An obit for the Orange One, Chosen by ‘god’. ®

 

It’s customary for journalistic publications to have obits ready just in case. Drumpf is in Walter Reed undergoing experimental ‘compassionate’ treatment. Considering that Drumpf is, perhaps, the least compassionate person ever to hold the office of POTUS, that’s ironic enough but the juice of irony flows freely in this administration (sic). 

The Donald is gone from us. (cue the keeners)

Drumpf was the kind of arsehole that other arseholes would point to and say,  under their breaths, ‘There goes a real arsehole.

Drumpf never should have been anywhere near the White House or the Oval Office except as a child on a public tour. He may just have learned something about the government, if he’d had taken the tour. Alas! Drumpf was just a child-sized, miniature version of the arsehole that he’d become later when more than he disregarded the deaths of more than 200,000 Americans as a Democratic, far-left hoax.

 It takes a real arsehole to gin up the bluster to pooh-pooh the deaths of nearly a quarter of a million people. Drumpf was just that kind of arsehole.

“Nobody gets it.”he was heard to say.

(Lost a loved one to C-19?
Buck up loser; the Dow is doing great and the NASDAQ is setting record highs. That should cheer the funeral a bit.)

A-hem (n.b. This is meant as an obituary for the Drumpfian One – asides aside.)

At first, there was wide-spread skepticism on social media about whether or not he actually had contracted the virus. Taking the word of a pathological liar is a lesson which should be quickly learned but wasn’t by many in the mass media. 

Was a trip to Walter Reed for treatment a moment to lament or a moment for cynicism?

If he dies, we’ll have an unequivocal answer.

As this is an obit-in-advance, we’ll assume that he does succumb to the nasty hoax the Dems delivered from China.

Surviving the Drumpfen-putz are five variously criminal children, one complicit wife ‘from East of here' and two former co-dependents who signed pre-nuptial agreements.

Other surviving family members are scattered about trying to distance themselves from his toxic miasma and the massive debt that will bring down Deustche Bank and several Russian oligarchs.

His departure from this veil of tears has deprived us of the spectacle of his court appearances for sexual assault, tax fraud, bank fraud, negligent genocide, crimes against humanity, obstruction of justice and conspiring with a foreign government as well as his hoped-for conviction and incarceration.

May we never see his like again.

Scammaster 2000

 

 It’s not surprising that a life-long con-man would see scams and hoaxes everywhere. Scams and hoaxes are a con-man’s bread and butter, after all. Drumpf sees scams and hoaxes everywhere; voting scams, immigrant scams, birth certificate scams, the Russian hoax, the COVID-19 hoax, any reportage of his blunders and stumbles,  illiteracy and ineptitude, corruption and boondoggling are hoaxes, each in their own right, is a hoax foisted by the ‘Radical Left’ ^©.
He shakes his head in disbelief to indicate to his MAGA-devotees that he’s not fooled by these scams and hoaxes. Hoaxes and scams that nobody else can see but him; the Master Indentifier of Scams and Hoaxes (MISH).

The Conman-in-chief knows more than a thing or two about hoaxes and scams, so he knows whereof he speaks, claim his followers.

We know better, though. We know that the one who knows the smell of rotting fish is the one who spends the most time amongst the rot. We also know that the one who smells the most of rotten fish is likewise the one who lives amidst the fetid corruption.

26% of voters in 2016 made a very, very poor choice. Drumpf; the lying, cheating, philandering, defrauding, scam-running arsehole from Queens was elected President of the USA (choke, gag). The rest of us have been taken for a long violent ride that we did not sign up for.
We did not vote for the rape of our National Parks.
We did not vote for gutting the EPA and poisoning the rivers, lakes and aquifers.
We did not vote for the heartless disregard of the plight of fellow citizens in Puerto Rico, California and Oregon.
We did not vote for the fatal ineptitude that has born witless witness to the deaths of more than 200,000 people from C-19.
We did not vote for a police state.
We did not vote for any of this. We cannot allow this to happen again.

We must vote. That is a citizen’s highest and most sacred duty. People have paid for that most honorable duty with their lives. Wars have been fought over that right.
Vote.
Vote him out.

