Coping Strategies

-I imagine Paul Ryan sitting in his study in his underwear late at night, furiously jerking himself off while reading The Fountainhead.

-How often does it come to pass that those who never served in the military are quick to send others to fight our corporate wars in far flung corners of the empire? The same people are usually among the loudest and most energetic cheerleaders for the military.

-Truth will be a first casualty of the incoming Trump regime. Lie big, lie often, will be the mantra -- in fact, it already is -- as Trump and his vice president claim a mandate to unleash the wolves on the American commons. It’s important that we remember that Trump and Pence lost the popular vote by a solid margin, and their “victory” in the un-democratic Electoral College was modest by historical measures.

-Repeat 5X every day: Trump has no mandate.

-That he can’t recruit any A-list entertainers to perform at his inauguration party must be killing Trump. Maybe he can order the Marine Corps band to play a medley of patriotic tunes, some background music appropriate for a wannabe dictator, or he might enlist Ted Nugent to wail Cat Scratch Fever over and over.

-I know this for sure: Barack Obama failed and fucked us. Don’t be fooled by the encomiums to how wonderful the Obama years have been.

-Why are Republicans so hellbent and crazed about repealing the Affordable Care Act? The entire scheme was hatched in one of their conservative think tanks, and gives the private insurance industry guaranteed customers and profits. The title of the act itself is something of a joke because health care in America is hardly affordable, even when one is insured.

-The poor will always be made to pay for the errors of the rich.

-Paul Ryan finishes jerking off, lays The Fountainhead down, thinks about privatizing Social Security and Medicare, and immediately becomes erect again.

-Trump will govern by Tweet. Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln -- literate men who revered language -- will convulse in their graves.

-Neoliberalism retarded America’s soul. We are a crass, callous, and cruel nation now.  

-The corporate media will continue to regale viewers with stories of amazing rescues, cute pets, the latest celebrity divorce, a 60 car pile-up on a frozen stretch of Interstate 95, or freak weather “events,” (none of them the result of climate change).

-America, we are truly screwed, unless we take a page from the French and flood the streets, until we learn to put the fear of the mob in the oligarchs. Turn the computer and the TV off, set your phone down, take the earphones from your ears, get mad, become outraged at the greedy bastards who stole your future, shackled your kids with debt, bankrupted your parents, poisoned the water in your city or town, or sent your son or daughter to die in Afghanistan or Iraq.

-We are better than our diseased political system, better than our corrupt political leaders, better than avaricious CEO’s and hedge fund bosses, better than the talking heads who try to make us afraid.

-Time to stand up, time to be counted, time to say, No More.