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Let’s dig into some of the total unmitigated absurdity — the deranged, preposterous, mind-boggling, soul-crushing absurdity — of America’s fascist president Donald J. Trump.

What follows is a short list from the top of my head.

Mein Trumpf says he has been murdering Latin American people in the Caribbean to stop drug shipments to the United States but (a) offers zero evidence that the people he has extrajudicially executed are bringing in drugs to the United States and (b) pardons a former Honduran president, a right-wing politician who was convicted by a U.S. jury that reviewed mountains of hard evidence showing that he helped bring 500 tons of cocaine into the United States while joking about “shoving cocaine up the gringo’s noses.” When questioned about this pardon, Trump claim to know very little about the former Honduran president. and says that president was just the unfortunate victim of leftists who didn’t like him because of his politics. How absurd.

Trump says that the video should be released of a September 2nd mass murder in which the U.S. military, under his command, slaughtered two shipwrecked people (after they’d already killed nine others) in abject violation of international law. Then Trump changes his mind and defers to his fascist “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth, keeping the video from public view. When an ABC reporter asks him to explain the change, Trump claims he never said the video should be released. He tells the reporter she’s “terrible” and says she works for a “fake news” organization. Absurd.

Trump calls merely alleged narco-traffickers (who weren’t even heading to the United States when he blew them up) “enemy........

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