What the ... slide?!?!?

 The US slides into ... god damn what do you call it? Anarchy? Tyranny? Fuckery? A combination? Holy fuck. in my wildest nightmares I never saw this coming.

Trump is now posting on Truth Social calling for military tribunals to look at Obama. He is pushing for his Gestapo, oops I mean ICE to deport people even if they don't deserve it. He is having Judiciary and Political officials arrested. He is spewing lie after lie about, well, everything. He even tried to lie and take credit for India and Pakistan stepping down from war. Pissing them off. He is trashing Bruce Springsteen. Hell the Red States are getting rid of child labour laws!

It was bad enough in his first term that Neo Nazis felt comfortable coming out. It is so much worse now.\

Through it all MAGA supports him. The MAGGOTs in Congress and the Senate blindly support him.  Even when his policies are fucking them over the MAGGOTs say "Thank you sir, may I have another?" 

I am thankful that I am Canadian and we have a leader that will do his best to protect us from the insanity that is Donald Trump. Canada needs to divest itself of ties to USA as quickly as it can. Sadly, the USA can't be trusted as an ally again. An arms length friend? Ok. A trustworthy friend? Nope. Even if Trump is ousted and a better crew comes in there is always the threat that the morons will take over again. People are just that stupid. 

What the ... really Joe?

 NOW Joe Rogan is talking about Due Process. Talking about how lumping people into groups is bad. Holy shit Joe, this IS HAPPENING and people have been talking about it while you have been coddling Trumps ball sack. You are part of the problem Joe. 

You voted for Trump and encouraged him even though if you had a bit of common sense you would seen where he was headed. You gave air time, and coddled the sacks, of him, his VP, Elon, and the Oligarchs, even though you SHOULD have been able to see where they were headed. Where was Jamie?

You used to be against the assholes like Trump, Vance, Musk and all their ilk. I don't know what happened to you, but damn you sold out. Did covid really break your brain? 

Trump and his regime have been trampling on due process since he was elected. Yet you  just started noticing it? They have trampled on peoples rights and sent them to fucking concentration camps in El Salvador. And you JUST started noticing it? Innocent people are in fucking concentrations camps and Trump and his cronies are LYING about it and you JUST started to notice? Seriously? Fuck you Joe.

Part of me hopes this is a return of the Old Joe. However, based on who he has become I have my doubts. It seems more like a ploy to try and get his audience back since he has lost his Number 1 Podcast status. His railing against the Trump government over Due Process seems a tad contrived considering things he said since the deportation's and sending people to a concentration camp started. Rogan helped Trump get elected. He could pick up his fucking phone and actually talk to Donald. Like I said, his railing against this now seems contrived.

I used to LOVE Joe Rogan's podcasts. He introduced me to comedians, writers, and artists I would never had heard of. Since covid he has become a bizarre, bitter, asshole. One that propagates the bizarre despite reality. I still watch some of his old podcasts because they were good and informative. Not the batshit he has promoted the last few years.

I guess what I am saying is ... Joe, you disappoint me and have for a while. I used to expect better from you. I don't anymore. It is hard to say if I ever will. 

What the ... label?!?!?

    I used to hesitate to call Trump and MAGA Nazi's. I always found that too often people label someone or something they don't like as Hitler or Nazi's. However, the more you see of what Trump is saying and doing, as well as his sycophants, the comparison is obvious. One would actually be doing a disservice not pointing it out.

Blackmail and bullying:

   Whether it was willing or forced, German companies paid tribute to the Nazi's, which helped fund them. Many would also benefit from forced/slave labour.

   Billionaires are willingly funding Trump now to gain benefits from him. Just look at Elon Musk and the contracts his companies have been awarded since Trump took over. One of them was already approved for another company but taken away and given to Starlink. He is also bullying others, such as the law firms he has issues with, to do free work for him. Those firms who don't agree are punished. He actually tried banning them and their employees from ALL federal buildings. 

Vilifying minorities:

   A common tactic of fascists is to vilify minorities and immigrants. They turn their followers against them and use them to justify their actions. The Nazi's took it to new levels of horror.

   Trump has been doing that for a long time and MAGA has just gotten worse. They will tell blatant lies, such as the LEGAL Haitian immigrants being illegal and eating peoples pet cats and dogs. He has actually made public comments stating that immigrants have bad genes that make them criminals. 

   They paint all immigrants as illegal, even the legal ones, and use BS like this as justification to pull their status and deport them.

   Where do you even start on Trump and women? "Grab them by the pussy!" "She was bleeding form everywhere." Being convicted of defamation and CONTINUING to defame the person even today. Convicted for sexual assault. If a strong woman stands against him she is "nasty".

