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California floods, America burns, irony explodes
By Mark Morford on January 6, 2017 at 7:27 PM
Clever. But also, not at all a joke.
The bloated orange president-elect is in love with dumb-thug Russians, tweets about himself in the third person and is readying his murder of conspiracy-minded billionaire-idiots to lead the nation into the darkest, most shamelessly corrupt period in our short history, all undertaken with a sexual predators shrug and an engraved gold pinky ring that spells out #-l-o-s-e-r.
Meanwhile, the 7th-largest economy in the world just underwent truly biblical flooding and not necessarily the helpful kind following a half-decade of being parched to the bone, thanks to weather extremes wrought, unstoppably, of climate change. Cars are going driverless, homes are going Big Brother, women are being slammed back to 1950, immigrants are in mourning, Democrats are going underground and stunned Millennials are moving back in with their wary parents as the planet records yet another year as the hottest on human record, shuddering and sighing and girding for much and with Trump, we do mean much worse to come. And thats just yesterday.
Are you tracking it all? Can you possibly navigate this bizarre Reverso-World, much less integrate? Dont worry; no one else can, either. Trust me when I say: Hard and fast and with a thick, bloody thud do the news items hit the wires these days, a ferocious cavalcade of astonishing invention and feral-but-intermittent beauty, completely shot through, quite literally, with staggering amounts of horror and moral abuse.
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There is no real solution, you see. There is no immediate remedy to the fact that we are about to be overtaken by a horde of scorched-earth nutball extremists who make G.W. Bushs crew look like squirt guns at an AK-47 convention. Trumps GOP is easily the most hardcore band of extremist white-male sociopaths the nation has seen since the Civil War. Is that an exaggeration? It isnt.
Then again, not everyone is miserable. America just forfeited every ounce of international goodwill it earned from the imminently graceful, intelligent Obama era. But what weve lost in admiration from the worlds finest leaders and its greatest democracies, weve gained in sadistic lust from its cruelest warlords, dictators, terrorists, thugs, criminals, trolls, charlatans, con men, rapists, prison operators, gun makers, KKK members, pharmaceutical executives, coal plant owners and oil magnates just about anyone, really, who champions the quick and lucrative destruction of human life as we know it. Dont you know? Terrorists love Trump. Ditto strongmen, killers, torturers, neo-Nazis, people who burn holes into human skin with lit cigarettes. Russias oligarchs cheered his victory. This is what were in for. This is how you know.
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(269,186 posts)There is no real solution, you see. There is no immediate remedy to the fact that we are about to be overtaken by a horde of scorched-earth nutball extremists who make G.W. Bushs crew look like squirt guns at an AK-47 convention. Trumps GOP is easily the most hardcore band of extremist white-male sociopaths the nation has seen since the Civil War. Is that an exaggeration? It isnt.
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