice of Four Seasons Landscaping is that it's right next door to a porno shop. Yep, Trump must have left the location choice up to his lawyer, Rudy. Well done, whack-o!
Today is Veterans Day. On Veterans Day, we celebrate our living military veterans, the ones who came back to us. Many are healthy. Many are physically and/or mentally unhealthy to varying degrees. All are considered "suckers and losers" by Donald Trump and, apparently, by those who support him and work for him in his administration. They even call him the Commander-in-Chief, even if, in his and their eyes, he is the Commander-in-Chief of "suckers and losers."
Full Disclosure: I did not serve. Timing mattered. For a couple of reasons, I would have been rejected if called anyway so I never had to face the decision of what to do. I do remember a couple of the older guys in my immediate neighborhood coming back from Vietnam, one an Army Private 1st Class, the other a Marine Sergeant. Both said we had no place being there but they certainly didn't think of themselves or the comrades who died right next to them as "suckers or losers." Several guys in my hometown died in Vietnam. No one I know considers them to be "suckers or losers," at least no one I associate with. The idea that anyone would is way, way beyond appalling and should disqualify a person from holding office, yet 80,000,000 Americans seem to have no problem with that at all.
To all who did serve, we at DWT, thank you for your service, and I dare say, so do you readers. I hope so.
It's not shocking but it's both sobering and depressing to now have confirmation that, for half of the voting public, the following are not deal breakers when they decide who and what to vote for. In fact, 80,000,000 of our fellow citizens and neighbors voted for the candidate whose platform is listed below:
1. a candidate that was convicted for bilking people out of their hard-earned money with a fake university that gave them nothing in return. I'll just let this one stand in for all of Donnie Godfather's criminal activities, known and as yet unknown. To list it all would take a book.
2. a candidate who has a history of racist acts and statements of encouragement to white supremacist groups (found guilty of racist rental policies, Central Park 5, "very fine people," re-tweets of white supremacist propaganda, etc., etc., etc.),
3. a candidate who is proud to be a practicing misogynist, making no effort to change or evolve in any way,
4. a candidate who is fighting in the courts to take away healthcare for 30,000,000 Americans even during a pandemic,
5. a candidate who deliberately made that pandemic even worse and suggested homicidal cures,
6. a candidate that publicly mocks the disabled to the cheering of his supporters,
7. a candidate who is a serial child abuser and surrounds himself with the same (Miller, Mnuchin, DeVos, his "I don't care" wife...)
8. a candidate who incites violence and turns Americans against Americans with his rhetoric,
9. a candidate who "misuses" charity donations entrusted to him,
10. a candidate who nominates homophobic judges,
11. a candidate who owns casinos so he treats every citizen of the country as a mark,
12. a candidate who supports dumping carcinogens into our water supplies (his environmental policies will kill more babies in their wombs than all "abortion clinics" combined),
13. a candidate who sides with Putin and our other adversaries over us for his own personal financial gain,
14. and, a candidate who has never even made an attempt to address his personal issues and failures of character because he doesn't see them as such or think they matter.
15. a candidate who got himself impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress and should have been impeached for much, much more, including being a Manchurian President and traitor to the United States Of America.
Sure, there could be more items on the above list but who has time to read it all? Whether taken individually or together, the above characteristics indicate a candidate who is a sociopath on his "be best" days and a psychopath on his normal days. Apparently, 80,000,000 people who walk among us see the above as perfectly A-OK. As I indicated at #1 on my list, I haven't even included the extensive list of things Trump is being investigated for and will be investigated for, not the least of which is tax fraud.
None of us are perfect but it used to be that most people tried to be better and do their best to make at least some little part of the world better. Instead, way too many have hatefully and nihilistically set out to do the opposite and endorsed Trump's massive bad character with their votes. Thus, it rubs off on themselves and they like it. Some, for instance, will tell you that they aren't racists even though they voted to encourage a racist and his racism. That's like going to watch and applaud a lynching while saying you had nothing to do with tying the rope to the tree limb.
Variations on a theme: I always love the Downfall videos. That people can take one key scene of the Downfall movie and rewrite it hundreds of times and still make us laugh is more than a bit of a phenomenon, and, no doubt, there will always be targets. The particular batch above, created by Mycah Braxton, is especially noteworthy. It's a look inside the White House bunker as it happened on Friday and Saturday in seven similar alternative universes in which the end is the same as ours.
