He has no principles. Only appetites. He doesn't actually care about protesters anywhere, but he DOES want an excuse to look tough and use "his" military. He wants an excuse to bomb Iran, just like he wanted an excuse to invade Venezuela, just like he wants an excuse to sic his goons squad on us.

Reflecting on the state of things

Collecting wishes for the world again.

Like most bullies, Trump and his cult of Daddy worshippers lack true authority. Instead, they use tactics that inspire fear and despair to disempower their adversaries and protect themselves from accountability. Like most bullies, they will escalate their tactics until someone stands up to them.

"The ubermensch ideology helps explain the broligarchs’ disturbing gender politics. “The ‘bro’ part of broligarch is not incidental to this — it’s built on this idea that not only are these guys superior, they are superior because they’re guys,” Harrington said." www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Some things on my mind as the inauguration of the impending Idiocracy approaches. The leaders of this incoming administration are extremely stupid, perhaps the least intelligent in the history of this country. 1/

The right is getting nervous their followers are realizing they've been lied to.

Stop thinking Trump and Musk are reformers. They're man-babies standing before a structure made of building blocks, and like the man-babies they are they'll Hulk Smash those blocks—our country—to ruins. They have no care for what arises from those ruins, because it's the ruins that will enrich them.

Why do so many Americans live in poverty? Because so many rich people benefit from it, the sociologist Matthew Desmond told Annie Lowrey last year. theatln.tc/oc1NTW54

Elon Musk thinks HE won the election and gets to be the autocrat. Fascist and delusional to the core.

The fascism virus is about to attack the American bloodstream. The only vaccine is education, peaceful resistance and unyielding humanity.

Trump and Musk have already stated that their plan is to crash the economy. Picking a trade war with China, Mexico, and Canada will do that. They have no plan to restore the economy. This is how they plan to cull part of the population and pummel the rest into subservience.

Poverty is a tool of coercion and control. An impoverished and defeated population keeps the rich at the top. The struggle to exist day to day extinguishes the struggle to resist what’s keeping you there. They’ll feed you enough that you’ll thank them; never enough that you’ll look for more.

The question is how long it will take before the American people realize that they have installed a king, not elected a president.

Or realize that Musk also now demands to be treated as a king.

I suspect this realization will be long in coming in part because corporate media will never promote it.