
Hello folksβ¦itβs a happy jolly old time here the United States of America! Or should I say Amerika! I mean, think about it, your very basic freedoms are being challenged and a lot of you will be transformed into mindless sheep, zombie workers, basically slaves, that are only permitted to live because you serve your political and corporate masters! π
I mean, itβs what this country was founded on! So what better way to celebrate this is the premier of a new reality show, Dictator Apprentice, in which young hopefuls can vie for being the next Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, Idi Amin, Papa Doc Duvalier, or dare I say it, Donald Trump!





In a fun filled opener, we journey back to the heady day of January 6, 2021, in which a festive crowd of thousands of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol Building, inflicting 2.7 million dollars worth of damage, injuring 174 police officers, and killing 5 people.



Damn, those were the days! π
And who can blame President Trump for granting clemency for these βpatriotsβ and even having the prison sentences for 14 of the convicted violent offenders commutated.
We then flash forward to the present when the president through an executive order unleashes the forces of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency on the unsuspecting populace of L.A., rounding up illegal βaliensβ and arresting them at Home Depot, farms, restaurants, hotels, textile factories, you know, the usual dens of iniquity.
Whatβs a corporation or small business owner to do when his or her slave, er I mean criminally low paid worker, is shipped back to their native country?!
Well dang it, you can count on civil insurrection to stir things up! And as the citizens of L.A. know, a peaceful protest can soon turn into another well loved American institution, a full fledged riot in which people throw bricks and fire commercial grade fireworks at the police, burn cars in the streets, and loot various downtown businesses like the Apple and Addidas stores! Hey, thatβs some good old fashioned home grown fun!

And some of these folk arenβt exactly paid agitators, as Trump has alleged, lets call these happy go lucky folk βopportunists.β Basically these people always want to vandalize property and loot stores, and a large protest allows them to blend into the crowd and satisfy their desires in the name or civil disobediance!
And sure the police also have a chance to have fun shooting members of the press with tear gas and rubber bullets, but heck, them folks is too nosy for their own damn good anyway! π





Basically downtown has become a war zone, sort of like the glorious CHAZ area of Seattle and the holiday resort of the Portland Federal Courthouse during the George Floyd protests. It makes one nostalgic for the good old days! π





Now sure, a lot of these true protestors due have legitimate complaints. But to be honest, seem a little hazy on their history. Some of the protestors waving Mexican flags were claiming that California is still part of Mexico. But that ainβt right folks. Itβs true that California was part of the Mexican Empire back in say 1840, but after the conclusion of the Mexican-American War during the so-called cession period in 1848, Mexico ceded California as well as various other territories to the U.S. And if ya really want to be picky, the land really belongs to those pesky Native American tribes that inhabited the area.



And youβve got to figure that some of the more violent people at the L.A. protests/riots basically were playing into Trumpβs hand since he can point at them and say βsee, I told you they were criminals.β Silly geese! π
And this gave Trump the pretense to send both the National Guard and the Marines to L.A. Basically Trump is sort of reliving the (and sometimes politically useful) mayhem of the George Floyd protests and 1992 L.A. riots. But ultimately what happens to a society that routinely sets the military on its own populace?

And letβs not forget another βgeniusβ like presidential hopeful Kamala Harris who claimed that the unrest in. L.A. was totally peaceful.

Some MAGA wag said for remarks that like the country had βdodged a bullet.β Yeah, but in dodging that bullet we jumped in front of a howitzer round!
Which brings us to another amusing pastime, the Commander in Chief addressing members of the U.S. military in order to achieve political gains, in this case Trumpβs tour of Fort Bragg in North Carolina, home of the Special Forces.
Itβs no secret that Trump had requested that only soldiers that were somewhat favorable to his policies should be allowed in the front row audience. Hmmm, the old βstacked deckβ ploy. Works very time. π


And talking about βgeniusesβ, lets take a look at this gem from Trumpβs speech that day:
[concerning World War I] βWeβre the ones that won the war. Without us, youβd all be speaking German right now. Maybe with a little Japanese thrown in. But we won the war.β
Apparently Trump thinks we fought Japan in WWI! Shades of βBlutoβ from Animal House!

βWas it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!β
I guess the University of Pennsylvania doesn’t have a good history department. π
Oh, and of course it gets better. As part of the 250th birthday celebrations of the U.S. Army on June 14 the U.S. Army Grand Military Parade went ahead as planned on June 14th. The parade had some units in the uniforms of soldiers from past wars (Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korean War, Vietnam War, Gulf War), modern units, as well as various military hardware like tanks, armored fighting vehicles, helicopters, planes, howitzers, etc.









A lot of critics compared the spectacle to the kind of military parade that you see in Russia, North Korea, or Iran, but actually it was sort of lackluster.


For some strange reason it started at 6pm and the overcast weather put sort of a damper on the presentation, with the bizarre addition of sponsor announcements over the PA added a incongruous feeling to the basically dignified proceedings as well as the much sparser crowd than what was expected.
But probably the most unnerving part of the whole thing was when draft dodger Trump was presented with an American flag at the end of the ceremony. But crap like this makes for great television!

And besides, other recent presidents who were draft dodgers are Joe Biden, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton.



And another glaring slap in the face is that just previously the Trump Administration had made cuts in the VA Administration’s funding. Yeah lets honor our vets by ripping the rug right from under them.
Paralleling this display were the No Kings demonstrations that were attended by 5 million people in over 2,000 cities and towns in reaction to Mr. Trump and his administration’s policies.








It’s true that the First Amendment of the Constitution does seem in jeopardy in Trump’s own threat to would be protestors in Washington D.C.:
“For those people that want to protest, they’re going to be met with very big force.”
The nationwide (and international as well) protests did send a message to the powers that be, but were they listening?
How effective are protests really? π
There are times when I am reminded of one of British comedian Alexei Sayle’s scathing and funny observations from his Alexei Sayle’s Stuff show:

βOne of the weird things about the left is their obsession with slogans, writing slogans on the wall, you know, slogans like βjobs not bombs,β as if Mrs. Thatcher’s gonna be walking up Wigan High Street [in high pitched voice] βOh jobs not bombs, oh ok!”
And what reality show would be complete without a little side drama in which one of the richest men in the world, Elon Musk, was charged with running the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Seen brandishing a chainsaw in a symbolic demonstration of slashing federal government spending, it was a ludicrous spectacle for a man who has benefited from lucrative NASA contracts for his SpaceX company totaling billions of dollars in taxpayers’ money (as well as EV mandates that benefitted his Tesla company).

But of course you always need drama to spice things up on a reality show, like who’s gonna get kicked out of the Big Brother house next, so this is provided by having little Donny and Elon having a bit of a dustup in the old Washington D.C. sandbox over who really owns the toys! π

And then to further obfuscate the public and draw attention away from all the real things that are happening in this country, we’ll use a technique used by magicians all over the world called misdirection. Hey it worked with the O.J. Simpson trial but this time we don’t even need a celebrity, we’ll just find an ordinary hussy that will be even easier for the general public to identify with!


I mean hell, this show is gonna get even higher ratings than Survivor! π


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