There’s a reason it’s not the Trump Administration but the Trump Regime. He’s using federal resources not to execute the law and perpetuate national services, but to serve his own interests. Trump is not enacting the duties of the office, but instead is looking to profit personally from his powers.
The White House has literally gone rogue, and is not at all engaging the responsibilities of government.
Think of him and his staff as organized embezzlers.
Curiously I’m having to deal with this very conflict. I want to join the resistance, but I’m (literally) allergic to sunlight (which precludes street demonstrations) and I’m a goblin when it comes to in-person social development, such as organizing.
The mutual aid groups in Sacramento are scarce, so it’s difficult to ask them.
Do I make useful memes and infographics? Not sure.
Curiously, the nearest ICE hq is in San Francisco, and there are resistence movements there interfering with ICE action.
There are literal eldritch horrors we do not comprehend. It is why the sun has all the material features of god, yet we see it as a (very large, implacable, thankfully consistent) object, and we don’t think about how we must refrain from looking at the sun directly, only that it burns our eyes.
Bertrand Russell’s attempt at reducing all of mathematics to a perfect system of logic (until this was proven by Gödel to be impossible) broke him, much the way professors at Miskatonic would go mad trying to model the universe by pondering quaint and curious volumes of forgotten lore.
Myself, I was already pretty mad (diagnosed) when I saw lines being crossed in the US that pointed towards a fascist autocratic future and a purge campaign, and so I took to studying moral philosophy and the Holocaust, specifically the human mechanisms that justified the engagement of and participation in evil. Consequently, I broke my brain even further. Nature, human or otherwise, can be unflinching and ruthless in its efforts to exploit or consume us, which is why we need reciprocal ethics in the first place.
I do not imagine the universe is incomprehensible, only that we are small and still pretty simple, imagining the moon closer and bigger since we see models drawn to disproportionate scale. And so the layperson doesn’t understand how difficult it is to launch a probe from one speck so that it drifts for months or years, to fall into an orbit around another speck. It’s difficult to imagibe that the stars in a single galaxy, each teeming with satellite objects, are uncountable like the grains of sand on a beach. We know it’s a number, but still have to estimate its value with a wide error margin.
It’s not forbidden knowlege. The parabolic manifold in which the pillars of R’lyeh stand can be computed, but our hominid brains have to bend a lot, or chain together analogies and metaphors to understand them.
It’s like a dog chasing a hyperball, possibly to its peril.
It’s also very squishy.
Well this just wrecked my evening.
But this is an ongoing, recurring story. Thief 2014 was a mockery of the original titles.
There are pretty sex offenders and ugly ones in every generation. Since US society used sexuality as a device of control the way dangerous cults do, we produce a lot kids who think human beings only have sex through coercion or opportunistic vulnerability (e.g. drunk girls at parties.)
So it makes for a lot of potential sex offenders.
Maybe some day we’ll toss abstinence only sex ed into a blast furnace and start teaching kids about consent.
But then we’ll realize that click-wrapped TOS on our devices and hardware are bad-faith contracts we’re coerced to agree to. And that just wouldn’t do for our shadowy capitalist masters.
Three of them are boomers who argued that spousal rape is not a crime (a controvery in the 1970s, when NAMBLA was active and child marriage wasn’t given a second thought) and the other one is trying super hard to be literal Himmler (though he’s earning enough Heydrich points to break the machine).
Observe that this very same demographic is still trying to hold onto power as they lose their faculties.
I think that’s why Epstein suffered an unfortunate prison accident. Some very vippy VIPs are in the list.
I didn’t think Epstein kept a list, rather I figured a multinational cadre of investigations bureaus uncovered paper trails linking VIPs by the dozens and Epstein (and his parties of trafficked children) and that is the alleged list.
Since the US DoJ and DHS are captured, it’s up to the rest of the international community to see justice done. And since King Fucking Charles has had proximity with Epstein, its awkward for the industrialized world.
Dirt on Charles would be enough to launch an army of ninjas and fixers, alone. And since his connection with Epstein has been white washed, that gives cover to anyone else also connected to Epstein that would be awkward to the First World (the industrialislzed western bloc).
For decades now, I’m been warning about the era of this regime, and got a lot of oh yeah? Where are the death camps?
