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According to The New York Times, “The Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday that 63 service members had been killed in the strike in the city, Makiivka, which is in the Donetsk region. Ukraine claimed that ‘about 400’ Russian soldiers had died. Neither figure could be independently verified. A spokesman for the Russian-installed proxy government in the Donetsk region, Daniil Bezsonov, called the strike ’a massive blow’ and hinted at errors by Russian commanders. ‘The enemy inflicted the most serious defeats in this war on us not because of their coolness and talent, but because of our mistakes,’ he wrote in a post on the Telegram messaging app.” I chose to believe that closer to 400 Russians were killed because Ukraine is that good, and Russia is that fucked up. Now, why the fuck is the West still dragging their feet with supplying Ukraine with everything it needs to win the war, not just stave off defeat? This is why the West is so fucking weak; they refuse to make the hard, necessary decisions. Everything is piecemeal.

I rarely venture into the belly of the beast deliberately because the notion of what I will find, no doubt, will infuriate me to no end, but I came across this MAGA moron article on this MAGA moron website, AG American Greatness. I won’t get into every aspect of what was written because some of the premises are downright backward, as one could imagine from an anti-Democratic movement. Nonetheless, I was drawn to the article because of the (maybe) impending RepubliKKKlan schism — more like a takeover by the extreme right wing of the party.

As the article argues, “That leads us to the inevitable question: What should we do when a majority of Republicans want Trump, but the Republican Party says we can’t have him? Do we knuckle under and vote for Ro DeSantis because he would be wasn’t better than any Democrat? I say no, we don’t knuckle under. And I like DeSantis. I’d vote for him after Trump’s second term. But not before. Here’s the thing: It is precisely the expedient view of ‘well, this person isn’t my first choice, but he’s the best available option who can win’ which has allowed the uniparty to take over and ruin the country. We’re letting the Republicans get away with offering us a false dichotomy: A fake non-choice among candidates who are pre-selected for us. … If you ask me, Trump’s presidency was much more ‘American’ than it was ‘Republican.’ That’s why it was such a success and why so many of us loved it. Now, if the Republican Party thinks it’s not big enough for Trump, it’s not going to be big enough for me either.”

Of course, I relish the notion of a traitor trump third-party run, for it would ensure a Biden second term. Some may perceive such open contempt for the RepubliKKKlan Party as a schism between the “moderates” and the QAnon kookeries. I see it as less of a rift and more like the extreme is about to devour the moderates, and this will play out in spades come 3 January when the RepubliKKKlan demonstrates that it can’t get its act together.

Is this thing still going on? Seriously! Where are we with this many months-long saga? I will admit that I thought the government would have shut down these protests by now, but on the other hand, the movement has not reached any sense of critical mass. It just seems to be this slow burn leading to nothing except a bunch of citizens venting. At what point do people revert back to the status quo? Call me skeptical, but I think an oppressed people kind of doesn’t mind after a while, and Iranians have been oppressed for nearly 50 years. So, why should now be any different? Oh, maybe it’s that “this time is different” mantra hope-peddling bullshit. People seem uniquely inclined to such myopia.

Speaking of “unique,” I came across this JSTOR article which I quote at length, “The civil unrest that erupted in Iran after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was allegedly beaten to death by the Islamic Republic’s morality police in September continues to spread across the country. Demonstrations initially aimed at abolishing compulsory hijab laws are now calling for a complete dismantling of the republic itself. Overnight, protestors went from taking off their headscarves to lighting them on fire, from tearing down portraits of their Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, to shouting, ‘Death to the Oppressor!’ in the streets. Many reports present these developments as unprecedented, and for good reason. As Assal Rad, a research director at the National Iranian American Council, says in a Zoom call, the current level of civil disobedience would have been ‘unimaginable’ a few months ago. At the same time, it is important to recognize that today’s protests are not entirely unique in the context of Iranian history. They are firmly rooted in a century-old tradition of collective action against authoritarianism—a tradition which created ‘one of the most robust protest cultures in the world,’ as Reza Aslan writes in An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville, set during the 1905-1911 Persian Constitutional Revolution.”

