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October 21, 2024: One Fry Short, Another McDonald's Clown, Fantasy Fails Reality
“ONE FRY SHORT OF A HAPPY MEAL”
----Banner headline on front page of “The Drudge Report”
For those of you too young to remember, or those with short attention spans or memory, The Drudge Report, founded by Matt Drudge is one of the first full-blown on-line reactionary publications to gain national traction. This was during the Clinton administration and Drudge was to report first, and almost singularly accurate, the sorry tale of Clinton and his affair with a young White House staffer named Monica Lewinsky. This gained him instant gravitas among ReSCUMlicans and others of a decidedly fascist bent. Drudge also became one of the go-to sources for that fat ass Rush Limbaugh as he daily snorkeled in the idiot wrong's reactionary septic system in constant search for material to gag up during his daily three-hour-long screeds.
So it comes as something of a shock to see Drudge openly declare what is so obvious to civilized people: tRUMP is a fraud.
For weeks now, Caesar Disgustus has been prancing about the land, doing the “double-jerk” (you know that dance on stage where he looks like he is masturbating two men at the same time) and telling his adoring audiences that Kamala really didn't work at McDonald's when she was young. The story goes that since she didn't list her McDonald's employment on her professional resumes, she couldn't possibly have held such a job. Calling her Lyin' Kamala (he has lost his powers of creativity here re-using an epithet previously reserved for Ted Cruz), he has of late vowed to work 'a shift' at McDonald's in order to demonstrate that the job isn't that hard and, of course, he can do it better. This is of a pattern for he told the auto workers that all they do is assemble previously manufactured parts out of a box and that a child could do it. All this in an appeal to blue-collar workers.
So this weekend it was put to the full test. Here we have video of Caesar Disgustus being introduced to the french fry machine. First he arrives in a suit, complete with his over sized clown red tie. After removing his jacket, gold cuff links can be seen on his french cuff dress shirt. He stands and listens as some poor hapless bastard attempts to explain how the machine works, how to use the timers and what do do when they go off. Then, donning the apron, he needs help and another employee, this one female, goes behind and ties the apron for him. Everyone who has ever worked in a fast-food joint is now shaking their heads, knowing immediately that this man is a fish out of water.
Well to make a not so long story short, it was a complete disaster. The fries he produced were soggy and not completely cooked. He failed. They transferred him to another job, this time the take-out window.
But the whole thing was a sham. The entire demonstration lasted about 15 minutes. Then this morning reports surfaced that the 'store' (McDonald's doesn't have restaurants, it has 'stores') was closed for four hours in order to hold this event. This event was populated by maggots, die-hard tRUMPers hell-bent on demonstrating he is one of the 'people'. He didn't work a 'shift', let alone report to this job every day, eight hours a day, week in and week out. He 'worked' 15 minutes and even then failed miserably. Not since Mike Dukkakis climbed in that tank, looking nothing so much as Snoopy sticking his head out to see where the machine was heading, has a presidential campaign stunt looked so ridiculous. Hell, it's even worse than that.
But he got his photo-0p, as they say, and it will fill the screens of Newsmax and Fox and Sinclair, to the rest of us he was just another McDonald's clown.
The media and the country are finally, after nearly a decade, getting wise to all this. As reported previously in these columns Cory Lewandowski, tRUMP's first campaign manager in 2016, admitted that the campaign had hired the audience in attendance at tRUMP Tower when he came down the escalator and announced that henceforth he would stink up the public forum. They used a New York talent agency to recruit his 'supporters' so that an illusion of popular demand could be created out of whole cloth.
More recently, the campaign has put “Fire Fighters for Trump” T-shirts and signs on the persons and in the hands of 'supporters' who aren't firefighters; “Union Workers for Trump” signs and T-Shirts on those who are not union workers; white people in a black church so that Disgustus can argue he appears to speak in black churches; in a move reminiscent of the Florida “Brooks Brothers Riot” in the aftermath of the 2000 election he is now choreographing people posing as blue collar workers who in fact are congressional staffers. One notable participant was a black man who worked in the office of the now thoroughly disgraced and convicted felon former Congressman George Santos.
TRUMP, it should have long since become apparent, is a thoroughgoing fraud. Everything about the man is fraudulent. His businesses, his family life, his political 'ideology'. It is all blue smoke and mirrors, all grandiose pretension. Fantasy become reality; you know, a reality show. And, oh yes, that “reality” show The Apprentice, the one that made tRUMP what he is today? That too was staged and scripted.
