Month: June 2026

Once again, much of the news is tied up with our Viceroy for Russian North America, Donald Trump. Alias Cheeto Bandito, Cheeto Mussolini, or as he is known in Puerto Rico, Desperate Cheeto.

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool continues to get more discolored and corrupted, much like Trump. You would think he could use his King’s Touch to turn it into holy water, in the same way that he got shot across the ear but could lay on hands to completely recover in two weeks, almost as if he’d never been shot at all. But in actual government, if anyone cares about that, the Republican Leaders of the House and Senate managed to get both parties together this week for a federal housing bill, getting huge majorities in both chambers. And it was all set for Trump to sign, until he publicly decreed there would be no signing unless the Republicans passed his SAVE Act to restrict voting, which is really the SAVE Me From Getting Removed From Office And Sent To Prison Act.

It brings us all back to the question of how we could have reached such a horrible state of affairs. But I have already given the answer. All you have to do is go to any grocery store and go to the cereal/breakfast foods aisle. Get a box of Pop-Tarts. On the back it will say in big blue letters, “REMOVE FROM FOIL BEFORE HEATING”. If you understand why they needed to put that warning on the box, you understand why Trump got elected twice.

Not only because of the absolute morons who voted for Trump after he gave them all Trump Virus (TM) but the lesser-grade morons who voted for Biden in 2020 but wouldn’t vote Democrat in 2024 because they didn’t like how the Biden-Harris Administration was handling Israel’s treatment of Gaza. Their logic, if one could call it such, was “we don’t think Kamala Harris is doing enough to punish Netanyahu for his treatment of Gaza, so to punish her, we’re going to stay home and let Jared Kushner’s father-in-law back in the White House. Surely Miriam Adelson’s favorite politician will care more about Palestine than Harris!”

Remember, lefties: Remove the Pop-Tarts from the foil envelope BEFORE putting them in the toaster. You’ll thank me later.

But this is a real problem, because after-election polls indicate that Gaza really was the single issue most at factor for Democrats losing the voters they got in 2020, and what we just saw with the Democratic Party primaries in New York City (this being New York, the Democratic primaries are basically the general election), along with the victory of controversial Maine Democrat Graham Platner in the US Senate race over establishment Governor Janet Mills only confirms that the Party is shifting away from its establishment leadership. Because in these cases, the victory of the “radical leftist” versus the moderate-to-progressive candidate usually came down to their position on Israel.

This disturbs a lot of the Democratic establishment, including Congressional leadership, who’ve grown up supporting Israel and taking money from AIPAC (even though it’s been putting its thumb on the scale a lot more for Republicans these days).

What a lot of pro-Israel people in both parties fail to get is that the average American now feels the same way about Israel that the rest of the world now feels about us. That is, ‘we used to be your friends, we used to be your allies, but that was when we thought YOU shared OUR values. Now you’re run by this right-wing religious whacko cabal that wants to destroy anybody who gets in their way, and even if the liberal party took over in the next election, there are still so many religious whackos in the country that there’s no guarantee they won’t come back the next time. We can’t trust you.’

Maybe when Chuck Schumer was growing up he could say that Israel was a force for good in this world. You can’t really say that now. Even when the State of Israel was not a political racket for Bibi Netanyahu, our support was something on par with Reagan-Bush support for apartheid South Africa and the various right-wing dictators and insurgents in Latin America: We supported them because it was the Cold War and the opposition was backed by Soviet Russia, and was infinitely worse. But now if anybody’s taking their cues from Russia, it’s the Republican Party. Which only points out that if the last Democratic administration was insufficiently tough with Netanyahu, Trump is deep in his pocket. If there’s anybody who should be concerned about a foreign power controlling American foreign policy, it’s the Republicans who see their Messiah dragging this country into a ‘forever war’ at the behest of Israel and Gulf oil monarchies.

