A rapist, a fraudster and a mental patient walked into a bar. And the bartender said, “Hi, President Trump!”
Anyway…
I’ve been seeing a few people from other countries, with some cause, blaming the entire nation of the US for what we are seeing in the world today because even if some people voted for a candidate who had a resume other than killing half a million people in one year with Trump Virus ™, there weren’t enough of us, and Trump actually won without the Electoral College this time. And I’ve seen some Americans posting back that those people in other countries don’t understand how screwed up this country is, how voting is mostly state-by-state, and how most people can’t afford to organize or have a general strike to shut down the country precisely because this government prevents us from having health care that isn’t dependent on our employment and most of us can’t survive beyond a paycheck-to-paycheck level.
That’s one take. Here’s mine.
Did you ever see Chinatown?
Warning, there are spoilers.
Detective Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) ends up investigating a murder when the chief engineer in the Los Angeles water and power department is found dead. In the course of this he finds out that the reservoir is releasing huge amounts of water despite the city’s drought. Meanwhile the victim allegedly had a mistress but it turns out the ‘mistress’ is the sister of the man’s wife. The wife, Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway), hires Jake to continue the case and Gittes figures that Evelyn’s father, Noah Cross (John Huston) is behind the water dump in order to facilitate a land grab in the county. Jake confronts Evelyn about her inconsistent story and she reveals that her sister is also her daughter by Cross (I TOLD YOU, spoilers). Gittes tries to confront Cross but he takes Gittes by gunpoint and forces him to reveal the location in LA’s Chinatown where the women are hiding. Evelyn gets her sister/daughter to a car as police arrive. Jake tells her to turn Cross over to the police, and she says “he OWNS the police.” She tries to drive off but the cops shoot her, she slams her car into a corner, and as the cops surround the car, Cross takes the confused teenage girl out to comfort her, and Jake realizes that the disgusting pig is going to get away with everything. He’s going to take over the county AND he’s going to rape his daughter the way he raped her mother. And as his friends on the force lead him away, one of them says “Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown.”
Living in America is like living in the last scene of Chinatown, except that instead of one state, it’s THE ENTIRE FUCKING COUNTRY.
And the joke is that all the Good Folk Real Americans who wail and whine about how an omnipotent “they” are responsible for all their problems and behind a terrible international pedophilia ring decided that the best way to solve their problems was to vote for the Big Pig at the heart of that ring and turn him into an unaccountable and invincible God.
And they wonder why the rest of us think they’re sub-retarded. Forrest Gump wasn’t that stupid.
But the brilliant thing about the Trump occupation regime is how you can’t focus on the last outrage they committed because in 48 hours they commit an even bigger outrage. I speak, of course, of the regime’s murder of civilian Renee Good in Minneapolis when she was trying to observe an ICE raid of a neighborhood. This particular incident is proving to be an excellent case in how the plain folks of this land allow their stupidity and evil to collaborate in defending their government’s actions.
Despite the fact that the shooting was fully captured on tape, I’ve seen all kinds of social media takes embracing the Church of Trump dogma that Good was “a professional agitator” and that she was shot in self-defense after she “viciously ran over the ICE officer” and “it is hard to believe he is alive”. Never mind that said officer was not even knocked on his feet and was seen walking down the street under his own power while neighbors were screaming at him.
Riddle me this, detectives, why is the burden of responsibility in a threat situation always with the lone unarmed civilian and not with the mall cop who has five weeks of training, riot gear, automatic weapons and two squads of reinforcements with the same characteristics?
Never mind that the video clearly shows the victim turning the SUV away from the officers. “But the vehicle is a deadly weapon!” Well, that much more so when you shoot the driver and let the car run down the road and hit someone’s else car, as happened in this case. “Uh well, I HAD to shoot that bear, it was self-defense.” “Okay, so why did you step IN his path when he was running?”
Then Thursday the shooter’s identity was revealed (which should warn ICE that they should quit assuming their masks are armor) and it was also found out that in his service he had recently gotten stitches after he “got his arm stuck in the window of a vehicle as the driver tried to flee an immigration arrest. He was dragged roughly 100 yards down the street before breaking free.” President of Vice JD Eyelashes did a whole press conference where he tried to justify the officer’s actions as being the result of combat stress. In which case that would indicate he’s exactly the sort of person not to be put in a situation with guns. The fact of this past incident where he tried to stop a moving vehicle from outside indicates to me that he has a history of escalating.
The Church of Trump defenses for this murder are a classic case of willful ignorance. Mere stupidity is insufficient to justify their position. Stupidity could be excused as an inability to process information or a simple lack of knowledge. Such active and willful rationalizations are bad faith arguments for a position that one knows to be wrong. Of course the same people who thought Renee Good shouldn’t have “fucked around and found out” are the same ones who think Ashli Babbitt is a sainted martyr.
And at the same time, we still have the previous outrage that the Renee Good murder trumped, where Trump basically looked at Venezuela, and said “this is mine” and apart from capturing the dictator Nicolas Maduro to face charges in the US, didn’t do anything to follow up. I believe this is because Trump (who was against Bush’s invasion of Iraq after he was for it) didn’t want to get involved in the sort of quagmire that undermined Bush even with his own party. So Trump has handed everything over to Maduro’s Chavista government by default, and they are doing that much more to crack down on dissent than they did. But while some parts of our government like Marco Rubio’s Department of State wanted to indicate a hands-off approach, Trump is all about seizing Venezuela’s oil, including seizing any remaining export ships for their profits to go to “secure” (personal) Treasury accounts. And that’s already causing problems with our “friendly” socialist government in Venezuela. Why do we even need Venezuelan oil, when its crude needs extra refinement, that will require extra investment (which was risky to oil companies before and that much more risky now) and America is already one of the leading oil producers on Earth? Because Secretary Rubio, as a Miami Cuban, has been jonesing to change the Communist governments of the Caribbean since childhood. And he also knows that Trump doesn’t care about arguments based on political strategy, so he said “oil” and his sovereign went “GIMMEGIMMEGIMME! MINEMINEMINE!!” So at some point they’re going to need boots on the ground to get that oil. Not like Trump cares about that, they won’t be his boots. Swollen ankles, y’know.
