Our Fascist Idiocracy: July 23, 2025

Tesla Diner in Hollywood blocking the view

Big eye ouchie. At Tesla’s new Hollywood Diner & Drive-In, progress looks like a four-story movie screen blocking the view from the apartment building next door. One Tesla Diner diner said he loved the diner’s Blade Runner vibes. “Looks good on the eyes,” he said. When asked if apartment dwellers might enjoy the oversized spectacle on their doorstep, Roman didn’t miss a beat: “Probably not. That is a huge ouchy for their eyes.”

Meanwhile in Gilead. At a town hall in Tennessee a pregnant woman stood up to tell what happened when the state’s broken moral compass aimed itself directly at her uterus. She and her partner of 15 years are parents of a 13-year-old, but because they are unmarried her doctor denied medical care for her and her unborn child. The denial was based on the state’s 2025 Medical Ethics Defense Act, which puts Christo-fascist morality ahead of science.

Totally not thinking about Epstein now. Trump has been unloading distraction after distraction to avert public attention from his career-killing Trumpstein scandal. One of the low points was his playing politics with First People’s identity. Trump ordered the Washington Commanders to bring back the name “Redskins.” And he’s threatening the owners with withholding stadium permits as leverage. Worse of all, he called his policy “MIGA” — Make Indians Great Again.

Radar causes weather disasters. An diocratic group calling themselves Veterans on Patrol is out to destroy Doppler radar systems because, they say, radar caused the floods in Texas and other disasters. On July 6, they claimed credit for disabling a system in Oklahoma City at the height of tornado season.

Trump’s Botched ‘Operation Excalibur’ Assault on LA Park a ‘Laughingstock’

US 18th Cavalry troops facing no opposition during Trump regime assault on MacArthur Park in Los Angeles

The Trump regime staged another military assault on Los Angeles yesterday, this time targeting historic MacArthur Park. Not coincidentally, the park lies in the Westlake District, which is home predominantly to immigrants from Central America.

The primary, but unstated, objective of the assault, billed as “Operation Excalibur” was to produce deceptive video content for the Fox propaganda channel and its immitators.

Journalist Ken Klippenstein, who covers national security on Substack, spoke with National Guard members off the record and obtained leaked documents about Operation Excalibur, the assault on a park in a US city by the US military and the Trump Department of Homeland Security:

The news media is describing the operation as an ominous crackdown, but National Guard sources tell me that it was a botched laughingstock. The military aspect of the operation, codenamed Operation Excalibur, has not been previously reported.

The documents reveal that the erstwhile justification for the operation was to try to shut down the distribution of fake IDs. The mission of the 1st Squadron, 18th Cavalry is described as protecting DHS [Department of Homeland Security] “security points and blocking positions” while they undertook their assault. The Squadron was ordered not to “restrict pedestrian movement” and not to “conduct law enforcement activities.”) …

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