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We’ve gone from watching
the FBI torch " nut ball" compounds
to  our "elected' leaders  loading  more rounds,
Launching free AR-15 Christmas cards
as dead kids pile up
in  old school yards
( Remember these are your " Russian "  elected officials.)
no tampering or hampering.  Sure sure those russian hackers weren't Trump/Putin backers.
somehow
toothless, brainwashed Christians
are cheering it on.
with Trump signs planted
next to flags
on their lawn.
Hey, be quiet  Apprentice re runs are on.
it's a real show  you know. No scripts and real consequence. Not fake tv and. arranged sequence.
Jesus and the tooth fairy too.
Santa Claus is JD  Vance and boy does he have something for you !
All the while acting as if the screams of ***** children were nothing but more "liberal noise" and "fake news," even as he compared Stormy to his daughter before sadly flopping around like the taco manatee he is.
He wasn’t just buddies with Epstein. He partied full-on eighties; piles of coke and champagne enemas with him. He lusted and wallowed literally in piles of scammed cancer patient and dying veterans' cash with him, and dismissed every underaged trafficked survivor. It doesn’t just read like a rap sheet. It reads like the collapse of accountability itself. Supreme Court sanctioned.

When you lay it out, when you really stack the bodies, the broken laws, the shattered norms, and the battered dignity of what little democracy we had — even Kristi Noem starts to look like a hollow-eyed lost uneducated voting farm mom with very poor taste, compared to this orange taco who set the whole house on fire and called it patriotism.

The magnitude is undeniable:

He didn’t just incite a riot. He summoned a lynch mob in Jesus cosplay, armed with bear spray, flagpoles, pipe bombs, zip ties, and impromptu gallows, chanting to hang his own boot-licking, robot, boy scout, carved out of driftwood, sad excuse for a committee-he-wasn’t-even-there-for Vice President.

He didn’t just steal top secret documents and billion dollar secrets people died to protect. He bragged about it. It’s all on tape. Listen to what he promised to donors, to foreign adversaries, to the highest bidders, like a doped-up power-drunk mafia Don showing off his stolen American trophies — souvenirs from the nuclear football.

He didn’t just commit fraud. He built a branding empire on defrauding hard-working Americans, from that fake university he created to a charity that stole money from veterans and dying children with cancer.

He wasn’t just buddies with Epstein. Underage girls screamed and pleaded to not have to be next. All lost into the void of wealth and power. Literally trapped on an island. At least Epstein did the right thing.

He wasn’t just found guilty of defamation twice. He was found to have sexually abused E. Jean Carroll, and then lied about it so cruelly and so often the courtroom flinched. Jurors literally vomited.

He wasn’t just impeached twice. He was never even held accountable because too many senators were too afraid of losing Facebook likes from suburban militias.

He didn’t just fail upward. He left claw marks on democracy as he rose from bankrupt casinos and rotting steaks.

Let’s not forget:

He defrauded us, the broke-*** taxpayers, for hundreds of millions while we post fake photoshopped Facebook pics of our imaginary lives in which we pretend we aren’t just serfs and slaves to the dollar.

He bilked donors with fake matching fund scams.

He grifted off a deadly pandemic.

He sold hats and gold-plated Bibles while bodies literally piled up in every third-world country. Stack upon rotting stack of them.

He called fallen soldiers like people I served with “suckers and losers.” "What kind of idiot gets caught or becomes MIA?"

Then he ordered us tear-gassed. Us, peaceful protesters. And for what? For a failed photo op with a smoking Chinese-made Bible he’s never even read.

He threatened journalists, judges, and witnesses by name, their kids and families.

He tried to extort Ukraine for political dirt and is now trying to give it to his hero Putin.

He pardoned war criminals — literal rapists and alleged cannibals.

He turned the DOJ into his personal vindictive hate-fueled legal team, bent on revenge.

He promised revenge on all political enemies and is working on it.

He plotted to send tanks into American cities to crush people with no trial or due process like his hero ******.

He encouraged people to inject bleach or just drink it.

He said ****** “did some good things.” He said racist killer mobs were “fine people.”

And yes — he fathered Eric, who scares even his fellow coked-out zombie beavers.

