OUIJA BOARD pre-WWII

SECOND COMING

Since the second coming of our great, and fearless leader Donald “nip ear” Trump I thought I could just ride out the next four years, keep quiet and let the chips (or immigrants) fall where they may. Good luck with that. I didn’t watch the “peaceful” transfer of power yesterday. Too cold. I was busy shoveling snow and stacking wood. But by this morning (when both Cheeky and I had to pee) I got up, made coffee, and turned-on Democracy Now. Big mistake. 1500 White Supremacist insurrectionists pardoned, Gulf of Mexico renamed, birthright citizenship at risk, etc., etc. The only good news was Biden’s last-minute commutation of Leonard Peltier’s life sentence to home confinement. It won’t take effect until late February. Tick-fucking-tock. Even the Proud Boys can run free and get their guns back TODAY. Biden sucks almost as much as Trump is dangerous. Then I saw that advertisement for “douche on the spectrum” award-Elon Musk giving the Sieg Heil (twice!) to the crowd of Trumpists. As Amy Goodman explained, “There’s a meme going around that defines it as a “Roman salute” appropriated by Mussolini and Hitler.” No harm. No foul. It's as Italian as pizza and the mob. Any other connotation is simply a “hair on fire,” WOKE, invention of the radical left, meant to disparage truly patriotic Americans. Duh. OK, you fucking idiots. Missing the opportunity to put Musk’s salute in context, nobody on Democracy Now seemed to remember that the “auspicious svastika” was for thousands of years an ancient symbol of eternal goodness; literally meaning “to be good.” Then that mustachioed, bitter, wannabe artist, and psychopath turned all that goodness on its head. Of course, this opens the door to a lot of tattoo parlors now offering up, not only Hegseth’s “crusader” titty cross, but actual Trump-era repurposed, WHITE, CHRISTIAN, NATIONALIST swastikas. $100 special!!! It’s cool. It's Sanskrit. It’s ancient Indian. Nothing to do with the Nazis. Get your mind out of the history books if you think otherwise.

BEAR WITH ME

DINNER WITH THE OLIGARCHS

For God knows what reason, the stretch of land that runs up the hill from Denniston Ford to – where in 1801 a Montgomery Palatine developer by the name of Johannes Miller planned his city of the shining future on a hill- now has become Oligarch Row. Going back a couple of centuries, as the Newburgh/Cochecton investor (Miller) poured money into the old Indian trail that would become Rt. 17K and B, two brothers beat him to the punch, laying out the village of Monticello. Miller’s Settlement would never come to fruition, leaving my church (The Glen Wild Methodist/Episcopal Church aka CLGM) the center piece of a beautiful, forgotten, backwater. Listing the oligarchs from the valley up the hill we have Diamond Dave, Denniston Hill Foundation, GNJohn, Julie Merry-too and my neighbors RNButch and Jin-L. Last night Shewho and I were invited over to dine at the manor house. Also, in attendance were one of my lawyers SVegs, and wife Dolly. Jin-L laid out a great spread of booze, finger food and ox tail stew. Jin-L is Cuban. It rocked! Finding ourselves amongst the oligarchs, Shewho and I did our best figuring out the right fork to use and attempted not to embarrass ourselves amongst the neighborhood elites. We were going along great until, somehow, the subject of Puffy P. Diddy Combs came up. For some reason Diddy’s recent troubles of creepoid S&M parties, underage sex trafficking and general mayhem and abuse had escaped my radar. Have you seen the video of Diddy beating the shit out of some poor girl in the hallway? I hadn’t. I’m a sucker for 1st hand historical information of any sort. Turned out Jin-L had just that. As a young Miami hottie she ran in the Diddy circle. In fact, she told a story of introducing RNButch to Puffy in a packed Miami club. I’m envisioning the scene in Scarface, right before the shooting starts. Jin-L had never witnessed a "freak off" or a case of spent baby oil. No lube job. Nothing but gentlemanly behavior from the Puffer, she said. She never went to a Diddy Party that wasn't completely genteel- white or black. Or maybe, like Dave Chapell, Puffy recognised a little "snitch energy" in Jin-L, and never considered inviting her. Either way, Jin-L feels for the poor guy, now languishing in a NY jail. Crimes of the oligarchy run the gamut. In the end, the dinner was really fun. Good food. Good company. Good eye medicine. I’m no capitalist, but I know plenty of them. I try not to be too judgey. “Keep an open mind.” As Bird always says. Puffy? Who knows how fucked up this guy is, was, or will be. Like dogs, I try to take oligarchs on a “one on one” basis. “As bad as R. Kelly?” I asked. “WORSE!” everyone chimed in unison. Oh well. Flan for desert. Muy bueno!

TOGETHERNESS

APOCALYPSE, MAYBE?

L.A. is burning (burnt), there may be a cease fire deal in Gaza (doubtful), and on Monday, Hell (D.C.) will freeze over. What does it say in the Bible about all this? Just kidding. That rather confusing and contradictory book is way too long (fine print) to find just the right passage; although I’m sure it’s in there somewhere. Instead, I’ve begun reading soothsayer Octavia E. Butler’s “Parable” series. You want to know what will happen next? Check her out. Let’s take ‘em one at a time. Octavia Butler (1947-2006), who was writing these books in the late nineties, saw it all coming – Covid (the pox), “Make America Great Again” (same phrase), Trump (President Jarret), War with Canada? Check. Christian Nationalism, Crusaders, Fires, Slavers, etc., etc. It’s all there. The books are set on the west coast, as the shoreline falls into the ocean, Alaska warms up and L.A. burns. She’s brilliant! Cease fire in Gaza? As both political parties angle for credit, Israel steps up its bombing campaign, killing as many women and children as it can manage before Sunday. Trump is getting way more credit as the transactional, real estate broker he is, than he deserves. Nonetheless, this part of his cheap-o “war costs too much” personality may suit this specific situation. The problems will arise for the Palestinians when he gives Be Be the green light to annex the West Bank and Jared Kushner the development rights to “all that beachfront property” in Gaza. Let’s see what happens……ugh. Lastly, we have Trump’s cold as fuck inauguration on Monday. Today I must move enough wood onto my porch to not have to open my door for a week. In D.C. (Hell) the temps are predicted to be in the single digits. Under this kind of “climate change denialist” punishment, the swearing in and party has been moved inside. Instead of flag (and AR-15) waving Proud Boys, there's only room for the Tech billionaires and hookers. Zuckerberg and the Google guy have ordered A.I. orgasmatron googles for everyone in attendance. Michelle Obama and Liz Cheney (Bird’s pick for the 2028 ticket) won’t be there, but those goggles will take 50 years off Hillary and put a smile on Melania’s face. As everyone does “The Trump” dance move (fisting and grimace) I hear that in the back room, on what used to be Nancy Pelosi’s shit-stained desk, a swimming pool sized punch bowl, laced with Molly and Red Bull awaits. Don’t forget those Google goggles. There’s a naked Jeffery Epstein doing laps in the bowl, with a hardon and a big smile on his face. God Fucking Bless America!

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