Moostache
Moostache's JournalIs he dead yet now?
Everyone knows who "he" is.
I am crying right now thinking about the unfairness of the world, the swift pasage of time in our lives and the status of the human race. This community is mourning the loss of one of its truly impactful contributors with the passing of longtime member SalmonEnchantedEvening (SCE, Bob). He was a beacon of sanity and levity in a world of sewage and despair. He sought only to bring a smile to the faces of the unseen, unheard many. He acted in kindness and in a sense of love and to foster community. SCE was everything I would want my children and grandchildren to emulate and replicate. I am saddened to my core because of the loss of a man who never once had the national press corp fainting over him or crowds chanting cult phrases, never sold vodka or steaks or crypto currency scams. The balance of universal karma is in desperate need of a shift again.
On the other hand, "HE" is nothing. Less than nothing, he is squandered opportunity and hatred in a poorly fitting suit and bad make-up. I have lost dozens of friends, uncounted numbers of aquaintances and a sister over the adoration and cult-like devotion to HIM.
And as I wipe my eyes and blow my nose now because of a sense of loss and sadness for the silencing of one voice ion the wilderness, there is a day in the near future (not near enough unless HE is dying as I type this) when there will be another silencing for all-time. Another loss by some definitions, but an addition by subtraction in my math. And on that day, I will celebrate wildly. I will imbibe excessively and I WILL dance in the streets and begin preparing to find a way to piss on HIS grave one day after that.
Did he die yet? Did his fucking heart explode and attempt to flee by bursting out of his chest? Did his bloo seep out of every pore in an effort to emigrate? Did he just fall down the stairs or choke on a shoe-leather tough piece of meat?
No?
Soon. (But never soon enough...)
The 79-year old boy who cried "tariffs"...
I can't be the only one sick to death of seeing that thing that won't die already (he is north of the actuarial tables for males, so there's always a better than yesterday chance that TODAY will be he blessed world-wide holiday).
ANyone else remember when they had Ivanka hocking the Goya Beans in the Oval Office last time around? We were so innocent back then...
The similarlities between Trump and children's books has always been annoying...
BUT...the "big beautiful bill" horseshit is particularly insidious and hateful to me because of the place in my heart and memory that the "The Berenstains' B Book" holds for my wife, myself and our family...
Every night during our first prgnancy (and subsequent ones later), my wife would read The Berenstains' B Book aloud to the baby in utereo. She would calm the baby and rub her belly while I watched and absorbed the memories...
Big...
Big Blue...
Big Blue Bull...
We would get to the end and I would always say the ending was terrible (because the chain of events lead to baby bird's balloon being broken) and we would share a laugh about it between myself and my wife even to today...but Trump's lack of adult vocabulary, and his horrifying insistane on being the undigestable popcorn seed in the teeth and gums of society at large, has wounded these priceless memories for us.
I need no additional reasons to hate that man and actively root for his death hourly, but this latest indiginity hits close to my heart and it hurts. Bigly.
The Berenstains' B Book :
This comment tells anyone all they EVER need to know about our current occupant at 1600 PA. Ave...
This was attributed to Trump as a quote when confronted with the OBVIOUS conflict of interest and BRIBE that a $400M jet to 'replace' Air Force One represents. In which, the Tangerine Insane Clown President impunges Sam Snead (former professional golf legend) by misrepesenting a quote to mean that accepting bribes in office is no different than not taking a 3-foot putt in a non-tournament round of golf or match play...
“You know what? Remember that, Sam Snead, when he gives you a putt, you pick it up and say thank you very much.”
Golfing analogies that involve "gimme" putts are his entire pathetic worldview and life in a nutshell.
He is telling the world, "I am available for bribes, just make an offer", and to justify it, he is referencing the act of NOT competing in a sport where there is no referee and the players self-police themselves on their honor - a concept so foreign to that tub of shit in a bad suit and worse make-up, that he cannot conceive of why there is a difference between a CONCEDED putt in match play and a "gimme" in stroke play or skins or wagering with people in a round of golf. Then he conflates it with Sam Snead to try and steal credibility from the other, unrelated and non-germaine accomplishments of one of golf's legends... to somehow try to reflect better on him.
EVERYTHING - absolutely EVERYTHING - in that douche nozzle's world is a pathetic tit-for-tat exchange and influence peddling. It is like watching an old-time 3-card Monte scammer whose lost his sleight of hand and tricks but wants everyone to believe he is just as slippery and greasy as always. He is the breathing embodiment of corruption and graft on am unimaginable scale when you have ANY sense of decency or propietity.
The man makes me want to crucify kittens if it would make him go away even a nanosecond faster than his impending coronary attack that will (hopefully) attack with alacrity anon! For fuck's sake universe, isn't this clown's karmic account empty YET?!?!?!?
How do you fight willful stupidity?
I legitimately am curious about what effective strategies people have used, because I am at a total loss...
