The Republican Southern Strategy renewed

 The Republican Southern strategy was a 1960s–1970s plan to attract white Southern voters by subtly appealing to racial resentment and opposition to civil rights, using coded phrases like "law and order" and "states' rights." (Britannica)

The Republicans are very bad for America, but they are also very good at doing everything they can to divide, scapegoat, create enemies, and hate. Knowing that, by most estimates, the Republicans cannot win elections if it is a fair and equal playing field, the Grand Old Party has discovered the very useful and deceptive term of THE OTHER.

The devious Republicans have fine-tuned the art of looking over there to keep their horde of racists, bigots, antisemites, homophobes, and misogynists too occupied hating rather than have any of these cultists actually examine how they have been fucked over by the Republican Party.

Trump administration wants Supreme Court permission to ban transgender military members. (MS NOW). Currently, it is hating the trans community, and while you hate them, don’t forget to be on the lookout for the immigrant, especially if they have brown skin. Never forget that women are a little too bossy and need to be reminded to be subservient. Keep in mind that black folk might become too uppity, that Muslims want to burn down the Christian churches, and, for shits and giggles, remember that Canadians really do hate America.

The one lesson the Republicans seem to rely on is that hate and loathing can win votes. Fear will bring out the masses, and the masses, according to Republicans, are too petty, too stupid, too ignorant to ever realize that they are the ones being screwed!

Darline Graham and the Dark Ages

Darline Graham Says You Should Work Until You Collapse and Die. ““Gun control, government-run health care, abortion until the moment of birth—bad idea after bad idea. Annie Andrews backs them all,” Graham said in a primary victory speech Tuesday attacking her Democratic opponent. “I have a different background and vision for our state.... My parents worked long, hard hours just to make ends meet. We didn’t take vacations. If they were sick, they had to get up and go to work because if the doors weren’t open, we weren’t making money. My mother passed away when I was 11 and my father just over a year later.” (The New Republic)

Ms. Lindsey Graham’s sister, Darline, when she became a Trump/MAGA candidate for the South Carolina Senate primary, dropped her married name and decided that some South Carolinians might still think her brother was running for office. This person’s only qualification for the job was her last name, so why not make the best of it?

I digress; this blog is not nepotism, nor the sheer lunacy of Republican/MAGA voters of South Carolina, but of a more concerning commonality which oozes from within the depths and depravity of anyone wearing a Red Hat, a White Sheet, or a Brown Shirt. It is the idea that even though they insist they are the Party of Life, most too many of their policies deal with dying, a slow, awful, and tiresome death.

Ms. Graham, no, not Lindsey, but his sister, pontificates about guns somehow being holy and increasing our likelihood of living longer, living long enough so she says that you can actually work until the day you die. Government health care, she proudly pumps her bosomed chest, is just a ploy to make you lazy and makes you more Un-American. Abortion is bad because somehow her God will become angry, so have that kid, but make sure that when it is born, you do not have the money to pay for the child’s health care.

Normally I would say, well, South Carolina Republicans, you reap what you sow, and by voting for this insincere, your life is here on Earth just work and work and work, so be it, but here is the problem: if Darline wins her election in November, she will be one more vote to try and end Medicare, Medicaid, and medical care. One more vote to help America fall back to the days of the Dark Ages

 

  

UNREQUITTED LOVE

 Trump’s midterm campaign theme is unrequited love. The president senses a crisis in his cult of personality. He believes the path to victory is through unwavering devotion. (The Guardian)

Interesting, ain’t it, how the Republicans, the MAGA and their state-run propaganda media, Fox, love to call anyone who is sick and tired of Trump, or calls out Trump for his various nefarious and devious actions, as suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome. For this group of ass licking, spineless sycophants, if you have the audacity to actually be anti-corruption, anti-criminal, and actually have a conscience, fighting back against Trump, you are suffering from some form of mental infirmity!

But lo and behold, wham bam thank you ma’am, the real injured folks are those who have placed Trump upon a golden calf, those who have willingly taken kickbacks and paid bribes to Trump, and those whose sense of honor is to prioritize devotion to Trump to make more profit for themselves.

But when it comes down to it, the one douchebag who suffers the greatest from Trump Derangement Syndrome is Donald Trump himself. He is such a sad, sick, malignant narcissist that he is unable to see the truth, incapable of any thought less than total adoration for himself, and is so blinded by the false prophets around him as to not see anything that is real.

As this article states, Trump believes that the whole world of Republicans and MAGA is nothing but devotion, appreciation, and love for Donald, and somehow, if his PEOPLE don’t do so, they are the sorry ones. And so far, Republicans and MAGA in Congress, sitting as Judges, and red-state officials have done nothing to show that Trump is wrong to believe this.

And now, because no one has ever told the Emperor that indeed he has no clothes, the Emperor demands from his cultists UNREQUITTED LOVE!

 

 

More for the Cult

 ICE is arresting soaring numbers of immigrants with no criminal record. Federal immigration officers are shifting their targets and tactics to increase arrests. More than half of those detained last month had no criminal record. (The Washington Post)

This headline is very troubling for me. The first obvious reason is the mere idea that the Trump/Stephen Miller Gestapo has now decided to pick and choose anyone they so desire to arrest and place them in America’s Concentration Camps. At the whim of the ICE Brown Shirts, without any real reason or rhyme, anyone with brown skin can easily be whisked away and, sadly, almost never be seen again. This is happening in America in 2026, and so far, all we seem to do is watch, wait, and worry!

