(FOTUS being the Felon of the United States).
Discussing his TV miniseries V, Kenneth Johnson said the theme of the film was power: Who has it? Who wants it? Who collaborates? Who resists? Questions relevant today as we watch too many people bend their knee to FOTUS — but not everyone.
Harvard, for instance “announced that, as part of a lawsuit settlement, it would adopt a definition of antisemitism that includes some harsh criticisms of Israel and Zionism, such as holding Israel to a “double standard” and likening its policies to Nazism. Though Harvard claims that it still adheres to the First Amendment, under this definition a student or professor who accuses Israel of genocidal action in Gaza — as the Israeli American Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov has — might be subject to disciplinary action.”
Rep. Elise Stefanik, who’s been in the tank for FOTUS from the get-go, claims she is shocked, shocked and appalled that people think Elon Musk gave a Nazi salute — she wasn’t there but she just looooves the Co-President of the United States! By constrast Senator Lisa Murkowski, who has a long history of wringing her hands without taking action, says she’ll vote no on alcoholic, alleged spouse-abusing DOD nominee Pete Hegseth. If she holds the course, good for her! Quite aside from his ugly side, Hegseth is a massively unqualified WEI hire (white, entitled, incompetent. Regrettably I didn’t come up with the term).
Sen. Rick Scott has ducked away from questions about Trump pardoning violent J6 insurrectionists. Some senators have come out and criticized the pardons, including my own senator Thom Tillis. I disagree so much with Tillis, I feel it necessary to give him credit when he does something good.
A Reagan-appointed judge, John C. Coughenor, has blocked the administration’s order ending birthright citizenship. Judge James Ho, who took a similar stance during Trump’s first term, has decided the 14th amendment no longer applies because all these illegal immigrants coming over the border are an invading force. They’re not, but hey, Trump’s bound to appoint at least one SCOTUS justice in the coming years.
Wake County in NC says ICE agents don’t get to enter schools without a warrant.
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker says his state will not comply with FOTUS illegally revoking birthright citizenship. Alas, NJ Governor Phil Murphy says he’s happy to work with Trump in return for the president blocking New York from applying congestion pricing to traffic (from what I’ve read it’s an excellent policy but unsurprisingly some drivers hate paying even slightly more).
The media have been sanewashing and admiring the FOTUS since he first ran. Now Politico declares he’s a great president (not a direct link), “Breathtakingly expansive about his intention to reshape the vast federal government around his vision” I mean, what else could they say about a guy who wants to punish TV stations that criticize him, blocking Afghan refugees from settling here legally (funny, under Biden Republicans were soooo concerned about the Afghan people), pardoning violent anti-abortion activists, revoking security protection for Antony Fauci and abolishing the Pentagon office that tracks civilian deaths. Hmm, come to think of it maybe “breathtakingly expansive” isn’t quite the perfect phrase.
A special case are the people who voted Trump because thought it was in their interest and now the leopard’s eating their face. I can’t help feeling sorry for them, but at the same time I don’t. Particulary since the faceless individual’s rationalization is that if only he can get an explanation to the Glorious Supreme Leader, everything will be fine.
The court prophets who worship Trump and glorify him in return for him punching down at gays, POC and women sold out long ago — he’s offering them a kingdom of this world and that’s in the Bible somewhere, right? By contrast Bishop Mariann Budde spoke truth to power, thereby infuriating Trump and MAGA.
“It’s all woke crap” he must have been thinking. “When will we get to the acclamation of my win in the election? When will we get to their acknowledgment of my power, my success, my victory? When are we going to get to the praise of me?” Spoiler alert: Never, never, and never. Because this service was never going to be about Trump, and I’m sure that never even dawned on him as he arrived at the National Cathedral.
The snowflake FOTUS has demanded an apology. I don’t anticipate him getting one.
