It’s been a devastating week for the world. The oil shock is here; the Greater Depression is within sight. Terrorist attacks are on the rise. Prices are rising. All is chaos and confusion. Holy shit! Anywho, here are some of my thoughts that couldn’t make there way into full blog posts and may or may not have appeared in my social media.

Just read it and walk me off the ledge in the comments. Thanks, y’all!

  1. Bye-Bye Kristi! Kristi Bye-Bye!
  2. Understanding Senator Graham
    1. Graham’s Pronouncements
    2. Graham’s Penchant for War and Violence
  3. Trump’s Foreign Policy Acumen
    1. Using a Patriot Missile to Kill a Fly
    2. Nuclear Proliferation
  4. We’re so fucked
  5. Image Attribution

Bye-Bye Kristi! Kristi Bye-Bye!

When Kosplay Kristi was fired, I didn’t feel Schadenfreude as much as I felt SchadenFuckOff

Understanding Senator Graham

Graham’s Pronouncements

Lindsey can always get drunker. Everytime you hear him speak, ask yourself how drunk is he? The crazier the things he says, the drunker he is. It is a positive correlation. Allegedly.

Graham’s Penchant for War and Violence

Lindsey is the poster child for outlawing conversion therapy. Just accept who you are Sister Lindsey. Come out of the closet. We don’t care. Learn to accept yourself and quit taking your anger and frustration out on the world, son. It ain’t that bad.

Trump’s Foreign Policy Acumen

Using a Patriot Missile to Kill a Fly

Now you know how Trump bankrupted six casinos and all of his other businesses. We’re spending a million dollars a missile against $20,000.00 drones. Our missiles are incredibly sophisticated and take lots f resources and skills to build; theirs are unsophisticated and can be built on the side of the road. It just isn’t cost effective to use all of our armament to stop them from using theirs. In fact the ledger sheet is so grotesquely lopsided that it would be funny if it didn’t hamstring us so badly in supporting Ukraine against Russia, Taiwan against China, and South Korea against North Korea.

Nuclear Proliferation

I’ve heard reporting that when Kushner and Witkoff told Trump that negotiations with Iran were pointless, Oman was saying that there was a deal on the table. Now, that Trump tore up Obama’s nuclear deal with them, and initiated an illegal war after the Iranians entered into good-faith negotiations that resulted in a possible deal, will they ever stop trying to develop a nuclear weapon?

It should be clear to every country observing the US foreign policy that it is untrustworthy and will interfere with any country’s internal workings as it sees fit. The only way to stop us is to have a nuclear weapon or two to threaten it with. Great. Trump has set off a new round of nuclear proliferation and guaranteed that Iran will develop a nuke and probably incentive them to use it.

We’re so fucked

Even if we could oust Trump and his entire administration and replace Congress a la a parliamentary government with snap elections, we cannot undo the damage Trump has done to our democracy and institutions, the world order and the world’s economy, and the climate crisis.

There is no going back to the way things were two weeks ago before the illegal Netanyahy-Trump War began or back to the government and nation we had before he took office in 2025. We have to go forward to create a new government and institutions — not rewriting the Constitution, but creating new norms and expectations and giving much of it the power of law — a new world economy and new world order and new efforts to limit climate disasters.

I’m just so angry, afraid, disappointed, and disbelieving. What in our experience of Trump 1.0 led anyone to believe that Trump 2.0 wouldn’t be THIS? He instigated an insurrection to derail our democratic transfer of power, why is anyone surprised that he is attacking our democracy now? He couldn’t cope with the #COVID19 pandemic and ended up causing two million unnecessary deaths, so why do we think he could deal with any crisis that have happened in the past eighteen months all of which he created? Or that he could manage the economy when he inherited a GREAT economy and just rode it into the ground worsened by the disruptions of the #COVID19 pandemic? When he is a chronic habitual I venerate liar, why would anyone believe anything he said, much less campaign promises?

It just defies credulity.

Image Attribution

This image was found on Deviantart with a Creative Commons license.