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friday firesmith – trumpty dumpty
Trump comes home from China, blithely unaware how deeply he, and America, have been insulted by the Chinese, and immediately warns Taiwan about declaring independence. Trump went to China to plea for help with Iran, and we have no evidence any such thing has happened. The art of the deal may be, in this case, Trump surrenders something bigly and hopes for the best.
Considering the low regard he holds little girls, the bombing of the school in Iran that killed 168 children is no surprise. Betraying Taiwan shouldn’t surprise anyone, either. Trump has systematically alienated all of America’s allies and he’s creating generational hate among those enemies we might establish ties with later.
Russia, who firmly holds the leash attached to Trump’s neck, now realizes Trump could have, but did not deliver Ukraine, as he promised. The speed at which Europe reacted in boosting Ukraine’s drone expertise was stunning to some, but those paying attention to Trump realize he tips his hand before the cards are dealt.
Flatly put, Europe has no need of a bumbling boy-king who wrecks more than he can repair. Russia is learning the hard way that what Trump could accomplish is never anywhere near what he does.
China is not in a war, and has avoided military conflict on a large scale for decades now. They cannot be extorted by a threat to their energy needs, nor do they owe anyone large amounts of money. Their economy is stable and other than their never ending food supply chain issues, China is unlike many countries willing to bend to Trump’s will.
And as Trump betrays and dismays one ally after another, the exit is filled with former friends of America fleeing the unpredictable and unstable force that an aging Trump represents. Trump’s tariffs shocked and destabilized allies we had cultivated for decades. And now, as Trump stands alone against Iran/China/Russia in the War of the Strait, we see how vulnerable and weak Trump has made America.
Midterms must cause a sea change in American politics. Trump must be tried for his many crimes, including all the Epstein Files hold. He must go to prison for his crimes. America must return to unity and to justice. American must not live and die by slogans and reactionary politics.
Trumpism must end and it must end forever.
Take Care,
Mike
friday firesmith – the fate of america
Trump basically showed up with a couple of aircraft carriers, murdered some school girls then looked around for help.
No one was joining his gang rape of the Middle East.
Worse, infinitely worse, Trump, having declared victory after the first day, didn’t seem to have a plan for Day Two. Or Day Three. Or Day 68.
In the most terrifying moments that were sublimely comical, Trump tossed deadlines around like covfefe, TACOed beautifully, got banned from allied airspace, had meaningful negotiations with himself, and at the end of the day had was over four bucks a gallon and MAGAdom began collapsing around Trump like an overfilled diaper.
At this juncture, with midterms six months away and Trump relying on SCOTUS to gerrymander away minority voters, things look decidedly grim for Republicans.
And worse for Trump.
If he disengages with Iran after all the “unconditional surrender” talk it’s going to look a like Trump lost the war with Iran. But that was clear on Day One, wasn’t it?
Trump Lost the War With Iran is going to be the only headline coming out of this other than a ruined economy.
Worse, for Trump, the Epstein Files have not gone away.
Every day there’s new news, new horror, new victims and there’s New Mexico, where the bodies are buried.
Trump doesn’t have any cards left to play in the Middle East. Neither his bombs nor his bluster impresses the Iranians.
The traditional allies have abandoned him in favor of more stable and less violent regimes, like Iran.
China is backing Iran and destroying the American navy in the process. Taiwan is there’s for the taking. Trump won’t be able to start another war.
Basically, Trump is wishing for the end to look like the world did before the war talk and bombs fell. He wants a do over. Trump wants America to be respected by their allies and foes alike.
And, perhaps, sooner than Trump suspects, the damage will begin to be repaired.
But Americans have to vote Trump’s lackeys out of the government and elected people who will do right by the Constitution.
Trump has to be tried, and if convicted, be imprisoned.
Justice must be sought with vigor. You have to ask yourself, I would hope, what would Trump do to those who he had such a preponderance of evidence against? Rape, murder, corruption without end, and a war that eliminated any ally we might have really had in the Middle East? What should be the punishment for the dead little girls, the raped little girls, and the things Trump has done to hide his part in all of this?
America can still awaken from the cult nightmare and take the country back from Big Money.
It will not be easy.
I fear it will not be without bloodshed.
But without the reckoning of how Trump was able to do what he did, and without the Justice Department and Congress putting Trump on trial, we lay open for the next con man.
We must never allow this to happen again, or we have done nothing.
The Fate of America, now hangs in the balance.
