The Trump Doctrine Redux

Anything shiny, anything of value, is MINE. You will give it to me willingly, or I will take it by force.

Gold is very beautiful. I like Gold. By the time I'm done the White House and my beautiful Trump Ballroom will sparkle with Gold. Nothing but Gold. I like Gold.

I can kill anybody I want.  

Anything I do is, by definition, legal. Just ask my Supreme Court.

The only foreign countries to be trusted are the countries run by my friends: Russia, Israel, China,  Saudi Arabia, Hungary, and maybe, depending on my mood, North Korea. All other countries are suspect--especially the so-called liberal democracies.

If I say someone is a socialist communist, then by God they are a socialist communist. I do not need to know what those words mean to use them. I am a stable genius. I have passed many cognitive tests. 

No one is worthy to question me. I am a stable genius. I have passed many cognitive tests. 

I know more about everything than anyone else on earth. 

I don't know anything about Jeffrey Epstein. Except this whole thing is a Democrat Hoax.

I am not a pedophile. You are a pedophile. Probably.

Venezuela has our oil. It is ours. How it got under their land is a question for geologists. I am not a geologist. Though I know more about this than any geologist.

Canada should be part of the US. Just look at a goddamn map. It is obvious.

Greenland should be part of the US. It is obvious. 

People with darker skin are not to be trusted. They are hiding something. This is obvious.

I am a great golfer, who has won many Trump Golf Club championships.  

Most of what is wrong in this country, and in the world, is Sleepy Joe Biden's fault. 

No. ALL of what is wrong is Sleepy Joe Biden's fault. 

He let 25, 35, 45, 100 million drug dealing rapist murderers into our country. Why? You'd have to ask him. 

I am in much better shape than Barack Obama. How many Trump Golf Club championships has he won, huh? ZERO, that's how many.

If I say something is a HOAX, then it is a HOAX. Russia, Covid, Epstein, Global Warming, January 6th, 2021--Hoax's every one.

I am the best President ever. Everyone loves me. 

I am a stable genius. I have passed many cognitive tests. 

A Field Guide To Spotting Traitors

This used to be a lot harder.

In some cases, it might take years to figure out who the traitors were. 

The Cambridge 5, for instance, got away with all sorts of treasonous shit for decades.

But now, just look for the people with an "R" next to their names.*

It's just that simple.

* the "R" stands for Russia.

"A Seriously Troubled Man"

 "A seriously troubled man."

This is how Glorious Leader Orange Man described Kanye West.

And Glorious Leader was trying to help by...?????

Counseling him? Who wouldn't benefit from the knowledge of Glorious Leader Orange Man?

Comforting him? Perhaps there are "comfort ladies" at Mar-a-Lardo?

Trying to get money from him? Once a grifter always a grifter.

Breaking bread with a neo-Nazi anti-semite piece of shit? It's a big tent.

Who knows?

No, what's important here is that Trump could call anyone else--anyone--"seriously troubled." 

Let us list, briefly and no doubt incompletely, Trump's uh...let's call them troubles:

Traitor. Insurrectionist. Twice impeached. Adulterer. Accused rapist. Tax fraud. Mob ties. Multiple bankruptcies. Pathological liar. Racist. Lusts after his eldest daughter.

Any "help" from someone with that resume would be...priceless.

The Easiest Cure For Traitors And/Or Treason

So I'm watching The Guns of Navarone the other night.

Pretty good action flick. Solid performances from everyone--with Anthony Quinn especially good. Should probably be remade with modern special effects...

Anyway, at one point in the film, one of the team is found to be a traitor. 

Their treason has endangered the mission and all the other members of the team.

Of course, the traitor has their reasons. 

Traitors always have their reasons.

In the film a short discussion regarding the traitor is followed swiftly by execution.

That's it. 

That's all.

No appeal. 

No Fox News counter argument to obfuscate everything.

No Republican "what about?" bullshit. 

You are a traitor.

This is your punishment.

I guarantee if we put a few of our traitors up against a wall, this sort of shit would never happen again.

My God! How Bad Could It Be?!

We already know that Donald J. Trump is a coward, a fool, a liar, a racist, a tax cheat, a rapist, an adulterer, and a traitor.

