As I've said before, I usually try not to post about politics in this blog, but given the state of affairs in the United States right now, and being an American living through the collapse of our democracy, I feel compelled to say something.
First, and let me make this very clear, our current, unelected, president is Elon Musk. Mr. Trump gave him control of the entire government with his "DOGE" (Department of Government Efficiency) squad. This squad is comprised of individuals at or under the age of 25, whose jobs are to "root out efficiency problems."
This means giving the squad, who do not even have basic clearances (let alone the high-level clearances required for) access to highly confidential information, such as Medicaid and Medicare recipients and the payment systems used to cover these pay cycles, stopping food programs like SNAP for low-income families and Meals on Wheels which delivers meals to house-bound senior citizens, firing nonpartisan federal employees and their contractors, and, most egregiously, giving access to the highly private social security numbers of Americans.
These DOGE bros (there is not a single woman or person of color on this little goon squad), at the direction of "President Musk," are literally gutting our financial systems, systems that have been in place since just after the founding of our nation. (Founder and creator of our government financial and banking systems, original Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton is rolling in his grave.)
This is all a hostile takeover by the literal richest man in the entire world, who could personally fund jobs for everyone who are being, or have already been, fired, and not even feel a financial dent in his bank accounts. President Musk, in the name of "government efficiency," is rooting out anyone who is "not loyal" to Mr. Trump or President Musk.
Why am I calling Elon Musk president? It's because he has been given free reign of our financial institutions and the green light on working with agencies such as ICE (immigration and customs enforcement) to deliver on Mr. Trump's promise of deporting (non-White) immigrants to concentration camps such as Guantanamo Bay, known for its long history of human rights abuses, including extreme forms of torture for "terrorists," which include the "very criminal, drug smuggling, raping, and murdering US citizens" immigrant terrorists. Again, immigrants of color.
This hybrid Musk/Trump administration has no intention of deporting White people. This is partly why Mr. Trump wants so badly to annex Canada and Greenland. It would significantly increase the number of White people within the United States. First is deporting immigrants of color, then it will be deporting US Americans of color, then reintroducing miscegenation laws (making it illegal to marry someone outside of your own race/color), which directly affects me as my partner, a natural US citizen, is Brown, not White. As I mentioned in The Passport Saga, I made sure we both renewed our passports last year, just in case the unthinkable happened, which it did.
The other reason the Musk/Trump administration wants to annex Canada and Greenland is that they are rich in natural resources, such as crude oil and natural gas. One of the first things this administration did was to reverse all of Biden's clean energy mandates, going with a "drill, baby, drill" and a "burn, baby, burn" mentality. We, as a nation, are one of the two biggest polluters on the planet, and this administration is working hard to make sure we stay that way.
Because the Congressional House of Representatives is majority Republican, and there are "Trumpers" in the Senate, Democrats are facing near-unsurmountable difficulties to pass legislation that will actually help the American people, while the Republican majority fully backs the Trump administration. Even those who are opposed to Musk's takeover of the US government do not speak out against it. Elon Musk is acting president of the US while Trump signs the executive orders put in front of him (without reading them) and golfs.
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of Republican voters who are angry about Musk gaining control of the entire government, especially as he is not a natural American citizen, which is a requirement in our Constitution for anyone elected to the role of president. So while "President" Trump goes golfing, he gives Musk, an unelected, unqualified, sycophantic non-American, free reign to do whatever the hell he wants to.
Going back to Congress for a moment, Mr. Trump is selecting wholly unqualified individuals to head incredibly important agencies, such as the Department of Education (I'll touch on that in a moment), and the Department of Health and Human Services.
This second one affects anyone with mental health issues. The (shockingly) confirmed by Congress, individual, Mr. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has it out for mental health medications, specifically banning them. This Mother Jones post goes into detail on RFK, Jr.'s sweeping plan for "studying" and "banning" certain medications. For those of you who would rather skip the post, here are the highlights:
Chief among his goals, he wrote, was to combat what he called a “growing health crisis” of chronic disease. The document called for the federal government to investigate the “root causes” of a broad range of conditions, including autism, ADHD, asthma, obesity, multiple sclerosis, and psoriasis. Conspicuously absent was any explicit mention of childhood vaccines, which Kennedy has long railed against as the head of the anti-vaccine advocacy group Children’s Health Defense.
