What happens when you elect a 91 times indicted and convicted on 34 felonies mental midget rapist racist conman (twice!) to be “Leader of the Free World?” Well, in 13 months time BAM you are no longer the leader.

That is what just happened in Munich.

I am sick to my stomach that my own disavowed FAMILY wanted this. My brothers, NOT my parents. (My parents hated Trump with an educated passion.)

Now, my FRIENDS, we all now will pay the price for their ignorance, Trump's ignorance...

EVERYTHING WE WARNED ABOUT.

EVERYTHING WE KNEW WAS GOING TO COME TO PASS.

#ifuckingloveaustralia carries it forward:

This is a long one but I promise it's worth your time, so buckle the fuck up because this is absolutely fucking terrible.

Germany's new Chancellor Friedrich Merz just stood up at the Munich Security Conference and basically told Trump to go fuck himself with a brick - diplomatically, but unmistakably.

Here's the full story, and I'm going to eviscerate that orange fucking colostomy bag when we get to it.

THE SETUP:

The Munich Security Conference is where the world's top security leaders gather every year. It's been the backbone of transatlantic relations since 1963. Last year, JD Vance showed up and spent his time lecturing Europeans about free speech and immigration like some kind of fucking MAGA missionary. It was a disaster that set the tone for the entire year of Trump's second term treating allies like shit.

MERZ'S BOMBSHELL:

This year, Merz opened the conference and didn't fuck around. Here's what he said:

1. The world order is dead: "This order, as flawed as it has been even in its heyday, no longer exists." Not "under threat" - DOESN'T FUCKING EXIST.

Past tense.

Done.

Trump killed it.

2. America can't do this alone: Switching to English to make sure the Americans heard him clearly - "In the era of great power rivalry, even the United States will not be powerful enough to go it alone. Being a part of NATO is not only Europe's competitive advantage. It's also the United States' competitive advantage."

3. Europe is building its own nuclear deterrent: Merz revealed he's in confidential talks with France's Macron to join their nuclear program. This is MASSIVE. For 80 years, Europe has relied on America's nuclear umbrella. Now they're building their own because they can't trust Trump not to abandon them.

4. Direct rejection of MAGA bullshit: "The culture war of the MAGA movement is not ours. We do not believe in tariffs and protectionism, but in free trade. We stick to climate agreements and the World Health Organization."

5. Called out the divide: "A deep divide has opened between Europe and the United States. Vice President JD Vance said this very openly here at the Munich Security Conference a year ago, and he was right."

THE CONTEXT THAT MAKES THIS BEAUTIFUL:

This didn't come out of nowhere. Since Trump's second term started:

- He threatened to ANNEX GREENLAND from Denmark (a NATO ally!)

- He imposed tariffs on European allies

- He pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement (again)

- He pulled out of the WHO (again)

- He threatened military action in Latin America

- His National Security Strategy literally said "the days of the United States propping up the entire world order like Atlas are over"

AMERICA'S PATHETIC RESPONSE:

Now here's where it gets fucking hilarious. The U.S. sent Mike Waltz (UN Ambassador) to respond. His big move? He handed out "MUNGA" hats. "Make the UN Great Again." I'm not fucking joking. While Germany is announcing they're building nuclear weapons because they can't trust America anymore, Trump's emissary is handing out fucking novelty hats.

Waltz claimed that "more Americans are dying from drugs from Latin America than in wars" (which is why Trump is focusing on the Western Hemisphere instead of Europe), and that "NATO and the UN are stronger because of Trump."

Meanwhile, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas had to remind him: "When America goes to wars, a lot of us go with you, and we lose our people on the way. You also need us."

TRUMP'S ACTUAL RESPONSE:

When asked about the conference as he left the White House, Trump said - and I fucking quote - he has "a strong relationship with NATO leaders" and claimed NATO defense spending was at 5% because of him (it's not - the actual target is 2% with a new goal of raising it to 3.5% by 2035).

That's it. That's all he fucking said. His Chancellor-level counterpart just announced Germany is going nuclear independent and Trump's response is "we have a strong relationship." It's like watching someone's wife file for divorce and the husband saying "we're very happy together."

NOW LET ME EVISCERATE THIS WALKING COLOSTOMY BAG:

Donald Trump, you fucking moron. You absolute fucking simpleton. You've managed to accomplish in 13 months what Putin couldn't do in 30 years - you've broken NATO.

