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Keeping up on current events, one winds up banging ones head on ones desk with some regularity, so I cant be certain Im not hallucinating most of this
thatd be preferable, honestly. I would like to request hallucinations of a more enjoyable nature, however. Cartoons or pornography, Im not particular.
(Makes more sense with thlinks: https://showercapblog.com/the-news-or-an-incomprehensibly-vast-sea-of-buttholes-stretching-beyond-the-horizon/)
So, in my lonesome wanderings through the wasteland called the news, I stumbled across a conversation in which Alex Jones suggested to Marjorie Taylor Greene that she should run for president, because shes smarter than Trump, and smokes been pouring out of my ears ever since.
The question, who is less intelligent, Donald John Trump, or Marjorie Taylor Greene? is
it feels almost too big wrap your mind around. Cosmic. Unknowable.
I mean, who can forget the spectacle of that dizzy twit, babbling about disinfectant injections and ultraviolet light, expectantly waiting to be showered with gratitude and hooker piss, while the world watched Deborah Birxs soul flee her body? That dudes pretty fucking dumb.
But Marjs brain resembles nothing so much as a single tapeworm, forever devouring its own ass end. This week alone, she fell for the shittiest imaginable photoshopping, yet still felt confident enough to dismiss recent mass shootings as Democrat false flag plots, based on nothing but the same voices in her head that told her Jewish space lasers cause wildfires.
Its too close to call, folks.
I suppose the good news is, even bathsalt-garglers like Jones are looking to move on from the Deposed Dotard, thanks to the January 6th commissions tight, sturdy work. Hey, Ill take my silver linings where I finds em. Times is hard.
Ah, but who shall inherit the death cult high priesthood, and with it, the power to command Americas burgeoning, bloodthirsty, endlessly bilkable, white grievance blob? All sorts of putrid, viscous consensus seems to be congealing around Ron DeSantis, for his culture war cruelty. See how effectively I harness the power of the state to harm the people you despise? he coos, and because he does so without shitting himself or tweeting slurs, he comes off like Trump But Seriously a Genius, Bro
Republican standards are what they are.
Down in Florida, Ron-Rons malevolent dont say gay bill just kicked in, and with it, the desired climate of fear. I confess Im at a loss to explain whats gained by making it unsafe for a public school teacher to display a photograph of their spouse in the classroom, beyond delighting the hateful
oh, silly me, it was right in front of me the whole time.
They have civics boot camps in DeSantistan now, and isnt that a positively perky bit of branding? You can picture Snape sending Harry Potter to a civics boot camp, cantcha?
Well, weve come to the trans children fleeing Texas for their own safety stage of American history, and yknow what, Im starting to think the dont worry kid, democracys basically on autopilot vibe my 7th grade civics textbook gave off was maybe a wee bit hubristic.
Republican gun laws once again ushered an angry young creep from homicidal ideation to mass slaughter with ease and accommodation you sure as shit dont get at the post office, admittedly with an assist from the little turds father, who figured what his knife-collecting, violence-threatening spawn really needed was access to weapons of war. A toddler orphaned for your shitty judgment, Dad. Nice work.
Now, wingnuts hate the aftermath of a mass shooting, (this one absolutely ruined Illinois Republican gubernatorial candidate Darren Baileys holiday festivities) because they know their official position is so socipathically batshit that only brain-dead nutjobs can regurgitate it without shame. On the other hand, there are no kinks in the brain-dead Republican nutjob supply chain.
Its like a bad improv game, where you have to deliver an indignant jeremiad based on some drunken audience members random suggestion. Weed! bellows Laura Ingraham. Uppity broads! sneers Tucker Carlson. There arent a lot of options left, frankly. Once Republicans get around to blaming mass shootings on bike lanes, watermelon Oreos, and the season of That 70s Show they did without Topher Grace, they will have suggested literally everything except the glaringly obvious truth.
But if you want to see the issue through the eyes of a guy whos spent years jabbing at his brain with an ice pick, check out Scott Adams Twitter feed, for some deep philosophizin on violence, mental health, and euthanizing your own children for the good of humanity. What the living fuck, dude. Were repossessing more than one #1 Dad mug this week. Jesus.
