Yikes.

I wanted to use another word than "beejesus" but I heard recently that swear words in titles get bojoed in web crawlers and whatnot, so ya, I like this place, respect, in digital form. Maybe the Son of God and a little honey will get the spiders dancing...

So Trump just nominated Tillerson to Sec. of State and that idiot Rick Perry to Energy (oops), all the while dangling Mr. Romney around for sins against Das Pumpkinfuhrer in the primary and general election... petty doesn't even begin to describe it. All the while the conflicts of interest keep piling up as the kids who run his company keep sitting-in on international meetings, and new wars are being nurtured with wimps like China. Unfavored stocks are being targeted and most-likely shorted by the Apricot-in-wanting, making companies lose billions in but a few nanoseconds, all in the name of profit and vengeance. Not to mention that Ayn Rand may just see her vision implemented sooner than anyone imagined... This is but scratching the surface of some random Siberian swamp...

Ya, I am scared. Scared for the people, the Republik, and everything that entails the pursuit of happiness. Trump and his Band of Morans will do some serious harm to our country before all is said and done. However, my fear is not reserved only for the Republicans, as the Democrats have shown, there is much more to be afraid about... join me below the fold.

Oh, no fold... good riddance. Since the election, we have been watching Democrats commit seppuku on the sword of neoliberalism, which is kind of good news. The problem of course, is that the sword is then hoisted high-up in the air, and proclaimed the savior of future contests. Maybe all that corporate blood made it stronger. To say the Democrats have not learned a single thing from the shellacking they just took in the election, is an understatement. I won't break-down all the excuses used so far, I think we all have at least a minor from Think Progress on those talking points.

It is one thing to deflect blame, but it is beyond the pale the ugliness that has reared its head among our ranks, one simply need go read Markos' lovely diary berating coal miners where he's pretty much happy that they might die. Oh, sorry, lose their healthcare coverage, death not guaranteed! It is time for a new term, one I thought would never see the day, compassionate liberalism. Yes, we too have a cadre of selfish assholes in our ranks! (this military sucks...)

So here we are as the Democratic Party line seems to be to berate every single group of the electorate, diced into perfect little boxes, except those invited to Hillary's Big Donor party tonight... they are the real heroes dontcha know, they do the dicing. Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi are our new leaders, promising a bright future of change, well, at least Schumer sees the light, Nancy not so much. Hey, she's new at this leader thing, give her time! According to polls and people in the know who got everything wrong, Joe Biden is the new frontrunner for 2020, Change We Can Be- ah fuck it, whatever.

Hey I like Joe Biden, I just don't want to vote for him. Have a beer? Anytime. If I could choose one person to be my honorary uncle, it would be a three-way tie between Jesus-Santa and Joe Biden. Maybe I would vote for him to be brewmaster... but sorry, I am done with the corporate wing of this Party and that includes Uncle Joe. Unfortunately for me, it seems the corporate-neoliberal wing (yes, that is a thing) is going to win the day....again. Our "leaders" are old, sold-out and pathetic, our "Party" is blaming everyone and everything they can spit on (must be raining), we are having parties for the wealthy, and progressives are once again being told to wait their turns and to keep their big ideas to themselves (aka shut-up). Hey Bernie, how is outreach going? Let's ask the media.... off to YouTube!

So ya I am scared of the Democrats, because I have gotten used to being scared of Republicans, easy-peasy, but this fear, this new fear, has truly shaken me. I always counted on Democrats to at least be that mythical counterweight to Republicanism, but I see both of them partying real hard on the same side of that scale... and I can't help but wonder... didn't we just lose an election? We have zero power yet I am being told hourly we won the election... that Democrats have the mandate! To do what, that has yet to be determined, but don't let yourself get entangled in facts and numbers... don't even get me started on those fucking biased numbers... all that matters is that

We won, and that scares the shit out of me.