Annihilation of the now
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Justinian in
Corruption, Donald Trump, Roger Fitch Esq, US politics
Trump's campaign of destruction ... Fake
emergencies ... Pointless and farcical executive orders ... Gangsterism ...
Looting ... Corruption ... Shakedowns ... White rage ... Christian nationalism
... Roger Fitch unloads
"Trump
leaps from one impulsive, uninformed notion to another, unaware or unmoved by
the harm he is inflicting. When reporters challenge him with facts, he often
becomes irate ... The least informed, least curious, least logical, least
credible, least responsible president in history is not about to change. He
cares deeply about acquiring power to inflict harm, knowing nothing about the
victims. After all, the recession won't affect him or his crypto-empire. What
does he care if Americans bear the brunt of his unhinged behaviour?" - Jennifer
Rubin, the Contrarian.
Donald Trump kept his
campaign promise to be a "dictator on Day One". No longer an
incipient fascist, he's an unabashed tyrant. His destruction of the existing order during
his first 100 days has
been described as "Roosevelt in
reverse" and compared to the Chinese Cultural
Revolution. His authoritarian
actions are likened to those of Erdogan,
a mad king or
a Roman emperor (e.g, Augustus,
smashing the Republic).
Powered
by fake
"emergencies", Trump has "gone 1984".
His Orwellian-titled executive orders are
designed to destroy what they purport to protect, through (now) nonsense-named
agencies like DOJ's "Civil Rights
Division", dedicated to eradicating
existing equal opportunities for women and minorities and abandoning
enforcement of police reform consent decrees, while dismissing
voting rights lawsuits.
At Homeland
Security, the "Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties" is stripping civil
liberties from citizens and immigrants alike. The gutted Education
Department's "Office of Civil Rights" is
"rolling back" and "re-orienting", now targeting
minorities.
Trump's
contempt for civil rights, culture, media, lawyers, judges and universities (especially Harvard),
along with unlawful tariffs, DOGE raids,
cruelty (even to native Americans and children)
and ultra
vires deportations, are horrifying.
America's
self-destruction will get as bad as Americans allow; so far, they're responding
as if in a Milgram
Experiment.
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Trump's first 100
days have come and gone. The Guardian reported
on the 141 "Executive Orders"
he signed. Law prof Michael Dorf provided helpful "Can he actually
do that?" comments on many of them.
These EO's, and
those that followed, have been, by turns, silly (Ending
Procurement and Forced Use of Paper Straws); propaganda (Reinvigorating
America's Beautiful Clean Coal Industry; false declarations (Ending the
Weaponization of the Federal Government); defamatory (Addressing Risks
Associated with an Egregious Leaker and Disseminator of Falsehoods);
vindictive (Rescinding
Security Clearances …from Specified Individuals); and punitive,
sanctioning Democrats' legal representatives.
Trump's
executive orders directed towards individuals and their past actions are ex
post facto, "Bills of
Attainder" that are specifically
prohibited under the constitution.
Others are also
clearly unconstitutional, such as Directing the
Repeal of Unlawful Regulations, and revising supreme
court precedent.
There's
gratuitous meddling (Protecting
Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation (not about male
circumcision); union-busting (Limiting Lame
Duck Collective Bargaining Agreements that Improperly Attempt to Constrain the
New President); and open corruption (Pausing Foreign
Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement…).
EO's are
shameful and deadly (Withdrawing the
US from and Ending Funding to …UN organizations and Reviewing US Support to All
International Organizations); laughable (Eradicating
Anti-Christian Bias); pointless (Designating
English as the Official Language of the US); and alarming (Unleashing
America's Law Enforcement).
There's even
"Restoring Truth
and Sanity to American History".
Imagine, Donald
Trump lecturing on truth and sanity.
Who drafts
these EO's? Trump's "criminal defence counsel" in his felony cases,
the front bench in his Justice Department, are now simply crime counsel,
unscrupulous mob lawyers.
In Trump's EOs,
they have turned on their own tribe, the private bar, with tribute being
exacted and paid, e.g, by big law firms whose business interruption insurance
doesn't cover government libel, extortion and
solicitation of bribes, secondary boycotts or pro bono shakedowns.
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White rage
"Make America
Great Again" - what does "MAGA" mean? To the army of
Trump camp-followers and cronies,
kleptocrats and anti-science
anarchists descending upon Washington, it's a licence to
dismember, plunder and steal.
What motives
Donald Trump, beyond avarice, cruelty, and revenge is the annihilation of the
now, the present.
Trump has
learned just enough American history to identify those interludes most
abhorrent to "liberals", and seeks to revive them.
He believes
that's why the MAGA crowd elected him, to erase the contemporary, and
reinvigorate ugly tendencies from the past, e.g, nativism, white supremacy,
anti-intellectualism, even Social-Darwinism. Many
want American history rewritten, to conform to the mythology of Christian
Nationalism.
Race
discrimination wasn't promised, but Trump has been exposed as a radical racist.
He's fired a generation of able and accomplished black people (women, too)
holding senior positions in Washington's bureaucracy, for no other reason than
to indulge his racism and misogyny.
Like his MAGA
lemmings, Trump assumes they got their jobs through some imaginary preference
conferred by the reviled DEI,
or rather MAGA's warped and unsubstantiated notion of it.
While DEI for
conservatives was expected, Trump never promised to introduce a
counter-DEI for whites (especially men), real racism,
with an emphasis on jobs and quotas
for whites who are often unfit and less qualified. Two dozen Fox News hacks in
senior administration positions is illustrative.
It's the Redeemers movement
reborn: the white rage of
(then Democrat) politicians in southern states who, following the collapse of
the Republican-led post-Civil War Reconstruction, reinstated racial
terror.
For Trump, it
offers a platform to mock, insult and humiliate distinguished black Americans,
men and women appointed by despised Democrat predecessors.
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Crypto coin
enrichment
Some dismiss
Trump and crew as simply insane,
but there's more than madness and malice. Trump's boundless greed motivates
everything. As the regime's chaos governance unfolds, cui
bono?
The personal
wealth of Donald Trump, the most corrupt
president in US history, grew by $1 billion a
month during his first 100 days. Mother Jones listed 10 avenues for
corruption, but the most lucrative is a crypto-coin scheme
that enriches Trump through the ease of bribery (e.g, pardon
payoffs) it provides.
These
crimes, likely to go
unpunished by congress, are highly
contagious in the broader economy. Already, lawyers and
ethicists are speaking out,
e.g, in an independent
report on Trump's spectacular
corruption.
In the Middle
East, even without the $400 million
Qatari jet (more here),
Trump's conflicts of interest are staggering,
more here.
As for Elon Musk, there's already a senate minority
report on the billions looted without
consequence by the president's conflict-laden accomplice.
The SEC won't
be investigating the market
manipulations or securities law violations of Trump,
Musk, Bondi,
and other
administration insiders, made possible by Trump's unconstitutional (more here)
setting and fiddling with tariffs.
Share trading
and foreign
shakedowns aside, the tariffs seem pointless.
Those doubting
Trump's administration is a de facto criminal enterprise
should take note: Pam Bondi has presciently
disbanded the Justice Department's "Kleptocracy Asset
Recovery Initiative" that traces and recovers laundered ("dirty")
money, i.e, crime proceeds.