Dachau was operative in 1933. The Wannsee Conference was in 1942, after which the Auschwitz model was replicated at other camps, and the final solution to the Jewish question was applied to the general contained population, rather than just disabled, mentally ill and gays.
So in the timeline of the German Reich, the death camps appeared rather late, and I tend to err on the side of understatement, even though officer involved killings, and punitive fatalities in US prisons have been routine for decades at a rate of ~1000/year
Expose him to Baby Shark.
Then the Badgers song.
Lather, rinse, repeat until he latches onto a song you can tolerate.
The regime has insured Epstein didn’t kill himself will be the next Jet fuel can’t melt steel beams or It was the guy at the grassy knoll for years to come.
I had previously thought if he wanted to show he was worthy of being God Emperor, he could nationalize event distribution of Football (or some other favorite sport), and create a universal food program, and then a lot of Americans would have cause to be chanting his name.
But the insipid and the apathetic run thick as London fog in the White House.
President Trump has ordered the White House host a UFC match.
If Trump wasn’t Mr. America before, he is now.
It’s the dream that we all share. It’s the hope for tomorrow. (Fuck yeah!)
This goes really well with the news that Shigeru Ishiba’s wife, Yoshiko spent two hours with Trump pretending not to comprehend English so as to not have to engage him.
A lot of vengeance is due Leonard Leo.
The whole Federalist Society is due a third-act housecleaning montage.
Or a third-season pre-season finalé season-climax montage, if you prefer.
The thing is what I wish for immigrants and refugees, I wish for absolutely everyone.
But I see fascism, autocratic tyranny and the hoarding of wealth and power as sickness rather than character flaws.
Well, the signs are ideological, in that they conflict with the state-enforced ideology. Curiously, churches are getting in trouble discussing the beatitudes, since they (yes, Jesus’ own words) are in conflict with the state-enforced ideology.
What is scary is when there’s insufficient resistance to the state-enforced ideology that runs contrary to classic virtues / traditions of compassion, hospitality, mercy, etc. This is the banal evil that lets abductions, renderings, concentration camps and eventually genocide happen.
If you don’t fight with banners today, you’ll have to fight with guns tomorrow.
New parties are useless at the federal level so long as elections are First-Past-The-Post. Even the Ross Perot’s Reform Party in 1992 and 1996 only served as a spoiler for the Republican party, and his was an immensely strong attempt at forming a new party, featuring a reasoned platform which Perot showcased with charts every night on television.
This is why Musk’s America party is laughable, even if he really, really meant it, and offered a platform of sound governance.
While Sanders caucuses with the Democratic party, and they make him sit at the kids’ table with AOC and the other Socialist Democrats, he has been able to get a lot of legislation in or blocked with skilled use of Senate procedure.
But the current situation is well beyond even his powers of procedural mischief. We can’t rely on officials or left-wing news media to save the US from oligarchy and eventually monarchy.
Violent or non-violent, we’ll have to do it ourselves, and it’s almost certain that if we pressure them nonviolently (say with massive demonstrations or with a general strike), then Trump will try to do January 6th once again, probably with more guns and explosives. He’ll certainly bring out his ICE Stormtroopers (now in fancy armor) and try to invoke the military.
So we need to expect a fight, and preferably do what the lords did with John of England, make it super clear that he is out-manned and out-armed and will be given no quarter, if it comes down to violence. (Even the Magna Carta took a few tries)
27+ dead little girls at Camp Mystic has shown us it’s ugly already, but non-violence makes it more difficult for bystanders to dismiss the resistance as terrorists. (FOX News, etc. will paint us as terrorists anyway.)
I don’t know how we get to an organized general strike at speed (usually it takes years, and we don’t have years), and there are groups like indivisible that are trying. I don’t know if it’s enough, especially once ICE gets its massive infusion of equipment, manpower and fancy trenchcoats.
This meme illustrates by example one of the key failures of capitalism:
Upper management doesn’t see itself as responsible for overseeing staff to maximize their productivity via data-driven methods (e.g. let them have human lives while they work)
Upper management sees staff as their courtiers and garden hermits there to emphasize how important the execs are.
Hence RTO mandates rather than letting them telecommute or giving them sweet workspace at the office.