Freak Out Friday – September 22, 2017

He’s going to get us into World War III. The reality of that assessment is becoming more and more certain with every passing week.

1) First off, I actually know what a “dotard” is. I knew the word long before Kim Jong-un labeled Trump as such. And frankly, I hate to say it, but that’s pretty much a fair assessment. If Trump doesn’t have syphilis, then he is definitely skidding into mental degradation attached to age. Indeed, it actually has the merit of being an insult. Nicknaming Kim Jong-un “Rocketman” is not an insult. Derived from an Elton John song, that’s the kind of name one tags to a baseball hitter. “And that’s gone, a bomb into the upper decks off the bat of Rocketman!” “Strike three, an absolute meteor blows right past the batter and it’s game over, a one hitter for the Rocketman!” . While Trump makes Kim sound way cooler than he is, he busily terrifies the world with his rhetoric, such as…

2). Serial Killer.. This was a no brainer speech. Trump just had to get up before the United Nations, speak about efforts to attain world peace, and not get up there and sound like a thumping lunatic. Instead he did the exact opposite. There are approximately 25 million people residing in North Korea, and Trump stood in front of the United Nations and swore that he was going to destroy them all. One assumes that he means he is going to launch nuclear missiles and blow the entire country to hëll. Twenty five million people, dead, because Trump is engaged in a dìçk measuring contest with the country’s leader. Perhaps he believes that his comments are going to convince Kim Jong-un’s own people to execute him and throw him out of power. I very much doubt that’s going to happen. Instead Kim Jong-un is going to use Trump’s speech in front of an organization that’s dedicated to world peace as proof that the only thing which will keep his country safe is having its own nuclear arsenal. I very much doubt Kim Jong-un will launch the first missiles at us because I frankly don’t think he’s that insane. But I totally believe Trump is that insane. I could very easily see him giving Kim Jong-un some sort of deadline to stand down that Kim will fail to meet, assuming that Trump would never take the first strike, and then Trump orders it done. At which point we are then counting on the military to stand up to the president and effectively perform a coup d’etat. Is it possible? Very much so. Because if it isn’t, we’re going to be at war with what’s left of North Korea. So for all you idiots who saw no difference between Hillary and Trump, do a single one of you think that she would have done that? Of course not. No sane person would have.

3). Hail Mary. For some reason that I am still rather fuzzy on, the GOP must pass a health bill before the end of September. It has something to do with only requiring fifty votes; as of October 1, they would need sixty votes, which means that they would actually have to get help from the Democrats. Because they are SO desperate to avoid having to actually reach across the aisle and work with the opposing party, they are slamming forward at top speed the Graham-Cassidy bill, which seems to exist mainly to make all their previous undertakings regarding health care look even better. This one is apparently the worst of all. Various large states such as New York will see cuts in Federal support of tens of billions of dollars. Care for pre-existing conditions would go out the window, particularly in states that voted for Trump. Poor children and non-disabled adults would get hit hardest with massive Medicaid cuts. Every medical organization you can name plus most health insurers have come out against it.

And what did Trump say? He said it was a great bill. Of course he did.

Because he’s a dotard.

Did he do anything right this week? No.

PAD

17 comments on “Freak Out Friday – September 22, 2017

  1. He is trying to keep Luther Strange in the Senate, which is a good thing when you consider his most likely replacement would be Roy Moore.

  2. And unless my sense of geography is horribly wrong, a nuclear assault on North Korea is effectively a nuclear assault on Russia as well as a nuclear assault on China. NEITHER country, in such close proximity to North Korea, would have to treat incoming nukes as an attack. This would escalate so fast that Trump wouldn’t be able to defuse it. And even assuming a coup d’etat (or more serious effort) to end it, WE DO NOT HAVE THE DIPLOMATS TO BACK IT DOWN. I mean, seriously, Rex Tillerson?

    Worse, I suspect Trump has NO idea of international relations, and cannot see this. And of course, no one can tell him otherwise.

