[I’ve really done it this time, unfolded a segmented politicalesque screed, just to get it out of my system so I can go back to my usual disembodied nonsense. Sometime we have to sacrifice our sanity and artistic decency to take a few deserved swipes at the “real world.”]
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- I’ve been wondering for awhile, and last seek’s shitshow brought it to the forefront – is Chump, beyond being power -mad, truly mad, in the sense of clinically insane? He’s not only gone after his enemies with rhetoric that would confuse a bedbug, but has cut his supporters off at the knees, wrecking the lives of those who voted for him and undermining every promise he made to them.
- I didn’t watch Stunp’s attempted evisceration of Ukrainian president Zelenskii but did listen later, while doing the dishes, to what he had bubbled and squeaked, and was appalled beyond what even I thought possible. I could pick up maybe a quarter of the words, but the words weren’t what was important. It was his tone of voice, the suppressed scream of madness: This man is out of his mind, not just an unhinged orator spewing bilious anger, but the mania of a damaged mind without a shred of attachment to reality.
- God, is America fucked. But we are in shit shape not so much from specific policies as from a man’s mental instability that should not be entertained, much less supported, by any functioning government. And since Lump’s behavior is the outer manifestation of a damaged mind, there’s no way to lay blame on him. But blame, of course, serves no useful purpose. What’s needed is a societal change so embracing that this episode can be erased from our history.
- In a different direction, I’ve also long felt hat Slump has a severe learning disability; it is not a matter of “I don’t like to read,” but that he can’t fully comprehend written words, especially within a specific context.
- Read an opinion piece, about Thump’s foreign policy, by someone who seemed to find something consistent behind it. The mistake she made was believing he gives a shit about the US beyond its benefit to and glorification of him personally.
- Besides refusing to print Dump’s given name, I’d suggest that every one of his quotes be labelled “fiction.” Also that, rather than the day’s news remaining “All Crumpet, All The Time!” each media home page reserve a Rump Corner, roughly 3 x 4 inches, in the bottom right hand, with one-sentence summations or links to inane articles covering his antics. Finally, use the pronoun “it” in all personal references to him/it.
- Within a couple days a week back, a close friend and my eldest daughter both sent me a link to Heather Cox Richardson, who writes a daily fact-filled rundown of our national freak show that summarizes the texture and stench of the whole crap casserole. She must spend at least all her waking hours reading the background material [linked each day in the bottom ‘notes’]. You can read or subscribe at https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com. Highly recommended.
- I wish more foreign-policy commentators knew extended Russian history. Russian aggression and tyrannical leadership have been consistent for at least half a millennium, through Ivan the Terrible, Peter and Catherine the Great, the 19th-century Tsars, Lenin, Stalin and Putin. For all of that period, Russia has been the largest country in the world – and always wanting to be bigger, a bizarre state of mind geared to more, more, more. I admit it must seem a shame to stereotype a country so blatantly, but it would be more of a shame to ignore it as historical fact. The Soviet Union took that mania to a territorial extreme, yet after World War II, Russia attempted to annex all of Eastern Europe. Chomping bits from Ukraine is nothing unusual, though repulsive.
- Of late, the media have been talking about “the MAGAs.” But who are the MAGAs really? Sometimes an article seems to refer to Republican billionaires and their associates; other stories appear pointing at the right-wing 30% of the worker electorate. These are two very different groups that should not be subsumed under a single term. I’d suggest that the billionaire class instead be termed “the MAGGOTS.”
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[Getting back to harmless nonsense]
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Declaring war on useless adjectives:
Quote: More than 10 million people worldwide are living with Parkinson’s, and about one in three have troublesome anxiety that affects their daily life.
So, 2 out of 3 Parkinson’s patients have only non-troublesome anxiety that affects their daily life?
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And the joust against idiot headlines:
Among other studies, previous research has suggested people who drink tea may have a lower risk of stroke, dementia and even death.
I think we can guarantee that no one involved, here or elsewhere, will have a lower risk of death.
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An ancient absurdity:
United States currency, boxes and boxes of it!
An actual line that no one on earth would ever say, uttered following an explosion of cartons of cash in Big Ben Bolt (or another equally worthless comic strip) in late 1950s.
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Traditional hymn: “Leaning on the everlasting arm.”
Modern update:
Farting, farting,
Safe and secure, though somewhat crass.
Farting, farting,
Farting out the everlasting ass.
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And, at last, a melon-coly ending:
“Come elope with me, honey, do!”
“No, I can’t elope with you, dear.”
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