LET THEM EAT CAKE!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/02/trump-cost-ballroom-government-shutdown
PREDICTIONS
04 Oct 2025 Leave a comment
in Political Predictions, Uncategorized Tags: Autocracy, bigotry, Israel will annex Gaza and the West Bank, Politics, Predictions, religion, The 2028 presidential election, The second MAGA insurrection, The US Dystopia
Years ago, I used to wonder just how the good people of Germany in the 1930s allowed Hitler to take power, an allowance that directly resulted in the deaths of ~17 million people—military and civilian men, women and children. This included six million innocent Jews for having committed the crime of being born into the Hebrew culture.
Of course, Hitler also had a strong influence on the other two Axis nations, Japan and Italy, both autocratic governments. The WW2 death toll in all was between 70 million and 85 million people, including tens of millions of military and civilian casualties on all sides. Note that Trump tends to side with dictators of other countries and against NATO and the European Union. Hmm, seems to be a pattern here.
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Addemdems:
Prediction No. 2, Trump will not willingly leave the White House in 2029.
Trump is going to use the massive, peaceful protest on OCTOBER 18 (which I intend to join) as an excuse to declare a national emergency, invoke the Insurrection Act, and attempt to suspend, or more likely, forcefully control the mid-term elections by intimidating voters with a show of military might and possibly seize the voting machines in predominantly Democratic districts.
If the judiciary orders him to stop his autocratic power grab, he will ignore them. At that point, we can count only on commanding officers of the military to refuse to assist him by citing their pledge to the Constitution.
I expect, then, that some trumped-up (pun intended), goosestepping, heel clicking loyalist commanders whom Trump has installed will heed his call to trample, or even shoot the protesters, which he once suggested in his first term (per Mark Esper, Trump’s Secretary of Defense in his first term, during an interview with Norah O’Donnell).
We can only hope at that point that commanders of honor, true patriots, will intervene, depose Trump and (my wet dream) install Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, or AOC as president (any combination of the three) and one other of the three as vice president.
This addendum will unfold, but likely in various ways. However, the core prediction—his declaration of the Insurrection Act and national emergency—will still come to pass. I’m curious to see if his SCOTUS will attempt to stop him.
PREDICTIONS:
1. I read a piece about Artificial Intelligence in “The Guardian” the other day ‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?. It occurred to me that Trump and his loyalist appointees will team with AI billionaires to use, and likely already are using Artificial Intelligence to groom very young children and teens to love the macho manosphere—Friedrich Nietzsche’s and the evangelical dream of muscular supermen who are “meant” to rule over and use women, dominate the weak, have no empathy for those less mentally or physically or financially fortunate, (especially if they are not of anglo decent) and have no regard for whom they hurt, even the children left traumatized. Diversity, empathy, and inclusion are to be eradicated from society, and praise for “ze Leadah” is to be all we hear.
We see this growing daily now as Trump builds his MAGA army of unidentified masked thugs and urges the armed forces to use American cities to hone their battle skills by terrorizing migrants and citizens alike.
As I’ve said many times before, while most people continue to say, “it can’t happen here,” it damn well indeed is happening here, and the more we ignore it, the worse it will get. Yes, it is happening to other people right now, but it’s just getting started. The appetites of brutal, narcissistic, picture-posting leaders can never be satisfied.
So, how much are we going to give him? Our free speech is already under full assault. The free press is now caving to his demands. He ignores the Constitution with impunity because he has completely politicised the Justice Department and the Supreme Court. He has now been given approval by the SCOTUS for his army of masked thugs to terrorize the populations of a growing number of cities. He controls all three branches of government thanks to his sycophantic Republican party denying approval of constitutionally loyal democratic appointees and appointing only justices loyal only to him. The SCOTUS has effectively become an arm of the White House.
2. Trump will not willingly leave the White House in 2029. The second insurrection is already ongoing. The only caveat will be if Trump decides to pass his bloody sword over to Donald Trump Jr. The next presidential election, if it happens, will not matter even if the Democrats win the House and Senate in 2026. Trump will use his masked, MAGA Gestapo, and the military, soon to be staffed with loyalist leaders, to keep his family in power. There will be blood in 2028, or sooner.