And what a miserable show it is. Here, at “Mickey D's” fantasy fails reality as our would be Caesar demonstrates beyond all doubt that his incompetence is so complete that even after they reportedly rehearsed this with him, he could not even rustle up a decent serving of french fries. Perhaps it was the 'serving' that did him in. Perhaps it is that for the first time in his life he is actually, if incompetently 'serving' someone. Or at least the prospect was in the offing.
Forcing himself to actually 'serve' someone. He couldn't bring himself to do that.
Imprison the bastard.
Oct 7, 2024
October 5, 2024: About As Expected, The Golden Swine, Sanitizing Vance
Well the Vice Presidential face-off is now in the books. It went about as expected. Vance, a tRUMP sycophant, parrots the hopeless prevaricator by replicating, with a straight, albeit likewise 'made-up- face, the lies of the Fuhrer. These are the minimum standards by which one remains a member in good standing among the Maggots; there are no known others.
Vance, another escapee from Yale Law School, had previously excoriated tRUMP, even at one time calling tRUMP a would-be Hitler. As so many before, Graham, Rubio, Cruz, he soon found his political career would be snuffed in the crib if he didn't bow down before the almighty. Accordingly, seemingly overnight, Vance found religion at the altar of The Donald and knelt and genuflected before the Golden Swine.
And so it was that we find the heavily cosmetic Vance confronted with the genuinely honest and straightforward Grandfather in a 'debate' in which Vance parroted tRUMP's lies with Walz countering with pleas for understanding.
Pointing out what they had in common, Walz went about sanitizing Vance by getting him to agree on several points, demonstrating in the process what is possible and why it is possible.
Walz “won” the debate, by all accounts given the polling data in the aftermath, further broadening the appeal of the Democratic ticket. He accomplished the goals of the task at hand. But he also made Vance, a really dangerous little fascist, appear reasonable if not quite normal. This may lay the groundwork for future trouble, but the crisis at hand is, at this point, more commanding.
There was almost no discussion, for example, of Project 2025, that vicious 900 page blueprint composed and published by The Heritage Foundation a ReSCUMlican stink-tank hell bent on creating a post democratic, post-constitutional regime. I will not dignify this effort by calling it a post-constitutional republic. In it the ReSCUMlicans lay out a platform that is an oligarch's wet dream, and a nightmare not only for representative governance but the middle class. Vance wrote the introduction to this piece of shit.
So, in large measure, Vance was let off the hook. He had his hands full defending the indefensible, most tellingly by his refusal to acknowledge that tRUMP got his corpulent ass kicked in 2020. Vance was thereby cornered into denying reality and demonstrating to the nation that he has kissed the ring; that he is now in full service to the villain.
And that, I suppose, is good enough for one night's work.
Imprison the Bastard.
Sep 30, 2024
September 30, 2024: Grandfather Taken From Us, To Laugh Again, Some Mischief
“Tim Walz is the grandfather taken from us by Rush Limbaugh and Rupert Murdoch”
----Anonymous
The author of the quote above is lost to history. It comes down to me from a conversation on a talk show in which the speaker could not recall who it was he was quoting or where it came from but I cite it here because it is so true.
Conservative, reactionary, hate radio and it's television counterpart have stolen one of life's treasures: a jolly, loving and caring grandfather. Old Grandpa has morphed under the constant bullshit of rage media into a bitter, cynical, cruel and hateful old man. In short, a Maggot. And nothing demonstrates how far it has gone, how much we have lost, than the emergence of the buoyant, cheerful, caring governor of Minnesota as the Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States. To put joy back into our politics, to laugh again is to demonstrate what Grandfather's everywhere used to do: put joy and fun into our lives. It was up to our parents to set the rules and instill discipline. It was up to Grandpa to break the rules and have fun. After all, he would, after some mischief, simply hand us back to our parents with no apologies. It was grandpa who showed up disguised as Santa on Christmas dispensing fudge literally by the pound. It was Grandpa who took us to the ball game. It was Grandpa who fed us Ice Cream.
Oh, what the fascist Hate mongers have wrought.
Walz has been billed as an attack dog for the campaign. I don't see it. His critique of Disgustus and everything he represents hits home. But his style is to point out the absurdity of it all rather than a full-blown frontal assault. And, remember, laughter is enabling. Laughter is uplifting. Laughter empowers rather than diminishes. Laughter is polite and all the more powerful in its politeness. Laughter is civilized. When he meets Shady Vance it will be more of an exercise in introducing long overdue civility than anything else.
