Day of Dusk

"I'm about to get sick from watching my TV." - Frank Zappa (1966)

All they're talking about on the news today is that the twice-impeached, multiply indicted, former one-term ex-president Donald Trump won the Iowa caucuses last night, as if that were news.  Everyone knew he would win and win my a large margin. His impending victory was all they've been talking about for weeks now.  The pollsters knew he'd win, the press knew he'd win, the Iowa voters knew he'd win, the general public knew he'd win, hell, even the opposing candidates knew he'd win. It's not news that he won in Iowa. It's just the realization of a self-fulfilling prophesy.

The twice-impeached, multiply indicted, former one-term executive winner of the Iowa caucuses is in court today for a hearing on punitive damages for defaming a woman he raped. But that doesn't seem to matter to Iowa voters, many of whom identify as evangelical Christians.

It doesn't matter to them that the courts have already determined that he's a business and tax cheat, and are soon to determine the amount of money he owes the government in restitution for his cheating and whether he should be allowed to continue to do business in New York State.

It doesn't matter to them that he lied about illegally keeping classified government documents in his personal home, and that those documents included highly sensitive nuclear and counter-intelligence secrets. And that he showed those documents and bragged about having them to guests at his tacky golf resort.

It doesn't matter to them that his ego couldn't accept the documented and proven fact that he lost the 2020 election and he tried to lead a coup to usurp power, a cowardly act of treason in direct violation of civil, criminal, and constitutional law.  It doesn't matter to them because they buy into his lies, lock, stock, and barrel, that the election was somehow "stolen," (by who?) and that the ends of restoring him to power justifies any means.

His lawyers argued in court that if he, as President, ordered the execution of his political opponents, he couldn't be prosecuted unless Congress first impeached and convicted him for the actions.

Clearly, Trump is a dangerous and delusional person, a malignant, cancerous lump, as I've said before, on the undescended testicle of the American body politic. I've been to Iowa and spent some time with the good people there back in 2018, but if none of the above matters to them and they're still on board with his malignancy and his delusion, as indicated by their vote, then they're neither the "real Americans" nor the "true Christians" that they seem to believe they are.

It's the 16th of January, Day of Dusk according to the Universal Solar Calendar, and it's freezing cold outside.  Literally.  It's just 26° outside at 3:00 in the afternoon - if I put a glass of water outside, it would turn into ice as if it were in a freezer. The wind chill is making it feel even colder, and it's forecast to drop down to 15° overnight.  The forecast low for tonight in San Martin Base in Antarctica is 20°, so it will literally be colder tonight in Atlanta, Georgia than in Antarctica. It almost feels like divine retribution for voting for Trump.