{"id":8789,"date":"2023-08-28T19:14:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T02:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8789"},"modified":"2023-08-28T19:14:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T02:14:34","slug":"rewind-segumuca-nation-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8789","title":{"rendered":"Rewind: SEGUMUCA Nation Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the BilgeBucket Gazette. Our first issue was on May 19, 2003 and we\u2019ve been shoveling it to the public, just like the corporate media, ever since. We changed our format to a WordPress blog in 2011 so all of our earlier material was archived. We\u2019ve been reposting many of those archived articles, headlines, photo-toons, BilgeBucket Lists and other content over the past twelve years. In honor of our 20th, and because we\u2019re sick of the current state of affairs in the world, we\u2019ll be reposting more items from 2003 through 2009 throughout this year.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The big news this past week is all the nineteen defendants in Georgia’s RICO case have turned themselves in and had their thugshots taken including the head thug TFG, who predictably is trying to profit off of it by offering merchandise to grift his followers. It’s been a horrible eight years since TFG first came down the escalators to announce his candidacy and the American people’s sanity has gone down the drain because of him. The petulant, megalomaniacal man-child has dominated the corporate media because the corporate media loves him. Even liberal sites cover him because he boosts their ratings. If there’s one thing that has become self-evident during the Trump era is that greed, avarice, materialism, ratings, followers and likes are the most important things in the world now, which is probably why democracy is on the brink of destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’re reposting a photo-toon from our May 17, 2016<\/a><\/strong> post where we lamented our predicament with candidate Trump and unfortunately things have worsened since then. Our analysis then still rings true today. Most Americans who have been raised on the belief that capitalism is the only sensible economy for this planet, look to the self-aggrandizing, megalomaniac billionaire, who has had three trophy wives and scores of material possessions like houses, cars, planes, etc\u2026 and say \u201cHey! I want to be like him.\u201d That\u2019s the American way.\u00a0 Add to the fact that conservative evangelicals now view Trump as a better role model than Jesus<\/a> and we’ve got a hell of a problem on our hands. So what do we do? We’ll just repeat our final paragraph from that post for simplicity’s sake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We think it\u2019s time that all Americans do a bit of self-introspection, especially conservatives. Conservatives generally don\u2019t do this because in the conservative mindset, they are always right, hence no need to look at oneself in the mirror. Questioning your actions is bad and a sign of weakness. One must do what has been traditionally done forever and ever. And don\u2019t even think of apologizing; that is absolute weakness and worthy of death. But is Donald Trump really who were are as a nation? Are we really like Trump? Are we a\u00a0SEGUMUCA<\/strong> nation: a nation of S<\/strong>elfish,\u00a0E<\/strong>gotistical,\u00a0G<\/strong>reedy,\u00a0U<\/strong>ltra-M<\/strong>aterialistic,\u00a0U<\/strong>ltra-C<\/strong>ompetitive\u00a0A<\/strong>ssholes? (Catchy eh?\u2026[sound of crickets chirping]\u2026hellllooooo) Isn\u2019t it time we put the people\u2019s health and welfare, the public good and the environment above profits and selfish, greedy materialistic desires? Maybe if we do that, we won\u2019t look in the mirror, see Donald Trump snarling back and say to ourselves, \u201cHoly Shit! How did we get so fugly!\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Uncle Sam recoils in horror as he looks in the mirror and sees that he has become a Selfish, Egotistical, Greedy, Ultra-Materialistic, Ultra-Competitive Asshole.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the BilgeBucket Gazette. Our first issue was on May 19, 2003 and we\u2019ve been shoveling it to the public, just like the corporate media, ever since. We changed our format to a WordPress blog in 2011 so all of our earlier material was archived. We\u2019ve been reposting many of … Continue reading “Rewind: SEGUMUCA Nation Redux”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,61,60,2320,8,68,85,963,3,2307,198],"tags":[1331,22,1554,1058,1974,70,914,915,851,1768,258,2143,2144,1332,1330,199,2118,98,596,296,2250,19,1100,47,48,2332,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8789"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8797,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789\/revisions\/8797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}