Biggest Brother

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” – The Party (1984)

“Just remember, what you are seeing and what you are reading is not what's happening.” – Donald Trump

The destruction of the Department of Education framed as "education" is 1984's "Ministry of Truth" all the way. Does it get any more Orwellian with this malevolent and mendacious messianic autocracy? 

Maybe a lot more…

The Glorification of Biggest Brother, part one:

The Glorification of Biggest Brother, part two:

Behold the drone spectacle of the Tangerine Tyrant’s "World's Best" ego without substance, empathy, or "ending the war in 24 hours". Only the "liberator" of cop-beating thugs who tried to overturn an election for him. 

This is fascist propaganda only a dictator and his cult would like. So naturally it’s MAGA all the way.

When will Americans wake up to this banana republic tyrant worship? Or is it already far too late for it to matter? Like every dictator Trump wants a police state to enforce his cruelties and to keep all dissenting citizens in their place. "We're going to give our police their power back," he told rallygoers in Waukesha, "and we are going to give them immunity from prosecution."

Presto! An autocrat placed above the law by a corrupt Supreme Court takes the obvious next step to dictatorship, a "legally" unaccountable force of thugs in uniform. Adding further desecration of the rule of law by his fascist regime he's now openly defying court orders. 

We must all love our Biggest Brother or face the consequences. Recall the way Trump would withhold covid equipment from states whose governors failed to publicly praise him.

And more recently at the White House Governors' Conference, Maine Governor Janet Mills referred to Trump's criticism of state policies concerning transgender athletes with, "I'll see you in court".

In response, the dictator demanded submission. "We need a full-throated apology from the Governor herself, and a statement that she will never make such an unlawful challenge to the Federal Government again".

For its "offense" by not harshly punishing anti-Netanyahu protestors adequately Columbia University is submitting its autonomy under Trump's jackboot. After being threatened by Trump the Paul Weisse Law Firm capitulated into serving him.

Watch for this kind of intimidation and punishment to be regularly inflicted upon businesses, agencies, universities, governors, and states who fail the fealty test.

Now let’s note the contrast and reactions between property damage and brutal political violence.

"I look forward to watching the sick terrorist thugs get 20 year jail sentences for what they are doing to Elon Musk and Tesla." – Donald Trump

Boohoo. Someone is reaping what he sows, but not nearly comparable in the financial pain, anxiety, and life disruption he's inflicted on thousands of Americans, including Trump voters.

“If burning Teslas make you furious, but watching thousands of federal workers get stripped of their jobs, healthcare, and pensions doesn’t move you—YOU are the problem. If scorched cars spark more outrage than billions being slashed from cancer research, humanitarian aid, education, and support for the most vulnerable—your moral compass is broken. This ain’t about Teslas. It’s about twisted priorities, cold-hearted politics, and willful ignorance.” - Bishop Talbert Swan

“But if you viciously beat police officers over the head with flag poles and build a gallows and noose outside the Capitol to hang Democrats, you're let out of jail. Got it. This is how despotism works. Enforce the laws except when they are broken in service of the regime.” – Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy

This is where we are. Will enough sane and decent voices be heard over the din of despotism?

I sincerely hope the human species can survive its tendency to revert to Dark Age beliefs and manages to evolve beyond our gullible tendency to believe in narcissistic and charismatic white nationalist demagogues who disparage science, empathy, and education.

Tragically the human species is far easier to manipulate through fear-mongering lies than by facts and reason. And this is exactly how the vast radical Right media machine is winning the propaganda war. The lying and hateful authoritarian voice of MAGA is at war with our free press and has shut down the democracy-promoting Voice of America, literally and figuratively. 

Inevitable and widespread misery may be the only turning point for this country.

Only the unlikely rapid expansion in the evolution of human conscience and consciousness can really help us, I'm afraid.