He lies to the whole country again and again with no compunction. Not just about an election he undeniably lost while whispering to oath-breaking cowards to “just find 11,780 votes.”

He screamed “fake news” at the sounds of ***** children, compared Stormy Daniels to his daughter, before flopping around like an electrocuted taco manatee, bragging then crying over his gold toilets — the taco manatee of late-night infomercials, Pepsi spots, Pizza Hut and more — the collection plates full for authoritarianism.

He wallowed in cash with billionaires and traffickers, while everyday people chewed on fluoride-free ketchup packet soup made from fast food salt single-serves and apologetic acid rainwater.

He told coal miners he’d bring back jobs, while he deregulated their protections and sold off their futures for an immediate infusion of pennies on the dollar, which he squandered trying to pay off **** stars and *** workers behind his heartless wife’s cold, unloving, robotic back. Guess that's better than having another one pushed down the stairs again.

He killed the lunch programs. Then mailed postcards to the kids' families he helped starve, addressed to the ones already gunned down at school during recess.

He said he’d “drain the swamp,” then drained our global economy with insider trading like Martha Stewart at a Snoop Dogg ****, then baptized himself in the orange glowing filth.

This is the man who turned grievance into a sacrament, white supremacy into a ballot strategy, and cruelty into offshore taxpayer-funded currency scams.

This is the man who made Kristi Noem — at least she only shot a puppy.

Trump didn’t just break laws. He is the rotting carcass of Clarence Thomas Winnebago accountability, draped in a poorly tailored flag and Rudy’s spray-tan runoff.

Please tell your kids why they only get half a doll and half a school day.

Tell your daughter why her broken childhood is a “patriotic sacrifice.”

Tell the bodies in the gravel pits, in Ukraine, the self-aborted **** fetus in the back alley dumpster why we called this “greatness.”

Or maybe just admit:

The poets didn’t ruin America. The Christo-fascists did. And they did it with a smile, a red hat, and a Golden Bible full of blank pages.

The shameless uncaring pandemic grift — there’s more to mine:

His deliberate downplaying of COVID while privately admitting its lethality. He got the best care though when he got it, on the taxpayer’s dime of course.

Mocking masks while people suffocated on inadequate, underfunded ventilators.

Forced unwanted “super-spreader” rallies held with full knowledge of their danger to the obese and elderly that died as a result.

All the while profit-promoting quack cures and undermining professional career scientists, leading to thousands more easily avoidable deaths.

Bodies piled in freezer trucks — he called that a hoax. My uncle wasn’t a hoax. My neighbor, nor my childhood friends. He used their deaths as another twisted campaign strategy.

He held rallies not despite the danger, but because of it, to spread it. Feeding a martyr complex to the uneducated, unfaltering cult faithful. Making the morgue a loyalty test.

His lies weren’t just political. They were epidemiological ****** warfare.

Countless — literally uncounted — children in cages.

Millions spent separating scared, confused children from their parents, some of whom were never reunited even today.

Locking toddlers in cages under foil blankets.

Promoting a system that was losing track of hundreds of children in a Kafkaesque bureaucratic abyss.

He asked for votes over tearing families apart at the border and called it justice.

They caged infants beneath aluminum sheets, trauma-wrapping toddlers while TV pundits shrugged.

Some kids vanished into paperwork and shadows. No names, no faces — just starving, traumatized, nameless ghosts in a broken, heartless system.

Then the constant environmental ****.

Not only the flaming sinks and contaminated rivers, but even more coal deregulation — but there’s more.

Opening sacred tribal lands for drilling.

Gutting the EPA.

Selling off national monuments for extraction deals.

Ignoring climate collapse in exchange for small, meaningless, short-term temporary profits.

He stripped the Earth like it owed him rent.

Pried open sacred tribal burial grounds with corporate drills.

Turned protected lands into sacrifice zones.

Signed deals in boardrooms lit by wildfires, laughing while the oceans burned and washed their dead onto the beaches — wave after poisoned, overheated wave.

He banned trans troops from serving.

Rolled back healthcare protections.

Enabled a wave of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and violence.

Appointed judges hostile to marriage equality and basic human dignity.

