Oh, right, a third term.
Oh, the Constitution?
What Constitution?
OH, THAT Constitution?
We have no Constitution any longer.
Oh, but there could be other outcomes.
He could die. Would that he did.
He could be like “to decrease the excess population” and die.
If he does, the day he does, then:
Let’s hope we sing as soon as today.
Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah
That buck, the one that stopped at and with Harry Truman?
It doesn’t stop anywhere in the Trump regime.
No one did it. No one is responsible.
And they are all one or more of these, mostly many more:
Imbeciles, idiots, screwups, screwballs, drunks, criminals, gangsters, magamaniacs, trumpers, liars, cowards, bullies, toadies, sycophants, bootlickers, incompetents, losers.
Watch the bouncing buck. It is not stopping anywhere for the next 3 years, 43 weeks, and 62 days.
It’s the same extreme nativist scare used forever in this country to move public opinion to the right edge of the world.
1798, 1854, 1917-20, 1947-54, now, right now.
It is to ask, to say, “Are you now or have you ever been?” with all the terror that implies, means, and is brought home with massive bullying, lying, and cheating. Cheating who? You.
It is the old filth from what Magacans, the former Republicans who now rule through this cowardly, ignorant regime. They own the White House. They own the Congress.
Mark it well. There are no longer any Republicans.
There are only Magacans.
And, mark you, this is not an administration. No, it is not.
It is a regime.
Fascist Italy, The Third Reich, Bolshevik Russia/the U.S.S.R., Russia, and the Chinese People’s Republic today are not/were not administrations. In history, or now, they were regimes. They were, they are regimes.
Now one asserts itself in the United States of America as a Congress in March 2025 as compliant as the Reichstag made itself in March 1933, rolls over, submitting like a mangy dog.
This is why the opposition is flailing and failing. It still fails to understand that this is not an administration but what it intended, a regime, the only one to be allowed.
Like all such, this is a dark, evil, regime of the criminal, the wicked, the ignorant, and emotionally crippled like Musk spreading its/ stain across the present; spreading its stain across the map of America, across international boundaries, charters, and treaties, across decency, kindness and against, over and over and over again, wickedly and cruelly against “…a decent respect to the opinions of mankind…”
What’s in a name? What’s in these names? Terror, arbitrary terror, the absence of law, lawlessness, the gulag, injustice, hate, fear, late night knocks, brutality, roundups, camps, brutality, injustice, no justice, the road to man made hell.
Nazi Germany
The Gestapo
Sicherheitsdienst
Tsarist Russia
The Ohkrana
Bolshevik Russia
The Cheka
Soviet Union
The Cheka, later the
GPU
OGPU
NKVD
KGB
Putin’s Russia
The FSB
East German Democratic Republic
The Stassi
The United States Trump Regime
The FBI
INS
ICE
The Department of Justice
The Department of Homeland Security
So we are now negotiating directly with Hamas, perpetrators of Oct. 7. Sure, why not.
Except the U.S. does not negotiate with terrorists. Except sometimes now we do. Because it’s all a deal.
Want something from us, name your price? Like the show, “The Price is Right,” because hey, it’s all TV, life is TV, you learn that as a kid watching it in the 1950s.
Conqueror of the World, chief Magaman, Potentate of the East, Kraken of the Kremlin, Tsar of All Tarrrifs Trump warns Hamas, cooperate, release all hostages or suffer consequences “or it’s over for you.”
So what’s he going to do to Hamaas and Gaza and Gazans that Israel hasn’t done?
Well, we do have nukes. Oh right, Israel does too.
Did you know there are nine nations with nukes: the U.S., Russia, China, the UK, France, Pakistan, India, Israel, and North Korea, and Iran wants them.
Reassuring list isn’t it?
Oh, but now let’t clear out those pesky Gazans with their 1 million kids so we can get on to what is really needed here: A string of resorts and casinos on that glorious, lovely Mediterranean coast -not far from where your writer picked wild grapes in the dunes during a more bucolic/ time in 1963—all named Trump.
