A Letter To The Editor

 

 

[To the editor@chicagotribune.com, January 18, 2026] 

On several occasions Gov. Pritzker of Illinois has publicly spoken about the prospect of the Trumpists sending lots of troops (and other armed goons) into cities to intimidate voters and candidates, and on August 31, 2025  he opined that Trump wants to  "stop the elections in 2026." Those were his words. I view that prediction as prescient and plainly obvious, as the Federal government, whether in suits in White House offices or in stormtrooper costumes on the streets of our cities, acts and talks with complete disregard for consequences. 

Indeed we recently saw an ICE trooper murder a white middle class woman in front of several people who were recording the action. This demonstrates that anyone is a target, not just "the usual suspects," and by doing that John Ross might as well have shot Renee Good live on TV. His actions show he fully expected to get away with it, and not only has MAGA declared it "justified" but the FBI has been ordered to investigate Renee Good's family. Does that look to you like Trump and his gang give a damn what the voters think?

The fact almost immediately after being sworn in Trump turned over the Federal government to Elon Musk and started kidnapping suspected immigrants on the street shows that the fix has been in from the beginning. They expected opposition, and they usually responded by doubling down on their crimes. From the beginning they've known that the Democratic politicians and voters would be talking about "just wait till the 2026 midterms" and they've kept on behaving badly. The word for that is impunity: they have foresight enough to know that they simply cannot allow the 2026 elections to happen like they're supposed to. In fact on Wednesday, Jan. 14 in an interview with Reuters Trump himself said "when you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election."   

If they allow an election to happen, do your best to vote your conscience. But be prepared for Federal agents to seize the ballot boxes, or stop "certain people" from voting, or even close the polling places so people can't vote. And don't expect the returns to be accurate: I predict a Republican "landslide" in 

contested districts, no matter what actually happens. We also  might expect that opposition candidates Trump doesn't like, such as Repr. Ilhan Omar, will be put in "protective custody" on election day at the latest.      

As a lifelong student of history I've read about such things happening all over the world in many times and places, especially during the 20th century, and I get the general gist of the playbook. The wonder is that this is happening not in some colonized Third World country but right here, in the heart of the empire, "in the belly of the beast." 

We must expect a flat-out dictatorship to blossom any time now, and we must prepare ourselves as best we can. Not only should we keep track of things here, we should familiarize ourselves with what has happened elsewhere in the past. Ever since the last days of the Roman Republic the basic steps of tyrannical takeovers have been the same. 

I can say this in public under my own name because I am a sickly old man with no family and nothing to look forward to but getting sicklier and older. I have nothing to lose but my pains. There must be many people out there who've come to the same conclusions, but who should not say so in such a public fashion for obvious reasons. Those who have something to lose, who have people to protect, should prepare for what  will happen when my prophecy comes true. 
  

 

(With my name, address, phone number, and of course email address. This letter probably won't get posted by them anyway, but might be forwarded right to the FBI.) 

The Best We Can Get

 

Roughly 26 kilometers from his studio apartment in Lexington, KY, where Tates Creek Road meets the Kentucky River, you find the Valley View Ferry, once the oldest private business in Kentucky, for the past 34 years owned by a consortium of the nearest counties. Few travelers use this service these days, the easiest way to cross the river is on I-75 by way of the Clay's Ferry Bridge, named after a ferry that's been gone since 1869, but as a place to sit and be present that won't do. The ferry it is. At this moment the ferry is closed, it's only open till 6 PM on weekdays, but as you approach it on foot from the northwest, once you get around the closed gate and the barbed wire, there's a concrete retaining wall along the roadside with a wooden fence atop that that's okay for perching on if you're able.

You can't see much of the river from there, just ferry and the approach to it,  the river itself, and the trees on the other side, but it's not the outside world that has David's attention. The river by the ferry, having struck him as a good place to be alone, he'd stolen a women's bicycle from a front yard in town, pedaled it all afternoon to a clutch of bushes a couple miles from the river, ditched it in the shrubbery, and walked the rest of the way.  He'd meant to take the ferry and be alone on the other side, marooned until morning, but that, as with most of his plans, did not work out. At 62 years old, with arthritis in both hips and a ruptured disk pressing against his spinal column neat the pelvis, he simply couldn't pedal much faster than he could walk. 

