Let's All Do Something Nice For Donald Trump

[Tessera]

Donald Trump thinks windmills cause cancer,

He thinks we need a "space force" to combat aliens,

And he thinks the best way to prevent hurricanes is to nuke them with atomic weapons.

It's time for the 25th Amendment, folks.

[Cylnar]

That would only happen in a sane world, populated by intelligent creatures, who had the wherewithal to determine a crisis and take decisive action to fix it.

If any of that were true, Donald Trump would never had had a prayer of being elected in the first place, and we would have started saving the planet 30 years ago.

Unfortunately, we only have humans, a breed of insufficiently-evolved ape who are mostly simple-minded, easily distracted and have little capacity for true long-term thinking.

Perhaps in a few hundred million years, a civilization descended from cephalopods will evolve on the ocean floor, and fulfill the promise of truly intelligent life on Earth.

Always assuming humanity doesn't sterilize the entire biosphere as part of the extended process of our ultimate failure, that is...

[Tessera]

Ahhh... Cylnar, my old friend. Always the pessimist. 

I would like to remind you that the entity who posted your comments is one of those "insufficiently evolved apes." Meaning you, dude. Clearly, we're more evolved than your cynicism would indicate.

I also regret to inform you (and everyone else) that on this planet, we're it... we represent the last chance that the Earth has for producing a sentient, technologically advancing life form. Truth.

You see, in about 250 million years, this planet is going to become largely uninhabitable for most carbon-based life. The reason has nothing to do with anything man-made... it's because in about a quarter-billion years, our star, the Sun, will begin to fuse an increasing amount of helium in its core. When that happens, the Sun will emit a significantly increased amount of gamma and other types of hard radiation. Enough to effectively sterilize the entire surface of the planet Earth.

I'm not referring to the end of the Sun's life, when it will burn nothing BUT helium and go red giant on us... no, I'm referring to the star entering the next "sequence" of its life, when it will begin to burn ever-increasing amounts of helium, in addition to the hydrogen that it is already fusing at the present time. The core will burn hotter, the star will release enormously greater amounts of hard radiation, and life on this planet will most likely be extinguished. Even if some life forms cling to existence deep down on the ocean floor, it is unlikely that they would ever be able to move beyond that environment... and they would effectively hit a brick wall, so far as any further evolutionary development is concerned. The deep, cold, pitch-black ocean floor is not an environment which is conducive to the development of highly intelligent life. No, not even cephalopods. 

So, what this all comes down to is this: telling yourself "Who cares if humans go extinct... the Earth will just start over again with something else" is fallacious. It took over three-and-a-half BILLION years, from the dawn of life on Earth until the first hominid ape showed up, for this planet to produce a technological civilization. And as I have just explained, the Earth doesn't have that much time to do it all over again.

Bottom line: either we humans get our shit together, or we just might extinguish the only civilized life within our galaxy. We owe it to the universe to survive.

[Cylnar]

I would like to remind you that the entity who posted your comments is one of those "insufficiently evolved apes." Meaning you, dude. Clearly, we're more evolved than your cynicism would indicate.

But most of the apes on this planet are dumb as rocks. Well over 90% of the human population is exactly as I have described them. Most people are of limited intelligence; if you have an IQ of 120 or more it can be quite difficult to talk with someone with an "average" IQ of 100 without tearing your hair out. Limited intelligence means limited vision. Most people don't want to give up their creature comforts for something which seems far away and mostly unrelated to them. They like having light when they flip the switch. They like going to the grocery store and buying a staggering variety of food, much of which was once "seasonal" and/or regional and not always available even in this country a couple of generations ago (my mother as a child in the 1950s considered a simple orange to be a huge treat that she only got a few times a year). They like going to the gas station and fueling their car or truck which allows them to travel large distances quickly and easily. They don't like a bunch of "libruls" telling them they may have to limit or even give up some of those things because some ivory tower eggheads said so. Especially when Trump, Republicans and other disgusting right-wing scum worldwide like Jair Bolsonaro, Shinzo Abe, Narendra Modi, Rodrigo Duterte and many others are eager to tell them they don't have to.

