REQUIRED READING: ACTION NEEDED IMMEDIATELY
“From Comedy to Brutality” : Fintan O’Toole (The New York Review of Books, March 13, 2025)
To learn the breadth and depth of the infuckingsane antics of Trump, read O’Toole’ essay and do something, anything: go outside or stay inside and scream, write your Congressperson, organize a march, tell your barber, tell you Mother…..
What Hannah Arendt identified as “the banality of evil” is on full display now with Trump’s maneuverings with Palestine, Puerto Rico, Russia, Denmark, Canada, Mexico, China….As I have mentioned before, Trump is no longer playing Monopoly, he is now playing both that Capitalist training sport and Risk, a strategy game in which players compete to take over the world.
I hear some say that Trump is simply trying to create chaos, to “see what sticks”, to simply piss off his enemies. Yes, that is all true, but he is deadly, I repeat, deadly serious about expanding the American Empire and furthering his personal real estate holdings.
Needed now: Non Violent Resistance to American Imperialism and a Green New Deal to mitigate the disasters caused by the Climate Catastrophe should be a the top of your To Do list.