Sympathy for the Devil: Slouching Toward the Sadist State

 

Donald Trump invokes the apocalyptic vision of the state of California--Los Angeles, in particular--as being on the verge of chaos and disintegration owing to the invasion/infestation by dark skinned immigrants, who we can shorthand simply as "MS13" from "shithole countries," and were it not for his timely intervention by calling in the Marines and the National Guard, white women would be murdered and raped and mere anarchy would be loosed upon the land.

Americans, who have long harbored a decidedly berserk streak, love visions of apocalyptic battles, won by strong men superheroes, sitting at their video game consoles, in their mothers' basements.

Sadistic Glee 2025

Sadistic Glee 1933

Of course, as Governor Gavin Newsome has noted, the murder rate in the Deep Red states is far worse than in the Blue States which Trump claims have been overwhelmed by murderous mobs of illegal immigrants welcomed into their sanctuary cities:

Murder rate in California: 5.9% (Murder/100,000 people)

Murder rate in Mississippi: 20.7% (voted for Trump by 23 points)

Murder rate in Alabama: 14.9% (voted for Trump by 31 points)

Murder rate in Louisiana: 19.8% (voted for Trump by 19.8 points)

Murder rate in South Carolina: 11.9% (voted for Trump by 18 points).

So, if strongman King Donald is a superhero, protecting American citizenry from the murderous onslaught of brown skinned immigrants--he isn't doing awfully well in his protection racket.

Updated American Sadism

Having grown up in the South, and having spent most of my life living below the Mason/Dixon line, none of this comes as any surprise.

Classic Sadists

Kids I grew up with, right through their teen age years, were often, not to put too fine a point on it, sadists, pure and simple. They might drown kittens or fry them alive in microwaves, beat up smaller kids, throw rocks, at least attempt to rape girls, and they would reassure you with a smile, this was all just fun, and very much okay.

Date Night at Sadist City

And their friends would, likely as not, just shrug, if not participate. 

It was, I imagined at the time, simply the inheritance of the master race who had once treated slaves sadistically, just for fun, but also for profit.

Founder of the Ku Klux Klan

They weren't doing anything their great grandfathers hadn't done, after all, and those figures were now framed photos on the walls of their parents' homes, often as not in the uniform of the Confederate States of America.

Who is the Brave One?

It was a culture of cruelty to keep the Black Man down.

Brave Boys, Having Fun

Or as Randy Newman put it in his imperishable song, "Rednecks," we are "keeping the Niggers down."

And I do use the "N-word" advisedly. By which I mean, "Nigger." There, I said it. Has the nation collapsed? 

Nothing is so infuriatingly woke as the refusal to say the actual offending word in polite company. Are our wives and daughters and sons really so fragile their psyches will be permanently scarred to hear the actual word which is the problem?

Which brings me to Professor Carole Hooven, who was driven from Harvard for the unforgivable offense of using the phrase "pregnant woman" instead of "pregnant person" among other transgressions including saying there are two sexes (as defined by gametes) and her insistence on cleaving to the truth--"Veritas" being Harvard's motto--even if that truth caused the ultrasensitive, hot house flowers, snowflakes to feel so traumatized, they could not leave their dorm rooms.

Oh, the victimhood! And at Harvard, no less!

In Hooven's case, there was never much question about the veracity of what she had said: In homo sapiens, there are two sexes--which may be different from saying there are two "genders"--and that these differences are pretty distinctive. But her sin was that some Harvard students felt unsafe hearing this. The effect of hearing true statements disrupted their safe spaces. And the Harvard faculty ran for the bomb shelters rather than simply squelching this nonsense as soon as it peeped its noggin out of its bomb shelter.  So here is a case I cannot work up much sympathy for the "victims" of the truth.

 I find myself unsympathetic to the snowflake. And on the other, I find myself appalled by the ultimate in lack of sympathy: the sadist.