But of course they’re keen with everything else rump is doing, which is the other reason that the Democrats are getting their own growing Tea Party-style movement. We have a country where the laws are only enforced on the people who can’t buy the government and living standards and opportunities have been in decline for years. And a lot of Democrats contributed to that state of affairs, they just weren’t as blatant about it as the Trump Party. But the politicians who contributed to the status quo also tend to be the people who get support from AIPAC. So in a way they’re almost as much of a problem as the Trump Party. As I say, the institutional Democratic Party are the real conservatives- not in the ‘we hate abortion and gays’ sense but in the sense of wanting to preserve the system and their privileges in it. Which is why they have not been pushing back as much against Trump even when he is clearly trying to undermine that system. To flush things out after Trump expels his last fart, we need a party that is willing to do radical, yet legal things. Reverse the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill.’ Investigate the people involved in DOGE. Abolish ICE. Pack the Supreme Court, so you’ll have a better chance of doing all this. Stuff that Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer would never do. If that’s the price of going with the ‘radical Left’, I can pay it.

The question is, how far Left can the Democrats get without being taken over by the people who want to ban the International Red Cross for practicing colorism?

Case in point: One of the big winners in New York was Darializa Avila Chevalier, a socialist who beat incumbent Congressman Adriano Espaillat in NY-13. This person has in her civilian career said that Joe Biden is a rapist, that we should not only abolish the police but abolish the border, and who has said that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders are too pro-Israel. That’s like saying Pete Hegseth is too feminist. But that’s who’s coming to Congress now.

On this person, I invite you to read the opinion of Jeff Maurer (posted before Tuesday), in particular the following: “This type of stuff is why I’ve argued that we need to bring back the word “retard”. “Moron” or “ninny” doesn’t capture the intensity of what we’re dealing with here — those words are a pea shooter when we need an elephant gun. And, just as I use the words “moron” and “idiot” in a non-literal way, my use of “retard” does not refer to anyone with a cognitive impairment, but only to people who could lead normal lives but choose to have cognition similar to that of an oyster or a termite-infested log.”

Quite so. Frankly, I have never stopped using the word ‘retard.’ After all, I currently live in Trumpworld. And if Chevalier (who probably needs to look up the classist etymology of her own surname) is offensively stupid, the opposition is on such a level that it feels like Trump is the High Lord of an invading cosm where Stupidity and Greed are the two primary World Laws.

(Okay, most of you didn’t get that. But the two or three people who did thought it was really funny.)

But the point is, that is the environment we are in now.

The danger being it’s been all too easy for the Trump Party to smear the Democrats with their worst examples of policy, for instance “(Kamala Harris) is for they/them, (Trump) is for you.” I think that’s still a real problem but if Graham Platner and Jay Jones and Darializa Chevalier can say stupid crazy shit and win anyway, then stupid crazy shit is not a guaranteed deal-breaker. As with Trump, it may even cause people to think you’re “authentic” and not a Party factory creation.

But if these people have a serious shot of getting elected (if you’re in New York and you won a Democratic Party primary, you basically were), you have to wonder if they’re just going to replace the idiot Trump policies with the idiotic leftist policies that made a lot of people think Trump was a good idea.

All of which could be avoided if people followed my first axiom: It is possible for two different things to be true at the same time.

It is possible to think government spends too much money without cutting off spending that actually pays for itself (cause it goes to poor and dark people). It is possible to think Israel should not have a veto on foreign policy and domestic politics without wanting Palestine to exterminate all the Jews. It is possible to think that government is too big and powerful without thinking the solution is to put all power in one leader who’s going to concentrate even more power because that’s the only way to get anything done.

You should be able to have sensible people who can look at the facts and arrive at solutions that take all facts into account. But apparently that’s too hard for politicians now.
You might get some of these people like New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who not only endorses socialist redistribution but does so with a “sewer socialist” agenda that actually solves problems on the ground. You could. But the reason so many of us non-socialists are bugged is that if the socialists take over the Democratic Party (and they probably will, cause they’re the only ones with both strategy and balls), they won’t just be a leftist Tea Party, they will curdle into an anti-intellectual cult, like the actual Tea Party did when they became the Church of Trump. In this case the US government will continue its entropic spiral as politics becomes a contest of who can be the most moronic. Excuse me, retarded.