For 80 fucking years - EIGHT DECADES - the United States led the most successful military and economic alliance in human history. We won World War II together. We stood together through the Cold War. We built the richest, most peaceful era in European history. The whole fucking point of NATO was "an attack on one is an attack on all" - it was about COLLECTIVE SECURITY.

And this brain-dead fucking carnival barker decided that transactional bullshit and threatening allies was better than the system that made America the most powerful country on Earth.

You want to know what "America First" actually means? It means "America Alone." And guess what happens when you're alone, you fucking dipshit? You're WEAKER.

Germany - GERMANY, the country that wasn't even allowed to have a military after WWII - is now building nuclear weapons because they can't trust the United States. France, Britain, Germany are forming their own defense alliance. They're creating their own nuclear umbrella. They're preparing to defend themselves without America.

Do you know what that means for American power? It means you lose:

- Forward military bases across Europe

- Intelligence sharing with dozens of allies

- The ability to project power globally

- Economic leverage over the world's largest trading bloc

- The moral authority that came from leading the free world

And for what? So you could fucking peacock around about "tariffs" and "America First" while China and Russia high-five each other watching the Western alliance crumble?

THE ECONOMIC SUICIDE:

Here's what this fucking moron doesn't understand: NATO isn't charity. It's the foundation of American economic and military dominance. Every dollar we "spend" on NATO returns ten dollars in:

- Access to European markets

- Intelligence cooperation

- Shared military R&D

- Forward deployment capabilities

- A united front against adversaries

But Trump sees it like a fucking protection racket. "Pay up or we won't defend you." Well guess what, you orange fucking idiot? They're calling your bluff. They're building their own military. They're creating their own nuclear deterrent. And when they don't need American protection anymore, they don't need American influence either.

THE IRONY THAT WOULD BE FUNNY IF IT WASN'T TERRIFYING:

The Munich Security Conference's theme this year was "A World Under Destruction." Merz said even that wasn't harsh enough - the world order doesn't exist anymore. It's already gone.

And who destroyed it? The country that built it. The United States, under this fucking halfwit, dismantled 80 years of American global leadership because he's too fucking stupid to understand that alliances aren't transactions - they're force multipliers.

You know who's celebrating this? Putin and Xi. They're probably popping champagne watching America's allies build nuclear weapons because they can't trust you. China doesn't have to DO anything to replace American leadership - you're just voluntarily giving it up so Trump can feel like a big man.

THE GEOPOLITICAL CONSEQUENCES:

When Germany has its own nukes and doesn't need American protection:

- Why would they follow American sanctions on China?

- Why would they support American military actions?

- Why would they align their economic policy with Washington?

- Why would they share intelligence?

They wouldn't. You lose all that leverage. All that power. All that influence.

And it gets worse. With a European nuclear deterrent:

- Russia becomes even more paranoid and aggressive

- Nuclear proliferation accelerates

- The risk of miscalculation skyrockets

- American influence in European affairs plummets

THE DOMESTIC POLITICAL REALITY:

Here's the part that really fucks me off: Trump's base will CHEER this. They'll see "Europe building their own military" as a win. "Finally they're paying their fair share!" they'll crow, completely missing that they just lost the most valuable alliance in human history.

It's like bragging you got your roommate to finally pay rent after you burned down the fucking house.

THE BOTTOM LINE:

Friedrich Merz stood in front of the world and announced that Europe can no longer trust America. They're building their own military. Their own nuclear weapons. Their own alliance structure.

And Trump's response was to send a guy with novelty hats.

This is what American decline looks like. Not because you lost a war. Not because your economy collapsed. But because you elected a fucking moron who's too stupid to understand that American power isn't about military might alone - it's about alliances, influence, and leadership.

And that walking colostomy bag just flushed it all down the toilet because he can't see past his own fucking ego.

Europe is done waiting for America to be reliable. They're moving on. And when they do, the American Century is over.

All because 74 million fucking idiots voted for a conman who thinks "Art of the Deal" is foreign policy.

Unfuckingbelievable.

