If the Second Coming Has Already Happened, Jesus Has Already Been Killed

     Donald Trump's business activities are now being debated about in the news media as probable conflicts of interest in relation to his next job: President of the United States.  It would be anti-Constitutional (illegal) for him to receive money from other countries, since he's an international money phenomenon, while he's our leader, meaning that as of his first second as president on January 20, 2017, he'll be a lawbreaker if he's still profiting from his extensive foreign business activities.
     That being the law, it makes sense that since we'll know his whereabouts on January 20, and that cops will be abundantly present at the Inauguration, Trump should, if he hasn't completely divested himself from foreign earnings by then, be arrested, read his rights, and taken to jail, with a bail set at an appropriately high level, considering the nature of the crime.
     Even if he's in violation of the Constitution on this matter, Trump will not be arrested, will not suffer any uncomfortable consequences.  We live in an age of who-cares-about-ethics?  Rich people only very rarely get arrested and go to prison (let's call them caged unicorns).  Trump's recent choice for head of the Environmental Protection Agency (the purpose of which is in the name of the organization) is a climate-change denying oil industry-friendly attorney general of Oklahoma, whose anti-regulatory views will undoubtedly result in long-term health problems for countless Americans, killing people, ultimately, for the sake of helping rich polluters get richer.  This kind of thing is also not going to result in any perpetrator going to prison.  In the early 1980s, Ronald Reagan's first Secretary of the Interior, a job calling for someone interested in protecting the nation's environment, was James Watt, a Fundamentalist Christian moron who enjoyed shooting buffalo from a great distance.  Watt also firmly believed in the imminent End of Days, and apparently wasn't concerned about destroying the environment in favor of energy corporations' profits.  Reagan, too, believed in the End of Days, took advice from astrologers consulted by the First Lady, and sent the Ayatollah Khomeini a signed copy of the Bible, hoping, I guess, to convert Iran's leader amidst illegally selling him missiles.
     I'm not convinced that people in high office are intelligent.
     Trump, intelligent, yes, at making money and swindling people.  Trump, not so intelligent when it comes to things like putting his name on a fraud-based "learning institution," Trump University, and then getting sued and investigated in recent months, finally settling for millions of dollars right before the election to get that monkey off his back.
     This next thing, put in here for the hell of it--I learned about it today--is from six years ago, and illustrates the perfidy of two Democratic politicians, Barack Obama and Mary Landrieu, former Louisiana Senator.  2010, the year of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, led some to wonder about President Obama's connections to that corporation.  Senator Landrieu, too, like Obama, had received thousands of dollars in campaign contributions over the years from BP.  The broken pipe at the bottom of the sea gushed black energy-ejaculate into the water, poisoning the coastlines of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.  In spite of BP's viewing time-consuming volume of happy "we're getting things cleaned up and we're getting back to work!" TV and internet ads, the Gulf Coast hasn't fully recovered.  I can't believe that such horrendous abuse for months on end of a coastline and the Gulf itself, by a toxic chemical, along with marine life, isn't felt still as a hurting wound by the land and sea itself.
     Landrieu downplayed the spill's impact, though she called for an investigation (she covered her ass).  Her press spokesman at the time said that Landrieu was in no way influenced by the money given to her over the years by BP.  One of Obama's spokesmen said much the same thing: in other words, the President doesn't react like a normal human being when someone, or some corporate entity, gives him money.  He's oblivious, supposedly, to influence, especially from a corporation that fucks up badly, kills some of its employees in the initial explosion that caused the spill.  Obama, we're supposed to accept, was so not influenced by the oil industry that, after the 2010 disaster, he expanded offshore drilling.  In recent times, his lackluster and spineless response to the North Dakota pipeline situation (remedied somewhat by his refusing the corporation their drilling permit, but only after thousands of military veterans went there to protect the protestors) reveals the god that Obama works for: Big Oil.
     The U.S. now gets about 74% of its oil from domestic sources.  Do we need Saudi Arabia?  Not nearly as much as before.  We sell them high tech weapons, though, with which to murder Yemenis.  Keeping Yemen poor and brutalized is as much U.S. policy as it is Saudi Arabia's policy.  We use Saudi Arabia to maintain the status quo of keeping the Middle East destabilized.
     The Arab Spring (I'm speculating) scared American foreign policy planners.  Resistance from Arab governments toward their protesting peoples was welcomed by the United States.  I base this on the case of Bahrain, the leader of which brutalized and murdered protestors while everything was tranquil at the big U.S. Navy facility there.  Obama had nothing condemnatory to say about the mass murderer in charge of Bahrain.  Bashar al-Assad's great sin, from a U.S. foreign policy standpoint, was that his oppression of protestors in Syria got out of hand, causing some of his Army to desert, resulting in the civil war still going.  Had Assad merely killed a thousand or so protestors and imprisoned thousands more for months or years of ill treatment, Obama would've had no problem with him.  Assad "crossed the line" when he allegedly used chemical weapons, but then Obama backed off, not bombing Syria just yet.  It took the rise of ISIS (the result of the 2003 invasion of Iraq and subsequent civil war there) to make Obama attack Syria, staying clear of Assad, who has the deaths of around 400,000 people on his hands, a death count not yet reached by ISIS, which lacks an air force, the type of military unit equivalent to a cockroach exterminator.
     Assad's closeness to Putin's Russia, a longstanding arrangement not to be abandoned by the latter, puts the Syrian leader in a safe spot regarding Washington.  Trump's admiration for Putin means the former won't menace Assad, anymore than has Obama.  John McCain, a few years back, spoke often of the need to make war on Syria, to depose Assad.  McCain, burning with unfulfilled dreams of murder and annihilation, won his Senate seat again, making him likely to become senile while holding office.  His knuckling under to Trump showed the McCain we all know, if we're honest: the tough guy coward, the one who goes along, the type hanged en masse after Nazi criminal post-war trials, except that here, in one of the nations that defeated Hitler, mass murderers receive money from oil corporations that pollute and poison, in exchange for silence from bribe-taking leaders pretending to be admirable women and men.
     This country puts businessmen in a high place of honor.  Trump could violate the Constitution--receive profits from foreign holdings while being President--and get away with it, easily.  Nothing matters anymore to the powerful except the protection of their interests.  Franklin D. Roosevelt, a wealthy man, nevertheless had a heart.  His kind wouldn't be welcome at Trump's inauguration ceremony.  Plus, as he's demonstrated, Trump doesn't like cripples.

                                                                              Vic Neptune