Tower Trigger
‘Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here’
Image References: Dante’s Divine Comedy:Inferno and Gustave Dore illustrations (original quote ‘All hope abandon, ye who enter here.’)
2025 Update :
Pray tell, was “Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here” unclear?
Fire Marshall Bill has come out of retirement to join the Trump administration as an accelerant consultant. He didn’t strike the spark, but once hot lies and political frictions flare, his hiring as an accelerant consultant and fiery enabler to the totalitarian Orange Menace will assure democratic structures ignite faster, burn hotter, and rush headlong toward volatility and conflagration.
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Rachel Maddow recently laid out five moves that dictators reliably make.
— First, they identify an internal enemy to blame for social ills; Trump has spent years turning immigrants, big cities, and universities into scapegoats. Now, like every dictator listed above has done, he’s claiming that the opposition political party, the Democrats, are an “enemy within.”
— Second, they turn security forces inward, exactly what Trump’s new call for turning our military against our cities represents. The moment a dictator turns military forces built to destroy foreign adversaries against his own people, the rest of the transformation becomes easier.
— Third, they criminalize dissent and protest, insisting that when people show up in the streets it is not constitutionally protected free speech and the right “peaceably to assemble and petition the Government for a redress of grievances” but a security “threat” to be crushed rather than heard and responded to.
— Fourth, they intimidate or capture the press and punish truth-telling, as we’re seeing now with rightwing billionaires capturing virtually every major traditional and social media source in America.
— Fifth, they seize control of independent institutions like universities, law firms, or the civil service to eliminate any professional standards that interfere with Dear Leader’s will.
The missing speech was not delivered by Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations on September 26,2025.
As of September 2025, UNICEF states:
“At least 63,000 children have been reported killed or injured” in Gaza
Reuters report citing WHO, by July 2025 nearly 12,000 children under five in Gaza were suffering from acute malnutrition. Reuters
As of late September 2025, the most commonly cited figures (from Gaza’s Health Ministry) are:
It is also widely believed that, given the near total destruction of Gaza, the reported death toll is a vast undercount
Court Painter & The Missing Speech
This year’s spring auctions may be best remembered “not for the disappointments at the very top but for the coherence in the middle,” advisor Megan Fox Kelly said. The $5 million-to-$15 million range “has become the new center of gravity—where taste, connoisseurship, and value converge,” she added. “It’s no longer just a volume segment, it’s where seriousness resides.”
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ARTNET Intelligence Report Mid Year Review 2025
After reading the ARTNET Intelligence Report , Court Painter went ballistic and became incoherent.
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The Fall of the Rebel Angels ,Gustav Dore 1870
The Fall of the Rebel Angels is a biblical narrative in Christian theology that recounts the rebellion of angels led by Lucifer against God. This cosmic conflict ends with their expulsion from heaven and their transformation into demons.
Court Painter, taking a break from the woes of the world has decided to join the angels and has undertaken the modest task of visually reinterpreting a 19th-century illustration The Fall of the Rebel Angels 1870 by Gustave Doré, created to accompany Milton’s epic Paradise Lost from 1667.
As the story goes, the fallen angels also parallels human struggles with free will. As cautionary tales, these narratives warn against arrogance and rebellion, showing how defiance disrupts divine harmony. Above all, fallen angels embody the peril of abandoning divine favour for selfish gain, while holy angels stand as guardians of order and protectors of humanity. The fallen, by contrast, exist as agents of chaos, working to undermine the divine.
Prime Minister Carney and President Sheinbaum proudly sport each other’s friendship gifts.(In an unexpected last minute move the PM switched out an Edmonton Oilers jersey for a Toronto Blue Jays jersey after checking the latest sports news.)
MEXICO CITY — Canada and Mexico have signed a pact to deepen economic and security ties ahead of what is expected to be a challenging round of negotiations with the United States on a trilateral trade deal.
The agreement — billed as a comprehensive strategic partnership — was signed by Prime Minister Mark Carney and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum in Mexico City Thursday September 18/25.