    It seems that Trump really wants to be the last president of the United States. This could well foreshadow the end of the United States… along with most other nations. Australia becomes the leading world power, Africa and South America become the world’s technological leaders… and not enough Americans remain alive to be able to afford the time to vote.

    1. Additionally, if we make a nuclear strike on North Korea, we’re effectively making a nuclear strike on SOUTH Korea, because there’s no way the wind and water won’t carry the fallout south across the border.

      Then then to the Chinese and Japanese coasts.

      And, thanks to oceanic currents, then to the Alaskan, Canadian, and American coasts…

      Even if, by some miracle of diplomacy, it didn’t result in a full exchange, we’d still be nuking ourselves.

  3. #PeterDavid is a lovely person, no matter how often he’s wrong, #245
    1. “everyone who disagrees with me MUST be mentally ill, ‘because’- ummn.
    2. “I totally believe Trump is that insane.” Ohh, Peter… when did you last adjust your meds? No, honestly – when did you last adjust your meds? Because your Catherine Wheel worldview is starting to spin rather wonky
    3. As an Australian, who has (limited but pretty decent) free healthcare – stop whining, and realise the whole “home of the brave, land of the free” shtick means you will NEVER have a proper healthcare system. Because, err, “freedom”

    1. ..and that said, sorry for sounding like a dìçk, but YOU’RE KILLING ME being so obtuse as to how the world really works. as though Obama didn’t kill more brown kids in sandy countries the GWB.

      It’s enlightening to re-watch the Jon Stewart/ Bill O’Reilly debate, after a change in President: there is no fundamental change in status, policy, or procedure with Trump in the job. It’s all just smoke and mirrors

      1. I’m glad you think I’m a lovely person. I think you’re a condescending jáçkášš. Bye.

        PAD

  4. I’ve been shaking my head all day at the number of news sites having to explain “dotard” to their readers.

  5. There are approximately 25 million people residing in North Korea, and Trump stood in front of the United Nations and swore that he was going to destroy them all.
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    Not at all providing feeding right into the “The US is out to get us” propaganda that Kim provides his people with a steady diet of.
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    It is truly hard to imagine a more inept and tone-deaf president.

  6. At which point we are then counting on the military to stand up to the president and effectively perform a coup d’etat. Is it possible?
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    Gods, I hope so. I’ve written several times before that I hope, when Trump orders a first strike, that the people who have sworn solemn oaths to follow the orders they are given have the courage and patriotism to refuse to do so.

  7. Peter David: I very much doubt Kim Jong-un will launch the first missiles at us because I frankly don’t think he’s that insane.
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    Well that, and the fact that they don’t have the necessary guidance system for them, and aren’t going to have it any time soon. His missiles are a greater threat to people in his own region. As for the U.S. the greater danger from The Kid is that he might sell nuclear material to a rogue power.

  8. And he capped the week off with a rally in Alabama that looked more like a third world leader from the 40s or 50s speaking to the fanatics than it did anything close to a US President speaking to citizens in a modern democracy.

    1. Well, that would be appropriate, since those are the ‘good ol days’ that many in his base want us to go back to at the very least (if not another 100 years further back).

      We know the Great Pumpkin himself certainly still thinks it’s the 50’s, what with how he treats women, minorities, etc.

  9. Re-watching the movie WarGames recently, I came to the disturbing realisation that I would rather have the JOSHUA computer than Trump controlling America’s nukes.

    Also, anyone else remember the movie The Hidden, when the murderous mind-controlling alien slug goes into the Senator’s body and the Senator calls a press conference and evilly burbles “I WANT TO BE PRESIDENT!!!”? *That* guy would make a better president than Trump.

  10. It is actively disturbing that he’s now demanding that people who don’t stand for the anthem be fired. That’s seriously scary.

  11. What gets me is the way they’re apparently trying to get Alaska to sign off on the new healthcare bill is… by telling Alaska they’ll be exempt from the new healthcare bill, and will be able to keep the ACA.

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