How far will Donald Trump go to sell a lie?
After a week of authorities shutdown it is obvious the United States is irreparably broken You don t have to believe me Just listen to White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller In a latest CNN appearance he claimed President Donald Trump has plenary authority absolute power in other words to ignore court rulings Oops In other words Trump is God No one is happier about that than the president who reported on Tuesday that selected vital workers still on the clock won t get back pay after the shutdown ends There are selected people that don t deserve to be taken care of and we ll take care of them in a different way Trump stated How pray tell will that be Donny Putting that aside consider a country where masked men without identification are dragging citizens out of their homes No charges are filed Due process is ignored and people are held against their will Members of the clergy are physically attacked Only one faith is accepted The legislature is so broken it cannot operate The criminal justice system is compromised by corruption and sloth Consider a country where the press is filled with sycophants who do the bidding of the country s leader Anyone presenting information not approved by the ruler is denounced and belittled ostracized and denied access Media companies are controlled by those loyal to the leader Academia is attacked for not teaching what the regime decrees to be true Political opponents are labeled as criminals and enemies The leader decrees what is acceptable entertainment Though these may seem like they are representative of our current cabinet they are genuinely themes explored by director Raoul Peck in Orwell the newly theatrically-released documentary about George Orwell s life as he wrote the dystopian novel A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy Orwell wrote in his diary while he was working on the book It has to be thought of as infallible Therefore only one opinion is permissible at any given moment A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy Orwell wrote in his diary while he was working on the book It has to be thought of as infallible Therefore only one opinion is permissible at any given moment While currently those who lovingly swoon at the thought of working in GOP Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene s congressional office may dismiss Orwell s novel as mere fiction he was merely doing what every good writer does he wrote about what he knew As a former police officer and a journalist in the British Empire Orwell grew up in a reality he used to create his fiction In current times facts reported as fiction are not nearly as popular as fictions presented as facts That is the Donald Trump twist on reality And as much as chosen would dismiss the obvious parallels between the book and current reality the fact is that two plus two does not equal five and never will Trump for example alleges Portland is war ravaged So Secretary of Homeland Defense Kristi Noem presented up in the city on Tuesday and right-wing influencers depicted her staring down the army of antifa In reality Noem was on a rooftop staring at photojournalists fewer than a dozen protesters and one guy in a chicken suit That brings us to Jeff Tischauser an adjunct professor and a frequent protester at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview a suburb of Chicago Hewas struck by a rubber bullet and hit with tear gas last week in an apparently unprovoked attack by DHS agents I had a hard time seeing My eyes stung and I was out of breath A young Latino man grabbed me and pulled me out of there I don t know what would have happened if he hadn t helped he described me Related GOP strength care cuts will hurt kids like mine In a series of press releases DHS advised a different story and justified firing non-lethal weapons on crowds by calling them rioters looters gypsies tramps and thieves Political language makes lies sound truthful and murder acceptable Orwell warned Totalitarianism demands the continuous alteration of the past and in the long run likely demands a disbelief in the very existence of objective truth This observation explains Trump s modern moves A day after Texas National Guard troops arrived in Chicago Trump threatened the city s mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov JB Pritzker both Democrats Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers he explained in a Truth Social post Governor Pritzker also The president didn t say what federal law the men broke or if he had sought the National Guard to take them into custody Questions about that remained unanswered by the White House press office Pritzker dared Trump to come after him and he laughed at the idea of a convicted felon claiming he should be jailed But in Trump s dangerous delusional state which is dominated by the fear of anyone saying the name Epstein he is telling us exactly how far he ll go to sell a lie To Trump the nation is on fire He should know He supplied the gas and the match We have no choice but to do this he revealed in an Oval Office event Monday referring to blue cities he has targeted Portland is on fire Portland has been on fire for years These are unsafe spaces We re going to make them safe Want more sharp takes on politics Sign up for our free newsletter Standing Room Only written by Amanda Marcotte now also a weekly show on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts Trump went on to claim that the people of Memphis are so happy Black women in Chicago he explained are wearing MAGA hats all over the place Everyone is welcoming National Guard troops They want the Guard to come in or they don t care who comes in They just want to be safe and they really don t care We re going to go city by city We re going to have safe cities