The downfall of Trump is being counted in murder victims. Minneapolis, the 117 and counting fishermen in the Carribbean and Pacific, the measles victims in Texas and Kansas and South Carolina. On the one hand, murder is murder. On the other hand, in a normal state with a normal opposition party, these murders would be hung around the neck of the murderers and their forces would be squeezed shut by militant defunding.
I believe in the Downfall, but I also believe that the hollow, spineless immoral oppostion leaders also have to go. No return to the status ante - no Schumer, no Jeffries, no tricks and pics of the Dems laughing it up with their Republican colleagues.
Between that belief and what is actionable - that's the question. The social media style is to issue little pronunciamentos, as if one were the commandante of a faithful troop. Well, I'm no commandante and my pronunciamento's are worth zip. The main thing is to keep the idea going - we all, and that includes cowards like me, can do this. A country that has taken this dystopian turn can, while resisting it, make giant strides towards a more utopian order. Of course we've been played before - that was the lesson of the 2008 electon. But we aren't condemned to be suckers.
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Am loathe to quote this as it is enough to make one gag and vomit. But here is the ex Pres Biden. “We are not a nation that guns down our citizens in the street. We are not a nation that allows our citizens to be brutalized for exercising their constitutional rights. We are not a nation that tramples the fourth amendment and tolerates our neighbors being terrorized.[...]Violence and terror have no place in the United States of America, especially when it’s our own government targeting American citizens.”
It would follow then that Blacks are not, have never been, citizens of this Nation, the United States of America. Nor any of the non-White immigrants that are citizens or are seeking citizenship. Injuns are ancient history and don't exist anymore do they. And happy days are here because all that long established tradition of state sanctioned murder is now including whites who if they simply are in the way of a bunch of fascist storm troopers are killed and then killed twice as their lords must destroy the memory of those their killers killed.
Evidently there is no hope or fight to be expected from the "Democratic leadership". But the people of Minneapolis, they are out there protesting and coming together in a city under siege by lawless masked armed yahoos who can operate and kill with impunity. Out there in the brutal sub zero weather. Now there's a people that shows a way out of dystopia towards utopia, that promise, that place that the United States of America was for countless millions who came here fleeing poverty and persecution. Not so much the rhetorical flourish of "life, liberty an d the pursuit of happiness" while there is slavery and inequality. But a better life, shared with others.
- Sophie
I didn't know our former genocide enabling president had commented on our present genocide enabling president, Sophie. But ... I wrote this thing to put up here: I don't know. I read that Atlantic piece about how "we" are all exhausted by Trump - myself, I'm exhausted by the Atlantic, But Trump is invigorating. If you have long believed, like I do, that America has been offtrack for, well, how many years have gone by in this century? At least that, and you see what Trump does and how little is done by the established "opposition" - the same lunkhead Dems we've had to push into fighting against Bush's wars (way too late) or taxing the wealthy after 2008 (way too little) or universal health care (still waiting), one feels that we really know where we are. We've been called out. And who knew that we could depend on pussyhatted Hilary-ites more than Chomsky-stans falling over themselves to explain the Epstein thing (except the obvious explanation, Chomsky liked the rich pedophile and made no bones about it), or deciding that Mamdani or AOC are traitors to the cause because they promised to do someting on some clause on the invisible Lefty Magna Carta (provision 85, c, footnote a) and haven't done it, showing they are Zionists running dogs. All that bullshit.
At the moment, there are the exhausted (who can be counted among those some Atlantic Mag functionary, whose last article celebrated Trump's Venezuelan ventury, would "consult") and our NO KINGS beauties.
I love the beauties. And let the dead bury their own dead. This is such a winnable moment that all the Schumers in the world are not going to get in the way of it.
Or so say I. And I'm as good a prophet as any other crank.
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