But how can you sympathize with a woman, Laura Simone Lewis  who says, "It is vital to teach med students gender inclusive language, as they will certainly interact with people that identify outside the gender binary"? And by that she means nobody should ever utter "pregnant women" but only "pregnant people." And who is Laura Simone Lewis to be telling anyone what we should be teaching medical students?

And, I'm sorry, but after decades of speaking the only language I've been able to facilitate, I'm simply not able to re wire to say, "They went to town to get a haircut," when I'm speaking of a single person. Sorry, not going to happen. If that makes you feel attacked, victimized, then take to your room and consider therapy. But my pronouns belong to me, not to you. As Dave Chappell has said, "I support anyone's right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?"

Even Dave has trouble with the anyone/they convention here, but you get his point, with which I totally agree.

Our brave protectors fear for their lives! She does look so dangerous!

So, we emerge from a weekend in which U.S. Marines and National Guard troops were fully mobilized with their grenades and M-16 rifles to deal with mothers with infants in strollers, brave men that they are. 

And where does that leave us?

Oh, She is Just SO Brave!

Immigration

 

Sometime in the early 1990's, a documentary about global warming was aired with Richard (not David) Attenborough narrating. It was the first time I'd ever heard about global warming or climate change, and I remember most of all its prediction that with equatorial climate collapse, the equatorial lands will no longer be able to sustain agriculture, and large human migrations toward the poles would ensue, destabilizing European and American governments and institutions, and before actual climate apocalypse occurred, political apocalypse would happen owing to migration, or as we now call it immigration.

It all struck me as plausible, but unlikely. I have been unable to trace that documentary on the internet, but I haven't tried very hard. 

But the idea of immigration as the catalyst for political collapse has come true. Britain voted to separate itself from Europe, because, as Trump noted, "They want borders." No European nation has handled immigration from the Middle East and Africa well. As our tour guide in Estonia told us: "I feel like we are a tiny thimble size nation and they are a big bucket being poured on us." Sweden has been struggling with it, ditto Germany, Italy, Greece, France and even the Netherlands has a white supremacy party. 

Demagogues, eager to seize control, look for scape goats and there are not easier scapegoats than immigrants. Hitler found the Jews easy targets, as they often seemed a group of "strangers" and an alien group. Trump looks at darker skinned poor people "from shithole nations" who contaminate, infest our white, clean nation.

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Arguing against this is harder than it should be, as the overwhelming majority of us, in the U.S.A. can recall an immigrant story in their  own families. 

But the fact is, Presidents from Eisenhower to Biden have argued immigrants are good for America, not to be feared or vilified but celebrated.  At the end of a recent Jimmy Kimmel monologue, he strings together speeches from each President since Eisenhower, including Ronald Reagan, extolling the virtues of immigrants and immigration. I have been unable to manage to clip this into this post but there is at least some of it in the link above.

No Irish Need Apply

Trump's malignant screeds against immigrants (who are not white) is currently working well, and until and unless the opposition can persuade 51% of America he is wrong, he will likely prevail.

The Right Kind of Immigrant

Even in New Hampshire, when you ask people why they like Trump, they usually start with immigrants, and even if you ask them if they have seen immigrants in their small, white towns, and they usually say no. When you point out the guys who do the roofing, or the lawn services, or the tree trimming are Hispanics, they look a little taken aback and then say, "Oh, right." And if you asked whether they feel threatened by these workers, they always say, "Well, no. Not them."

So who do they fear?

Barbie Doll Secy Homeland Security

Well, the cat eating rapist murderer immigrants they have never seen in New Hampshire. 

Go Figure. 

His Big Beautiful Birthday Parade!

 

It's become difficult to avoid comparing The Don Donald to Adolph Hitler because...well, there's just no one who so closely fits.

It was Hitler who insisted that instead of taking an oath of loyalty to the German state, soldiers of the Wehrmacht took an oath to him, personally. They held up their fingers in a funky hand sign and pledge loyalty to him above all else. Uber Alles!

