MY WISH FOR THE FAILED ORANGE FüHRER

 

    So a young man whose motives, as of this writing now weeks past the shooting, are unknown tried shooting The Failed Orange Führer on Saturday, July 13, 2024. Immediately J. D. Vance of Ohio blamed Joe Biden/Democrats/The Left for inciting the violence visited upon his Dear Leader.

    Aw! Come ON!

    First, a Liberal (Liberal, not Radical Leftist) with a gun is almost as believable as kitten with a gun, possible if you really, really stretch your very strange imagination, but all but incomprehensible.

    Second, the shooter has been identified as a loner who is registered as a Republiscum voter. In other words, someone not very likely to be motivated by Joe Biden/Democrats/The Left. Which candidate is it again who calls for jailing and executing rivals? Now where have I heard lots of rhetoric about "bloodbaths", "uprising", "take back our country"? I don't think it was from my Lefty friends, even the radicals.

    Third, I despise The Failed Orange Führer. I do not hate him. I hate everything he stands for but not that despicable scum himself. I have been saying since 2016 at least that the last exhibit in the The Failed Orange Führer Presidential Library should be the jail cell in which he spends the last years of his miserable, criminal life. I do not want The Failed Orange Führer to achieve the martyrdom that he so undeservedly affects. No. This despicable shit stain on American history deserves to live out his life shorn of his golden penthouses, estates, self-labeled buildings and his sleasily accumulated wealth. I want him eating prison food and, in my darker moments, serving as the bitch of a muscled, 275 pound undocumented Mexican lifer - I'm thinking Danny Trejo with young Arnold Schwartzenegger's body - who hasn't had any sexual relief in the last decade except from his own, preferred hand. That is my darkest wish for The Failed Orange Führer. Long life like that to him!

    I am also absolutely certain that the vast majority of my Lefty fellows would giggle a little and then tell me how awful a person I am and disown me emphatically. 

    Now, I ask you to contrast my dark demise for this despicable person with the litany of violent rhetoric spewed by The Failed Orange Führer from "Lock her up!" to "Grab them by the pussy." to "Some, I assume, are good people." to "Stop the steal!" to "poisoning the blood of our country" to "I am your retribution." to "in four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good, you're not gonna have to vote." Let's take that in the context of his proven false arguments that the 2020 election was "stolen" from him when The Failed Orange Führer insisted that his phony election fraud claims "allow for the termination of all rules, regulations and articles, even those found in the Constitution." King Donald the 1st anyone? Our successful Führer? His Highness, Fearless Leader, President-for-Life Bone Spurs?

    No, I don't wish him dead...right away. I just want him imprisoned and abused, forgotten and obscure, dying alone in his prison cell noticed by a dwindled cult that often forgets to send a card on his birthday. Were I a religious person, I would find a church in which I could light a candle as I pray for his long, lonely demise.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHAT'S IN A NAME?, BRAINWORM EDITION

 

    Robert Francis Kennedy, Junior has suspended his pointless presidential campaign and endorsed The Failed Orange Führer in that felon's run to become a successful Führer for what would quickly become our failed democracy.

    I think it is not unreasonable to say that Bobby's father, Robert Francis Kennedy, Senior would have hired Sirhan Sirhan before endorsing George Wallace or Richard Nixon.

    The bulk of the discussion following RFK, Jr's announcement has centered on what he brings to the current presidential campaign other than shame and embarrassment.  Let's consider that for a moment.

    Bobby, Jr. made his name as an environmental lawyer who has now endorsed the poster child for polluters.

    The scion of the family most associated with the Democratic Party has endorsed The Failed Orange Führer whom even many Republicans can't stomach.

