Friday, April 25, 2025

Trump and MAGA, Going Ever Lower

OF ALL THE MANY MILLIONS of character flaws of Donald Trump,the one which I quite possible despise teh msot is sheer, unbridled vicsious pettiness. Or petty viciousness. Your choice. You'll recall a certain Mr.Rodriguez,living for the past month and a half in a brutalEl Salvadoriain prison, instead of wher he should be, at home with his wife and kids in Maryland, because the Trump administration accidentally deported him, or deported him because they falsely claim he is a criminal and terrorist, depending on which excuse is used by Trump from day to day, much to the ongoing consternation of most of America, and particularly Garcia's friends and family, who are protesting quite vigorously, rightly so. That's vicious and petty enough unto itself. Now, in an act of vicious pettiness so brutal that it shouldand perhaps shall live in infamy, the Trump junta has published the contact information, including street address, of Garcia's family, on the infamous Musk "X" social media platform, for all the world to see. This, once again with the apparent full approval of MAGA mob, the most petty people on Earth. So immediate and overwhelming has been the violent response of MAGA nation that the family has now gone into hiding. If they hadn't, by now they would undoubtedly be dead. They would have continued talking about their vanished husband and father and son and friend forever, stirring up trouble, inspiring many other Americans to join them in protesting Trump's crime. It would have been a problem for der fuhrer,thus, they had to be "eliminated", and they have been. But unfortunately for Trump, the story doesn't end there, nor does it end with the SCOTUS order to Trump to bring the young man back home, or to try to and prove that he tried, or something like that. Then too, Garcia's family needn't be involved, nor even alive, for the rest of us, the moral majority of Americans who hate and oppose Trump, to carry on in their behalf, relentlessly, vociferously demanding not only Garcia's return, but Trump's impeachment, removal, indictment, arrest, trial, conviction, incarceration, and execution. Only then will justice have been done. If Obama, either Clinton, or any Democarat had behaved as Trump has, conservative Christian America would be demanding precisely that. Trump was elected partly because Harrris is a black woman and much of Americais racist and fascist,but mainly because enough Americans were duped by Trump into believing that an actuallly thriving economy was doing poorly, but that Trumpwould fix it. That's all changed now, and it will change much,much more, very soon. The economic honey moon is over. The percentage of Americans who trust and support Trump to "fix" the economy has plummeted, and will continue to plummet as the devastating his psychotic tariff game are felt, and hit home, hard, among Trump supporters included. The ripple efect of the Musk-rat decimation of the federal government hasbegun, but barely, and will sweep through and wash over the economy like a tidal save, as unemployed workers suffer hardship, and vanishing government services and various forms of assistance disappear. Unless I'm dreaming, a considerable part of the Trump agenda has been and is being stifled in the federal judicial system, as Trump's Executive orders get tied up, stayed, suspended and eliminated in an endless avalanche of lawsuits, lawsuits in which the precarious Trump position is fully exposed. His desperate, fatuous argument to the Supreme Court, that the U.S. president can deport anybody he chooses, for any reason, at any time, without any due process, according to the constitution, has already been shot down by a SCOTUS which is inclined to kiss Trump's ass, but can only be pushed and manipulated so far, even by Trump. The more insane, harmful actions Trump takes, and there will doubtless be many more soon enough, the more the courts will stop him, the more we the American people will speak out against him, and the cherished ideal of democracy will survive once again, to fight another battle on another day.

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