OTHERWISE, I might implode

 It is Sunday, April 19, 2026, in America, and once again, we read headlines as if any of us, those who still possess morals, values, intellect, and compassion, are supposed to be shocked or surprised that the world around us, led by a ragtag army of imbeciles, should be shocked or in awe. I will add, however, that as for me, I am not certain how much more my gut can absorb, as I feel the gnawing in the pit of my stomach, so ready to explode!

Trump's Bizarre Outburst Has Mental Health Experts Warning About "Narcissistic Collapse". (BuzzFeed) My response is… like DUH, this bit of information is noteworthy and new?

Energy secretary says fuel prices may not get back under $3 until 2027. (POLITICO)…But be happy, American consumers, these prices are higher for you, because the guy the majority of you voted for, is only doing this war for your protection. Don’t be a hater as you prioritize food, housing, and healthcare, it makes you so unpatriotic, as your Fuhrer Trump only has your freedoms in mind.

US extends waiver on Russian oil sanctions to ease Iran war shortages despite Bessent denial. The extension underscores how the fallout from the Iran war has made it easier for Moscow to profit from its energy exports. (POLITICO)… Snooty, snobby billionaire Scottie Bessent, who has zero time for the common people, is all a glow spreading Trump’s lies and helping with Trump’s conspiracy to make Russia Great Again. Scottie, Ms. Priss, and the Queen of Pout have no qualms about keeping Putin happy. Because keeping Putin happy keeps Scotty’s boss happy, which then keeps Scottie happy.

The FBI Director Is MIA. Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences. (The Atlantic) …You hire a Podcaster, a douchebag who is only famous because most of America would rather rely on morons and hate mongers than anyone with intelligence to become the FBI Director, and you expect an iota of competence or professionalism. HA! But here we are living in Trump Landia!

I write my blog because if I internalize the madness in which I find myself living, I might implode!

 

 

 

Ayatollah Hegseth

 Ayatollah Hegseth is all testosteroned up and is feeling his roid rage. Being a MACHISMO MALE is challenging, but Petey Boy is ready to rumble and take on the Pope, Catholicism, and those other Ayatollah’s in Iran. No one is gonna out DUDE, this All-American DUDE, and even if Hegseth must call up the writers of Pulp Fiction to make an epic point, Petey Boy is at the ready. He is the SECRETARY OF WAR, and if he must annihilate each and every Iranian to prove his own masculinity and his worship of his God, Jesus Trump, he is ready. Trump once bragged, saying, "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" he said, referring to the major street in New York City that cuts through Manhattan's large commercial district. "It's, like, incredible."

Incredible, amazing, awe-inspiring, God-like, almost like witnessing the Second Coming before it was due to arrive. Pistol Pete is ready; it is his Holy War, his Crusade, his Manliness, which will never be disparaged or disputed. Pistol Pete’s first God, Jesus, is standing behind him, and Pistol Pete’s newest Lord and Savior may be cowering in Mar-A-Lago, but “There for the Grace of God,” Pete goest!

Hegseth was confirmed in a vote mostly along party lines, with 51 voting in favor and 50 against. Three Republicans broke with their party to oppose his nomination, forcing Vice President JD Vance to cast a tie-breaking vote. At least four Republicans would have had to vote against Hegseth to sink his nomination. (CBS News). So remember, America, and MAGA, that the only reason we have a very UNQUALIFIED douchebag as Secretary of Defense, oops my bad, Secretary of War, is because the Republicans, minus three of them, decided that it would be no big deal to confirm an idiot, a FOX B personality into a position as important as this. The fucking Republican Majority once again is placing the lives of Americans in jeopardy, so as to make certain their political careers remain intact! 