Start with this tidbit from the Tangerine Menace:
Ignoring for a minute that this sounds EXACTLY like the bullshit Crypto-bros use to pump and dump their meme-coins and fleece people out of literally every cent that they "earn"...it is essentially nonaccountable bullshit. 'Stupid' without actual context for what a 'good' or 'smart' decision would have been and most importantly either DATA or a HYPOTHESIS for WHY that is a true statement is meaningless tripe that stupid people resort to when they think it makes them sound eriudite.
I don't think its necessary to go chapter and verse on why those who scream about the 'weakness' of others are invariably the actual weakest people in a given debate or area. Trump is the classic bully in every sense. Bluster and Bloviating and never really tough or smart or even intellectually curious.
I thought of this in context of a man my father dines with at his care facility. My father is suffering from progresive dementia and the normal ravages of age beyond 80 years old, but he is a lifelong democrat - raised in a family of oil refinery workers that survived the Depression, fought in WWII and worshipped FDR alongside the pope and Jesus. His dining companion would give Archie Bunker a run for the bigot crown if such an abomination existed. He can't wait to talk about how 'THEY"/"The Democrats" are all about taking HIS money to give it to "THEM"/"EVERYBODY".
This man is a walking and talking infomercial for Fox News and the Right Wing radio sewer, but NOTHING can dissaude him from this belief that Trump = good, Democrats = bad and taxes are stealing HIS to give to THEM. I tried calmly reasoning with him regarding the folly of privatizing Social Security (which HE uses = despite his fluctuating boasts of between $4M and $8M depending on the day or story). Pointing out that expenses and the need to turn a profit (privatization) necessitate a loss of benefits and decreases in services by simple MATH, he remains convinced that "the other" is taking his retirement money. He then gets angry when I simply pointed out that HE himself said that his net worth in Decemeber (* under Biden) was HIGHER than it is today (* AFTER Trump has crashed the market and started trade wars without doing anything else).
I tried for 45 minutes to explain to this man that public policies and programs are not the demon he has been led to see them as...that places like the FDA (his food and medicines' safety), the CDC and NIH ( the source of much research for treatments to the ailments he HAS yet is being treated for with their results) and the vaccines that he insists are changing people's DNA. Even when I explained to him that I have spent my entire life in Biochemical and Microbiological research and manufacturing and that mRNA is NOT changing the DNA of ANYONE...he would not be moved and ended up just leaving in a snit...
When experts are "bad"...
When "truth" has "versions"...
When crime is patriotism and patriotism is crime...
We are living in a dictatorship of ignorance and being led by imbeciles and craven lunatics.
May god have mercy on us all...
Nothing under the sun is new...
Tolstoy's works are as prescient today as they were when first published in the 1860's and 1870's....
“The misery of nations is caused not by particular persons, but by the particular order of Society under which the people are so bound up together that they find themselves all in the power of a few men, or more often in the power of one single man: a man so perverted by his unnatural position as arbiter of the fate and lives of millions, that he is always in an unhealthy state, and always suffers more or less from a mania of self-aggrandizement.”
From Tolstoy’s pacifist writings, “Thou Shalt Not Kill”, revisited in 2022 in light of Russia’s war against Ukraine, and even MORE pertinent today as Donald Trump seems to truly believe he is King Donnie and not the Court Jester in King Elon's court....
A hamfisted attempt at a poem...in despair and dark, words can soothe or harm and I need help to see faintest lights.
Oh humanity! Why do you weep?
Woe to you, liberty. How can you sleep?
Oh America!
Your path hidden from sight, lost to chaos and to ruin.
250 gone so soon?
How much beauty and life have we cast aside?
in service of false gods of attention or craven lords of capital?
How much love and peace have we allowed to be stolen?
without a murmur of protest or public notice?
How much hate and evil have we watched?
silently sorrowful and tearful, but unmoved to act?
How much of our very soul has been cast down and sacrificed?
upon the altar of greed?
for a congregation of thieves?
What was is past,
what follows now is cast.
There was a light in the dark,
made hidden as if put out,
But not all is stark,
or remains forever rout.
Forget not
those dreams of the past,
Rise once more!
Re-engage at last.
Ring it out and join the host...
Sing it proud from coast to coast.
Clutch the truth and damn the lie,
for great ideas never die!
Ocasio-Crockett '28 (*oops...I messed that up originally)
Make this happen. That is all...
All apologies to Jasmine, I should have read that before hitting send..
Why is THIS not the first question of every press briefing?
"Mr. Minister of Disinformation, last week President Musk led an Oval Office press conference, at which you were present and auditioned for the role of 'Baghdad Bob'. Have you received word on when that role will be cast? and secondly, what did it feel like to be the first sitting (literally) president to get cucked like that in front of the world?"
There is no other question more burning than that at the moment...
Every 15 minutes or so we reach a new low. This presidency is giving me motion sickness...
I am finished with the Chicago Bears until Eberflus is fired and the team is sold.
I simply cannot take any more and NOW I am beset by guilt for dragging my son into fandom of this clown car franchise as my dad did to me and my grandfather did to him and on down the line...
The Bears are dead to me until the headlines read "Bears fire feckless coach; McCaskey family to sell NFL charter franchise"
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!
I am through being Charlie Brown to their Lucy routine!!!!
I need another drink...
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