King Trump has decreed that all
pardons issued by Joe Biden are “void” due to
the alleged use of an autopen for signatures.
He’s warned House Select Committee members who
received pardons from Biden to prepare for
investigations - despite the glaring
inconvenience of there being no actual
charges. And, of course, Trump’s personal
Justice Department may pursue prosecution of
individuals granted clemency by Biden,
including Dr. Fauci and General Milley.
Unbelievable, isn’t it?
The Emperor is also defying judges’ orders to deport
hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gangsters. And
let’s be clear - this is just the opening act
in his “Ignore the Judiciary” tour. Trump is
now officially anointing himself above all
laws. He is untouchable.
Untouchable!
Yet, under these unconscionable
circumstances, we - the people - remain
relatively mute, watching as what was always a
half-assed democracy is deliberately
dismantled.
But alas, reason and relativity exited this polarized
nation on January 20th. And now, under the
reign of Trump, it’s so damn quiet, if you
listen closely, you can hear democracy gasping
for air under Uncle Thomas’s Supreme Court
gavel.
This grim reality leaves me wondering: When the so-called
noble opposition - the Democratic Party, the
Liberal/Progressive leadership, the Obamas,
Clintons, Bidens, Harrises, Stacey Abrams, Dr.
Cornel West, Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, Van
Jones, Michael Steele, and the dozens of other
voices from MSNBC, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC
(otherwise known as the Communist News Network
Consortium) - when these “Resistance”
figureheads are fired, arrested, silenced, and they will be, what will the cowardly, faint-hearted, candy-assed Left
do?
Will it be so eerily still,
from coast to coast, Alaska to Nebraska, Fargo
to Key Largo, that you can hear the rust
flaking off America’s moral compass?
We must all ask ourselves: When they come for those public
figures, those leaders, what will we do? And
if nothing else, think selfishly, my friend:
After they erase our leadership, they will
unquestionably come for you and me, our families, our friends. At some point, the Left must
wake up. It seems so many of us are
preoccupied with literally anything else, unable to see the big-ass picture.
Many of us are also
“conflict-averse,” scared of our own shadows.
So, let me hand the mic to Frederick Douglass, who last
week in Miami (and, you know, in actual history) said this: If there is no struggle, there
is no progress. Those who profess to favor
freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men
who want crops without plowing the ground.
They want rain without thunder and
lightning. They want the ocean without the
roar of its mighty waters.
Meanwhile, Trump and his cultish Klan are keeping
Playskool simple, using History 101 for Dictators as their guidebook. Our mission, should we choose to
accept it, requires the heart and guts our
ancestors displayed - the same ones that got
us here, against all odds. Most of us were
born into Harm’s Way, so hell, all we have to do is oppose and resist. Enough with the submissive, passive-aggressive BS. It’s
time to start brawling - like two preachers
fighting over the last megachurch in town.
Swinging like a political prisoner at their
final appeal before the system grinds them
into dust. Fighting like the last free
journalist in a country where the truth gets
you killed.
OK, last one: Hey Flower Children, and you Obama
intellectuals, If you grow a set, and you’re
gonna fight, fight like you’re the third monkey on the ramp to
Noah’s Ark because baby, I hear thunder and lightning on the
horizon, and it’s starting to pour.
You get the graphic, dramatic picture, don’t you? Fighting
- like our ancestors have been doing for centuries. It ain’t complicated. So why are so many of us
comfortable sitting on our hands?
Take politicians, entertainers, and athletes - so very
comfortable these days, living like White
folks. Understand, that kind of lifestyle ain’t normal in U.S. history. Black and Brown folks have never
really lived like White folks. This is new.
The last 40–50 years have been unlike the 375
years before. And that, my friends, was by design.
This newfound humanity and
prosperity Americans of color enjoy flies in
the face of what everyday white guys would
prefer, and white men are the diabolical force
behind MAGA. Many would prefer a return to the
“Golden Age:” Black folks step-off the
sidewalk when they approach. Never look them
in the eye, when you converse with white
folks, boy, you keep your eyes down. And,
white folks call you by your first name, and
you refer to them as “Mr. or Ms.”
Unbelievable…. Tell me who would desire this
type arrangement? What would a
therapist/psychiatrist say fuels this, this
sickness?
But sure, let’s keep it light, shall we? Let’s focus on the real issues: “Did you see the baseball game? The Real Housewives of
Anywhere? Survivor?”
Some would argue you’re about to become a real survivor - if you’re lucky. American Refugees - yeah, that’s got a mighty, mighty different ring
to it, doesn’t it? Get used to it.
Somebody, somebody I say, go put on the O’Jays classic Give the People What They Want and play it loud. Over and over. Until you feel it.
Imprisoning political foes - just like Putin, Trump’s Gepetto - is the MAGA daydream. I know, I know, don’t speak
it into existence, don’t put it in the air.
But this isn’t some middle school production
of Scarface or Training Day. This is real. And imprisoning his enemies is Trump’s 3:33 AM, dream.
And after they execute the first 100-day agenda of Project
2025, they’ll move on to executing his To-Do list. And the question is - what will timid
Americans do when he starts imprisoning his
opposition?
Sure, thank the stars we can count on terse, curt, gruff
letters to our local dying newspapers. Or,
maybe - just maybe - it will be so ghostly
silent that even history is holding its
breath, waiting, praying to be rewritten.
