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November 1, 2025: Where Fashion Shits, “Puttin On The Ritz”, Isn't It Rich?

 

“Now, if you're blue

and you don't know where to go to

why don't you go 

And see where fashion shits

Puttin' on the Ritz.

----Parody of Irving Berlin's “Puttin' on the Ritz”

It is quite fitting to resurrect Irving Berlin at a time like this. Our erstwhile Caesar, Disgustus the Malignant, celebrated Halloween at his garish estate in Florida, hosting at Mar-a-Lardo a disgusting assemblage of scumbags which included his two sons, Grift and Graft, and their families. The Fete was billed as a celebration of The Great Gatsby, a novel I'm sure none of the attendees have ever read. So it is among the classless inheritors of wealth; men and women totally unaware of irony.

F. Scott Fitzgerald excoriated the pompousness, the entitlement, of the well-heeled in his magnum opus. But never mind. He comes down to the Rumps as a celebration of excess, and so the party. Billed as the “No One Ever Starved Because of a Party” extravaganza, was it Grift or was it Graft, that dressed his kids up in 100 dollar costumes. Oh yes, that was Junior, the most embarrassing of the two.

“No one ever starved because of a party” indeed. As SNAP funds are about to withheld, cutting food assistance to the most economically hard pressed in this country, some 40 million of our fellow citizens, as USAID has been eliminated and food destroyed at the docks instead of being sent to famine ravaged Africa, these scum celebrate their status on their faux totem, their noses high in the air, their snobbery on full-blown display.

“Different types who wear a daycoat

pants and stripes and cut away coat

perfect shits

puttin' on the Ritz

Come, lets mix where Rockefellers

Walk with sticks or umbrellas

in their mitts

puttin' on the Ritz”

Isn't it rich? Isn't it rich indeed. Here one beholds the Maggots, stewed in deep resentments of the 'elite', worshiping a toad now openly mocking them by conducting a public display of such garish ostentation as to humble the scions of the Guilded Age. Here before them stands, or rather shits, their Golden Idol, ensconced on his Guilded throne in a 'Palace” resembling a pimped-out Motel 6; a cheap and tawdry burlesque of real wealth and class.

This, Maggots, is your bobby prize.

“an bre're Putin, he jus' laugh and laugh”

Impeach and Imprison the Bastartd

October 29, 2025: The Great Vandal, Fait Accompli, Golden Swine

 

“We are citizens, not subjects; we have presidents, not kings.”

----Quotations of Chairman Joe

“Executive Mansion, Washington D.C.”

This would have been the heading from any communication from the Lincoln administration or any administration in the 19^th century. From its inception to sometime early in the 20^th century what has become known as the “White House” was known simply as “The Executive Mansion”. The choice of nomenclature is revealing. The White House is a mansion, not a palace. It is the residence and offices of the nation's Chief Executive, not a potentate. We are a republic, not a monarchy; we are citizens, not subjects.

In this context, the “People's House” is, by comparison to 'presidential palaces' say for instance in Russia, or the regal domicile of Buckingham Palace, a rather modest structure. John Erlichmann, of the Nixon administration, once remarked that on his first day on the job he looked out the window of his White House office and realized that he was operating out of a house. It is, by comparison a rather humble, but elegant structure. It is so by design. It is the people's HOUSE!.

A great deal of thought went into it, from the original architect to the Palladian railings along the roof, a touch included in the original plans by Jefferson to Truman's balcony added during the his administration as the White House, then about to collapse, was rebuilt and restored to its original luster.

It is balanced, as the East and West wing compliment each other in intentionally understated symmetry.

This has been destroyed.

The great vandal, the malignant narcissist, the real estate despoiler, has vandalized our national treasure. In the dead of night, he has destroyed the East Wing of the White House in order to build in its place a 90,000 square foot tribute to his corruption, a ballroom in which the high and mighty may come to be fleeced as they pay tribute to the almighty one. It promises to dwarf the original structure, dimensions sure to enshrine the golden swine permanently into the psyche of the nation. An indellible” mark upon our national consciousness, much as a sledge hammer or wrecking ball upon the skull of America.

The “tRUMP Ballroom” it is to be called, a gaudy, garish, gouache edifice; a trailer-trash idea of grandeur, a pimping out of the “people's house” now made to resemble a New Orleans bordello. It is, in its own way, a monument to Caesar Disgustus; a disgusting tribute to the nation's foremost political whore.