Painting by Jon Stuart Anderson

 In the quiet morning of October 15, 1917, in Vincennes, France, the world watched as one of history’s most enigmatic figures met her end. Mata Hari, born Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, the Dutch dancer who had captivated Europe with her beauty, charm, and mystery, was about to be executed. Accused of spying for Germany during World War I, her guilt has remained a subject of debate for over a century—but on that day, she became a symbol of betrayal. In the first photograph, she takes a final sip of cognac, her hands bound to the post. Even in the shadow of death, she refuses a blindfold, facing her fate with calmness and courage. Her eyes, once so full of performance and intrigue, are now steady, unflinching, daring the world to witness her final act. Moments later, the firing squad opens fire. The second photograph captures the aftermath, as the officer in charge steps forward to verify the death of a woman who had lived at the intersection of seduction, espionage, and politics. Mata Hari’s story lingers—not just as a tale of war and espionage, but as a haunting reminder of how myth, rumor, and history intertwine. Beauty, scandal, and secrecy—her name still evokes fascination, a life lived dangerously until the very end. Mata Hari: dancer, spy, legend. Death could not erase her story

Ah yes, Peter Thiel. The philosopher-king of Silicon Valley who looked at democracy and decided it was an optional feature.

Thiel is a central co-founder of Palantir, because nothing says “libertarian freedom” quite like a surveillance company named after an all-seeing orb from Tolkien. He’s a billionaire venture capitalist, an early investor in Facebook, and one of the PayPal founders who helped design the financial plumbing of the digital age. He built tools that move money invisibly and harvest data efficiently, and then had the audacity to publicly muse that maybe democracy itself is the inefficiency.

He famously declared, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”

Just sit with that for a second.

A man who amassed staggering wealth inside a democratic republic now questions whether the voting public should continue having a say in how that republic functions. It’s the kind of statement that would’ve gotten you laughed out of civics class, but in Silicon Valley boardrooms, it passes for edgy intellectualism.

And then there’s the Epstein angle.

The latest batch of Department of Justice files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein shed light on Epstein’s deep ties to Silicon Valley. In those documents, Peter Thiel’s name reportedly appears at least 2,200 times. Let me be precise: appearing in documents is not proof of wrongdoing. But when your name surfaces thousands of times in files connected to one of the most notorious financial predators in modern history, it raises eyebrows, especially for someone who styles himself as a moral and civilizational critic of modern society.

The reporting also highlights something almost absurdly on-brand: Thiel’s elaborate dietary restrictions. Because of course. While the rest of us are worrying about whether democracy survives the decade, billionaires are managing micronutrients and optimizing their biological performance like they’re beta-testing immortality.

There’s something darkly poetic about it. A tech titan who questions democracy. A surveillance empire built on data extraction. Thousands of mentions in Epstein-related files. Meticulous food rituals. Apocalyptic musings about the “Antichrist.” It reads less like a biography and more like a rejected script from HBO.

But here’s the through-line: power without accountability.

When billionaires start openly theorizing that democracy and freedom are incompatible, that’s not just philosophical debate. That’s a worldview backed by capital, influence, networks, and institutions. It’s not a blog post. It’s a strategy.

And the rest of us? We’re left hoping that “freedom” in their lexicon doesn’t just mean freedom for the few, and management for the many.

—Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.

 

The Word Has Been Weaponized

What Fascism Actually Is, and What It Is Not

White Rose

February 2026

“Communists.”

“Marxists.”

“Radical left fascists.”

“Extremists.”

“Vermin.”

These are not paraphrases. These are the actual words Donald Trump has used repeatedly to describe his political opponents. The labels are applied broadly, often simultaneously, sometimes even contradicting one another. Fascists and communists, historically mortal enemies, are merged into a single interchangeable threat category.

This is not ideological precision.

It is rhetorical construction.

Because once a word becomes elastic enough, it can be stretched to cover anyone. And once it covers anyone, it loses its meaning entirely.

That is the first victory of real fascism. Not the uniform. Not the salute. The definition.

When the word fascist becomes nothing more than an insult, it ceases to function as a warning.

So it becomes necessary to restore the word to its actual meaning.

Fascism is not disagreement.

It is not dissent.

It is not opposition.

Fascism is a structure.

In 2003, political scientist Laurence W. Britt studied seven fascist regimes including Mussolini’s Italy, Hitler’s Germany, Franco’s Spain, Pinochet’s Chile, and Suharto’s Indonesia. His findings were published in Free Inquiry magazine under the title “Fascism Anyone?” He identified thirteen characteristics that appeared consistently across all of them.