Right, you can’t make it up.
You can’t make up yesterday, you can’t make up tomorrow, and who knows what today will be about.
But, hey it’s ok, as long as Pete Hegseth has a bottle of Tequila, Lady Bug Grham has a microphone, and Rubio has the sinking middle seat on a couch, what could go wrong? What could possibly go wrong?
There is at least one reason for the explosion in the Oval Office Feb. 28 when Trump and his quisling, Vance, pounced on President Zelensky.
It is the Nobel Peace Prize, the most famous of the annual prizes endowed permanently in 1895 by Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite and other explosives so often used in war.
Trump has said repeatedly he should get it. His lickspittle staff, cabinet, and Magas constantly promote him for the prize.
All of them point to his obsession with promoting on his terms, and Russia’s, a cease-fire in Ukraine
When President Zelensky came to the White House Friday, to sign another phony Trump deal – signing away supposed mineral mining rights in Ukraine for a formless cease fire – things went south in what was so clearly a set up – a do what I say or suffer the consequences ruse.
That deal is about as real as the notion that Mexico would pay for the supposed wall or that for over/ 400 years map makers and maps have called that body of water what it is, the Gulf of Mexico.
But Trump wants his pretense of a cease-fire in Ukraine and wants it badly so he can be nominated for the peace prize.
Why? Well, for one thing, it was awarded to President Obama in 2009.
Trump hates Obama, really hates him. So he wants Nobel Peace Prize equivalence and then he can say his peace is the biggest thing in the history of the prize.
Zelensky balked and the attack went forward.
Whatever else is in play, Trump in thrall to Putin, Russia and the FSB, Maga politics, his naked hatred of Obama,his lust for the Nobel peace prize is an underlying cause of this deliberate breach with Ukraine.
At Nuremberg, November 21, 945:
On that date, the chief prosecutor for the International Military Tribunal, Justice Robert Jackson of the United States Supreme Court, delivered in his opening statement one of the most important statements of fact, law, philosophy, decency, and fundamental morality ever made in any court of law in human history.
It had to be. He was there as principal agent for prosecution of the gravest, greatest, most awful crimes in the entire history of the human race, in the case brought before judges assembled from the United States of America, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and France – underscore the United States of America.
Toward the conclusion of the long statement of charges against the vast criminal regime being tried, Justice Jackson told the hushed court:
“The real complaining party at your bar is civilization.”
It was then, it is now.
We can, we must adopt those words, those thoughts, and look to them not in the context of the revealed crimes of that Germany, but in the revealed abandonment of all that has been, in its best sense, for 249 years, American.
No litany here and none can capture the nihilistic hatred and animosity for people, decency, kindness, fairness, well-being, civility, and charity in every word, thought, deed, ambition, desire and want of a decent society being demonstrated by the new regime.
All that has been and is being torn asunder by it day in and day out.
Add that abandoned now is the very idea from which came the United States of America, a revolution by, for, and about democracy.
A revolution resolved “four score and seven years later” so that “…government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth.”
In the total experience of humankind, nothing, no matter how terrible, compares yet to Germany and its deeds between Jan. 30, 1933 and May 8, 1945. Even in the awful history of what mankind does to mankind, historically or now, nothing is equal to that wickedness of that Germany.
But now – now we are at the precipice of government metastasized into evil, into an uncontrolled and uncontrollable impulse to do harm, only harm at every turn, in every way – to do as much harm as can be done in every and all ways.
How much harm will be done? The toll is being counted every day, the wickedness, defying description, gathered on display at the American White House, February 28 in a scene right from the German Chancellery in March 1939.
Then what can we say and what must be said now?
This is what must be said to the same risen, rising malevolent force for it has never been said better.
“The real complaining party at your bar is civilization..”
The real complaining party at our bar – us – is civilization – American democratic civilization.
Peeling the Onion 