Black Bibles Matter
The President of the United States left his bunker, after angry crowds protesting the murder of a black man by the police had been dispersed with tear gas and rubber bullets, so he could have his photo taken clutching a Bible in front of a clapboard church.
He has invoked an obscure 1807 "insurrectionist" law allowing him to request the army shoot the American people.
If this was a satire of American hypocrisy you might think it a bit on the nose. If this was a dystopian vision of the future you might be surprised by the lack of an eye-patch or a studded gauntlet. But the action would right. The moves have "Totalitarian Mad Man" stamped all over them. He's Caligula in a wig-ula.
In the middle of a global pandemic, with, and its sort of hard to believe I'm writing this 41, 000 000 Americans out of work, its easy to believe an American president might start a war - any war - just to claw back some popularity. Starting a war against the American people is an "out-of-the-box" manoeuvre though. But we live in the world of the "double-down". No apology, ever. Apologies are for the weak. Apologies admit the possibility of mistakes and that can't happen. So you dig harder. And you keep on digging. At this point in time Donald Trump is high fiving Dominic Cummings at the earth's molten core.
And its hotter than hell. Get used to it, Donald.
He's wearing gloves in that Bible photo. Otherwise his skin would blister on contact.
He has invoked an obscure 1807 "insurrectionist" law allowing him to request the army shoot the American people.
If this was a satire of American hypocrisy you might think it a bit on the nose. If this was a dystopian vision of the future you might be surprised by the lack of an eye-patch or a studded gauntlet. But the action would right. The moves have "Totalitarian Mad Man" stamped all over them. He's Caligula in a wig-ula.
In the middle of a global pandemic, with, and its sort of hard to believe I'm writing this 41, 000 000 Americans out of work, its easy to believe an American president might start a war - any war - just to claw back some popularity. Starting a war against the American people is an "out-of-the-box" manoeuvre though. But we live in the world of the "double-down". No apology, ever. Apologies are for the weak. Apologies admit the possibility of mistakes and that can't happen. So you dig harder. And you keep on digging. At this point in time Donald Trump is high fiving Dominic Cummings at the earth's molten core.
And its hotter than hell. Get used to it, Donald.
He's wearing gloves in that Bible photo. Otherwise his skin would blister on contact.
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