Enjoy one. Enjoy all. The second one is my favorite because it simply has some perfect lines. I won't repeat them here. I'm not into spoilers.
I've seen homeless people on the streets of New York act just like this but this is Paula White, President Trump's personal Spiritual Advisor, at least when Stephen Miller isn't around. Jeeez, and we thought Jerry Falwell, Jr. was bad. Years ago, I used to see speed freaks and acid casualties in Tompkins Square Park doing the same rap. Just play the above clip and then let it soak in that, basically, the entire Trump White House staff and his Cabinet are just like this poor, demented and godforesaken soul. I imagine she sits on an oval office couch, or on some of the My Pillow guy's pillows in the corner, chanting this insane gibberish. It's probably piped all over the White House 24hrs a day. Does she get into Don, Jr.'s Meth stash? Nah, she doesn't need to. She comes by what you see naturally. It's just her. We used to have people like Paula White in asylums but Ronnie Raygun let them all go. He, like all Republicans, was soft on insanity.
It's been said that she gives opening "prayers" to cabinet meetings, and we do know that she counts dozens of Republican congresscretins among her fans. In turn, their voters think she's the tops! I'd love to see her on FOX "News" with Rudy Giuliani; just the two of them doing what they do best, for a whole hour. What a conversation that would be. Keep your hands above the desk, Rudy! Maybe they could bring in Screamin' Jeanine Pirro or Sarah Palin for the last 5 minutes before the whole thing just clicks to black in a sudden explosion.
By the way, I think the guy wandering back and forth in the background is a nice touch. Poor guy's probably just trying to find his way out of the building, quickly.
Want more of Paula White? Check this out, and, no, it's not a comedy act.
The price of inaction is about to be shown. Do you get the feeling that what we've previously seen from Trump and his supporters in the crazy department is just prelude? Prelude to a mighty whitey F6 torando of insanity and total mayhem? The countdown to Trump's ultimate breakdown has begun.
So pathetic. Apparently in Republican World, "Stop counting the votes. You're making me lose!" is the new "We only have COVID cases because we do testing!" Meanwhile battalions of Repug Party lawyers are tucking in their shirts and marching to the courts with their briefs in hand. I await the moment where Trump tells us that one day, his defeat "will disappear like a miracle" and he's "turned the corner on winning, so much winning." Prepare for so much whining.
It's time to call in the international observers. What our treasonous White House and their Republican enablers are doing is the stuff of scumbag 3rd world dictators in Nigeria, Bolivia, or some unstable former part of the Soviet Union. What else did you expect? We built this Frankenstein. He was the inevitable construction that crawled out of the American Korporate cesspool. That tilted, stumbling gait. That "hair." That orange clay face. That damaged brain. A hideous freak, incapable of emotional stability, turned loose. Hellbent on fashioning society into the ultimate likeness of himself.
They were founded in ignorance. God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion, The people cannot be all, and always, well informed.
-Thomsas Jefferson, on the revolutionary war against the tyranny of England
I look at our psychotic president in a straitjacket and it fills me with a bit of relief but it's not enough. It's too easy now to see him as a symbol for this whole country that he's so eager to tear apart with his statements and incitements. It's not enough to make up for his desire to plunge us, supporters and non-supporters alike, into this darkness. I've seen the interviews of Republicans outside their mini-Nuremberg Trump rallies. The shit (courtesy of the likes of Sean Hannity and the other Tokyo Roses) these idiots and fools believe is astounding. Once you add in the vote tallies (whether Biden ends up on top or not) you can easily see those rallies getting bigger and bigger, just like their car caravans, until we see them as large as Hitler's original Nuremberg rallies. These Trump boat parades and Trump car caravans of grossly dumbed down zombies that we see are a near perfect equivalent of those rows and rows of goose stepping German soldiers. I doubt that we'll ever get to the Nuremberg Trials stage in my lifetime but this mess is going to grow and grow unless it implodes of its own weight like a red star which first expands and torches everything in its path. Certainly, the rest of America doesn't appear to have the stomach to do anything about this tyranny of the idiots. Idiocracy indeed. The Jefferson quote above about needing a revolution every 20 every years or so is apt? Well, a lot of "20 years" have come and gone. What we did in 1776 appears to have been a one off. Trump, McConnell and the rest are dead set on poisoning the tree of liberty to death.
