Too Obvious

I was worried, a year ago, about an election-year decline into hysteria and evil. What I didn’t see was the descent into grinding moronization.

“They want to dismantle the administrative state and give more power to the executive branch.” I…can’t. I just can’t. It’s like somebody made a special kind of rice cereal for infants that replaces the rice with shit. It’s sewage gruel for toothless adult babies. It’s like saying “they want to take power away from judges and transfer it to the judicial branch,” but that doesn’t really begin to do justice to the stupidity of these statements.

Similarly, this segment on MSNBC warns that Trump is planning to “bring the agencies under the umbrella of the executive branch.”

Imagine living in a world where the Department of Commerce was part of the executive branch. And on and on and on. As always, Twitter video doesn’t play on Substack, so click the links to abuse your brain with the two dismal segments above.

See, Trump’s plan is…Christofascist ethnic cleansing. It’s all so obvious now, isn’t it?

Like the current President of the United States, it’s just too stupid to talk about. We’re plummeting. I watched the ABC interview with Biden, and dipshit’s Wisconsin rally, and I have no thoughts about any of it. It doesn’t merit thoughts.

You can read Project 2025, an effort of the Heritage Foundation that anticipates and tries to prepare for a second Trump administration. It’s a plan to reduce the power of the federal government, on obvious and deeply rooted constitutional premises. Which means that you’re going to hear nonstop fearmongering about it for the next four months. If Trump derangement gets any dumber, we’ll get a full month of wordless grunting and screaming at the end of the election cycle.

A discussion that has no value or meaning at all sits at the center of our culture, consuming most of the oxygen in the public sphere. There’s nothing to say about it, because it is, itself, nothing. It’s sub-noise. They’ve achieved perfect emptiness. I think we should all just spend every day until mid-November talking about baseball or favorite recipes, because the news in its current form is dissolving my brain. Maybe you know the feeling.