The word of the hour appears to be 'cowardice,' but 'corruption' is aiming to overtake it

We are all going to have to pace ourselves in the coming months, because now that Republicans have successfully put a bonafide Criminal in the White House the outrages will be coming fast and furious and won't be letting up no matter how much anyone might beg for it.

You can count me out of the group that insists that The Criminal and his collected fascist accomplices is "intentionally" attempting to overwhelm you with new injustices so as to dull your senses, a common fascist technique that pairs with fascism's reliance on disinformation and lies in order to muddle public awareness of what their government is doing to them. I don't buy the premise that it is an organized strategy, on their parts; fascism historically is always populated by (1) malevolent (2) dipshits, and a malevolent dipshit does not need a "strategy" to do the most malevolent or most dipshitty possible thing with every other breath.

It is their nature. Crocodiles bites; leopards eat faces; dipshits dipshit.

What may be just as notable as the Dipshit Circle Of Life again beginning to play out in The Criminal's inner circle are the political and press responses. We can sum them up in a single word: cowardice. Democratic Gov. Jared Polis will set the tone for us; when (literally) virulent anti-vaxxer Robert F Kennedy Jr. was attaching himself to Trump's fascist cause, Polis piped up with the same thoughts as anyone else familiar with Kennedy's oeuvre would. "Not sure how brining back Measles and bringing back Polio makes anyone more healthy...", he quipped on not-Twitter.

Now? Never mind everyone, what's a little polio compared to the friends we're making along the way?

I believe that now amounts to The Resistance, among both Republicans and rich-ass Democrats: Welcoming gaudily unqualified conspiracy cranks with open arms, since they were nominated by The Criminal after all, and supplicating to them to perhaps not ban the world's greatest victory ever won against infectious disease outright, but instead to graciously make adherence to their extremely deadly plans optional, so that people who do not have shit for brains can ignore it.

We'll see how that goes. We can certainly see a future in which Americans attempt to smuggle their families into Mexico or Canada in order to receive vaccines made illegal in their own country, and at that point the new question will be whether Gov. Polis and others assist Kennedy in staffing up the Pox Patrol agencies tasked with hunting down those attempted border-crossers.

Cowardice is the word of the hour. Anyone who could stomach reading even the introductory ramblings of Project 2025's plans for dismantling the government knows that throwing a great many people in prison in the name of "protecting our children from sex criminals", by which they mean library books and sex education pamphlets, is now among conservatism's primary obsessions. If a line drawn on a page looks vaguely suggestive of a breast or a penis, it's prison for you.

Faced with actual sex traffickers, however, Republicans are bending over backwards to put them in control of government.

That's referring to the previously planned Friday vote on whether the allegedly "extremely damaging" House Ethics report on a litany of grotesque, unbecoming, or outright criminal acts by Rep. Matt Gaetz would finally see the light of day. On a plane flight to Washington, D.C. earlier this week, Donald Trump, Russian-born political propagandist Boris Epshteyn, and Gaetz hatched the plan to nominate Gaetz as Trump's attorney general, upon which Gaetz immediately resigned from Congress in a last-ditch move to block the report from being released.

It looks like House Republicans were only too happy to go along with the plan, burying the report in order to hide the evidence against Gaetz before any confirmation hearings take place. To be clear, Gaetz faced a federal investigation for alleged sex trafficking of a minor—part of an investigation that sent one of Goetz's close buddies to prison—and for, to repeat, a litany of other offenses that included sharing sex tapes of his possibly-underaged "dates" with his House Republican colleagues. The attorney for the teenager at the center of the case came out strongly in favor of the House committee release of the report, noting that "she was a high school student and there were witnesses."

That is what House Republicans are now scurrying to cover up. Nor do they mean only to cover it up; the majority of Republican lawmakers appear to be of the opinion that having a child predator as their newest attorney general is something they can get behind, even if they have to break even more rules to make it happen. "Suck it up," said pro-sex-trafficking House Republican Thomas Massie.