We're gonna need millions of straitjackets. Sadly, we'll need them both for the Trump cultists and we who are left to be driven crazy by their Dear Leader. If Trump ends up losing his home in our house, his cult will still be here, walking among us, aliens that they are. The straitjacket might as well become the official national uniform. Even if by some miracle, Donnie Psycho disappears into prison or escapes to parts known or unknown, his cult will still be here and his surrogate, Moscow Mitch will still be around as will the others. Even if Trump is gone, FOX "News" and their kind will still be laying the groundwork for a Fourth Reich.
A LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE
OK, enough of being morose, for now: I remember those old black and white pics of Harry Houdini hanging upside down suspended by a crane in a straitjacket 60-70 stories above the pavement or an icy river and I know that, if we could do that with Trump, my heart would be filled with joy! My heart would sing! I think the ghosts of the Founding Fathers, even with their shortcomings, would concur. Would it be cruel and unusual punishment? Not a bit. Just like Houdini, Trump would have the opportunity to escape. That's fair, no? It still wouldn't be the full punishment he deserves, though. It wouldn't be enough. I'd love to see him hanging from that crane on a 40mph windy polar vortex kind of day in February. Watch him swinging in the gale, you know. Back and forth. Back and forth. Round and round! Like a fat orange tether ball! Above the city. So high up, no one can hear you scream, Donnie! Swirl and spin baby swirl and spin! Here comes another gust!
In reality, we can't put all of Trump's voters in straitjackets, nice as that would be, but we can at least start at the top. So what about all of his staff and other close enablers? Straitjacket for Moscow Mitch! Put him at the head of the line! Straitjacket for Stephen Miller! Kellyanne! Sarah Huckabbe Sanders in a straitjacket? Make one out of those early 1950s tablecloths she wears as dresses! Looking nice Sarah! Looking real nice! Twitch those wacky eyebrows for us Sarah! Lindsey Graham? No, he might like a straitjacket, probably already has a few, for parties. Devin Nunes in a straitjacket! Give him a nice trial and then hang him for treason in one. Tucker in a straitjacket? Yeah, and I'll throw in the matching white hood for free. My gift to you Tucker Tiki Torch. My gift to you! Your old one was getting too ratty anyway. Rudy in a straitjacket, covered in his own sweat and spit! Try to tuck that in, Rudy! But what about Trump's kids? Yeah, what about those children of the damned? Oh, just stuff them all in a giant burlap bag. The crane can hold it. Their combined weight is about the same as dad, no problem. And on down the line! We could even have a pay per view crane cam!
At this point, maybe you think I forgot Mike Pence. I didn't. He Who Attracts Flies already has a straitjacket. He calls it "Mother."
To the Moon, Donnie! To the Moon! You always wanted to put a man on the Moon again. Why not you? One small sling for you! One great leap for all humankind! Your followers think the other moon landings were all fake so, go ahead, be the first! And pay no attention to those scientists who'll tell you you need a space suit and air. Screw that, eh? Bon voyage!
Leave it to the world's biggest asshole to ruin the classic picturesque shot of our White House! The picture postcard that has sold in the millions and has meant so much to so many around the world is now obsolete. You can thank our treasonous psychopathic president and his enablers among the $enate, his staff, and the media for that.
Trump finally has his wall and it's been put up at our expense to protect him, and the treasonous filth who work for him in the west wing, from us. Trump had this new, higher wall put up just in time for the election. The White House doesn't just have a bunker. It IS a bunker. The very fact that he has put up this wall tells us that he expects to be on the short end of the vote. It's a clear sign that, regardless of the vote count, he intends to stay for another four years and more as "president for life" and is expecting waves of Americans to descend on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to try to force his removal and stop him from continuing to inflict his own brand of hell upon us. He built the wall higher to make it more difficult to scale but we don't have to do that. We don't even need a Trojan Horse. All we have to do is do a siege. No one goes in No one goes out. No hamberder deliveries either. Starve 'em all! Let them eat each other like shipwrecked sailors on a lifeless desert island. I'm sure the White House has its own electrical generators but I doubt they have their own well and sooner or later, someone's bound to find the pipes. Can you imagine Donnie's hair when he can't wash it anymore? And, I've always heard he has a peculiar smell to begin with. That's just one of the reasons Melania sleeps on the other side of the house.
So go ahead if, in your deranged brain, you feel you must, Donnie. Go ahead. Make. My. Day. We're gonna have to fumigate the place anyway.
