The straw that broke the back of the nation. Trump is full of plastic straw is a sign of creeping tyranny.

My wife’s birthday was Saturday. So we did what you want. Starting with breakfast at the cherry cafe in Derfield. Its traditional arrangement – oat pies with wild grapes. Lee-spinach, onions and mozzarella omelets are good.

We are chatting while waiting for our meals. Matthew brought large blue plastic cups of water and two drinking straw.

You do not need to drink to drink a cup of water, unless you are in a hospital bed. But the straw was in the news, literally, a federal issue. On February 25, President Donald Trump issued an executive order, “Ending purchases and forced use of paper straw,” Which begins: “An irrational campaign against plastic straw has resulted in the main cities, states and companies that prohibit the use or insert of plastic straw with drinks. The plastic straw is often replaced with a paper straw, which is non -functional …”

You can discuss the word “irrational”. Plastic straw spoils the environment, and even careful plastic in your body. In 2019, California banned them in full service restaurants, unless customers, states and other cities that followed their example. The European Union and Canada banned the plastic straw in 2021. Next year, Chicago approved a single-use food program decree, but in the classic city council style, there were many gaps and exceptions-O’hare and Midway did not do so much.

I picked up the straw, ran my finger on the sheath of the paper and felt a specific photography. This was not just a straw. He was Pendant Straw. The flexible straw was cold when you were a child and they are great now. I was torn apart, and I felt that the deep anger to expand the small accordion section by bending the straw, appeared in my water and took a long cloud.

You can also argue about this “non -functional” in the straw of the paper. As I liked the elastic plastic straw, I also have great memories of paper straw. Type with red lines. Yes, they can be crushed at lunch. The bag, or breaking down during drinking, and you will have to click on it carefully in the shape until the milk flows. They can get a fly. Sometimes, you try to raise them through the hole of the small chips in the sealed container of milk – for a while we had the pyramid milk containers that you can only drink with straw – and crushed straw. But in general, she got 13 years of public schools without feeling sick in the straw of paper.

It is not the president. Somehow, the technology that any 6 -year -old could have mastered the leader of our nation, who was clearly had some bad experiences, almost incredible, with a paper straw.

“These things do not work,” he said, The bill signing. “I have eaten them several times. On occasions, they explode. They explode. If something is hot, it will not last very long.”

they Explode? Who drinks a hot drink with a straw of any kind?

You know what to explode too? Tyranny. Initially, it crawls, and its power extends beyond the declared goal-we see that when the measures against “illegal foreigners” end to the frank legal residents, and quickly the citizens committed to the law.

Then it explodes, like the Hemingway line around the next bankruptcy, “gradually, then suddenly.”

The title of straw command refers to “forced use of paper straw”. But by the time when the first section ends, the “forced” idea is dropped:

“Therefore, the US policy is to end the use of cards.”

a period.

I am torn when it comes to this kind of things. On the one hand, every second the president spends a state of scales, Bruce Springstin, or tampering with the Kennedy Center, is the time that he does not spend the demolition of our government and our freedoms.

On the other hand, control of every aspect of life is the distinctive feature of authoritarianism. The first fascist party in Mussolini has banned cats in Rome, and blamed the brutal devices wandering in the eternal city for “the ongoing effort of foreigners.” Then on March 30, 1928, Mussolini ordered all Italians to wear straw hats between April 1 and October 1, dictating the accepted official patterns, depicted by Unione Industiale Fascista.

These measures can be considered trivial. Or practice. On the same day, Mussolini’s order fell, and Catholic youth organizations were canceled. Topolic leaders do not like competing – from cities that decide the type of straw that their restaurants can use, from the religion that refers to actual morals, from the courts that remind us that there are still laws, from the press that carries a mirror to a continuous carnival for protection. From anyone.