boutons_deux
06-29-2018, 07:48 PM
... Just Wait Till Next Week
As the dog days of summer roll on, each week will bring more and greater horrors.
It was only a couple of nights ago that Donald J. Trump,
the likely illegitimate president (https://www.wired.com/story/did-russia-affect-the-2016-election-its-now-undeniable/) of the United States,
described the media for the umpteenth time as “the enemy of the people (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jim-acosta-cnn-trump-rally_us_5b319c45e4b0cb56051b8725),”
so you’d be forgiven for wondering if the grudge-carrying, violent misogynist (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/alleged-annapolis-newspaper-shooter-jarred-ramos-had-history-of-harassment-sued-paper-for-defamation.html) charged with murdering employees of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis
was inspired by the
grudge-carrying, violence-inciting (http://www.ibtimes.com/trump-hate-crimes-5-times-hes-called-violence-including-stretcher-comment-2445722) misogynist (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/donald-trump-tape-transcript.html) who occupies the Oval Office. The truth is, we’ll probably never know.
But the fact that so many of us leapt to that conclusion tells you just how toxic our political environment has become,
yet how inured we are to its poison.
It’s just what is.
What we do know now, beyond the shadow of a doubt, is that
the violent, corrupt, authoritarian regime that seized the executive branch in 2016 with the help of a foreign adversary (http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-comey-stands-by-january-assessment-that-1490026528-htmlstory.html)
is being protected in its psychopathic debauchery by the other two branches of government, the legislative and the judiciary.
it wasn’t Trump who corrupted Congress and the courts (http://www.pfaw.org/report/the-federalist-society-from-obscurity-to-power/);
the corruption already in place (http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/citizens-united-v-federal-election-commission/) in those hallowed halls helped make possible his election.
And I don’t mean to suggest that every member of Congress and the Supreme Court is corrupt—
just every representative and senator who has hitched his or her star to Trump’s power train, plus Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy (and perhaps a couple of others on that highest of benches).
old Swing-Vote Kennedy swung with the wrecking ball,
handing the super-wealthy and right-wing Christian zealots (both Trump’s domestic patrons) resounding victories
at the expense of women (http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/national-institute-family-life-advocates-v-becerra/), Muslims (http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/trump-v-hawaii-3/), and working people (http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/janus-v-american-federation-state-county-municipal-employees-council-31/) of all colors and creeds.
And so the American people are being shown
displays of authoritarian dominance:
The tearing of babies from their asylum-seeking mothers.
The president’s taunting of the press at campaign rallies.
Strings of tweets deriding a black member of Congress as a “low-IQ individual.”
A demand for stringent work requirements for people so broke they need government assistance in buying food.
The targeting of former government employees (https://www.thedailybeast.com/scott-pruitt-personally-involved-in-ratfcking-ex-aides-who-he-feels-betrayed-him) by current government employees.
whether he felt that the knock on the door that took place
during their interview was an intimidation tactic, Schwab replied “absolutely.” (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-ice-spokesman-james-schwab-opens-up-about-resignation-trump-administration/?ftag=CNM-00-10aac3a) Think about that.
If those DHS agents intentionally timed their visit to take place during Schwab’s interview—three months after he resigned—
that means they’re surveilling him.
http://prospect.org/article/if-you-think-week-was-bad-just-wait-till-next-week
As the dog days of summer roll on, each week will bring more and greater horrors.
It was only a couple of nights ago that Donald J. Trump,
the likely illegitimate president (https://www.wired.com/story/did-russia-affect-the-2016-election-its-now-undeniable/) of the United States,
described the media for the umpteenth time as “the enemy of the people (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jim-acosta-cnn-trump-rally_us_5b319c45e4b0cb56051b8725),”
so you’d be forgiven for wondering if the grudge-carrying, violent misogynist (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/alleged-annapolis-newspaper-shooter-jarred-ramos-had-history-of-harassment-sued-paper-for-defamation.html) charged with murdering employees of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis
was inspired by the
grudge-carrying, violence-inciting (http://www.ibtimes.com/trump-hate-crimes-5-times-hes-called-violence-including-stretcher-comment-2445722) misogynist (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/donald-trump-tape-transcript.html) who occupies the Oval Office. The truth is, we’ll probably never know.
But the fact that so many of us leapt to that conclusion tells you just how toxic our political environment has become,
yet how inured we are to its poison.
It’s just what is.
What we do know now, beyond the shadow of a doubt, is that
the violent, corrupt, authoritarian regime that seized the executive branch in 2016 with the help of a foreign adversary (http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-comey-stands-by-january-assessment-that-1490026528-htmlstory.html)
is being protected in its psychopathic debauchery by the other two branches of government, the legislative and the judiciary.
it wasn’t Trump who corrupted Congress and the courts (http://www.pfaw.org/report/the-federalist-society-from-obscurity-to-power/);
the corruption already in place (http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/citizens-united-v-federal-election-commission/) in those hallowed halls helped make possible his election.
And I don’t mean to suggest that every member of Congress and the Supreme Court is corrupt—
just every representative and senator who has hitched his or her star to Trump’s power train, plus Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy (and perhaps a couple of others on that highest of benches).
old Swing-Vote Kennedy swung with the wrecking ball,
handing the super-wealthy and right-wing Christian zealots (both Trump’s domestic patrons) resounding victories
at the expense of women (http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/national-institute-family-life-advocates-v-becerra/), Muslims (http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/trump-v-hawaii-3/), and working people (http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/janus-v-american-federation-state-county-municipal-employees-council-31/) of all colors and creeds.
And so the American people are being shown
displays of authoritarian dominance:
The tearing of babies from their asylum-seeking mothers.
The president’s taunting of the press at campaign rallies.
Strings of tweets deriding a black member of Congress as a “low-IQ individual.”
A demand for stringent work requirements for people so broke they need government assistance in buying food.
The targeting of former government employees (https://www.thedailybeast.com/scott-pruitt-personally-involved-in-ratfcking-ex-aides-who-he-feels-betrayed-him) by current government employees.
whether he felt that the knock on the door that took place
during their interview was an intimidation tactic, Schwab replied “absolutely.” (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-ice-spokesman-james-schwab-opens-up-about-resignation-trump-administration/?ftag=CNM-00-10aac3a) Think about that.
If those DHS agents intentionally timed their visit to take place during Schwab’s interview—three months after he resigned—
that means they’re surveilling him.
http://prospect.org/article/if-you-think-week-was-bad-just-wait-till-next-week