Let’s dig into some of the total unmitigated absurdity --- the deranged, preposterous, mind-boggling, soul-crushing absurdity --- of America's fascist

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Let’s dig into some of the total unmitigated absurdity — the deranged, preposterous, mind-boggling, soul-crushing absurdity — of America’s fascist president Donald J. Trump.

What follows is a short list from the top of my head.

  • Mein Trumpf says he has been murdering Latin American people in the Caribbean to stop drug shipments to the United States but (a) offers zero evidence that the people he has extrajudicially executed are bringing in drugs to the United States and (b) pardons a former Honduran president, a right-wing politician who was convicted by a U.S. jury that reviewed mountains of hard evidence showing that he helped bring 500 tons of cocaine into the United States while joking about “shoving cocaine up the gringo’s noses.” When questioned about this pardon, Trump claim to know very little about the former Honduran president. and says that president was just the unfortunate victim of leftists who didn’t like him because of his politics. How absurd.

  • Trump says that the video should be released of a September 2nd mass murder in which the U.S. military, under his command, slaughtered two shipwrecked people (after they’d already killed nine others) in abject violation of international law. Then Trump changes his mind and defers to his fascist “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth, keeping the video from public view. When an ABC reporter asks him to explain the change, Trump claims he never said the video should be released. He tells the reporter she’s “terrible” and says she works for a “fake news” organization. Absurd.

  • Trump calls merely alleged narco-traffickers (who weren’t even heading to the United States when he blew them up) “enemy combatants” and “terrorists” engaged in a “war” on the United States. This is ludicrous. There’s no declared war. The people he has serially mass murdered in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific have been unarmed, and there’s a thing called drug interdiction by the Coast Guard.

  • Trump campaigns for a Nobel Peace Prize even as he: bombs Iran; threatens to seize Greenland; helps Israel carry out genocide; aligns with Russia’s mass killing of Ukrainian civilians; kills 600,000 people with cuts to USAID; slaughters 87 Latin Americans on the high seas; signs off on a neofascist National Security Strategy that calls for the US to brazenly dominate the Western Hemisphere and control its resources by sheer force; escalates on the path to a petro-imperialist regime change war on Venezuela by declaring the air space over that nation closed, flying F-18s over the country, and seizing a Venezuelan oil tanker right off its coast (last Wednesday). Absurd.

  • When asked about the tanker seizure and what the US will do with the oil on the ship, Trump claimed not to know much about it and confessed to international piracy by saying “I guess we’ll keep it.”

  • After six U.S. military and intelligence veterans in the U.S. Congress released a video reminding U.S. military and intelligence personnel of the basic legal and moral fact that they must not follow illegal orders (something his own Secretary of War said years ago), Trump absurdly accused the legislators of “treason,” suggesting that they should be executed. Trump’s toady Hegseth threatens one of the Congresspersons, Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ), with a military court martial.

  • Trump claims again and again that his 21st century Gestapo, ICE and Border Patrol, are going after “the worst of the worst” — violent criminals, rapists, murderers, gang members — even as it is abundantly clear (from evidence that his own Department of Homeland Security has released ) that his racist gendarmes — his masked thugs, kidnappers, and fugitive slave catchers — are criminally sweeping up Latino people who in the great majority have no violent criminal records. How viciously absurd.

  • Trump absurdly calls anti-ICE protests rebellions against the US government that regular forces can’t handle to try to justify federalizing National Guard units and militarily occupying US cities.

  • Trump brings 800-plus admirals and generals from across the U.S. global empire to Virginia to fascistically tell them that they need to focus on the nation’s actual top adversary — “the enemy within,” by which he means the United States’ own majority non-white Democratic Party-run big cities. He implores the brass to see their US cities as military “training grounds” for wars abroad. (He even absurdly tells them that ghetto residents are shooting at firemen fighting blazes atop “big ladders.”)

  • Trump claims to be a populist friend of American workers even as he: signs off on massive tax cuts for the grotesquely super rich; tears up the National Labor Relations Board; strips federal health insurance subsidies that permit tens of millions of Americans to be covered for medical care; turns the White House into a monumentally corrupt machine for lining his own personal and familial pockets; tells people struggling with the rising cost of living that the affordability crisis is a Democratic Party “hoax” and that the solution to inflation is to buy less stuff. How darkly ridiculous.

  • An Afghan refugee to whom the Trump administration granted asylum last May shoots two absurdly deployed West Virginia National Guard members in Washington DC. and Trump insists that the shooter resided in the U.S. solely because of the Biden administration. When a female reporter asks his about this contradiction, he tells her she’s stupid right in front of the whole press corps.

  • Trump goes in for an MRI and then tells reporters he had no idea what part of his body was being scanned.

  • Trump is seen and filmed nodding off again and again during public appearances, in one case for 20 minutes, but claims that he’s never been more fit, alert and energetic.

  • . Trump says that it’s seditious and “perhaps even treasonous” for the New York Times to report on his declining physical and mental health.

I could go on but at a certain point the mind blurs and the heart sinks. It’s damn-near overwhelming, this relentless avalanche of absurdity spewing from the sick Trump47 regime and its deranged Dear Leader.

2+2=5.

War is Peace.

Black is White.

Love is Hate.

Mein Trumpf Says!

But what’s even more absurd than Trump’s absurd level of absurdity is the fact that a quarter to a third of the populace claps along with this outrageous non-stop, soul-crushing bullshit. And then there’s the further absurdity that most of the country isn’t out in the streets every day demanding that this absurd wannabe fascist strongman-for-life deranged isn’t immediately removed from power, just for starters.

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