Although most Americans probably can't remember this far back, less than a year ago, 81-year old Uncle Joe Biden occupied the White House. There was non-stop talk in the Media Cartels about Biden's age and mental fitness for Office (his policy decisions, not so much). The Wall Street Oligarchs forced him out of power in favor of a 79-year old, who, unlike Biden, is in peak mental and physical health, a specimen of Alpha virility and---
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Well, anyway: the Head-of-State was unveiling to the Corporate Media more of the Official Narrative to what passes for American Journalism to parrot to the public without question. The topic for the day was touting the alleged 'successes' of Martial Law in the District of Columbia. Trump issued a series of Decrees 'Executive Orders' in front of live network coverage---all quite fitting for America's Reality-TV based Culture. Much to the delight of the Media, Trump formally announced that Chicago would be the next site of a Military takeover.
Chicago is an interesting choice. Geographically and in terms of population, Chicago is about the size of Gaza, which---as we've all learned---is being dealt with by Israel. The Conservative-Industrial Complex and their Overlords in the World Economic Forum consider Israel a model Democracy; and, of course, like both Gaza and Washington, Chicago is also targeted as a future Smart City. Elon Musk, it should be noted already gained the contract for operating Chicago's Mass Transit System. Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel was the top recipient of Musk Money before Elon became a Woke Republican.
Not that the legality of such things matters, but the White House actually does have a quasi-legal authority for putting Washington under Martial Law. There really is none for Chicago. As we've said though, this doesn't matter too much, since as Chairman Mao noted "All political power comes through the barrel of a gun."
Trump also signed another Decree which criminalizes desecration of the US flag, long ago proposed by Bush Sr., and which has been struck down repeatedly by the Courts. The President then went on to complain that "They say 'we don't need him. Freedom, freedom. He's a dictator. He's a dictator.' A lot of people are saying: 'Maybe we like a dictator...When I see what's happening to our cities, and then you send them, and instead of being praised, they're saying, 'you're trying to take over the Republic.' These people are sick." This from the same people who opposed Cancel Culture, supposedly.
Trump went on to deny that he cared for dictatorial regimes before launching into another of his rather bizarre meanderings, this time accusing China of stocking the Great Lakes with invasive species of fish. Totally not like tales of Corn-Pop, though.
Trump's plausible deniability about dictatorships---about as genuine as Musk's apologies over his 'accidental' programming of Grok AI to praise the Third Reich--- is another of those I didn't really mean it moments met with a knowing wink-and-a-nod to those who actually are hoping for just such a thing to happen. That deniability ought to be considered against the more troubling Decree signed today establishing what amounts to an American version of the Nazi SS.
The Order creates specialized D.C. National Guard units for 'public safety and order,' and further appoints White Supremacist and Christian Nationalist Pete Hegseth to 'ensure state National Guards are similarly trained and ready to assist in quelling civil disturbances nationwide.' All of which is quite telling against the backdrop of an Order against Flag Burning and threats to take over other cities. Hegseth is going to be the one dealing with whatever he---or his mentor Doug Wilson---is pleased to term a civil disturbance. Hence, the comparison with the SS: this is a political secret police force. As Hegseth's pastor---an affiliate of Wilson's--- put it in a Washington sermon last week: “We understand that worship is warfare. We mean that.”
These are the same sentiments that we once heard from the likes of ISIS and Al-Qaeda. Hegseth, the fanatic, is going to hold such words as his guiding principle as he trains and dispatches his stormtroopers to deal with the enemy within. If anyone is inclined to doubt this, consider that, at today's Interview, Trump adopted Hegseth's earlier suggestion to change the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War. Symbolically, this represents a semantic shift: from an ostensibly purely defensive role for the Military to one of aggression. Hegseth, in this regard, is following precepts set down by the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, the network of Christian nationalist congregations---heavily financed by Big Tech and other Globalist interests---who state in their own manual that "you will find CREC churches uniformly hostile to the leftist agenda...With regard to economic issues, there is a broad antipathy toward socialism in all its forms and guises. Statist collectivism is one of the great idols of our age, and our churches are overwhelmingly opposed to it." What else is this but a political---not a religious--- statement?
In short, none of this is about Public Safety or National Security any more than Bush 1.0's Drug War was about Public Safety, or Bush 2.0's shredding of the US Constitution was about National Security. It's about normalizing and mainstreaming a deliberate, Government-orchestrated campaign of sowing division and chaos and offering the Strongman as the solution. Yes, it has been building up to this point for a long time: Bush 3.0 (the Current Administration) is merely doing openly what its predecessors tried to disguise under various pretexts. The Scamdemic proved to the Elites that they had nothing to fear any longer from an effete population, and statistics show that the Public School System (really a Public-Private Partnership in most cases) has done its work turning younger Americans against Constitutional self-government.
It's hardly surprising that a political movement that came to power campaigning on arousing the worst elements in Human Nature would ally itself with cultish movements that do the same. Christians need to stand up and speak out against the cultish pseudo-Christianity offered by the New Right and showing it for what it really is.
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