Today's Belle

The stakes are really high, and Republicans are losing, so they're trying to figure out how to kick the table over without making it look like they're fucking over the MAGA rubes - which, of course, was their plan the whole time.

I am wondering why they're going to meet at the Veep's place though.

My contention all along has been that Trump is a cat's paw - false front - patsy - whatever. He's there as a kind of grand diversion. While everybody's up in arms about what a total ass-wipe clown he is, behind the scenes, the Plutocrats are putting in place the mechanisms they'll need to rule this joint once they pull the lever that throws Trump out and puts Technobot Vance "in charge".

I just really don't quite understand why some people believe they can rule when they themselves know that cooperation and collaboration is how you have to do things if you want anything to get done.

Empires and monarchies and dictatorships always hollow themselves out and collapse under their own weight. And that whole process now takes an average of less than about 40 years - two generations - at the outside.

I'll say it again:

Better men than these jokers have been trying to conquer the world for 40,000 years.

And the world remains undefeated.