For Trump, Was the Murder of Charlie Kirk Equivolent to the Burning of the Reichstag?

Note: I am changing direction on this blog. I believe that promoting benevolent reciprocity and universal empathy is not effective because we humans remain too cognitively primitive to follow the only logical path to achieving peace and security, both socially and economically. Our evolutionarily inherited genetic behavioral traits of xenophobia, territoriality, aggression, dominance and indifference to the sufferings of others are still too strong. As indicated by my last post, I am now focused on highlighting our darker nature and predicting what is to come, predicated on the grim behavior of our current authoritarian government.

In reference to the leading question, no, I don’t believe Trump was behind the tragic and mindless murder of Charlie Kirk. Still, I do think he couldn’t be more pleased, even though Kirk was a strong, far-right Trump supporter and advocate. His only diversion from the MAGA and evangelical playbook was his apparent homosexuality. Still, his murder has given Trump yet another excuse to exploit the moment by seizing greater dictatorial powers and adding to his white, goose-stepping MAGA Macho-Manosphere’s ongoing orgasm. Kirk’s death was like a delicious “ICEing” on Trump’s cruelty cake.

When the news of the murder broke, I couldn’t help but think of the rise of ruthless dictators throughout history and the Reichstag metaphor so common among them. If you can’t find a public-horrifying action committed by your political enemy, invent one.

Psychologically, Trump is the same as they: a deeply insecure, narcissistic sociopath, whose thirst for violence and revenge can never be quenched. I believe this is Donald Trump. Based on his wordsfar more repulsive and divisive than those of any notable opponentand his ongoing actions of pure cruelty, I believe he is quite capable of committing similar atrocities to those perpetrated by past dictators, including Stalin and Hitler.

He will not leave the White House peacefully in January of 2029. It will be, by far, a more bloody insurrection than his first. The only caveat might be if he successfully passes power to his son through threats, fear, judicial compliance, and election rigging (currently ongoing).

The only way this can be stopped is if enough citizens with integrity and honor are willing to do whatever it takes to throw out the dictator, regain stability under the Constitution, and then force Congress to address the real root cause of government dysfunction and corruption (now a barely operable malignant cancer): corporate and private-interest money in politics.

THE HOLY LAND: Home of the Most Intense, Hate-Filled Religious Brutality on Earth

Can there be any doubt now about Netanyahu’s intentions and that of Hamas? While Hamas has been advocating for the complete eradication of Israel, Netanyahu’s Likud Party has been calling for the annexation of virtually all Palestinian territory since its inception and pointing to its Bible for justification.

Netanyahu is vowing to open a full assault on Rafah ‘with or without’ hostage deal even as mediators renew efforts to secure a truce ahead of the invasion of the city where more than 1 million people are sheltering.

As Netanyahu said at the beginning of the current war, “Remember Amalek!” He was referencing 1 Samuel 15: 2-3.

1 Samuel 15:2  Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.
1 Samuel 15:3  Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

Don’t get me wrong. The underlying issue is Netanyahu’s Likud Party’s founding doctrine and their interpretation of the term, “Zionism.” The meaning was, and is, the acquisition of all Palestinian land from the river to the sea.

Israel began forcing out the Palestinians from their generational homes in the new Israel beginning in 1948 when England, with the blessings of all predominantly Christian Western nations, took most of Palestine away from the Palestinians and created the new Israel. Upon the formation of the Likud Party, they penned their platform:

The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel)

a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty.

b. A plan which relinquishes parts of western Eretz Israel, undermines our right to the country, unavoidably leads to the establishment of a “Palestinian State,” jeopardizes the security of the Jewish population, endangers the existence of the State of Israel. and frustrates any prospect of peace.

The map shown below shows the boundaries from two different sections of the Bible which the Likud Party aspires to annex.

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” —Blaise Pascal

IN YOUR NAME: Guantánamo torturer led brutal Chicago regime of shackling and confession

The Guardian this morning has given us more to add to America’s shameful legacy. I post this because it could not be more antithetical to Human decency and empathy (short of ISIL and their ilk, of course). This is what our government became, in your name, and too much of it remains. I am going to establish a Hall of Dishonor and Shame and call for nominees.

A Chicago detective who led one of the most shocking acts of torture ever conducted at Guantánamo Bay was responsible for implementing a disturbingly similar, years-long regime of brutality to elicit murder confessions from minority Americans.


Max T. Furr is author of The Empathy Imperative, a hard-hitting, philosophical novel on the nature of justice and mercy and why we don’t have it.

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