So Lord Trump is thinking of giving the administration of Venezuela over to effective Chief of Staff Stephen Miller. There’s a great idea. Turn a Hispanic country over to Stephen Miller, who loves Hispanics the way Hitler loved Jews.
Speaking of Stephen Miller acting like Hitler, in the wake of our Latin coup, he and other people have continued to wave our flag over Greenland, Miller’s own wife Katie did a media post showing the Arctic island with an American flag imposed on it, labeled “SOON.” He also did an interview with Jake Tapper at CNN (Cuck News Network), where he said “”The real question is, by what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? What is the basis of their territorial claim?” (Raising the question, what is ours?) It’s like everything else. The Boy King tells himself “I got a right to this. I’m entitled to this.” And his inner circle of worshipers use whatever fraud and force they can to make his delusions reality. Never mind that Denmark, by extension Greenland, is a NATO member, and trying to force the issue would definitely break NATO for all practical purposes, and that directly benefits Vladimir Putin, the ruler of Russia, and wouldn’t that be an incredible coincidence?
We have no eternal allies. We don’t even have eternal interests. We just have a little boy who wants what he wants, and no one will stop him from getting it. We don’t have allies. We have those who are forced, and those who force us. Those who are forced include E. Jean Carroll, the contestants at Miss Teen USA, and everyone else in the United States, not to mention Venezuela, Greenland and Canada.
Draw your own conclusions.
The thing is, it’s not as though our Constitution and system of government failed in themselves, but they need individuals to enforce them, and our Constitution, which was specifically designed to keep the executive from becoming a mad Caesar, is not being enforced because Democrats are a combination of learned helplessness and programmed reverence for the Big Government they created, and the president’s own party is not a party so much as a death cult. And that is because no matter how stupid and insane Trump is, 77.3 million voters in 2024 were more stupid than him.
Now if you follow social media feeds, maybe some of those Trump worshipers have come to regret their decision, which might also be why the Trump Party lost so big in off-year elections even in states where they were favored. But it’s still too late. The damage is done and it’s been getting worse by the day. The best you can do is try to contain it.
At the moment, the best way to do that would be to force another government shutdown. Yes, another one. Why do we keep having them? Because Democrats want to fund government for people besides Elon Musk, Exxon, and Paul Blart, Gestapo Cop, and Republicans don’t. So they can’t create real budget plans, they just keep passing continuing resolutions that kick the can down the road, and even that is like pulling their own teeth. Now, because the Democrats kept embarrassing themselves trying to force concessions by shutdown in 2025 (and Republicans kept embarrassing themselves trying to do this with Democrat presidents), most Democrats didn’t even want to contemplate holding the budget hostage. Besides which, there’s that aforementioned reverence for Big Government, even when it’s subverted against them. But that was before Renee Good was murdered. The Fucking News: “Without new congressional allocations for 2026, both DHS and ICE would have to shut down after Jan. 31.” And in the wake of ICE’s latest atrocity, there is growing thought in the Senate to cut them off. Senator Chris Murphy (D.-Connecticut) said “Democrats cannot vote for a DHS budget that doesn’t restrain the growing lawlessness of this agency.” I mean that would have been an idea before they voted to do so last year, but hey.
And while the Senate is secure for the Trump Party for this year, they may not even keep the House through November. Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor (BR.-QAnon) has already quit. Another Republican Congressman is in the hospital. And this week California Republican Representative Doug LaMalfa suddenly died at the age of 66. There is a Texas special election in a redistricted area that will probably be won by a Democrat. That would make the margin for Speaker Mike Johnson (BR.-Louisiana) only four, meaning he can only afford to lose one defector on bills, as tied measures lose in the House. And neither chamber is totally united any more.
While the Bullshitter Bully seems more omnipotent than ever, his Party is weaker than ever, and let us never forget, they do what he wants because he does what they want. As I say: Trump is the symptom. THEY are the problem. And while they were already likely to lose at least the House big time, their losses are that much more likely as it becomes that much more clear that the regime is at war with the rest of the country, and voting is the last way we are able to mount an effective protest short of Madame Guillotine. And if Democrats win in 2026 (I do not say ‘when’, cause these are Democrats, and God hates us all) we, the people, need to seriously change the direction of the political class, and that requires changing the only non-Republican party that can get people elected. No more of these Chuck Schumer go-along-to-get-along leaders who still think of the Republican Party as compatriots and colleagues. THEY ARE A GODDAMN OCCUPATION GOVERNMENT RUN BY OUR NATION’S ENEMIES, and they need to be treated as such.
As campaign season commences, every citizen who can do so ought to press every candidate on the question of whether a Democratic House will impeach Trump. And that leads to the question of whether House members will support Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker or find somebody who recognizes where we are and is willing to fight the regime rather than pretend they can be dealt with in good faith.
That’s two things that need to be done right there. And if Democrats win in November, they need to do everything they can to press their position, and to correct the issues that let Trump happen in the first place. For instance, as long as Republicans want to jerk around with our election rules, Democrats ought to follow suit. Like have states pass laws saying you can’t vote unless you can write an essay answer to the question “What is the difference between ‘your’ and ‘you’re’?”