Trump's song was "It's My Party and I'll Do What I want To." Now it's "It's my Country and I'll Do What I want to."

 

Leslie Gore’s 1963 hit, “It’s My Party,” was a lament:

It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to
Cry if I want to, cry if I want to
You would cry too if it happened to you

Nobody knows where my Johnny has gone
Judy left the same time
Why was he holding her hand
When he's supposed to be mine?

It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to
Cry if I want to, cry if I want to
You would cry too if it happened to you…

Trump’s version is anything but a sad song. Not for him, it isn’t. It is a victory ballad. Once upon a time, he could spaz dance to the original version about “merely” owning the Republican Party lock, stock and fucken smoking barrel. Now he all but owns the country.

Trump doesn’t have the gene for crying. In it’s place may be the sadism gene which produces visceral pleasure when he’s able to assert his dominance by inflicting pain on others. It’s a true hard-on for him if he can make his enemies writhe in pain, but just being able to make anybody suffer gives him pleasure. The head of the IRS, for example, wasn’t really an enemy until he didn’t obey without question. Laura Loomer can tell him he needs to get rid of someone and I doubt he even looks into whether they’re really an enemy. He just does it because he can. 

Rewarding those who bow down to him orgasmicly. Punishing those who cross him is an earthshaking O.

Every day we wonder what fresh pile of stinking steaming sulfurous vapor will issue forth from the hell from he has unleashed, whether upon the country or the world.

Today, or at least this week, he may do a twofer. He may sell out Ukraine to Russia, and at no addtional cost except to the victims, he may sell out homeless people and home rule in Washington, D.C.

UPDATE:

I doubt Trump ever reads HUFFPOST, but if he did, he’d salivate over main page headlines like this:

Trump has more legal cover for doing this in DC (see What Trump can — and can’t — do in his bid to take over law enforcement in DC. Even so, there is no doubt it is a test of how far he can go. The next step would be to hype up another lie in order to declare martial law nationwide. That would ostensibly give him justifaction for using the military anywhere. It would be a test as to whether there are enough true patriots in the armed forces to allow it to happen. If there are enough of them who say enough is enough, we are looking at the possibility of a soft coup or a classical coup d'état.

P.S.

The DOJ is launching an investigation of Leticia James and Adam Schiff today, too. For certain, it’s a great day in the morning for Donald J. Trump, the preeminent sadist of our time.

Addendum:

I’m not going to explore this here, but it is a relevant question to consider whether or not Trump has a a rage, or anger addiction. People with this are sometimes called “angerholics.” There are numerous articles about this (here).

For all his victories, Trump still can’t resist venting his spleen, or whatever organ, at enemies. For example this story:

Excerpt:

After midnight Monday — and seemingly out of nowhere — Donald Trump lashed out at the New York Times with a claim the venerable paper should be sued by people who chose to stay out of the stock market since 2016 because of the newspaper — and a former columnist's influence.

The president began by focusing his ire on Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, apparently unaware that the columnist left the Times several months ago. Krugman wrote at the time on The Contrarian, "If you check out my Substack, you will see that I have by no means run out of energy or topics to write about. But from my perspective, the nature of my relationship with the Times had degenerated to a point where I couldn’t stay."

Regardless of the widely publicized departure, Trump took to Truth Social in the early hours of Monday to write, "Paul Krugman of the New York Times has been predicting Doom and Gloom ever since my great election success in 2016. In other words, he has been wrong for YEARS, as ALL markets have been hitting new HIGHS, and are now higher than ever before."

This is just a small story compared to what else is going on, howver we deserve something to wish for:

Here’s another article, this by Michael Cohen, about the vice president: “JD Vance Makes Dumb Look Strategic.”

On an unrelated matter, those who are regular readers know I have been permanently suspended from Facebook. (Here’s my Substack about this.) I can’t post links to my Substacks there, nor can I even read it. Mark Zuckerberg, who owns it, has pissed off his neighbors. In the mold of Trump, I am sure he doesn’t care, and he probably enjoys that he has the power to do this. Read: How Mark Zuckerberg upended a quiet California neighborhood to maintain his own private paradise.

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My comment was simply that I think it is too late to do what Thom Hartmann suggest.

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Yesterday's Substack.

If the GOP or MAGA are having problems, does it even matter in the long run if Trump is planning to implement a police state? By Hal M. Brown

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The first two articles on RawStory at 6 this morning (Pacific time) were 'This is an earthquake': Strategist warns town hall furor signals midterm disaster for GOP and 'Back-of-the-napkin stuff': GOP senators feel double-crossed by deal cut by Trump. 

