No Connection (Donald Trump is a worshipper of Mammon and his own reflection in the golden eye of Baal): channeling Bill

Chicago’s gun ban ruled unconstitutional in 2010.
(There is no connection between these links and you would be a fool and a communist to make one.)
On Monday, 19 people in the city of Chicago were shot, 9 of them fatally.
(there is a fevered ego run amok among us)
And the beat goes on. and on
(tainting our collective unconsciousness and making us pay a higher psychic price than we can possibly imagine)
This story was made possible by modern medicine and mass media.
(He is sowing chaos and madness, lowering the standards for the perfect and holy children of God)
This story was made possible by people trying to rob a man of his wheelchair.
(everywhere his hateflowers bloom)
How do the Evangelicals who embrace him not feel his contempt for them?
(Donald Trump is a worshipper of Mammon and his own reflection in the golden eye of Baal)
And what’s crazy is that William F Buckley agrees with me.

How Can You Lose Your Fire When Everything Is Burning?

My Dear Huck;

I have tried three, now four times to write you since I saw your comment. That’s part of the problem. Julia and I have a four and a half year old little boy and a five month old Rottweiler running around, our jobs keep us on crazy schedules and some damn thing or another is coming up. Yesterday Julia needed to get a tooth extracted.

But that’s just short term bs. I am doing a lot of writing and creative work right now but I haven’t been blogging especially about politics because for the love of Christ, just look at it. 

I’ve been talking to you for a long time, my invisible friend, and you know me to be a sane and rational fellow, but I am empathetic, intuitive, and in touch enough with myself to understand other people in a way that almost seems eerie to me sometimes, and when I see Donald Trump these days, I…

Are you familiar with The Dead Zone by Stephen King? It feels a bit like that but worse.

******************TWO DAYS PASS*******************************

And just now today a British MP was shot dead by a man who shouted ‘Britain First!‘

Madness and horror, Huck. That’s what I see when I close my eyes and hear his voice.
Do you want an honest bit of crazy poetry that will unsettle and shake you? Read on,
I’ll tell you what jams my minds eye and floods my subconscious with static broken
recitations of the gibbering spittle flecked rants of the Alzheimer’s ward at Christmas,
the sound of something angrily pounding from the inside of an infants coffin
and  tentacles caressing snake bodies, cephalopods embracing reptiles,
broken nature recombining the recombinant into revenge upon the primate
and the guns oh the fucking guns the precious guns the giant steel cocks of death
worshipped by the cowards and closet cases not brave enough to suck a real cock
the equalizer that lets a lone mongrel kill a lion or every other fucking dog it sees
Mammon is shouting to the possessed, calling the demons to awaken among us
Mammon is shouting to the possessed, calling the demons to awaken among us
and I know that’s so crazy but that’s what it is: a nihilist narcissist empowered ego
calling the maniacs to serve it by any means necessary, that now is the time for all
madmen to come to destroy their country, and the grasshoppers are swarming
and metamorphosing into monstrous locusts ravenous for civilizations and
always the oceans are rising and the summers are getting hotter and this one
is going to set records, and I hear him laughing and something perfected
in the Cretaceous regards me with the mercy of a spider and I know that
Mammon is shouting to the possessed, calling the demons to burn it all down
Mammon is calling to the possessed, shouting for demons to burn it all down
and he sounds like maggots and flies buzzing in my ears everything is backwards
and nobody knows how it happened when it was obvious all along that it’s
what they had been asking for all along and there is the sound of bodies locked in
riga mortis falling to the ground it was over a long time ago except for the screaming
which is only getting louder as the weaklings join the mongrel wearing a lion skin
Mammon is calling the demons to wake you up and join his party (a monster’s Baal)
Mammon’s demons want to wake you make you join his party (the monster’s Baal)

So yeah, when I try to write about politics I keep getting stuff like that.

Cheers,

Winston

You Can’t Control Guns. Stuff Happens.

Statistics are generally meaningless, so I’ll try to state this without too many numbers. According to CDC estimates that over 99,000 Americans have died by gunshot since Newtown.The combined US combat deaths in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and all the other conflicts since 1945 are less than the gun deaths in the US since December of 2012. 

The reason I don’t have guns in my house is because I am not afraid. I am not weak. I do not tremble in the night. I walk the streets I choose to. I do not worry and fret.

But last night Little Tony slept in our bed between us. Dark lullabies haunted my dreams. This afternoon his mama took him to the movies while I was at work and I was filled with dreadful disquiet until he burst through the door crying, “Papa! I’m home!” Tonight he is sleeping in our bed again.