But apparently, Roger P.O.S. Stone has something even worse to hold over Don Don's fat head...and so Roger P.O.S. Stone's sentence had to be commuted, and he had to be pardoned, lest he spill the beans on something unimaginably bad that he knows about Trump.

So the question is, what could be worse than what we already know--or suspect--about that traitor?

Now that the Proud Boys, who were Stone's personal bodyguards on January 6th, 2021, have found their collective tits in the wringer, and Stone is the next rung up the DOJ's ladder to the Orange Stain, I think we may just find out.

Because I don't think Roger would do very well in prison, the smart money says he will spill his guts about everything he knows to save his worthless ass.

And so, the question remains, "My God! How bad could it be?!"

"The Nearest Run Thing You Ever Saw In Your LIfe"

The title of this post is a quote from the Duke of Wellington about the Battle of Waterloo.

I take it to mean that, if one or two minor things had or hadn't happened, Napoleon would have won.

And the history of Europe would have been very different.

The margin for error was just that thin. 

The more we learn about the January 6th insurrection, the more clearly we see that it was also a "nearest run thing."

You might think that a lifetime of bankruptcies, business failures, divorces, and indictments would have taught Donald J. Trump how to accept defeat. 

Au contraire. 

The King of the MAGAts had a plan to overturn the election. A 6 point plan, put together by the kind of lawyers that attach themselves to people like Donald J. Trump, i.e. the sleaziest kind.

And, if one or two things had gone his way...

Our democracy is just that fragile. 

The Founders anticipated many things.  They did not anticipate something like Donald J. Trump, with a hand picked Supreme Court, and a political party so afraid of him that it would be willing to trash the Constitution just to keep him happy.

By the way, Mike Pence really deserves no credit for ultimately not going along with the plan. He searched and searched and searched for a way to do what his Master wanted.

Finally, apparently after consulting with another half-wit Hoosier former Veep, he did the right thing, the only thing he legally could do.

(And, naturally, was then threatened with death by Traitor Don's traitorous followers.)

When the fate of your democracy rests on the Constitutional wisdom of Dan Quayle, you have truly dodged a bullet.

Ashli Babbitt Got Exactly What She Deserved

Does that seem harsh to you?

Really? 

Because based on all the available evidence she was asking for it.

If someone broke into my house with a crazed look on their face, chanting some insane bullshit, waiving their traitor's flag, and threatening mayhem and murder, I would not hesitate to neutralize them as quickly as possible with whatever means seemed appropriate.

And if they were accompanied by a gang of similarly incensed, delusional, knuckle dragging lunatics, the appropriate means would be swift and deadly.

No ifs, ands, or buts.

No time to try to figure out who's a murderous crazy and who just thinks "gee, this will be fun!"

The next time a gang of MAGAts, riled up by their Flabby Orange Couch Potato Traitor in Chief, tries to storm anything, the appropriate police response can be described in three words:

Shoot To Kill. 

Oh sure, warn them first.

Then Shoot To Kill.

Play time is over.

In Too Deep

There's an old saying attributed to Will Rogers, "if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging."

Apparently, the Republican Party never learned that lesson.

They continue to spread Trumpie the Clown's Big Lie.

They refuse to sanction an investigation into the insurrection on January 6th.

They encourage fake election "audits" in various states.

They keep lying....about everything.

These are all losing gambits.

And yet, they persist.

Why?

Because, like criminals everywhere, at some point they find themselves in too deep to stop.

For many years, the Goons on Parade party has been run like The Mob, complete with an omerta.

They've taken huge, yoog, amounts of money from various sources--including the Russian government. And people don't give you that much money and expect nothing in return, now do they?

They've undermined our alliances with our allies and encouraged our enemies.

Practically every Republican in Congress has been tainted. 

Practically every Republican in Congress is complicit.

Their crimes are so many, and so antithetical to American Democracy, that were they all exposed, the Republican Party would quite simply cease to exist.

There is no turning back from this sort of, oh, let's call it TREASON.

So, best to keep digging. Keep shoveling as much shit as they can, to try and confuse the issues. Keep bleating about "unity" and "bi-partisanship", words that to a Republican mean "keep doing what we say and no one gets hurt."