Enshitification

New example of enshitification. (Previous post on enshitification.)

People don't watch new shows that are good, they're canceled, then they watch them because the algorithm spits them up, and then there's not follow through and resolution because it was canceled because it wasn't popular when it first came out, but people like it as they're cycling through. 

I saw the other day you can pay to get the full Gemini experience, it's already got two tiered experiences.

I'm convinced that Apple takes away functionality with their updates. I used to be able to send links back and forth from computer to phone and phone to computer, but it's gone away. 

This is the great lesson of Trump. Capitalists wreck things and then demand money to make it work again. He's doing it with the government, thank, we don't need that. I feel like this isn't worth boycotting for, I mean it's everywhere and everything. It is making me less materialistic though, so that's good. 

That's just entertainment, but the cuts in government that kill people are worse. 

 

Money in politics has befuddled Americans since the 70's, my who life, why not reverse that?

I think there's a lot of latitude within religions and politics, but to me stepping across the murder, war and other forms of killing is the line I draw. So with Trump's murdering an estimated 400k by his inaction with Covid, and the million he killed by administrative fiat by ending USAID, he's an administrative mass murderer, and to think that's OK is kind of giving up your human card. I see people are of value and just politically saying no to them is administrative murder. So I could never ever imagine it's just a political difference to think Trump is OK. Until we learn to treat all life as precious, we're not really worth anything as human beings. Stop genocides and famine, that to me is bottom line stuff.

Religions don't kill people, people allow themselves to be manipulated through religions to kill people, and that's another problem.

I'm just riffing off this post on Reddit, which honesetly I'm just riffing off the headline.

Is Trump a liar or just has dementia?

He’s freezing on stage

Today's thoughts

Every unAmerican step takes Trump that much closer to impeachment after the blue wave of the midterms.

Two countries voted no to being against colonialism at the UN, Israel and USA. 

Trump zags when we usually zig, and while that could be good, it happens to not be. America has lost it's exceptionalism and maybe it never had it if it's so easy to throw it away like this. I don't mean to over index with recency bias, but wow. No neutral or good chaos, just bad chaos. 

Everyone thinks he's a big baby for getting the FIFA Peace Prize, a made up award, meanwhile he's murdering people in boats. He's the opposite of peace, and he's an absurd nihilist to push the narrative. He's sent troops into cities, and you're seeing police literally arresting ICE officers. 

His playbook is to create a crisis and to grift to stop it. He's not about leadership or government. And now he's calling affordability made up. He's going down. There's going to be a massive wave in the midterms and he's going to get voted out. What a horrible time and test for democracy. Then they can impeach a few Supreme Court justices. The corrupt legislature have often retired, and hopefully that rights the ship. 

I'm not so hot on Newsome any more. Kelly seems OK. Pritzker is an option. Other people will step forward. I'm impatient to see who is next, and I hope Vance isn't the puppet he's been so far. America are eager for crazy time to be over. 

Neo-Nazis in Arkansas Reddit.

The dark side

The fantasy, aside from massive heart attack and instant death, is that the oompa loompa will lose the midterms, and be impeached in a blue wave.

Things start to turn when Republicans are not challenged in their primaries, and there's no consequence for turning on the pedophile (Archive/Daily Beast).

The press seems to keep pounding on how Pete Hegseth needs to go.

Phil Klay: I suspect the question the administration cares about is not “is this legal,” “is this a war crime,” “is this murder” or even “is this good for America,” but rather, “isn’t this violence delightful?”

Jesse Watters and Megyn Kelly are monster on Fox, they delight in it. 

"An Associated Press investigation suggests that the men Ms. Kelly would like to watch slowly die are often poor laborers: a fisherman, a motorcycle taxi driver, a bus driver, living in cinder-block homes with spotty water and power service, making at least $500 per trip ferrying cocaine, a crime Americans normally judge worthy of a prison sentence rather than a torturous death." (op cit)

Thought of the day

The long term impact of planting fear in immigrants mind will last longer than Trump's reign of terror, his war on Americans. 

Heartbreaking stories of deportation (Bluesky). There's a certain kind of American that gets really angry at immigration. 

I am horrified by the videos every day I see of violent ICE arrests. They are illegal kidnappings. I'm not sure why they get to decide to suspend due process. The idea that non-citizens don't deserve due process is a false idea. I don't believe in a human being illegal. A flock of lawyers should descend on every case. 

The long term effects of inhumanity are felt by us all. It's a monster that says this doesn't affect me. I can see that there's a kind of mean spirited person that exists in the country, denies interconnectivity. 

