The Imbecility of dRUMPf

Nicetightgag: dRUMPf is his base. He is a man who is regularly spoon fed, and over-fed at that, the thin, bitter gruel of bullshit Reichwing TV "news" and who willingly ingests and then regurgitates it to other similarly inclined subhumans.

He angrily sounds off at all hours about random, nonsensical shite that dehydrated haunted apples like Lou Dobbs and blocks of Spam like Sean Hannity tell him to be angry about but which they realise they cannot actually come to any firm conclusions about both because if they do it gives the story falsifiability and because it puts them at serious risk of legal action. dRUMPf, like the rest of their audience, doesn't understand this, and so bathes luxuriously in the fetid diarrhea that makes up these 'programs,', engaging with them as they are meant to be engaged with- not as conveyors of actual facts, but as impressionist representations of moods. Deeply angry, suspicious, paranoid, hate-filled, bitter, and sociopathic moods.

dRUMPf was never able to explain what "Obamagate" was. He was never able to explain what, exactly, was on "the server" that was in Ukraine. He cannot explain how the election was "rigged". He cannot tell you how Obama faked his entire life as a naturally born US citizen. Logic is nonexistent. Solid conclusions can be disproved by hysteria. The important thing is the feeling of resentment and anger, the outrage that somehow, someone is cheating you out of something that you think not only that you *want* but that you are *owed*. The sense of persecution, the utter conviction that somehow you are being wronged, the phony victim-posturing is addictive for a man so utterly bereft of any positive emotions. It's intoxicating, and dRUMPf is perpetually drunk on it- and sounds very much like he's just ordinarily drunk.

This isn't a man with a plan. This isn't a strategic thinker who talks in riddles and subtly conveys messages through the placement of an accessory in his otherwise flawless choice of dress. This isn't a man given to the intricacies of a Symbolist painting, with everything chosen to display a meaning about the artist and their subject. This is a man who tries to hide his baldness by having what little hair he still has spun into a bizarre confection and piled on his head, then dyed cat-piss yellow with a candy-corn-orange chaser. This is a man who so FEARS being thought of as short he wears lifts that are too high to allow him to fit his feet in his shoes. This is not a man capable of subtlety. This is a man with a button on his desk to summon a servant to bring him Diet Coke.

Death Becomes Them

Seriously?!

KENNETH IN THE 212: Why are so many people, and gay men included, behaving so irresponsibly now that COVID-19 is actually at its worst? Most people are not yet vaccinated, and the hospitals are packed, yet I have friends boasting about weddings they're hosting, trips to Puerto Rico, Puerto Vallarta, Tulum, Hawaii — and few or no masks in sight. Kenneth calls out White Party promoter Jeffrey Sanker, who is holding bashes for NYE in Puerto Vallarta with zero mention of safety. People also pointed out that Shangela is in P.V., hanging on people without a mask.

Two not unrelated notes: That gay male nurse who nearly died of COVID-19 after attending a circuit party in March, the one who wasted away to nothing and collected $20K in GoFundMe cash, is currently partying in Mexico. He disabled his social media to escape the condemnation. Also, how many IG influences and OnlyFans accounts do you follow that are nothing but gay men having anonymous hookups in a pandemic?

Nobody is perfect, and many who are doing all the right things are still getting sick—but why are so many people this willfully, proudly oblivious? I guess because they think their chances of getting desperately ill or dying are low, and they couldn't give a fuck about the people they infect whose chances are high?

And we can't even say we'll hold them accountable when this is all over because … who is the we? It feels like most people are sliding into a giant shrug.

Yesterday…

…was the first time in nine months Ben and I were able to enjoy a [appropriately socially distanced from the rest of humanity] afternoon at Starbucks. It was wonderful.

We have to be out of the hotel room every Saturday for housekeeping to perform what they cal a "deep clean." This requires finding someplace to sequester the dogs while we're out of the room. Thankfully Ben's grandfather is more than willing to watch the little pee buckets at his place while we run errands, do laundry, and yesterday—grab a little respite from all the insanity of the last month.

After grabbing coffee and breakfast, we did our week's laundry and then we hit Best Buy to look at televisions. We didn't buy anything, because we have nowhere to store it, but we have a much better idea of what we want when we settled into our new place in a week's time.

Finished there, we hit Starbucks, grabbed some lunch, and enjoyed the balmy December weather sitting outside for a few hours before picking up the dogs an heading back to the room.

Today we left the dogs in the room (they were amazingly well-behaved) and hit IKEA, where we picked up a few necessities that were going to be needed at our new home before we get the remainder of our belongings returned.

All in all, it was a good weekend.

Next weekend, however, is going to be crazy.