“Turning and turning in the widening gyre/The falcon cannot hear the falconer;/Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” — WB Yates, The Second Coming.
Yates’ poem about things falling apart gets quoted a lot in dark times. But both good and evil have a center. The falcon can spiral and turn away from the falconers of tyranny and oppression as well as those of justice.
First lets look at the anarchy President Necrotic Toddler is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him, and says the final approval on the government giving him money belongs to him. Rep. Jamie Raskin says the Felon might be able to do it under the table, though eventually it would have to come out.
And the Felon is increasingly recruiting from the worst of the worst to staff his jackbooted ICE ranks.
“Trump’s disconnect from reality is uniquely destructive. No previous president has tried to overturn an election, sought to use the military against U.S. citizens, or sought to use the Justice Department as his own personal vendetta machine. The difference is that he’s the first president to live in an autocratic bubble, surrounded by a cult of personality within which nobody dares to criticize him, tell him uncomfortable truths or refuse to engage in blatantly illegal acts.”
President Felon Trump as mob boss.
A Tennessee man is in jail for posting about Charlie Kirk.
“’Who owns Warner Bros. Discovery is very important to the administration,” a senior Trump administration official told On The Money. “The Warner board needs to think very seriously not just on the price competition but which player in the suitor pool has been successful getting a deal done.’” An unsubtle hint that the Felon’s administration will approve the merger based on whether the Felon likes the bidder.
The NYT plays down the big No Kings protests, shifting them to the back pages. Which is very different from how they covered the much smaller Tea Party protests 15 years back. And they portray “running against Trump” as a bad thing, as if running against the party in power wasn’t how politics works (they didn’t condemn Republicans for running against Biden).
We have the recent AI video of the Toddler wearing a crown shitting on protesters. As Adam Serwer says, “if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal” Because Republicans can’t help themselves but Democrats have agency. And apparently some NYT reporters are baffled why “No Kings” was a protest theme.
The Times also compares the protests unfavorably to Vance flexing “the Marines’ might” by having them fire cannon over a California highway (wisely Governor Newsom closed the road to traffic).
RFK continues spreading bullshit. Someone quipped on FB that his claim about low teenage sperm counts only works if you count teenage girls who have, of course, zero sperm counts.
And yet the Republicans continue to shower their leader with fawning bullshit: “A similar process of self-reinforcement applies to telling lies that serve the autocrat’s ego. Call it “mendacity inflation.” Trump insists that he’s overwhelmingly popular and that only a lunatic fringe disapproves of his presidency. Well, to show loyalty his hangers-on must go further, declaring that grandmothers and parents pushing prams down 7th Avenue are illegal aliens and violent criminals. The humiliating absurdity is a feature, not a bug. Simply lying about demonstrators isn’t enough; to prove their MAGA mettle people in Trump’s orbit must tell lies that are grotesque and ridiculous.” Case in point: Tim Burchett.
And nobody has the courage to provide guardrails, to be the adults in the room this time. And as always, the media were negligent not to admit that a president who needs guardrails might be a problem.
And the Toddler’s administration continues withholding funds to punish their opponents.
But the Felon’s falconers are losing control too: “This same MAGA faction is ever weaker, ever less popular, ever more subject to sand-in-the-gears resistance. This pro-democratic friction has come from courts (at the local, state, and federal-district level), from mayors and governors, from universities and libraries other civic institutions. It has come from foundations and NGOs, from artists and writers, and from ordinary citizens, across the country and in growing numbers.”
A gay single dad sues Hitler admiring homophobe Stew Peters for implying the father abuses his kids.
“Gavin McInnes lost his defamation lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center; the Vice Media and Proud Boys co-founder could not convince an Alabama federal court that he was defamed when the organization called his right-wing fraternity a “hate group.””
The Felon’s (In)Justice Department is monitoring California’s elections; California has announced it will assign people to watch the watchmen.
A lawsuit against Mike “Biblical Worldview” Johnson over his refusal to seat a new Dem (who could vote to release the Epstein Files).
Indiana doesn’t have enough votes to back the Necrotic Toddler’s redistricting campaign.
Despite all the pressure to canonize Charlie Kirk, not everyone’s on board.
Now that Sen. Thom Tillis isn’t running for re-election, he’s criticizing the Felon, at least a little. Though he’s not doing anything to throw sand in the gears, and given his past performance (backing RFK Jr. and Hegseth nominations) it’s too little too late.
Even the GOP are getting fed up with Kristi Noem.
Rep. Swalwell calls on all Democratic candidates for 2028 to vow to demolish the Trump Ballroom.
When you’ve lost Sen. Ron Paul …
And as No Kings showed, lots of people do not accept the status quo. And while this does not guarantee victory, Trumpers are on the wrong side. Not just legally — what the Republicans are doing is immoral. If the government’s lawyers find legal justification, it’s still immoral. If you’re pushing back, let that thought give you strength. We’re the good guys.
“In the six weeks since Kirk’s death, most of the right-wing efforts to avenge his death — except the ones in the federal government — have closed up shop.”
Multiple press organizations refused “Whiskey Pete” Hegseth’s new rules for journalists covering the Pentagon.
