Thus the Butcher Can Display Under Our Very Eyes His Hands on the Block

Slowest week of the year in the Blegsylvanian calendar so of course I'm gonna post though my tablets have gone silent, nothing but canvases of late, them and grids how I'm processing Life in the Assholoscene now



I didn't mention here that earlier this month when I was in Michigan while driving around in my car with Maryland plates I was targeted as a Subaru-American by multiple Pick-up Truck-Americans, GMC-Americans, Ford Explorer-Americans, and Jeep-Americans with multiple flipped birds and, lipreading the crackers, accusations of faggotry, head-light flashing horn-honking tailgaters, cars that would speed past me to pass then slam on brakes to go 30 in a 50, and survived what may or not but probably was an attempt - at minimum a threat - to run me off the road. United Reich of Assholostan upon us. The coordinated and combined shitlord psyops to use our enshittification to render vicious assholes more sadistically vicious and to use *their* intense and joyful assholification in service of our (and their) further enshittification terrifyingly successful. How many times can I paraphrase that in tablets, much less here? 

Words: I'm failing them more than they are failing me though they are failing me. Time for another canvas-hiatus in order that I don't lose what words say to and for me too soon: it's inevitable, but it doesn't have to be now. I'm incapable of ceasing gridding. Play this loud

Macquarie's 2024 WOTY is "enshittification"
"November 25, 2024, will be remembered in American history as the day the constitutional rule that no individual is above the law was ended"
☝	"Donald Trump’s real reason for running for re-election in 2024 was to stay out of prison. He knew that only a return to the White House would prevent him standing trial for initiating the January 6 insurrection, and standing trial for the theft of top secret documents. Conviction in either case would mean he would end his days as a convicted felon, quite possibly dying in prison"						☝
☝	"This is the worst defeat of the forces of democracy in the history of this country. Two men are solely responsible for this outcome: President Joseph R. Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland"						☝
"The Man from Scranton will go down, as measured by the failures, dangers, and messes he leaves behind, as the worst-performing president in postwar American history"
How the US Media Helped the Biden Administration Distance Itself From the Horrors of Gaza
☟	"This must be the most unbelievable opinion piece in the past 50 years. So the international rules are only for one sort of people (Untermenschen) while superior races must be exempt from it. It should be framed and displayed!"						☟
Washington Post editorial board says ICC sanctions are for everybody but the United States of Assholes and its genocidal client state
☝	"Honestly, I have never, never seen in my life an article that openly, without dissimulation, calls for two distinct judicial systems: one for upper races, another for lower"						☝
☝	"Who Takes International Law Seriously?"						☝
Palestinians haunted by Israeli grave defilements and body theft
" Following its enabling of Israel's genocide, the redemption of the world lies in the mendacity that lies at the core of this genocide. The lie that some lives are more meaningful than others is exposed by how cheap and riddled with death Israeli lives have become"
Israel’s Revenge: An Interview with Rashid Khalidi
King of Falafel, a Palestinian-owned restaurant in New York, was fined $6,000 for the "Stop Genocide" sign on top of their store
Four Gentlemen Tour the Bekaa Valley
"Mission accomplished. The liberal establishment congratulates itself for crushing dissent against the Democratic Party-backed genocide in Palestine"
Anti-Progress, Breakdown, Reset
The Katechōn, the Man of Lawlessness, and the Most Important Election in Our Lives
Consultant Con				☞	"Why would voters be compelled by a campaign oriented around the uncritical defense of institutions that regularly fail them?"
Bill Clinton wants you to know it's all *your* fucking fault
"Resistance liberalism—from MSNBC to the Harris campaign—was a barely concealed scam that preyed on gullible but fundamentally decent people worried about the country. Like a traveling circus, they’ve now pulled up stakes—declared they were just kidding about fascism—and bounced"
Harris is considering running for president again in 2028, per Politico
☝	"I said before the election that the dumbest outcome, and therefore the likeliest, was a narrow Harris victory followed by Trump immediately launching a 2028 campaign; this, in retrospect, was a great failure on my part to imagine an even dumber and likelier outcome"						☝
Winning a presidential election makes any crimes you may have committed magically vanish
"I am trying to take public transportation more instead of driving. I am trying to eliminate my spending at Walmart and Amazon entirely. I am trying to use less plastic. I am trying to eat less meat and never get fast food. These tiny acts of resistance add up. I recommend you all try to do the same"
Amazon Is Busting Democracy, Not Just Unions
Maggie's		Trump Guitars hit with cease and desist from Gibson over use of Les Paul body shape
A BAND IN BERLIN					2024 Nov 25
A bleggalgaze, I promise not mine
Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears					{ feuilleton }'s
Why Nick Drake Deserves more than ‘Indiefication’
I've been reminded of (a) this great Mazzy Star song and (b) my crush on Hope Sandoval is kaboom forever

BUTCHERS

C.K. Williams

Thank goodness we were able to wipe the Neanderthals out, beastly things,

from our mountains, our tundra—that way we had all the meat we might need.

Thus the butcher can display under our very eyes his hands on the block,

and never refer to the rooms hidden behind where dissections are effected,

where flesh is reduced to its shivering atoms and remade for our delectation

as cubes, cylinders, barely material puddles of admixtured horror and blood.

Rembrandt knew of all this—isn’t his flayed beef carcass really a caveman?

It’s Christ also, of course, but much more a troglodyte such as we no longer are.

Vanished those species—begone!—those tribes, those peoples, those nations—

Myrmidon, Ottoman, Olmec, Huron, and Kush: gone, gone, and goodbye.

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But back to the chamber of torture, to Rembrandt, who was telling us surely

that hoisted with such cables and hung from such hooks we too would reveal

within us intricate layerings of color and pain: alive the brush is with pain,

aglow with the cruelties of crimson, the cooled, oblivious ivory of our innards.

Fling out the hooves of your hands! Open your breast, pluck out like an Aztec

your heart howling its Cro-Magnon cries that compel to battles of riddance!

Our own planet at last, where purged of wilderness, homesickness, prowling,

we’re no longer compelled to devour our enemies’ brains, thanks to our butcher,

who inhabits this palace, this senate, this sentried, barbed-wire enclosure

where dare enter none but subservient breeze; bent, broken blossom; dry rain.