Two-hundred and forty years after the repudiation of the monarchy, the United States has elected a king, Old King Trump. And like the petty fancies of George III, the state must now take the personality of the ruler to heed. The state must bend and twist according to the mood of the king. His ego must be appeased, his attention sought, his whimsy anticipated.
'What will the king do?' they said because they knew the king answered only to himself, or his god.
'What will Trump do?' they say because he cannot answer for anyone. And that is what makes him king. He answers only to himself and not to the office - not to prescription. He is king - therefore.
It is a servile nation that bends to the caprice of one man. A nation demeans itself if it submits itself under personal rule. America, don't submit! Never submit! Resist! George could count on the native credulity, the ordinate structure, ignorance, and the sclerotic preservers of establishment to continue in the fashion to which he was accustomed. They would bow to his feverish brain. Is America really going to bow to the fevered imagination of a man who has always had power centred at his hands? A man who has only known how to talk, never to listen. No! Never give in! Never submit!
Perhaps I exaggerate. Yet...the facts: Who inherits his business empire? His sons - the primogeniture of kings. Who, says the king, is damaging the country? Foreigners. Who lives in his tower? The king. Who has contempt for the rule of law? The king. Who makes all who come before bow to will? The king. Who may lie without consequence? Then king. Who has mistresses? The king. Who has foreign wives? The king. Who lair is gilded? The king. Who has supreme contempt for the lower orders? Take a guess.
There is not a person on this earth who cares less about the poor than Donal J. Trump. And yet...and yet he was elected as their champion! Frauds force us to see our wicked ironies.
It's a twenty-first century America that has elected a monarch. There have been many kings but the one who Trump most resembles is Louis XIV. Ostentatious, arrogant, absolutist, surrounded by gold, vein, pompous, pampered, promiscuous. A king who encouraged the divisions in his courtiers so their only common ally was himself. A king who worshipped the sun. A king who reigned on division. Will the courtiers (cabinet) not vie for Trump's attention like a retinue? Will not Trump's impulse be to stamp his authority on congress (parliament)? The worry, the fear is that Trump will imitate Louis in one other way. That Trump will be the Louis who said, 'I am the state.'
A king elected is still a king.
'Grab 'em by the pussy', what lady of the court could refuse? How does Trump gets away with it? Only because he is king. How else? Who else would there be that such a thing wouldn't have disqualified them from high office. It is allowed because the memory of long millennia, serfs to kings, is dormant in the blood. It only needs a king to re-assert, and the impulse to dismiss arises. It is like the hypnic jerk that we get even though we no longer live in trees. The ancient habits aren't so easily removed from the DNA. But what is shocking is that it should happen to America, fountain head of liberty, meeting place of the thorough individual. To elect a king...and the most unpopular one at that.
What is needed therefore is resistance. The congress must not bow to him. He has already undermined, like the little king he is, the judiciary. He has already set foreign potentates on notice. Stout yeomen, the salt of the rugged and ready, they must resist the gaudy king. Precisely the reason
he bares no comparison to presidents past is because he isn't a president but a king. He will not treat anyone as though he is a president, therefore do not expect protocol from him as a president. Do not acquiesce to 'unusual' circumstances. Resist and stand up for the liberties you believe in. Do not acquiesce to party line, but examine your own conscience.
Now that we live in the reign of King Trump I, let's not waste time. This man is just learning his kingliness. It only gets worse. I will make one certainty: If there is a second term there will be a constitutional amendment. Then, for the sake of all that is good and decent, there should not be a second term of Trump, lest there be a third. For what is there for Trump after being king but to be a god.
And never has a president of the United States so departed from the office. Truth must lie somewhere in a bed of ironies. Because Trump is the most unsuited to be president and yet the best suited to be king. And yet he is president and presides like a king. Ah, will these sharp pricks of shame stop? Is America so far through the looking glass that it can't spot a main-street fraud when it see's one? Our is a species that has the potential for progress. So it galls to know we always have to live with stupidity and so progress must be marred with the anchor of our species, our past. But if only we could govern with the superior argument and not the superior motive. If only we could override the limbic with the thinking brain. If only.
A government is only really as strong as its opposition is strong. This is a fine irony Trump can never understand. That in the interests of the country a government secretly relies on its adversaries to improve its own argument: Thesis, antithesis, synthesis. Trump, being a king, and a once smart person and now degenerate, cannot understand. Instead there is only thesis which to him is the beginning and end: a very fine definition of absolutism.
