The debates are coming! The Debates are coming, and everyone is debating about what the individual candidates should be doing to shine. They talked about it in This Weekon Sunday and only Rahm Emanuel had anything smart to say. “Forget attacking each other,” Rahm stated. “Concentrate and showing the audience what you have to contribute to the solutions of the problems facing them now.”
It was good advice. It may not make the kind of fun TV that attacks do, but there’s already too much entertainment available to the average person. It’s time to inform them. That, after all, is the point of these debates, to inform. If you want entertainment we already have a chubby, mentally 4 year-old clown in the Oval Office who provides more than enough of that.
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So someone hinted to Trump that it might be a good idea for him to find some other world leaders to meet with because that always gets him face time with the press and it didn’t really matter whether or not they got anything done because people forget what just happened as soon as Trump goes after some new group of immigrants. Results aren’t really important, the toady’s hint to him, it’s really about the announcements and the walking in. It’s the photo op that’s important. It’s the chance to have your base see you being a world leader.
Trump thought this was such a good idea he immediately worked out a meeting with the Taliban and the government of Afghanistan. The biggest problem for him; where to have it? Trump hates to travel overseas so he hit on Camp David. Of course s soon as John Bolton heard about that hair caught on fire. The last thing the great warmonger wants was peace… with anyone, let alone the Taliban.
But then someone in the White House looked at the calendar and realized that the meeting would be happening right around the anniversary of 9/11. Suddenly the great photo op had turned into a horror show. What to do?
That’s when the Taliban saved his ass; they set off a car bomb in Kabul killing a dozen or more people, among them a US soldier. Trump now had his excuse to wiggle out of the meeting. But the meeting hadn’t even been announced. No one knew about it except Trump, the Taliban and the Afghan government, none of whom wanted to meet Trump anywhere, let alone in Camp David.
To get all this you have to understand that what’s left of our State Department has been having talks with the Taliban and the Afghan government for quite a while. They haven’t gotten very far; in fact they haven’t gotten anywhere at all. And all the while the Taliban has been setting off bombs and killing people all over Afghanistan but a little detail like that never bothers Trump. “No meeting with killers.” announced the fat liar in the Oval Office, thereby establishing the fact that he had conveniently forgotten the fact that he’s met with Putin, Kim and Dutarte
But now Trump could announce his brave attempt to protect our boys in danger by trying to end the war in Afghanistan. He would finally have something to brag about that he didn’t make up in his head. It would be fate’s fault that circumstances had prevented him from dealing with murderers and so, unfortunately there would be no talks with the Taliban at Camp David or anywhere else. The boys in combat would just have to take care of themselves. His heroic effort had gone for naught.
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The NY Times had a story this week about the Intelligence community pulling a high ranking asset out of Russia because they felt that – wait for it – Trump was a risk to this asset’s security. I’ve been living this life a long time but I’ve never heard of a government agency making a tactical move because they didn’t trust the President to keep his mouth shut. That is the sad state this country has reached with the fat liar in the Oval Office.
So what’s it about? Well, it seems that for a long time the CIA has had a worm in the Russian hierarchy, some one close enough to Putin to be in almost daily contact with him, someone who was a vast source of important intelligence. The biggest flow of information seems to have been about the Russian hacking of our 2016 election, the one where Trump was assisted by the Russians in his farcical minority vote assisted ,ictory.
We all got a close-up on how Trump worked with the “loose lips sink ships:” doctrine when he divulged classified information to two Russian diplomats in the Oval Office just so he could brag about how informed he was. So when congress started to have hearings on the sources of intelligence that got the Russian hacking investigation rolling, the guys back in Langley started to get the shakes.
It seems the information was pointed enough to be able to be traced back to our agent in the Kremlin and the big worry became would Trump, through stupidity or malice toward the intelligence community, reveal what he had learned in is briefings to the Russians? The decision was made to pull the asset and he’s now here in the states.
So what was the result of this whole screw-up? Well, because we can’t trust our President to keep his mouth shut when he’s around the enemy, we have lost a vital source of information on what that enemy is doing. We had a person right there where the information was being produced and now we have nothing; all because we have a very dumb 4 year-old, in the White House. Maybe the GOP should consider getting rid of him.
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After two and a half years in office Donald Trump finally did something right. He fired John Bolton. Of course, just to prove he’s not all that bright, he had also hired John Bolton. Bolton is a warmonger, a fanatic who wanted to bomb North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Venezuela and just abut every place on the map except Toronto.
But Trump hired him despite knowing all about Bolton’s warlike leanings. Or maybe he didn’t. Maybe Trump is so out of it that he never knew what just about anyone who has ever opened a paper or turned on a news show knew, That John Bolton is an unmitigated war manger.
The only good thing about Bolton is that he doesn’t make any secret about his leanings. He was even considered an outspoken warmonger among the plethora of warmongers in the Bush/Cheney mob. And that’s what got him fired. Luckily he held to that position until he got canned. He kept telling Trump he was wrong. No one tells Trump he’s wrong, for one thing it’s redundant, for another it’s the absolute last thing Donald Trump ever wants to hear. His ego inflated to massive size and he almost exploded. Bolton was the collateral damage.
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Trump, the humanitarian, has decided that the best way to keep from helping the Bahamian refugees fleeing hurricane Dorian is to announce that there are a lot of bad people coming off the islands and trying to sneak into the US. If that were true, which it is not, almost all the bad people would be white bankers and real estate moguls fleeing their tax haven.
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I watched Ari Melber, a guy I normally think of as one of the brightest guys on TV come up with a really dumb take on whether or not the House is going to go ahead with the impeachment process. I don’t know why Ari is having so much trouble with this. It has always been clear that Pelosi doesn’t think impeachment will work. If she thought it would, it would have gone full steam ahead months ago. But at the end of the impeachment road there is always Moscow Mitch and the Senate. Even if Trump shot Mitch on the floor of the Senate, there is no way that they would vote to impeach, so all that has ever been left is to go ahead with an impeachment inquiry, maybe even open an impeachment hearing and thereby get to air all the Trump garbage before the up-coming election but never, ever send anything to the Senate for tem to vote on.
The ideal situation is to drag the inquiry, which will expose all Trump’s criminal and traitorous activities once more to the public, all the way to August or September of 2020 and then because we are too close to a presidential election, (remember that one Moscow Mitch?) call a halt with all the damning evidence before the public but with no time for the GOP to generate their normal lies to defend him.
This is such a simple, straightforward plan, that it seems impossible that Ari doesn’t really get it. Maybe he’s just playing possum and will come out with a completely new theory on his next show.