At least a third of humans and possibly much more than half have "conservative" brains which thrive on authoritarianism, fear and the false promises of religion. Now conservative brains were important, evolutionarily; the Australopithecus which ran for cover and the Homo erectus which grabbed a sharpened stick when something unfamiliar approached through the tall grass were much more likely to survive and propagate their genes then their curious and friendly "liberal-brained" cousins which were more likely to be eaten by a lion or killed by a hostile tribesman. Their conservative descendants built what we think of as "civilization" today - the city-states which rose in Mesopotamia, China, Mesoamerica, the Mediterranean and the Nile delta driven by "division of labor" (class stratification and social inequality) flourished when earlier "liberal" urban gatherings, where dwellings of roughly equal size and little discernible "districtification" crouched behind walls for protection, but their more egalitarian structure apparently made them fail to thrive for reasons which are unclear today. The class structure of those early city-states can be seen with lesser or greater degrees of modification on the level of nations with tens or hundreds of millions of people today.

So conservatism and its inflexibility are baked into the cake, so to speak. We don't yet have enough liberal brains to adapt to our new normal, though the number is slowly rising, but not quickly enough. Our technology has allowed us to gain great power without developing the appropriate sense of responsibility; it is accurately said that our technology has outstripped our humanity. Eighty years ago humanity mechanized mass murder and genocide; today we seem to have automated our own species' suicide. And if we don't make it, really I don't give a fuck if any other species gains sentience on this planet or any other, because I am a member of this species (unfortunately). If we are the only shot at civilization in the Milky Way, or even the entire fucking universe, who gives a shit? The universe certainly doesn't.

[Tessera]

Those are all good points to be sure, but it isn't just a question of intelligence (or the lack thereof).

A lot of what you are decrying is the result of another notorious primate trait: GREED, which is effectively an unreasoning state of mind. Smart people can be greedy, just as much as stupid people can be greedy.

QUESTION: do you know how to catch a monkey..?

Long answer follows... so bear with me...

You get a big glass jar with a very narrow neck, and drop something shiny inside of it. Then you firmly affix the jar to a tree stump, or some similar immovable platform, not far from the trees where the monkeys hang out. And then, you just get very far back from the site, and wait.

Sooner or later, a curious monkey will come down out of the trees, and examine the jar. His intelligence and his curiosity... both of which are typical mammalian traits... will compel him to do so. When he examines the jar more closely, he'll see the shiny bangle that you dropped inside of it and BANG... that's when his primate greed will take over.

Does the monkey really NEED the shiny bracelet that you dropped into the jar..? No, of course he doesn't. What the fuck would a monkey do with a shiny bracelet..? But you see, none of the other monkeys have a shiny bracelet. It must be really special, the hapless monkey tells himself. So naturally, he just has to have it.

The monkey will then squish up his fingers, so that his hand will fit into the narrow neck of the big jar. He'll reach down inside and grab the shiny bracelet and hold it tightly in his fist. HAHA... I have the shiny thing..!!! None of the other monkeys have a shiny thing like this.... I'm the SPECIAL monkey now..!!! The ELITE monkey..!!!

Problem is, with the shiny bracelet in his fist, his hand is now too big to fit back out of the narrow neck of the jar. He's trapped... he's caught... unless he lets go of the shiny thing.

Well, he won't let it go. Is it because he's stupid..? Nope... intellectually, he knows that he's trapped. In fact, he'll have a major brainstorm, trying to figure out some intelligent way to escape from his predicament, and yet still keep the all-important shiny thing.

And then you just walk over, pick up the monkey and put him in a cage.

This is primate greed in action. Humans, being primates ourselves, share the exact same trait. We know that something is bad for us... it may even destroy us... but goddamn it, I gotta have that shiny thing. Even if I have to kill a dozen people to get it. Even if it traps me. It doesn't matter... I GOTTA HAVE THAT FUCKING SHINY THING. Of course, in our modern world, within this context you can substitute pretty much any status symbol for "shiny thing." A sports car... a trophy wife... a bag full of cash... whatever.