It seems to me that there is another reason why there is suddenly a major uptick in kidnapping people in America by the Fascist Government run and ruled by Trump: once again, the Trump Reich is playing one of their “look over there” tactics. The Trump Iran War is lingering and lingering on; prices are rising; affordability is unattainable, the polling numbers for Trump are dismal, so, as I see it, the Trump Reichstadt, needs to try and lure his racists and bigots back into the cult, and the best way to do is to gather up the brown skinned people, to prove that Trump and his gang of goons can MAKE AMERICA WHITE AGAIN!

The MAGA crowd loves to watch the OTHER become the scapegoat; Trump and his Fascists know that if the MAGA is busy hating on the OTHER, then they will be too preoccupied to realize that, in reality, they are the OTHER, and that they too are being raped and pillaged. Keep the dumb mesmerized by their own hateful ways; thus, they will not realize they are the ones being fucked! 

 

 

 

He says, "I'm allowed to!"

 “President Donald Trump said, “I’m allowed to destroy the country,” during a bizarre press event he held last Friday to speak about the Supreme Court’s ruling against his international tariffs. “I’m even allowed to impose a foreign country-destroying embargo. I can embargo. I can do anything I want,” Trump said during the event, Mediaite reported. “I am allowed to cut off any and all trade or business with that same country. In other words, I can destroy the trade. I can destroy the country! … I’m allowed to destroy the country.” (LGBTQ Nation)

Anyone with intelligence, awareness, and a conscience want to argue with this? You may be miffed, you may have a pain in your gut, you may want to scream, but even so, once you have experienced all of that, look closely at all of the crimes, corruption, felonies, farces, and fuck ups, created by Trump, and so far, very little to no consequences coming his way.

The Supreme Court has granted Trump almost total immunity for his illegal and unConstitional actions; the spineless, lacking backbones and balls, Republican majority cowers in the corners and has not applied stopgap actions, and for the most part, most of the Media placates Trump for fear that they may not be invited to the Oval Office!

Trump has a track record of destroying our country, and the same statistics apply to destroying any other nation he deems bad for his ego. No one in the Trump Reich dares to try to stop him; Republicans prefer their professional power over the power for the people, and with a few lower-court judges actually demonstrating legal courage, Trump has had easy access to destroy anything he touches.

 

 

 

Are they dumb as dirt?

  

I believe that a percentage of MAGA, perhaps a very large percentage of MAGA, are bigots and racists. I believe that whatever percentage of Tech Bros and Billionaires who support MAGA have zero conscience and only thrive on greed and gluttony, they may or may not be bigots or racists, because all they are focused on is their bottom line, and they seem to be willing to partake in any action that may fuck over anyone who is not them. And I wholeheartedly believe that a very, very large percentage of MAGA are, to put it precisely, DUMB AS DIRT!  For example:

MAGA woman opposes polio vaccine because polio mysteriously ended after the vaccine was invented. “There hasn’t been a case of polio in how many years? Since 1960?” The vaccine came into wide distribution in 1961. (LGBTQ Nation)

This MAGA thing has demonstrated the perfect MAGA response to science, medicine, and facts, which is “if I can’t understand it, then it is wrong. “I need no facts, just my own fiction.” Dumb as dirt is exactly what the Trump Reich is counting on. Just let the ignorant inherit the United States, and they will have no idea they have been perfect dummies to be manipulated.

And it is not just the blatant disregard for education; nope, these same MAGA morons seem to believe that if you use the word America in a sentence, then somehow you are the essence of Patriotism. And once again the Trump Reich knows how to play these MAGA morons as major fools.

Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario 'Lake America' amid Canada trade war. And early on in his second Reich, Trump signed an Executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America! Uh-Huh, call it Lake America or Gulf of America, and if you have a problem with that, then you AIN’T a real American! 

 

 

 

180 days and sadly still counting

 The war in Iran has lasted 180 days as of August 26, 2026, starting from February 28, 2026

The scope of Hegseth’s damage to the U.S. Army comes into sharper focus. There are fresh reasons to believe putting a former Fox News host in charge of the Pentagon during a war really wasn’t a good idea. (Maddow Blog).

Safer? Mightier? Much More Testosterone? Able To Leap Tall Buildings? The Trump War in Iran is still happening, albeit one might never realize this given Trump’s infatuation with gold-plating everything in Washington DC, or his golfing excursions. But no worries, because, like Trump, it seems that all we have to do is obey the directives of Hegseth, who it is rumored brings his wife to most strategic military meetings, so she can be his “binky,” and keep him from screaming or drinking. And because Trump can NEVER admit he has ever made a wrong decision, and due to the fact that the Republican Majority in the Senate will never tell Trump he has made a myriad of bad decisions, Pistol Pete remains in position to keep the Iran War going, and going, and going!

The rule of Law is not of any concern for a Fascist Dictator, or, in fact, those whose own power base remains as long as they too disrespect the law, favoring respect for the Despot in Power.

Troops fighting against Iran and alleged drug smugglers say they are being asked to violate international law. Organizations that help service members apply to leave the military as conscientious objectors are seeing a large increase in concerns over U.S. military strikes against alleged drug boats and targets inside Iran. (MS NOW).

It should be clear to no one who is not a MAGA moron that law and order are meaningless if law and order gets in the way of Trump and his accolades. There is absolutely no respect for the laws that govern this nation, so why would anyone even think that Trump and his fellow Fascists give a fuck about International Law!