Matt Gaetz, Elon Musk, Fox News misogynist Pete Hegseth, and RFK Jr? We've clearly hit upon the major requirement for a spot in the Trump administration: You've got to be some variety of pervert or sex predator. That seems to be the type of person The Criminal most wants to have around, and it seems like the leadership that the most visible Jesus-punchers (see: House Speaker Mike Johnson) are especially on board with. And Senate Republicans?

From Robert Costa:

What I'm hearing privately from a few key GOP senators: yes, they'd prefer to not have a messy fight over Gaetz. Not their favorite. But they also don't have a lot of energy for pushing back. Trump runs the show, they say. If Gaetz can reassure them, they're open to backing him.

Apparently, the party so devoted to "protecting children" that wants to imprison librarians if the wrong books are found in their libraries has no real problem with enabling child predators in their own ranks. I mean, they have a little problem, but if the adjudicated rapist and coup-attempting criminal wants to surround himself with child predators then it's not something worth spending energy on.

Least shocking news ever, I know. Oh—there's also rumors around that Melania Criminal will not be joining her husband, The, in the White House this time around, and Ivanka has already head for the hills with Jared Kushner and his billions of dollars of foreign bribe money. I'm guessing both of them know a lot more than we do about The Criminal's current mental state and are acting accordingly (while still, of course, putting up with just enough to remain in The Criminal's will—money is thicker than blood.)

Speaking of sex-obsessed megaperverts, Ketamine Horseboy—sorry, I mean to say "Elon Musk" but I coughed—is making his bid to be the next Jared Kushner, by which we mean the trusted person The Criminal will foist all of his actual work onto and who will in exchange will receive a premium perch for soliciting international bribes. Oh, Musk is going hard on that one.

Elon Musk, a close adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump, met with Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations on Monday in New York in a session that two Iranian officials described as a discussion of how to defuse tensions between Iran and the United States.

Who the flying f--k is Elon Musk to be doing diplomacy in some half-assed Rich Dipshit backchannel? Oh, right, he's in charge of DOGE now. This shit-for-brains is now in charge of a fake-ass government initiative with no powers and a furry for a mascot.

Can you imagine having a militarized fascist force bust down your front door with that patch on all their shoulders? See, The Criminal just stumbles on dystopian moves because he's the least intellectually curious and most self-absorbed failson to ever live. Musk, though, Musk lives to imagine new dystopias that he giggles about and think's we'll all love.

Musk's play here is dreadfully simple, and in fact he and The Criminal are kindred spirits. They're both obsessed with the Cheap Grift. They'll both go to great lengths to get world-dominating power, only to use it as backdrop for half-assed, humiliatingly lowbrow grifts like "raise the price of drinks at my nearby hotel" or "get these foreign monarchs to sponsor a golf tournament."

Musk is all about the cheap grift. If you'd like to join his new DOGE, working to the bone for absolutely nothing in return, you're free to apply! And by "free," he means only verified "X" accounts can apply, since the process requires direct messaging the DOGE account, so the only people who will be considered for spots in his Department of Government Efficiency will be people who agree to pay Musk $8 a month.

See what I mean? Just the cheapest twerpy grifter to ever grift. He's probably already threatening nuclear strikes against Iran unless they sign up for Starlink, or buy Cybertrucks, or both.

As I said, we're all going to have to pace ourselves, but it's going to be hard. You do not rise to the top of malevolent dipshittery unless you apply yourself to the cause each and every day, to the point where everyone else gets exhausted just by listening to the stream of malevolent dipshitness that won't stop streaming out of your mouth. We'll have to take turns, some of us paying attention to Ketamine Horseboy and Attorney General Sex Trafficker and The Criminal while others of us go off to do a bit of gardening or stitching or woodworking that day. I'm convinced we can do it. Perhaps we'll have to put up a sign-up list, though, just to work out our schedules.