The Poet Is a Radio. The Poet Is a Liar. The Poet Is a Counterpunching Liar

I waited a day to post this monologue and the grid below (I've stopped trying to stop), both fat with contempt for and loathing at motherfucking Democrats' contempt of and loathing and FEAR! of the ascent of Zohran Mamdani (and those who defiantly and fuckyouingly, against company orders, voted for Mamdani), especially it's leadership, specifically the senator from New York who said he didn't endorse Mamdani for mayor (and said he voted and strongly implied he voted for Cuomo) because his self-legacy is first and foremost his loyalty to Zionist Israel, so we could enjoy the total magafreakout at Mamdani's win for a day. Hey, my Brian Jonestown Massacre binge continues. Yes I know Anton is a whack asshole. FMA.





Then there's the ex-CIA-operative Democrat that won the Virginia gubernatorial election whose margin of victory was twice that predicted because of the Mamdani-bounce who stink-eyed Mamdani in her post-victory comments. Yes, Trump will savagely invade NYC with the worst of his goons the day after Mamdani's sworn in, that's nothing compared to what mountains Democrats will move to ensure Mamdani fails and his winning strategy discredited. Economic populism, fuck that. Tuesday's successful election results the worse possible news for professional Democrats. This is at least the third time I've posted this song in 2025





Holyfuck, I love that song. I've received texts from the bots of Bernie Sanders, Gavin Newson, Nancy Pelosi, Bill Clinton, Hakeem Jeffries, the senator from Israel, both my Maryland senators, my congressman, many more, in the glow of Mamdani's victory asking me for money to maintain and increase the anti-Trump anti-maga momentum while no doubt simultaneously in urgently scheduled zoom meetings top Democrats and their Shitlord donors debated strategies on thwarting the anti-Trump anti-maga glee and momentum from the base before said Shitlord donors turn off their $hit $pigot





I'm glad you and I had a lovely yesterday break from our never-ending ever-darkening hopeless powerless enfeeblement and despair before Our Shitlords' Deliberate Clusterfuckication of what to them is eradicating your roach-existence, but I need to remind you and me today that regardless the infinitely slim chance that Mamdani's victory gains another inch of momentum it will be in spite of not because of motherfucking professional Democrats, all of whom see more danger to themselves from Mamdani than they ever will Trump. Their jobs depend on it





I like hearing a Dandy Warhols song when one comes on the radio and they will never get a binge, but no, I had no dog in the infamous BJM - DW wars. Yes, I was born without the Lou Reed gene and yes, I hear Lou Reed in many Anton songs, sometimes weird is wonderful