Boy, nothing exposes the all-consuming insecurity animating every single white supremacist better than a masked mediocrity march, of the type staged by
by
oh hell, one of those loser cosplay clubs
the Proud Boys? The Klan Kids? The Ive Built an Entire Personality Around Hating a Star Wars Movie Gang? Really, who gives a shit?
Ja we are the master race oh god please dont tell my boss I was here or my mom or the girl at the Hardees I go to twice a week I dont think shes noticed the restraining order is about to expire. Course, I dunno why these creepsre bothering with masks, considering the state of the discourse on the campaign trail.
In the Arizona gubernatorial primary, Trump-endorsed candidate Kari Lake, with the true fanatics audacity, proclaimed her opponents refusal to embrace the debunked-a-thousand-times-oer Big Lie disqualifying, even sickening, prompting Zombie George Orwell to slowly mouth, damn, girl at such a tidy bit of gaslighting.
Ol Donnie One-Term sure can pick em. Hes also endorsed Kristina Karamo, who believes, in addition to the Big Lie, and all sorts of additional wacky, wacky shit, that abortion is a satanic child sacrifice ritual. As Michigans Secretary of State, Karamo would oversee elections, which maybe isnt the best idea.
Seems Herschel Walkers campaign staff are clear-eyed about their boss well-stocked buffet of shortcomings, calling him a pathological liar, among other, um, criticisms, so naturally they spend their days laboring to get him elected to the United States Senate, because you really cant get anywhere in Republican politics anymore without enabling a manifestly unfit psychopath or two.
See, these skeevy little climbersre aspiring Lindsey Grahams, each and every one dreaming of their glorious moment in the sun, manipulating their very own overmatched cretin, before they have their own subpoenas to defy, over their own crimes against American democracy. Its the proto-fascist circle of life.
On the topic of Lindsepher Grahamwich, hes still recovering in the burn ward at Walter Reed, alongside fellow essential lapdog in Trumps kennel Kevin McCarthy, following release of a profile titled, The Most Pathetic Men in America, which youll enjoy, if you havent seen it already.
I guess Jim Comey and Andrew McCabe both, in another of those wacky coincidences that pop up from time to time under vindictive tyrants, received the same ultra-rare, ultra-intrusive, random IRS audit, which seems scandalous, sure, until you remember Hillary Clinton beat Vince Foster to death with a bottle of hot sauce, which she then used to season his face before eating it.
So, some asshat blew up this strange monument in Georgia, almost certainly motivated by dipshit wingnut conspiracy theories about globalism and satanism, because these days, the American experiment is mostly about figuring out how much schmuck terrorism modern society is willing to tolerate.
Again, I dont want it to seem like Im asking for better Nazis, but goddamn, we must have the stupidest right-wing extremists of all time. Its a plague of dumbfucks, hopped up on talk radio and ivermectin. Were probably about six weeks away from some Dilbert acolyte detonating a dirty bomb next to some pizza parlors nonexistent basement.
Adam Kinzingers getting to be like that guy at the office who wont stop yakking about his boring-ass kid, only instead of meandering anecdotes about junior hockey exploits, he keeps going on and on about all the threats of violence he and his family receive. I mean, yeah, the GOPs feral base wants you dead for daring to place country above party, WE GET IT, DUDE.
Honestly though, theres just so goshdarn much right-wing violence to talk about these days. If youve got the stomach for it, heres an article on the rise of online Christian fascist propaganda, which introduced me to the term #ChristPilled, and in so doing, sent a mighty shiver down my jaded, bathrobed spine. ChristPilled
yikes. Havent seen the last of that one.
It was certainly overdue, but the Conservative Party in Great Britain finally initiated the ritual defenestration of Boris Johnson, over his loutish incompetence and general asshattery, and I havent felt such anglophilic envy since I discovered the Stone Roses in college.
Ok, thats enough for now, I dont have the strength to get into the shit thats happening elsewhere; suffice to say, were not running out of awful.
Incidentally, next weeks blog is gonna be delayed till Saturday, owing to a rare opportunity to spend my Friday doing something more fun than sifting through the turds that fall from Tucker Carlsons mouth. Stay safe out there, friends.
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