instill warmth and flavor into the proceedings

 

 Comrades,

The Americans have never got irony. So the sweet irony of DJ Trump! pardoning a turkey due to get necked for Thanksgiving has been lost on them. Turkey saves turkey - LOL! - I get it. Try as I might to try and find some irony trawling through the Fake Media, there is none. The closest they came was the Reuters news agency quoting The Donald wishing the bird named Corn "a long, happy and memorable life" (a turkey gets to have a memorable life?) and then adding in the next par: "Thanksgiving turkeys are bred for slaughter, and most of those receiving a Presidential pardon die within a few months."

The Trumpotus has been well described as "the world's most successful unsuccessful man", and his behaviour since the election only goes to reinforce that concept. And let's face it, while the The Donald may not be stupid, he's just too plain dumb to be have ever been an authoritarian ruler. For that, you have to be very smart. Just ask some his mates like Vlad the Impaler or Fatboy Kim. The Trumpotus is all consumed by perceived slights, petty grudges, and meaningless vendetta's to rule with an iron fist. To do that you need to put your real enemies in the jailhouse at the bare minimum, or preferably get a goon squad to take them out - permanently. And that's just the start down the road to Totalitarianism. But DJ Trump!, now quite obviously, is "a shot bird".

I'm no mathematician or psephologist, but I'm guessing that maybe 20% at most of those 50% who voted Republican are hard core believers in the Cult of Trump - the ones who tote guns, fly Confederate flags and are suckers for any kind of MAGA merch. So maybe only 10% of the electorate as a whole are in fact Clinton's "deplorables". That's hardly enough of a base from which to mount a national insurrection, even if they're all heavily armed in a country seething with dichotomy and riven by partisan division. Twitter has abandoned them, so what do they do? They transport themselves through the ether to another "free speech" platform known as Parler, which in reality is a gigantic echo chamber talking to four walls...no one else will hear them from a minor player in the Soshul Meejah landscape dominated by a duopoly. The Trumpotus manipulated the Fake Media very well into taking him seriously on the time honoured principal of "all publicity is good publicity".  But now that nobody takes the Lame Duck seriously as he has lost all the very considerable power and authority of Oval Office, my confident prediction is that not only will he fade from view, he'll disappear up his own arsehole - only coming out from time to time to appear in a court of law as a defendant. There are dire predictions he'll set up a TV channel with Real News and that Trumpism will dominate American politics for years to come. What rot. The bloke is worse than broke for a start off. Granted, the Donald is much a better showman than Sarah Palin ever will be, but now that the DJ is no longer the Master of Ceremonies and has quickly become a withdrawn, depressed shell of his former self who'll now be persecuted by all and sundry, the extent of his influence will go the way of the Tea Party. Nowheresville. He's not conceded defeat, and never will, because he doesn't know how to, but he knows deep down that he's a loser, and that's worse. Infinitely worse. It's no secret that Uncle Joe rigged the Electoral College the best this time, but who could have predicted an exact flip on four years ago? What's the chances? It's remarkable that Trump won the college back in '16 by 302 to 232, and Uncle Joe won it this time around - you guessed it - 302 to 232. Just pity poor ol' Joe for accepting the poisoned chalice in a plague infested country hurtling headlong toward a prolonged economic depression - but more on that once he's been Inaugurated.

For the moment, consider the contrast between The Donald's bizarre appearance on election night with its bluster and fluster about "this is the greatest fraud ever committed against this country!" and " we will go the the Supreme Court!" to the one minute - that's right - 60 seconds of prepared remarks at the time-honoured 73rd turkey pardoning. This from a man who could gibber off the cuff for an hour and a half in a press conference to a recluse who can now barely speak at all. Little wonder he's spending all his weekend's on the golf course (described by the Secret Service as his "safe place") to get away from the shitting Christmas decorations at the White House that his soon-to-be ex-wife hates with an absolute passion.

Never mind that the GOP is still controlled for the moment by fascist apparatchiks intent on wrecking democratic institutions which should now be classed as an extremist organisation. Worry not about his weak-as-gnat's-piss enablers trembling in fear - fancy going to an election with no party platform whatsoever, other than "we're sweet with whatever this guy thinks". For the moment, wiser heads have prevailed, and the Miracle of Democracy has triumphed once again. But as my dear departed father was fond of saying "the price of freedom is eternal vigilence".

So perhaps it's best to leave it with a final word on the turkey - without doubt the very worst all the eating birds. In the 1941 "Holiday Edition" of the American magazine Gourmet, the wine writer Peter Greig fearlessly weighed in with some tips on festive imbibing, including what libations to serve with that Thanksgiving bird: "A pretty unattractive meat at the best of times, so often dry and tasteless, turkey calls aloud for a rich red Burgundy or Rhone wine to instill warmth and flavor into the proceedings".