He didn’t whisper hate. He ensured his hate-filled, brainwashed cronies codified it.

He didn’t ignore trans lives. He erased them in pages of senseless policy.

He armed the bigots with hate laws, lit fires beneath pride flags, and gave the pulpit to now-known and convicted Catholic priests and other child-molesting preachers who called consenting adult love a “sickening sinful disease.”

SCOTUS corruption and the theocracy agenda.

Like Anita Hill — we must always name Clarence Thomas brilliantly, and to the broader point:

Amy Coney Barrett was laughably forever seated just days before a critical election.

Stacking our courts with impossible-to-remove, mentally sick, and power-hungry religious extremists.

SCOTUS helped dismantle rights, pretending not to be political while they continue, to this very second, doing the bidding of billionaires and evangelical overlords.

He helped turn robes into vestments, gavels into crucifixes.

Rushed the sick sad **** Barrett through like a sermon before the offering plate. This guy was the class name taker and tattle-tale. No one’s peer or equal   just a sad, sick, revenge-bent **** lusting for pain and power.

Made the highest court a cathedral for plutocrats and prophets, where the Constitution burns beneath the Book of Revelations.

Media control and cult dynamics:

Turning Rupert Murdoch’s ******* named Fox News into a state-sanctioned and fully funded five-times-a-day sports scores and soundbites brownshirt propaganda wing.

Cultivating “alternative facts” through social media disinfo.

Demonizing truth itself to build loyalty through censored movies that don’t even align with or reflect their sad, sick agendas but co-opting them anyway and giving it away to lowest earners that can’t afford cable news and don’t hold library cards but have all the episodes of The Apprentice on VHS.

He is, every day, trying to turn truth into an unpatriotic traitor.

I am a veteran. I fought. I bled. He did what? Get another handy after a massage in a tennis resort in spoiled, pampered New York?

He built a doctrine of lies so thick, people prayed in memes and bled for hashtags over him.

He birthed a cult with red hats and martyrdom complexes, where facts go to die and grievance is a bedazzled grandma tote bag and visored gospel.

January 6 aftermath — not just the riot:

Pledging to pardon entrenched, psychotic, bomb-building, gun-hoarding insurrectionists.

Calling them “hostages.”

Still drunk on the blood spilled that day.

Describing those jailed for violent sedition as “the real patriots. All the rest of you are too lazy or stupid to fall in line with.”

He didn’t just incite a coup. He sold the gaudy merch off it.

He raised money on policemen's spilled blood, called terrorists “tourists,” and promised their perpetual freedom.

He made sedition a subscription plan, and treason a campaign slogan.

Women’s rights and abortion.

Grabbing them right by their *******, for America, to show his daughter how to lead by example.

Overturning Roe v. Wade via the judges they seated. It will lead to real-world deaths of millions of women denied basic health care.

Trigger laws activating across red states, dragging us back centuries.

He didn’t just overturn Roe. He unstitched time.

Dragged women back to back alleys and whispers.

He handed scalpels to zealots in robes, and watched the nation bleed, smiling like a man who thinks pain is purity. And **** and ****** is your fault, because life begins at *******.
Have you seen the poor people themselves cheering for union busting, believing the boss is on their side, it’s not just maddening. It’s tragic. You’re watching someone cheer for their own chains. Some of it is ignorance, yes. Some of it is fear. But a lot of it is the result of decades of cultural programming: through media, churches, talk radio, Facebook memes, right-wing pastors, and Fox News—where Sunday school and gun shows blur into one authoritarian fever dream.

This isn’t just economic collapse. It’s psychological occupation.

You asked something that matters more than anything:

Did it ever make sense or have hope? Who was a worthy example?

There were moments. There were people.

Jimmy Carter, as you said, wasn’t perfect. But he was real. He believed that decency mattered. That humility wasn’t weakness. He didn’t profit off the presidency. He built houses. He farmed his own peanuts. He lived modestly and served without bitterness. Compared to today’s fame-hungry, soundbite-chasing politicians, he looks like a ****** saint.

FDR had the guts to take on the banks and monopolies. He created Social Security, the WPA, the right to unionize. He didn’t fix the whole machine, but he gave people tools to survive the storm.