Now it is the morning. I posted this unfinished last night by mistake.

It’s not that I don’t have anything to say, I have so much to say but I just don’t know how much of it is useful.

The thing is that it is possible to have effective gun control that doesn’t completely disarm everyone; the problem is that it requires us to have an adult conversation. That means that we have to stop letting Ted Nugent and other crazy assholes dominate our discourse. I cannot chalk up the pointless murders of ten people to ‘stuff happens‘. We are a creative and free people who have been to the Goddamned Moon. We can figure this out.

I remain hopeful because I must.

Not Wanting To Think About Terrorist White Supremacists Is Sympathizing With Them.

I know that Stormfront has a link to at least one of my posts and that white supremacists visit this site. I also know that everyone, even the most ardent white supremacists can change their minds and find their souls. That’s why I take the time to write to them. I also know that there are some readers who are very conservative people who are not overt white supremacists but because they embrace the status quo thinking of modern conservatives they are unwittingly embracing some very white supremacist ideas. I write to them as well. I know many ‘soft’ racists who lazily embrace cultural stereotypes and think that because they watch television they understand the world; they aren’t reading, let alone this..

The Confederate Battle Standard flew at full staff over Charleston, S.C. even as Old Glory was lowered to half staff; the reasons for it are asinine. The symbolism is not subtle, but South Carolina is not a subtle place; they are flying the battle standard for white supremacy high. The murders at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church perpetrated by the terrorist Dylann Storm Roof are only the latest atrocity perpetrated in the name of white supremacy. There is nothing new about white supremacists attacking churches and murdering innocents; these are not creative people. Judging by the patches on his jacket Dylann Storm Roof seems to have drunk deeply from the sewer of white supremacist ideology; wearing the flags of the Rhodesian and Apartheid-era Afrikaner regimes indicates that there was nothing incidental about the race of his victims. His statements at the scene of the crime make his motives clear; Dylann Storm Roof is a jihadist for white supremacy.

What strikes me as so extraordinary is how conservatives refuse to see Dylann Storm Roof as a terrorist for the white supremacist cause; it’s as if they cannot admit that a person was racially motivated.when they said, “I have to do it. You rape our women and you’re taking over our country. And you have to go.” to black parishioners he then gunned down in the coldest possible blood. Nikki Haley, the Republican governor of South Carolina, said, ‘we’ll never understand what motivates anyone to enter one of our places of worship and take the life of another’. Yes, we do, very clearly in this case; the poisonous hatred of the white supremacy movement. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina thinks that 21 year old Dylann Storm Roof “is just one of these whacked out kids. I don’t think it’s anything broader than that.” If you follow that link you’ll see what Senator Graham thought about 19 year old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in 2013. It’s an interesting contrast. Dylann Storm Roof clearly is cognizant of the white supremacist movement, its symbols, and its ideology; he is operating as a lone wolf terrorist cell in the same way that ISIS and Al Qaida encouraged Muslims to do the same. If if the dopey kid brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should have been treated as an ‘enemy combatant’ to be interrogated by intelligence agents as Lindsey Graham demanded, then how can someone who has worn the flags of foreign nations and murdered a state senator among the eight other African Americans who were targeted for their race in their church just be a whacked out kid? Some of the other responses from those on the right are myopically insane in ways that reflect the obsessions of the theorists. Regardless, they all agree it’s not about white supremacy.

It does not require a Godlike perspective or the fresh insight of an alien species observing us through telescopes to see how crazy the neurosis of white Americans about race really is. To be clear, the 223,000,000 white people in the United States are not being ‘taken over’ by the 41,000,000 black citizens; that’s a 77% to 13% ratio, or approximately 6 white people for every black person. The treatment of African Americans by authorities is well documented and undeniable. The racial anxiety in the United States has always buzzed at a pretty high frequency but confronting the fear of a black president is giving our collective unconsciousness a nervous breakdown. For many, their coping mechanism is denial.

Denying the existence of the terrorism of racists empowers the criminals. Obfuscating the existence of racism or downplaying its magnitude gives cover to the terrorists. Ignoring a crime against another is to participate in the crime as an ally of the perpetrator.
But hate won’t win.
God bless everyone.
No more hurting people. Peace.

Casting My Pearls All Over the Place #JeSuisCharlie

Kenny,

The problem with the whole ‘white guys bullying minorities’ narrative in this case is that the staff of Charlie Hebdo was mocking the people who would eventually murder them at their desks. That is absolutely speaking truth to power. I am speaking here as someone who has gotten under the skins of the mouthbreathers at ‘Stormfront’; white people are allowed to have opinions and even criticize murderous terrorists who use religion as a cover for their evil. There is nothing wrong with pointing at something that you think is fucked up and saying, “that there is fucked up.” What is wrong is ignoring the fucked up thing because you don’t want people to fuck you up for noticing it.

