https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/12/03/king-trump-is-not-inevitable/
"The campaign is over; the election is done. The cases against Donald Trump—for
the theft and improper storage of sensitive and classified government
materials; for the effort to obstruct election administration in Georgia; for
the attempt to overthrow the government of the United States on January 6,
2021—are wrapping up, unfinished in some cases and never really started in
others. His sentencing for the 34 felony counts where he was found guilty of
falsifying business records to hide election interference has been postponed
indefinitely. In the executive branch, the transition is underway, complete
with smiling photo ops and assurances from President Biden that he won’t stifle
or undermine the incoming administration the way he was hampered—by the very
man Biden is welcoming back to power. Everything is on track for January 20,
2025: the day that Joe Biden will cease to be president, and Donald Trump will
be crowned as king.
There is no question that Donald Trump will not be limited by the
Constitutional strictures on the presidency. Not only has the Supreme Court
granted his absurd and expansive view of executive power as per Trump v. U.S.,
but Trump has spent the last four years out of office actively campaigning for
the right to do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, however he wants, without
consequences. The incoming Republican Congress won its power on much smaller
margins than Trump took the presidency, and he is barely two million votes
ahead of Harris in the popular vote. Neither the slim and chaotic majority in
the House nor the thoroughly Trumpified Senate will reject his whims, either
because they’ll agree with his interests or they’ll be too cowardly to object
if they don’t. Trump’s early appointments—sex pests and conspiracy theorists,
incompetents, lackeys, bootlickers, and sycophants—reveal the nature of what
this administration will be. These aren’t people put into place to work for the
American people; they will be installed to preserve, protect, and defend the
interests of one Donald J. Trump, damn the country.
Yet King Trump, first of his name, is not an inevitability."
Via Janet Logan.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