Thought of the day

The hubris of thinking you know better, and hiding information that is negative, is among the traits of this second regime of the oompa loompa. I need to mock him, he's so obviously an emperor with no clothes, it screams at me. Standing there naked, nudity isn't sincerity or honesty, it's the absence of insight in his case. He doesn't seem to know what we know, and he doesn't care. Kirk saying empathy was wrong is another defining characteristic. It's not like he's making the best decisions, he's all about the break and grift model of government. Un-American if you ask me.

In the gish gallop of terrible news meant to beat down those with hearts, the not quiet piggy has the following headline: "Trump Cancels Release of Crucial Economic Report to Hide His Failures" (source). The information has snuck out anyway. You can't be such a mendacious leader in the information age.

I'll forever never forgive America for voting for this claptrap, this obvious destruction. Whoever comes after will never be as destructive as this jerk. Worst thing in my lifetime. The people who died of Covid because of his inactivity. The people who died worldwide because he stopped US. The horror of videos of violent ICE arrests, so many illegal. The loss of prestige on the world stage. Exceptionalism maybe wasn't even a good idea, but it's dead now. 

The goal is for me to lose faith in America, but I'm watching Ken Burn's documentaries, and even with all the mistakes and horror, I believe in a woke liberal America. 

Collecting knocks against future democrat candidates

I don't know how useful these projects of mine are, but I thought to begin to collect the wisdom of the internet, get the tone of the internet regarding people potentially running as democrat for president in 2028. I really don't want JD Vance or Marco Rubio. 

Mark Kelly: Military, astronaut, typical hero for our grandparents generation. Wife was shot, he's made sacrifices. He's been fighting Trump actively with a social media presence. He's a white man, Dems need to try that on for size to make sure this next election isn't fumbled. Hopefully the voters don't want to continue to blow the fucking world up. I'm sure he'd be better than any republican.

Knock: He's too pro-police (skeet) to get 90% of the black vote? After electing a white man because America didn't like the brown woman, not sure that's a tipping point problem.

Gavin Newsom: He's governor of California, a strong state, and has fought Trump in the social media quite well. People who hate him don't always articulate why, which proves much of our choices are unconscious. I'm sure he'd be better than any republican. 

Knock: Too centrist. He's got the hackles up for some, he makes people feel betrayed who have unrealistic expectations. "He is the epitome of what's wrong with CA. Slick talker full of bad ideas who thinks he's right." (skeet).

Kamala Harris: Just keep running till you win, that's every politicians strategy. That's what Biden did. Some think she's too establishment, some think she's too revolutionary. Must be a middle of the road person. Seems cool to me, likes jazz and lived in Madison for a year, where I grew up, but America doesn't get her. Did well despite the limitations of 107 day campaign. I'm sure she's be better than any republican. 

Knock: Most withdrawn of all the candidates, least charismatic. Their racism and misogyny is complicated. (skeet)

AOC is good and dynamic, but America doesn't want a woman or an ethnic woman at that. She's got solid fundraising ability with Bernie Sanders. She's a good talking head. I'm sure she'd be way better than any republican. 

Knock: Too left wing. There are lots of centrists who dislike ideology. 

Pete Buttigig is gay, and that's yet another reason not to vote for someone who's politics you hate, and we need to bring in the swing voters. I wish we were past homophobia, but it's obviously a persistent factor in the USA in 2025. My friend came out to me at 16, in a state where the average age of coming out was 22. I probably have a positive prejudice with the gays. America doesn't. He'd be better than any republican. 

Knock: Too centrist? He's a nuts and bolts policy wonk, I think he'd be a great president, but what Obama taught us was that if there's a huge resistance, in his case to his race, then it's just all uphill battles. He seems strong enough to weather the storms. We need a white hetrosexual man. Again, either you're too ideological or you're too centrist, there's no sweet spot. 

Pritzker is fighting Trump, for me the next president should have put in effort of resistance. He's a white hetrosexual man! But he's not attractive. We need a basic level of looks in superficial America. He'd be better than any republican. 

Knock: He's too rich to be a true revolutionary? He's not handsome enough? Same criticism bunch of not being enough left wing, or not centrist enough. The irrational fear is he will tax people more. 

Cory Booker. I'd love a vegan president. He'd be better than any republican. 

Knock: Not white enough. Too friendly with Wall Street. Too much into uniting. You need pundits to believe in your political lane. 

Jimmy Carter. Yea, I know he's dead, he's a placeholder for someone who seems to come out of nowhere. Like the guy from Maryland. The other candidates take all the shit flinging and then a new one steps forward without any shit on them. That's why I hoped Harris would win. Didn't work because she's not a white hetrosexual Christian male, which seems to be category needs for superficial America. 