My cat, bless her, is neither American nor a man and so is supremely unlikely to be president. But I am with brutal certainty sure that it would be better suited. And I am biased, but is it so satyrical? What America has elected is a decadent king who is a product of both distracted brains and selfish quantities. Of fools and frauds. A rallying cry to power; A spur to the tribal; A tavern to those who want the strong man; A ballroom to the dancers of corruption; A soviet rattle to 'the programme'; A hale to Robespierre and his committee; A promenade with dictatorship; A lance at the indefensible; A shot at the weak. Mr. President, what have we done? What have we done. Don the noble caps? No, doff them. We are not noble. Noble since when? Yet, there is that thinking part of our brains that demands progress as if it was a universals force. But we, primitive beings, we can't do it. Our stupid vanities intercede.
What he does is make everything quite simple. Trump is a king to be adored or overthrown. That is no mere satire. Do you think he cannot live on praise? How it degrades the human spirit to have to praise such a beast! Therefore over throw him. That is the only decent thing to do. That would be the first American president ever overthrown. The first American Leviathan. The body politic cannot be one man. That is what is meant by separation of powers. The famous few didn't write the constitution for a king to be the state.
Therefore America, it must be Trump, only for one term. For the preservation of American democracy, and so by example world democracy, Trump must only be president for one term - the dignity of man rests upon the point. And so then humans can hope to reason and logic and progress to govern. Then we can move closer towards progress. We can learn on the backs of each other and so reach higher.
Alas, King Trump is, and at last that should send a boot up the arse of those still strumming their beards, or stroking their hair. There has never been a man so vile to be president.
We were children when we used to sit and watch the purple dusks and think they meant the future. In those hopes, did ever a tyrant hove into view? Did ever it occur to the child-brain, that the exponential future would be turned by tyranny? Do you take pleasure in clouding over the sweet dreams of the young. Now Trump will want blood, he will want blood because he is a primitive. And his distracted nature demands action. Alack, alas, the middle class will eat up his pudding of bullshit. What can decent people do? They can resit, they can fight. King if he must be, must be king only of his own vanity. He must be disavowed. A man such as he, though cannot be disqualified, must not be elevated, elected. Most of the people can be fooled some of the time, some of the people can be fooled all of the time, but all of the people cannot be fooled all of the time.
Do not be fooled.
Recognize you have a king.
And Fight!
'What will the king do?' they said because they knew the king answered only to himself, or his god.
'What will Trump do?' they say because he cannot answer for anyone. And that is what makes him king. He answers only to himself and not to the office - not to prescription. He is king - therefore.
It is a servile nation that bends to the caprice of one man. A nation demeans itself if it submits itself under personal rule. America, don't submit! Never submit! Resist! George could count on the native credulity, the ordinate structure, ignorance, and the sclerotic preservers of establishment to continue in the fashion to which he was accustomed. They would bow to his feverish brain. Is America really going to bow to the fevered imagination of a man who has always had power centred at his hands? A man who has only known how to talk, never to listen. No! Never give in! Never submit!
Perhaps I exaggerate. Yet...the facts: Who inherits his business empire? His sons - the primogeniture of kings. Who, says the king, is damaging the country? Foreigners. Who lives in his tower? The king. Who has contempt for the rule of law? The king. Who makes all who come before bow to will? The king. Who may lie without consequence? Then king. Who has mistresses? The king. Who has foreign wives? The king. Who lair is gilded? The king. Who has supreme contempt for the lower orders? Take a guess.
There is not a person on this earth who cares less about the poor than Donal J. Trump. And yet...and yet he was elected as their champion! Frauds force us to see our wicked ironies.
It's a twenty-first century America that has elected a monarch. There have been many kings but the one who Trump most resembles is Louis XIV. Ostentatious, arrogant, absolutist, surrounded by gold, vein, pompous, pampered, promiscuous. A king who encouraged the divisions in his courtiers so their only common ally was himself. A king who worshipped the sun. A king who reigned on division. Will the courtiers (cabinet) not vie for Trump's attention like a retinue? Will not Trump's impulse be to stamp his authority on congress (parliament)? The worry, the fear is that Trump will imitate Louis in one other way. That Trump will be the Louis who said, 'I am the state.'
A king elected is still a king.
