Denialism is a Cancer

Internet Retard:  Exhibit A

Internet Retard:  Exhibit B

Internet Retard:  Exhibit C

Forgive the language but I've JUST about had my fill of these reality-denying wastes of oxygen.  With the recent death of a child due to measles and the doubling down of the dead kid's parents, who've warned others on record "Don't get the shot" after their kid died, you can hopefully see where my rage is coming from.  Posts like the ones above litter sites like Twitter/X, Facebook, TikTok & others, igniting huge circular arguments that go nowhere.  When people make broad, sweeping and obviously RETARDED statements like these, what they're really saying is "Pay attention to me.  Look at me.  Argue with me.  Bad attention is better than none at all.  I'm just too edgy for this world, won't somebody acknowledge my uniqueness?"

You know that saying about arguing with fools/wrestling with pigs?  Definitely applies here.  (I prefer the approach of AIDSTruth.org, which simply lists the names of all the AIDS denialists who have died of HIV).  Stop giving them attention in the press.  (It's a shame we can't also refuse them access to vital, limited medical resources too since they don't believe in science).  They will not be convinced by evidence and facts because their ignorant views were not formed using facts/evidence to begin with.  Lowering yourself to engaging with these types is a waste of your time--time that could be better spent doing almost anything else including talking shop with fellow science -minded reality-acknowledging sane folks. 

Some of the ways measles can kill & maim.

This whole "____ doesn't exist because I can't see it with my eyes & don't really understand how it works"  mindset is not skepticism but denialism--a form of cognitive inflexibility that's not subject to change or the laws of reason.  It's akin to an ostrich sticking its head in the sand when an asteroid approaches or someone putting their fingers in their ears and going "LA LA LA I can't hear you!" when you tell them a piece of bad news.  It's an immature, ineffective and at times dangerous (see: dead child) coping skill for those who can't handle reality.  Somebody must've told these mental midgets "You control your reality" & they took it literally, as in "Oh swell, that means anything I don't want to exist just doesn't."

Except that's not how reality works.  While you do control your attitude & outlook toward situations in life, you don't control whether said bad thing actually exists.  COVID doesn't give a shit about your conspiracy theories; ditto climate change.  Autism rates are not influenced by your insistence that autism "didn't exist in your day" because all the autistic people were conveniently locked up out of view in asylums that no longer exist.  Just as being offended by something doesn't make you right, neither does simply dismissing a thing's existence out of hand because you either don't care or don't understand it.  You're going to at least need to provide supporting evidence for your claim, and 11 times out of 10 it's gonna be from some cherry-picked tard source that is not considered reliable even if you do.  I'm reminded of that meme:

Yes, but this isn't exclusive to MAGA wingnuts.  (See: the gender cult nonsense).

Ironically (or not because, you know, they're braindead), these folks tend to believe in plenty of bullshit things that don't exist (Allah, angel numbers, signs from God, ghosts, QAnon, Hell, astrology, etc) or put total faith in alternative medicine scammers (Reiki, chiropractors, people selling Ozempic "peptides" you mix up and inject into your body), politicians/celebs speaking about issues they know fuckall about & various other charlatan influencer-types with no credentials.  Gee, I wonder why?  Oh yeah, because they already WANT those things to be real, true or good for them.  Confirmation Bias, table of 1 million.
 

It's one thing not to argue with assholes online & quite another your whole family is, say, begging a loved one not to vaccinate their newborn during an outbreak of pertussis/measles.  I try & save my energy for those battles but it's disheartening to see so many grown-ass adults with such dangerously immature, selfish & shortsighted mindsets.  At times I wish I was one of them, blissfully unaware of all the perils in the world & able to fully tune out reality with pure retardation alone instead of drugs.  Bet they save a lot of money that way.

(And I'm not blacking out those names in the opening photos either.  Hopefully my readers are smart enough to know not to harass anyone because this problem goes WAY deeper than just these few dolts anyway).  



Open Letter to the "Parents" of the Deceased Child:

("Parents" is a stretch; "mindless breeders who sacrifice their kids to the elements in the name of religious/political zealotry" is more fitting).  I was gonna end the article here, but something's eating at me.  Could it be the ENTIRELY PREVENTABLE DEATH OF AN INNOCENT CHILD due to a once nearly-eradicated disease?  Yes it could.  I'd now like to address the murderers of the Texas child who died of measles in their care, in the off-chance they or their insular little community ever stumble upon this humble blog.  If you don't care to see extremely ragey ranting or pro-science rhetoric, go ahead and close the page here.

Fuck you. 

The faces of 2 unrepentant child killers.  Proudly edited by me.

Yes, you.  The 2 yokels who look like they fell into the Genetic Sexual Attraction pool headfirst & decided to go for a swim.  Fuck you for putting your need to be "right" over your child's right to live past age 6.  She depended on you to protect her and you failed miserably.  Fuck you & your dead-behind-the-eyes smugness in the face of your little girl's demise due to a preventable disease & its preventable complications.  Fuck your flippant attitude toward your daughter's life & death in general.  Just fuck you. 

If that seems harsh or insensitive, keep in mind that an innocent child is dead, her 4 siblings will be traumatized forever (and might still develop measles complications themselves up to and including death!) and the sperm & egg donor of all 5 are 100% unrepentant, calling measles "not that bad."  (Hear that, Child Protective Services?  The disease that cruelly took their 6-year-old's life is "not that bad!")  Does that mean it's good?  A blessing perhaps?  Please elaborate because I suspect your dead child would beg to differ on just how "not bad" it really is.

