The Coup has Couped

Putin's asset in the White House continues his relentless dismantling of the United States government.

I never thought I'd outlive my beloved country, but I have.  The name is the same but we've been taken over.  And the only "invasion" has not been from all those that 47 has relentlessly engaged in "othering", in dehumanizing, to his base for the last decade.  No, the invasion, as the cliche about horror movies goes, is "coming from inside the house!".  That is why so many Americans do not realize at all that we have undergone a fascist coup.  Congress, on the other hand, must realize it and just consistently turns a complicit and therefore treasonous blind eye, which is how we have gotten to this point.

This point of scooping people up of the street and disappearing them to concentration camps, vaporizing the already obscenely tiny social safety net in this country, all to cement the oligarchy, putting our constitution and rule of law in the shredder, and dismantling the federal government.

Everything may, for now, feel the same to you on a daily basis here in "America", but make no mistake:  you are now in a fascist country.  The coup has couped.  No one has stopped 47 at all the many points he could have been stopped at along this ten-year ride to get here.  And now here we are.  In MAGAmerica.

"State Department is firing more than 1,300 staff on Friday, internal memo says"

I've come up with a name for the new country we are now in, the xenophobia and othering capital of the world: MAGAmerica

MAGA people are sick.  The MAGAt in Chief is selling Alligator Alcatraz "merch".  How sick does one have to be to want to sport a beer koozie or tee shirt that says Alligator Alcatraz?  You are literally sporting your support for a concentration camp, for dehumanization and cruelty.  It is like the sick, antisemitic tee shirts that some of the Jan. 6th seditious insurrectionists sported, saying things regarding the Holocaust that I won't even repeat/give oxygen to on my page.  Sick, dehumanizing, othering.  That's MAGA and MAGAmerica, the name that came to me this weekend for this new, heartless, cruel, terrifying country we find ourselves citizens of.  MAGAmerica killed--murdered--my country, America.

There is nothing to be proud of about Alligator Alcatraz.  NOTHING.  It's a crime against humanity, and totally against American laws aplenty.  Have we learned nothing from slavery, Japanese American internment camps, McCarthyism, and the treatment of Native Americans?  That is all part of our own history here in this country.  Have we learned nothing from the Holocaust?  About othering?  About xenophobia and scapegoating?  About the banality of evil?  EVIDENTLY NOT, if we are kidnapping people, including 4-year-old American citizens with cancer, not affording people any due process, shipping hundreds to a concentration camp in El Salvador, and also creating our own concentration camp meets reality TV show, Alligator Alcatraz, in which to put kidnapped humans and intentionally torture them by surrounding them with the intense heat, fatal-disease-carrying mosquitoes, pythons, alligators and hurricanes of the Everglades, with nothing but a tent between all of the above and the people?

Oh, look honey, we are entering MAGAmerica, see the welcome sign?  Look, there it is:

"Welcome (only no one is, other than white, Evangelical Christians) to MAGAmerica!  We are the xenophobia and othering capital of the world!  Where your tee shirt can say "Alligator Alcatraz", to show your pride in one of our most sensational concentration camps!  Where you can carry a machine gun and not pay taxes, because society is for suckers!  It's every man, woman and child for themselves here, wu hu HUUUUUUUUUUUUU, the south is going to rise again!  47 was sent by God to make everything perfect for "us" by getting rid of any and all "thems", eliminating taxes, and allowing guns galore!  And if this welcome sign is too wordy for you, don't worry, you don't have to learn to read, that's for the "elites", and we have abolished the Department of Education, 'cause who needs it?  Alligator Alcatraz, wu hu HUUUUUUUU!"

Like I said, MAGAts are sick, sick, cruel people.  And they've remade this country in their terrible image.

Velshi piece on MSNBC: "American dystopia: The cruel spectacle of Trump’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’"