It got me thinking, if Iranians are experts at protesting with a long history of doing so, then what’s taking so long? Perhaps I’m being too impatient. But am I? The Islamic Revolution took over a year to oust the Shaw. But one would think in this century of speedy everything from communications to the dissemination of information, events would be accelerated, but they are not. These Iranian protests have actually been culminating since July 2021. They’ve only intensified after the murder of Mahsa Amini. But before Amini, the populace had been agitated over economic problems, which arguably should be more of a catalyst for real change. Yet, nothing. So after 18 months of protests and 50 years of oppression, I see why this time will probably not be different. Oh, well. People get the government they deserve and desire.

Now that the Netanyahu government has been sworn into office, we’ll start getting a true sense of where the country is headed, and from what I’m reading, they are headed directly into becoming a modern-day Nazi state. Imagine that! A nation founded in the wake of Nazi Germany’s attempt to exterminate Jews from Europe is using those same tactics employed by Nazis to force an ultra-orthodox Judaism takeover of Israel. Un-fucking-believable! Irony is not dead!

An Israeli journalist’s opinion piece in The New York Times lays out the situation nicely. The author writes, “Jewish fundamentalists are now the dominant element in the Israeli governing coalition led by Benjamin Netanyahu. They plan a hostile takeover of Jewish identity. Several ministries have been created with a focus on Jewish identity. Each will be led almost exclusively by the members of parties representing the various strands of modern Jewish fundamentalism — parties that resist any form of modernism — as well as the elements of the Zionist Orthodoxy that are increasingly both ultranationalist and ultra-Orthodox. These parties are imposing on Israel a definition of Judaism that refuses to recognize the validity of the non-Orthodox streams, with which the majority of American Jews identify. They are even demanding a change in the most fundamental link between Israel and the Jewish diaspora: the Law of Return, which grants Israeli citizenship to Jews and their descendants. They have promised to make those with at least one Jewish grandparent and who are not recognized as Jewish by the Orthodox rabbinical establishment ineligible for automatic Israeli citizenship.” Hmmm. Where have I heard identity being used as a wedge issue before in history? Where, oh, where, has identity purity been used to segregate and demonize a people? If I could just remember. Oh, wait! I recall now. It’s the Nazis! It started with The Nuremberg Laws and ended with the Final Solution. This would be comical if it were not so tragic.

But don’t worry. It gets worse. Apparently, the indoctrination — unsurprisingly — must start with the educational system. As the Times continues, “According to the agreement signed by Mr. Maoz’s Noam and by Mr. Netanyahu’s Likud, Mr. Maoz is now in charge of a new authority for national Jewish identity, with a budget of a quarter of a billion shekels (about $70 million) over the next two years, and will gain control of the Education Ministry’s department for external educational programs. … Mr. Maoz explained why he is so interested in the department. ‘There are currently about 3,000 curriculums written by progressive, radical-left nongovernmental organizations funded by foreign organizations and the European Union,’ he said. ‘Are they there to strengthen the Jewish state? Of course not. They want to make Israel a state like all the states. Who will make sure that they write programs for Jewish identity instead of plans for a state for all its citizens? That’s my job.’” Compare this to Mein Kampf:

The question of ‘nationalizing’ a people is first and foremost one of establishing healthy social conditions which will furnish the grounds that are necessary for the education of the individual. For only when family upbringing and school education have inculcated in the individual a knowledge of the cultural and economic and, above all, the political greatness of his own country — then, and then only, will it be possible for him to feel proud of being a citizen of such a country. I can fight only for something that I love. I can love only what I respect. And in order to respect a thing I must at least have some knowledge of it. … With ruthless determination the State must keep control of this instrument of popular education and place it at the service of the State and the Nation. … The whole organization of education and training which the People’s State is to build up must take as its crowning task the work of instilling into the hearts and brains of the youth entrusted to it the racial instinct and understanding of the racial idea. No boy or girl must leave school without having attained a clear insight into the meaning of racial purity and the importance of maintaining the racial blood unadulterated. Thus the first indispensable condition for the preservation of our race will have been established and thus the future cultural progress of our people will be assured [empahsis added].

