izmeina: A skeleton playing a pipe (Mr Bones)
dr trumpenstein operates on his latest patient - Uncle Sam

So apparently a whole bunch of states in the USA will be open for business today. That should be rather.... interesting.
Meanwhile the Governor of Colorado has to get his minions to go sneaking about in the dead of night merely to guarantee the arrival of supplies from South Korea. Because the trumpish pirates are everywhere.


I am so so glad to live in the ever so boring not so wild west of Oz where the death toll from the virus is not yet in double digits. Total cases for all of Australia is 6,767 confirmed with 93 who have died

The state government recently relaxed the numbers of people in public gatherings from 2 up to 10. Unlike over east, I never got the impression that they were strictly enforcing the rules but rather relying on public good will. No one here is getting slammed by the cops for sitting on park benches or eating out on the streets.

The state and international borders are still closed. The odd flight is still coming in but all the passengers are being put in quarantine.

At this rate, it is looking increasingly likely that more restrictions could be removed within weeks rather than months. Schools officially reopened on Wednesday. I did 2 Raine Square bottle shop bus runs on Tuesday and Thursday and noticed the big difference it made. Tuesday was still ghost town territory while on Thursday the public transport had returned to an almost normal weekday schedule and there were a lot more people out and about on the streets

In the meantime, in honour of a certain anniversary, I started reading a book that I picked up at the Salvos a few months ago. A 1938 English translation of Mein Kampf. The last time I attempted to read this tedious tome was some 40 years ago but I figured it's finally time to give it another try.
This time is very different because there is the minor matter of November 2016. This changes everything

I skimmed through the usual whining but then I kept encountering talk of The Movement and the power of speakers over writers in leading such a movement. Also his efforts to counteract the nasty LIES that the evil JEWISH press have been spreading about him. But it was the reference to Imperial Austria as a Shadow State that got the snaky senses all abuzz

Come to think of it, I am sure there was mention of the melting pot of races in the Austrian empire as a pit of snakes.

I have been stalking trump since March 2016 and trolling him on Twitter since December 2016 and on countless occasions he has used those very same references. Along with the dead give away "Total Victory" which sounds rather more sinister in the German original "Sieg Heil"

One of his previous wives claimed that he had a copy of Hitler's speeches "My New World Order" on his bedside table. I am now inclined to believe that it was not the only one.

I had always thought that trump's demagoguery was due to his predatory instincts but now I suspect that that at some stage he decided to imitate not the original but the most evil of the species


What's old is new again
izmeina: Strange Spiral Clock (Time Turner)
I have been trolling Agolf Twittler so often with this snippet. Now it is finally time to post it here




Aside from the squillions of memes it spawned, it still remains an amazing and terrifying glimpse into the mind of a nihilistic malignant narcissist. Yesss. Of course it is the actor Bruno Gans and not Hitler himself but he does such a damned good job of channeling him that it is so easy to forget

Also scary that Racket Man had his own meetings with generals where he called them pussies, losers and cowards. Only T Rex stood up for the military. That was the infamous meeting where it leaked that he called trump a fucking moron


“We are owed money you haven’t been collecting!” Trump told them. “You would totally go bankrupt if you had to run your own business.”

“You’re all losers,” Trump said. “You don’t know how to win anymore.”

“I wouldn’t go to war with you people,” Trump told the assembled brass.

Addressing the room, the commander in chief barked, “You’re a bunch of dopes and babies.”

trump has been able to bully, bullshit, bluster, blackmail and bribe his way through all sorts of problems most of which were of his own making. But you can't use that limited bag of tricks on a virus and I suspect this fact is finally dawning on the donald. Slowly but surely


Once he finally realizes the WINNING is over, then all hell breaks loose just like his role model

Maybe trump's Downfall bunker scene is coming sooner than any of us expected


I only hope that they lock up the NUKES and let him get on with it.

It also reminds me that I recently picked up a copy of a certain book. It was an English translation of Mein Kampf printed in October 1938 long before he had become an official enemy. The inside page listing the numerous reprints was positively scary. It had obviously been selling like hot cakes. There was also rather a rave review in the introduction from some long forgotten big wig of British politics or literature

The best and most perceptive book I have ever read about Hitler was actually Sebastian Haffner's "Anmerkungen zur Hitler" I am not sure if it has ever been translated into English. Haffner described him as a vulture with delusions of being an eagle. A man with a talent to spot the weaknesses in people, organizations and whole nations and to prey on them and exploit them ruthlessly. Thus by using such leverage, he could gain far more power and more quickly than following the more conventional path of just working hard and moving up the ranks


I wonder if "Mein Kampf" is like the muggle equivalent of Tom Riddle's diary except that it is not blank and has a very scary stern looking signed photo of Herr Hitler in his usual brown. The whole book is brown and beige and rather drab. I remember years ago trying to read a few pages when still in high school. I picked it up off the shelf opened it randomly a few times, found it so annoying and whiny that I put it right back again.

Now I wonder if 75 years from now, if civilization still exists as we know it, what will people think when they pick up a copy of "The Art of the Deal" or a printed and bound copy of the trump tweet archive. I simply cannot imagine what form of digital technology will even be around 75 years from now when so much has changed in just the last ten years

And how did it all end? Bleached brains blown out in the basement of a bunker or a stroke from one too many buckets of greasy fried chicken or maybe old, broke and alone in a cell in Alcatraz.

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