And so it begins…..

Well, here we are deep in the shit trump is already pushing out.  A pedophile for the head of DOJ?  A Putin asset in charge of Intelligence?  A brain-worm-addled science denier in charge of health?  A failed TV host/surgeon in charge of Medicare?    Wow.  Hopefully, a few republicans in the Senate will find their balls and insist on FBI background checks and real hearings.

Comments:

  1.   Another pandemic is coming.  If you are paying any attention at all, you can see this coming just as we saw the last one coming; we told you about it then and you all laughed at us.  Trump’s bullshit killed hundreds of thousands of Americans last time as over a million died.  We had the worst pandemic record of any developed country.  This time he will be responsible for over a million deaths as ten million or more die. You may not have lost anyone close to you during the last pandemic.  You won’t be so lucky this time. The Bafoon and his bafoon circus will kill again, and again, and again…..
  2. Inflation has already started – anticipatory increases by major companies.  Just the threat of tariffs has started corporate America grifting off the public.  Inflation will be double-digit by summer if he really does put the tariffs into place.  Of course, they may only be a threat to try to get concessions from Mexico, Canada and China but with him, we never know.  And as has been reported many times, tariffs will be a tax on lower-income Americans – millionaires won’t care except where it cuts into their business profits.  It’s no wonder searches for “what is a tariff” spiked on Google on Nov 6.  You voted for a criminal and liar, now you’ll end up paying.  While we already pump more oil and gas than we use, we do import from Canada partly because of differences in oil makeup and because it’s close to where it is used (north USA, i.e. Wisconsin).  We also export LP and Natural Gas from the gulf to make money on the excess.  How much will mom have to pay to fill her LP tank come winter?  If she can get it? Double? Much of the electricity northern states use comes from Canada too.  Which they threaten to turn off if trump makes good on his tariff threats.  
  3. Deporting millions of workers?  First, it’s simply not possible.  He will make a big deal trying to do it first in a red state (Florida, Texas?), then a blue state in order to start a fight.  Starting such a fight will give him the “excuse” to make more threats, pass restrictive laws, and punish those he perceives as enemies.  The practicality of forcibly moving that many people is non-existent.  Send airplanes full of immigrants to Mexico or other countries?  Can you say, “impounded planes and arrested crews”?  The same goes for ships.  Are you going to forcibly walk them across the border under gunpoint?  Can you say “Mexican troops guarding the border crossings? Can you say massive food shortages as farmers don’t even plant crops that they know they can’t harvest without workers and unheard-of spikes in food prices as a result?  Unplanted crops mean no short-term fix is possible. Which grocery stores are going to pay high prices for food that will end up rotting in warehouses because prices are too high?  
  4. Trump was going to end the Ukraine war the day after the election.  Instead, Russian media broadcast semi-nude pictures of Melania and Putin escalated his attacks on Ukraine just to show trump who is holding his leash.  Oh, along with a reminder to trump how Putin helped him win re-election and how trump better pay him back.  Trump will abandon NATO, guaranteeing that when we need help from them because our self-inflicted destruction has gotten so bad, it won’t be coming from Europe.  Maybe France will repossess the Statue of Liberty so they can sell it for scrap to help pay for the support of American refugees fleeing to France. 
  5. And don’t get me started on Monkey Boy Musk who bought the election for trump.  He’s an illegal alien, failed father (huge sperm donor) and generally just a rich asshole.

But y’all keep watching your right-wing propaganda.  

The book review you requested….

I wrote this right after I finished reading your book, but never did anything with it. Since you impersonated one of our cousins and requested a review – here it is.

John wrote a book:  Departures

Based on the preliminary description, I’d have never read this book except that the author is one of my younger brothers.  Thus, I was curious to see just how much of this story was John’s life, how much was John’s fantasy and how much was his imagination.  

John has always been a bit of a braggart.  He has a tendency to make thinly veiled threats “as to what he’d do if he saw one of us siblings he was arguing with”.  This book “lives up to” his bravado.

Brief synopsis:  

The protagonist (Dan) is a commercial pilot; married.  A secondary story goes back to his time as an F16 pilot in Iraq.  His marriage is stagnant – he’s even thinking about divorce when he comes home unexpectedly and finds his wife having sex with a good friend (and Chief Pilot, sort of his boss).  

