{"id":3366,"date":"2026-05-05T21:25:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T01:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3366"},"modified":"2026-05-05T21:25:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T01:25:22","slug":"winning-blind-cruel-inept-nationalism-also-cultism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3366","title":{"rendered":"Winning Blind Cruel Inept Nationalism, Also Cultism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/media-library\/the-empathist-in-chief-this-says-everything.jpg?id=66676343&amp;width=1245&amp;height=700&amp;coordinates=291,0,292,0\"><\/p>\n<p>Hoo boy. The stupid and evil, somehow accelerating, burn. America&#8217;s so-called leader, the &#8220;Worst That Has Ever Drawn Breath,&#8221; manifests ever more cognitive dissonance on steroids. Absurd, addled, vindictive, looming above &#8220;a circus of death and chaos,&#8221; he commits war crimes, guts voting rights, plots devastation, abases decency, murders mercy, yet whines about mean jokes. But as America reels, Banksy, Bruce, Platner and others increasingly declare, &#8220;We are not fucking doing this anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amidst what the head of <em>Amnesty International<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/amnesty-international\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">calls &#8220;<\/a>the year of the predators,&#8221; humanity itself is under attack, most notably by our ludicrous narcissist and his &#8220;casual, bewildering cruelty.&#8221; Despite his foolishness, Nesrine Malik <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/nesrinemalik\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">writes,<\/a> &#8220;This is what evil looks like&#8221;: See history&#8217;s portrayals of Hitler &#8211; &#8220;the startling insignificance of this man who has set the world agog&#8221; &#8211; and Mussolini, &#8220;that funny man, that consummate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/la-xpm-1993-01-24-tm-2303-story.html#:~:text=JUST%20BECAUSE%20SOMETHING%20IS%20SILLY,station%20on%20the%20Pizzale%20Loreto.\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">buffoon.&#8221; <\/a>Trump&#8217;s &#8220;farcical puniness,&#8221; Malik notes, is &#8220;a projection onto the world, not of large intent, but of smallness and fear&#8230;The consequences of his violence are secondary to the validation that comes from inflicting it (to) erase his terror of humiliation (and) feed his sociopathic appetite for escalation.&#8221; Thus can deeply silly still equal dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>Daily, the large and small atrocities are both, albeit without the resonance of the label &#8220;fascist&#8221; only because he lacks the wit, intent and coherence it requires. The war in Iran is won, it&#8217;s won but not by enough, it&#8217;s not a war, we made a deal, we don&#8217;t want a deal. The (imaginary) talks are going very well, we don&#8217;t wanna talk. Iran struck a school full of young girls, killing hundreds, or if we did it&#8217;s Obama&#8217;s fault. Give me ballroom or give me death: The solution to gun violence that kills 12 children a day, wounds 32 more and has affected over 390,000 kids since Columbine &#8211; is to build one rich white guy who&#8217;s never expressed any grief over any of them a gilded bunker of his own. The way to keep more people safe is to <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/video\/trump-administration-moves-to-bring-back-firing-squads-in-effort-to-ramp-up-executions\/#:~:text=The%20Justice%20Department%20is%20bringing%20back%20the,to%20expedite%20and%20expand%20federal%20death%20penalty\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> kill <\/a>as many as possible, including by firing squad. <\/p>\n<p>Also, Bill Maher, Hakeem Jeffries, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel are low IQ losers, James Comey tried to <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.nced.227449\/gov.uscourts.nced.227449.1.0_2.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">kill <\/a>and &#8220;inflict bodily harm on&#8221; him with &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/p\/no-james-comey-shouldnt-go-to-jail\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">aggravated beachy seashell pictures,&#8221; <\/a>he&#8217;s so &#8220;young, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/atrupar\/status\/2050309353706500307?s=46&amp;t=cdIVxMmIPG5io6ExW9A9zA\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">vital<\/a>, vibrant&#8221; he could&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2026\/apr\/29\/artemis-crew-white-house-trump\" target=\"_blank\">joined <\/a>the Artemis II astronauts easy like he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/acyn\/status\/2050313042865652008?s=46&amp;t=cdIVxMmIPG5io6ExW9A9zA\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">aced <\/a>his three screening tests for dementia &#8211; &#8220;A lion, a giraffe, a bear, and a shark. Which one is the bear?