Take Care,
Mike
Epic Fails and Charles Darwin
For reasons that escape reason, young people began eating Tide detergent pods and posting videos online of them eating the pods. It became a thing. Eating Tide won’t kill you outright, but it was a lot like watching the two cute chicks eating Carolina Reapers.
People do stupid things because they believe that the stupidity somehow lends them an aura of bravery or indifference to consequences.
The two women in the Carolina Reaper video suggests that this is not only untrue, but catastrophically false.
One of the first terrible things I saw online was the video of a young man on top of a three story building with a skateboard. His plan was to jump off the building, land with the skateboard on a rail below, then slide down the rail while the video was being made.
He jumped. He landed perfectly. But instead of going down the rail he went face down into the concrete. His friend behind the camera laughed then stopped. The would be skateboarder was not moving at all.
“Dude?” is the last word you hear from the cameraman before the video ends.
I think he was dead when he hit the concrete.
It’s difficult to believe people do things that are either embarrassing or painful or lethal, and have someone making a public record of it. Yet the internet has tens of thousands of videos like these. Those clips of people using a chainsaw to cut down trees that then fall on houses or cars are legion. Anyone can walk into a hardware store and buy a chainsaw, and they kill and maim more people every year than do rattlesnakes. Most people who drown can swim but they put themselves in positions where their skill comes up lacking.
The video of a man talking his girlfriend into shooting him with a .357 at short range is stunning in its idiocy. He tested a bullet proof vest at one hundred feet and it withstood the bullet. At twenty-five feet it killed him.
All of these example of otherwise functional human beings hurting themselves, maiming themselves, or others, and all of it live and on camera, is a stunning testament to the power of evolution fueled by downright stupidity. The young man launching himself off a three story building to concrete below displays an extraordinary ignorance of basic physics. His friend behind the camera laughs at the sight of a friend lying still after impact. He simply does not comprehend the danger, either. He will go to his grave replaying that day in his mind, over and over.
None of this, not one example I’ve given to you today comes anywhere close to the sheer magnitude of stupidity, or lack of understanding, or outright indifference to the lethality of what has happened when people voted for Trump.
Take Care,
Mike
friday firesmith – trump’s war on america
Iran has been chanting “Death to America!,” since 1979, when the people of Iran deposed the dictator we installed back in 1953.
Our illicit and sometimes outright illegal activities, not to mention the bombings and economic sanctions, have not led to peace. Now we’re in a full fledged war with a country incapable of doing much stronger than chanting at us.
Until now.
Trump had blustered and blundered his way into a war he cannot extract himself from and cannot claim victory and walk away. A man who bone spurred Vietnam five times has created a new endless war he cannot get out of, and each day he stays in things get much worse for both Trump and America.
Iran has a legitimate opportunity of doing real damage to the Unites States of America, and they’re getting plenty of help. By lifting sanctions on Iran, while he’s bombing the same country, Trump has assured the world Iran’s economy is booming. Whatever damage we can inflict, Iran will have the money to pay for.
Infinitely worse, Russia’s futures have likewise brightened. Russian oil is flowing again, with buyers in the Pacific ignoring Trump’s admonishments not to buy. Russia can now fully fund their destruction of Ukraine thanks to Trump.
China and Russia can now both send intel to Iran as to where to hit the Americans, how to hit them, and maybe even pay them to strike American positions throughout the Middle East.
Suddenly, Trump decided to call up the Marines.
If there is anything more asinine than a war in the Middle East, it’s a ground war in the Middle East. Recruitment numbers were already crashing and now very real possibility of a bloodbath, with American blood flowing, looms large.
Once we establish any sort of infrastructure anywhere close to Iran, it’s going to make the previous Gulf Wars look like Disney. Bereft of allies willing to join in the stupidity, Marines and the American Army will be sitting ducks for any armed group in the Middle East who has a grievance against America, or Israel.
In the meantime, Israel is burning through billions of American dollars bombing people anywhere they think someone might die. By targeting oil fields and energy infrastructure, it’s only a matter of time before oil prices reach a point Americans are walking to work, if they can find a job.
How will this affect Trump and his family? Not at all. They’ve grifted their way through this war as if it were money for the taking. Qatar gave Trump a billion dollar plane and in return he allowed them a base in America. We have no idea what’s other deals he’s making or with who or for how much, but we do know Congress doesn’t have the balls to do anything about it.
As long as the Epstein files keep pinging the headlines, Trump will cause wars. It’s his way of distracting the county from the idea he ought to be serving life sentences without the possibility of parole.
Are we great again yet?
Take Care,
Mike