Let's call the whole thing off

 “You say eether and I say eyether. You say neether, I say nyther. Eether, eyether, neether, nyther. Let's call the whole thing off. You like potato and I like po-tah-to. You like tomato and I like to-mah-to. Potato, po-tah-to, tomato, to-mah-to. Oh, let's call the whole thing off. “(‘Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off’/Ira Gershwin, circa 1937)

Iran closes Strait of Hormuz again over U.S. blockade and fires on ships. Iran’s joint military command warned it would continue to block transits while the U.S. blockade remained in effect. (MS NOW)

Demented and the self-anointed new Jesus Christ, Trump, lives in some make-believe land where he is adored and desired by his cauldron of collective sycophants, and due to his delusional world, thinks that when he lies, it is the truth, and when he creates fiction, it becomes fact. To that point, Trump, the newly anointed Jesus, has received little to no blowback from his army of Christian Crusaders of Republicans in Congress and his Clown Car Cabinet members.

But there is another group of gang members in Iran who have also anointed themselves as God, albeit not Jesus but Mohammad, and they too believe that they are the divine, and in doing so, they also believe that they too have the power to lie, cheat, and steal, but since they holier than the mere peasants of their country, they too can get away with bull shit and snake oil.

There was no war; there was an excursion, like a family vacation to a foreign land. Then it became a war. Then it was nothing more than some kind of Venezuelan thingie, where Trump was just protecting America from a perceived invasion. Then there was victory, then there wasn’t. Then we won because Trump was the architect of the deal, but the deal collapsed. Then it was on. All the while, the billionaires were making money from the Futures Market, and then they weren’t. We blew Iran to bits, but then there remained the pieces. Trump played us for the fool, with the permission of his Republican majority, and then Iran played Trump for the fool.

As the song goes, ‘let’s call the whole thing off’!

 

 

Please explain the Christian rules

 Riley Gaines expressed her disapproval of President Trump's AI-generated image depicting himself as a Jesus-like figure, urging him to show a little humility and not mock God. Despite her criticism, she reaffirmed her support for Trump, stating, "I love the President and I’m so grateful he’s in the Oval Office." (The Independent)

To begin with, I had no idea who the fuck this Riley Gaines wanna be was or is. But I found out she was and remains a sore loser who didn’t make the cut at the Olympics, and as most sore losers do, she blamed her lack of athletic prowess on someone else, that someone else being a trans athlete. In doing so, Riley Gaines caught the attention of the MAGA Republicans who will fight to their death any idea that Trans People should exist, but who at the same time have zero problems with Pedophiles and their existence. One more MAGA Republican Scam Artist, Ms. Gaines, was banking lots of bucks on spewing her hypocrisy of hate.

I am not a Christian, but in witnessing this sudden obsession within the MAGA Christian Nationalists regarding who is the son of God, their Jesus, I have been amazed at just how puzzling it seems for these so-called Christians to keep their stories straight.

For years now, these MAGA Christian Nationalists have declared Trump Christ’s representative of his Second Coming. They have called Trump the new Jesus; they proclaimed that Jesus took a bullet for Trump during that staged assassination attempt. They have laid hands on him, prayed to him, idolized him.

But once Trump finally said out loud what he has always considered, that in fact he is God, once Trump proclaimed himself to be Jesus’s BFF, if not Jesus incarnate, suddenly his followers are pissed. HUH, and WTF.

YOU, the MAGA Christian HYPOCRITES, have verbally and publicly stated that Trump is GOD, yet when Trump announces out loud, HE IS GOD, you protest. I am so confused, please, as a non-Christian, explain to me your rules?

 

 

 

Corner Store, HUH!

 Baffled by his own ‘corner store’ reference, Trump’s problems with groceries persist. The president can wax rhapsodic about his marble preferences and his affection for Corinthian columns. “Corner store,” however, left him badly confused. (MS NOW)

Many Trump voters feel that he represents their values and beliefs, particularly regarding issues like immigration and the economy, which they believe are under threat. This connection to their identity and concerns has been a significant factor in his appeal. (Cambridge University).

Yep, the millions of voters who decided that Trump was the “EVERYMAN” said proudly that Trump understood them, knew them, and related to them. It mattered not that Trump was a billionaire, supported by billionaires, a con, a felon, a fraud; nope, Trump was America personified, or maybe it was, as Trump proudly expressed out loud the same hate, bigotry, and racism that his supporters had secretly kept hidden. They found a leader who verbalized their own insecurities, and finally, they, too, could be proud to hate and prouder of their ignorance.