But recent news aside, I don’t think the Left can really get more retarded than the people who think tariffs fix inflation and Mexico would pay for our wall.

I was trying to write out another rant about Donald Trump and his bread-and-circuses bullshit with the “Freedom250” rally, and the UFC event on the White House lawn, but everybody else already has, and as the Central Scrutinizer would say, who gives a fuck anyway?

Everybody already knows how evil and corrupt rump is, everybody, at this point maybe including Republicans, knows he’s destroying this country, and nobody is gonna do shit, because apparently God Almighty has reached down from Heaven and placed a spiritual halo behind Donald Trump’s head, and on the rim of this halo are written these words in sacred Enochian script: “This is my favorite Son, in whom I am most pleased.”

Because as I say, if Trump didn’t have all those Republicans in Congress voting with him, impeachment would have kicked him out years ago. If Republicans didn’t have Trump, they wouldn’t even have as many legislators as they do, because he really is the most popular and mainstream politician they have. Separately they are doomed, together they are invincible.

Now we can’t vote out the president until 2028 but we can vote out his Trump Party minions this election cycle, and that will cripple Russia’s Viceroy for North America. In particular, if Democrats get a Senate majority, Trump won’t be able to make any more judicial or cabinet appointments.

And a critical race towards that goal is the US Senate race in Maine where Susan Collins is the Banana Republican incumbent. Previously the Democratic establishment had promoted Maine’s Governor Janet Mills as their candidate, but in August 2025 she was challenged by a veteran and oyster farmer named Graham Platner. And he immediately got attention because he didn’t agree with a lot of Democrat policies, such as supporting corporate interests and the State of Israel. And so the same Democratic Party interests started digging up dirt on him, such as politically incorrect social media posts and the Nazi death’s-head tattoo he got as a Marine. But Platner’s campaign eclipsed that of Mills, almost because of and not despite the controversies. By April, Mills suspended her campaign. But even going into this primary week, the attack jobs on Platner continue. Last month the New York Times reported on recently revealed sexting messages that Platner sent to other women after his recent marriage. Four days ago, the Times did an article about women in Platner’s past who accused him of “unsettling” behavior in their relationships. One of the more prominent accusers was a certain Lyndsey Fifield, who just happened to be in the Heritage Foundation and a spokeswoman for a group called “Ladies for Kavanaugh” during Trump’s first term, defending his Supreme Court nominee Brent Kavanaugh against Christine Blasey Ford, who’d accused him of molesting her in college. At the time, Fifield said Ford engaged in “baseless, 11th-hour accusations“.

But while a Republican-held poll in Maine is showing Susan Collins beating Platner by double digits, other sources differ.

It’s still enough of an issue to where you have a lot of Democrats fretting that they made a mistake and maybe Mills (who is still on the ballot tomorrow) should pick up the campaign again. And then you’ve got Democrats looking at the example it sets for Platner to even be as successful as he is. You’ve got all these people saying “I want a senator, not a saint” in the same way that Trumpniks will say, “Oh we know Trump’s not perfect, we didn’t elect a pastor!” And a lot of people will wail that liberals are falling into that standard of, screw morality, I just want somebody who wins. And they don’t like that the liberal-left spectrum is falling into this Trumpnik attitude that the ends justify the means.

Well – it WORKED for them, didn’t it?

There is no way that you are going to be more immoral and more corrupt than Trump and his minions, so that is not a reasonable fear. The Democrats are a more moral party than the Republicans at this point, pretty much by default. Morality is not the issue, certainly not given who’s in charge now. The issue is winning elections. Then you can decide on the basis of public policy how moral you are. James Carville said that the main purpose of a political party is to win elections, and if he can figure that out, why can’t anyone else?

Some roleplayers may remember the GURPS line of books including the Illuminati supplement, which was a black cover with the all-seeing eye pyramid on it. But written on the cover in transparent impression, almost as subliminal messaging, are various subversive messages such as “Objectivity is in the eye of the beholder” “An honest politician is one who stays bought” and “Moral victories don’t count.” Remember that one, if nothing else.