&#8221; &#8211; which the Villages audience def couldn&#8217;t do, ditto sketchy Harvard Law graduate Hussein Obama. America&#8217;s response to his musing what we&#8217;d do if a con man <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kes1doc_karen\/status\/191008007265001...\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">moron<\/a> turned up &#8211; &#8220;How do you get to be president and you&#8217;re stupid?&#8221;: &#8220;That would suck &#8211; we&#8217;d probably have unprovoked wars, high gas prices and all our allies would hate us,&#8221; &#8220;He&#8217;s so close to getting it,&#8221; &#8220;The Irony Meter is dead after spontaneously combusting,&#8221; and &#8220;You&#8217;re a fucking moron.&#8221; Also, <em>so <\/em>grotesquely weird.<\/p>\n<p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Latest bonkers Jesus\/doctor\/imbecile post\" class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"f9039a2f78f200d24947abaeae4a2cd8\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" id=\"3d5c0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/media-library\/latest-bonkers-jesus-doctor-imbecile-post.jpg?id=66676366&amp;width=980\"> <small class=\"image-media media-caption\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Caption...\">Latest bonkers Jesus\/doctor <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/cherijacobus.bsky.social\/...\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> with an umbilical-cord-eating eagle. Nothing to see here.<\/small><small class=\"image-media media-photo-credit\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Credit...\">Image from Truth Social<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Orwellian rules for what you can\/can\u2019t see\/say keep spooling out, lies sold as half-truths to justify a brazen, racist, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/02\/politics\/trump-nati...\" target=\"_blank\">whitewashing <\/a>of both present and past under the shameless <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/03\/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history\/\" target=\"_blank\">moniker of<\/a> content \u201cinappropriately disparaging Americans past or living,\u201d but always white. Among dozens of <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/umn.edu\/save-our-signs\/home\" target=\"_blank\">changes <\/a>at our National Parks, gone are signs about the contributions of Native Americans and women, warnings about climate change &#8220;not grounded in real science,&#8221; evidence of Founding Fathers owning slaves and explorers&#8217; atrocities against Native tribes. But you do get Trump&#8217;s loathsome <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/01\/09\/nx-s1-5672341\/national-park-updates-guidelines-stop-visitors-defacing-trump-picture-pass\" target=\"_blank\">mug <\/a>plastered on park <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/pressreleases\/department-interior-announces-modernized-more-affordable-national-park-access\" target=\"_blank\">passes, <\/a>like on our money, buildings, passports ad nauseum. Happily, fighting back for years have been patriots like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.resistancerangers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Resistance Rangers,<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:xgiwtxbtt6xc7low5vdz7dq4?ref_src=embed&amp;ref_url=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.democraticunderground.com%252F100221218535\" target=\"_blank\">Alt National Park Service<\/a> and whatever genius <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/girlsreallyrule\/status\/2047711570835...\" target=\"_blank\">slapped <\/a>these &#8220;Sex Offender&#8221; flyers across D.C.&#8217;s parks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"rm-embed twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"rebelmouse\" data-twitter-tweet-id=\"2047711570835210744\"><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/girlsreallyrule\/status\/2047711570835210744\"><\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Hence incrementally, far too slowly but feeding vital hope and our frayed spirits, the flip side of our grim absurdist timeline begins to emerge as Trump and his monstrous clowns flail, fail, dig their own dank holes. So many horrors should have sparked it -Gaza, ICE, USAID, the boundless greed, cruelty, stupidity. Instead, prices did it, a non-stop, staggering incompetence that saw people being screwed once too often and lied to about one too many senseless wars. Last week, Banksy registered his own anti-imperialist <a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/banksy-erects-anti-imper...