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.