No long or even short essays or videos from me today, just four chilling news items consistent with the notion that the world’s most dangerous office (the US presidency) is currently inhabited by a deranged wannabe fascist dictator:
+1. “A new US city is in President Trump's sights: Portland, Oregon, which is where he suggested on Friday he's considering sending National Guard troops to deal with protesters and ‘wipe them out,’ per the Oregonian.” See https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/trump-on-portland-we-re-gonna-wipe-them-out/ar-AA1M1c6e?
+2. “US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that directs the Department of Defense to be known as the Department of War. The move restores a name the agency last held in the 1940s and, according to the text of the order seen by the BBC, the aim is to ‘project strength and resolve’. The White House is yet to say how much a rebrand would cost, but US media expect a billion-dollar price tag for the overhaul of hundreds of agencies, emblems, email addresses and uniforms.” See https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgr9r4qr0ppo?
+3. “A much-hyped cage match is on track to take place at the White House in June 2026, with fireworks and light shows, fighter weigh-ins at the Lincoln Memorial and fan activities spread across the National Mall…The UFC’s octagon cage will be erected on the White House south lawn to host the match, which President Trump first teased in July….Dana White, the CEO of UFC and a longtime friend of Trump and campaign booster, signaled last week that plans were advancing after he met with the president at the White House.” See https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5488203-white-house-ufc-cage-match-2026/?f
+4. Last but not least, Trump posted this insane shit on his Truth Social page:
Look, folks can disagree with my judgement that Trump and his regime qualify as fascist — feel free to be badly wrong about that — but you have to admit that the 47th President of the United States is a malevolent and unhinged menace to humanity who must be removed from power as soon as humanly possible and certainly well before January 20, 2029 for God’s sake. I think he needs to be forced out of office by next spring to avert any of a number of sheer catastrophes.
Look people, this deranged fascist atop the criminal and parasitic US capitalist-imperialist regime has F'ng declared WAR on the city of Chicago, okay?! His open Christian fascist white supremacist women-abusing DOD/DOW chief and dodgy-eyed bootlicker Pete Hegseth (who lobbied for changing the name to Department of War or is War Department?) believes the US government need to wage a CRUSADE against the "homeland enemies," meaning pretty much anything decent that has been won through poplar movements in this and even the previous two centuries. Hegseth is in a far-right evangelical church whose charismatic pastor argues that the best period in US race relations was the time of Black chattel slavery -- context for his renaming of US military bases after Confederate/Slave Power generals and military "heroes."
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