Crowns & Chains

Article I, Section 9, Clause 8:

No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

King DonOld and Grand Duck Elon Muck are engaged in the oldest con in World History trying to make themselves into Nobility.  MAGA is, of course, absolutely ready to bow down, curtsey, tug the forelock, and bend the knee to these Conmen and Traitors because the rightwing propaganda machine has conditioned them for years.  We are at the fulfillment of the 50 year Republican War on America.

We appear to have a new FDR in Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker,

“Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let the tragic spirit of despair overcome us when our country needs us the most.  We don’t have kings in America, and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one,” Pritzker said to applause from Democrats. “If we don’t want to repeat history, then for God’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.”

Governor JB's speech had much more excellent substance to it but, predictably Illinois Republicans clutched furiously at their pearls and fainted all aghast that Governor Prtizker would accurately describe Trump and the Republican Party.  Remember that the worst offense one can do in America is to tell the truth about Republican perfidy.

I expect Trump will seek out a confrontation with J.B. at some point, probably using ICE and combining it with the lawsuit Trump's Department of Injustice launched against Chicago, Cook County, and Illinois. Traitor Trump will have a big press conference to declare he is having the Department of Justice and Tom Homan investigate Governor Pritzker for breaking The Law, knowing the Corporate Media will breathlessly report it.  This is, of course, the same tactic Trump wanted to use against President Joe Biden by demanding Ukrainian President Zelenskyy announce an investigation into Hunter Biden and President Biden. 

But, despite the blinkered Reactionary Left demands that the Democrats Doooooooo Something, while ignoring what Democratic leaders are in fact doing, New York Governor Kathy Hochul also spoke out against King DonOld,

“I’m here to say New York hasn’t labored under a king in over 250 years and we sure as hell are not going to start now,” Gov. Hochul said to cheers. “The streets of the city where battles were fought, we stood up to a king and we won. In case you don’t know New Yorkers, when we’re in a fight, we do not back down, not now, not ever.  This is an attack on our sovereign identity, our independence from Washington.  This is what we fought for – people like Alexander Hamilton and others fought for – to set up a system (where) we are not subservient to a king or anyone else out of Washington.”

Under King DonOld;
Are We the Baddies? is now We are the Baddies!

I spoke long ago that the Trump White House would release programming as though it were a tawdry television show and this vile dehumanizing video, posted to the official White House Twitter account, is absolutely what I imagined they would do.

Trump's showmanship is exactly what the Corporate Media wanted and why they so slavishly helped him regain the White House.

But, the cruelty, negging, and trolling is no longer merely words and "mean tweets" but, has moved to the rounding-up and cruel mistreatment of human beings.

A deportation flight leaving the United States on Thursday carrying 135 mostly Asian undocumented migrants is expected to land in Costa Rica in the afternoon. Almost half of the migrants will be children.  The deportation flight is the latest headed to Central America, as some 300 people — also from mostly Asian countries — are being held in a Panama hotel. 

Omer Badilla, Costa Rica’s deputy minister of the interior and police, said Costa Rica agreed to accept the migrants “because of our history and our customs as human rights protectors.” 

Costa Rica has to act as a human rights protector because the United States is no longer a Nation which respects human rights or the dignity of the individual.  It's a precipitous fall from the shining city on a hill speech to the Long Live the King but, that is where 50 years of agitprop and lies has led us.

Meanwhile, Traitor Trump is revving up the next episode of his horror show as he and his Grand Duck are going to audit Fort Knox to see if the gold is there.

“Who is confirming that gold wasn’t stolen from Fort Knox?” Musk wrote Monday. “Maybe it’s there, maybe it’s not.”

Fat Nazi golfers stealing the gold out of Fort Knox is a real old plot device.  But, even Goldfinger wasn't going to be able to turn Gold into Bitcoin...