Are these the leaders of The Reactionary Revolution?

The Roberts Supreme Court may be the actual leaders of the extremist right wing, theocratic, oligarchic, white supremacist Revolution.  They declared Trump to be immune from any crimes if he claims he is acting in his presidential capacity.  Outcome?  Here is what Pakistan is doing per Farid Zakaria…

“In a conversation with a friend from Pakistan, I lamented that country’s recent decision to give the head of its army expanded powers, including lifetime immunity from legal prosecution. My friend replied, “We’re just following in America’s footsteps. Didn’t your Supreme Court rule that the president could kill his political opponent and yet be immune from prosecution?”

America inspired the world with its visionary statement that all people were created equal. The Confederacy said that was crap because white men were superior to blacks. They lost the war but never gave up that insecure and pathetic belief.  Now they are MAGA and the Roberts Supreme Court. They will lose again. 

Bigotry is not a dream, is not a vision, it’s a fear. 

MAGA America is not inspiring other nations toward freedom and equality. They are giving permission for fear and cruelty. 

 I believe the true heart and soul of America will open its eyes and brush this tiny, greedy president, and his cult, aside and renew the greatest dream in world history - it’s pretty easy to understand, all people are created equal. It worked to free the slaves, to give women the vote, to give blacks the vote, to embrace gay marriage, and it inspired country after country around the world to throw off tyrannical dictatorships and create their own democracies. 

The dream that all people are created equal will not be killed by this sad moment in American history 

Will Venezuela 2025 be Ethiopia 1935?

  I am often struck by the parallels between Trump and Mussolini. Friday he called for the execution of six democrats who told the military that they must disobey illegal orders. Hang them says Trump!

Here is a summary of events from the recent documentary, "Mussolini, the First Fascist" which I found on You tube:

• He seized power in 1922
• He was to make Italy great again - Rome again - adopted the Roman Legion salute, later to be copied by the Nazis (and Elon Musk)
• Democracy was dead by 1925
• Parliament just obeyed Il Duce
• The only news was government propaganda
• Mussolini was on the news continuously - all Il Duce all the time
• Blackshirt fascists watched every family
• Violence solved everything was his operating principle
• To criticize Il Duce was seen as an attack on Italy - prison
• People had to pretend to agree, to hide, and eventually no one spoke out
• There was an assassination attempt where a bullet grazed his nose - HE WORE A PROMINENT BANDAGE OVER HIS NOSE and paraded before the adoring crowds
• The fascist motto was we don't give a damn
• Nothing was ever enough for him
• He inspired other dictators 
• 1935 invaded Ethiopia so as to be heirs of the great Roman Empire - poison gas, genocide - but ...

• Then started the downfall - he found out the Italians were not Roman gladiators, pfft...
• He became second fiddle to Hitler even though he had preceded him
• He declared Jews to be the enemy
• He declared Italians to be of the Arian race
• Invaded Albania and allied with Hitler
• Discovered he needed a permanent revolution or he would fall, but the fascist revolution was over
• Italian defeats broke Mussolini
• 1943 the Allies were in Italy 
• Mussolini arrested
• Imprisoned
• Hitler rescued him, a diminished shell of a man, watched always by SS
• Italy losing
• Mussolini executed and his corpse hung upside down form a telephone pole and his corpse beaten to a pulp

Turns out, violence didn't solve everything, but it eventually solved Mussolini. 

Lots of parallels, including cartoonish strutting and posing  

Fascist authoritarian incompetence

 James Comey is being prosecuted by an astonishingly incompetent, unqualified lawyer, Lindsey Halligan.  Why?  Because the qualified and competent lawyers refused to prosecute Comey. Why?  Because there is no case against Comey.  

So, why is she doing this?  Because Trump demands the prosecution.  Did he always understand that the case would fail?  Did he do this just for the headline of prosecuting a supposed "enemy"?  Perhaps.  Did he do this just to cost his enemy money in legal fees? Perhaps. Did he choose Halligan because she is pretty and looks good on TV? Sure.  

