Link Share Trump-Regime Works to Dismantle the International Criminal Court, as He Simultaneously Works to Dismantle Our Democracy, Individual Rights and Freedoms
It should be of absolutely no surprise to anyone, that in a post-Trump, post-truth, post-democratic USA world - that the very systems that are sworn to protect us from corruption, expose lies and corruption - independently - through a DOJ, have now been weaponized. This rogue DOJ is accusing the International Criminal Court of the very same thing it's guilt of - corruption - and asking for all 125 party-member nation-states to withdraw from it, post-haste.
Of course, none of this is true. It's simply the same playbook being recycled - over and over - anytime Trump (or the Trump-regime) is cha…
It should be of absolutely no surprise to anyone, that in a post-Trump, post-truth, post-democratic USA world - that the very systems that are sworn to protect us from corruption, expose lies and corruption - independently - through a DOJ, have now been weaponized. This rogue DOJ is accusing the International Criminal Court of the very same thing it's guilt of - corruption - and asking for all 125 party-member nation-states to withdraw from it, post-haste.
Of course, none of this is true. It's simply the same playbook being recycled - over and over - anytime Trump (or the Trump-regime) is challenged on authority. For example:
The Trump administration has launched an aggressive, whole-of-government campaign to systematically dismantle the International Criminal Court (ICC), imposing severe financial and travel sanctions on top ICC officials—including the court's president and senior prosecutors—over the body's investigations into US and Israeli actions.
This was brought about due to Trump's own unprovoked war-crimes against iran, came squarely into view after he bombed a little-girl school, resulting in the deaths of over 150 Iranian girls. Imagine for a moment, if the roles were swapped, and Iran had bombed a US little-girl's school. Do you think if we had leverage to fight back (presuming iran was a super-power) and we ourselves were not a national power - that we would likely seek leverage and reparations for these unprovoked attacks. Additionally, what would the sentiments of Americans be - with regards to Iranians, if they had trespassed as an aggressor, and perpetuated the type of gaslighting that is weakness/desperation, masquerading as strength?
Additionally, we have seen these missteps and projection and acts of projection before - time and time again, immemorial, take for instance:
- Trump-Regime's rhetoric ever-increasingly sliding towards violence and becoming hyperbolic regarding their purported reports of socialism acting as a threat to this nation (intentional conflation of communism = socialism), attacking and branding the media "the enemy of the people", or attempts to brand Democrats as "very sick, twisted and evil people."
Of course, for anyone with literally one iota of braincells - even small children, presumably non-indoctrinated - would ask their parents: "why is President Donald Trump such a sick and angry man?" The answer is quite simple... because he doesn't lead through quiet, confident, and supportive strength (willing to put in the hard work to meet the needs of the people); instead, she relies on exploiting biases, fear, painting fake existential threats and framing - just about with anything - that threatens his power, or refuses to bend to his will. We have seen this time and time again, immemorial, when he sues the IRS, or sues reporters or citizens for messages that don't conform with his twisted/distorted/manipulated/exploited/corrupted view on reality and policy. After all, his administration is being lead by some of the same very people who constructed the Project 2025 playbook: which is a maximum damage/maximum reward playbook, of shaping/manipulating/controlling compliance from citizens and public servants, alike; not because their policies are rooted in strong and firm conceptual premise that is truly grounded in "common sense" - but, instead because it serves the whims of the ultra-wealthy and Trump's own role as the "universal divisor" (as he had been previously referred to accurately by the media - back in late 2016 and early 2017). The Trump-Regime and its policies are truly: anti-democratic, an example of weaponized policy and unilateral executive overreach, and complacent and complicit compliance from both the media, and public as a whole, alike. That's not to say that the public has just completely turned over and not pushed back. However, the times that civilians did push back, and his Gustapo Satanic and sadistic mercenary arm terrorized the individual states, there were examples of the price that would be paid. Payment on Death.
As a community, state, nation, culture, race and species - we must ask ourselves: what are we afraid of, when we see the color of another person's skin is not the same as our own? Is the white-washing of America that Donald Trump and his Regime have proven time and time again - that has remained a consistent focus - have anything to do with true black aggression? Or, more broadly, is what we're seeing have to do with the overblown egos, insecurities and the white man seeking to further subjugate and subvert the endowed inalienable human rights: not only under the constitution, but more broadly - as the bible would teach us?
"The King will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.'"— Matthew 25:40 (New International Version)
Meaning: white Christian nationalism - dressed up in the sovereignty and authority of the purported orthodoxy, has been weaponizing religion - just as it has been weaponized by Republicans and positions of authority, from the advent of creation - till the end of time. While its bastardization and weaponization it's sheer and utter blasphemy -- "powerful" figures have often relied upon it to foster/garner authority from those who's religion easily sways extremist behaviors and further incenses religious cults.