ICE and Homeland Security Roundups:

   Tied to other categories are the mass roundups of immigrants AND US citizens. They are then shuttled across the US to other states to be locked up with little to no recourse. Many of them are LEGAL immigrants, and citizens, whose only crime is not to be white. Even with evidence to people being US citizens ICE and DHS do not want to let them go, and in many cases were able to hold on to them longer. Like the case of Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a US born citizen.  A University student who co-authored an article critical of the US government was pretty much kidnapped by undercover ICE operatives and is in detention now. The US Government REMOVED her immigration status because she helped write an article critical of them. 

Concentration camps:

   Everyone in this day and age should know about the Nazi concentration and death camps. Of course there are those morons who deny their existence. The Nazi's rounded up undesirables, minorities, and sent them off to the camps. Some would be forced to do slave labour for the government and German companies, while others would be experimented on or put to death.

   Trump is shipping what he considers undesirables to what is basically a concentration camp in El Salvador. It is known to be a slave labour and death camp. People were shipped there with no due process. People who were not affiliated with the gangs Trump and his ass kissers claim they are and have never been convicted of a crime. Some of them were LEGAL immigrants to the US who had done nothing wrong.

    The US courts, including the Supreme Court, have ordered the government to get some of them back. Trump and his cronies LIE about the Supreme Court decision while openly ignoring and scorning the courts decisions. Trump even said openly that he wants El Salvador to build more camps and they will send American Citizens who are criminals there. They continue to lie and paint the innocent people they have victimized as criminals and terrorists.

Due Process and protection of the law:

   The Nazi's would twist or change the laws when they got into power to target the minorities they were vilifying. These tactics were used to justify, legally, stripping people of their property, freedom, and lives

   As mentioned when talking about vilifying minorities and concentration camps, Trump and his ass kissers are doing the same thing now. They are stripping people of their constitutionally protected right of Due Process. He is using Presidential Orders to justify attacking his perceived enemies and doing anything else he wants.

The Media:

   If Trump can't control the media he disparages it and attacks it. He actually labeled the media as the enemy of the people. Partisan hacks like Fox coddle Trumps ball sack and spin the hell out of stuff to make MAGA look good and everyone else bad. Meanwhile Trump attacks reporters and media companies and even mocked a reporter with a disability.

Lebensraum:

   Listening to Trump talk about annexing Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal immediately reminded me of Hitler. He talked about lebensraum. How Nazi Germany needed to expand into any territory they deemed necessary for the country to survive and grow. Which is pretty much Trump's reasoning for want to annex Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal.

Propaganda and lies:

   This also touches on some of the other areas I mentioned, the blatant lies and propaganda from the Trump Regime would make Joseph Goebbels smile. You can see it in the pre-election lies like the ones about Haitians eating cats and dogs that was aimed at promoting their anti-immigrant propaganda. You can see it in the current lies about the US Supreme Court Decision about Abrego Garcia. The regime's mouth pieces are actively twisting reality to fit their narrative and outright lying to make Garcia look like a criminal. 

   The piece of shit White House Press Secretary actually said the man's wife and children are better off with him in El Salvador! Their MAGA base laps this BS up as gospel and pushes their narrative. 

   It was announced the other day that the US Secretary of Defense Hegsworth is having any books he considers DEI pulled from the shelves of military libraries, such as those at the military Academies. The works of Maya Angelou as well as anything on the holocaust were deemed bad. Yet somehow Mein Kampf by Adolph Hitler is ok to stay.

   Goebbels was the master of The Big Lie and Trump and his ilk are following his example to promote their agenda.

Shit that just makes you shake your head: 

   The insanity that is the Religious Right and Trump. They call him their savior. They refer to him as the Messiah and God's anointed. They twist reality so that a serial adulterer, liar, and thief is the ONE that God sent to save humanity. They will ignore reality and twist it to support their narrative. It just boggles the mind.

   House Republicans have introduced a bill to rename Dulles Washington International Airport ... drum roll please ... Trump Airport. 

   In a homage to dictators like the Kim family of North Korea Trump's sycophants are wearing golden pins of Trump's face.

   One GOP MAGAT wants to put Trump's image on the $100 bill while another wants to create a $250 bill with trump on it.

   A congresswoman introduced a bill to add Trump's face to Mount Rushmore. Another one introduced a bill to make Trump's birthday a national holiday.

   Which of course is a perfect segue to Trump wanting to spend $100 million to have a military parade that would take place ... on his birthday.

One thing that really stuck in my mind was the bag licking  session that was called cabinet meeting. Where every cabinet member started their diatribe off by polishing Donald's knob with praise. 