"The country’s highest profile Democratic politicians spent the day valorizing Dick Cheney while Democratic voters were busy electing Zohran Mamdani"
THE DARK LEGACY OF A WAR CRIMINAL
One of, if not THE, shittiest humans of my lifetime
➥	"It terrifies Hillary that Americans are finding out not only about this lie - but all the foreign policy lies they have been told"
"Obama bailed out the banks while they foreclosed on millions of households and gave us a donor-approved health insurance bill instead of the promised public option so it’s wild he’s out there pretending he opposes the very same people he spent his presidency selling out to"
"This piece shows that even at this late hour, the Dem Party still refuses to grapple with how Obama’s economic betrayals created conditions for Trumpism. The whole piece is about Obama bewildered at what’s happened & Dem elites worshiping his celebrity"
"@Barack Obama is a blood-soaked war criminal, a psychopathic servant of billionaires who has remained silent throughout two years of Zionist holocaust in Gaza. Nothing good can come from him"
"It’s a disgrace that the leader of the senate Democrats refuses to endorse his own party’s nominee, and we should remember it next time we are asked to endorse whatever shitty centrist nominee they want us to support in futuret’s a disgrace that the leader of the senate Democrats refuses to endorse his own party’s nominee, and we should remember it next time we are asked to endorse whatever shitty centrist nominee they want us to support in future"
"Every single Democrat in the Senate - plus Bernie Sanders - voted to confirm Marco Rubio as Secretary of State. The Democrats are not an opposition to the illegal war-loving GOP, they are its enablers
"The Obama administration cut SNAP benefits by nearly $9 billion in 2014. Democrats didn't say a word. Neither party cares if you eat or not"
"Yet Obama himself intervened in the 2020 democratic primary to stop Bernie on behalf of these very same people
"Remember when this guy had the opportunity to put every banker in jail for 2008, and instead gave them a bailout while he was busy being the architect of mass deportations? Fuck off"
"Remember, when Obama left office, rather than becoming a grassroots promoter of populist anti-billionaire politics, he went and hung out with billionaires and got millions of dollars from wall street"
"The job of R politicians is to extract wealth for the elite. The job of D politicians is to prevent the people from stopping or punishing them. That is why Ds would rather lose than undermine the elite’s ability to control elections and politicians"
"I'm amazed by the shamelessness with which people pretend that the Democrats embraced leftist politics over the last ten years. As a leftist I remember the past decade as a string of constant defeats, with corporate centrists aggressively keeping the party from going populist"
"At the risk of sounding petty, calls for Democratic unity going forward are all well and good, but let’s not forget that the reason Cuomo ran against Mamdani in the first place was a last-ditch effort by the New York Democratic Party to ratfuck their duly elected nominee
I. Hate. Motherfucking. Democrats.
The shittiest people in the world hate and fear Zohran Mamdani
➥	People comment on that Bezos Post editorial board's toddler shitfit anti-Mamdani oped
"It's uncanny how Cuomo has been laser-focused at appealing to the absolute worst qualities in people - their insularity, their tribalism, and now their fear. A campaign monumental in its cynicism, a colossal bet by this man and his billionaire backers that people are basically bad"
The shittiest people in the world hate and fear Zohran Mamdani
"Nice to be reminded that all the Never Trumpers praising Dick Cheney today had no problem with evil they liked"
I. Hate. Motherfucking. Democrats.
"It’s not just that the far right is reactionary, that it reacts to something, but it’s a preventive counter-revolution”
Western Political Lies Signal The End of an Era
"Mamdani's People-Powered Win Is a Rebuke of Democrat Cowardice"
How the Cold War Created the Culture Wars
YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
The state of play in late 2025
DHS Gives Local Cops a Facial Recognition App To Find Immigrants
Are You on Trump’s List of Domestic Terrorists?
White Man Jump Scare		Catalog of Dark Patterns				Maggie
Falling Off the Map				Cash is peasant
A brief art history of grief					Eco-Marxism and Prometheus Unbound
When We Devalue Art (Books!) We Devalue the Future
{ feuilleton }			The paradox of clothing
Why So Many Humans Miss Grumpy Cat Signals
Tom LeClair reviews *Shadow Ticket* versus Pynchon's "monsterpieces"
➥	I'm in, at least for now, though I realize one of my problems with *Shadow Ticket* is the same as one of my problems with *Inherent Vice* and *Bleeding Edge:* I don't like detective novels! and never have
"This demographic already has been / is already being replaced by young American millennial readers fixated on Bolaño, Cărtărescu, Sorokin, Knausgaard, Lentz, Moresco, Krasznahorkai, Tokarczuk, Fosse, Ernaux… We just need more bold anglophone writers in the mix…"
Excellent piece on Jack Spicer and his poetry
Richard Dawson's 13 albums that influenced his music

SPORTING LIFE

Jack Spicer

The trouble with comparing a poet with a radio is that radios don’t develop scar-tissue. The tubes burn out, or with a transistor, which most souls are, the battery or diagram burns out replaceable or not replaceable, but not like that punchdrunk fighter in the bar. The poet
Takes too many messages. The right to the ear that floored him in New Jersey. The right to say that he stood six rounds with a champion.
Then they sell beer or go on sporting commissions, or, if the scar tissue is too heavy, demonstrate in a bar where the invisible champions might not have hit him. Too many of them.
The poet is a radio. The poet is a liar. The poet is a counterpunching radio.
And those messages (God would not damn them) do not even know they are champions.