Island Times

We're off for our annual pilgrimage to Block Island (no innterTubes for me). Alas, can't march for No Kings Day. But I just saw that Benioff has apologized for saying that Hate filled, Petty, Paranoid, Demented, Dictator Don should send troops to San Francisco. According to reporting, he was once a traitor to his class in supporting, in general, Democrats.

What the whole fiasco makes crystal clear: the Billionaire Class demands that their cities of residence (well... often in suburban palaces) be as well kept and quiet as those 'Private Islands' owned by those various cruise ship companies. A more untethered to reality bunch of folks can't possibly be. If it weren't for cities, and the energy they have, we'd still be plowing fields with mules and, mostly, dying by 50. Party like it's 1829!!! Yeoman farmers unite!!! And have a bunch of Darkies do the heavy work.

Data Integrity

[been sitting in the queue waiting for the right time. it is now.]

Regular reader knows my thoughts on the risk NSA pays to the Evangelical Reactionary Radical Retrograde Right Wingnuts in general and Mad Dictator Don specifically. Now Lunatic Laura Loomer appears to have instigated a data purge at NSA. Of course she would.

Believe it or don't: the NSA remit is to hoover up all electronic comms to and from, but recorded "over there", anyone not in the USofA. That, of course, includes all the chatter betwixt Mad Dictator Don, his minions, Vlad and his minions going back forever. Where's Edward Snowden when it matters? We American People need to know whether Mad Dictator Don has been and is selling out our country. Full stop.

Maracas

Once again, since Hate filled, Petty, Paranoid, Demented, Dictator Don is a transactional grifter: cui bono?

And the answer is: his fossil fuel friends. At one time, a long time, the USofA controled Venezuela's fossil fuels. As with most of what Hate filled, Petty, Paranoid, Demented, Dictator Don intends, it's back to the 19^th century!! Party like it's 1829!!

Monroe was a Pussy. Hate filled, Petty, Paranoid, Demented, Dictator Don is a Dictator.

Target

Well... boy howdy!! Today's the day for the MacArthur announcement. Here's the NPR report. Note, if you will, this closing note in the report

The MacArthur Foundation is a financial supporter of NPR.

Now, if you read through the mini-bios, ask yourself: would Hate filled, Petty, Paranoid, Demented, Dictator Don is all about doing good for himself. Selfish is as selfish does. End of story.

Just a bunch of woke insurrectionists.

Games

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Sides

There are all manner of personal items that may be of significance, but don't end up in these missives. Those that do, are, mostly, instigated by reports from either the Evangelical Reactionary Radical Retrograde Right Wingnuts or the Lunatic Left. This time it's David French, a sometimes Evangelical Reactionary Radical Retrograde Right Wingnut and other times not quite so.

I suppose I'm among a vewy, vewy small minority group that can claim three (count 'em, Three) baptisms! How can that be, you might ask? Well... here's the tale.

After I came down the chute the OB, very Jewish, removed my precious (well... according to the Evangelical Reactionary Radical Retrograde Right Wingnuts anyway) foreskin. I'm Jewish!

Soon thereafter, I was carried off to the Congregational church (my Pappy's) for the formal baptism. I'm Congo! That's how my Pappy called it, anyway.

By the time I was a tween, my parents' toxicity for each other reached liftoff, manifest in many ways, but for the purposes of this tale, clerical. Mammy would no longer abide meally mouthed Protestants. So, it was off to St. Peter's Episcopal for yet another baptism. I'm the Church of England! How Mammy managed to pull that off, I've no recollection. Of course, at that time, Episcopalians were, informally, known as Catholics in English. Now, not much difference.

The upshot of all this is two evil memes that have been around since long before meme was defined.

1 - the Jews killed Christ.
2 - Mormons aren't Christians.

Which brings us to Mr. French

There was even an insidious new twist in the post-shooting debate. A number of Christian fundamentalists online chose that day of grief — the same day that many Mormons learned that the president of the church, Russell Nelson, had died — to proclaim that the Mormon Church, officially known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, wasn't truly Christian.

I'll admit: I hadn't heard that bit of shit since my youth. I don't remember whether there was a Mormon church in Springfield back then. There is now, but a founding date isn't obvious. So, back then, the Evangelical Reactionary Radical Retrograde Right Wingnuts demonized those that barely existed. Figures.

Unlike French, I'm not optimistic. One side of the divide depends on facts and actual truth to the betterment of all Americans, while the other seeks only to concentrate wealth and power to its minority cabal. "The enemy within" is no way to rule in a Democracy. Not until the Evangelical Reactionary Radical Retrograde Right Wingnuts stop being totalitarians, will there be peace and progress.

By The Numbers - part the ninety fourth

Hot on the heels of #93 in this series, comes an odd occurrence. For uncounted (I'm way too lazy, and this editor makes it somewhat difficult) essays, I've taken up pen and paper to counter Hate filled, Petty, Paranoid, Demented, Dictator Don's frequent claim that he made an overwhelming, unprecedented mandate to destroy democracy as we know it, through the necessary action to destroy the woke Blue states. He never seems to figure out that the sub-GED knuckledraggers in the Red states have no chance to make the really neat stuff that we do. I guess he'll look the other way and get him some stuff from China?

By the same token, I don't have the time or bandwidth (or subscription monies) to monitor all the Lunatic Left pundits. Just a few. And none that I do follow have had the stones, or ambition, to make the obvious point. It is only today that I found support in the dead trees NYT this morning.

So, it is with a warm heart that I give you the writings of Jamelle Bouie who, as I, puts to print the truth: Hate filled, Petty, Paranoid, Demented, Dictator Don didn't even break 50% of the vote, much less mandate or landslide or whatever.

Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election with 49.8 percent of the national popular vote — compared with 48.3 percent for Vice President Kamala Harris — and 312 electoral votes to Harris's 226. In the 20 presidential elections since the end of World War II, Trump had the fourth-narrowest margin in the popular vote and seventh-narrowest in the Electoral College.

IOW, Everybody Else got more votes. Minority rule is the rule by totalitarianism. All hale King Donald the First.

Thought For The Day - 2 October 2025

Game three, Red Sox Yankees is on. So many unAmerican players!!! It was bad enough when that DEI hire Robinson ruined baseball, now we got all these immigrants? What happened to all those 18 year old farm boys in the game? Why's America gone in the shitter?? Riddle me that, Batman. Make Baseball Great Again. [just in case some readers didn't get satire]