As the Nazi Education Minister Bernhard Rust stated in 1938, “The whole function of education is to create a Nazi.” It is a shame that Israel should become the very embodiment of the discrimination and persecution that the Nazis used against the Jews. It can always get worse, and it usually does. “Heil, Netanyahu! Heil, Netanyahu! Heil, Netanyahu!” is next. As usual, people get the Nazified government they deserve and desire. Welcome to stupid America!

According to The New York Times, “Andrew Tate, a former professional kickboxer and online personality who frequently made misogynistic comments about women to his large following on social media sites, was detained by the authorities in Romania on Thursday in an investigation of human trafficking and rape, according to the police. … Prosecutors said that the local authorities had carried out searches of homes they believed were connected to human trafficking and rape. The authorities said they were investigating whether the suspects created a criminal group in 2021 to engage in human trafficking in Romania, the United States and Britain.”

Let’s not kid ourselves. Tate is also a pedophile. Where there is sex and human trafficking, there are underage girls. Full stop! And let us also not pretend that these people do not know each other. The adage, “birds of a feather flock together,” is exceedingly accurate. There is a reason why Musk lifted Tate’s 5-year Twitter ban while all the other social media platforms have maintained their prohibitions. All these guys are in on it. They are the cabal that QAnon seeks, but — entirely not surprising — these right-wing adherents (i.e., Musk and Tate) always project their QAnon proclivities onto Democrats, and QAnon being a cult of morons is more than happy to be led astray. Pull the thread, morons. Follow the money. See the connects. The likes of Musk and Tate are the essence of the pedophiles that QAnon seeks. It’s the mirror, stupid! Welcome to stupid America.

If this picture seems to show Musk standing as a confused moron, it’s because he is. Recall, a while back, he introduced the long overdue Cybertruck, and in all his brilliance, he wanted to demonstrate the shatter-resistant windows by hitting them with a sledgehammer. Needless to say, it failed once, but apparently, he needed to convince himself of his own stupidity by hitting another window, which, naturally, also shattered. If memory serves me correctly, I believe his response was something along the line of “that wasn’t supposed to happen.” Well, no shit, Sherlock! Instead of actually personally testing his hypothesis first, he did it live. And failed miserably — twice! What a fucking embarrassing fucktard! Welcome to stupid America!

I had no idea who Andrew Tate was before the Greta Thunberg row, but needless to say, he’s a pedophile douchebag, and someone should put a bullet in his head.

So, China has finally scraped its ridiculous “zero COVID” policy, which I had long criticized as being beyond stupid, but I did not expect China to shake the bottle of champagne and then pop the cork. Yet, that is exactly what they did: Essentially end the policy without any plan. And they have admitted as much because they stated to their citizens that they are now on their own when it comes to managing COVID prevention, monitoring, and even healthcare. The government basically washed its hands of the pandemic instead of a slow and managed reversal of zero COVID. Part of me believes this is intentional. I think China wants to demonstrate to its populace and the world that a strong authoritarian government is needed to keep order and the citizens safe, for what is about to befall the country and the world by allowing COVID to spread unchecked is another fucking goddamned disaster. Thanks, China, for fucking us over again — still!

What do you think will happen as COVID rages through a population of 1.7 billion with little to no herd immunity? Their vaccines suck because their science sucks, and they suck. Moreover, China continues to be a bad actor on the world stage when it comes to informing world health organizations about what deadly diseases are tearing through that fucking God-forsaken shithole of a country. China is about to become a super spreader event. Lord knows what kind of mutations will start spewing out of that country. What a fucking disaster in the making. They fucked the world once at the beginning of this pandemic, and they’ll do it again. Mark my words. When will the world wake up to this dictatorship and stop doing business with them? Welcome to stupid America!

According to The New York Times, “Federal and local prosecutors are investigating whether Representative-elect George Santos committed any crimes involving his finances and lies about his background on the campaign trail. The federal investigation, which is being run by the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn, is focused at least in part on his financial dealings, according to a person familiar with the matter. The investigation was said to be in its early stages. In a separate inquiry, the Nassau County, N.Y., district attorney’s office said it was looking into the ‘numerous fabrications and inconsistencies associated with Congressman-elect Santos’ during his successful 2022 campaign to represent parts of Long Island and Queens.”

