Minneapolis and Greenland

They are all narcotized with power—all of Trump’s enablers. You saw that in their lying canned responses to the Minneapolis killing of an innocent woman. Trump is never going to stop his lies. When asked by the New York Times if there were any limits on his global powers, Trump said: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.” He meant, I think, his own mortality, a typical verbal confusion for him. And of course he has no morality.

The shocking murder of Renee Good has seized the conscience of so many. What about the folks who live there? We see their massive protests on TV but who are they? My friend John, a Minneapolis native, now lives there part time and portrayed Renee’s neighborhood:

Yes, the woman was murdered. It turns my stomach. The neighborhood in which she was killed (Powderhorn Park) has a 60-year anti-big govt, anti-fascist, anti-war, anti-capitalist history. It’s filled with people the Trumpies hate: old hippies, young socialists, Mexican, Central American, and Somali immigrants, lesbians, trans people, and straight white guys with scraggly beards, torn jackets and stocking caps who read. The people in this neighborhood don’t like our centrist mayor, they ride bikes all winter, they eat beans not meat, they keep old cars running, they love a parade filled with giant paper mache masks, they build bonfires in the winter and love a good toboggan ride, they like weed and beer, they buy their groceries at food coops, they wear vintage clothes, and most of all, they watch over each other.  The ICE commanders would be happy to kill more of them.

John added today: “The wife of the murdered Good did a GoFundMe to raise cash for funeral/legal expenses. She asked donors for $50K. 38,000 people donated $1.5 million. Holy shit!”

Trump will never understand such people, nor does he care to. Nor does he consider the rights of Greenlanders or their Danish governors. It’s all about threatening and projecting U.S. power. Last Tuesday the White House issued

a statement threatening Denmark, a NATO ally, with military action if it did not hand over Greenland—a threat so reminiscent of Vladimir Putin’s bald demands in the run-up to his invasion of Ukraine that it had Russian officials openly cheering.

We hear almost nothing about what the Greenlanders want, but you can bet they aren’t happy about these projected threats. The “power-grabbing President” looks at a map and says, “I want that.” No serious rationale is offered. This is how spoiled children act.