Honest question:  What outcome could be worse than watching your child take her last breath before 2nd grade?  What "side effects" are you fearing from vaccines, exactly?  Is it autism?  If so, let me be the 1st to say it again:  fuck you ableist monsters.  "Better dead than disabled" is the mindset of a Nazi.  Yet these cousin-fucking pox blanket gifters have gone so far as to claim that their deceased child is "better off" where she is now, aka dead.  Well yeah--you were her earthly parents.  Reckon anything's better than that, but still.  🥴  🤠

via USA Today.

Look, I get that there are psychological coping mechanisms at play here, but let me repeat:  I don't give a fuck.  A child suffered & died needlessly due to your stubborn hubris, and you don't appear to give much of a damn.  You are not the victims, you're the perpetrators.  If CPS/DCFS doesn't at least do a walk-thru on these gene pool pissers, they should meet the same fate as the Dept. of Education & be shut down forever.  These stinking, vile piles of brainrot are the human equivalent of a social cancer, tearing their way through civilization with their backward, uncivilized ways, undoing progress at a rapid rate while trying to trigger Armageddon by any means necessary.  And they're even willing to sacrifice their own flesh and blood to make a point.  No, the only victims in this story are the minor children still living in your care & the little girl who's 6 feet under due to your selfish decisions. 

If they find this behavior acceptable in public, what else goes on in that house of horrors that we're not seeing?  Just how deep does the medical endangerment/neglect rabbithole go?  Are other types of abuse taking place?  All questions CPS should answer for the public because we have a right to know.  And fuck stopping with CPS:  what kind of "punishment" is taking the remaining kids of a couple who are this unmoved by their own child's death?  They clearly don't care about their children's health or safety as evidenced by their complete inability to empathize with their dead daughter's plight--do you think "taking the kids away" is sufficient punishment?  Or a punishment at all? 

We all know they'd just use it to play the "woe is poor persecuted me" card.  The "I'm just like Jesus on the cross" card.  No, bitches.  You're really not.  Because Jesus healed the sick, he didn't let them languish and die for lack of adequate medical care.  Where the fuck are the local police & other investigative agencies?  Why is America okay with parents slaughtering their kids?  Are children property or people?  In some states pets have more rights than children under 18 & in nearly ALL states a fetus has more rights.  Our national priorities are twisted, yet this too is a reflection of our dire misunderstanding of/respect for science in many ways.

Ahh yes, the old "foreigners brung it in" mindset.  Xenophobic pricks. 

You could've just as easily declined to comment, asking the media for space while you grieved.  But nope, you doubled down on your entirely WRONG assertions, urging other parents not to vaccinate their kids even as measles, pertussis, RSV & other deadly communicable diseases spread like wildfire largely thanks to Einsteins like you.  That requires a special kind of malice & ill intent, and it should be treated as such.  No more of this "they've suffered enough" bullshit.  We need to let the world know that we will not tolerate child killers, abusers, molesters or torturers in our midst no matter their reasoning or relationship to the victim.  The outcome is the same:  a precious unique soul is gone forever, taken before their time by someone who didn't have the right to kill them.  Not a potential person:  a living, breathing, thinking, feeling person with friends, siblings and a real impact in this world right now.

And for those who are still confused by my use of active verbs like "kill, "murder" and "slaughter":  Failure to act or protect your minor children from foreseeable harm is NEGLECT, which is ABUSE.  In this case, said abuse led directly to the little girl's death.  If that's not worthy of a murder charge I don't know what is.  A good lawyer could argue that comments like "she's better off (dead than alive)" constitute a possible motive or, at the very least, a total lack of remorse/caring in the wake of their kid's death.  

via Yahoo! News.

I hope these 2 kissing cousins are made examples of & punished to the fullest extent of the law as any child killer should be, but I'm not hopeful.  This country is known for giving slap-on-the-wrist sentences to killers of women & kids when they get anything at all.  If they belong to a cult or religious group, they tend to get even more protection under our "religious freedom" laws. 

Still, this was a child sacrifice in the strictest sense & there's NO excusing that.  Magical thinking is not an excuse.  Willful ignorance or Stone Age religious dogma don't cut it either.  Not in 2025.  The data is readily available to anyone with an internet connection or a decent, ethical pediatrician within a hundred mile radius.  Our federal and state governments need to send the message that, while your kid's healthcare choices are ultimately yours to make, those choices will come with serious legal consequences if you make the wrong one despite mountains of scientific data to the contrary & your kid dies or becomes a vegetable.  No more exceptions for "grieving parents"--being a child's legal guardian or bio parent doesn't give you the right to kill them.

Rest well, little Unnamed Girlchild.  You got a raw deal in this life with these careless, low-IQ freaks LARPing as your parents.  I hope you're surrounded by all the love and attention you didn't get in this painfully brief life and have better luck in your next incarnation.  May your tormentors face swift justice both here & in the next world.  I'm not a believer in Hell but if I was, it wouldb be populated with babykillers like these.  🤍

Cop ACTUALLY OD's on Fentanyl

 

Remember my article about how you have to ingest fentanyl to OD on it, and how rumors of cops overdosing by touching it were fake?  Well here's a REAL police officer REALLY overdosing on fentanyl.  The difference is, he stole it from the evidence room and smoked it on the shitter.  Because apparently he just couldn't fucking wait 'til he got home. 

