I woke to today’s news that one of the Trump cabinet’s bigger boofheads – the uber Christian nationalist, crusader-fantasist and “secretary of war” Pete Hegseth had announced that America would have a public firing squad execution of murderer Nidal Hasan.
Reckless global militarisation including a threat at the UN to annihilate Iran, a litany of sexual misconduct allegations against the commander in chief, claims of blatant presidential corruption … they have all ceased to surprise and shock us, so inured has the world become to Donald Trump’s monstrous narcissism and maladministration.
But now we have execution TV.
Oh don’t lay all the blame at Kegsbreath’s feet. He could not be doing what he is doing without those above him enabling it. And when it comes down to it the real blame lays at the feet of the people who voted for this burning clown car and those who did not vote because of apathy or their purity test.