    What could possibly inspire this bizarre turn of events? A brain worm, if you'll pardon the pun, comes to mind but that seems too facile an answer. I am going to speculate since I don't know RFK, Jr and have no evidence for my speculation, yet it seems that he has an animus toward the Democratic Party. Why might that be? Perhaps it could be that RFK, Jr harbored some thought that he should be the party's nominee for the presidency. Perhaps he feels that he has inherited a leadership mantle that he didn't deserve. Has he ever paid attention to the term "nepo-baby"? Up-starts like the Clintons and Barack Obama capture the notice of party members in preference to him and the boy-who-would-be-king is left with a speaking problem, anti-vaccination conspiracies, a brain worm and some weirdness with a dead bear. Perhaps it seems unfair to him. Perhaps it seems to us that we have dodged that lunatic bullet.

    In 1980, RFK, Jr's uncle, Edward Kennedy, drove a resounding nail into the coffin of the Kennedy family's political ambitions by being unable to make an extempore case for his candidacy. The untimely death of John F. Kennedy, Jr. drove in another nail and now RFK, Jr. has killed the political careers of every member of his family for at least another generation. Personally, I'm sorry to see that. Every large family is allowed one crazy member whom they usually keep locked in an attic. RFK Jr's failing is that he's been allowed to roam free. Yet it does allow a future generation of Kennedys to chart their own courses perhaps one of which may be leadership in the Democratic Party. I wish saner members of the Kennedy family well  but that nail he's driven so firmly home today seals RFK Jr's own coffinas well as the family's immediate fate.

    In her acceptance address, Kamala Harris noted, quite correctly, that The Failed Orange Führer is an "unserious man". Today, RFK, Jr has announced that he is even more of an "unserious man" than the fascist he's endorsed.

August 30, 2024 -

    More information came to light in the past week that moves me to pity RFK, Jr. a little, only a little. In endorsing The Failed Orange Führer, RFK, Jr. or his worm-damaged brain has allowed himself to be conned by The Failed Orange Führer. First, he's been offered a possible cabinet post. The offer itself is probably bullshit. We all know how quickly The Failed Orange Führer renegs on promises. Still he made Ben Carson HUD Secretary so it's possible that RFK, Jr. could find some hope in that.

    What has moved me to pity is that The Failed Orange Führer apparently promised to release all the government files on the assassinations of RFK, Jr's father and uncle. I see that as a baited lure just as it is also a wild goose chase, The murders of President John and Senator Robert Kennedy have been investigated and reinvestigated most importantly by the Congressional Committee led by Senator Frank Church in the 1970s. The likelihood of some dark secret lurking in those files is pretty slim but is an undeniable draw for a loyal, disturbed son and nephew who is inclined to conspiracy fantasies. That I find sad and pitiable while also finding RFK, Jr's endorsement all the more appalling because it's been bought by false hope, mental distress and vicious manipulation.

FASCISM IS ALIVE AND WELL IN THE U. S. AND, AMONG OTHER COUNTRIES, IN ISRAEL

 

 I am an American citizen. My ancestry in what is now the United States goes back to Peregrine White, the baby, born November 20, 1620, to William and Suzannah White aboard the good ship Mayflower. My mother and her sisters were members of the Daughters of the American Revolution. I did not support the mal-administration of the Failed Orange Führer and think that that con man and criminal should never be allowed to run for public office at any level again, a prohibition that should extend to his biological and affiliated crime family unto the fifth generation at least.

At the risk of jumping with both feet into a cliche, I have Jewish friends, many of them. Some of the teachers I revered most were Jewish. Nine of my grandchildren are Jewish. I also support Israel's right to exist. I support a Jewish homeland. I do not support the Netanyahu government. 

The Failed Orange Führer attempted to overthrow not just our Congress or our government but our Constitution. The Maga insurrectionists of January 6th and the Republiscum who excuse and support them and their Führer are nothing like patriots despite being born in this country.

The recent purge of Liz Cheney confirms that the Republiscum Party and the great majority of its office holders and supporters have no respect for or allegiance to our Constitution. Their only fealty is to The Failed Orange Führer. As such every Republiscum office holder at every level of government who does not reject The Failed Orange Führer should be removed. They have, by swearing fealty to The Failed Orange Führer and his Big Lie, violated their oaths of office and should never again be allowed to serve in any level of government.

