Cast Him Out: No More MAGAmazement
I come to break the Orange Enchanter's spell and liberate you from his rough magic, so you can see things as they really are...and join me in demanding his immediate resignation.
PROSPERO
Be collected:
No more amazement…
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PROSPERO
My high charms work,
And these mine enemies are all knit up
In their distractions. They now are in my power,
And in these fits I leave them…
—William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”
What dread sorc’ry is this? What magic rough?
The MAGA Mage bewitches you: the stuff
Of nightmare, when a people, bound by bluff,
Doth take him at his word—this evil, gruff,
Perverted monster, lord of lies. Enough!
I wave my wand, and now his huff and puff
Doth I expose: his magic spell I snuff.
I beseech you: read the words below out loud.
These statements are not only true, they are obviously true. A child can see that. They are common sense. Only the power of his dark orange magic, abetted by the greedy oligarchs, amplified by the obsequious media, and flaccidly resisted by the hapless opposition party, perpetuates the curse, and extends the folie du pays.
Read the words below out loud, I tell you! Let them break the spell!
He is comically, objectively, and dangerously unfit to be president. By any conceivable metric.
Look at him. Open your eyes and look at him. What do you see? He is old, infirm, senile, stupid, gullible, selfish, unscrupulous, venal, petty, cruel, hateful, untrue, immature, needy as a child, and insufferably dull.
He is a racist, a rapist, a sexist.
He is not just evil; he is contemptuous of good.
He makes us the laughingstock of the world, and the only reason the world hasn’t completely turned on us is because it fears our economic and military might.
No one worthy of respect respects him.
No decent person would want him as a Thanksgiving guest, let alone the leader of the free world.
He is not just a failed president but a failed human being.
This is disqualifying. We must demand his resignation.
He lies. He lies as he breathes. He lies just to lie, to push the boundary of truth.
He demands his acolytes also lie—the more brazen the lie, the better.
The willingness to lie on his behalf he sees as a test of loyalty.
His press secretary is one of the most egregious liars the world has ever produced, her torrent of lies exceeded only by those of his hand-picked and clearly compromised House Speaker—and, of course, by him.
This is disqualifying. We must demand his resignation.
He cheats at and on everything: golf, wives, taxes.
He has a long personal history of not paying what he owes.
He welches on bets. He stiffs his workers.
He won’t pay the woman he raped, even though he lost in court to her twice and owes her a lot of money.
He won’t pay the legal fees he owes to the British government from a case he lost there.
He buried his first wife on his golf course, for the tax write-off.
He likes to do business with criminals because if he doesn’t pay them, there isn’t a legal thing they can do about it.
Doing business with criminals makes him a criminal.
Being a convicted felon also makes him a criminal—and he was found guilty on all 34 counts. The other indictments, far more serious charges, he’s weaseled out of.
This is disqualifying. We must demand his resignation.
He has no coherent policies. He has no coherent agenda. He has no plan—about the economy, or healthcare, or his new favorite word, “affordability.” He’s making it all up as he goes along.
The reason his finance guys sound nonsensical on TV is because his economy theory, such as it is, makes no sense. There is no internal logic. It is gobbledygook.
Tariffs don’t help the economy. Tax cuts for the rich don’t help the economy. Dismantling the federal government doesn’t help the economy. Starting trade wars with Canada and Mexico and China doesn’t help the economy.
His actions over the last ten months have demonstrably exacerbated our economic woe.
The exuberant stock market is part of the illusion, all smoke and mirrors. It is nothing more than a billionaires’ circle jerk.
The economic indicators are so terrible right now that he shut down the division of the government that puts out the jobs reports, so he can forestall the bad news. Inflation is high, unemployment is up, mass layoffs are happening, jobs are not being created, a Great Recession looms. All of this, despite his being handed a healthy, thriving economy by his predecessor.
This is failure on a grand scale, all of his own maing.
This is disqualifying. We must demand his resignation.
Time and again, he has exploited the presidency, making hundreds of millions of dollars for himself and his family: crypto scams, insider trading, luxury jetliners from foreign powers, extorted money from bogus lawsuits, and on and on.
His son—the dumb one, the one married to the frog-lipped banshee who fancies herself a singer—is now a billionaire.
He gave forty billion dollars of taxpayer money to Argentina, an unstable country whose economy self-destructs every ten years, to stave off an economic collapse there, while ignoring the impending economic collapse at home. (“America first” is another lie.)
