The Trumperlory to the Monroe Doctrine

Trump has been hoodwinked by Putin and Xi into relinquishing America’s roll as world leader and influencer. The administration’s release of a foreign policy paper, which clearly shrinks America’s reach to the Americas and removes us from the world, especially Europe.

They call it the Trump corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, which couldn’t be more apt since it harkens back to the nineteenth century notion that the world should be divided into colonies and spheres of influence by the great powers. This doctrine cedes Europe to Russia and Asia to China. It is mind boggling that any American leader could sign off on such a thing.

Trump and the Republicans are happy with it since they are promised huge profits from the sales of the rare earth elements, critical materials, and oil from Greenland, Canada, and Venezuela. It is the perfect reactionary distillation of the Republican greed, corruption, and anti-democratic impulses. Essentially, they’re sold our democracy for the chance to be multi-billionaires.

The Susie Wiles Interviews

By now everyone has heard of Mr. Whipple’s amazing interview with WH Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles. There are two things worth remarking on:

Personality of an Alcoholic

I don’t know whether Trump has the personality of an alcoholic or not, or even whether it is a thing or not. What is important here is that she is the daughter of an alcoholic. It’s no wonder she thinks all of Trump’s farts smell like ambrosia — a sweet and exotic nectar of the gods, or at least her god, Trump. And, it is no wonder that she describes herself as an enabler of all of Trump’s worst instincts. Instead of being a guardrail, she is a promoter, enacter, and enabler.

It’s All Ego, All the Time

Many people are scratching their asses and wondering why she woulda given such a frank interview that put Trump and the WH in such a bad light. She suffers from the same thing that the entire administration suffers from, an overly inflated sense of self and importance. She sees herself as much out reach of accountability as Trump does. Apparently, there is not a single person in the administration who is not working to meet the needs of their egos.

As she said, Trump thinks he can do anything he wants, and her job is to see to it that he can. It just doesn’t matter whether anyone knows this or not.

Trump’s Speech

As many have said, Trump’s speech was curiosity in oddities. The only thing that wasn’t odd was the lying and projections. Every accusation is a confession, and nothing said was true. In Trump’s own words, “So, it was all bullshit.”

Famously, Trump was talking loudly and quickly almost through the whole thing. He started slowly, but quickly sped up and escalated. Was it due to drug use, prescribed or recreational? Was it due to nerves and stress?

The only thing of interest I can add is that Trump looked really bad. His face was incredibly puffy, which can link back to the drug issue, but also to his general health. He is a person in steep decline in physical and mental health. His struggle to maintain his narcissistic delusion of perfection is real and is taking a toll.

Body Count Update

USAID

As heard on one of the taking head shows, the shutdown of USAID cost 600,000 lives almost immediately. A move that will keep on giving. That number will only continue to grow.

The ACA Subsidies

By delaying the vote on the ACA subsidies and passing their insurance company friendly healthcare bill, the Republican Party and Trump has declared that Americans are on their own regarding healthcare. They are not going to do anything to protect Americans from predatory health insurance companies, in fact, they are pushing us into their drooling mouths.

By delaying the vote on subsidies until January guarantees that many many Americans will take crappy cheap insurance plans or opt out of plans because who can rely on Republicans for anything? Who can believe Republicans about anything? Hospitals will close. Doctors’ practices will close. Many Americans will die needlessly all so health insurance companies can get richer.

The “Narcoterrorist” Strikes

The US is now a rogue murderous regime as corrupt and vile as any tin horned dictator. They obviously murdered two men who survived an initial strike clinging to the flotsam of the remains of their boat. Only one in five of the drug interdiction stops that the US Coast Guard makes results in a finding of drug smuggling. These strikes are just Hagueseth and Trump cosplaying Gregory Peck and Steve McQueen in their World War II films. They they are the only people who see the truth and the corrupt self-serving members of the military, law enforcement, and government are being overly rule bound and cautious, and the situation calls for the brash action of daring rebellious heroes defying the status quo. It is just two inexperienced clueless people trying to enact what they think is decisive military leadership, and Hagueseth has actually served.

But, the murderous body count continues.