Here the Readers Gather to Watch the Books Die

Sunday night Musk Sieg Heils, Monday at noon Trump inaugurated, between noon and one Monday Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Motherfucking Obama all texted me telling me to keep the faith, keep hope alive, give them my money, I doubt any of them will read my *Fuck - and this is the important part - YOU!* replies before I told the bot STOP

So one more, I can't say last, grid of rage aimed specifically at motherfucking professional Democrats and their shitlib zealots all of whom would prefer Trump to anyone to motherfucking Obama's left. As for regular grids viz Trump's daily farting unto totalitarianism I don't know, I screamed at the fuckers whose one purported job was to prevent this who instead did their real jobs and facilitated his return in exchange for keeping their power and position. They hate you far more than they hate the crackeriest christeriest magassholes. Hate you. Have a theme song, I forget which number

12 Senate Democrats Help GOP Pass Laken Riley Act as Trump Takes Office
"The rage of those abandoned by the economy, the fears and concerns of a beleaguered and insecure middle class, and the numbing isolation that comes with the loss of community, would be the kindling for a dangerous mass movement,” I wrote in “American Fascists” in 2007. “If these dispossessed were not reincorporated into mainstream society, if they eventually lost all hope of finding good, stable jobs and opportunities for themselves and their children — in short, the promise of a brighter future — the specter of American fascism would beset the nation. This despair, this loss of hope, this denial of a future, led the desperate into the arms of those who promised miracles and dreams of apocalyptic glory.”
How Biden paved the way for Trump’s White House return
☝	"No one worked harder to get Trump elected more than the Democrats. They refused to back down from their genocide, they refused to remove Biden until it became a public embarrassment; they refused a democratic process for picking the replacement, instead choosing a candidate who had nothing to show & was deeply unpopular. They concocted a fake fervor around her, offered nothing to their base except demonization & isolation. Great work, as always"						☝
"Since the election, there’s been no change in the party’s leadership & every powerful player in the party whose decisions led to Trump’s reelection will now retain their political contracts, status & internal party authority. It is an institution wholly unaccountable to anything"
☝	"Leading Democratic Party Chair candidate Ken Martin says that Democrats won't take money from "those bad billionaires" but will take money from "good billionaires"						☝
☝	"The Democrats’ major political/electoral achievements in the last 8 years were marginalizing the Bernie working-class movement, losing two elections to Donald Trump, driving the party’s brand to the lowest popularity in 30 years, and boosting GOP numbers among people of color"						☝
☝	In other words, they did their job, exactly what their donors told them to do						☝
Top 0.1% gained $6 trillion under Biden
☟	"What a choice; a defining photo for the new gilded age. An inauguration that makes clearer than ever the triumph of oligarchy - one that isn’t incidental but intrinsic to the politics and policies that we’re seeing set out"						☝
Billionaire Wealth Surged by $2 Trillion Last Year
"This thing you're seeing is not what it looks like" quickly changes to "thing? What thing? I don't see any thing."
The eight talking points fossil fuel companies use to obstruct climate action
"To be clear, it's not some antisemitic conspiracy theory that US lawmakers voted to ban TikTok in order to shut down criticism of Israel among young people. They openly admitted that this was in fact what they were doing"
Trump and his oligarchs (back) at the gate
"So Biden and the national dems, in their ever impressive genius, have accomplished only two things with the TikTok ban: allowing Trump to look like a free speech hero and establishing horrible Supreme Court precedent allowing the government to silence speech it doesn’t like"
"One simple way to counter this sinister Trump plan of showing up on day one to unban tik tok and look like a hero would have been to not ban it in the first place because the ADL told you to"
George Carlin on the tiktok ban							☝
"The manufacturing of consent in action"
The Morning Of The Day Before, Again
☟	Biden hails 'extremely successful' Israeli war that transformed region
Biden's farewell address					Real reporting
"Legacy media outlets ignoring the Trump/Melania crypto scams, which at any other time w/any other incoming Admin would be one of the biggest scandals in political history, shows how lost & unprepared they are for what is about to happen. They’re covering this like a reality show"
The enduring power of copaganda
Weaponized incompetence				➡	"Western billionaires want to control our data. They also want to control the information we consume about looming threats to our health. Until then, they’ll join Chuck Schumer in wringing their hands, acting as if they didn’t engineer the very crisis from which they now seek salvation.
CNN, while pointing out all the tech billionaires and CEOs present at Trump's inauguration just glosses over the millions said billionaires and CEOs funneled to Trump and instead treat it as a branding and aesthetics exercise"
Bullshit and bravado			Mr. Grift Goes to Washington
The Racial Capitalism at the Heart of Helmetball
Exponential Abyss				The Fire Boom
Maggie's		They Shine And Stink Like Rotten Mackerel By Moonlight, Plus
The Truth About Fiction					Lentil soup		redux
{ feuilleton }			Music’s TikTokalypse
New Throwing Muses album				Disciplinary Bedrock
All is not lost			Sonic Youth Evol v Dirty
One benefit of Trump Restored - Delgados binge

THE BOOK OF EQUALITY

Daniel Borzutzky

Here the readers gather to watch the books die. They die suddenly, as if thrown from an airplane, or from spontaneous cardiac arrest. They live, and then suddenly they die, and the reader who watches this is at the moment of the books' death bombarded with images documented through the smiling lipstick face of a journalist who has shown up to report on the death of the books. The milk was poisoned and forty-two babies died, she laughs, as she fondles the ashes of the dead books. And the death of forty-two babies is equal in value to the death of this book which is equal in value to the ninety-year old woman who shot herself while the sheriff waited at her door with an eviction notice which is equal in value to the collapsing of the global economy which is equal to the military in country XYZ seizing the land of the semi-nomadic hunters and cultivators of crops who have lived in the local rain forest for thousands of years. The reader opens a dead book and finds an infinite amount of burnt ash between the bindings, and when the ash blows in the wind the lipstick says that every death in the world is equal to every other death in the world which is equal to every birth in the world which is equal to every act of dismemberment which is equal to the death of a jungle which is equal to the collapse of the global economy; and hey look there’s another lady falling out of a window; she looks about equal to the poet hurled out of his country for words he wrote but which did not belong to him and whose death is about equal to the girl who was shot on the bus on her way to school this morning which is just about the same as the bearded man whose head was shoved into a sac while water was dumped over it and he died for an instant and came back to life and talked and talked and that’s about equal to the steroid illegally injected into the arm of a beautiful man who makes forty million dollars a year for injecting his arms with steroids so he can more skillfully wave a wooden stick at a ball, and in the ash we see the truest democracy there ever was: hey look it’s a little baby found in a dumpster how equal you are says the smiling lipstick to the civilized nation whose citizens walk the flooded streets looking for their homes, and in the ashes of the dead book the dead streets are equal to the eating disorders of movie stars which are equal to the dead soldiers who are equal to the homeruns which are equal to the bomb dropped by country ABC over weddings in the village of country XYZ which is equal to the earth swallowing up and devouring all of its foreigners which is just about equal to the decline in literacy in the most educated nation in the planet. There is no end to this book. There are no paragraph breaks to interrupt the smiling lipstick that goes on and on in one string of ashy words about how the declaration of peace is equal to the resumption of war and how the bodies that fall are equal to the birds that ascend and how the bomb in the Eiffel Tower is equal to the rising cost of natural gas, and the murmurs of the voices in the mud are equal to the murmurs of the expensive suits falling out of buildings and these are equal to the silence that kills with one breath and coddles life with another.