3. There will never be a two-state solution to the Gaza-Israel debacle. The Likud Party of Netanyahu will occupy Gaza and the West Bank for a few years, then annex them and push most or all Palestinians out of their homes, confiscating their land just as they did within a few years after England and the USA appropriated Palestinian land to create the nation of Israel, sparking over three-quarters of a century of bitter hatred and bloodshed.
Dispatch From the Department of Irony
17 Sep 2025 Leave a comment
in Uncategorized Tags: Hypocrasy, Irony, Pam Bondi, Poorly educated, Republican Congress, Trump appointees, US Supreme Court Justices
Concerning U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s pledge to “absolutely target” people who use “hate speech”:
From The Guardian – https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/17/pam-bondi-hate-speech-charlie-kirk
Really, Pam? As I’ve pointed out, poorly educated government officials−mostly Republican congressional members, Trump-appointed Executive officials, and Right-wing Supreme Court Justices−don’t understand irony. I’ll add to that, hypocrisy. No one in our government spews more divisive hate speech and lies than our age-stunted, 5-year-old, petulant president, Donald Trump (still in diapers).
Are ya “absolutely targeting” him, Pam? We should expect better from the nation’s top Law enforcement officer.
Rep. Clay Higgins Doesn’t Understand Irony
14 Sep 2025 Leave a comment
in Acts of the Ignoble, America's shame, Political Cartoon Tags: Charlie Kirk, Christian Nationalism, Irony, Politics, Rep. Clay Higgins, Violence
From the Daily Kos:
Rep. Clay Higgins, the deeply problematic Louisiana Republican, threatened to have anyone who he says “belittled the assassination of Charlie Kirk” banned from social media platforms.
“If they ran their mouth with their smartass hatred celebrating the heinous murder of that beautiful young man who dedicated his whole life to delivering respectful conservative truth into the hearts of liberal enclave universities, armed only with a Bible and a microphone and a Constitution… those profiles must come down,” Higgins wrote in a post on X of Kirk, who was gunned down on Wednesday at a college event in Utah. “So, I’m going to lean forward in this fight, demanding that big tech have zero tolerance for violent political hate content, the user to be banned from ALL PLATFORMS FOREVER.”
My comment: I do not condone violence of any kind. But Rep. Clay Higgins’ threats are as ironic as they can get, considering that such angry words actually further enflame and encourage some folks on the right to seek revenge, especially when many were already calling for “war.”
Dispach from the Office of the Stable Genius
12 Jul 2025 Leave a comment
in Acts of the Ignoble, America's shame, Childhood Development, Con Games, Donald Trump, Education
I can certainly forgive most Americans for not knowing that Liberia’s official language is English. But Donald Trump, obviously a legacy college graduate from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, knows neither economics nor English language history, nor US history, nor civics, nor much of anything else a well-nurtured and educated person would know.
But, to be fair, he has apparently earned a Doctorate in the Art of the Bamboozle under the tutelage of his father. This is clear enough since he has become the greatest con-man, swindler, and deceiver in American history. An absolute embarrassment to our nation, his rise and popularity highlight the dark consequences of our flawed Constitution that allows corporate and private-interest money to corrupt politics (an open invitation to self-serving politicians), and—irony of ironies—unchecked propaganda in the media (the darkest, destructive side of free speech).
Years ago, after researching the rise of deceptive speech in the Republican party and certain segments of the media for a novel, I concluded that any Democracy that allows deception in the media and private-interest money in politics will devolve into an authoritarian oligarchy. Good luck, America.
THE POST TRUTH DISUNITED FASCIST STATES OF AMERICA IS CAVING TO TREASONOUS TRUMP
23 May 2025 Leave a comment
in Uncategorized Tags: bigotry, Fascism, history, hitler, Law, Politics, religion, The Guardian, treasion, Trump
Thanks to most evangelical and fundamentalist Christian voters, the far-right propaganda “news” outlets (the main one being the White House), the oft-repeated phrase, “No one is above the law” [in the USA], is now a blatant lie! I’m sick of hearing it.
