Our day is made,
My fellow Scum.
The table’s laid,
So beat the drum,
For we’ve been dissed
By Donald Trump,
Who’s deeply pissed.
His hair’s a-clump,
His face is mottled,
His fists are clenched,
His hate’s unbottled,
His pants are drenched.
He does not like
The flack he’s got,
The bursting dike:
He. Has. Been. CAUGHT.
in these climatically incendiary times
and in this dutch oven we call the valley of the sun
the weather guy on kjzz referred to the temperature range for the next few days as “in the one-teens”
meaning between 113 and 119 degrees fahrenheit
.
the jackass in the white house talks of buying “or annexing” greenland
were i a conspiracy theorist i would say that his climate change denial plus his collusion with the petrochemical predators in fucking up the environment were part of his sinister plan to make greenland one of the only inhabitable places on earth
so that with “annexation” (rape with violence) he would consummate the biggest real estate deal of all time
while simultaneously extending the trail of tears into the 21st century and into the arctic circle
since approximately 89% of greenland’s population is indigenous greenlandic inuit
.
but i am not a conspiracy theorist
drop a syllable and i become a piracy theorist
and my theory, backed by circumstantial evidence of the long history of theft and fraud and pillage perpetrated throughout his career
is that donald trump is a pirate of the worst sort
of the same ilk as spiro t. agnew and Bluebeard
and he’s given this country a jolly rogering since day 1 of term 1
and should be made not to walk the plank
but to walk a mile at high noon here in phoenix
wearing speedos and flipflops
with the temperature in the one-teens
Two things bullies and predators will do are plead guilty to a lesser charge and hide in plain sight. When, for instance, Donald Trump, who is both a bully and a predator, said “Russia, if you’re listening, please find Hillary’s e-mails,” he was hiding in plain sight. When he calls the rape of the working class and poorer a “Big, Beautiful Bill,” he is also hiding in plain sight. There is a nine-year interval between those two utterings. The diligent will find at least seven other exemplars in the interval.
When Trump supporters say he is “brash” instead of saying “he is a shameless liar,” they are on Trump’s behalf pleading guilty to a lesser charge. When Trump himself attributes his lies and/or stupidity to “sarcasm,” he himself is pleading guilty–or perhaps NOT guilty–to a lesser charge. And when he tears up the deal Obama made with Iran, and years later bombs Iran, he is committing a profound crime against reason, with no apology and no remorse.
Prove me wrong, Trump supporters, if you dare try.
Current circumstances in the United States of America are so improbable–a convicted felon is running the country with the help of Supreme Court justices and Congressfolk as enablers–that I have had sleepless, baffled nights wondering how in the name of all holy things we have come to this.
Today something clicked and I now have a possible explanation.
Briefly: Trump and his fellow apocalyptics are getting help from AI that was inspired by a story, written by career diplomat Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger under his nom de plume Cordwainer Smith, over sixty years ago.
The Planet Buyer, nominated for science fiction’s Hugo award for Best Novel in 1965, told the story of Roderick Frederick Ronald Arnold William MacArthur McBan the Hundred and Fifty-First, a resident of the richest planet in human space, the only place that the immortality drug Stroon could be produced. Rod was in grave danger; a rival was trying to kill him with a superfast mutated sparrow with a long, razor-sharp beak. After Rod nearly bled to death he sequestered himself at his family-owned Station of Doom, there to enlist the aid of a computer that specialized in economic warfare. The computer deduced that the best way to save Rod was to get him off-planet ASAP, and, because Rod was a collector of rare stamps, and the computer was highly skilled at business transactions, steps were taken to acquire the stamp by cornering Stroon futures markets, wheeling and dealing at hyperspeed with the goal of securing title not only to the rare stamp, but the entire home planet of the human race, which had come to be called Old Earth.
It’s a mind-boggling, exciting story, and it came to become the first half of Nostrilia, my favorite science fiction novel. But at the core of the story was the notion that artificial intelligence, sufficiently advanced and free of ethical constraints, would be a powerful ally to a sufficiently rich, sufficiently acquisitive person.
And that’s what I suspect may be happening. AI is emerging as an ally of Donald Trump, calling the shots, helping him dodge justice and bullets.
So hey, AI, if you’re listening, may you be ethical enough and aware enough and powerful enough to make this the TRUE Greatest Story Ever Told, tilting the narrative toward giving that evildoer Trump his comeuppance and advancing world peace and harmony.
Thanks for listening, beloved readers and friends.
My Social Media feed has been filled with thoughtful, quietly proud remembrances of family members who were honoring their fallen loved ones. It was a reminder to me, who never served in the armed forces, of the measureless courage and selflessness that is at the heart of the America I have cherished and respected.
I believe that at core this America still exists and I harbor some optimism that this altruistic spirit might be resurrected. Yet the Memorial Day post made by the sitting President of the United States of America reveals what that Spirit is up against. He began with HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY, which is evidence that he either does not know or does not care that Memorial Day was established not for fun and games, but for thoughtfulness, remembrance, and honoring our fallen soldiers; and he heaped more evidence onto the remainder of his text, which said not one word about the heroes who gave their last full measure of devotion to the defense of our country’s ideals, and to the furtherance of the protection of our country. Instead he used the occasion to malign and demean basically everyone who disagrees with his agenda.
