“BUT WHY?!” The Donald screamed as
he slammed his small, soft hands down on the Resolute desk. His anger
forced his voice two full octaves higher and made him sound like a
petulant child.
“Don-” Paul Ryan began. The Donald
cut him off.
“MR. PRESIDENT!”The Donald whined.
“Mr. President...”Ryan choked out
the words. “We don't have the support.”
“Well, maybe if you'd made it better!
Why is it so bad? You're the worst! SAD!” The last word he almost spit out involuntarily, as
though he suffered from Tourette's.
“You said you liked it yes-” Ryan
was cut off again.
“FAKE NEWS!” The Donald began
sputtering. “You are just as bad as CNN and NBC! Fox and friends
knows! You're just like the fake dishonest media! SAD!”
“Do-Mr. President, this isn't the end
of the fight. We can rewrite it and reintroduce it. We can-”Ryan pleaded.
“No! The stupid loser Democrats want
Obamacare? Fine! They can have it! Steve told me that it's going to
explode anyway and, when it does, it'll be their fault! They're going
to have to come to me for help and I'll make them all come down to
Mar-A-Lago and eat the meatloaf! Get out of my office!”The Donald turned his back and stared angrily out of the window.
“Yes, Mr. President.”Ryan said. As
he left the Oval Office, closing the door behind him, a tear rolled
down his cheek.
“Sad.” He said to himself quietly
as he wiped it away.
I've written about this before with the hope of being
wrong. And I was. Unfortunately, I don't think I was wrong about the
war, only the target, and I fear it's still coming. It's just looking like Trump will attack North Korea, instead.
Makes a lot of sense, really.
Iran, my previously
suspected target, is a Russian ally. My reasoning was that Putin
doesn't give a fuck. I firmly believe that he'd feed us Iran if it
made us happy so that he could concentrate on his own European
aspirations as long as we made some deals regarding the distribution
of oil. Since he has a puppet in the White House that wouldn't really
be much of an issue.
North Korea, however, is looking like a better target.
I'm already seeing Trumpkins on twitter urging military action
against North Korea for “bullying the US” and “building weapons
of mass destruction”. Gee whiz, it all sounds so familiar.
Nevermind that Kim Jong Un isn't really a threat. Trump
needs a boost to those approval ratings. The kind of boost that only
military action can bring. A war turns nationalism into patriotism,
paranoia into prudence, dissent into disloyalty. “You're either
with us or against us!”, they'll cry.
People need to wake up to the danger that is Trump's
administration. They are a desperate and flailing bunch that will do
anything to succeed up to, and including, throwing the country under
the bus. Our fate lies in the hands of folks like Mattis and
McMaster - potential voices of reason within the administration that
could steer Trump away from war.
It's something to hope for in a time
seemingly without hope.
While it is true that Trump's White
House is now clearly a lost cause of scandal and incompetence there
may still be a silver lining:
Trump may be too busy, or even
completely unable, to pursue military actions.
He's in it now and it's showing. He's
coming apart at the seams live on Twitter. His mad ramblings, written
in such obvious panic and desperation, should be more proof than
anyone needs. The way he attempts to fling blame at other people is a
clear indicator. He's compromised, there is proof, and he knows it.
Why else would he be so worried about a wiretap that he'd tell his
tweeps before he asked his advisers?
He's rattled.
Imagine that you're a general watching
this. A general that, not so long ago, watched your
commander-in-chief throw you and your buddies under the fucking bus
for a botched raid that he himself greenlit.
Now you're thinking
about your career, your family, your troops. Are you going to follow
this man into battle? Having served under some questionably suited
NCOs and officers I can tell you that disobeying an unlawful order is
as much a soldier's duty as following a lawful one. I have to hope
that our military commanders are the men that I think they are and
that they should be.
I also don't see Trump getting any
cooperation from our allies at the moment regarding broad military
action - like war with Iran. I've written about my belief that Trump
will attack Iran in much the same way that Bush attacked Iraq;
Looking for things that aren't there and after a dubiously connected
terrorist attack. I can't see that happening with the way things are
going. As with most of my most pessimistic writing... I hope I'm wrong.
The support that he needs seems to be
dwindling. As Republicans continue to play damage control, while they push through measures to make their friends rich, they are
slowly distancing themselves from the Trump administration. Especially now that the Republican healthcare plan has been outed as an absolute disaster. Trump has
no real allies that I can see. Is a politician ever a true ally? A
person motivated solely by their self interest is never going
to burn for you.
It'll be very interesting to see how the Trump administration responds to Rachel Maddow's exposure of Trump's 2005 tax returns. The WH's statement...
is a disaster. How embarrassed are you that this is the kind of statement that Trump's WH releases?
So, what now? They just accused Maddow of breaking the law. Are they going to arrest her? Is this the next iteration of the "Lock Her Up!" movement? Isn't it funny that Trump and his cronies have been saying for this entire time that he can't release his tax returns and then today, when the press gets a portion of them, they are eager to release that portion but only that portion? We need to see those taxes.
What Maddow has now isn't actionable but she's got the right idea. By showing what she has she can show us what we need and why we need it. Hopefully this is only the beginning.
I believe that the president is corrupt and compromised, I believe that initially only his inner circle were fully aware of the extent of this, and I believe that now, as the evidence pours out of the many holes in the HIRMS Trump, people that previously did not believe are starting to. What they will do with this information I have no idea.
"No,
puppet! It is not time to dance!" President Putin screamed at his
television set.
He
turned to me, beseechingly, and said "He's fucking doing it
again. Every time he fucks our shit up."
This
has been the life of President Vladimir Putin since Donald Trump has taken
office.
"When
we first made plans to make him president we thought it would just be
nonstop luls. I mean, President Trump. Rekt, America. Rekt."
Far from buoyant however, a tired President Putin confided in me that "Trump won't stick to the
script. Directing him is an absolute nightmare. He is the worst.
Seriously, how hard is it to stay off of the twitter?"
Usually
a meticulously groomed and imposing man, today's President Putin was decidedly
less impressive. For the short time that he has granted this reporter
access he has been in pajama pants and a Motley Crew T-shirt. It's
been eighteen hours so far. We were scheduled for an hour but when I
arrived for the interview he waved me into his suite , saying "Fuck
it. He's ruined everything anyway.", and pouring himself a
coffee mug of vodka. Rather than let me leave he's making me write the article right here so that he can read it.
"Honestly,
all he was supposed to do was beat Hillary. We were hoping for some
deals afterwards, sure, but that wasn't the payoff. I just don't like
Hillary. I winked at her once and she flipped me your bird when no
one was looking. Fuck Hillary. Also, Obama got all up in my face and
there's that picture that makes me look like a bitch. Did you think
Vladimir would not get his get back?" He laughed heartily at
that, exclaiming "I'm motherfucking KGB, bitch."
"Look
at this shit!" He said, stabbing a finger at the CNN anchor's
face, "He reads OUR fucking propaganda, believes it, and then
tweets it when his handler isn't looking! Now everyone is talking
about our fake bullshit news story. It was only meant for the
idiots!"
He
stopped abruptly then, regarded me sharply, and said "Let me see what
you've written."
After reading this draft the President seems slightly subdued but he's a very hard man to read. He's asked me to join him for tea after he changes in the other room. Perhaps when he returns we can get to the original topic for my interview, Top 10 Pimpin' Places President Putin Parties.