Dan, distraught ends up at a strip bar, and runs into an amazingly sexy woman who introduces him to a crime boss.  The crime boss seems to have a similar childhood experience (killing his father who murdered his mother) and they work out a deal where Dan works for the crime boss as a hitman; using his pilot position to travel to various cities “without being traced” and in return, the crime boss deals with his wife and friend.

That of course is the biggest hole in the storyline – that since he didn’t have to buy tickets to fly, somehow there would be no connection between Dan and the murders.  Of course, the FCC, the Airline, and the TSA would all have records, records that could be accessed easily.  

His crime boss, however, planned the missions meticulously, creating as much of a gap between the mission objectives and Dan and himself as possible – which, in reality, could have allowed anyone to complete the missions – no need for a high-profile pilot who was a total amateur.

Meanwhile, the stripper (really a prostitute) falls for Dan and vice versa – and they have an unbelievable sex life whenever there is a break in the hit-man missions.

Dan’s deal with the crime boss is to have his wife and friend (her lover) killed.  In the end, her lover is just stripped of his pilot license and Dan saves his wife from death, literally with minutes to spare, then pushes her through an instant divorce (also unlikely).

AND the F16 mission in Iraq.  He’s shot down and comes across an anti-aircraft site where he manages to kill most of the soldiers there to save the rescue helicopter that is arriving to save him.

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So, what does all this mean in terms of John’s life, John’s view of himself?  Well clearly there is still a lot of anger with his divorces – and a lot of fantasy as to how they might have ended differently.  This is an odd sense of morality – in doing something “the right way”, honor, respect (from and for the crime boss), and all that.  He does “save” his soon-to-be ex-wife from being murdered (at his request) by the crime boss, just in the nick of time, then shuttles her off in the instant divorce with what he decides is an equitable sharing of his (hitman) money.  All the while having raucous sex with his stripper/prostitute.  

His excuse for comfortably slipping into the hitman role is the fact that he had seen his mother murdered and plunged the knife into his father’s chest.  He never actually states it that way, but it is referenced numerous times so the reader is left with no alternative than to accept it as reasonable.  John has never had such an event (double murder) in his life, so perhaps this is how he reasons that while he’d like this kind of “excitement” in his life, he would never actually stoop to be a hitman.

As for the stripper/prostitute falling in love with Dan (and he with her), in a way that is him rescuing her from her lifestyle – except she chose that life, she loved that life and to some degree intended to continue some form of sex-work – which he was OK with, so long as he got “his” on a regular basis.  All through this story, there is a gerrymandered line between what things were ok on a moral scale and what things were not.  For example, he was concerned with every hit that there was a “good reason” the person needed to die.  Yet sometimes it was the hit was a wife beater or murderer, but other times it was just someone muscling in the boss’s business.  His wife cheating on him signaled the end of their marriage and for a while, a reason to kill her, yet literally minutes after witnessing her transgression, he was having sex with a stripper – all the while repeatedly claiming that during his marriage he NEVER strayed with another woman. 

Oddly, he often works in how little money pilots make and the need for them to have secondary income (part of his justification for becoming a hitman).  Reality Check!!!  Pilots make lots of money – a major airline captain makes three times as much money as I ever did.  It is another departure from reality coupled with an inflated self-worth for someone who will likely be replaced by a computer in the not-too-distant future. 

Finally, Dan was handsome, fit, attractive to all women, all around wonderful airline captain – all things John only dreamed to be.  Well, maybe he’s a good airline captain. Well, maybe not anymore.

This is the first of two books.  I doubt I’ll be reading the other.

P.S. Someone passed on part of John’s response as I have him blocked. I received and shelved the book in late July as I was in the middle of a book series. I read Departures mid-September over two days and wrote the book report 9/19 believing it would at some point in the future come in handy. I then mailed the book to Mom. I have receipts but I know you are unaccustomed to actually respecting facts, preferring to make up your own. And for a website no one reads, when I post here I usually get a response within a couple of hours……….

Goodbye John

Those in a cult are trapped in their own minds.

Well, it’s nice to know that Mary reads my blogs.  Unfortunately, Mary is so, so deep into maga bullshit what she writes is completely bereft of any truth or logic.  Magas do two things.  One, they usurp and corrupt definitions – twisting them to mean what they want them to mean.  Two – they project.  ANYTHING they are accused of, anything they’ve actually done, and despite the volumes of evidence that the accusations are true, turn around and accuse others OF THE EXACT SAME THING. 