As if this gilded, gold-plated, obscenity weren't bad enough, tRUMP has hauled out a model of an Arch, an imitation of the Arc de Triomphe; the Triumphal Arch built by Napoleon to commemorate his victories during the Napoleonic Wars. Our Disgusting Caesar wishes to do to our nation's capital what the SCAMWAY boys did to Grand Rapids, Michigan. One can go nowhere within the city without encountering the names of DeBoss and Van Scandal. So it will be with Washington as the obscenity of this maladministration will be forever imprinted upon the nation's capital. One can imagine this obscenity towering over the Lincoln Memorial. What would be placed atop the artifice? Lady liberty? Perhaps a Golden Swine. The Arc de cochan d'or; The Arc of the Golden Swine. A fitting replacement for the ancient Golden Calf before which the Maggots can gather and weep.  

Rick Wilson author of “Whatever Trump Touches Dies”, has declared in his podcast “The Elephant in the Room”, that the next administration must rectify this obscenity. Wilson declared that every Democratic candidate must promise to bulldoze this monstrosity, eradicate ever particle of it, reduce it to gravel and dump it in the ocean and restore the White House to its previous splendor.

Precisely. Every bit of his golden pastiche, this cheap regal imitation must be eradicated; every executive order must be erased; every bill passed by his rubber-stamp congressional sycophants must be repealed; every vestige of his existence, including what he did during the first maladministration must be undone.

Caesar Disgustus is a carbuncle upon the nose of our favorite Uncle Sam. It is long since past time to do something about it. The next Democratic Administration must understand that there is no 'return to normal'. A national cleansing is in order here. Disgustus and his minions must be prosecuted and imprisoned.

Impeach, Convict, Remove from Office, Prosecute, Convict, Imprison.

October 4, 2025: Beautiful New Hampshire, Good To Be Back, This Is God's Country

 

My wife and I find ourselves back in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. It is the color season and although spectacular the annual autumn display is a bit subdued this year. This is due to a drought in the region, the rivers are very low and the streams are about dried up. Nevertheless, it is good to be back. It has been 8 years since I have last walked this terrain.

I was introduced to this region 50 years ago. My brother and I were bringing my son back to his mother in Worcester, Mass when we decided to head north and see Mount Washington, the highest peak in the Northeast United States. Here we set out to climb Mount Mooselacki one late afternoon only to realize that not only is the mountain higher than we had reckoned but the sun sets an hour earlier at this end of the time zone. A rather hurried descent was called for and we made it back to our car just a bit after dark. One can only imagine sleeping on the cold ground with no cover overnight because of some rudimentary miscalculations. I didn't make that same mistake again

The next time I arrived, I was prepared. About two thousand dollars of hiking equipment, backpack, cook stove, sleeping bag, tent, the works and we were ready. Accompanied by one of my ex wives, we ascended Mount Garfield. It was one of the great experiences of my life. I climbed up on an outcropping of granite and beheld the Franconia Ridge jutting up out of the clouds below and, looking to my east, Mount Washington high above the clouds. It was some sight, watching the clouds roll over the lower terrain while one watched from the overlook beneath my feet. We soldiered on, as they say, climbing Mt. Lafayette and further South along the ridge, descending past the AMC (Appalachian Mountain Club) hut near the Lake of the Clouds. This was in 1980 about this time of year.

We returned again a year later and hiked the trail from the south up the ridge. The colors were spectacular. I've never seen anything like it. On a clear day the yellow, orange, auburn, red and green panorama would literally leap out at you in the bright sunshine. The last day we spent on the ridge we awoke to two inches of snow on our tent. When we had completed our descent we were greeted by highways full of tourists, traffic literally bumper-to-bumper as people from all over New England and, indeed, the world come to see this annual spectacle.

I've been back since. My wife and I were here 8 years ago, and reached the peak of Mount Washington via the Cog Railway. This being my second trip up the mountain via the train. I had previously taken my son up the mountain during one of my infrequent visits to the area. It was our first camping experience.

This is god's country. I've heard people who have lived in New England, some former military men who have served here, talk about the scenery here. It is true. An old friend, now departed, who served in the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine and who had traveled the world would rave about it, saying that nothing he had seen, not even Alaska, held a candle to this. He's right. This is god's country.

October 1, 2025: Kimmel Returns, Yet Another Beating, Raise a Glass

 

Jimmy Kimmel is back on the air.

It took only a few days for the media to adjust itself to the reign of terror brought about by the Orange Turd. One would assume that the first amendment prevails here, but one would be sadly mistaken. One would assume that Disney, the parent company of ABC, would have been motivated by principle to re-instate their late-night comedy host. But NOOOOO!

What prevailed here was that the action to suspend Kimmel for making rather mundane commentary around the death of Charlie Kirk, provoked a backlash bordering on a national boycott of all things Disney. Hell, even my uncle canceled his Disney Plus subscription. Reservations at Disney amusement parks, already in the tank thanks to the ill treatment of foreign tourists by this wretched administration, suffered yet another beating.

