Cosplay As Social Media Commentary

 

As I’ve said, I’m old enough to remember when there were going to be insurrections and civil war over public health measures taken during Covid.

This reminds me of Homeland Barbie going to the prison in El Salvador to shoot a video. You don’t hear about the splendors of that prison from the Administration anymore. And how long ago was that? Months? Or Homan’s empty threats to take down anyone who got in his way.

Trump was supposed to have invaded Chicago by now. He was the President, he could do anything he wanted. Then a federal court in California decided he’d violated Posse Comitatus there, and suddenly Trump is waffling on even sending the NG to “protect” ICE. The guys in masks and body armor carrying long gun. Trump has also decided the statutory 30 days he can run D.C.,is long enough. Who remembers being afraid he was going to declare martial law there and use that to take over every major city in America that it suited him to? Pretty sure that was less than 30 days ago. Trump still blathers about “invading” Boston, or New Orleans, or who knows what he’ll do? He treats it like a military secret that counts on the element of surprise, but the truth seems to be he’s all brag and no action. Even the military on LA was allowed only because protestors were outside the federal building where ICE was headquartered. Maybe Trump decided he couldn’t credibly protect the federal courthouse in Chicago if no one was in the street yelling nearby.

Trump had his Reichstag fire on J6, or tried to. The Reichstag was the home of the German Parliament. The assassination of Charlie Kirk means less to the nation than J6, or the assassination of Dr. King, or even JFK. This take (both of them) as ridiculous as the NYT “A Nation Mourns Charlie Kirk,” or the thousand puff pieces about “now we must deplore political violence.” And once we’ve done that, what? Congratulate ourselves and wait for the next murder? How much political violence have we suffered this year (only 8 months old)  without the “newspaper of record” announcing that “the nation mourns”?

I’ll retire to Bedlam.