It’s plain and simple, Trump and his minions are fascists and totalitarian wannabes. Play with words all you want, but Trump is parroting Hitler, is a racist, a rapist, a misogynist, a xenophobe, a criminal, a traitor, and a fraud.  So, pretend otherwise, but there really isn’t a question on any of that. Oh, and he’s quickly sliding into dementia. He can’t draw a complete audience, can’t keep people in their seats all the while telling 3-4 lies a minute and when he’s not lying, he’s calling people names like a third grader.

His plan is Project 2025.  Despite his recent attempts to distance himself from it, there is plenty of video evidence of him speaking about it, at the cesspool where it was written and complimenting their work.  Many of the people who helped write it are part of his circle.  P2025 is a blueprint to turn America into Russia.  

So fuck all you MAGAS who think you can simply rewrite history and edit dictionaries to assuage your shredded consciences.

Update: Mom is in full maga mode now. She kept trying to “win me over to her side” by regurgitating trump bullshit, taunting me and calling me names. I had to finally block her phone number. Mom is well into dementia as far as we can tell from this distance. Her short-term memory is gone (by her own admission). She can’t answer the simplest questions about GardnerMTN, the trust, her will – ANYTHING. She still mistakenly thinks each of us kids will get 1/7th of the estate. That train left the station years ago but that is what she is saying. Trump is the second coming of Jesus in her mind. Everything he does is ok by her. She doesn’t realize she will lose what little retirement and healthcare she currently gets if he gets back in the Whitehouse. Joseph, Mary, Jeanne, John and Matt are complicit in all this.

I hear only Jeanne and David showed up for wood cutting. Wonder why the rest of the family decided not to step foot on the property.

Mike

P.S. just saw the latest screed from gardnermountainllc.com Mary’s fecal matters is PAGES LONG. Mary is desperate to convince herself that trump isn’t a worthless piece of shit, felon, racist incompetent loser.

Hi Mary!!!

Just trying to be helpful!

Since some of my relatives seem to be having difficulty understanding the words they toss around frivolously, I’ve included below some definitions of terms:

Communism (from Latin communis, ‘common, universal’)[1][2] is a sociopoliticalphilosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement,[1] whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.[3][4][5] A communist society would entail the absence of private property and social classes,[1] and ultimately money[6]and the state (or nation state).[7][8][9]

I.E. Democracy is NOT Communism.  Communism isn’t the opposite of Authoritarianism.

Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of strong central power to preserve the political status quo, and reductions in democracyseparation of powerscivil liberties, and the rule of law.[1][2] Political scientists have created many typologies describing variations of authoritarian forms of government.[2] Authoritarian regimes may be either autocratic or oligarchic and may be based upon the rule of a party or the military.[3][4] States that have a blurred boundary between democracy and authoritarianism have some times been characterized as “hybrid democracies”, “hybrid regimes” or “competitive authoritarian” states.[5][6][7]

Minimally defined, an authoritarian government lacks free and competitive direct elections to legislatures, free and competitive direct or indirect elections for executives, or both.[11][12][13][14] Broadly defined, authoritarian states include countries that lack human rights such as freedom of religion, or countries in which the government and the opposition do not alternate in power at least once following free elections.[15] Authoritarian states might contain nominally democratic institutions such as political parties, legislatures and elections which are managed to entrench authoritarian rule and can feature fraudulent, non-competitive elections.[16]

I.E. Democracy is NOT Authoritarianism.  Trump wants Authoritariansim: Project 2025

Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis. It uses a dialectical materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to analyse class relations, social conflict, and social transformation. Marxism originates with the works of 19th-century German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Marxism has developed over time into various branches and schools of thought, and as a result, there is no single, definitive Marxist theory.[1] Marxism has had a profound effect in shaping the modern world, with various left-wing and far-left political movements taking inspiration from it in varying local contexts.[2][3][4]

In addition to the various schools of thought, which emphasise or modify elements of classical Marxism, several Marxian concepts have been incorporated into an array of social theories. This has led to widely varying conclusions.[5] Alongside Marx’s critique of political economy, the defining characteristics of Marxism have often been described using the terms “dialectical materialism” and “historical materialism”, though these terms were coined after Marx’s death and their tenets have been challenged by some self-described Marxists.[6]

I.E. Democracy is NOT Marxism. 

Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/ FASH-iz-əm) is a far-rightauthoritarianultranationalist political ideology and movement,[1][2][3] characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracymilitarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.[2][3] Opposed to anarchismdemocracypluralismegalitarianismliberalismsocialism, and Marxism,[4][5] fascism is placed on the far-right wing within the traditional left–right spectrum.[6][5][7]

TRUMP, Projuct 2025 are Fascism and Authoritarianism, and Mysoginy and xenophobia and racism.

Neo-Nazism comprises the post-World War II militant, social, and political movements that seek to revive and reinstate Nazi ideology. Neo-Nazis employ their ideology to promote hatred and racial supremacy (often white supremacy), to attack racial and ethnic minorities (often antisemitism and Islamophobia), and in some cases to create a fascist state.[1][2]

Neo-Nazism is a global phenomenon, with organized representation in many countries and international networks. It borrows elements from Nazi doctrine, including antisemitism, ultranationalismracismxenophobiaableismhomophobiaanti-communism, and creating a “Fourth Reich“. Holocaust denial is common in neo-Nazi circles.

I.E. Trump

Racism is discrimination and prejudice against people based on their race or ethnicity. Racism can be present in social actions, practices, or political systems (e.g. apartheid) that support the expression of prejudice or aversion in discriminatory practices. The ideology underlying racist practices often assumes that humans can be subdivided into distinct groups that are different in their social behavior and innate capacities and that can be ranked as inferior or superior. Racist ideology can become manifest in many aspects of social life. Associated social actions may include nativismxenophobiaothernesssegregationhierarchical rankingsupremacism, and related social phenomena. Racism refers to violation of racial equality based on equal opportunities (formal equality) or based on equality of outcomes for different races or ethnicities, also called substantive equality.[1]

I.E. Trump

Xenophobia (from Ancient Greekξένος (xénos), “strange, foreign, or alien”, and φόβος (phóbos), “fear”)[1] is the fear or dislike of anything which is perceived as being foreign or strange.[2][3][4] It is an expression which is based on the perception that a conflict exists between an in-group and an out-group and it may manifest itself in suspicion of one group’s activities by members of the other group, a desire to eliminate the presence of the group which is the target of suspicion, and fear of losing a national, ethnic, or racial identity.[5][6]

I.E. Trump

Misogyny (/mɪˈsɒdʒɪni/) is hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women or girls. It is a form of sexism that can keep women at a lower social status than men, thus maintaining the social roles of patriarchy. Misogyny has been widely practised for thousands of years. It is reflected in artliterature, human societal structure, historical events, mythologyphilosophy, and religion worldwide.

An example of misogyny is violence against women, which includes domestic violenceand, in its most extreme forms, misogynist terrorism and femicide. Misogyny also often operates through sexual harassment, coercion, and psychological techniques aimed at controlling women, and by legally or socially excluding women from full citizenship. In some cases, misogyny rewards women for accepting an inferior status.

Misogyny can be understood both as an attitude held by individuals, primarily by men, and as a widespread cultural custom or system. Sometimes misogyny manifests in obvious and bold ways; other times it is more subtle or disguised in ways that provide plausible deniability.

I.E. Trump

Malignant narcissism is a psychological syndrome comprising a mix of narcissismantisocial behaviorsadism, and a paranoid outlook on life.[1] Malignant narcissism is not a diagnostic category defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR). Rather, it is a subcategory of narcissistic personality disorder(NPD)[2] which could also include traits of antisocial personality disorderparanoid personality disorder

Malignant narcissists are grandiose and always ready to raise hostility levels, which undermines the families and organizations in which they are involved, and dehumanizes the people with whom they associate.[3]

I.E. Trump

Narcissistic mortification is “the primitive terror of self dissolution, triggered by the sudden exposure of one’s sense of a defective self … it is death by embarrassment“.[1] The concept has been widely employed in ego psychology and also contributed to the roots of self psychology.

When narcissistic mortification is experienced for the first time, it may be defined as a sudden loss of control over external or internal reality, or both. This produces strong emotions of terror while at the same time narcissistic libido (also known as ego-libido) or destrudo is built up.[2] Narcissistic libido or ego-libido is the concentration of libido on the self. Destrudo is the opposite of libido and is the impulse to destroy oneself and everything associated with oneself.

I.E. Trump

Return….