After all, the Trump-Regime and White Christian-nationals continual likening and drawing parallel between Trump and Jesus, has been repeated... repeatedly. Why was it, that when Trump shared an AI-image of himself, with the likeness of Jesus (that Trump gaslit and deflected as "It's me as a doctor... a American Red Cross worker - because we support the American Red Cross... and quite frankly, I heal people... I heal a lot of people." Sure!? I'm sure you read that off the bottom of a milk carton, but it doesn't make it anymore true - just because you say it, or use l'air of religious dogma, authority, or the pre-text that Christ spoke to you "in a dream and said - purge the immigrants who are poisoning the blood of this country." In which, that latter quote, read a lot more like a Hitler quote (and not afraid to state that as absolute fact):
"The Jew... tries systematically to lower the racial level by a continuous poisoning of individuals." and "Blood mixture and the resultant drop in the racial level is the sole cause of the dying out of old cultures... men do not perish as a result of lost wars, but by the loss of that force of resistance which is contained only in pure blood."
These fears come from both a place of insecurity, and I argue the subjugation of the African Americans over the course of Millenia - especially the white rich man (the same class of people from yesteryear) that would barter, sell, and place monetary value on the lives of their slaves.
Even to this very day (with the Civil War having transpired over 165 years ago): some people in the American South still revere specific Confederate symbolism (spanning the gamut: from the confederate flag, to leaders/figures/effigies) from the Civil War as part of the cultural mythos known as the "Lost Cause." These figures most prominently elevated to an almost saint-like or hero-worship status.
While president Barrack Obama (who Trump continually/repeatedly/relentlessly defames/harasses/targets as a non-national immigrant (which has been entirely debunked, and Trump's hate stems from his uninformed/uneducated/ignorant and bigoted racist views), did not engage in any acts to dismantle the American South, Southern Civil War effigies and statues - as he was repeatedly accused of. Instead: the nationwide political and cultural movement to systematically remove Confederate monuments did not reach critical mass until after his term, following events like the 2017 Charlottesville rally and the 2020 protests. Furthermore, most public monuments fall under state and local jurisdiction rather than direct federal executive authority (a key right of states' rights to self-governance, that Trump continually, relentlessly, and repeatedly assails and engages in diatribe regarding; after in the past stating that he respects states' autonomy - while, at present, attempting to bypass states' autonomy and right to self-governance when it comes to conducting elections). Per the latter, why - you might ask? Because he wants to federalize elections. Because he does not respect the will of the People and Public; and if he got his way, he would stop at nothing to make his wet-dreams of stripping states of their rights, and statehood - just like everyday Americans - a reality. He doesn't respect anyone, but himself and his over-inflated ego, and self-ascribed/attributed importance. Even when in this year alone, he was relentlessly and mercilessly booed at public appearances - including the World Cup. Or, the times that he chose to force himself into the winning photos of the Fifa world cup - among many others. Or the times, that he has decided to deface American institutions, with I argue - by opinion - is the mark of the beast (especially given the symbolism of his behavior, figure, and being purported "shot" in the right ear haven "taken a bullet for this country."
This same individual (I don't say person, or human-being) - actively, knowingly, and decidingly incensed insurrectionists on J6, engaged in exploitative and gaslit phone calls with Raffenperger of Georgia, and even went so far to blackmail President Zenenskyy of Ukraine (holding back defensive missiles and military supplies/support, unless Zelenskyy admitted that he had found dirt on his opponent's son, Hunter Biden - no matter how untrue). Per the latter, more recently - we saw similar when this Trump-regime captured Moduro of Venezuela and upon Moduro's capture and subjugation - robbing him of the authority of Venezuela's sovereign law of their land (and in place, imposing ares): attempted to blackmail Moduro into admitting that he interfered in the 2020 elections. Why? Because Trump is looking for anyone to shape and support his false-narratives and dishonest discourse. He requires manufacturing/fabricating/peddling this disinformation because he requires a "benefit of the doubt", when it comes to invalidating the results of elections, and disrespecting the sovereign will of his own people.
We see time and time again, how Trump's loyalty only goes as far as their use/utility/expandability to him - as a shield - and his sycophants loyalty is about as discardable as used toilet paper, or a worn tampon. We have seen this with Pam Bondi, we've seen this during his first administration whereby fall-guy after fall-guy - too the brunt of he abuses and fell in his place.
We actually live in fairly scary times, with the mid-terms rapidly approaching. While the public may operate off a veneer of normalcy and say to themselves: there's a large blue tsunami and we're undoubtingly going to take over the house and senate and render the rest of his term into a lame-fuck presidency - I ask you to think again. First off, there's all of the gerrymandering effort. Second, 87% of elections in the past decade (or so), were elections won purely on dollar amount alone. We have the Citizens United decision, out of the corrupt and partisan supreme court to thank for that. Second - as a common theme of many of my posts, this rogue-administration has weaponized independent investigative bodies and almost near-totality of the federal government, to target, misinform, and create doubt in the hearts and minds of the American public - when it comes to the legitimacy of elections. Mind you, before Trump even won, or a single vote had even been cast.