But this incompetence is not an accident, but is rather a feature of fascist authoritarian rule.  The insecure "king" cannot allow competent, intelligent, experienced people to be in positions under him.  Why?  Because the "king" can only have those who are loyal to him. Actually, loyal is the wrong word.  A stupid "king", as this one is and likely most of them are, demands OBEDIENCE, not just loyalty.  They are to throw themselves on their swords if the "king" tells them to.  And, what do you know, they destroy their careers and their lives by obeying their corrupt, criminal master.

I expect the prosecution against Comey will be thrown out.  And I expect the Orange Cheat in Chief to try to destroy the judge.  And I expect he will fail.

This incompetent obedient servitude is common in fascist regimes, it seems to me.  Venezuela seems to be an example.  Prior to the takeover by the cult leader, Chavez, Venezuela oil company PDVSA produced about 3.5 millions barrels per day.  Then Chavez got rid of the engineers and managers who knew what they were doing and replaced them with "loyalist" political servants.  The result? Under Chavez and later the Chavez successor, Maduro, PDVSA now produces about 1 million barrels a day.  Sure, US sanctions are part of that, but incompetent mismanagement resulting in poor maintenance and operation are maybe a bigger story.

The ultimate proof of fascist authoritarian incompetence, of course, was the Soviet Union.  Under Stalin and his brutal successors, installing only obedient loyalists, their economy, agriculture, prosperity was abysmal.  The Russians after the Soviet collapse were just ruled by a new "king", Putin and his obedient oligarchy.  The result?  The economy is about the size of Italy but they are good at nukes and oil production.  

The Orange Cheat in Chief and his obedient subjects are crushing the American economy, crushing American alliances, crushing American foreign influence, crushing American law (as best they can but courts are fighting back), crushing American higher education (some are fighting back), crushing American media (some are fighting back), etc. Lucky for us he is not very smart, and it looks to me like he is losing some of his fear factor over his cult.

Incompetent obedience is not an accident, it is a feature of fascist authoritarianism.

Why is the release of the Epstein files the most important thing in Trump’s world

 The reason that what’s going to be revealed in the Epstein files is the most important thing in the world today is because Donald Trump says they are the most important thing in the world. His world. And it affects us all. And he has been doing all he can to stop the release. 

Because he is threatening war with Venezuela to divert attention from the files.  

Because he is threatening Republicans to keep them from being released. 

Because his actions are a loud and obvious confession that he is guilty, so guilty that he will lose his presidency, so guilty that he will be imprisoned. 

Will there be unimpeachable evidence that he raped children?  Looks like it me. 

Will there be evidence that he is guilty of more than pedophilia?  Looks like it to me.  Like what?  

My guess is that the underaged girls were honey traps set up by Epstein in coordination with a hostile foreign power. Which?  My guess is Russia.  Tucker Carlson says Israel. Lure powerful men into pedophilia and take photos and videos of their crimes, and they will be controlled by whoever has the blackmail evidence. 

My other guess is that many financial crimes, lifetime imprisonment types of crimes, are the real secrets buried in the blackmail files. 

I think Trump sees this as the end of him.

Watch out world. He needs big, big, big headlines.  I am afraid that nukes are in his demented brain. 

The Democrats decision to re-open the government was probably correct

 I'm changing my mind on the Democrats decision to end the shutdown. Democrats got what they wanted, the huge undeniable message that they stood for helping normal people get health care and food, while Trump and MAGA didn't give a shit, and indeed were tuxedo wearing heartless billionaires.

Extending the shutdown would never have gotten MAGA to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies. The shutdown was always about the message the Democrats care about people and Republicans are greedy billionaire shitheads. Message delivered and understood.

Dems took the victory, opened the government and will GET THE EPSTEIN FILES RELEASED once the House is back in DC.

Thanx

Schumer caves, again

 Trump is an idiot. He cannot understand anything complex.  People try to get info to him with pictures, simple ideas that he might be able to grasp. But… he has decades of expertise on building his brand, dominating the media, crushing enemies, getting his way. 

And he can smell weakness, and like bullies everywhere he is driven to crush weak people because he is afraid that he is weak so he has to crush the weak.  

