We've reached a milestone in the history of Donald Trump. He's been president for 100 days. It seems more like a 100 years - a hundred years in Purgatory.
Upon reflection, Donny said, "My fellow Americans, I truly believe that the first 100 days of my administration has been just about the most successful in our country's history, our country is going up, and it's going up fast"
Yes, Donny has succeeded in being the least popular president in our country's history. He has told more lies than all our previous presidents combined. He has brought more Russia spies into our government than anybody ever. He has played more golf and spent less time in the White House than any previous president.
Donny's security detail has broken all records in terms of cost to the American tax payer. He has alienated and insulted more of our allies and embraced more ruthless dictators than any previous president. He has refused to show us his tax returns while profiteering from his position.
Yes, Donny has taken nepotism to new levels. He has embraced the alt right movement and brought neo fascists into his administration. He rose to popularity on a campaign of hate and bigotry and he has never tired of scapegoating Muslims, Mexicans and immigrants in general. He is waging a new war on women.
Donny has shown us that he is not our president. He has destroyed whole agencies. What he has done to the EPA, Education, and HUD has never been done before. The State Department is on its knees. His cabinet is filled with incompetents. Wall Street is literally running the Treasury Department and Exxon is running State.
When it comes to failed legislative initiatives, Donny is unrivaled. He has tried to decimate our health care system twice. He is hoping to take more resources away from the poor and middle class and give them to the rich.
He has signed a lot of executive orders and so far, two have been ruled unconstitutional by the courts. Speaking of which, he has trashed more judges and federal circuit courts than any of his predecessors.
If this seems like a lot, it is and I have not even scratched the surface. I, like a lot of us, have been preoccupied scratching the boils that have appeared on my body since the election and inauguration.
Donny is a malevolent agent. He may be the anti-Christ and this may be the end of days the tele-evangelists have been predicting. After successfully bombing dirt in Syria and Afghanistan, Donny seems determined to start an actual war with North Korea. A war that could lead us into World War III.
Who knew? Who had any inkling of Donny's true potential? Donny the Destroyer is here. He is coming to your community soon. He is dead set on bigly screwing each and every one of us.
Yes, "our country is going up, and its going up fast". We are going up in flames.
Holy Moly!
The facts are slowly coming out about what happened during the election and the degree to which Russia has interfered with our government.
Will we get the equivalent of a Watergate style investigation? Will people be charged with serious crimes? Beats me. I hope so, because this might be the most serious threat we've ever had to our country from a foreign government.
So many people involved with Trump have been involved with Russia. The Trump family has been doing business with Russians. The Russians have been interfering with elections in democracies around the world. They want to destabilize those democracies and they want to get rid of NATO.
The FBI and the CIA knew about this before the election, but nothing was done about it. Instead, Russian propaganda and information illegally obtained by Russia was continually released in an effort to hurt Clinton and get Trump elected.
The fact that Russia was working with Assange, Manning and Snowden did not stop Trump from asking Russia to hack information on Clinton. The fact that Manning and Snowden were engaged in espionage did not matter one bit to Trump. Sadly, it did not appear to matter to either Mitch McConnell or Paul Ryan.
Here's my theory based upon what facts have come out so far. McConnell stopped the FBI from releasing information about the investigation of the Trump campaign's activities with Russia before the election.
I also see Russia as playing a much bigger role on the international stage than we may be aware of. I believe Russia has been looking to destabilize the entire West and has been responsible for some of the so called "Islamic" terrorism throughout Europe and the rest of the world.
Russia couldn't defeat us during the Cold War. It could not keep up the arms race and any direct military conflict was sure to result in catastrophic loss for Russia.
Terrorism has resulted in a rebirth of nationalism here and in Europe. England has voted to withdraw from the European Union. The upcoming election in France could result in the same. The EU could falter.
Trump's America First policy threatens our relationships with our long time allies and serves to legitimize similar things in Europe that hurt both Europe and NATO.
