Cryer Beware

So Long, And Thanks For All The Fascism

July 8, 2026

WAKE UP, AMERICA!*

That is the title of the 1971 LP by the late great Abbie Hoffman. A true American patriot. I felt a sudden urge to reiterate this critical plea/warning/?

If you’re like me, and hopefully you are not, but stay with me for a minute here…even I, while admittedly too much of my time is spent Paying Attention™, regularly blot from my overheating, throbbing and ever more damaged mind the fact that technically there are still some two-and-one-half (GULP!) years remaining in the Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump so-called presidency. This fact was always present intellectually but has lately begun insinuating itself into my emotional infrastructure.

This is completely untenable. Trump might actually end up being the last president ever. America might well end up taking its own life before Trump’s time in office runs out…assuming he will ever leave, or will only leave after crowning Don Fucking, Jr. as his successor for life, after which Trump will have himself stuffed, mounted and bolted down in the Oval Office. The taxidermy won’t take much work since Trump’s head has long appeared as though a mortician prepared him for burial, and his body is mostly made up of preservatives at this point.

Speaking of staying in power, we recently learned that Der Furor was thrilled when a historian** provided “proof” that Trump was “the most powerful man who’s ever existed on the planet.” What Dying Don was even more amazed by was the rest of the top five most powerful of all time; the list included Napoleon, Mao Zedong, Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler. Damaged Don must be so proud; his mentor/ventriloquist Vladimir Putin didn’t even make the list.

Drool and the gang

If we do not crush the Fascist/Trump/Epstein Party in November, our chances of surviving to January 20, 2029 are no better than Jeffrey Epstein returning from the dead to release all his files.

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* The album ends with this bit of advice from Abbie: “And all you kiddies, remember to lay off the needle drugs. The only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.”
**Funny story: that historian was actually a golf caddy by trade, and not in fact any kind of historian. I’ll wait for you to stop laughing and then I’ll wait a bit longer for you to stop crying. Or desperately searching for your passport. Or both.

I. Mangrey reporting through the pain.