Too often when opportunity presents itself, America just shrugs and fails to act, but, sometimes priority meets opportunity and there's never been a bigger priority than removing Trump from our lives. It's good to have priorities, and today is one of those days of opportunity. We can check off one priority, move on down the list to the next one and so on. If only.
As for the never do wells of both parties in a corrupt self-perpetuating system, it's up to each of us to stop sleeping on the Democracy job. Democracy is not an every two year or every four year job. Treating it as such turns it into a farce; the farce that it is. We need to fight the shortcomings and weaknesses of the people on our ballots. They won't. They are almost as lazy as us voters. They have a marked tendency towards corruption and they wear suits like some kind of disguise in an effort to appear "respectable." Democracy is a job for everybody every day or it dies. Politicians need to be harassed daily into the proper action, non-stop and in person, with millions marching and general strikes if necessary. Whatever it takes, or else those who go into politics will be happy to give you even more of what we already have way too much of. FDR famously told the American public to make him be the instrument of change for the better, to force his hand (and give him the ammo). If we don't harass politicians and hold their heads to the fire, and we instead allow them to become the vermin they will become due to their innate greed and a seemingly natural anathema to morality and human decency, well, that's on us. We can't just vote and go away for a couple of years, not when the only people that politicians communicate with are mobster bagmen, of either the corporate or the underworld type.
DREAMS
Yeah, it's all just fantasy. As the great George Carlin once said, to paraphrase, as long as Americans can go to the mall and buy cheap trinkets and crap obesity-inducing food they don't need, they will remain asleep and that's just the way the political class and their masters want it. Pay no attention to the ghoulish cretin behind the curtain. As Carlin said-
It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
And, as Winston Churchill said, America will do the right thing only after they've tried everything else. In this case, we created this mess over a very long period of time. Fixing it would take genuine education, critical thinking ability, desire, paying attention, and years, many, many years of obstinate behavior and fortitude. Indulge yourself in the fantasy. Our politicians should always feel that we are looking over their shoulders. They should always feel uncomfortable, very uncomfortable. We've coddled them way, way too much for way, way too long.
WILL
It takes a real psychopath like Trump to tell even his supporters that people don't die from COVID-19 as the death toll mounts and the rate of new cases and new deaths increases exponentially. It takes even more of a psychopath to turn people against their one hope if they get COVID; America's doctors and nurses by telling them-
Our doctors get more money if someone dies from COVID. You know that, right? I mean our doctors are very smart people. So what they do is, they say, 'I'm sorry, but, you know, everybody dies of COVID,' but in Germany and other places, if you have a heart attack, or you have cancer, you're terminally ill, you catch COVID, they say you died of cancer, you died of heart attack. With us, when in doubt, choose COVID. It's true. No it's true.
No. It's not true; not any of it. Trump spoke this latest of his lies on a day when there were over 90,000 reported new cases of COVID and reports of 1004 Americans died. That doesn't even count the unreported or undetected. This is how Trump treats our doctors, nurses, and health technicians that are fighting to save American lives in our hospitals while risking their own. He does this even to the hospital personnel who saved his own miserable life. He even adds to his lies by naming the fictitious amount our hospital doctors supposedly get by claiming it's $2000 like it's a bounty; $2000 more for labeling a death as being due to COVID. But, this is the Republican Party folks, always anti-healthcare to the max. This is how the republican mind works. It cannot think of anyone doing anything without finding a way of pocketing a little extra cash, even caring for a dying person or trying to save their life is a prime opportunity to such a mind. Of course, the critical thinking-challenged fail to ponder that fact that, no matter what the patient had to begin with, it was COVID that pushed them over the edge.
Trump has already been busy inciting mayhem and violence. It's what psychopaths do. He's got Don Jr. directing fleets of American Taliban goons and ISIS imitators riding around in their flag-bedecked pick-ups and SUVs, even running a Biden-Harris bus off the road in Texas. One hit a staffer's car. You can almost count the minutes until these freaks kill someone, if not with a car like in Charlottesville, then with an AK-47. There's no telling what Trump will say and do in the coming days, weeks, and months. What past precedent has shown us is that the Republican Party will be right there with him as always.
So yes, take out the trash. Put Trump in that dumpster. Take that dumpster* to a toxic dump, burn it, and bury it, deep. Let the tiny underground things that crawl and slither do their job. They do it better than us. Let's give them the opportunity. And let's have some more dumpsters at the ready.
