Begun on July 4th: completed on July 9th
I wanted to follow-up The Oldest Profession with something trite suggesting that the POTUS likes \”naughty\” women (with a-bit-of-an-edge to them) — like Ivana; Marla Maples (not as naughty as the others); Stormy Daniels; Karen McDougall; and of course, current Wife, Melania. But Bill Maher\’s 6/29 show sounded so many alarms that I had to put Trump\’s Women on the back burner and changed the name of this attempt to: The Empire Has Struck Back (which I\’ve since changed to Hot-Off-the-Press — because I\’ve just learned that):
Great Britain, Germany and France will continue oil purchases from Iran with the Euro Dollar!!! I would be surprised if you heard about this from American media (until it\’s too late) — this report being gleaned from Russian TV. My mother suggests that she already read about it in The Wall Street Journal last week. But she couldn\’t have — as it was also news to Friend Clive…
These 3 European countries have recognized the madness of US foreign policy and are beginning to take steps to safeguard their own survival. The Chinese and Japanese have been unloading US dollars for quite some time now — as have other BRICS countries.
Why no political entity in US seems cognizant of the dire implications this will bring to US economy is-beyond-me?! I just hear bullshit rhetoric that suggest US economy is so healthy that we can outlast China in a trade war (says the 250-year-old to the 10,000-year-old). It seems that the POTUS is playing directly into Putin\’s prime directive, which is: The destruction of US.
But for argument\’s sake — let\’s say that some strange quirk allows US to survive (without a civil war)…it still seems that we will be stuck with a dictator.
I have written elsewhere that our Constitution is in tatters and has been rendered impotent. The retirement of Anthony Kennedy at such a crucial time in the Nation\’s history also helped set off the aforementioned alarms. (Was he forced out? I still think Scalia was murdered!)
And here I\’ve been writing under the delusion that the POTUS would not see Two terms in office (let alone One). But Maher and Co. have caused me to realize that he may indeed become president-for-life. More succinctly put: Emperor-for-Life — and we will see a succession of Trump children and grandchildren presiding over The United States of Trump.
More-and-more-people are talking about the potential civil war that looms large over US — now that the nation has become a 50/50 split on the POTUS\’ approval/disapproval rating.
I have elsewhere addressed how human beings appreciate being told what to do — but now I am more interested in what causes human beings to embrace lies at the expense of the truth?
While practicing marriage and family therapy I learned that if an affair by one partner was kept secret from the other — the marriage had a very good chance of enduring. But if the partner was honest about the affair — the marriage invariably ended up in divorce court.
Lying can preserve an arrangement…but the element of dishonesty always lurks in the background and can cause short circuits down-the-road…
Trump lies with impunity — and his base and sycophants eat-it-up. (He also dictates from his White Throne in the wee-wee hours and the aforementioned acolytes drink up the pee-pee wisdom.)
It seems that US are doomed to a Mussolini-styled dictatorship unless there is a massive reality check of His reality show.
But I\’ve heard that Thailand is a nice place to retire to.
What\’s their currency? Is there still time to exchange my dollars??