   I watched a documentary years ago about Doctors Without Borders going to North Korea to perform eye surgery on people for free. At the end of the documentary was the big reveal. The patients had their bandages taken off and could see again. ALL of them prostrated themselves before pictures of the Great Leader and the Dear Leader thanking them for giving them their vision back. Praising them for everything they did for the people of North Korea. Vowing to work harder than any one else and be productive. They slobbered all over the Kim's knob. Mind you, if they hadn't, if they had actually thanked the doctors, they would most likely had been killed or sent to a gulag along with their families. This is what the TELEVISED portion of the cabinet meeting made think of. Which begs the question what did they do to and for Trump when the camera was off?

   The constant grifting he does. Trump Bibles. Trump NFTs. Trump bitcoin. Pleas to donate to help get him elected or defend against his enemies. Trump and his people are constantly coming up with new schemes to separate his morons, I mean supporters, from their money. And they fall for it every time.. How about the violations of the emoluments clause that Trump flouts?

   Sadly I could go on and on about shit like this. While it won't matter to the MAGATs it should matter to Americans. But I digress.

Conclusions:

   The Trump regime is doing a whole lot of goose stepping over the US Constitution and people's rights. If you can't look at what Trump and his cronies have been doing and saying and NOT see the direct comparisons to Nazi's and fascism you are either being willfully ignorant, a blind MAGA supporter/apologist, or just a moron.

What the ... conundrum?!?!?

 The whole shitstorm that came out of Donald taking the Presidency ... what 2 months ago? it feels like a lot longer ... happened while I was reading a lot about the fall of the Roman Republic. I am kind of torn on whether what is happening now is the fall of the Roman republic or the rise of the Nazis. There are parallels to both.

The fall of the Roman republic happened over time. Decades. It saw a split between the average citizen and the ruling class. A kind of civil war happened and it still left things unstable. You had dictators, Sulla, have a reign of terror, that ended with Julius Caesar becoming the dictator. Then the upper class decided they couldn't have that ... and the fall was solidified. (I know this is simplistic but I don't want to drone on too much)

I can see where what is happening today can be tied to things from decades ago. A lot of the people that have contributed to what is happening now cut their teeth with Ronald Reagan. The Bush 2 presidency saw them become more of an influence, and a bigger rift develop between the "ruling class" and the common person. The rise of the Tea Party has led directly to MAGA.

Then you have the rise of the Nazis. It happened pretty fast. Fascism and racism were an integral part of their rise. You can see a lot of Nazism in the MAGA movement today. From the sheep blindly bleating, to those willing to toss out the US constitution and everything else so they keep power.

I think it is a lot of both things that I see. The Fall of the Republic and how far America has fallen over the years, and especially in the last 2 months. Then the rise of fascism and how quickly it has happened. We definitely live in interesting times. Sadly that isn't always a good thing.

What the .... Donald?!?!?

 While I expected the new Trump administration to be a shit show I didn't expect it to show it's ass this quick. In a month and a bit he has managed to betray their neighbour and long time ally, Canada. That doesn't even get into what he has said and done to piss off Mexico, Europe, and Panama.

I could rehash what has been said and done but it has been reported and done in depth already. I am looking at the Canadian aspect of it.

I am proud to say Canada is fighting back. The people of Canada have never been as united as they are now. Even Quebecois have said they are proud Canadians. We are prepared to take some pain. We are behind our Government. Hell, I am even impressed with Trudeau. He still has to go but damn Crisis Trudeau reminds me of his father. Elbows Up!

It is time to start untangling ourselves from the US economically and militarily. With a fascist like Donald in power we can't trust the US government. 

Donald has violated the Free Trade agreement that HE made with Canada and Mexico. So let's make it official and say that his violations have just nullified it. His tariffs violate the WTO rules as well. Now he is spouting off about wanting to redo the borders. The US cannot be trusted while Donald is in charge, and Vance wouldn't be any better.

Fuck Donald and Fuck the Americans who voted for him and pay lip service to him. 77 Million plus of  Americans voted for this piece of shit. 49.8% of all those who voted. When I hear people say "I didn't vote for him!" as a means of distancing themselves from the insanity he has created I have 1 question. Did you vote? The 2024  Presidential Election had a lower turn out than the 2020 election. If all those who said they didn't vote for Donald, don't blame me, actually voted, Kamala would have won. So, someone other than Donald is a liar and deserves to be called on it. But I digress.

Then you have the Republican Party itself. They have sold their souls to a fascist piece of shit and his extremists. While Donald and Elon trample on the US Constitution the Republican Party is either fondling Donald's dick to keep him happy or have their head in the ground and their ass in the air and ignoring what is going on around them.

I am proud of how Canada and Canadians are responding. 

On Gun Control in the US.

A friend shared a meme on Facebook about gun control in the US.

It is pretty spot on.

I always had problems with people spewing out "Guns don't kill people. People kill people." It always seemed like they were missing a sentence such as "Guns just make it easier." at the end.