So the fact that an avowed anti-Semite is jealous of the EXACT SAME GUY that neo-Nazis & fashies at all levels of propaganda identify as the source of & driver behind the "Globalist Jewish conspiracy" is the merest of coincidence? A random passing of stars in a sky of bullshit.
I know you think that, and many others do as well in the Great American Pot of Liberal Oatmeal -- their unwillingness to draw connections between layers of aggression & rhetoric, to pass ever single hostility as just random blips of cantankerousness and crankiness, to excuse, downplay, & ignore is why no one of that generation will do a goddamn thing about this problem they let get so big in the first place.
Chill, my man. No coincidence. But not the point with the dude. I'm sure very fine people pointed out to him the Soros menace, but whether they wanted to stoke the 'globalist' fear/hate fire or not, what this guy frets about is the wealth factor. If someone else has wealth, that means HE has less. The rest, if it inflames his base, is non-kosher gravy.
Not saying this happens every day, but occasionally it will occur to me that Donald Trump is not the President, and a smile will come over my normally gruff exterior. Which is just another way to say I enjoy ALL of it, the scenes from the Mar a Lago Throne room, Benzedrine and the Western White House, and this press conference here, because where are these things NOT happening? At Motherfucking 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, that's where not. So if Roy wants to take a holiday break and just post a picture of the fucker with "Not the President" underneath, I'll leave satisfied.
The good or at least interesting news is that the media's continued obsession with Tubby has still failed to re-attract the audience they've lost since, I guess, the 1/6 affair. (Not sure when the audience collapse happened, TBH.)
Roy, you just made me realize that his brain-barf of Fox News bullsh!t is like A Clockwork Orange—only this isn’t aversion therapy, it’s to give the audience a ragegasm.
Fox and Newsmax will be there for Tubby’s rant on 1/6 of course along with the crazies, but you just know that CNN and the networks will say something about “we have to cover this” like the clowns they are.
This gave me visions of Trump as one of those permanent Vegas lounge acts. 5 nights a week of his monologuing on stage and telling his MAGAts to "try the veal".
It's really the only part of being President that interests him, the opportunity to do his observational comedy act in front of bigger audiences that would come for a non-President ("Hey, didja ever wonder why showers don't work right any more? What's up with that?")
Perfection. You know, Roy, the road to a paying gig at the NYTIMES or WaPo is to be a speechwriter for a criminal, not too bright but evil Republican [spit] president and on the basis of this, Trump would hire you right away. You obviously get him and by “get him” I mean like unvaxed magats get COVID and probably left feeling just as bad.
That 'Unselect Committee' was a masterful exaggeration of the sheer childishness—wait, that was from a real quote.
(I think someone's written about the childishness of Fascism's being, at least for some, a deliberate strategy to demean the very notion of being a functional adult capable of, e.g., discerning shit from Shinola.)
"Well, I like Donald Trump, but I understand a lot of people don't, so maybe that's why he lost?" is a thought that roughly one third of our adult population is incapable of thinking.
I think it's _incredibly_ freeing for people. In particular, to-them-abstract freedoms like those of expression and of movement—as what do they have to say?, and where would they go?—are exchanged for the real-feeling freedom acquired by identifying with the Leader WHO CAN DO ANYTHING. Civil rights for many pale in comparison with complete, infantile, freedom-of-action, freed of any restraint by morality, custom, consideration for others…until, as you pointed-out, bare reality clamps its limits down.
(Not-original thought: the major failure mode of autocracy is that someone who in Social Reality is allowed to do anything eventually [or quickly] ends-up believing that he [it usually is 'he', though with Progress I'm sure we'll see more female and non-binary examples] is not bound by physical law or the size of their army or how much grain the people can pay, and then the hammer comes down _hard_.)
For politically-inclined people who like to argue on the internet (but I repeat myself) it must be incredibly freeing to know you can never lose, can never be proven wrong, will always have the snappy comeback that shocks your opponents into silence (or persuades them it's a waste of time talking to you, which looks the same from your end.) And the only price you pay is to give up any vestigial connection between the things you think and reality.
As before, I retain a very uncharacteristic hope (which I define as 'believing your wishes matter in and of themselves' and usually can't do at all) that Der Schnifter will say something so horrible in an environment his Legion ('for we are many') trust that he'll alienate _some_ of them.