So when Mr. Trump gave his little talk to the soldiers at Ft. Bragg, which Donnie Dumpling thought was named after him, he enjoyed himself immensely. If the fort had been named for Trump it would have been Fort Braggadicio, but, in fact, it was named after another traitor who sought to destroy the United States, Braxton Bragg, a Confederate general.

Braxton Bragg owned a sugar plantation and 106 slaves in Louisiana before the war.  He was one of the 5% of Confederates who actually owned more than a dozen slaves.  So, he was like our modern day billionaires--a tiny percentage at the top who have the other 95% doing their bidding. At the battle of Missionary ridge, Union soldiers scaling what was thought to be an impregnable mountain, simply swept forward over Bragg's army and routed him and he had to virtually evacuate Tennessee and left the South open to Sherman and his march to the sea. The South had many effective and daring generals--Longstreet, Stonewall Jackson, Forrest--but, for reasons known only to the army and the Trump mob, they named a fort after one of the worst.

The Don mused that the loyal soldiers shown behind him on the stage would never have rallied to hear President Biden, but they loved President Trump and all the neo Waffen SS cheered wildly.  These boys in their snazzy maroon berets were Trump's boys. They loved him personally, not Biden, not the country, not the Constitution: They loved Donnie Dilatory. 

So, there you have it, Mr. Trump has got his own personal army just like Mr. Hitler.

Now, the Trumpster is throwing himself a massive birthday bash on June 14 and he has invited all his soldier fans to attend.  Mr. Trump, who famously dismissed soldiers as saps and suckers and fools for joining the military, now loves the adulation coming his way from the be-all-you-can-be guys at Fort Braxton Bragg.  

And then there is the phenomenon which Mr. Trump leads, and all his sycophants fall all over themselves trying to emulate. When a journalist asks Karoline Leavitt an embarrassing question, Ms. Leavitt responds "that is a stupid question," just like Mr. Trump who spends minutes attacking any journalist who asks embarrassing questions before not answering the question, telling them they are terrible reporters, have no business in the White House, work for a failing fake news network and all like that.

Because there is a long tradition of "civility" in American government--even Nixon fielded questions from journalists, who occasionally prefaced "with all due respect" and Nixon quipped, "That would be refreshing, coming from you,"--the slap in the face, the ad hominin attack on the appearance, intelligence, family history and purloined soul of any opponent has its appeal. It's fresh. It's authentic. It's titillating. It's so very Trumpish.

And it gets to be a fad among his fans--Marjorie Taylor Green, Lauren Boebert, Jim Jordan all pose as fearless fighters not afraid to "tell it like it is."

He famously said, "The only difference between me and [the others] is I'm more honest and my women are more beautiful." Christopher Hitchens suggested the best man to beat Trump would have been Warren Beatty, who had even more beautiful women, and he did not have to buy them.

As for the Trumpster, he is forever threatening violence--he would not risk his heel spurs himself, but he exhorts the crowd to do it for him. 

And the trumpery of rejecting actual argument or debate means, eventually, the only thing left when anyone in the government or the press disagrees is personal invective, and we've been there. 

In the run up the the last Civil War, Charles Sumner attacked the institution of slavery and the slave masters on the floor of the U.S. Senate, and Senator Preston Brooks, having no words or clever phrases or cerebral matter of his own, responded in the only way he knew how--by beating Sumner into a bloody pulp on the floor of the U.S. Senate with a brass headed cane for a bludgeon. 

Confederate sympathizers were so delighted, they sent Brooks dozens of canes to use on any other Yankee abolitionist who dared try to engage in debate using words only.

Of course, not all Southerners abjured rhetoric and debate. When John Randolph, who likely lost testicular function owing to adolescent mumps, found himself derided by another Congressman for his eunuchoid appearance, he replied: "You pride yourself on an animal masculinity, in which the Negro is your equal and the jackass infinitely your superior." Those White plantation owners made the Trump nursery look like school boys.

