Hello Lake County friends and voters who briefly lost their minds and helped select Payosa Loco, the Crazy Clown, as chief executive of the United States of America Corporation. 

Buoyed by sycophants like Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Senator Lyndsey Graham and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Payosa Loco has fired the Board of Directors of the Kennedy Center, has censored the Constitution, tossed allies and the electorate under the bus and gone golfing.

Hey, the CEO of the United States of America Corporation can go golfing any time he wants, you little lost citizens of what was once the free world.

You’ve got to check out a wonderful article by George Packer in the May issue of The Atlantic magazine titled The Hollow Men.  

Packer noted the culture of acquiescence and subservience so prevalent in the present regime of the corporation. After the infamous Volodymyr Zelensky White House visit in late February it was notable how quick lackeys such as Rubio, Graham and Johnson all made appearances before the press to say nothing had changed as America switched sides in that conflict, that Zelensky was ungrateful and may have even started the war with Russia and perhaps should resign if he didn’t agree with the tenets of USA Corp.

The three blind mice “Having emptied themselves of the capacity or will for independent judgement…” according to Packer, have hollowed themselves, accepted humiliation, given themselves to the leader.
Hello Rep. Pete Stauber. Sound familiar? All hail to the leader, all hail to Payosa Loco! Go find him on the golf course to pay homage and bow to his will.

“Ritualized humiliation is essential to an authoritarian regime,” Packer writes. “Trump forces aides, advisers and the friendly press he allows in the room to utter absurdities on his behalf in order to bind them closer to him and thereby frees himself from restraint. Almost immediately, it seems, they cease to be troubled by conscience or even motivated by fear. As they become more machinelike, they forget that they ever held a different idea, or any idea at all.”

Oh, you neighborly Rumpt voters, what do you see in all this? 

Have you suspended belief in a functioning democracy like the knuckleheads mentioned above? 
Do you really believe this will all turn out well?

Do you really believe that our Canadian friends have taken advantage of us, the richest country in the world, the most powerful country in the world. Please explain how our friends in Mexico have taken advantage of our apparently feeble and powerless nation that somehow still manages to run the world. Do you really believe that our longtime allies in Europe have taken advantage of us in this global economy that runs on the American dollar?

Ask a nearby billionaire if he or she really believes that things aren’t going well for them. There are plenty to choose from right now in the Payosa Loco administration.

People, we’re getting screwed by our own people, not some slippery suspect rogue nation.
We are that slippery suspect rogue nation now operating as the United States of America Corporation. We are the trouble-maker in the room.

The daily raft of lies and misinformation continues.

Oh you believers who find their news-lies on outlets like One America News Network (propaganda) or Facebook (fact checking no more) or any of those blathering podcasts so prevalent with conspiracy and disinformation and grievance. It’s darn convenient to say that all sides of the political spectrum engage in such tomfoolery. You know, make sure the blame is extended in a fair and balanced manner, that everybody is in on the propaganda spree so supported by the shareholders of the United States of America Corporation.

All I can say is that the majority of our news-lies come from unregulated sources that don’t share the same professional integrity that journalists in the shrinking newspaper and news magazine industry share. Or the public news outlets and the ABCs, NBCs, CBSs or BBCs.

You know, those news organizations where you get fired if you make up a story not grounded in fact. Real fired. There is no “alternate fact” world in what is now called the “legacy media.”

You fake your sources and create a lie in print or on the broadcast airwaves and you get real fired. Not the made up and scripted “You’re fired” in the celebrity world of reality TV where Payosa Loco lived for 14 years and faked his way through life as a “successful businessman.”

Kill the government. Suspend belief in the Constitution. Tariff the world for fun and games. Sell crypto currency with the presidential seal of approval.

You’re making enemies, pal. 

Even good old Ronald Reagan had something to say back in the day when members of his party were shouting for “protectionism.” Back in 1986-87 an energetic Japan was in the crosshairs with a booming economy and a trade imbalance with the USA. Tough tariffs will bring Japan to heel, those alarmists were saying. 

In a talk to the nation, good old Ronald Reagan warned against fighting with friends and allies, warned against the impulse of authoritarianism in dealing with the world. 

That was 1987. This is 2025 and good old Ronald Reagan, I wasn’t much of a fan in those days, spoke to the impulses we are living today.

Folks, do not acquiesce to the CEO of the United States of America Corporation and his foolish loyal minions, do not be subservient. That way lies authoritarianism and that unhealthy choice is a threat far too close these days.