*The dumpster display in tonight's meme is courtesy of Madame Tussauds, Berlin, Germany.
As you can see above, I've created a new Trump Death Panel Hat. It's the hat that no Republican would want to be seen without! Hell, they'd feel naked without it!
By the time you read this, the horrid COVID-19 death toll will have zoomed past the 230,000 listed on the red Trump hat above. It was 226,000 just a few days ago when I made it. It's hard to keep up. Sadly, what we need one of those big digital counters like the ones that show the ever mounting national debt. They have those in prominent places around the country. Here in NYC, there's one I always see by Penn Station and Madison Square Garden. They could have similar counters that showed the mounting COVID-19 deaths. The thing is, though, that if you placed them at Trump rallies, the audiences would cheer and cheer wildly. "Hey! Our boy Trump did that! Yay! Best president ever!"
I also know that if I got enough of these hats manufactured (in the U.S.A., course), I could sell them outside Trump rallies and those nihilistic Republican nutballs would wear them proudly. I could sell a Pence Edition with a big 10-inch fly on it! The Trumpers would even come back next week for the 240,000 hat and the week after that for the 250,000 hat! I could even sell a gold monthly edition! With a facsimile signature, of course. Hey, collect 'em all!
I'd make a fortune, I tell ya, a fortune! I could sell subscriptions!
At least some places, like this church across the border in Ontario, Canada, see the importance of wearing a mask. That, as we know, is unlike so many churches here in the United States who just think the lord will protect them from COVID-19 and end up holding what amounts to weekly super spreader services. But then, up north, they've taken this plague much more seriously than we have. It's not great, but they're better off than we are. Apparently, Canadians believe in science.
Meanwhile, if you're going out to vote on Monday or Tuesday, wear the goddamn mask. Of course, if you encounter any proud boy or militia types at your polling place, you may want to consider walking up to them, pull your mask down, and cough, a lot! That's my answer to today's WWJD question. That's what my Jesus would do!
Bonus Voting Tip!!!
At some voting places with long lines, the poll workers have been coming out and moving senior citizens to the front of the line. I laid down on the sidewalk to tuck in my shirt and they came and got me right away! Try it! It works!
Halloween could be so much better if Trump, his grifter family, his staff and his henchmen such as Moscow Mitch and all of those treasonous anti-impeachment Hou$e Representative$, $enators, and media whores ended up receiving the punishments they deserve, but that would require a national policy of equal justice under the law instead of the you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours & best justice that money can buy system that we are plagued with. But, hey, I can indulge in fantasy as much as anyone. So, I'll just point out the simple fact that an orange jump suit would match President Pumpkin Face's complexion perfectly.
And while we're on the topic of ghouls, increased darkness is approaching
The year 1816 is known as "The Year Without A Summer." Mount Tambora, a volcano in Indonesia erupted so violently that its clouds of ash filled the sky around the world and blocked out so much of the Sun's warming rays that temperatures dropped, causing unseasonable snows and failing crops that resulted in starvation, exponential increases in illnesses, and poverty all over the world. Businesses failed and people died in horrific numbers. That, of course, was a natural disaster but, imagine a man-made equivalent where a leader decided to not just ignore the disaster but deliberately make it as bad as possible. Imagine that the leader in question took it upon himself to figuratively stir even more ash into the atmosphere. Imagine if you will, that that leader pushed a policy of herd immunity or what he calls "herd mentality." That is a "More illness and death is good" approach. Well, good if you are a murderous psychopath and homicidal maniac.
Right now, we are reaching toward the end of the year 2020. We all know 2020 has been a kind of Year Of Halloween but it didn't have to be the way it has turned out. When we saw the early warning signs as the psychotic orange menace came down his escalator and proceeded to give his nightly mentally ill rants to the multitudes, those were the warning sign rumblings of a human volcano hell bent on destroying everything in his path.
We saw what happened when the bought and paid for $enate Republicans (bought and paid for in Russian rubles) voted to keep our psychopathic president in office, thus granting him permission to do whatever he wants, which is of course the same as whatever they want. Then came a completely corrupt consigliere named William Barr. Now, the Putin owned Moscow Mitch has given our banana republic president a court system that is as corrupt as the $enate and the so-called Justice Department. It's a perfect storm, run by one of the most mentally ill men in this whole crazy country, a lunatic who has made it perfectly clear that he will stop at nothing. Welcome to the United States Of North Korea.
