6.7.2026 – want majority

want majority
to turn their backs, that is all
that’s necessary

In the New York Times opinion piece, The White House’s Latest Provocation Is ‘Grotesque and Terrifying and Juvenile’, opinion piece writer, M. Gessen writes that the White House’s Latest Provocation is:

… a White House web page, posted last Thursday. And the scary creatures in question aren’t extraterrestrials; they’re the other kind of aliens — the immigrant kind, the kind hunted by ICE.

With phrases like “They do not belong here” and “Deport them all,” the page struck me as an incitement for Americans to commit acts of violence against immigrants.

But Benjamin Valentino, a professor of government at Dartmouth College, thinks that the purpose of the page is not to get Americans to do anything:

It’s to get them to do nothing, while the government commits its campaign of cruelty against millions of people just trying to live in peace.

“They want a majority of the population to turn their backs,” he said. “That’s all that’s necessary.”

I started this bit of nonsense back in 2019 and what I wanted to do was showcase what I thought was use of words and word play worth mentioning both in current news writing and in literature.

I never intended to fall in political commentary and to tell you the truth, I would love to get out of that business and back to showcasing what use of words and word play worth mentioning both in current news writing and in literature.

But I cannot turn my back on what is happening when you read that the Department of Justice states in Federal Court, that in their opinion, the president of the United States, or at least that man currently in office, could bulldoze the Statue of Liberty if he wanted to.

I cannot turn my back.

Especially as, that’s what they want me to do.