The World Is Not Black and White
The administration seeks authoritarianism and the choice is binary
As we have endured slightly more than 5 months (terrifying that it’s only been that long) of the Felon’s administration, or the roll out of Project 2025 to be more accurate, it is clear that discussion, that is the exchange of ideas, is lost on the cult. It’s their way or the highway. Think about every Congressional hearing. Each time an administration member is questioned, they cannot answer “yes” or no.” Each round of questioning gets these filibuster sorts of responses, which tend to bring in irrelevant comments about what Joe Biden did. It is not out of the ordinary for responses to still return to Hillary’s emails, for crying out loud! This behavior falls between classic petulant teen and psychotic unhoused person.
During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing this week, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) asked Attorney General Blondie about whether she was bothered by any of the president’s grifts and conflicts of interest, including, but not limited to, the United Arab Emirates’s investment of $2 billion in a Trump-family crypto venture and Trump’s dinner last month with top investors in his personal meme coin. In particular he wanted to know about the foreign attendees and whether there was a quid pro quo for their enriching the President. AG Blondie responded with great indignation saying “It is wildly offensive that you would accuse President Trump of not protecting American interests in our country when he is the president that has shut down our borders,” she crowed with a clenched jaw. “You’re trying to play a gotcha question at a budget hearing when you have murders left and right in your state, violent crimes, and we are doing everything we can to help your liberal state.”
Like all the other administration folks, there must be a training session where everyone is told to never answer a question from a Democrat. What is so difficult about lying without having to become childishly angry? She could have said that the President does not directly benefit from these transactions because all of his holdings are in a blind trust. That is a much better lie. But the deflection skill set must be part of Trump Training. As she proved when she prosecuted the lie even further when she went on her violent crime rant. What I find most disturbing is that when these cult members are confronted with facts, they either, have no research about which or with which to respond or they change the subject. This offers an example of bad behavior, but the sort of behavior that if this was going on in court (and, yes, these clowns testify under oath!) the interrogating attorney would reach out to the judge to admonish the witness to answer the question.
Without going into great detail, one of the best examples of this phenomenon can be found with Deputy AG nominee Emil Bove. This ass-hat has been telling colleagues the DOJ should ignore court orders and deport migrants anyway. Think about it, a proposed senior member of the Justice Department has been telling colleagues to ignore court orders. If you don’t think the implementation of Project 2025 is their all and their everything, then you haven’t been paying attention.
There is so much more to this high level gaslighting. Take for example Pete Fox and Friends. He told reporters at the NATO summit that the FBI had launched a criminal investigation into who had leaked the DIA report (the one that has an assessment of the bombing damage that came nowhere near “obliteration”), complaining that “CNN and others are trying to spin it to make the president look bad, when this was an overwhelming success.” Not to be crude, but to hell with the bent knees, these folks’ jaws must be hurting! Subsequently, the Felon’s social media account posted that CNN should fire Natasha Bertrand, one of the CNN journalists who broke the story that the attacks had done less damage than Trump claimed. So much for freedom of the press.
And Donny cannot stand to be called out by the truth. The truth is his kryptonite, it’s the cross to his Dracula. In a typically classless screed he posted that “CNN is scum. MSDNC is scum. The New York Times is scum. They're bad people. They're sick. And what they've done is they've tried to make this unbelievable victory into something less." Not surprisingly the Liar in Chief continues to insist that the U.S. hits caused “total obliteration.” In a failed effort at humility, he claimed he did not want the recognition of the effectiveness of the hits for himself, but rather for “the military.” As if his claims weren’t enough to make you wonder how near to reality he lives, he later equated the strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities with the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.I.
As we move closer and closer to authoritarianism, Axios reported that the administration will limit the classified information it shares with Congress after the leak of the DIA assessment, even though there is currently no evidence tying that leak to Congress. A senior White House official said: “We are declaring a war on leakers.” What does that even mean? Congress needs the information to legislate and without it they are, dare I say, flying blind. Now, let’s all say it together: authoritarianism, autocracy, despotism, dictatorship, totalitarianism; take your pick.
The Felon must watch Titanic a lot, because he really wants to be king of the world! He stooped to posting that Israel should abandon its trial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust, calling it a “ridiculous Witch Hunt.” Cranking up the Bibi support hyperbole to a trillion he posted “something that nobody thought was possible, a complete elimination of potentially one of the biggest and most powerful Nuclear Weapons anywhere in the world, and it was going to happen, SOON!” Back to facts; there was no weapons and the DIA reported that Iran was not close to a weapon and absolutely no evidence of a mega weapon. His tiny hands went into overdrive when he declared that “It was the United States of America that saved Israel, and now it is going to be the United States of America that saves Bibi Netanyahu.” WTF, indeed!
The Felon has manipulated universities to change their mission, largely to save the research dollars that research universities rely upon for recruiting top scientists and to do what America does best, solve the unsolvable. But do they have any guarantees that they will actually get the money? He has caused major law firms to bend the knee to get government work and to agree to do pro bono work that the Felon deems acceptable. But have the defined what Trumplethinskin believes falls within pro bono services? Worst of all the border crisis that is his red meat for his rabid supporters, seems to only exist with respect to those who are being thrown out of our country. And a complicit Supreme Court that has okayed sending deportees to countries to which they have no ties whatsoever. I guess the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment only applies if you are a Trump supporter and for everyone else, to use a recent Trumpism: go fuck yourself.
Get up. Stand up.