Oh MY Goodness, their role model, their idol, was nothing but a sham, a false idol, a snake-oil salesman who successfully fooled the already stupid into believing his words and ignoring the reality in which they lived.

Trump was angry that one of his Propagandist writers had the audacity to pretend to think that Trump, the man of the people, would connect with words like mom and pop, and corner store. Aloof, perhaps, senile most likely, arrogant, of course, and a bit demented, Trump announced out loud that he had no idea what the words corner store meant. 

But hey, no worries, because you voted for Trump because of one thing and one thing only, he gave you permission to HATE, to LOATHE the OTHER, to feel SUPERIOR. What a bunch of MAGA minions, mindless and meaningless!

 

 

 

Just Pulp BS

 Hegseth channels his inner Tarantino with fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction. The defense secretary said his prayer drew on Ezekiel, but wording closely matches Quentin Tarantino dialogue. (The Guardian)

How fitting for Pete (It’s A Holy War Damnit) Hegseth to quote from a film script to declare that his CRUSADES are God’s will, when in fact the words he quoted came from Quentin Tarantino’s script Pulp Fiction. It is fitting because Hegseth (And the Lord Has Directed Me) Hegseth seems to play the part of a cartoon action figure each and every day he boasts about the maiming, murder, and pillaging that Donald Trump’s Boix of Tiy Soldiers has been commanded to do.

Petey (I am a real man and don’t you forget it) Hegseth is an out loud and proud member of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC), an archconservative network of Christian congregations. 

CREC ascribes to a strict version of Reformed theology — rooted in the tradition of 16th-century Protestant reformer John Calvin — that puts a heavy emphasis on an all-powerful God who has dominion over all of society. Oh and its leader, Pastor Pat Wilson's church and wider denomination practice complementarianism, the patriarchal idea that men and women have different God-given roles. Women within CREC churches cannot hold church leadership positions, and married women are to submit to their husbands. (PBS).

Petey (Call me Tarzan) Hegseth, with a marriage history that includes three different women, cheated on his wives while married, and there are rumors regarding how he demonstrated his machismo while being drunk and had allegedly been accused of spousal abuse.

None of this would be of my concern, but it seems we have a Secretary of War, who enjoys his male-oriented religion, loves himself some rough and tough behavior, seems to provide the middle finger to laws he disagrees with, and is the go-to guy for President “Bone Spur” Trump.

As I see it, Hegseth is a blowhard, a has-been who wants to be, a self-loathing male, a phony, who prefers to pretend he knows God better than you or I. I mean, how icky do you have to be to quote Quentin Tarantino, as if those words were the words of a God you adore?

 

 

Wait, what now?

 Wait, what now? Suddenly, the Christians who have heralded Trump as the Second Coming of Christ, the same people who have anointed him as the guy Jesus personally selected to represent Christianity, the pastors and preachers who have laid hands on him proclaiming him as a deity, now, they act as if all of their religiosity and rigorous rituals of proclaiming Trump God like are very pissed because, Trump has dared to claim he is God?

Wait, what now? The same people who went to their knees when Trump supposedly survived a very rigged assassination attempt, hailed his regrown ear as a miracle, a sign from their God that indeed Jesus was here to protect Trump, and thus as a sign that Jesus knew Trump was the go-to guy for the Second Coming.

Wait, what now? Suddenly, the Christians are upset with Trump, calling him blasphemous. Trump has become unholy, now. I suppose Trump’s 34-count felonies did not matter. The fact that a Jury found Trump guilty of rape did not matter. The fact that Trump was found guilty of fraud was of no concern. The fact that Trump ordered adults to be dragged from their families, and many children in those families to be tormented and kidnapped from their parents, was no big deal! Trump’s two adulterous actions were just chump change.

Wait, what now? All of the factually immoral actions and illegal actions meant nothing. Did the Jesus the Christians pray to ignore all of that? I do not understand this HYPOCRICY!

 There is a poem titled ‘First They Came’, by Martin Niemöller, which originally included groups like communists, socialists, trade unionists, and Jews. In some adaptations, it mentions Catholics as well, emphasizing the theme of silence and complicity in the face of persecution.  Wait, what now, you suddenly have convictions?