I know, language. I’m always fucking myself up like that. Was it necessary for me to tell Jacob and Sandip to jack themselves into drooling ecstasy? Yes, and I thought it was done tastefully. I refuse to neuter a discourse on the virtues of rudeness and blasphemy, but then, nobody is asking me to write for Vanity Fair so what do I know? I know that my writing has rough edges and I mostly smooth them away; in this case I polished that fucker like a shiv. I crafted that anal-bead masturbation joke with loving care. Someone who reads it and doesn’t laugh isn’t going to appreciate the rest of what I’m talking about anyway. And that’s okay; I’m not writing for everybody all the time. That’s why my favorite posts to write here are the letters to my friends; it doesn’t feel like I’m on a soapbox in Bughouse Park pontificating to the birds.

Back to Charlie Hebdo. Is it racist for people in the US to have an opinion about the terror and violence of the Mexican cartels? If I drew a cartoon condemning the President of Mexico for his role in the corruption of his government would I be in a no go zone? I say absolutely not. While it is very easy to drift into stereotypes and racist tropes when commenting on things outside of your immediate culture that doesn’t mean it automatically happens. Likewise, while observing other cultures it is very easy to get things mixed up and to read the signals all wrong. The cultural tensions in France are very real and it is not automatically xenophobic to talk about it plainly. I am familiar with the cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo from the ongoing controversy and the work of Cabu in particular. I can say with confidence that the cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo were not right wing racists spreading hateful propaganda.

So yes, before doing a quick Google search to find something he didn’t understand and hopping on his ‘That’s Racist’ high horse half cocked to ride off crying ignorant slander upon the dead, Jacob should have had himself a real good wank. I stand by that advice, my friend, and recommend it to everyone; the thing with the pearls is optional.

My unlimited love,

WD

And yeah, Neil does nail it.

Je Suis Charlie #JeSuisCharlie

This shook me this morning. I think I need to make a cartoon today. I haven’t done that it a while.Vive la France.

America’s Shame #NRA #SandyHook #Newtown

It has been nearly two years since Adam Lanza killed twenty toddlers and six teachers in Newtown Connecticut. In that time, our nation has made it easier for anyone to get their hands on guns by weakening the existing laws and have made absolutely no effort to improve mental health treatment in this country. We have been treated to demonstrations of treacherous cretins brandishing guns in grocery stores and restaurants who insist that they are making everyone safer by waving their guns around. Even though most Americans agree that this is an unacceptable situation, this vocal minority has short circuited our democracy and imposed the will of a deranged minority upon the rest of us. We are a nation of cowards. Cowards who cling to their guns and the cowards who fear them too much to speak up. A nation of cowards that tortures our captives as a matter of official policy. A nation that is terrified of black people, especially if they’re young.

It is not conflation to bring race into this conversation; consider why the NRA believes it is so important for a person like Adam Lanza to have access to assault rifles but are absolutely silent on the deaths of black citizens at the hands of police? Where has the NRA been to protect the 2nd Amendment rights of Tamir Rice who was shot by police for holding a toy gun? When a white person walks into a restaurant brandishing a personal arsenal they can be confident they have the backing of the NRA to ensure that government tyranny won’t infringe on their very broad interpretation of the Second Amendment; why haven’t we heard the NRA exhorting African-Americans to bear arms for self-defense against government tyranny? After all, when an old white man threatened to shoot federal officers who were trying to get him off of land he was occupying illegally he was a folk hero to these folks; how is a man who was choked to death by police for allegedly trying to avoid a cigarette tax not a hero to anti-government libertarians everywhere? Or is there another fear there?

Fear is the mind-killer; it is the only thing to be feared as it is the only thing that can strip away our humanity. It is not cowardice to feel fear but rather to surrender your reason to it; to be craven is to reduce yourself to a panicked beast. Fear is the root of all evil; it is the mother of rage and daughter of ignorance. All humans feel it but not nearly enough master it. In our fear, we the people of the United States of America have done many terrible things; our refusal to protect our children from our inability to deal with our firearms like adults is the worst one as far as I reckon.

Because the NRA has seen to it that Congress made it illegal for the government to track gun deaths in America, we really don’t know how many Americans have been killed since the atrocity at Sandy Hook, but it has to be in the tens of thousands.

