Pity the Nation/ Whose Shepherds Mislead Them
Amidst plunging polls and righteous rage at his Epstein Memorial Ballroom, the inept manchild faces growing resistance, sublime to ridiculous, to his nascent kingship. Cue anti-ICE whistle kits - “Form a crowd, stay loud” - rainbow church steps, Newsom hawking knee pads, D.C. Jedi suing individual goons, and a successfully mobilized Bay Area, including his iconic bookstore’s revival of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s howling edict that his people not “allow their rights to erode/and their freedoms to be washed away.”
Trump was already underwater with the lowest approval rating for any president, even him, at this point in his reign - see no jobs, high prices, cancelled SNAP benefits, murdered innocents, rounded-up brown neighbors - before his abrupt, illegal obliteration of the East Wing for a gilded obscenity to host his billionaire suck-ups. For many, the travesty is a bitter echo of what in part got us here: Obama’s mocking, gaudy, then-hilarious 2011 vision of a lurid purple “Trump White House, Hotel, Casino, Golf Course” with glitzy tyrant chandeliers and half-naked women welcoming you. Now, of course, we are about to have the execrable real thing, a tacky “abomination,” born of his “poisonous bravado,” bearing the “bombast (of) a dictator-for-life megalomania vibe.”
https://www.commondreams.org/further/pity-the-nation-whose-shepherds-mislead-them
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we are living inside a predicted fast moving nightmare.
Great post BP 