It helps him tell himself he is strong. But he’s not. He’s just cruel, which is a weak person’s substitute for strength.  Bullies punch down. He punches Schumer and Schumer submits. He grovels to Putin because he sees Putin as strong and he is afraid. 

So, it looks like Schumer is giving up and pretending to believe the lies the Republicans are telling him about “concessions” needed to end the government shutdown. Bullshit. Trump will ignore them. It will make him feel strong. 

America loses.

The photo that Summarizes Trump

 Apparently, a man named Gordon Findlay, a HealthCare executive, collapsed during a press conference.  Dr Oz and others (not RFK Jr) rushed to attend to him. The cause of the collapse is unknown at this time, perhaps just a fainting episode.  But here is a photo that could be the most iconic photo of the Orange Narcissist so far in this administration - not trying to help, not bent over in concern to see if he is alright, just staring ahead, looks somewhere between indifferent and annoyed to me.. 

Good grief.

Anti-fascists vote!

 Trump and Steven Miller have declared antifa to be "terrorists".  What blithering idiocy. America lost about half a million soldiers fighting fascists in WWII.  To be anti-fascist is one of the great honors and achievements of America.  And anti-fascists have risen to the occasion once again.  

We voted.  We voted to say NO to the Fascist in Chief yesterday.  Bigly!!

Trump and MAGA and the Theocrats and the Oligarchs probably think they can just cheat and make false election results in 2026, bring out the violence, and crush the American Democratically elected Republic.  Delusional nitwits.

Make them suffer until they break

Michael Cohen, Trump's primary lawyer and cruel enforcer for about 14 years before he was sent to prison for illegal hush payments to Stormy Daniels on Trump's behalf, has written that he witnessed Trump saying many, many times "Make them suffer until they break", which is the real Trump "art of the deal".  It's not deals, it's extortion, it's mafioso attacks, it's totalitarian police state right here in our country.

The kindest explanation I can give for this extended 28-day government shutdown is that Trump is doing his extortion racket - make "them" suffer - who cares? not him, but he figures Democrats will care because he sees caring, empathy, compassion as weaknesses and he sees Democrats as weak.  And he expects to break them.  But we all know that the government is shut down because the Tyrant in Chief tells his Republican Party in Name Only party to shut the government down.  So, there will be no negotiation, or if they do the Republican negotiators will be snuffed out of the party, maybe literally?

But I think the real reason Trump will not let the government open is because if they do they will have to swear in a newly elected Democrat from Arizona, Adalita Grijalva, and she will be the last needed vote to release the EPSTEIN FILES.  

And it is clear that Trump, who is deeply guilty of so much that will be revealed if the EPSTEIN FILES are ever fully released, will do anything to keep them from being seen.  We think he is guilty of pedophilia, which drives Qanon and MAGA mad with rage, but I think it also includes lifetime criminal sentences for years of multiple financial crimes as well.  We don't know all that he is guilty of, but he does, and his behavior reveals that there is much there for him to hide.

All People are Created Equal

Democrats are trying to find a "message" for their political campaigns.  How did they lose the working-class vote? some of the black vote? some of the brown vote? some xyz vote? What message do they need to come up with?  I have a suggestion:

ALL PEOPLE ARE CREATED EQUAL.

Why do I think this is the "message"? Because it is not a message. It is a vision.  It is a dream. It is the foundational American vision and dream.  

This vision and dream won the Revolutionary War.  It won the Civil War.  It won the New Deal "war".  It won the Civil Rights Movement "war".  It won the War on Poverty "war". It will win again.  Why?

All People are Created Equal undercuts the very roots of fascism/authoritarianism/racism/Nazism/Oligarchy-ism/theocracy-ism. How?

Racism says Whites are superior to blacks and browns and reds and yellows.  Sexism says men are superior to women.  Xenophobia says white Americans are superior to brown immigrants.  Oligarchs say the rich are superior to we peasants.  "Kings" say they are superior to their "subjects".