This is an on-duty cop from Sacramento, btw.  He was found in the bathroom with a glass pipe in one hand & a lighter in the other, blue in the face.  His name is Marvin Morales, and while he was fired from the police department, he will serve no time for stealing/ingesting evidence & nearly killing himself with an illegal drug while on duty.  But that guy he busted?  Definitely sat there in handcuffs while cops stole his drugs and lectured him hypocritically, ultimately ticketing him after forcing him to listen to a sweaty-faced speech by this jonesing  🐷  who could barely wait to get back to the precinct to smoke his Fetty wap.

#Merica

Weird Way to Say You're Gay, But OK 👌🏼

 

Projecting much?  This shit popped up in my social media timeline and I just couldn't believe some people are still this ignorant.  Just how far in the closet does one need to be to believe something like this?  To truly, honestly believe that kids seeing happy gay people in public EXISTING and being themselves is enough to make them gay too? 

While I in no way support "drag queen storytime," the underlying message here has been around much longer (see: Anita Bryant's "Save Our Children" campaign, whose goal was to ban gays from teaching and helping professions for fear of "converting" kids).  These types have a problem with gays discussing their orientation openly or showing affection in public not because they worry about it "turning kids gay" but because THEY themselves are tempted by this visual trigger.  Any concerns they do have for kids are based on this bizarre belief that sexual orientation, which is innate, can be influenced or even changed by things one sees.  

Let me, a Kinsey 6 lesbian from the Bible Belt, disabuse you of that notion.  The only way this scenario is true is if you're a closeted gay or bisexual person suppressing their true feelings for the same sex. Because let me tell you, NO amount of seeing straight couples kiss, hold hands, have "steamy" sex scenes on prime time TV (and later have actual graphic sex in straight porn I was unwillingly subjected to by friends), have expensive weddings and be showered with gifts by loved ones, have biological children and again be showered with gifts by loved ones has had any effect on my orientation.  None whatsoever.  Nor has the threat of eternal damnation by various churches. 

There's never been a split second in all my years on Earth that I've felt even a twinge of attraction towards a man, either in real life or in the form of celebrity crushes.  I've never fantasized about men in my private moments, nor do I watch porn containing men.  The moment puberty hit I knew exactly who and what I was attracted to:  women.  I knew 0 lesbians or gays in real life & the only show featuring one on TV at the time was Ellen's sitcom, so you can't blame it on outside influence.  It came from within, hence the term "orientation". 

Your sexual orientation is like a North Star, always pulling your compass in one direction and guiding you toward that which you are attracted.  The 4 cardinal directions being Gay, Straight, Bisexual and Asexual.  No amount of exposure to other types of relationships or even pornography will change the way your compass points.  The things that you find attractive, neutral and repellant will always be innate & unchangeable by will or outside forces.

You wanna talk brainwashing and propaganda?  How about the idea that the one true path to happiness is through hetero marriage & child-rearing... regardless of whether you want kids, are capable of giving them the best life possible, would be happy/fulfilled in that role or anything else.  The pressure is both subtle and direct--coming from places like television/film/music/advertisements that feature hetero couples as well as friends/family/coworkers who prod and ask when you're gonna "settle down and start a family" or similar.  The wedding industry is a multi-billion dollar per year industry, and it's always been largely targeted toward straight couples.  Never mind that the divorce rate is over 50% in the U.S, to say nothing of the rates of domestic violence, child abuse/neglect, infidelity, alcoholism/addiction & other indicators of general misery.  

But you guys have it allllllll figured out!  Why would kids NOT want to follow in your footsteps?  /s


Not a Trendy Club

The secret gay handshake to enter the club.  No str8s allowed.

Just as homosexuality is not a whim or trendy lifestyle that's changeable by outside pressure, neither is it a subculture or counterculture like hippies, goths or punks.  We aren't a club with a secret fucking handshake that gains new members by recruiting and brainwashing kids.  It's not some bad habit like smoking as the meme claims either.   A big clue to what we ARE can be found in the term "homoSEXUAL," which sounds a lot like what you are ("heteroSEXUAL").  We are human beings who are sexually and romantically attracted to members of our own sex, nothing more or less.  Over 1,500 animal species share this trait, making it both technically & scientifically "natural".  If it was truly as detrimental and abnormal as you claim, evolution would've selected against it eons ago.  

Some people want to go back to this.

Judge Not, Pervert Sinners 

Porn addiction runs rampant in the straight community.

I'm all for not indoctrinating kids about anything sexual or risque in public schools outside of basic sex education in the older grades, and that should be strictly fact- and harm reduction-based (how to prevent pregnacy, STDs, info about consent, etc).  But that goes equally for heterosexual acts as well as homosexual and any other kind. 

Pretending your method of fucking is morally superior to another person's who is not breaking the law is both immature and pointless.  ("MY pee-pee goes in the vajayjay and YOUR pee-pee goes in the boo-boo--you're WEIRD!")  Even the moral instruction book (Bible) that calls our sex an "abomination" says the exact same thing about a man "spilling his seed upon the earth" (masturbating).  The reason?  Jews were outnumbered by invading Romans at the time, so every sex act was intended to be procreative to get their numbers up.  That's it.  Funny how these other "abominable" acts get so little attention by the concerned parties today, innit?  If Xtians spent even a fraction of as much time denouncing rape, child molestation, sexual harassment at work or other sexual "sins" that actually harm people, maybe I'd take their warnings about gay stuff more seriously.  I mean probably not but the hypocrisy and cherry-picking doesn't help their case.  🍒

Lotta "straight" women looking at lezzie porn.

