đ¤ Think Twice: Itâs Just Another Day in Trumpadise
đ¤ Democracy? Or Just Oligarchy in Drag?
By Kimberly Twain
đ Kissy-Kissy Diplomacy
These world leaders are seemingly eating out of Trumpâs hands. âThank you, Mr. Trump.â âYouâre saving the world, President Trump.â Itâs like watching a kindergarten recital where everyone claps too loudly so the kid wonât cry. Heâs their superhero in a too-long red tie.
But remember Atlanta? Trump Tower there? Big ribbon-cutting, big smiles, then bankruptcy and lawsuits for stiffing contractors. Tariffs and trade deals could end up the same way: all branding, no building.
đĽ Putinâs âIâll Show Youâ Foreign Policy
Meanwhile, Putin is not about to roll over because Trump gave him a pep talk. Actions speak louder than Trump tweets. After the White House âkissy-kissyâ summit with Zelensky and the Europeans, Putin launched fresh bombings. List of greatest hits: apartment block flattened here, journalist assassinated there, opposition leader poisoned for dessert.
Putin is an imperialist, plain and simple. He wants Ukraineâs ports, wheat, and gas. Itâs a colonial land-grab in real time. History students: please circle this with a red pen. Compare and contrast with Hitler: failed artist, rejected from architecture school, wrote Mein Kampf instead of âHow to Win Friends and Influence People,â and then decided to loot Jewish wealth on an industrial scale. Wahh-wahh, poor me, boo-hoo, time to kill millions.
Sound familiar? One manâs vengeance, everyone elseâs silence. Ask the Attorney General of New York how safe it feels to cross him.
đ´ââ ď¸ Gaza: History Repeating Itself Badly
And then thereâs Gaza. Israel, what the hell? Hitler genocided you, so now youâve got the moral hall pass to bulldoze your neighbors? Thatâs not trauma response, thatâs generational cosplay.
Look at the maps: Palestine shrunk like a cheap wool sweater in a hot dryer. Gaza reduced to a walled-in island of rubble. Israel controls the water, the ports, the economy. Palestinians canât even grow olives without a checkpoint. Itâs Jim Crow with F-16s.
And we in the U.S.? Just watching, same way the world watched Hitler load trains in the 1940s. Yes, Hitler killed Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Communists, political dissidents, and anyone else he didnât like. If he couldâve reached Jesse Owens, heâd have tried that too. Owensâ Black Power salute wasnât just against Hitler; it was against Americaâs own segregation, a hypocrisy Hitler gleefully borrowed when designing genocide.
âĄď¸ Antisemitism, Abraham, and Who Owns the Word âSemiteâ
Why is antisemitism a trademark only Israel gets to wield? The word literally means âdescendant of Shem,â son of Noah. That family tree includes Jews and Arabs. Palestinians are semites too â cousins at the awkward Thanksgiving table of history. Same Baby Daddy: Abraham. But one side gets military aid, the other gets starvation rations.
And Trump? Silent. Netanyahu might as well be a cartoon dictator twirling his mustache, and Trumpâs too busy hugging Putin to notice.
âď¸ Prophets, Rockets, and Holy Wars
Christians, hello? Youâre being weird. End-times prophecies are not political strategy. Newsflash: the apocalypse isnât a domestic policy.
Tech bros, hello? Youâre being paranoid. Colonizing Mars? You canât even keep Twitter from crashing. Maybe fix the planet youâre on before planning your interstellar HOA.
Spanish Inquisition vibes, anyone? âNobody expects the Trumpquisition!â Except here the heretics are immigrants, journalists, and anyone who voted blue. Add some Crusades and a sprinkle of jihad and youâve got yourself a bipartisan holy war buffet.
â California Math Problems
âYou do it, Texas, so Iâm gonna do it,â says Gavin Newsom, channeling his inner middle-schooler. Two wrongs donât make a right.
(Math corner: two negatives multiplied equal a positive because the laws of algebra say so. In human behavior, however, multiplying two jerks never makes a gentleman.)
đ¤ Constitution Karaoke
And while everyoneâs hollering about the Constitution, hereâs a refresher:
âWe the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our PosterityâŚâ
Sounds nice, doesnât it? Almost utopian. But where is everybody? Probably in Trumpadise, buying condos with no plumbing, where the only running water is bottled and branded with a gold T.
đ¤ Democracy? Or Just Oligarchy in Drag?
The Founders said âWe the People.â Cute. Heartwarming. Almost like a Hallmark card for liberty. But fast forward 250 years and âWe the Peopleâ sounds more like âWe the Shareholders.â
Because letâs face it: what weâve got now looks less like a democracy and more like an oligarchy in drag â democracy by day, billionaire masquerade ball by night. Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg, and the Koch network have more pull than 330 million voters combined. Call it âCitizens Unitedâ or just call it what it is: legalized bribery.
In Athens, democracy meant ordinary citizens gathering to vote in the public square. In Washington, D.C., it means a handful of donors writing checks the size of small country budgets and slipping them to politicians in the form of PACs with names like âAmericans for Apple Pie and Freedom (LLC).â
Democracy? Rule by the people.
Oligarchy? Rule by the few.
America 2025? Rule by the few who can afford Super Bowl ads and private islands with missile silos.
So yeah, maybe the Constitution was just a rough draft.
đ§ Code Violation #1: PACs & Super PACs â The Bake Sale for Billionaires
đ𼧠PACs & Super PACs: The Bake Sale for Billionaires
- **PAC (Political Action Committee):** Think of it like a campaign bake sale, but instead of cookies, they hand out checks with six zeros. Limited donations, some rules, some transparency.
- **Super PAC:** Now crank it up to Vegas-level excess. Unlimited donations from billionaires, corporations, unions, even mysterious offshore cousins. The only rule? They canât âcoordinate directlyâ with the candidate⌠which is Washington code for âjust use the same consultants and wink a lot.â
- **Naming Convention:** Must sound patriotic, bland, and vaguely wholesome. Examples: *Americans for Prosperity*, *Restore Our Future*, *Priorities USA*. Basically, theyâre all some variation of *God, Flag, Freedom, and Grandmaâs Apple Pie*.
đ Translation: PACs and Super PACs are how democracy gets filtered through a cash register.