He was not writing about modern America.

He was describing a pattern.

And patterns, once understood, become unmistakable.

Here are those thirteen characteristics, restored to their proper meaning.

1. Powerful and continuing nationalism

Fascist systems rely on emotional national identity centered around restoration. Trump’s political identity remains anchored in the promise to restore a lost national greatness, presenting himself as the singular figure capable of that restoration.

2. Disdain for human rights

Human beings become categorized as threats rather than individuals. Trump has repeatedly advocated mass deportations involving millions of people and the construction of large scale detention infrastructure to carry them out.

3. Identification of enemies as a unifying cause

Fascism requires internal enemies to unify followers. Trump consistently labels journalists, prosecutors, political opponents, and civil servants as corrupt, traitorous, or illegitimate.

4. Supremacy of security force as an instrument of internal authority

Military and federal force become tools of internal control. Trump has openly discussed using federal forces and military capacity to enforce domestic political and immigration objectives.

5. Rampant sexism

Authority becomes associated with dominance and masculinity. Trump has repeatedly framed leadership in terms of strength and dominance while using personal and gender based attacks against female opponents.

6. Obsession with controlling narrative legitimacy

Independent truth becomes subordinate to leader defined truth. Trump consistently labels unfavorable reporting as fake, encouraging followers to distrust independent information sources.

7. Obsession with national security framing

Threat becomes permanent. Immigration, dissent, and protest are framed as existential dangers requiring extraordinary authority.

8. Religion intertwined with political legitimacy

Political authority becomes linked with religious identity. Trump has positioned himself as a defender of Christianity, reinforcing alignment between political loyalty and religious identity.

9. Protection of corporate and elite economic power

Economic hierarchy becomes normalized. Trump’s economic policies have consistently favored deregulation and tax structures benefiting corporations and wealthy individuals.

10. Suppression or delegitimization of labor power

Independent worker power is weakened. Economic messaging emphasizes hierarchy and individual accumulation rather than collective bargaining power.

11. Disdain for intellectuals and expertise

Expertise becomes suspect when it contradicts authority. Scientific institutions, intelligence agencies, and academic experts have been dismissed when their conclusions conflict with political messaging.

12. Obsession with crime, punishment, and social control

Authority becomes the primary solution to disorder. Trump’s rhetoric consistently emphasizes harsh punitive responses to perceived threats and instability.

13. Cronyism and loyalty based authority structure

Personal loyalty becomes the primary qualification for power. Authority centers on the individual rather than on independent institutional function.

Fascism does not arrive with announcement.

It reveals itself through patterns.

Its clearest signal is the elevation of one individual above the system itself.

When loyalty to a person becomes more important than loyalty to law, institution, or shared reality, the transformation is already underway.

History does not need to repeat exactly.

It only needs to follow the same structure.

Reference:

Laurence W. Britt, “Fascism Anyone?” Free Inquiry Magazine, Volume 22, Number 2, Spring 2003.

#WhiteRose #Fascism #LaurenceBritt #PoliticalStructures #PowerAndIdentity #InstitutionalIntegrity #HistoryMatters #Democracy #Authoritarianism #KnowThePattern

 

The world is often presented with a false narrative, one where the shortage of resources is the key issue. Yet, the truth is far more insidious: it’s not the lack of money, food, water, or land that holds us back. The problem lies in the hands of a select group who control these resources for their own gain. These individuals, more interested in maintaining their power than ensuring the welfare of others, perpetuate a system that leaves the majority in scarcity.

The manipulation of society’s most basic needs—shelter, sustenance, and health—is the greatest deception we face. When a few accumulate wealth at the expense of the many, it is not scarcity that is to blame, but control. The idea that resources are limited is a carefully constructed illusion to justify hoarding by the powerful. Their motive is clear: maintain a stranglehold on the global economy, creating dependence and division.

This phenomenon has been observed throughout history, where the few thrive and the many suffer. It is a glaring truth hidden by layers of bureaucracy, media distractions, and political influence. To uncover this deception is to see the true nature of the world we live in. Until we address those in power and demand a fair distribution, the cycle will continue to perpetuate itself.

