The Racist Rhyme Of History Repeats In The Trump Regime

The emperor became a cruel tyrant, as well as an abettor of cruelty in others. Of this the cause and origin was Aelius Sejanus.  Tacitus

The news that it is John Kelley is the hardline white supremacist who, with the bizarre Jewish/Nazi,  Stephen Miller, is controlling the malleable, vestigial mind of Donald Trump on immigration and DACA makes you wonder if the media is still peddling him as one of the "adults" who are supposed to save us from the autocratic idiot, Donald Trump.

The fetish for braid and stars - what my mild spoken, universally kind, WWII veteran mother only once in my hearing mocked as "scrambled eggs" -  by our almost exclusively non-veteran media is bizarre.  While there are some admirable people who attain high rank in the military, some of fine character and who are as moral as anyone could be while in the military, there are plenty of bigoted, racist, cruel and plain sleazy generals, lt. cols. etc. in the United States military.   The military answerable to civilian control and a more active code of honor might keep the worst of them in check, the Trump regime mixed with a general like John Kelly has exposed himself as being brings out the worst in someone like him.

I've been ever less impressed with the professional, college-educated media, staffed largely with people who have never been in the military or, in many cases, has ever known someone who is of the class of people who volunteer in the military.   I'd feel a lot better if a lot more people who had been in the military and learned to be as skeptical of generals as my parents, my in-laws, my friends, and others who have direct experience of military officers made up a far larger percentage of the alleged news media.   There were a few, a very few generals who had my parents respect, but they never turned them into cinematic heroes, they respected them for their honesty, responsibility and concern for the military and the civilians who their decisions fell on.  I think there's one thing we know about John Kelly, he has enormous contempt for the civilian rule of the United States and a huge contempt for The People who weren't of the military class.  That he does so on behalf of a rich boy who could buy his way out of the draft in a war he supported does nothing to polish his shithole character.

John Kelly, especially after his lying, defamatory attack on the Black Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, he's not that kind of man, he's the kind of man who uses government to further white supremacy by manipulating a mentally deficient and even more morally deficient president.    He's no General Marshall, he sure as hell isn't any Cincinnatus,  he's the Lucius Aelius Sejanus of the degenerate Donald Trump, only Trump aint' no Tiberius, he's our Nero if not some even more degenerate Roman despot.