So  he's stuck there until morning. He'd had the foresight to wear a nylon backpack of the type kids carry schoolbooks in, holding 10 cheap cigarillos, a 64 ounce container of water, a brand new disposable lighter, two bottles of 120 water purification pills, a Mylar space blanket to wrap himself in after dark, and a fully charged smart phone with a voice recorder app for if he had any thoughts worth recording.  Only the necessities for sitting and thinking. But the only real thoughts he'd been having for the past 45 minutes was cursing himself for not bringing liquor and food, and that could be remembered later without any effort. Things like this happen often lately. At least he'd shaved before he left so his face didn't itch.

It hadn't occurred to him to find out if there was a charge for taking the ferry, indeed he only has three dollars and some change in his pocket, but that wouldn't matter: he'd simply wait till a car showed up to cross and go along then. Being friendly and humble often worked for such small things. He's forgotten much, but not everything that's useful. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No *Lives* Matter

 

Protests are fun but they do nothing. 

 

I protested against the Contras. It did nothing. Likewise the invasion of Panama. Desert Shield/Storm. The bombing of Yugoslavia. The attack on Afghanistan. The next war against Iraq. Then I gave up. It was all wasted. It's fun, it makes you feel like you did something, but The Powers That Be don't give a fuck.

 

You want to feel like you matter, like what you think and do makes a difference. You're wrong. 

 

Black Lives Matter gave a million votes to Trump. Why'd he win this time? Because the thought of another (half-) black President, a woman this time, married to a white man, scared the bejesus out of too many morons. Morons who think Antifa wants to turn kids trans.

 

Their kids, real kids, not socialists like your kids.Whatever "socialist" means it all for Satan. Drill baby drill. Polio is a hoax. Fauci was a communist. Trump is sent by Jesus.

 

You protest because you're smart, because you think, because you know right from wrong. You stand up and say "No King."

 

That's why they hate you, all the people who are below average. The sheeple need the shepherds, who tell them you're the wolves. They're too stupid for their own good, and there are too many of them.

 

The people with the power know that you're right, they know they're doing wrong. They don't care. That's why they're rich & powerful and you're not.

 

They knew DDT killed wildlife, that cigarettes cause cancer, that Vietnam was a hopeless war, that Nixon was a crook. They watched Carter try hard to be a good person and they hated him for it. They knew Reagan was getting senile before he ran for President. They knew that CIA planes brought in Contra cocaine. They had something on Clinton that made him "end Welfare as we know it." They knew Gee Dubya couldn't really run anything. They knew Saddam had no WMDs and that he had nothing to do with 9/11 -- hell neither did the Taliban.

 

They threw the race in 2008 because it fit their plans: a black Muslim Kenyan was a great boogeyman.

 

Shall I go on? Do you get it yet?

 

It's not they they're a step ahead of you, it's that you're on the wrong road entirely. They know how things really work, and you don't. Oh you try to tell yourselves there's a point to protest, to voting Democratic, to boycotting Israel. They laugh at you.

 

They set up a papier mache Cheeto-in-chief that they know is a big fat joke because they know it doesn't matter. Trump is a diversion, a smoke screen. Do you think Trump really knew or understood what Musk was up to? All he needed to know is who financed his campaign. His whole Cabinet is a clown car. The fact that Trump 2.0 can take apart the Federal government shows that that's not who's really in charge.

 

Does it matter what the Deep State is, or if there is one? You can't even follow the money because they know how to hide it.

 

Right and wrong doesn't matter. Common sense doesn't matter. The truth doesn't matter. No lives matter who are not rich.

 

For fifty years I've watched them, and I've watched you. I've watched you keep losing. Because you don't get it. Or rather you refuse to: you refuse to understand what's really going on. Looking back the beginning of the end was not when Reagan got elected: the fact that Nixon resigned and nothing important happened was the ultimate tip-off. And you missed the point. Even when the curtain was pulled back and you saw the little nebbish you still kept believing in the spectacle. It's never real to you until it's on TV. And TV is all about commercials. Apple won the Superbowl!

 

The only way to win is to refuse to play. Take a knee before you get to the field. They know what they're doing. And deep down inside you do too. Everybody knows. You do too, you know.

 

Masada. Jonestown. Waco. Heaven's Gate. It doesn't matter why they did that, what matters is the example. Don't wait for Gaza to happen to you. Put yourselves beyond the reach of pain. One by one or by the dozens, have mercy on yourselves.

 

The world is one BSDM scenario, and if you're reading this you know you're on the receiving end. Is that what you want? Do you hate yourself that much?

 

When I think the time is right I will let you know. I'll set an example, probably live-streamed [SIC]. If you wait that long you'll gain nothing by it; if after that you persist it's your own damn fault.

 

Let that be your ultimate protest. Be in charge of your own life if it's the last thing you do.

