I Couldn't Have Said It Better
In response to a Reddit post relaying Felon45's bad, very unpleasant day in court:
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Here is the text, in case it disappears from the source at some point:
I mean that's really just the heart of it.
The entire conservative movement, as it is, based on the things that they do and say, is based on ignorance and lies. There is no element of it that isn't fundamentally wrong at the deepest level.
And not just on an effective policy level, but on a legal level and on a basic, fundamental, scientific-laws-of-reality level.
That's why they've tried to stack the judiciary and the courts. That's why they attack institutions of learning, and of scientific research, and that's why they need to have a massive propaganda network across every media outlet, and that's why they only keep getting nuttier and nuttier. They have severed all their mooring lines to reality and so they'll just keep drifting in the abyss of batfuck nuttery forever.
Science offends them because their believes are contradicted by basic scientific evidence. And instead of doing the emotionally mature thing and reframing their understanding, they try to burn down the thing that makes them angry. Like fools.
They are to a great degree deeply immature and deeply emotionally volatile. Their social circles reinforce, rather than correct, these behaviors. They cannot handle any degree of social friction or embarrassment. They know no other way to exist besides social domination because they can't compromise, can't empathize, can't tolerate the possibility they may not understand nearly as much about the world as they want to believe they do, so they double and triple down on forcing those fundamentally wrong views on everyone around them. They aggregate in a giant ignorant mob and burn books, take down websites, throw death threats at anything that contradicts them.
They're the American Taliban, or any other band of zealous, power-hungry fools. A destructive movement based entirely on dominating everyone else around because they're just too emotionally fragile to deal.
They're wrong about trans people. Wrong about autistic and ADHD people, wrong about vaccines, wrong about basic principles of modern medical science, they're wrong about global warming, they're wrong about basic economic theory. They're wrong about who makes a good, competent leader of a nation. They cannot look at a pants-shitting moron octogenarian rapist, fraud, and traitor, and accurately conclude that that is what he is, and that that temperament is disastrous when given any degree of power.
They're wrong about fucking everything. I'm not talking about on an opinion level. I'm not talking about "well I disagree with your view on this", they're just wrong about fundamentally true things that we have proven through our entire corpus of scientific understanding.
So of course Trump's tariffs crash the market. Of course his idiot EO on gender makes no fucking sense and legally turns all of us into women. Of course his supporters die in far greater numbers from COVID after he tells them not to mask and to swallow a bottle of horse dewormer.
Because they're wrong. Because they make shit up, and it's not fucking true, and it doesn't fucking work and everyone has a bad time because you're listening to, taking the advice of, and being legislated on behalf of, fucking idiots.
It's just our great misfortune we have so many people in this country so totally divorced from reality that they're willing to follow along with this sheer stupidity.
The heart of a nation is the law, and the heart of the law is the truth.
The entire process of the law is about determining, to the best of our ability to do so, what the truth is. Which persons did what actions. What did those persons believe and think at the time of those actions. What damage did those persons do, and what fundamental rights were violated in doing so?
That's what the law is, at its core, and that is why the conservative party cannot, and indeed should not, ever govern.
The only thing they can do with power is destroy. They build nothing. Their entire endeavor is simply gaining, and retaining power. Not governing once they have it. Just breaking, and stealing, and lying, and cheating their way into more power.
To truly build through legislation requires an adherence to the truth. The absence of truth in law is corruption. Corruption doesn't build, it only takes. It erodes. Supplanting truth with whatever ruling or outcome is most convenient to the rich and the powerful, at the expense of the rest of the nation.
In the past twenty years, conservatives have started two forever wars on a lie. They have spread constant and obvious lies about the climate. They have spread lies and conspiracy theories about their political opponents, about their own nature and intentions in power. About their fellow citizens. They have enshrined judges to the highest positions in the land who lied outright in their confirmation hearings and proved themselves a liar in contradictory and profoundly unconstitutional rulings.
They lie. They operate in bad faith. They con, and cheat, and grift, and seek power so that they can abuse power.
And you can tell me all you'd like that what the conservative party is now, isn't "real" conservatism, but I don't know what you're talking about when you tell me you're a "real" conservative. Regan? Back when he was banning guns because black people owned them, and lying about AIDS existing or being "caused" by gay people?
Conservatives have always been this. Dating back to the days they thought they could own people and force those people do to their labor. This is who they are, what they are. Obsessed with hierarchy. Obsessed with dominance. Too immature to deal with the world as clear-eyed adults, and dooming everyone around them because they refuse to come to grips with a reality that terrifies them.