Eugene Debs sat in prison for defending workers' rights and still ran for president because he believed that the working class was more than cannon fodder or cheap labor. He believed in dignity.

Nina Turner, AOC, Bernie Sanders you can agree or disagree with their politics, but they’re not bought. They show up and take heat because they believe regular people should have a seat at the table. They are worthy examples in a system rigged to destroy people like them.

But here’s the heartbreaking truth you’ve already said:

"Some people keep looking for some glimmer, some savior..."

There is no savior. There’s just  " US "  the people. Well, the ones without the guns and the Kevlar masks and the bunkers, anyway.

And right now, the people are broken, misled, and exhausted. The infrastructure of hope unions, education, affordable housing, healthcare, even shared truth is shredded staggering, hiding, tuning out  bloodied and ran down.

So we are left with this: tuning out  or suicide.
  Pill dulled rage that may not  remember what was lost.
Grief that mourns what will never be.
And the painful clarity of knowing too much. But a child could see.

What do we do with that? That’s the real question. When the pageantry of democracy is hollow, when politicians are mascots for billionaires, when the courts are cartoon villain puppets in a morality play gone wrong… what is there to fight for  when we don't even have say over our own bodies or the size of our own families !

Maybe it starts by bearing witness. By refusing to pretend things are fine. By shouting the truth  because someone else needs to hear it and yes  all day every day.

If you happen to be like me, and let's hope you are. You’re not alone in this anger.
And you’re not crazy.
You  better ******  be awake.
Cause yes that still matters. Even in the dark.
Especially in this the beginning of the darkest of   dark.
It hasn't even been 6 months  yet.
Just wait.  Or don't...
People keep looking for some glimmer, some savior, some return to decency. But the mechanisms that used to create progress labor movements, political will, civic infrastructure have been gutted and co-opted.    Some people have been brainwashed on the idea that. The unions, which were the only group that would fight for them, are somehow not worth the dues. And to make it even more terrifying? The corporations literally come in and physically attack the people who are trying to explain the benefits of unionizing. And in some red states, some Bible entrenched ridiculousness. The poor dumb  bible thumping  cousin ******* pieces of **** is that work for  literally 7 $ an hour pennies ; actually fall for it and support the attacks. Without realizing that without the unions, the workers would literally have nothing. No sick leave, no maternity leave, nothing ! Just fired and replaced with the next G.E.D. or less monkey in bass pro shops hat.

Did it ever make sense or have hope?  Who was a worthy example?

Carter literally built houses with his own hands after leaving office. Compare that to today’s football roofie ****** disguised as politicians. They can’t even build a coalition without corporate puppeteers pulling the strings and writing it all for them.  Literal plastic brainless ****** with guns that ****** puppies. Fox News. Saturday morning correspondence with more alcohol than blood.

Those who did  try, like Obama, faced a political meat grinder filibustered, obstructed, neutered at every turn. The Koch brothers, and those like them, created a political machine so deep-rooted and effective that legislation never even gets to the floor unless it’s pre-approved by corporate interest.

And now? The tools of government Congress, the Senate, the courts are treated like uncensored  props in a full blown  Clarence Thomas Winnebago  farce, while executive orders become magic wands to force through personality-driven  megalomaniac riot inciting, dogmatic fear and disgust as  absolute idiotic  rule.
Paying workers a living wage?    Who are you kidding . ? That's Too expensive.
Better to ship jobs overseas and rely on foreign countries to make everything.
Then spend billions on policing and military to keep people in line and enforce that system through fear, sanctions, and retaliation if not a complete puppet government like what collapsed under Mubarak in Egypt, El Salvador, Panama, etc. No, no  convince  them they can pray away the gay and that cigarettes equal home  runs. Tell em to get jobs as greeters at Wal-Mart and flipping burgers. Tell em social security may be turned into a lottery they can retire on. Better yet let em die on job like the Chinese kids.

