Keeping Up With Trump

IF YOU DON'T write about Trump every day, or every couple of hours, you risk missing, will have missed writing about any number of crimes committed, false, idiotic words spoken, or harmful actions taken by our very own tin horn tyrant, as they might say on "Gunsmoke". So vile and disgusting is he that it becomes temting to ignore him utterly, to imagine him out of existence. But that would be a mistake. Trump is important, made so by us, and his existance demands close attention. Trump's deployment of the California National Guard to insert its nose into and fan the flames of the ongoing protests against Trump's deployment of the Gestapo (Immigration and Customs Enforcement {I.C.E.}) in Los Angeles, kicking down doors, dragging the residents outside, deporting them without due process or decent treatment. Normally, any presumably sane American president would call the governor of California and the Maor of Los Angeles, and find out what's going on. Then, working with both leaders, he or she would develop a plan, with teh president paying close attention to and following, as much as possible, their suggestions. Afterall, its their state, their city. But not Herr Trump. Without so much as a text messsage to or from California, teh fuhrer orders troops to go in and quell the alleged "rebellion", as Trump and his propaganda minister, Frau Leavitt, faslely describe the situation. A peaceful protest, megaphones and colored signs, transformed by our newly fascist federal government, spewing Trump's verbal garbage, as a "rebellion", and a "riot", purely for political gain, as an expression and demonstration of authoritarian power. Wasn't it Trump who wanted to downsize the federal government, and transfer more responsibility for their own well being directly to the states themselves? And behold MAGA nation, tireless champions of populism, government from the ground up, who usually get all giddy atteh very thought of the iconic phrase "state's rights". Online, Trump calls Governor Newsome "governor "Newscum", and probably marvels at his own cleverness. In prototypical American style, Gov. Gavin files a lawsuit against Der Administration. If the famously liberal ninthe federal circuit judge in San Francisco puts a "stay" on teh National Guard deployment, what are teh chances that Trump will obey it, and instantly rescind his order? Above all else, Trump wants the protests to be rebellions and riots, because, after all, they are all progressives, opposed to both Trump's immigration policy and Trump himself, cardinal sins, according to der fuhrer. Trump wants chaos of his own creation to serve as his vehicle for gaining authoritarian power and higer levels of popular adulation among his fascist cult, if that's possible. Start the fire, watch it burn a bit,then, heroically put it out. Take full credit. Excoriate the progressive population generally,teh source of all violent anti-social behavior. The insurrection at the capitol was only minor disturbance; these anti-deportation protests in L. A. are deadly serious,the real deal. The great American conservatism fun house easily, automatically distorts reality into whaever twisted, unrecogmizeable shape that suits the current needs of a backward looking people and political ideology. Along time ago,a frend of mine, after examining the political landscape, openly decalred that whereas he had no real idea what was going on in this country,but that he was certain of one thing; whatever it is, it hasn't run its course, it aint going away any time soon.