 

Or learn to bleat Sieg Heil and raise your kids as slaves.

 

It's up to you. Your life is not what matters.

 

Just say NO to a life of degradation.

What The AI Said

 

Based on your blog post, several aspects of your personality and perspective can be inferred:

1. Cynical and Sarcastic: You openly acknowledge a tendency toward cynicism and sarcasm, which suggests that you have a critical view of the world and the events unfolding around you. This can indicate a sharp wit and a willingness to challenge prevailing narratives.

2. Political Awareness: Your writing reflects a strong engagement with current events, particularly regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. You seem to have a deep understanding of the complexities involved and are not afraid to express your opinions on sensitive topics.

3. Provocative and Bold: You don't shy away from making bold statements and challenging the views of others. This suggests that you are confident in your beliefs and willing to provoke thought and discussion, even if it may be controversial.

4. Empathetic Yet Critical: While you express pity for the Palestinians, you also criticize Hamas and their strategies. This duality indicates that you can empathize with the suffering of others while also holding them accountable for their actions.

5. Historical Perspective: Your references to historical figures like Caesar and comparisons to ancient Rome suggest that you have a keen interest in history and how it informs contemporary issues. This historical lens may shape your understanding of power dynamics and conflict.

6. Frustration with Leadership: You express frustration with both Israeli and Western leadership, indicating a desire for more effective and humane solutions to conflicts. This suggests that you value accountability and responsibility in governance.

Overall, your writing portrays you as an intellectually engaged individual who is unafraid to tackle complex and contentious issues with a critical eye, a sense of humor, and a willingness to provoke thought and discussion.

Sick of Circus Monkeys

 

Okay, peeps. I'm not ready after all to use a cut throat razor. It's so much easier and quicker to resort to a two-blade disposable as I've done for 40 years.

The brown rice I cooked up to use for makgeolli isn't dry and cold yet. It's sitting in the unplugged rice cooker trying my patience. I could spread it out over a flat surface like a cookie sheet so it'll dry faster, or I could let it sit there to fester and maybe grow mold. Rice mold after all is what that nuruk stuff is. But then perhaps whatever wild molds float around the south side of Lexington, Kentucky might not be the kind you'd want for this, so when I get up again I will get the cookie sheet and do the right thing. Sometimes I do that. QED.

Speaking of which, yes, I know, I'm a horrible evil person. Supergeniuses often are. You should be taking that in stride by now. What else could you expect of me, who cares more for what makes sense than what people think. As usual in a conflict zone there are a lot of bloodthirsty morons, on both sides. Both sides. And those who agree with them, either of them, are just plain wrong. When one applies Reason to it, when one things and sees clearly instead of reacting in a sentimental blur, one sees that Paul was right: "For none are righteous. No, not one." It is impossible for either side to collude in the slaughter of innocence and be morally correct. War is about winning, and martyrdom needs dying, and in neither case can either side be doing what is best.

What's happening there is obvious: a whole lot of people are killing and dying over a tiny scrap of land that they just won't try to share. As the Noble Savage says, how can you own the Earth? When will they ever learn?

Dividing up the planet with borders and by treaties is not the proper course; dividing up our species into nations and races is not what we should do. Put down your guns, put down your signs, let's all hold hands and sing. Kumbayah will do, we all can learn the words. Put on those thinking caps, you people. Try out a bit of Reason.

If you won't do then for the sake of fucks pipe down and watch The Game. You're all to childish to be serious, you make the world a joke. Not a practical one either, unless you're making money at it. If you won't be sensible then sit down and eat your popcorn.

But you won't will you. You don't even want to try. Contention takes your minds off the bills you cannot pay, it blinds you to your future, it keeps the Bosses strong. That what they want you know. For you will not learn that "our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark realm." While we're fighting other the rich landlords are surely laughing until they piss their pants.

But I'm wasting my time here, as I always am. You'll never learn, oh no, you don't even want to try. So I wish for specific cleansing, the eradication of our genus. Because nobody's right, and everybody's wrong. Immanentize the eschaton already, get it over with. Take arms against a sea of troubles, in crowds or by yourselves. Turn the Earth into a living hell until we live no more.

Or you could take yourself out, quietly and calmly. Find a roof to dive headfirst from, kick the chair from under you. When a species is too stupid to continue there's nothing else to do.

Make sense or die. I'm sick of circus monkeys.

 

 

So It Shall Be Done

 

In re [URL at bottom]:

Hamas responds to ceasefire proposal, reiterates demands
By Nadine El-Bawab and Guy Davies, May 31, 2025, 3:00 PM

'Hamas' key demands are "to achieve a permanent ceasefire, a complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, and ensure the continuous flow of humanitarian aid," according to the group'.