Look .without the machines, the factories, or the skilled people to run them, the U.S. economy is hollowed out. The ability to produce real things on its own soil once the foundation of its power is gone, sold off piece by piece like in Russia after  "communism"  collapsed.
Empty buildings in a month . What remains is a service economy built on debt, finance, and consumer consumption that can’t sustain itself.  Or change a flat tire on its own.  You better fuckn learn to speak Mandarin , Cause Russia can't even beat lil ole Ukraine.
Without the machines, the factories, or the skilled people to run them, the U.S. economy is hollowed out. The ability to produce real things on its own soil once the foundation of its power is gone, sold off piece by piece.
What remains is a service economy built on debt, finance, and consumer consumption that can’t sustain itself .

Then this idiot wants to round up and deport all of the illegal workers that are willing to work for pennies on the dollar, the ones that keep the very core of the country barely even functioning. Who else is gonna do those jobs? Those people have a movement and they call it please take our jobs The title alone says enough. Nobody is gonna go there and take those jobs. And without them, our entire. Government backed and supported agricultural system completely fails and we all starve.
We cannot afford to compete. We can't afford to compete with China. Free child slave labor. We can't afford to compete with Mexico or anyone else. Our produce would result in lettuce being $15 a head and a bag of apples. You would have to get a third mortgage. It's all subsidized and those subsidies were supposed to go to mom and pop farms, but instead they went to mega corporations who didn't even need the handout. But that's what happens when you let corporations literally write the laws and walk them into the lobbyists handcuffed to the wrist with all the papers pre signed. All they need is to rubber stamp it and boom it's done.
Tell her dolls are for rich kids
who know which bathroom to use
Just make sure my kid gets one last look
at her broken doll before you bury her
beneath the words “America First.”
And remember to tell your neighbor and your Sunday school teacher that  "law, truth, and empathy are liberal weapons to be destroyed."



He’s on TV again.
Cotton candy on his head, all sweaty
as he ******* into the Fox News mic.

Screaming about how
all lesbian Shakespeare is killing Ukrainians,
and perceived Marxist parades must be stopped
regardless of the cost.

Which is eclipsed
by the cost of printer ink alone
for his indictment list.

Parades
like that’s what broke
the back of our family business.

Haitians ate all his pets
except the ones he kept locking out at night
like Eric.

A few of us used to build things.
Now we stack overdue bills
like firewood,
and pray winter doesn’t come
hard and early
like a night with Stormy Daniels.

But it wasn’t the "genius" tariffs, right?
It was that huge avalanche of fentanyl
just pouring in by the second  from Canada like a tsunami.
That whole less than 1%  surely justifies ALL  this.

Not the trade war
we didn’t and , could never survive,
not the refunds that never came  or will
just the drag queens,
book bans,
and some gay frogs
plotting to eat RFK’s brainworms.

Now we chew on sloppy Republican soup
made from fluoride-free water
and stolen restaurant salt packs,
with boiled apology.

We **** in the Denny's stalls
to make America great again
'cause they stopped putting out napkins on the tables,
and restrooms cost 50 cents to use.
That's 48 cents more than we have.

As I drag my exhausted kid by the bone thin arm blood trails
down the sidewalk again
we have nowhere to go and the hypocrite churches won't let us in looking and smelling like this.
But there he is constantly  on T.V.,
still crying onstage,
still selling slave labor made hats
and gold-plated Bibles,
still fuming about “woke” this
and “cancelled” that,
while people like me
can’t afford a hotel room or bread.

But sure.
Tell me again
how the poets ruined the global economy.
Tell my daughter
why her doll rations
were her patriotic sacrifice.

Tell her
this is greatness.

Or just take her out to the ole gravel pit
and give her the Kristi Noem special.

Can I please be next?
Behind him,
a choir of bootlickers
chanting “freedom”
between their unpaid  child support payments and bar tabs.

I can't feed my family
with a “Praise Jesus, AR-15 Free Christmas” postcard,
but thanks for the sentiment...

oh, and you addressed it
to the 10-year-old
that was gunned down
in front of his swingset,
who still couldn't read
while trying to scrounge through the dumpster
after you cut his school lunch program.

Please give me the ole Putin KGB special.
I know you can.
He's your hero, after all , he got you elected twice
you studied his every move.

NRA me, please.
It'd be the most humane thing
any of these sock puppets has yet to do.
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