Putin has been a busy boy. I believe what he has done here is simply part of a larger plan to wrest control from the West. In the meantime, China has kept us occupied with Korea in the East.
We are being squeezed and we are not alone. We are also being infiltrated. Our Congress better rise to the occasion before it's too late.
Where is Teddy Roosevelt when you need him.
Holy Moly!
Remember when George W. Bush took us into Iraq? Remember the "Bush Doctrine"? Remember the argument for preemptive action in order to prevent a war?
Preemptive action is an act of war. If you strike first and a war ensues, it's on you.
People who argue for preemptive action often refer to Neville Chamberlain and his appeasement of Adolf Hitler prior to World War II. What they always fail to mention is that Hitler had already committed acts of war before Chamberlain made his famous "peace for our time" speech in 1938.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO725Hbzfls
We have had a sustained peace in Korea since 1953. Ever since that time, we have had a large fighting force stationed on the border between North and South Korea. Ever since that time, we have heard a lot of sabre rattling from the leaders of North Korea.
Kim Jong-un is the ruthless dictator of North Korea. From where I sit, he appears insane. He is pursuing a nuclear weapons program for his country. He is also pursuing a long range missile program. He has not started any wars.
North Korea has been testing missiles and is expected to do another atomic bomb test very soon. The whole world would rather it didn't.
Donald Trump launched 59 Tomahawk missiles at Syria last week. He ordered the launch while he was eating what he described as the "most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you've ever seen". He was in the dining room at his Mar A Lago resort dining with the President of China.
Trump's act of war toward Syria has left everybody baffled. It is unclear what our strategy in Syria is. Aside from costing us some $90,000,000 dollars, the strike did little damage. Before the strike, we alerted Russia to it.
The Syria foray actually got Mr. Trump some good publicity. Mr. Trump does not often get good publicity.
Now Trump is threatening preemptive action against North Korea over the proposed atomic bomb test. North Korea is not Syria. Kim Jong-un is not Bashar al-Assad.
I don't care how good any dessert might be, if we attack North Korea to stop it from testing an atomic bomb or if we attack it after it tests an atomic bomb, North Korea will attack someone. If it does, tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people are sure to die, including a good number of the thousands of armed forces we have there.
If North Korea lashes out it will surely attack South Korea and possibly Japan and, less likely, us.
We should not attack another country unless that country first attacks us. That's worked for us over the centuries. It's still working for us.
Holy Moly!
I was resolved to update this blog on a daily basis. I was inspired to do so by the Spirit. I was overwhelmed by the enormity of the bulls**t related to Donald Trump and his administration.
Trump Tower has supplanted The Tower of Babel as the mother of all confusion. It's radiating cognitive dissonance, confusion and disorientation. Anyone trying to make sense of Trump and his minions is immediately sent raving into the night.
Trump's lies and distortions are world renowned. The inconsistencies he alone generates are monumental. When you add to that the inconsistencies and distortions and misinformation coming from his appointees, you raise the level of confusion to a truly galactic level - a galactic cacophony.
Last week proved to be my undoing. Information related to the Russian connections was coming in fast and furious. It was like tide coming in at the Bay of Fundi. Congressman Nunes alone sent things into orbit.
When I sat down to chronicle the Russian fiasco, news of Neil Gorsuch's confirmation process started flooding the airwaves. As I turned to focus on that, the bombing of the Syrian airbase swept everything away and left us all trying to make sense of the contradictory and ridiculous things Trump, Tillerson and Haley were asserting.
Good luck following any of that. China and North Korea photo-bombed the photo ops.
Today, newscasters were talking about the "Trump Doctrine". Trump Doctrine? Please! Did you see Trump's announcement in regard to bombing Syria? Luca Brasi did better articulating his gift to Don Corleone's daughter in the Godfather than Trump did explaining Syria.
The Godfather - Luca Brasi - YouTube
Before this is over, we may need Trump Busters to contain this mess.
Holy Moly!
When Obama asked Congress to support action against Syria, it declined. After declining, Obama was continually criticized by Congress for not taking the action that Congress, itself, refused to authorize.
