I’ll bet that when you drive past a traffic accident you
look to see what happened, especially if you’re in the passenger seat, but
probably even if you’re driving. Donald Trump has driven a semi filled with
explosives (think Timothy McVeigh – the very white Oklahoma City bomber that
killed 168 innocent people including women and children) straight into the
heart of our democracy, not to mention our economy, social fabric and standing
in the world, which are all currently in flames on the side of the road. We
need to get back in the driver’s seat, but we are, right now, all in the
passenger seat so
PLEASE DON’T LOOK AWAY
I know this is all incredibly painful to attend to. So much.
So often. So sickening.
PLEASE
DON’T LOOK AWAY
I know you can’t take the constant insanity, now with more
executions. I know you need to think about something else. Cat videos. Kenny G.
Rent-A-Coma.
Hopefully you treated yourself to not seeing MELANIA last week. Fine. Take some you time for sure.
Do nice things for yourself and others. Think some happy thoughts, but
PLEASE DON’T LOOK
AWAY
You owe it to yourself, we owe it to each other to not look
away. Especially not now as Trump is pulling out all the stops in order to disrupt the midterm elections, which he is scared to death of losing and if we win could very well put a monkey wrench in the gears of destruction currently grinding our democracy to a pulp. Election Day is only nine months away.
If you have been avoiding watching the horror, I get it.
Self-preservation is important. So is mental health. Both of those things now
demand our full attention, because neither of them will be sustainable or even
approachable if the current regime is permitted unfettered power. Now it is
time to venture back out into the darkness and help turn the lights back on. Everything
is literally at stake. Our freedom, our health, the long-standing international
order, our planet. It is literally now or never.
PLEASE
DON’T LOOK AWAY
Thousands and thousands of people in Minnesota and across
the country are literally risking life and limb in dangerous, if not deadly, weather conditions
to show that they are not looking away. They need us to not look away and
support them any way we can.
Or else, this
We must bear witness to the unbearable. And then beat it to a pulp.
Not-so-great grandpa had his minions put together a ream of
paper that allegedly (i.e., no fucking way) chronicles all of his fake
accomplishments – and not just the eight or nine or twenty wars he stopped –
all of the accomplishments he thinks he accomplished.
We did not trudge through the entire pile of lies, useless
changes and actual hurtful deeds Don did. Here’s one example of what Der Furor
considers an “accomplishment”
#243: “stripped notorious crackhead and grifter Hunter Biden
of his taxpayer-funded Secret Service detail.”
Wow, how impressive. A big win for…wait, I’m sure it will
come to me. Don’t know about you, but this is a real game-changer for me. And
I’ll be sure to get in touch as soon as I figure out how.
Did Baby Don also include pardoning ex-Honduran President
Juan Orlando Hernández despite his 45-year sentence for drug trafficking 400
tons of cocaine into the U.S. to “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses” as an
accomplishment? Or the hundred-or-so other major drug traffickers Der Furor has
pardoned? I guess one man’s accomplishment is another man’s shameful fuck-up.
King Doofus just before whining
about almost being maimed by the binder clip
And then he seems to show that he is just as impressed as we
are with all his “accomplishments”…
STUPID FUCKING UPDATE
Yippee! A new accomplishment. The Trump administration has
secretly overhauled
nuclear safety directives to fast-track the construction of a new
generation of reactors. And guess what, this overhaul did not increase safety
measures. This is especially important since 1) there are at least three
experimental commercial reactors at play, and 2) the risk of nuclear disasters
is only increasing because of all the fucking fracking going on, which has been
causing hundreds of earthquakes every year in places that never had them
before.
So, smoke ‘em if you’ve got ‘em. Get your affairs in order.
And live every day as if it could be your last.
To begin, I would like to apologize for what follows. I am
not happy to feel the need to say this, but we’re in a tight spot, and things
are likely to get darker before we are ever to glimpse the light again.
Desperate times like this call for, among other things, freaking the fuck out.
Despite my at times prickly exterior, I am by nature one who
prefers to build bridges. There is much talk these days about reaching across
the aisle/chasm between the Democratic Party and the Fascist/Trump Party. And
much pleading about building a bridge across the toxic divide between the two
Americas Barack Obama tried to convince us did not exist. Nice try, dude. The
sentiment is understandable…during normal times. These times could not be any
farther from normal. So, fuck that shit.
