The Routine Is All Too Familiar, the Stone Path Wearying

I'm not quitting twaater yet (some in my circle are still there and I'm not abandoing them because Trump and motherfucking Democrats) though some of yinz are for the blue place, if you're there and I'm not following you yet and you'd like me too please email me at blckdgrd at proton dot me. If you're there and want to find me I'm @blckdgrd.bsky.social. I don't curse and blurt there like I do (and still will) on twaater out of respect for its current don't curse and blurt social norm. I've been warned to get off twaater (and here) since the election but reply I've twenty years of cursing and blurting into the cloud, I'm incriminated already when my cursing and blurting are deemed worthy of the death penalty in Crackerchristerstan. I'm confident I will be evaporated in a nuclear blast before that happens. My right eye:

But yes, I understand the news that future Attorney General Roofie needs processing and for many that processing requires isolation from more news of our imminent and vicious enshittification. This blog has been dying since 2009, though never so fast and precipitously. I wish I could blame me (and I wish I would/could connect this to something I won't write about here that's imminent and not vicious but worse in real life, someone there is doing what I've been doing here the last fifteen years), but it's clusterfuck, who let us down, who we let down, how stupid we were, are, and will be, how enshittified. My left eye



I wish I could still see like my right eye and feel like my blind left I but I cope loudly, immerse myself in clusterfuck's goop, though last night, after adding the 44th or 45th link to the grid below, What The Fuck Am I Doing? hit me in the head with a garden shovel. I'll recover most likely, and I am not going to not post a grid today I've spent hours making (I do read everything I link), just saying, if yinz don't want to daily duh I get it, you may be on to something, though it would require another response to fuming I haven't yet discovered. This is one of the five most posted songs in the twenty years of here

