Bullshit as Religion

As published at SubStack, 4/23/23:

[Lankham Hotel in Pakse on 4/22/23]

Never home, I still must establish a routine, so wherever I go, the first order of business is to find a congenial place to write. At 5:24AM on 4/23/23, I’m sitting at a long table outside the Lankham Hotel. Dawn is just breaking. Noisily, cars, trucks and motorbikes zoom by.

Across the street, a woman is busy at the noodle with duck joint. I had my $1.74 bowl there yesterday. It won’t open until 7AM. Two doors away, an old woman should come out presently to sit on a chair next to her walker. Looking at traffic is her daily recreation. Though her world is tiny, there’s still plenty going on.

Travel bins would be a great idea, no? Again, send me all your savings for a fantastic return. Locked inside a container just outside his house even, a traveler can peer through slits to marvel at a new world. He’ll also be introduced, perhaps for the first time, to his interior monologue, and maybe even to God.

Denied a continual intercourse with the most ordinary, men lose their common sense or even mind, so it’s no surprise they understand next to nothing.

When I posted two photos of the Boston Marathon Bombing, I thought the bullshit was obvious, yet one reader commented, “The guy in the wheelchair looks like he's gone into shock already. Is that his femoral artery the guy in the cowboy hat has in his hand?”

With two legs just blown off, he should have two femoral arteries gushing blood, but there’s no evidence of that. There’s no blood on his clothing or the ground.

As for the man with his pants shredded but not bleeding, Benedict Tiberius Cato explains that “the type of bomb used there could easily have had that effect of shredding cloth and not flesh.” A most humane bomb, then, a cosmetic bomb.

I never suggested his legs should be as shredded as his trousers. I said, “Whatever cut through his pants stopped at his flesh.”

As for the audio of Betty Ong, Benedict Tiberius Cato and one other say she’s trained to remain calm even as passengers were being stabbed, and people were rushing towards her, “I’m sitting in the back. Somebody’s coming back from business. If you can hold on for one second, they’re coming back.”

There were 92 people on American Airlines Flight 11. Subtracting the “terrorists” and crew, 76 were just ordinary passengers. If anyone was being stabbed at the front, you can bet dozens would be fleeing from such bloody horror, towards relative safety at the back, but we hear no such commotion during the four-minute audio.

People will believe what they want to believe, however.

For pointing out bullshit in an exasperated tone, I must have had someone piss in my food or bed, Benedict Tiberius Cato suggests, but it’s hard to not be vexed at such infinite idiocy.

Granted, we’re bombarded nonstop by propaganda. On 7/29/19, the New York Times had an article exposing Trump’s bullshit about 9/11, so it clarified he was not at Ground Zero, didn’t see anyone jump from the Twin Towers, didn’t supply +100 workers to help with the reconstruction and didn’t follow through on his $10,000 pledge to Twin Towers Fund. It also mocked his false claim that, with the Twin Towers gone, Trump’s 40 Wall Street would be tallest in Lower Manhattan.

What the New York Times didn’t bring up was what Trump got right on 9/11, and, this is most important, Trump never made these points again. As I’ve said all along, Trump is not trying to subvert anything. A most useful tool for the establishment, Trump’s is neck deep in The Swamp.

Well before Trump was elected, I wrote on 6/12/16, “A Trump presidency will temporarily appease restless, lower class whites, while serving as a magnet for liberal anger. This will buy our ruling class time as they continue to wage war abroad while impoverishing Americans back home. Like Obama, Trump won’t fulfill any of his election promises, and this, too, will be blamed on bipartisan politics.”

On 9/11/01, though, Trump the non politician talked straight, in this call to WWOR-TV. Regarding the collapse of the Twin Towers, Trump the builder explained:

Well, it wasn't an architectural defect, the World Trade Center was always known as a very, very strong building. Don't forget that took a big bomb in the basement. Now the basement is the most vulnerable place because it's your foundation and it withstood that. And I got to see that area about three or four days after it took place because one of my structural engineers actually took me for a tour because he did the building and I said I can't believe it.

The building was standing solid and half of the columns were blown out. I mean so this was an unbelievably powerful building. If you don't think about structure it was one of the first buildings that was built from the outside the steel. The reason the World Trade Center had such narrow windows is that in between all the windows you had the steel in the outside and the steel on the outside of the building.

That's why when I first look at you at big heavy, I-beams. When I first look at it I couldn't believe it because there was a hole in the steel and this is steel that was... you remember the width of the windows of the World Trade Center, folks, I think you know if you're ever up there they were quite narrow and in between was just heavy steel. I said how a plane could even a plane even a 767 or a 747 or whatever it might have been.

How could it possibly go through with this deal? I happen to think that they had not only a plane but they had bombs that exploded almost simultaneously because I just can't imagine anything being able to go through that wall. Most buildings are built with the steel is on the inside around the elevator shaft. This one was built from the outside which is the strongest structure you can have. And it was almost just like a can of soup.

I just think that it was a plane with more than just fuel. I think obviously they were very big planes going very rapidly because I was also watching where the plane seemed to be not only going fast it seemed to be coming down into the building so it was getting the speed from going downhill so to speak. It just seemed to me that to do that kind of destruction is even more than a big plane because you're talking about taking out steel. The heaviest caliber steel that was used in the building and these buildings were rock solid.

If the establishment wanted to expose Trump as a 9/11 conspiracy theorist, they could have easily quoted the above, but the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Fox, Amy Goodman, Tucker Carson and the rest never did, and they won’t, because even idiots can see Trump, in this instance, makes perfect sense.

Actually, I take that back. Bullshit faithfuls don’t see anything. They’re braindead.

It’s 7:05 and I haven’t even had a cup of coffee. Since Boulange is reopened, I will stroll down there for a real baguette with real brie and real butter. Real humans need real food, not the most appalling bullshit the world has ever seen.

[Chicago, 4/11/12]

[Cumberland, Maryland on 3/29/12]

[Rudy Dent in Detroit on 2/18/17. Do read my interview with Mr. Dent]