But none of that is true.  All People are Created Equal means all people are human beings and are endowed by the Creator of Human Beings the Right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.  Somehow, the flawed Thomas Jefferson had a moment of Divine Inspiration to put the emerging United States on the greatest dream the world had ever seen - All People are Created Equal.  At our deepest root, we are One.  And this truth cannot be killed by the bigots.

The law? - nobody is above the law; everybody is protected by just laws and legal systems.  Health, financial opportunity, abundance, safety of the home and neighborhood, anything that already excites liberals and democrats are a subset of ALL PEOPLE ARE CREATED EQUAL.

I hope that this message and vision catches fire and ignites inspiring political candidates.  This is the American Dream.  It is the American answer to "kings", racists, fascists, and bullies of all stripes.  

This is the greatest vision and dream in human history.  It is not going away. And it is needed now, and is much more powerful than the domineering scare-the-crap-out-of-everyone stupid MAGA cult led by an astonishingly cruel, but stupid, leader.

 

And he shits on America

 Saturday, October 18, 7 million people marched all across the country, massive turnout in big cities, on the second No Kings Day. This is in protest to the mentally ill orange cult leader of MAGA systematically destroying anything and anyone keeping him from doing "anything the hell he wants".

But of course, the orange one needs to do what he can to capture the headline. So he had an AI generated video of him wearing a king’s crown flying a jet and dumping shit on the protesters. 

I don’t think that he, nor MAGA, can quite see how right on the nose that symbol is. Only he is not just dropping shit on protesters, his dropping shit on the entire nation and all Americans.

And now he is demolishing part of the White House to add his monstrosity of a ballroom.  Sacrilege.

Everything this man touches he shits on.

JD Vance asks Nazis and KKK for their votes in 2028

 JD Vance excused the horrific racist, cruel, violent private texts of “young Republicans” after they were exposed.  Why? James Carville points out that he needs their votes, and these shockingly sickening people make up a substantial percentage of the current Republican Party Base.. Nazis, KKK, 6MWE, Groypers, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, “ Hang Mike Pence”, “Where’s Nancy?”  The Politico reporter looked through 2900 pages of messages.  These are representative:

• Everyone who votes no is going to the gas chamber
• You’re giving nationals too much credit and expecting the Jew to be honest
• Are you going to do whatever it takes? 
• I’m ready to watch people burn now
• He also hates the Jews
• Great. I love Hitler
• But everyone who endorsed but then votes for us is going to the gas chamber
• Take a nice shower and relax - Boom - they’re dead
• They love the watermelon people
• I’d go to a zoo if I wanted to watch a monkey play ball
• Stay on the closet f——t

How did Vance let this significant part of the MAGA base know he was on their side?  He said they were just kids making jokes.  The “kids” were 20 to 40.  The “kids” are the future of what used to be the Republican Party. The “kids” are violent, dangerous, racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, future of the party of Trump.  

JD Vance either can’t denounce them without losing their support and votes, or —- he agrees and IS them 

I hope and pray that actual Republicans see that there no longer is a Republican Party - only MAGA/Nazi/KKK/theocrat white supremacists. You cannot accommodate Nazis, they just take over your party, and you end up complicit in horror. 

Look. Look. Look. See them. 

Turn away. 

Trump refuses to allow the House to come back in session …. Epstein files

 The make-believe Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, announced that  the house will be closed next week for the third week in a row. Of course, simply doing what his lord and master, Donald Trump, tells him to do. Why?

People think it is to put pressure on the Democrats to cave and give in to MAGA demands about crushing Obamacare, Medicaid, and other heartless goals of the Republican Party. Obviously there is a lot of truth in this. But…

If Congress is back in session a newly elected Democratic, Angelita Grijalva, AZ , gets sworn in who is the 218th vote to release the Epstein files… and Trump desperately needs to stop that.  Why?

I believe that Donald Trump is afraid of only one thing, going to prison. How does he go to prison? The Epstein files. His actions to never allow the Epstein files to be seen betray his obvious guilt of deep crimes that can be uncovered in those files. Crimes that will lead even MAGA to impeachment - pedophilia? Russian money laundering? Being controlled by Russian or Israeli espionage to act against U.S. interests on behalf of a foreign power?  And then he is impeached, convicted, thrown out of office, tried for his crimes and sent to prison. 

