An "ILLUMINATION" from The Graphic Cosmic Novel Campaign

Step With Us Outside The Immediacy and Dismiss MAGA. Also, "The Evolution of The Dickheads" a photo essay.

Today’s Subject is Proof of Cause and Effect. Math by Cosmic Eric.

HERE, IN TWO ACTS, A VIGNETTE OF DECEIT AND VILLIANY in which the mean-spirited capture the dispirited, capture the dark side and nearly capture America…by happenstance…and it goes like this:

Once upon a time (but not too long ago), Rupert “Tabloid” Murdoch washed up upon these shores and discovered The First Amendment, a uniquely American construct that protects any asshole who says anything, basically…and big money was in the offing and FOX was up and running and Big Oil needed plenty cover. Alternative facts in a whirlwind marriage to downright dishonesty…and soon it was every asshole saying just about everything and for nearly 30 years it’s made for one hellava party for the shameless…maybe twenty million in attendance, could be twice that queued up. With the lack of personal agency as the only price of admission, this bizarre new American phenomenon was sixty years in the making and we, at The Cosmic-Karmic Campaign, with our long, passive overview call them POORLY PARENTED and they now call themselves MAGA. But it is that simple: three generations without a decent education, without role models, without reading, without a foreign language, without civics, without heroes…a huge slice of the citizenry dumbed down and all in a time of great change. No learned value system, poor parenting, just sitting ducks…and that’s all, really. All that Rupert had to do was keep tweaking his business model to give shelter to each and every person who wasn’t doing his homework, then reap the billions…a windfall running “right” through the American South and across The Heartland: mostly White, older and rural… but then their kids and grandkids too… all safely tucked away from reality and actually not making too much fuss. Normally that would be “end of story” but this is the Age of Vanity in the Time of Billionaires and normal no longer describes the America we all grew up with.

THE SECOND ACT (and nearly almost possibly the last act) where Donald Trump, the personification, nay, the epitome of POOR PARENTING stumbles sideways, totally without calculation, into his “next big schtick”: “Birtherism” having already punched his ticket, he arrived in the FOX arena to a heroes welcome. As the biggest braggart and the biggest bully and the biggest liar (philanderer, grifter, cheat) he was one of them…and he had really shiny toys and a TV show and a great big plane with his name on it…and he said he was rich. They adored him instantly, he gave them caps and a membership and, to the roar of the crowd, he gave them vindication in full! That millions loved you for being the terrible person you were came as a real surprise to The Donald, the hustler, but winning the Presidency came as totally unexpected. It was a child’s Vanity Project gone awry. This is why The Campaign is here right now with our very simple message: Children do not share (it’s taught), they know nothing of Democracy (it’s learned)… they’re impressionable and they are bossy. They are all a class dismissed, America’s karma.

ADDENDUM: A “Dickhead”, besides a pejorative, was also a part of straight-up actual street theatre…visualize 1967 mime, everyone dressed the same except one person had to be the villain. And easily recognizable. Below are three Dickheads presented by Cosmic Eric in honor of this, the “Year of the Dickhead 2024”. There’s the actual handmade leather street original from 1967 on the left (a corporate executive Dickhead), in the middle a member of “The White Man Group” (tech entrepreneur Dickhead) and on the right a MAGA politician (red cockheaded peckerwood). They are always about money, these villains. We Campaign Bros may be puppets, but we’re way better than these puppets!