First
Transgender President: Trump Becomes Hillary
By Fred
Reed
April
23, 2017 "Information
Clearing House"
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Oh Lord,
it’s happening–the remanufacture of Trump by the
Establishment. During the campaign, Trump and
the Basilisk had nothing in common but their
hair dye. Now, almost daily, he looks more like
her.
He gets
embarrassing. Regarding the alleged gassing in
Syria, quote Donald:
“When you
kill innocent children, innocent babies —
babies, little babies — with a chemical gas …
that crosses many, many lines, beyond a red
line. … And I will tell you, that attack on
children yesterday had a big impact on me … my
attitude toward Syria and Assad has changed very
much.”
God
almighty. Who wrote this–a middle school girl
with C’s in English, or the President of the
United States? Did he retire to his bedroom for
a good cry?
Apparently
he ordered his missile strike without bothering
to find out what happened. The usual suspects
are driving him like a sports car.
The election was a choice between fetor and a
lunatic. We chose the lunatic. Whether this was
better than the alternative, we will never know,
but Trump is going from bad to worse, or as the
Mexicans say,
de
Guatemala a Guatepeor.
Does he
believe
this stuff? Is he naive enough to think that
there was something unusually horrible about the
attack? Horrible, yes, but not in the least
unusual. Do you know what everyday, boring
artillery does to children? Five-hundred-pound
bombs? Hellfire rockets? Daily Mr. Trump’s
military and his allies daily drop
shrapnel-producing explosives on people, cities,
towns, adults, children, weddings and goatherds
in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. Good
draft-dodger that he was, he probably has never
seen any of this. Good psychopath that he may
be, he may not care.
This whole
gas-attack business smells to high heaven. It
looks nicely calculated to force him to attack
Assad. Gas was important: Killing babies, little
babies with explosives is so routine that no one
cares, but we have been programmed to shudder at
the thought of Gas!
Actually
artillery has killed several orders of magnitude
more people, but never mind.
Targeting children was a nice touch. Definitely
a PR bonus. So Donald goes into his Poor-widdle-fings
weep, while Americans weekly kill more children
in three to seven countries, depending on the
date.
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Is the man
consciously a liar? Hasn’t got sense enough to
think before operating his mouth? Actually
believes what he says when he says it?
Glance at
a small part of the record and focus on his
changing his tune, not on whether you agree with
a particular policy. Erratic, erratic, erratic.
He was going to run out the illegals within two
years, absurd but he said it. Going to put high
tariffs on Mexican goods. Didn’t. On Chinese
goods. Isn’t. Tear up the Iran treaty. Didn’t.
Declare China a currency-manipulator. Isn’t.
Ban Muslims. Hasn’t. Promote good relations with
Russia. Isn’t. Get the US out of Syria. Ha. Make
NATO pay for itself. Isn’t. The man has the
steely determination one associates with bean
curd. You cannot trust anything the man says.
Having
been reprogrammed as a good neocon, bombing
places he promised to get out of, looking for a
fight with Russia, he is now butting heads with
Fat Thing in North Korea. He his said things
closely resembling, “We have run out of
strategic patience with the North. If nobody
else will take care of it, we will.” Grrrr.
Bowwow. Woof.
The
problem with growly ultimata made for television
is that somebody has to back down–that is, lose
face and credibility. If Trump had quietly told
Fat Thing, “If you crazy bastards scrap your
nuke program, we will drop the sanctions,” it
might have worked. But no. Negotiations would
imply weakness. Thus an ultimatum.
So now
either (a) Fat Thing knuckles under, humiliating
himself and possibly endangering his grasp on
power or (b) Trump blinks in a humiliating
display of the Empire’s impotence, possibly
endangering his grasp on power.
Kim Jong
Il, or Il Sung Jong, or whatever the the hell
the latest one of them is called, shows not the
slightest sign of backing down. So does the
Donald start an utterly unpredictable war, as
usual in somebody else’s country, or does he
weasel off, muttering, and hope nobody notices?
Fred’s
Third Law of International Relations: Never butt
heads with a country that has a missile named
the No Dong.
Many of us
favored Trump, slightly daft though he was,
because he wasn’t yet Hillary, wasn’t yet a
neocon robot, and didn’t want war with every
country he had heard of, apparently meaning a
good half dozen. At least he said he didn’t, not
yet having been told that he did. In particular,
he didn’t want war with Russia. But when the
neocons control the media and Congress, they can
convince a naive public of anything and,
apparently, the President.
Why is the
Hillarification of Trump important? The
necessary prior question: What is the greatest
threat to the neocons’ American Empire? Answer:
The ongoing integration of Eurasia under Chinese
hegemony. The key countries in this are China,
Iran, and Russia. (Isn’t it curious that, apart
from the momentary distraction of North Korea,
these countries have been the focus of New
York’s hostility?) In particular if Russia and,
through it, China develop large and very
profitable trade with Europe, there goes NATO
and with it the Empire.
Oops.
Thus the
eeeeeeeeeeek!
furor about Russia as existential threat and so
on. Thus sending a few troops to Baltic
countries to “deter” Russia. This was theater.
The idea that a thousand garrison troops can
stop the Russian army, which hasn’t gone silly
as ours has, on its doorstep is loony.
Hillary
was on board with the Russia hysteria and the
globalization and the immigration and so on.
Trump could have screwed the whole pooch by
getting along with Russia, so he had to be
reconfigured. And was. A work in progress, but
going well.
Too much
is being asked of him. One man cannot overcome
the combined hostility of the media, the
political establishment, the neocons, the myriad
other special interests that he has threatened.
Mass immigration is a done deal. China develops
and America, already developed, cannot keep up.
The country disintegrates socially. Washington,
always depending on war and its threat, faces a
new world in which trade is the weapon, and
doesn’t know what to do. The culture courses.
The world changes.
Yet if
only Trump showed some sign of knowing what he
is doing, and could remember from day to day, if
only he realized that wars are more easily
started than predicted, if only he were not
becoming an unbalanced Hillary.
Yet,
apparently, he is.
Fred, a keyboard
mercenary with a disorganized past, has worked
on staff for Army Times, The Washingtonian,
Soldier of Fortune, Federal Computer Week, and
The Washington Times.
http://fredoneverything.org/
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