Now, of course, Trump sends in his FBI and assorted goons to take down a United States Senator challenging the Barbie Doll Noem at her "press conference."

Of course, Mr. Trump will accuse the Senator of defending rapists, illegals and MS13  and will threaten similar treatment for any other US Senator who dares defy him. The only thing missing is the brass headed cane.

Churchill, who was sufficiently pugnacious to appeal to Trump, who installed a bust of him in the Oval Office, was pugnacious in a way Trump never could be: cleverly.

The closest he got to attacking opponents ad hominin was to address their oratory: Of one unfortunate object of derision he said the man had "the gift of compressing the largest number of words into the smallest amount of thought." That, of course describes Mr. Trump succinctly.

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Trump Declares War on Blue States: Invades California!

 

If there was ever any doubt about what the MAGAT crowd found in Donald Trumpling, it has got be be clear now with a massive $45 million military parade in Washington, for Trump's birthday.

Oh well, what's $45 million? Just the cost of Trump's Tesla coughed up by Qatar. 

 So we'll have tanks on Pennsylvania Avenue, where once the Grand Army of the Republic marched in review to adoring crowds, the soldiers having crushed the armies and banners of slavery, having won what was until that day the most righteous war ever fought--a war fought by free men and freed slaves on behalf of those who could not fight because they were enslaved.

Not until the Third Reich and Hitler had a more odious enemy been vanquished.

But now, what will the American army be celebrating?

Stalin held a big parade in Red Square to rally patriotic fervor before sending out the Red Army to defend against the invading Nazi horde, but ever since then, the goose stepping soldiers in Red Square have simply celebrated might and projected intimidation.

Now, Mr. Trump rallies his Lost Cause hordes, renaming forts in honor of Confederate Generals, who fought to keep people enslaved. These Generals, Braxton Bragg, A.P. Hill, were by any definition, traitors. But now they have MAGA forts named after them, because they are, you know part of our "heritage," like lynching and Wounded Knee and My Lai. 

Personally, some parts of our national heritage, I could do without, or at least would prefer to see examined with eyes wide open rather than wide shut.

It's no secret, those who fought to destroy a free and fair election on January 6, 2021, fought to start another Civil War. These men who Trump calls freedom fighters were fighting for a renewal of the Confederacy and for the "Lost Cause," of white supremacy, and the stars and bars and slaves in the fields singing "Swing Lo Sweet Chariot" before it was all gone with the wind.

As Heather Cox Richardson has noted, the South lost the Civil War on the battlefields, but a hard core of Southern white nationalists has never abandoned the idea of reasserting White control over what are now known as the Red states, from the old Confederacy west to the Mountain states where White Supremacy rules. And they are no longer satisfied with a White supremacist Red state America; they want to bring their creed to every state in America.

And now, a man living in the same house where Lincoln once  lived and worked is sending in the Marines and a federalized national guard to crush democracy and to raise the flag of despotism and racial animus in California.

The MAGA mob has its man now. 

What the rest of us have, remains to be seen.

P.S.

(Clip from Kimmel)

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Round Them Up!

 Getting people on the trains and deporting the multitudes requires some organizational skills.

First you have to set goals: And Stephen Miller has set a goal of 3,000 arrests a day to capture that 11 million estimated illegal alien rapist/murderer/infesting population.

Adolph Eichmann only did 6 million, so Mr. Miller is even more ambitious.

And then you have to set up railroad transportation or airplanes or something, for deportations. And holding facilities, preferably outside the borders of your own state, say Poland, or Austria or El Salvador.

KAPO

And finding them: Mr. Miller has excoriated Homeland Security and ICE agents for not raiding every 7/11 and Home Depot. They are not meeting their QUOTAS!

You know, if you're dealing with an infestation, you have to scrub them out.

And we looked from one to another and could not tell them apart

And while all this is going on, we've got to organize an Einsatzgruppen to sweep up and collect large numbers and deal with them. Und if da ordinary Wehrmacht is not doing a good enough job, ve get the Marines to go in und do it! Einsatzgruppen!

