Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Normalizing Trump

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Donald Trump won so decisively, across so many demographics, that the "opposition"has no other choice but to accept his regime graciously.Only a week after the New York Times and other liberal media were braying that the end of the world was nigh in the event of a Democratic Party defeat, those same outlets are reporting with grave respectful seriousness the various cabinet appointments and proposed executive orders.

 After four long years of harping on a mythical "battle for the soul of America", Joe Biden has amiably changed his tune. Looking downright ebullient during post election remarks in (where else?) the White House Rose Garden, Biden pivoted from calling Trump supporters "garbage" to chiding Americans to be nice to one another. The electoral apparatus put in place to honor the interests of the ruling class no matter which legacy party wins worked, and it worked well, Biden boasted. At long last, Uncle Joe can drop the pretense that Trump poses an existential threat to "democracy". Since, historically speaking, capitalism has always been a gracious host to fascism, Biden has invited his doppelganger to the White House for a Wednesday photo-op to display the continuity of oligarchic power.

 Former first lady Melania Trump will not, however, take up the dainty invitation for tea extended by Jill Biden.Melania  reportedly cannot forgive or forget Biden s Justice Department goons or rifling through her underwear drawer in search of those purloined documents. In the interests of aforesaid ligarchic continuity, that case and all the various indictments and the one criiminal conviction based on the Stormy Daniels payoff case, will all magically disappear. It's as if the January Sixth spectacular never even happened. For one thing, the complicit corporate media have their careers and their continued "access" to power to think about.

 Now, the controversy of whether Trump is or is not a fascist is actually moot, given that the United States was not only built on fascism, its history also served as inspiration for Hitler's own regime. From the enslavement of Africans to the extermination of the indigenous populations throughout the Americas, the Trump reelection was entirely predicable. As I outlined in my previous post, the Democratic Party, with its own hard right turn via the Kamala Harris candidacy, ensured it.

 Why else would the historically reliable Black voting bloc not come out for Kamala? At least Joe Biden did not directly prosecute minority people, even though, as a senator, he engineered the racist, ethnic cleansing piece of Jim Crow legislation known as the Crime Bill. Liberals love to point to Donald Trump's notorious full page New York Times ad demanding death to the (later exonerated) Central Park Five, while giving Biden a relative pass for his own racist actions and rhetoric in the creation of the permanent racial carceral state, aka the Prison-Industrial Complex.

 As George Jackson wrote in one of his prison letters collected in Blood In My Eye, 

 "When I am being interviewed by a member of the old guard and point to the concrete and steel, the tiny electronic listening device concealed in the vent, the phalanx of goons peeping in at us, his barely functional plastic tape recorder that cost him a week's labor. and point out that these are all manifestations of fascism, he will invariably attempt to refute me by defining fascism as simply as an economic geopolitical affair where only one party is allowed to exist aboveground and no opposition political activity is allowed."

 So it will be that Biden and Trump, brothers under the botoxed skin, will canoodle in the White House this week. We would do well to ask why and call out the fraud of the Duopoly once and for all - what the late Christopher Hitchens memorably dubbed the two tightly fused cheeks of one corrupt buttock.

1 comment:

Thought Criminal said...

Oh, ya! Let's talk about normalization, not of Trump but of genocide. It's still happening last I checked and the Democratic President and Democratic Party are still all-in except Rashid Tlaib, bless her soul.

It's beyond ironic that Democrats have been calling Trump Hitler and his Republican supporters Nazis when they're partners in this genocide and tragically normalizing it unlike the rest of the world. They still won't admit it's a genocide in a foolish attempt to deny legal and financial responsibility and repercussions. Morality isn't even in the equation. "Israel swears its all kosher! We trust them."

Democratic Party leaders and Representatives are as guilty of genocide as Israeli leaders and IDF soldiers are. The legal standards for establishing criminal culpability involve considering Means, Motive, and Opportunity. 'But for' Joe Biden's ironclad, unconditional materiel assistance, Israel could not have conducted this genocide. 'But for' the Democratic Party's unconditional support for Biden, he could not have provided the weaponry, equipment, and intelligence to make it possible.

As to Motive, there's much more to this genocide than meets the eye. There's money in them thar' hills, I mean seas. I'm sure the big fish in the Dem Party know this but not the small fry.

There's trillion$ worth of oil and gas reserves offshore in the Gaza Marine Fields legally owned by Palestinians but the licenses have been sold illegally by Israel to oil companies including ExxonMobil et. al. Now they just need the scene of the crime to be secured so they can safely build and utilize the infrastructure to extract it.

The Empire also has an interest in fortifying the imperial land-based military aircraft carrier in the Middle East called Israel as well as securing the oil reserves for the right parties. Joe probably thinks his genocide will end up paying for itself. Cha-ching!

There's still time for the genocide to be stopped, Insh'Allah. Remember Aaron Bushnell's loving sacrifice and words. Free Palestine! - before it's too late.

Resist the Genocide!