On Not Being a D*ck – v3.0
POST 1202
Ed. note: This is the last post “On Not Being a D*ck,” as you know full well who is and who isn’t.
Emergency
Decide for yourself if you should call the paramedics after watching this video.
The Trumpstein Catastrophe
After Trump whined stupidly at the end of a press briefing about his spa workers who were “stolen” by Epstein, as though they were his property stolen by a thief in the night, a reporter shouted to Trump:
What did you think Epstein was stealing those women for?!?
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But Trump didn’t answer that key question.
And they weren’t women. They were just kids. Children. Underage girls. Not women. And they weren’t his property.
He’s a d*ck – only in the sense of cruelty. He’s always been a d*ck.
Listen to Keith Olbermann’s comments about this here.
And you need to see Ben Meiselas’ review last week.
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The Real Reason
.Here’s a headline from the August 3 Gannett News-Press:.
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Is there justice, along with snakes and gators, in the Everglades | Opinion
- DeSantis and Trump are turning our country into a police state in order to round up those coming to America
- fleeing extreme poverty, violence and brutal dictatorships
- Howard L. Simon
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Just two more points. DeSantis and Trump are turning our country into a police state:
- In order to cement a dictatorship in America so that they and their fellow fascists have all the power.
- To rid America of all people of color and, eventually, all non-Protestants. Whatever color you are, whatever religion you align with, if you aren’t White and Protestant, sooner of later they’ll be coming for you.
If I’m wrong, no matter. These guys and their fellow fascist wannabees are still d*cks.
If they don’t want to be d*cks, they should try aggressively promoting democracy and following the law.
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About the Dems
- I’ve been asking about who will lead us on a path back to something that looks like America and I still have no answer, but I do have more questions.
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Justice Samuel Alito
Justice Clarence Thomas
At 75 and 77 years old, unconstitutional Supreme Court d*cks Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas are the oldest on the Court. Their departure from the Court is quite possible, even likely, while Trump is president. Replacements will have to pass muster in the Senate and if that happens while the Senate is majority Republican, very bad things will happen.
- What will the Dems do when Trump nominates a younger far right supplicant to himself to sit on the Court and do his bidding for decades? Stopping that nail from being driven home into democracy’s coffin will be next to impossible. That should keep you from sleeping well and, perhaps, motivate you to get out on the street to canvass for your Democratic Senate candidate.
- Because the 2026 election could produce a Democratic majority in the Senate starting on January 3, 2027. Then the leadership question morphs a bit.
- Mitch McConnell made “the most consequential decision I’ve made in my entire public career” by stonewalling Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the Court for over 10 months. McConnell was so very proud of his thumb in the eye of the Constitution. That gave us Neil Gorsuch on the Court instead of Garland. Is there a Democratic senator with the courage to do a McConnell stonewall to a Trump nominee to the Court if given the chance?
The radical Rs are finding new, slimy ways to rig the system, including wiping likely D voters from voting roles, killing mail in ballots and eliminating ballot drop boxes, The new red state scum bag move is to redistrict by slicing and dicing current districts to produce extra districts that will be safe Republican House seats. Texas alone intends to create 5 of therm and other red states are looking to do the same thing.- Gov. Gavin Newsome is promising to fight back by doing the same kind of redistricting in blue California and governors in Illinois, New York and other blue states are looking to do the same. We either fight this Republican slime or we will be slimed and there will be no Ghostbusters to come and save us.
- Other than Newsome, what Dem has the chutzpah to do what must be done, including stonewall Trump’s nominations?
- That is the nitty-gritty of my “Who will lead?” question. We need people ready to claw and scratch, bite and kick – fight fire with fire, slime with slime – to stop the destruction of all we hold dear. Otherwise, we’ll be the smug virtuous ones lying prone with a fascist’s boot on our necks.
- Forget about “When they go low, we go high.” I’m as much a fan of Michelle Obama as anyone, but her very nice declaration is a paving stone on the path to fascism.
- So, Democrats: put on your big boy and big girl pants and don’t be such gutless wimps.
The Democrats are more interested in grasping for social virtue than improving the material and emotional well-being of Americans. When your representatives won’t represent, you become your own delegation.
– Prof. Scott Galloway, June 20, 2025
Jimmy Buffett And You
Perhaps you remember the Jimmy Buffett song Last Mango in Paris (full lyrics here). In the song, an old man tells his story to Jimmy. Here’s the chorus, now personalized for you:
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I ate the last mango in ParisTook the last plane out of SaigonTook the first fast boat to ChinaAnd ____________________ there’s still so much to be done.
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Our work wasn’t finished with the civil rights wins in the 60s or the Viet Nam confrontations in the 70s. The haters, the usurpers and thieves never left. Now they’re ethnically cleansing our country of Black and Brown people and either renditioning them to foreign torture gulags or stuffing them into American Koncentration Kamps. They’re cramming our courts, universities and government agencies, even our entire Department of Justice with authoritarian supplicants.
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As brutal as were those righteous battles of the 60s and 70s; as painful and as belief destroying as were the murders of Kennedy, King and the Kent State 4; as barbaric as was the 1968 Chicago Police riot; as abhorrent as the Reagan years of “trickle down” lies and the illegal Iran-Contra scheme; as democracy destroying and sanity stupefying as was Trump’s first term; we are now at a far more dangerous precipice. We are threatened with losing everything.
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We see it, so we know. And we cannot un-know.
As much as we’ve battled, there’s still so much to be done.
The Deconstructing Trump Corner
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- Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility
- on even the most negligible of those who hold it.
- Mark Lawson 1992
- Among all the diseases of the mind
- there is not one more epidemical
- or more pernicious than the love of flattery.
- Richard Steele, 1711
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Mid-Term Election
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* I propose that we fight this Republican democracy killing with something more muscular. We should leave the safe red districts as they are and then create a new blue district for every Democratic voter. Illinois would produce over 3 million new blue seats in the House and New York would supply over 4.6 million new blue seats. Continuing this nationwide will produce over 75 million new Democratic Representatives in the House. Who cares what Texas does?
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