 

Listen To This Samuel Wurzelbacher #Joe the Plumber #bully #NRA #2nd Amendment #OpenCarryTexas #YesAllWomen

To Samuel Wurzelbacher (aka Joe the Plumber);

I read your open letter to the parents of the people senselessly murdered by Elliot Rodgers; I read every last condescending, insincere, and compassion-free word. On the one hand, I regard you as a grifter who needs people to pay attention to you so that you can continue to swindle conservatives by spewing what clogs toilets into our collective consciousness rather than to actually rod one out; on the other, you are a fellow American citizen who has publicly expressed an opinion in the form of a letter to the parents of murder victims telling them to shut up.

To begin with, this is what I was writing before I read your letter:

“A gun is a tool; as such, it is inherently neutral, nothing more than a lump of metal until it is in a persons hand. It is a tool capable of extinguishing human life as easily as a candle; it is not the only tool which can do this but it is expressly made to do so.”

You might recognize that idea as one that the NRA puts forward. I like to try and find places where I agree with people who I have disagreements that seem intractable; when we find common ground then we can start to work towards solutions together.

I don’t want to have any ground in common with you right now.

It used to be that when American citizens were slaughtered by a maniac with a gun the NRA and their mouthpieces would have the decency to be quiet and let people grieve for a few days. That’s changed. You’re not the first to do it. Your friends and fellow travelers include the Sandy Hook ‘Truthers’ who spend their free time tormenting the parents of murdered toddlers as well as every one of these charmers. You are trying to impose a new normal on us that I will not accept. Your folk have been moving the goalposts for far too long and there is no point in trying to compromise with someone who wants to live in a society where people carry assault rifles to restaurants and can buy silencers and armor piercing rounds in the name of law and order.

Here’s where I stand right now, Not Joe the Not Plumber. I think we should take away your guns. I think we should kick down your door and take your guns from you because the Constitution of the United States as read by an adult human being who is free of brain damage does not say that you just get to have whatever the hell gun you want under any circumstances. I quote:

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

Now I’ve always read that ‘well regulated Militia’ meant that since the citizenry also served as the army and police force through local militias, that meant that militia members would get to have weapons. Of course, conservative judicial activists have recently re-interpreted the reading the law to claim that above sentence means that individuals have a right to own guns. I do acknowledge that as long as that Supreme Court ruling stands then this is how the law of the land is read; when I am saying we should kick down your door and take your guns we should do it because it would be the legal thing to do. After all, the ‘judicial philosophy’ of the justices is one of ‘original intent’, where apparently like some new age shaman they channel the intentions of the Founding Fathers to tell them what they really meant. Thankfully, in the case of the Second Amendment this is actually a very easy thing to discern and I find it surprising that when the Supremes were communing with James Madison and the Gang, not one of them mentioned that the Second Amendment only applies to muskets.

Surely even John Adams and Thomas Jefferson would have agreed that it is insane for an individual to possess the power of an entire militia in their hand; after all, that would make it easy for a madman to mass murder their fellow citizens. What greater infringement of liberty or pursuit of happiness is there than to have your life stolen for no reason whatsoever? A man with a handgun can empty it in seconds. A man with a musket takes a minute to reload and is only a danger as part of an organized force against a common enemy; he has no hope of committing mass murder. So, Samuel Joseph Not the Plumber Wurzelbacher, I am done trying to find a rational point of compromise we can agree upon and instead have moved my goalposts to the only moral and rational position I can take; you can have a musket just as the Founding Fathers intended.

Sincerely,

Winston Delgado

How To Be A Man #MensRights #MRA #NRA #ElliotRodger #YesAllWomen

The news reports say that he had been to therapists since childhood and had a history of mental illness but right now it is difficult to ascertain what exactly was wrong with Elliot Rodger beyond being, in Dr. Slappy’s considered opinion, ‘a crazy entitled asshole’.  Clearly he was a frustrated and alienated person who was in pain; he sought out advice for how to meet women from ‘pick up artists’ and ‘Mens Rights Activists’ who told him that women were objects to be manipulated and used. His manifesto is the whine of a rich boy who has had everything handed to him and doesn’t even understand that the things he really wants aren’t going to be handed to him; the idea of making an effort seems completely alien to him. He wasn’t a bad looking kid and he comes from privilege; his inability to make a connection to other people must be the result of being a sociopath, which may or may not be the result of a biological mental illness.