Desperate little person. 

Which Americans want authoritarian dictators?

Trump is an obvious authoritarian - "strong man", dictatorial, cruel to his enemies, etc.  I find that disqualifying in a president. But, millions of Americans want that.  And indeed, they voted for Trump because they want an authoritarian ruler.  Who? Those that are raised by authoritarians to be authoritarians themselves. 

Here are the four questions that sociologists have found reveal the authoritarian personality:

1. Obedience vs. Self-Reliance: Which is more important for a child to be?  Obedience - trained to want an authoritarian
2. Respect for Elders vs. Independence: Which is more important for a child to have? - Respect for elders - trained to want an authoritarian
3. Well-Behaved vs. Considerate: Which is more important for a child to be?  Well behaved - trained to want an authoritarian
4. Good Manners vs. Curiosity: Which is more important for a child to have? Good manners - trained to want an authoritarian

There was a seminal book by psychologist Eric Fromm - "Escape from Freedom" written right after WWII where he wanted to discover what the hell happened that created the Nazis and Soviets? His answer was that these societies raised their children to value authoritarianism in the family and thus in society.  

And here we are with an authoritarian government which was voted for an is approved by an authoritarian voter base.

But I believe that America has far more non-authoritarians than the authoritarians in the MAGA base.  Indeed I was raised by an authoritarian father, but I grew up and grew out of that limited mindset. 

This attempted police state takeover of the Land of the Free is going to fail.  Authoritarians suck.

Manufacturing violence to justify a police state

 Donald Trump and the domestic brains directing him, Steven Miller, are doing what authoritarian police states have always done - creating violence as a pretense to establish a police state.  From Thomas B Edsall, NYT article:

"The quickest way to piss people off is to send soldiers into their neighborhoods especially when there’s no reason for them to be there. It's inherently provocative, and Trump and his team understand this. Research by the political scientist Robert Pape shows that the single most powerful predictor of suicide terrorism is the presence of foreign troops on local soil. People hate, hate, hate that. They hate the humiliation, the powerlessness, the feeling of being occupied.

Once citizens begin to view their own government's security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable."

Oldest tactic in the fascist playbook - false "emergency," send in the troops, abuse the populace, incite violence, justify military occupation of the entire nation, viola - end of elections.  Totalitarian fascist police state.  

For Trump - No Epstein files exposure.  No dying in prison for pedophilia and corruption.  

And, for Miller - Racist hatred, terrorism, and "purification".

But America can see this and can not fall for it.  I choose to believe that these extremists will fail because they don't have enough support in the country to pull it off.  

Preparing the country for Martial Law in 2026

So Trump is now Federalizing the Illinois National Guard.  Against the strong objection of the governor, Pritzger.  This is unconstitutional, but Trump's theocratic Supreme Court are actually revolutionaries helping him end the Constitutional order. The Trump 6 are life-long opponents of American democracy, it seems to me, and see their job as ending the evil reign of Satan, who they think has taken over all the liberal institutions, norms, and influences.  So, down with Satan, and oh yes, down with all Constitutional protections that have been taken over by Satan (liberals)

This atrocity in Illinois is all about preparing the country for a declaration of Martial Law in response to some fictitious emergency in the Fall of 2026 to prevent elections. This tyrant will not allow real elections because if he does his MAGA fanatics will lose and he faces impeachment and prosecution for his multiple corruptions and crimes - ending his sad little life in prison.

This is not hard to figure out.

Shut the government down until he releases ALL the EPSTEIN files ALL ALL ALL

 Michael Cohen, former lawyer and cruel enforcer for Donald Trump during his "business" career, writes this about how Trump "negotiates":

"There’s a line I used to hear when working for Donald Trump: “The art of the deal is making them suffer until they break.” That’s not negotiating. That’s sadism with a pen and a contract.":

So, here we are, Trump demands a shutdown of the Federal Government and his terrified Republicans in Congress give him a shutdown - yessir yessir yessir....

