Communist!
The term “Communist!” was thrown around a lot at Trumpapalooza last week.
NYC Mayor Mamdani proposed universal pre-school and free public transit. “Communist!” Michigan Senatorial candidate El Sayed supported single-payer healthcare. “Communist!” Texas Senatorial candidate James Talarico claimed, “Every single person is holy — not just my neighbors who look like me or pray like me or vote like me.” “Communist!” The 30% of the American electorate that are registered Democrat. “Communists!”
The point driven home time after time was “Anyone not agreeing with MAGA is a Communist and as we all know Communists are bad.”
Kim Jong Un presides over North Korea, the sole remaining true Communist country in the world. He has nuclear weapons and ICBMs capable of dropping those nukes on the USA. The Korean War technically never ended. It continues under an Armistice. The US has stationed 20,000 GIs in South Korea since 1953 to keep North Korea in check. Every year, the US military stages joint military exercises with the South Koreans to ensure readiness.
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If there’s a Bad Communist, it’s Kim Jong Un. Or maybe not…
Just before Trumpapalooza, Donnie ordered a “substantial reduction” in this year’s joint military exercises citing his “very good relationship with Kim Jong Un.” Donnie (or his ghostwriter since the message is somewhat literate) continued “These exercises are not only costly, with much of these costs paid for by the United States of America (as usual!) but send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile, to a Country that, as long as Donald J. Trump has been President, has been unthreatening and respectful.”
Apparently, testing nukes and ICBMs is “unthreatening and respectful” in Trumpworld.
Remember when an American college kid visiting North Korea stashed a propaganda wall poster in his luggage (“This’ll look cool on my dorm room wall!”) was imprisoned for three years and when finally released died a week later from mistreatment, Donnie? That’s “unthreatening and respectful”?
American political candidates who support universal pre-school, free public transit, single-payer health care, and religious tolerance are “Communists” while Kim Jong Un who proudly proclaims himself as one is not. I’m confused.
By Ed Dufton
