Donald Trump made headlines today when he seemed to indicate in an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press that he would not be inclined to “uphold the Constitution” and give all persons, including non-citizens, due process as required by the Fifth Amendment.
Thank you for pulling back the curtain and exposing the sad truths of our supposed democracy. The elite run this country and the less fortunate are supposed to just lie down and take it on the chin.
Just spontaneously . . . the question emerging is: do we survive as a nation or as a world, a biosphere (and yes --- as a species along with other species)? I can't see how it can be so hard for someone like Trump, who has engaged someone like Musk, who has engaged questions of ecosustainability, can fail to covet being a genuine "hero" in the field of the counteracting the threat of excessive damage to biospheric balances we have lived by and taken for granted for all of our existence. The advances being made in rebuilding ecosystems in many places around the world are the most encouraging and healthy things going on --- how can they not be on Trump's and Musk's tongue-tips? Are they really that deeply implicated in crimes and horrors of the Ecocidal Oiligarchy and the Tobaccogarchy that they feel they can't back out, and Musk must adhere to the lines fed out by the likes of Steven Miller, Russell Vought and other oiligarchy soldiers? If that's the case, can it be that thousands of people in DC observing all this can't find a way to talk about it and make it easier for them to fess up? I guess this brings us around to Trump's confessionalism --- it does indeed seem like he's confessing or looking for a shrink's couch to lie down on.
But I'll confess --- my actual understanding of this is that Trump is simply protecting himself against prosecution for known and unknown crimes and guilt by association, with the kingly potential of the presidency; and arming himself with the company of billionaires who are hundreds of times more implicated in Oiligarchy and other guilt than he is; and the company of the military that has thousands of high level careers depending on Oiligarchy. They need a single figure, an executive, like a king more or less, to protect them, and he kind of fit the bill more and more, over a period of decades.
Thank you for pulling back the curtain and exposing the sad truths of our supposed democracy. The elite run this country and the less fortunate are supposed to just lie down and take it on the chin.
Just spontaneously . . . the question emerging is: do we survive as a nation or as a world, a biosphere (and yes --- as a species along with other species)? I can't see how it can be so hard for someone like Trump, who has engaged someone like Musk, who has engaged questions of ecosustainability, can fail to covet being a genuine "hero" in the field of the counteracting the threat of excessive damage to biospheric balances we have lived by and taken for granted for all of our existence. The advances being made in rebuilding ecosystems in many places around the world are the most encouraging and healthy things going on --- how can they not be on Trump's and Musk's tongue-tips? Are they really that deeply implicated in crimes and horrors of the Ecocidal Oiligarchy and the Tobaccogarchy that they feel they can't back out, and Musk must adhere to the lines fed out by the likes of Steven Miller, Russell Vought and other oiligarchy soldiers? If that's the case, can it be that thousands of people in DC observing all this can't find a way to talk about it and make it easier for them to fess up? I guess this brings us around to Trump's confessionalism --- it does indeed seem like he's confessing or looking for a shrink's couch to lie down on.
But I'll confess --- my actual understanding of this is that Trump is simply protecting himself against prosecution for known and unknown crimes and guilt by association, with the kingly potential of the presidency; and arming himself with the company of billionaires who are hundreds of times more implicated in Oiligarchy and other guilt than he is; and the company of the military that has thousands of high level careers depending on Oiligarchy. They need a single figure, an executive, like a king more or less, to protect them, and he kind of fit the bill more and more, over a period of decades.