Speaking of con men who should never be allowed to hold office, I give you Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel. Netanyahu has called repeated elections in a decreasingly effective quest for a solid majority in the Israeli Knesset. He failed once again in the most recent elections and subsequently failed to form a majority government. In need of some excuse to whip up support within the most extreme Israeli communities, much as his friend, The Failed Orange Führer, did following the 2020 election in the United States, Netanyahu suborned evictions from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Palestinian East Jerusalem a program that has continued for decades thanks to corrupt Israeli courts and refusal to recognize historical documents that give the lie to Israeli claims to ownership of property there. This action also whipped up anger among Palestinians who gathered for prayers in large numbers on the last Friday of Ramadan, May 7th.

Into this powder keg, Netanyahu tossed a lit match by sending Israeli "Defense" Forces (I"D"F) onto the Al-Haram Al-Sharif and into the Al Aqsa Mosque igniting Palestinian anger and inciting Gaza. Now Netanyahu's planes have bombed Gaza repeatedly and subsequently invaded Gaza. Palestinian armed resistance has fired many rockets into Israel, as Netanyahu knew they would. Several Israelis have died as a result while the Palestinian death toll is exponentially higher.

The I"D"F is Netanyahu's primary instrument of genocide against the Palestinian people. I do not believe that the average Israeli soldier is a genocidal monster but I believe that there is ample evidence that Netanyahu is such a monster. His lust for power has plunged Israel into repeated conflicts with their Palestinian neighbors.

The answer to peace for Israel is peaceful coexistence with the Palestinian population. Bombing and invading Gaza, expropriating Palestinian property and insulting the faith of their neighbors may be a route to short term political gain for Netanyahu but it is the dark, vile route to never ending war and insecurity for both sides. It is past time, long past time for the Israeli public to understand that Israeli's killed by an Hamas rocket are less the victims of Palestinian animosity than they are of Netanyahu's cynical and corrupt quest for power, just as the January 6th insurrection was the cynical and corrupt result of The Failed Orange Führer's similar quest.

Respect for Palestinian rights will go much further than bombs toward increasing Israel's security just as rooting out the Maga fanatics in government and the military in my nation will go toward creating a just and peaceful nation amongst neighbors and all of our states.

REPUBLISCUM - APPARENTLY THERE IS NO LIMIT TO LOW

 

So now 43 Republiscum Senators have ignored their oaths to support, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. These 43 Republiscum have endorsed the January 6th attack on the U. S. Capitol, defended the criminal who incited that attempted putsch and allowed an attack meant to do away with American democracy to spawn further attacks.

T. S. Eliot had it correct:

This is the way the world ends    

This is the way the world ends   

This is the way the world ends   

Not with a bang but a whimper.  

 

American democracy didn't entirely die today with the whimpering, simpering Republiscum of the Senate but we are picking up speed on the downhill roll toward Fascist Dictatorship. The brakes are not only off, the lines have been cut. There is nearly nothing to halt the rush toward Fascist Dictatorship. If not The Orange Führer it will be some other Republiscum Führer in waiting. Perhaps the Führer will be Ted Cruz or Josh Hawley or some as yet unknown craven villain who wishes nothing but power and has no regard for decency or law.

To return to Eliot's Gerontion once more, the Republiscum who acquitted The Orange Führer, they...

...are the hollow men    

 ...are the stuffed men 

 Leaning together 

 Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!

