No Popular Mandate for this Insane Administration |
Image by René DeAnda.
In the opening days of his second presidency, the malignant, orange-sprayed fascist maniac Donald “Poisoning Our Blood” Trump has, in the words of the Revcom Corps (RCC) for the Emancipation of Humanity’s call for Nationwide protests on Saturday, February 1:
“unleashed a hailstorm of fascist shock and awe, [issuing] executive order after executive order to restructure society, ethnically cleanse non-white immigrants, erase trans people, seize territories, accelerate environmental destruction and more – all this enforced by measures aimed at silencing and punishing dissent within government and private institutions while pardoning and backing the hardened January 6 shock troops to intimidate and terrorize those who would resist.”
The RCC’s call was written even before Herr Trump tried (last Monday night) to freeze federal funding for a vast swath of government programs and before he declared (two days ago) his intention of sending 30,000 victims of his immigrant round-up to detention camps in Guantanamo.
It should be noted in the wake of last night’s major air collision in Washington DC, it should be noted that Trump on his second day back in power fired the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and removed all the members of the nation’s Aviation Security Advisory Committee. The committee, mandated by Congress in 1988, “will technically continue to exist but it won’t have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airlines and airports,” the Associated Press reported.
This morning (I am writing on Thursday, January 30), Trump insanely but predictably[1] tried to blame the crash on “woke” hiring practices initiated by the supposedly radical left Biden and Obama administrations. As a comrade wrote me from the drought-plagued and fire-plagued California coast, “these fascists can blame everything from wildfires to plane crashes on migrants and ‘wokeness’ (code word for women, brown, and black people).”
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Again and again during her first nationally televised press conference three days ago, Mein Trumpf’s Orwellian press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed that the new White House’s reckless and radically reactionary Blitzkrieg reflects the democratically expressed will of “the American people” demonstrated in Trump’s “sweeping election victory,” which has given him a great popular “mandate.”
Leavitt’s........