Emperor Trump
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It's been more than 20 years since it became fashionable to style questioning the policies of the federal government - and its Maximum Leader - tantamount to what the then-Maximum Leader styled (or enunciated as) terrrr. Of being "with them" - as juxtaposed with "us."

The Decider
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Meaning, of course, him.

And it looks like here we go, again.

The new Maximum Leader said something the other day about categorizing the destruction of property - already a criminal act - as an act of "domestic terrorism." The distinction being not merely etymological. The latter is a federal crime, you see. Destruction of property isn't.

It is of a piece with the way certain other crimes - assault and murder, for instance - can be become federal crimes by styling them "hate" crimes. And - by the way - it appears the Maximum Leader is hankering to categorize criticism of any of the policies of the government of Israel and/or U.S. actions in support of those actions as "hate" crimes, too. It being anti-Semitic, you see, to ever question anything done by or on behalf of the state of Israel.

So now the cretins - and they are cretins, because destroying other people's property is cretinous - who set alight Tesla charging stations, smashed Teslas and shot up Tesla stores - are to be (apparently) pursued at the federal level, as "domestic terrorists."

For Israel
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This is one of those reflex actions - in response to cretinous actions - that is easy to amen because who doesn't want to see cretins brought to account. Of course, that is how we ended up with a Homeland in place of what was once America - and every American being treated by the government as a presumptive "terrorist."

On to the next thing . . .

Trump also snarled that refusing to buy Teslas - boycotting them - might be considered criminal, too. Now this is a whole new level of terrorism - manifesting from the Orangicus Maximus. He may merely have been doing what he often does, which is to temper-tantrum when he does not get his way or someone shows disloyalty to either him personally or his agenda. See in this regard the manifesting toward Thomas Massie, perhaps the last honest man in Congress (who also happens to be one of those dreadful anti-Semites because he isn't a sock puppet of AIPAC).

Tesla
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Hopefully, it is just a passing bout of offended fury. But even if that's all it is, it says something not-good about OM's instincts as well as his understanding of economics. Tesla has been the pinata of the right since its founding, not because it is a manufacturer of soul-less plastic battery-powered appliances but because of the grift involved in "selling" them.

But no one in his right mind - more finely, no one who isn't an authoritarian prick of some kind - objected to those who wanted to buy them buying them. The issue was the subsidizing of them and the wheedling of its rent-seeking arch-grifting CEO, Elon Musk.

Now it appears Trump at least thinks it's a criminal act to not buy them.

It makes one's head spin.