MTG resigns

She was a hard right political hack who followed Trump's playbook, and then decided to pivot away from him, lost his endorsement, when she came upon her 5 year vesting of a pension. Like Liz Cheney, she was a quite horrible right wing shrew, and the left is so desperate for any crumbs, so when she turned on Trump, she became something she wasn't before, not quite as horrible enabling the monster, but hardly anyone worth cheering given her body of work. 

She's gotten a lot of threats, she says, and her timing with her pension vesting makes it seem like she has timed all of this. She's made a lot of money as a politician, so it's time to fade off into the sunset for her. 

Perhaps most famous for howling at Biden while he gave his state of the union address. 

There's a surprising amount of high profile republicans who hate Trump, but oddly enough it's not enough to oust him yet. 

NY Times: “Loyalty should be a two-way street, and we should be able to vote our conscience and represent our district’s interest,” Ms. Greene wrote in a long post. She said that if she had been cast aside by “MAGA Inc,” it was indicative that “many common Americans have been cast aside and replaced as well.”

“I refuse to be a ‘battered wife’ hoping it all goes away and gets better.”

She comes from a red district, and I hope Johnson gives the replacement the Adelita Grijalva treatment and takes his time swearing her in, and deny the will of the people again. 

Mamdani and Trump

What I saw was Mamdani approached Trump with respect, and they found common ground. I could never find common ground with Trump, so I respect Mamdani for being the bigger man, and thinking about the voters and the city, while the current reign is in the office. He made peace with a deeply distributed, troubled, and horrible man. To me it seems commendable. Work within the circumstances for the greatest good. I'm too idealistic to deal with Trump, but I hope in Mamdani's shoes, I would have been able to raise to the occasion like he did. Mamdani displayed another amazing side to himself. He got lucky, they didn't treat him like they did Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He neutralized some of Trump's insane rhetoric. I don't really like the optics, but it's realpolitik: Realpolitik (from German, meaning "realistic politics") is a pragmatic approach to politics and diplomacy that prioritizes national interests and practical considerations over ideological, moral, or ethical concerns. It is a system of politics based on concrete, goal-oriented ways of dealing with other nations.

(Reddit, NY Times) Independent thinks he’s afraid of his popularity.

“What Zohran did was not extraordinary statesmanship or youthful rebellion but simply the oldest trick in our collective cultural book, the desi art of letting the elder talk while quietly keeping the steering wheel of our own intent,” Indian diarist Kedar Gadgil (CNN)

Socialism

Diego Rivera's Man, Controller of the Universe

People think it's all a waste of time, and silly nonsense but I'm deeply offended by the Senate banning socialism. (Reddit)

Here's what Google AI says: "The history of "banning" socialism in America involves periods of significant political repression and legislation aimed at suppressing radical movements, particularly during and after the World Wars and the Cold War, rather than an outright, continuous, and comprehensive ban on all socialist thought or political parties."

To me socialism is the roads being free, we all own the roads. Parks. Having the trash taken away. Fire departments, post office, libraries. These are all great things.

And a dog whistle for the right, who have such a boner for unchecked capitalism and oligarchy. 

I take offense as a New Yorker who elected a socialist in Mandani and for Seattle's new mayor. 

Hope

Australia has virtually solar power taking care of it's electricity needs. When the USA leaves this pedophile regime it will be such a relief to have a forward thinking president. There's no way Vance wins, the yin and yang of politics, and this cheating is that Democrats are gerrymandering to make sure this nonsense doesn't happen again. We could have staved it off, and they really need to look into creating protections so a felon can't even run. And replace the supreme court with actual judges, not ideological hacks that don't understand justice. It was a mistake to think the voters would be the last safety valve. What comes around, goes around, and now when I see a video of him speaking, I just say, "shut up, piggy."

Why are the people who don't like government howling about the expansion of ICE? Because they're not just against big government and government waster, and they're not against cruelty. And they're not for law and order because Trump is the biggest criminal as president in USA history. It's spite, a death cult. Kill all the people that annoy you. Get the "Christians" to go along with you.

 

The flag has touched the ground, the country has gone off the rails. You can accuse me of being a left wing hack, but MTG and Carson have abandoned the pedophile. The crack in the facade are getting deeper. 

Tuesday they're going to vote on releasing the Epstein files and for me, I already know Trump is a monster, but some people are going to take their blinders off. He's going to deflect, point to other people. Except he'll probably redact his name and other favorite loyalists. 

The reason why the umpa lumpa tin pot authoritarian got into a fight with Epstein, is they got into an argument about who raped the 13 year old tied up in the room first. 

Another friend has told me he wishes not to talk about politics. I suppose the purpose of this blog is to just ventilate my feelings about politics in a world that isn't interested.