Judging by the popularity of anal sex in hetero porn, a helluva lot of straights are into the act they claim is both disgusting and immoral when gays do it.  Ain't that a bitch?  And then there's the popularity of lesbian porn among the same homo-hating hypocrites, both male and female alike.  Oh, and can't forget transgender porn (aka "tranny porn", which was like the biggest growing category/search term in the 2020's according to a Pornhub poll).  The prevalence of porn addiction among straight men in general is staggering, yet y'all keep going off about how chaste & moral you are.  This mindset of "anything but my own kind" is what grants you the cognitive dissonance to rape women, molest children, have affairs, fuck animals... pretty much behave like feral beasts while your preachers focus only on stopping gay marriage & denouncing homos. 

TL;DR - you straights have no leg to stand on when it comes to sexual moral high ground.  We gays can't produce unwanted pregnancies with our fucking, which also means no abortions for said pregnancies, so in that way WE have the moral high ground.  You can bring up gay male STD rates all day, but it's lesbians with the lowest overall rates of any gender or orientation.  Boom, bitches.  Maybe we should go around calling you straights a bunch of disease-riddled procreating breeders?  Because trust me, we find your sex acts EVERY BIT as off-putting as you find ours, we just don't go around making creepy memes about it.

Religion is a cancer:  child marriage more common in Southern (aka religious) states

The only thing Pride Month & other forms of gay visibility can change in a child is how tolerant they are of people unlike themselves (or how accepting they are toward their own pre-existing orientation) when they grow up.  Visibility is not a cure-all and can certainly be counterproductive if abused in the way some gay pride events are currently doing (see my previous post here), but overall the move toward openness over dying in the closet is a good thing.  If you don't like it, look away and indoctrinate your kids against it in your own home, in your church, your private schools and wherever you gather in the community, but don't expect secular society to bow to your backward beliefs. 

Also, what I've said here does not apply to the "TQ" portion of the LGBTQ+++++++ mob, of which I am not a member.  Stop equating orientation with gender identity ideology because they have nothing in common.  

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Currently in Rotation: "Who Cares?" - Gnarls Barkley (2006)

 

Remember these guys?  I didn't until I woke up in a cold sweat with the chorus from "Crazy" stuck in my head recently.  I then put on the whole St. Elsewhere album in the bath and was transported back to my college era:  2005-06.  A simpler time--the Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina, the lead up to the 2008 Housing  crash.  Scratch that.  Maybe "simpler" isn't the word.  But you could still afford to live/eat & our streets weren't always one matchstrike away from burning due police brutality in broad daylight or insurrectionist Tweets from the Narcissist In Chief.  Back when I wasn't as cynical & still had hope for this old weary w--

--Nope, gonna stop myself right there.  I was every bit as nihilistic & cynical (read: realistic) as I am now, I just had a sex life so I also didn't feel l Ike I was also gonna spontaneously combust.

Since then, CeeLo Green has been outed as a rape apologist  UNCONVICTED RAPIST & given 3 years probation + community service for drugging a woman who woke up naked in his bed with no memory of how she got there.  His downward spiral was bizarre & unfortunate but no amount of talent absolves you of violent crimes against people smaller/weaker than you so he can rot.  Here are his thoughts on rape for anyone curious:

"It's not rape if they don't remember (because I also drugged them)."

There's a song called "Necromancer" near the end of St. Elsewhere that's a whole helluva lot less cutesy when taken in the context of all this.  The lyrics for the strong of stomach:

[Intro]
Uh huh, wake up, wake up, wake up
Don't wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up
Uh huh, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up

[Verse 1]
It's naughty, very naughty necrophilia
Without a care I'm compassionate about killing her
I'd have my way with what's left of the will in her
Cosmopolitans, and cocaine, and an occasional pill in her

When she spoke, I saw a spark, but it was dark so
I drove her home when she died, sexy suicide
Sweet nothings for the numb, you feel where I'm coming from?
Have no fear, everything's fine, my girl parties all the time

Did you hear what I said?
With this ring I thee wed
A body in my bed
She was cool when I met her
But I think I like her better dead

[Verse 2]
The production is progressive, but the reason is retro
The chords are cold-blooded murder, I named it neo-necro
I whispered in her ear to hear an echo, echo-co-co
I keep her, it's cheaper, I love too much to let go

We discussed over dinner how she would die before the day was done
So I caught her just in time to have a little fun
And you could use a little sun
So scream and holler, run and play
Wish you could die another day

I'm glad to say that I've
Done what I could to revive
My softer side survived
Damn, that chick was all right when she was alive
Ha ha ha

"Damn, I really fucked this up for us, didn't I?"

(The following paragraphs are my opinion only)

Considering the drugging aspect of his 2011 crime, the first 2 yellow lines are definitely a confession, either that he'd DONE this before or fantasized about it in great detail.  The red line "A body in my bed" is horrifying considering the woman we know about.  In the next two yellow lines he's admitting he views women as means to an end, that he'd rather fuck a dead body than a living one.  That's what men like Bill Cosby who choose to drug women and rape unconscious bodies have been accused of--being necrophiliacs.  Makes you wonder what else this sick fuck has gotten up to before anyone was looking.  

Like Cosby who openly joked in his act about "Spanish Fly" when he was slipping women actual Quaaludes, Cee-Lo seems perfectly at home discussing his paraphilia & affinity for graphic fantasies of rape & killing.  Hopefully some more seasoned investigators will keep their eyes on him and maybe look into his past as well because he was publicly behaving like all the other violent rapist men in the entertainment world yet somehow slipped under the BIG radar that Cos, Epstein, R. Kelly and now Diddy have been caught up in.  

