One of the main jobs of the National Security Advisor is to speak to the President about what he is saying to other world leaders and then try to craft that into policy. But Robert C. O’Brien our current NSA claims he doesn’t speak to the President about what he says to other world leaders. So what the hell does he do and why do we need to shell out that paycheck?
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For those of you who are wondering about why we are forced to drag around an anchor made of states that produce nothing and are populated mostly by those who refuse to use what little intelligence the lord managed to cram into their heads, an answer has surfaced recently in the form of a map that proposes a new territorial distribution of the land making up the United States and Canada. Yes it’s a fantasy and God knows what it would take to make it work but gazing at it this afternoon it definitely had its appeal.
The creator of this concept suggests that 19 states leave the United States of America and join Canada in a contiguous grouping that to a great extent would free us from the ignorance and incompetence that led to Donald Trump becoming president.
The 19 states would be Washington, Oregon, California along the west coast and Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, in the mid-west and New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine along the north and east coast, plus Hawaii. They would have a population of about 184 million and a GDP of over $11 trillion, second only to China. It would have a per capita GDP twice that of the territory it had left behind in the south and mid-west. It would be energy sufficient and would be dominant in tech, finance and media. It would also be unbeatable in hockey and curling.
This would free those of us who actually think, from the intellectual tyranny of those who do not. I am not just speaking of those who have elected Donald Trump and still think they did the right thing. I am thinking of those who just voted for Marjorie Taylor Greene in her Georgia GOP primary.
Who is Marjorie Taylor Greene you ask? Well, she’s a crazy bimbo, who goes around proselytizing for QAnon, a Jonestownesque accumulation of Kool Aid imbibers that work their asses off trying to sell the notion that there is an elite global cabal of Satan worshippers, who run the world’s governments, are hiding mass pedophilia rings from the public that are probably led by Hillary Clinton and that the only hope of stopping this is to re-elect Donald Trump, because even though he has done nothing to stop this so far, he will end it if re-elected. I’m not making this shit up. There are loons who really believe it.
I have no intention of trying to convince anyone who believes this nonsense that they are wrong. You can’t logically explain anything to the insane. But for those who are nibbling around the edge or who have just heard about this, here are a couple of things to consider. Let’s take a look at the concept that some kind of Satanist group is running our government. Well, Trump and his lackeys are currently trying to run our government so it seems reasonable that if Satanists are involved they are working for Trump. And while we’re on Satanists, how about that weird lady doctor who Trump shoved before the cameras to tell us all about the Satanists who were causing COVID-19 by screwing aliens? Where do you suppose he found her?
But that’s only half of it. The other half has to do with those pedophile rings. Now really, let’s sit back and take a careful look at this. If you had to choose between Hillary and Trump to be a pedophile, which do you really think is viable? There is nothing but the ravings of the obviously insane Ms Taylor Greene that points to Hillary? On he other hand, let’s look at Trump’s history with the Miss Teenaged America contest where he was constantly being accused by the underage girls of hanging out in their dressing room when they were changing. How many pictures do we have to see of Trump and Jeffrey with their arms wrapped around each other to get the point.
Let’s hope the feds can do a better job of keeping Ghislane Maxwell alive than they did Jeffery Epstein. I mean if you think that Jeffrey Epstein, who had all the goods on everybody, committed suicide; you’ve already bought that bridge.
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Dimwit Donald has been stupid enough to tell the nation that mail-in ballots will be the cause of a rigged election. Now the Fat Liar in the Oval Office is proving his contention by having Postmaster General Louis DeJoy pull 671 mail-sorting machines from various locations all over the country. These machines are designed to sort 35,000 pieces of mail an hour and spit them out with 99% efficiency. So why are they being removed? Well postal officials tell us it’s to improve efficiency. Really? Taking out the sorters is going to make the line work faster? It’s gonna take a hell of a lot of drugs to get a postal worker to move that fast.
So what is happening to those machines? Are they being replaced? So far no evidence of that, but let’s look a little deeper. It turns out that Postmaster De Joy who donated a cool million bucks to Trump is holding over $30 million in stock in XPO Logistics, a company that processes mail for the USPS. This in itself is an ethics violation but everyone knows that neither Trump nor anyone who works for him has any ethics. Could it be that DeJoy is pulling those 671 machines so that XPO Logistics, in which he has a huge stake, will get more business? Either way it looks like an indictment for DeJoy.
