by NoahWith the Friday night news that the FBI, shortly after President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, had opened an investigation into whether or not President Trump was working on behalf of Russia, I was torn between ruefully laughing or shaking my fist at the TV as corporate commentators offered up the possibility that, although this looks really bad, the possibility exists that Trump was just stupid and not willfully working with Putin against the United States. Even if, by some implausible happenstance, the later is the case, it doesn't matter in that, either way Trump has to go. The bottom line is only what punishment is to be applied. Either way, Trump is obviously a Russian asset. Either way, the one constant is that Trump should be removed from office immediately. That won't happen since, as we see every hour of every day, Washington always protects its own. Those who are not acting to remove Trump, either through congressional methods or via the 25th amendment are co-conspirators. $enate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who himself appears to be a purchased man, is only the tip of that accomplice iceberg.Back in 1972, my typical morning began with going out and getting a copy of the Washington Post and sitting down to read it with a cup of coffee (not covfefe) in my living room. One morning in June, there, buried somewhere towards the bottom of page 17, was a little two paragraph article about a break-in at The Watergate Complex. The article contained enough names to indicate an obvious connection to President Nixon. It was there, literally in black and white; break-in to Nixon, a straight line between the two. Yet with our system being what it is, it took over two years for Nixon to be driven out of the White House. The first reaction by both the corporate media and its brethren in the political world was the predictable ignoring and stalling. It took two years, two years of breaking news and congressional hearings with more attempts at stalling by apologists, two years of filling in the spaces and the blanks when the truth was already obvious from the first day. Sound familiar? Yes, but there are even more points of really bad shit between the beginning and the end this time. It's a battle and the end result is not assured. That's why we still have people making up possible excuses or just flat out ignoring what has been staring us all in the face. Nixon gave us "I am not a crook." Trump gives us "No collusion. No collusion." How long before we get to the "I am not a spy" performance?Ironically, Trump would love a system where you could read a little two paragraph article and that would be more than enough to impulsively get the same result that is taking us years. Of course, in his case, he wishes for the wrong result, just as Nixon did; just as Nixon worked for for more than two years. The quick result, the nothing to see here result, is the result Trump wants. It's what happens in places he admires in his dreams of autocracy and dictatorial government. That's what happens in Trump's sick dream for America; the dream that Putin encourages and enables, right along with the traitors and easily conned dumb shits that go by the name of republican voters.Tonight's meme is just one more of those fill-ins that occupy the space between the day the Russians bought the Trumps and the day we get "I am not a spy." It's just one more thing that tells us loud and clear that Trump is not working for Americans or America. In any crime, trying to solve the crime means first asking the question "Who benefits from the crime?" There's no way that Trump didn't know how his tariffs would kill farmers just as he knew other tariffs of his would kill auto workers, and how his shutdown would hurt so many families. One incident is possibly a mistake, but, time after time, Trump's moves injure our country and its people. No one in his administration stopped him either. Someone among them would have known the inevitable end of his actions. He does them anyway. He is a Manchurian President. Meanwhile, the corporate media will continue to attempt to make excuses out of thin air. Washington will be even worse. Millions will be eager to vote for Trump again. After all, what Nixon had done was obvious five months before the 1972 election that he won in one of the biggest landslides in our history. Don't ever underestimate the willful ignorance, gullibility, and/or stupidity of the public.
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