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Wed Feb 19, 2025, 06:29 PM Feb 19

'For Cruel, Stupid, ​Dastardly Deeds Done and Proposed'

"A belated Happy (sic) Not My President's Day, from a populace bruised and reeling yet still defiant in the face of a right-wing junta by staggeringly arrogant jackwads too hyped by their own megalomania to comprehend, never mind regret, the devastation they wreak on our storied democracy. How do we hate thee? Let us count the ways in an inane war on equity, reason, kindness, workers, chickens, freckles, gender, Greenland, brown people, knowledge itself. But resisters abide."

"'No Kings' is increasingly the righteous cry against a regime run by an apartheid-born Nazi and his figurehead president, abetted by a cadre of extremist lackeys who know nothing about the agencies, one after the other, they're being handed to run, or run into the ground. After a Munich conference that made clear today's Germany is resolutely anti-Nazi but America isn't, Garrett Graff offered up 'a more clear-eyed' assessment of a new regime that, if it was unfolding in a third-world country, would be deemed 'a full-blown autocratic coup': Seized capital, dismantled legal constraints, corrupt law enforcement decriminalizing crimes by power elites and brash bands of roving mercenaries and 'political commissars' insidiously installed across the government in key positions, much like Stalin's Russia."

"Astoundingly, the new regimen of 'masculine maximalism' (LOL) is overseen by a doddering, addled, moronic know-nothing who, when he speaks, somehow still knows nothing, Witless and wandering, he babbled on at last week's National Prayer Breakfast, wildly veering from teleprompter to fever dream: Religion 'suffered greatly over the last four long dark years,' 'they say you can't run again, sir,' "in God we trust, there was a movement to get that out,' we 'got rid of woke, woke is gonzo,' the election 'didn't work out too correctly,' 'God works in strange ways,' the 'spirit of the country is up 49%,' 'a light is shining all over the world,' 'I shouldn't be here, like sinking a one-foot shot,' 'the persecution they've,' 'blessed are the peacemakers,' 'You can take an aeroplane, it costs two dollars,' 'nobody's ever seen anything like it.'"

"Yet still the idiot lackeys jump, along with most of the media. Only the A.P. has refused to herald the inane 'Gulf of America,' for which treacherous act they've been banned from the macabre festivities. One eager rep wants to rename Greenland 'Red, White and Blue Land,' another to make a national holiday of the master's birthday. Conspiracy-steeped Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a Nazi progeny, veteran, former cocktail waitress and armed swimsuit model in camouflage bikinis who compared Hillary Clinton to herpes, wants to add his mug on Mt. Rushmore. Her prize: Head of a House task force to expose 'federal secrets' - a move 'not just monumental but pivotal' in a 'new era when the light of truth begins to shine through.' She'll be 'investigating' UFOs, 9/11, Jeffrey Epstein, and the death of JFK; she plans to call an august panel of eye-witnesses who all died decades ago. So that should be cool."

https://www.commondreams.org/further/for-cruel-stupid-dastardly-deeds-done-and-proposed

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