Whiplash 2.0: A Split-Personality, Now the Most Powerful Man in the World

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The Big Picture –
By Glynn Wilson

SOMEWHERE IN DIXIELAND – (Jan. 2, 2021) – Six inches of snow covers Audubon Park in New Orleans, something no one alive has ever seen. The Santa Ana winds are still whipping up the uncontrollable wildfires around Los Angeles, and it’s not even fire season.

In Washington, D.C., the worst storm to ever hit our nation’s proud capital was blow-harding inside the Capitol Rotunda, guaranteed to blast the world over the 2.7 degree global temperature tipping point when planet warming will cause catastrophic climate change beyond any human capacity to slow or reverse it.

Welcome to Trump 2.0, or a new “American carnage 2,” as one writer described it.

Donald Trump included his idiotic and doomed promise to annex Greenland in his dark inaugural rant, clearly not knowing that reversing the Biden administration’s efforts to combat climate change will inevitably result in the melting of Greenland’s ice sheet. Maybe that’s what he intends, drill, baby, drill. Although that’s not what he said.

But every scientific report on global warming back to the 1980s has predicted that when the glaciers melt, sea level will rise and flood coastal communities around the world, including his new home state of Florida. And of course he vowed to tear up the Paris climate accords again, removing the United States from even participating in talks to reverse global warming and combat climate change.

We are as doomed as any Biblical prophesy ever predicted.

Right after he was sworn in, idiot-savant Elon Musk hung on his elbow like a toy soldier in a Neo-Nazi parade, complete with a heil-Trump salute, a picture that went viral on social media within seconds and immediately got translated as a salute to the commander-in-cheat as the new Fuehrer over a Christo-fascist regime.

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Elon Musk, neo-Nazi Trump supporter extraordinaire: NAJ screen shot

These people are no longer even trying to be subtle. Apparently they have been listening to the amateur historian of the anti-woke brigade, Curtis Yarvin, a 51-year-old computer engineer who has written online about his so-called political “theory” arguing for installing an “American Caesar.” He blogs on Substack that Americans should “get over our dictator-phobia” and that “American democracy is a sham, beyond fixing, and having a monarch-style (CEO) leader is the way to go.” (That’s no monarchy, BTW. The economic term he is searching for is oligopoly).

At least we finally get one of them telling us what they really intend to do with our country. If only the American people could have found out in time to stop it.

Then in what the New York Times editorial board called Trump’s “opening act of contempt,” he kept his word to mass pardon or grant clemency to 1,100 people who were convicted for their role in the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, including the leaders of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, who were convicted of engaging in a conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. government. And they lost on appeal, even before Trump’s radical, right-wing justices on the Supreme Court. This makes a mockery of a justice system that has been the cornerstone of American democracy and the rule of law for nearly 250 years.

It was not clear on day one that anyone picked up on the most schizophrenic of his ideas, like a split personality promising peace and war in the same breath. “We will measure our success not only by the battles we win,” he said, “but also by the wars that we end. And, perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.”

Whiplash. He promised wars and no wars. You can’t have it both ways, unless you are Trump’s damaged brain.

The Times claims “Trump’s dense fog of misinformation” can’t change what really happened on that horrific day. But in this new world order where science, facts, history and accurate journalism no longer seem to matter, where any alt-fact can be perpetrated on the vox populi and implanted in peoples’ brains through every social media platform – including TikTok, which Trump tried to bring back with an executive order, even as his Supreme Court just declared it an enemy of the people by allowing it to be banned in the U.S. – it appears you can change reality by warping it. All it takes is enough people addicted to the propaganda kool-aid.

That lie that traveled around the world before the truth could lace up its boots in Mark Twain’s 19th and 20th centuries now trumps all. The truth can longer even get up off its death bed.

In dredging up an old, discredited phrase from America’s earliest days, he vowed to “pursue our manifest destiny” and “plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars,” even though Musk’s latest rocket experiment blew up on the way into space last week, calling into question whether a private company – with billions in federal funding – can even make it back to the Moon as a government agency, NASA, accomplished more than half a century ago in 1969.

Trump “painted the darkest possible picture of the state of the nation and the character of his opponents,” according to one columnist. “And he set himself up as a kind of messiah figure, the man saved by God for the sake of national greatness. If you want to lay the groundwork for authoritarianism, that’s exactly how to do it.”

“It was very telling that the tech oligarchs had front-row seats, in front of the cabinet,” another columnist wrote. “The age of algorithmic feudalism has begun.”

And of course he included his promise to “tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens,” still not understanding what a tariff is or how it works, or simply lying about it to fool enough of the people some of the time, embarrassing even Lincoln.

He promised to end inflation, even though it was the tariffs and trade war he started in his first term that led to the rise in prices in the first place, along with the federal government spending that bailed out Americans thrown out of work by the lockdowns during the Covid-19 pandemic. He pledged to bring back manufacturing in the U.S., even while advocating policies that will inevitably undermine our ability to sell goods abroad. And he vowed to reduce the size and cost of the federal government, even while promising to create at least two new federal government agencies.

Then, in another Schizoid thought, with my apologies to all who suffer from mental illness, he said: “Never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents,” even as he pledged to use his Justice Department to prosecute his political opponents and anyone who disagrees with him. In this regard, there goes his promise to “bring back free speech to America,” which actually means forcing social media companies to stop moderating content, his content, full of twisted lies designed to hurt.

Like millions of Americans who vowed on social media not to watch, I could not watch either, only read after the fact. But it still felt like a case of whiplash. Marvel and Mad Magazine should bring back that character. It could make for a daily joke – even though what is about to happen will not be at all funny.

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