In an unprecedented breach of Constitutional rights (get used to hearing that phrase) Dat Guy’s Inaugural Committee has requested that the National Park Service withhold all permits from any other group but themselves in Washington DC from January 6 thru Januray 30^th.

You may recall the story last week of the Women’s March, scheduled for the day after the Swearing, that had run into permitting problems. User Merry very penetratingly asked in the comments: “I’d be interested in who the other requests are from. Are they from ringers? Did their requests predate this one?”

Why, yes, Merry. It turns out they are; they very much are.

Every public space traditionally used for protests, including the sidewalk outside the White House, has been put on hold pending decisions by Dat Guy’s committee on Pompous Puffery and Pageantry Killing Dissent as to whether or not they “need” them.

In recent days, Day Guy has bullied a labor president who dared to call him on his bullshit, he’s viciously thrown Boeing stock into panic for the same reason, and now we find he’s proactively clearing the Capital City of any signs of dissent during his Assendancy to the Residency.

Meanwhile, he’s staffing the government with billionaires and generals.  Corporatism and militarism, hand in hand, crushing dissent, lionizing the Leader, and demonizing the Other in the name of the Homeland.  Trying to to think what that reminds me of…  Begins with an F…

Sounds like “ass-ism.”