If We Banish This Sacrificial Goat, Our Crops Will Thrive Again

An unsecured rooftop 130 yards from a Secret Service protectee.

On July 12, I walked into the Hoover Wilderness with an old friend, and we spent several days walking south into Yosemite National Park. We never had the slightest hint of cell phone service, not that we spent a lot of time checking, and we spent the first couple of days in extraordinarily remote wilderness where we saw pretty close to no one. I made snow angels on Burro Pass, though my wife says the picture just makes it look like I passed out:

Late Monday afternoon we made it off the trail and into Lee Vining, where I sat on a porch drinking coffee — and I checked the news to see if I’d missed anything.

So.

The war in Ukraine could have been ended in 2022, but the US and the UK impeded a path to a negotiated peace. Homeless people are dying in American cities, their bodies rotting from the mix of street drugs that are costing them arms and legs, not to mention noses and ears. Inflation is making grocery shopping painful for working class families. Everything government tries as a “solution” to anything fails, at best, and produces danger and decay — cf. the idiotic Gaza aid pier, an idea that failed because it was born to fail.

We have a governing class that only produces ruin. It’s their product. Failure from American government is like peaches from a peach farmer. And so Donald Trump is very very very dangerous. He’s the shiny object, the deflection, the all-devil, the societal scapegoat, the bucket we pour our failures into so we don’t have to carry them. He’s the flag that failures wave in front of your eyes when you try to mention their constant disasters. But Trump but Trump but Trump. There are no mysteries about the rhetorical function of Trump Derangement. He’s the witch the village burns when the stream runs dry. This is very serious! We need to have water in that stream again! I’ve said and said and said here that Donald Trump hasn’t been a person for years; he’s been a Great Orange Rhetorical Device, the all-cover. The war in Ukraine is, uh…but anyway, TRUMP’S RHETORIC!!!!!!!

Of course the scapegoat is sacrificed. It’s the function of the scapegoat. Of course the constant drumbeat of psychotic demonization leads to violence.

Look, folks, I didn’t say Trump should be subjected to violence, I just said he’s our greatest threat and the most dangerous man alive and the new Hitler and if he survives our country will be destroyed, so, uh. Anyway, I sure hate that some folks may have misinterpreted what I meant. What I meant is that we should all get along!

Literally two days after Donald Trump was shot, the dumbest people in America are still warning about Trump’s Violent Rhetoric™.

They cannot change course, because they are dangerously, violently insane. The dismal minds in media, academia, and politics who are peddling this poison need to be culturally and politically sidelined by a nation that learns to treat them with the disgust they’ve earned.

More as I wake from the mountains and catch up on news.