'Grab 'em by the pussy', what lady of the court could refuse? How does Trump gets away with it? Only because he is king. How else? Who else would there be that such a thing wouldn't have disqualified them from high office. It is allowed because the memory of long millennia, serfs to kings, is dormant in the blood. It only needs a king to re-assert, and the impulse to dismiss arises. It is like the hypnic jerk that we get even though we no longer live in trees. The ancient habits aren't so easily removed from the DNA. But what is shocking is that it should happen to America, fountain head of liberty, meeting place of the thorough individual. To elect a king...and the most unpopular one at that.
What is needed therefore is resistance. The congress must not bow to him. He has already undermined, like the little king he is, the judiciary. He has already set foreign potentates on notice. Stout yeomen, the salt of the rugged and ready, they must resist the gaudy king. Precisely the reason
he bares no comparison to presidents past is because he isn't a president but a king. He will not treat anyone as though he is a president, therefore do not expect protocol from him as a president. Do not acquiesce to 'unusual' circumstances. Resist and stand up for the liberties you believe in. Do not acquiesce to party line, but examine your own conscience.
Now that we live in the reign of King Trump I, let's not waste time. This man is just learning his kingliness. It only gets worse. I will make one certainty: If there is a second term there will be a constitutional amendment. Then, for the sake of all that is good and decent, there should not be a second term of Trump, lest there be a third. For what is there for Trump after being king but to be a god.
And never has a president of the United States so departed from the office. Truth must lie somewhere in a bed of ironies. Because Trump is the most unsuited to be president and yet the best suited to be king. And yet he is president and presides like a king. Ah, will these sharp pricks of shame stop? Is America so far through the looking glass that it can't spot a main-street fraud when it see's one? Our is a species that has the potential for progress. So it galls to know we always have to live with stupidity and so progress must be marred with the anchor of our species, our past. But if only we could govern with the superior argument and not the superior motive. If only we could override the limbic with the thinking brain. If only.
A government is only really as strong as its opposition is strong. This is a fine irony Trump can never understand. That in the interests of the country a government secretly relies on its adversaries to improve its own argument: Thesis, antithesis, synthesis. Trump, being a king, and a once smart person and now degenerate, cannot understand. Instead there is only thesis which to him is the beginning and end: a very fine definition of absolutism.
My cat, bless her, is neither American nor a man and so is supremely unlikely to be president. But I am with brutal certainty sure that it would be better suited. And I am biased, but is it so satyrical? What America has elected is a decadent king who is a product of both distracted brains and selfish quantities. Of fools and frauds. A rallying cry to power; A spur to the tribal; A tavern to those who want the strong man; A ballroom to the dancers of corruption; A soviet rattle to 'the programme'; A hale to Robespierre and his committee; A promenade with dictatorship; A lance at the indefensible; A shot at the weak. Mr. President, what have we done? What have we done. Don the noble caps? No, doff them. We are not noble. Noble since when? Yet, there is that thinking part of our brains that demands progress as if it was a universals force. But we, primitive beings, we can't do it. Our stupid vanities intercede.
What he does is make everything quite simple. Trump is a king to be adored or overthrown. That is no mere satire. Do you think he cannot live on praise? How it degrades the human spirit to have to praise such a beast! Therefore over throw him. That is the only decent thing to do. That would be the first American president ever overthrown. The first American Leviathan. The body politic cannot be one man. That is what is meant by separation of powers. The famous few didn't write the constitution for a king to be the state.
Therefore America, it must be Trump, only for one term. For the preservation of American democracy, and so by example world democracy, Trump must only be president for one term - the dignity of man rests upon the point. And so then humans can hope to reason and logic and progress to govern. Then we can move closer towards progress. We can learn on the backs of each other and so reach higher.
Alas, King Trump is, and at last that should send a boot up the arse of those still strumming their beards, or stroking their hair. There has never been a man so vile to be president.
We were children when we used to sit and watch the purple dusks and think they meant the future. In those hopes, did ever a tyrant hove into view? Did ever it occur to the child-brain, that the exponential future would be turned by tyranny? Do you take pleasure in clouding over the sweet dreams of the young. Now Trump will want blood, he will want blood because he is a primitive. And his distracted nature demands action. Alack, alas, the middle class will eat up his pudding of bullshit. What can decent people do? They can resit, they can fight. King if he must be, must be king only of his own vanity. He must be disavowed. A man such as he, though cannot be disqualified, must not be elevated, elected. Most of the people can be fooled some of the time, some of the people can be fooled all of the time, but all of the people cannot be fooled all of the time.
Do not be fooled.
Recognize you have a king.
And Fight!
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