Even as his lackeys were scrambling to cover for him, Trump was hiding in a bathroom somewhere in the White House tweeting away their spin jobs.
"Yeah, I did that shit. So what?"
What Trump and his MAGA cultists fail to understand is that his decision to declassify something on a whim is a threat to our national security. He just put Americans at risk because he wanted to look like a big shot to his Russian handlers.
Our allies will not be willing to share sensitive intelligence with us for fear of our president just blurting it out during dick measuring sessions and compromising assets. Compromising assets, by the way, means getting motherfuckers killed because you gave them away during an operation.
This lack of communication will hinder our intelligence community's ability to detect new threats and monitor old ones. It will put a hole in that safety net.
I wonder how many friends the president has left in the intelligence community now. I'd wager less than before.
You can see the buzz of bots all over twitter attempting to damage control this new Trump scandal. Ignore it. Fuck Podesta. Fuck Clinton. I'll make a deal with the MAGAs right now:
You can lock Clinton and Podesta up if we can lock Trump up. Two for one. How about it?
And you have to stop acting like you give half a fuck about Seth Rich. You're just using a dead man as a prop for your agenda and it's pretty disgusting.
But, seriously, who's fooled by the "What about Clinton!?" shtick anymore?
If the goal of the Trump regime is to confuse and fatigue spectators into silence then it may well be working. At least on me.
I'm learning so much about our political system each day, which is nice, but the lesson I keep learning is that the president can pretty much do whatever the fuck he wants. I bet Obama is kicking himself for being so conservative with his use of power. Trump gives zero fucks about ethics, optics, conflicts, politics... It's like we made the Joker the president. He's a dog chasing cars. He just does things.
But is there light at the end of this dank, dark tunnel? Lots of people say yes. The rumors rumbling through the twittersphere, and elsewhere, whisper "Grand jury" or "Sealed indictment" urgently. I want to believe... But I've been hurt before.
All the while, the tweets! The tweets!
It's a fitting future, really. That we would have a Nixonian scandal live tweeted from a dark corner somewhere in the White House.
"Where's the president?"
"I don't know. He gave me the slip again. Is he in Ivanka's room?"
"Negative. He's tweeting. HE'S TWEETING!"
"All agents, be advised. We have a Code Brown on Tweety Bird! I say again, Code Brown! Check all the bathrooms and closets! This is not a drill!"
It'd be a whole lot funnier if it wasn't a thing that probably has happened and does happen. This fucking guy is an embarrassment. An absolute disgrace.
Call Putin and warn him. Putin warns Assad. They clear the airfield, let the Tomahawks make some noise and move some dirt around, and get back to work on their still completely functional runway.
"Hey, Putie! We're going to bomb an airfield to distract people from my terrible presidency, Sad! Don't tell Bashar, ok?!" pic.twitter.com/uCkYhqPjR3
And this is the real story. North Korea is looking like a likely target more and more. Trump wants to start a war to save his presidency. He's going to use it to consolidate his power. "We don't have time to investigate this Russia nonsense!" They'll say, "We're at war!".
"North Korea says a US missile strike on Syria "proves a million times over" that it was right to strengthen its nuclear programme, state media report."
North Korea has WMDs and it's dictator is breaking our sanctions. We have to act, they say, before he starts randomly shooting off missiles at other sovereign nations. How do you do this the day after firing 59 missiles at another sovereign nation with a straight face? Missiles that he fired, by the way, while he was meeting with the Chinese President. He told him that shit at dinner. I'm sure that's just a coincidence, though.
So instead of sitting down at the table with North Korea, which is really all that lil' Kim wants from us, we are going to attack them. Trump has drawn the line for China, his aggression towards North Korea is evident, his forces are moving into place, and he is exactly the kind of nutcase that would start a war to save a presidency.
And the media will fall for it. Just as those "beautiful" missiles distracted idiot talking heads with bright lights and loud noises so too will this impending North Korean conflict. They'll forget all about Russia and go into 24 hour news war mode. We'll all be far too busy watching night vision videos of rockets bursting in air to worry about the Russians' compromising our entire government. We need to be keeping our eyes on the ball and they're going to be distracting us with shiny things. These are the times that CNN and their ilk are bad for America.
Remember those people that said during the election
“Trump can't do half of the crazy things he's saying he'll do”?
“Don't worry.” They'd coo. “He can't hurt things that
much!”
But, oh dear, is he trying real hard right now.
I'm not being partisan when I say that he's destroying
our nation's image among allies and foes alike. Republicans are
feeling it, too. Trump isn't even a Republican to begin with. You've
known this all along really, Republicans, but the win was important
to you. Now you have to decide if it's more important than the
country.
Nevertheless, those optimists from before the election
were technically correct, which is the best kind, when they doubted
his ability to destroy us all. It is not, however, from lack of effort, ability, or motive, but a
lack of intelligence. He tried to pull off a great con, because
DONALD TRUMP IS A CONMAN, and he isn't smart enough to pull it off.
The marks are starting to get wise. The jig is up. The buzzards are
circling the carcass.
His network of shady businessmen is already crumbling.
Soon, it will be every man for himself in Trumpland. If you're paying
attention you can actually see the wheels coming off. They'll tear
each other apart trying to stay out of jail or, on the Russian side
of things, not get straight up murdered. These men aren't built for
prison, even a cushy federal one, and they know it. Maybe they'll
surprise me and we'll watch Trump grow old gracefully on the lush
links of Agola state penitentiary.
Even if Pence survives the impeachment things will be
improved. Just think of everyone that goes away when Trump does.
Bannon. Gone. Tillerson. Gone. Sessions. Conway. Kushner. Ivanka.
Gone. Spicer gone, obviously. That little bottom feeder will be lucky
to get the Easter bunny job back. I'm feeling increasingly secure in
the knowledge that Mattis and McMaster are around. If there's anyone
connected to Trump that I have any faith in, it's those two men.
We're going to need guys like these in the coming days. This treason
will tear our government apart but what rises from the ashes is up to
us and we need to remember; Country over party.
Trumpkins are starting to get that now. They're seeing
that they were lied to and they do not like it. They're not ready to
admit defeat to liberals yet, so bitterly do they hate that word, but
they're beginning to acknowledge that this Trump thing may have been
a mistake. They're less vocal in their support and much less eager to defend him. I don't see a whole lot
of MAGA hats around these days, do you? His slowly eroding base should give
hope to all patriotic Americans. Hell, to people all over the world.
One thing still looms ominously on the horizon - North
Korea. Trump is rattling sabers loudly and I think that it's because
he believes a war will save his ailing presidency. I believe he's
insane enough to try regardless. He's not going to go down easily. Oh no, not our Donald. Trump is going to go down kicking and screaming, taking everything
and everyone along with him, fighting until the bitter end. Hopefully, we can stop him before he starts something that we can't fix.
“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.
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.