\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">protest<\/a> in a middle-of-the-night <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXwf7pis6KT\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">dropping into <\/a>the heart of ceremonial London a large statue mocking such <em>Blind Patriotism. <\/em>Mirroring the classical style of surrounding monuments celebrating the British Empire&#8217;s inglorious colonial past, he presents a suited man, his flag flying into his face, one foot poised to step off into his own demise. Much like, you know.<\/p>\n<p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Banksy's new Blind Nationalism art work amidst London's colonial monuments\" class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"68b5b5f5b5a3771c1cf91816ca1f724d\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" id=\"e982c\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/media-library\/banksy-s-new-blind-nationalism-art-work-amidst-london-s-colonial-monuments.jpg?id=66676312&amp;width=980\"> <small class=\"image-media media-caption\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Caption...\">Banksy&#8217;s new Blind Nationalism art work amidst London&#8217;s colonial monuments<\/small><small class=\"image-media media-photo-credit\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Credit...\">Image from Banksy Instagram page <\/small><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2EN2kOjTx_Q&amp;list=RD2EN2kOjTx_Q&amp;start_radio=1\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"YouTube: Bruce Springsteen Live from Minneapolis, March 31 (first two songs)\">Kicking off<\/a> his <em>Land of Hope and Dreams<\/em><em> <\/em>American<a href=\"https:\/\/brucespringsteen.net\/\" target=\"_blank\"> tour <\/a>several weeks ago, Bruce Springsteen offered his own fiery rebuttal to &#8220;a corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless and treasonous administration,&#8221; which drew roars from a huge first night crowd in Minneapolis. Equal parts celebration and call to action, The Boss insisted, &#8220;This is still America, and &#8211; shades of the <em>Big Lebowski,<\/em> &#8220;this will not stand.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecurrent.org\/feature\/2026\/04\/01\/bruc...\" target=\"_blank\">Summoning <\/a>&#8220;the righteous power of art, music and rock and roll in dangerous times,&#8221; he asked the crowd to &#8220;join with us in choosing hope over fear, democracy over authoritarianism, the rule of law over lawlessness, ethics over unbridled corruption, resistance over complacency, unity over division, and peace over&#8230;.(lights come up to segue into) &#8220;WAR! What is it good for? Absolutely nothin&#8217;!&#8221; complete with <em>Rage Against the Machine&#8217;<\/em>s Tom Morello shredding a solo. A righteous, dynamic pair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube\"> <span class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"6968c8ad99d6322f2fb9b7bd9b95c9c4\" style=\"display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"auto\" lazy-loadable=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2EN2kOjTx_Q?rel=0&amp;list=RD2EN2kOjTx_Q\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/span> <small class=\"image-media media-caption\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Caption...\">&#8211; YouTube<\/small> <small class=\"image-media media-photo-credit\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Credit...\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2EN2kOjTx_Q&amp;list=RD2EN2kOjTx_Q&amp;start_radio=1\" target=\"_blank\">www.youtube.com<\/a> <\/small> <\/p>\n<p>In contrast, standing grotesque and slumped-shouldered in a dingy, empty corner, is the small, mad man-child who spent Monday bellowing to a weary world that Iran will be &#8220;blown off the face of the Earth&#8221; if it targets U.S. ships in the Strait of Hormuz, which his inane recklessness closed in the first place. Online, in &#8220;the most desperate shit&#8221; to ever make its demonic way from the White House, a juvenile lackey posted him saying, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WhiteHouse\/status\/2050588054461489494\" target=\"_blank\">Winning it&#8221; <\/a>on a loop <em>for over 60 minutes, <\/em>which still didn&#8217;t make it so. The text read, &#8220;Can&#8217;t stop, won&#8217;t stop.