Bombing Butterflies and Blacks

BUTTERFLIES, like frogs, birds, and various insect species, are a fragile and vulnerable species, their poor health a measure of man's inhumanity to the ecosystem, currently suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous human behavior and thus threatened with extinction. Belatedly, but better than never, homo sapine sapiens is beginning to take arms against its worst instincts to destroy, and to fight back, for life. To this end there is a butterfly sanctuary along the Mexican-American border. Trump and his right wing racist reprobate Republican supporters wanted, and still want, to build a massive two thousand mile thirty foot tall wall all along the border, to make it slightly more difficult for those desperate, hungry poorly pigmented refugees to scurry across, or climb over or burrow under or go around, in the hope of a renewed life of desperation in the land of inequality and opportunity for the few. Their inane wall, as Trump and fate would have it, was to go straight through the butterfly sanctuary, all but destroying it, not that the Trump crowd cared. Anything, whatever it takes, to slow down the Trump-proclaimed Mexican rapists and murderers by a few minutes. What, after all, are a few billion butterflies compared to the holy crusade to keep brown people at home, where they belong? If only they would come from Norway, as Trump said he would much prefer, the land of the fair skinned... Threatened with extinction, the butterflies did what any intelligent species would do; they went to court, and succeeded in delaying the wall construction. For that, they are being rewarded with far right righteous vengenace. Terrorist bomb threats have been exploding, forcing the sanctuary to shut down, temporarily, it is to be hoped. Somebody, and we know who, is threatening to drop bombs on buterflies, and on those who care for them. Someone quite angry at the delay in building the wall, the wall which would not welcome the stranger. Someone of the MAGA kind. Meanwhile, at the beginning of "Black History Month", bomb threats are being received by several historically black colleges and universities, presumably from the same sort of folks; the racist, white supremacist, Trump loving kind. Meanwhile, at his increasingly frequent off season campaign twenty twenty four MAGA rallies, Trump is telling his cult followers that when reelected, he will make damned sure that the patriots who stormed the Capitol in his honor on January 6, 2021, will be treated fairly, by which he means, because he said he means, getting pardons from him himself. Violent insurrectionist terrorist criminals, according to Trump, according to most of his cult followers, deserve presidential pardons because they are not being treated well by the criminal justice system, which has the audacity to charge them with the crime of attacking invading, and damaging the Capitol building. Trump also trumpets the messsage nowadays that in America, white people are being forced to go to the back of the line - for everything. Those poor, poor conservative white Christian fundamentalists, and their history of persecution in America.... It all adds up, using the simplest math: Racist Trump plus racist rhetoric equals bombs threats against blacks and butterflies made by racist Trump cult followers. Just when you think the Trump movement has reached its lowest point, lower it goes.