The awful truth is that neither comedy, decency nor the first amendment prevailed here. What motivated the corporate interests to reinstate Kimmel was a loss of some 14 billion dollars in business due to the ensuing Disney boycott. The people had spoken in the only currency now recognized by this fascist state.

So let us raise a glass to free speech such as it is, or what is left of it; restricted as it is withing the limits of hard, cold, cash.

We shall see how long before our erstwhile Caesar breaks the bonds of the marketplace.

Impeach and Imprison

September 21, 2025: Dictatorship of Capital 2.0, Above Any Criticism, Done Nothing Right

 

Benito Mussolini, the creator of modern fascism, defined his 'movement' as an authoritarian government in support of corporatism. The Nazi's who called themselves “National Socialists” were 'socialist' in name only. Hitler joined what was then a worker's party and transformed it into a fascist movement on the example of Mussolini's Italy, even going so far as trying to replicate, in 1923, Mussolini's “march on Rome” with his “Beer Hall Putsch” in Munich with was intended as the first step to a march on Berlin. Hitler purged the 'socialists' from the party but kept the name so as to put a 'populist' veneer on his repressive regime. Disgustus is attempting much the same thing; a hostile takeover of the Republican Party, keeping the name but gutting all 'republican' substance from the movement.

As evidence of this I give you exhibit number one: his open declaration last weekend that criticizing him “should be made illegal”. There you have it. A bald faced assertion that he is, and has right to be, above any criticism. Disgustus is always right, after all. Just ask him. Hell, just wait five minutes and he will have told you.

It has been nearly three months since reports of the second quarter GDP were due to be released. We have yet to see them. There are reports that the government is delaying or suspending economic reports, including inflation, in order to keep the country uninformed as to the real condition of the economy. We may well be, given the first quarterly reports already into a recession. The tRUMPcession it will no doubt be called, brought upon us by this blithering idiot's senseless tariffs and other economic policies.

He fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because of miserable employment numbers. This month's employment figures are even more dismal raising the question of how many directors of the agency must he fire and replace before they finally “get the numbers right”.

He rabbits on in daily interviews and news conferences that he has beat inflation. He has not.

He tells the nation that unemployment is down. It is not

He boasts that we have entered a new 'golden age'. We have and will not.

He continually whines that the media do nothing but criticize him, how persecuted he is, and then goes on and repeats the same damn lies. No one seriously takes him to account.

.

Yes, the criticism has come often. But there is so much to criticize. He's done nothing right. He hasn't done anything, save cut taxes and regulations on corporate America and the country's billionaires, laying bare the true fascist essence of this maladministration: government in service of corporatism. The dictatorship of Capital. And now, criticisms of this despotism, as with any tin-horn dictator may well become illegal.

Impeach and Imprison

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Author's note: To see where this was heading, I refer you to my post on January 22, 2011: The Dictatorship of Capital, Paradise Lost, Silence of the Lambs. 

https://wandererandshadow.blogspot.com/2011/01/january-22-2011-dictatorship-of-capital.html

September 20, 2025: The Court Jester, A Humorless Lot, Republic Be Damned

 

“Against boredom, the gods themselves struggle in vain; against laughter and ridicule every tyranny is defenseless.”

----Quotations of Chairman Joe

Every palace had its court jester. Every King has his critics. Even a monarchy tolerates and, indeed, sometimes welcomes criticisms and comic relief. Not so dictatorship.

We are witnessing the end of comic relief. First it was Stephen Colbert whose program is to be mothballed come next summer; the announcement of which, coming after yet another “presidential” tirade, sent a chill through the entertainment industry. Caesar Disgustus then announced that “Jimmy Kimmel is next”.

Jimmy Kimmel's time has arrived. In the wake of Kimmel's perfectly reasonable commentary on the idiot wrong's reaction to the murder of Charlie Kirk, tRUMP and his FCC chairman Brenden Carr announced punitive measures forcing ABC to indefinitely postpone the broadcast of the show. Nextar, an ultra 'conservative', aka fascist, broadcast enterprise announced that it would no longer broadcast Kimmel's show and, since it's group of stations constitute a significant portion of the ABC network it was announced that the program is now in indefinite suspension. Disgustus crowed on his anti-social platform Untruth Anti-Social that Seth Meyer and Jimmy Fallon are next. Soon, everyone, save the fascist howlers and hate mongers will be expunged from the media and all will be in lockstep adoration of the Golden Swine.

