The weekend of worry: many portend that 45 will pull something awful out his sleeve this weekend amidst stormy revelations and a disintegrated inner WH team. He jetted off to Mars-A-Whacko for the weekend with his wife and son, both of whom looked like they were ready to knife him with dagger eyes as they disembarked from the plane. I have felt quite somber these past 36-ish-hours since I heard John Bolton’s name bandied about the news as 45’s new National Security Adviser. To ponder whether Bolton’s extreme nationalism will rub off on Drumpf is like asking if a bee will buzz into the center of a flower to extract some pollen.
While 45 is likely taking a shot at a golf ball, he’s left two dangerous men scheming in Washington. From the New York Times today: “WASHINGTON — The incoming national security adviser has called for the “swift takeover” of North Korea by the South. He and the newly nominated secretary of state have urged withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. The pick for C.I.A. director once oversaw harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects that her critics claim were plainly torture.” It appears the Generals are none too excited to work with Bolton, so who knows what future surprises we may find with perhaps a departure by Defense Secretary, Jim “Mad Dog” Mattis and WHCoS John F. Kelly. Giving the military a huge budget increase and putting the Bolton kindling on the fire of war sends a chill down my spine.
We sit on the brink of a trans-Pacific trade war due to tweets of El Presidente Dedos Pequeños. The Banana Republic dictator froths for his bogus military parade while our infrastructure crumbles. He calls Putin to congratulate him on winning what everyone knows to be a sham election while saying nothing of the cyber warfare attack by the Russians. His entire election connection to Cambridge Analytica has been revealed this past week. It’s heating up in Drumpfville. I have no doubts that he currently frets about the stories and videos that Ms. Stormy Daniels intends to unleash in her “tell all” on Sunday. I’m sure that Melania and Barron are giving him a 24/7 stink eye on the eve of the telling as he sucks down 3 Big Macs and a Filet o’ Fish in a Jabba the Hut-style food fest.
The poison pill will not be the one he takes for himself, but the one he unleashes on the rest of us. Don the Con cannot be trusted to keep this country safe, but I have so much more faith in our nation’s teens marching today.
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