The Grand Illusion
Let’s see. For the moment, Trump’s latest dictator-like act is to rip the east wing off the White House, supposedly the “people’s house,” without any authorization from Congress in order to add a palatial ballroom that may well dwarf the rest of the White House complex.
At roughly the same time, Secretary of Defense/War Pete Hegseth attempted to require news reporters to sign an agreement not to print anything he hadn’t approved or to lose their Pentagon access. Virtually, all the reporters refused, turned in their press badges, and left the Pentagon. In return, Hegseth then issued an order to all military that no military personnel could speak to or provide any information to the press, Congress, or apparently anyone else that the Pentagon Office of Legislative Affairs had not approved.
The Trump Administration is citing a 1956 law as the basis by which the Secretary of State can unilaterally deport virtually anyone who the Secretary finds poses any danger to the U.S., without any recourse for an individual so cited, even if they’re a citizen or a legal immigrant.
Hegseth is ordering the Navy to attack and sink “suspicious” boats in the Caribbean before ascertaining what they really might be transporting.
Trump is still pressing for the Supreme Court to allow him to federalize state national guard units and to approve his “declaring war” on cities he doesn’t like, without the vote of the Congress.
ICE continues to round up large bodies of people, including U.S. citizens, on the slightest provocation.
Trump continues to fire federal employees that he doesn’t like, with little or no legal basis, to selectively defund federal activities he dislikes, while shifting funds, again illegally, to programs of which he approves.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is choosing which recently-elected members of the House he’ll swear in immediately and which he won’t – and all the Republicans were sworn in expeditiously, and the sole Democrat is still waiting – possibly because she represents the vote that would require Johnson to call a vote on a measure to immediately release all the Epstein files.
That’s just what I know, but even that sounds an awful lot like what goes on in a dictatorship, and what I want to know is why so many Americans don’t even seem to care.
How many jobs did you apply to in say 2022-24 where you had to write paeans to diversity? (luckily we have Chat GPT and the like but still it felt humiliating)
Did your kids apply to colleges or professional schools so had to write uncountable groveling apologies that they are of the white race and/or the male sex and beg forgiveness for their supposed privilege. My kids had to do it and luckily the younger one caught the 2924 Supreme Court decision that eliminated the worst of those in professional school, though I still remember the college ones
Do you have friends that have to put up with zoophilia in public schools (Colorado if you wonder though I heard there are a few other states where that is forced on the teachers) where young children (elementary school for god sake and with crazy parents but..) are allowed to pretend they are cats or dogs and act as such – eat from the floor, crawl rather than walk etc etc. At least the transgenderism craze seems to have abated, and for now of course no groveling essays are required…
What about the entitled migrants – free schools, free healthcare in the ER at least – btw did you go recently toi an ER and had to wait for 5 hours until someone could see you or you have concierge insurance like many who can afford it?
So do not wonder why we support Trump and while things are moving in the right direction for once, it is still early and we need probably many years until the damage done by the woke and their enablers is healed
No, it’s not the U.S. Not the country anyone who ever spent time in it would recognize. (Have presidents done horrible things before? Sure. Like this? Sustained? No.)
Most people probably aren’t reacting because they can’t, the sand their heads are in immobilizes them.