So, who suffers?  We suffer, and the poorer you are the more you will suffer, which is fine to the the fascist wannabe king, and his MAGA subservients, who openly declare empathy and compassion to be weaknesses, and to prove the point one has gone so far as to shoot a family dog who displeased her.

Welcome to Trump/MAGA/Theocratic/Oligarchic America.

Another man who has a lot of personal and reporting insight into Trump's mind is Michael Wolff who strongly advises that there is only ONE message and demand that the Democrats need to make in order to end the shutdown - EPSTEIN

Shut down the government until the Republicans release ALL of the Epstein files, and remove all the redactions of mentions of their dear pedophile leader.

Play to win.  Democrats can only think in terms of policy, but they need to understand that they are in a war. And Trump only fears the Epstein files, obviously for very good reason.  So the Democrats have only one lever of power over Trump - EPSTEIN.

Trump proudly declares himself and his Republican Party to be fascists

 On September 22 the president signed an executive order designating “Antifa” as “a major terrorist organization,”  What is Antifa?  It is a shortened word meaning Anti-Fascist. So, who would be afraid of anti-fascists? Oh, fascists would be afraid of and attack anti-fascists.

Then he sent the MAGA military into Portland, to attack anti-fascists. 

It’s what actual fascists do.  Say it out loud, they are fascists and proud.  

Lordy, he really is demented

Much to the humiliation of the United States of America, its elected leader rambled on ludicrously for an hour scolding the U.N. and making silly, childish claims. Here are some of the low lights:

First, just make believe…”It’s too bad that I had to do these things instead of the United Nations doing them,” Trump said. “I ended seven wars, dealt with the leaders of each and every one of these countries, and never even received a phone call from the United Nations offering to help in finalizing the deal.” 

Then bragging about his ignorance … “belittling climate change as “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world”

And glorying in cruelty… “The president praised El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, for keeping deportees from the U.S. in “terrorist prisons.”

And bragging about his war crimes… “Trump also boasted about his extrajudicial strikes on suspected Venezuelan drug cartels”

And wrapping it up like a six year old child… “During the campaign they had a hat, the best-selling hat ‘Trump was right about everything,’” he told the gathered world leaders while discussing climate change. “And I don’t say that in a bragging way but it’s true. I’ve been right about everything”

Sorry world. We tried to warn and warn and warn, but they were told not to listen to us. So they voted for him. 

So, it was rage at hatred against transgender women

 Well, it looks now like the Kirk killer was not a nihilistic Groyper who killed him because he was not conservative enough. It now looks like he was romantically involved with a transgender woman and“…had enough of his hatred”.  

“ Yesterday, a Utah court filing refuted a theory popular on the left: that the suspect in the murder of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk was a right-winger. “I had enough of his hatred," the suspect, Tyler Robinson, wrote in a text message to his romantic partner, according to a transcript of their exchange released by the prosecutors. “Some hate can’t be negotiated out.” An assassin to the right of Kirk, irritated by Kirk’s moderation, would have criticized him for being insufficiently hateful. The other charging documents describe Robinson’s recent drift to the political left. Robinson’s romance with a trans person, and decision to kill Kirk just as he was speaking about transgender mass shooters, strongly suggests that the alleged killer felt special zeal for the cause of trans rights, which is itself closely identified with the left.”

Frighteningly, this killing seems to be giving MAGA’s move into fascist rule an excuse to escalate their desires, where Stephen Miller, Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff, called the Democratic Party a “domestic extremist organization.  As usual, MAGA’s accusations sound a lot like confessions.

There is no stupider organism on the planet than an adolescent with his friends watching.

 Listening to the War Room podcast with Al Hunt and James Carville, they were interviewing two experts on crime on how to reduce crime.  One of them, I think it was David Kennedy, said when he is addressing a room of people, men and women, in an at risk neighborhood to violent crime, he says to the women "You know that there is no stupider organism on the planet than an adolescent with his friends watching." Which the women apparently agree to from their own hard experience. I think this is the quote most germane to so much today.  By the way, this principle also applies to overgrown adolescents, as indeed it looks to me like the Trump Administration is filled with adolescent brains of all ages.

