A TrumpWorld Cabinet of Curiosities

 

Pictures often are worth a thousand words--take a look at the picture above of Elon Musk, standing, not seated at the table, while Donald Trump is not even at the head of the table, but slumped, unnoticed by anyone, apparently drifting off to sleep. Just a podgy senior citizen with his hands in his lap, while everyone is listening to the real boss, who has not even bothered to put on a suit for the occasion but is dressed, as he generally is, like some close approximation an adolescent might make at adult clothing. He threw on a big-boy jacket over his play-clothes. 

It's not exactly The Last Supper, but what if I told you one of these folks assembled would betray Trump and every last one of them had eaten of his body and blood? 

We are getting on to a political Carnival. Lent for you, and Fat Tuesday for rich motherfuckers forever, so I felt like sprinkling a little Catholic consciousness over the above tableau. Also, I am very, very mean. 

I thought to myself when I perused Twitter's commentariat regarding the first cabinet meeting that what we were looking at was a Dunning-Kruger Group Therapy session where no one realized what their problem was and no one was getting any better. 

Imagine starting off on a new position--an important position! And whatever your background is, your staffing and funding may be determined by some little 23-year-old with a really good Call of Duty game. You are getting settled in, and before you even know what is what--it's changing because Pimpleface McElonsbuddy says so. You moth-winged Icarus fluttering about a guttering candlelight. 

And you have to start by making obeisances ("Thank God for President Trump!") to the kind of straight-up 4Chan twat who posts a video like this on his scammy-ass social media site. Using AI slop to glorify ethnic cleansing. While depicting himself as a golden idol--pure blasphemy. 

And of course, there's the lying and the bullshitting about how whatever is fucked up isn't THAT fucked up and barely their fault anyway. Musk thinks cancelling ebola prevention (which he didn't correct) is just a wee little mistake but are we overlooking also PEPFAR where drugs were preventing HIV poz people from tipping into an AIDS crisis? Does this idiot not understand that preventing epidemics anywhere on the globe helps keep them from coming somewhere your racist ass cares about? Or that things like manufacturing therapeutic nutrition (with a product made right here in the US) keeps babies and little kids from literally wasting away to nothing (I dunno--maybe when this cretin's mama told him Black babies were starving on his home continent the way some of OUR mamas tried to get US to eat, they high-fived--I simply don't know that is true, but, YOU KNOW?)

And when RFK, Jr. tries to bullshit us that possibly two dead children in a measles outbreak with over 120 cases is normal--he's guilty from Samoa and he lies out his choking voicehole. We haven't had a single person dead from measles here in a decade and the disease SHOULD have been eradicated by now, but some people have to be different. And he was one of the voices encouraging them. 

And Trump tries to tell us we can fix the national debt by finding ten million people willing to put down $5 million on "Gold Card" citizenship. The whole fuck. Who in the world has $5 million liquid to plop down like that? Not 10 million people--literally only tens of thousands, maybe. Did he come up with that math himself, or did some other twisted innumerate fuck who thinks there's always money in the banana stand?  Trump needs to understand--just because most of the people he meets are millionaires and billionaires, doesn't make that normal. 

But here's where I tell you the scary part--lies come standard in an autocracy. Congresspeople and propagandists right now are trying to pretend the bill passed by the GOP House ended taxation on Social Security and won't cut Medicaid--and both of those things are complete lies. Let's use "Mussolini made the trains come on time" be your example:

See the hat Trump has in the above picture: "Trump was right about everything." Mussolini was like that, too: Sempre ragione. If he said he made the trains run on time, they did. Because who was going to check him, boo? Some people who were good citizens never complained, they just got up earlier. Some trains did come on time. A lot of the people who MATTERED never took a train at all, they had chauffeurs. The point of authoritarian lies is noticing who repeats them and who does not. 

So, what I'm trying to say is--if you have any conscience at all, you better complain and raise your voice now while a little bit of complaining might still be good. Our faces are being played in while they pretend maybe Russia didn't invade Ukraine (Yeah--well how DID they get THERE?) and other sheer nonsense. 

The White House is going to pretend they take a lot of questions and that makes them transparent--but what kind of answers are we getting? If they are lies and propaganda--it does not count and we need to say that. And our papers of record, and our news networks need to understand, you have to come clean and call a lie a lie every time or the next thing you know, you will be stuck reporting the lies as the truth, just like Trump's good little cabinet members are at the table, but don't have a word to say unless it's one of praise. 

You don't have to take my word for it--just try to have a little curiosity.