Donald Trump is a spiteful, vindictive racist so since 1993 the Trump Organization has used the federal courts to punish tribal nations who built casinos he said were competition; but today the White House is slow-walking resources to reservations effectively deploying a novel coronavirus as a biological weapon in Indian Country.
More often, though, Trump made comments that outraged House members at the hearing. For example, he said that Indian nations are sovereign "only in that they don't pay taxes." [Buffalo News]We all know cops' lives suck because they reliably abuse the rule of law, their families, alcohol, drugs, food, power, detainees and occasionally murder their wives; but police unions are showered with cash while teachers' unions get the shaft. During the Breaking Bad series the Albuquerque Police Department was usually portrayed as corrupt and ineffectual.
“I think the biggest takeaway is that – for this community – your police officers that are out there right now, every single day, trying to keep you safe, they’re down in the dumps. Their morale is as low as I’ve seen it and they need support,” police union president Shaun Willoughby told the Journal. [Survey: APD officers are ‘down in the dumps’]I’m not blaming Herr Trump for a global pandemic; I’m blaming him for committing crimes against humanity in America. That Republicans continue to prop up his looting of the federal treasury, his assault on the courts and stoke his criminal race hatred is the most telling aspect of this march toward the abyss.
As hints about Operation Legend in Albuquerque began to circulate earlier this week, city and state leaders expressed fears that agents would carry out tactics against protesters that they have been using in Portland, Oregon. They referenced Trump’s “secret police” and “storm troopers” and officers “snatching protesters off the street.” Mayor Tim Keller sent a statement saying the president is ready to incite violence in Democratic cities and is forming a reelection strategy “built on gaslighting immigrants and people of color.” APD was awarded $9.7 million to hire 40 officers, but it has not received anything. [President: Operation Legend will target violent crime]NM Attorney General Hector Balderas has vowed to monitor Trump's Stasi for civil rights violations.
Democratic New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has ordered schools not to resume face-to-face classes until at least Labor Day; but Trumpettes want classrooms to open sooner so kids will transmit more Covid-19 infections to Native Americans and other people of color.
What’s next for Trump's Republican Party: a manufactured crisis beyond the ones we’re already facing then martial law and suspended elections?
Republicans should just defy face covering orders then pack themselves into their churches and pray for Trump to protect them from the silly liberal snowflakes trying to take their money for stupid stuff like affordable medical care, safe schools and curbing greenhouse gases.
Barry Blitt cartoon lifted from The New Yorker.
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