American Bullshit

He looked at his watch and lost the election. Those were the days.

This photo pretty much sums him up: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article222486135.html

This is tough to read, but it’s concise, true, and timely:

America Has Survived Illegitimate Regimes Before. Can We Survive Trump’s?

“As he continues to drag the United States into the authoritarian abyss, the cry of “This is not who we are!” rises up as if it were an incantation that can exorcize America’s demons.

But the evil remains because we have not collectively acknowledged the simple truth: Trump is illegitimate. He’s a usurper, a squatter and a fraud. A pretender in the Oval Office. He snaked into the White House on the back of Republican-sponsored voter suppression and by playing footsies with the Russians.

Instead of fully acknowledging this hard truth, far too many Americans have been intent on maintaining the facade of order: salutes coming off of Air Force One, pardoning turkeys, White House “press conferences,” tree lighting and Hanukkah ceremonies even in the wake of a slaughter in a synagogue. So intent are they on making the abnormal seem normal that they have sacrificed the very substance of democratic governance.“

@¡Andrew!: I’m waiting for someone to say it who’s not me or HuffPo. Meaning: I’ve been saying it for two years, as clearly as I can, as forcefully as I can, but nobody gives a shit about me, random HuffPo writer, or generic tweeter.

It needs to filter into the Governing Class to take hold — that, or millions of people so the Governing Class can’t ignore it. It needs to filter into the Times and WaPo, and from there into The National Conversation. Sucks that that’s how shit works around here, but that’s how shit works around here. Short of a revolution.

The good news — highly provisional — is that I’ve been seeing signs of that in the past few months, green shoots of awareness in a field of shit, indications among people deemed participants in The National Conversation that maybe, just maybe, there’s a deep fundamental illegitimacy afoot here, something that needs addressing before all hell breaks loose.

Just indications, and only at the fringes. But it’s there, and it can’t be written off as lefties shrieking about fascism. Remains to be seen whether those green shoots take root or are stomped out.

@nojo: Can you even imagine how the political and media whores will react once CaliguBush and Prezinazi Pussygrabber-AntiChrist finally croak?

They’re gonna have to invent a whole new branch of yoga to describe the contortions necessary for them to praise the two worst shitstains that have afflicted our nation in over a century.

@¡Andrew!: I had the same thought on FB regarding Trump, and I’m kinda looking forward to it. Hope to see it soon!

George H.W. Bush is still dead.

And it’s Indictment Day once again. Robert Mueller is like that Very Good Looking man who thinks he’s doing you this huge favor by allowing you to try to get him off. Just blow your load already, jeezus.

We’ll know the end is near once the Evilungelical ChrISIStians jump ship. All bets are off after that.

@¡Andrew!: I do not think that press will ever change how they regard Trump. Except for Fox. I think that Trump will be like Harding in that regard.

@¡Andrew!: I do not think that Religious Right will jump ship as much as float away looking for another host to latch onto.