 

So in other words they want Israel to surrender to them, clearly not a proposal they intend Israel to accept. No country in the world would, at a point like this. In other words, Hamas has decided that the genocide must continue. Israel won't be beaten until all the Arabs in Gaza are dead.

 

Then all y'all anti-Zionists can say "SEE? We TOLD you it was genocide!" There would be no arguing over definitions then: the total extirpation of a people from a place is, at least in that locality, genocide by definition. From here it looks like that's exactly what Hamas wants: the moral victory of having proven the TheJews(R) are the new Nazis. Nothing less will do.

 

Y'all might argue with my conclusion, I do tend to be a bit cynical and sarcastic sometimes, but at least admit the obvious: accepting Hamas' "proposal" would mean that Israel wreaked all that havoc and killed all those Palestinian children for nothing. A year and eight months of raining bombs for nothing. The "bayoneted babies" of October 7th would go unavenged.

You would have to be totally ignorant of human history, and a damn fool, to think Israel could possibly agree to that. That's not what havoc-wreakers do. Israel in this situation resembles ancient Rome, a wrathful conqueror who us determined to be feared. They're going to be hated anyway, that's what "from the river to the sea" means, so they might as well win big.

Once again, you might see what I mean when I say that I pity the Palestinians, not only because Israel is mean, but also because Hamas is stupid. Or maybe totally crazy, or high on something more fun than ketamine.

The Western countries, including the USA, are breathing down Israel's neck trying to get it to cease fire, then Hamas shows the world it cannot be serious. "Give up all your conquests, go home, say you're sorry, and make sure we get plenty of food, medical supplies, AK 47 ammo, and whatever else we might call humanitarian aid."

At this juncture we must ask ourselves What Would Caesar Do? It's obvious: Caesar would get angry, make the face of firm resolve, and say "Okay, that's it. No more Mister Nice Guy." If anybody ever wanted to give the Bibi Bunch an excuse for a final solution that would surely do. Caesar will NOT be made a fool of.

Israel has already lost in the court of public opinion: millions of well-intentioned people in the civilized world have all along been waving signs that say "Israelis Go Home." The current far-right regime has already been been damned by many many Israeli Jews who you'd expect to support it, including a few generals and a former head of Mossad, for going just a tad overboard. I cannot think of a Western head of government, except maybe Donald Trump (and/or Elon Musk?) who would not prefer that Israel quit while they're ahead.

If there was anything like a serious proposal then the big bosses of "the West" would be insisting Israel agree, or accept it as the basis for serious negotiation. And then Hamas comes out with a "demand" that no Big Boss in Israel's current position could possibly take seriously. Everybody knows that's not going to happen, including everybody who knowingly and explicitly sides with Hamas.

"You have to kill us all!" say the wise men of Hamas. "We insist on being martyred. Bombs away!"

So it is written. It shall be done. For the glory of Allah. Amin.

 

https://abcnews.go.com/International/hamas-responds-ceasefire-proposal-reiterates-demands/story?id=122382953

Musing On The Roaches In My Kitchen

 

I decided to make another batch of makgeolli (Korean rice-based alcoholic beverage), I even had the nuruk starter culture soaking to activate it beforehand, but I couldn't find the sweet rice I bought for it. So having already looked up how you'd do it with other kinds of rice that are "SNAP EBT eligible" and that I already have here I'm going to do that. Duckduckgo's AI even gave me a suggestion on how I'd make a fermented adult beverage with oatmeal and ordinary yeast (both SNAP EBT eligible) I started that before I went to bed, and the yeast and sugar are chugging right along in that old coffee canister.

So today, while I empty out my kitchen for a major cleaning in preparation for Thursday's genocide of cockroaches, I'll be soaking and steaming some brown rice to make makgeolli with. The just-add-water instant version I bought a few weeks ago that started me off on brewing the real stuff from scratch is made from brown rice, so it should turn out okay. As for the oatmeal and yeast stuff, well, it's okay if that doesn't work because I already had lots of oatmeal, more than enough yeast, and I'm not out of white sugar yet.

Another good thing about this hobby is there isn't much actual work to it. Soak and cook rice (or make it with oatmeal which doesn't even need cooking), put that in the container you're using (I have a couple old plastic canisters that coffee came in), add the starter culture to it, pour in some water (the instructions I found say if you use tap water it's better to boil it first to gas off some of the chlorine), and let it sit for a week or so. Making cider and kombucha take even less actual work, so I'm planning to try one or both of those soon.