It includes a plan to build infrastructure such as ports, rail and energy corridors while tackling crime and protecting the environment.
Source: CTV News
Court Painter with “The Two Amigos” painting.
Meanwhile back in Canada
Halifax — The U.S. ambassador to Canada took aim at those who use the term “trade war” to describe economic tension between the two countries at an event in Halifax Thursday, saying he was frustrated by the “elbows up” rhetoric.
Pete “Blow Hard” Hoekstra made the remarks at a luncheon hosted by the Halifax Chamber of Commerce in the city’s downtown.
“I’m disappointed that I came to Canada, a Canada that (where) it is very, very difficult to find Canadians who are passionate about the American-Canadian relationship. You ran a campaign where it was anti-American. ‘Elbows up.’ … It was an anti-American campaign. That has continued. That’s disappointing,” Ambassador Blow Hard said as he huffed and puffed while sporting a jaunty band aid : confident to catch the attention of his boss The MAGAMonarch.
Who rocks it better?
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https://www.axios.com/2025/09/18/trump-maga-media-cnn-cbs-ellison-tiktok
Seems ABC, FCC chair Brendan Carr and The Orange Menace can’t take a joke, so ABC gives comedian Jimmy Kimmel the hook!
In an authoritarian setup, humour isn’t free play; it’s policed. What you’re allowed to laugh at is decided by authority. Jokes become loyalty tests.
Driving the news: ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel off air “indefinitely” on Wednesday in response to the late-night host’s comments about Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
The extraordinary move came after Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr warned ABC that it could face fines or license revocations if it did not “operate in the public interest.”
Trump celebrated Kimmel’s removal — just as he did CBS’s decision to cancel Stephen Colbert’s show — and called for NBC to take action against remaining late-night hosts Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon.
America drowning…is not a joke!
Court Painter seen puzzling over recent action by Canadian Members of Parliament
Rachel Gilmore post September 16/25
Canada’s MPs are back on Parliament Hill — and they’re already being ridiculous. Following the disturbing murder of Charlie Kirk, Canada’s MPs took it upon themselves to pay tribute to the man in the House of Commons. Not only did they attempt to rewrite history and paint him as a man entirely dedicated to faith and family, but the remarks from Conservative MP Rachael Thomas received a standing ovation on both sides of the political aisle. You can oppose political violence without rewriting the legacy of a man who did a lot of harm to vulnerable and marginalized communities. But Canada’s politicians, some media and many employers don’t seem to entirely understand that.
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Liberal government members joined in the standing ovation.
America on the event horizon of a black hole.
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Appeared in POLITICO MAGAZINE 09/12/2025 05:00 AM EDT
Barbara Walter is the Rohr Professor of International Affairs at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at UC San Diego. Her most recent book is How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them
Political violence is not random.
Research shows it becomes far more likely under four conditions: when democracy is declining rapidly, when societies are divided by race, religion or ethnicity, when political leaders tolerate or encourage violence, and when citizens have easy access to guns.
The United States checks all four boxes and none of them are getting better. Violence also tends to spike around elections, which means the coming contests in 2026 and 2028 are poised to be flashpoint
The avenues for prevention look bleak. Democrats haven’t had the votes — or the courage — to strengthen democratic institutions. Republicans benefit from the current pseudo-democratic system and have no incentive to reform it. The racial divide has narrowed somewhat, but not enough to defuse conflict. Trump and other MAGA leaders rely on threats and violence to stoke fear, and Congress remains paralyzed on gun control. All of this points toward things getting worse, not better.
The radicalization pipeline runs through a handful of American tech companies that remain almost entirely unregulated.
But there is one place where real progress is still possible. Most acts of political violence in America over the past two decades have been carried out by lone actors — young men radicalized online. The radicalization pipeline runs through a handful of American tech companies that remain almost entirely unregulated.
curb the algorithms
If lawmakers were willing to curb the algorithms that amplify conspiracy theories, disinformation and hate, they could weaken the pipeline feeding violent extremism. After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, that may be the single most immediate lever left to pull.
The question is whether America has the will to pull it before the violence grows worse.
