If the Trump Regime proves anything to the authentically freedom-loving people of the USA, it is this piece of orchard owners’ advice:
The real price of freedom is that the Liberty Tree has to be pruned of the Suckers of Fascism every so often, and now is the time! Turns out they sprout again and again, and American democracy must be ready and willing to get out the pruning shears! These sap-sucking Fascists must never be allowed to grow, or they will inevitably kill the very same tree from which they sprout!
Some short time back, I watched a chilling documentary about what the American soldiers who liberated the Dachau concentration camp did to the SS (Schutzstaffel or Protection Squadron) commandant of the camp, who came out to meet the liberators with polished buttons and shiny knee boots, only to have one certain unknown GI Joe spit in his face, and the SS officers and staff, their lackeys and toadies who had run the camp with them:
Those Willies and Joes, who had been fighting mostly the Wehrmacht, or regular German army, made up of Fritzs and Oskars like themselves, weren’t prepared for the nightmarish horrors they found in the Dachau concentration camp. They were normal men confronting profoundly ABNORMAL circumstances, and their reaction, if brutal, was also perfectly normal:
The GIs, no longer taking orders from their officers, LINED ALL OF THE SS OFFICERS AND STAFF, THEIR LACKEYS AND TOADIES, UP AGAINST THE NEAREST WALL AND MACHINE-GUNNED THEM.
Good riddance, I say. Thanks for your service, guys.
(By the way, both my parents were World War 2 veterans. My mother was a nurse in a Royal Air Force hospital in London during the Blitz, treating busted-up Spitfire and Hurricane pilots, and my father operated radar units, then top-secret stuff, in England and Iwo Jima, shortly after the U.S. Marines [thanks in large part to their secret weapon, the Navajo Code Talkers], had cleared it of Japanese soldiers with any will to fight left in them.)
And sadly, I think this is what it has come to: the American people now have to respond to the brutality that is being forced upon them by a government that is illegitimate, illegal, irresponsible, reprehensible and fundamentally irrational WITH BRUTALITY! Because they understand nothing else! YOU CANNOT NEGOTIATE WITH FASCISTS, as Joe Stalin and the Soviet Union found out, when Operation Barbarossa kicked them in the nuts! Now, here, Trump has successfully, and with the help of many invertebrate, ass-kissing members of Congress, lying and conniving Supreme Court judges and craven cowards in the media, subverted all the checks and balances that the Founding Fathers thoughtfully wrote into our U.S. Constitution! Because we a-shoutin’, and we wavin’ our signs, but they ain’t listenin’ to a goddamn thing we say!
PEOPLE, THE TIME TO GET OUT THE PRUNING SHEARS HAS COME! GET TO WORK! PRUNE THOSE SUCKERS NOW!
“Can’t you see me growing, get your guns! The time has come, to follow me down!” — Jim Morrison & The Doors, Tell All The People, The Soft Parade
Contents ©2026 Malcolm J. Brenner/Eyes Open Media, except for images used under Fair Use provisions. All rights reserved. And I hope the names of the Supreme Court justices who lied to get their seats — Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Brett Cavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett — are consigned to the Dust Bin of History, never to be uttered by American tongues unless in a curse.
Malcolm J. Brenner 