The Enemy Is Both Lethal and Stoopid

 

If you say that someone is "in the soup," you mean they are in trouble.

--Google A.I.

"We're in the soup... We've got to do 1914 over again."

--H. G. Wells, Holy Terror

Yeah. That's where we are. But those aren't white potatoes and carrots floating around us. Those are members of an armed, secret fucking army of men prone to violence with a broad license from the president, exhibiting total, even fanatical loyalty to Trump (and a notable hatred for the people they brutalize -- "Fucking lesbian!"). It's just a fact that Trump is willing to send that thug force into cities and states that have offended him, and when that frontal attack doesn't work to silence opposition, he sics the blond in the Department of Justice on his enemies.

Suspending the elections this year ain't just his little "sarcasm." It's an idea a-borning. He has the army to perfect it. It's all about the intimidation. They want us afraid. People like Renee Macklin Good aren't afraid. And she didn't see Jonathan Ross coming.

Trump's handmaids like the three on the State Board of Elections (Four Eggers et al.) are eager to help. Where there was a chance to snuff out Sunday voting for Black folks, Eggers & Co. seized it. They also completed Dallas Woodhouse's scheme to squelch the youth vote. Local Republican-controlled boards of elections in several university counties wanted to eliminate established on-campus Early Voting sites at places like Western Carolina, NC A&T, and UNC-Greensboro -- undoubtedly part of Dallas Woodhouse's private "training" of just the Republicans on local boards. Naturally, Eggers & Co. sided with the Republican majorities on Early Voting plans.

For every attempt to make his enemies afraid and cowed, Trump is always capable of stepping on his own dick, looking weak and pathetic and needy, like the little boy whose father never loved him -- so very devastatingly small.

Can he stop the tide that's building?  Maybe not, but they sure as hell can try to baffle the impact of that wave. The assault on Early Voting plans for the March primary is just one example. Think what they'll try to do to Early Voting plans as we approach November.

Their Gestapo cosplay isn't wearing well and has served best to make the people angrier and more determined to resist. The resistance will be our votes, but in the intervening eight months before we get there, we may be called on in other ways to put our bodies on the line, our breathing into the danger zone, and our rest and quiet to rack and ruin. I have my whistle.