I’ve heard for years that, in a political argument, any comparison of an American president to Hitler is a loser. Yet for those who follow the political news in the US and check the facts, it should be clear enough that the verboden name “Hitler” is appropriate when referencing Donald Trump, the American Führer.
No, he has not established death camps for those he hates (e.g., liberals, immigrants and refugees of color, LGBT+ communities, the working poor, and anyone who advocates for social and economic justice [DEI] born of empathy for those less fortunate or those who oppose him in any way). His total lack of empathy, honor and truth, his increasing brutality and lawless cruelty continue to sink into the depthless abyss people usually assign to inhuman beasts. He has repeatedly and flagrantly breached the 4th Amendment (illegal search and seizure), the 5th and the 14th Amendments (due process), and Article II, Section 1, Clause 8 (oath of office) without consequence. He was convicted of 34 felony counts in a court of law, again with no punishment.
Too, since it is now clear that his sycophantic DOJ and the Republican Party prostrate themselves before him and the “justice” system lacks the means of enforcing its rulings and the ongoing replacement of commanding officers in the military with men pledging loyalty not to the Constitution, but to him, I do not rule out the possibility of death camps in our future.
FROM THE GUARDIAN, an article on our despicable lying president.
The Continuing Crucifixion of Liberty in the USA
18 Jul 2024 1 Comment
in Acts of the Ignoble, America's shame, Antipathy, Corruption in the U.S. Government, Religious Indoctrination, Right-wing Deception Tags: Animal Farm, Blaspheme, Christianity, Crucifixion, Donald Trump, Politics, religion, Republican Party, Theocracy
The Crucifixion of Liberty, created by Max T. Furr on 7/18/2024
I am reminded of a quote from George Orwell’s classic novel, Animal Farm: “All Animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
As it turns out, Animal Farm may be the perfect allegory for the USA if the Trump-Vance team assumes the “throne” in November. Non-Christian Americans may be facing the darkest future of all—the return of inforced anti-blasphemy laws across the nation.
According to an editorial today in The Guardian by Sidney Blumenthal, “Earlier this month, the Republican National Committee endorsed the party platform, a document that contained a plank pledging to create a new federal agency to defend Christian nationalism: ‘To protect Religious Liberty, Republicans support a new Federal Task Force on Fighting Anti-Christian Bias that will investigate all forms of illegal discrimination, harassment, and persecution against Christians in America.’”
When far-right Christians speak of religious freedom, they do not mean religious freedom for all, because they’ve never accepted the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment which guarantees freedom of conscience for every citizen in matters of religion. They want Christian dominance in American society, i.e., a theocracy.
Therefore, the only way to prevent such an occurrence is for either a Democratic President to win in November or for congressional Democrats to gain a supermajority in Congress.
DOES THE BIBLE FORBID SAME-GENDER SEXUAL RELATIONS?
12 Jul 2024 7 Comments
in Life Styles, religion Tags: Biblical Claims, Homosexuality, Reason vs. Faith
Suppose God created nature, as is claimed in the Bible and is demanding that we must act accordingly while at the same time forbidding humans to have same-gender sexual relations. In that case, we have a serious contradiction between what God forbids in the Bible, and what we see in the nature that he created:
ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE, homosexual activities are strictly forbidden:
Romans 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
ACCORDING TO WHAT WE SEE IN NATURE:
“Same-sex behaviour ranging from co-parenting to sex has been observed in over 1,000 species with likely many more as researchers begin to look for the behaviour explicitly. Homosexuality is widespread, with bisexuality even more prevalent across species.”
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/190987/scientists-explore-evolution-animal-homosexuality/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0QNwA82SG6EPwl7qPkdUnk2bnAPfgjjaCPzaP436LCYClGtu8NU8K6GK4_aem_WmhxUzpmNDHqciIWAb2trw
Your opinions will be welcomed and responses will be civil.