This deeply dysfunctional killer of Kirk, if I understand the Groyper world correctly, was performing a violent act to impress and amuse his young man nihilistic Groyper audience. Boom, murder, horrible consequences for the country.

The criminologists on the podcast were saying that every city today knows that the terrible crime they face comes from a very small number of young men who are in blood feuds, and the way to reduce the crime is intervention at the local level to pull them out of the cycle of violent retaliation.  And these programs are remarkably effective and violent crime, although always too high, has dramatically dropped as a result of targeted social intervention.  As one of them said, the police know you cannot arrest your way out of the problem. It takes targeted social intervention to give them a way out of the retaliation cycle.

So, I take this truth about the cycle of retaliatory violence and apply it to the assassination of Charlie Kirk by a 22 year old young man lost in the dark world of Groyper nihilism.  Trump, and Stephen Miller, and JD Vance, and Fox News are doing the exactly wrong thing: they are calling for an escalation of violence by Their Gang against who they falsely claim are their Enemy Gang - liberals.  

This will only escalate the violence, of course.  And that is what Trump and Vance want: more violence so that they can declare martial law and suspend the 2026 elections and stay in power, because they know they will lose in 2026 due to their amazingly harmful and unpopular policies of their Big Beautiful Bill, and due to the exposure of their deeply corrupt and criminal natures as they try to suppress the Epstein evidence, rake in billions in government created crypto scams, and endless violations of the rule of law and the Constitution.

The Gang in the White House and Congress needs to rouse its gang all across the country to attack and destroy the "enemy gang" - Democrats and liberals of all stripes.

We are in a dangerous time.  I give no real credit to the Orange Bully for strategy, I think his life long operating principle is simple - "What benefits me?" and "I get to do whatever the hell I want to do."

But, his MAGA movement includes people who are very aware of the tried and tested strategies to end democracy and establish a fascist police state - crush all forms of resistance - Congress, Courts, Education, News, Entertainment, Culture - all forms of Free Thought.  

They are clear that they want only one law of the land - "You Shall Obey!"

Kirk’s killer - Young man nihilism?

 In 1987 I read Alan Bloom’s “The Closing of the American Mind”.  It was a a complex book but what I remember are two points that he made. First, kids were showing up at the University of Chicago with no background at all in thinking deep thoughts, questions about good and evil, what makes a good life, how to live a meaningful life, what’s right and wrong? These kinds of questions used to present themselves to earlier generations through religion, reading good literature, philosophy, etc.  What he saw was kids believing that right and wrong were relative, that there was no right and wrong. But they were wrong. There are things that are right and wrong. Not everything is subjective and arbitrary. 

He then expanded that idea into the Germans and Nietzsche’s Death of God famous quote and his warning that without a God, without actual right and wrong the world could collapse into nihilism, the belief that life is meaningless, truth could not be known, and the world would spiral into ever greater violence and annihilation. And, indeed, with the rise of Nazism that is exactly what the Germans did, and also did the Fascist Mussolini Italians and Fascist Franco Spanish. 

So, the killing of extremist provocateur, Charlie Kirk?  It appears that the killer was a neo-Nazi Groyper, a young man, among millions of young men, whose minds have been warped on social media into believing that life isn’t worth living, it is all just a big joke, and they are dedicated to creating chaos, destruction.  It appears they are lost inside the deranged void of nihilism. He saw Kirk as a fraud. And he killed him as a joke, since all of life is just a big meaningless joke, in order to cause pain just to see the pain, in order to make his nihilistic social media world laugh, and maybe that’s all it was. Just show up a fake, and make his world laugh. 

I am old, liberal, and am not familiar with the despairs and coping strategies of young men lost in nihilism. To me the question was whether he was a right wing nut or a left wing nut. But maybe he’s just a violent nihilistic troll. 

This is a shock to me. Hoping that this isn’t our future. It did not work out well for the Germans, nor the world. 

Although there are determined people wanting more destruction, I choose to believe in the Better Angels of our natures. I choose to believe we will emerge from these terrible mistakes and renew ourselves. 