Ineptitude as Racism

I’ve been working on this theory for awhile – chalk it up to conspiracy-theoritis but here goes – it’s about why the Drumpfenator is screwing the pooch so badly on the coronavirus.
Simple ineptitude suffices as an answer except for the missing self-preservation angle.

If he'd actually simply done what the leaders of Japan, China, Germany, France, Italy, Taiwan, South Korea and New Zealand (get the picture?) did, then he would have been golden – like one of his infamous commodes.

Who could touch him? Saving the nation from the Evil Coronamonster and salvaging the economy and saving Wall Street at the same time! It doesn’t come close to catching speeding bullets in his bare hands but it would do to win an election

So… WTF?
Why is he muffing this so big time? He’s fecking Bill Buckner booting the ball. 

144,000 dead, fercrissakes. 

And he’s babbling about tests causing viral infection and low water pressure in appliances.

Insanity, then, would also would fit the bill as the reason for this fiasco of negligent genocide.

So, I should be satisfied with a double-edged Occam’s Razor and walk away now… and you should, too… but…

What if Drumpf is both inept and insane? (That’s pretty much a gimme as far as I’m concerned.)
He’d be right easy to bamboozle wouldn’t he? As long as his secret world of ‘A-Big Brain-Donald’ wasn’t disturbed in his disturbed ‘best brain’ then one should be able pull off such a bamboozlement quite readily.

What I’m half-heartedly proposing is this:

What if, Stephen Miller, house fascist, and Bill Barr, of the missing ethics, and Pompeo of the righteous pomposity were to warp Mr Donald’s ineptitude in such a way that those of certain melanically predisposed demographic would be more adversely effected than those who were melanin challenged? 

The point being skirted is that COVID-19 has a more devastating effect on people of color.

If those minorities of color (and the poor generally) were to die off at a ratio that would possibly restore the previous racial balance which these shit-heels call the ‘good ol’ days’, these three racist arsewipes might very well refrain from trying to steer Donald away from being a total wanker.

That’s basically all that they would have to do – nothing.

Nothing but allow tens of thousands of people die unnecessarily.

 

I, for one, am inclined to bet on the low moral character of Miller, Barr and Pompeo. Would they consider such monstrous evil? Yes, I do contend that they would.

Mix in the vile influence of registered Nazi, Sebastian Gorka, and the conspiracy of hands-off evil is made manifest.

(The invasion and occupation of Portland by Barr’s Brown Shirts enters into this, as well…)

The salve I have for these fits of conspiracy-theoritis is that the aforementioned toss-pots are too fecked up to even be that evil.

Cold comfort, that.

Post Script:
It must be stated that this strategy of fear and paramilitary repression is NOT part of over-arching, master game plan by Drumpf.
It is most assuredly not.
It's doubtful that the Drumpfen-dork has ever been capable of such strategizing. Drumpf can recognize an elephant on a cognitive test, but Drumpf doesn’t even see the proverbial elephant in the room: the devastation of the pandemic as it roars around him let alone a broader vision of affairs. Drumpf’s ability to construct stratagem such as what is outlined here is beyond him.

THIS IS FASCISM

Pompeo, Barr  and acting Homeland Security Director, Chad Wolf, have made their play and tipped their hand by invading Portland with an occupying military force. Don’t think that home-office fascist, Stephen Miller isn’t part of this step-wise assault on civil rights and violation of civic order. Meanwhile, Drumpf is in Lala-Land; ignoring the pandemic and focusing on water pressure in dish-washers.(!?)

If you are unfamiliar with the unwanted and unwarranted para-military occupation of Portland, I strongly recommend that you do some reading. It smacks of Gestapo and  East German Stasi tactics of terror and civil rights violations when , during the night, people are abducted without due process in unmarked vans. Think what you will of the protestors in Portland; they have the Constitutionally guaranteed and protected right to assemble peaceably and demand redress of grievances from their government. That is clear. That is certain. That is not to be questioned or denied them.

What the Drumpf administration is doing is also within legal limits as far as the deployment of federal officers to protect federal property - OUR property. What is not within legal limits is the abduction of protestors and the clearly  unlawful confinement of those protestors.

