The End Game?
Russell Vought and Stephen Miller are high-fiving about now - their evil plans are working.
I’ve been thinking about writing this post for a while now. I’ve been stalling because even I think I sound like a demented doomsayer when I bring up this subject. You might be tempted to think I have drunk some Conspiracy Kool-aid. But the evidence is just too overwhelming. So I’ll hold my nose and jump in.
Based on what the Trump administration is doing and saying, I’m starting to believe they are attempting a slow genocide of a large percentage of American people: those who are not million- or billionaires, not white, straight, and Christian, and above all, not Republican (or what now passes for it). They are attempting to remake our country in their own image - their idea of Utopia - and whitewash history to effectively make it seem that the US never had Black, Hispanic, gay, lesbian, disabled, trans, or immigrant people who made any positive contributions to the country, or who even existed here. Any mention of slavery, or indigenous genocide, or homophobia, or pedophiles or misogyny, anything negative about white Christians is being erased. America’s past has, according to these folks, been perfect. Our Republican leaders have done nothing wrong, nothing illegal. There will be no learning from our past because that past will not exist. George Orwell would be proud. Or horrified.
Most of us stand in the way of these goals, and the Constitution definitely stands in the way. I don’t think it was an accident that Trump did not put his hand on the Bible during his 2025 inauguration when he swore to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. It’s tantamount to crossing his fingers.
Project 2025 is a pretty devastating agenda. I don’t think it comes right out and proclaims a plan of the genocide of vast numbers of citizens, but that could be the result of these cuts and policies. How will they get rid of a majority?
By cutting or eliminating healthcare, food safety and communicable disease programs, FEMA, agriculture - especially family farms - social security, cancer research, Medicaid, SNAP, CDC, education, EPA, NOAA; discouraging or eliminating vaccines, denying climate change and ending funding for all work on it, tossing pandemic response plans, and much more. These programs and agencies that protect our health and safety are all under attack or have been completely eliminated.
The blatant lies coming from Trump and his sycophantic cabinet will get a lot of us killed. Lies about vaccines; about the safety of our food, air, and water; about terrorist drug activity in the Caribbean and Pacific, possibly inciting a war with Venezuela; Mike Johnson has learned to lie from the best of them, with a straight face (his chubby little cheeks do get quite red when he lies though).
The government shutdown has increased the potential for a massive number of deaths with healthcare and food benefits reduced to nothing. Who’s to say Little Mikey - aka Elf on a Shelf [HCR] - will ever re-convene Congress?
Bunkers: The Presidential Emergency Operations Center - the bunker that sits under the now-demolished east wing of the White House - is scheduled for a major upgrade, and the military will be heavily involved in the design and construction. Apparently this was a bit of a secret, which is why they needed to eliminate the east wing quickly hoping no one would notice that the “greatest ballroom anyone’s ever seen” is a ruse for creating a militarized bunker capable of withstanding and responding to just about any kind of attack, natural disaster, or citizens’ rebellion. It will have accommodations for a command structure - and you can bet Trump’s billionaire donors will be invited to the subterranean party, unless they have their own bunkers waiting for them.
Billionaires are reportedly building upscale bunkers in preparation for whatever is coming. No doubt all the tech bros are in on the secret. These kinds of bunkers are way out of the price range for average Americans.
We’ve joked a bit about RFK wanting to kill us all. Now it just seems like reality.
Thoughts?
When I was a child, people were building bomb shelters. When I learned they didn't protect against direct hits I thought, "bomb shelters could be graves. could bunkers become tombs? Somebody should prepare to destroy or divert meteors and a reliable way to detect them in advance.