Trump the Facist is an Evil Genius

I never realized just how cunning and shrewd President Trump really
is, until I read a March 4, 2018 article by Susan Shelley detailing how
Trump orchestrated the 2014 Office of Legal Counsel opinion that Inspector
Generals no longer have access to all information that is deemed
"privileged" by the Justice Department or the FBI.

In other words, oversight and full transparency does not apply to the FBI,
the Justice Department, or maybe even other government agencies.

Not only that,  in 2016, Trump arranged it so that certain classified
information could be distributed throughout many (maybe even seventeen)
other agencies within the government.

So now,  all Trump has to do is staff the top level positions of these
agencies with unscrupulous political hacks and he could set up his own
Politburo or Secret Service.

He could even come up with an outside political organization to fund a
bogus dossier on a political opponent, make it seem as if the dossier
had been approved by seventeen different security agencies, and use the
dossier to get a FISA warrant on an opposing presidential candidate's
campaign staff.

It's ingenious!  He's managed a political coup within the government, with
no chance of getting caught as long as his own party's candidate gets elected
and continues to cover it up.

But wait!  The true beauty of this plan...the absolute GENIUS of this
plan...is that Trump got the Obama administration to do it for him!  Trump
didn't even have to wait to get into office to do it.

If you don't believe President Obama's administration (along with Hillary
Clinton) were evil enough to set this up by themselves, you're left with
believing they were dumb enough to be duped by President Trump.

I guess I can give them the benefit of the doubt.  I don't want to think
they were evil, so I choose to think they were out-smarted by the genius
of Donald Trump.

What Would Jesus Do

Recently, I've been hearing a lot of political discussion from the
Socialist Left, postulating that, because they "care" more for the "suffering
groups" in our society, and, they want to increase benefits for those
groups, they are more in tune with "what Jesus would do" than are
the cruel and indifferent Republicans and Christians.

I don't want to include most Democrats in the above definition of
the Liberal far left.  I'm speaking directly about the members of the
Democratic party who have Socialist and Communist sympathies...even
though most won't openly state their preferences.

Christianity does expect its members to earn their way into Heaven
by performing good deeds and helping the less fortunate among us.
In Christianity, and many other Religions, "doing it yourself" is the proper
way to do charity.

Even Religions who "tithe" from their members don't give the collections
to the government.  The Church spends the money the way the Church
sees fit, and if the member doesn't agree, he or she can always quit the
Church.

In other words, Jesus doesn't force his followers to turn over their money
to the government.  You don't work your way into heaven by paying
taxes and allowing politicians to build their political power base by
spending your money.

Even mainstream politicians, those who are not far-right or far-left,
succeed by taking money from everyone and passing it out to favored
constituencies.  That's why they always need more money...to keep
the gravy train rolling for their benefactors and themselves.  That may
be a topic for another day.

Trust me, Jesus has nothing to do with why they want more money.

But the Socialists and the Communists are special cases.  For generations
and generations, all over the world, from Communist Russia and China, to
Nazi Germany, to Venezuela, they have been preaching they will help the
poor, the disenfranchised, and the suffering;  yet all they have ever delivered
is worse suffering, starvation, murders, inhumanity, and wars.

But, if you look around today, here they are.  Still teaching in our universities.
Still mucking up our politics.  Still telling lies.  Still pretending to care.  Still
comparing themselves to Jesus.

They will never learn, so I guess it's up to the rest of us to learn to identify
them and learn to identify bullshit when we hear it.

Urban Durbinization

I know president Trump says things in blunt, non-PC, ways.  It's better
to refer to "those countries" as third-world countries.  It's better to
refer to immigrants skill sets than to the countries they come from,
especially if those countries are primarily white, black, or brown.

God, I wish he would watch how he says things.

But I just heard a US Senator come out of a private meeting with the
President...a meeting designed to attempt to solve a long-standing and
difficult immigration standoff...and this Senator publicly reports that
President Trump used the term "shitholes" to describe some countries,
and compared Norway to some African countries to illustrate a point
about the skill sets of immigrants he would like to encourage.

Then, he called the President a racist.  Nice.  That ought to do a lot
to encourage trust and cooperation with the White House.

In Washington-speak, the illustrious Senator from the great state of
Illinois speaks with more than a smidgen of arrogance, hubris, and treachery.

So I will speak openly and directly with you, Senator Durbin.  We all
what a "shithole" is.  In the US we call them slums, or ghettos, or boondocks,
or any other number of more respectable sounding names.  All kinds of
people live in them; whites, blacks, Asians, Latinos, citizens, and
immigrants.  Most are good people.  Most would like to get out.

In Washington, the proper term for a "shithole" country is to call it a
"third-world" country, usually run by a "two-bit" dictator.  I assume the
purpose is to make them feel better about themselves to be third behind
the "second-world" and "first-world" countries (us, of course)...or maybe
we think they are just too stupid to notice the put-down.

Who knows, maybe there's a "fourth-world" or a "fifth-world" out
there, and those "shithole" countries have earned the bronze medal.

Of course, those "two-bit" dictators are smart enough to get rich off
the money they can get Washington to throw at them.  And the people
are smart enough to want to get into the US if they can.  And especially
the ones that get to the US on an emergency, temporary visa are
smart enough to know they don't want to go back.

Anyway, Senator Durbin, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt,
and assume you spoke the truth.  It still was not necessary to go public
and poison the well for negotiations.  It still was more infantile than
statesmanlike to accuse the President of the United States of racism
because you didn't like his choice of words or the way he tried to
illustrate his points.

Your behavior seems more like that kid in school we all hated...the one
who ran to the teacher, screeching "Teacher, teacher, Billy said a swear
word!  Billy said a swear word!".

In grade school we called you a prissy little tattletale or a goody
two-shoes.  In high school, we called you a snitch, a rat, a weasel,
or, worse of all, a pussy.

I know, I know.  I can't use "pussy" anymore.  I've evolved.  I know

it's offensive to women.  I don't want to offend any women.

Originally, I thought "asshole" would be a more descriptive word for
a weasel like you, but, then again, I don't want to offend all the other
assholes out there, either.

So, I propose a new term for a person who betrays confidences while
maintaining a holier-than-thou attitude, a smarmy persona, and no clue
as to what an asshole they look like.

Congratulations.  I propose from now on, anyone who fills that bill
will be known as a "DURBIN", and whoever a "Durbin" attacks can
say they've been "DURBINIZED".

And the sad truth is, Durbins are everywhere in Washington, in our
State Houses, in our colleges and high schools, and in our corporations.
Our country is being "Durbinized" more and more every day.