The president added a dark warning So far it hasn t been necessary But we have an Insurrection Act for a reason He suggested the law could be invoked if people were being killed and courts were holding us up or governors or mayors were holding us up He declared I want to make sure that people aren t killed We have to make sure that our cities are safe Desperation and fear bleed through everything he dispenses But there is still a method to the madness Miles Taylor who worked in the first Trump administration posted on Substack I co-wrote Trump s first anti-terrorism plan in - He s not trying to stop left-wing terrorism He is staging it His troop deployments are a false flag meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns This is now very obvious And Trump is not above pitting Southern red states against Northern blue states Sounds familiar doesn t it He mentioned that Texas Gov Abbott is not the only red state governor to offer troops Every one of them is willing to offer whatever we need To hear him tell it that s because they want our agents protected Trump will never serve a day in prison for his corruption or crimes But the more people scream about Jeffrey Epstein the more seriously Trump will consider invoking the Insurrection Act Meanwhile he s got House Speaker Mike Johnson R-La running interference for him by keeping the House in recess Why are we in recess GOP Rep Thomas Massie of Kentucky who is leading the effort to release law enforcement files about the deceased sex offender posted on X Because the day we go back into session I have votes for the discharge petition to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files We need your help to stay independent Subscribe at present to sponsorship Salon s progressive journalism Johnson is also holding the House s newest member Rep -Elect Adelita Grijalva D-Ariz hostage Despite telling CNN on Tuesday that he would swear her in as soon as she wants the speaker has made no move to do so He certainly hasn t had any dilemma swearing in Republicans whenever he wants On Tuesday a House leadership aide made Johnson s position clear We will swear her in as soon as the House returns to session when Chuck Schumer Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego decide to open up the governing body There s a reason for the delay Grijalva is expected to provide the final signature needed on a petition to force a full House vote on releasing further materials in the Epstein situation The delay in swearing her in Johnson has stated has anything to do with Epstein Sure and Richard Nixon had nothing to do with Watergate Ronald Reagan had nothing to do with the Contras And George W Bush had nothing to do with Iraq Johnson is willing to further Trump s narratives because he faces losing control of the House if the president fails Trump requirements total control to avoid accountability And Attorney General Pam Bondi Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth White House demarcation czar Tom Homan and especially Stephen Miller need control to prevent the long arm of justice from ever reaching them While Trump may never serve a day in prison that can t be mentioned of particular of the majority corrupt power-brokers in his regime MAGA diehards will call whatever ends up befalling these shady side-show sycophants a weaponizing of the Justice Department Democrats will solely call it justice I guess both statements can be true but the motive matters little The endgame will not be pretty Last week I commented I ve never seen Trump so scared This week as he struggles vainly against the rising tide of accountability we ve seen writ large across the national stage to what lengths his fear will lead him Last week I commented I ve never seen Trump so scared This week as he struggles vainly against the rising tide of accountability we ve seen writ large across the national stage to what lengths his fear will lead him Trump s medical appears to be failing him His charm is failing him Soon he ll be reduced to the same level as William Jennings Bryan in his last days an itinerant flycatcher sitting in the courtyard of Mar-a-Lago making sounds like a bullfrog and babbling like a cicada on meth On Friday for the second time in a year Trump will stop by Walter Reed Physiological Center for an annual physical On deep background Thursday night a source close to Trump wouldn t say specifically why he was going to the hospital but no one has an annual physical twice in the same year unless there s something going on with their wellness Should Trump expire before he is held accountable it would be in the best interest of the country for his wealth to be stripped from his heirs and his vast property holdings turned into low-cost housing for the underprivileged and the homeless Then Trump should be relegated to the same dustbin of history as Epstein In the state controlled everything that s Trump s goal He continues to pressure his Department of Justice to arrest and prosecute his political opponents to achieve that aim New York Attorney General Letitia James who defeated Trump in court is the latest victim of his fear and anger She was indicted Thursday in Virginia on two felony charges bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution after pressure from Trump James answer to the indictment should be the response of everyone who is persecuted by Trump s regime from the poorest immigrants to the former cabinet authorities he despises I am not fearful I am fearless The only way to beat a bully is to stand up to a bully Read more about this topic Democrats are winning the wellbeing care shutdown war Trump turns to the prosperity gospel for fundraising efforts Adelita Grijalva wants to get to work The GOP won t let her The post How far will Donald Trump go to sell a lie appeared first on Salon com