We have given these fools power over and over and over again and they have destroyed, and they have stolen, and they have ruined. They are fools. Their words and their actions prove this so many times over, and the sooner the collective people of America come to grips with who and what these people are, the faster we can actually begin the road to undoing the damage their ignorance and stupidity and stubbornness and cruelty has done to the rest of us, and to the rest of the world, too.
EDIT: When I was three or four years old, somewhere around there, my parents were trying to teach me how to write the alphabet. I was very good, except at some point I became convinced that the letter "e" was written like "n". I didn't really have a reason to believe that, except that maybe I just got mixed up looking at a chart once and decided that was the way it was.
My parents were trying to teach me how to write my name – which ends in e – and I wrote it perfectly, except every time, I wrote 'n' at the end.
And they tried to tell me, very nicely, that that was not correct. It was written 'e', not 'n'.
And the more they told me that, the angrier I became. They showed me the chart, and very clearly demonstrated that the letter was 'e'. They showed me in books where people had my name, and showed me that it was written 'e' at the end.
They showed me incontrovertible proof that I was wrong in as nice a way as they possibly could.
So, I ripped up the paper and threw it at them. I told them I hated them and that they were stupid. I stormed into my room and I wouldn't come out the rest of the night. I cursed them under my breath and threw a tantrum and hurled toys against the wall.
I didn't have a concept on how wrong I was. I figured, hey, I got all the other letters right, who was to say I was wrong about this one? My parents? Pff. What did they know?
I was too young and too ignorant to understand how much more my parents knew than me. How limited my scope of understanding was.
I only had my own hurt feelings, my tiny baby pride, and I was desperate to protect it, to find a plausible lie to live in where I was right. It seemed plausible that I could be right, because I simply lacked the breadth of perspective and maturity and experience and wisdom to understand even how much I lacked. Dunning Krueger.
And this conservatives. This is the fundamental truth of them. This is who they are, what they are. This is the molten core that fuels everthing they do, and think and believe.
They live their entire lives like this, and conservatism, and Donald Trump, that is is their 'n.' The incontrovertible proof of how profoundly wrong they are which they refuse to let go of, because subconsciously they cannot bear the pain of admitting they were wrong. They cannot face it. They cannot face the torrent of shame, and guilt, and a lifetime of pigheadedness that waits behind the door of them reconciling themselves with reality.
The longer they remain in ignorance, the greater their debt to reality becomes. And they cannot pay it, cannot even read the total on the bill slipped under the door.
They have made it an integral part of their identity and have decided they would rather die inside the house than admit it is on fire. It is not congruent with reality, but they do not have the emotional maturity to change. To grow. So, they double down. And triple down.
For many of them, some part – a very small part – understands the bill is there on the floor near the door.
They don't pick it up. Won't pick it up. Many will never develop the emotional courage to admit that they are acting like irrational children too terrified to be wrong to begin redressing their grievous errors. Testimonies and interviews of people in post WWII Germany reveal that many of the common folk who voted for Hitler never admitted the magnitude of what they'd done. Never admitted their mistakes. Never fully reconciled with them.
But they know. And this is part of the reason they're so miserable and angry all of the time. They live in cognitive dissonance, and are refusing to look at the light and find their way out.
MAGA Is Big Mad Because The NYT Outed Elon's Assholes
It would be a shame if this got spread around…
Vomiting It All Up
I Don't Know Which Is Less Surprising
Vomiting It All Up
Vomiting It All Up
Hilariously a percentage of the Maga Kult think that this is all some really smart, carefully designed plan to show the media up and to break down the facade of the deep state when really we're just seeing the end of the white supremacist patriarchy, how stupid and incompetent they really are and what happens when they think they can just get away with being their real authentically stupid, ignorant selves
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Don't Be Afraid To Call Things By What They Are
A Box Of Rocks Would Beat Her On An I.Q. Test
Let's All Watch Some MAGA Shithead Get Bounced From A Bar
From Jeff Tiedrich:
everything sucks right now, so let's put the focus on our hero of the day. sit back and enjoy the shit out of this bartender eighty-sixing some Trumpist fuckwad.
bartender: "get out of the bar."
MAGA: "why?"
bartender: "because you're a Trump supporter."
MAGA: "I know, but don't you guys want our money?"
bartender: "no, actually, we don't. get out of my bar right now. [picks up baseball bat] I'm not fucking around. get out of my bar right now."
MAGA: "are you serious?
bartender: "I'm dead serious. out."
MAGA: "because I'm wearing a Trump hat."
bartender: "yes."
MAGA: "that's wild."
bartender: "I don't care. get out."
second bartender: "we can call the police, or you can just leave."
