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Oops, We Did It Again! |
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| Recently,
thanks to the Not So Great Dictator formerly known as Donald
Trump, life seems to be moving backwards |
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| By
Debby Long |
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 “Thus did a handful of
rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth
controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and
entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American
class system created. Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens
were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living
wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those
who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing
crimes against which no laws had been passed. Thus, the American
dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy
surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in the
noonday sun.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater,
1965
As everybody used to know before The Lobotomies, America has
never been invaded. There are no insane axe murderers, drooling
rapists, or international terrorists crossing our borders
intending to sully the red blood of American citizens - and then
go on food stamps and Medicaid for a comfortable retirement.
This is an entirely made up narrative by Donald Trump to
establish a Nazi-style group of “others” that can be
marginalized and ultimately vilified to unify political support
behind his leadership. And now, as Trump ramps up the hate
speech and his anti-immigrant rhetoric to justify mobilizing
military personnel to illegally enter Los Angeles, we are
watching his master plan, on behalf of his imaginary master
race, unfold. But we all really knew that, didn’t we? (However,
the part about hordes of transexuals in public bathroom stalls
across the nation must be true...)
Recently, thanks to the Not So Great Dictator formerly known as
Donald Trump, life seems to be moving backwards. And sadly, just
when we were doing so well. What is going on in America
currently is so sloppily derivative that it looks like a
ten-year-old boy - profoundly deficient in several fundamental
human proficiencies – was given license to write, direct and
star in a bumbling and deeply disturbing soap opera that has now
overtaken the lives of every citizen and non-citizen living in
America. This soap opera is presented to all Americans in daily
episodes, each with a discrete theme for Trump and his cast to
perform. And each episode begins with a threat that goes
something like this: If you don’t let me do this, I’ll ruin you
and your family, because “I run the country and the world”. Just
look at how he impugned Joe Biden recently, calling him “not the
sharpest bulb”. Neurofibrillary tangles aside, Trump can be
devastating - a sort of senile Michael Corleone. In assembling
Trump’s cabinet, the casting director for The Lobotomies series
had only one criterion for putative cabinet candidates: never
contemplate invoking the 25th Amendment. Once that hurdle was
cleared and NDAs were signed, it was finally showtime. And a
veritable symphony of gleeful thumbs in the national eye
commenced: RFK, Jr. got to play himself – a thumb in the eye of
all Democrats and particularly Kennedy aficionados; Pete Hegseth
and his tattoos got to act on some of his worst instincts drunk
– a thumb in the eye of America’s vaunted military leaders;
Linda McMahon finally got to home school America’s children – a
thumb in the eye of anyone who claims that our children are our
future. And so forth.
Just over half of our current slew of eligible voters were the
mutton-headed numbskulls who gleefully voted for Donald Trump -
the buffoon that the evil genius, Steve Bannon, once
characterized as “the Rain-Man of nationalism”. They were the
voters who gave us a Baby Hitler, mostly, for what appears to be
shits and giggles. But many of these dictator enthusiasts were
the usual suspects: venal Republicans who thought that Trump
would make them personally rich with tax cuts, even though they
weren’t rich and were, in fact, barely scraping by.
And, of course, now “It’s 10 minutes to Wapner.”
Was Donald Trump’s election really a clarion call to deliver
America to a reanimated white supremacy, to a mid-20th Century
fascism delivered by jack-booted thugs? Nah. But on “Day One”
Trump began assembling his first Gestapo anyway when he pardoned
his January 6th co-conspirators. He issued full commutations and
pardons to those indicted and/or sentenced who had participated
in the attack, including specifically granting clemency for nine
members of the Oath Keepers and five members of the Proud Boys.
Since June 2022, The Proud Boys have been involved in nearly 70
anti-LGBTQ incidents alone – impressive résumés, indeed. And now
Trump has full control of ICE with over 8,500 employees,
including over 6,100 deportation officers.
“In January, 1937, Hitler’s Gestapo only counted for 1700
officers in the entire Third Reich, but their numbers grew every
month. Three months later (in March, 1937), it had around 6500
men. That’s still not many — one Gestapo officer for every
10,000 German citizens. In September, 1941, the Gestapo had
15,000 people at its disposal … and that number peaked in
January, 1944, when it reached 31,000 Gestapo”.- “The Third
Reich’s Political Police” - Marcin Przegiętka, February 2, 2024.
Was Trump’s election a yearning to exchange our Constitution -
our national aspiration of tolerance in a multicultural world -
with the ignorance and superstition of the Christian Evangelical
movement? Well, partly. But the idiocy of this marginally
educated, ancient man-boy, was empowered and foisted upon us
thanks to the Supreme Court’s ruling on Donald Trump vs The
United States on July 1, 2024. It was conceived in absolute
certainty by our theocratic Supreme Court – a court only
somewhat less terrifying than the equivalent institution in The
Islamic Republic of Iran. Shave off the beard and remove the
turban, and the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of Iran has the same smug
and mirthless stare as Justice Samuel Alito. But Trump is a
thespian and a bad actor, not a divinely chosen Supreme Leader,
and certainly not a king. And thespian though he is, Donald
Trump can only continue his performance if our nation remains in
thrall of his illusion.
This weekend Donald Trump’s Military Parade on the streets of
Washington, DC should be a whopper of an episode. There is
absolutely nothing like an enormous display of marching
soldiers, tanks, fighter jets and a thrilling speech by Donald
Trump to honor himself and scare the bejesus out of the rest of
the world. It will be a veritable “Triumph of the Will” much
like in 1934, when Hitler celebrated the Nazi Party Congress in
Nuremberg. It was a rally that was attended by more than 700,000
Nazi supporters.
The entire hemisphere of North and South America - plus
Greenland - is praying for rain tomorrow.
Donald Trump - this indecent plague of a human being - must not
be permitted to continue to lead our nation. He will destroy our
country. He will destroy us. He must be removed from office. And
all Republicans who continue to lend their support to this
fascist regime must be labeled as the collaborators that they
are.
Never Again |
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