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.