It's Too Late

How out of control is der Drumpf Reich after only two weeks in office?  Let's examine the evidence:

• Der Drumpf Reich offered buyouts to federal employees to get them to resign with the threat of being fired. This is how Chancellor Elon Musk gutted Twitter when he bought it and renamed it X.
• The Reich gave Musk access to the private information of federal employees for Musk to use to intimidate them.  Then the same power was given to the Treasury Department, which allows Musk access to the personal information of all Americans.
• It canceled events and programs in the Defense Department related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and recognition of all month-long or day-long celebrations of DEI.  That not only means terminating events and programs related to Black History Month, Women's History Month, Hispanic History and Heritage Month, and Lithuanian-American Heritage Month (no such thing, just wanted to make sure you were paying attention)  but not even recognizing official holidays like Martin Luther King Day and Juneteenth, which Trump will likely have eliminated from the federal holiday roster.
• After a horrendous plane crash over National Airport on the Potomac River in which an airliner collided with a Black Hawk helicopter, the Dear Leader blamed DEI for the disaster, even though there were apparently no women or people of color at the helm of either aircraft or of the air-traffic control tower.
• Musk forced out the head of the Federal Aviation Administration as payback for an FAA investigation into SpaceX.
• The Reich tried to freeze on federal funds to all programs two ways of Greenwich and tried to deny that the freeze was still on to a federal judge when it in fact was.  The judge placed a hold on the freeze with a temporary restraining order, which will likely lead to an injunction.
• Almost as soon as Vice President Vance said that only the January 6 participants who merely went to the Capitol to demonstrate, and not the violent insurrectionists who killed and assaulted police officers, would be pardoned, the Dear Leader pardoned . . . all of them.
• The Leader announced legal action against PBS for airing commercials - something PBS has had to do to balance its books since the early seventies when Nixon changed its funding formula to prevent it from becoming as independent as the BBC in the United Kingdom. 
• He has now imposed 25-percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico (over alleged illegal shipments of Fentanyl crossing the borders), which has caused our two neighbors to retaliate, and he has imposed a 15 percent tariff on China, which the Chinese are going to protest at the World Trade Organization. 

Plus too many more to list.

 

I'm likely going to have to do a list like this every week for the next four years.  If I live that long.  Between Musk getting control of my private information and Kash Patel (below) getting control over the FBI, I am probably a dead man already.  Through the feds will likely go after the Meiselas brothers first. 😢  It's not because of what I've written about the Dear Leader since January 20, 2025; it's what I'd written about him before then.   Everything I've written about him in the past several years is there for everyone to see, and even if I deleted all of it, it would still be on Blogger.com's servers.  Nothing on the Internet is ever really deleted.

All right, maybe I won't get sent to Guantanamo (Spanish for Dachau), since my blog is small potatoes and I get fewer readers in a year than the Meiselas brothers get viewers in a day.  And truthfully, even the Meiselas brothers won't get sent to Dachau-by-the-Sea and will likely only get bankrupted.  But, even though I will continue to speak out and speak up, I have no illusions as to how this will all end.  Opponents of the Reich are already calling for organizing for the 2026 midterms to put in Democratic majorities in the 120th Congress and hold the regime accountable, but the Leader probably is already working on contingency plans to have Congress dissolved and replaced with a rubber-stamp legislature that only meets twice a year and ratifies his decrees unanimously - it will even be even less democratic than the bi-annual Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints' General Conferences, where you can express yourself freely only by abstaining from voice votes. No, I continue to believe that, if the Leader is to be deposed before January 2029 - and he will be - it will be in a scenario that parallels the Russian Revolution or the fall of the Hapsburg dynasty in Austria.  The military may have to step in to restore order and maybe rewrite the Constitution to get rid of all the ambiguities that allow the suppression of  voting rights and the denial of gender equality - and the Second Amendment, because the National Guard units - the well-regulated militias - don't need to be constitutionally guaranteed anymore.   

But restoring order and democratic norms peacefully, through the ballot box and peaceful assembly - the latter of which will probably be snuffed out by presidential fiat? Sorry.  That time is past.  We had our chance on November 5 of last year.  Restoring order by peaceful means?

It's too late.  I could be wrong, and I'd like to be, but I'm probably not.  It's just . . . too . . . late.  So don't ask me to join the resistance against Der Drumpf Reich to save my country because, since I don't have to leave America because America already left me, I don't have a country anymore.

(Correction:  The above photo is not a picture of Kash Patel.  It's a picture of Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts.  I regret the error.)