During the shutdown, he illegally refused to fund a program that provides food support for needy families, so people don’t go hungry. When a judge ordered him to follow the law and fund the program that provides food support for needy families, he appealed the decision.
This is disqualifying. We must demand his resignation.
He is a serial rapist and sexual assailant.
Scores of women have accused him of rape and sexual assault—and those are just the ones who came forward (or who lived to tell the tale).
He was sued in civil court and lost—twice—because the jury and an appeals court found him guilty of sex crimes.
He hit on the Italian prime minister.
He bragged about his fame insulating him from the consequences of sexual assault.
His name is all over the files.
This is disqualifying. We must demand his resignation.
His now-dead best friend was not just a pedophile, but the head of the largest child sex trafficking ring in recent memory. He knew this, and stayed friends with him, partying with him for a decade and a half—not in spite of his friend’s depraved predilections, but because of them.
He hung around with the pedophile because the pedophile always had scantily-clad girls hanging around. He likes girls. Not women—girls. Under the legal age of consent. Children, in other words.
He allowed his pedophile friend and his pedophile friend’s partner in crime to recruit—to “steal,” in his words—girls from his posh Palm Beach club.
His wife was there, too. (His third wife.)
So was his daughter.
He expressed his lust for his daughter so many times that articles have been written tracking them all—and those are just the inappropriate comments he made publicly.
If he was comfortable enough to made crude sexual remarks about his daughter in public, he was making even cruder sexual remarks in private—and, quite possibly, because he has no sense of morality and no impulse control and a long history of sexual assault, acting on these vile impulses.
His pedophile friend is dead. His other pedophile friend, the woman who helped run the industrial scale child sex trafficking ring, a monstrous creature who is a liar and a sadist, was illegally transferred to a cushy prison on his orders. He will commute her sentence as soon as it’s politically expedient to do so.
Ultimately, it doesn’t matter what the extent of his relationship with the dead pedophile was. It only matters that it was major and close and long-standing—and that he knew.
This is disqualifying. We must demand his resignation.
He has been cultivated by the Russians since the early 80s. This is painfully obvious. There’s not a single instance in his entire adult life, let alone in his presidency, where he has done anything policy-wise that hasn’t benefited the Kremlin in some capacity.
He has repeatedly claimed to have ended eight wars. Given that the two bloodiest wars that were raging when he took office again are still going on, no one can say which eight wars he’s referring to.
He now presides over a military that is killing people—civilians—in cold blood on the open seas. When he was told that this is illegal, he continued to kill.
This is disqualifying. We must demand his resignation.
He demolished part of the White House.
He demolished part of the White House without asking for permission, or having any viable plan for what would get built in its place.
The White House does not belong to him. The White House belongs to us. He’s a tenant—our tenant. What would you do if you rented out your house to a tenant, and one day he just knocked half of it down? You would kick him out, is what you’d do.
This is disqualifying. We must demand his resignation.
He had his sycophants in Congress pass a spending bill that starves funding for medical research, and the arts, and healthcare, and welfare programs, while showering money on his secret state police.
His secret state police goes around the country, kidnapping U.S. residents. Some of them are beaten up, some are tear-gassed, all are humiliated. Some are sent to notorious prisons in far-flung countries. Some never make it home again.
We don’t know who any of these secret state policemen are, only that they are mean and fat and poorly trained and that it takes a half dozen of them, decked out in combat gear like they’re about to invade Fallujah, to detain a 90-pound woman in a daycare center.
The woman in charge of the secret state police enjoys shooting puppies.
This is disqualifying. We must demand his resignation.
He makes appointments based on loyalty, not merit: Who will do his bidding without question? Who will ignore their own morality to carry out his evil?
He put a wrestling lady in charge of our education system.
The wrestling lady set about destroying our education system.
He put a drunken, racist, sexually abusive TV personality in charge of our military.
The drunken, racist, sexually abusive TV personality set about purging the military of women, people of color, and LGBT individuals; anyone who supports women, people of color, and LGBT individuals; and anyone who thinks twice about following illegal orders.
He put a Kremlin tool in charge of our intelligence services.
The Kremlin tool outed CIA hires and compromised our intelligence services so profoundly that our closest allies now refuse to share intelligence with us.
He put a [expletive deleted] in charge of the Justice Department.
The [expletive deleted] purged the Justice Department of those she deemed disloyal, and weaponized it to indict his enemies on bogus charges.
He put a corrupt lickspittle in charge of the FBI.