MAGA: "you know this is, like, discrimination, right?"
bartender: "boo hoo. boo fucking hoo. get out of my bar."
fuck yeah. that was satisfying. boo fucking hoo, indeed. here's your binky, MAGA. now take a hike.
here's the backstory.
the MAGA asshole who got bounced — and is now whining to the press about it — wants you to believe that she was some innocent victim who wandered into a random bar and met up with some surly bartender.
that's not the case at all. the cultist — and her friends — showed up to cause trouble, and they got what was coming to them.
the bar in question is the Chatterbox Jazz Club in Indianapolis. the joint is LGBTQ+ inclusive, and much of the staff is trans.
it's possible that Fuckface von Maga and her fuckface friends didn't even know any of that when they showed up to make a scene. maybe they were just offended by the pride flag hanging outside the bar, and decided that it was their divine mission to stir up shit.
here's David Andrichik, the bar's owner, to explain.
"We were set up. This was a plan to do something like this. We don't believe the people that came in to instigate even knew what Chatterbox was, but they came in because of our pride flag," which is displayed outside the jazz bar.
premeditated or not, these MAGA shitstains stepped inside the Chatterbox and immediately cranked the asshole dial way past eleven. they shouted. they got abusive and confrontational. they deliberately misgendered the bartender. and they got tossed the fuck out.
and then, they came back in and recorded the clip you saw at top of this post — and went whining to the media about it.
look at us, we're the real victims here! they hated us for our hats! so unfair! come see the violence inherent in the system!
like their beloved Dear Leader, the cultists always imagine they're the real victims — everything is unfair, and everything is rigged against them.
all we wanted was to hang out. the bartender was so mean to us.
MAGA, you are cordially invited to fuck straight off with your divisive hate. could you just fucking well leave people alone? they just want to live their lives in peace. next time you see a pride flag, just walk on by. the Earth won't fall off its axis. I promise.
cultists, can we talk? you're getting played by the ruling class, and you don't even realize it. you're being distracted from the real enemy.
'keep the people ignorant and fighting each other, and they won't notice the plutocrats picking their pockets' is right on page one of the oligarch's playbook.
and please shut the fuck up already about how unfairly you got treated. you acted like an asshole and you got treated like one.
you fucked around, and you found out. enjoy the tiniest of violins.
here's the official statement the Chatterbox posted to their Instagram account.
On Friday, March 14th, a group of individuals visited Chatterbox and intentionally misgendered and harassed a Chatterbox employee, resulting in them being asked to leave by our staff. They then continued verbally assaulting our patrons and staff, threatened our establishment, and returned to record a video which has now been posted on multiple social media platforms.
The Chatterbox is home to a diverse group of staff and patrons. We do not tolerate dehumanizing or disrespectful language or symbolism in our establishment. We have a right, by law, to refuse service to anyone who disrupts our business. We look forward to continue being a home for people who love music and appreciate our community.
forgive me for once again reposting what I like to call The Parable of the Nazi Bar, but it's a tale can't be told often enough.
I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, "no. get out."
And the dude next to me says, "hey i'm not doing anything, i'm a paying customer." and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, "out. now." and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed
Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, "you didn't see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them." And i was like, oh ok and he continues.
"you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it's always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don't want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too."
"And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it's too late because they're entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down."
of course, what happened at the Chatterbox isn't totally analogous — Fuckface von MAGA and her friends weren't polite, and they certainly weren't there to infiltrate — but the lesson is the same: you have to nip that shit in the bud. zero tolerance for Nazi assholes.
fuck around and find out is in short supply right now. let's celebrate when it happens.
if you find yourself in Indianapolis, stop by the Chatterbox and show them your support.
Road Trip
We needed to get out of the house, out of the city, out of our heads for a bit, so this morning we headed south to Organ Pipe National Monument—because who knows how long any of our National Parks will be around at this point.
Lots of sahuaro and cholla cactus; not so much organ pipe.
And then we came upon this…
You've read about it. You've seen it on videos. But nothing prepares you for the horrific, ugly in-person reality of the orange felon's border fence separating the United States and Mexico:
I don't understand the gates. Why are there (admittedly welded shut) gates? What is their purpose?
I wonder how MAGA would react if Canada erected a similar fence on their southern border to keep us out…
And my final thought was are these fences being built to keep them out or to ultimately keep us in?
Yup!
If This Was Going To Happen It Would've Happened Already
We Could Use Some Of This Energy About Now…
You OWN This Shit Show
The Disturbing Intersection Between 45, His Supporters, And The Deeper Social Issues Long Simmering Beneath The Surface Of American Society
Oh Snap!
45 Lies…ALWAYS
"But I Didn't Think The Leopards Would Eat My Face!" ~ Caitlyn Bruce Jenner
Explain It To Me Like I'm Five Years Old
The Week In STOOPID
From Jeff Tiedrich:
As another stupid week comes to a close here in America, let's look back at some of the highlights.
monday: who would Jesus infect
it's been a hot minute, so let's check in on America's new christofascist overlords. here's newly-elected Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita.
