You knew that a rejoinder was coming to Trump’s emotional, semi-threatening tone to Vladimir Putin about how Putin is “playing with fire,” the implication being that Putin better play ball with Trump or else. Or else what is the dangling question. And so the Russians did indeed speak out on the subject, at least RT, the Russian TV channel did. And they openly mocked Trump for the child he is and taunted him. I would not want to be a ketchup bottle or a coffee pot when Trump sees this. (Or maybe his aides will screen him off from the bad news?)
That’s the Russian viewpoint, that the powerful Mango Messiah will reverse course by the crow of the cock. And what would give them that idea? Gee, I dunno. Do you suppose that the fact that Trump imposed the sanctions on China and then withdrew the sanctions on China (with China giving him nothing in return) might have given them the idea Trump is wishy washy — not to mention an idiot and a fool?
Or, maybe it was when he paused the tariffs on Canada and Mexico — also in exchange for nothing. Or, postponed the tariffs on the EU (psst: in exchange for nothing.) And what about when he threatened Mother Russia with sanctions if they didn’t sign the ceasefire (and he did nothing?)
Or could it be all the ludicrous threats about taking back the Panama Canal or invading Greenland — also accompanied by nothing but hot air? Could this perhaps sway the Russians’ opinion of Trump as a bloviating blowhard?
And we won’t even mention annoying the Canadians to the point where they now categorically regard the United States as an unfriendly power if not an outright enemy and this after so many years as the best of friends and allies. Let’s not mention that at all, good idea.
So in this instance, I have to say, I’m with the Russians! I fully expect to awaken in the morning and see Trump backing down and saying something else to Putin. Because at the end of the day, Putin scares the living shit out of Trump. And well he should.
And especially now. Putin has Trump where he wants him. And make no mistake, Putin loves the fact that paranoid alcoholic Pete Hegseth is in charge of the Department of Defense because that means that there is nobody running the Department of Defense. One of Hegseth’s aides confided that on any given day, if you had a pie chart of how Hegseth spent the day, 50% of it would be obsessing over a leak, according to the New Republic. We have truly seen the fruition of Nikita Khrushchev’s 1956 prophecy, “We will take you over without firing a shot. We will take you over from within.”
Joseph McCarthy thought that meant that the commies were going to infiltrate the government, the media, all that. No. What was intended all along was the cultivation of enough key assets over the years, say Michael Flynn for openers and then some right-wing media influencers and then the big kahuna of them all, the real estate developer who was born to great wealth but couldn’t keep his hands on any of it.
And it all came together in 2016. Might have taken 70 years or so to get the combination right, but it came together. And here we are.
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Trump Always Chickens Out
You made me spit coffee on my monitor *grin*gigglefit*
It’s a dangerous world out there, folks, and having a spoiled 8-year-old who throws his toys at the wall as president isn’t the best way to deal with it. Old Nikita would be ejaculating in his grave if he could see what the American “government” looks like today.