The corrupt lickspittle ordered the FBI to investigate its own agents who investigated Trump/Russia—because, despite years of actively trying, the corrupt lickspittle cannot prove that the “Russia hoax” was a hoax. Because it wasn’t.
He put a South African racist Nazi billionaire—the same South African racist Nazi billionaire who helped him win the election—in charge of “cutting the waste” out of our federal government. The South African racist Nazi billionaire cut funding to the agencies investigating his businesses—but not to the agencies paying his businesses.
The South African racist Nazi billionaire cut programs willy-nilly, including an international aid program that provides food assistance to needy nations. By doing so, the South African racist Nazi billionaire has starved 600,000 people to death and counting, many of them children.
He put a pro-virus, anti-science nepo baby conspiracy theorist in charge of our health services.
The pro-virus, anti-science nepo baby conspiracy theorist purged the health services and cut funding for critical research into cancer, Alzheimer’s, and other diseases, while diverting resources into his long-debunked pseudoscience pet projects.
He stood on stage next to the pro-virus, anti-science nepo baby conspiracy theorist as the pro-virus, anti-science nepo baby conspiracy theorist told us that Tylenol causes autism, which is as accurate as claiming baseball causes Maoism.
This is disqualifying. We must demand his resignation.
We must demand. We.
The legacy media is not going to demand his resignation. A clutch of rapacious, plundering oligarchs owns most of the newspapers, TV stations, cable news channels, and social media outlets, and it does not serve their interests to do so.
Neither Wall Street nor Silicon Valley is going to demand his resignation. It does not serve their financial interests to do so. (Also: many of the most powerful people on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley were also friends with the dead pedophile who ran the industrial scale child sex trafficking operation.)
The high court won’t stop him; he owns six of them so completely, it is fair to wonder if any of them, especially the sexual harasser and the sexual assailant, were friends with the dead pedophile.
Will our politicians make the demand on our behalf? That is their job, after all. Will they hold his feet to the fire?
Not likely. His party has been infiltrated and co-opted by his loyalists, many of whom either participated in the violent insurrection of five years ago, or are otherwise compromised. The leadership of the opposition party, meanwhile, is so spineless, so effete, so indifferent to the threat to our democracy, that functionally, it behaves no differently than “controlled opposition.”
All the entrenched leaders of the opposition party that failed us need to resign.
All the enablers of the current ruling party need to resign. This includes his vice president, the most ridiculous, reviled, mean-spirited, mendacious little prick ever to hold that office—and that office was held for eight years by Richard Nixon.
The three corrupt old guard justices on the high court must resign. The three nakedly partisan justices he appointed must also resign. All six have demonstrated a marked inability to be fair and impartial, a disregard for human life, and a seething contempt for democracy.
The titans of Wall Street and Silicon Valley who spurned democracy to support him must pay for their betrayal—literally pay, with top marginal tax rates trebled, and the money used to fund healthcare, education, medical research, and the arts.
The TV news talking heads and the establishment journalists who amplified his propaganda must be relieved of their duties, permanently barred from working in media.
The consortiums that own all of the legacy media must be dismantled, the owners forced to sell at a discount. The foreigners with large financial stakes in legacy media—the Australian nonagenarian hatemonger, the South African racist Nazi, the sweaty German Nazi—must be deported. (Perhaps they can be thrown in a van by masked men and covertly shipped to a prison in El Salvador?)
We cannot rely on help from any of these people or institutions.
We—we the people—must demand his resignation.
We must. We.
And we must not stop, must not relent, until this comes to pass.
This begins with the large segment of the country that has been under his spell to snap out of it, to break the curse, and to see what is real and true.
It begins with all of us, collectively, facing reality.
No more amazement. No more lies. No more hocus-pocus.
The witch hunt is over; the witch was under our noses all along.
Let the dawn of the new day shine its light on the darkness. Let it shatter the illusion and make the truth so glaring that even the hypnotized cannot help but see things as they really are:
Donald John Trump is dangerously unfit and must—must—resign.
We demand it.
Now.
Photo credit: The Enchanted Island Before the Cell of Prospero - Prospero, Miranda, Caliban and Ariel (Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2), print, Peter Simon, after Henry Fuseli (MET, 42.119.525).
Greg, thank you. I’d like to add: We need to stop saying the PedoPrez has dementia or other medical condition. That’s simply an excuse as well as a insult to those who truly are living with dementia and their loved ones. Also, let’s stop using the quisling’s name in social media which only boosts the media whore’s algorithms. Let’s get busy. We WILL Prevail.
There it is, all in one place. Well done, you!