Atlas Shrugged

No, not the 1957 Ayn Rand novel about an apocalyptic vision of the last stages of conflict between two classes of humanity—the looters and the non-looters. This refers to infectious disease pseudoscientist Scott Atlas whom Trump called on to be his medical expert quack to push herd immunity and call for Michiganders to ‘rise up’ against Michigan covid restrictions. Atlas shrugged and said ‘I can do that’. There is a tie back to the long ago ultra-libertarian novel. Scott Atlas clearly is on the side of the looters….stealing the life from thousands and thousands of Americans whose lives he’s ostensibly employed to protect.

The President’s Brain Is Missing

Donald Trump governed his entire 4 years without use of a brain. That’s a first in 58 presidential administrations going back to 1789… quite an accomplishment. We had an inkling his brain was missing when he claimed a landslide victory tho he lost the national vote by 2,900,000. He inexplicitly turned his sparse inauguration crowd into the largest ever. But we really knew his cranium was devoid of gray matter when he pondered injecting disinfectant to kill the covid virus. When he termed thousands of infections and deaths as 15 going down to 1, we knew the synapses in his head were firing blanks.

But as we suffered horribly with the president’s missing brain for four years, we celebrated the disappearance of his bloated, orange topped body starting election night. The grotesque sight of a brainless body leading Nuremberg style rallies has mercifully disappeared. Behind by 5,900,000 votes, the brainless body of Trump has retreated down into his White House bunker. He’s even eschewed his planned superspreader Thanksgiving dinner to flail about wildly, sans brain, in an hallucinatory effort to avoid becoming a private personage in a world that requires a functioning brain to survive.

The president’s brain is missing, bad. The president’s body is missing, good.

Duckworth delusionally wrong on Afghan troop withdrawal

 

My senator Tammy Duckworth never met a criminal U.S. war she didn’t love. She extolls her participation in the monstrous Iraq war as regularly as Rudy Giuliani once touted his heroic response to the 911 attacks. As congresswoman and now senator, she’s a staunch proponent of U.S. exceptionalism to maintain our many perpetual wars.

So it’s no surprise she’s out front opposing even meager troop withdrawals from Afghanistan. Her reasoning is a trifecta of lunacy. First, the generals are against it. That ignores civilian control of war policy. When would a general ever support end to their means of power and career advancement? Second, Duckworth claims leaving Afghanistan will get our soldiers killed. How? On the flight home from a war they should never have been sent to fight? Invading Afghanistan twenty years ago got 2,382 U.S. troops killed for nothing. The Taliban didn’t do 911. They could no more have stopped Osama bin Laden than the U.S. government could have stopped the Oklahoma federal building bombing. Third, leaving Afghanistan will endanger our national security. The idea that the Taliban, once they inevitably retake the Afghan government, will set their sights on the homeland is preposterous.

But for war hawk Duckworth, whose war service is fueling a decades long career peddling more endless war, no war hysteria falsehood will go unsaid.

You got your ass kicked, Mr. Trump

 You got your ass kicked, Mr. Trump

In 2016, Hillary Clinton won the national vote over Donald Trump by 2.9 million votes. Due to a thin margin in several swing states, Trump became president with 306 Electoral College votes to Clinton’s 232, marking the fifth time in 59 elections the presidency went to the second place finisher. But the vote did not fit Trump’s egomaniacal concept of victory and sway over the swamp he vowed to drain. So he lied repeatedly, calling his victory a landslide. Not satisfied with harmless lies he pivoted to profane lies, braying “We kicked their ass” in trumpeting Republican wins during his presidency. But Trump’s degrading, profane remarks as president weren’t limited to gloating over victories. He told his idolatrous supporters at his Nuremberg style campaign rallies to “Beat the shit out of them” referring to peaceful protesters at his rallies. Don’t worry about being arrested for such violence, Trump proclaimed, “I’ll pay your bail”.

In 2020, karma struck the Trump profanity filled election lies. His national vote loss is at 5,600,000 votes and rising. His electoral loss is heading for a flip of 2016; Biden 306 to Trump’s 232. The ass in the White House just had his ass handed to him on a platter. Every president, like every other human, swears. But Trump’s public profanity brings disgrace to himself, the Republican Party and America. Sadly, we’re left bidin’ our time till a normal president takes over January 20.