THE HOLY LAND: Home of the Most Intense, Hate-Filled Religious Brutality on Earth
01 May 2024 9 Comments
in Dishoner, Religious Certitude is Madness Tags: Annexation, Bible, genocide, Israeli Hamas War, Likud Party, religion, Remember Amalek
Can there be any doubt now about Netanyahu’s intentions and that of Hamas? While Hamas has been advocating for the complete eradication of Israel, Netanyahu’s Likud Party has been calling for the annexation of virtually all Palestinian territory since its inception and pointing to its Bible for justification.
Netanyahu is vowing to open a full assault on Rafah ‘with or without’ hostage deal even as mediators renew efforts to secure a truce ahead of the invasion of the city where more than 1 million people are sheltering.
As Netanyahu said at the beginning of the current war, “Remember Amalek!” He was referencing 1 Samuel 15: 2-3.
1 Samuel 15:2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.
1 Samuel 15:3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
Don’t get me wrong. The underlying issue is Netanyahu’s Likud Party’s founding doctrine and their interpretation of the term, “Zionism.” The meaning was, and is, the acquisition of all Palestinian land from the river to the sea.
Israel began forcing out the Palestinians from their generational homes in the new Israel beginning in 1948 when England, with the blessings of all predominantly Christian Western nations, took most of Palestine away from the Palestinians and created the new Israel. Upon the formation of the Likud Party, they penned their platform:
The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel)
a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty.
b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a “Palestinian State,” jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace.
The map shown below shows the boundaries from two different sections of the Bible which the Likud Party aspires to annex.
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” —Blaise Pascal
Netanyahu’s Own Words: “Remember Amalek!”
17 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in Uncategorized Tags: gaza, genocide, Hamas, Hypocrisy, Israel, news, palestine, religion, Tom Cotton
First, a personal note: I’ve been away for quite some time, revising my novel, The Empathy Imperative. I’m still working on it and expect to republish under a different title.
First, a personal note: I’ve been away for quite some time, revising my novel, The Empathy Imperative. I’m still working on it and expect to republish under a different title.
Subhead From THE GUARDIAN: “Republican senator Tom Cotton calls for vigilantism to break up Gaza protests.
“Outcry as Cotton says those inconvenienced by protesters blocking roads and airports should ‘take matters into own hands.’ . . . arguing that people in his state would inflict bodily violence on the protesters, whom he called ‘antisemitic’ and ‘pro-Hamas.'”
Looking back, Cotton not only refused to condemn the 1/6/21 insurrectionists—even though he was so fearful of them at the time that he had a staffer bring him a knife to defend himself as he cowered in a locked room with others—but he also objected to their prosecution and convictions (without having watched the evidence presented by the Select Committee on the insurrection or otherwise read it).
And notice Cotton’s abysmal ignorance and utter indifference to our most treasured right—free speech and the right to peacefully protest government actions and policies.
The pro-Palestinian protesters are not anti-Semitic for protesting Israel’s indiscriminate killing (by bombs and STARVATION) of over 30,000 Palestinians. Virtually everyone condemned the inhuman Hamas terror attack killing over a thousand Israelis and capturing hundreds more. The people to whom Cotton referred were protesting the ongoing virtual genocide OF PALESTINIANS, MOSTLY WOMEN AND CHILDREN. They are not protesting in favor of Hamas. As well, they rightfully protest against the USA for paying only lip service to “pressuring” Netanyahu to stop killing civilians while sending him the bombs to keep killing them. He has no intentions of stopping the genocide.
CONSERVATIVES AND LIBERALS, Lend me your ears!