For anyone who wishes all humans to be happy, to be well, this regime is a disaster, and in the full catastrophe living, you're fighting, mourning, withdrawing. 

Protests continue in Washington demanding the impeachment of the US President. There's a constant protest ongoing. 

Rorschach Test

 What do you see?

Mamdani wins

He actually got a majority of the votes in a 3 person race, with Sliwa's 7.1% being not enough for Cuomo to win even if those votes were given to him, with his 41.6%. Now all those people who promised to leave NYC if MaMdani won, can leave, and what's his face in Texas can insist on a 100% tariff on emigrants from NYC, and the guy from Barstool who legally resides in Florida, can move to Florida, where he supposedly resides. I just can't with all the idiotic posturing. 

I couldn't bring myself to vote for Adams or Sliwa in the last Mayoral election, and it will be good to see Adams go. 

The New York Times would not endorse Mamdani, suggesting Cuomo would do a good job. Luckily New Yorkers took a different view. 

I'm happy Trump didn't somehow rig the election, it actually gives me faith in democracy again. His mother is a filmmaker from India. His father is an academic from Uganda, with Indian heritage. His wife is an artist, born in Texas but of Syrian heritage, moved to Dubai Qatar at 9 with her software developer father and doctor mother. She wants to draw, she's an illustrator. Pretty cool to me. Reflects NYC's diversity and competence. 

The exuberance I felt with Obama elected was quickly replaced by the worry at watching so many people trying to block him, obstruct him, undermine him. 

The cockamamie attacks are painful. I'm going to pay attention to this administration. 

As progressive as NYC is, Long Island re-elected a Trump lover (NY Post). All the major elections went to Democrats. 

I believe there's a yin and yang in politics. The president comes in, and then gradually loses power, and all the elections flop to the other side, almost no matter which side. If Mamdani becomes president, there will be slew of Republican governors and mayors.

I live in an almost brown yellow place on the map. 

The sin of empathy

I'm not sure if Trump created the divide between empathy and selfishness in America, but he sure drove a wedge between it. 

I'm reading that people will not be able to heat their houses this year. Trump has cut the programs that allow poor people to get emergency heating in the winter (source).

Those who support what Trump is doing will say, they should work harder, make better choices, etc. Work two, three, four jobs, whatever it takes to heat the family. They should contort themselves, and not expect to depend on money from others.

And it's OK for Trump to give Argentina 40 million, to rebuild and do major renovations to the White House, even build a triumphal arch. The same "irresponsibility" of the poor family is OK with him because people should not be dependent on the government. The sin of empathy has been articulated by the right (source). 

Read Douglas Sharp's amazing essay defending empathy.

It's the difference between people who hate the government so much that they're willing to throw their own countrymen and women under the bus, not even for less taxes on them, only the super rich, but to burn it all down. They're so angry at immigrants, they're probably excited watching all the beatings on social media. Most people are disgusted, but enough aren't. I know a sweet immigrant mother, who when I asked her if she was going to vote, started ranting about lazy immigrants. They're brainwashed by Fox News and social media into a hatred stance. If it wasn't so diabolical, I'd be impressed, instead I'm disgusted by the effort to harm people. I know a sweet man who thinks Trump is being persecuted! I've never met such a collection of idiots that are coordinated and weaponized. Truly diabolical. 

Political Procedural TV shows

I'm watching The Diplomat and really enjoying it, and it reminds me of Madam Secretary and The West Wing.

Political essay

Conservatives don't like government, progressives see the potential. There are always mistakes and limitations to government, and conservatives a hyper focused on it, in their own way. 

My psychoanalytical explanation is that often overbearing parents create a desire to be left alone. Also really selfish people don't like taxes or free riders. They'd rather have children starve instead of one person getting it who doesn't need it. The right would rather detain 170 citizens and catch one "illegal", an offensive term to the left (source)

I'm progressive, and feel very strongly that capitalism creates exaggerated winners and losers, and government can smooth out the excesses of capitalism. 

Conservatives feel the greed motive really important in capitalism, they're afraid people won't be groveling or hungry enough to put up with asshole bosses if they get housing, food, education at discount prices. They have a real boner for unchecked capitalism and the inequalities they create. Trump is purposefully crashing the economy to exaggerate the winners and losers. The decreased power of the American currency will bring jobs back to the USA, he fantasizes. Like everything in politics, nobody is completely wrong or completely right. There's a Godel theorem of politics, because the perspectives of right and left can never be totally right, and personality is a sort of fixed aspect to people and there will always be these two perspectives. That's why the dialectic of democracy is so powerful, neither side decisively wins. Except when things become anti-democratic and one side cheats or changes the rules. Gerrymandering is cheating. Money for elections is cheating.

