Mr. Scorpio

Mr. Scorpio's Journal

June 19, 2018

Trump's Koncentration Kamps 4 Kids is just the latest in his attacks on people of color

It's his cynical way of using the Federal Government to weaponize identity politics.

He has attacked people of color non-stop since he became politically viable. A viability that is primarily based on his exploitation of white identity politics.

His white supporters can't even muster the barest amount of sympathy for asylum seekers and their children, simply because they're programmed to not think of these people as human beings.

To the Trump cultists, the asylum seekers represent an existential threat to their own whiteness and Trump is exploiting that belief, short of building ovens and shoveling those poor mothers and their children into them.

If he's allowed to continue, history teaches us that the lives of the asylum seekers and anyone who advocates for them are in jeopardy.

This needs to be stopped. He needs to be put in check. Because he's not going to just stop with asylum seekers and the undocumented, he's going to attack anyone he deems as an enemy. And his cultists will attack anyone they deem to exist outside of their own narrow frame of identity.

I've used the White Fragility Digest to highlight how big of a problem this is and I only scratched the surface with it.

America is at a crossroads. Instead of a "Shining Beacon on a Hill," where the wretched refuse of the world can find refuge here, we're losing what it means to be America. Americans are not only born, apart of every other nation on this planet, America has been the one place where Americans are made.

Anyone can be an American and Americans have come here from all corners of this Earth. Trump and his minions want to put an end to that, simply because they want to cynically exploit white identity politics for personal and political capital. No other Republican or Democrat president has tried to destroy that basic American premise, in spite of the fact that people like Reagan and the Bushes have used dogwhistle politics to scare poor whites into voting for them.

What Trump has done was much too much for those guys.

I'm appalled that our basic, non-partisan values can be attacked so casually and threatened with total elimination. This is not the America that any of us know.

We can't let this happen, because doing so represents an existential threat to all of us. If Trump is allowed to succeed, it only means that America is headed toward self-destruction.

Welcome to the Fall of The American Empire... Perhaps.

June 19, 2018

Ah, ah. We come from the land of the ice and snow, From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow

June 18, 2018

Today in "Space Force" news...

June 18, 2018

Trump's "Space Force," everybody...

June 18, 2018

They need to catch Trump with a butterfly net today...

Trump: Space Force and Air Force will be 'separate but equal'

By Betsy Klein, CNN

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump used a term from US segregationist history to describe the relationship between the Air Force and his newest military branch, the Space Force, calling it "separate but equal."

"We must have American dominance in space. Very importantly, I'm hereby directing the Department of Defense and Pentagon to immediately begin the process necessary to establish the Space Force as the sixth branch of the armed forces. That's a big step," he said in the White House East Room during a meeting of his National Space Council Monday.

"We are going to have the Air Force and we are going to have the Space Force: separate but equal, it is going to be something so important," he said.

The term "separate but equal" became a legal precedent following an 1896 Supreme Court ruling Plessy v. Ferguson that said the use of racially separate facilities, if equal, was not discrimination. That legal rationale was deemed unconstitutional through a series of Supreme Court decisions, ending with 1954's Brown v. Board of Education.

In addition to calling for the Space Force, Trump signed Space Policy Directive -- 3 Monday, part of his administration's push to lead in the space space.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/18/politics/trump-space-force-air-force/index.html?utm_content=2018-06-18T19%3A10%3A09&utm_term=image&utm_source=twCNN&utm_medium=social

Yeah, Flint still doesn't have water, Puerto Rico still doesn't have electricity and we're jailing refugees at the border and separating them from their children.

Sure, this "Space Force" idea will go just fine.