I stepped away from this blog for a month with my rationale being Kathleen's family reunion plus traveling plus a backlog of critiques and judging for various state and national journalism organizations and even some delayed planning for my online college classes. The Metro class opens next Monday and all my big plans to add transparency and clarity and fun, new argument models... well, now I am down to less than a week to fine-tune some of those plans.
In other words, I have had a busy summer, but not as busy as our demented and increasingly crazed president. Some might say that I am stressing unnecessarily, but even a superficial reading of the news reveals that the country is watching Trump explore just how much he can get away with as a pseudo-dictator.
Today, he announced that he was placing the Washington, D. C. police under federal control and deploying the National Guard... all based on an unsupported claim that the District is dangerous and out of control. It should not be a surprise that all available statistics indicate the opposite, but between the Supreme Court and the Republican "leadership," we have lost the ability to reel in our autocratic and increasingly unstable Fearless Leader.
Trump is scheduled to defy the World Court (not to mention common sense) by meeting with fellow dictator Putin in Alaska. His Russian counterpart rarely leaves his country due to being under indictment by several international organizations, but who cares about those puny nations we so enjoy bullying?
Trump's stormtroopers, better known as ICE agents, continue to run roughshod over the nation's laws and never seem to feel the need to apologize for confusing American citizens with darker skin and international criminals. Those agents continue to wear masks, a not-so-subtle message of fear and intimidation... without a chance to even question their actions. In fact, there is no accountability and the distinct possibility of non-governmental nutcases pretending to be federal agents.
Trump and his minions are busy bribing universities and private companies, raking in millions to grant favors and make fictional lawsuits disappear. Today, we found that Nvidia has agreed to pay the U.S. government what can only be termed a "kickback" of 15 percent of its computer chip sales to China. Trump had halted those chip sales over security concerns, but with this government, money is supreme. The security fears of the Chinese using those advanced chips to leap ahead of the U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence turned out to be "no big deal."
Some commentators say that all these provocative actions, and too many more to list, are Trump flailing away and trying to flood the media with so many outrages that we will all forget about the Epstein files and what they likely contain: evidence of Trump as the best friend of a child predator if not being a predator himself. Of course, we already know his has a long history of abusing women. Normally, no one cares but the conspiracy nuts are "all in" on those Epstein files being full of juicy revelations about liberals and the Clintons and who knows else.
The media continues to dutifully report each new outrage as if simply sharing the basic facts will be enough to allow Americans to find their own truths.
But there is a larger story, and it has to be the fast takeover of the country by a White Nationalist slice of the population, and there appears to be nothing that can be done.
Where is Superman when we need him?
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