On the other hand it may just be a simple case of Trump trying to fix an election, something we all understand. In either case the Democrats had better have a solution to the mail-in ballot problem. They have had sufficient warning. Someone mentioned drop boxes for ballots at fire stations. A better idea would be drop boxes for ballots at polling places, where teams of poll watchers could keep an eye on them. There will be no excuse. We all know what the crook is up to. If he get’s our wallet, it will be our fault.
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And if you’re looking for a real laugh go no further than “Sportsmen for Trump” a coalition of assholes that have failed to define the word “Sportsmen” correctly. That great “sportsman,” Donald Trump Jr. and his girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle put this clown show together. I have no idea why Kimberly has involved herself in this circle jerk, but having a pissant like Trump, who along with his defective brother Eric kills endangered species for fun and photo ops, heading up the project, immediately brands it as having absolutely nothing to do with sportsmanship.
This dumpster fire had it’s initial meeting Friday night in Coplay, PA and I’ll bet all the sportsmen were there armed to the teeth with automatic weapons and slurping beer directly from the keg. Poor little Don, what a pathetic figure.
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And just when you thought you might have a chance of staying alive and started looking forward to another year of life, the Trump Administration decided that COVID wasn’t killing enough voters fast enough to win the election so they’ve revoked the rules that require oil and gas drillers to detect and fix leaks of methane, a greenhouse gas that heats an already over heating planet faster than anything else.
Environmental Protection Agency (a bad joke) administrator Andrew Wheeler will make the announcement from Pennsylvania, a major oil and gas area that also happens to be a swing state. That might be good politically for Trump but it is sheer hell for the planet. 25% of all global warming this planet has experienced is due to methane. But what does Trump care if your kids die as long as he keeps his donors happy.
And while we’re on global warming; I know Trump as been kept alive financially by donations from fossil fuel Barons but it would seem that it’s about time he started checking the polls and realized that the economy’s crash due to the COVID-19 virus can be fixed to his advantage if only he has the intelligence to understand that there are hundreds of thousands, maybe even a couple of million jobs out there to be created by dumping the oil & gas lobby and pushing the emergence of renewable energy. I’m talking about jobs that run from high tech to grunt on the ground. It would be his greatest accomplishment because it would be his only accomplishment, but it would get a lot of people back to work, people who vote.
Trump describes Kamala Harris as mean, angry disrespectful and anything else negative you can think of, yet Joe Biden picked her as his VP candidate. Why? Maybe because she was the best choice, something that Trump would never consider. Trump picked a guy who has his nose so far up his ass no one can tell you what he looks like. That’s basically the difference between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Trump wants adulation and self-aggrandizement while Biden wants to make the country work and serve the people.
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Trump says that universal mail-in voting will be a catastrophe that will make our nation a laughing stock all over the world. Sounds like he’s planning to run it himself.
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And of course Trump is back on the birther bandwagon, quoting one of his lackeys that is babbling that Harris, who was born in Oakland, California, is not a legal American. It didn’t work for Obama and it won’t work for Harris but it just goes to show how desperate the Republicans are. They will say anything, do anything, tell any lie to try to save themselves from the battering they expect in November.
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The candidacy of Kanye West is a really bizarre idea that obviously came to Jared Kushner in one of his fantasies. It is now trying to generate enough signatures to get Kanye on the ballots of various states. In Wisconsin they have found someone named Bernie Sanders to sign the petition and they are trying to sell the idea that it is Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont. I won’t even go into the logistics, but the idea that a person with bi-polar disorder who needs to be heavily medicated in order to act normally is a viable candidate for president would only occur to anyone in a world where Donald Trump already is president,
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The Israeli’s and the UAE seem to have to come to some kind of agreement in which the UAE will recognize Israel, while Israel will back off further incursion into the West Bank. Donald Trump is busy putting the gold tint in his hair in anticipation of the Nobel ceremony but maybe he should take a beat. Jared Kushner and a group from the administration have certainly been working hard, but like everything else Jared does it is still a long way to fruition.
In a seriously Trump-like move, Netanyahu stabbed his negotiators in the back Sunday night with a statement that “annexation was still on the table” and then there was an attack on the West Bank.
The Palestinians, who everyone is bragging will be the beneficiaries of this treaty took one look and denounced it. So far they seem to be against the whole agreement.
Defense Advisor O’Brien was on the tube this morning telling the world about all the great flights that will now be flying from the UAE airports to Tel Aviv. It seems that this is what the Trump administration thinks is most important about the deal. This just proves that nothing of importance is actually happening and that O’Brien is a bigger dope than I actually thought.