What you are calling "conservatives," I sometimes call "greedy monkeys." They aren't stupid... they're just compelled by an unreasoning, instinctively dictated primate compulsion to have more and more and more and more.

Oh... and listen, I am all too familiar with what you've said about having an exceptional IQ and floating within a sea of Forrest Gumps. That pretty much sums up my entire life, dude. Yours too, I'm sure.

I can remember being a child and wondering why most of the people I met couldn't understand the simplest things. Or at least, those things seemed simple to me. In high school, I can recall having plenty of deep conversations with people who blankly stared back at me, like a deer caught in the headlights. Eventually I came to realize that some of us were still evolving... and some of us weren't.

Anyway, back to Trump: he's a greedy monkey. He can't feel good about his own life, unless he KNOWS that there are lots of people who have less than he does. And he's not alone in this vanity. Haven't you ever wondered why so-called conservatives never, ever want the poor and the disadvantaged to have better stuff..? I mean, it's not like it would cost all that much to raise up every single poor person in America and bring them into the middle class. But you see, it has nothing to do with the money... it's all about GREED and ELITISM. See, if every single one of us was rich, then most of the elitists in this country would probably slit their own wrists. They absolutely can not feel good about their own lives unless they have more than everyone else. If everyone has $100, then they need to have $200. If everyone is a millionaire, then they need to be a billionaire. If you have a hot looking girlfriend, then they need to have a hotter looking girlfriend... even if she's a shallow-minded, materialistic cunt.

Just like the monkey needs that shiny thing in the jar. None of the other monkeys have one. If he gets it, then he'll be the elite monkey. On the surface, it sounds like stupidity -- but it's really just a compulsion.

[Tessera]

And now, it's time for another of my famous predictions. Ready..?


Trump is going to be crushed next year -- and he knows it. He'll probably resign right before the election,
because his little baby narcissistic ego can't handle a landslide defeat. He'll manufacture a bullshit reason,
blame it on someone or something else, and then pull out. I'd bet money on it.

[Tessera]

Donald Trump, Jr. held a special event in Pikesville, Kentucky on Thursday. Keep in mind that this is Mitch McConnell's home state.

The organizers of the event were expecting "a memorable turnout" for the event... an event which consisted mainly of Donny Junior telling the crowd all about how wonderful his daddy is, and how evil and sinister the Democrats are. The event was also intended to drum up support for Matt Bevin, a Republican running for governor in Kentucky. This is a heavily red state, folks...

...or is it..?

Wanna see the "memorable turnout" for Donny Jr.'s big right-wing propaganda event in Kentucky..? Then look here:



If they could have gotten just a few more people to show up, then they might have had enough folks on hand for a square dance. But as we can see, the turnout for Don Jr. was ABYSMAL. I don't even see 100 people in that photo. Apparently, once the event got underway, they asked everyone to come closer to the stage... so that the photos of the event would look more impressive. Well, it didn't work. I've seen bigger crowds at PTA meetings. 

I'll say it again: this is Kentucky that we're talking about -- Mitch McConnell's home state. And they couldn't find enough Trump supporters to fill a gymnasium. Just look at that photo... it's PATHETIC. They set up thousands of seats -- and damned near every seat is EMPTY.

All of you die-hard Trumptards out there... take a good, long look. Trumpism is DYING and you have no one but yourselves to blame. 

[Tessera]

Someone on YouTube (sorry, I forgot your name) posted this today. It got a big laugh, so I'm reproducing it here...


WASHINGTON: "I can not tell a lie."

NIXON: "I can not tel the truth."

TRUMP: "I can not tell the difference."

[Tessera]

Saw this on Real Time With Bill Maher last night and I had to share it...




That's Trump's dopey son, Eric Trump.

As Maher himself put it: "The douche doesn't fall far from the bag."

[Tessera]

Impeach. Trump. Now.

There is a very good chance that the Senate Republicans will vote to convict him. Privately, most of them hate Trump's guts. And with the 2020 election looming on the horizon, they can't afford to defend Trump any longer. Their own careers and the future of their party are in jeopardy at this point.


DUMP TRUMP

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Impeach. Trump. Now.

