"Happy Mother’s Day: Under Trump's Eye"

This Mother’s Day, Trump’s America Offers Women Not Rights, But Control; Where Your Womb Belongs to the State, Not to You.

On behalf of the Commanders of Gilead, Happy Mother’s Day.

We thank you for your service to New America and to the world in ensuring that the Word of the Lord continues and that women fulfill His will to populate the earth. (Not exactly sure which part of the New Testament says this... but questioning is not permitted. Not anymore.) And while we appreciate your wonderful experience of childbirth — because today is, after all, Mother’s Day; we remind you that you still may not retain reproductive decision-making rights, nor the right to vote, nor the right to drive, nor, frankly, the right to have rights. Due process? Due for a disappearance, maybe. Regardless, have a blessed day. And remember: Under His Eye.

Welcome to Trump’s America; or what’s left of it after its latest ideological remodeling, which looks suspiciously like a dystopian Hulu series with less nuance and far more firearms. A theocratic fever dream once relegated to fiction is now seeping into courtrooms and congressional hearings with the unholy confidence of a Sunday sermon and the brute force of a MAGA rally.

Let’s call it what it is: white, male Christian nationalism in full regalia; Bible in one hand, AR-15 in the other, and women’s rights under the heel of a steel-toed boot labeled “Executive Privilege.” This isn't a presidency anymore; it's a crusade. And the crusaders are not just content to win elections. No, no. They want to rewrite the rulebook entirely; or burn it, if that proves more efficient.

Donald Trump, the self-anointed prophet of populist rage, isn’t just undermining the Constitution; he’s performing an exorcism on it. The tripartite system of government? Obsolete, he and his enablers suggest. Why should three branches govern when one bloated, bronzed-coated strongman can simply decree? From his Mar-a-Lago pulpit, he preaches about the “need” to give more power to the executive; namely, himself, because the other branches (you know, the ones designed to check him) are apparently untrustworthy, disloyal, or worst of all, liberal.

Forget separation of powers. Trump wants consolidation of power. Your uterus? That’s state property now. Your vote? Still under review. Your right to bodily autonomy? Consider that a quaint relic of pre-Rapture America.

The GOP, for its part, has become a confederacy of cowards, nodding in complicit unison while the former president salivates over constitutional rewrites like they’re Trump Steaks. Senators, once proud defenders of institutional integrity, now shuffle around Capitol Hill like background actors in a bad episode of The Handmaid’s Tale, eyes cast down, hands folded, and spines thoroughly removed.

Attacks on the judiciary; where do we even begin? Trump has floated the idea of imprisoning judges. You read that right. Apparently, impartial rulings now qualify as treason in Trump’s America. Judges who rule against him are “enemies of the state,” and like any good authoritarian, he’s determined to purge them, preferably with public fanfare and little legal justification.

And then there’s Roe v. Wade; or rather, the absence of it. Its overturning was not the end of something, but the beginning of a full-blown legislative siege against women’s autonomy. What was once a woman’s choice is now a governor’s campaign promise. States are tripping over themselves to out-ban one another, racing toward some twisted purity contest to prove who can subjugate women the fastest.

In this version of America, pregnancy is no longer a personal experience; it’s a state-mandated mission. Welcome to womb regulation by executive order.

Due process? Well, that’s being recast as “deep state obstruction.” Legislative oversight? Sabotage. Independent judiciary? Liberal conspiracy. Trump’s language; about silencing dissent, reassigning congressional powers, and punishing judicial independence, is not just rhetoric. It’s a blueprint. And the foundation is already being poured.

This Mother’s Day, while we offer cards, presents and forced brunches, let’s also recognize the dangerous undercurrent pulling this country toward something deeply un-American. A place where women are thanked for their "service" in childbirth but denied the dignity of autonomy. A place where freedom is redefined not as liberty, but loyalty; to him.

The handmaid’s uniform may still be metaphorical; for now, but the ideology behind it is becoming terrifyingly real. Trump doesn’t want a republic. He wants a kingdom. One where he sits atop a gilded throne, Bible and Constitution mangled into a single authoritarian script, and women; and anyone who believes in democracy, are relegated to obedient footnotes.

Blessed be the fruit. And may the resistance rise. Are you seeing the parallels too?

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