I’ve been watching the Americans again. I’ve been making what I considered a determined effort not to do so, but my news feeds betray me each morning with continued Trumpist effrontery that never ceases to amaze.
More accurately, I’ll amend the above statement to has ceased to amaze. Because there is apparently no despicable behaviour that’s out of bounds for this man and his posse. But I still sit back and watch and I’m not sure why. Part of the reason is to keep tabs on what’s happening so I can speculate on how Canada will be affected by the Southern madman. But there’s also this macabre fascination, similar to watching video of a python squeezing the life out of a housecat in a Florida backyard. It’s appalling, but it’s hard to look away as a psychotic old serpent squeezes the life out of America. The weird part is that all of America is having a barbeque on the deck of that Florida home, and half the people with a hotdog in hand are cheering for the snake, while the other half have turned away or are too frightened of snakes to save the cat.
Meanwhile the snake slithers off looking for kittens.
A China embarrassment, Iran, a 59 million dollar phone scam, a reflecting pool, the fucking ballroom, a litigation where he’s suing himself and settling his own lawsuit, and the blatant attempt to steal the midterms are only a toe dip into the sea of corruption and thievery that defines American leadership these days.
I spend too much time trying to sort out the how and why of a country that has decided to entirely dispense with the concept of accountability for it’s elected leadership. It’s a strange situation where the people making the rules and setting the policies are exempt from those same rules, but evidently that’s the new golden age of America.
Kind of a divine right of kings scenario.
So I’ve been thinking about suffixes and prefixes for the word able. Unable, disabled, disability, enable, capable and inability top my thinking list, but there are thousands of word possibilities with able in them that intrude when I’m contemplating America. Words like unexplainable, unpredictable and unimpeachable.
So, I’ll try and use some of the able options in an effort to illustrate my confusion with America. Describable words to try and explain the indescribable.
Which seems to happen fairly often I think, because as soon as someone utters the words, there are no words to describe it, then what follows are invariably a shitload of words to try to describe whatever it may be. So, here’s some of the able words that come to me when I’m trying to sort out America in 2026.
The current arrangement of the American government is unable or incapable of preventing an unstable president from doing the unthinkable.
Americans argue about political differences continuously and the gap between the core values of those philosophies has widened considerably during the reign of L’Orange. However, it seemed to me that there were two instances of behaviour from public officials that were unacceptable to both parties. Namely theft from the public purse, and screwing a secretary or an intern. I wanted to label the screwing part as sexual misconduct, but the Republicans have an odd sense of what misconduct means. Same sex being bad, but apparently underage sex is fine as long as the adult is rich, the sex is heterosexual and the adult is whiter than Kanye.
But that nuance aside, I had always believed that both parties agreed on the concept that stealing from the public was a bad look for elected officials. There was and is a continued argument between the parties over how to best spend the American tax dollars, but there at least seemed to be a vague consensus that outright theft was undefendable.
Until Don.
Lets say that the golden jet and crypto and insider trading are arguably sort of legal. Sort of meaning that the issue can be tied up in courts as lawyers argue the particulars of statutes and precedent for a theft that doesn’t involve a handgun and a bank teller.
Murky and beyond the grasp of the average voter. The sort of thievery preferred by rich people.
Except Don. Don doesn’t give a fuck anymore.
He just stood at a fucking podium with the crest of the presidency attached to it, and announced that he was stealing one point seven billion dollars from the American people, or to put it another way, one point seven days of the Iran debacle. And he managed to keep a straight face as he announced this money would be used to compensate victims of Biden lawfare. Victims as determined by Donnie and his handpicked panel of victim experts.
The hypocrisy of it is unconscionable to anyone with a shred of morality, as his injustice department continues their crusade against anyone that hasn’t approached Don with the muscles of their lips and jaw contracted to create a partial vacuum. But it’s just another day for a psychopath who believes that the only law is the law of Don. The only crimes and criminals are those that trespass against him.
It’s absolutely fucking insane.
For sake of perspective lets assume that fucknuts determines there were one thousand seven hundred Biden victims. That means each of those persons would receive one million dollars, assuming that there are seventeen hundred victims to be found.
All of America can rest easy though, because Don will decide what criterion are necessary to qualify, and what better person to decide who’s a victim than the most aggrieved victim of them all?
So who are these victims besides the lawyers that lied about the stolen election, and the peaceful January patriots that smashed windows, beat the snot out of cops and shut down the voting affirmation?
Not Babbitt and Flynn. They or their families have already been paid off, and so who else will L’Orange decide are victims? I’m guessing that the orange man himself will pocket a million or so, and I fully expect his entire family to be compensated for the mental anguish they’ve had to endure.
That sounds fair right?
Let’s not forget the premise behind the seventeen thousand million. Originally old shitty pants sued for 1,000,000,000 thousands because his taxes were leaked to the public. Tax returns that every other president has made public. Tax returns that Donnie has never made public even though he promised to do so. Because apparently he was subject to a four year audit during his first term. Seems odd that he’s not suing for that obvious I.R.S. harassment. But I suppose he resolved that problem, because part of his seventeen thousand million dollar settlement is a clause that forbids the I.R.S. from ever auditing him, his family or his businesses.
Ever.
In perpetuity.
So even if he’s not the resident president he’s managed to drag financial maleficence immunity into his private life, and as an added bonus it’s a fucking family plan.
And I can’t help but wonder how any of this is acceptable. It freaks me out to be honest. Because the orange lunatic gets nuttier every day, and an absence of a forcible reaction serves to empower him to reach for the next level of lunacy. So he’s very likely going to order an invasion of Greenland, a nuke option for Iran and an executive order suspending voting.
Seems predictable and inevitable.