In a conversation with Mom a few days back, I said the following:

When we can find the time, a time when we can spend more than a day or two at GM, we will come to visit. It won’t matter whether Mary is at the mountain or not. There will be no conditions (pre or post) with respect to this visit. There will be no required meetings. Mary can participate or not as she chooses, but Deb and I will be spending time with Mom and helping out when and where possible.

love, mike

Update – Mary made another post to the LLC web site (in part below) right after trump was convicted. Mary, Trump will be in jail come January – or self-exiled to Russia, Venezuela, Ecuador…. No amount of money is going to save this election. Most of the money he is collecting is paying his legal bills. Accept it, move on, maybe the Republican party can finally wise up and choose a real human being to lead their party. See you in 2028.

 

Mary crap

Yet another step deeper step into shit at GM……

More BS about how bad Biden did (not the 30+ lies trump told) and her dreams about a big Christian Fascist Nationalist victory in November.  Sorry Mary, it’s not going to happen and the orange turd WILL end up in prison.  Oh, and I fixed your flag for you…..

 

So, it is August now.  Kamala is the candidate.  Kamala is our only hope of America surviving.  trump is still being trump, only more of a self-caricature.  He’s picked a VP who is even a worse caricature of trump.  

Project 2025 is a blueprint for an autocracy.  If allowed to be implemented,  a despot would be in charge of the country and the only elections we have will be “Putin elections”.  Trump won’t survive his second term – he will be replaced the moment enough of P2025 is implemented.  He will be replaced by someone just as morally deficient, but way more cunning.  

Hi Mary, I know you read me.  Show this to Mom, I dare you.

Everything below is easily corroborated so long as one doesn’t only watch fox or newsmax.  

Trump is a criminal.  Trump is a liar.  Trump is racist.  Trump is a rapist.  Trump is a Malignant Narcissist.  Trump is a traitor.  Trump led an insurrection.  Trump and his Christian Nationalists are USING Christians in this country to achieve POWER.  They hope to achieve that power by promising things that will never come, just like his presidency.  In his lifetime, he’s only spent a few days in churches.  He couldn’t quote the bible to save his soul or his life.  No wall was built.  Covid didn’t go away (Debbie and I knew what was coming, there was CLEAR EVIDENCE – we told you after Jim’s funeral – you laughed at us; Trump ignored, a million Americans died).  Trump knew what was coming. Trump lied – told you to use bleach, failed to act, yet you still follow him.  Trump has three more major legal cases against him and every month, evidence of more illegal activity surfaces.  But he will only be president for about 6 months before the powers behind him decide the useful idiots time is up and replace him with someone even worse.  They just need trump to finish trashing the Constitution first.

Trump gave huge tax breaks to the richest of the rich and raised taxes on the middle class.  Project 2025 will do this again even more.  You’ll lose some if not all of your benefits, social security, medicare, and military health care – it is all targeted in Project 2025.

His so-called rallies – nothing but lies and personal attacks.  Plans for America?  He has none other than project 2025.  He claims to not be involved with it, but there is lots of video evidence where he talks about it; how fine a plan it is.  He now disavows it because America now has read it and it is costing him votes.  He didn’t write it (isn’t capable of reading/writing above 12 year old level), but he is fully aware of what it says and fully on board with it.

He cheated on his first wife with his to be second wife.  Cheated on his second wife with his to be third wife. Cheated on his third wife with a porn star.  Illegally paid the porn star to be quiet using campaign funds.

He flew around numerous times with Jeffry Epstein – a convicted pedophile and child trafficker.  There is credible evidence that he raped under-aged girls.  Yet his GOP cronies are doing everything they can to fix the next election, hampering the voting process, and putting people in place to try to NOT accept the popular vote.  If somehow trump were elected it would be the LAST election for America.  After that there would only be “Putin elections” and trump would be replaced by someone far worse than trump; someone who won’t just be faking Christianity but who will openly oppose it because morality gets in the way of power and greed. But you do you.  I believe a hundred million clear-thinking Americans will vote his ass into oblivion in November.

Some people say trump was sent by God.  Others say trump was sent by God to test us.  If that is true and you are still supporting trump, then you have failed God’s test.

Finally, the man is going senile.  He can’t answer simple questions without rambling “word salad” or going on endlessly on how good or smart he is without ever answering the question.  The Maga powers that be selected him because they thought they could control him, but he is rapidly short-circuiting.  Even the GOP have acknowledged that he cannot win this election and their only hope is election interference and getting maga operatives into the election management positions to try to stop the vote from being accepted so the question can get to the utterly corrupted Supreme Court. Good luck wth that.  Harris/Walz will win by over 20 million votes.