In the Good Old Days - 3 Months Ago - POTUS and His Team Would Be in SCIF for Imminent Military Action
The question non-cultists are asking is this: Where was POTUS, and why wasn't he on the Signal chat?
Donald Trump, looking more tired and confused than usual, told journalists yesterday that it seems there “was a bad signal” and someone who wasn’t authorized got onto the chat — “He’s a real sleazebag, by the way.” The journalists, in their usual way of somehow protecting Trump’s ignorance, let his odd explanation slip past and fade like words across the sky. Fortunately for us, though, independent media was listening, and so the corporate media’s“ignore and move on” strategy failed.
Trump thinks “signals got crossed.” Interesting. Okay, let’s move on.
Setting aside that lunacy that the incompetents running the country under Trump 2.0 think it’s perfectly acceptable to be communicating about bombing foreign countries while simultaneously placing orders at the Wendy’s Drive-Thru for a Frosty — “Bombs away…no, sorry, that’s not for you. Just a large Frosty, please.” What concerns me is that Donald Trump — the President of the United States — was not involved in any of that discussion. The only people who seemed to be near the president at the time were Susan Wiles and Stephen Miller, but neither of them ever chimed in with a “POTUS says amazing job, guys.”
We need to start asking the question: Who is running the country?
Just last week, Trump said that he never signed the act that labeled the Venezuelan gang residing in Aurora, Colorado, as a terrorist organization that invaded the U.S. More than once on camera, Trump said, “I didn’t sign it. I don’t know who signed it.” However, his Leni-Riefenstahl-meets-Joseph-Goebbels press secretary announced in her usual irritable manner that Trump had signed it.
Traditionally, when the U.S. is putting any of its forces in harm’s way, the president and his team of closest advisors gather in the Situation Room. There are many reasons for this, some of the most obvious being that it permits secure communications. Additionally, it enables the president to consult with the most qualified military experts in real time, ensuring both mission success and the safety of our troops. To put it simply, using private phones to carry out such a mission is not advisable — especially when one of the individuals on the chat was sitting in the Kremlin.
So, where was the “greatest president of our lifetime”(he is retired in Delaware), and did he even know that bombing was taking place? From what we see daily in Trump’s world, the bumbling, barely-aware-where-he-is orange lunatic was sitting in the dining room next to the Oval Office, watching Fox and MSNBC. He was doing word searches with only two words in the jumble of letters, tariffs, and groceries (two very old-fashioned words, remember?).
Here is what the esteemed magazine Foreign Policy wrote yesterday.
Geopolitical storm clouds are gathering at the far reaches of Pax Americana, and yet there is remarkably little sign that the U.S. government or the American people have awoken to the mounting dangers. The threat posed by China and Russia and their rogue nation allies rated only passing mention in last year’s presidential campaign, for instance, which in typical fashion revolved around domestic issues such as the economy and inflation. Asked to choose among five issues in an NBC exit poll, only 4 percent of the voters surveyed during last year’s presidential election named foreign policy as a priority.
President Donald Trump has talked a lot about restoring strong U.S. leadership in an increasingly unstable world, but in its first two months, his administration has mostly sown chaos at home and doubt abroad about the reliability of the United States as an ally.
The administration’s ready-fire-aim approach to national security and world affairs stands in stark contrast to the sense of very real urgency felt at the United States’ geographic military commands, which are positioned forward around the globe (America Is Listing in a Gathering Storm).
Last week, I wrote sarcastically about a pandemic of stupidity. What I wrote, however, was not meant to be sarcastic. It was a warning. Unfortunately, a lot of what I write doesn’t get heard. I checked Facebook yesterday to see how the cultists from my childhood and family are dealing with this latest display of Trumpian treachery and incompetence. Many of them are laughing about this, regarding it as another moment when “We owned the libs.”
These people are so dangerously stupid that if their pants were aflame, and a liberal told them to put them out, they wouldn’t pee to do so. Like dunces, all they want to do is “get one over on the libs,” and when the shit does hit the fan, they won’t blame themselves, Trump, or Republicans. They will blame transgender women in sports and Democrats.
While half of America does not care where Trump was and why he was clueless about the bombing of the Houthis, half does. Sooner or later, we will get our payback — once the Democrats in Congress grow a pair of balls, that is.