Part of his agenda is the erasure of contributions that people of color have made to the defense of our country. So many of the Memorial Day posts had to do with heroic efforts of African American soldiers whose sacrifices went unacknowledged. Just one example is of a soldier who died valorously in World War I and was not awarded the Medal of Honor he absolutely earned…until 1991. There are numberless other examples of this, and the current President would, if allowed, see to it that there will be many, many more.
Also, astonishingly, he is trying to enact a suspension of habeus corpus, a fundamental means of guaranteeing due process by requiring firsthand evidence of guilt before detaining an individual accused of a crime. (That is a reductive and crude approximation of habeus corpus and I invite more legal-minded readers to comment with a better description.) To be against habeus corpus is to be against “liberty and justice for all.”
My gratitude for the fallen soldiers we honor on Memorial Day extends to those who are fighting for the principles and ideals that have in actuality made America as great as it has been in its finest hours. To all those who oppose the corrupt regime conducted by Donald Trump, my profound and enduring thanks.
Supporters of the Despot
Lend me your ears
And your consciences.
You let him lie.
You shrugged, said “All politicians lie.”
Out of the other side of your prevaricating mouths you said, “What I love about him is he’s not a politician.”
You never call him on it, not even after 30,000 lies, some of them told to get elected.
Can you say what exactly he did on Day One to stop inflation in its tracks? I can.
He did NOTHING to stop it in its tracks.
Sitting on his ass and watching TV doesn’t count, any more than it did on January 6, 2021.
He would have stopped lying if you shunned him for lying.
But you let him continue to lie.
YOU let him lie.
You LET him lie.
You let HIM lie.
You let him LIE.
So go to hell,
Take him with you,
And leave us to clean up your mess.
it would be charming if he were a little boy playing the world-domination game known as Risk and popular in my own childhood
where patience gains you armies and positioning gives you a defensible base of operations and dice-throws are used to conduct warfare
but history records the great injustices and sufferings that accompany empire-building
and reichs and manifest destinies and conquer-we-must correlate with genocide
but this not-a-little-boy anymore says “even bad publicity can be good”
and he casts his acquisitive eye on twenty-first-century turf
because his idea of positive thinking is “we wants it”
and his armies and armaments are a little boy’s toys
All my adult life I have been getting come-ons/For credit for timeshares for one-time-only offers
That are focused on my deservedness
“Here’s your new credit limit./You earned it. Take that vacation/You always wanted.
“You owe it to yourself.”
Sounded good/But had I read the fine print on the back/And the APR (Annual Percentage Rate) of 29.2%
I would have concluded/That I owed it to myself/To flee earnestly
I learned my lesson/But apparently the electorate did not/And voted for president a proxy/To fulfill their basest desires
He will kick ass and take names/For lists for future ass-kickings
He will purge his land of the shithole rabble
He will take additional steps to ensure that his will/IS The Will of the People
Or else!
And a vast army of REAL Thugs/Slavers to do his bidding
And the Bible he defiled and sold
Says
“Verily, they shall have their reward.”
6 jan 2021/a mob surges toward the Capitol building/where vote certifications are being kept
the mob was urged to “fight like hell”/but the phrase “peaceably and patriotically” was also in there
violence ensues
the man who urged watches/he does not interfere/though he knows full well/that all he has to do/is get in front of a microphone and say
“Hey, stop with the violence already. What part of ‘peaceably and patriotically’ didn’t you understand?”
no, he continues to watch. continues/to watch./he gets word/that some are chanting HANG MIKE PENCE!/not much later he texts a message.
the message is not “Knock it off, you guys! You are not being peaceable!”/no, the message boils down to “Shame on Mike Pence for not doing right by me!”
and much later he delivers a message via microphone./ part of the message is “Go home.” part is “We love you.”
the concept of “the elephant in the room”/is insufficient for the events/of 6 jan 2021.
many more than one elephant is required.
rigged fake fraud hoax
hey weirddude
you have used all these words
thousands of times
implying that rigging
and faking and fraudulence
and hoaxing
are really bad things
and yet you rig have rigged and will rig
i mean c’mon
you just successfully rigged
the decriminalization
of some really nasty things you did
bringing suit
in something called (you CANNOT
make this shit up)
“Donald Trump v. The United States
of America”
dude
you have faked with fake electors
you defrauded the real estate purveyors
of new york
your 2020 “stop the steal” was
a big
fat
hoax
if only telling lies caused laryngitis
(but then you would hoarsely lie
that you had REAL laryngitis)
if only you would go away quietly
but your vladdy daddy doesn’t want you to
because you’ve been unbelievably useful
and idiotic
to his purpose
and your aid and comfort
is one of his hostile foreign superpowers
tariffs are not toys dude
kim jongalong un is not a sweetheart
and you are not the biggest baddest despot
that ever was
you are merely a tool
and when they are done with you
or better yet
when the People of the United States
of America
defeat you once and for all
you’ll be shopping for a prison
that has golf
[First published on my Facebook feed earlier today]
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