Ya Gotta Love It – What’s Eating You?

December 17, 2024

“… even though we call this country a democracy, it’s turning out to be more and more a candy-coated dictatorship.”
                                              Frank Zappa, circa 1990

Thanks to the millions of uninformed, ignorant, racist, hate-filled knuckle-draggers who voted for a man with 34 felony convictions, more than 24 credible sexual assault/rape allegations – made all the more credible after a judge proclaimed that Trump committed what is commonly known as rape against E. Jean Carroll, and after all he did brag about his penchant for committing sexual assault – and what should have been slam-dunk cases including stealing classified government documents (which he almost certainly shared with Vladimir Putin) and inciting an insurrection/overthrow of the government to a second, wholly unnecessary and very likely historically damaging term as president, America is now poised to enter her not-fully-developed-brain-rebellious-teen years where a bunch of overpaid, egomaniacs unencumbered by sense of social norms or ethics or patriotism of any kind lash out at a country that made them what they are (they didn’t fucking build that), just like individual teens often turn on their parents at a certain age.

When my friends and I were of that age, one of our favorite slogans was “Eat the rich!” Well, now the plate is on the other table and thanks to the above-mentioned schmucks and their not-so-benevolent overlard Trump, aided and abetted by the ersatz Supreme Court, the rich will be dining on us for the foreseeable future. Not that they haven’t been nibbling on us forever, but now they can eat with impunity. No need to worry about weight-gain, gout or horrified shouts of “Cannibalism!”

Trump’s gold-plated goon squad
(not shown, Elon Murk and Vivek Ramasmarmy who don’t have
official positions, but will be biting our legs off very soon)

Kill, Baby, Kill

Trump’s billionaire army of greedy, grifting ghouls want to gut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and welfare (except of course, corporate welfare). They are chomping at the bit to kill vaccines, unions, the United States Postal Service, the economy, the environment and by extension, you. You know, because these too-rich-fucks need the money. They want to eliminate the FDIC, which protects normal non-billionaires who might have a few non-interest-bearing dollars in banks (while the banks make money off our money). Why? Who the fuck knows? No doubt they will replace it with a concept of a very strong and powerful plan…some…day.

The rich are eating us

Apparently, 54% of voters think Trump will “do a good job” the second time around. Sure, if by ‘do a good job’ they mean trash the economy by deporting most of our workforce, leveling tariffs on the rest of the world and handing trillions of dollars to the richest/greediest among (i.e., above) us, amp up the already pulverizing climate crisis, and hand our collective health and well-being over to a guy who said heroin made him a better student, and that was before a worm ate most of his brain and then died, presumably of a heroin overdose.

Apparently, 54% of voters need to be in rubber rooms sporting jackets with very long sleeves that can wrap around the torso and be secured in a way that prevents the wearers from punching themselves in the face until they are unconscious, even though that would increase exponentially their capacity for rational thought. Oh, and guess what, all you 54%ers – the Trump presidency is about to make your miserable lives considerably worse. And guess what else – that shit is contagious; we all will have to suffer from your abject stupidity. If you think shit’s expensive now, wait ‘til you see how much Trump sneakers, guitars, bibles, fragrances, trading cards and Melania fugly xmas ornaments will cost you in a few months. Not to mention eggs, bacon and all the other things your hero just learned to call groceries. Please stop voting from now on. Oh, and STFU.

I guess one man’s convicted felon is another man’s cult leader.

Ya gotta love it.

No, seriously, ya gotta love it or you could end up in one of Trump’s for-profit gulags. Just ask ABC News, who just moved their corporate headquarters all the way up Trump's ass. And paid him $16M for a security deposit. 

Now here it is, your moment of Zappa…

I. Mangrey…and, loving it.