Beginning in 2016: Trump has relentlessly and ceaselessly claimed wide-spread fraud within American elections. In a vast majority (if not 99% of cases) the claims he makes, are never subsequently backed up with verifiable fact - surrounding those claims. Now, 10 years later, however, Trump has convinced the legacy "fake news" media (and "enemy to the people") to capitulate to his narratives. Similarly, the Trump-regime, illegally and without basis (nor merit), under the authority of the federalized/weaponized FBI to seize ballots of the 2020 elections. These ballots have been seized and presumably are being saved and their "release" of "findings" of "fraud" meticulously held back as a "Trump card" of sorts - to be used to not only undermine confidence in the elections, but moreover: likely to seize ballots in these midterms. The DOJ has decidedly hired over 1000 election monitors/DOJ lawyers (and likely Trump will instruct his insurrectionist pro-nazi militia - to transition from "stand back, and standby" - has he has prior - into encouraging/incensing them to visit blue strongholds and purple states - likewise to interfere in the elections process.
Trump has already repeatedly engaged in assailing nationalized mail-in-voting, often citing (without sourcing, nor specific): wide-spread fraud in our elections and the election process. Trump himself, knows none of this is true - but not only can his ego stand to lose (and end up bruised again, as it was in 2020; and likely he will again refuse to leave in 2028 - hence the drone ballroom bunker), but additionally him and his sycophants/enablers/GOP/MAGA-death-cult - would like no lesser than to cling and seize to power, through any and all means necessary. Why? You may ask? Ask MAGA Mike Johnson when he said: "If Democrats win these mid-terms - God-forbid - they wlll investigate Trump, his family, his allies -- and over half the people in this room. That's why I am running a protection program!" MAGA Mike... a protection from what? Yourselves, or accountability - perhaps? Democrats and Biden - very well could have weaponized the DOJ against Trump - but did not. They could have tried Trump for his treasonous and seditious acts on J6 - they did not; they could have further pursued the FBI's investigation into him exfiltrating classified documents and storing them in his bathroom - they did not; they could have investigated the Epstein files and Trump's clear and evident ties to Epstein - but they did not. You see the dichotomy and disparity between Republicans actions and Democrats actions? The difference is clear as day. Democrats don't weaponize government when it behooves them. However, Democrats will - to some varying degree - investigate complaints of nature of illegalities of acts/behaviors officials have engaged in. Moreover, Democrats are not responsible for if/when the Trump-regime, enablers, sycophants, or Republicans actively choose to abuse the system. Clearly efforts, and missteps of self-inflicted nature - have occurred in the past. As a prime example of just how corrupt and a betrayal it was, but an example where instead of Democrats actively weaponizing government against Trump and his regime - with his censorship and gagging - it was the large tech giants that even realized Trump's actions on J6 - went a step too far. Unfortunately, these tech giants to variable degree, have abandoned that position - or at a minimum attempting to sway the administration to let them off the hook - by cozying up to this administration, to maintain favorable business outcomes/mergers, etc. I actually applaud Google, to a degree, that they continue to support independent media through this process - even if algorithmically, it often feels like Democratic voices are disproportionately being suppressed.
For ourselves and I encourage the ultra-wealthy to consider - what kind of future world are we wanting to live in? One where we corporations operate completely unregulated? We've already seen the consequences this regime has pushed onto air-traffic controllers, food inspectors, and many other operational sectors receiving oversight. The results haven't been pretty. Meanwhile, against the emoluments clause and creating a monopoly / cornering of the pharmaceutical market, Trump has fashioned TrumpRX.gov - in preparation for increasing tariffs on foreign produced medications (which a vast swath of generics are) and assessing a 200%+ cost on these medications come 2028. Do you think it's a coincidence... just like how Medicaid working requirements, come Jan of 2027 - will force the disabled into the untenable situation of "work 20 hours per week, part-time, while being fully disabled - or lose your Medicaid insurance benefits?" Likewise, they fail to mention that working that many hours may in fact completely disqualify them from receiving Medicaid coverage, if they earn above the established limit. Similarly, they intend on paying doctors to un-prescribe / discontinue anti-depressant medications, and furthermore the wholesale institutionalizing of disabled peoples - by forcing them out of the community and into institutions. They hope to accomplish this by ceasing care-giver payments for family members to care for their needs, as well as making it a requirement in order to receive Medicaid/Medicare - as a disabled person - that they be institutionalized in privatized facilities. Just like the prisons, I suspect this is a major money marker to the Trump family, as are the tariffs, as is the Iranian war.
It seems like we've been living in a complete lunar-alignment of bad fortune as a country, where bad is continually turning worse, and an administration that doesn't give a flying fuck about any of us, affordability (according to Trump, in a feign attempt to gaslight - "is a hoax and made up term by the radical left lunatic thugs." Dude... just stop. Your grift is very fucking annoying. It doesn't dishonor our intelligence, but the fact you peddle that BS to yourself and gaslight your delusional self into believing it - would be hilarious, given how shamelessly degrading it is - if it wasn't for the fact its causing an untold amount of damage and with the election lies - placing us upon the precipice of destroying our country (something you portended and contended would happen if Barrack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and/or Kamala Harris won the presidential election and you lost). You feign these existential and made up threats - all of the time - whilst perpetrating this out come - in a self-inflicted, brain-damaged manner - time and time again, immemorial.