USA Officially a Banana Republic

Well, yeah, I’m the slippery-slope advocate too.



I heard more than once that in parts of the black community that getting an education is considered “acting white.”



Absolutely no argument from me about that. All I’m saying is that if we want leaders too really push back against this stuff, don’t let Bruce Jenner use the lady’s room when he comes to your house.



I’m not Trump-fixated. I’m just not willing to call shit Shinola. The number of Christians who have gotten in bed with this bum is astonishing. And not just because “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” I understand that and think it’s a practical idea in some cases.

But I’m talking about the Christians who didn’t just think that Trump was the least objectionable alternative but thought he was Ordained by Almighty God to stay up late at night and dispense his idiotic Tweets.

That, I think, is a vulnerability of Christianity, or at least of phoned-in Christianity. It teaches that there is some kind of Holy and Mystical specialness in power and hierarchy itself. It’s the very reason that Catholics, for one, find it nearly impossible to root out the corruption in their own Church. And many others apparently forget the supposed message of Jesus on the Cross that ultimate power, meaning, and goodness is not about how many Supreme Court picks you get.

It certainly can happen here. Now. After decades of indoctrination and social and moral decay.

I see the willingness of people to wear masks as ominous. It tells me several things way beyond mere groupthink or caving to social pressure. That kind of stuff will always happen.

What surprised me most was running into almost no one on the right who said “Screw this, they can come arrest me, but I’m not closing down and I’m not wearing a mask.” The numbers aren’t in yet and I won’t argue via anecdote. But chances are we’re talking about a moderate-to-severe flu season. And, most of all, nothing near anything unprecedented.

But those (conservatives, real Christians, Libertarians, etc.) — the very people who know better not to trust the media — went along with everyone else. Oh, I’m aware of the excuses. It was a way to keep their business open. But didn’t that apply to the Jew? If you opposed anti-Semitism, wasn’t there a price to pay in Nazi Germany (or in many parts of the world now)?

So don’t come crying to me about how “I had to keep my business open.” Or a dozen other excuses. Nearly everyone caved, right and Left. So you can knock me over with a feather in regards to believing that much, much more toxic authoritarian/totalitarian cocktails will be fed to us next and soon.

It seems GOP turnout was about 5% less than Demagogue turnout in the run-off, which no doubt explains most of the debacle.  How much this comes from Demagogue enthusiasm had how much from the GOP intra-party struggle, with Lin Wood calling for GOP voters to boycott it, is hard to say.  As it happens, there was a third statewide run-off, for the insurance commissioner, and the Republican candidate not only won but got more votes than anyone else.

Nothing prepares you for cynicism like listening to the douchebags on television news — right or left.

They’re all “shocked, shocked” that riots are going on. On my god. The end of the republic.

But there was no such hand-wringing when Democrat-friendly mobs (armed to the teeth) did much, much worse and for a prolonged time (not to mention the church they burned down across from the White House). It was all considered positive as in “peoples’ voices being heard.”

This was no coup attempt. This was not political insurrection. Aside from the one protestor being shot (I don’t know the details), the worst thing that happened is that someone sat in Cuntlosi’s chair. What a hoot of a photo op that was. This was political theatre. It was a propaganda war. And Trump lost badly. If you can make Biden look reasonable, you’ve put in a good day of stupid.

Four years ago I said something like “Trump will delegitimize conservatism and do dire damage to the Republican Party.” Why? Because he wasn’t a conservative, he wasn’t a Republican (his lifelong associations and inclinations are mostly Democratic) and he was just a media clown with no substance (at least good substance) to him.

That’s not to say his economic policies weren’t good. God yes, a nice change from the environmental nuts trying to shut down everything. (At last, for them, they’ve found a way to do it with a virus.)

Trump’s post-election (not to mention pre-election) behavior has been damaging to the cause of opposing the Communists who are indeed a threat to our way of life. The media feigned offense but they were loving this opportunity to trash Trump and Republicans. If they could stage this again, I’m sure they’d chip in and pay the airfare for another round of MAGA zealots in DC.

The integrity of our elections is important. But that’s a separate issue (another thing — election reform — that has been severely damaged by the cry-wolf Trump). But at this point, I know I’m not alone in thinking, I don’t care if the Democrats cheated, I want this bum out of office, and the sooner the better.

The very interesting inside-baseball aspect of this is how the world has just collapsed on the “playing both sides of the street” politicians such as Ted Cruz. Mr. “Man of Great Thought and Integrity” has been tarnished by his pandering to the Trump zealots. But now — in a flash — Trump is toxic to everyone. No coattails. This asshole can threaten to “primary” someone all he wants. I suppose many Republicans would now welcome that as a badge of honor.

Am I surprised by any of this? Sure. But I knew something *like* this was inevitable since 2016. I just wasn’t sure of the details. The details are now in.

The lifelong-appointment Supreme Court justices will stick. But in the past month, he’s painted graffiti on any real accomplishments he’s had. He’ll be remembered now as the Mad King George.