Morford: California floods, America burns, irony explodes

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California floods, America burns, irony explodes
By Mark Morford on January 6, 2017 at 7:27 PM


Clever. But also, not at all a joke.



The bloated orange president-elect is in love with dumb-thug Russians, tweets about himself in the third person and is readying his murder of conspiracy-minded billionaire-idiots to lead the nation into the darkest, most shamelessly corrupt period in our short history, all undertaken with a sexual predator’s shrug and an engraved gold pinky ring that spells out #-l-o-s-e-r.

Meanwhile, the 7th-largest economy in the world just underwent truly biblical flooding – and not necessarily the helpful kind – following a half-decade of being parched to the bone, thanks to weather extremes wrought, unstoppably, of climate change. Cars are going driverless, homes are going Big Brother, women are being slammed back to 1950, immigrants are in mourning, Democrats are going underground and stunned Millennials are moving back in with their wary parents as the planet records yet another year as the hottest on human record, shuddering and sighing and girding for much – and with Trump, we do mean much – worse to come. And that’s just yesterday.

Are you tracking it all? Can you possibly navigate this bizarre Reverso-World, much less integrate? Don’t worry; no one else can, either. Trust me when I say: Hard and fast and with a thick, bloody thud do the news items hit the wires these days, a ferocious cavalcade of astonishing invention and feral-but-intermittent beauty, completely shot through, quite literally, with staggering amounts of horror and moral abuse.


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There is no real solution, you see. There is no immediate remedy to the fact that we are about to be overtaken by a horde of scorched-earth nutball extremists who make G.W. Bush’s crew look like squirt guns at an AK-47 convention. Trump’s GOP is easily the most hardcore band of extremist white-male sociopaths the nation has seen since the Civil War. Is that an exaggeration? It isn’t.
Then again, not everyone is miserable. America just forfeited every ounce of international goodwill it earned from the imminently graceful, intelligent Obama era. But what we’ve lost in admiration from the world’s finest leaders and its greatest democracies, we’ve gained in sadistic lust from its cruelest warlords, dictators, terrorists, thugs, criminals, trolls, charlatans, con men, rapists, prison operators, gun makers, KKK members, pharmaceutical executives, coal plant owners and oil magnates – just about anyone, really, who champions the quick and lucrative destruction of human life as we know it. Don’t you know? Terrorists love Trump. Ditto strongmen, killers, torturers, neo-Nazis, people who burn holes into human skin with lit cigarettes. Russia’s oligarchs cheered his victory. This is what we’re in for. This is how you know.

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1. "There is no immediate remedy to the fact that we are

about to be overtaken by a horde of scorched-earth nutball extremists who make G.W. Bush’s crew look like squirt guns at an AK-47 convention."

Bittersweet reality that if we succeed in protecting our liberal democracy from the destructive hoards, as we should, the trumpsters will never be driven to repentance by hitting bottom.

I so understand those who wish they could secede and leave the red states to themselves. Of course, without wealth transfers and regulation from blue states the south and southwest would entirely predictably degrade into impoverished crime-ridden "third-world"-style nations run for a wealthy few. Today's trumpsters would be left behind in poor, aging communities as their children crossed the border to seek better lives.