Pardoning Hardoned Criminals

DONALD TRUMP has been the subject of more essays than any livign human being, and that doesn't seem likely to change, especially now. Leave it to Trump to begin his administration with a flourish; he didn't disappoint. Of all the horrible, stupid, cruel, egregious, harmful things he has already done in a remarkably short period of time as president, none is more egregious than issuing pardons to cold blooded killers, murderers, isnurrectionists, cop killers, cop beaters. Evidently, the fact that Trump is himself a convicted criminal enhances his empathy for other convicted criminals. The fact that the recipients of the approximately fifteen hundred pardons committed their crimes in the direct service to Donald Trump was obviously a major factor in their being issued. I am glad that I happened to watch on television as Trump ranted and raved while signing the piece of paper with presumably fifteen hundred names on it of convicts to be released from prison, immediately. He obviously wasn't comfortable, and it was as if if he felt that he had to explain why he was doing this ostensibly horrible thing, even while he was doing it. As always, his reasoning renged from cloudy to the totally inane. They burned down Seattle (in the Black Lives Matter protests), and didn't get punished, prevaricated the president, as if what happened in Seattle several years ago justified in any way what he was doing; namely, excusing violent crime. Word has it it that already the far right wing extremist insurrectionist criminals have been released, and are on their way back to their homes, emboldened, to resume their activities in support of Trump. Groups like the "Proud Boys", newly reformed, reconstitutited, numbers soaring again, as tehy advocate for a pure white, patriarchial, conservative Christian America under Trump, from the America colony Canada, down to the Gulf of America. Of all the crazy, surrealistic things that Trump has said and done in the remarkably short period of time since he became president, none is more pricelsss than this business of the "Gulf of America". Unless I am confused and mistaken, which admittedly happens often, Trump actually signed an executive order changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America". One wonders whether the Mexican government will file a formal lawsuit against Trump and America in the International Court, and win. It cracks me up every time I think about that. All of this other crazy stuff Trump has talked about - the Panama Canal, Greenland, etc. - the thing to remember is that Trump is perfectly serious about all of it, and we are not finished hearing about it. If nothing else, the entertainment value of the second Trump administration is likely to be as great as that of the first, if not greater. Banning DEI from the government is mere theatre, although it may seem like more. It is too late to turn back the clock on diversity, equality, and inclusion as forces in American culture. In the future, any and all government personnel managers, while hiring new workers, are free to and encouraged to take into consideration the desirability of hiring a diverse ethnic, racial, cultural mix, and we throughout society can and will remind ourselves to treat everyone equally, and include everyone. Despite Trump, DEI is here to stay. The United States will also continue cooperating with the rest of the world for world health and for fighting climate change, despite Trump and his misguided MAGA movement which, despite present appearances to the contrary, is doomed to extinction.