Why the Migration to Bluesky Matters				☞	@blckdgrd.bsky.social
"FLINT STILL DOESN'T HAVE CLEAN WATER"
Best smackdown of Biden, Harris, motherfucking Democrats I've read
☝	"The biggest insult of all was, once again, the insistence by Biden and his sycophants that, against all evidence to the contrary, they were simply smarter than the rest of us. We spent over three years watching the president’s mind and body fail him — the raspy whisper with its improbable syntax, the sallow skin, the shuffling gait, the all-encompassing sleepiness Donald Trump mocked at every opportunity — while the regime and its media stenographers asked us to trust them instead of our lying eyes"						☝
☝	"Anyone who warned that Biden was disappointing the party’s progressive base encountered a blitz of kettle logic. Biden was the most transformative president since FDR; a pragmatist who knew where to compromise to get what he really wanted; a helpless victim of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema. And anyways, the election wouldn’t be won by emphasizing divisive policy issues, but by focusing on something everyone could get behind: Donald Trump’s threat to democracy. This judgment defied all the available evidence. As Biden’s term wore on, it became clear that Democrats’ incessant quest to use the legal system to hound Trump out of political life was doing nothing to dull his appeal, and perhaps was actually bolstering it. But Bidenworld remained determined to elevate Trump’s venality over any other campaign theme — including the fight to defend abortion rights, an issue that, if Democrats’ surprising success in the 2022 midterms was any indication, actually did have strong cross-partisan appeal"						☝
☝	"If they really believed that Trump was a dictator-in-waiting, why did the criminal case against him — those much-ballyhooed felonies — focus on issues like his mishandling of classified documents and his hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels? Why, for that matter, were they legitimizing the use of the judicial system against one’s political opponents? Why weren’t they trying to fix anything about our hallowed American democracy? If it was on the verge of elevating a known fascist, after all, it must have already been in pretty bad shape, regardless of the outcome of the election. Democratic strategists simply did not seem to believe that most voters were smart enough to ask questions like these. Always, always that same intimation, barely unspoken: I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do."						☝
☝	"The Biden administration allowed Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema to euthanize its early political-economic vision, centered around generous welfare-state expansion and federal support for the care sector. In the wake of that agenda came a program focused on industrial competition with China, and fueled at the core by military spending. Paeans to American greatness suffused the rhetorical soundscape of the late Biden administration. The president goaded on the nationwide repression of student protestors enraged by the genocide of Palestinians he was enabling. On immigration, he enthusiastically ran what Gabriel Antonio Solis describes in his preview piece as “a race to the right that only Republicans can win"						☝
☝	"Trump is the center of gravity of American politics. Exit polls indicate he captured 95 percent of the Republican vote, despite Democrats’ persistent fantasies about masses of Cheneyites joining the resistance, suburbs turning blue, Republican women secretly casting ballots for Democrats and lying to their husbands about it (on Julia Roberts’s advice). Trump has also worked hard to build an edge among loosely or nonpartisan Americans, embracing his identity as the candidate of Joe Rogan, Tulsi Gabbard, RFK, Jr., and the artist formerly known as Kanye West. The “weird” demographic — youngish, heavily male, surprisingly multiracial, hyper-online, alienated and distrustful — has clearly found a home in the Trump movement. He is, after all, weird in his own way: a post-decorum politician, swaying to Ave Maria and extolling Arnold Palmer’s penis. For wide swaths of the population, Trumpism has become the default political ideology, where those without a strong reason to arrive at some rival set of principles inevitably wind up. Why wouldn’t it be? The Democrats have nothing to offer as an alternative but a simulacrum of MAGA politics stripped of the libidinal pleasures of rage and transgression, like the caffeine-free version of Trump’s favorite beverage, Diet Coke"						☝
Obama is deeply distraught over the election results
This is literally what Bill Clinton said when he was campaigning for Harris in Michigan lol
"They Blame the People That They Let Down"
"That there will not be any challenging candidates or debate in Democratic leadership elections in the House or Senate is a sign of a party that still doesn't want to address any hard questions despite its obvious decline"
☝	"ALL THAT MATTERS IS THE GRIFT!"						☟
"Axelrod pushes for Rahm Emanuel as DNC chair"
☝	"ALL THAT MATTERS IS THE GRIFT!"						☟
"Every time there’s a Trump nomination announcement, it’s helpful to remember that Democratic consultants are home at their mansions counting the tens of millions of dollars they just made off losing a winnable election that coulda prevented all of this"
"Friendly reminder that Biden could still end the genocide in Gaza right now. He could end it today. He could have ended it any day over the last thirteen months. Israel's atrocities will continue into the next administration because the Biden administration wants them to"
If shitlib friends and family still blaming you for not voting for genocide and that's why Trump kicked ass, a friendly reminder you were right regardless of election outcome
"Telling voters this guy is Hitler and gonna end America as we know it because he sent a mob to storm the Capitol when he lost last time and then sitting down for a fireside chat makes us look like the suckers and marks we are"
"You're about to watch Republicans pass legislation without the 60 votes that Liberals insist is necessary for Democrats to pass anything"
☟	"Adam Schiff, California's next senator, beloved by liberals everywhere standing up to Trump during his first admin, voted yes on this."						☟
"Why on earth are Democrats supporting this? Don't they know that their own favorite nonprofit organizations can easily be tarred as "terrorist-supporting" once you hand the government this power?"
☝	TODAY IN RHETORICAL QUESTIONS!						☝
"Miriam Adelson is hand-picking Trump's Cabinet in 2024 just like Citigroup picked Obama's in 2008"
Fine metaphor for shitlib worldview of politics
"Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will leave office in January with the minimum wage still at $7.25, seeing homelessness spike over 12%, and having participated in a genocide that has left at least 200,000 dead in Gaza"
"Fund the Police’ Backfired — and Gave Trump More Power Than Ever"
"These 52 Democrats voted to give Trump the power to shut down any nonprofit he wants. The NAACP, ACLU, Planned Parenthood, no organization would be safe. Shameful"
The Revenge of Trumperstein
White Evangelical Protestant media diet
Seven of Nine and Me, or: Leaving the Evangelical Borg Collective
"American liberalism searched the world for monsters to destroy and created them"
Across the Empire the illusion of Democracy™ is crumbling
The Reconfiguration of the Capitalist Parties in Light of Trump’s Victory
US Confirms Israel Will Face No Consequences for Not Improving Aid Situation in Gaza			Genocidal Scorecard
The media’s role in lying about Amsterdam violence just keeps getting darker
The not-so-secret history of Netanyahu’s support for Hamas
"Netanyahoo Knew The Attack Was Coming, Let It Happen On Purpose"
The state-backed settler war to annex the West Bank
Reading about the decline in the study of the humanities at university level
Maximizing Time for Reading
"If any novelist has successfully captured what happens to the human condition in the wake of world-historical cataclysm, that novelist is Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Although Krasznahorkai didn’t start publishing novels until forty years after the end of World War II, each is haunted by a distinct twentieth-century anxiety about apocalypse. Whether in a small Hungarian village, as in his debut Sátántangó, or across continents and millennia, as in his 2008 epic Seiobo There Below, Krasznahorkai continually grapples with the fleeting, futile nature of life on Earth and the power of time to dwarf all human endeavor. To call Herscht 07769 Krasznahorkai’s magnum opus would be inaccurate; everything he writes is a magnum opus"
Not me	☞	#1427 Samhain 36″x24″ Acrylic on canvas, with leaves, street dirt, glitter
Read “A Sudden Story,” a very short tale by Robert Coover
Auden’s Island: The poet in the postwar era
Stands for deciBels by The dB’s
Shakey turned seventy-nine Tuesday this week
The last twenty seconds of *Cinnamon Girl*

YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT

John Ashbery

Meanwhile, back in
soulless America, people are having fun
as usual.

A bird visits a birdbath.
A young girl takes a refresher course
in polyhistory. My mega-units are straining
at the leash of spring.
The annual race is on -

white flowers in someone's hair.
He comes in waltzing on empty airs,

mulling the blue notes of your case.
The leash is elastic and receptive
but I fear I am too wrapped up in cloudlets
of my own making this time.

In the other time is was rain dripping
from a tree to a house to the ground -
each thing helping itself and another thing
along a little. That would be inconceivable
these days of receptive answers and aggressive querying.

The routine is all too familiar,

the stone path wearying