Charlie Kirk killing - two reactions - MSNBC and Fox News

 MSNBC fired Matthew Dowd for saying that Charlie Kirk, right wing extremist activist, was in part responsible for his own killing - "“Hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions,” Dowd said, adding: “You can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and then not expect awful actions to take place.”  Wrong.  Gone.  Thank you MSNBC.

Fox News has no problem with Jesse Watters calling for violence in response to the Charlie Kirk killing - "“We are sick. We are sad. We are angry. And we are resolute,” he said. “And we are going to avenge Charlie’s death in the way that Charlie wanted to be avenged.”  Fox News allows this, apparently.

See the difference?

By the way, at this time we don't know who the shooter was and whether politics were involved.  Likely a left wing nutcase, but let's wait and discover more.

Update, 9/12/2025. The killer was turned in by a family friend and he is a Mormon 22 year old whose parents are Republicans, and he is registered as independent, and he dressed up in a Trump costume in 2017 - in other words, he is not a hate filled Marxist, regardless of how the Right Wing Media Industry wants him to be. Also, he is not Trans -- 

"A report in the conservative Wall Street Journal yesterday claimed that a law enforcement source had revealed that ammunition with "transgender" ideology carved into it had been recovered at the site of the Kirk shooting.

While it hasn't been officially confirmed, some gun experts have suggested that the bullets may have been produced by Turan Ammo. Such bullets are stamped with the manufacturer's mark "TRN." If such bullets were used by the shooter, it's possible that an overeager bigot saw "TRN" and interpreted it as "trans" instead of "Turan."

Will Fox News, Bannon, Musk and the profiteers of hate apologize and call for calm? I wish they would but that is not how they become rich and powerful.

Oh well...

Update 9/13/2025 - Now it appears that the killer is a Groyper Nazi follower of Nick Fuentes, American Nazi. Cult of violence. It is not unusual for right wing extremists to turn on each other, the obvious precedent is the Night of Long Knives in 1934 Germany where Hitler eliminated his rivals - violent purge ordered by Adolf Hitler from June 30 to July 2, 1934, to consolidate his power within the Nazi Party. "Nazi paramilitary forces, the Schutzstaffel (SS) and Gestapo, murdered the leadership of the Sturmabteilung (SA) (the Brownshirts), including its leader Ernst Röhm, who was a rival to Hitler."

Thank goodness we are a long way from Hitler's Germany but extremists purging others in their movement for lack of purity is just how it goes, it appears.

Look at Nancy Mace's face

Look at Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace's face.  It says all we need to know about the depraved abuse that Epstein, and his elite compadres (Donald Donald Donald J J J Trump Trump Trump - best buddies with Epstein, "party" buddy with Epstein) did to these women when they were children - children - children.

Nancy Mace is a hard core MAGA South Carolina "Republican".  Her famous quote was "I am Trump in high heels".  Well, this may be where the political opportunist worm turns.  I want ANGER by Mace, by Republicans, by Democrats, by all of America.  This is the Pedo ring that Qanon was trying to expose for years.  And I refuse to allow the MAGAs to ignore the central debauched predator, Trump.  He has long bragged about his celebrity allowing him sexual assault, how his money buys everybody off.  I want him at the top of the list.  If Clinton and Gates and Prince Andrew go to prison, fine.  Prison for all of them.

Why is this so important?  Because the only real hope for America and the world is the removal of Trump from office, and slammed into prison for life, with no ability to terrorize and bully the Republican Party to continue to destroy America and the world from afar.  Impeachment by the House and conviction by the Senate are the cleanest way for that to happen, and only MAGA can do that.  Only the Republicans can impeach and convict Trump.  He has them terrified. Expose, beyond any denials by the Sexual Predator in Chief, his debauchery and cruelty.  Turn the stomachs of MAGA.  

The only other two options are the 25th Amendment (he is coo coo coco puffs - or a debilitating stroke) - both possible.  But it would be best if his sins are what ended his reign of terror.

Look at Nancy Mace's face...horror

Trump says "This is a Democrat hoax..."  Oops, time for a Very Very Big Thing to capture the headlines for a long time - troops into Chicago? Nuclear war? This maniac is cornered and dangerous