MORAL VICTORIES DON’T COUNT.

Because while Democrats have been saying “when they go low, we go high” and trying to set a better example than Republicans, this country has been fucked harder and more repeatedly than Brad Davis in Midnight Express. Because Republicans win elections and Democrats don’t.

I, like Rick Perlstein, keep going back to the Bill Clinton scandals and how Democrats kept calling them a “nothingburger” and the Monica Lewinsky case “didn’t rise to the level of impeachment” and all this stuff and all the Republicans – and I – screamed that we were lowering our standards in allowing Clinton to get away with his shit, and setting a precedent, and Democrats didn’t care.

Because it worked for Democrats, didn’t it?

In the 1998 midterms during the impeachment process Republicans kept control of the House of Representatives but Democrats still picked up five seats.

Now, step forward to 2016, Obama has been president for eight years, he handed off to Hillary Clinton, his Secretary of State, and the Republicans decided to nominate Donald Trump, despite and not because of his vulgarity. And in the general election campaign somebody dragged out this audiotape from years before where he talked about grabbing women by the pussy. And it didn’t kill his campaign. Cause as it turned out, Democrats DID set a precedent where they were willing to excuse unethical and sexist politicians if they liked their pizzazz.

And then in 2024, Democrats brought up Project 2025, and all the crap that Trump did in his first term, and the Republicans held their little rally at Madison Square Garden where their speakers said offensive and racist things, and Trump ended up getting more black and Hispanic votes than ever because all that politically incorrect shit was actually attractive in comparison to the Democrats’ normie establishment. And Democrats, with no sense of history, screamed and asked how the Republicans could do such things.

It WORKED for them, didn’t it?

Because that’s what matters. And in that regard, let me digress for a second to mention Janet Mills, Maine Governor and favorite of the Democrat establishment, who was Platner’s primary opponent. I like Janet Mills. Janet Mills was a fine governor. Janet Mills has stood up to Trump. Janet Mills does not have Graham Platner’s baggage. All other things being equal Janet Mills would be a much better Senator than Susan Collins if only because she’s not Susan Collins. All other things are not equal. Because Janet Mills is even older than Susan Collins, and we are already at a crisis point when leaders in both parties, whether Raul Grijalva and Dianne Feinstein, or Trump, Collins and Mitch McConnell, have clearly passed their sell-by dates. And in the case of the two Democrats, they died in office and left a vacuum that would not have occurred if a healthier person had been in office. That is the main reason I would prefer Platner to Mills, and I think even Maine voters could realize this, which is why Mills couldn’t get any traction against Platner even with people knowing what they knew about him then.

Now having said all this, I do think there is a real danger with Graham Platner’s campaign, which isn’t the one that people are obsessing over. Cause we already had this vulgar blue-collar guy who ran on populist issues and went through a difficult campaign to become a Democratic Senator. And that was John Fetterman in Pennsylvania. And while he carried himself well in his previous political career, once he got to Washington, he started voting with Israel, and with Republicans, often enough that he might as well be Susan Collins. So there’s a real worry that Platner may be another bait and switch in effect, although it seems like that will not be the case, mainly because Platner himself is aware of the comparison.

If immorality is no longer a disqualification in the Age of Trump (post Clinton), by the same token propriety is no longer the qualification that so many Democrats still seem to think it is. I despise what Bill and Hillary Clinton did to this country, because it set the precedent that got us where we are. But even the Bill and Hillary Party would be preferable to the Trump Party. Bill may be a skeevy character who was friends with Jeffrey Epstein, but he wasn’t as involved in Epstein’s business activities as Donald Trump, Bill Barr, Howard Lutnick or half the people in Trump’s Cabinet.

All I know in this race is that Graham Platner has a Nazi tattoo and liberal policies. Susan Collins is a polite person who votes for Nazi policies. I know which one I’d pick.