I haven’t met Elliot and I don’t know him beyond what I’ve read in the news but I’ve met people like him and wiped their hate soaked tears from my shoulder; I’ve heard the threats of the delusional loser before, who swears he’s going to rampage through a sorority house but instead shoots two girls from his car and drives on, who vows to make blood run in the streets but just does a driveby on a kid buying a sandwich. This is the problem with guns being widely and easily available; they empower weak, impotent, sick crybabies with the ability to murder decent people. The rhetoric of the MRA assholes must have been an especially noxious addition to the soul sickness Elliot was suffering from; they coddle and nurse the very worse notions and ideas from seeds of neurotic insecurity into the full bloom of demented hate.

I think that many people who are thought to be psychologically ill could be more accurately described as being philosophically or even theologically ill; that is, they are being made sick and miserable by a belief or idea they are holding tightly in their mind. The ‘Men’s Right’s’ movement is an excellent example of how the problem is in the mind of the beholder, not what they are aiming their rage at. Elliot Rodger sounds like any other poster to one of these sites; he believes that he is entitled to sex simply by virtue of desiring it and cannot comprehend that any woman would reject him. Again, this is also a symptom of being a sociopath, but my point is that there is little difference between being a Men Right’s Activist and being a sociopath.

It is incomprehensible to me how so many men behave towards women; their inability to acknowledge the common humanity of half of the human race has stunted their souls and left them miserable wretches that hate what they do not understand. I would simply laugh at them and dismiss them as swine unworthy of my pearls but they hurt so many of my sisters and spread so much misery that I can’t help myself.

HOW TO BE A MAN: A GUIDE FOR MEN’S RIGHTS ACTIVISTS

1. Stop being a Men’s Right’s Activist. It is the least manly thing you can do. So a woman broke up with you or turned you down. Get the hell over it and stop whining. You will feel better about yourself right away.

2. Lose your sense of entitlement. Realize that your needs are not that important and start looking to the needs of those around you. Make sure the children you have sired have clean clothes, good food, safe homes, and are involved at school. A man with a big shiny truck who doesn’t pay his child support isn’t as attractive as you think.

3. Get involved in your community. This is really just an expansion of #2. With the time you save from not nursing the chunk of hate you have for the woman that done you wrong you can get out and make your world a little better. You might even meet somebody. Which leads me to #4…

4. Stop being obsessed with sex. Part of the reason women don’t like you is because you are like a dog that is trying to hump their leg; by the way, this is why the women that you do get close to tend to be carrying a lot damage and baggage around, because the ‘techniques’ of the ‘pick up artist’ are just methods of exploiting people’s insecurities and desperation. Those ‘techniques’ only really work on people with very poor self-worth. As soon as you start looking for reasons to be with women besides humping you will find that you will have more women in your life.

5. Learn to look a naked woman in the eye. This is like advanced technique #4. It is how you begin to learn how to be a good lover.

6. Groom yourself. It’s shocking how many fat hairy dudes who haven’t bathed in three days think that women are stuck up bitches for not wanting to hang with them.

7. . Learn how to argue. People disagree. This does not mean that people have to yell, threaten and call names. Just because you are not getting your way doesn’t mean that you are not a man and you should not feel so threatened.

8. Learn how to break up gracefully. This is advanced technique #7. Not every relationship is going to work out. Try to learn how to recognize it early, and failing that, try to keep it in perspective while you are going through it.

9. Do your own goddamn chores. Clean dishes. Do laundry. Cook. It’s not that hard.

10. Realize that you earn respect and leadership through effort and discipline, not because you were born with a dick.

There could be more, but the basic idea is the same. Frolicking with happy naked ladies is something I’ve gotten pretty good at over the years. In order to be happy with the opposite sex you need to get happy with yourself first. When we get naked with each other it’s not just our bodies that are showing ; sex is as miserable and terrifying or ecstatic and joyful as the people having it. It is a powerful biological impulse that can short circuit our rational mind and drive a broken mind to terrible acts or inspire a brilliant mind to innovative creativity.

Oh, and one more thing…

11. Stop fondling your guns. It makes your small penis obvious.

Let Joy and Innocence Prevail #WeAreNewtown

There are numbers and facts and lies and distortions dancing together. Diatribes, rants, and manifestos proliferate with indecent indiscretion. Incoherent rage is short circuiting our collective rational process; the same mass communications technology that has given voice to the oppressed has given a megaphone to the beast lurking in the darkest folds of the human brain. Today I will not engage in this. I will endeavor to work through, around and past it. I know the world is teeming with darkness, pain, and horror. I know that there are rooms on this Earth that are chambers of Hell. But Baby Tony and I sit here watching cartoons and snow from our warm orange room of paradise; that is real as well, but the only light and kindness that exists in the world is what we fight to bring into it. I have always been a fighter and I still am and will continue to fight as my conscience and faith demands. Let Joy and Innocence Prevail.