And that will be welcome relief from this interminable nightmare of fear and loathing.
Sep 29, 2024
September 27, 2024: Ignorance On Display, He Knows Nothing, Another Sales Tax
Caesar Disgustus, demonstrating once again that 78 years upon this earth has proven powerless to instruct, has taken to touting tariffs as a means of raising revenue. He tells his equally ignorant audiences that foreign governments will pay the taxes and, therefore, they will be the entitled beneficiaries of the largesse of others. By this means we can abolish the IRS and liberate the nation from responsibility of funding the government. It is the 'boomers' last wet dream, following on the heels of 'peace and love', the merits of dropping acid, Reaganomics, smoking pot, the 'flat tax' and a host of other schemes, lotus dreams of a generation that were convinced by Eric Von Daniken in The Chariots of the Gods that aliens built the pyramids. The Generation of Swine have always been susceptible to such hogwash and this is only its latest iteration.
So here we have the Great Prevaricator claiming with a straight face that tariffs, yet another form of an upper class tax cut, will solve everything. But this isn't how it works.
It has been pointed out, ad nauseam it seems, that tariffs are levied upon goods coming into the United States at point of entry, meaning simply that an additional cost is simply added upon whatever it is that is being shipped into the United States. That cost is paid by the consumer, not the foreign government nor any one of its constituent companies. It is, simply put, a sales tax on the American consumer. ;
Yes, this country has imposed tariffs in its history; sometimes stiff tariffs. But it has done so, by and large, for very legitimate reasons.
In the beginning the American colonies, all of them, were creatures of European governments who were engaged in empire building. Now empires are more than mere expressions of military prowess; they are political and economic behemoths, held together by what was then called mercantile economic systems. The mercantile system was characterized as a 'closed' system in which the colonies supplied the raw materials, like lumber, cotton, iron, copper, etc, to the 'mother' country in this case England. The 'mother' country would manufacture goods like furniture, lamps, shoes etc, and ship them back to the colony in exchange for more raw materials and money. In this way materials and money would flow into the 'mother' country be it Spain, England, The Netherlands, France, and, with the help of the slave and drug trades make the emerging Capitalist class rich and powerful as they funded the armies necessary to impose their rule. It was in this context that the first international monopolies were established by various governments, such as the East India Tea Company that led, by degrees to the Boston Tea Party. The American Revolution began the demise of this order; the undoing of which played out well into the mid twentieth century; replacing by degrees the Mercantile with the Free Market paradigm.
But the concept of protectionism stubbornly remained, useful to our ancestors as a tool to establish their own domestic industries here in the United States and foster their survival by protecting the nascent enterprises from competition propped up by foreign empires. Therefore, our ancestors used tariffs to protect our emerging textile, machine tool, farm and other industries until they became large and powerful enough to compete in open markets.
That is the purpose of tariffs, to protect emerging domestic industry.
It follows that if we have no corresponding domestic industry to protect then the imposition of such import duties only add to the cost of the goods in question; in effect a mere sales tax. The tariff is not protecting a domestic enterprise, nor any in their employ. And, since The Generation of Swine have not only stood idly by, but indeed have actually encouraged (Reaganomics) the gutting of our manufacturing base, there are few domestic industries left to protect. Go to Walmart and look for any item made in the United States, it will be a long and fruitless search indeed. It has never occurred to the aging, rotting, turd, that at minimum the imposition of duties upon imports will reduce the quantity of imported goods thereby further increasing their price and, perhaps, causing widespread shortages as well. The shift of the tax burden from the income tax to tariffs simply compounds the error, raising prices by imposing an import duty and then further raising prices by creating shortages as foreign suppliers seek other markets. This is what happened when Disgustus imposed tariffs on steel and agricultural trade, acts which he was forced to reverse as the consequences became painfully apparent. This is what happens when one imposes ignorance upon the system.
Public policy is sometimes and unwieldy proposition. Public policies are crude instruments, changes to which are often fraught with unforeseen consequence. This is not the work of amateurs, less so of the decidedly and proudly ignorant.
Caesar Disgustus, the aging 78 year old relic of a bygone error is, undoubtedly, the last of the Generation of Swine to stand for election. He is singing the swan song of a hopelessly delusional generation that has made a pig's breakfast of everything it has touched; and which experience has proven powerless to instruct. And this, perhaps, is the last example; the last gasp.
Flush This Turd
Imprison the Bastard.
