With Trump's "off with their heads" revenge rage attacks we all could end up as the next Alice, By Hal M. Brown

 

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If you haven’t figured out why I put the ketchup bottle background in my AI illustration the following is from Politico:

After then-Attorney General William Barr gave an interview to The Associated Pressin December 2020 saying there was no widespread voter fraud, Trump was so enraged that he threw his plate of food at the wall, smearing it with ketchup, Hutchinson said.

“There was ketchup dripping down the wall and a shattered porcelain plate on the floor,” Hutchinson testified, noting that aides nearby conveyed the president was “extremely angry” at the Barr interview. She told the committee that she then grabbed a towel and started wiping the ketchup off the wall alongside a presidential valet.

Trump has a hair trigger for his rage when he doesn’t get his way. It would be better for the country if all he did when this happened was throw a Big Mac at the wall. Instead, he becomes the Queen of Hearts.

Emboldened as Trump is in his sadistic quest for revenge against his enemies, and with his intense need to exact punishment for disobedience, whether he is targeting an individual, group of people, or an institution, they all could be Alice.

While Trump has been compared to dictators like Hitler and Putin, he can also be compared to the Queen of Hearts.

Consider this from the BookBrio website:

The Queen of Hearts is one of the most iconic characters in Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” Known for her fierce temper and authoritarian demeanor, she embodies the chaotic and whimsical nature of Wonderland. Her character serves as a representation of the arbitrary nature of power and the absurdity of the rules that govern the fantastical world Alice finds herself in. The Queen’s catchphrase, “Off with their heads!” has become synonymous with her character, highlighting her quickness to anger and her ruthless approach to justice.

The Queen of Hearts symbolizes the arbitrary and often tyrannical nature of authority. Her character can be interpreted as a critique of the Victorian society’s rigid hierarchies and the often nonsensical rules that govern social interactions. The use of playing cards as characters in the story further emphasizes the theme of chance and unpredictability, with the Queen representing the highest rank in this chaotic deck. This symbolism invites readers to reflect on the nature of power and the absurdity that can arise when authority is unchecked.

I suggest you read the entire essay and compare Trump with the Queen of Hearts.

If only life would truly imitate the art of Lewis Carroll. Alice has the courage to defy the queen:

At the end of the book Alice prevailed. It was all a bad dream. From Wikipedia:

The Mock Turtle sings them "Beautiful Soup", during which the Gryphon drags Alice away for a trial, in which the Knave of Hearts stands accused of stealing the Queen's tarts. The trial is conducted by the King of Hearts, and the jury is composed of animals that Alice previously met. Alice gradually grows in size and confidence, allowing herself increasingly frequent remarks on the irrationality of the proceedings. The Queen eventually commands Alice's beheading, but Alice scoffs that the Queen's guard is only a pack of cards. Although Alice holds her own for a time, the guards soon gang up and start to swarm all over her. Alice's sister wakes her up from a dream, brushing what turns out to be leaves from Alice's face. Alice leaves her sister on the bank to imagine all the curious happenings for herself.

Would it be that we’d wake from this Trumpian nightmare and all would be well with the world.

Why am I doing this?

I write my essays on Substack because this platform has become the most popular way to post about politics. In fact web postings aren't even always called blogs anymore. It they are on Substacks they are called Substacks. 

Because of formatting issues like having to repost all my illustrations, it is time consuming to cross-post from there to this platform. 

This is about Substack from Wikipedia:

Substack is an American online platform that provides publishing, payment, analytics, and design infrastructure to support subscription newsletters. It allows writers to send digital newsletters directly to subscribers. Founded in 2017, Substack is headquartered in San Francisco.

History

Substack was founded in 2017 by Chris Best, the co-founder of Kik Messenger; Jairaj Sethi, a head of platform and principal developer at Kik Messenger; and Hamish McKenzie, a former PandoDaily tech reporter. Best and McKenzie describe Ben Thompson's Stratechery, a subscription-based tech and media newsletter, as a major inspiration for their platform.Best is chief executive as of March 2019.