There is a very good chance that the Senate Republicans will vote to convict him. Privately, most of them hate Trump's guts. And with the 2020 election looming on the horizon, they can't afford to defend Trump any longer. Their own careers and the future of their party are in jeopardy at this point.


DUMP TRUMP

Looks like you were right when you said they were waiting for the election (or that least close to it) for impeachment.

[Tessera]

Looks like you were right when you said they were waiting for the election (or that least close to it) for impeachment.

Well sure. But not just for the Democrats.

The primary season is getting underway... and the actual primary elections will be next summer, I believe. So if the Republicans are having any thoughts of nominating someone other than Trump for the 2020 presidential election, then NOW is the time to start moving on that idea. The lines are being drawn and they can't afford to drag their asses for much longer. If they stay with Trump, then they're going to lose. It's as simple as that.

I have a sneaking suspicion that privately, the GOP is eyeing Mitt Romney as a possible alternative to Trump. Which in turn would suggest that there is an excellent chance that they will indeed vote to convict and remove Trump, when his trial happens in the Senate. At least now, they have a legitimate excuse to deliver to their constituents. "We had to vote against the president, because he clearly committed an act of treason." That sort of thing.

If I'm right, then during the next few months, we'll see more and more Republicans breaking away from Trump and speaking out against him publicly. It won't be a mass exodus... it'll be a slow but steady trickle of defectors over the course of time. We shall see.

[StarWrecker]

I never thought he would be this brazen with his lawbreaking.

That transcript made me think I was watching a Mafia movie. The insinuated blackmail, the sleaze...

[Tessera]

I never thought he would be this brazen with his lawbreaking.

That transcript made me think I was watching a Mafia movie. The insinuated blackmail, the sleaze...

And after all of that, Trump was giving a small press conference (at the U.N., I think) and during it,
he basically issued a thinly-veiled Mafia-style death threat to that whistleblower.

President Fredo Corleone... yup.

[Tessera]

In other news...




It won't be long now. Trump is currently having a serious meltdown and many of his associates and cabinet members are fleeing from him.
Just like the proverbial rats deserting a sinking ship. Even the slimy bootlicker Lindsey Graham has begun to turn against Trump.

I guess we all need to start getting used to the idea of President Pence. At least, until next November. The 2020 blue wave is gonna be epic.

[Tessera]

Today, Lev Parnas... the Ukrainian creep who works for Rudy Giuliani (seen below), has agreed to cooperate with federal investigators.

As we can see, Rudy is looking very concerned about this latest development in the ongoing Trump crime saga:



Poor Rudy. Somebody give him a blood bag... he looks hungry.

[Tessera]

Donald Trump, Jr. held a special event in Pikesville, Kentucky on Thursday. Keep in mind that this is Mitch McConnell's home state.

The organizers of the event were expecting "a memorable turnout" for the event... an event which consisted mainly of Donny Junior telling the crowd all about how wonderful his daddy is, and how evil and sinister the Democrats are. The event was also intended to drum up support for Matt Bevin, a Republican running for governor in Kentucky. This is a heavily red state, folks...

All of you die-hard Trumptards out there... take a good, long look. Trumpism is DYING and you have no one but yourselves to blame.

Mitch McConnell's home state of Kentucky has just turned BLUE. Yes, you read that right.

A record-setting voter turnout elected Democratic candidate Andy Beshear to be Kentucky's new governor.
Meanwhile, the entire state of Virginia went blue yesterday... including the entire state legislature. 

We told ya, Trumptards. The blue wave has JUST begun. See you next year... all across America. Wooo hoo..!!!

Bevin was up by 5 points... until Trump showed up. Virginia was a solidly red state... until Trump showed up. The Republicans held both Houses of Congress... until Trump showed up.

[Tessera]

I had a strange dream last night. Donald Trump went to speak on the floor of the Senate.

Suddenly, many of the Republican senators attacked Trump with knives... stabbing him 27 times.

Right there and then, Trump died and the entire Senate chanted "The tyrant is dead! The tyrant is dead!"

They chopped off Trump's head and Kathy Griffin carried it outside, displaying it to a huge mob of cheering people.

I wonder what it means..?