So it is with fascist dictatorships. A friend of mine once related his experiences hitchhiking through Spain during the age of Francisco Franco. You didn't talk politics while traveling through Spain he told me, much less laugh about it. It was against the law to make jokes about Adolph Hitler, to do so would land you in a concentration camp. Fascists are a humorless lot. Gone is Kimmel, but Kilmeade is still holding court.

And so it is that rage has been brought to a fever pitch by an unhinged shitting 'president' enabled by media who have become adept at transforming that rage into internet 'clicks' and armpit deodorant commercials. By god, there is political power to be gained and money to be made by stoking rage, free speech and the republic be damned.

It is a perfect storm of self interest, political and commercial. The networks seeking accommodation with His Petulance so that this maladministration will not hinder the headlong rush to further concentrate the media into ever fewer hands, almost all of which are now full-blown fascist enterprises.

Gone is the independence of CBS which now has a political apparatchik in the house monitoring its 'political bias'. CNN has gone full Maggot. ABC and NBC have bent the knee as have the print media. Gone are Joy Reid, Whooppie Goldberg, Rosie O'Donnell, and at least half dozen more who were critical of this thin-skinned megalomaniac. Anyone that pushes back on his endless lying; anyone who confronts this stinking turd with the facts; anyone who calls out our gold painted 'Caesar' risks termination.

His lies, his shameless assertions must be broadcast uncritically. We must all kneel and scrape before the throne of the almighty Caesar, and do so without benefit of any comic relief.

Which leaves us crying “where IS the court jester when we need him.”

Impeach and Imprison the Son-of-a-Bitch.

September 17, 2025: Kilmeade the Idiot, “Fox and Fiends,” Fraud News.

 

“Just give them unwanted lethal injections, kill them all”

----Brian Kilmeade, co-host of Fraud News' “Fox and Fiends”

It's been a week now since they sat there in the studio, perched upon their imperial asses, doing running commentaries on the problems facing this country. None of them has lifted a finger to study or inform themselves upon any topic whatever; none of them have worked a day in their lives, the only perspiration the result of studio lamps. None of them could pass a high school civics lesson, much less a college foundation course. The topic was homelessness in the United States, a subject wholly foreign to these millionaire's, and about which they clearly have no understanding. Nevertheless, there they were, holding court, complaining about the problem and demanding that the homeless submit to 'treatment' or face incarceration. Then Kilmeade, the most savagely ignorant among them, blurted out that they should be given lethal injections, against their will, ending with the exclamation “kill them”. His two colleagues uttered nary a gasp; and neither, in the aftermath, has the media.

It took until the weekend for Kilmeade to issue an apology, of sorts, in a time slot that has only a fraction of his mid-week audience. It was a limp-wrist-ed effort, visually looking like another Fox personality, that used prophylactic Jesse Watters.

This is a consequence of a forced, fraudulent, toxic masculinity. Watters, who replaced Sucker Carlson, who in tern replaced Bill-O-Reilly in Fox's prime time weekday news slot, has a demonstrable problem with masculinity. I mean just watch him.

He protests, too vehemently it seems, that he is 'straight', that he is heterosexual. But his body language betrays otherwise. He tells his audience that real men don't eat ice cream, and should never be seen drinking from straws; the phallic images evidently present themselves too graphically, too abhorrently. One should never, to be man, drink a milk shake.

“he can't be a man

'cause he doesn't smoke

the same cigarettes as me”

----The Rolling Stones “(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction”

This is the mindset over at Fox, an organization that has swallowed whole the phallus of masculinity. Tough guys who never show any emotion, any compassion, any empathy. Hitler and the Nazis built an entire regime on this kind of sadistic perversity. This is one of the recurring themes evident in every fascist regime, and here you have it on full display.

“Kill them all”.

There are many homeless in the United States. Some estimate the number at nearly three quarters of a million. There are probably many more. Many are veterans of our armed services who have fought our nation's wars. Many are families made homeless by unemployment or underemployment. Many are now in the streets because they have been bankrupted by unmet medical bills. Some are there because of mental illness. None are getting any help and, being homeless, cannot now vote in order to get the nation's attention. They have fallen off the radar; they are the truly powerless.

“Kill them all.”

But they will find no empathy here, not on hate radio, certainly not on Fraud News. This is the state of political discourse in this country.

“Kill them all.”

How many are we to euthanize Brian? At what point does it reach genocide? What is clear is that the mindless Kilmeade has not thought the proposition through. He hasn't thought anything through. He doesn't think. He only reacts, like any true reactionary.

“Kill them all.”

It is time to challenge Rupert Murdoch's U.S. Citizenship, and question how he could ever have passed a citizenship examination. It is time to repeal the Communications Act of 1996 and return our media to real Americans. It is time to seize Murdoch's assets, challenge the broadcast license of Fraud News, and return to responsible broadcast journalism.