I began using Google Blogger years ago well before I began to write about politics. If you look at the archives and go back far enough you will see blogs that had numerous photos I took on road trips in Oregon.

There is also another issue with Google Blogger. I can never tell how accurate the statistics are. For some reason they have shown that I have had as many as 10,000 readers a month the United States ranked third or fourth behind other countries. At times the most readers came from India or Iran or even Russia. Then a few months later the top countries would change. This never made any sense. 

Readership here is down from a high of 10,000 a week to around 5,000. If this is accurate this is still a lot of people. However, I do not trust that it is accurate. Consider today's statistics:

I cannot believe I have this many international readers or even this many readers in the United States. I have asked readers from other countries to post comments explaining how they came across this blog but have never received a response in the comments. In fact, nobody ever uses the Disquis comment section which is on the bottom of every post. A benefit of Substack is that a few people do use the comment section.
 

Could Trump and Patel put Jeffrey Goldberg on the FBI 10 Most Wanted List? By Hal M. Brown

Note: Jeffrey Goldberg is definitely not in hiding. 

This is the FBI 10 Most Wanted list as it is today. Except for one or two people who have been apprehended all of them are still at large. They are typical criminals. Whether or not the FBI under Kash Patel will be able to catch them remains to be seen. He has said that he wants to return the FBI to its traditional role of catching bad guys. He apparently doesn’t think that the agents working in headquarters have crucial roles in tracking down these fugitives. (Duh, I wonder if he fired scientists at the FBI lab.)

He curried Trump’s favor by espousing the lie that the FBI is a nefarious deep state of out-for Trump’s royal blood agents who were concocting reasons to go after Mr. Innocent, Donald J. Trump. I have no doubt that this is why he got the job.

I am waitng to see whether he tries to go after someone whose only crime was being a Trump enemy and who decides it is better to be safe than sorry, and then goes into hiding. before the Trump Gestapo in their ski masks can grab him off the street, throw him into an unmarked van, and disappear him.

Who could we see on the Trump/Patel FBI 10 Most Wanted List? Who would make a plausible enemy of the Trump state that the MAGA world would buy as a nefarious evildoer to replace one of the real criminals on the list?

The first person that comes to my mind is Jeffery Goldberg.

Trump is under a lot of pressure from inside the Republican party to chop off at least one head for allowing Signalgate to happen. He probably thought that the story would die out in a few news cycles. Now, thanks to the revelation that Hegseth took his former Fox News producer wife to at least two official meetings where sensitive, possibly classified material, was discussed, the story has morphed from Signalgate to Stupidgate.

Much to Trump’s dismay, this has become the scandal that makes him look more inept than anything he has done so far. It is not going away.

He needs a scapegoat. 

As convoluted as this is, it would be typical Trumpian gaslighting to make the actual hero of Signalgate into the villian. Make him the goat, cut his throat.

Meanwhile back at the ranch…

belonging to Jeffery Goldberg’s childhood friend where he has been hiding…

Goldberg plans to eventually turn himself in. He has been working with one of the law firms that didn’t knuckle under to Trump’s demands and was punished by being banned from obtaining security clearances or entering federal buldings.

See the following:

The lawsuits come after President Trump signed executive orders this week, which attempted to restrict both firms' access to federal buildings, yank any active security clearances held by its personnel, and direct government employees not to meet with the firm or its members. Article: In back-to-back rulings, federal judges rule against Trump orders targeting law firms.

If this isn’t a case which lays bare the utter madness of Trump’s descent into unconstitutional and un-American raging revenge I don’t know what would be. He’d be telling a defendant that there are attorneys he couldn’t retain because they personally pissed him off. 

When the constitutionality of this got to the Supreme Court to be determined, even Thomas and Alito might find it impossible to write an opinion favoring the government case. 

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