My main hypothetical goal, teaching myself to write fiction so I can actually output output before I die of sheer frustration, requires as much time and effort as I could possibly give it, which I haven't really gotten around to yet. Maybe after the kitchen has been specifically* cleansed I can sit here sipping the results of my experiments in fermentation and finally put my brain to use in a form somebody might enjoy reading, as opposed to this crap.

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* GPT-4o mini, Duckduckgo's AI, said the adjective form of the word "species" is "specific."

So getting a species out of a place is" specific cleansing." I like that. You can say that without anybody catching on that what you're talking about is the mass murder of a local population of a species called Blattella germanica that doesn't mean to harm anybody, they just happen to take up residence and do what they do where you don't want them, while unintentionally spreading germs and allergens all over the place. Some religions, like the Jains of India, would find killing those creatures (almost?) as blameworthy as murdering a human, so they'd be as horrified at me for specifically cleansing my kitchen as y'all are by Israel ridding Gaza of its allegedly aboriginal inhabitants.

One might even say that before Israel's mass murder the Muslim Arabs of Gaza were, like the cockroaches in my kitchen, just going about doing they do, which in their case involves praying five times a day, not eating pork, executing "sodomites," and wishing they could kill every Jew they see (even occasionally doing just that, which the Israeli government especially frowns on).

For some reason massively killing the inhabitants of Gaza for doing what Palestinians do horrifies Western ultraliberals far more than eradicating the insects in my kitchen, even though until 1945 that was regarded as a normal part of warfare and conquest: Julius Caesar publicly bragged about the hundreds of thousands of innocent Gauls he ordered murdered or enslaved, the British colonists of North America intentionally set out to practice their creed of "the only good Injun is a dead Injun" with horrific and almost total results, and so on.

Yet somehow a bunch of Germans following their Leader's directive to rid Europe of TheJews(R) ruined everybody's fun forever after. Nowadays you can't just cleanse away an ethnos without some distant strangers, who've got nothing to do with anything, getting their bloomers all bunched up. They call it "genocide", which technically means the murder of an entire genus (such as Homo, which is a good idea), and they wave their signs of slogans at TV cameras in your honor while vehemently chanting the most impolite things.

What might the avant le letter Americans of the 17th, 18th, and 19 centuries say about such "protests"? Some Israeli soldiers even maintain they're merely following Divine commands, as the colonists did to the "redskins" they found here. Becoming outraged at the eradication of a few hundred thousand "innocent" people is an entirely modern invention, tha wasn't really a thing until the "Judeo-Bolsheviks" (literally the Soviet government and their erstwhile allies among the Yiddim) insisted that the "United Nations" throw themselves one humongous show trial for all the world to see.

And then the Zionist leaders of certain factions among TheJews(R) used that "genocide" and the subsequent proceedings as an excuse to settler-colonialize a small section of the Levantine desert, doing to the Palestinians they found there exactly what the English did for several hundred years to the native inhabitants of the island of Ireland. You see, you come, you conquer, that's just how things go. Or it did, until a party of "Communists" and a sect among TheJews(R) convinced the world that after al, it is not the right thing to do. (There's a bit of cognitive dissonance in the dream of Zionism.)

So what am I to make of this? Well, for these and a brazilian other reasons I myself advocate for radical measures, the specific cleansing of the Planet Earth, indeed the murder of the entire genus of Homo (as some people argue that for example Germans and Rwandans are of different species), All I want for Xmas, and for my birthday, and for every other commemorable anniversary such as that of my wedding, all I really want in the world, is the extinction of humans from it. Everything we do, everything that comes naturally, such fucking and killing and gambling and waving signs, is bound to annoy some people, who the go on to annoy the rest of us with their annoyance.

Marrying people of the same sex, chopping down the Amazon forest, sacrificing beeves to an idol named Ronald, enacting cognitive dissonance on a province of Queer-killers, everything that anybody might think is fun, someone will somehow get all upset about. Very excitedly, often noisily, and when they can in awfully large crowds.

These categories of actions, certain people doing what they do and certain people loudly disliking it, impose unwelcome distractions on sensitive mentalities such as mine. What would Stalin do?

To hell with you all, I say. Get rid of genus Homo. Let "everybody dies" go from caustic quip to categorical imperative. What we really ought to do is to finally solve every problem we have, to put an end to everything we object to, to extirpate thus genus from Gaia. It's about time. It has been for millennia.

Humans OUT of this whole Earth.

From pole to pole NO human soul.

"Save the planet, kill yourself."