Losers

Oh dear god. The irony of swearing in Trump on MLK day. From brave and insightful civil rights activist to cowardly, petulant, buffoon. Dotard I think is what Kim Jon Un called Trump — but I prefer the less refined and more direct Fucktard.

The first days of Trump 2.0 are as heartbreaking and sad and full of chaos as we feared. Sort of a worst case situation. He has instantly taken steps, through Executive Action, which will allow prescription drug prices to increase many times over, eliminate health care coverage for around 25M people by changing ACA regulations, started his mass deportation plan which is already causing an upheaval in food and supply chains (and of course bringing misery to many). He withdrew the US from Paris Climate Accord and World Health Organization, signed legislation making it easier to fire federal workers, handicapped the VA with a hiring freeze, eliminated all DEI positions from federal government and pardoned 1,600 violent criminals who are his supporters.

That’s day 1 -3. And that is just a taste. He actually signed hundreds of executive orders. So much for a balance of powers. GOP members of Congress are lining up like syncopaths to shine Trumps shoes and Justice is as compliant and complicit as a rescue puppy.

Pete Hegseth, who actually is less qualified than I am to run DoD, has been confirmed as Secretary.

Zuckerberg, Musk, Ramaswamy, Bezos. What do they have in common? In spite of ridiculous wealth (except Rama who is just wealthy), they are all full-fledged, Napoleon Dynamite quality, geeky ass losers. Sure, their money buys them influence. But they are clearly unhappy, insolent, contemptuous, train-wrecks of human beings desperately seeking to be acknowledged. Musk is a full on sociopath. 

It’s not enough for them to have amassed such fortunes, they know they are transparently thin soulless creatures who are desperate to be taken seriously as men. Hence their fealty to the larger cretin at the center of the political universe. They think proximity to Trump will give them substance. 

But as in all cases, sucking up to a loser simply reinforces your status as a loser. These child-men will wind up being remembered for the cowards they are.

Imagine how heartbreaking it must be for them to be so wealthy, and yet still not taken seriously by anyone except the monumentally ignorant. I don’t know a serious person who takes any of these 4-horses asses of the apocalypse seriously. They have all sold their souls to the devil for money, but what they really wanted was respect. But those are different things. Money is made. Respect is earned. They can demand fealty from their minion workers, but it comes with the stench of artificial loyalty. People need jobs and these losers leverage that to demand false loyalty. This is their imitation of manhood. 

 Now they want us to believe their money equals leadership prowess and they are here to save us when we can all see they are simply trying to save the fantasy of their delusional grandeur. 

The reality is weighing on all of us. The dull half-wits who elected Trump are dancing and braying — too stupid to realize it is they who are first in line at the slaughterhouse. 

So it goes. So it goes. 

If all of this wasn’t happening against the backdrop of a pending global climate apocalypse, we might reasonable contextualize it against WWI or WWII eras — when things must have been very desperate and depressing but ultimately the good guys won. In this case, while we are distracted by a petulant wannabe child-king, the world is jogging towards massive climate disruption that will soon evolve from pesky fires and destructive hurricanes to a colossal disruption of food production and distribution capability. Then shit will get real. When people get hungry in masses, especially in civilizations that are accustomed to largesse, there will be serious upheaval and revolution. And it’s the dummies that put us in this position that have all the guns. 

Three very excellent articles in The Guardian this week, which can be found here, here and here. Worth a read. One by The Bern and another by the brilliant and beautiful Seema Jilani and the always reliable Robert Reich.

I am not regretting my switch from The NY Times over to the Guardian. I don’t mind paying for quality journalism but I find The Guardian the better overall value.

This is a Friday and hence FNM’s were in order. I had a standard at Rathskeller with our cousin Carliss and pops. I’ve been dad-sitting all week while mom is in Florida to visit friends. So we decided to wander uptown to the tired old Clay Haus. It’s been interesting spending so much alone time with dad. We’ve never been the best of friends. But this week has been fine. He seems diminished and a little sad without mom around.

No other news of note.

Humbly submitted
Rob Myres, Flanker – Portneuf Valley Rugby Football Club (ret.)