This is the stuff of fascism. This is the stuff of totalitarian states. This is the stuff of nightmare. This is not the stuff of the Constitution. It is a page from ‘Man in the High Castle’. It is a page from the authoritarian playbook. If this sounds like ‘hair-on-fire’ rhetoric, so be it.  Sometimes, such fiery rhetoric is necessary. This is one of those times.

One can easily perceive an on-going plan being revealed by the action first in Lafayette Park in DC when the peaceful protestors were cleared by violently aggressive tactics. The natural extension of that is the violent occupation of Portland; an occupation that is so unwelcomed by the Governor of Oregon and the mayor of Portland that the state’s Attorney General has sued the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection, the U.S. Marshals Service and the Federal Protection Services  for violating the civil rights of its citizens.

I contend that these para-military actions are only one prong of this strategy. The other is the on-going, worsening pandemic in the USA. State terror must be built upon another more palpable terror; famine, war, economic depression. In this case, that foundation of fear is pandemic.

COVID-19 is a killer, of that there is no doubt. However, except for a couple exceptions- outliers- the pandemic has been quelled and controlled. The nations of Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan and elsewhere have managed, if not mastered, COVID-19.

The USA and Brazil have not.

Moreover, the tepid, ineffectual response by the White House has exacerbated an already dire situation. Drumpf continues to harp on the utterly preposterous concept that testing creates infection! This theory s not just ignorant it is insane and devoid of any rational basis in fact or understanding of cause/effect. He also further refuses to direct the nation to wear masks under the feeble guise of ‘personal freedom’. Again; this is an utterly preposterous proposition; tantamount to allowing fire-building during fire season. All the while Americans are dying and falling chronically ill.

In contrast, Australia enacted a shut-down of its most populace states when 200 new cases of infection were discovered. India has responded in similar manner to a new outbreak. The People’s Republic of China did the same thing when a resurgence of infection was found. These nations understand that medical science must determine policy, not - as in the USA - magical thinking and denial of the problem. 

The USA is a disaster area; 70,000 new cases. 142,000  dead. Nearly a thousand news deaths every day and many, many more are expected in the coming months when ‘flu season’ starts in earnest. There is no end in sight to this fearful calamity in the USA. President Drumpf has washed his hands of the problem and moved on; as if tens of thousands of citizens were not dying; as if ICU beds were not filled to capacity and the health care services were not over-extended and doctors, nurses and health care professionals were not at rope’s end.

The fear of the pandemic is pervasive. Even in quarters when its morbid virulence is denied; where there is an obstinate, belligerent delusion that the virus can be challenged and stared down by refusing to wear face-covering and maintain social distancing.  It is, rather, false bravado of teeth-baring that succumbs to the infection despite the obnoxious displays of misguided merriment. The denial of the fear does not announce an absence of fear. the fear is not simply of the virus but of the loss of control.

This is the fear upon which Drumpf’s Gestapo tactics are built.

This is the underlying fear which preceded unidentified federal forces as they swooped into Lafayette Park and into the city of Portland to capitalize on that fear. These are fascist tactics. The tactics of authoritarian states. The tactics of dictators; dictators such as Bolsonaro of Brazil, Xi of China, Erdogan of Turkey, Duterte of the Philippines and Kim Jong-un, who sent Drumpf such beautiful letters of bromance and manly affection. Drumpf has voiced his admiration of all of these despotic monsters.

The nation must stand against these ruthless, violent tactics. The USA must not abide such tactics. The American people must not condone nor accept such tactics any more than they would accept the dictatorial rule of Bolsonaro or Stalin.

The GOP Betrayed Us

We have been betrayed.

The GOP has betrayed us.

They have betrayed all of us. 

They betrayed the Founding Fathers. 

They have betrayed their oath of office.

They have betrayed everyone who has ever fought to defend the Constitution. 

They have betrayed everyone who has ever served the Republic. 

They have betrayed everyone who has fought tyranny and injustice. 

They have betrayed everyone who has given the last great full measure of their own lives in service to the Nation.

We have all been betrayed by the craven mendacity of the Republican Party. The GOP is no longer the party of Lincoln. Honest Abe would pale and quake at the thought of the nation which he saved from Civil War becoming the bauble which Donald Trump toys with. The precious trinket that Trump debases with his criminality is the Constitution; a sacred document which he defiles on a daily basis by his open contempt of the Law and by his actions.

