People Who Promoted Donald Trump as Celebrity and Candidate Are Worse Than He Is
Eight years ago an earthquake devastated Haiti, killing approximately 300,000 people, 100 times as many human beings as died in the 9/11 coordinated attack caused by CIA meddling in Afghanistan during the Reagan Administration, with U.S.-backed fundamentalist Muslim forces fighting the Soviet Union becoming al-Qaeda.
I mention Afghanistan in relation to Haiti because they're both very poor nations kept miserable from U.S. manipulations. At war in Afghanistan for sixteen years, U.S. foreign policy machinations during the George W. Bush Administration also overthrew the Haitian government, kidnapped its President and flew him to another country. These are the kinds of loathsome activities powerful American decision-makers practice regularly, with little coverage in U.S. corporate news media.
Donald Trump's presidency, characterized daily on MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, NPR, and PBS, with a relentless tumble of information about the man's boorishness, his unfitness for the office, his "problems with the truth," his mental instability, his insensitivity toward people of color, toward women, toward non-Americans, his ignorance, his lack of curiosity, amounts to a reality show about one grotesque character in American life who happens to be President of the United States. As a character he brings ratings; his "show" has become the most popular in America--this didn't start on Inauguration Day 2017, it started much earlier when he began to question regularly on cable news President Obama's citizenship.
Given generous airtime, even several years ago, he promoted a preposterous and easily disproven theory that Barack Obama isn't a U.S. citizen. News networks on supposed "opposite ends of the spectrum," like Fox News and MSNBC, provided Trump with a platform to promote this nonsense. Throughout the 2015-2016 presidential campaign "season," during which Earth traveled around the Sun almost twice, the networks mentioned in the previous paragraph provided Trump with unlimited free coverage: reality show host became reality TV presidential candidate, characterized by an obvious lack of intellect, stupider even than George W. Bush, and, once Trump got into the swing of typical presidential activities, as willing a killer of civilians and waster of foreign landscapes and infrastructure as his predecessors, including Obama.
The world control agenda of U.S. foreign policy hasn't abated. The U.S. military and intelligence agencies continue to do horrible, anti-Constitutional things. America's role in Haitian problems going back many decades hasn't been mentioned since Trump brought up that country during an immigration-themed meeting with lawmakers yesterday. Instead, his use of an expletive dominates cable news airtime. From The Washington Post, January 12, 2017:
"President Trump grew frustrated with lawmakers Thursday in the Oval Office when they discussed protecting immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries as part of a bipartisan immigration deal...
"'Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?' Trump said...
"Trump then suggested that the United States should instead bring more people from countries such as Norway, whose prime minister he met with Wednesday [January 11]. The president...also suggested he would be open to more immigrants from Asian countries because he felt that they help the United States economically.
"In addition, the president singled out Haiti, telling lawmakers that immigrants from that country must be left out of any deal...
"'Why do we need more Haitians?' Trump said, according to people familiar with the meeting. 'Take them out.'"
It would be difficult to convince Norwegians to move to the United States. Trump doesn't know it, because he doesn't bother spending ten seconds looking it up as I just did, but in 2016, 362 Norwegians became permanent U.S. residents out of that year's total of approximately 1,180,000 from nations worldwide. His suggestion that the United States "bring more people" from Norway (i.e. White people) would be thwarted by the typical Norwegians' lack of desire to move from a country where they have it good to a country where they wouldn't.
The news broadcasts have deemphasized and mostly not mentioned Trump's interest in seeing more Asians coming to America. Instead, it's the "shithole countries" comment receiving worldwide attention. Haiti, El Salvador, and many African countries have been fucked with by U.S. foreign policy. U.S. military and intelligence forces infest Africa now. During the Obama Administration, Libya was destroyed in a NATO mission designed to gain access to oil regions and also to a vast fresh water storage program initiated by Gaddafi, who received a bayonet thrust into his rectum by a NATO -supported rebel. Recall Hillary Clinton's cackle when she found out about Gaddafi's death and vomit in your mouth if you voted for such a vile person because you were afraid of another vile human being, Trump.
Before President Trump, U.S. foreign policymakers, including, of course, Presidents, have manipulated events around the world, bombed countries illegally, overthrown governments. El Salvador (one of Trump's "shithole countries"), was ravaged by the activities of death squads armed and supported by the Reagan Administration. Reagan never spoke of El Salvador as "a shithole," but his actions in support of mass murderers roaming that country's landscapes in the 1980s make him one of the shits causing chaos and strife in the world, a destabilizer acting in perfect concord with all the other motherfuckers past and present ruining lives and smashing the infrastructures of countries on several continents.
The word "shithole," in its full uncensored text, appeared in the CNN banner at the bottom of the TV screen during Wolf Blitzer's afternoon program. Talking with his panel of pundits and journalists, Blitzer would say, "I won't say the word," when referring to Trump's expletive. Despite the word itself being on display for anyone to read, Blitzer got precious about using it in speech. If you need further proof of our nation's insanities, notice how we're supposed to get bent out of shape that the word "shithole" came out of the President's mouth, but a major news network, while condemning Trump's language, puts the dirty word itself on the screen!
Trump's brazen stupidity aside, it's important to recognize also that the same commentators pooh-poohing insults towards Haiti, like Bill Kristol on MSNBC today, don't really give a shit about the Haitian people, anymore than the corporate officials running the major news networks care about a nation whose President in the last decade was overthrown with silent assent from U.S. news media acting in lockstep with George W. Bush-era U.S. foreign policy.
Vic Neptune
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