So I'll leave you for the New Year (perhaps) with some Randall Jarrell, expanded from the lines someone quoted me in the Berkeley Change of Hobbit in 1982: (apologies for substack's auto-formatting it with extra lines)
"If you criticize Israel you must hate Israel" is something smart Zionists say to shut up anyone who doesn't like seeing Palestinians ground into dust, but it's also important to recognize that this is something a really, deeply stupid person would think. Unaccustomed to the complex interplay of conflicting ideas that takes place in the brain of a normal person, the deeply stupid can only think, "He say bad thing about America, he must hate America." You can't blame them, really, it's just the best they can do.
Next year for his 1/6 speech he'll be hawking steak knives.
And deeply discounted Ivanka for President 2028 swag.
Too soon for the Donald NFTs? or are Melania's in the nature of test marketing the grift?
maybe a deeply discounted ivanka. she's long in the tooth for him now.
To be fair, he lives his life according to the teachings of a wise Jew -
Lenny Bruce: Deny it. Flat out – deny it! If you really love your wife, deny it. If they got pictures, deny it.
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxXw9uM3G_AzVklnONN0HB8XUpRJpCamIr
The Titanium Chump card PROVES it!
“Sid and Ethel Heimrich.” awesome
They get all their meals comped, in case anyone in the dining room needs The Maneuver.
"but we said, we have to be responsible" Please continue, I'm fascinated by your implication...
" But everybody knows what I mean. George Soros is what I mean, OK?" Punching up, not down for once? Fair enough, chief loser.
"Shifty Schiff and the RINOs" is MINE!
How exactly is implying George Soros is a member of the "Elders of Zion" globalist lizard people cabal "punching up?"
You know non-billioniare Jewish people are harmed by that kind of Nazi propaganda bullshit, right?
My sense of Trump is he resents Soros for having more money than him. Nothing else matters anywhere near that much to the dude as near as I can see.
So the fact that an avowed anti-Semite is jealous of the EXACT SAME GUY that neo-Nazis & fashies at all levels of propaganda identify as the source of & driver behind the "Globalist Jewish conspiracy" is the merest of coincidence? A random passing of stars in a sky of bullshit.
I know you think that, and many others do as well in the Great American Pot of Liberal Oatmeal -- their unwillingness to draw connections between layers of aggression & rhetoric, to pass ever single hostility as just random blips of cantankerousness and crankiness, to excuse, downplay, & ignore is why no one of that generation will do a goddamn thing about this problem they let get so big in the first place.
Chill, my man. No coincidence. But not the point with the dude. I'm sure very fine people pointed out to him the Soros menace, but whether they wanted to stoke the 'globalist' fear/hate fire or not, what this guy frets about is the wealth factor. If someone else has wealth, that means HE has less. The rest, if it inflames his base, is non-kosher gravy.
Ugh, I’m so sick of all this shit.
You and me both, hon.
You know, I was struck by the same feeling part way through this. I mean, enough of this sub-human (clinical speaking) crap.
Not saying this happens every day, but occasionally it will occur to me that Donald Trump is not the President, and a smile will come over my normally gruff exterior. Which is just another way to say I enjoy ALL of it, the scenes from the Mar a Lago Throne room, Benzedrine and the Western White House, and this press conference here, because where are these things NOT happening? At Motherfucking 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, that's where not. So if Roy wants to take a holiday break and just post a picture of the fucker with "Not the President" underneath, I'll leave satisfied.
The good or at least interesting news is that the media's continued obsession with Tubby has still failed to re-attract the audience they've lost since, I guess, the 1/6 affair. (Not sure when the audience collapse happened, TBH.)
Roy, you just made me realize that his brain-barf of Fox News bullsh!t is like A Clockwork Orange—only this isn’t aversion therapy, it’s to give the audience a ragegasm.
Fox and Newsmax will be there for Tubby’s rant on 1/6 of course along with the crazies, but you just know that CNN and the networks will say something about “we have to cover this” like the clowns they are.
They have to cover it so they can do a thorough fact-checking, because we all know how effective fact-checking is against Trump.
This gave me visions of Trump as one of those permanent Vegas lounge acts. 5 nights a week of his monologuing on stage and telling his MAGAts to "try the veal".
Tummler-in-Chief
Mel Brooks and the ghost of Danny Kaye had him thrown out of the union, so unfair.
'Try your waiter, tip me—the veal will be here all week!'