(Holy shit this was NOT the article I was expecting to write about this defunct Hip-Pop duo but here we are: it's 4:30 a.m. and I'm alone, feeling especially creeped out). 

Goodnight,  moon.  🌑

Beware the Aging Narcissist in Chief

Bipolar disorder, clinical depression, OCD, borderline personality disorder... even schizophrenia.  All these serious mental illnesses tend to improve as a person ages & "mellows out".  But there's one exception in the mental health world, one condition that almost universally gets WORSE with age.  That condition is Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD).  There are numerous reasons for this which we'll get into in a minute, but this matters because the maniac running our country and the free world most certainly has some degree of this Cluster B personality disorder in combination with his long-term stimulant abuse problem.  More on THAT below too. 

While his first term as 45th president was a nightmare, he's now even older & more senile:  8 years older than when he was first sworn in to be exact.  This might not mean much if he were, say, in his 50s or 60s, but he is in fact, the oldest president of all time at inauguration at the overripe age of 78.  (Yes, even older than the almost-certainly demented 2nd-term Reagan or Biden).  Join me as I examine how this little factoid could play a ginormous role in the future (or lack thereof) of our country in the coming years.


NPD Basics

When most people hear the term "Narcissist," they think of someone egotistical, grandiose, boisterous & self-centered, and in fact that's exactly how Donald Trump presents.  He would certainly fall under the "grandiose narcissism" subtype as opposed to the covert/vulnerable one, but some would go even further & classify him as a full-on malignant narcissist.  That is, a grandiose narcissists with dark, manipulative traits and a total lack of remorse, empathy or ethics.  Sort of like if a narc & an Antisocial Personality had a lovechild.  🖤 + 🖤= 🍊

While there are obvious issues with labeling someone you've never met with a mental illness, especially when you're not qualified to make such a diagnosis as I am not, it doesn't take a rocket surgeon to note the excessive need for admiration, intolerance to criticism, manipulative tendencies, habitual lying, combativeness, grudge-holding, broken relationships & other traits associated with what laymen label "narcissism" (not a psych diagnosis) in herr leader.  Dr. Todd Grande doesn't hesitate to call him a narc despite his own generally conservative leanings so I feel pretty comfy doing the same.

Trump's drug of choice in the '80s

Real quick regarding the stimulant thing:  It's been said that Trump spent most of the 1980s addicted to the diet drug diethylpropion (Tenuate), an amphetamine-like stimulant prescribed by a Dr. Greenberg.  This article contains a photocopy of his 1992 medical record (4 years before HIPAA) from said doctor's clinic which his brother also allegedly attended.  In true narcissist form, he was initially taking the drug to lose weight but seemingly just liked how the pills made him feel because, according to other sources, his stimulant habit has continued in more recent years. 

Tom Arnold, former drug addict with a sister who was a meth kingpen for many years, claims to have caught him snorting Adderall out of a textbook on The Apprentice & states that a producer also was aware of his Adderall abuse... an oddly-specific claim if untrue.  If one wanted to slander a person by calling them a stimulant abuser without proof, a more likely insult would be "Trump did coke in the '80s" or "Trump's a fuckin' tweaker"--not "Trump did diethylpropion from '82-92" or these other highly specific accusations (with receipts).  (Granted, Arnold does refer to him as a "speed freak," but he doesn't stop there thankfully, offering far more detail as did the people who gave the diethylpropion account).  

Trump:  as he aged, the roles got bigger to match his ego.

After catching him up at 4 a.m. recently rambling about WWIII for no reason, I'm personally convinced he's still a stimulant abuser.  It would explain his erratic career trajectory from doing random guest spots on shows like The Fresh Prince, Home Alone 2, The Nanny & McDonald's commercials to becoming a WWE wrestler to laying the verbal smackdown on Rosie O'Donnell in 2006 before scoring his own show & then running for prez... twice.  Because nothing else really does.  

Ironically he was probably at the height of his cultural popularity when he was a registered Independent or Democrat and stayed at the periphery of society, not waxing poetic about pussy-grabbing or speaking more than a couple of pre-scripted lines in a walk-on role.  Because once he started the birther rants & press conferences about 'bad hombres' he was on some other shit.  Actually it all started with the Rosie O'Donnell feud when she mocked his voice & combover.  A huge blow to his ego.  How dare a woman, let alone one as frumpy as she, make comments like that?

Anyway.



Beware:  The Aging Narc

You know how some people get nicer with age?  Yeah, not these folks.

Narcissists rely on their (imagined) good looks, quick wit, physical strength, virility & other superficial traits to feel important in life & keep others in their place.  When times get tough they often retreat into a world of fantasy in which they imagine themselves as having great power, immortality, romantic relationships or fame, so when the aging process hits them it can be a humbling experience. Silly as it sounds, these little reminders that they're not immortal--the gray hairs, crow's feet, lower back pain--can be almost unbearable & do a number on their already brittle self-esteem. 

Oh, I forgot to mention perhaps the most counterintuitive thing about narcissists is their crummy self-worth that comes almost entirely from the validation of others.  So imagine what happens to their self-image when they've gone their whole life valuing others for their looks & other superficial shit.  Rather than building an actual personality or bettering themselves in any way, they got by on their youth, vitality, wealth, athleticism, etc.  What happens when they're old & tired, their bodies & minds hobbled by time, their looks & youthful coolness a relic of a bygone era?  Exactly what you'd expect:  they get meaner, more vengeful & much more demanding.  If they have to be punished by aging, everyone around them will be punished by them. 

