Hellscape 2020: A New American Journal graphic by Walter Simon [Art Market Place]
By Glynn Wilson –
If this is not the end of the world, as we know it, I can’t wait to see the real thing.
Oh wait, this can’t be it. It’s nothing like the dream.
America is fooled again, and he probably won’t even have me killed for saying this. Donald Trump is the biggest, greatest con man of them all, of all damn time, no contest.
No doubt Mark Twain would agree, if he were alive to tell the tale.
Now there’s only me, and you, and the torment to inevitably follow.
It will be a lot like hell, or how we imagined it, only hell on Earth, at least for the next four years. By then it will be too late for the planet, if it wasn’t too late already.
Democracy is caput too. Deader than the burned out remnants of large swaths of the Amazon rainforest, not to mention California and Canada, slashed and burned for intensive mining and agriculture creating near total deforestation of 17 percent of the Amazon ecosystem.
Yet now we find out that Trump Republicans won the House after all, as it was called on Wednesday.
Republicans held a handful of critical seats in Arizona and California and defeated incumbent Democrats in key battleground districts, handing the entire federal government over to Trump’s personal agenda of ravaging the United States government, running his business from inside the Oval Office in the White House, and destroying democracy for sport for his own ravenous appetites, or just for the hell of it. It amuses him to see chaos follow in his wake, while he escapes any responsibility and somehow profits from it too.
Yep, he’s the best of all time.
To top it all off, the news from Wednesday that is, now we learn that Matt Gaetz of the Florida Panhandle will be named attorney general by Trump, putting one of the most corrupt pedophiles in Congress over the entire United States justice system. This is not just crazy. It’s totally insane.
Where is Qanon now?
Q Takes the Capitol, a New American Journal graphic by artist Walter Simon, depicts this golden calf of the Shaman of Qanon in his bison horn headdress, flying a flag with the slogan, “Quo unus nostrum it, eo universi imus.” The saying is inspired by the coming of age at sea saga “White Squall” using a lame slogan from the Albatross ship’s bell, “Where we go one, we go all.”
The House Ethics Committee is about to release a bad report on Gaetz. But in this environment, that will only help his fund raising efforts.
Gaetz resignation from the House complicated the math. But Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York conceded anyway, since the governor of Florida is a Republican and can appoint his replacement. And of course the damn Associated Press declared that Republicans had effectively won control, after calling an Arizona race for Juan Ciscomani.
“Even a slim majority amounted to an extraordinary triumph and turnabout for Republicans,” The New York Times reported, “who just a year ago fretted that voters would punish them for the chaos and dysfunction gripping the House under their leadership. Instead, G.O.P. leaders have said they intend to use their chokehold on power in Washington to begin quickly passing legislation, including a sweeping package of tax cuts, loosening of regulations on domestic oil and gas production, and stringent border security measures.”
The New York Times digital front page for Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024: NAJ screen shot
“Republicans in the House and Senate have a mandate,” Speaker Mike Johnson said at a news conference in front of the Capitol on Tuesday. “It was a decisive win across the nation.”
“We’re going to raise an America First banner above this place,” he said later.
A number of House Democratic incumbents outperformed expectations, clinging to their seats in Trump-friendly terrain and denying Republicans victories they had expected. Democrats in New York won back three seats, getting rid of Marc Molinaro, Anthony D’Esposito, and Brandon Williams in the Hudson Valley, Long Island and Syracuse.
But across the country, Democratic challengers fell short in races that party operatives believed they could win. Don Bacon of Nebraska, a veteran Republican, defied the political headwinds in his liberal-leaning Omaha district to win a fourth term. And incumbents facing competitive races in Iowa and Arizona fended off their opponents, leaving Democrats short of the 218 seats they needed to win back control.
Nowhere did the party face more of an unexpected and devastating loss than in Pennsylvania, where Trump won 50.5 percent to 48.6 for Harris. Republicans also defeated Matt Cartwright, who has held his Scranton-based Eighth Congressional District seat since 2013. Susan Wild, who flipped her Lehigh Valley Seventh District seat in 2018, also lost, giving Republicans the 218 seats they needed for control. The Democrats so far picked up 208 seats. Nine races are still being counted and too close to call.
The Beast has been loosed on the world. God help us all.
Don’t know about you. But I’m drinking over here, wherever that might be.
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It was a sad and tearful day, November 5, as I woke up to get ready for work at 3 am and read the worst news of my entire life: the winner of the election was not Harris but a corrupt sexual deviant who thanks to a slow moving Justice Department escaped absolutely every criminal charge.
I surmise from now on criminal defendants in myriad cases will ask for the Trump punishment. The failure to punish a criminal as guilty as this mentally unstable mob boss will forever be a stain on democracy in history books, that’s if the MAGA Maggots don’t burn them all first.
In my 70 plus years of life in America I thought I had seen the worst we had to offer, but as Glynn so eloquently shared it’s a version of Hell and brother and sisters it’s even worst than Hieronymus Bosch envisioned.
Many of my customers were excited by the outcome; however, a dozen more – two white the others African Americans, were upset. I tried to turn many potential voters Blue, including the only living relative – a cousin – I have any contact with; sadly, he went MAGA, too.
We must not give up the fight although it seems grim. There are still judges and institutions that remain obstacles to the new administration and it’s my opinion that there can still be accountability. In two years we must flip the midterms and unless an asteroid strikes Washington during the inauguration we must remain vigilant and fight against the threat of the complete collapse of civilization.