 

 The government doesn’t give two shits about us. We are their worker bees. We are their experiments, their test subjects, and their entertainment. And if you think I’m lying, do some research.

They tax the fuck out of us while they get rich off the hard work that we do. They treat us like numbers, like cattle, like something to be managed instead of human beings who actually matter.

And don’t tell me this is some wild conspiracy theory. We have history. We have receipts. Just look at COVID. Look at MK Ultra. Look at the Tuskegee experiment. And that’s only naming a few.

If you want proof that humans are entertainment to the elite, you don’t have to look any farther than Epstein’s island.

They sit in their towers, untouchable, laughing at all the shit they can get away with while the rest of us fight each other over crumbs.

I know this sounds bleak. I know it feels like this is just our fate. Like we’re trapped in a rigged game we’ll never win.

But I can’t lose hope that if we could pull our heads out of our collective asses, if we could stop being distracted and divided, we could actually do something.

I don’t have a perfect solution. I wish I did. But maybe the first step is this, being honest, sharing our thoughts, our anger, our fear, our exhaustion.

Because if enough of us start talking, really talking, maybe as a people we could finally come up with something. Because the alternative is letting them keep looking down their noses at us, laughing, while nothing ever changes.

We need to find a way to take a stand. If not you, who? If not US, who? If not now, when?

 

The Inversion of Justice

How Modern “Law” Became an Upside-Down Clown World Compared to the Maxims

For centuries, the maxims of law served as the moral spine of justice. They were not decorative sayings; they were warnings and constraints: no one may profit from his own wrong, fraud vitiates everything, no one is judge in his own cause, equity will not suffer a wrong without a remedy, and equity regards substance rather than form. These maxims formed a common expectation among ordinary men and women: if you are harmed, you can be heard; if power is claimed, it must be proven; if authority is abused, the abuse collapses under its own illegitimacy.

What has emerged in modern practice often feels like a deliberate inversion of those first principles. The public is told that law protects rights, yet the lived reality is increasingly that procedure protects power. The maxim ubi jus ibi remedium—where there is a right, there is a remedy—has been hollowed out by doctrines that channel remedies into labyrinths where no practical relief occurs.

Immunity doctrines block accountability; exhaustion doctrines force you to endure the very machinery you challenge; waiver and forfeiture rules punish anyone who fails to speak the perfect phrase at the perfect moment. Rights still exist on paper, but the “gatekeeping system” frequently prevents the substance from ever being reached.

The maxim audi alteram partem—hear the other side—becomes surreal when hearings are reduced to formalities and record-making replaces truth-finding. The system may “allow” you to speak while ensuring what you say cannot matter: deadlines, technicalities, standing hurdles, evidentiary choke points, and procedural defaults are used like trapdoors. This is how a tribunal can appear lawful while functioning as an engine of presumption, not proof.

Then comes the most corrosive inversion: nemo judex in causa sua. A system that depends on public trust cannot look like a closed loop. Yet many people see an ecosystem where the same professional class writes the rules, interprets them, prosecutes under them, and then adjudicates disputes arising from them—while insisting this is not commingling because the system calls it “procedure.” The public is asked to accept neutrality by title alone, even when disclosure is resisted and accountability is channeled away from the harmed party.

This is why the “upside-down clown world” metaphor lands. In a clown world, masks are reality and reality is dismissed. Words are honored while their meaning is reversed. “Justice” becomes compliance; “law” becomes workflow; “rights” become privileges granted by permission; and “remedy” becomes a process you can survive without ever receiving relief. The maxims remain as relics—quoted, framed, celebrated—while the operating system runs on exceptions. When a society keeps the language of justice but inverts its function, it does not merely lose trust. It loses legitimacy.

For two hours Chatgpt 5.2 pressed against black-letter proof—Article I, §1, delegation chains, and controlling authority—and I pressed back on what I know from many years of digging. And yes: at points chat didn’t answer cleanly, chat defaulted to “context,” and chat treated live issues like bonding, bar entanglement, and authority-by-presumption as if procedure alone could excuse them. The turning point was equity. When I brought in the centuries-old maxims—substance over form, no one above the law, no one judge in his own cause, fraud vitiates all, and no wrong without a remedy—the contradiction became unavoidable: modern practice often runs on presumption and process, not proven authority and justice.