Trump's first wife Ivana (RIP) claimed in her book that he raped her & ripped her hair out after she made a comment about a particularly bad hair transplant he'd recently gotten, which is in line with the narcisssist's sensitivity to aging, perceived criticism and superficial appearances.  (She later walked the accusation back by saying it was not rape "in the criminal sense," with his attorney Michael Cohen claiming "you can't rape your spouse," before threatening to sue Daily Beast reporter Tim Mak if he uttered the words "Trump" and "rape" in the same sentence.  (It's all in the link above).  That's not the only credible claim of rape against Trump, unfortunately.  But that's not the focus of this article so I'm gonna leave that subject be.  We'll just file that under "additional proof of malignant narcissism" since rape is a totally antisocial & barbaric thing to do, something you'd expect to see our chimp or gorilla cousins engage in... not us.


Too Much Too Soon

Already in his 2nd term Trump has begun gutting Medicare & Medicaid, abolishing the Department of Education, limiting what SNAP recipients can purchase with their own funds, laying off/firing tons of federal employees, promising to ethnically cleanse Gaza of its native Palestinian population, handing out special deals to his butt buddy Elon Musk, doing petty shit like making English the official language of the U.S. and trying to rename the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America", signing 70 executive orders--far more than any president in history--and getting into a shouting match with Ukranian president Zelenskyy while ordering him to "thank" the U.S.  It appears he's on a warpath & aims to hurt/punish or even kill anyone deemed unimportant or oppositional to his goals. 

If his 1st term was bad, his 2nd is going to be downright disastrous--potentially an endgame nail-in-the-coffin for our ailing empire.  His particular hatred for Mexicans, Muslims, China, poor people, scientists/medical experts, the federal government & anyone who dares call him on his bullshit makes him an unfit leader, but now he's out for blood.  Everyone who dared hold him remotely accountable for inciting an insurrection, every comedian who mocked him on late night TV, every American who voted against him--all must pay. 

Male life expectancy, 2025 in U.S.

The fact he was shot/shot at twice can't help matters, but the main driving force behind his erratic, vengeful behavior is his own life, which is rapidly winding down.  Trump is an elderly 78-year-old male in a country where the average lifespan for men is 73-81 years & declining.  In fact the gap between male and female life expectancies is the largest it's been in ages at 6 years.  No matter how you slice it, he's on borrowed time and his best days are well behind him.  He's acutely aware of this & aims to even the playing field by making all of our remaining years Hell on Earth by dismantling our few remaining social safety nets, gutting public/federal programs & destroying the things that made the United States a developed country. 

Trump is like a Baby Boomer on steroids, not merely complacent or ignorant about issues like climate change & high cost-of-living but actively malicious, taking every opportunity to fatten his pockets while selling us further down the river.  His own father was Satan incarnate & together they bullied Trump's brother to an early grave.  HE'S the bad hombre of which he speaks, "bringing drugs, bringing rape" & living off the government teat.  He's a nepo baby billionaire who's never known struggle and has the reigns of power at the worst possible time:  in the sunset years of life when he's facing his own mortality. 

That's bad news for all of us.

Age at inauguration vs. lifespan:  Trump at the top, just above "sleepy Joe"  Biden

If there's a sliver of schaudenfraude to be had in this trainwreck, it's that the poor, uneducated, mouth-breathing whites were so emboldened by his 1st presidency are bound to be a lot quieter this time around as he serves them up on a silver platter to the wolves right along with the minorities, immigrants, gays, feminists, mentally ill, Muslims, poor, disabled & addicted folks he targeted the 1st time around.  Because this time he's not pretending to give a fuck whether you voted for him or not--why would he?  It's his final term & his last few trips around the sun & even that may get cut short by another rooftop edgelord.  He doesn't need your approval or your future votes.  His sole goal is cementing his legacy as biggest villain in U.S. history; the guy who finished what Osama started when the 1st plane struck the North tower on that clear Tuesday morning 24 years ago.  This is his grand magnum opus middle finger to his sworn enemies:  China, Mexican immigrants, Muslims & us.  All of us.  Everyone who dared question his involvement in those rapes, pornstar payoffs, the insurrection, the Epstein saga.  Everyone who grilled him at those two Federal trials, the "fake news" media that calls out his bullshit, the innuendo about "pee-pee tapes," everyone who mocked his speech patterns, orange skin or combover. 

That's the other thing about narcs: they may not remember that time they ran over your foot with a Mack truck or intentionally pushed you down a flight of stairs for their own amusement, but they damn sure keep immaculate score & will remember every time you EVER bumped into them, failed to say "excuse me" when walking past or other minuscule transgressions.  And they hold a mean grudge.

...the pathetic part is, even though Senate Dems are standing around with their fingers in their asses as our last social safety nets are ripped to shreds, we still have not united along class lines & organized a meaningful demonstration, be it a general strike, sit-in, mutual aid drives for those affected by the sudden layoffs, a mass nationwide boycott or other peaceful protest.  This is where a majority of our influence lies, not in the voting booth.  Even though a majority of people of all parties supported Luigi Mangione's actions, it hasn't been enough to defeat for-profit health insurance & the system that literally creates & enables CEOs like Brian Thompson of UnitedHealth.  We churn out some quality memes, though.  Good thing too because that's about ALL America produces these days.

We're about to see just how bad things can get when you combine Brave New World levels of distraction & apathy with the seething rage of a sleep-deprived geriatric narcissist with a score to settle.  As someone raised by narcissists, to say this is an uncomfortable experience is putting it mildly.  

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If You Wanna Be Taken Seriously When Bitching About Welfare...