But the document did zero in on another one of his fixations: a class of widely prescribed drugs that treat depression, anxiety, and mood disorders. The government, he said, would “assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, [and] mood stabilizers.”
So... as the article states, ADHD, autism, depression, and, generally, mood disorders are on the "assess the prevalence of and threat posed by" medication chopping block that are incredibly necessary for those of us with any of the above conditions.
I cannot stress this enough. For anyone with any form of mental health issues that require medication, you will be affected by this. Having severe ADHD and Bipolar II Disorder, I will be catastrophically affected by this. I need these medications in order to function as a person. Without my mood stabilizer, depression, and ADHD medications, I won't even be able to get out of bed most days, let alone hold down a job, or even just function on a daily basis.
And the "mental health rehabilitation" farms he's proposing are absolutely ridiculous. Farming your own, pre-chosen, "healthy foods" is not going to help those with Neurodivergent issues, and will in fact make it worse for them.
These "rehabilitation farms" are just another word for eradicating the "unwanted" from society. This entire situation with the US government turns more and more into 1939-1941 Nazi Germany. Disabled people? Euthanize them. Mental health issues or cognitive birth defects? Euthanize them. They are "a drain on society," meaning the Nazi government no longer wanted to pay for "defectives," or allow them to procreate.
Speaking of Nazi Germany, the Department of Education is being gutted. Mr. Trump wants to change the Pledge of Allegiance from "I pledge my allegiance to the flag, and the United States of America..." to "I pledge my allegiance to President Trump, and the United States of America..." He wants only White history taught, erasing slavery, internment camps, wars fought that the US didn't win, and the basic history of America in general.
Why? Because this administration doesn't want "White children made to feel guilty" in their history classes. He also doesn't want the Holocaust covered either, or the rise of Nazi Germany. These atrocities were not committed on US soil, but the Nazi playbook is absolutely in play, step by step, in this "Project 2025" administration. Why do we not want Nazi/Holocaust history taught? Simple. This administration doesn't want you to know what they're really up to, especially the early purging of people of color (Romanians are an apt example). What happened to these people once Hitler had control of the government? Why concentration camps of course.
There was an awakening in the early to mid 1930s, where LGBTQIA folks were coming out and being allowed to be themselves, without so much fear of reprisal. What happened to these people? Concentration and death camps.
Sound familiar? We already have at least one straight-up literal concentration camp (Guantanamo Bay), and the holding cells for immigrants waiting for asylum hearings are on par with concentration camps. The human rights violations in these facilities, which are on American soil, are every bit as atrocious as what the Nazi's did.
And touching on that subject, there are some pretty bleak examples of past US administrations and what they allowed to happen on US soil. During Pres. Andrew Jackson's administration, we have the Trail of Tears, which was the displacement of native peoples to designated areas within the United States. On this forced march across the country, Native Americans died by the thousands.
Sounds like forcing a population of "undesirable people" into ghettos? Absolutely correct.
During WWII, the US also had Japanese Internment Camps because "we [were] at war with Japan." Over 125,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans were forced into these American concentration camps, again rife with civil and human rights violations, again just like the German ghettos used to "house" Jewish people before sending them to concentration or death camps.
Did the US actually have death camps? Technically, no, but the conditions in which Japanese Americans were forced to live might as well have been. Just as in the German ghettos, disease was rampant due to overcrowded facilities, with little to no medical care given, and no thought to the fact that these Japanese Americans were Americans, let alone human beings.
When leadership "others" people, Jewish people in Germany, dark-skinned immigrants here, they set the example that these people are subhuman, which is to say, lower than human, or not human at all. Do civil and human rights apply to them? No. Why would they? "They're not really human beings, so there's no point in treating them as such."
What do dictators do? They quash the press (calling it "alternative news/facts") as we've seen done with the New York Times and the Washington Post, both of which are now towing the fascist line. They strip people of their rights and freedoms, they silence citizens who speak out against their regime, and they hostilely take over the systems of finance and government. Our new fascist regime is terrifying for all Americans.
These are dark, scary days for all Americans.
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