The examples are packing the supreme court by not giving Obama a seat, waiting till the Trump gets in. By not swearing in a duly elected representative to the people. By creating a secret force like the Gestapo and SS (source). We've never had authorities who had to cover their faces before. By sending in troops into cities, creating a war. Trump laughed about uniting the nation, he thrives of disunity. He just needs a few rich people to believe in him, the oligarchy.

Tyranny, fascism, nazism, authoritarianism, dictatorship is an autoimmune disorder. The body politic attacks itself. It's pathological. 

The inherent rape of the people in this regime, is fittingly carried out by a convicted felon rapist and pedophile. It wasn't that long ago that the right was fantasizing about imaginary pedophilia rings, and you'd be on the left if you noticed this concern went poof, and disappeared. In the endless conversation between left and right, they will never completely see eye to eye. Just as Roosevelt created frustrated conservatives, so too, the orange transactional man creates left wing pendulum momentum. Trump is giving 40 billion to Argentina because the criminals need somewhere to flee when they lose power. Trump has said he's not going to heaven. He knows.

Noem, Stephen Miller, and others. If you google "who are the most evil people in Trump's administration, Google, which has swerved right, says it's a subjective term. The rule of law has to be suspended to establish it. 

Fourteen million people are dying because Trump abolished USAID (source). Trump was happy to let 700k+ people die of Covid through his inaction (Right wing Forbes thinks 400k, it's political how you calculate it allegedly). It's a metaphysic to say they could have lived, because they're dead. It's a hazy vague administrative murder by lack of resources, something harder to grasp. 

When I first heard about Freud's death instinct I was young and felt very strongly the urge to live. As I'm older now I understand the dark undertow of the death instinct, and being bad and killing people is what Trump wants. It's a death cult. That's why he's changed it back to the war department, because he wants to war, and death.

You ever stand in line and judge someone, wish they didn't exist? That's the murder instinct. Anger turned into action. Meanwhile Trump is unifying America in anger. Against him. If you've ever played Civilization, democracy doesn't like war, you have to overthrow it to go to war. Trump wants to take some land somewhere like his friend Putin has done over and over. The people generally don't vote for murder. That's why we just had the largest protest in American history. 

This regime has the push it till we're taken out attitude. 

No Kings Day!

Historic protest about the tyrannical moves of the pedophile felon.

Here are links to photos and videos of protest as I see them on Bluesky and Reddit:

Early footage, I can't endlessly link up videos and photos:

Portland

South Korea, Shinjuku, Tokyo

London, London, Dublin

Lisboa, Portugal

Boston, Newtown, Sussex County, New Jersey, Mystic CT

NYC, NYC, NYC, NYC, NYC, NYC

US Embassy/Brandenburg Gate Germany

Miami, Orlando, Lake Worth, Small town Sarasota county

Charlotte, Kitty Hawk

Garland Texas, Santa Fe New Mexico

Last updated 5:45 PM 10/18/25

Memes, visuals, cartoons

 

Fascist techniques used by the pedophile

Began a list of the fascist, authoritarian, nazi, tyrannical techniques:

Stochastic terrorism. In many ways the firebombing of a judge who defied the pedophile felon, might have been done by one of his cult members without even being asked. 

Neutralizing the checks and balances that limit presidential power. Buying the supreme court. Threatening the newspapers and suing media, the 4th check has been neutralized. I have to say I'm very disappointed with the New York Times the most. Look at how they had to barricade the court:

Lying (Hannah Arendt wrote on that (the marginalia)).

Dividing the country instead of uniting it. He recently said he didn't care about uniting the country. His power comes from a divided America. 

Gish gallop: Saying so many false things, nobody would have the time to debunk a big bowl of wrong. 

By not swearing in an elected official is depriving the will of the people. Obviously undemocratic. They act like democrats aren't allowed to represent the people who elect them legally. The idea that a body of people is an illegitimate. They flip the script and try to say anyone but their select group of republicans are allowed to rule, when America is the exact opposite of that idea. Whoever the people elect are to rule. Dastardly tactics. 

Civil War

Donald Trump is at war with prosperity, functioning government, the rule of law, and cities. He's putting US troops into cities in his own country. Unconstitutional, suspension of due process, kidnapping. He’s going to provoke a revolution. America doesn’t love fascism.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth: "ICE are raging through the streets of Chicago trying to intimidate everyday ordinary citizens trying to go to school and work. That's not what America is about. It's shameful that the president has instigated this." (Source).

Pritzker keeps saying that the mobilized from Texas National Guard who have invaded Chicago are not welcome. 

Republicans are all about states rights until they go against the vibes they're laying down.  

Fighting the regime

The resistance is the focus until the pedophile is gone. I have a previous post.

