America's Still Trapped In Suspended Animation (As The GOP Runs America)

 

 This is obviously a strange time to be alive. It's even stranger if you started a blog in 2005, called The Macho Response, that predicted the cultural shift we're now experiencing, including - and probably especially - the defeat of the Democratic party. In hindsight, it wasn't that hard to see coming, because TMR was analyzing the deeper reasons America's been failing, not just moaning how bad it is to be where we are. And those underlying forces - like a love for NewAge cultism - still aren't being anywhere near fully addressed. If they were, we wouldn't have the husband to a "reiki master" and homeopath in charge of Medicare. 

Oh well. At least cartoons, today, better reflect our cartoon lives.

  

While the "6-7" meme is cute (and definitely not some "Satanic Numerology bullshit") it's also illustrative, in the wake of "Rapture" claims and the shooting of Christian grifter Charlie Kirk, because it reflects how easy it still is - even in 2025 - for seemingly-educated and intelligent people to get swept away by low-calorie ideas. South Park's contrast (of kids enamored by "6-7," with something equally powerful but invalid that adults are into, like Peter Thiel and the Christian concept of an Anti-Christ) nails how dangerous this cavalier treatment of beliefs is: as school authorities are coming down on innocent kids over nothing, for religious reasons, the powerful also decide they also see threats to us all. 

The difference is, the kids know the idea they're playing with is nothing, while, by the time they become adults, they're treating all of it like it's very real. And - except for kids having fun for a while - no good is coming from any of it. As everyone takes action.

    

Today, contradictions, of all kinds, are starting to pile on top of one another. When Democrats were in power America saw encroaching fascism. Now, the GOP was complaining that people are shooting at them, before the Young Republicans were caught admitting they're Nazis who love them some Hitler. And this led to JD Vance - who, at the start of the administration, made it known he'd punish anyone being so antisemitic as to criticize Israel's genocide - now claiming these ultimate of antisemites on the right are just kids (in their 20s and 30s) having fun. 

You know, like 8-year olds, on South Park.

 

Morality, Squared

 

"I can't stomach Trump. I think that he's noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place." 

   

Pete Hegseth grew up in the Midwest, the most American part of America. He was the All-American Boy. The Varsity athlete who married his High School Sweetheart. His Best Girl. Who would then go on to be his second Best Girl. And then his third Best Girl. A family man through and through, he went through several families,...

 

Dates

June 21, 2025: Iran's nuclear facilities were "totally obliterated"

June 22, 2025: Iran's nuclear facilities were "severely damaged"

June 23, 2025: MIDNIGHT HAMMER failed. Fordow still spins. 

The BDA is in. The tunnel mouths are sealed, but the mountain stands. The centrifuge halls were not touched. The cascade chambers remain intact. The IR-6 arrays are unburned. The core command nodes are still networked. Fordow was built to absorb MOP logic, and it did. 

7 B-2s crossed from Whiteman AFB into the most surveilled radar corridor on earth. 6 hit Fordow. 1 hit Natanz. 30 Tomahawks were fired from SSBNs into Isfahan and other sites. They staged the most expensive bunker-busting pageant in history, and didn’t breach the vault. 

Satellite confirms it: 3 entry holes forward of the deepest shafts. Tunnel mouths collapsed, not the halls. Subsidence where there was no strategic relevance. Aerial sequencing failed. No telemetry layering. No cascade collapse. Just dirt where doors used to be. 

I said it before the briefing even happened: you don’t dismantle hardened nuclear infrastructure with PR optics and subsonic cruise missiles. You don’t fracture IR-6 fuel halls with 1,000 lb Tomahawk warheads, and you don’t neutralize command redundancies sealed behind 90 meters of reinforced mountain with just 30,000 lbs of tungsten. You flick switches, you scorch perimeters, you perform failure. 

MIDNIGHT HAMMER didn’t take Fordow offline. All It did was take Washington off script. 

Iran climbs the escalation ladder. Unscathed, unhurried, and untouched at the core.

 

Gaslighting (Explained By JD Vance)

Opposites Attract

 

"[JD Vance is] saying,...when the majority decides something, the courts can't intervene and tell them they can't have it. This is exactly the opposite of the how our country was structured."

Kristi Noem Ridiculed for Claiming Habeas Corpus Gives Trump Right 'To Remove People From This Country': 'She Has No Clue' - "Kristi Noem's reply is the complete opposite of the definition of habeas corpus," one comment read. 

   

CNN Anchor Busts Out Laughing At Trump Insisting ‘I’m The Opposite Of A Nazi’

An Assassination Attempt On Trump Only Hit An Ear (But Damaged Edzard Ernst)

How 'Project 2025' could change Medicare would be an interesting topic for discussion, if Project 2025 was Trump's program, and not 'Agenda 47.' As it stands, how Project 2025 is being used to warp minds - by the Democrats - is an even more powerful and fascinating subject to talk about. 

I tried having an online conversation with Professor Edzard Ernst MD, PhD, MAE, FMedSci, FRSB, FRCP, FRCPEd (above, a german living in France) about what he mis-labeled 'Project 2025: Donald Trump’s blueprint for a fascist America,' but, as you can see in the comments, I didn't go well - with, either, him or the other commenters: The power of Democrat party propaganda was just too strong.  

Even knowing Project 2025 is the product of the Heritage Foundation, and Trump already rejected it as 'ridiculous' - and that "the Democratic National Committee is rolling out a media blitz connecting him to it" - they refused to believe, or were unable to grasp, that the Democrats were toying with them, Trump had his own program, and fascism was most definitely not coming to America. 

   

I thought about Professor Ernst again, today, and the level of hysteria Democrat party propaganda whips up, world-wide, as I listened to Glenn Greenwald (a gay Jewish man, living in Brazil, but one of America's best investigative reporters) casually describing the perils of a new Trump administration, with no alarm in his voice or manner whatsoever - and not one word about Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation, or fascism - while a full-on professor, with all those credentials behind his name, loses his fucking mind in FrogLand. That's scary.

To be fair, since our ugly interaction, Ernst has also written a post on JD Vance, who, I'm pretty sure, he misinterprets, just as badly as he does Trump and Project 2025 - because (in what, I think, should be completely out of character for a scientist) he relies on kooky-ass MSNBC to 'inform' him. 

I didn't bother to read the new post. Based on our interaction, I think, since the attempted murder of Trump, Ernest may be showing the same signs of mental slippage as Joe Biden now. At 76, the "outspoken professor of complementary medicine" has grown cranky and unable to be reasoned with, nor does he even bother to reason: He just calls people names, and throws out casual insults as a defense. Think Donald Trump, but without even half the wit or charm.

   

 BTW - If anyone wants to talk seriously about the very-real dark threats coming America's way, "in this extended, wide-ranging interview, Jimmy Dore and Unlimited Hangout contributing editor and One Nation Under Blackmail author Whitney Webb discuss whether Trump’s VP pick JD Vance is a puppet of billionaire Peter Thiel, the real reason Elon Musk purchased Twitter, how the dystopian future of policing in the film Minority Report is becoming a reality,..." Check it out. They're not ready for hospice yet.