I yearn for the old days of a new world order...
I'm going to let my thoughts flow freely here. I hope this makes sense and comes across coherently. I have a lot to say but not enough energy to make multiple posts, so consider this a bit of thought soup for your consumption.
Today, Pam Bondi instructed the DOJ to pursue the death penalty in the Luigi Mangione case, and I am appalled for multiple reasons. First and foremost, I oppose the death penalty. Full stop. Secondly, the blatant hypocrisy on display is staggering. Healthcare CEOs oversee the deaths of countless people through unjust and predatory policiesâdenying care, inflating costs, prioritizing profit over livesâyet they face no consequences and are rewarded with massive bonuses. But when one individual allegedly takes matters into his own hands and kills a single CEO, the entire system mobilizes to ensure he faces the harshest punishment possible. The imbalance is glaring.
Even if we assume for argumentâs sake that Mangione did commit this crime (which I donât necessarily believe), the reaction to his actions is telling. To be clear, I am not condoning vigilante justice, nor do I believe this is the way to take on the oligarchy. I am a pacifist. But I understand the anger. And yet, the Trump administration and Pam Bondi are pushing a narrative that âthe American people are shocked and outraged by the killing.â Who are these outraged people? Trumpâs cultists? Even among them, the outrage seems muted. On the whole, the American people donât see Luigi Mangione as a monsterâthey see him as a victim of the real monster: the American healthcare system and the predatory insurance industry. And whether people say it outright or not, many see him as a hero.
So either the Trump administration and Bondi are completely out of touch with the average American (which I believe they are), or theyâre lying to create a narrative that justifies their stance (which I also believe to be the case).
But thatâs not the only infuriating news today. A man from the Northeast was illegally deported to El Salvador despite a court ruling that he could not be removed from the U.S. The Trump administration blatantly violated the law and sent him back anyway. The worst part? He was an asylum seeker fleeing gang threats and violence in El Salvador. Now, he is in a Salvadoran prison, surrounded by the very gang members he fled from. This was no accident. The Trump administration admitted their âmistakeâ but then doubled down, suddenly claiming that he was an MS-13 gang leader.
Of course, they have provided exactly zero evidence of this. Itâs a transparent attempt to justify their error (or more likely, their deliberate cruelty).
I have a question for the Ochre Dotard and his supporters: If Donald J. Trump is such a brilliant businessman, blessed by G-d with one of the greatest minds since King Solomon, then why is his entire administrationâincluding the Shadow President, Elon Muskâso astonishingly incompetent? They trip over their own feet at every turn, screwing things up in ways that seem almost intentional. And what does the supposed âgreatest mind of our generationâ do? Does he fire them, like in the reality show that made him famous? No! He keeps them on, makes excuses for them, and lets the cycle of failure continue. Some strongman he is. If he were even 1/1000th the leader his cultists claim he is, he would at least recognize the need for better advisors. But he doesnât.
His approval ratings are in free fall. Every decision he makes wounds this countryâespecially his own voters, which is the most baffling thing of all. Yet beyond harming Americans, his ineptitude is making the entire country an object of ridicule and derision on the world stage. The village idiot could recognize this, yet the supposed genius Trump remains oblivious. Has his (allegedly) syphilis-addled brain finally deteriorated past the point of reason?
I find myself nostalgic for the days when people feared the New World Order and a one-world government. At this point, I would welcome it. Borders and artificial divisions among humanity have always seemed absurd to me, relics of a primitive past that no longer serve us. Why do people cling so desperately to these outdated systems? Are we experiencing the final, desperate throes of a dying beast? Is there hope that something better will rise from the ashes?
I donât know. But I do know that Iâm exhausted by this madness.