Newsom keeps trolling him online, not sure if that counts are doing something.

James Comey has been indicted, but he refuses to be intimidated or shut up. Reddit.

Pritzker is calling for a change in regime. Reddit.

Protests in Florida Reddit.

This commander says he would be obliged to defend the protesters against ICE Reddit.

People follow ICE and warn people Bluesky.

You gotta love mass protests (skeet) and singing (skeet), I can't find the skeet now but there are many.

Protest in Chicago Reddit.

New Yorkers and elected officials rallied at Foley Square to defend Letitia James after her indictment. James had filed the civil suit against Donald Trump that led to over $400M in penalties. Reddit

Cafe fights against ICE (Raw Story)

Thoughts on a FB post

First, from someone on FB:

Roseanne Barr – Fired by ABC/Disney and her hit show Roseanne canceled overnight in 2018 after one tweet. Hundreds of cast and crew lost their jobs.

Gina Carano – Fired from The Mandalorian in 2021 for social media posts that didn’t fit the Left’s politics. Dropped by her agency too.

Megyn Kelly – Fired by NBC in 2018, her morning show canceled after comments about Halloween costumes.

Dave Chappelle – Netflix employees staged a walkout and demanded his comedy special be pulled for “transphobia.” The Left tried hard to cancel him.

Joe Rogan – The Left pressured Spotify to drop him, running coordinated campaigns and advertiser boycotts over COVID discussions.

Tucker Carlson – Taken off Fox News in 2023. Liberal activists bragged about advertiser pressure campaigns that helped force him out, costing thousands of downstream jobs.

Parler – Apple, Google, and Amazon colluded in 2021 to wipe the entire platform off the internet. Tens of thousands of small creators and businesses lost income overnight.

J.K. Rowling – Blacklisted from events, attacked by activists, and pressured out of projects for speaking her mind.

Mike Lindell – MyPillow pulled from major retailers, banned from Twitter, and targeted with advertiser boycotts.

Alex Jones – Simultaneously banned in 2018 by YouTube, Facebook, Apple, and Spotify. Coordinated erasure celebrated as a model for censorship.

Patterns are clear:

Coordinated advertiser boycotts.

Public celebrations of people losing jobs and businesses.

Two sets of rules — the Left can lie (Russia hoax, Covington kids smear, Jussie Smollett, etc.) and laugh about it, but the Right gets destroyed.

Accountability only ever goes one way. The Left has spent the last decade perfecting cancel culture, destroying jobs, nuking shows, wiping platforms off the internet, and laughing while people’s lives were ruined. But sure… Jimmy Kimmel smugly lying about a political assassination? Totally fine.

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Comment: some of those people are horrible, some survived and learned and are still viable like Carlson and Chappell. Rowlings is fine. Alex Jones still hasn't paid the victims of a lawsuit he lost, so I think he's still operating outside of the law, no sympathy for him. Gina Carano wasn't rehired, that's not the same as canceling.

Seems like Kimmel is different. In order to get a corporate merger approved, the right wing FCC head used his influence to cancel a show on a network. Political jokes are not hate speech. Those loathsome people were cancelled for hate speech, and not because of political bias. That far right people are offended isn’t the same as rancid hate speech that most people don’t like.

Kimmel has the ratings, didn’t lose viewers. People just stopped buying the pillow guy's stuff because he was a liar. 

I really feel like domination from the left is different than dominating from the right. And I’m also humbled to think people see it differently. I cut off all the negative right stuff, and I was open to hearing this even though I disagree!

The president didn't say he'd get any of the people on that list. 

I mean Parler was part of the January 6th insurrection, so. I know the right lies about whether that was nothing at all or something, but you know despite political bias, there is also a truth, and a side that lies to counter these truths. We are not the same. 

I mean you can say it's my culture to say disgusting things, and have no consequences. What Kimmel said was political analysis that was true. I think the right doesn't get that feelings aren't truth.

This political moment.

Mussolini ruled for 21 years. He tried to get away, and was arrested with his lover, and he and his mistress were shot, and hung upside down in the town square. 

Hitler ruled for 12 years and married his lover and then took a pills to end their lives. Worst honeymoon ever. 

Franco ruled for 36 years. Franco's family had a cushy existence after he died in office. It's only recently his body was exhumed from the graves of honor. 

Castro ruled Cuba for 49 years and his brother was still in control, so they had a big funeral. You might say that the regime has worn off slowly and they still have a unitary communist state. 

I felt the straw that broke camel's back with Kimmel's removal. Call it tyranny, authoritarianism, fascism, nazism, or whatever, but silencing critics is a major step. He's packed the supreme court and they're enabling him, and the legislature doesn't seem to keep him in check, and the press seems to have been cowed by him long ago, New York Times could be said to have supported his second rise. 

