By David Glenn Cox
I was sitting on the couch about three thirty this morning. Asking myself why I do this? While I was thinking about the latest Trump fiasco. And that’s reason enough to keep going, I suppose. But it’s more than just partisan politics. Too many people are being too quiet when they should be speaking up. The Trump Administration is unable to deliver the mail. {For most countries mail delivery is considered a simple task} International packages are piling up from a dozen countries.
All because of Trump’s goofy tariff scheme. International Postal services are unwilling to ship packages into the US as taxable in the crayon written instructions. But then I heard the TV news anchor describe it as the “other” nation’s problem for not understanding the new trade rules. That reminded me, that’s why I do this. That’s complete bullshit! Someone rips up the rule book and suddenly it’s “ Your” fault for not understanding the new regime. A dozen countries are too slow to catch on to the new system?
Twenty something FEMA employees are about to be fired for speaking up like free Americans do sometimes. They signed a letter of discontent. In the Trump Administration, any discontent or dissent are grounds for immediate dismissal. That’s how you solve a problem! You clean house!
The Junta forced out the head of the Centers for Disease Control after she refused to resign. After she bumped heads with RFK Jr. over the Covid Vaccine. Several other employees resigned in protest with her. Empty desks at the Justice department as nobody wants to work there or they are afraid to work there. There was a recent exodus from NASA of the best and the brightest.
If books somehow survive, they will write about this State Department. From the Secret Service going door to door trying to find lodgings for a weary Vice President in Greenland. To a failed fiasco of a shakedown summit in frigid Alaska. It’s been nothing but a trail of failures. Trump’s big mouth souring relations with Canada and Greenland. Denmark summoned the US envoy about “interference” in Greenland’s domestic affairs. Sure, why not? Your tax dollars at work!
They’re making a list and checking it twice, going to find out who’s naughty and nice! Who is willing to play ball? It could be good for your career to play ball, you know. Changes might be coming real soon, and you wouldn’t want to be on the wrong side of them, mayor. This is an old song, played many times. Friendly politicians get money and help. Unfriendly politicians are put on a list, until at last, that one day finally arrives, when they are able to clear their list behind the soccer field. But careless is the fool who signs on with the Trump administration. “If this thing goes south, what do you think Donald Trump will do for you?”
So, it wasn’t just an idle thought or a brain fart. If they’re still actively working on conquering Greenland, then they are probably still working on making Canada the 51st state as well. Crazy is as crazy does! One idea is no crazier than the other. And all because in the future, because of that climate change, that doesn’t really exist. Greenland becomes a vital ocean transit route and Carnival Cruise line destination. And we must control it!
You’ve really got to admire their optimism. In the face of drastic climate change and a tenuous world situation. Still being concerned about world shipping and all. Assuming in twenty-five years there will still be world shipping. Or that the US will be anything more than just a spectator, caught in a web of its own ineptitude.
The Trump administration is a wanking, spanking doesn’t get much done. Doesn’t make too much progress and just kind of stumbles along sort of a beast. For example; Alligator Alcatraz was chosen just for the name. It was a cool name, don’t you think? A guard quit or went out of her way to get fired. She claimed the conditions were intolerable for inmates and guards alike. A judge rules in favor of an environmental group and orders Alligator Alcatraz to be shut down. The government answered, “Okay!” And the facility is already half shut down and they plan to be finished by the end of the week. See? The government couldn’t wait to shut that hell hole down!
That cool name led to a bunch of bullshit. It was a terrible location for a prison, but they will never admit to that. They would never admit that it was a failure, and a big fat failure at that. They waited for the judge to make the ruling and then agreed. “He says we gotta go! Thank goodness!”
ICE commandant and grand high poobah of the Gestapo Tom Holman announced, “Speedway Slammer!” A new concentration camp just outside Indianapolis. The Indy Chamber of Commerce was none too thrilled with the name. I read today, where Holman just announced a new ICE facility outside Chicago. Is this in addition to Speedway Slammer? Or in place of Speedway Slammer? No clever new name for the concentration camp was announced. Did they just run ICE out of Indianapolis on a rail?
They have zero successes, and it becomes clearer by the day the amount of media manipulation that is going on. Desperately trying to make this turkey look like a peacock. Russia/ Ukraine = FAIL! Israel/ Gaza = Fail! Houthis = Fail! Iran = Fail! Syria = Fail! India =Fail! Canada = Fail! Who remembers the king saying the trade deal with China was all but signed? Meanwhile, they just kicked the tariff threat can down the road for another ninety days. The headlines should read, “No Trade Deal with China! Tense Negotiations Continue.” Instead, you’ll get “Tariff Hiatus to Continue.”
Canadians are boycotting American products and American travel. Towns like Las Vegas are feeling the pain. But the media won’t ever tell you that directly. They might make reference to it in passing, but they would never, ever, make it the lead. “President’s Bone Head Stunt Cost Nation’s Economy Billions!” No, they can ever tell you that. But I can! Can you believe it? At one time I wanted to be like them? I know, the thought disgusts me too every time I think about it. They write what they are told to write by their boss. And their boss has a boss. I write any damn thing I choose. My reward is in the journey and not in the destination.
If you watch and listen very closely it becomes obvious and you begin to see and hear the echoes of North Korean State Television.
“I’m one walker that’s stood way up and looked way down acrost aplenty of pretty sights in all their veiled and nakedest season. Thumbing it. Hitching it. Walking and talking it. Chalking it. Marking it. Sighting it and hearing it. Seeing and feeling and breathing and smelling it in, sucking down me, rubbing it all in the pores of my skin, and the wind between my eyes knocking honey in my comb….”
― Woody Guthrie
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