 

The 43 Republiscum, the hollow men and women voted alphabetically as follows:

1. John Barrasso (WY) 
2. Marsha Blackburn (TN) 
3. Roy Blunt (MO) 
4. John Boozman (AR) 
5. Mike Braun (IN) 
6. Shelley Moore Capito (WV)
7. John Cornyn (TX) 
8. Tom Cotton (AR) 
9. Kevin Cramer (ND)
10. Mike Crapo (ID) 
11. Ted Cruz (TX)
12. Steve Daines (MT)
13. Joni Ernst (IA)
14. Deb Fischer (NE)
15. Lindsey Graham (SC) 
16. Chuck Grassley (IA)
17. Bill Hagerty (TN)
18. Josh Hawley (MO)
19. John Hoeven (ND) 
20. Cindy Hyde-Smith (MS)
21. James M. Inhofe (OK)
22. Ron Johnson (WI)
23. John Kennedy (LA)
24. James Lankford (OK)
25. Mike Lee (UT) 
26. Cynthia M. Lummis (WY)
27. Roger Marshall (KS)
28. Mitch McConnell (KY)
29. Jerry Moran (KS) 
30. Rand Paul (KY)
31. Rob Portman (OH) 
32. James E. Risch (ID)
33. Mike Rounds (SD)
34. Marco Rubio (FL)
35. Rick Scott (FL)
36. Tim Scott (SC) 
37. Richard C. Shelby (AL)
38. Dan Sullivan (AK)
39. John Thune (SD) 
40. Thom Tillis (NC)
41. Tommy Tuberville (AL)
42. Roger F. Wicker (MS)
43. Todd Young (IN)

Following his vote to acquit The Failed Orange Führer of the high crime of trying to invalidate a free and fair election by sponsoring and inciting an armed insurrection at the U. S. Capitol, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell gave a speech excoriating The Failed Orange Führer for exactly those crimes. Some might be willing to gloss over McConnell's reaction as "cognitive dissonance". Some, less kind and more psychologically oriented, might say that McConnell is "bipolar". His attack on The Failed Orange Führer is neither of those facile things. The attack was simply McConnell's baying at the Republiscum electorate that he's now the pack leader of these curs. (My apologies to dogs, even the worst of them, for the insult to all canines that a comparison to Mitch McConnell entails. Then again, I'd have to apologize to reptiles had I compared him to some particularly obnoxious reptile.)

Some neo-Nazis speak of "taking over the Republican Party". Those idiots are 60+ years too late. As late as 1974 there were remnants of a "Republican Party" but that ceased to exist by the time we had reached 1996. The old money, Republiscum Old Guard (now asking themselves what happened in meetings of The Lincoln Project) that had been bankrolling the Tea Party and Birther loonies convinced themselves that they, and their sock puppets like Mitch McConnell, still controlled the Republiscum Party that they had lovingly built out of racists, bigots, neo-Nazis and other scum over decades. They stitched together the Evangelicals, anti-abortionists, gun nuts and conspiracy cultists into a large minority and then committed themselves to suppressing voters in the good, old fashioned way that Strom Thurmond, John Stennis, George Smathers, Richard Russell, William Rhenquist and George Wallace had done in the 1950s and 60s. Keeping legitimate, mostly minority voters out of polling places gave the look and tallies of a majority to their minority party.

What the Republiscum Old Guard in their wealth and entitlement hadn't foreseen was that this Frankenstein monster they had built would go off on its own to lay waste the countryside and, incidentally, the Capitol building, at the behest of one they considered a loud-mouthed one of their own, The Failed Orange Führer.

The Old Guard Republiscum and Mitch McConnell are no more in control of the Republiscum Party than I am. They, like the Krupps, Mengeles, von Witzlebens and Hugenbergs in the Germany of 1933 sit in, let's call it a skybox, overseeing the chaos below and thinking that they control the monster they've unleashed. Down in the field of retail politics they are not in control of their monster's rampage. They will find out how little control they have only when the monster breaks down the door to their "skybox" and defenestrates the lot of them. Let's hope, for our own sakes even though it save the Kochs, Mercers and Mellon-Scaifes among others, that we have our own Nürnberg Trials before the monster does yet more damage.