6 XI 2022: Where is the courage we need?

The people who are supposed to be protecting our government are afraid to defend us. I have reached this conclusion as I see the fomenters and leaders of the sedition getting off scot-free. Unprecedented to put an ex-president on trial, harumph, harumph. Can’t prosecute people in office. Can’t prosecute people running for office. Can neither punish nor remove from public life any seditionist who will be patient enough, for they know America so easily forgets.

Rudyard Kipling asked:

Shall we only threaten and be angry for an hour?

   When the storm has ended shall we find

How softly but how swiftly they have sidled back to power

   By the favor and contrivance of their kind?

We must act now. Trump and all of the Big Liars are neither heroes nor buffoons. They are dangerous criminals who are well on their way to going unpunished.

4 XI 2022: M.T.G. + D.J.T.

My suspicion of a close liaison between Marjorie Taylor Green and Donald J. Trump is re-awakened by M.T.G.’s latest declaration that when the Republicans seize power, they will cancel all aid to Ukraine and shift those resources to our Southern border, perhaps to complete the building of the Great Wall of Trump. Marjorie’s and Donald’s thinking coalesce in an America-First, Pro-Putin MAGA party line. Of course, I may be reading too much into this, and the affinity of these two is no more that the attraction of one bimbo for another.

2 XI 2022: Laced with truth serum

When I was a boy we heard from time to time scary Halloween atrocity stories passed on by word of mouth, e.g., that hate-filled people were inserting razor blades into trick-or-treat apples or were dropping burning-hot pennies into trick-or-treaters hands. So I found something nostalgic in reports that various far right figures have been claiming online that immigrants were putting fentanyl into Halloween candy.

Hence came my fantasy of putting truth serum in the Big Macs, fries, Diet Coke, and other junk foods favored by the MAGAs. Talk about chaos! The Christian Right movement would fall completely apart if people started telling the truth, and the Republican Party would never be able to recover if its people would begin telling the truth even for a week.

31 X 2022: Misinformation, abroad and at home

I read that the Russian government, in its attempts to conceal the very poor performance of its air, land, and naval forces, has resorted to massive campaigns of misinformation. Of course, this is nothing new. Spreading disinformation has been a constant in Russian propaganda, Tsarist, Communist, and neo-monarchist.

Of course, Trump and MAGA have also made disinformation the centerpiece of their propaganda. Did they borrow this from the Russians, or did they think it up all on their own?

31 X 2022: Pigs in the parlor

Well, the MAGAs got what they’ve been calling for, a violent attack on Nancy Pelosi. It is obvious to anyone that a significant portion of the MAGA base is to some degree insane. So did the MAGA stars think they could constantly call for violence against Nancy Pelosi without someone of the crazies taking them up on it?? To their disappointment, Nancy wasn’t at home, so her husband, Paul, had to take the hit. But that does not at all slow down the MAGA wits. Hence, headlines on CNN today: 

“Devin Nunes Posts Appalling Quip About Hammer Attack on Paul Pelosi” 

“Donald Trump Jr. Mocks Paul Pelosi With ‘Despicable’ Halloween Post”

Nunes and Donny Jr. are only the most recent MAGA grotesques to try to gratify the base-of-the-base with tasteless jokes. All I can do is quote from Pogo:  “That’s what you gets when you invites a pig into the parlor.”

17 X 2022: Victimology

Marjorie Taylor Green is claiming that she was a victim of the Jan 6th Insurrection. If MTG is a victim at all, she is victim of her own ambition and stupidity.

No doubt she learned to play the victim card from Donald Trump whose current complaint is that he is a victim of Jewish ingratitude. MTG is going through a divorce and will be free to marry Trump when Melania can’t stand him any longer, unless Ron Johnson gets to her first.

Ron Johnson is another GOP victim. He asserts that he was laughed at during a debate at Marquette University by some students who were “let in” to the audience. The students, he claims, are “being taught leftist propaganda,” and this explains their laughter at his claim to have been a victim of an FBI plot. No, Johnson is, as always, the victim of his own unfailing stupidity.

10 X 2022: Pot calling the kettle “terrorist”

Another instance of the affinity of Trump and Putin. Trump habitually accuses enemies of the very crimes he himself commits. So Vladimir Putin is denouncing the explosion on his signature Russia-Crimea bridge as a terrorist attack. He is seeing in this explosion a reflection of himself, for he is at this time the world’s leading terrorist.

7 X 2022: “Former House Speaker” at his best

I’ve read a report about Newt Gingrich’s dodge for Herschel Walker. The report begins, as do all reports about Newt, “Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich ….” The story is “Speaking on Fox News, Gingrich hailed Walker as ‘the most important Senate candidate in the country’ due to his ‘deep commitment to Christ.’” “deep commitment to Christ” Really? Newt would gild a turd.