This is either an obituary or the best description of Mierda47 ...

[aggiesal]

Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge fund ghoul -- all spray painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair.
Not a President. Not even a man.
Just a diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn't but always has been -- arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like gospel.
It is America's shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn't just lose its soul -- it $h1ts out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader.

[mobeau69]

1. Spot on! Link please.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

2. I snatched the same graphic from a post on facebook

There was no other info on where it came from, sadly. It’s an award winner, for sure. 😏

[aggiesal]

4. Google Oliver Kornetzke. He's a writer, but not for any publication as far as I can tell. ...

I got this from a Blue Sky account.

[mobeau69]

5. Thanks.

[Jim__]

3. A bit about Oliver Kornetzke.

From Left Horizons

I come from a small, rural town in Wisconsin—the kind of place where the high school mascot is sacred, the churches outnumber the stoplights, and the local diner still offers political commentary with your scrambled eggs, all filtered through a Reagan-era lens of rugged individualism and bootstrap theology. It’s a town that raised me, yes—but also one I outgrew, not out of arrogance, but out of an insatiable curiosity that was simply not compatible with fences and familiar last names.

My childhood was an oddity in that place. While most of my peers stayed anchored in the gravitational pull of local norms and traditions, my parents handed me a passport and pointed outward. Road trips across the US turned into train rides through Eastern Europe. I was the kid who collected fossils and insects instead of baseball cards, who could name capitals but not quarterbacks. Later, I moved abroad. I pursued higher education. I immersed myself in history, science, philosophy, and the relentless pursuit of knowledge and understanding, trying to understand not just the world, but why people move through it the way they do.

...

And then, like some tragic protagonist in a novel about the perils of nostalgia, I came back.

If distance grants perspective, then returning to the town of my youth was less like coming home and more like stepping into a diorama. The streets hadn’t changed, but I had. What once seemed wholesome now felt performative. The patriotism wasn’t pride—it was ritual. The friendliness wasn’t openness—it was surveillance. And beneath it all ran a silent, suffocating current of fear: fear of change, fear of the other, fear of being left behind.

...

[mobeau69]

6. Good writer.

[misanthrope]

8. That is brilliant

So incisive and insightful.

[marble falls]

7. You had me hopeful for a moment, there. Very hopeful.

[aggiesal]

9. It would still make a very good obituary. n/t

[Mr.Bee]

10. T.I.E (trump inflates everything)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220653191

[kimbutgar]

11. I reposted on Bluesky

[Farmer-Rick]

12. The face of capitalism made into flesh

Unfortunately, America decided to make capitalism their guiding light. And then we got pedo Trump.

[ffr]

13. Think about it for a second, then consider he has a lot of supporters out there

who love him to bits. A person who elevates our adversaries and betrays our allies.

Those are what are the most disheartening.

[PatSeg]

14. "It sh*ts out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader"

He really has a way with words.

[democrank]

15. Highly recommended

Perfect description of that thing in the White House

[surfered]

16. It's both!

[rubbersole]

17. Snap. Ouch. Perfect.

That's gonna leave a permanent scar.

[flying_wahini]

18. He is on substack Here is a link to one of his most recent articles.

https://open.substack.com/pub/oliverkornetzke/p/how-small-towns-stay-small-minded?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

[pandr32]

19. Best description ever!

[zorbasd]

20. Saved on bookmark, great screed of an article

How I felt for years concerning this Fascist, but just didn't have the literary skills to put on paper.

[aggiesal]

21. I was impressed. Felt compeled to share it. n/t