th<\/sup> 2020<\/i><\/p>\nA lot of us have been saying for some time that when it comes to Trump, it\u2019s going to boil down to either Trump prevailing or America. Trump does clumsy, weird huggings of the flag, and occasionally waves a bible around (in his latest photo-op stunt where he gassed peaceful protesters, he was holding it upside down and backwards) and that\u2019s enough to convince the utter fucking morons that he\u2019s a patriot and devout, but he has never shown any interest in the Constitution, the rights of the People, and openly expresses hatred for various target groups. As he accumulates power, that collection of groups will grow to include not only the ones his bigoted supporters already hate, but pretty much anyone who doesn\u2019t support him.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s already had a falling out with Faux News for the crime of failing to jump to their collective feet and shout \u201cJawohl!\u201d at all of his pronouncements. Now he\u2019s getting harsh criticism for his recent actions from the military, former members of his cabinet, members of the GOP, and even the servile and amoral leaders of the evangelical right. Even some elements of the neo-Nazi right are getting restive; I saw an amazing political cartoon the other day in which Trump had a knee on the neck of Lady Liberty while a black-clad figure labeled \u201cAntiFa\u201d held her legs. I\u2019ve always joked that when members of the far right started blaming the left for Trump, that would mean he\u2019s finished. Well, here we are.<\/p>\n
His actions over the past fortnight have been nothing short of grotesque. The PR stunt at St. John\u2019s Episcopal (yes, backwards and upside down) may become a defining Moment of his political career, much the way holding up a toddler to protect himself from bullets became the Moment of Greg Stillson\u2019s political career in Stephen King\u2019s \u201cThe Dead Zone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Not that there weren\u2019t others. The empty threats that he bleated from the bunker under the White House where he cravenly crouched; turning off the White House lights (last done in 1940), building the eight foot fence around the White House (a joke making the rounds is that Mexico might just be willing to pay for THIS wall), and the comparison of Trump crouching afraid, underground and in the dark, to Winston Churchill. (Churchill famously would go out during Blitz attacks so that he might personally observe the atrocities committed against England by Hitler). His craven posturing even invited negative comparisons to Richard Nixon, who, some 50 years earlier, was also in a White House surrounded by protests. Nixon went out late in the evening to talk to some random protesters face-to-face to try and get a dialogue of some sort going.<\/p>\n
The stunt of putting anonymous clowns in full soldier kit\u2014dozens of them\u2014in response to minor vandalism perpetrated the night before at the Lincoln Memorial was both ludicrous and sinister. Who were those clowns? Were they soldiers? Cops? Secret Service? Blackwater? Were they even American? Fortunately for all, they were content to just stand there and look stupid, since the protesters weren\u2019t targeting the memorial and the spray paint was probably just done by one asshole looking to stir the pot.<\/p>\n
The stunt of flying a helicopter between buildings to use the backwash from the blades to disperse the crowd was dangerous beyond belief. Any helicopter pilot pulling such a stunt other than under direct orders from the President would have had his license to fly permanently revoked. I\u2019m guessing we\u2019ll never learn the name of the war criminal who flew that chopper at the behest of Trump.<\/p>\n
Oh, did I say war criminal? Yes. The chopper was marked with the red cross, making that a violation of the Geneva convention. Medical insignia means \u201cnon-combatant\u201d both for their protection, and when a cowardly little Nazi sits in the White House, for the protection of unarmed American civilians.<\/p>\n
The act of gassing a group of peaceful demonstrators in order to stage a painfully awkward PR stunt meant to drum up support from the religious right was also a war crime.<\/p>\n
Tom Cotton, a sitting Senator from Arkansas, wrote an editorial for the New York Times, one which the Times utterly disgraced itself by running, in which he called for siccing the airborne infantry on the protesters. Yet another war crime, and Cotton should be expelled from the Senate and tried for advocating mass slaughter of Americans. As for the Times, just remember that in critical moments, this is a paper that will lie to you in service to the GOP. Now they are willing to suspend the Posse Comitatus Act, Habeas Corpus, and presumably the first, third and fourth amendments just because Cotton wanted the world to know that there might be people opposed to fascism in the crowd.<\/p>\n
Some of Trump\u2019s desperation and panic is warranted. Not only have his actions caused schisms in his previously unshakable base, but the Pentagon has made it as clear as the law allows that it is not prepared to fire on unarmed American civilians.<\/p>\n
Keith Ellison, the District Attorney for the state of Minnesota where the Floyd murder took place, announced charges against the four police involved in Floyd\u2019s death; Murder-2 against Chauvin, and accomplices and accessories to murder against the other three.<\/p>\n
I thought that might defuse the situation a fair bit. Ellison is well-trusted, and this provided a serious promise of the justice the protesters wanted.<\/p>\n
But the protests are no longer against the Floyd murder, or the police murders of hundreds of others of African Americans in recent years. Now the crowd has realized that their true enemy, black or white, Christian or non, Democrat or non, is the treasonous wannabee dictator in the White House.<\/p>\n
Last night police arrested over 10,000 people nationwide. Since masks and social distancing aren\u2019t available in jail, it\u2019s safe to assume that as many as a thousand of those people may become sick, and three hundred or so may die. All for protesting oppression and treason by the government against the people.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m guessing the protests won\u2019t die down, only now, it isn\u2019t just injustice: it\u2019s Americans fighting for their country against an opportunistic and amoral traitor in the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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