Tyrannical & Twisted Trump Sends "his" Troops Into DC

The bugle sounds, the charge begins. But on this battlefield no one wins - Iron Maiden, "The Trooper"

THE BLUE LETTER

Cliff’s Note: I intended to write about Trump’s autocratic attack on DC…but realized I already have. So I’ll share some of those insights again..

Wow, the Epstein files must have Trump in more compromising positions than you’ll find in The Kama Sutra, right?

I mean, what a pace for a guy who has trouble walking down ramps! We’re bowing to Pootie in Alaska while attacking Zelensky—after a big show of being such a super hero the past few months and talking back to daddy Vladdy!

We’ve had our senses assaulted with talk of prosecuting Obama for…whatever large Cobb Salad came flying outta Tulsi’s mouth every time she attempted a ham-handed (and legged) explanation!

And now Trump and his gin-soaked, Christian Nationalist butler, Hegseth, have crossed The Rubicon, which those of us paying attention—and willing to tell truths without worrying what 227 other divisions in our corporate-WASP-nest think—knew was as inevitable as Don Jr. having crack-eyes during a live stream.

Which is why it was all I could ponder, at times, a month ago when in one of my favorite cities viewing remnants of a 2,000-year old republic wiped from this Earth.

So instead of reinventing the chariot, let’s have Superman revolve the Earth backwards about 35 days to see what wisps of wind that escaped antiquity allowed me to conjure up as I put pen to…pixel:

From gladiators in the arena to the UFC at the White House, this isn’t theory anymore, folks. It’s prophecy.

The ruins here in Rome are like hieroglyphic warnings, if you read them correctly—of a time when emperors ended a Republic and the worst of them, like Nero or Julius Caesar, let Rome burn or even, in the latter’s case, led the bloody transformation from republic to dictatorship.

More recently, Mussolini was the creator of fascism, who turned Rome and the rest of Italy into a bright red (MAGA hat) warning sign for the rest of the world to easily interpret in the future.

Yet, today in America? We’re blowing past those warning signs, led by people who seem to have discovered how to make a crushed, sniff-able form of Fox “News”and are so rage-addicted, Republicans can let their freak flag fly and party like it’s 476 A.D.

Back home in good ole U.S., they just authorized $45 billion more for ICE, Trump’s secret police. Forty-five billion—not for food, not for healthcare, not for schools or clean water or helping kids in poverty. No, it’s for armored stormtroopers who hide their faces and badges, surveillance and domestic militarization.

It’s corporate-media catnip, my friends, kidnapping humans off our streets, especially if you can get it on camera! Think of the ratings! It’s like a never-ending episode of “COPS!” As the head of CBS, Les Moonves said about Trump in 2016, “It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.” And being that CBS was his country, there was no choice there.

Meanwhile, we hand out catchy nicknames and marketing slogans that’d amuse toddlers to bombing operations that blow humans apart. That is a key part of our “circuses” plan.

Because in between a Marlboro Red and a glazed chocolate donut with the sprinkles, right before scratching some belly-lint, Ma & Pa MAGA gotta have something to let ‘em yell “F*k Yeah!” So how about Alligator Alcatraz!? I mean, what a great name for a concentration camp for migrant families in the Everglades!

Cool, right!? How entertaining, torturing our fellow humans! And did I remember say that name is cool?! Almost as good as Operation Midnight Hammer, where Trump got to drop big bombs on Iran, albeit with the kinda success he’s used to achieving with the Trump Taj Mahal or creation of Eric.

Now Trump’s talking about active duty Marines helping ICE, which as you may know, violates U.S. law—the Posse Comitatus Act. And there’s a reason that law was put in place. If we return to lessons learned from Rome, when Julius Caesar took Rome, and then took it into autocracy, it began with his crossing The Rubicon River with troops. Entering Rome in defiance of law.

There’s a reason you’ve heard and likely used the phrase “crossing the Rubicon.” Because the moment Caesar committed that particular act of treason, Rome was done for. His treachery became a lasting phrase to explain when something reached the point of no return.

Well, folks, we’re getting a little too close to crossing ours.

I don’t say this lightly. But from this amazing city, surrounded by literal ruins, you can feel a future we all dread closing in on America like a lion unleashed on a gazelle.

You can see it coming, if you’re willing to look:

Well, that sure as s*t was a fun trip down memory lane, wasn’t it? Look, as I also said back then, “We still have time folks…But not much as you’d think. We’re on the clock. Or a sundial.”

And that is still the truth. We need to always be ready for what it’s obvious he’s going to do. This, sadly, was one of those things.

But there is no future foreordained. As Texas House Democrats are showing us right now.

Trump has 48 hours and then he needs congressional approval. Are you and your 12% favorability rating in Maine good with this, Susan Collins? Joni Ernst? I mean, we’re all gonna die, right!? Thom Tillis sure seems to love Trump lately, I bet he’ll go to the mat for him on this..

And then there are the courts, who just roasted Trump yet again on a Ghislaine Maxwell hail mary to unseal her testimony, in which he knows he doesn’t appear.

Nothing folks—NOTHING—is foreordained. Keep demanding the Epstein files, keep supporting those willing to stand up, like our Texas Democratic friends, and in general, Keep Fighting!