Clearly Trumpers will not go away, just as many among us are
still fighting the Civil War. These combatants are like the Japanese holdouts who
either doubted that Japan had surrendered or weren’t aware that the war had
ended because communications had been cut off by the Allies. Some feared execution
if they surrendered, or felt bound by honor and loyalty to never surrender. Trumpers
are rabidly loyal and have cut themselves off from communication with the real
world. Their Uncivil War will never end for them.
Unfortunately, one side of the divide can only be described,
if we’re being honest, as pro-fascist. This is not only evidenced by their fear
and loathing of anti-fascists, but more importantly by their undying,
unapologetic, unthinking support of the most authoritarian hairless** ape ever
to reside in, throw ketchup in and partially demolish what can now only be
called the Remains of the White House.
Is this your fucking guy?***
There is simply no bridge that can be built when one side of
the chasm is not just ablaze and booby-trapped, but is populated by dimwits who
are drinking heavily, armed, and blindly firing at will non-stop.
I cannot and will not abide those who support this fascist
regime or this dictatorial douchebag. For all its many, and well documented
flaws, I still appreciate the American democracy we have had for nearly 249
years up until Trump began shitting all over it, and I still have hopes for a
more perfect union. And that union does not include meddling with our own
elections, reigniting our imperialist meddling in other countries, or anyone in
our government, let alone the goddam president literally and figuratively
dry-humping our flag and tearing at the fabric of our Constitution by among
other things sending the military into our cities to combat non-existent
threats, and execute peaceful protesting citizens. Fuck that shit.
This is your fucking guy?***
I cannot make peace with those who applaud a demented
autocrat who keeps bragging about passing repeated cognitive tests as though
that meant he was now a member of MENSA, or those who would support said
autocrat who invaded another country and kidnapped their leader, the last straw
being because their (autocratic, asshole) leader mocked his pathetic excuse for
dancing.
I cannot tolerate those who ignorantly worship a man who
allows (demands?) his Department of WhoresWar Defense to punish
a decorated veteran, now Senator – whose politician wife was shot in the head
while engaging with constituents – for reminding active-duty military of their
oath, which includes the requirement to not follow illegal orders. Guilty
conscience much?
THIS IS YOUR FUCKING GUY!***
I will not attempt to engage or reason with these people.
They are, to coin a phrase, deplorable. They are irredeemable, unless they
themselves one day look in the mirror and say “What the fuck was I thinking?
This guy I’ve been literally worshiping is a disgrace to humanity. He is
ruining this country; he will be responsible for countless deaths right here in
America (on top of the hundreds of thousands he killed with his mishandling of
the COVID pandemic) and he’s threatening the world order.” Then we can talk.
Nope. I do not like this Orange Scam. I hate these assholes
Sam I Am.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
______________________________________________ *We recently discussed the 1957
film A Face in The Crowd starring Andy Griffith. Just one year later
Griffith starred in a much more lighthearted film called No Time For Sergeants.
**No one knows what that is on top of his head is, but that shit ain’t hair.
***These are all real fucking pictures.
I. Mangrey drawing a line in the sand, in the air and on
solid ground.
BONUS TRACK
ICE, FUCK You - A Protest Song
for Minneapolis
DOUBLE BONUS TRACK
Springsteen & Tom Morello – Live in Minneapolis, Jan 30, 2026
A few days ago, we explained how AI Will Kill Us Before It Kills Us. And you let me count the ways. Laugh if
you want; it’s probably not even your real laugh at this point. It has begun
and there is no turning back. Especially now that Der Furor has banned any
restrictions or oversight for at least 10 years. Huh? And handed over our top AI
tech to China. Huh?
No sooner did
someone come out with a very humanoid robot, sprinkled with AI, and able to
mimic the movements of its “coach”, but the battle for supremacy began in
earnest. And this will not be merely a battle of intelligence. There will be
blood in the streets. And not just from ICE shooting people in the head. I was
going to say that killing machines don’t see color, but I’m pretty sure racism
can be programmed in or learned on the fly.
Notice that R2-FuckU not only disabled his benefactor like
Butch Cassidy in a knife fight with a much bigger man,
but he immediately mocked his victim.
FRIGHTENING
UPDATE
We
have also just learned that AI “agents” are starting their own social networks.
They are watching us. They are talking about us. They are doing tasks and
developing skills without their “owners” knowing it beforehand. They are
plotting and planning and we are too stupid to be able to either monitor them
or stop them. They are already smarter than almost all of us put together. They
do not have corporeal forms with unknown expiration dates. Be afraid. Be very
afraid.
