CSotD: Barbarians Inside the Gates
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It’s come to this: The President has declared any opposition to him as “sedition” to be punished with execution. My own Congressional Representative is on the list of people Donald Trump has said should be hanged for having said that members of the military are not required to follow illegal orders.
Advocating the law and reminding people of their legal obligations under the oaths they took is now treason, according to the man ridiculed as “Dear Leader.” Comparing him to a brutal, self-absorbed dictator isn’t funny anymore: He doesn’t just think he’s above the law. He thinks he is the law.
What he is is nuts. Wuerker notes his predilection for declaring emergencies in order to allow him to take steps that, in normal times, would be illegal. The courts have begun slapping down these imaginary crises, but his response is not to stop, behave and follow the law but, rather, to appeal and judge-shop in hopes of finding someone who will back up his ludicrous claims of emergencies.
And he has surrounded himself with lickspittles, lackeys and toad-eaters, some of whom, before they were hired, spoke out against the abuses he commits, and others who are consistent in agreeing with whatever lunatic proposals Dear Leader raises.
Chief among them is his baffling press secretary, who, after he suggested executing his political opponents, explained that they had advocated disobeying legal orders, which is the opposite of what they said unless, like her, you live in a universe in which Dear Leader’s orders are legal because he has declared them so.
We should have seen this coming. He previously made the claim that busloads of undocumented aliens were brought into New Hampshire to cast illegal votes in 2016, a ridiculous accusation that his loyalists spent millions of dollars futilely attempting to make real, just one of a ton of farcical falsehoods he put forth, not one of which proved true.
Bennett puts the lie to Trump’s repeated claim that food prices have gone down, despite proof that they have risen. His disparity between abundance and affordability is not only a good graphic display here, but also reminds us of the false claim that WalMart’s lower price on a Thanksgiving package is proof of lower food prices.
That claim was quickly swatted down by people who noted that WalMart’s package was considerably smaller this year, which was then confirmed by a variety of independent observers. But Trump’s loyal Cabinet members continue to spread the lie and to defend it in interviews when confronted with the truth.
Truth has become a victim of the “alternative facts” that once drew scornful laughter as we shift from a democracy into an idiocracy, under the rule of another bit of mockery, which is that a clown with a flamethrower may be a clown but he still has a flamethrower.
German cites the harm caused by loud, ignorant voters, and it’s enough to make you wish there were some way to qualify people before allowing them to vote. Unfortunately, we have a history of using such efforts to depress minority voters and there’s little chance we could come up with a process that would prove both effective and fair.
Nor is this the first time ignorant bigots have formed an effective political presence, though the Know-Nothing Party failed to gain national power in the 1840s and George Wallace’s third-party attempt to roll back Civil Rights also fell short at the polls.
This time around, while they’re still clowns, they have flamethrowers, the danger being that they are following a one-time TV star and will believe anything he or his acolytes say.
You would, for instance, have to be an idiot to believe that undocumented migrants have caused the housing crisis by purchasing homes and driving up prices, given that they can’t obtain mortgages without Social Security numbers. But, again, administration figures continue to advance this nonsensical concept, and the fact that you’d have to be an idiot to believe it is no barrier in an idiocracy.
Another well-worn expression these days is the cry of the woman who voted for the Leopards Eating Faces Party but assumed they wouldn’t eat her face. Buss notes the promises made, and broken, to coal miners, but he could as readily have drawn farmers, who have also been shocked to discover that the leopards are eating their faces.
Many of them will, no doubt, back the party again when the next elections roll around. But the poll numbers do indicate a certain degree of wising up.
Juxtaposition of the Day
Boris notes the panic launched by Dear Leader, intended to frighten people who can’t tell a socialist from a communist from a hole in the ground, all the while promising them a government handout that sounds a lot like socialism but which he couldn’t afford even if it were a promise he intended to keep.
While at the same time, Benson explains that socialism is why New York City seeks federal funding, as if it were the only city in America that gets help from Washington and then only because it elected a scary scary socialist.
There is, BTW, a bridge there that I’ve heard is available for purchase.
Similarly, rightwingers continue to advance the idea that “liberals” oppose the rape of underage girls because they think Republicans are the only people doing it, and, when they’re not announcing that raping eight-year-olds is wrong but raping 14-year-olds is understandable, they’re putting forth the notion that, if the Epstein files proves Democrats were also involved, liberals will abandon the scandal.
They purposefully blind themselves to the fact that sexual assault on children is neither a liberal/conservative nor a Democrat/Republican conflict. It’s a conflict between decent people and garbage people, and if you defend it as partisan, you are among the garbage people.
And if a Christian is going to defend anybody associated with this, he’d better hope he’s wrong about there being a place called Hell.
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