12 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
in a just society, Corruption in the U.S. Government, Failing Capitalism, Nonpartisan Government Reform, Politics Tags: Conservatives, Liberals, nonpartisan, People Power, Power to the people, video, Voter Power
This is by far the BEST NONPARTISAN video about how to end government corruption and dysfunction in our government ON BOTH SIDES. We ALL need to get behind this. STOP the heated arguments back and forth and join to get this accomplished! Most Americans, right and left, agree to the points in this video:
Catch the Poop-Train to Washington, DC
14 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in Acts of the Ignoble, Corruption in the U.S. Government, Dishoner, family values, Politics Tags: EPA, Government Corruption, Politics, Scott Pruitt, Trump
Many folks have already read or heard about the Alabama poop train, but the whole story hasn’t been told until now and it tracks stinkingly directly to the White House. The level of corruption in our highest positions of government is truly astonishing. Who would have ever thought that our nation’s leadership would have come to this?
Watch at least this first segment of Rachel Maddow’s exposé.
Of Democratic Invertebrates and Republican Carnivorous Dicks.
23 May 2018 6 Comments
in America's shame, Dishoner, U.S. economy Tags: Economic Justice, Hoover Administration, Humor, Politics, Reaganomics, Recession, supply side economics, Trickle-down economics
Bill Mahar is spot on. Democrats, in my opinion, certainly have their problems (spinelessness possibly the most significant). But listen to Bill’s commentary on the current crop of Republicans. It goes to the heart of one of the greatest threats to the working class we’ve ever faced since the Hoover Administration. In fact, it harkens back not only to the runup to the Great Recession of 2007-2009, but to the Age of the Robber Barons Great leading up to the Great Depression that began in 1929.
While Trump continues to distract the media and the public by a flood of baseless attacks on our nation’s security departments, the Republican Congress has been deregulating the already super profitable Wall Street Banks, air quality standards, and consumer financial protections.
The sweetness of those few extra dollars per week for America’s workers will soon fade into bitterness when (not if) the next Republican Great Recession arrives.
FUNDAMENTALISM: A Powerful, Mental Growth Inhibitor
06 Feb 2018 4 Comments
in Child abuse, Childhood Development, propaganda, Religious Indoctrination, Uncategorized Tags: Christianity, Donald Trump, propaganda, racism, Rural America
(Photo: Wikimedia commons)
A child is born neither Christian, nor Jew, nor Muslim, nor atheist, nor an adherent to any other brand of religious or philosophical order. A child is born a human being with an ability to learn and from this raw material society builds her walls of nationalism, [prejudice] and religious certitude —Max T. Furr, The Empathy Imperative
An insider explains how rural Christian white America has a dark and terrifying underbelly
FORSETTI’S JUSTICE, ALTERNET
06 FEB 2018 AT 02:20 ET
As the election of Donald Trump is being sorted out, a common theme keeps cropping up from all sides: “Democrats failed to understand white, working-class, fly-over America.”
Trump supporters are saying this. Progressive pundits are saying this. Talking heads across all forms of the media are saying this. Even some Democratic leaders are saying this. It doesn’t matter how many people say it, it is complete BS. It is an intellectual/linguistic sleight of hand meant to draw attention away from the real problem. The real problem isn’t East Coast elites who don’t understand or care about rural America. The real problem is that rural Americans don’t understand the causes of their own situations and fears and they have shown no interest in finding out. They don’t want to know why they feel the way they do or why they are struggling because they don’t want to admit it is in large part because of the choices they’ve made and the horrible things they’ve allowed themselves to believe.
Read more at https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/insider-explains-rural-christian-white-america-dark-terrifying-underbelly/
“No Such Thing as Marital Rape!”—God
06 Dec 2017 2 Comments
in family values, religion, Religious Indoctrination Tags: Biblical Ethics, Biblical Morality, Christianity, faith, family values, Moral Bankruptcy, religion
In my mind, if it wasn’t violent or you didn’t cry for help, that wasn’t rape, that was fornication. If it was violent and you did cry out, it was still only rape if you didn’t happen to belong to your assailant (Deut. 22:23-24).
Rape was a one-time thing, a life and death situation, not something that happens with people who love you, and certainly not from your own husband. Marital rape? No such thing!
Read more at http://www.patheos.com/blogs/removingthefigleaf/2016/08/i-let-my-husband-rape-me/#0uMKbvLJUMH2cWWu.99
An Evil Demigod in the White House 
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