by Fred Logan
Don’t you dare forget the June 14, national “No Kings” uprising. It is a very important step in the rising national resistance to US rightwing reaction.
Just a week later on June 21, Trump dropped bombs on Iran. Was he trying to divert worldwide attention from the colossal national “No Kings” resistance? Was that one of his major goals for bombing Iran when he did?
The NATO Summit was June 24-25. Worldwide attention is now on Trump, and “No Kings” has receded. The media and public conversation are riveted on Trump. That’s where he wants it. Among other things, swaggered in at the NATO Summit with his head held high.
Go back to Donald Trump’s June 14. It was to be the official coronation of the Donald Trump monarchy. At least, that’s what it was supposed to be according to Donald Trump logic, planning, and peacocking.
Trump would command an historically unparalleled military procession through the streets of Washington, DC, the site of the United States national government. A massive display of United States might, it was Veterans Day and conveniently the birthday of Donald Trump who, pending a Trump executive order, is not and never was a veteran.
Intercontinental ballistic missiles, armored tanks, the latest military killing machines were in the massive mile-long procession. Military aircrafts flew through the sky (including, perhaps, a GOP UIFO?). Marching through the streets, though not always in step, were all branches of the United States armed forces.
By some very erudite estimates the Trump extravagant would cost one hundred million dollars. Of course, this would not be paid for by any members of the US billionaire class, not by Donld Trump or his side kick Elon Musk a political, social, and ideological heir of apartheid South Africa’s Hendrick Verwoerd.
It would be paid for by the American people.
By comparison, it would far surpass in splendor and wonder the coronation of a British monarchy or Mansa Musa’s historical pilgrimage to Mecca, you name it.
Hundreds of millions, no billions of people worldwide would be in wonder.
Across the United Sates people in the tens of millions, wearing MAGA hats and waving Trump banners would line the streets bowing down in homage to Donald Trump.
But it failed. The coronation of the Donald Trump monarchy failed. It was a miserable failure, unparalleled in all of the world’s recorded history. Trump’s procession attracted maybe 20,000 or so people. That’s less than half as many people as the attendance at a Washington Commodores NFL football game.
But all across the United States in, at the very least, 2,100 cities over 5,000,000 people were in the streets at the June 14 “No Kings” protest rallies in resistance to Trump.
You consider this on Trump and Iran, the Middle East has at least 50 percent of the world’s “proven oil reserves” the life blood of the global economy. In 1951, the United States overthrew the democratically elected president of Iran. in 2003, the United States invaded Iraq to destroy “Weapons of Mass Destruction.” In 2011, US President Barack Obama and US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton invaded Libya and overthrew the government, ad infinitum. Donald Trump is following in these footsteps.
What would happen if in response to Trump’s invasion of Iran, the masses of the Middle East rise up, and the US-backed regimes in the Middle East fall? The petroleum based world economy would be in a major crisis.
The Soviet Union fell. The British Empire, where the sun never sets, fell. We know for sure what our old folks told us, “Nothing don’t last always.”
Over 500 million people live in the Middle East. The USA has under 4 percent of the world’s 8 billion people. How many troops can the US put on the ground if the US supported regimes in the Middle East fall? That’s something to speculated about.
When I arrived on Grant Street perhaps 15 minutes before the “No Kings” resistance rally began, several thousand people had already arrived and the streets in downtown Pittsburgh were filled with people “all fired up” on their way to the rally. “No Kings” rallies were also held in the Lower Hill District and at other locations in the city. The people’s resistance to US right wing reaction is on the rise. And Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is proof. Don’t you dare forget that?
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