The Big Picture –
By Glynn Wilson –

WASHINGTON, D.C. – What will the mad king fuck up next?

This is not my idea of fun. You?

For many years I was not only a political news junkie, like many of my friends, fans and followers on social media and the web. I reveled in breaking political news and on occasion exposing bad politicians – sometimes ruining their political careers – and trying to elevate good public servants to fight for democracy, a clean and healthy environment and justice for all.

Yes, for many years, I covered both sides of every story. Until traditional newspapers and magazines started going out of business en mass, and American politics skewed awry.

The news now is as insane as the goings on at Arkham Asylum in the Batman prequel “Gotham,” which I have been watching of late to pass some of the time after catching another Batman prequel, Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman’s Butler on HBO-Max. It comes free with my AT$T iPhone account, although they just keep going up on the bill without so much as asking me if that’s OK. At least the data allowance went up from 40 gigs a month to 50. So far it’s been enough to get through the month without the obligatory slow down.

Right after I asked this question on Facebook Tuesday morning, it did not take long to find the answer in The New York Times online. After allowing Elon Musk to come in with a team of speed freak kid hackers to gut the federal government, fire hundreds of federal workers and begin collating all our personal Social Security, health care, IRS and other government data into one big A.I. machine called Grok, and then granting right-winger Peter Thiel (the guy who first funded Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook) a $795 million contract with the Department of Defense to enter all the same information into his spying program Palantir, then engaging in a massive war on science and announcing he would cut NASA’s budget in half and cut $1 billion from the budget of the National Park Service, now we are at war with Iran in the Middle East.

What a clown, a villain and a fuck up.

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The next shoe to drop? He will now go after all the trees in our national forests to enrich his buddies and contributors in the timber industry, and unleash even more carbon into our flaming hot atmosphere, right in the middle of a heat wave. His madness knows no bounds.

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Clearly this criminal grifter belongs in an insane asylum like Indian Hill built on top of a hazardous waste dump, not in charge in the White House.

Trump truly is the king of the villains in this comic book world. Only it’s not fucking funny anymore. He’s the Joker who fooled millions of Americans into believing he wanted to Make America Great, while the real aim was clearly to destroy it for the sake of chaos and destruction, like the anarchists who rob banks and burn down buildings for fun in Gotham. Elon Musk is the Penguin, who the boss uses for a time, then locks him into Arkham for radical electro-shock therapy. Clearly Mr. Musk needs help. Cancel his federal contracts and lock him up.

Steve Bannon is the Riddler, who spins mysterious policies for Trump without telling anyone what he’s really after (I hope to ask him about that soon at Butterworth’s, the new MAGA hangout in downtown D.C.).

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JD Vance must be Mr. Freeze, who is waiting on his opportunity to take over the country when Trump dies some horrible death when the Heritage Foundation (the modern equivalent of the secret research program at Wayne Enterprises) decides the boss has to go.

Done With Politics

So I told you all I was done with daily news and covering politics last year. The 2024 election was going to be my last. But when Musk and his DOGE team messed with my bank and Social Security, and I found out I had cataracts, I came back to Washington one more time to see if I could help. But without the resources of Bruce Wayne, I cannot become Batman. It is time for Superman to show up here from some exoplanet to save the day.

The Democrats don’t seem to have a plan, and GCPD Detective Jim Gordon is locked up in prison for 40 years for a murder he did not commit.

If Dog is not going to help us, and God is asleep at the wheels of the universe, we need a new superhero, or we are all doomed, including your children and grandchildren. By all means live your lives and keep posting your selfies on Facebook. And watch in horror as this country and this world go up in flames.

Prophets and preachers have been predicting the end of the world for centuries. It now appears to be upon us. I will not hang around much longer to watch. See you under the redwood trees and sequoias in California.

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