Our Gracious Emperor

Trump lies, cheats, manipulates at home and abroad, and violates domestic and international law, because he can.  He surrounds himself with lackeys, and he stands for America First as a unipolar power, not for putting America, or Americans first.  He gets to decide all, because he is the glorious commander, the anointed emperor.  How kind and thoughtful of him to spend a good part of his announcement last night to thanking Bibi Netanyahu, and thanking Israel for its role in an unprovoked attack, its “helpful” intelligence, and its unholy level of suffering, less than 1% of what we and Israel have ensured, paid for, and delivered to 2 million Gazans recently.  As Gazans starve, the emperor bows to his tiny alliance, gracious and generous in his otherwise nervous-looking address to the nation.  He may know, or maybe he has no idea, that the battle to preserve and extend the American empire is already lost.

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