..then you bet not forget to mention the kind that is far & away the biggest drain on working people & society as a whole.  Wanna take a guess what that is?  It's not SSI, SNAP, Section 8, TANF, Medicaid or any of the other meager social welfare programs this country drops like crumbs from the tables of the wealthy onto the poor, disabled, elderly & disenfranchised, it's CORPORATE WELFARE.  If you fail to mention this pernicious kind of welfare when complaining about the other kind, it means you're either ignorant about the disproportionate amount being ciphoned from your paycheck by these bloodsuckers or just a plain old coward who prefers to punch down instead of UP where your anger belongs.  Stay with me here.

Trump is barely 2 months in office and has already announced major devastating cuts to Medicaid and Medicare, eliminating coverage of telehealth visits for Medicare recipients and signing a bill to cut Medicaid by $880 BILLION over the next decade.  For reference, one in 5 Americans relies on Medicaid to cover their healthcare needs.  Meanwhile he and his cronies will still be receiving taxpayer funded socialized medicine at Walter Reed & other top facilities in the nation because of course they will.  All this so the super-wealthy--billionaires and centi-billionaires like Musk, Bezos, the Koch family, Zuckerberg, Warren Buffet & Bill Gates--won't have to pay their fair share of federal taxes.



What Is Corporate Welfare?

"Free market" my ass.

The term "corporate welfare" was allegedly coined in the 1950s by consumer advocate Ralph Nader & refers to any program that unfairly aids large corporations or private businesses under the phony guise of "job creation".  These come in numerous forms, some of which I'll explore below but which also include loan guarantees, public contracts, grants, deferrals, debt write-offs & multiple tax benefits.  I strongly suggest looking into the subject, especially if social welfare gets under your skin.

Let's start with industry bailouts.  We call ourselves a capitalist country but true capitalism would let ALL businesses big, medium & small sink or swim on their own merit (see: free market theory), not engage in government bailouts when they've fucked their (our) money away.  That's selective socialism.  Yet this is exactly what our government does, bailing out banks, airlines, automakers & other "too big to fail" industries over & over to the tune of trillions.  Meanwhile small businesses & individuals are left high and dry when crises like COVID or the housing crash hit.  This is known as socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor (though in reality it's just oligarchy).  And as bad as it is, it's only one of many forms of corporate welfare.  

Fucking pathetic.

Subsidies that help giant entities like the agriculture industry are often advertised as helping the "little guy" but end up wasting billions boosting already-omnipotent corporations, helping them screw over small businesses & the buying public.  (See:  the corn subsidies farmers receive which are largely responsible for all the cheap, toxic High Fructose Corn Syrup in our diet).  Then giant companies like Walmart, DoorDash & Amazon turn around and thank the government by being the largest contributors to working people on welfare in society by grossly underpaying their workers.  (That's another fun fact:  The vast majority of non-disabled welfare recipients HAVE jobs, they just aren't paid a living wage).  So who are you really mad at when someone is putting in 40+ hours a week and still can't support themselves because they're paid slave wages?  The company who employs them while stealing their hard-earned income under the guise of "company profits," or the workers this country labels "essential" one week & expendable the next?  

The amount taken from YOUR check to fund & enable this bullshit is so much greater than you lose to social welfare programs it should be a conversation-ender.  Unfortunately, too many damn Americans don't know where their tax dollars actually go and assume they're being hoovered up by the poors (a result of cuts to public education funding perhaps?)  Here's a quote comparing social vs. corporate welfare spending in 1990: 

"More to the point, while more than 170 billion dollars is expended on assorted varieties of corporate welfare the federal government spends 11 billion dollars on Aid for Dependent Children. The most expensive means tested welfare program, Medicaid, costs the federal government 30 billion dollars a year or about half of the amount corporations receive each year through assorted tax breaks. S.S.I., the federal program for the disabled, receives 13 billion dollars while American businesses are given 17 billion in direct federal aid."

Emphasis mine.  I even color-coded it to make it easier to read since so many of y'all struggle with that.  (Evil greedy corporate handouts = red; necessary social programs = green).

This page shows how the Average American family pays $6,000 per year for corporate welfare--more if you earn over $72,000/year.  And how much does the average American earning $50,000/year pay for SNAP, the food assistance program that provides vital nutrition to millions of hungry children, (pregnant) women, elderly/disabled folks & families?  

A dime a day.  $36 per year.

Again, I put it in large bold print so you wouldn't miss it.  Those links are active & I suggest you click them if you doubt what I'm saying here.  
 

Gaping Tax Loopholes for The Rich

Tax breaks ARE corporate welfare, Bernie.  But yes.  Bad.

That brings us to what I consider to be probably the most egregious form of corporate welfare:  tax loopholes & benefits.  Federal taxes are used to fund everything from defense/national security to maintaining roads & bridges to funding public programs like education, space exploration, Social Security & emergency disaster relief.  While nobody enjoys paying taxes, they serve a critical role in maintaining society at all levels.  Anyone who uses these public services (which is basically everyone who travels on public roads or uses a public service like USPS or public schools) should contribute based on their income level.  However, if you have $1 million or more, you can squirrel it away in Swiss bank accounts to avoid paying taxes on it.  What's more, you can do this from the comfort of your own living room as many of these banks don't even require in-person meetings to open an account.  (I know because I looked into it once, just for funzies). 