Confusing?
Trump approves an unauthorized raid on a Syrian air base that was used by Syria to launch an attack on it's own people. Syria used chemical weapons in that attack.
We deployed 59 Tomahawk missiles that did not damage the actual runway at the Syrian air base. In fact, the air base was back in use the next day. The Tomahawk missiles cost us approximately $94,000,000.
We actually informed the Russians before the raid.
Now we are told there are no other actions to follow. This was a unique response to the use of chemical weapons by Syria. It is not part of a larger offensive. It is not part of a defined strategy. It is not a tactic. It is an act of war.
Confusing?
Donald Trump tells us that he was moved to take action after seeing what happened to the children victims of Syria's chemical weaponry.
This is the same Donald Trump who has said over and over again that we should not take action in Syria after seeing numerous other videos of chemical weaponry attacks that have killed far more children and adults.
This is the same Donald Trump who wants to ban Syrian refugees from coming to our country.
Confused?
Whatever Donald Trump is, what he clearly isn't is rational, consistent, law abiding and humanitarian.
Holy Moly!
What would happen if a full division of fully armed, Russian combat troops were suddenly beamed down onto the White House Grounds? Do you think it would cause some concern? Do you figure we would just ignore them? Do you know how many troops are in a division?
In 2014, Russia sent 1,000 troops into the Ukraine. That's right, 1,000 Russian soldiers took over the Eastern Ukraine and they are still there 3 years later.
Let's put my question into perspective. A division consists of about 15,000 troops. That's 15 times the amount Russia used to successfully invade and continue to occupy the Ukraine for some 3 years.
Okay, so now answer the question. Still no answer? You think this is a trick question? You think this is just plain ridiculous?
Here's the deal. Russia used some 15,000 computer whizzes to hack into our political computers and sow cyber mayhem last year. Yep, they used an entire f**king division. They hacked computers, put out fake news and did all kinds of other dirty tricks to f**k over our elections.
That's why Dick Cheney called this an "act of war" last week. I don't generally agree with Cheney. I don't like the man. I think he did a lot of harm to our country. I've chosen to quote him because no one has ever accused Cheney of being a liberal or a democrat or a socialist or a communist or even a sensitive human being.
Dick is not the only person who thinks we have a serious problem with Russia. John McCain and Lidsey Graham also have gone on record about this. They're not known for having leftist leanings.
According to all our legitimate intelligence agencies, Russia used cyber warfare to disrupt our elections and help Trump while hurting Clinton. New Information is coming out that they did the same kinds of things to help Trump in the Republican primaries.
The Russians not only sought to help Trump, they engaged in a lot of communications with his campaign staff and his transition team. In fact, the Russians have been helping Trump for years with his business dealings.
Trump has also been unwilling to say a discouraging word about Vladimir Putin. In fact he is an avowed fan of the man. Trump has managed to say negative things about our allies and NATO. He has caused problems with friendly heads of state. He has appointed a lot of incompetents to administrative positions. He has even hired people who worked with Russia in the Ukraine and elsewhere.
So, we have been invaded by a fully armed division of Russia cyber warriors. Our administration may be compromised and complicit in this. A lot of Republican members of the House, including Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House, are acting like this is no big deal and the Republican Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devon Nunes, has singlehandedly stopped that committee's investigation into all this. Nunes appears to have gone rogue.
The bi-partisan Senate Intelligence Committee seems to be taking this seriously. They have made a good start at investigating all this. They are making some people very nervous. At the top of that list is Donald Trump. Michael Flynn, the man Trump appointed as his National Security Advisor and then fired several weeks later, also seems to be very nervous. Flynn has asked the Senate's Intelligence Committee to grant him immunity in exchange for his testimony.
Do you think it's time for a Special Bipartisan Committee with an Independent Prosecutor to be empowered and get started on this? You know, the kind we had when 5, not 15,000, men broke into the DNC headquarters in 1972? You know that Watergate thing?
Holy Moly!
