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"Donald Trump: T*****r?"


"Donald Trump: T*****r?"
by Bill Bonner

YOUGHAL, IRELAND – "Yesterday, the world’s press once again erupted in outrage. The hacks were upset… appalled… indignant. Of course, it was The Donald that set it off. But this time, they charged him not with being a boor or a nincompoop. This time, the charge was the sort that could get a man hanged, or at least impeached – treason. And this time, we rise to his defense, not in the spirit of mischief and mockery like we did yesterday, but in earnest.

Travel Update: First… a brief travel update. We drove from France to Ireland via England. Readers with a map of Europe in their heads will quickly see that this is impossible. England is separated from France by the English Channel. And it is separated from Ireland by the Irish Sea. Since we neither walk on water nor drive on it, we took the Chunnel under the Channel, where you drive onto a train for the 35-minute passage… and a ferry across the sea from Wales to the Emerald Isle.

It was hot and crowded in London. And it took hours to get out of the city. Then, we headed west, across the Severn River to Wales. Everywhere we looked, the grass was brown. Our ferry connection was at Pembroke, where we lined up with other cars, mostly vacationers with children in the back seats and additional storage on the roof racks. Once on the ferry, it was a pandemonium of children running around and babies crying. “These are big families,” Elizabeth noticed. The average seemed to be about four children.

Fortunately, we had reserved a cabin, where we were able to rest peacefully until we pulled into Rosslare Harbor about four hours later. This morning, it is a cool 57 degrees here in Ireland… with rain in the forecast. But here, too, the grass is dried out. “The climate is changing,” says a friend. “England and Ireland are becoming more Mediterranean, with hot, dry summers.” We’ll see about that…

Russian Bogeyman: The idea is absurd. But apparently, it’s the best Deep State strategists can think of. Russia has a tiny economy, with GDP less than one-tenth of America’s. Its military capabilities are impressive, but no match for the UK, let alone the U.S. The Pentagon spends 10 times more than the Russian military. Why worry about Russia? Its tanks are not going to pour across the Rhine. Its soldiers are not going to raise the Russian f**g on top of the Eiffel Tower. Nor is it going to land troops in Alaska and take away our national parks. The Russians are not going to start a war with the U.S., because they couldn’t win.

And yet, the elite insist that the Russians are “bad guys.” Per House Speaker Paul Ryan: "There is no moral equivalence between the United States and Russia, which remains hostile to our most basic values and ideals…" (WE have moral values and ideals? As if you, Ryan, would know anything at all about that. - CP)

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell: "I’ve said a number of times and I say it again, the Russians are not our friends and I entirely believe the assessment of our intelligence community." (Oh, and you are our friend, friend of We the People, right Mitch? I think not... Oh, listen, Mitch, your money masters are calling! Here's your kneepads...- CP)

Friends, schmends… Russia has “values” and “ideals” of its own, just like every other country. And like all the world’s people, Russians do the best they can with what they have to work with. But for the Establishment, Russia is a bȇte noire… a bogeyman… a monster from the steppes. Attila with a Kalashnikov. Genghis with nuclear warheads.

And the sight of a U.S. president treating the Russian president with friendly respect is anathema. When asked if he believed the assessment of the FBI that Russia had interfered in the 2016 p**********l e******n, Trump conceded that he “saw no reason why they would.” He might just as well have supped with the Devil himself.

•From CNN anchor Anderson Cooper: "… one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president… I’ve ever seen." ("Disgraceful"... a very mild word to describe CNN, Anderson, and your own conduct. I can think of others if you prefer. Trust me, you don't... - CP)
•James Fallows of The Atlantic: "…shameful performance… [Trump is a] conscious tool [or] useful i***t… those are the choices…" (Yes, James, you are an eagerly willing "conscious tool" and "useful i***t" - CP)
•CNN’s Jim Acosta: "This president of the United States [is] essentially taking the word of the Russian president… over his own intelligence community… It was astonishing, just astonishing, to be in the room…" (Astonishing, Jim, the intensity with which you lick the hand that feeds you. - CP)
•John Brennan, former CIA director: "It was nothing short of treasonous…" (Brennan, you'd know all about treason, wouldn't you? - CP)
•“It was beyond the pale,” added another former CIA official. (Incidentally, “beyond the pale” is an expression that comes from here in Ireland. England invaded the country and established its beachhead in Dublin. It put up a palisade to protect itself from the wild Irish.)

Hysterical Shrieks: In comparison to the hysterical shrieks of the elite warmongers, Donald Trump sounded like a sensible man: "I think that the United States has been foolish. I think we’ve all been foolish. We should’ve had this dialogue a long time ago; a long time, frankly, before I got to office."

But what does this mean? Is the American president undermining the foundations of U.S. imperial power – the Warfare State… and the Police State? Is this a challenge to the power of the Deep State itself? Do the Russkies have something on him? Or is this just The Donald – out of control… and making it up as he goes along? And what about Russia’s alleged attempt to distort U.S. e******ns? Shouldn’t Trump have come down hard on them for that? Tune in tomorrow…"
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Contextually related, highly recommended:
Mish: "Mass Hysteria"
- https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-17/mish-mass-hysteria