I fear the midterm elections, and how he's going to subvert those. 

Seeing him entertained by Prince Charles is weird photo ops because he's not a king as Justice Sotomayor has pointed out. 

Law schools will teach this period of law as what not to do, and how to notice the signs of supporting fascism. 

Meanwhile the pedophile in chief has record low approval rating by the American people. I take now joy in the leopard ate my face moment of farmers, and hispanics, and on and on. Will the farmers turn to different crops and create another dust bowl? Do we have to live out and repeat the last century? 

The current regime has blown by natural barriers, and it turns out democracy rots from the head. 

Every accusation is an admission. The Orange Mussolini criticized Biden for being too old, and indeed out of office he got cancer, and it was a good thing he passed the baton to a younger person. This cult of personality isn't a movement and he can't pass it on to the charismaless Vance. Kush Patel passing his loyalty test by saying there is no Epstein evidence. So bizarre he imagines that lie is close to believing. 

I need to touch grass, and live in the moment, and not think so much about how we're living through what Hogan's Heroes and other TV shows I watched growing up, warned us against. 

That he survived the "grab them by the pussy" moment is something I will never understand. 

The mia culpa moment of Mitch McConnell isn't enough. We're heading into turbulent times. The economy is tanking. 

Everything is impermanent. Leaves are turning color and falling off trees. Mussolini and Hitler didn't last. 

Links:

NY Times

Video on Reddit of Kimmel

From HCR (Heather Cox Richardson)

Kimmel said: “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it. In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving. On Friday, the White House flew the flags at half staff which got some criticism but on a human level you can see how hard the president is taking this.”

Kimmel then played a clip of Trump’s response to a reporter who asked how the president was holding up after Kirk’s death. Trump answered: “I think very good. And by the way right there you see all the trucks, they just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House which is something they’ve been trying to get as you know for about for 150 years and it’s gonna be a beauty.”

If Tucker Carlson gets it, it must be blindingly obvious (Independent). I like it when HCR says what I'm noticing. 

HCR mentions it on her YouTube stream. She talks about reimagining partisanship under the cheeto mussolini. She mentions pools at -17. He's incredibly unpopular at the moment. American people are not behind what he's doing. People are not behind the economy and the deportations. Looking strong is all about trying to look better as their hugely unpopular. She likens it to a classroom of 4 year olds out of control. Also he's out of control. Melania is holding his hand a lot because he's in trouble, he's in poor shape. The power of the administration is flowing to Stephen Miller and other unelected officials. They're kind of frantically trying to get things done while things are falling apart. The Epstein files are not just about abusing children, but also about wealthy connected people were getting away with breaking the law. Rich guys can break the law is why everyone is so angry. Inflation is out of control. 

Heather Cox Richardson is single handedly holding this nation together. She says to now pay anything, it's free. 

Teddy Roosevelt stood up against the corrupt people in his party that launched him into popularity. She mentions the republican governor has switch parties to democrats. People are standing on American values over MAGA. 

She talks about how Bluesky became a refuge from X.  

9/20/2025: HRC: "Karl Rove, who was a key member of President George W. Bush’s administration, pushed back against the friends and enemies distinction in the Wall Street Journal. “No,” he wrote. “Charlie Kirk wasn’t killed by ‘them.’ ‘They’ didn’t pull the trigger. One person did, apparently a young man driven by impulse and a terrible hate. If there were a ‘they’ involved, law enforcement would find ‘them’ and the justice system would hold ‘them’ accountable. But ‘he’ and ‘him’ are the correct pronouns for this horrendous act…. Using Charlie’s murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it.”"

Capitalist enshitification

Weather forecasts led to surprise disasters that killed people (example Houston 7/5). Even Musk’s Grok blames Trump and Musk for flooding deaths (Daily Beast)

Netflix and other streaming services got commercials. 

Ad blockers stopped working.

I just found out the Metropolitan Museum of Art isn't pay what you wish. It's only pay what you wish for New York residents. This doesn't effect me, but I think that's a pretty shitty thing to do, it cost $30 to go. That's a lot of money.

When I was growing up most cars had standard transmission, you had to use a clutch and shift gears. Now there's automatic transmission, the car shifts on it own. Cars get transmission problems. Same with electric windows all sorts of other gizmos on cars. Cars break down more easily when they're so complicated. One little glitch and there's problems. 