Donald Trump is a loathsome person. 

He has been a loathsome person his entire adult life. 

Unless you have been in a deep coma for more than four decades, you know this. 

By a bizarre twist of fate, by Russian cyber-intrusion, by byzantine means, he woefully gained the highest office in the land. 

He, Donald John Trump, simply must not be there. 

As a lifelong criminal, fraudster, huckster, con-man, cheat, pathological liar and serial sexual predator, he has no place as the President of the United States. His incompetence, irresponsibility and ignorance of so very much, is well known.

With full knowledge of who and what Donald Trump is, the GOP have taken him as a god-send. They have gutted the Republican Party and stuffed the dead carcass with the malicious substance that makes up the vain, vile, vapid nature of Donald Trump.

The GOP has betrayed us. 
McConnell, Barr, Pompeo, Collins, Graham, Rubio, Barrasso, Ernst, Murkowski, Cruz have all betrayed us.

The GOP betrayed us.

Drumpf's Tiny Peter Principle

It’s been bandied about that Drumpf is the poster child for the Dunning-Kruger Effect (Google it). Actually, Drumpf is the leading exemplar for the Peter Principle whereby a person is promoted into their own distinct level of incompetence. 

The irony is leaden with Drumpf, in that he’s never been competent at anything beyond the avoidance of repercussions for his incompetence.

He was, by accounts, a failure scholastically, but gained admittance to the Wharton School of Business, the wheels greased by Daddy Fred’s moolah. 

He avoided the repercussions of his numerous business failures. (How does one go bankrupt owning a casino? How does one manage to do it three times?)

He’s avoided further bankruptcy by the Russian mob throwing millions at him in money-laundering schemes with the duplicitous mendacity of Deutsche Bank.

He was able to avoid charges of child rape and other sexual assault charges through the strong-arm, gangster tactics of his minion, Michael Cohen, and other more lawyerly deflection.

Through the vagaries of the Electoral College, the digital finagling of Fusion GPS and the Russian Troll Farm, Drumpf was promoted to his highest level of incompetency; he became the president of the United States, on office for which he is totally unfit and unsuitable to hold.

Congratulations Laurence J. Peter, the author of the Peter Principle, for this horrific validation of his theory, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their ‘level of incompetence’.

Unless you’re a hard and fast MAGA-Moron, few would argue that Drumpf is as incompetent in his role as POTUS as he was as casino owner.

Now, it appears the poxy chickens are coming home to roost, at last.

The Racist-in-Chief

What President Trump tweeted about the four Congress-members was appalling in its blunt force racism. There is no rational way to dodge the base racism that Mr Trump expressed. 

'Go back to where you came from!' is an age-old trope of xenophobia and racism. It was shouted at the Irish, the Poles, the Italians, the Chinese. It has been a slur shouted at nearly every single ethnic group which has ever come to the shores of North America and endeavored to make America their home. 

Commentators of the media have been quick to respond by decrying Mr Trump's blatantly racist comments. That was to be expected. However, one aspect of their commentary seemed to miss the point that all members of Congress are, in fact, Americans. Whether or not they were natural-born or naturalized, each are American citizens. It matters not where their family came from. It matters not a whit that they or their ancestors came from Somalia, France, Italy, Poland, Ireland, England, Russia or Germany. 

Mr Trump today double-down on his impudent impulse to express his inherent racism (Who can deny it now!?) by blaring 'Love it or Leave it!' during a press conference. (A press conference, mind you. Not during a stroll to Marine One. Not a 'gotcha' moment.)

'Love it or Leave it' was a bumper-sticker slogan of the late 1960s. It was shouted at 'peace-niks'  and 'long-hairs'. It was shouted my way on more than one occasion.

When asked if he thought such openly racist sentiments were, indeed, racist, Mr Trump, inexplicably, tried to turn the tables and claim that anyone felt affronted by such racist tropes were themselves racist.

This is totally absurd and totally unacceptable. It is unacceptable from the local mechanic. It is unacceptable from the mailman. It is unacceptable from an I.C.E. officer. It is most assuredly unacceptable from POTUS.