It's really the only part of being President that interests him, the opportunity to do his observational comedy act in front of bigger audiences that would come for a non-President ("Hey, didja ever wonder why showers don't work right any more? What's up with that?")
I agree, but beg to disagree: he likes the chance to directly hurt people he doesn't like (or think are people at all) much, much, much,…,more.
Like Gallagher, except with a machine gun (and an audience full of targets).
"Hundreds of Trump supporters trampled to death in rush to get within range of machine gun."
Perfection. You know, Roy, the road to a paying gig at the NYTIMES or WaPo is to be a speechwriter for a criminal, not too bright but evil Republican [spit] president and on the basis of this, Trump would hire you right away. You obviously get him and by “get him” I mean like unvaxed magats get COVID and probably left feeling just as bad.
"You know, Roy, the road to a paying gig at the NYTIMES or WaPo is to be a speechwriter for a criminal"
Expand that to WSJ and you include Reagan-loafer-worshipping La Noonan.
Like hiring Winston Smith because, you know, he has experience working on the news.
Hilarious, although, of course, it's not funny.
The paradox of Edrosoism!
Wait...If Edrosoism is already a paradox, then how're we supposed to HEIGHTEN the CONTRADICTIONS??
That 'Unselect Committee' was a masterful exaggeration of the sheer childishness—wait, that was from a real quote.
(I think someone's written about the childishness of Fascism's being, at least for some, a deliberate strategy to demean the very notion of being a functional adult capable of, e.g., discerning shit from Shinola.)
Fascism certainly frees some people from the need to ever face facts and admit you were wrong. At least until the Russian tanks reach Berlin.
"I beseech you, in the bowels of the Fuhrerbunker, think it possible you may be mistaken." Zombie Field Marshal Oliver von Cromwell
Being a zombie, he'd already pulled-out those bowels (in slow motion) and started to gnaw on them.
Hence the extreme hatred of zombies by the Irish and Scots.
"Well, I like Donald Trump, but I understand a lot of people don't, so maybe that's why he lost?" is a thought that roughly one third of our adult population is incapable of thinking.
I think it's _incredibly_ freeing for people. In particular, to-them-abstract freedoms like those of expression and of movement—as what do they have to say?, and where would they go?—are exchanged for the real-feeling freedom acquired by identifying with the Leader WHO CAN DO ANYTHING. Civil rights for many pale in comparison with complete, infantile, freedom-of-action, freed of any restraint by morality, custom, consideration for others…until, as you pointed-out, bare reality clamps its limits down.
(Not-original thought: the major failure mode of autocracy is that someone who in Social Reality is allowed to do anything eventually [or quickly] ends-up believing that he [it usually is 'he', though with Progress I'm sure we'll see more female and non-binary examples] is not bound by physical law or the size of their army or how much grain the people can pay, and then the hammer comes down _hard_.)
For politically-inclined people who like to argue on the internet (but I repeat myself) it must be incredibly freeing to know you can never lose, can never be proven wrong, will always have the snappy comeback that shocks your opponents into silence (or persuades them it's a waste of time talking to you, which looks the same from your end.) And the only price you pay is to give up any vestigial connection between the things you think and reality.
As before, I retain a very uncharacteristic hope (which I define as 'believing your wishes matter in and of themselves' and usually can't do at all) that Der Schnifter will say something so horrible in an environment his Legion ('for we are many') trust that he'll alienate _some_ of them.
So I'll leave you for the New Year (perhaps) with some Randall Jarrell, expanded from the lines someone quoted me in the Berkeley Change of Hobbit in 1982: (apologies for substack's auto-formatting it with extra lines)
Woe's me! woe's me! In Folly's mailbox
Still laughs the postcard, Hope:
Your uncle in Australia
Has died and you are Pope,
For many a soul has entertained
A mailman unawares --
And as you cry, Impossible,
A step is on the stairs.
Impossible to read that and not hear it in his tinny nasal whine…
Brilliant. His very own State of the Loonion Speech!
"If you criticize Israel you must hate Israel" is something smart Zionists say to shut up anyone who doesn't like seeing Palestinians ground into dust, but it's also important to recognize that this is something a really, deeply stupid person would think. Unaccustomed to the complex interplay of conflicting ideas that takes place in the brain of a normal person, the deeply stupid can only think, "He say bad thing about America, he must hate America." You can't blame them, really, it's just the best they can do.