This is Not About Immigration
Tangerine Toupee is fighting a battle he must win, and is absolutely going to lose
At this point in history, every human being in the world knows way more about Donald Trump than we ever wanted to. Way, way more. That is unfortunate when it comes to literally anything about his personal life but it is useful when we are trying to figure out what the fuck he is doing now. And if there is one thing we know about Trump, it’s that he is a small, vindictive man with tiny hands and a deep well of pettiness that knows no bounds.
As I have watched what has been happening in Los Angeles I have been trying to figure out what he’s really doing. The Gestapo-like raids, the over the top police presence, the slightly-more-unhinged-than-usual Truthies, the National Guard. It seems improbable- although not, knowing him, impossible, that this is really all about 118 undocumented immigrants. But then I took a step back and thought about what Los Angeles, and California, really mean, and it started to make sense.
Most people do not realize how big California really is. And not just in terms of population, although we are by far the most populous state in the union. When it comes to the economy, California can’t be beat. We are the fourth largest economy in the world, and Los Angeles County is about 14th. Just the county. LA County is actually made up for 88 cities and they are run by a Board of Supervisors made up of five women who do not answer to anyone except the voters. They are, in many ways, the five most powerful women in the world. And that’s just one county in our most populous state. In terms of the economy, agriculture, technology, and culture, California is the biggest influencer on Planet Earth.
This is what Trump is at war against.
Peach Pol Pot does not give two flying fucks about 118 undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles County. He is fighting a war against California. He is well aware of the fact that there is no law he can pass that California has to follow if it doesn’t want to. He knows that if California stopped paying Federal Taxes, most of the states that voted for him would collapse within a few years. He is keenly aware of the fact that California could secede and be fine, but the rest of the country would crumble. The United States of America needs California more than California needs The United States of America. And all of that power and fame and money and influence absolutely did not vote for him.
Cali is moving slowly to the right and it’s a problem we need to address very soon, but the state whose biggest failure is giving the world Ronald Reagan is never going to be MAGAland. California will always be pro-choice, will always be a sanctuary state, will always be full of a bunch of diverse hotties who vote for Bernie in much higher numbers than we logically ever should. Santa Monica may have given us Stephen Miller but that was a wild aberration that will hopefully never be repeated. Trump can never win in California, and California can always fight him, and he can’t have that.
A dictator cannot survive if the most powerful state in his nation refuses to bend the knee.
And that’s why the National Guard is in Los Angeles.
I have beef with Gavin Newsom. So much beef. Serious beef. Shia The Beef. I share the photo below of him with his wife, now one of the Trump boy’s possibly ex? fiancee? (who can keep up) Kimberly Guilfoyle every chance I get.
When Gavin runs for President I will dedicate my life and every dollar in my bank account to stopping him. BUT- if there is one thing he has, it’s a spine, and no one is less likely to back down to a fascist tangerine than the Governor of California.
And that’s why the National Guard is in Los Angeles.
I wrote last week that we are witnessing the last gasp of the far right in America, and I believe that’s true. I also believe that Donald Trump is one of the few people on the right who doesn’t know that.
Yes, You are the Baddies
Yesterday a notification came across my phone saying that our alcoholic and inexperienced Secretary of Defense is renaming a Naval ship named after Harvey Milk, and that he intentionally waited for Pride to make the announcement, and I just died laughing. This was just another in a long line of absolutely absurd and over the top moves by the Trump Admin…
If you haven’t watched Downfall, now is the time. It’s about Hitler at the end of World War II and how absolutely everyone knew the war was over except for him. He couldn’t believe it, couldn’t accept his loss. He was delusional and at that point had been drugged by his quack doctor for so long that he didn’t know which way was up.
That’s where Trump is right now. In the bunker of his senile mind, taking his petty revenges and fighting his one man wars because his mother never loved him. I honestly don’t think anyone ever has.
Everyone around him knows it’s over, and they’re just gorging in the candy store until the voters kick their asses into the oblivion of One News Network commentary and Flat Earther conventions. But Trump made the mistake of believing his own bullshit, believing that he’s the love child of Jim Jones and Vladmir Putin and while right now his temper tantrums are affecting us all, pretty soon he’ll be all alone in a small room wondering where it all went wrong. Because you can bet your ass Melania won’t be there with him.
Keep fighting, keep hoping, keep working. Germany recovered from a small angry Austrian and we will recover from an oversized tangerine in a toupee.
And to LA, the city I love more than any other, keep taking to the streets and proving that Angelenos never back down and never say die. Donald Trump doesn’t know who he’s fucking with.
Kat
I liked the post. But I cracked up laughing at the peach pol pot name. Funny.
I agree, there is a change in the air. The right wing parties throughout the world are losing. With everyone’s eyes on the US, they definitely don’t want to become like us. But we are not there yet. Thanks for sharing.