Time to Play Taps for America?

 

I have held my tongue for a long time now. When Heir Trump showed up on the scene, I figured that irony was dead, and what was the point in trying to talk about something so completely unhinged. I figured that our friends to the south would eventually figure it out, but here we are. Now, I do think they are figuring it out (FAFO baby), but is it too late?

Take the G7 meetings these last three days. You would think, in the event of a war breaking out in the Middle East, the leaders would want to work together, to provide a united front. The Fuhrer had most of the main heads of state right there to discuss it with, but no, Captain Ego couldn’t do that. Instead, he does the ‘I’m too important’ crappola, and with the poise of a tantruming five-year-old, he stomps off to his plane and fucks off back home.

This administration is like a masterclass in hypocrisy. The Secretary of Defense is too busy defending his stupidity and drinking to actually know anything about his portfolio. The Secretary of Education wants to shut down public schools. The Secretary of Commerce is head cheerleader for the destruction of the economy… the sous chef of the old TACO truck, if you will. And the Secretary of Health is determined to kill as many people as possible, as quickly as possible, using his worm-rejected atrophied brain to the best of his ability.

They screamed about Hilary’s emails, but when it comes to the Sec Def sharing attack plans on an unsecured device, using an unsecured platform, and including unsecured personnel (although thank you for that incompetency), they offer crickets. They claimed that Biden was suffering from dementia, but apparently the moron who cannot stand straight, who cannot read, who blatantly shows the sans-worm devouring of his cranial grey cells is totally okay.

So now as we are on the verge of war with Iran, for who knows what possible reason, we hear them saying that Iran cannot be trusted to have such powerful weapons, like nuclear warheads. We hear about how regime change would be a good thing for them, so perhaps dropping a few bombs on them would help. They talk about the cruelties of an Iranian regime on their own citizens. Now change the word ‘Iran’ to ‘USA’ in that paragraph.

The thing with ‘conservative values’ is that they are not about values at all. They tell you who to hate, who to point fingers at, and how someone else is ripping off the system by being poor, or having health issues, or being the wrong color or religion. Hate the gay people, the trans people, the immigrants, the special needs people, the seniors because they are robbing you of what you should and could have. Don’t look at the corporations or the millionaires who are making millions under the guise of creating a strong economy. Remind yourself that there is only one thing that trickles down, and it sure as hell is not money from the rich. The cruelty of the rules don’t matter, as long as they don’t impact your own perfect little Christian life. The cruelty is the thing that they crave, because it helps those at the top stay at the top.

So, amid the assassinations, the depriving of healthcare and education, the ignoring of judicial decisions, the protests and parades, the arrests, the lies, the bloviating, the hypocrisy, please tell me how the US now differs from Iran. Change has to come from within. Watching the reactions of the GOP these last few weeks, I am not sure that’s possible anymore. Perhaps it truly is time to break out the bagpipes, and squeeze out a plaintive rendition of Taps for the world’s greatest experiment in democracy.

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The G7 is taking place in Kananaskis, Alberta this week. If you catch nothing else of the festivities, be sure to catch the absolutely magnificent eyeroll from Italy’s Giorgia Meloni as she responds to Macron whispering in her ear, almost assuredly about some asinine thing that the US Fuhrer said or did.