Project 2025, the Koch network’s radical reactionary plan to let the richest .01% off the leash of government regulation, confiscatory taxes, majoritarian tyranny and accountability for crimes, while subjugating everyone else, is being carried out on the smash and grab fast track in every one of its fine points.
The authors of the radical blueprint for autocracy that Trump lied about knowing the details of (at the same time claiming to disagree with some of the manifesto he said he knew nothing about), was written by many members of Trump 1.0, who are now back in powerful roles in the insane two-year old’s second administration. It is a detailed action plan for rooting out disloyalty to the Unitary Executive and implementing a fully fascist, corporately-controlled US, fueled by revenge and intimidation of all dissent. Full steam ahead!
The only problem for Project American Hitler and the Richest White Men of North America, and it may be a problem that saves this tottering experiment in democracy and respect for basic human dignity, is that much of what they are doing is plainly illegal and unconstitutional. As well as cruel, thoughtless, rash, misogynistic, homophobic, racist, economically imbecilic, driven by a psychopath’s unquenchable need to prevail, destroy the opponent and have every bit of revenge he’s entitled to.
For example, only Congress can create a government agency, so an outfit like “DOGE”, strictly speaking, and in spite of numerous sworn lies as to who is running Musk’s little “agency”, and the mass media all referring to it as a Department, as though legally created and not pulled directly out of Charles Koch’s crusty 90 year-old sphincter, is illegal under our laws, traditions and the Constitution which vests the power to create a monstrosity like the “Department of Government Efficiency” solely in Congress. Congress is also the only branch of government that can allocate and spend tax money, whether in the interest of “efficiency”, lack of accountability, covering up crimes or any other purpose.
An unelected, insane, unqualified, oligarch political donor unilaterally ending the sixty year foreign aid program to keep starving children alive, protect millions of children in danger of death from malaria, fund NGOs that care for war orphans abroad, defunding the Veteran’s Affairs suicide hotline (for fuck’s sake!), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, closing Social Security offices, illegally mass firing key staff throughout the federal government via email, the illegal round-up and televised deportation of persons subject to the jurisdiction of the US and its Constitution, the mafia don like shake downs of all perceived rivals, bullying, baseless lawsuits against cowed, spineless mass media corporations, compliant universities, a prominent non-MAGA law firm — all fucking illegal.
Who enforces the law? On the federal level a loyal MAGA lie endorsing diehard who was too corrupt and radioactive for Trump to hire back in 2017. After all, as Florida AG under the Viktor Orban-like Ron “Go-go boots” DeSanctimonious, she had recently taken a $25,000 campaign contribution from Trumpie to drop Florida’s investigation into his fraudulent, now shuttered, Trump University. Now she’s 100% team Trump, the criminal president’s personal lawyer in a way even the pathetic, historically corrupt Bill Barr refused to be, including endorsing the fiction that the 2020 election was rigged and illegally stolen from the rightful winner, Mr. T. Pam Bondi is eager and ready to do anything Aileen Cannon would do if she were the AG. Cannon, of course, is poised to occupy Alito’s or Thomas’s incredibly foul smelling seat among the Immortal Nine, The Federalist Society Six. Extremists, if they occupy even a one vote majority, can have the final say on virtually everything. And that is their plan, to seize democracy by a one vote majority and shut the whole goddamned experiment down.
Fortunately the courts are holding so far. They have called bullshit over and over on weak, stupid and lying arguments made by MAGA officials defending illegal actions in court. We may be headed for an Andrew Jackson moment, I sure hope not, but it’s not unlikely when you depend on angry, vengeance seeking psychopaths to do what’s right for others. Jackson was a pugnacious psychopath with a famously foul temper who told the chief justice “you’ve made your ruling, now where’s your army to enforce it, bitch?” I asked a friend who knows American history in uncanny detail what happened after Jackson made that challenge.
“The Trail of Tears,” he said, referring to a mass killing death march under the Indian Removal Act, a death march the Supreme Court had tried to stop as unconstitutional. Fuck me, I thought, no wonder Old Hickory is Old Orange’s favorite president. Made millions capturing and selling slaves, told the Supreme Court to suck his hickory stick, regretted not personally hanging his disloyal Vice President and fellow psychopath John C. Calhoun. No wonder Trump put the guy’s portrait in the Oval Office. Jackson is a president after the Orange Polyp’s own heart, an American Putin, (minus the kompromat on the current American “president” — notice how Trump always claims to know nothing about the actions of his own executive branch).
The mass pain that this president of subnormal intelligence and supernatural stubbornness is inflicting directly on millions of his supporters, as well as on America’s allies (on behalf of a war criminal dictator involved in the, LOL! “Rusher Hoax” that helped place him in office two out of three tries) will not help him in the court of public opinion when the idiotic ideas he’s implementing really start hitting the fan, like the proverbial poop these dumb ideas are.
Trump’s best hope to become the American Hitler is mass public violence (and he has the proven violent goon squad standing back and standing by, awaiting his next command) and the strong, powerful right arm of devout Christian Pete “I didn’t rape that lying bitch, I was drunk, my lawyers fucking paid her, shut up, for Christ’s sake, I have a hangover!” Hegseth and his generals ordering US troops to open fire on dissenting Americans under an invocation of Mike “Q-Anon” Flynn’s favorite American law, The Insurrection Act.
I’m betting on democracy, no matter what the oddsmakers and bookies in Las Vegas are saying. Call me Anne Frank, but I’m betting that Americans are better, and much smarter, than Trump and his movement think we are.
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