The Plan

     President Trump has accused former President Obama of "wiretapping" him last year.  As Malcolm Nance, an MSNBC contributor and retired U.S. Navy cryptologist and intelligence analyst (i.e. a spook employed by a major cable news network to shape narratives agreeable to certain factions in government and corporate power structures) said, "I wouldn't need to get into the building [Trump Tower] to do it [listen to Trump's communications]."
     Trump has outdated ideas about eavesdropping techniques.  Movies about mobsters, like Goodfellas and Donnie Brasco and Casino, depict the way official listening-in used to be done, before a monster like the NSA came along, a government agency with more invasive tentacles than an H.P. Lovecraft god-alien.
     Trump apparently hasn't learned from or listened to Edward Snowden's revelations and warnings about government overreach in modern communications. The president's use of the word, "wiretapped," makes him sound like the old geezer he really is.  When journalists on MSNBC use the same term they seem disingenuous.  So they ask of their guests, rhetorically, "Do you think President Obama wiretapped Donald Trump?"
     A stupid fucking question.  For one thing, as Malcolm Nance correctly pointed out, if anyone wished to spy on Trump's communications, entering Trump Tower, a la the kinds of activities engaged in by Nixon's Plumbers, wouldn't have been necessary.  Have these journalists asking this idiotic question heard of computers?  Hacking?  The era of communication satellites?  Instead, the journalists ask follow ups on the necessity of going through the FISA court to obtain wiretap permissions, as if U.S. intelligence agencies are law-abiding and honest organizations who never undercut anyone in their way, like President Trump, who is not well-liked by them.  I hate him, too, but I also don't favor intelligence agencies fucking with the democratic system of this or other countries, as they have done numerous times--IT'S ONE OF THEIR SPECIALTIES.
     We're in a time now when the Global War on Terror has reached a sickly middle age; lacking support from Americans and peoples of other countries across the world.  Our government nevertheless won't let it go, even as they explore other possibilities, the propaganda against Russia for its probable meddling in the 2016 election a clue as to where the intelligence apparatuses of the U.S. wish to take us, and the rest of the world.  I accept that Russian meddling in the election did occur, but there's no evidence I've seen, or that news media people can present, showing that their activities had anything to do with Hillary Clinton's embarrassing loss.
     The Democratic Party's government and corporate power structure (which influences and guides MSNBC, for instance) lost devastatingly this past November.  Committed to a candidate with no appeal to the working class, they pulled many strings to make her the nominee, screwing Bernie Sanders, workers, and the middle class, elevating Trump as Clinton's "ideal" opponent, the man she could surely defeat.  Wall Street's interests were protected with the Clinton elevation, and now with Trump, Wall Street eats its usual candy with its usual smug fuck grin.
     Meanwhile, in Somalia, a drought threatens famine, continuous fighting and warfare bring terrors and uncertainty, and Trump's Defense Department, following upon Obama's example, seeks to arm and train Somali "security forces" to combat terrorists there, in a country Obama had already started to bomb not long before he left office and flew to Palm Springs to play golf, fuck his wife, and ensure that his former labor secretary Tom Perez got picked as the new DNC chairman over the more Progressive Democrat (and Muslim) Keith Ellison.
     President Obama would not "wiretap" Trump, to use the journalists' contemptibly stupid phrasing, but, to ask it properly, "Did he have it done?" I don't know.  MSNBC personnel on camera have gotten into the easy habit of making fun of Trump, acting like they didn't have daily opportunities to express their contempt for him last year when it might have made a difference.  They, and CNN and Fox News, all gave that motherfucker far more camera and microphone time than anyone else running for president.  MSNBC gave his podium, with no one behind it before a Trump speech, more time than they gave some of the less popular candidates.  They let Trump call in regularly to their shows, speaking his usual blather, very rarely pressing him for clear information, letting him make outrageous statements without questioning him.  Now, he's a cute little clown still saying crazy-seeming shit that gets covered a great deal by MSNBC and the others.  He's doing the same thing he did last year: making broad accusations that cause journalists to cover his bullshit while the world continues to fall into its own asshole.
     Are U.S. intelligence agencies actively trying to overthrow Trump?  I think so.  Are they and some government policymakers interested in re-energizing the war machine?  I think so.  New conflicts and wars are the life's blood of war profiteers, big business, and career politicians, corporate news media people, arms manufacturers, security enterprises, and infrastructure builders (and re-builders after U.S. bombs and missiles take structures apart in other countries).
     Oh, and off the coast of Somalia, there's a large area of undeveloped oil fields below the waters.  Train those Contras--I mean, whatever they're called, the men who will fight al-Shabaab in Somalia!          Somalia will become Iraq in five years.
     Do we want Mike Pence to be president?  I don't.

                                                                                  Vic Neptune