This is comical and all rather pointless! These investigations will take months and months — if not years — because that is how justice in America works: Swiftly for minorities and Democrats and like molasses for RepubliKKKlans. Moreover, what do people expect is going to happen in the meantime? For Santos to resign before he’s even started? No fucking chance of that. Do people expect RepubliKKKlans to force him out? Are you fucking high? Are Americans really that fucking stupid? (It’s a rhetorical question with only one obvious answer.) Will Santos be under investigation by the House Ethics Committee? Sure, without a doubt, but the worst that can come from that is a recommendation that he be expelled from the House.

Therein lies the rub, for given all of America’s rule of law(lessness) ethos, when it comes to House members, the only way they can be forcibly removed from office is to be expelled by fellow House members with a two-thirds vote. Full stop! Not through an indictment. Not through an arrest. Not through a conviction. And not even through a jail sentence upon conviction. A duly elected member of the House of Representatives can legally serve his constituents from a jail cell because that’s how fucked up America is. The Founding Fathers believed that House members could police themselves and that anyone going to jail would (naturally) be expelled — they’ve never met the modern-day RepubliKKKlan Party. The only way Santos leaves office is in two years when he loses his re-election, and that is not a certainty because he was elected in the first place, which means he can get elected again. I put no faith in the electorate to oust Santos in two years because that’s fucking two years away, and Americans are uniquely stupid enough to forget everything that’s happening now, especially if, for some incomprehensible reason, Santos proves to be an effective politician while in office. Then all bets are off. Traitor trump has taught all future RepubliKKKlans how to persevere through their corruption and how people will easily and quickly move on to other shiny objects.

One last point, I hear a few talking moron heads on MSM, including Democrats who formerly held the Congressional district Santos won, discuss how these Long Island constituents were “duped” into voting for Santos and that these political “centrist” voters will not tolerate the likes of Santos representing them. Naturally, to all that, I say bullshit. All of it is bullshit. I’m getting really, really fucking sick of the “uninformed” voter getting a pass when they clearly vote for a con man. One may rightly accuse me of a contradiction: How can I call Americans stupid yet informed enough to bear the consequences of their votes? How or why would an electorate knowingly elect a corrupt, lying politician? To do so must imply they were uninformed and stupid. This is my answer: Everything you need to know about a politician is encoded in their party affiliation. Full fucking stop! What the fuck did these people think would happen by electing a RepubliKKKlan over a Democrat? Seriously? What the fuck did they think would happen? Roses and rainbows? All you ever need to know about a politician is their party affiliation. It’s that fucking simple. Welcome to stupid America, where we like dumb, corrupt politicians, and there is no way to get rid of them for at least two years!

From the Insider, “Elon Musk has a pretty tried-and-true playbook for doing business — he’s used it for years to build companies from Tesla to SpaceX. Unfortunately for him, it is not a model that can turn Twitter into a profitable company. It’s one that will take the social-media company down in flames. Here’s the Musk playbook: Enter a field with very little competition. Claim that your new company will solve a massive, global problem or achieve a seemingly impossible goal. Raise money from a fervent group of true believers and keep them on the hook with flashy, half-baked product ideas. Suck up billions from the government. Underpay, undervalue, and overwork your employees. Repeat.”

Moreover, “Back in 2016, Musk used a sham product launch to convince Tesla shareholders to acquire SolarCity — a solar-energy company that at the time was helmed by Musk’s cousin. Musk, his brother, and SpaceX were heavily invested in SolarCity and were about to take it on the chin as the once fast-growing company went bankrupt. In the lawsuits that followed, emails revealed that Musk staged a flashy launch for a solar-roof-tile product that didn’t exist, misleading Tesla shareholders about SolarCity’s prospects to convince them to acquire the company and absorb its losses. SolarCity has been a headache for Musk and Tesla shareholders.”

I have said this countless times: Musk is and always has been a con man, no different than traitor trump, except Musk has no personality, and while traitor trump has charisma, Musk is just a douchebag. His obsession with Twitter is merely his personality embodied in a social media platform. Now, he can force his character onto everyone who uses it, as if by doing so, more people will like him.