Trump's America

Yesterday was the most bizarre day of the post apocalyptic era yet.

The entire senior state department staff resigned, Trump put a gag order on all govt. social media communications, spawning a plethora of altgov sites like altEPA, altNPS, altNasa, altNWS etc on Twitter. There have been no tweets on any of the official govt sites -- yesterday the National Weather Service was tracking a massive storm in the Gulf of Maine with 27 foot waves -- today nothing. The country's scientists are uniting and organizing a march on Wash DC -- hundreds of thousands already signed up. A petition on the White House website demanding release of Trump's financial data to satisfy emoluments constitutional requirement has more than 300,000 signature. The President has an insecure private android phone but no one is investigating his emails, his daughter and 2 senior staffers are registered to vote in more than one state, and he's going to investigate voter fraud by US citizens but not by Russia. Orwell's 1984 -- the originator of "alternative truths" as a tactic -- is an instant bestseller again. A White House staffer started tweeting the truth about a madman in office and was shot down. 

But the resistance is underway.

Thinking back to the 1970s, when the youth of America was bound together in protest of the Vietnam War and discrimination against people of colour, one can only hope that the extremism we are facing today will once again galvanize the country, and the world. Maybe it takes an extreme situation to ignite the passion of the young to stand up in defiance against the establishment. Maybe this is what's needed to get people off their butts in front of screens and create change. One can only hope.

Meanwhile, Trump signed an executive order banning Mulims of Middle Eastern countries from entering the US, Google recalled their staff from the Middle East in fear of retribution, and Trump got a $10,000 commemorative coin from Russia. http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/19/europe/russia-trump-inaugural-coin/index.html At least Theresa May got Trump to agree in public that NATO is a good thing. Not that he keeps his word. Newspapers are calling him a liar in headlines.

Today I lay me down to sleep, wondering what the Trump will tweet...