Lost love
The big news this past week is that Marjorie Taylor Greene, who came to prominence as one of the most notable and frankly disagreeable figures on the far right, and then who moved away from Trump, is leaving the 119th Congress in January after her pension vests.
What's exactly going on here is really unclear, but Green's transformation was remarkable. She used to come across like an ignorant howler monkey. If Eva_Vlaardingerbroek is the "Shieldmaiden of the far right", she was more like an buffoonish bouncer.
All of a sudden, however, she really came around to opposing Trump and in fact suddenly sounded like a different person completely. That suggests her antics were always an act put on for her constituents.
Given her change, she was drawing the direct opposition of Trump who was opposing her in next year's Congressional election. She already had stout opposition and may just be taking off because she doesn't want to spend the next year dealing with a pack of extremists. Her transformation did not cause her to be loved by moderates who were baffled on her transformation, save perhaps for Thomas Massie, whom Trump also hates. Trump is vicious to all who oppose him.
Well, as W. E. B. Dubois famously said, only a food never changes their mind.
The Seditionist accuses others of Sedition.
Oh horse shit. No "great legal scholars" are venturing that opinion. Pam Bondi probably would, if told to do so, but her sycophantry disqualifies her from being a great anything.
Donald Trump is a seditionist insurrectionist. He has not had his act of sedition excused by Congress, so he's actually ineligible to be President of the United States, and legally, isn't.
So that makes it all the more ironic and hypocritical that he's gone after a collection of Congressmen and Senators, all veterans, who reminded service members that they can, and must, obey an illegal order, under certain circumstances (they can't for instance, just assume an order may be illegal).
Some of this has actually already been happening. Resignations of senior officers, and some firings, have hit the news, usually with a "gosh, I wonder why this is happening" sort of commentary. It's happening because they're opposing illegal orders. It's also the case that National Guardsmen have started a backchannel internet communication discussion that includes the same topic.
Trump seems to be in a full blown panic about this, and probably for good reason. The US is currently murdering people on the seas in extrajudicial killings using military force that some regard as being on the edge of illegality. Trump has sent National Guardsmen to cities with Courts repeatedly intervening to stop the deployments. Trump is constantly rumored to be on the edge of using the Insurrection Act. But as time goes on he gets more and more erratic.
The majority of American people already disapprove of Trump's presidency. There's no national stomach at all for using the military against the population, but the administration has constantly flirted with it, and to some extent, already done it. The legality of Trump's actions on all levels are in the Courts. There's a reviving movement to impeach him, and his behind the scenes support may well be reaching the breaking point. We still don't know what was in the Epstein files, other than that rich and powerful men feel they can get away with whatever they want, including screwing teenage girls.
Declaring the politicians who spoke to be seditionist is absurd. They were no such thing. But it does paint a target on their backs. This was reprehensible.
It's also a sign of extreme desperation. We'll note that below.
Piggy
One of the increased signs of Trump's dementia is his inability to hold his tongue. Last week he called a reporter who asked a question he didn't like "Piggy". It was a female reporter.
He's demented.
Any other politicians in the US who said such a thing would be howled down to the point they'd offer an apology. Not Trump, of course. The fact that he hasn't been is evidence of what redneck trash this country has become. It's appalling.
It's also a sign that at this point Trump is so stressed by something that the wheels are really coming off of his psyche.
Articles of Surrender
One of the most notable things about Donald Trump is the degree to which he truly seems to abhor war.
Or does he?
It's actually a bit difficult to tell.
Regarding the Russo Ukrainian War, Trump has repeatedly issues statements that approach being homo erotic about the war and how it needs to end, due to all the "beautiful" young men it kills. At the same time, of course, he doesn't mind killing South American men very much.
Going back to that, however, Trump has being trying and promising to end the Russo Ukrainian War for well over a year now. He's flip flopped on positions, but one of those that he periodically occupies is acting as an agent for Russia. We're back at that point again.
The West promised to secure Ukraine's sovereignty when it gave up its nuclear weapons. The West has not fulfilled that promise fully. President Biden did a good job of helping Ukraine right from the onset, but didn't go as far as he should have. The various European nations have done far, far more than they've gotten credit for.
Trump desperately wants a Nobel Peace Prize, and although he may have convinced himself that he ended "eight wars", so far, he's not really ended any, if we consider that the only real claim he could have made to that effect was the war in Gaza, where Israel conducted a bombing raid yesterday. Most people who have really looked at the situation in Gaza don't expect the peace to hold permanently.
A real peace between Ukraine and Russia would be a major accomplishment, however. The thing is, however, that the "peace plan" that Trump presented was basically that Ukraine surrender. Indeed, it resembles the treaty that ended the Great War to some extent, in that Ukraine gives up land and limits the size of its army, which are two of the things Germany did at the end of World War One.
That worked out oh so well.
Of course, to realize that would require a sense of history, which Trump lacks. That the plan smacks of the Munich Accords also would require that.
So, back to a couple of things .Why is Trump the only Western leader outside of Viktor Orban who likes Putin? It isn't because he's on the populist right. Giorgia Meloni is on the populist right and she's not a Putin fan.
But Meloni also is very intelligent and not trying to suck up unwarranted praise all the time.
It might be just because the Russians know that Trump is demented and a narcissist, and they play into that. But it's hard to wonder if it isn't something else.
At any rate, member of the Administration are already attempting to walk the document back. That's interesting, as Trump seemed very solidly behind it. That suggest that there are some forces behind the scenes that can operate a bit independently of Trump.
Voting no on Socialism while Trump cozies up to it.
The House voted on a resolution to disapprove Socialism, which is just about as stupid of thing as they could done. What on earth was that exactly supposed to prove?
The GOP has really gone off the rails on this topic in that it now asserts routinely that Socialism=Communism. It doesn't. All Communists are Socialist, but not all Socialists are Communists, and those who maintain the opposite need to go back to school.
Ronald Reagan's big French buddy Francois Mitterrand was a Socialist. He was also completely democratic.
Of course, Donald Trump isn't completely democratic, but interestingly, some of his policies are socialist, and now he's had a fawning meeting with the new Democratic Socialist mayor of New York City. He declared that they had a lot of views in common.
Look for the GOP to now propose joining the Comintern.
Turning Point at CC
One of the things that the assassination of Charlie Kirk seemed to do was to boost the creation of Turning Point USA chapters. There's one at one of the local high schools now, and one at the local community college.
At that one, there was just an event at which the far right Secretary of State and a far right politician who wants less government but who is a major landlord, thereby occupying a role in society that only exists due the major support of the government, or else people would ignore your claim to property rights, spoke.
Wyoming's far right is sounding more and more irrelevant, so its interesting how these things are a bit behind the curve. Of course the Secretary of State, in order to try to keep ahead of the curve, has been sounding like a member of Greenpeace recently. I thought this would have generated some news, but it doesn't seem to.
Interesting.
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