Entartete Kunst

You have to hand it to DOGE.

There is no way the new Muskite Junta could have so quickly and “efficiently” accellerated from 1933 to 1937 without the help of “DOGE”.

I mean, the First Amendment (RIP 1791 – 2025) had a good run, but now people can suffer irreperable harm, such as visa revocation, abduction by non-uniformed, masked state secret police, and be disappeared because that person penned an OP/ED for a school paper or attended a demonstration.

The new legal standard for abrogation of what had until recently been our freedom of speech is “creating a ruckus.” It’s nice that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has, in just one generation, become an avatar for, and proponent of, precisely the sort of anti-American, dictatorial, authoritarian behavior for which his parents fled Batista’s Cuba.

While our President attemps to rule by fiat, insulting and threatening our closest allies while again cozying up to the world’s most vicious and violent dictators, the world pivots to continue without us. And they will thrive.

While the UK may have been the first country in modern times to vote to “impose economic sanctions on itself” through Brexit, we’re very much doing the same thing as Trump’s tariffs result in instability and threaten even higher inflation, trade wars, shortages, and recession. Maybe worse.

The United States is already falling behind in almost every important metric that matters to nominally first-world countries, like fighting disease, longevity, and infant mortality. But MAGA and the Muskite Junta are the contemporary functional equivalent to the decrepit socialist regimes of the 1980s eastern bloc.

From Trabants to Teslas.

The result of withdrawal from the world, bullying of allies, cozying with dictators, tariffs, and DOGE cuts will make Americans dumber, poorer, sadder, angrier, and less safe, and more sick. Idiot eugenicist Bobby Kennedy, Jr. will definitely see to that last one as measles continues to spread in a country that is soon going to fall behind the poorest failed states in terms of basic public health.

Meanwhile, absolute morons are busy using apps on their personal phones to send emojis while discussing air raids in the Middle East. It’s easy to say that these are not serious people, but they are. They are as serious as cancer. What they’re not is competent people. Or empathetic people. Or thoughtful people. Or law-abiding people. Or honest people. Or people who respect the Constitution.

Your jingoism is meaningless if it is in furtherance of un-American ends and means.

All of this is to say that I don’t know where you are in your life’s journey, but if you’re young now might be a good time to get an emigration strategy going. As we continue our slide into a sort of Gilead-but-run-by-morons-and-Roy-Cohn-impressionists, get your shit and get out of here. No one should have to live even a day under this absurd but malicious and violent dictator.