And doesn't everyone need some more of that?

 

 

gone, gorn, gornski..."the scoreboard never lies"

 

Comrades,

In case you missed it gone, gorn, gornski...

BREAKING NEWS

President Trump authorized his government to begin the transition to President-elect Joe Biden’s administration.

Monday, November 23, 2020 6:32 PM EST

Emily Murphy, the administrator of the General Services Administration, on Monday formally designated President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. as the apparent winner of the presidential election, providing federal funds and resources to begin a transition and authorizing his advisers to begin coordinating with Trump administration officials.

Read the latest   So, after 21 days, DJ Trump! has finally admitted - although never conceding (and never will) - defeat. The Miracle of Democracy does, in the final paralysis, come down to a race - and there's a scoreboard. But of course, not being a sports aficionado (golf doesn't count - he cheats - regularly) he would not be familiar with the phrase "the scoreboard never lies".  Which got me to thinking, I wonder if the soon to be former Leader of the Free World, can spell the word L-O-S-E-R, given that it has been the favoured phrase of the Trumpotus when referring to his friends, supporters, enemies, and those who have just hated his guts, plain and simple, over the past four years? If running around in circles like a Thanksgiving turkey chasing his own tail for three weeks is not enough evidence alone that the man is far too stupid to be an authoritarian, then what is? The biggest fear, tho', is that his enablers still control the Grand Old Party, which surely must now be considered an extremist far right organisation.

 

The Great Sulk of 2020 AD

 

The Great Sulk of 2020 AD, in pictorial form...make that five rounds of golf since losing - for 287 taxpayer funded excursions to the Country Club in almost four years...as at 21/11/20.

https://youtu.be/f0NZt_-eB9o

 

 

make the world safe for democracy - in song

 

Of course I'm struggling to write anything remotely coherent on the Miracle of Democracy amid the world-wide euphoria of that wildly unpredictable psychopath being evicted from the Oval Office, largely because it's still a day-to-day proposition, as no one has any idea - not a clue - what the Orange Man from Twitter might get up to in his last 72 days in the White House.

The votes are still being counted despite an order from the Fucktard-in-Chief to Stop the Count! The Electoral College map is still being determined to see who rigged the gerrymander the best. The bitter recriminations on both sides (because Trump lost and Biden didn't win in a landslide) have barely begun. The US judiciary (and the rest of the world) laughs in the face of the bogus Trumpotus after the most scrutinised, peaceful, above-board and all done-by-the-book election this century. But anyway you look at it, the dude is screwed. Never mind that the Regular Guy from Delaware is about five million votes in front in the popular vote.

I'm sick of the avalanche of not-so-hilarious meme's poking fun at The Donald's gross physical appearance and the lame speculation as to what on earth might be going on with those tiny cogs spinning around furiously inside that  weird batshit pinhead of his. How could you ever know?

So why not celebrate the return of a lightly-shaded Pinko to the White House in song? Back in '66, Norma Tanega nicely summed up the predicament that Donald J. Trump now finds himself in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImAlx0amAIc

and while the lines... to stop war and atrocity/and make the world safe for democracy/the greatest event of the century/in the interest of suffering humanity...might be going a bit too far, it's always good to get some Calypso on the turntable in times of crisis, with a song written by Fritz McLean back in 1936, popularized at the time by the great Attila the Hun, and covered here by Ry Cooder:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MrXXoq6k7A

and to finish off, let's stay with Mr Cooder and a right rollicking number from his screamer of a record, Election Special, penned while Obama was campaigning for a second term...but it might as well have been written about DJ Trump's tiny little hands:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF_s1uMrais

Hold onto yr hats as we wait for "safe harbour day" on December 8.

 

they knew 31 years ago

 

 

“Surrender Donald” – Gay activists rally outside Trump Tower in New York, protesting the city’s tax breaks for luxury real estate developers while thousands of people with AIDS sleep in the streets. Oct. 31, 1989.

The Balkanisation of America 2022

 

"you'll develop a turd mentality"

Comrades

Closing argument here from those rascal Republicans at The Lincoln Project. Gets a lot done in about two minutes, but they had no shortage of material to work with. After months of attack ads, always nice that you can still have a laugh and quote yourself...and the Trumpotus himself..."you'll develop a turd mentality":

https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qj310ozm1a1y7yyqm.mp4

and yet another reminder here of what a gargantuan gerrymander the Electoral College is. Ever since "go west young man", Californians find themselves robbed blind and seriously disenfranchised.

and when everything hits the fast-spinning blades and is served up in a tureen of shit, look who they have to fall back on...St. Genghis Khan himself...