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Nicely Played, Mt. Putin!

Nicely played, Mr. Putin! Donald Trump was the perfect weapon to bring down the United States: He’s a human wrecking ball; a sadistic sociopath and a malignant narcissist. Where most human beings have empathy, Trump has insatiable greed, envy, and hatred. You identified a compulsive liar and natural white noise generator and played him like the virtuoso spymaster you are. Did you show him your videos of him screwing underage girls at the Miss Teen Pageants in Moscow? Did you actually have to play the videos of him on Epstein Island …or did you hint and keep him guessing? Once you had Agent Orange by the short ones you must have spent a butt-load of bribe money to get him elected, but it was that old Putin magic, that “voo-doo that you-doo,” secret sauce that put Donald over the top: a recipe made with equal parts of pure evil, ruthless cunning, and sly media skulduggery. Well played, sir! Now all you have to do is wind his mainspring, blow a little smoke up his fat ego, then sit back and watch him destroy Western Civilization!

Donald Trump was the perfect weapon to destroy America: A wrecking ball driven by a space-alien reptile brain the size of a walnut; its crude basic impulses cranked all the way up. For Trump, satisfying the demands of his mental illness occupies so much of his time and energy that he’s completely enslaved by his compulsive behavior. He’s a predictably destructive automaton compelled to savage the first unfortunate victim he bumps into before bouncing off and moving on to the next unfortunate victim …like a Roomba® working Studio 54. Nicely played, Mr. Putin, nicely played.    Continue reading →

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The Illusion of Strategy

The misguided notion that Donald Trump is a masterful negotiator and businessman stems from his own self-promotional book, “The Art of the Deal,” which was actually ghostwritten by journalist Tony Schwartz. Mr.Schwartz spent 18 months embedded with Donald Trump in order to write the book, which would go on to create a powerful, albeit entirely fictional, mythology surrounding Donald Trump’s self-proclaimed business acumen. In writing his book, the ghostwriter took a man who was extremely aggressive, easily bored and hyper-reactive, and packaged those traits as an inspirational example for mass-marketing. Schwartz applies the vocabulary of a structured, strategic business approach to what was essentially impulsive, erratic, and slightly nutty behavior. Mr. Schwartz has since spoken extensively about the writing process — his account strongly supports the idea that Trump’s unpredictability in business negotiations is the result of a short attention span and extreme self-absorption, rather than calculated genius. Continue reading →

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We’ve been fighting World War III for decades …you just didn’t know it

Historians often take fifty years or so after a major event such as the fall of a civilization or beginning of a world war to pinpoint the exact moment that precipitated the landmark event, e.g., it took until the end of World War II for historians to isolate an obscure assassination in Serbia as the event that touched off World War I. Twenty-five years from now, historians will probably single out the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014 as the root cause event igniting World War III. Personally, I would make that date much earlier.

I am convinced that we Americans are already in the middle of a fight for our very survival: What historians in the future may well call “World War III,” assuming it engulfs Europe and spreads into the Indo-Pacific, as I suspect it will. Why do I believe this?    Continue reading →

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Trump: Another Red Scare

No, I’m not talking about Trump’s lame rants about the Democrats being communists, which is understandable in Trump’s case because his mentor, disbarred mob attorney Roy Cohn, later worked for similarly disgraced Senator Joe McCarthy as a communist witch-hunter; rather, I’m talking about Trump’s corrosive interference in the upcoming FIFA World Cup match

between the United Snakes and Belgium. In the United State’s last game, a high-scoring US team player, Folarin Balogun, was issued a “Red Card” suspension for a deliberate foul, a violation that implies extremely unsportsmanlike conduct. For non-soccer fans, a Red Card violation comes with a one year suspension from the sport. Not surprisingly, Mr. Trump’s supernatural ability to immediately sense bad behavior anywhere in the world triggered his knee-jerk impulse to reward said behavior: He immediately picked up a phone to call one of the few men on the planet as corrupt as himself, FIFA president Gianni Infantino.

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Celebrating the 250th? Not so fast there, pilgrim!

Does our current authoritarian plutocracy really qualify as the democratic republic our founders envisioned? Is an alien lizard in a skin suit a reasonable substitute for a George Washington?

When a cabal of billionaire Bond villains co-opted all three branches of our government and bent them to their will, destroyed our institutions, and are now attempting to force their proprietary technologies on society to control us, should we really be celebrating our “achievement” …or hastily packing a “go” bag? The America most people will be celebrating this Fourth of July isn’t the same country as it was on the last Fourth of July, before the coup.

It was a slow-moving coup …until it wasn’t. Is it already over? We don’t know yet: Do you honestly believe we will have a free and fair election at the midterms? If you believe that one, then celebrate away, pal. The rest of us should think about getting the ball over the goal line before throwing the high-fives.