America's Most Dangerous Enemy: Those Who Manage It

     I heard Israel's Ambassador to the United States praising President Trump's announcement recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital, a decision unpopular with a majority of human beings.  Trump says it's a move towards peace in the Middle East.  He also once said Trump Steaks "are the world's greatest steaks and I mean that in every sense of the word."
     Along with recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital goes the future building of a U.S. embassy there, a move as popular among Muslims as Caligula's decision in A.D. 40 to have his statue erected within the Second Temple, a project met by vast protests and only quashed by Caligula's assassination the following year.
     Trump hasn't yet referred to the possible future U.S. embassy as "beautiful," as he's referred to his so far theoretical border wall, but it makes sense that in agitating so many millions of people with this decision, his main interest is the construction of an American building, a piece of fantasy national embassy U.S. soil plopped onto the holy city like a pile of hog turds.
     Let truck bombs attack it!  Let the thing be protested!  Let Arab demonstrators get mowed down and tear gassed!
     Trump and those who regard Israel as the second most important nation don't give a fuck.
     I've heard journalists and pundits ask, "Why now?"  Why is Trump pushing this?  To distract attention away from the Mueller investigation?  Mueller is said to be investigating Trump's own finances, something the President referred to as a "red line" Mueller better not cross.  Well here it is, and Trump isn't firing Mueller, so it turns out his threats don't mean much, like when he promised without coming through with it, to sue every woman who came out against him last year with sexual abuse allegations.
     One of these women is suing him for defamation of character.  Trump's attorneys are trying to get this irritant put off until after he's no longer in office.  We can hope he'll have to testify under oath while still President.
     This Friday he travels to Pensacola, Florida, so near the Alabama border it makes it obvious he's campaigning for accused child molester and rapist Roy Moore, the Alabama Senate candidate who stands a very good chance of winning the December 12 special election.  Moore's Bible-thumping cowboy persona, his Second Amendment swagger, his total denial of any wrongdoing when it comes to his behavior with teenaged girls, his insistence on his penis's innocence when it comes to the female half of humanity, appears to have convinced enough Alabamians that he's the right man for the job.
     Trump himself is convinced.  He's essentially said it would be worse for a liberal Democrat like Moore's opponent, Doug Jones, to be in the Senate than Moore, though Trump hasn't mentioned child molestation, thinking back, perhaps, to when he, Trump, allegedly sexually violated a thirteen year old girl.  Rich and powerful men, I've found, are hypersensitive when their own crimes and embarrassments are mentioned.  I once saw right wing pundit and neoconservative warmonger Bill Kristol twist his mouth into a look of disdain and contempt on his sour face when a questioner at some forum asked about how his avoidance of military service doesn't jibe with his promotion of the Iraq War.
     "I'm not going to dignify such a question with a response," Kristol said.
     Roy Moore has been absent from news media direct attention.  He spent two weeks just recently not appearing before the press or at rallies, or even in the shopping malls where teenaged girls might be found.
     Closer and closer to December 12, Mitch McConnell, who seemed so forthright in his offhanded condemnation of Moore a few weeks ago ("I believe the women"), said on Sunday, "Let the people of Alabama decide."  Another way of saying, "I have no opinion of a man accused by eight women of sexual misconduct committed against them when they were teenagers.  A man who made a fourteen year old girl put her hand on his cock should be in the U.S. Senate, if that's what Alabamians choose. Forget what I said a few weeks ago.  Don't you realize by now that Mitch McConnell has no integrity?"
     Should we be surprised that the Republican Party is prepared to seat a child molester within its hallowed chamber?  With their gross tax bill, a giveaway to the richest motherfuckers in the land at the expense of the poor and the middle class, they've decided that giving sick children health insurance is far less important than making sure that Donald Trump, Jr. isn't burdened with the Estate Tax.  McConnell and others in the Senate don't care about children anymore than they care about that fourteen year old girl in 1979 who was forced by thirty-two year old Roy Moore to gratify his lust.
     The Republicans have been this bad, at least in their desires, for a long time.  Fucking the poor was Reagan's hobby, too.
     To expect the Democrats to mount opposition to Republican excess is problematic, unless the Left stops benefiting from a rigged system with Wall Street putting cash into two disgusting and corrupt parties.  These two parties are failures as philosophical systems, for they elevate the cretinous and the stupid above the worthy, holding off evolution for the sake of power and gain.  They're just killers.  It's time to not vote for them.

                                                                             Vic Neptune