"with your help, together, we will make Indiana a truly free state … where we can raise our children as God intended, without interference by woke schools, doctors or courts … where we are no longer vaxxed or masked."
sure, absolutely. it's a well-known fact that Jesus was all about spreading preventable diseases. it's right there in the Sermon on the Mount: blessed are the science-deniers, for they will choke to death on their own infectious mucus.
I'm no scholar, but I'm pretty sure that there's nothing in the Bible about vaccinations — but as long as we're going to adhere to "God's intentions," here's one he's pretty specific about.
if you wear linen and wool at the same time, you should be fucking slaughtered.
Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
that's good old Leviticus 19:19. now here's Leviticus 19:27.
Ye shall not round off the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
what do you have to say for yourself, Todd, you infidel? because it looks to me like you're definitely marring the corners of thy beard.
that's what I love about these cristofascist hypocrites. they cherry-pick the Bible to prove whatever oppressive notion they want to inflict on the rest of us — but when it comes to actually adhering to the laws that are right there in the Bible, it's fucking crickets.
tuesday: hly fcking sht, lern hw to fcking spel
Tuesday was Pete Hegseth's confirmation hearing, and Senate Republicans brought all the props out in support of his candidacy — because nothing says I'm a serious legislator whose issues should be taken seriously more than misspelling the word military.
in their own defense, Senate Republicans had been out all night getting hammered with Piss-Drunk Pete, and were too hung over the next morning to notice.
wednesday: I download Supreme Court decisions for the idiocy
during oral arguments regarding a Texas law requiring age verification in order to access porn sites, Fishin' Trip Sammy Alito raised a cogent question.
"Justice Alito is asking if websites like Pornhub have 'essays, modern day Gore Vidal, stuff like that' like the old Playboy."
um, who wants to tell him?
I suppose on the one hand, it's admirable that Steal Stoppin' Sammy should be so ignorant of the online porn experience that he'd ask such a ludicrous question — but on the other hand: why the fuck are ancient white men allowed to rule on technologies they're too out-of-touch to understand?
remember the old "the internet is a series of tubes" meme? here's where it came from: an old white man who had no clue what he was gibbering about.
back in 2006, Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was railing against streaming services. he wanted to shut them down. he was convinced they were going to break the internet — because, as he explained it, the internet is "a series of tubes." here is exactly what Senator Stevens said.
"And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material."
these people should not be setting policy affecting millions of Americans. they should be enjoying a nice, hot cup of shut the fuck up in a managed care facility.
oh, and for the record, "I download porn for the articles" is a joke I made twelve years ago.
you're welcome.
thursday: mirth of an abomination
oh frabjous day, the toxic incels are at it again.
pro tip: posting shit like this is proof you've failed as a human being.
also, can you fucking idiots get your stories straight?
just two weeks ago, the Space Nazi was extolling the virtues of c-sections — promising that if women would opt out of giving birth the old-fashioned way, all of us could have brains as big as his.
"There are certainly other factors at play, but heavy use of c-sections allows for a larger brain, as brain size has historically been limited by birth canal diameter."
so which is it, incels?
friday: stand back, Rand Paul's about to say something stupid
while writing these daily posts, there's a line find myself I using over and over: "it's so easy to solve all the world's problems when you have no fucking clue what you're talking about." the reason I keep repeating it, is because Republicans keep proving it's true.
here's failed wig model Rand Paul, explaining how he knows more about water management than all the water managers.
"I see these homes burning and I'm like wow, if they just had a generator and a hose, you start sucking the water out of the The Pacific Ocean. but you can do more than that. you can pump it and put it in cisterns up in the hills a mile or two in. why don't they take the ocean water and put it in cisterns have a bunch of water ready when a wildfire shows up? once again, bad local government."
hey everybody, Rand Paul just invented reservoirs. that's some Nobel Prizewinning stuff right there.
this fucking arrogant asshole, lecturing Los Angeles on why don't you just have reservoirs?
you nincompoop, Los Angeles has reservoirs. plenty of them. and they were all full when the fires started. that's not the issue. Rand Paul is conveniently forgetting about the part where LA was dealing with literal hurricanes made out of fire that were too massive and fast-moving to control or contain — by any fire department, anywhere.
talking out of your ass from the floor of the Senate is easy. actually dealing with problems is hard — and Republicans are proving it every day.
saturday: ?
hey, it's still morning as I sit here writing this. but give it time, I guarantee you that some dipshit wingnut is going to do something stupid before the day is over. you can set your watch to it.