The Fragile Violence Etched on the Captain's Forehead
Third full-body self-portrait, the top one 8x8 in real life, the bottom 6x6 in real life, not only can't you see the three-dimensional layering in the below you couldn't see the below perfect rectangle in real life, fine metaphors abound
54 links below, the fuck. Do you think there is ONE person on the planet who personally knows Tronald Dump in real life that genuinely likes him, much less trusts him? Thinks he has a good heart and good soul and ever does anything not in direct service to himself? Yes, he's a hero to his Crackerchrister-American base (who think he has a good heart and good soul and acts in *their* behalf) and, yes, he's the greatest weapon shitlords have ever had at their disposal for achieving *their* aims, but surely they hate him, loathe him, are contemptuous toward and comprehensively don't trust him, think (and hope) they can rein in his reign if/when needed, but remember: they despise you more - they hired Dump specifically to hasten your immiseration, disposable peasant. The head above a representation of the seconds of unencumbered glee I felt hitting basket with teeshot on Emmitsburg 14 with my green teebird a few weeks back, the body beneath is me typing this paragraph. The fuck am I posting on Fridays now, the few of you here are many times fewer on the weekend. Cease bleggalgaze here. Bonnie Prince Billy below, my favorite song off one of my favorite albums of the 2025 so far:
"Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp."\
"The Supreme Court has ruled, temporarily at least, and perhaps permanently, that the United States government can deport anyone, including a US citizen, to a foreign country and then maroon them there on the grounds that they no longer have control of them"
"It’s long been my contention that you can understand Trumpism as the synthesis of two ideological currents, which were long dormant and marginal in the American political scene, and then came roaring to prominence"
"The failure of the left to offer a plausible path out of the worsening social fallout paved the way for Trump’s electoral victories. The legitimation crisis from which Trumpism emerged was a result of the strength of American capital, not its decline"
"Viewed in light of the president’s psychological need to dominate, it is almost certainly true that his flagrant abuse of the rights of migrants, asylum seekers and foreign-born students in the United States — snatching them off the streets to be imprisoned or, worse, sending them to an unaccountable foreign prison with no practical legal recourse — is just the beginning. In the same way that there was nothing that could stop Trump from imposing a tariff regime that, in his mind, humiliates America’s rivals, there is nothing that can dissuade him from using the coercive power of the state to dominate those he disfavors at home"
"Some might ask: How could David Brooks be a longtime columnist for the NY Times when he couldn't see what was right in front of his face? Others would say: David Brooks is a longtime columnist for the NY Times *because* he couldn't see what was right in front of his face"
"A lot of very frustrating American political behavior is explained by reasoning something like this: A pathologically mentally unbalanced moron surely could not receive a major party presidential nomination, let alone win, twice. Therefore if he seems like one, it must all be a clever act"
"Members of Trump's cabinet, as well as Congresspeople and Senators, are being instructed to wear a tribute to their inglorious, convicted felon leader"
"I will never stop reminding people every time I see his name that the entirety of the Democratic leadership, Pelosi, Hoyer, Jefferies, Clyburn, went to the mat to ensure that Cuellar kept his seat despite his GOP favorable voting record, FBI investigation in a safe blue seat over a progressive woman"
^ Yet another opportunity to begin your obamapostasy, you dope ^
the jetsam sighs,
flooding the front hall,
with the fragile violence etched
on the captain’s forehead:
some got off at the next-to-last stop;
others, less fortunate
were lost on the trail,
pines and mist carrying over
until the exit wicket
displaced all thoughts of a former, human time.
We, it was reasoned,
led lewd lives, belong with the bears.
A very few carry enough energy to
create a kinetic bonding arrangement.
These are the so-called sad ones
eating alone in restaurants,
drying their hair . . .
The dandelions are dead and the mud
of summer. They
tell of roasted meats, be oblivion
but a decade away
and the waterfall, unused,
is ruined, it is ruined, is not to stand.
1/i really liked bonnie prince billy's rendition of "is my living in vain" - i wish i too could believe that up the road is eternal gain - maybe making music is worth enough to take the trouble to carry on
2/how to stay cheerful and friendly in these days of modern times?
1/i really liked bonnie prince billy's rendition of "is my living in vain" - i wish i too could believe that up the road is eternal gain - maybe making music is worth enough to take the trouble to carry on
ReplyDelete2/how to stay cheerful and friendly in these days of modern times?