In the yin and yang of things, they're offering free things that really should be free, but they want to drive traffic to work out bugs, and perhaps they hope people become so addicted that they can't help but buy. I need to watch less streaming services that have commercials. I need use social media less, because they're going to eventually monetize Bluesky more, the same way Ben and Jerry's got big enough to sell out, and they lose their social mission. They even try to keep it a while after selling out, but recently one of them stepped away, too frustrated by not doing more. REM was notorious for saying no, Stipe didn't want to talk to Letterman, but I've heard their songs on a car commercial. You hold out longer for the highest price but everyone sells out. 

So enjoy golden ages of TV or internet or social media, but don't expect it to last forever. 

People in charge don't want things to work. I was reading about how JustWatch just dropped Tubi from their list. Probably because finding free movies hurts business, and the people who make the website are sponsored by services that charge people. The idealism of the internet has faded to capitalist enshitification. Good reason to get offline and watch some leaves blow in the wind outside. Little girl who was my daughter's friend in Kindergarten, was glued to her device at the park, and didn't walk over to my daughter to say hello. Screen zombie. 

One of the weird things about getting used to TV without commercials, is when they happen, it's really offensive now. In the age of information, and because I'm a delicate hothouse flower, I'm really sensitive to being mind fucked by capitalism. 

I'm not going to pick a car from a commercial. I don't think I need to learn all the side effects and indications to watch for medications I don't take. I don't want to look at disgusting fast food commercials since I don't eat meat. Every commerical is basically offensive to me, except travel to a state commercials, and there aren't that many of those.

Zohran Mamdani

Need more lightness than darkness, and the success of Zohran Mamdani is light to me.

The Pedophile-in-chief has signaled retreat from seeing what he can do. He's talked to Cuomo, and that has been the kiss of death for him, and called Silwa a loser--Silwa probably doesn't like Trump's vigilante ways as a fellow vigilante. New York doesn't like Trump, New York State didn't vote for him, and his attempts to disrupt the democracy in New York City seem to have floundered. 

Whatever health even that is drooping his face seems to have taken some of the wind out of his sail. Everything he accuses others of, he's guilty of, that's his technique, counter accuse. Biden is too old, means he thinks he's too old. If only a fading Pedophile-in-chief fixed things, his cadres of enablers don't really need him to wreck things up. 

Now the wishy washy, bought and sold governor of New York has endorsed Zohran Mamdani. She must have concluded the polls are accurate that show him winning easily. Cuomo and Silwa are canceling each other out. Trump doesn't have any secret levers to override the people's choice. It looks like he's the next Mayor of New York. 50 days till November 4th. I think election day is the first Tuesday in November. 

The New York Post is going hard smearing Mamdani, that must mean he's good. Just like Trump disliking him, sort of go the opposite direction of those folks. Like when Musk said he didn't like Wikipedia, it deepened my love of Wikipedia. 

Brian Kilmeade

The death of Kirk has brought about people trying to fill the void of rancid politics, and Brian Kilmeade stepped up. He suggested we kill homeless people on TV (skeet). Reading his wikipedia page, this isn't an aberration, he likes counter-jihads, he likes pure blood of Finns and Swedes, sees all terrorists as Muslims. He likes to spread lies about judges whom he doesn't like the rulings. I can see why the right doesn't like Wikipedia, it's factual, honest, and makes outlandish comments as part of the record, not ephemeral things. 

Heather Cox Richardson:

"Senator Joe McCarthy (R-WI) pioneered this technique in the 1950s when he would grab media attention with outrageous statements and outright lies that destroyed lives, then flit to the next target, leaving fact checkers panting in his wake. By the time they proved he was lying, the news cycle had leaped far ahead, and the corrections got nowhere near the attention the lies had."

Attention getting lies and controversial statements that befuddle the people. 

Brian Kilmeade defends the Assaulter-in-Chief separating families, climate change denial. He has said some criticisms of Trump, he's not a complete shill, just a mostly shill. 

You can't capture the death cult nature of Trump more than this statement of wishing to kill humans. 

I don't think apologies are sincere, I think Kilmeade lets you know who he is, and he worries about the backlash of people being disgusted by his articulation of the death cult. A real apology would be to stop spouting such hateful murder cult bile. He has such a long history of it, it's hard to imagine he won't stop. Anyway, he was trying to get attention in the attention economy, and he got it. The apology is just another moment in the spotlight for him. The nihilist can play both sides all he wants for attention. He likes purity of blood. Hitler went after the people with disabilities first. He cleaned out all the group homes of people with disabilities.

"Morris explains that violent acts associated with politics happen because members of that small minority respond to rhetoric coming from political leaders. Violent metaphors polarize audiences and attract “high-aggression followers.” Reducing violence requires political elites to tone down their rhetoric."

HCR

9/17/25. I'm reading people going into homeless encampments and firing guns, two incidents in Minnesota.