&#8221; Please fucking do. A horrified <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TadhgHickey\/status\/2050610000708481103\" target=\"_blank\">America:<\/a> &#8220;This is a real tweet from a real account about a real man who leads a real country.&#8221; Kyle Kulinski, on &#8220;the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MarcoFoster_\/status\/2049224015311446338\" target=\"_blank\">war criminal<\/a> of all war criminals&#8221; who makes genocidal threats and bleats about insults: \u201cWe are not fucking doing this anymore. You don&#8217;t get to say shit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Still, one Tom Wellborn<a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/home\/post\/p-195984019\" target=\"_blank\"> says <\/a>it best in, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/tomwellborn.substack.com\/p\/a-eulogy-for-the-worst-that-has-ever\" target=\"_blank\">A Eulogy for the Worst That Has Ever Drawn Breath<\/a>,\u201d subtitled \u201cBeing a Complete and Unflinching Account of the Most Loathsome Specimen Ever to Consume Resources, Occupy Space, and Insult the Patience of a Universe That Deserved So Much Better.&#8221; &#8220;There are villains, and then there are monsters, and then there are creatures so cosmically, transcendently&#8230; terrible that language itself recoils,&#8221; he begins. &#8220;Grammar buckles. Syntax weeps&#8230;He is this thing. He is the thing past the thing past the thing. He is the sub-basement of the human condition, the moldy crawlspace beneath that sub-basement, and the writhing centipede beneath <em>that.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em>&#8220;He has no morals. Not a single one. Not even the bad morals that at least imply a moral framework: the corrupt cop who loves his dog, the mob boss who goes to church. No. He exists in a morality vacuum so total that ethicists have proposed naming it after him&#8230;A being entirely without moral content. Not evil, because evil requires <em><\/em><em>intention<\/em>. Simply absent of the entire apparatus&#8230;A moral negative space shaped vaguely like a man&#8230;He has no empathy&#8230;.like a raisin&#8230;He is incapable of the most basic social theater that even <em>sociopaths<\/em> manage&#8230;.He takes without asking. He takes <em>everything<\/em> without asking. He takes things that aren\u2019t takeable&#8230;The principle being: <em>I can&#8230;.<\/em>He is stupid in a way that is almost <em>majestic.<\/em>..His stupidity (is) <em>total.<\/em> <em>Unified.<\/em>&#8230;He has been wrong about everything, always, without exception&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is callous the way concrete is callous: not through malice, not through choice, but through an utter <em>material<\/em> inability to register (another) person\u2019s pain&#8230;You could show him the face of grief, and he would wonder aloud if there was parking nearby&#8230;He is vicious the way a blunt instrument is vicious: through sheer, undirected force, through the momentum of his own awfulness&#8230;He is smelted fury with no purpose, unforged, unbent, uselessly molten&#8230;.(He is) a statistical outlier so extreme that evolution seems to be <em>embarrassed<\/em> by him, a glitch in the long project of civilization&#8230;And the most horrifying part&#8230;He will never know any of this. He will never know what he is.&#8221; Name it, damn it, take it down. Maine&#8217;s Graham Platner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XnLaj8nbOP0\" target=\"_blank\">hopes <\/a>to help do that. We wish him well. <\/p>\n<p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube\"> <span class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"d73c0b1340a62b4459765c0b16ecf74a\" style=\"display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"auto\" lazy-loadable=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XnLaj8nbOP0?rel=0&amp;start=1\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/span> <small class=\"image-media media-caption\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Caption...\">&#8211; YouTube<\/small> <small class=\"image-media media-photo-credit\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Credit...\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XnLaj8nbOP0&amp;t=1s\" target=\"_blank\">www.youtube.com<\/a> <\/small> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoo boy. The stupid and evil, somehow accelerating, burn. America&#8217;s so-called leader, the &#8220;Worst That Has Ever Drawn Breath,&#8221; manifests ever more cognitive dissonance on steroids. Absurd, addled, vindictive, looming above &#8220;a circus of death and chaos,&#8221; he commits war crimes, guts voting rights, plots devastation, abases decency, murders mercy, yet whines about mean jokes. 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