Get up. We’re slowly slip-sliding right into a Russian-orchestrated coup.
This goes method past the jokey rumors that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is blackmailing Donald Trump with a secret, compromising ‘pee tape.’ Contemplate how the U.S. voted within the United Nations with Russia, China and Iran towards American supposed ally, Ukraine. Now there’s the stunning Oval Workplace ambush of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by Trump and JD Vance.
As a smirking gaslit affront to Republicans, Trump is performing his extreme allegiance to Putin beneath the just lately put in portrait of former Republican icon, President Ronald Reagan. As soon as upon a time, Republicans ascribed the autumn of the totalitarian Soviet Union to Reagan’s robust, ethical, anti-Communist rules.
“Allow us to remember that whereas they preach the supremacy of the State, declare its omnipotence over particular person man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth, they’re the main focus of evil within the trendy world,” Reagan exclaimed on the 1983 Nationwide Affiliation of Evangelicals Conference in Orlando, Florida. He warned towards ignoring “the info of historical past and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire…thereby remov[ing] your self from the battle between proper and fallacious and good and evil.”
The place are the Republicans who cheered Reagan’s ‘evil empire’ speech now? Why do Republicans plug their ears when historians say Putin desires to revive the glory of the Soviet empire – by any means mandatory?
Why do Republicans ignore the truth that former KGB agent Vladimir Putin is a communist.
By the best way – the place are all of the Charlton Heston-loving evangelicals who watched him as Moses and cheered when he shouted from atop Mount Sinai, “Thou shalt don’t have any different gods earlier than me” – the primary of God’s Ten Commandments. Take a look at that garish Golden Calf! It’s one thing charlatan Trump would function in his NYC condo or promote for crypto on-line.
Why have evangelicals forsaken their God for a fraudulent ‘savior’ who acts extra like Devil in disguise?
I confess that I’ve been pissed off at evangelicals since rabidly anti-gay Rev. Jerry Falwell mentioned AIDS was “God’s punishment for homosexuality.” Pastor Peter J. Peters wrote in 1992, “The Dying Penalty for Homosexuals is prescribed within the Bible.” Now, Christian Nationals and their allies Trump & Putin make self-determined exceptions to the Ten Commandments whereas mouthing morality.
Nazi-loving Afrikaner Elon Musk’s unbridled enforcement of Mission 2025 is not only about eradicating DEI but in addition about erasing us. In the meantime, Democrats have been twisting within the wind looking for a ‘message’ that may woo employees who believed Trump’s ‘populism.’ Pundits are advising the Democratic Occasion to cease speaking about ‘identities’ and give attention to ‘points’ – with some progressives throwing trans of us beneath the bus to win votes as an alternative of vigorously standing up for the values of equity and equality.
Bear in mind when Republicans have been vehemently towards authorities telling people what they’ll and can’t do and Democrats extolled the best to Freedom of Expression? Now, ‘identification’ is a slur.
Ask Black girls if their race doesn’t impression their entry to healthcare. Ask similar intercourse {couples} in the event that they worry putting a photograph of their family members on their work desk may get them fired. Ask fundraisers and pollsters and nonprofit organizers if ‘identification’ demographics matter when voting on points.
However none of this can matter if we don’t actively intervene to cease Trump’s Putin coup. Final week, former Fox Weekend co-host and present U.S. Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. Cyber Command to halt “all planning towards Russia,” based on a Feb. 28 report within the cybersecurity publication The File.
The Recorded Future story reported how Russian state-backed hackers compromised SolarWinds Inc.’s programs and its Orion community administration platform in 2023, distributing malware “to 1000’s of enterprises and authorities organizations” with “quite a few different cyberattacks” found later.
“If Hegseth’s order solely applies to the armed service members centered on Russia, it’ll reportedly have an effect on a number of hundred cybersecurity specialists,” although “a number of thousand personnel might be affected if the steering additionally encompasses different groups,” The Report says. “These different groups give attention to duties comparable to intelligence evaluation and capabilities growth.”
“How far more proof do we want that this administration is totally compromised?” Brian Krebs, a cybercrime and safety investigative journalist, wrote on infosec.alternate. “There may be zero motive for the US to chill out any offensive digital actions towards Russia. If something, we ought to be making use of extra.”
That is exhausting. How shut we thought we’d come to full equality with Obama, Biden, Hillary and Kamala – solely to seek out, just like the Paul Simon tune says, “the nearer your vacation spot/The extra you’re slip sliding away.”
However we are able to’t hand over. Somewhat, let’s take inspiration from the “Eyes on the Prize” sequence: “We Who Imagine in Freedom Can not Relaxation.”
Conclusion: America has switched sides within the Ukraine-Russian warfare. Up until now, we supported Ukraine’s existential struggle for democracy, realizing they’re on the frontlines for the free world.
I need to dwell & die realizing I fought for freedom.