This means the people most capable of paying federal taxes end up paying $0 while hardworking Americans are bled dry every tax season--increasingly so with bullshit like the "American Rescue Plan" that enables the IRS to watch online accounts like Paypal, Venmo, CashApp & all the rest while forcing workers to report earnings at much lower thresholds than in years past.  Now your little insignificant "side hustle," which you wouldn't even need if this country had humane labor laws, is being taxed to high hell.  WHILE PEOPLE LIKE TRUMP AND BEZOS PAY $0 ANNUALLY.  This is in addition to the various other tax credits, deductions & exemptions these entities receive.



Hypocrites, the Lot of You

OK, Boomer:  Baby Boomer-era kids smiling pretty for the camera in 1951.

Many people don't know that the baby boom (high birth rate) that took place between 1946 and 1964 was due to the social abundance resulting directly from the New Deal, which taxed the top earners at 75% of their income.  (Imagine such a program today!)  That period after WWII was the most well-off our country has ever been:  (white) families moved to the suburbs, NASA went to the moon, food was cheap & abundant for the 1st time, the "Better Living Through Chemistry" era of pharmaceuticals was in full swing, art/music/pop culture blossomed... and then those same Baby Boomers who had grown up enjoying the spoils of the New Deal turned around & slammed the door on the rest of us in the '80s with Reagan & his "small government" poison.  It's been all downhill ever since.  Predictably.

That's right, the generation that burned their bras & draft cards, fucked in the streets on LSD & attended Woodstock are the same ones now rabidly supporting Trump and his lackeys.  To those of us with eyes and at least 1 working brain cell, this makes 0 sense.  How do you go from being the most revolutionary generation in U.S. history to the most villainous, miserable creatures to ever stalk the planet?  Is the line from 'counterculture rebel/anti-authority badass ' to 'science-denying racist' a straight one?  Do tell.  🙎🏻‍♀

In conclusion, you can hopefully understand why it irritates me when wealthy assholes judge welfare recipients or call for cuts to these already strapped programs.  You can either allow employers to overwork/underpay their workers OR cut welfare programs--not both.  People have to eat & unless you want the streets of every city in this country to burn 24/7, 365, you're gonna have to choose which of these options you prefer.  (Neither of which includes killing off elderly or disabled Social Security recipients, btw.  Sorry, wannabe Nazis). 

In the meantime it would behoove a lot of you to actually learn where your tax dollars go before opening your hateful, un-Christlike mouths.  Unless you're a disability judge or government worker responsible for deciding who's worthy of assistance & who's not, you're in no position to judge whether someone "deserves" it either.  The U.S. is already the 2nd hardest country on Earth to be approved for SSI/disability (I have no clue what country is #1 but it's probably somewhere you wouldn't wanna live) so this idea that these gov't allotted dollars are just showered on people willy nilly is pure fantasy.  

Without a replacement program like Universal Basic Income, slashing the few meager social welfare programs that exist will lead to mass casualties & suffering.  But that was always the goal.  Well, maybe not THEE goal but a definite side bonus for these psychopathic greedy monsters who would rather watch a suffering elder or poor child die as the life leaves their eyes than give up a single dollar of the wages they've stolen from those they employ.  "Job creation" is not a positive thing if those jobs don't pay enough for basic survival needs, offer 0 benefits or chance of advancement & work people like dogs in sickness and in health, come rain or come shine or in the midst of a public health crisis like COVID which killed over 1 million Americans while the rest of the world was paid to stay home & not die.  This delusional belief that dead people & migrants are throwing elections & stealing trillions in federal aid money is just that, a delusion, and we're all about to pay for it while your fave billionaire or politician of either party continues partying it up on Martha's fucking Vineyard & paying $0 taxes for the privilege.

But go off about how the less fortunate are "stealing" from your paycheck I guess.  It gives me great pleasure to inform you that you will NEVER be on their level when it comes to money or power, so your butt-licking and bootlicking are all for naught.  Even a millionaire is closer to poverty than he is to having a billion dollars, another math factoid you might know if you'd gone to a decent public school.  Lord knows I didn't.  Elon & his ilk wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire, but they might point & laugh if they noticed at all.  🔥🏃🏻‍♀👈 😂



Update 3/2/2025:  RFK, Jr. is threatening to block SNAP recipients from purchasing "sugary candy & drinks" with their EBT cards under the guise of improving the nation's health.  That's right, the party of "small government" is micromanaging what an already-struggling demographic can buy at the grocery store because it's not like we don't have bigger fish to fry as a nation.  🤬   Never mind that many SNAP recipients only buy "sugary junk" because of the low cost and/or high availability in the food deserts in which they live.  (In case you aren't familiar, food deserts generally have only stores like Family Dollar & maybe a gas station within a 35-40 mile radius--not even a Walmart or McDonald's and certainly no public transportation--and they're more common than you'd think.  I grew up in one).  You literally cannot find fresh fruits/vegetables, whole grains, lean meats or other healthy foods in these ghost towns, & a gallon of milk costs upwards of $7.  At times you can't find bottled water & the tap water certainly isn't fit to drink..  Which reminds me. 
     
People tend to buy what's available & affordable so unless you're going to address the food desert issue AND make healthy items like whole grains, lean proteins & healthy fats as affordable as the HFCS-laden junk in the center aisles, this move is only going to increase hunger & make it harder or impossible for poor people to meet their caloric needs, which is kinda the whole point of SNAP.  Not that ol' wormbrain or his Oompa Loompa Lord and savior give a damn about starving poors.  Teachers of the world should prepare to feed more hungry/fussy kids & store clerks better look out for more shoplifting of food items because terrible policies like this have direct consequences.  One thing about humans is they'll find a way to eat one way or another.