We've reached the 'mad emperor' stage, and it's terrifying to behold
From Richard Wolffe in The Guardian:
Trump incites violence from the safety of a bunker, then orders peaceful protesters tear-gassed for the sake of a surreal photo
Writing from a Birmingham jail, Martin Luther King Jr famously told his anxious fellow clergymen that his non-violent protests would force those in power to negotiate for racial justice. The time is always ripe to do right, he wrote.
On an early summer evening, two generations later, Donald Trump walked out of the White House, where hed been hiding in a bunker. Military police had just fired teargas and flash grenades at peaceful protesters to clear his path, so that he could wave a bible in front of a boarded church.
For Trump, the time is always ripe to throw kerosene on his own dumpster fire.
Full story: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/02/weve-reached-the-mad-emperor-stage-and-its-terrifying-to-behold
Evolve Dammit
(16,725 posts)johnthewoodworker
(694 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,895 posts)Which leaves the questions of what do we do about those who will claim they were only following orders, and who will do it?
Martin Eden
(12,864 posts)But we're accustomed to one outrage after another, and he will of course never resign.
The Finn Al Analysis
(63 posts)Ours is the first Mad Monarch with nukes! U-S-A! U