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July 20th<\/sup> 2020<\/i><\/p>\n

Not much doubt we\u2019ve stumbled into a meth-driven Hunter S. Thompson fugue state these days. I\u2019ve sometimes wondered what old Hunter would have made of Trumpenstate 2020. He would have been either rolling on the floor, convulsed with laughter and scribbling furiously, or he would have blown his brains out. Can\u2019t really imagine him scratching a cheek and languidly asking, \u201cWow. How \u2018BOUT that?\u201d<\/p>\n

But then, it\u2019s not a languid era. You can cry, you can laugh, or you can get your rifle. None of them are particularly good signs of mental health, but our psyches aren\u2019t really equipped to deal with the madness that pervades our lives today.<\/p>\n

You have clowns in camo snatching up peaceful protesters and hauling them away in unmarked vans. The Supreme Court has just ruled that those rounded up by the gestapo can be held indefinitely, a system that the Soviet Russians used to refer to as \u201cthe Gulag Archipelago.\u201d We have a demented president and a mafioso-corrupt attorney-general praising the gestapo\u2019s actions in Portland, Seattle and now Chicago, and promising to attack other peaceful protesters, presumably in hopes of sparking full-spread rebellion, a Reichstag fire of protest than can justify a Nazi coup against America.<\/p>\n

And once they\u2019ve rounded up protesters and thrown them into camps, what next? Well, the administration has been consulting with vicious dirtbag and justifier of torture, John Yoo, on how best to torture their prisoners, and while they\u2019re at it, flout executive law through executive order. Trump wants to issue decrees on healthcare, immigration and \u201cvarious other plans\u201d over the coming month. He finally had to back way from his preposterously cruel plan to deport all foreign students from the nation\u2019s colleges. A pity. That worked so well for Hitler, ending the war years earlier than if he had maintained a brain trust.<\/p>\n

Trump is pushing to open the schools. He\u2019s pretending it\u2019s for the children, but really, he wants to make it possible for parents to return to jobs that may or may not exist. To that end he\u2019s stonewalling on extending unemployment benefits, further cruel coercion meant to prop up an economy that more and more is a vicious joke meant only to serve the very rich. He\u2019ll consider an extension of a month or so if Congress agrees to utterly gut Social Security and Medicare. How fucking kind of him.<\/p>\n

Betty DeVos wants to return the kiddies to class, even if it means ten thousand or more of them will die. DeVos, who has never sat in a public classroom and has no educational training of any sort, wants churches and corporations to take over training the brats, and get them past the awkward stage where they\u2019re too little to be of any use in the work camps.<\/p>\n

Speaking of demented presidents, we have one that just boasted of \u201cacing\u201d a cognition test. The only time people are administered such tests is when medical personnel are concerned that a person is so far gone mentally that he is a hazard to himself and others. It\u2019s scary enough that they would feel a need to administer such a test to a man in charge of the American military and nuclear weapons, but it\u2019s even scarier that he boasts of \u201cacing\u201d it, even though the final five questions were \u201cvery hard.\u201d The sections he found challenging included memory (given five simple words, asked to repeat them back, then and five minutes later) attention (Trump was always notoriously bad at this, and it\u2019s hard to imagine him being able to count down from 100 in increments of 7, ie, 93, 86, 79, 72…), language (accurately repeat simple declarative sentences), abstraction (what pairs of words such as apple and banana have in common) and orientation (present date, month and year, and the name of the place they are in as well as the city). Test providers then praise the subject, no matter how they did on the test as positive reinforcement for future sessions using such tests. The test is 30 points, 26 is considered borderline cognitive decline, and 20 a sign of significant cognitive decline, so Donald could have scored 15, and been praised for how he did on the test. That Trump was even given the test is disturbing; that he boasted about how well he did is horrifying.<\/p>\n

He wants to cut billions of dollars for COVID-19 testing and tracking even as the number of cases in the US alone approaches 4 million, because having a raging pandemic is hurting his reelection chances. Back in 1945, the Nazis shot German citizens who made the mistake of wondering aloud how well the war is going. This is the same mindset.<\/p>\n

He still refuses to mandate masks, encouraging a destructive, dangerous and foolhardy anti-mask cult who have been attacking people for wearing masks, or for requiring them before allowing people into their homes or places of business. The anti-maskers are becoming more and more belligerent, and they\u2019re playing with fire: public rage against them is mounting. I expect to hear about some anti-masker getting shot, either by a security guard or an armed customer. Only a matter of time.<\/p>\n

Speaking of shooting, has anyone noticed how fast the clowns in the NRA all vanished when government thugs started rounding up civilians and carting them off to camps. This is exactly the situation the NRA said it existed to avoid. Well, I always thought they were nothing but thugs, bullies and cowards. Guess I was right. Fuck the NRA, and fuck anyone who\u2019s a member.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile the Roberts Court, tossing a few bones to progressives, has quietly destroyed laws designed to protect people against predatory loan sharks, removed more of the limitations on Wall Street instrument manipulations like the ones that caused the 2007 crash, and removed transparency from hedge fund trading. Just another service provided for the greater fascistic control of American.<\/p>\n

Remember: this election is our last best chance to avoid a Fourth Reich. If we don\u2019t take the country back in November, our future is very violent and dark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

July 20th 2020 Not much doubt we\u2019ve stumbled into a meth-driven Hunter S. Thompson fugue state these days. I\u2019ve sometimes wondered what old Hunter would have made of Trumpenstate 2020. He would have been either rolling on the floor, convulsed with laughter and scribbling furiously, or he would have blown his brains out. Can\u2019t really … <\/p>\n

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