Just down their page, half the articles have either GOP or MAGA in the titles, and all of them are about difficulties Republicans, including Trump and Kristi Noem, are having.

Here are the main stories on HuffPost this morning:

The featured story is “How Trump Caved And Went Home With 'Nothing' In Talks With Chuck Schumer.” It is about how “The dramatic collapse in talks over the weekend doesn't bode well for the tougher job lawmakers are facing of funding the government next month.”

Does any of this matter? 

What if Trump’s move to make ICE into a small army targeting immigrants is just a trial run to see how much he can get away with?

It is an understandment to observe how often we are subjected to seeing pictures of federal agents and sometimes local law enforcement armed like they are about to raid a drug kingpin’s lair on our streets.

By now many Americans, especially those who haven’t seen this happening in person, have become complacent about this. They are so inured to seeing the images that they don’t feel any empathy for the people being terrorized or pang of horror that America has taken the first step to becoming a police state. 

Excerpt:

A police state describes a state whose government institutions exercise an extreme level of control over civil society and liberties. There is typically little or no distinction between the law and the exercise of political power by the executive, and the deployment of internal security and police forces play a heightened role in governance. A police state is a characteristic of authoritarian, totalitarian or illiberal regimes (contrary to a liberal democratic regime). Such governments are typically one-party states and dominant-party states, but police-state-level control may emerge in multi-party systemsas well.

Originally, a police state was a state regulated by a civil administration, but since the beginning of the 20th century it has "taken on an emotional and derogatory meaning" by describing an undesirable state of living characterized by the overbearing presence of civil authorities. The inhabitants of a police state may experience restrictions on their mobility, or on their freedom to express or communicate political or other views, which are subject to police monitoring or enforcement. Political control may be exerted by means of a secret police force that operates outside the boundaries normally imposed by a constitutional state. Robert von Mohl, who first introduced the rule of law to German jurisprudence, contrasted the Rechtsstaat ("legal" or "constitutional" state) with the anti-aristocratic Polizeistaat ("police state").

If the ICE actions were the first step, we may be seeing the beginning of the second step with the DOJ investigating Barack Obama and Jack Smith. While we haven’t seen Pam Bondi posing with a gun, another player in this dystopian drama, Kristi Noem, has been on numerous occasions:

Noem isn’t as intimidating looking as the ICE agents, but Trump would like nothing better than to see Obama, Smith, and his other enemies arrested by federal agents, who while not in SWAT gear, will be carrying guns too. 

I think he dreams, perhaps literally, of seeing Obama in prison. In between other actual dreams that arouse him (I’ll leave what they are about to your imagination), I wouldn't be surprised if he’s had actual dreams about Obama being in the notorious CECOT prison.

Putting the current news about Trump’s difficulties, and about what is going on the the Republican Party and MAGA in perspective, what does it all matter if Trump has implemented a police state before the next election? He could render Congress irrelevant, so who controlled the House, or even the Senate as well, wouldn’t matter.

The same would apply to the courts, up to and including the Supreme Court. When you have armed soldiers doing your dirty work, whether they are part of the actual military or not, traditional civil authority has evaporated and you have a police state.

The only thing that can stop a police state once it is entrenched is for another more powerful force to resist and destroy it.

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Very much related to this is Thom Hartmann’s Substack today:

Excerpts:

This is now the Trump formula:

— Manufacture a crisis. 
— Declare an “emergency.” 
— Seize powers the Constitution doesn’t grant. 
— Bypass Congress. 
— Bully or ignore the courts. 
— Use masked, secret police and the military against your own residents. 
— Send people to foreign concentration camps. 
— Build concentration camps within the United States. 
— Prosecute lawyers and judges. 
— Assert control over universities. 
— Merge corporate and state interests.
— Cow the media into silence about your corruption and crimes. 
— Then call it all “law and order.”

This sums up what both Thom and I are trying to say although Thom seems more optimistic that American’s are becoming aware of what is going on:

Increasingly, Americans are realizing that Vladimir Putin, Viktor Orbán, and Donald Trump are all reading from the same authoritarian script that Hitler first authored, and if we don’t recognize the pattern soon, we may find ourselves locked in Act III with no exit.

Kristi Noem’s DHS made a stunning ‘confession’ with new Bible-quoting ads: column, RawStory

My comment: This quote, inaccurately attributed to Sinclair Lewis ( see Snopes) from his prescient novel "It Can't Happen Here" certainly applies to this article:

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