… of the billionaires, by the billionaires, and for the billionaires …

 The government of the United States of America has always been strongly influenced by the super rich. Today’s Supreme Court escalates that corrupt tradition by making some kind of ruling about political party contributions. The details are interesting, I suppose, but it is worth understanding what the contribution limits to politicians are:

• $7000 limit - to a political candidate, $3500 during primaries and $3500 during the general election
•  $44,300 limit - to a political party 
• $290,000,000 limit - to a Super PAC (just kidding, there is NO LIMIT to Super PACs, Musk contributed over a QUARTER OF A BILLION $ in 2024)

And, oh yes, they elected an astonishing corrupt billionaire, who brags about Taking Care of His Bribers - the fossil fuel industry, the Crypto scams, the Tech Bros, etc. (as long as he gets his cut)

Democracy?  In the “Republican” (MAGA) Party? 

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

How NOT to negotiate

One of the first things you are taught as a negotiator is do not, do not, do not let your negotiating opponent know your deadline to get a deal done.  This gives them all they need to know to hold you hostage to whatever they want to gain in the negotiation.  You don't show up in their city, get picked up at the airport by a canny subordinate, make small talk, and answer their chit chatty question about when your return flight is.  If they know when you need a signature, they will hold off until the last moment, add extra demands, and happily shake your hand as you get what you need - a signature - and they get what they want - a whole bunch of things they had no reasonable expectation of getting.

So, witness the worst negotiator in the world, Donald Trump.  Everyone knew, Iran knew, Russia knew, Israel knew, America knew that Trump needed a HEADLINE - a DEAL - to open the Strait of Hormuz - on his BIRTHDAY.  Trump's entire world is about headlines, propaganda, spin, branding - not reality, just hype, for the MAGA gullibles. I guess MAGA will believe anything that Trump and Fox and the cult media bubble tells them to believe.

So, Trump manufactured his HEADLINE - OPEN THE STRAIT.  Yippee!  (And release Iranian assets, and further negotiate "details" of nuclear "dust", etc. etc. etc).  

What a patsy.

So, he got what was there before the most gullible, easily manipulated by Israel president in U.S. history had before his stupid invasion - the Strait of Hormuz as open.  (And Iran demonstrated total, unstoppable control of the strait any time they feel the need).  They got money.  They got to push off any real concessions on nuclear development (he is bored, wounded, and will do all he can to ignore Iran going forward - he lost and he doesn't want any more of those Iranian HEADLINES in the future)

I'm just grateful he didn't nuke Iran.

What is a "real man"?

 So much of MAGA is confused about what a man is... They think a "real man" is someone who is violent, scary, intimidating, cruel. Wrong. James Talarico, Texas Senate candidate against the corrupt criminal Paxton, gives a wonderful explanation of what a real man actually is (like his father)...

"He just did it because that’s what a man does. A man takes responsibility. A man upholds his commitments to his family and his neighbors. A man does what’s right even when no one is watching,” Talarico added.

Talarico then turned his criticism directly toward Cruz and Paxton: “And here’s what real men don’t do. They don’t lie and cheat their way through life. They don’t sell their soul to the highest bidder. They don’t steal from other people in order to enrich themselves.”

He continued: “And so I’ve said before, and I will keep saying that real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.”

A real man speaks, a real Christian speaks. Thank you

Greater Israel? Greater Palestine? Two states?

 Standing in the present and looking back in time, both Israelis and Palestinians have very real reasons to kill each other.  Standiing in the present and looking forward in time, delusionally, both sides have very real reasons to kill each other - Israelis want Greater Israel, and Palestinians want Old Palestine.

Please stop.  These are delusions.  Neither is going to happen.

Please stand in the present, and do not look back for murderous reasons to kill each other, do not look forward into murderous delusions to kill each other. Please look forward to the only future that can be peaceful - a two state solution, both sides independent of each other, both sides not murderous, both sides just let it be.  

You can do it.  For goodness sakes, Ireland did it. So can you.

The desecration of the White House - a symbol of the mad "king"

 Sometimes a picture is worth more than a thousand words: here is how the filthiest person in America has soiled one of the greatest American symbols - the White House:

This is a symbol of Trump's trashing, destroying, crushing America.  As he has destroyed America's honor, alliances, decency, goodness, truth, default currency, economy, military readiness, trustworthiness, etc.  The destruction is too hard to summarize.  

Because, I guess, he's mad.  Resentful.  Hateful.  Wants to show us all that he is more powerful than America itself.  

Funny thing, though.  He will die.  And America will rise back up and wipe out every damned monument that this deranged, insane madman built to his glory. 

Ozymandius.

And, oh by the way, he is losing - losing the Iran war - losing the mid-term elections - losing his mental facilities - losing his ability to be continent - losing his ability to be entertaining and control a MAGA crowd.  He is sundowning.  Good.

Next up… Obama to be charged with treason?

Why has the Pedo in Chief chosen such a tiny nobody, Bill Pulte, to be “acting” head of the Department of National Intelligence?  Vengeance. 

How did Pulte gain favor? By using his fairly minor job heading Housing Finance to indict people the Pedo in Chief hates -  from Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook to New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-California).  

He had a small job and did the one thing that is the most important thing to do for the orange faced pig in charge - indicted the pig’s enemies. Hahahahahahaha

Golly gee, if this twerp could find some ludicrous pittance thing to indict people Trump hates as Housing Finance, what oh what could he find to indict the pig’s enemies as Director of National Intelligence?  

Oh, sure - TREASON.  Some made up violation of secrecy. Who will he target?  Well, who does he hate?  Isn’t Obama on the top of that list? 

How did we get here?  Well, here is where totalitarian fascist dictators always end up.  David Fromm recently quoted Frederick Hayek, noted conservative luminary, in an Atlantic article about why the worst people rise to the top under totalitarian monsters:

“…the words of Friedrich Hayek, who said it best in his 1944 book about totalitarian systems, The Road to Serfdom, in the chapter “Why the Worst Get on Top”:

The totalitarian leader must collect around him a group which is prepared voluntarily to submit to that discipline they are to impose by force upon the rest of the people.

Advancement within a totalitarian group or party depends largely on a willingness to do immoral things.

To be a useful assistant in the running of a totalitarian state, therefore, a man must be prepared to break every moral rule he has ever known if this seems necessary to achieve the end set for him.

Pulte is to only the”acting” DNI. I don’t think the Pedo in Chief will nominate him, or anyone for Senate confirmation. He will just put in “acting” heads to do exactly what he tells them to do and skip the whole Constitutional mandated Advise and Consent thing. 

After all, who’s going to stop him?  MAGA?  Hahahahahahahahahahaha

So, here we are, dear Republican friends. You wanted something from this deranged monster - low taxes? gun rights? end abortion? Christian led schools? Law and order? (big guffaw), border control?  Are you happy?  Did you do a good job electing someone you admired so?

What are you actually getting?  Galloping inflation soon, gas shortages, food shortages, water shortages, many wars, subservience to Russia, subservience to Israel, petty vengeance of a mentally ill nutcase, farm closures, small business bankruptcies, closing of restaurants… we have no idea how low this can go.

Unless he’s stopped.  But only Republicans can stop him.  Dems will be right along your side, but Reps are the ones who have to impeach him.  Pick any one of dozens of High Crimes and Misdemeanors - massive corruption, violation of the emoluments clause, war crimes, how about pedophilia (release the stinking, filthy Epstein files you stinking colluding cowards)

For God’s sake let’s pray we don’t get nuclear war.