The Skinny: Cannonballs – March 2025 Blogs

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Trump’s Judge Dredd Strategy Emerges

Welp; if you had “just under sixty days” in your office “how long will it take Trump to declare himself the law” you won the gold start in early March, of 2025. I spent most of the week trying to keep up with all the ways the Pork Reich regime was signaling it’s intentions to ignore the law, violate our civil rights, or relitigate settled legal matters like “is it legal to try and “torture the gay” out of your children?” Let’s just say it was the worst of times, and also the worst of times; but I worked through it anyway. As always you can follow the links below to check out these stories on my Fediverse blog, or simply read them in their entirety on page two by using the navigation buttons at the bottom of this article. Let’s put rubber to the road and tour the Pig Empire’s descent into a fascist dictatorship.

 

March 8th  to 14th, 2025

 

Snatching Dissidents and Skipping Towards Fascism

“What does that mean? It means we fight back now on behalf of Mahmoud Khalil, or we’re next. You don’t get to let this one slide because he’s not an American, you don’t care about Gaza, or you’ve been taught to hate student protestors by your media and the larger ruling class establishment. If Americans, including the nominal opposition in the US establishment, stand by and watch this happen to folks like Khalil, then it is an absolute historical certainty that it is only a matter of time before Trump is sending jackbooted thugs after anyone who won’t goosestep along with the fascist order; and that includes prominent figures in our complicit media and political classes.”

 

The Kelpto Kaiser Eyes Seizing Canada

“What I can tell you is these nazis do not have a sense of humor. Factually speaking, the establishment portion of the America First fascist movement has been openly building the ideological arguments to seize Canada and trying them out in public settings for several years. Furthermore watching everyday Americans fall right back into a pattern of ignorant nationalism because they’re pissed off at Canadians for booing our anthem (in response to Trump’s threats) doesn’t give me faith in the idea that this is just another doomed-to-fail Trump fever dream. At least as far as Trump is concerned, this is real.”

 

A Pariah Police State

“American exceptionalism is a powerful psychological headcage that frequently distorts how Americans see their own society and government, but at some point you have to acknowledge that we’re not going to get through the rise of an overt fascist Trump regime by pretending everything is normal and trying to conduct business as usual. As Trump crashes through the wholly inadequate guardrails of our capitalist oligarchy masquerading as a democracy, shouting “this is fine” doesn’t change the reality that it’s not. Whether the US media reports on it or not and whether we as Americans talk about it or not, the United States is increasingly being acknowledged as a fascist pariah state by the rest of the world.”

 

Business Partners in Crimes Against Humanity

“Let me remind you that just because two fascist governments don’t call removing a population based on ethnicity so they can build luxury condos on the ashes of their homes, “ethnic cleansing,” does not in fact mean it isn’t ethnic cleansing.If I’m being honest the term ethnic cleansing itself is absolutely a bullshit cop-out. In the real world outside the US foreign policy bubble, forcibly removing a population based on ethnicity is straight up part of a process legally recognized as genocide; which is pretty on brand for an Israeli government credibly accused of genocide by international courts, and a US government that’s been actively arming, funding, and enabling the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza across multiple presidencies now.”

 

Trump is Assembling a Jigsaw Enabling Act

“So when Trump passes an executive order that gives him complete effective control of the agencies that regulate American elections and what passes for the “free press” in the United States, you’d have to some kind of credulous rube to believe he’s doing so for any other purpose besides rigging elections for fascists and eliminating whatever portions of the US media that won’t carry water for the fascist administration and the odious ideology animating it. There’s not a lot of wiggle room in our analysis here; if it’s a problem for establishment muppets to recognize that then they’re either complete fucking muppets, or willing to quietly bootlick for a fascist President while he rips pages directly from Hitler’s playbook to create his very own American Pork Reich.”

 

I Know Too Much About SCOTUS to Trust Them

“First up, there is literally nothing “therapeutic” about so-called “gay conversion therapy” and nobody has a right to try to force heteronormative gender identities and sexual orientation on anyone, including their children, because they think their God wants everyone to be heterosexual. There is no scientific support for these treatments and while this would still be a monstrous violation of civil liberties even if they did work, they do not. Under the best of circumstances these “therapies” start from a position that non-heteronormative sexual orientations or gender identities represent aberrant, immoral behavior that must be clinically corrected through negative reinforcement; sometimes that’s a whole lot of verbal shaming, and sometimes it’s literally physical torture.”

 

A Lawless Regime Cares Not For Courts

“Trump has knowingly and directly ordered his administration to ignore the injunction and continue enforcing his anti-diversity orders both inside the government and towards outside contractors and partners. This is not speculative: several sources inside the Trump administration have confirmed that the regime knows what the injunction means, and government employees are being ordered to simply ignore the ruling. Borrowing a page from noted genocidal racist U.S. president Andrew Jackson, Trump has effectively declared “Adam Abelson has made his decision; now let him enforce it.”

 

Why Isn’t the Establishment Calling to Remove Trump?

“This is it folks: a really-existing overt fascist dictatorship is here under Downmarket Mussolini and you are watching this nazi bastard assemble his own version of the Nazi Enabling Act, piecemeal and in real time. The vaunted American system of “checks and balances” in government isn’t going to stop him, the courts aren’t going to stop him, and I would bet you my whole ass the Republican Party isn’t going to stop him either. If we don’t want to suddenly wake up five years from now surrounded piles of corpses so high they block out the sun it’s time to start deploying people power, fighting fascism in the streets, and shutting this shit down; or you’ll soon be asking yourself why you didn’t do anything about fascism before the mass graves were dug.”

 

 

• Nina Illingworth

 

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