Sieg! Heil!

Somewhere down the line, one can imagine Mr. Miller in the docket at a Nuremberg trial or a Washington, D.C. trial, but no, that is not likely. As was observed at the time: such trials happen only when the victors meet out justice, and where do you see the impending victory and by whom?

Stephen Colbert showed an interview with some random guy in Los Angeles last night. The reporter asked him if he had seen the protests or the arrests and he said he was not close enough to actually see much--he was just walking by, but he got tear gas drifting into his mouth. 

"What was that like?"

"It tasted like," he said, pausing to find a word, "Fascism."

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The Name Game: Scum and Dumber

 

So now Mr. Trump has delighted in his new name for Governor Gavin Newsome, as Governor Newscum. Get it? New--Scum. As in "scum of the earth"?

Oh, the playground outside the grade school classroom must be just in stiches!

It may not be quite "Little Marco," or "Crooked Hillary" or "Pocahontas" Warren, but it's pretty good, right?

So, thinking about it, Mad Dog thought we need to collect a quiver of arrows to sling back: 

Donald Dump

The Dumpling

President Gump

President Donald Lump

Donald Rump

The President Sump Pump Trump

Which is just a quick run through the alphabet.

The trouble is, nobody can work up quite the delight the Trumpling can when it comes to using scurrilous nicknames because, you know, it's so puerile and inane. But for Mr. Trump, it's just so much fun and he uses one of  these epithets and sits up grinning as if he's just demolished Winston ("Winnie the Pooh") Churchill in a debate about democracy.

Because he is incapable of understanding when he's lost an argument based on logic, evidence and presentation, he thinks he's won when he burps up a hopefully demeaning ad hominem. 

But his fan base agrees with him and they're having fun, so what could possibly go wrong?

Send in the Clowns!

 One thing you got to say for Trump: He is an entertainer.

Calls Governor Newsom Governor New-scum and all like that. 

Says California is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad state over run by raping, pillaging, infesting immigrants and he is riding to the rescue, which, of course, came as a surprise to Californians, who like their immigrants very much thank you, and appreciate them rebuilding all the houses that got burned down by wildfires, which, of course had nothing to do with climate change but were all the fault of the governor not turning on the water spickets or those Jewish space lasers we have heard so much about, but which the leftist elite media derides as comic book fantasy, when, of course, we know its all SO true.

National Guard Time

You know Mr. Trump will blame that first fatality wrought by his federalized National Guard on Governor New-scum, the elite leftist failing New York Times and the swamp men of Washington, D.C. 

Meanwhile, in case you haven't noticed the war in Ukraine which Mr. Trump promised to stop with a single phone call Day One is un-stopped. 

Also Gaza is still raging, another thing he forgot to keep his promise about. 

In fact, when he flew to Qatar to collect his $400 million  bobble, he never bothered to stop in Israel, which might mean something, but probably he was just in a hurry to get home because he wanted to be sure the sale of his red Tesla, which he bought from that guy whose name nobody can remember now, he just sold to the Qatari's for, you can guess what got for that, but I'll spot you the "40."

Meanwhile, Harvard still refuses to award Kristi Noem an honorary degree, so she is going to build a new brutalist building in Harvard yard to house her immigrant tracking facility and to train Harvard freshmen in HVAC, electrician and plumbing skills, which would, in fact be one reform all of us can cheer, but we are waiting to hear from MAGATs about what they think of the idea. Harvard, of course, is digging in its heels about Noem's honorary degree, because, you know: ANTISEMITISM!  

And more good news: no more scientific articles in peer reviewed journals--the "peers" reviewing articles on cancer drugs, diabetes medications and heart medicines will be relatives of RFK JR or Alex Jones, who has been in the pharmaceutical business for years.

There's a reason Cannonball Express was such a big hit in America.